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A Honey4boyz Production Guitarist : XianJin Actors : The Boys Photo(/Video)grapher : Daddy Special thanks to Mahkota Football Academy and Coach Ameer! WARNING:  For best effect, please watch this HomeVideo first before you scroll down. Have FUN!! The boys have just joined a neighbourhood football club, yea, football is pretty popular here. This was a first attempt to do a homevideo, and a pretty straightforward one using Windows Movie Maker. But it's so enriching to do something together. At one point, we realised that we don't have the background music (and we're afraid to download everything online), so Jin has a day to learn to play the FIFA soundtrack. We made use of what we have, our talents, ie free acting by our boys as well as our resources. Hope this will spark off their interest in either football, acting, directing, storytelling or how to settle conflicts without harming one another!! The Boyz are now QUALIFIED as "armchair foo...

In his book "While Flocks Last", Charlie Elder realised that everyone can make a difference to nature conservation, by simply going out and enjoying the countryside and making it known why. So there's another good reason to go birdwatching more often. We set off to Kuala Selangor Nature Park once again to the Festival of Wings (organised by the Malaysian Nature Society). The weather was not good though and the sky was overcast so I gotta pull myself out of bed literally.... Right at the entrance to the park, we're greeted by these tiny Coppersmith Barbet birds perched high on a dead tree. According to the organisers, they spotted 19 of them.  Unlike previous years, this festival was a 1-day event only. So, we have all the student groups as well as public activities crammed into the same day. The blaring music and noise from the crowds  would make the mission to spot any birds or animals very very hard!   More to walking around enjoy the mangrove and cr...

Assembling mooncakes in celebration of Mid-Autumn festival    We started assembling the snow skin mooncakes weeks after the Mid-Autumn festival with Auntie SY. The skin and filling ingredients were mostly purchased from the baking shop. I remember the last time we did this... my youngest Brandon was not even born. Is it time flew by so fast?? Now Brandon is able to follow the simple steps to assemble his very first mooncake! Oops, the mooncake popped out and almost landed on the floor - his mooncake has a dent!! Knocking out the mooncake from the wooden mould was the most fun part, it's like how the baby chick hatches out of the egg! Despite it being foolproof .... there're always some surprises. Practice made perfect boys! The mooncakes need to be refrigerated first before eating. I should take a picture of the cut mooncake with its beautiful double layered filling of lotus and red bean paste around the egg yolk "moon". But they finished up so f...

My alma mater has started the countdown of its 100th anniversary celebration for next year. Formerly known as P.E.S.S, it's steeped in heritage and one of the oldest schools in KL.  Started in 1914, it's a missionary school set up to teach English to the children living in the Pudu area.  It's wonderful the school now converted the principal bungalow into a heritage gallery giving us insights into the history of our early founders and the rich culture of our school. I went with Wai Leng, my school mate since Standard 1. We  studied in the same place for our primary as well as secondary education.  Going back there was like taking a walk down memory lane.  Everything looked familiar, there're not much changes except some new buildings.   The luncheon event was held at the school's grand hall. The stage in the hall, like all the other places there, now looked much smaller -- cos we've grown, no longer seeing it from a child's eyes. Most ...

I don't have a burning desire to visit Vietnam. But I've acquired a taste for Vietnamese coffee so when the opportunity arose, I went with my husband on his short business trip to Ho Chi Minh City recently. It's a great excuse for just the two of us to get away from our work (at least for me) and daily routine. If I were to wait for the 'right time' when nothing else is scheduled, probably I may not go away with him again until my kids are in college! Maybe "the road to success is paved in coffee" is not an exaggeration.  Coffee drinking is indeed a culture in Vietnam. You can see coffee cafes everywhere, mainly homegrown brands (Trung Nguyen, Highlands coffee chains) and more recently even Starbucks; kiosks with a few small stools in front of houses or shops; and mobile vendors, moving from place to place with a simple, small basket of flask and cups.  The Vietnamese drip coffee tastes better with ice cos it's very concentrated and comes ...

Posting by Xian Wei I went for an overnight camp in the school with the prefects, librarians and teachers. After all the hard work, the teachers decided for the prefects and librarians to have some fun.  It was a splashing, splendid camp. This was my favourite group photo.  BBQ time!!! I did not eat the chicken because I did not want to eat a half-cooked chicken. Actually I helped them to barbecue the chicken. Reject, reject, reject - burnt chicken wings and marshmallows. Yikes!!! We were excited building a campfire; we sang our hearts out the scout song: "Ging Gang Gooli" and many others. "The Egg Crasher" We have to crack the eggs with our foreheads. If the player hits a raw egg, he/she earns a point. If the player hits a boiled egg (like me), he/she does not get a point. It was surely a messy game. We also played hide-and-seek and paper hunting. We continued to play dodge ball and volleyball even at midnight. I slept very ...