This Chinese New Year is going to be the first of many for us.

Among others, it'll be the first time that Fred and I:

• won't be receiving Chinese New Year Ang Pows for ourselves
• will be giving out Chinese New Year Ang Pows
• gladly bring along our very own baby to Chinese New Year open houses :)

I have to admit that my Chinese New Year decorations in our house this year is VERY little and relaxed compared to previous years.

Let's start with the living room.



Moving on now to the dining room.

Couldn't sleep. Too excited. Too anxious.

Our church friends (Mr & Mrs Peter Chong, the Mrs being Amy Ayumi Akama - you guessed it, she's Japanese) welcomed their 5th child 2 weeks ago. A daughter named Haruka Chong.

We visited and had lunch with them yesterday along with our other church members (right after Mia had her double vaccination done).

Mia had extra vaccination done yesterday - for Rotavirus and Pneumococcal disease prevention.


First our Dr prepares the "cocktail" for Rotavirus prevention. It's to be given to her orally.


Then, it's time for Mia to drink up!


The more painful one is the Pneumococcal disease prevention jab. She cried a bit longer than the time she had her injection 2 weeks ago. And to think, there's another 3 more of this jab to complete in the months to come (aside from her other compulsory injections).

Hi. My name is Angeline, and I'm a sticker addict.

Inspired by our dear friend Christine, I got creative and started to decorate the nursery with some stickers which I bought from Kaison.

At first, I got a couple of kittens with flowers and butterflies to make a weird corner look nicer.

Then, I got some dinosaurs for the wall outside the nursery's bathroom.

P.S. I was later informed by Christine that the blue stuff are supposed to be clouds. Alamak!!! I could take them off and stick them up higher.... but decided to stay put and leave them as they are. Somehow I like them as puddles of water!

And now, I'm getting restless wondering how to do the rest of the walls. I'm thinking of turning the nursery into a mini zoo. What do you think?

Meet Teddy Eddy - Mia's latest best friend.

I bought this little teddy bear at the "Give Back" corner of JCI Intan's "Fleastastic Bazaar" sometime in November last year for RM5.Mia loves it when I put Teddy Eddy on top like this so she can see his face. I caught her on various occasions "talking" and laughing at Teddy Eddy.

Just like our arrival to our brunch destination, this blog entry is VERY LATE! A couple of weeks ago, Fred, Janet and I went to search for the very much talked about "Mee Sup Pipin".
Mee Sup Pipin is located inside Kg Inobong along Jln Tomposik. You need to use the Penampang-Tambunan Road.
Keep a lookout for this signboard as a guide. It can be seen on the right side of the road if you're traveling from Penampang. If you know the "famous" Madam Poili.... well, her house is just next to the Mee Sup Pipin stall!


It's advisable to get there as early as you can. They start serving customers as early as 5am on weekends, and 8am on weekdays. We however, only got there around noon. So, we could only order:




The walls of this little village stall are adorned with lots of pictures.



Even though we only had plain white pork meat soup with our noodles, the meal was very tasty. We vowed to come to Mee Soup Pipin on a weekday (at an earlier time) to try out their food again. So, they will be a Mee Sup Pipin Part 2 (soon, I hope!).