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2007-07-03T09:43:00.000+08:00

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It's been long....

2007-06-06T09:14:00.001+08:00

....since I updated anything on the blog ever since Xell and I came back from UK. Oh god... I really miss UK...especially Belfast. Thanks to Snakebyte for providing us a place to stay and taking us around the country side...It was a really really good trip. :)

And of course at London... thanks to Sweet for cooking us a meal and giving us treat on lunch. Welcome back to Malaysia, Sweet. (but I know you don't read this blog. hahahaha)

And... welcome back Snake to Malaysia, after coming back to Malaysia to China now back again. And you're flying back to Belfast next week.

And welcome back Endoru! You haven't been back to Malaysia for 2 years? Hope you enjoy your 10 days stay! I hope we have time to meet up... :)

Wonder why I haven't been updating the blog? (I wonder why Xell haven't been updating) I've been busy at work. So I gets really tired when I get home. You know..first few days I actually had jet lag. 2 weeks of vacation ... and now I have plenty of work! I am behind schedule and I there's no way I can catch up... so I'll still be behind schedule. hahahaha....

I'm trying not to post much here coz I am setting up a new blog. Will announce it soon once I have done all the customization to the new blog. With new Url too... once that is done, I will not be blogging here anymore... So guys... wait patiently la...

Give me some time to blog about the UK trip ya... I know Snake also lazy to blog..expecting us to blog for him....tsk tsk tsk....

Gotta work... tata...

Sick on my Birthday and flying off tomorrow!

2007-05-03T16:35:00.000+08:00

I hate this... I'm that close to flying off to UK for my vacation...and then..the day before my birthday I fall sick. :( And I got slight fever on my birthday!

Thanks Xell and friends for celebrating my birthday at Neway. My nose was leaking like a damn useless water tap. Argh... I can't sing... I can't drink. baaah... geram.

Anyway... I had fun. :D I'll be flying off tomorrow. Probably no update on the blog at all till we're back. Unless we get internet connection in the UK. Will only be back on the 19th. And goddamit... I'm still sick. Coughing like crazy. Got stronger antibiotics from the doc which makes me feels so drowsy. My head is spinning... I can't work...

I hope I don't get send back to Malaysia by the custom!!! T_T Must recover... must cough less...

Wish us a safe journey tomorrow! Flight is 12 noon. :) Snakebyte... see you in a week's time!

Happy Birthday Zen!

2007-05-02T01:46:00.000+08:00

Yes, I know I'm one hour late but what to do... ah ya was hogging her laptop the entire day yesterday.... but anyway...

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZEN!
YOU'RE A QUARTER CENTURY YEARS OLD!!!
*throws confetti*

And you're finally older than me! huhuhuhuhuhuhu

We celebrated Zen's birthday on 30th at the Curve's Redbox and she was snifling all the way... hahaha she must have been really touched by our presence that she can't stop her nose from running... hahahhaa

Woah...So lazy...

2007-04-17T22:41:00.000+08:00

Hmm... Really lack of updates lately. I am so lazy...and so is Xell... hohoho... If she's not lazy, she would've updated the blog too! wuahaha... 2 lazy bloggers...

Nothing much happen really. Other than ... Happy Birthday SnakeByte! Welcome back from your Egypt trip. Thank god you didn't fell down from the camel. And you... why didn't you spank the camels? Since we don't quite like camels for some reasons... You promised you will spank them for us if we don't like the camels!!! Did you burst the camels humps? whahahah...

Anyway... I am really looking forward to the 2 weeks vacation. Time flies huh. In 2 weeks time we're going to UK. And yes~~~ A break from work! Not like I am very busy at work anyway.. *paiseh* hahah.... And yes... Mr. Snake... we're finally seeing you after so long. And yes... we'll see more of each other when you're back to Malaysia. Be very afraid when we arrive in Belfast. hahaha...

And Endoru will be coming back to Malaysia as well. Looks like mid-May to mid-June will be slightly busy when I'm back. Yes... Endoru... we'll go eat ok? And yes Mr.Snake... we'll go sing K. Make sure we practice the songs we want to sing in the car on the way to Giant Causeway. Make sure Xell don't drive coz I don't want to end up in the Irish sea... I want to come back alive... wait... Unless I'm stuck in a maze. ahahahah...

Ok... enough nonscense/crap for now. tata~~~ Will update more when I'm in the mood.

Wong Ah Wah (黄亚华) @ Jalan Alor

2007-04-02T21:46:00.000+08:00

This shop have been around Jalan Alor for a very long time (I think!). But honestly, I haven't been to Jalan Alor until my bf brought me there lor. so paiseh... I am like born in KL....living in KL but I haven't been to Jalan Alor until last year. =_= And that was the first time I ate at Wong Ah Wah, my bf took me there. :) This is the second time I went there with my buddy WN.

There were only 2 of us... look at what we ordered :) Just looking at the pics make me hungry... *drools*

If you go there, you really need to order the bbq chicken wings. Actually not like it's SUPER nice or something, but it's good enough that you want to eat more! *drools* I so feel like eating chicken wings now...

And next up is Lala (clams). I really like Lala. WAW's lala might look spicy but actually for me it's not very spicy. Probably for Xell, this dish will send her flying man.. haha... It's really nice coz they actually sell you lala and not shells. I believe there are places where you ordered lala and all you get is a dish of shells and it's super expensive. Nothing much to eat...no meat or super tiny lala. This is totally not like this, you can see, there's actually meat that you can see and eat. yum yum....

And WN wanted to eat 'si ham' (cockles). Since I also love 'siham' of course must order lah! I usually eat those boiled ones, but of course spicy fried siham like this, I like it very much too! I think this dish is spicier than the lala. Taste really good you know... aiya..drooling again...

With so many spicy dish...of course we need some vegies. Unfortunately... vegie also no use. Spicy vegie. The vegie is call "fan shu yip' in canto...but I have no idea what it's called in English. hahahaha... Direct translation is call sweet potato leaves. haha... can someone tell me what it's called? Anyway...its sambal belacan fry vegies la. Not very spicy also. But good! I like it. haha...

The meal cost RM 30 in total inclusive of drinks. Not too expensive actually compared to all the other shops at Jalan Alor. I think it's really good price for the amount of food we ordered. If you want to go, WAW it's actually right at the end of Jalan Alor, next to all the car parks. :)

WN was having sore throat and on medication when she went WAW. She lost her voice the next day. haha... Luckily she recovered fully already. haha...

Champions League Trophy @ The Curve

2007-03-26T22:55:00.000+08:00

Ta-da! To all football fans out there! The champions league trophy was at The Curve last Saturday and Sunday! Have you miss getting up close and personal with the trophy? I didn't get to touch or take picture with the trophy. I was lucky enough to get a clear shot of the trophy coz there's people taking photos with the trophy constantly...

Wonder why I never get up close and personal with the trophy? Look at the pic below...

There's a blardy long queue to get to the trophy!!! Argh... and you know what? That's not all... To be able to BE in the queue...read... BE in the LONG queue, you need to be in another queue to win the pass to be in the long queue! Bah...I wouldn't want to waste my time queuing. I got my nice shot of the trophy :D

The event was organized by Heneiken. I think the trophy is going round the world? Not sure... And there's lots of signs saying that this event is open to all NON-Muslims and 18 years above. But trust me... there were plenty of Muslims there. Anyway... that's not the point...

Along on display are other stuff with player's signature on. I only posted up pictures on some of the stuff, not all. The super old Trophy was on display too and some other player's boots etc...

Clockwise from Top Left: Signed Park Ji Sung's Replica jersey, Signed Zidane France T,
Someone's boot (hahaha) and signed Barca jersey

Top: Signed Fillippo Inzaghi (AC Milan) Boots
Bottom: Signed Kaka (AC Milan) Boots

There were giving away a lot of free books about the Champions League too! There were events going on like answering some football questions and win yourself some free gifts etc... The queue to touch the trophy was long but the place was not as crowded as I thought it would be. Maybe it was a 2 days event thing, and I was there at the end of the second day. The trophy will be taken away by 10pm. :)

This super long foosball table does caught my attention. It's kinda cute isn't it? haha... But I never knew how to play foosball... I didn't know there were rules until my bf told me. Hahaha... Well... I suppose the event can be call a success considering the crowd they manage to attract? But seriously, there really wasn't much to see apart from the Champion's League trophy la... haha...

Movie: 300 by Frank Miller

2007-03-22T22:52:00.000+08:00

I should've post this review a long time ago. But like I said, I never got much time. I am quite occupied with Heroes currently actually... hohoho...

So..I watched this movie with my bf and a couple of his male friends. This movie really kick-ass!!! Everyone and anyone should go and watch it of course, except for those 18 below kids la. The storyline is very simple, it's about 300 Spartans having a war with 1 million Persion army. Not going to tell much about it. You can read it up at Wikipedia.

I tell you... there's just so much blood in this movie! BLOOD!!! SO MUCH!!! And of course, the entire Spartan army really has this gigantic body with 8 packs!!!! You see, I am not really that interested in watching half naked men la. But seriously... the movie rawks!!! It's just so good. There's head chopped off, limbs chopped off flying everywhere ... in slow motion some more!!!

hahaha...enough about the gory bits. It's really damn good. Go watch it!!!

I'm making a difference Windows Live Messenger Campaign

2007-03-20T23:14:00.000+08:00

I believe most of you would have noticed this logo/picture/word in front of some of friend's nickname in MSN lately. You need to have MSN Live Messenger to see it, otherwise you'll probably see *bgca *help etc in front of your friends' nickname.

I did encounter some friends who ask me what is it. Honestly... I didn't know what it is until now. haha... Previously I just put it in front of my nickname for fun coz I thought it look quite cute. Never have I thought that having that logo in front you're actually doing a good deed. :D

In case you have not already know... the bottom text is actually copied from Msn site.

I’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We've set no cap on the amount we'll donate to each organization. The sky's the limit. There's no charge, so join now and put our money where your mouth is.
i’m is about making a difference. Not in a huge expensive way, not in a time-consuming way. But in a simple, effective way.
You won't have to change your conversation to change the conversation. With every instant message you help address the issues you feel most passionate about, including poverty, child protection, disease, and environmental degradation. It's simple. All you have to do is join and start an instant messaging conversation. We'll handle the donation.
Once you've signed up, every ad you see in your message window contributes to the grand total we send to the causes.

So, it means... by putting i'm in front of your nickname, you can actually contribute a certain amount to the organisation of your choice by chatting! How cool is that? Different text code you put in front of your nickname actually contribute to different organisation. Take for example *bgca - You're actually contributing to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. However, i'm remains the same look on your msn.

Below are a list of text code you can use!

Text Code	Cause
*red+u	American Red Cross
*bgca	Boys & Girls Clubs of America
*naf	National AIDS Fund
*mssoc	National Multiple Sclerosis Society
*9mil	ninemillion.org
*sierra	Sierra Club
*help	StopGlobalWarming.org
*komen	Susan G. Komen for the Cure
*unicef	The US fund for UNICEF

There's all sorts of banners you can use too. Look... Below are just a few. Why should you wait anymore? Join the campaign now! :D Interested to read more? Check out the i'm website!

Some Crazy Driver!

2007-03-18T22:36:00.000+08:00

Now... I know that Malaysia tends to have the worse drivers around but this is probably the first time in my life I ever met the most ridiculous driver EVER!

It was Friday, I was heading towards Taman Megah to play badminton with my colleagues from home. For those who's quite familiar with Taman Tun (TTDI), there's a road the goes straight to 1 Utama from Sprint highway. On your right you'll probably see Pizza Hut and further down the road, you can see Shell and Petronas on your right.

There's 3 lanes (I think), the middle lane is to go straight or turn left which will lead you to Uptown, right lane go straight will lead u to 1 Utama. There's this left lane which you can turn into housing area. On the left lane, there's double line which means you can't cut into the middle lane just like that. Many people likes to cut in because after work, the road is quite jam.

Well, it's normal that most Malaysian's driver likes to cut lane. At that time my colleague was fetching me, then... here comes a Black color brand new looking Vios trying to force his car to the our lane. Like I said, it's double line. He's not suppose to cut in. My colleague didn't really like the idea of being cut in just like that he tries to move his car forward a little so that he will back out. In any normal situation, most driver will back out ... but NO... not this driver. He force his car through! And then... we heard some scratching sound. Meaning... my colleagues bumper got scratches and the same would go to the Vios.

Well, my colleague didn't really mind since his bumper is full of scratches already, he continue to drive on. BUT... never have we expect that this Vios driver was angry that his car got scratch demand that we stop the car at the road side and talk about it. =_=' Obviously, my colleague didn't care and continue to drive on. And guess what??? That black Vios didn't gave up and follow us at the back of the car all the way till Taman Megah traffic lights!!!

He kept flashing his car lights trying to indicate that we stop our car and negotiate. Negotiate what we dunno la. Clearly, my colleague's car is the victim and he's against the rules! We continue to ignore him until he reached the traffic lights, so happen it was red lights, he came down the car and bang on my colleague's car window! He told my colleague to wind down the window and he said "bincang bincang". My colleague didn't want to bincang, so he told him, "tak nak bincang, kita pergi repot polis" and he wind up his window.

That Vios guy continue to bang the window so hard I thought he was going to break the window. And then he tries to open my colleague's car door! Well, we were afraid something like this might happen, all the car door was locked. He continue to pull the door handle so hard that he broke it!!! And the chicken shit Vios driver probably freaked out and ran away back to his car. =_=

How stupid can the Vios driver gets??? I seriously wonder who's the victim here? What rights has he got to demand for a discussion when he's on the wrong?? Plus now he broke the car door? Well.. we've got the car plate number all written down. Can get him to jail anytime man... it's just up to my colleague. So guys...remember to lock your car door at all time, you will never know you meet someone crazy!

Food in Bangkok

2007-03-18T00:20:00.000+08:00

Yes, it has been a long time since I've updated here... and I'm still not done with my Bangkok trip, which was more than 3 months ago... hehehe... but oh well, I shall head off to what most people would be most interested in.... FOOD...

Anyway, one of the places I love in Bangkok is MBK, which is a shopping complex which kind of reminds me of Sungai Wang Plaza. Bought 2 pairs of shoes, and would have bought more if the shops there accept credit card as we ran out of cash... *sobs*

There's a wide choices of places to eat while you're there too, and there's a food court right up on the 6th Floor, which was where we had our dinner on our second day after a long hot afternoon at the Grand Palace.

From corner left, clockwise: Pattai with prawns; some noodle dish; Vietnamese spring roll; another noodle dish

And while shopping (or more like getting lost wandering around aimlessly, asking people where's Siam Center) around Siam Square, me and ah ya stumbled into this restaurant called the Noodle House. As ah ya was hungry and I think it was waaay past lunch time, as usual we tend to lose track of time when shopping, she had noodles wrapped with omellete, but I just call it Pattaya Noodles as it reminds of Pattaya Rice.

As for me, I ordered a platter with various snacks like fried wantan, siew mai dim sum, spring rolls and potatoes covered in bread crumbs, which is actually coroquet...

For additional flavouring, you can add in sugar (yes, I'm not blind, it's sugar, not salt), dried chili flakes, preserved chilis or soya sauce. And it's all nicely provided in a cute tray!

As for drinks, I had an iced latte as I wasn't able to get a proper sleep during my trip, which was pretty sweet and if I say it's sweet, that means it's super sweet for people with normal taste buds! And ah ya had cold green tea, which was sweet too... nice...

Anyway, when I was there in Bangkok, I definitely tried their Mcdonalds there and I love their Fillet O Fish!! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! And their Samurai Pork Burger was absolutely delicious, it has a sweet sauce that reminds me of char siew and I'm getting hungry now just thinking of it... dang... must go have McDs breakfast tomorrow....

I got my passport!!!

2007-03-17T23:22:00.000+08:00

I know you guys are screaming for updates!!! hahaha... Seriously I really have loads to blog about but never got around blogging it like since....after CNY? hahah... Been sick the entire CNY and after CNY also my Shingles is not fully recovered. Actually still got some scars remaining... poor me :(

Anyway... It's been decided that we're leaving for London 4th May! Hurray... And unlucky me is... my passport expires 2 January 2007. -_-''' So I had to make new one. And actually... I made it on the 4th day of CNY. I think it's a Wednesday. Yes... I know this is damn outdated. Anyway... It was DARN PACK ok!!! Look at the Queue!

'X' indicates the beginning of the queue to get number to make ur passport!

'Y' indicates end of queue. As u can see...the queue is so loong that it actually makes a round of the entire immigraion!!!

Lucky thing I got my sister there with me. I was stuck in immigration from 8.30-11.30. Thanks my mom for telling me that CNY, maybe less people. But you know what??? The amount of people making passport on that day is double the usual amount!!! It actually came out in the news!!!

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/22/nation/16944431&sec=nation

Anyway... nowadays when you make passport you can actually get it on the same day. After 2 hours, you can collect your passport d. :D So I actually got my passport on the same day. And if you already have an existing "new" passport, as in with the chip inside, you can use the kiosk to make your passport too! It's really fast actually unfortunately... though the kiosk is suppose to speed things up, there's still a verrry looong queue to it coz some of them don't really know how to use the kiosk properly.

Hmm... that's about what I want to say now. hahahah.... I will update more la. :D

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

2007-02-17T02:11:00.000+08:00

hey all... Since I won't be around till next Wednesday, I've been busy updating the blog. hahah... going to Kluang. The place full of mosquitos and durian trees and rambutan trees and the toilet is outside the house. hahah... The quiet house is gonne be packed with relatives and it's gonna be a noisy CNY again... as usual. XD

Will be departing like 8.30am. It's like 2.14 am now? Need to sleep need to sleep... Posted many post, have fun reading them. :) Still in process of packing and blogging. hahaha.... ok ok... off now.

Actually I am just here to wish everyone....

Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Hope everyone have a prosperous CNY and get lots of Ang pau!!!

For those who are not in Malaysia,
I hope you guys enjoy your CNY as much as I enjoy mine. :D

I've got shingles and it hurts!!!

2007-02-14T23:38:00.000+08:00

I've been on mc for nearly the entire week this week. :( I only went to work for one and a half days out of 5 days. I'm so sick! Not fever or flu or whatsoever but shingles!!!

I got it since last Thursday. I was having some rash on my left chest and my left neck. Not knowing what was it, I went to see doctor the next day. Then the doctor told me I had food allergy. She said: "It's DEFINITELY food allergy" I never had food allergy before in my entire life and it's very unlikely I will found that I am allergic to certain food at the age 25 right? Anyway, I finished the 3 days medicine and my rashes never got any better but went worse.

I went back to see her after that and so happen it was another doctor on duty on that day. Man... I was lucky it was not the first doctor on duty. The second doctor told me I had shingles! I was shocked coz I didn't know what shingles was at that time. She told me it's DEFINITELY not food allergy coz if it is, I would've developed rashes all over my body rather than everything is on the left side.

Well... After that I got to know a bit more about Shingles. It's also known as Herpes Zoster and it's caused by chicken pox virus in my body and it reactivates coz my immune system is low. Basically everyone who has chickenpox before are at risk of getting shingles. I can't get shingles from anyone nor can I spread shingles to anyone. However, I can spread to people who hasn't got chickenpox before (usually children) and they will get chickenpox rather than shingles.

I got shingles for more than a week. Doctor says it take 2 weeks to heal. :( On the 5th and 6th day, my rashes starts developing blisters. I tell you... the blisters are DAMN PAINFUL!!!! You know how's the pain like? If you google shingles, they will tell you that it's like needles piercing your body. For me, it was like someone pouring anticeptic on you open wound!!! It was DARN painful that I can't sleep the entire night and I sooo wanted to cry. :(

I went to see my family GP the next day and request for a stronger pain killer and also to double confirm if I've really gotten shingles. The doc told me that my current pain killer can't kill the pain coz shingles are actually attacking my nerve. The pain are from my nerve!!! So I had to take a medicine call Neurontin which will reduce my nerve pain and I found out that people who have fits takes this medicine too! Darn scary right??? Not only that, this medicine is damn expensive and it cost RM 4 each capsule. I am also on medication for 7 days and I have to take the medicine 5 times a day and that's like every 4 hours I has to swallow a huge tablet.

Well...CNY is so near...and I think I am finally getting better. The doc told me to stay home. So I am off work till next wednesday. Coz of Public Holiday and also I took one day leave on wednesday. If I've gotten the correct diagnosis since the first doctor, I wouldn't have suffer SO MUCH!!! :( :( I will not see that lousy doctor anymore!!! She could've killed me....I hate shingles!!!

Anyway...if any of you guys wants to know more about shingles, you can visit the site below.
Information on Shingles

La Gourmet House @ The Curve

2007-02-13T23:41:00.000+08:00

I've always like going to The Curve. I love the food that can be found there. As far as I can remember, La Gourmet House have been around The Curve for a very long time but I never got round trying it. So this time, I've decided to give it a try with my bf.

It was a windy day so we decided to sit outside. We can enjoy the wind and also enjoy the view. hahah... See everyone passing by with lots of purchases in their hands.

One thing that really caught my eye once I sat down was this. hmm... You can sit at your place, press the button to ask for the bill or water? I never got to try it, I am not sure it works though. haha... coz... all the waitresses was standing outside, I don't get a chance to try it. :p

Since I lost my receipt... I can't remember what I ate. But as you can see, what I had is actually sausages with mashed potato and some salad. It says in the menu that the sausages suppose to be cover in tomato sauce, for some reason mine came with mustard. hmm... Anyway, the sausages taste REALLY good. :D The mashed potato taste really good too. Personally I don't like mashed potato to be overly mashed till its creamy. I like it a bit dry and hard and I don't mind it with chunks of potato too!

The salad was really unique. Everything is sour. =_= I've never had salad like this before... but it didn't taste bad, it's unusual for me, but it taste quite nice.

My boyfriend ordered lamb pie. It looks more like lasagna than pie to me though. The pie taste excellent too! The top layer is nicely baked and inside there's loads of minced lamb. :) Smells good and nicely cooked.

The sauce for the pie came seperately. If you have the pie with the gravy, it taste even better! yummy!!!

The meal didn't come cheap though and it's not to say overly priced as well. Average each meal cost RM 20++ and not to forget 10% service charge and 5% govt tax. The food is good, I will definately go there again and try other food from their menu. :D

Paddington Pancakes @ Plaza Damas

2007-02-12T23:39:00.000+08:00

I know I haven't been blogging for a looong time. Anyway... here goes... haha... Some time ago, my ex-colleague - WN came all the way from Old Klang Road to Mont Kiara to find me for lunch. We ended up having pancakes at Plaza Damas.

We all know that paddington pancakes are expensive but we never knew that they actually have set Lunch! The have set breakfast as well. Since the day we went was a Thursday, we had Atlantic Thursday which is actually fish burger.

Set lunch comes with softdrinks or tea. I had Earl Grey Tea. It comes in packet and a glass of hot water. No sugar provided, there's honey for you though. Depends on thick you like your tea, you can take out your sachet of tea anytime. I had to take it out after a while coz my tea was getting too thick!

Then... the main course came... To our horror!!! It's HUGE!!!

Look at it... it's HUGE!!! How can any normal human finish this fish burger? There's like 3 slices of pancakes and the fish is like so huge... comes with chips as well. >.< _=" The">

Chatuchak Weekend Market

2007-02-10T14:22:00.000+08:00

Note: Finally... I had time to edit all the photos for Xell. Lots of photos ahead!!! The food looks really yummy la, I feel so hungry when I am editing the pictures. Anyway... sorry for not having any post in a veeerrry loong time, will update loads before CNY. :D

The moment we touched down in the new Bangkok Airport, we separated into two groups. I was with ah Ya, my sis and YP and we wanted to head off straight to the Chatuchak Weekend Market as we arrived in Bangkok on a Sunday evening and we didn't want to miss it. So, H and his wife went to the hotel to check-in and to inform the hotel we will be checking-in late, as well as bringing all our luggage to the hotel... I don't think we can drag our bags around the market....

Anyway, the market was super packed with people, and I heard that the crowd is the worst in the evening and poor me... I felt like fainting just shoving my way through the crowd, it was really difficult for me to even browse through the shops as the crowd behind me kept pushing me to the front. And I even got separated from the rest many many times, thank goodness I brought my hp along and I could still sms out.

Shot of the crowd...

A rare sight to be seen in the market.... a deserted alley...

The market do reminds me of the 'pasar malam' (night market) we have here in Malaysia, but more on a large scale. It's terribly huge and we were quite lost in there as we didn't get a map of the place until much later. Therefore, I highly recommend that you get a map before entering the place!

Street performances by children... it was tearful listening to the boy playing his violin, it was a sad piece...

And the shops in the market.... oh my...

We had something to eat there too... I can't remember what was the name of the dish I had, but it's like fried kuey teow except the noodles were bigger than kuey teow...

My sis had rice noodles soup, and the dish sounded something like kuey teow.... hahaha

The famous pattai dish... this actually had more taste than the rest...

And you can add in extra stuffs for additional flavouring...

Along the way, ah Ya spotted this shop, which sells this sweet desert that reminds us of ice kacang, but it's just ice shavings (but it was more like ice chunks) with santan, sweet syrup, sago and red ruby...

And we had ice-cream too... in a paper cone... I had lemon-flavoured ice-cream....

Along the streets of the market, there's loads of stalls selling finger foods and more food....

Check out these sites for more details on the market....
http://www.bangkok-city.com/chatuchak.htm
http://www.asiatraveltips.com/ChatuchakMarketBangkok.shtml

Bored through my skull!!!

2007-02-07T10:31:00.000+08:00

Ok... I know this blog haven't been updated lately. Been busy... been lazy... been unhappy... Many things happen la. haha... Actually I did try to update on weekend, for some reason I can't log in.

Anyway, I am currently bored through my skull at work. Not cause I have no work, it's more like... there's nobody around. >.< My office has 2 sections, one are the BAs and Sales, the other room are all SEs. Anyway... everyone is out in full force meeting client today. Some very important client so... even all the BAs are involved, except for me. :( I am still consider new here... besides I know nuts about the BI tool. haha... so the entire section only has me and another account girl. *sighs* Things will be like that for 2 days! But all the SEs are still around la...

Here's a couple of update over what has been going on for past few weeks.
1) A bit upsetting in office, with my dearest partner in crime and also the only girl in BA and sitting next to me leaving the company. She's got a better offer, who wouldn't go for a better offer right? Just that it makes me feel a bit lonely at work lor. :(

2) Actually, there's a couple more of my colleagues resigned too! Better offer as well, can't blame them. But they're like the people I know best at work. All ciao-ing... Upsetting right? Why can't I get a better offer huh??? Anyway, it's really a dumb thing to do - leaving a company coz everyone else is. So... I'll probably stick around a bit longer, I just got confirmed anyway. Which leads me to the third item...

3) I got confirmed! lol... Looks like I owe some of them a meal. It's an early confirmation though. I am suppose to go through a 6 months probation and I am now at my 4th month. Fast, congratulate me! The confirmation also comes with a sligth increament la.

4) CNY is coming... what more to do other than... Spring cleaning! Man... How I ate spring cleaning, but I don't have a choice kay! Still have to clean...

5) Planning my UK trip with Xell and Snakebyte. Blardy MAS flight tickets during Mas Travel Fair is still blardy expensive la! So call Travel Fair. >.< Blardy flight tix so expensive, damn those airport tax and the blood sucker fuel surcharge! They really should reduce the blardy fuel surcharge.

Anyway, planning the trip was A PAIN!!!! Coz we need to fly to Belfast from London so need to book more flights. Plan the date, then book accomodation. Now... all our Credit card has officially burst. hahaahaha.... But glad to say, everything has been well planned!!! UK here I come in May!!!

6) I've already applied my leave for the trip!!! 11 days!!! hohoho... it's gonna be a loooong holiday and being SUPER broke when I get back. But I'm sure it will be all worth it. The next thing to plan is the itenary of what and what-not to see in London. hoho... Being there for a year, I'll have to be a tour guide for the rest la. Damn~ ahahahaha

7) Apart from all the good things and bad things that happen... There's ONE pain I have to endure throughout my employment in my current company, which is - I have to suffer working with a c2pid person and have to answer and listen to all her c2pid questions. I am so going to die. I dunno how long I can tahan her before I actually chop her into pieces or maybe just strangling her. She should just stay at home and take care of her kids. She's so incompetence in her job and so blur and most of all STUPID. I hate to use this word on anyone, but sad to say, she is. =_=

That's all for now. I still have a lot of things lining up, waiting to be posted on the blog. But heck, when I am home, I'm tired. I'll work harder to post stuff la. hahaha... I'm planning to switch my blog some where else too. See when I'll get it done. Ciao for now~~

Movie: Pathfinder

2007-01-29T23:56:00.000+08:00

Been busy lately, too many things happening at work. *sighs* Sorry guys, never been updating. So simple post... here u go :D

Some last last week (I think!) I went to watch Pathfinder with my bf. I wasn't really interested in watching this movie coz seems like there's a lot of slashing and brutal killings (which there really is), I went to watch it anyway. :D

Man... it was a cruel movie. haha... I think there's some cencorship here and there coz really too brutal. However, it was actually quite fun to watch. But I heard some say boring. It was quite nice for me. ALTHOUGH... there's hardly ANY conversation in the movie. Just merely action. Average each character only gets to speak 2 sentences each time. And they rarely gets the chance to speak at all! whahaha....

Well... the main character is seriously damn good looking. I was wondering who is he. Must be some not-so-famous-actor but good looking. Seriously... he's actually Karl Urban. I seriously have trouble recognizing him... he's actually Eomer from LOTR. hahaha... Go watch it for yourself! hohoho...

Anyway, watch it only if you can stand all the brutal killings. Brutal ok? and I mean BRUTAL! hahaha...

When Sinking ofJapan meets The Day After Tomorrow

2007-01-19T23:48:00.000+08:00

Not so long ago, there was some weird dreams post like here, here and here. Hmm... Then after that my dreams seems to be normal until... recently...

Seems like my dream is getting more and more powderful. hahaha... This time it's Sinking of Japan meets The Day After Tomorrow. Sinking of Japan is one pretty new movie that just came out in Malaysia. I've watched the trailer a number of times.

This time around, I dreamt that I was in Japan. Suddenly the building starts to sink!!! hahah... Some very tall building just started to sink straight into the ground. I know Sinking of Japan has little to do with the building sinking into the ground la. But in my dream the building started to sink lor. Then... there's this freezing air starts flowing to our direction.

You know... just like The Day After Tomorrow lor... so obviously, I had to escape from the freeze right? Else I will be frozen in my dream. hahaha... I can't remember who I was escaping with. haha... and one of my friend manage to hijack a car and we sped off towards the opposite direction of the freezing area lor. Which is of course coming closer and closer. And I think the person who hijacked the car was J. hahahaha...

Anyway, I managed to esacape. I survived Tsunami, how can I now survive this right? hahaha... But... hmm... I can't remember how I woke up. :p

BANGKOK BANGKOK BANGKOK!

2007-01-18T23:53:00.000+08:00

Note from Zen: Sorry for no post lately. Some mad woman aka Xell gave me sooo many pictures to edit, some protrait, some landscape... Trust me... I wanted to give up. My god... *puke blood* Anyway... done... here you go, go read!!!

Just came back from Bangkok and I absolutely love it!!! We (me, ah ya, my older sis, ah ya's colleagues - YP, H and his wife) left from LCCT, KLIA on Christmas eve and our flight was delayed for 15 minutes... and it was a smooth landing in Bangkok too! A complete opposite to our flight back to Malaysia! Our flight was delayed twice!!! From 3.15pm to 5.15pm to 6.20pm! Oh goodness, thank goodness I brought 3 story books along and my mp3 player too! And by the time I reached home, it was almost midnight and I had to go to work in the afternoon the next day too! And the landing was so horrid, my ears were horribly block...

This is the plane we took to Bangkok...

Scenes from the new Bangkok airport... it reminds of me KLIA actually...

How to take a cab from the airport...

Anyway, during our stay in Bangkok, we resided at the Menam Riverside Hotel, a four-star resort hotel, which has a spectacular view of the Chao Phraya River as it is situated just along the riverbanks.

Exterior of the hotel and the swimming pool

The lobby and reception hall

For smokers, the hotel has a designated area for smoking, which is just by the swimming pool

The view of the river from the hotel's restaurant, where we had our breakfast

The hotel has a free shuttle boat service, where its lovely boat (it's very romantic taking the boat at night) will bring you to the Saphan Taksin station, which is the 1st stop along the BTS Sky Train (equivalent to Malaysia's LRT/Star line).

The hotel's jetty and boat

The jetty as the sun is setting and a delightful pigeon which doesn't seem to be afraid of humans

My room's all the way up on the 12th floor and it's got a magnificient view of the river!

The corridor leading to my room...

Welcome to my room, room 1252!

I love the deco of the room, especially the headboard above the beds

The bathroom is wonderful too, but then the water pressure from the shower wasn't strong enough...

The rest of the room...

Anyway, one of the few reasons why I love my stay in Bangkok was because of the hotel. I would definitely come back to stay here, even though it's pretty far from the city, but the boat services are pretty reliable and the train's easy to take to.

And how I love the hotel staff, they're the best! They're extremely helpful and patient handling my silly questions, even though sometimes I know the answer but I still want to ask them... For instance, when I was out shopping on a Monday, I noticed loads of people wearing yellow. Turns out it was because the people are showing their love for their King whose birthday was on Dec 5th, and he was born on a Monday. Therefore, every Monday during that month, the people would wear yellow! Actually, I managed to figure that out myself but I still wanted to bother the hotel staff bout it... hehehehe

http://www.menamriverside-hotel.com/website/index.asp

Paddington Pancakes @ 1 Utama

2007-01-06T09:32:00.000+08:00

I first saw Paddington Pancakes at The Curve. Never been in there before. Then I saw another branch at Plaza Damas and I had my first pancake lunch with my bf and it's excellent. Then, somewhere last year, the open a branch in 1U. They've open quite some time, but I never got a chance to eat there.

Last week, before the movie, I went there with my bf. The branch here looks really nice. Since there's an outdoor seatings area and you can have seats that can enjoy the "forest" view.

Paddington pancakes kitchen are open. Basically you can see how they operate from wherever you sit. The food here are very costly so I don't come here often. hahaha... But it's also well worth the price. There's plenty of pancakes for you choose from in their menu. From dessert pancakes to savoury pancakes to burgers made out of pancakes...

Their pancakes looks really declicous from all the pictures. One good thing about Paddington is, what you see is what you get. Which means, what you see in the menu, you get exactly the same thing on your table. I know many places where food looks good in the menu but it turns out otherwise when it's served.

Since I already had a heavy lunch at Fish n Co before this, I only order one drink. Mango Orange Fizz. Damn expensive man! The drink cost RM7.50!!! Anyway, my bf was damn hungry. haha... So he ordered Mexican Double Cheese Burger. Look at the picture! Yah... the burger bread is made out of pancakes la. Pancakes here taste really good!!!

I thought their main attraction is pancakes. I never thought they cook their beef so well and serve really good beef! You can just cut through the beef so easily with just a normal dinner knife and not those steak knife. It taste really really good!!! BUT... it's not cheap la, RM 25.50++.

But for what we eat, I think it's well worth the price. If I am richer, I might go there more often lor. Unfortunately not hehe...

Fish n Co @ 1 Utama (Again!)

2007-01-05T09:32:00.000+08:00

I was out shopping with Sylphiel, haven't seen her for a loong time. She's got new hairstyle and new hair color. hahaha... I shall not comment about it here. hahaha... Anyway, poor her, getting all stressed out at work.

Anyway, since she usually don't get anyone accompanying her to try out new food, this time around, I told her to choose a place to eat. So... we ended up at Fish n Co. Previously, Xell ate there too. Please refer to this post. She ate something else, but the best food in Fish n Co is definately their Seafood Platter.

It's not cheap of course, but you get a lot of variety of seafood. This has always been my favourite dish here. In fact... nearly all the time I go there, I'm having their seafood platter. Seafood Platter comes with loads of fried calamari, fish, 8 prawns, 8 mussels, rice and chips. This time I went, they gave 10 prawns and 6 mussels instead. lol... I remember coz I used to count.

The one we ordered is Seafood Platter for 2. It's so huge that usually it's enough to serve 3 person. There's also seafood platter for one. However, if you ordered for one person, you don't get mussels. The best dish in Seafood platter is their Fried Calamari. Yummy! But there were too much calamaris and chips. Sylphiel and I just couldn't finish our food :(

The meal cost RM 56.50 after tax. A bit pricey but it's definately worth the price!

Movie: Night at the Museum

2007-01-04T09:31:00.000+08:00

I finally got to watch this movie. Seriously, I think everyone should go watch it coz it's really funny and very entertaining. Although I don't think there's much storyline or and moral in the movie, but it's sure a fun watch!

Basically it's about this museum where everything comes alive at night. The T-Rex is alive, all the wax figure anything comes alive. It's really cute! I love those tiny little Roman soldiers and those from the cowboys time. The funniest thing was the Easter Island statue.

Go watch it! It's fun! Just don't put too much expectation on the storyline. :D

MySciFiFan Outpost @ Cineleisure, The Curve

2007-01-03T23:40:00.000+08:00

This is one really interesting shop that caught my attention as I was heading up to Cathay cineplex. First, it's actually right in front of the escalator of the Cinema's floor, secondly, there was quite some figurines of Star Wars etc on display.

My bf and I decided to go in and checkout the place. Apparently, this place is not only a cafe, it's also a place that sells some action figures and their main idea is actually selling board games. Now, we're not talking about all those conventional board games like Monopoly etc, we're talking about eurogames / designer games / German-style board games. Whatever you call it, actually down to the end, it's still board game la... hahaha... The guy in the picture is actually the owner of the shop whom runs the cafe business.

One thing that really caught my attention was all these board games that I've never seen before. There's also a World of Warcraft board game! I saw Doom too! I am not familiar with this kinda games at all. We were just wondering around until, quite luckily, the distributor of the board games came approaching us and gave us a very long and very detailed explanation of what are all this things about.

He told us that these board games are known as Eurogames. Why? Mainly coz it's orignated from europe. Eurogames aka Designer games has a very big different with those monopoly games, all these Eurogames have the author name printed on the box. Designing these games are the same as author writing a book. It takes time to design and produce.

Eurogames are mainly purchased by 2 types of people. Just as the people that buy books. One type are those that buy everything under the same publisher, like Hasbro, another type are those that buy the games from the same author. Whether the games are good or bad, they will purchase it just to collect everything by the same author.

Another big big difference Eurogames have compared with Monopoly kind of board games are monopoly type of games are nearly 100% depends on luck and 0% strategy wherelse in Eurogames, it's 100% of strategy and nearly 0% of luck.

Board games like WoW really didn't come cheap. It cost RM 350++ (if I didn't remember wrongly). What really surprise me is they actually have an expansion to the game. Most Eurogames are multiplayer games (mutiplayer here means more than 3 players and some up to 10 players). Games like WoW follows the storyline exactly like the game you play on computer. There are many figurines in the game too! They're really good figurarines coz they actually created the game in collaboration with Blizzard.

There are a lot of Warcraft fanatic that bought the board game but have never play the game before! Well... they just bought it coz they want to collect another Warcraft item and the figurines. :p

Other games like Doom, where most are familiar with the online version are available here too. I was really surprise how can anyone play Doom using board? Well... for Doom, there's actually a game master whom controls all the monsters and the rest will have to play against the game master. If you have a very unsporting game master, chances are... no one will win the game coz he can control the monsters, make them powerful till no one can win. hahaha....

The above 3 pictures are how another game call Battle Lore looks like. This is a old time war game where you can relive the history and follow the many battles that happen in history. Most of these games actually takes up to 2-3 hours to complete some might take 3-4 hours.

Since most of the board games are quite costly, not many people can afford it and most of all, these games are not very popular in Malaysia yet, this shop actually allow everyone to try out their games for free, get a feel of how these games are like and if they like it, they might just found themselves a new hobby! The main aim of this shop is to rise the awareness that such games exists and also allow players to have a place to play these games.

I honestly find these games really interesting and I might just give it a try one day! If you guys want to know more about all these games, you can visit the site below.

BoardGameGeek
More About Eurogames

Dragon-i (龙的传人) @ The Curve

2007-01-03T22:52:00.000+08:00

I am sure quite a lot of you guys have eaten here before. It's been open for quite some time. The very first Dragon-i was open in 1u. Then you start seeing them everywhere. There's one branch at Centrepoint. I am not sure where else they are at, but I saw the restaurant at The Curve. Having eaten in most of the restaurant at Curve and despite Dragon-i is not the latest restaurant around, my bf and I have never stop foot in this restaurant before.

Partly coz there's alwaaays a looong queue and packed in 1u and also thinking that the price of food here might be quite costly - which... it is quite costly lar. Not those cheap Chinese food ok?

四川麻辣口水鸡 (Szechuan Spicy Steam Chicken)

Since we already decided to eat here, we're ready to spend the money on food also. First we ordered cold dish. This steam chicken is actually a cold dish, so the chicken is COLD. I think it actually taste not bad. The chilli sauce is really nice unfortunately... I don't find too much taste in the chicken. As in the chilli taste didnt really go into the chicken. But overall, this dish is not bad.

上海小笼包 (Shanghai Dumpling)

In Dragon-i, they're pretty much famous for their 小笼包 (siu long pau). The dumpling was really delicous! You're suppose to eat with some ginger I think. Of course, if you don't like ginger, you don't have to attempt to eat the dumpling with ginger la...

There's really some steps to follow when eating this dumpling. Of course, you have to bite the end a bit first and drink up the soup inside. If you try to bite the entire thing just like that, you will have soup splurting out or spilling out from your mouth. hahaha... which it happens on the table next to us. This man tried to eat the entire dumpling just like this end up the soup drip all over his shirt. hahahaha... Luckily I told my bf how to eat the dumpling, if not he would probably suffer the same fate.

鸡火炒饭 (Chicken and Ham Fried Rice)

My bf have his habit of eating fried rice from every restaurant he goes. This time around, he couldn't decide what fried rice to go for coz there's really a lot of choices. End up he went for the standard kind of fried rice. According to him, it taste quite good and it's like those hotel kind of fried rice.

酸辣汤拉面 (Hot and Sour Soup Noodle)

My dish really took some time to prepare. Anyway... when the waiter brought the noodles, he actually ask if I want my noodles to be cut (at the same time producing a pair of scissors). I find it quite weird, so I said no and when I start eating the noodles, I seriously regret!!! Aparently, hmm...I think their noodles are home made, so it's really thick! It's not like those normal Ramen. argh... I had a hard time eating it. It's damn filling too!

The soup is really nice with plenty of ingredients inside. Lots of szechuan vegie and meat and... hmm... I can't remember what else I found inside. :P It's really thick. Actually you can order the soup alone too!

Dragon-i also serve their home made ( I think it's home made) chilli. There's shrimps inside the chilli. It's those Hong Kong style chilli paste. It's really good. I love their chilli.

As you can see, obviously this meal didn't come cheap. Overall the meal cost RM 60++. Most of the dish cost RM 12 -RM 15 except for the dumpling. Overall, it's a very nice place to eat with plenty of choices to offer in their menu. I will probably go there again. :D

Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower (满城尽带黄金甲)

2007-01-02T22:59:00.000+08:00

Last year, I mean end of last year, my bf and I went to watch Curse of the Golden Flower. I was actually choosing between this movie and Night at the Musuem. In the end I picked this. Sort of regretted picking this movie but yet again, it's not good but it's not "that" bad.

I went to watch this movie knowing that it has not got very good reviews and also not knowing what's the story about except for the fact that there's a lot of boobies. hahaha... Yes! I know there are lots and lots of people went to watch this movie not for the storyline but for the boobies. There are so much boobies on display...and they are not normal boobies, they are huge boobies that some tv show in China has change the title of the movie to 满城尽爆黄金奶. Direct translation would mean... whole palace full of bursting boobs. hmm... yeah... that sounds correct. hahaha...

Look, there's seriously nothing much to talk about the storyline. I finished watching the movie not knowing the objective of the show. I don't see a clear storyline or whatsoever. Except the most obvious thing is Gong Li's boobs. No, I am not joking, look at the pic. It's HUGE! When she walks really fast... her boobs bounces up and down.

I can see that Gong Li's boobs really draws a lot of attention. But behold... there are more! This pretty girl boobs is very powerful too and there's this scene where she's running! Imagine the whole palace full of girls displaying their cleavage?

Honestly, it's not that I don't want to mention any more things about the movie. Is just that... this cleavage thing is really drawing too much attention and at the same time, there's nothing really worthy shout about. As expected, Jay Chow still can't act. Still don't see any improvements though this character do not require much acting skills as well.

Chow Yun Fatt and Gong Li is good as usual. The storyline mainly going on about incest in the family. Damn a lot of incest. The movie ended really really unexpectedly. Audience will probably go Huh? and continue to sit there not knowing the movie as ended until Jay Chow's song starts playing.

Overall... not something I would recommend but I know lots of people watch just to see those cleavage on display. Go watch it if that's what you wanna see...

Happy Birthday Xell and Ya!

2007-01-01T14:47:00.000+08:00

Whoa... I nearly forgot it's Xell and Ya's birthday today. whahaah... Nolar... I meant to say, I nearly forgot to wish them Happy Birhtday here, at the blog.

Happy Birthday Xell and Ya!
May all your wishes come true for year 2007!

Well, it was one hell of a celebration this year. Nearly every year we celebrated birthday at their house. This time around, we celebrated in Neway 1 Utama. Mind you... it's really expensive ok... T_T But I had to be there. Coz If I'm not, Xell will make a hell lot of noise! *Imagining Xell screaming*

Well, it was fun, the food was not bad. Neway's food has always been better. Sad to say, Xell's present has still not arrive. It's still stuck some where, on the way from US. I dunno where's the plushie stuck at. I hope will arrive soon... I had to give her the plushie that she paid for and temporary replace it as a birthday gift. hahahaha... else she's not getting anything.

Ever since the new wing been built, they always close the road in front of AX to organize new year countdown. Hmm... I did caught a couple of pictures, will post it up later. That's not the point in this post.

The point is, we were stuck in the car park for nearly an hour just to go home. T_T yeah yeah... Sorta expected it... but it was not moving at all. God!!! And there's some stupid drivers who's not even trying to get out. The lane was not moving at all just coz the driver decided to let everyone else cut in front of him. grrr....

Well... thanks to Mei's extremely good driving skills and sense of direction. We avoided all the jam with a lot of my screaming, we manage to turn left right left right and cut in right in front of the exit. HOHOHOHO~~~~ In the end we manage to leave 1u earlier than Xell's car.

Well... wanted to have a round 2 at Xell's house. Ended up it was too late... 4 of us having their birthday cake and ate half of it at my house. hahahahaha... I think the other half... J gave it to them today. Well that's all for now. Ciao~

Happy New Year 2007!!!

2007-01-01T13:31:00.000+08:00

First post for the new year!

Happy New Year guys!
Hope you all have a great year ahead!!!

2007 New Year Resolution...

2006-12-29T15:26:00.000+08:00

I'm bored in office... I've finish my work, it's a Friday, it's last working day for year 2006... I am bored... so I'll write my new year resolution for year 2007. Hmm... I wonder how many people actually made new year resolution, stick to it and make it happen for the new year. haha... Anyway... Here's mine...

1. Get back my original weight!!! I used to be 45kg, not anymore!
2. Hope to get a higher pay cheque.
3. Go for a trip - either UK or Japan
4. Clear up my credit card debts!!!
5. Buy a laptop.
6. Buy a car.
7. Finish reading all my "existing" books and buy more!!! hahahahaha......
8. hmm....
9. hmm.....

I can't think of anything else but no, getting married is not part of my plan next year. In case anyone of you wonder. hahahahaha..... I will add more to the list if I can think of anything else...

No Internet for so many days...

2006-12-29T11:20:00.000+08:00

waaah... blogspot just ate up my post!!!! Now I have to retype....

Finally... I am back online!!! After so many days, I can blog and best of all I can log on to MSN! All thanks to the terrible earth quake in Taiwan which ruins nearly all the important submarine cables that carries the connection for Taiwan, US, China and Malaysia.

Our Internet have been a complete standstill and we can't access sites that resides in Taiwan, China, US, Hong Kong and Europe. That's like nearly everywhere!!! God... Thank goodness things are getting better now. Taiwan is trying their very best to fix up the ruined cables.

Life at work have been a complete disaster these few days. The only sites I can access was The Star and China Press. Thank god China Press is actually a very interesting site to read.

Anyway...Hello readers! I am back! hohoho.....

Christmas Celebration!

2006-12-26T22:18:00.000+08:00

Christmas @ KLCC

I know this is a bit late... but... I need to wish all readers...

Merry Belated Christmas and A Happy New Year!

I am not sure how everyone else celebrate their Christmas, as for me, Christmas is not something I celebrate every year, however, this year Christmas celebration seems to be very different from what I have every year. And this year, Xell and Ya celebrated their Christmas in Bangkok. I'm sure there's lots of stories to be told when they get back. :D

My celebration was a bit different, but nothing really special...

Christmas @ The Curve

23 December 2006
It's a Saturday, there's nothing much to do. I went to do some groceries shopping at Giant 1u and the place was quite packed. There really was nothing much to do other than I bought Ya's Christmas Pressie. :D

Evening... I went to my favourite hangout place - Delta Cafe @ Damansara Intan. There's a Christmas celebration there with free food and all. It's one of those usual celebration they have on nearly every occassion. I'm always there, of course, not only for the free food. :P I am always there on weekend to watch football and playing darts game. On today itself, there's MU match and I'm so happy that MU won 3 -0.

24 December 2006
There's really nothing much to do on a Christmas Eve as well. hahaha.... I stayed at home until evening I went to Delta Cafe again. hohoho.... It's open on this particular Sunday so that they won't have to do business on Christmas. I was only there for a short while.

There's this shop call Innocraft at Damansara Intan as well where you can exchange for gifts with your credit card points (RHB and Maybank) or Bonuslink points with gifts. Hmm... I got a blender for myself. hohoho~~~

And something special I did this year was attending a street party held at TTDI. Extremely near my house. The street party is organize by TTDI Gospel Centre. All TTDI residence are welcomed. The party was attended by Member of Parliament for Segambut, YB Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong as well as Deputy Minister of Finance , YB Dato Dr Ng Yen Yen.

Many tents were set up with lots of tables set up too! There's also plenty of food like mini sausages, fried noodle, satay, curry puff, drinks....etc etc... and there's plenty of ice-cream potong as well!!! Every family that arrives gets a goodies bag which have stuff like tea, instant noodles, biscuits... The organizers were really generous with the food and ice-cream potong especially. They keep asking everyone to eat and I've seen people taking the entire box home. There's really too much ice-cream potong to share. Even the goodies bag, they're like urging everyone to take more. hahaha.....

The party starts at about 8.30pm I think. I was there at 9. They were performances to entertain you till the struck of midnight. Everyone is encourage to stay till 12am to countdown to Christmas. The performances was all by everyone from TTDI Gospel Centre. There's senior youth band performances, youth band performances etc... All performing their own "rock" version of Christmas Carol. We all sang Christmas Carol too! There's lots of Christmas Carol song sheets on the table so that everyone can sing along.

Datuk came a bit later and he gave a nice speech not long after he arrive. There's also little girls performing story on how Christmas came along. There's even a few game booth for kids to play and win lots of prizes home. I didn't go there but I saw kids carrying lots of gifts like soft toys and Pringles. The party ended after the count down.

Though I am not Christian, but I certainly did enjoy the night. I guess my entire family will be going again next year if they did organize this party again.

25 December 2006
It's Christmas! There's really nothing much to do. I went 1 Utama with my bf. Expected to be packed but we were lucky and found a parking. And there's really nothing much to do in 1u either. There's no movie to watch so we just end up sitting at some place chatting till late evening.

I was suppose to go for some expensive dinner but... in the end we went to a friend's house to have Turkey for dinner! hohoho~~~ Yup... the friend invited us to have Christmas dinner at his house. We went a bit late, that's like after the family has finish eating lar... But of course there was plenty of food available.

I was so full after the dinner. The turkey was delicious and I absolutely LOVEEEEE the rendang. The rendang was EXCELLENT! I had so much...=_= Anyway... I went home after the dinner. See... there's really nothing much for me to do on Christmas. I just went home rest, online, sleep...coz I still need to work the next day....

Porto Romano @ TTDI

2006-12-17T23:14:00.000+08:00

Porto Romano, an Italian restaurant which is opened very recently at TTDI. It's next to California Pizza and it's quite difficult to miss with the large purple restaurant name. I've been making noise I want to dine there ever since I saw it opening. So... one fine, nothing-much-to-do Sunday afternoon, my bf and I, not knowing where to have our lunch at TTDI (it's about 3pm), we ended up in the restaurant.

There was a warm welcome when we step into the restuarant. The staffs were very polite. Since it's a 3pm afternoon, we had the entire restaurant to ourselves. The restaurant is lightly decorated with Christmas ornament to bring out the Christmas mood. There's some light Italian music playing on the background. It's really a very comfortable environment to dine in.

The restuarant looks quite posh however the prices in the menu is cheaper than I expected. The food range between RM 10 - RM 40. They have all sorts of wine glass on display, I believe they do serve some good wine here.

There's also an open area for smokers or for anyone who wish not to dine in an non air-conditioned environment.

Since I am not suppose to be eating "too" much, I ordered one of their house specialty - "Porto Romano Seafood Soup". I think that's what it's called. :p The soup looks really good once its serve. There's a generous amount of calamari, prawns and clams filled with tomatoes and garlic taste. There's plenty of tiny garlic cubes in the soup. For someone who doesn't likes garlic, this is not something they will like. I am a garlic person, I seriously enjoyed the soup. There's also just nice amount of black pepper taste in the soup.

My bf was really hungry. We didn't know what to order, so the usual thing we like is Beef Pepperoni Pizza! It's known as Devil's Pizza in the menu. :P And my my, when the pizza came, it really made me drool! The smell of the pizza is just soooo nice!!! It's really cheesy and with lots and lots of pepperoni. All big pieces!!! The crust is so thing it's like having cheese on top of biscuits. This really is one of the best pepperoni pizza I've eaten.

The restuarant not only have many house specialty food, they have their own chilli sauce too! This Chilli sauce is made out of red chillies, vinegar, ginger and salt. And this is what I call Chilli sauce, it's really spicy!!! Those Campbell, Heinze etc chilli sauce really cannot compare with this. hahaha.... oh... the chilli sauce is suppose to goes well with pizzas and pasta. I didn't have much coz I find it very spicy. :P (This is not something Xell can touch!)

Without the need to request, there's parmesan cheese and dried red chillies served right at table. :D Excellent service! hahaha....

This was really a satisfying meal. I felt so happy leaving the place and I must go back there again. For some reason, I really enjoy Italian food. :D I love the food at Antonio's too! Though the 2 restaurants have completely different ambience and theme so you will have a different dining in both of these 2 restaurants.

p/s: Xell, Ya, J... You guys wanna dine here next year? I think we still owe you guys one meal :D Since this place is not that bad...why not we have our meal here?

McDonald's TY Bears!

2006-12-15T23:11:00.000+08:00

McD has never failed in selling all the attractive toys/collectables which comes with Happy Meal or you can purchase with any other meal for RM 3. This time around, (which is not very long after they came out with Kitty Bricks), they are selling these adorables TY bears! It's so adorable that Xell and I have the entire collection of it. Unfortunately, Xell didn't have the Grimace Bear which was sold out.

Each of this bears cost RM 3 with any purchases. There are 2 new designs and every Thursday and you can have it free with Happy Meal.

First week: Ronald McDonald + Grimace

Second week: Hamburglar + Birdie

Third week: Fries + Birthday

Final week: Golden Arches + Happy Meal

Don't you think they look so adoraaaaaaaable? My personal favourite is Fries the bear! It's the most perfect bear I have and it's soooo cute! As you know, all these bears are made in China, there's always differences on how they look. Some might looks a bit more cacat or nicer than the other.

Now I know I have lots of toys sleeping on my bed with me... but I couldn't resist them!!! >.< style="font-weight: bold;">

Zuup Bar @ 1 Utama

2006-12-13T21:56:00.000+08:00

Zuup Bar is one of those places we've frequented for many many years. We love the food and we love the people working there. The bosses are extremely nice people!!! We always chat with them and their name are Gavin and Mike. Anyway, there's been quite some changes to the shop and menu ever since we started eating there. Change for the better of course!

Zuup ...the name sounds like soup right? haha... They sell all sorts of soup here! Most famous for their Mushroom soup I guess. It's really good. After all the changes they've made, Zuup now has a soup menu and a normal menu with every other food other than soup. hahah... They also took over Famous Amous shop lot and now Zuup has an inner room which is pretty hidden.

I've tried most of their soup. Personal favourite is... their Irish lamb stew!!! This time around, Ya and I had clam chowder.

Look at the soup! yummy! it's really thick with a lot of clams in it! You can have the soup in a bread bowl but we were having meal and the soup is plainly for sharing, we didn't. Otherwise there's no way we can finish our food. :P

Ya had mushroom spaghetti. Or I think that's what they call it in the menu. ahhaha... The spaghetti is pretty much cover up with mushroom soup. They serve very good mushroom soup here but this spaghetti is something new on their menu. It taste good!

As for me, I had black pepper chicken chop. It was good except for there weren't enough sauce. And of course, with excellent customer service here, I was given extra sauce. :D And my, the piece of chicken was big and I really had to stuff myself to finish my meal coz we had soup as well.

And this is Xell's favourite. She nearly ordered this EVERY single time she eats here. It's call chick on toast. There's this big chunk of chicken, with ham layered on a slice of toast!

Usually the thick sauce with lots of mushroom is serve with Chick on Toast. Since Xell hates mushroom, she requested for the sauce to be serve seperately. Or shall I say... Gavin/Mike knows that Xell hates mushroom so they wanted to serve the sauce without mushrooms. Ya was saying she will have all the mushrooms (which in the end she didn't), so Xell was ok with the sauce having mushrooms inside. But to our surprise, there were LOTS of mushrooms. hahaha...

It's a really relaxing place and it's one of our favourite restaurants. The restaurant has Free Wifi and also PS2! Play all you want, it's free. :D Do go there and you won't regret.

Zuup Soup Bar (pork free)
LG 223, Lower Ground Floor,
1 Utama Shopping Centre, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya,
SELANGOR
Email: zuup@ycan-ventures.com
Operation Hours: Monday to Sunday From 11:30am to 10:00pm
www.zuup.com.my

誕生日おめでとう Hide!

2006-12-12T09:04:00.000+08:00

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HIDE-SAMA!
May you live in our memories forever...

Today, Hide would be 42 years old...
I still want to throw myself onto his grave...

Fish n Co @ 1 Utama

2006-12-11T21:51:00.000+08:00

Last two Saturday's ago, I finally had a hair cut... yes, I can hear all my friends and stylist cheering as I was starting to look like a cult member but I wanted to keep my hair long so that I could swish my hair like the actress in "My Sassy Girl" but unfortunately, my hair's too thick to swish and could kill somebody in the process instead...

Anyway, after chopping off few inches off my long locks and my stylist was very happy with the results, she was swishing my hair left and right as it was so much more lighter now, me and ah ya had lunch at Fish n Co. We were given a very warm greeting (I'm not being sarcastic here, the waiter was really super friendly) and an introduction on the menu and the chef's recommendation for the day. Anyway, he was wasting his breathe on me coz I always eat the same thing... hahaha and when he mentioned that the chef's recommendation dish is a bit spicy, and I went "Spicy?" and he kept insisting that it's a BIT spicy. But like I said, he was wasting his breathe on me coz I already knew what I wanted. Anyway, to make his speech worth it, ah ya had the chef's recommendation and you know what, I actually forgot what the hell is the name of this dish! Haha...

And as usual, I had my Fish and Chips... yes... I love fish and chips.... Anyway, I love their fish and chips, the batter was crispy and not soggy and doesn't make me feel like puking after a few bites. So, I heavily recommend Fish n Co if you're looking for good fish and chips!

And we couldn't order any shakes as their blender was down that day but I had ... ok I forgot what's the name of this drink but it has cranberry in it coz it taste like my fav medicine when I was a child... And ah ya had 2 glasses of some lime drink as it was under this "Buy 1 Free 1" promo and in the end she couldn't finish both drinks coz I didn't want to drink it, it was dreadful! It's sour and bitter! Bleurrgghhhh!

Thanks Ya for the Mokona!!!

2006-12-10T21:55:00.000+08:00

Chistmas is near!!! And I got an early Christmas present from my dear friend ah Ya. Look at this cute "big" thing. Awwww.... Doesn't it looks adorable??? If you watched Tsubasa Chronicles you probably recognise it as Mokona.

I really need to thank you for this BIG BIG BIG plushie!! It's so cuteeeeeeeee and so hugable. ah... I am missing it already!!! >.<>

I first spotted this plushie in an Anime shop in Cineleisure. It's imported from Japan!!! Original plushie from Sega! There's actually a white version which I intend to buy it for myself but unfortunately... it's sold out. :( Even the black one was the last 2 left. When I first went there, there were plenty of Mokona!!!

Ahh...me happy me happy... Anyway...so Ya... what You want for your Christmas/bday? And Xell too... I should buy a combined present since you guys are getting "older" not very far from now... hehehehe....

Tsui Village Restaurant @ Plaza Low Yat

2006-12-10T21:52:00.000+08:00

About 2 weeks ago, I had went lunch with my ex-colleague. This is my second visit there for the dimsum. The dimsum served here is really excellent. :D We were there quite late actually... bout 2.30 pm =_= My friend insist that they serve dimsum whole day long but on the day I went, there's wedding preparation and they were about to close the kitchen serving dimsum.

We were there just in time. :D ANDDD... We had the entire restaurant to ourselves!!! hohoho~~~ But it just felt so odd... coz the restaurant is pretty big actually, all the tables arranged nicely and all for the dinner at night, and 3 of us occupied a big table. =_=;;

Clockwise from top left:
1. Peanut Tidbits
2. Pan-Fried Minced Turnip Cake with Chinese Sausage (香煎萝卜糕)
3. Steamed Shrimp with Pork Dumplings (Siu Mai) (北菇蒸烧卖)
4. Mashed Yam Croquettes with Minced Meet Filling (蜂巢荔芋角)

Since is the restaurant is those "dai zao ga" (大酒家), those Chinese restaurant that can host wedding etc... All the dimsum on the menu have fancy names. :D The peanuts is some tidbits they will serve you before anything else. It's sweet and soft. I really love it! The rest of the dimsum taste really good too!

Clockwise from top left:
1. Steamed Beancurd with Fresh Prawn (日式鲜虾豆腐)
2. Steamed BBQ Pork Buns (蚝皇叉烧包)
3. Baked Flaky Pastries with BBQ Pork Filling (蜜汁叉烧酥)
4. Bake Egg Tarts (酥皮蛋塔仔)

The char siu pao is really delicious. Small bun, the BBQ pork inside taste soft and and sweet. Yum yum... And I really love the mini egg tarts. It's so small you can just stuff the whole thing in your mouth. hohoho~~~ There are still many other type of dim sum on the menu. Some I've tried previously and I didn't have it now.

Many types of dimsum is sold out since we were there quite late. They serve porridge, Hong Kong style chee cheon fun etc etc... Everything there is nice! Of course, don't expect the price to be super cheap also lar... Each plate of dimsum is either RM 5.50 or RM 6.80. Chee Cheong Fun are more expensive and they have special dumpling with sharkfin filling which cost RM 14.

Our bill turns out to be RM 53+. There were 3 of us. And... there was a 20% off for the dimsum. hohoho~~~ Coz I think they were about to close shop. I will definately go there again, but this time, will go earlier la... XD

Location & Contact
(in case you plan to have wedding there... Seriosly I can't imagine the bride going up all the escalators in Low Yat to go to the restaurant)
Lot 3-12, 3rd Floor, Plaza Low Yat,
No. 7, Jalan 1/77,
Off Jalan Bukit Bintang Central,
55100 KL
Tel: 03-21451628 / 03-21459628
Fax: 03-21455628

Note: It's quite difficult to miss the place actually since it's nearly right in front of the escalator on 3rd floor. :D

Nippon Tei @ KLCC

2006-12-08T21:44:00.000+08:00

KLCC was crazy last week with Isetan member's sales and PC Fair going on, it's a crazy place to visit on a Sunday. If it's not for the Nutcracker, I think none of us would want to go there. We spent quite sometime hunting for a parking and were trying to stalk this pretty big guy trying to get his parking. hehe... He's a nice big guy coz he saw us and he pointed his car's location for us.

Lucky enough to find a parking spot. But it's crazy to find an eating spot coz nearly EVERY SINGLE place is packed! Can't be blame, we were there during lunch time. T_T At the end of the day, we ended up the pretty-packed Nippon Tei.

Even it's pretty packed we still need to wait for a couple of person before us (roughly 15 minutes) before we get seated. It's pretty nice place. It looks quite big from the outside, but judging with the amount of seats they have, I would say it's pretty small.

The interior of the restaurant is pretty nice. Clean and quite relaxing. Everything on the menu is slighly expensive. Nearly everything is cost RM 20 and above.

Clockwise from top left: Nabeyaki Udon, Chicken Katsu Nabe,
Teppanyaki Chicken and Chicken Teriyaki Set.

All rice sets comes with Salad, Miso Soup and Edamame. Since none of them eats Edamame, I get to eat them all! HOHOHO~~~ I don't really fancy Miso Soup, but I think their miso soup was really nice.

The Udon taste really good. If I do go there again, I will order the Udon. The Chicken Katsu Nabe was not bad either. My teppanyaki chicken was not bad but I thought the sauce was a bit too much and watery. As for the teriyaki, the sauce was SOOOO sweet. =_= If you mixed with rice, it will taste really good but if you try to eat the chicken covered with sauce alone... hmm... I don't think it's such a good idea. :P

The bill came up to RM 105.80. It's about RM 25+ per person. My teppanyaki is the most expensive among all - RM 25. The rest is about RM 22-23. You will need to pay 10% service charge and 5% govt tax. I think it's a pretty good lunch. :D

Location & Contact:-
Lot 426/427, 4th Floor Suria KLCC
Tel: 03-21614176 / 03-21614169

MPO: Nutcracker Screenplay

2006-12-08T21:42:00.000+08:00

Christmas is near... MPO having Christmas performances lately. This is one of their very first Christmas related performance and also the most unique concert we've attended so far. It's a screenplay!

What's screenplay? Just read the explanation here at Wiki. :p I'm sure everyone roughly knows the story about Nutcracker and it's also one of Tchaikovsky most famous ballet piece.

The version we get to watch is George Balanchine's. This version stars Macaulay Culkin as the Nutcracker Prince. If you watch the original movie, there should be narration and conversation. But for us, we watch the movie while listening to the music. Most of the time the music manage to follow the movie properly but sometimes we can tell that the music is slower than the ballet dancers movement. :P I guess it happens... It's really difficult for the music to follow the timing of the movie.

This version of Nutcracker is really nice. I enjoyed the ballet very very much. However I must say that Macaulay Culkin acting was very stone in the movie. Some part... he was actually very funny and all of us was resisting not to laugh out loud. XD

Carl Davis is the conductor of performance. I think he did an excellent job. And there was a meet the fans session so we manage to get his signature... :P And I just found out that he received his BAFTA for Special Lifetime Achievement for his contribution to the worlds of Film and Television. Oh gawd... We've just met an important person... O_O;;;

HAPPY (Belated) BIRTHDAY NEIL CODLING!

2006-12-07T12:37:00.000+08:00

I can't believe I didn't get to wish the love of my life Happy Birthday on time...
But anyway,

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAREST NEIL CODLING!

All the best in everything you do and hope I'll be able to meet you... hehehehe

Anyway, his birthday was on the 5th... I was stuck in a conference that day... >.<

California Pizza Kitchen @ KLCC

2006-12-04T00:12:00.000+08:00

Prior to the concert, all of us had our lunch in California Pizza Kitchen. Since this is not the first time I had a meal here, I very much look forward to having something different from what I had previously. My previous meal here was very satisfying. :D Though it's a couple of years ago (i know...haha)... I would assume that restaurants in KLCC would maintain a certain level of quality in their food.

California Pizza Kitchen is located at Park Mall on the first floor. If you take the escalator there's no reason why you will miss the restaurant.

The interior of the restaurant looks really classy and very comfy. If I didnt remember wrongly, if you look out the windows, you get a very nice view of the park. Unfortunately we didn't get the window seat. But since it's afternoon, it would be too bright for us if we were to sit there.

Peking Duck Pizza

I was getting a bit adventurous on that day and since my friend highly recommend this pizza, I gave it a try. And from what you see in the pic, it's no normal pizza. It's Peking Duck Pizza! There's pieces of duck, with peking duck sauce and there's lots of spring onion on top. First bite... *speechless* second bite... *speechless*

Overall, the pizza just taste very weird to me. =_= I dunno why my friend like it so much. I guess I am just not used to sweet pizza with spring onion taste. It was really really weird and I didn't quite like it. :( And I was not the only one who didn't like it, J find it weird too! This is definately a big NONO to me when I go there again. There's plenty of other good pizzas. :D

Rosemary Chicken Focaccia

The second dish we had is Rosemary Chicken Focaccia. Looks very promising, unfortunately... it tasted weird too. :( Ah...all the weird dishes in a day. The salad was really good! But the chicken was weird. It's written in the menu that there's white wine in it. I don't think I tasted much of the white wine. I tasted wasabi instead. =_= I think it's mustard.

According to one of my friend... she say the whole thing taste good if you eat everything seperately. =_= As in eat the bread, then eat the chicken... just dun eat them together, then it will be weird. Must be the mustard!

So sad that my second trip here was not a satisfying one. Ordered wrong food. :( Do go there and order other dishes coz the food is good. Maybe there's a lot of people who likes these 2 dishes, but definately not for me. Be prepared before you go to the restaurant coz the price is slightly on the high side. The peking duck pizza cost RM 30. I can't remember the price of the second dish.

I will definately go there again as they have plenty of other dishes to offer. :D

MPO: Debussy

2006-12-04T00:11:00.000+08:00

The usual gang went to this concert on 19 Nov. It's the same conductor as the previous MPO we went. Actually... we went to many other MPOs just that didn't have the time to blog it down. :(

Sun 19 Nov 06, 3.00pm

ODYSSEY
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert conductor
Alain Lefèvre piano

RAVEL Pavane pour une enfante défunte
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
DEBUSSY La Mer

Music which made reputations. Bartók’s fairy-tale ballet score, written during the First World War, was the work which established his international reputation while Debussy’s glorious evocation of the sea is his undoubted orchestral masterpiece. Beside these are two gems from Ravel: his elegant Piano Concerto is probably the finest ever written by a French composer while the gorgeous Pavane stands as one of the most famous pieces of music ever to come from the pen of a Frenchman.

Actually, this was one of those MPO I was dying to go. Why? coz Debussy is my favourite composer other than Tchaikovsky. And if you see the pieces they have, one of them it's La mer by Debussy. Well... it was really really nice... though I can't remember the tune now. I knew I enjoyed myself hahahaha....

The Wooden Prince was the first piece for the day and it was reallly looooong. Some section of the piece actually got a little bit boring otherwise I still think it's nice la...

The star of the day has to be the pianist! Alain Lefèvre! Why? coz he played the piano really really really good!!! Excellente! He played Piano Concerto in G and he played it full of emotion. Most of the time he looks like he's trying to crush the grand piano into pieces la. hahaha.... If I played like him, I think I'll break my arm first. hahaaha....

Anyway, we got his autograph! After the show, we were walking down the stairs and saw him chatting with other musicians! So... one my friend took the book and requested for his signature. He's such a nice guy. :D He kept going madame monsieur or something like that la... I can't remember what he say. But he's really polite and really friendly and very approachable. yah yah... sounds like I know him all my life. haahha... but that's the impression he gave all of us. :D

Ah... next time... we must go get more autographs! hahha....

Movie: Cicakman

2006-12-03T23:12:00.000+08:00

No... I didn't watch it. (I think it's not out yet). And No... I am not gonna watch it... It's some Malaysia's most anticipated "blockbuster" for year 2006. I mean... that's how they advertise on their site la. Erm... it's made with some super CGI blah blah... high tech cam... blah blah... Suppose to have action and erm... comedy. Yes comedy. But it looks like 100% comedy to me more than anything else. Oh... and it's about this city - Metrofulus. hmm... Yeah... the movie got me very curious so I read a bit about it...

For me... it looks like some copycat idea of Marvel heroes lor... If you've been to cinema lately... You guys might've watched the trailer. I think you can find it in YouTube. (I think)

Seriously...I couldn't help comparing. This copy cat version of Spiderman looks SOOO bad. It features some famous actors from some famous comedy on tv. And there's KRU in it too. That's if you know who's KRU to begin with la.

I hate lizards A LOT. I mean... I seriously HATES them! And I am freaked out by them all the time. If I see a lizard near me...I will be 10 feet away from it. Not like I like Spiders very much either but... I love Spiderman ok! He's cute! But look at our Malaysian made Cicakman. Have you seen red cicak any where in Malaysia before? I don't even know why they came up with the idea of Cicakman. I know Malaysia a lot of cicak la... but why??? Why cicak?

Hmm... Klon this Professor Klon really clone man. Reminds a bit of Batman la... The black lips part. But feels like I've seen this Klon some where... Any idea where?

And last but not least...the most ridiculous of all. The ginger boys! Yeah..those orange head twin like fella are called ginger boys. My god... How on earth they named their characters one! It looks like orangie version of the twins fella from Matrix Relaoded. But the twins in Matrix looks SOO COOL. Argh... Look at Malaysian made Ginger Boys. God... I would rather watch gingerbread man in a movie.

Well... If you didn't get enough of Cicakman... You're most welcome to visit their website... » Cicakman Oh yes... they have a website...

Argh! Bird shit on my head!

2006-11-30T14:04:00.000+08:00

I was having my lunch at the same usual place at Hartamas. Today...and not the first day...i am sitting under the tree. But today!!! I kena bird shit on my head!!! >.<

Argh..bleh...yuck!!! Bird shit on my head! T_T

Must go buy lottery!!!! Any suggestions what number to buy?

Movie: Death Note

2006-11-27T13:34:00.000+08:00

Well, since Snakebyte complains that the only things we post about is dream and disgusting stuff... ok lor... let's post something which I desperately needs to complain over.

Yesterday, Xell, her sis and I went to watch Death Note at GSC, 1U. It was a very spontaneous decision as the day before we were out books shopping in Atria coz of the book sales! Shall blog abou that later...right now, I need to complain....

Being and avid reader of Death Note manga and now watching the anime series as well, I was really keen on watching the movie. As you can see from the poster... it looks really promising. The 2 main characters - Light (dark side) & L (bright side) looks ok to act as both the characters in the movie.

If you've been following the manga/anime, you might've noticed that there's pretty big changes in the storyline. Take for example Light is suppose to be single in the movie plus he's less evil and mean in the manga/anime. In the movie, he's portrayed as a really evil monster which would kill anybody with Death Note. Light is much more likeable in the manga/anime. For me, I'm pretty much fine and Ok with the changes they've made to the storyline in the movie.

But my BIGGEST dissappointment is... which has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline. Light in the movie is acted by some round face, not-so-tall and not-so-good-looking guy and L looks like his face has been all powdered up! Like he's just dip his face in a bowl of flour!!! =_= What happen to my good looking Light in the manga/anime???

I'm not lying or joking. Look!!! See with your eyes! Look at Light Yagami in the manga. Look at Light Yagami in the movie!!! *screams in horror* Isn't he like BLOATED? And I thought guys like Light in manga isn't that difficult to be found in Japan. But who they got to act as Light??? Everytime he appears in the screen, I have the urge to slap him! He just looks so annoying. Gaaah!!!!

Now pay attention to L. Look what they did to L in the movie?? They dip his face in flour! He looks like he's acting in some horror movie. He's acting as ghost or something. In the manga, L is suppose to look awake, smart and not dead!

Well, at least there's one thing I am happy about the characters. At least the Shinigami looks pretty much the same as the manga/anime. Well, it's computer graphics after all. But still, I think it's a pretty good job done here.

Overall, it's still a pretty good watch if you just don't pay so much attention to their faces. LOL... In fact there's a part 2 of the movie coming up. Go watch the original one though. It's much better! In the anime, the voices of the characters are really nice. :D

One funny thing that happen in the cinema was there's this guy who fell asleep at the beginning of the movie and snore pretty loudly. Xell kept thinking it's one of our phone vibrating. The guy woke up in the middle of the movie and said "Eh?? Why liket his one?" haha...

p/s: As I was complaining to Xell over the fact that I wanted to slap Light in the cinema... I've mistakenly typed "Fat Found Face" instead of "Fat Round Face". It make sense to Xell and she didn't notice my typing mistake. haha...

Female Toilet on 7th Floor is so dirty!

2006-11-23T14:53:00.000+08:00

Ok... You guys should've know I am now working in Mont Kiara. 7th floor of some block. You guys go figure out yourself which block I am at which I will not be revealing here.

Well... As all knows, Mont Kiara being some "higher" class working/residential areas and all... I would presume the toilet here WILL be cleaner. BUT NOOOOO! That's not what's happening here! >.< I wonder what kinda girls are actually working on 7th floor but I tell you!!! They sure are not some hygenic and highly educated in cleaniness kinda girls...

Yesterday, there were A PILE OF SHIT left on the squating kind of toilet bowl. NO! It's NOT flushed! The pile of shit is just sitting happily there. Hence, the entire corridor STINKS! God knows what was the girl thinking when she's doing her business. Something must've happen that she need to run away from her shit unflushed. Perhaps its too smelly, she can't take it herself???

And today... For females, you girls knows there's this sanitary bin in every toilet. You are suppose to wrap your pads nicely before u actually throw it into the bin. There's a paddle to step on. NO...I have no idea what kinda girls, if their mom actually teach them how to keep public toilets clean. I stepped on the paddle... the pad was just laying flat STICK to the cover. So when I stepped on the paddle at the bottom to throw things, I can see A USED sanitary pad stick on the cover!!! You know how disgusting is this????

I can totally understand if this is happening in some shopping complex toilet OR some highway public toilet coz god knows what kinda ppl uses the toilet. BUT NOT HERE! This is a OFFICE AREA! Girls are suppose to be MORE educated Right?? NO?? Then what the hell they study till you get some diploma/degree for???? I know they don't teach you how to keep toilets clean when you're in college/university. But younger age? Aren't they taught how to keep toilets clean???

Argh... I just find it so unbelivable that this is happening!!! HERE!!!! Plaza Mont Kiara! >.<

I had the weirdest dream EVAR!!!!

2006-11-23T09:15:00.000+08:00

Hmm...I wonder what's with the blog going on and on about weird dreams... Anyway I had the weirdest dream ever!!! haha... Not ever lar...maybe I will get even weirder ones in the future???

It was a really looong dream with a lot of weird stuff here and there and when I think about it, the entire dreams doesn't connect at all. Anyway... the weirdest part of all... I dreamt that my bf has an EVIL twin!!! They were both absolutely identical! I can't tell them apart. And I was out somewhere and the evil twin took me out.

The evil twin ask me to meet him somewhere at top floor of some building. In process of going up, I had to climb stairs which is dark and a lot of ghost/weird human at the staircase. It was scary!!! When I finally reach the top floor, of course it's just a normal office area and the evil twin was sitting there all bad mood and making ugly faces and thought it was funny with the ghost stuff...

Anyway... All this while I didn't know he has an evil twin, until the Good twin called me and told me he couldn't pick me up coz his car air-cond is spoilt. =_= and who the hell is with me at that time??? And it struck me suddenly that all this while, the evil twin pretending to be the good twin came and take me out. No wonder occasionally he will be in this seriously bad mood thing.... =_=

Apart from that...I dreamt that I was running.... and I was running to a school. And there's this staircase which is haunted... and the girl in front of me was running to the haunted staircase, climbing the stairs and she just suddenly trip and fall and dead. 0_0;;; Well, it's huanted staircase after all.

And I was learning Malay in some weird school with many students. =_= The teacher handed all of us different kinds of bun with different packaging and ask us to read out whatever word we can find on the packaging... =_=;;;; This is like SOOO Weird man...

Well... That's pretty much what I've remembered. And I just finish complaining about the evil twin thing to my bf since he fetched me to work this morning. And NO, he does not have a twin brother. I am safe! :)

Another bad dream

2006-11-21T14:16:00.000+08:00

Since I've been having nasty dreams, I shall continue on to another dream I had last Sunday night which made me looked like a panda zombie at work on Monday...

It was a really silly dream.

I dreamed that I was trying to sleep, but I ended up chanting the all-famous Buddhist chant "Oum mani pae me hum" all night. The reason? I was sleeping in a haunted building and something kept lifting my hair and letting it drop... imagine trying to sleep with your hair being lift up and down...

And so, that was entire dream... just chanting the whole night and in the end I couldn't sleep coz I was too busy chanting away. And when I woke up, I was really pissed coz I was still extremely tired. I spent the whole Sunday walking around with a corset, getting crankier by the minute.

I hate dreaming about animals... they leave me crying in the end...

2006-11-11T00:26:00.000+08:00

Talking about dreams, I also had a horrid dream on the same day Zen had her tsunami nightmare too!

I dreamed that I was crossing the road from my car to my front gate and as I was crossing, my kittens were running left and right across the road like nobody's business. I had a terrified feeling the whole time as I just stood in the middle of the road so that speeding cars wouldn't come smashing into my babies...

Unfortunately, when I thought all was back into the house, there were actually 1 kitten still crouching on the road and it was grey in colour (that was why I didn't notice it as it was almost the same colour as the road). Anyway... yes the horror of all horrors happened, a car came speeding down the road and I wasn't sure whether it hit my kitten as I ran to the road screaming my head off and the driver stopped (by the way, the driver was a lady). At first, I thought my kitten was fine but when I lifted it from the road, its paw came off!!! I just kept crying there, screaming "Look at my kitten's paw!! You ripped it off!!" (yeah yeah it was a sick dream...) And I just walking around in circles on the road crying and my dad was talking to the driver...
and then my alarm rang.... thank god...

Why mentioned bout this dream? Coz I really hate people who speed when they're driving in residential areas... HELLOOO?? Don't these people know that children or animals could just run out to the road without warning? And don't perceive animals as merely objects that you could just hit and run without feeling guilty that you have just stained your hands with the blood of innocent souls who would leave many tears behind with their depature from this world by your senseless act.

I would never forgive those who murdered my kittens, cats and dog.... retribution will avenged them...

All the best in Japan, Nestum!

2006-11-08T23:56:00.000+08:00

My dear ex-classmate (nestum) from APIIT has now safely landed in Tokyo, Japan and is happily resting in a beautiful hotel. He will be there working for a year and will see how things goes for him after that.

Well... I am glad you finally made it to Japan. It's like your dream to spend your life there. XD And with that pay of yours! Rich wor! haha... I hope I can go crash at your place next year when I have enough money for plane tix and some money for the shopping there.

Take good care of yourself and All the best in your career in Japan!!!

p/s: Thanks Endoru for willing to help him out when he needs.

Vena Cork will get you hooked from the beginning!

2006-11-07T23:29:00.000+08:00

Finally! I've finished both of her books! And it's excellent! Vena Cork is a new author. Both her books are psychological thriller. Her books are excellent, storyline's excellent too! The books will get you hooked right from the beginning. Once you started, it's quite impossible to stop reading. :D And the reason I started reading her book was coz of the title. It attracts me - "The Art of Dying" How cool is that?

Synopsis from Amazon:
Rosa Thorn's life, and those of her two children, Danny and Anna, were irrevocably changed when her artist husband, Rob, was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Now, almost a whole year later, Rosa is coping not only with the pain and grief of losing Rob, but with money problems as well. As Rosa and her children try to adjust to lives without Rob, a new school (for the kids) and a new job (for Rosa), the last thing Rosa needed was to have to contend with Anna becoming the apple of the local derelict's eye. And when a young girl is found murdered nearby, Rosa begins to fear for Anna's safety -- especially since she's beginning to sense that a dark and menacing presence is keeping an eye on her family...

Synopsis from Amazon:
Appearances are not what they seem. Rosa Thorn is enjoying the limelight at the opening of her late husband's memorial art exhibition, but what is about to happen is more traumatic than she could ever have anticipated. Friends emerge from the past offering something more sinister than goodwill. Behind the smiles lurk obsession and greed, and in the intensely personal and strange world of the Artist, old scores, rivalries and thwarted ambitions threaten Rosa's very existence. Who can she turn to when art and death embrace in the most chilling way imaginable?

Both her books are written in such a way that it is very difficult to predict who's the killer and all. The plot is full of twist and turn and very very engaging. There's a lot of suspense in the story and make you want to read on quickly. :D I love the way she build up each character.

The storyline and the way she wrote the book is kinda creepy and very dark. I actually had a nightmare about the first book. hahaha... Reminder: Must not read her books as bedtime stories. Both her books are inter-related because the story revolves around Rosa Thorn. I would recommend you to read Thorn then The Art of Dying but it's ok to read them seperately, you won't get lost in anway.

I would highly recommend both her books to anyone at all except for those who are faint hearted. Take for example - Xell. Hhahahaha.... It's actually quite scary if you have a very good imagination. Go read it! It's good!

p/s: By the way, she has a third book coming out soon (4 Dec 06), it's called Green Eye. Check it out!

Bad Dream...

2006-11-06T23:58:00.000+08:00

I was having one of my worse day in office since I started my new job. I felt so dead in office the entire day until nearly all the colleagues in my office start asking me "what's wrong with you? You look so tired today..." Well... I had valid reasons for being so tired today. Though it might not sound as convincing but I swear I am telling the truth!!!

I had a bad dream before I woke up and got to work. Guess what I dreamt about??? You'll be surprised... hahaha... I actually dreamt that there was Tsunami coming. I was running away with my mom and while running I was looking for my sis and my dad! I could see a big giant wave coming out behind us. It was more than 10 feet high!!! Though it was quite far away, but once the wave falls... we will be swept away no matter how far we are!

I was running and running with my mom, and we manage to find my dad and sis. Then the wave falls...and the water just rushes over. Since I am quite short...obviously I was drowning! I couldn't see anything, can't breathe... Luckily I manage to get hold of my dad and I was clinging on him and thank god! I didn't drown and die in my dreams. haha...

And quite quickly the water subside... and I can walk on the ground again!!! Amazing huh??? And guess what I was doing after that? I was walking around the place looking for my backpack - which was clearly washed away by the Tsunami...

My colleague was quite surprised that I actually went through the entire episode in my dream until I could go and search for my bag instead of waking up in the middle once the wave hit! hahaa... I was quite surprised too! But it's quite often I have drowning dreams... but it's the first time it's a Tsunami. =_="

Now...with this kind of dreams... You think I can be awake in the morning? I don't think I felt like I've slept at all with all those running and drowning... Poor me... I must learn how to swim!!! Then I won't have drowning dreams anymore! >.<

Beef Ball Noodle @ Soong Kee Restaurant, KL

2006-11-04T02:09:00.000+08:00

Last weekend, I went to KL with a couple of my friends and they suggested to have beef ball noodles as dinner. Since I have not eaten beef ball noodles before I was happy to go along with it.

Restaurant Soong Kee is located somewhere near Masjid Jamek. It's on one of shop houses on the left side of Masjid Jamek but it's not the row of shop houses by the roadside. It's behind. Anyway, it's somewhere opposite UniAsia and RHB bank. I was told it's very famous and judging by the amount of people in the shop, I do believe that it's quite famous. haha...

Since it's a beef ball noodle shop, of course first thing is order their beef ball noodles. If you do not fancy beef, the shop serves Pork ball Noodles as well. Since it's the first time I've been here, I was quite surprised that the noodles are served dry. On top of the noodles, there's minced beef. Of course, if you do not fancy beef, you can have minced pork. Then you will have to stir your noodle so that the sauce are mixed evenly. Yummy looking right? Well... of course it didn't only looks nice... it's actually very nice!

They serve the beef ball...beef tripe...beef etc etc all in a seperate bowl of soup. The soup is nice and the beef ball is really nice! I don't really know how to describe what I am eating... but it cetainly taste quite good for me lar! It's not too expensive as well. What I was having is for one person and I think it cost RM 4.50. (If I didn't remember wrongly) I wouldn't mind going there again. :D

p/s: As for Xell...I think there's a lot of things she won't eat in the bowl of soup. I think literaly nothing she will eat in the bowl of soup. hahaha...

Bak Kut Teh @ Seapark

2006-11-03T02:05:00.000+08:00

My boyfriend and I have been eyeing on this BKT for quite some time. It's always full / packed whenever we pass by. So one day, both of us decided to give it a try. It's actually located at Seapark, not that far away from Giant. In the morning, it's Restoran Fatt Kee, at night, its the BKT outside the shop. Since the restoran is at the corner, there's an empty section which is occupied by one of those famous Indo Mee Shop around the area.(One day I shall go try too! It's packed always as well).

All the tables and chairs are arranged by the road side as well as all the corridors. Once you reach this area, there's no way you can miss this stall.

Since there's only 2 of us, we ordered the standard mix all for 2 person. My my...when the pot came, hmm...it's actually kinda big pot and smells really good too! There's the standard pork ribs (排骨), pork stomach (猪肚), pork tripe (猪肠), mushrooms, vegies etc etc. Looks good huh!

And of course, eating BKT you can't miss out the yau char kuey (油炸鬼) as well as the oily rice (油饭). I was hoping to have yam rice though. However they don't serve yam rice, alternatively they have oily rice with fried shallots (葱油饭). We ordered vegetables as well.

It was really a satisfying meal as I am quite happy with the taste of the BKT soup which is very important! The yau cha kuey is pretty fresh too not like one of those yucky yau cha kuey at the steamboat I had previously. The price was pretty resonable as well. With drinks, the meal cost about RM 20+. I will definately be going there again! :D

Korean Instant Noodles

2006-11-02T00:03:00.000+08:00

Lunch time! It is raining so heavily that it is impossible for anyone to walk to Sri Hartamas for lunch. So my colleague decided to go get some food to eat in office in the food court.

Since it was raining cats and dogs, we had to go through the underground carpark to go to the opposite block. As we walk...we stumble upon this newly opened Korean Supermart. Actually, not exactly stumble one lar.. hahah... We've seen the shop in renovation till now is opened but never thought of going into it...

Well..since we're like in front of the supermart. In we go... and wahla... we found Korean Instant noodles. There's many flavours there and my colleague was looking for something spicy so i went for the beef flavour and she went for the kimchi flavour. Or at least that's what we think we're eating lar... haha...since neither of us understand Korean...

The noodles is actually quite big bowl lar... And you have to pour hot water and wait for about 5 minutes for the noodles to cook.

And 5 minutes later...this is what I get. There's like bits and pieces of Beef inside. It's filling for me coz it's such a big bowl. It cost Rm 3.60. =_= Not that cheap huh for instant noodles. hehehe... but it's quite nice though. I might buy again. haha

OMG! Nearly got stuck in the lift....

2006-10-31T11:36:00.000+08:00

This is like kinda freaky! I nearly got stuck in the lift this morning. I was on my way to my office floor, there's me and another girl in the life.

I pressed my 7th floor and the girl is at 5th. The lift went up to third floor and suddenly the lift stop. And the lift sort of like drop and went to 1st floor then to B2. I was contemplating if we should press the alarm. The girl then tried to press 5th floor again and I press 7th.

Luckily I manage to arrive at my floor without getting stuck! According to my colleague, that one particular lift always has problem.

Creepy!!! You know why I think it's creepy??? coz... It's like one of those horror movies where the lift doesn't brings you to your floor and rather..the lift bring u to lower ground floor and lift door will open and you see something else!!! Luckily the lift didn't open!!!

Typical blonde air-heads...

2006-10-30T11:44:00.000+08:00

I simply love "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes!
It's hilarious and extremely easy to read, don't need to use too much thinking to read it. It might be a little unrealistic for some, but if you're looking for a relaxing and just for laughs, then try this one.

It tells the world of Park Avenue heiresses, aka Bergdorf Blondes and I really like their idea of being engaged! Personally, I felt like I'm reading about the Hilton sisters...

Kluang Trip & Gunung Lambak

2006-10-29T00:23:00.000+08:00

During the 2 Hari Raya Holidays, my whole family together with my aunt and cousin went to Kluang to visit my grandma. This grandma is actually my mom's mom. She's quite old and since some of us works and studies, it's quite hard to pay a visit to my grandma.

The entire journey takes about 3 hours plus. We left early Tuesday morning, since it's already first day of raya, there's no jam! But the entire journey is pure suffering!!!! My cousin gets the front seat and my mom, sis, aunt and me all 4 of us cramped at the back seats!!! We're all not very slim... =_='

Anyway, behold...This is my grandma's house. It's more than a century old I believe. Since my great grand parents stayed here too! Though I've not met any of them before including my grandpa.

The house is made out of wood. It doesn't used to look like this. Erm..that's like before I was born. But the house now is pretty much what I see since young.

Well, during the rambutan and durian season is the happiest time for all my relatives. There's like many durian trees and rambutan trees and during the season, there's plenty to eat till my grandma will sell the rambutans away (by entire tree).

Also coz of all these trees surrounding the house, there's unlimited, uncountable, crazy amount of mosquitos in the evening! My sis record of mosquitos bites is actually 100. =_=" Scary huh!!!

Sleeping at night for this trip is a disaster as well! For some reason, a few of my aunties and childrens stayed overnight here despite having their own comfy homes. End up, there's like 5 of us crammed on a tiny queen size bed. I could hardly get any sleep. *sighs* The living room and other rooms are all crammed with people too! LOL... Just a bit of info about my mom's family, there's like 13 of bros and sis. Just imagine CNY. My aunt with their chilrens and their childrens have childrens... There's about 3 generations and I'm not sure if it reached 4th or not. haha...

Most of the time, is boring to be in my grandma's house. There's nothing much to do. No Astro, no internet no pc no aircond no hot water....yada yada... This time, everyone got kinda adventerous and we went to Gunung Lambak for a hike.

Gunung Lambak is an easy mountain to climb. It's 510m above sea level. Many local people go there during the evening for exercise. The kids go there too! Can you see the monkey in the picture?

This hanging bridge actually leads to children playground. haha... The bridge is quite fun to walk. It's not very high up, so there's no worries for people who's afraid of heights.

Gunung Lambak has nice pathways and wooden steps. It's really not that hard to climb. But due to time constraints, I only manage to make it to... less than a quarter of the mountain. hahaha... And also coz of the sleeping arrangements, my initial plan to climb the mountain next morning has failed terribly... *blush*

Only 2 of my cousin (both male), one uncle and my dad went to climb the mountain early in the morning. Well, they reached the top and got back at at about 10 something am. I think it took them about 2 hours to go up and down.

Let's hope I have the determination to climb it on my next trip to Kluang!!! >.<

Try reading Cecelia Ahern and you'll get swollen eyes too...

2006-10-22T23:25:00.000+08:00

When you spend most of the time using your brains a lot at work, you just want to just sit there and stare into space when you're at home after work...

Well... I can't do that as I'll end up screaming of boredom. Since I can't do anything much that requires the usage of my brains... I have resorted to reading chic-lite books when I have nothing else better to do at home when there's nothing good on the telly and my sis hogs the internet...

Anyway, have been following Cecelia Ahern's books. I love her style of writing, and she's good at pulling my emotional strings!

It started with "Where Rainbow Ends"... the very first book I read from Cecelia... thanks to Bee for lending it to me and sparked my interest for Cecelia's books! The narration for this book is definitely something different! It's a compilation of notes, letters and e-mails or all sorts of correspondence between the main characters and somehow all this can actually tell a story!

Anyway, "Where Rainbow Ends" centers 2 characters: Rosie and Alex who were meant to be together but somehow fate doesn't seem to be on their side. It's a sweet story and easy to read too, you won't get confused reading the different letters or correspondences.

Then, I bought my first Cecelia Ahern book, "PS I love You". Imagine finding your soulmate and losing him. Yes, this is definitely a tear-jerker, my eyes were swollen for weeks after reading this book... My tears just started flowing the moment I read the first few paragraphs and even after reading this book for the 3rd time, I still cried when I read the first page...
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Ever had an imaginary friend and nobody believed or understands you? Well, "If You Could See Me Now" understands you. Since I've never had an imaginary friend, thanks to having someone who looks exactly like me and is always around me and she's no imaginary person, it was quite interesting to read about imaginary friends. As usual, this is a sweet book, a little sad of course and I love the cover!

Cecelia's new book "A Place Called Here" is out in the UK, so I'll be waiting for it to reach Malaysian shores (but I'll just order from MPH and wait for them to call me). I can't remember what it's about but I'll definitely be getting it!

You can check out Cecelia's official website but I can't seem to access it at the moment... but oh well, I'll just post it here...http://www.ceceliaahern.ie/
You can also find her books from MPH

Happy Birthday Endoru!

2006-10-22T12:09:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday Endoru
and all the best with your studies!!!

Endoru is one of Xell and my secondary school friend. Knew each other for so long and you've spent quite a looong time in Japan already. Hopefully will get to see you soon! Didn't send you a present all the way to Japan... hope you don't mind. :( Give you a treat when you're back in Malaysia ok? BKT? Yau Char Keuy? hahaha....

Movie: The Prestige

2006-10-22T00:29:00.000+08:00

Went to watch The Prestige at Cineleisure today. This movie is not heavily publisize. When I watch this movie, I didn't even know what it was about except for it was about magicians.

After watching the movie, man... this is a good show! The movie has quite a cast actually, having Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Christian Bale (Batman), Scarlett Johansson and Micheal Caine. The movie is actually about 2 magicians who has been rival since when they were young magicians. Both kept trying to out do each other in their magic tricks which leads to jealousy, obesession and deadly consequences.

They story begins with sort of the ending of the movie and tells the story from there. It's quite confusing at first but as you watch, you will get drag into the movie and understand more as you go. You are never quite sure what will happen in the end. The ending kinda surprised me. :P And honestly, I find the movie quite disturbing. haha... It's not a scary movie but the way it is filmed, makes you wonder a lot.

Overall, I will give this movie a rating 4 out of 5 stars. It's definately worth watch especially there's no good movies lately. I shally not reveal anything otherwise there's no fun watching the movie anymore. XD

Happy Birthday Sylphiel!

2006-10-21T11:55:00.000+08:00

It's our dear one-of-the-blogger-for-this-blog-but-she-never-blogs birthday! She's getting older... hehe... Don't worry... I shall not reveal your "real" age here... hahaha... Poor girl is sick but anyhow, this post is just to wish you....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  AND 
ALL THE BEST WITH YOUR NEW JOB!

2 different gatherings, 2 nights in a row...

2006-10-20T14:41:00.000+08:00

One of my ex-classmate from APIIT(Nestum - erm... his nickame is Nestum, don't ask me why XD) is finally going to leave for Japan soon. Time flies. When he told me he will be leaving end of the year to Japan it was around April or May. Suddenly, it's nearly end of the year already. He will be working there, in Tokyo itself for about a year and will see how things goes. It's a long relationship between his current job and his future Japan company. If I didn't remember wrongly, it's his current company's boss' partner's friend's company. erm... haha... I think I am right :P

First gathering - 18 October 2006, 7:30pm @ Kiwi Restaurant, Sri Hartamas
Well... since he's leaving soon, and some of us are unable to attend his bigger farewell dinner. Me and another 3 went to have dinner with him at Kiwi Restaurant, Sri Hartamas. 5 of us chatting happily till late night. APIIT was really stressful from what we remembered back then, even so, I guess we were quite happy. LOL... The good old days, talking back about the past always makes me feel so old. :P

When I see them, all of them are so successful. What about me? I am not bumming around lar... Just that I am not working in some well-known company. haha... One of them in Shell, one in Accenture, one going to Japan, one more in Standard Charted. *sighs* It's not like my company it's not good (thought I am still too early to judge), it's just NOT well-known lar.

The food there was OKAY-lar. Nothing really special. I had Chicken chop - not bad. One of my friend ordered their seafood basket... hmm... he said the cuttlefish is really "hard" and chewy - not good. There's one food there that NO one should even try ordering coz it's NOT nice. It's the Spaghetti Carbonara. Have anyone of you ever eaten Carbonara with Tomatoes, Capsicum and Spring Onions??? It was horrid.

It was fun chatting and meeting up with them again. It seems like I am the only person keeping in touch most of them as some of them haven't seen each other for ages! We left quite late and since Nestum fetch me here, so he fetched me home. And... he was having cravings for Starbucks Hot Chocolate Caramel, we ended up back at Mt.Kiara. Was home at about 12am.

Second Gathering - 19 October 2006, 8pm @ Cheras before heading to Sg. Long
The second gathering was another meaningful one. We met up with our ex-Apiit lecturer. He was like our favourite lecturer and one of the best. :P He left APIIT. He was back in Ipoh for sometime and now he's back to teaching business in UTAR.

And all of you are wondering why Sg. Long? That's like FAR! yeah I know! But that's the UTAR campus my lecturer is based in and he do not have transport.

I haven't seen him for ages, and he still looks the same. The first comment he gave us was, "All of you put on weight huh". LOL... Yeah... I admit that. It was all fun chatting with him. He told us why he left APIIT and he commented that APIIT's standard is not as good as it used to be. The standards detoriate so much that he don't encourage anyone to pursue their IT studies there.

I can understand why he said that. We used to have lots of Indian lecturers but they're not bad. Though it's hard to get what they're trying to say. Now? They have lots of Middle East lecturers, those from Iran etc... They speaks Arab! I can't imagaine. During my time, all was still good! And now he's in UTAR... but UTAR standard in IT it's even worse than APIIT now. I seriously can't imagine. LOL...

It was all fun listening to him giving comments and since one of my ex-classmate is now a manager. Both of them were sort of like debating how you should handle your suborrdinates. LOL... We left about 11 I guess. On the way back, we took some wrong route... and ended up at Jalan Lok Yew. =_=" It was JAM. Good thing we weren't lost. hahaha.... Reach home at 12 am again. hahaha....

End of my story telling. Back to work and me is tired lar....

Philippa Gregory's novels make me cry for days...

2006-10-15T23:30:00.000+08:00

One of the many interest in my life as I was growing up was historical myths and legends, especially from the English history, and in particular King Henry VIII and his six wives. And I've always admired Anne Boleyn since I was young (having read and watched loads of stuffs on Anne Boleyn) and was heavily inspired by her determination of being Queen and for her daughter to rule England. And thanks to this interest of mine, I have been hooked on Philippa Gregory's novels!

"The Other Boleyn Girl" was like uncovering an unknown historical plot for me. I had no idea of the existence of Mary, Anne Boleyn's sister and this book covers mostly about her and how manipulative the Boleyns are...

The author really knew how to pull my emotion strings and I actually bawled reading this book and still feel sad when I think back of what happened during that period. All this while, when I read history contexts on the Boleyns or watching BBC movies, I never had a connection with the characters and even empathise with them. But this book definitely changed all that!

I love this books to heaps even though I got a bit tired reading the detailed descriptions of dresses and background but I highly recommend this book to those who shares my interest in history!

Another book I love from Philippa Gregory is "The Constant Princess" which tells on the struggles of Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII from young, to leaving her home and family to an unknown country and to proving herself the Queen of England.

Again I was surprised when I read this book, alot of things which I didn't know of Katherine except she was an old lady who was in the way of Anne Boleyn of being Queen (I was rather biased towards Anne since I grew up idolising her). And again my heart went out to Katherine and cried terribly reading through this book...

By the way, more info on the author...
http://www.philippagregory.com
Yay, she's got a new book! Can't wait to get my hands on it...
You can also check it out at MPH bookstores... » MPH

Japanese Buffet @ Jogoya, Starhill

2006-10-15T17:52:00.000+08:00

Note: Actual event took place on 23 September.

*chants* JOGOYA! JOGOYA! JOGOYA!

That was what I've been chanting when me and my sis made plans with J to celebrate her birthday at Jogoya, which Zen has been going on and on bout that place. And finally we went on the 23rd Sep (Yeah yeah, I know it was ages ago but had no time to update... hehehe), two days after J's birthday.

Anyway, the interior design was superb (of course, this is expected of anything inside Starhill) and we were greeted with the sight of gross-looking snails in a huge aquarium as we walked in from the main entrance.
Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures of the snails...

If I was to comment about the food, please don't take heed of any of my comments as I have sensitive tastebuds and kinda enjoy airplane food... Anyway, the selection of food was pretty limited to me, like I have said earlier, I'm picky on food.

Comments on the food... I think I'll leave it to Zen on this part. Oh but I must mention that the hype on Movenpick ice-cream left me kinda disappointed when I finally had my share of 3 scoops of it... there's nothing special bout the flavour, in fact I think I prefer Lecka Lecka to this... And my friend's bf actually had 6 scoops of it... our inital aim for 10 scoops so that it would cover the price of the buffet...

Well...since Xell wants me to write on the food... I will continue from where she left out... Basically, this is my second time to Jogoya. First time was a treat from mom's friend. It was excellent! So I was all excited to eat here again. There's not many pictures taken since we're not exactly allowed to take pictures in there apart from your own seats.

Jogoya is huge and divided into many sections. From what I can remember, there's Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Western, DimSum, Desserts, Drinks etc. For every section, there's chef cooking food right when your order. All tables comes with metal clips with numbers, for food that requires cooking, you just drop the clip on the food you want to it and the order will be sent to the table.

One those most popular dishes has to be the unlimited Sashimi and Oysters. Even Sashimi has many different type of fishes apart from the usual Salmon and Tuna. At each section, take for example teppanyaki, you can choose from chicken to fish to Squids to vegetables.... Same would go for the Indian and Western food.

From Top to bottom left to right: Sashimi, Anchovy Salad, Softshell crab and Crab on hotplate

Apart from the Sashimi, I had plenty of Softshell crab, prawns and I had snails too! Remember Xell talks about those gross looking snails? yeah, I had them. Not the first time I've been eating snails :p I had escargotz in Paris too! And there's this pretty special Anchovy Salad which is very nice.

Apart from a wide variety of food selection, there's a wide variety of drinks as well (minus the alcoholic drinks). :P There's hot drinks range from various type of tea (green tea, Shui Sin, Oolong tea etc) all in packs where u can just made them in pots. There's of course various type of coffee, ice-blended drinks and fresh juices. But out of everything, the most popular drinks of all has to be the Thai Coconut. The Thai coconut is my personal favourite as it is really sweet!

Rows and rows of Desserts

It's really hard to tell what is nice and what is not. There's just too much selection and of course there's some food which are not that good and some are good. The most attractive section of all are the desserts section which is the place where we sat. Our table is right next to the dessert section. It was really tempting to begin our meal with desserts. The cookies are nice, some of the pudding are nice. But I was VERY VERY dissappointed because I dunno for what reason, there's NO Creme Brulee!!! >.<

Well, with the wide selections of food, the buffet didn't come in a cheap nor affordable price. Buffet dinner cost RM 88++ and starts from 5pm - 9.30pm. There's lunch, hi-tea and supper as well. Supper ends on 1am. Different buffet hours comes with a different price. :P The most expensive meal of course would be the dinner. There's also a 10% service charge & 5% government tax.

Location & Reservations ...
T3, Relish Floor,
Starhill Gallery,
181, Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-2142 1268

(Xell's comments in purple, Zen's in black)

Seremban Trip

2006-10-14T00:43:00.000+08:00

Note: The actual event took place on 16th September. Zen was too busy to edit the photos so the post was delayed. :p

After being pestered by my colleagues for almost a year (or more like ever since I met them when I started working...), me and two colleagues (Mei2 and KS) went for a road trip down to Seremban to visit them (SW and JY). Was forced to wake up at 7.30am on a Saturday so that we could make it for dim sum at Seremban... but it was worth it since the last time I've been there was years and years ago when my uncle lived there.

Went to the Ming Kok restaurant for dim sum, which is the biggest Chinese restaurant in Seremban (SW even added that most likely she'll have her wedding banquet there in the future... hehehe I'm still rooting for Hilton for mine...).

Map to Dim Sum Restaurant

After a hearty meal of dim sum (Thanks JY for the treat!), we headed to the Lake Garden, and that's when I started having childhood flashbacks... hehehe... I suddenly remembered that I always go to the A&W at the Lake Garden every time my family dropped by Seremban to visit my uncle when I was kinda young... Anyway, the weather was hot but good to take pictures of Minangkabau roofs... hehehe

We also went to the Museum, or more like to enjoy the air-conditioning in there...

Adding to that, we also went back to SW and JY's secondary school... and I felt like going back to my school... So Zen, I want to go back to our school to visit and take pictures!!!

Strawberry joss-sticks...

2006-10-05T17:44:00.000+08:00

When I was at Seremban with my colleagues, we went to the new shopping mall at Seremban 2 just to find a place to cool-off from the heat...

Went to Watson with the initial intent of buying a facial wash (I hate it when my face is feeling sticky and we were rushing off for a farewell dinner after Seremban, so I wasn't allowed to go back home) but ended up buying more stuffs along the way... and one of it came in the cutest box I've ever seen!

It's actually giant Pockies!!!! *screams* And it reminds me of joss-sticks too... but it's so damn cute and it taste just the same except bigger in size... Unfortunately, it's only available in Watsons as it's only manufactured for Watsons...

But I haven't check whether the 1Utama Watsons has this or not... my sis bought another box from the Petaling Street Watsons...

Bak Kut Teh Lau Kau @ Segambut

2006-10-01T01:45:00.000+08:00

One of the greatest lunch I ever had during a normal office lunch hour is... having BKT at Segambut! Yah!!! It sounds very far right? Actually not lar... from Mt.Kiara to Segambut very near only! haha... and it's a Friday!

And tada... We're at Bak Kut Teh Lau Kau. The name sounds damn funny... but in mandarin, it's suppose to mean "Old Monkey". And yeah... it still sounds funny. hahaha...

Anyway, this place is really hidden. I don't think I know how to come here again. :p but look at the lunch crowd! This place is really popular and according to my colleagues... it's a famous place to eat BKT in Segambut. The restuarant is really simple... under the tree with very simple settings. But I am quite surprised there's TV though!

Since one of my colleague is quite familiar with the dishes they served here, he did all the ordering. The person who took our orders is a little girl about 9 or 10 years old. She's so cute la! She really can talk! Very funny... :p She's very good at promoting the food too!

Anyway, apart from the BKT, we had some vegies, shimmered pork (I really dunno how you call it in English. In Canto is pronounced as "Lou" ) and sour vegetables. The BKT has a very unique taste, unlike any BKT I've ever eaten before. The soup is really nice... I like the sour vegetables and the shimmered pork too! The pork is really really good!

I highly recommend this place. XD The entire meal feeds well for 6 person in which out of 6, 4 are guys! 4 quite big guys. :P And the meal cost roughly about RM 10 per person. I will want to come back again for BKT but that's if I know how to get here lar. hahaha...

Hakka Tai Po Mee?

2006-10-01T00:56:00.000+08:00

I was having my dinner at the usual place - DU kopitiam... when I suddenly noticed the Wan Tan Mee Stall.

Hmm... what interest me is not the Wan Tan Mee but the line below Wan Tan Mee. What on earth is Hakka Tai Po Mee? The first thought that came into my mind is... some name you pronounce in Cantonese. (客家大波面)
Hhahaha... and I couldn't stop laughing after that. Direct translations to English would be Hakka Big Ball Noodle. WHAHAHAHAAH........ So can anyone tell me, what exactly this noodle should be called?

Movie: Miami Vice

2006-10-01T00:10:00.000+08:00

It's been quite some time since I last watched a movie. Been always busy with work... and finally... after all the Stress... I went to watch Miami Vice. The main actors are Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. And of course for actress we have our famous Asian actress Gong Li!

This movie has been quite a big talkabout lately lar...with what Gong Li acting in some daring hot sexy bed scene with Colin Farrell. It is at times like this you wish you're watching a movie in UK coz nearly EVERYTHING has been censored. Though it is expected...but yeah... all gone.

If you guys have watched Heat (I haven't), it's from the same director and most people would prefer Heat still. The storyline was kinda slow... The beginning of the movie was really confusing...

But overall, it was quite entertaining in the beginning and the ending of the movie. LOL... Although it's called "Miami" Vice... but the entire movie is filmed out of Miami other than the beginning and the ending. :p Yah yah... I know the title has nothing much to do with Miami... but still... haha...

Watch it if you like Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Although Jamie Foxx seems like a sub-character in the movie. And... Gong Li is COOL!!! She's like a real business woman in the movie and yeah... watch Gong Li. It's ineteresting!

All Stressed Out

2006-09-29T00:18:00.000+08:00

Working in my new company just doesn't seems as easy. For the first week, I know I have a lot to do already. But I was clueless and work haven't "really" started. 2nd week, the work dump to me by my x-college mate now x-colleague. He left, and I am here to chew up all the scripts he's done/not done.

The people here are all very friendly and really willing to help. I have no complains over the working environment. But for now... it just seems too stress for me. First, I am not familiar with their application concept. Second, I have to get some super long script done and more to do. Third, I have some senior that keeps bugging me. And most important of all... I need to do it very quickly!!! That's what makes me soooo stress which I think it's the reason that I am getting gastric now.

But today... I manage to get one script done - the longest script! Hurray for me! >.< But still got so many to go... If I still don't find a way to manage my stress... I really might consider quiting the job. *sighs*

Yes I know I should be getting some help from others...which I did! I've been bothering nearly everyone and I just felt so bad about it coz everyone is busy. I really pity Sylphiel and Xell whom has to listen to alll my complains. Including the incident which I cried. No, I am not weak. It's just a way for me to release whatever stress piled up in me. It was not one of those bug "huh hah" cry. Just some sobbing. But I am all fine now~! *yeah* v^_^v

Good luck to me!

Sushi Tomo @ SS2

2006-09-16T16:15:00.000+08:00

After the MPO, I actually had dinner with J, her sis and my bf. We didn't really know what to eat and it was past 8. Anyhow, we ended up at this newly opened Japanese Restaurant @ SS2. If I am not wrong, this place used to be Long Black Cafe. Out of one year, there's always many restaurants closing down and opening in SS2.

This particular Jap Restaurant is call Sushi Tomo (寿司友). From far when you first saw the restaurant, you would thought it was Sushi King. Why would I say so? Coz... their logo really looks very similar! When you step into the restaurant, you see sushi served. Well..actually, they serve a lot more than sushi.

The restaurant is actually quite big, and if you notice, there's flat screen monitor at every seat. Look to me that they're trying to copy the concept from Sakae Sushi. At Sakae Sushi, you make your orders on your seats through computer. It looks to me that's what they plan to do, however, when we were there, the PC was not in use.

Something that caught my attention was the soya sauce container. It looks cute. hahah... We've ordered some appetizers - takoyaki and chawan mushi. The chawan mushi taste quite good, but the takoyaki is seriously lack of taste. They were very stingy on the sauce.

Everything they served here are really normal and typical menu you will see in any Japanese retaurants. However, the menu arrangements was really messy and it confuses you. The listings of dishes is all over the place and you might just overlooked and didn't know they actually have certain things on the menu.

We had ramen, tempura don and this gyuniku don (If I didn't remember wrongly). All the dishes are not very big and everything taste VERY VERY normal. Nothing I could praise about and all I can say it's just Okay... The price was just okay too. Nothing special.

For me, it's definately not a place I would go again for Japanese food. All we could think of after we finished the dinner is "How long do you think this place can last in SS2?" Many shops open and closed down in a couple of months time countlessly in ss2. Will this restaurant suffer the same faith as the rest? Well... we shall see... :p

Vicenzi Biscotti

2006-09-16T15:53:00.000+08:00

Well I know I haven't been updating my blog recently, hopefully... with the little bit of time on weekend at home... I will try and update as many post as possible which would mainly... about FOOD! XD

Notice the pack of MiniSnack ... I actually bought it in Isetan when I went to the MPO with Xell and friends. I bought it under the recommendation of Xell. :P It's not very cheap as this thingie is imported from Italy if I am not wrong. I can't really understand the description on the packaging actually...

Well... Anyway, this pack of things consists of 6 mini pastries or if I am Xell, I would call it biscotti. 6 mini biscotti and it cost about RM 7+. The bicotti is very crispy and covered with sugar outside. As you break it, there's creme inside. And trust me this thing is super yummy! It's quite sweet and if you don't have a sweet tooth or doesn't enjoy cream, this is not something for you. I said this coz my mom didn't like it coz she doesn't enjoy cream. haha...

Anyway, if it's not that expensive I would have bought more. er... Actually come to think of it, I can't buy more coz there's only one pack left for me to buy since Xell took 2 packs. There's no more on the shelves!!!

I am sure I wll be heading down to KLCC again soon, I would definately buy more this time!

New Job New Life

2006-09-13T23:46:00.000+08:00

Just an update that I am officially ~~unemployed~~ employed again since Monday. Me now working in Mont Kiara. hehe... So far after 3 days, the company seems fine. I will not go to office earlier than 9 am anymore because nobody will be there to open the door although we're suppose to start work since 9am. haha...

However, by 9am there's only 3 person in office and by 10 I can say office is almost full. :p but of course, they work late as well... all I can say is, so far the working culture here seems quite flexible.

It also seems like quite a few of my school mate be it secondary or college mate is working there as well. I had this classmate from college and we're now in the same company! What a coincidence and he's been in the company for a year and spending most of his time in Bangkok.

I should be expected to travel to Bangkok as well... Just wonder when. :p

Wish me luck for my new job!

Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO)

2006-09-07T13:08:00.000+08:00

Lately, Xell and I seems to have developed a hobby to go MPO on weekends. We've been to a few already and more to come. The most recent one we went to would be one of those MPO Light Classics.

The programme details are as below:-

Programme Guide

MPO LIGHT CLASSICS
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert conductor
Alexander Toradze piano

BACH (STOKOWSKI) Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV565)
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor (Op.30)
DVOŘÁK Symphony No.9 in E minor (Op.95) – “From the New World”

Americana from an Englishman, a Russian and a Czech. Bach’s famous organ work was given the full Hollywood treatment by the English–born conductor Leopold Stokowski in the soundtrack to Disney’s Fantasia. Rachmaninov’s ravishing Third Piano Concerto, also the star of a great movie – Shine – passionately expresses his homesickness from American exile, and Dvorák’s symphony – containing, in its ravishing Largo, one of the finest melodies ever written – was intended as an aural postcard of the sights and sounds he encountered during his time in the States.

If you are one of those who goes MPO quite often, then it's very common for you to listen to orchesetra music conducted by Matthias Bamert. He is the Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor if MPO. It is also a standard for every MPO session you attend, there will be a guest musician which he might be playing violin, piano, cello... etc.

For this session we went to, it's actually what they play for the Opening Gala Concert which is on Saturday. We went for the Sunday one instead since it's cheaper. Besides, not everyone can get tickets for the opening. For MPO, there's always a month or so break where there will be no performances at all and the Opening Gala Concert is sort of to state that the brand new season of MPO has started again.

I wanted to attend this concert quite badly because I really wanted to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor. If you guys listen to Vanessa Mae when she very first came in to the music industry, I think she made quite a hit with this piece. Anyway, this version we listen in MPO is very different from the Vanessa Mae version.

This version is orchestrated by the late Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) and this piece is used in the opening scene in Disney's classisc 1940 movie - Fantasia. This version is much slower than the Vanessa Mae version. But I like it anyway. XD

As for the guest musician for this concert is Alexander Toradze in which he performed solo on the piano for RACHMANINOV - Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor. Being someone who loves piano and can play piano but not very good at it, I must say he is excellent. The duration for this piece was about 40 minutes long!!! Although he didn't play 40 minutes straight, but he did play at least 35 mintues non-stop. He is that good that he memorize the entire thing and needed no piano scores at all. (yeah yeah... I know most musicians can do that, but I can't help to be amused!) Most of the time, I saw him playing with his eyes close and full of emotion. Since the music is really sad, and he's got this very sad expression. He's like totally into the music.

As for the third piece, I know J fell asleep and Xell wanted to sleep too! haha... I must admit it's quite boring (although its nice). The music was quite slow and DAMN LOOOONG!!! 43 minutes!!

Anyway, it's overall an excellent experience. We shall see which concert to go next!

By the way, concerts on Sundays usually are not too expensive. The cheapest is priced at RM 20, but you will be sitting right at the front. RM 40 you get better seats in the centre or side further up where you can see the stage more. To purhcase tickets you can go to MPO's website. Certain concerts tickets does sells out faster than usual, so it is advisable to purchase your tickets earlier.

Eastern Delight (东丰) @ Kota Damansara

2006-09-03T02:53:00.000+08:00

Been a bit busy lately, and finally have some time to blog... :p
Last weekend, dad took whole family to Kota Damansara to look for somewhere new to eat. We ended up having Porridge Steamboat at Eastern Delight. It was mom's treat. :p

Entrance

Seems like the restaurant is very popular. This is suppose to be a branch where the main restaurant is at Sri Petaling. The restaurant is packed and apart from what you see in the picture below, there's another section the same size at the right hand side which is packed too!

Interior

Set menu

We ordered set menu for four. It comes with prawns, many type of meat balls etc... It might not look a lot. But you can only tell if it's enough once you start to eat.

If you look at the picture, there's really nothing very special with the ingredients you get for the steamboat. However, I must say that the food are very fresh. Look at the prawns and the fishballs. One thing I am quite happy about is the various type of meatballs seems to be made by the restaurant itself and not those meatballs you buy from groceries shops or market. The meatballs were very fresh, delicous and very bouncy too. You know that bouncy feeling when you eat meat balls. haha...

The restaurant specialty is their porridge steamboat, but of course, they have the normal soup one too. The porridge is charged by per head. It cost RM 1.60 per head, so there were four of us. You get unlimited refill of porridge after that.

First, the claypot is fill up with porridge . Let the porridge boil, then you dump whatever ingredients you wish to eat inside. Just eat when it's cooked. Haha... All of us ate porridge the last. By the time all the rest of the food is finished, we cracked 4 eggs into the porridge and dump all the vegetables (Bayam) into the porridge.

You can then put whatever seasoning you like, salt, pepper, sesame oil etc. All the standard seasoning for porridge are available on the table. The porridge was very sweet in the end and very delicous. That's coz all the taste of the meatballs, prawns, fish etc taste are in the porridge. One thing I must compliment is their chilli. I really love their chillies.

The meal was surpringly extremely filling. The only person left to finish everything up was actually my sister. The meal overall is delicous, though a bit costly. A meal for 4 plus drinks cost about RM 80+. But there's really something I want to complain about the meal is their "yau char kuai" was HORRIBLE! That's the worse "yau char kuai" I ever ate in my life. >.< Otherwise everything was all good.

Location
39 & 41, Jalan PJU 5/9,
Dataran Sunway,
Kota Damansara,
47810 Petaling Jaya

Please say hi to my Hide plushies...

2006-08-31T01:20:00.000+08:00

One dayyy.... I was walking down the street.... looking for the music.... any surprise...

and it was really a 'surprise' when I was given my very first Hide plushie as a birthday present (actually I pestered him to get one for my birthday present but I pretended to be surpised...)

And my life was almost fulfilled with my first Hide... which I called "kakkoi Hide"... one of the few things I intend to do in my life is to throw myself onto Hide's grave but unfortunately I realised that he was cremated and his ashes was thrown over the sea in the US... so there goes one of my lifetime dreams... at least I have my very own Hide plushie to make my life complete...

But deng deng deng
years later, my life was more complete when Zen "surprised" me with not only ONE but TWO Hide plushies for my I-forgot-how-old-I-was birthday! Uwaaah.... I feel so contented with my three Hides' surrounding me...

And my kakkoi Hide now has 2 new brothers: Santa Hide and Rocket Hide...
and Zen complains that Rocket Hide has a weird smell... ish... she's been sniffing on my Hide plushies.... naughty naughty girl... well I know she can't help it too! They're the cutest thing ever!!!

Anyway, I haven't start writing on my Hides' Grand Adventures.... gomen gomen
But will just have some little introductions on them first...

Poor kakkoi Hide... he was so lonely even though I try my best to make him happy but he still insist on fagging away his loneliness....

But not anymore!!!! Obviously Santa Hide is the one on the right....

They look like they're gonna make some formation like Flashman.... hahaha and one of my Hide CD in the middle...

Rocket Hide admiring Hide's picture... yes... Hide is definitely one-in-the-world... he can never be replaced and he will always remain in our memories....

T_T >>> Xell mourning...

'Krak krak' machines....

2006-08-30T15:17:00.000+08:00

I have started a new obsession... those cute mini toys in spheres from the 'krak krak' machines, which is found at Toy 'r' Us, 1Utama (I'm not sure whether it's found in other Toy 'r' Us branches since I'm practically living in 1U). I'm collecting the mini windchimes and Hello Kitty toys... huhuhuhu I want MORE MORE MORE!!

Anyway, 1 token costs RM4, and for my collections, it'll cost 2 tokens to have a chance to 'krak krak' and hope you get a different toy (I feel like I'm playing the jackpot). While Zen is collecting the Gundam mini figurines all because she wants to get the Freedom one (seriously, I don't know when she's gonna get it...) and it only costs 1 token to get those.

and on Zen's insistance... I have to add that these 'krak krak' machines are .... i forgot what she told me...

okiee... they are imported machines from Bandai and it cost 100 yen per token in Japan....

if I didnt add this, she wouldn't upload the pictures for me.... hidoii ne....

>o< >>> Xell get bullies by Zen

Death comes without warning...

2006-08-30T11:44:00.000+08:00

Let's see... your perpective on life changes when something drastic/tragic happens to you or someone you are acquainted with. Death came upon me few weeks ago and I didn't know how to react or even express how I felt after that. I was just numbed and my mind was blank. There was an accident at my workplace and a man lost his life. He landed just a few metres from where I was sitting as I am situated pretty near to a window. I heard him fell from 7 stories above and didn't even thought a man was falling to his death when I heard the sound... I thought it was machineries bumping around.
After that, things had been uncomfortable to me. I can still feel his unsatisfaction feeling even after the Taoist monk come and gave his prayers to release his spirit from here. Only after the 7th day of his death, then the heavy feeling was eased and also coz I started playing the Metta mantra here.

And work still sucks...

x_x

Random Post

2006-08-26T16:49:00.000+08:00

I know the blog it's getting inactive lately. Some things happen to me and Xell on the same day which resulted in both of us stopped blogging for a short while. Hmm... whatever happen to me is quite normal but whatever Xell had to experience was a bit tragic. So I shall let her blog about it when she feels like it.

As for me... I am currently unemployed. Back to days where I can start bumming around. *wink* To everyone... I've resigned. You guys should've seen me complaining mostly abour this mrc fella which is no longer in the company. But there's other unhappy things about the company which I didn't complained about here. To those who knows the reason behind the resignation, please keep it to yourself for some time lar. And to Endoru, if you are reading this post, I do owe you an explanation over what happened. So do message me when you are free if you want to know the "real" truth. haha... Yup... and I meant real truth.

But whatever happen, I am happy to be sitting at home looking for a better job. At the mean time trying hard to complete the project that I am working on now together with Sylphiel. And Sylphiel... if you are reading this... hehe... sorry to say that I've been a bit lazy for the past 2 days. Don't scold me ahhhhh.... Must fast fast gao dim! haha...

Well... I've been lazy in looking for jobs as well. Very inactive. I am just sitting here hoping for the job to find me rather than me looking for jobs. haha... yeah yeah... I wish to be head hunted lar. Fortunately, this job agency did asked for my resume and so I went for an interview with them yesterady. :p

She told me I can speak good English. hmm... People who knows me...is that TRUE??? ahahahah.....

Ok lar... I gotta get on with my work before Sylphiel finds out I am lazy and scold me. (No, she's not fierce. Nope nope...)

Malaysian Idol working at Tower Records

2006-08-22T22:29:00.000+08:00

haha... Actually... not really... I just saw this cardboard stand up of Daniel wearing a Tower Record Apron! I thought it looks really funny.... :p

Antonio's Dine & Wine @ TTDI

2006-08-13T01:35:00.000+08:00

Last Thursday, Xell & I went celebrating an old friend's belated birthday. Not knowing where to eat, we let the birthday girl choose a place for dinner. And so we ended up at Antonio's Italian Restaurant. The restaurant is located same row with Brunsfield @ TTDI. We've always been curious about this restaurant, so finally we gave it a try.

The Entrance

Once we step in the shop, we're greeted by the friendly which I think might be the owner of the restaurant. The decoration of the shop is very nice. I suppose we can say, quite Italian style. There's many wine bottles on display. There was one bottle of wine which I drank before when I was in Italy, and it's on display too.

First half of the shop & the Cashier counter

The entire restaurant view from front

As you can see, the entire restaurant is dimly lit. It was a quiet night and there were no other customers around at that time. Seems like we have the entire restaurant to ourself. I actually felt quite comfy in the restaurant with the ambience and all, it's quiet and it will be a great place to hang out with old friends and for a peaceful celebration. :p

Bread as Starters

It's usual that in western restaurants, all meal begins with bread. The black color dish is actually grinded olives in olive oil. It's like black color paste where you spread it over your bread. It taste quite good and for non-olive takers, better not try. :p

Wild Mushroom soup & Breaded Mushrooms as Appetizers

The friends of mine aka the birthday girl and her sis are mushroom lovers. :p Hence, this explain why there's a lot of mushroom dishes. The wild mushroom soup taste really unique, or shall I say, I've never tried wild mushroom soup before. It's really nice and has a pretty heavy mushroom taste unlike the usual mushroom soup you get. The breaded mushrooms taste pretty good too! I especially like the salad accompanying it. It uses some citrus dressing I presume, it taste a bit sweet and sour, pretty refreshing taste.

Fetuccini Carbonara & Marinated Chicken

The Carbanora has to be my favourite dish for the night. The sauce is not overly thick and cheesy to make you feel disgusted after having too much. The taste is just right. As for the chicken, I can't really describe the taste. haha... It's not too bad, with a bit of spicyness. There's some stuffings in the chicken which includes chilli. Personally, I don't think I will order that dish again if I ever go back there. :p

Own made mushroom pizza

As I've mentioned earlier - mushrooms lovers. :p They chose to customized their own pizza flavor which turns out to be Mushroom pizza! haha... It was not bad. Xell hates eating so-called fungus aka mushrooms. She was picking out all the mushrooms from the pizza and only wanted the cheese. All the mushrooms end up on my place which I really don't mind. XD

Chicken Lasagna

And the final dish of the day is chicken lasagna. Seriously, the lasagna taste very good. Xell say "At least it has a taste!" Haha... She's complaining that some of the lasagna she ate does not have any taste. Personally, I only had lasagna in a couple of places - Dave's Deli & Pizza Hut. Dave's Deli has great lasagna but Pizza hut's lasagna is like a pile of shit. On the other hand... this lasagna taste good but can't really compare with Dave Deli's as there's some differences in taste.

Complimentary Birthday Cake

My friend did mention that it's a birthday celebration when she make a reservation. And tada! A complimentary birthday cake. Seriously, the cake is very very good! Chocolate ice-cream cake I think... or not... Chocolate mousse cake? I have no idea... but it's reallly goooood!

The meal does not comes cheap, and not overly priced either. But this is definately not a place where you can have dinner all the time. :p The entire meal cost about RM 136 with 10% service charge and surprisingly, no government tax. Overall, a very satisfying meal, enjoyable night and I will definately go back there when I have more money for fine dining. haha....

For Reservation & location....
32, Jalan Wan Kadir 4,
Off Jalan Damansara,
Taman Tun Dr. Ismail,
6000 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-77254164

KFC Meltz

2006-08-10T19:20:00.000+08:00

I've been reccommended by my sister that KFC Meltz taste good. So during lunch time, I went to give it a try and my my... it was not bad at all! haha... You know... KFC kinda lost their standard here in Malaysia nowadays. They just don't taste as good as they used too and the chicken seems to be getting smaller. Whenever they introduce something new, the something new usually just taste OK rather than good.

I wasn't very convinced when my sis told me it's nice. And look at the packaging, it comes in a box. haha... Make it looks so cute. :p

And as you open it... I was a bit dissappointed because the Meltz is smaller than I've expected. *sweatdrop*

Look at the contents. The Meltz is made of Mozarella cheese, chicken cubes, tomatoes and tortilla chips. All the ingredients are wraped in this bread. I dunno what are those bread called. haha... The KFC advertisement kept telling people the ingredients of Meltz.

Well...it certainly taste quite good. Though small, I find it quite filling. Maybe coz of the Pepsi. Do give it a try when you guys go to KFC.

An Evening with Jim Brickman @ Genting Part 2

2006-08-09T17:39:00.000+08:00

Now let's continue with Jim Brickman... The concert started at 8pm. However, Jim Brickman didn't appear until 40 minutes later. Fauziah Latif and this girl named Phoebe from UK came out to sing before Jim Brickman. :p I suppose it's because there are plenty of people still coming in to arena of stars at that time. :p

The Stage

Fauziah sang 4 songs and 2 of them were Jim's songs but translated to BM and it will be recorded in her new album. The 2 songs are Your love and Valentine (Kekasihku) (I think!) hahah... I can't really remember the BM title though. If you wonder who is she, she's actually one of the judge for Malaysian idol and people usually call her Kak G. She looks really pretty that day and her singing was good. XD

Fauziah Latif

After her came this Phoebe from UK to sing another 4 songs. One of them was done a duet with Fauziah. Honestly I have no idea who is she but her voice is sure good! But whatever she was wearing looks really horrible. And her hair! I wonder who's her hairstylist. Her hair makes her looks so old!!! >.<

Phoebe from UK

After the 2 of them, finally Jim Brickman is out!!! He started off playing this song.... I found this on Youtube. Someone went the same concert and recorded the opening. XD Isn't it nice?

Jim Brickman Opening

And the below is recorded by our dear Xell. It is about Jim Brickman explaining his left leg. Throughout the opening, Xell have been asking me about his left leg. There was something wrong with his left leg because it kept moving all over the place. Well... then later he gave a really funny explanation about it.

Jim Brickman and his left leg

After many songs he introduced this singer from US named John ~~Tronus~~ Trones. (Thanks to a kind anonymous telling me how to spell his name :p) Honestly, I have no idea who is he as well but he's got a good voice and he sounds very very Disney. I do not know how to spell his name as well and I have a problem Googling him. Well, he's suppose to be quite famous in the US and he came to Malaysia with JIm Brickman 3 years ago.

An Evening with Jim Brickman @ Genting Part 1

2006-08-08T17:40:00.000+08:00

Last Saturday, me, Xell, Xell's sister and 3 Xell's colleague were up in Genting to catch Jim Brickman live in Genting. 6 of us took Genting express bus from KL Sentral 10 am in the morning. We were nearly late... and the bus driver was making noise. HAHAHAHAH.... Anyway, due to maintenance (though I personally suspect it was hungry ghost festival celebration at Gohtong Jaya), the Skyway is closed and thus our bus will bring us straight up to Genting! Which I think is good because you need not wait in queue for the cable car to take you up there. And due to listening too much of cable car falling down stories, I am in no mood of taking a Skyway during the Hungry Ghost month. XD

Yes, my colleagues made me rush to the bus to stop the bus driver from driving off... leave it to them to think that I'm really good at creating chaotic scenes or distractions... and the driver is really grouchy but I think deep down he's a nice fella coz he didn't yell at me to not bring in my ribena (uwahh... I had to throw away my ribena drink) and not to eat my McDs in the bus. And he even blasted non-stop oldies all the way up to Genting! Yay, I was happily singing along to all the songs... hehehe Anyway, I was thankful that the cable car was not operating (I didn't even have any thought that it could be due to the hungry ghost festival... hehehe), I'm always screaming like an idiot when the carriage takes off...

Once we've reached, which was about an hour plus later, we went straight to collect our room. It was still early, we got our 2 rooms pretty quick but they were not joined room. The staff there told us to come back at 1pm and we can have our room changed. Since I told Xell I want a room at higher floors... We got rooms on the 23th Floor. hahaha...

The bus ride was horridly slow... even a Myvi and Kelissa zoomed pass the bus...
And Zen didn't even make use of the scenery from the 23rd floor... ishh... (Hey... There was no scenery except for the window facing another room's window and there was a half naked men there... EEEEEEEEE, I closed the curtains right away!)

After settling with our rooms, rest a little, we were off to theme park. (A bit unwillingly for me...haha) Coz they have 2 buy 2 free 1 coupons, all 6 of us is off to theme park. First stop... The Flying Coaster! Since Xell and sis and another girl choose 2 opt out for the ride. The rest of us went for it.

Flying Coaster cost RM 12 per ride!

A Close up look of the carriages

Well, we have a bit of screaming and shouting at the beginning, but overall, the ride was not very thrilling and too short. Most of the time I was praying that my shoes won't fly off in the middle of the ride.

A nice view of the lake

Later we went for boating since Xell's sis have been making noise she wants to go. Right after boating, Xell have been having headache which ruined her entire afternoon and evening. Somehow she managed to tahan and we went for more rides - more like rides which are mild like ferris wheel (yeah! I know!!!), antique car... Oh yeah... we went for the Super Tobaggon Ride too. I think we were all too heavy, somehow the ride was SOOOO BLARDY FAST! Faster than the last time I sat. I felt like I was going to fly out from the ride! Then we went for our all time favourite - Chair Lift.

By the time I finished all these rides, my leg was near to breaking. It was aching so badly that I think I want to chop it off!!! We went indoor and went for this MOST STUPID ride I ever sat in my life! 4D Motion Master. We got a pair of 3D glasses and due to the glasses, half the time I can't see anything on the screen. Seems like my right eye is blind, and apparently the 4D effects meant you get air spraying at your face and water sprinkled on you! We all came out wanting to die! DO NOT SIT THAT RIDE! I repeat...DO NOT. It was horrid!

Anyway, I don't think Xell could bare anything much longer after that. We went for dinner and went back to rest in the hotel before the concert.

Boat plus water plus sun don't go well with me... I really had a bloody headache the entire day! And the tobaggon ride was not bad despite me screaming like an idiot again and I couldn't come out of the tobaggon coz I was laughing hysterically. Yes, I admit that the Ferris Wheel was pretty slow... I wanted to run out screaming freedom when the girl finally let us off the ride...

I hated the stupid 4D Motion Master... dunno who's the one who wanted to go for it. I almost puke during the stupid thing, good thing I have a very strong control on my mind... I ended up removing the stupid 3D glasses and just close my eyes and meditate with the stupid chair vibrating and making squeaking noises...

And yeah, I was really sick towards the end of the day and could barely touch my food too... I was so afraid of puking there... but I forced myself to eat coz the waiter was so kind... hahaha oh well at least I received a very good head massage by my colleague after that...

Footnote: Fonts in purple are Xell's point of view

[To Be Continued...]

Movie: The Lake House

2006-08-03T17:55:00.000+08:00

Went to catch Lake House at GSC 1Utama last night. Actually, intended to watch at the new cinema next to the Curve but then the timing was horrid... how can I possibly have time to fly allll the way to the Curve from my workplace within 30 minutes??! Anyway, most of the movies there was at 6-7pm time slot... bah... and besides that, wanted to watch Just My Luck at first but the timing sux at GSC too... so in the end we decided to watch Lake House as the incentive of Keanua Reeves more than offset the bad reviews my colleagues were yelling at me when I was purchasing my tickets online...

And so how was the movie? But before that, I'm supposed to describe what the movie is all about in the first place...Anyway Lake House begins at a house on the lake... it's pretty cool looking actually and it's all made of glass and steel. And the story takes off following the two main characters: Kate (Sandra Bullock) and Alex (Keanu Reeves) standing at 2 different timeline. Alex is in the past in 2004, while Kate is in the present, 2006 and they are connected by a bloody postbox...

The movies was funny in some bits of pieces along the extremely slow-paced storyline. There were some illogical bits in the movie too (which I am currently still arguing with my colleague about the concept of time-travelling which ended up getting pretty heated up). So to those who have some intentions of catching it, please just sit there and don't think at all and just absorb the story and don't end up snoring like the lady sitting next to my sister!

Overall comment: It was ok ok for me... oh yeah I forgot to mention that the movie is adapted from the Korean movie "Il Mare", which I have the DVD and have yet to watch it... too lazy to watch it...

Rating: 5 out of 10 (just for the sake of the cute dog even though how stiff Keanu and Sandra was... and the dog was more natural than them... and Keanu looks so pudgy!!! *screams in horror* )

@ o @ >>> Xell screaming in horror

Woo-hoo

2006-08-03T16:28:00.000+08:00

Thanks to zen's persuasion, here I am joining her team here... will most likely fill this place with nonsense on the movies (but won't be as often as her since she goes to the cinema 3 times more than I do), books (most likely filled with boring romance books or historical sagas or Japanese manga) and adventures of my 3 Hide plushies... Yes, I'm a very lucky owner of the most adorable plushies... will post more of them here from time to time.

Anyway, there's something that irritates me most... besides buzzing mosquitos and annoying flies that won't fly away no matter how many times I try to draw it to my friends instead of me... is how my mouse here keeps getting dirty no matter how many times I keep cleaning it. And yes, I'm still using a mouse which has a ball... nobody wants to give me a ball-less mouse... and this annoying mouse keeps getting stuck and I have to keep whacking it on the table to make it move... imagine me trying to create a line graph using over 30 observations and my stupid mouse refused to let me budge after highlighting 27 observations and then I have to rehighlight again coz it'll go flying away somewhere.

Well, I guess that's all from me on my first post!

@_@ >> annoyed Xell...

Welcome xelloss!

2006-08-03T14:59:00.000+08:00

We have a new contributer to this blog! A big welcome to xelloss! haha... As might see, she's commented on many post before as her nick "Xell". People that knows me well enough might know who I am talking about. haha...

Hopefully in future there will be more post on the blog as I do get kinda lazy sometimes. And if you notice... I have a sleeping partner as well. *sighs* hahahaha.... no no..she's the techie one. haha... she will help me edit and add more stuff here. hahah...

LetterJames is cool!

2006-08-02T18:27:00.000+08:00

Check this out... Pretty cool huh? Want one for yourself? Visit LetterJames! Thanks Rebecca for telling me the site!

SS2 Penang Street Kopitiam

2006-07-30T12:15:00.000+08:00

After changing my handphone and spending more time there helping a friend to buy pen drive and asking price for some other items, my friend and I are back to SS2 around 12 and just in time for lunch. Having eaten at quite a lot of places in SS2, we decided to try out this Penang Street Kopitiam. It's located same row as Murni.

Once you enter the restaurant, you can see the decor is pretty much kopitiam style. The wall is decorated with wallpaper of the penang view. The menu was pretty impressive with a lot of variety, mostly penang food. The drinks - to my surprise, are not very expensive as some restaurant do charge a lot on drinks.

So... I decided to order the penang curry laksa. mmm yum yum... taste good... with the chili it taste better. I guess that's the penang style right? You need the chili paste for the curry to taste good. However as you can see in the picture, there isn't much other stuff serve with the curry. There's a couple of bean curd... I can't really remember what else is inside. haha...

My friend had the fried kuey teow and he said it taste ok. With the portion, I don't think it's filling enough for him. Overall, I think the food is not bad, ambience is quite nice. The portion is a bit small for big eater though. It's just nice for me :D The noodles cost about Rm 4.90 and the drinks range around RM 2.90. I wouldn't call that very expensive, it's still ok and I think I might still go there again. :p

Finally! W810i ...

2006-07-29T12:14:00.000+08:00

After a long wait for the phone to be out in the market... another long wait for the price to drop a bit... I finally go it!!! I finally officially owns a w810i! XD

This is one phone I've been eyeing on ever since I first saw it on the Sony Ericsson site (before it was out in the market). It's a walkman phone with 2 megapixels camera. It's pretty much the same as W800. There's a slight difference between both the phones though... the most obvious is of course - the color.. haha... and this phone does not use joystick for navigation. It's a quad-band (god knows why I need a quad-band phone, I don't go anywhere other than Malaysia) and it also supports EDGE. I also found out that I can set any music as my message alert which I notice some phones doesn't allow that. :p I can also set a sound that I've recorded as my ringtone. Cool huh? :p

Now to the story why I bought the phone...
A couple of days ago, my friend sent me an email about a digital camera warehouse sales at Foto Miami (somewhere near Jalan Templer). It was stated that the latest models of cameras, handphones, digital storage are available and upt to 70% discount! Well... I went, not knowing what to expect because there are times things are not as good as you expected.

To my surprise, I found them selling W810i at an amazingly cheap price. I might be outdated, but the last time I saw this phone in store, it cost RM 1700. However, they are selling at RM 1300 here! Installment plan cost RM 120 x 12 months = RM 1440. This phone model is still consider pretty new, so I bought it on the spot! I went for the installment plan, which was a mistake...Should've just pay 1.3. Anyway, I was all happy, went home, charge the phone for 8 hours.

Then... as I finally can use the phone, I tried to make a call. To my horror... I can't hear a single thing!!! The phone is spoilt!

I can't hear a thing, neither can the one on the other line.
The speakers doesn't work means walkman function is useless.
I can't take pictures

Why would anyone wants a phone like that? It's completely useless!!! So...the next day I went back there to change for a new phone. The guy tested a while and told me there was something wrong with the software. And... he changed a completely new phone for me! (Whee!!!)

All I can say... I was damn unlucky. Anyway, my new phone is working perfectly fine now. *touchwood* Once again, I am a happy person!

So damn angry!

2006-07-26T19:49:00.000+08:00

It was such an angry thing to heard! You know what we found out? stupid mrc has installed a spying programme in the network to spy one everyone's msn conversation!!!

That totally explains why he knew when were to going to look for J for lunch! I can't believe he can be that cheapskate to do something like this! Spying on others' conversation! It's personal... how could you do that???

The most amazing thing is what? If he did spy one others conversation, then he must've know that we hates him!!! Why is he still going around places with all like he doesn't knows anything? Why is his skin so thick??? Why he still join everyone for farewell when he knew no one wants him to be there?

I seriously can't believe someone like this exists on this planet!!! 29 years old! Go get freaking get a life! Thank god he left the company already! >.<

Movie: Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2006-07-24T00:01:00.000+08:00

I'm finally back online at home and I've finally watched the movie. Well... It was quite good. As usual, the most entertaining character has to be Johnny Depp. Overall the movie was a lot of fun and very entertaining to watch.

I must really agree with my friend xel that there's really too much tentacales!!! The octopus and the giant tentables... argh~ Anyway, it's definately one of those better movie to watch this year as compared to Superman or X3. I watched neither, but according to newspaper, the biggest flop this year will be (based on ranking 1-3) - Da Vinci Code, X3 and Superman Returns.

I shall not reveal any story here. There's a third movie coming but no idea when. The story is definately left hanging. haha... but it's not that bad. Go watch it!!

He's Gone!

2006-07-20T18:43:00.000+08:00

The most annoying person in my company is gone! Together with 4 other people this month. Yup, 5 person left my company. One of them is mrc which I have all my reasons to celebrate about. :D

I am so glad he's gone. Well... he's suppose to be gone earlier however, his "superiors" wants him to finish up a documentation before he leave. Which I think he deserves because during his time in the company, I dare say he's contributed absolutely nothing except for being a complete asshole! Well, he's gone. And there are some who went for a farewell lunch with him. But definately not for me and Sylphiel. NO WAY!!! It will just ruin my appetite eating with him.

Previous month, there was a colleague who's been here almost since the company started left. Yup... he left. Boss was upset. As for me, I am actually very annoyed. He left a pile of shit for us and he just left!!! Now... the rest of us is going to have a piece of his shit. ARGH! It's just so irresponsible. There's a HUGE project which he's handling and he just left! I am very annoyed with him because he's the one who told us to hold it... work hard till the project is over. HIM..and him? what he did? He left! He make a mess out of the agreement, making promises to clients without thinking if we can deliver the stuff or not... and after that he just left! F**king irresponsible.

Well... Enough of ranting. Hopefully I will be the next person to leave...

San Francisco Steak House Set Lunch

2006-07-19T16:26:00.000+08:00

On Tuesday I went to try the set lunch at San Fran, Damansara Intan. It's easy for me to go anytime because it's just downstairs! (My office is at Damansara Intan) I've been eyeing on the menu for some time, this is their second set of menu which looks more interesting as compared to their previous set lunch menu.

So I chose Tuesday to go because I want to try the Spaghetti and my colleague wants to try the Lamb. The set meal comes with any 2 choices of Soup of the day, Daily Salad or Dessert of the day. I'm not someone who enjoy a lot of sweet stuff, I went for the soup and salad.

Initially, they serve you bread and butter, then the salad, then the soup. The soup served that day was Corn Soup. By the time I was having the soup, I'm already kind of full!! Then the Spaghetti came. It was really yummy, very creamy, the portion was quite big. The lamb... speaking of the lamb. It was really yummy too! But... they serve us the lamb from Friday's Set Lunch (see pic below) rather than the Tuesday's lamb.

Anyway, the black pepper lamb was really well worth the price. They serve my colleague 2 big slices of lamb! I couldn't finish my spaghetti and my colleague was stuffed with lamb! haha...

Considering what we were serve, the portion, the taste and all. RM 13.90++ (5% govt tax and 10% service charge) is really well worth the money. After all the taxes, it round up to about Rm 15 per person. I might try their other set lunches soon.

Above's the menu of the set lunches for one whole week. Click on it for a larger version. Perhaps, you can decide which day you want to have your meal there. If I am not mistaken, there's set lunch at the Mid Valley branch too. I'm not sure what they serve, but you could visit their website and check it out » San Francisco Steak House It's under the promotion section.

For Reservatation, please call:
03-71182988
G01, G03 & G05, Ground Floor, Block A, Damansara Intan,
No. 1, Jalan SS20/27, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Books: God's Debris

2006-07-14T16:08:00.000+08:00

God's Debris
You can download the free e-book here » God's Debris e-book

2 days ago, Sylphiel introduce the book to me. It's not very long, it's just 132 pages or a bit more. Very easy to read but it really makes you think. The book is meant to make you think and I find it very interesting. In case you wonder who's the author, its' Scott Adams! The cartoonist who draws Dilbert.

Why is it free? Well, this book pretty much meant to be share and discuss with your friends. The book brings a lot of new concept about many big topic like god, evolution, quantum physics... No, I don't think this is a religous book. So don't worry, it doesn't mention anything nor condemn any religion.

Anyway, I will include a very very short snippet from pretty much quite the beginning of the book, at least you will get a feel whar sort of questions and answers u get in the book.

“Do you believe God is omnipotent and that people have free will?” he asked.
“That’s standard stuff for God. So, yeah.”
“If God is omnipotent, wouldn’t he know the future?”
“Sure.”
“If God knows what the future holds, then all our choices are already made, aren’t they? Free will must be an illusion.”

Does it sounds interesting? If it interest you, why don't have a go and read the book? It's free anyway.

Not the first head-butt for Zidane

2006-07-12T15:28:00.000+08:00

Zidane's head-butt during the worldcup seems to be a hot topic after the world cup. As I was reading some football transfer news, I came across this pretty interesting article.

Goal.com - Zidane's Penchant For The Ridiculous Red

Apparently, it's not the first time Zidane head-butt anybody. In his entire football career, he's got 20 red cards and have head-butted, stomped, slapped, kicked players before. If you have a bit of time, and you read a couple of the readers comments, you can generally divide the people in to 2 types - Italian fans and Zidane Supporters.

It's true that Zidane is a legend and he did very well in the world cup but that doesn't give him the authority to head-butt any player at all whether he is provoked or not. You know well enough that you are playing at the finals, and by whistle ends (which is not too far away), you will either scored a goal or playing the penaltiees shootout. No matter how angry you are, you can fight with him later after the match.

You committed a foul, then you will have to prepare to get punish for it and not hoping that you can get away with it. This is a pretty serious foul and not just a push or so where you just get a yellow or warning. Besides, even having Zidane till the penalty, doesn't mean he will 100 % help France win the world cup.

What's done cannot be undone, and I think Zidane paid for his action by getting a red card. He deserve a red card and there's not doubt about it. Whether Meterazzi was acting or provoking, the truth is, Zidane DID head-butt him. If he didn't do it, Meterazzi can't act as well.

It's just a sad way for a lengend to end his career like this. There's no way for the French to get the cup back eventhough they get Meterazzi punished or whatsoever. Besides, Italian deserves to win the cup as much as the French deserve to win.

For me, I am happy to accept Italian as the winner which they will be for the next four years!!! Forza Italia!!!

Italy won the World Cup!!!

2006-07-10T14:59:00.000+08:00

Congratulations to Italy for winning the worldcup!!! YEAH!!! I am one happy person!!! Not becuase I won money it's because they're the team I support!!! I was so prepared that Italy might lose because they're just unlucky in penalty. But this time..this time... they scored all 5 penalty! XD

Also, congratulations to Gianluigi Buffon for winning Lev Yashin award and Cannavaro (Silver Ball) and Andrea Pirlo (Bronze Ball) for being the second and third place of Golden Ball award. The Adidas Golden Ball award went to Zinadine Zidane which did a spectacular performance in the tournament except for the head butt incident. hahaha... Read more...

And the funniest thing that happen this time was what Zidane did. He actually head butt Meterazzi 15 minutes towards penalty shootout and he got sent off for that. It was really funny to see Zidane performing his Shoalin KungFu "Tit Tao Gong". It's sad that a legendary player like him ended his worldcup with a red card.

Anyway, if you miss the "Tit Tao Kung" action watch it here » Tit Tao Kung

The site explains to you why Zidane did what he did... and you wonder it might actually be true. haha ... XD

Below is a gif for easy viewing. :p