ANNOUNCEMENT: We're Moving!

We have decided to get our very own website and enhance the blog! Will tell more in our new website @ www.maximillianandus.com. Note: the new website is still being design thus its not looking that 'nice' yet. Will take us a few weeks to put our personal touch to it.

So this will be our last post on blogger.com. We wld like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been reading and hope we'll continue to get your support. So head on to the new website for updated info on our journey through life with Max!


Signing off.
Dav, Steph & Max

Another surprise!!

Not sure what has gotten into Dav... maybe he loves me too much. He gave me another surprised gift! This time it is a Swarovski Crystal Mini Butterfly Pendant. He bought it when he was in HK.

According to him, he was in a shopping frenzy when it was time to fly home. So he went ard the airport and started looking for stuff to buy. Since I am kinda crazy abt butterfly, he thought it wld be nice to get me another one. He also bought my parents tea leaves and chinese biscuits.

Thanks babe! *muak*

Jumbo Sushi!

Went out dinner with some friends at Rakuzen, Plaza Damas. One of my friend ordered Jumbo sushi for starters.. check out the size!! The waiter 'warned' us about the size but we thought we could finished it. And thus we each ordered our very own bento set.


Check it out! Its as big as my palm! We couldnt finish everything. Tapau home abt 4 sushi I think. One will make u very very full!


We tried something new for dessert. Instead of the normal green tea / black sesame ice-cream. We had peach ice cream wrapped in rice skin. Very very nice indeed. Not too sweet, with just a hint of peach after taste. 2 thumbs up!

Double blow

Quite upset.
Dav cant get tickets to Santiago, Chile.
We're not going to Cameron Highlands for short holidays.
What can be worse than not being able to spent quality time together. Just have to make do with the time we have now.

Black toe nails

This is Dav's toe nails. Not it's not painted with black nail polish. Our hero wore wrong shoes to jungle track & hiking. This is the end results.

He says the toe nails are dead. So he's waiting for it to fall off. I told him, it's just gonna get infected. I think deep down he's afraid to go see the doc!

Hey Cat, what do you think he should do abt it?

Btw, his toes are making the peace sign! hahahahaha He said this is a double peace sign!

Nigella Lawson

This has been bugging me the whole day! Dav & I were watching Nigella cooking show on Channel 11 - Travel & Living yesterday afternoon. I casually asked him if he thinks she is sexy. And he answered me, 'I think she's a sexy chef'.

Personally I dont really like her... (maybe cos Dav thinks she's a hottie!). But Dav said all guys thinks that a lady who can cook is sexy. Then I started calling a few guy friends of mine (3 to be exact). The response was:

1. Who is Nigella?
2. She's ok. Quite sexy
3. She's ok. Two thumbs up if she loss abit of weight

Obviously there's some mix response. So, I've decided to do a poll on this. Please vote and see what the majority thinks (see sidebar).

What to do...

Cant believe I feel bored. Havent been doing much except eat & sleep... dav commented that I sleep alot. In view that I'm nursing myself to good health... sleep is good!

Dav has been busy as ever... only got time for me during dinner & wkends. Sigh.. looks like our trip away might not happen after all.

To occupy my time, I've been going to facial, spa, looking for a place to sell old books. It's funny how I cant find a single place who buy second-hand/ old books. Anyone who knows please tell me! I dont want to throw away my books. Dav suggested that donating the books to library. Well, I wanna see if I can sell it for some cash. Donation will be the last resort.

Went to see a doc yesterday morning. Had a 'bump' on my right index finger since I got back from Australia (thats like more than 1 month ago). It was starting to hurt and irritates me! So spent 45 mins waiting for my turn at bloody 830am!!! The doc took 5 mins examining the 'bump'. Then he asked me to go to the next room for further examination. Then he put my finger under a big magnifying glass and started taking out his 'tools'. He didnt even tell me wat the hell he awas gonna do. Next thing I know, he took out a needle, swap some alcohol on the finger and started poking the 'bump'. After a few poke, he showed me the needle, which contain some foreign item. It's actually a splinter!! Imagine I had a splinter in my finger for SOOOO long.. sigh.. anyway, all is good with my finger now.

Since I am so free, after the doc visit, I decided to cook lunch for Dav. Off I went to Giant to do some grocery shopping. The weather was abit funny these few days. It has been grey and rainy. Report came out today that there's been floods in Johor & Malacca (Cat, hope ur family is ok).

Off I went shopping for groceries and snacks for Dav. Before I knew it, I took quite alot of items. I cooked meatball pasta with angel hair spaghetti (my fav!). Fortunately he liked it.

For dinner, it was ham sandwich with french bread, Dav's fav. I added an extra ingredients to his normal sandwich, hard-boil egg. It looks abit messy, but sure is tasty.

I'll let the pictures tell the story now.


Rainy days.













My own masterpiece

















Yummy!


















A sign that he enjoyed the food! hehehehe

Book Store

Went to Borders yesterday with Dav and we spent a good one hour in there reading... it's quite funny how we would enter the bookstore and automatically head to which ever section we want to without even telling each other where we're going. After a certain period of time, whoever is done first will start lookin for the other person.

How did I spent the one hour? First section was spent looking for a novel. Didnt find any 'attractive' book (I judge the book by its cover-hahaha). Then I saw Cat's fav author - Maeve Binchy. She has two new books! I remember my first Maeve's book was on loan from Cat while we were still housemates in Adelaide. Alrighty, one potential book to get!

Next, cooking section. There seems to THOUSANDS & THOUSANDS of recipe book. Unfortunately Cat, there's only one Nigella's cookbook- the one on dessert. Since i've not even master the art of cooking mains, dont think it's a good idea to go into dessert yet. Fine.. then found lots of Jamie's book. I gave up looking for one after like 10mins. I've decided to resort to the free, easily available internet to look for recipe! Yes, I'm cheapsake! hahahahah

After these two sections, I found myself surrounded by travelling books. Good! Perhaps a book on Chile to prepare myself. So I sat down and read Lonely Planet and another traveller's guide.

Seems like Chile is a must safer place than the rest of the Latin American countries. Virtually no corruption and the MOST interesting fact about this country is that, its current president is a FEMALE!

Wow! what a shocker... especially in a male dominated culture country... it's very interesting indeed. Unfortuatntely all guides seem to point out a fact that there's nothing much to do in the capital Santiago (which is where I'll be stationed for 3 wks). If I wan to have a look at the country, I'll hv to travel out of the capital. hmm.. tempted but no time. I know I shld take time off after the 3 wks to travel ard, but unfortunately I have to head home to process my Japan visa for the CNY family holiday! sigh.. so much choices but limited time. Will just hv to make do with the time I have while i'm there.

So, it's very much just Santiago and around!

Sammy not coming to town

Sammy who is due to arrive in KL on Friday nite has cancelled her trip. This will be her first year not coming to town to do her annual Christmas shopping after 2 years. I was hoping we can catch up and gossips until the wee hours of the nite... since I'm already on leave.

Anyway, she was not able to get a bus ticket to suit her busy schedule. But we had a talk on the phone. Was good to know she's doing very well now and waiting to go on holidays with her love ones.

Flu bug - Bugging me!

This is getting out of hand! I'm still down with the FLU!!!!!

I think I spoke too fast when I told my friends that this year has been a good year to me cos I've not been down with a major flu as frequent as previous year. Then I thought maybe it's due to the flu jab that I took in Jan/Feb. I SPOKE TOO SOON!

I've been sick for 3 weeks liao! I'm soooooo frustrated!

Doctors reader out there.. can you please tell me what to do??? I've tried the following:

• sleep (3 times a day)
• vitamin c (i take redoxon every morning)

I'm trying to avoid taking antihistamine.... thinking the natural way will make me recover faster... but I'm sadly been proven wrong again. I might just head to the pharmacy tmrw to get some medicine....

Exercise

Today, Dav & I finally went for a walk/ hike up Kiara Hill. Yes even though my nose still has water flowing down uncontrollably. Total distance of the walk is abt 4km. I think it took us about 45 mins to complete the walk. Mind you, its just not walking on flat ground. The walk consists of numerous 'hills' (ie uphill & downhill).

I used to frequent Kiara Hills quite abit few years ago, with a buddy of mine. While we were walking up, it occured to me that, I used to be quite active. Whether it was playing badminton, going to Gasing Hills or Kiara Hills. Then out of a sudden, I just became lazy.

And of course with the travelling, its kinda hard to maintain a stable routine. And due to this, I've put on quite abit of weight!! I think it's time to seriously think about getting back in shape!

It's Official!

No.. i'm not getting married.. hahahahah
My holiday starts today!

Been thinkin what I should do for the next 2 weeks. All ideas are welcomed!
Currently have the following in mind:

• SLEEP! this is very important, as i need plenty of sleep to recover from my flu/ sinus
• Organise wkend away with Dav
• Help Dav get his Chile tickets
• Read
• Get new cook book (Cat, will let you know soon on the title. I'll also check out Nigella & Jamie's books if they have it here)
• Help my sis sell her un-wanted books (I might add mine to the pile)
• Work on this blog's template. (It kinda sucks at the moment - DULL!)
• Catch up with friends
• Help my elder sis move house

That's about it I think...

Face Lift

Finally, we have upgraded our blog. But it screwed up thic pics we used to put up.. Dav is currently very busy with work & studies. And I'm not technically skilled enough to 'fix' it. So, we'll just have to leave with this template for a while.

I'm having problems with the side bar. Although the template settings allow me to put in the blog's owners' profile. It doesnt seem to show... anyone knows how to fix this? hahahahah

So, got a new toy. Check out the pics...














The box Apple box. Nicely 'protected'. When dav asked me to closed my eyes and guess by touching, I thought it was a watch! Cos the box very similar to watches box.

Quite a wrong guess!















Check out the size of this ipod shuffle!!! Btw, that's Dav's palm. He's my model for this post. heheheh It takes about 4 hours to fully charge this little bugger. Some info on the specs :

Capacity - 1Gb Holds up to approx 240 songs
Comes with a docking station
Charges through USB (need to buy AC adaptor)
Costs approx RM 300 (converted from HKD)

He shocked me alrite! When asked why a gift? He said he liked it and want to see how it works... so he bought it for me. Also, he said since I travel so much, it's more convenient to carry a smaller player compared to my 'dinasour' ipod.

Very sweet of him!

Look at the remaining photos and tell me if you disagree that its a BLOODY SMALL player! :P

New toy, new toy!!!

I've got a new toy! Dav just got back from HK and bought me a new toy! He surprised me with the 'world's smallest digital music player'! It the brand new Ipod Shuffle!

Ok.. haven't got the time to 'play' around with it... will tell more some other day.

Yipee!!!

p/s: Its sooo small, its like a money clip!

Odd

It feels odd that Dav is away on business trip and I'm back at home. Suddenly I have quite abit of time on my hand. So the cooking stopped for the wkend as Dav is not around. Was browsing Jamie's cookbook then realised alot of his recipe requires an oven to cook... and that's the ONE thing I dont hv in my parent's house! sigh... looks like I might need to look for an alternative cookbook.. wanted to try the desserts.. but that seems to require alot of effort.. perhaps its better to wait for Dav... (heheheheh this means lazy!)

Didnt do much over the wkend. The only highlight is I cleaned my room! This time the cleaning took much less effort, cos I've already (a) cleared by cupboard of old, un-wearable old clothes, (b) organised all my junk, (c) did last cleaning abt 1 month ago, since i'm hardly in, there's less dusts.

There's another highlight... I played mahjong on a sunday nite until 1am !! And loss about RM 40. sigh.. my friends consoled me by telling me to treat it as tuition fees as I do not how to play it well enough compared to my competitors! But we had great fun... :)

ps: Just found out a friend got engaged! Congrats Eric & Minnie...

Its the weekend

Its the weekend! yipee... but its already the end of Saturday.

Took my colleagues out to Shangri-la Lemon Garden for dinner yesterday and guess what.. of all the days, I choose the day EY have their AD&D... like the tradition for the past 3 yrs, they have theirs AGAIN this year in Shang. So not only I put myself into the risk of running into my ex-boss(s), ppl might think that I did it purposely.

Anyway, alot of my friends have left EY since last year. So when I drop by to say hi to those who still remains, I found out there's actully ALOT more newbies. That is the natural 3-yr cycle of working in an audit firm and obtained your professinal qualification. If you're wondering, I did not say hi to my ex-boss(s).

On the happier note, dinner was GREAT! My colleagues have been to Lemon Garden before and they told me that there is actually a chocolate fountain in the cafe... so that's when I told them they hv to absoloutely take me there! If you dont know, the cost of the buffet is quite EX! Thus we waited until we have a team dinner so that everyone get to hv good food! hahahahah

Check out the fountain! 5 stories high man... you have a selection of marshmallow, strawberries, grapes, etc to dip into the chocolate fountain. I had a few marshmallows & strawberries... ABSOLUTELY HEAVEN!

We had alot of fun joking with each other... and we cant seem to stop ourselves from using Borat's fav line - 'Wa Wa Wee Wa! It's very nice!' .... we used it at every opportunity we can.. even when we had conference call with our boss! hahahahah This is one of the fun audit to be in. Esp when you hv a russian auditor who can tell a joke with a straight face!