Page 2 of 2
SO FAR I HAD TRIED TWO RESTAURANTS selling Dim Sum...one of them is Hong Kong Islander.. The Dim Su restaurants here open at 10am, unlike the ones in Malaysia whixh open as early as 5am? I love the way they organize the crowd over here in Sacramento... We were given a number and then when the table is...
FROM 9am till 8pm, we were out shopping in Vacaville!! So nice of Elizabeth to drive us around from morning till evening, really appreciate that especially the traffic jam was there... It took us more than forty minutes to reach and .... Oh dear, My credit card is going to burst... Ok, I better mot...
MOST DAYS WE DID OUR COOKING AT HOME.... As my BIL used to say, "we are in the land of aplenty"...everything is easily accesible over here in the grocery stalls. A good thing for me too cos I am all for Chinese food, I would miss my homecooked dishes very badly, they called me a "rice pot" (farn...
THE HEAT WAS REALLY TERRIBLE as we drove south....If I am not careful, the hot sun could barbeque my skin in no time....On the way,we passed through several towns, Elk Grove, Amador city, Sutter Creek, Angels Camp and finally we stopped at Jackson to have our first meal of the day....The...
WOKE UP VERY EARLY FOR A DAY TRIP to Columbia National Park. The journey took us three hours to reach but we stopped at several towns to have a look-see...Come on, jump into the car if anyone dares! After all, its not everyday I am Batman....Hahaaaaa.....Let's Fly.... Go!!The Mustang can...
BAKING MODE IS ON! Actually the baking mode was not on until one of my friends came visiting and she showed me how to bake some crisps with red bean paste. When she was done with them, my baking interest rose up to my head... since the ingredients were just within reach, why not do...
AFTER A ONE WEEK ABSENCE, we went to check on the vegetables and plum trees the minute we reached home. What came to our sight nearly sank our poor hearts...The whole lot had ripened and fell on the ground... so wasted...There were more to this but disheartening to put up more...
A LAZY Sunday and for dinner, we went to Leatherby's! Three years ago I was in another Leatherby's and I was told that business was so good that they opened a new one here recently. My kind of shop.... It was kind of crowded.... Kind of cozy too...
ALL Work and no play is not a dull day.... Days when I am cleaning the house or cooking, I will be probably out here doing some labour work at the ranch.... I had been sitting in the office most of...
LOOKING FORWARD TO A THURSDAY EVENING DINNER, I really did... There is a special dinner treat and before 5pm, I was all ready to go... All ready, yes, I am...Go early to beat the crowd, my sister said...People here go real early for their evening meal.....The drive took around half hour and...
MOST DAYS WE WILL BE OUT GARDENING especially in the mornings and late evenings when the sun is not that "fiery"... The weather now is getting warmer each day but pretty cooling when the sun sets... maybe now we are now adjusted to the weather, I do not need a sweater anymore during the day but I always...
TODAY IS MY DAY OFF WORKING! Around noon, we went for a shopping spree again..this time to Arden Mall and our favourite shop is none other than MACY! Imagine... from noon, we spent eight hours straight at this shopping centre... Oh my goodness! Ladies... tsk... tsk... the hours just...
PANCAKES WERE NOT REALLY MY CUP OF TEA UNTIL .....One fine morning my BIL showed me... or should I say.... he taught me how to make pancakes with these ingredients shown here... oh, the butter is missing.. it is one of the essential items not to be missed cos it is so "buttery" and it kind of "fattens" us...
WEEKEND IS HERE!! IT'S TIME TO GO FOR A DAY TRIP TO LAKE TAHOE AFTER ALL THE HARD DAYS' WORK... hahahaa...We started off around 8.30am from the house and stopped by a temple in Folsom called LDS aka Latter Day Saints Temple.Up on a hill...Latter Day Saints Temple...Around the...
FEELING VERY REFRESHED AND ENERGIZED!!We finally started work on this Friday morning, okay....real work this time.. under the hot sun.. it was not so cold now, maybe I have got used to the spring cum summer weather now? Anyway, it is time to get my butt moving... for the past few days, it had been Eat...
STILL IN A RELAXING MODE... Woke up around 8.30am each morning to the sounds of chirping from the birds... after our breakie in the house, we walked around the ranch... without a cowboy suit and hat though...At the ranch....No animals though...Need to do a lot of gardening here .... When do we ever...
