After Hari Raya/Deepavali by Uncle Sam

Hi All, Uncle Sam & family spent a week in Penang from 21st ~ 26th Oct. Some updates;

1. 21st Oct, Caught in a horrible trafic jam on our highway, usually take 4.5 hrs Sbn to Penang, it took me 8.5 hrs. When coming back on 26th, again 6.5 hrs.
2. Penang, still heaven for good foods, explore & try our some new dishes and places. Keow Teow Soup, Duck Meat Mee Soup, Prawn Mee, Curry Mee, Char Keow Teow, Yin Yong Mee, Loh Mee, Bak Kut Teh, Chicken rice, Tim Sim etc... Anyone care for a bowl man..??
3. However, Penang is lossing out with too many visitors and heavy traffic jam every where... This week is also the "Festival Of Nine Emperor God" everyone coming in to do prayer, Vegeterian Food Hawker Center mushrooming every corner of the streets. Hence, only way is to travel by motorbike. Another issue, it was raining heavy every evening too, wet holidays.
4. Ah Hsien having fun time with Cousins playing games on Gameboy & Computer after UPSR exam, Jun Jun (Ah Girl), having fun with Cousin sisters rooming shopping complex, buying new cloths spree & Karaoke joint. 4th Pak Mei, rooming around on motorbike with Uncle Sam for foods, doing prayers in temple and gambling away wih nieces & nephew. Ah Yau in India, having 4 days holidays too, but have to spend time studying for exam this week till next week. One of her cousin sister Ah Jane in Penang doing STPM also studying like days & nights too.
5. Back home in Mantin, old house already empty now but not tear down yet since 23rd Oct. Popo shifted to shoplot. The shoplot look very small & cramp after having such spacious old house. Popo complained not used to this new place, midnight 3.00am disturbed by News Paper Van delivery, and she felt sick for two days already. With many people coming into 4D neighbour shop, everyone just peek into our house just to see what is happening in our house. No Privacy, and Front Door have to be locked at all time, very hot, humid inside, with acho sound, when speaking loud.
6. Two dogs & Goldfishes had move to shoplot, but cat refuse to move, she like the old house. Chickens, Goose, other fishes, still in old house too. Empty space still used for parking motorbikes & Cars.
7. Latest by 2nd Er Pak, Bungalow Building plan have been changed from Double storey to Single storey. Hence, this will delay the Bungalow designing/building up plan by 5 months, ie by next year March~April'07 plan to start up building, and this will last for 8~9 mths. So we have to wait till early of 2008 then only can see the new bungalow.
8. Er Ku, started her retirement since 20th Oct 2006, nowaday spend more time driving Popo for breakfast and nearby sightseeing. Both of them are going for Japan Holiday on Early 10th Dec'06. Er Ku is still busy with her business Barley Green.
9. Ta Pak, collected a few durians from Orchard this few days, but mostly half ripe. If no body want to eat this durian, our Doggy Happy is just waiting to wallop all.
10. 3rd Pak, busy with his own travel agent business, operating in PD office and he just came back from Bangkok trip. He will be leading 2 trips to Beijing China in Dec'06. He just bought over 2Er Pak Big Kawasaki Motorbike.
11. New Village house is beautifully renovated by 3rd Pak Mei. Ah Ling/Ah Hong, you will be up to a suprise when you are back home. The maid Har Mui, is no more working with us, but she found a new job just a few doors away as Baby Sitter.
12. Lately, very few nieces & nephews are visiting Mantin, due to busy with exam, and no companions, all prefer to stay home alone... Sleeping !!!
13. Latest Gossip, Tai Ku's husband, have a new China Girl friend, age 30++, nowaday, at 57 years old mature/successful widow man also very Marketable. Both of them visited Mantin once to let Popo see and also spending honeymoon time in Penang too. Haha...
14. Tai Pak Mei, 4 puppies are divided as; One for Hong Kuku, One for Tai Pak Mei, One for Mantin Popo and last one sell to Onn Koko friend.

That All Folks,
Love, Uncle Sam.

Ping's life :)

Dear all,

Hello! This is Ping writing in for the 1st time. It's so nice to see everyone's interesting comments and updates. Hong is having a great time in US. And Ah Soon is adjusting well to new life in UK. Meanwhile, Ah Ling is a seasoned veteren living and enjoying life in UK now.

I've just completed one gruelling year of housemanship. I'm so happy that this 1 year 'torture' is finally over. Good news is I'm going to start my 2nd year of working life as a medical officer in a new hospital in Sungai Buloh. It's a brand new hospital just opened on 20 Sept 2006.

I'm looking forward to a better quality of life. Surviving 1 year of housemanship is more than enough. There were times when i had to stay awake the entire night and continue working the following day. That's roughly working for 36 hours nonstop. No fun at all lah. Working insanely long hours for many days at a stretch can be really exhausting. thanks to home cooked food, herbal tonic and plenty of family love & care, i only fell sick 2 times during this tough one year.

ONe thing I really miss is waking up late in the morning without the alarm clock ringing. that's a privilege which i long for. During this one year, I have to wake up every morning at 5.30 am and arrive at work at 7 am daily. On a normal working day, if i'm not oncall, I finish work by 7 pm. That's 12 hours work.

If I'm oncall that night. I'll be working from 7 am today until 7pm the next day. Total time 36 hours in hospital. By the time it's over, all i want is to go home and sleep. So tired... no life.

Luckily can come home and play with all my dogs. They are such a stress reliever. Very joyful to play with them. :)

Update for my life in Hull, UK

my housemate in 35 Auckland Avenue having dinner together at 12 OCT 2006


From left Peter, me, Doris, Selina, and Robert.

2 pak saying hello to all of you.

Dear All,

4 days /3 nights in Mantin is my weekly routine into my retirement schedule.
Plus another day trip on Sunday to play mahjong.
There are 3 air cond. rooms in the shop house where popo & the maid will be shifting over by the week of 23 October. However , I have being sleeping over alone in the shophouse for the past two weeks.
Life in Mantin begins with a morning call by popo at about 7.15 am.Wash up , then the next moment ,riding the motorbike to the hotspring for a sauna dip.
At times , there are 2 or 3 bathers like me but most of the time ,I am alone which give me a serene place to practice meditation besides the pool.This ,I regard as the
" best of the best " which I yearned / craved for in the past many years.
After breakfast, normally a bowl of wan ton mee ( hey, anyone miss the noodle ? ), it's newspaper reading time.
By 10.30 am , if I am not too lazy, I will be in the fruit orchard till 12.30 pm.
Two hours of changkul & resting in the orchard is enough to sweat till the face towel need to squeeze dry twice not to mention that the whole tee shirt is soaking wet. Lunch is eating outside with popo. Remember the hakka "lat - tong " in Semengeh
& the batkutteh & chicken rice in Mantin? ( hey,are you controlling your saliva from oozing out ?)
Afternoon is siesta time till 3.30 pm follow by another round of changkul & resting
in the orchard till 5.30 pm.By 6.00 pm, it's hotspring dip again .
Dinner is either eating out or popo 's cooking.
Follow by beer time & watching tv or reading till I retire for the day.

That's all for the report.

2 pak

Ah Hong: Theme Parks in Orlando

Hi all..

Recently i've been to many theme parks in Orlando, both with host family and au pair friends. I went to Discovery Cove 2 weeks ago and got to touch sting ray and swam with them. Then last weekend i went to Disney world in early morning to help out for a charity run for breast cancer. we gave out water to the runners, it was fun. ^_^ On Sunday i went to Sea World and saw killer whale show, shark & dolphin show and got to touch dolphin too.. Then at night i went to Universal Orlando for the Holloween Horror Night. There were ppl in costums walking around to scare you and we also went into several haunted houses.

At Discovery Cove


Filling up water to cups before the runners arrive


Group picture with au pairs


starting point of the race


At Universal Orlando Horror Night.. She's scary




Shamu(Killer Whale) stadium at Sea World


On the crazy roller coaster at Sea world


Dolphins were smiling at me when i took picture of them

LIfe in Hull by Soon SOon

Ah ha view from KLIA before flight start





Pic taken in Ling LIng's living place
















Temporarily House mate of mine... who said i ain't social able?
from left...Robert(Ghana), Annin(Poland), John (Ghana).
















Nah~ who said i can only cook instant noodle... i can cook if i want to =)

fried rice cooked by me the first time thanks to mama's recipe but i cant find any "xia mi" so i replace it with ham haha but it doesnt taste bad anyway just that the fire isnt strong enough to make a perfect golden fried rice maybe i can do it better next time.


















more friends of mine from france, Louis and Aoife (pronouns as Eve)..... people here really like to drink isnt it?? haha they said drink beer you wont feel any cold but warm... did i try and drink? that's a good question isnt it?


Lastly i had to thanks against all who helped me with my journey (first uncle, second uncle, third uncle, fourth uncle and my father) oh ya Onn brother, Hong sister, Ling sister and lastly grandma..... i think i can manage to take care myself.. so there is nothing to be worry about.. Mom i still waiting for your recipe to publish hehe i wanna learn more about it. All member take care about the fog disaster oh~ i heard there is a fog disaster again out there.

Ah yew must take care over there oH~

Ah Hong - CLEO magazine(October issue)

Hi there.. my Au Pair program has a new advertorial published in the October issue of CLEO magazine.
I have shared my tertimonial and picture to CLEO magazine too. Pls feel free to click on the link to view it.

[The link was not working properly, so i took it out from here and perhaps you all need to see from the magazine.. hehe.. Eited by hong 09-10-06 8.25am Msia time]

Uncle Sam Update; Mooncake Festival 6th/Oct/06

Hi All NGs family member, Happy Mooncake festival tomorrow. Ah Soon glad you are fine in Hull UK, keep in contact. Some update;

1. Yes, strong man Ah Yau hospitalized in India since 2nd/Oct ~ today still inside hospital now, for Severe Viral Infection outbreak, affecting so far 8 students in Manipal of his group. Headache, vomitting, high fever are the symptoms. Ah Yau have recovered now but still some fever, needed more check up, most likely he will be discharged on 7 or 8/Oct. Daily, he is calling home to update. Other students also admitting now & then. Ai ya, forgotten, Ah Yau mummy not around but still many Beautiful Nanny in India College taking care of him with boiled porriage daily... How sweet & lucky...

2. Er Pek full time farmer staying in Mantin manning Durian orchard for last two weeks.

3. Mun Sok & 3rd Pek, went to Changmai for Holiday cum golfing since 2nd/Oct for a few days.

4. Mantin home, almost emptying all barang to shoplot, Raya time total shift over.

5. 3rd Pek May's house in new village slight renovation now to beutify and change Feng Sui man......, probably preparing / waiting for Ah Hong or Ah Ling or Ah Sin to Kahwin lah ..... haha..

6. Ta Pek, Hiby female dog got pregnant again, many free puppies for dog lovers, but must met Ta Pek criteria, Taker must love dog & sleep together, love dog shit & pissing .... Haha...

7. Tomorrow, Uncle Sam & family going to Penang to attend Bro in Law 25th Wedding Anniversery, Party time, Plenty of hawker foods but still worrying for Ah Yau in hospital too. Ah Yau siad he is alright now.

8. Popo still going strong for travelling fun, last weekend go with Er Ko to Tangkat Johor, for day trip. This time, Er Ko insisted she bring along her portable Toilet bowl in the car.. Haha.. Or else who will carry her out from toilet with no sitting bowl...?

Bye & Love, Uncle Sam

Soon's contact Info - By Ah Hong

Dear all,

I met Soon on MSN messenger. He asked me to help him tp post his address and phone number in the blog for him. He is currently having the classic internet connection in Hull.. haha.. Dial up 56kbps. It makes him keep disconnecting from the Internet.

He has 2 British house mates and 1 house mate from China. 4 of them in the house currently..

Soon's Address: 35, Auckland Avenue, Hull, HU67SE, U.K.
House phone num: +44 (0148) 2302819

Feel free to send him X'mas Card, some blank Chinese New Year card, so that he can send us back (Expensive and hard to buy in Hull). Haha..

Besides, he also asked me to tell you all that he'll be opening the bank account soon. :)