Me, Myself, and I

Preview Screening for Breaking Dawn...... Part 1!

2011-11-28T19:51:00.000+08:00

Monday, 28th November 2011

So I managed to score tickets to Breaking Dawn Part 1 last week. I was actually looking forward to this movie cause the trailer actually looked epic and the sex scene! Hehehe..

For those who haven't seen the trailer?

Anyway, the seats were not numbered but we were able to get some pretty decent seats. So, what did i think of the movie? I actually thought it was pretty entertaining. They tried to inject some funny parts in it but what annoyed me the most? They freakin' censored ALL the parts that were probably the most epic/exciting parts in the movie! The sex scene, the part where the baby was born, and the part where Edward bit her to save her life. Oh, which apparently, my colleague said that he didn't bite her, he injected a needle into her. She knew cause she read the book. But what about those people who hadn't read the book? They wouldn't even know how she got transformed in the first place! WTF!

I was annoyed beyond words. I even got out of the cinema telling my bf that there's no point to even go to the movies anymore (in Malaysia) if they keep censoring movies like this. First it was Immortals, now this! Wtf man.. Freakin' Malaysian censorship board needs to get a life! You think censoring a few scenes out of a movie will make any difference to our "beloved" race in this country?!

*phew* Now all of that is out - back to the funny bits? :P Since I literally had to drag my bf to the movie, he obviously had some comments after the movie as well and he had a pretty good time making fun of the movie I must say. BUT, he does have a point when he says that Jacob always says he's leaving but he ALWAYS ends up coming back! Haha! No wonder Bella doesn't give a shit everytime he says he's leaving.

Oh wait, there was 1 thing I didn't quite like about the movie. When the twilight series first started, I was actually team edward cause he was all sweet and that. But from the 2nd ep onwards, I was team Jacob. Haha! Kudos for those who know why.. :P But this last episode.. really made him a freakin' paedophile! Sigh!!

Last but not least? I freakin' didn't know that this was part 1 of 2!! *face palm*!!!

Burger King @ Beijing Capital International Airport

2011-11-12T09:00:00.035+08:00

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Trying to keep my tradition alive by having Burger King's in all the airports I have been too. Thus, this entry is to commemorate my memory of the Burger King while I was in Beijing.

In Chinese, it's pronounced as "Ham Pau Wang" - I THINK! Don't laugh at me if in case I get it wrong. :P

Anyways, I didn't get the meal this time because I was in the airport at an ungodly hour - 5am!! And I was actually too sleepy/tired to eat anything. So I just got a Double Cheese Bacon burger. But in the end? I ate my burger even before I boarded the plane. :P Boy - I felt sick! Imagine eating that early in the morning! BUT, I have to say, it was quite satisfying. Not sure if it's because I have been having chinese food for the last 5 days there. :P Anyways, burger had BBQ sauce in it which gave it a slight sweet taste to it yet still being able to taste all the preservatives of the burger patty! Haha!

Burger only costed me RMB23 which is equivalent to RM12.50! Don't remember how much a meal costs though. Forgot to take a picture of the actual burger. Was too stoned and lazy to do it actually.. :P

Preview Screening for Immortals!

2011-11-10T22:04:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Managed to score 2 tickets to watch Immortals at 1U yesterday (kudos to my friend!). So obviously went with my bf. Actually I had not heard of this movie before until my we saw a billboard which was advertising this movie and my bf said that he wanted to watch it.

When I was offered these tickets, I quickly accepted them as I knew my bf was interested. Anyways, so we went to collect our tickets, my friend informed me that the film distributor that brought this show in was one that has not had a good track record on my list - not going to name this film distributor due to work reasons :P but let's just say my expectations for this film dropped drastically after that.

Before I go on, perhaps you guys should take a look at the trailer first below. Btw, I hadn't watched the trailer myself till this blog post.

Hmm.. doesn't look to exciting huh? Well, to my surprise, I actually quite enjoyed the movie. It was definitely full of violence/gory stuff therefore very appealing to all guys. For the ladies? Well, most of the men in there had 6 packs? Enough incentive? Haha! Okok, in all seriousness, without trying to give out too much info and spoiling the movie for everyone - I quite liked the movie. Only problems for me were:

The lead actor didn't seem very charming enough. Thought he would have been better casted by someone like Brad Pitt or Russell Crow. But he was quite good looking laa. :P
There were too many cut scenes!! Unsure if it was because the movie was too gory or what but it was weird because there were even cuts during the conversation bits which was possibly the most exciting bit as it probably built up the plot. It kinda felt like the movie roll got damaged or maybe even someone was getting some up there in the movie room (you know, the little room up above the cinema where the light comes out from and plays the film) because not only was scenes cut, the whole movie was pushed out of frame!
There were some anomalies I felt during the last scene but I am not going to say anything as that would probably ruin the story for you. However, don't think it was that important but do let me know whether you feel the same when you guys have watched it ya!

Other than the above? Yea - would recommend you guys to go watch it. However, probably only worth it if the cut scenes were fixed. It really really annoyed me during the movie. So yea..

Latest Technology!

2011-11-09T00:48:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 8th November 2011

Saw this sign when I was climbing the Great Wall of China in Beijing coupla days ago.

I didn't know that cellphones could speak! Must be some new technology? :P

The day I was 25 once again..

2011-09-19T23:45:00.000+08:00

19 September, 2011

Was at work today and it was friend's birthday. Started to ask her how she was going on celebrating her b'day and how she should have taken a day off just to rest and relax and not be at work. Friend went on to say that she felt old and for some strange reason, I always thought that she was younger than me. What follows would be best told in a dialougue format to make sure I captured the essence of the conversation right.

Liyen: Har? Old? How old are you? I think I'm older than you!
Friend: I'm 26. You?
Liyen: Oh, 26 this year? I'm 25 this year. Means you're older than me.
Friend: Oh.. so born in 1986?
Liyen: No.... 1985! Wait! OMFG! does that men i'm 26 too?! OMG!! WTF!

Hahahaha!

Transformers: The Dark Side Of The Moon

2011-09-12T22:26:00.000+08:00

Monday, 12th September 2011

I finally went to watch transformers last weekend - late much? :P

I was like freakin' sitting at the corner of my seat the whole time! It was so kan-cheong that my bf said that I was practically talking to screen while IN the cinema! I used to have a colleague (a guys btw) that said that he would have Optimus Prime's babies and I would think he was mad. But after that movie, I wanted to have his babies! Haha! :P

What I couldn't believe was that the Sentinel was a baddy! I thought he was going to be the saviour but noooo.. he had to bring the freakin' Cybertron to earth! WTF! Go get your own planet! :P he was such a disgrace to his kind! Disappointed!

Anyway, was super duper upset when I found out that Michael Bay only signed up for 3 movies and that there weren't gonna be anymore movies after this one. What are we going to do without transformers now?!

Keeping this short because everyone in the world would have watched it already so no real point in giving a review? :P

Captain America

2011-08-08T22:51:00.001+08:00

Monday, 8 August, 2011

My attempt at blogging for the first time after a long while. And contradictory to my headline title - NO! I am not going to blog about Captain America. WHY?

BECAUSE I HAVE NOT SEEN IT!!

And why is that some people might ask?

Because there are some really selfish people out there who do not have even 1 single brain cell in their head! Freakin didn't want to 'yeong' seats to us because he wanted to sit with his freakin' gf! WHICH BTW, he could have easily have done if he just swapped seats with us. He'll just have to sit with his OTHER friends as well? Wadda dick!

Oh! And you know how to top that? HE didn't even GO for the movie! WTF!!!!!!!!

Sorry! Uber angers because who can resist this?!! :D

Classic Case of Kepoh Malaysians #1

2011-07-19T23:35:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 19th July 2011

Was sending my bf home to TTDI just then and there was a massive jam on the sprint highway. Bf and me already guessed that it was an accident considering it was 10.45pm at night! The accident was pretty bad, there was a motorist lying on the floor and a Golf GTI with 1 wheel short and facing pretty much the opposite direction.

A few photos I managed to take from my phone. Sorry for the bluriness, car was moving and phone camera not so hot..

But that's not really the point of this blog. As I was driving home from TTDI on the sprint, I could still see the jam on the opposite direction. I looked at my rear mirror and saw a car driving REALLY fast - so fast that I thought he was going to hit me because he ended up 'tiong-ing' me damn close! But once we got to where we could see the accident, he braked SOOOO fast that I thought that he could be a loved one of one of the victims of the accident and that he was going to stop by the side of the road to get to them! But NOOOOO.... he didn't stop by the side of the road. He just slowed down to see what was happening. Once we passed the scene of the accident, he just sped off again after.

Now won't you call this a classic cause of Kepoh Malaysians!

Short Post

2011-07-06T08:38:00.002+08:00

This is just a 1 liner post which I am doing just before going to work.

I.Will.Start.Blogging.Again!

Hong Kong Day 1

2011-05-26T21:33:00.002+08:00

26th May 2011

So, for those who don't know. I was actually MIA to HK for a coupla days at the beginning of May... Hehehe.. Took a few days off work to come for a short holiday cause bf is in between jobs. Picked HK for a coupla reasons:

1) Managed to get quite cheap tickets (RM580 for return) - would have been cheaper if I bought them 2 weeks earlier cause AA was doing a promo.
2) Have coupla cousins staying in HK so free accommodation! Woots! Thanks Wei ko! :D
3) Bf has not been to HK before.

Anyways, left last Friday afternoon. Arrived at about 9pm cause AA was slightly delayed. Cousin had arranged for a friend to come and pick us up from the train station cause he was still in KL and the friend needed to pick up some stuff from his house anyways.

Just some random photos below before we got to HK.

But yea - even on our first night, we already had a slight adventure:

1) The friend had brought the wrong keys with her cause we couldn't open my cousin's apartment door! We then headed back to her place (which luckily was only like 5 mins drive away) to check her place. Luckily we managed to find the correct key! Haha! Was worried we were going to homeless for 2 nights!

2) Me and bf decided to go and brave HK since it was a Friday night and we hadn't really had dinner. Called my cousin and he told us that we were able to walk it to Central and would only take us 20 mins! Wah.. but that was a freakin' long 20 mins mannnn!! LOL! Probably took us more like 40 mins! Haha! We then came to a deduction that it was because HK people probably walk alot faster! Anyways, got to my cousin's suggested place at about 12.30am only to realise that they closed so we ended up in the char chan teng next door.

Bf's prawn with HK sauce noodles.

Bf sipping HK Lai cha! It was yummy! but bf couldn't sleep after that.

My fish ball and fish paste soup. Not bad I must say.

If I remember correctly, our bill came up to about $100++ HKD which was about RM40 meal. Which was okay I guess but considering it was char chan teng stuff? Hmm.. How much do people normally pay to eat in Kim Gary's? I haven't been there in ages. But is it roughly the same price?

After we ate, we didn't want to have to hike all the way back to my cousin's place, so we decided to just take a cab. Btw, felt that cabs in HK were so expensive! Once you jump into the cab, they start at $18 HKD! That's like RM7 already!

Thor

2011-05-03T00:17:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 3rd May 2011

So bf managed to score some free tickets to the premier (ie. last Wednesday) for Thor from Time Out KL in Mid Valley. So we went right after work for dinner. Had a craving for Ireland Potatos and bubble tea (Cha Time had just open in Mid Valley!) for some reason - weird combo huh? But that was what we had for dinner. :P

Anyway, headed up to go and pick up our tickets and guess who saw?! Our very own Asian THOR!!! *Rawr!!* Haha! Dude was kinda err.. I dunno... weird? I know he was trying to be the cool Thor and all but not having a single expression on your face? Hmmm...

So we got into the cinema, and what we didn't know was that our tickets were for 3D Thor! I didn't know to happy or sad because to be honest, am not a fan of 3D movies. They always tend to give me a headache. My only other 3D movie would have to be Avatar I think. Watched it in Signature and for some reason that was okay. However, didn't think Thor was necessary to watch it 3D though. There were even some parts where I actually just took off my glasses to watch because the "nose piece" was actually hurting me. The only thing I was missing out on? Haha! 3D subtitles! Woots! :P

What did I think of Thor? It was freakin' amazing. Not going to say anymore because people should just watch it. Chris Hemsworth though was uber hot (only his body and 6 pack). Don't really like his scruffy-ness in the show. Also, just found out that he also starred in Star Trek as George Kirk! Now HE was hot then! Haha! Anyhow, bf actually read from somewhere that Chris Hemsworth showed up on set on the 1st day of filming TOO buff. Sooo buff that they had to delay shooting for 2 weeks so that they could put him on a cut down regime AND re-size his costume so that he could fit into it again.

Trailer of the movie below. To be honest, when I first saw this trailer, I was like "meh.. another fantasy story for the kids". But boy was I wrong. :P

Note: Stay back until the VERY END for sneak peak to the Avengers!

Souce Code

2011-05-01T09:00:00.001+08:00

Sunday, 1st May 2011

Happy labour day! And tomorrow is a holiday - yay! :P

*Spoiler alert*

Damn syok sendiri. Getting back to the title of the blog. Managed to go and watch Source Code with a coupla of colleagues from work.

Bf made me skeptical about this movie because apparently he seen the trailer and thought that this movie would have kinda been another Adjustment Bureau. (ie. love story-ish). Although there were some elements of the movie that made me go wtf because it was just so sudden (particular when it came to Jake Gyllenhall and the chica in the movie)

Anyway, starring Jake Gyllenhall and a few other characthers I don't know, (:P) This movie starts with Jake waking up in a moving train and in someone elses body (think Quantum Leap - for those who haven't seen this, go Google :P). He panics as he's unsure what or how he got there. The next thing you know, the train blows up and he ends up in a small shuttle with a lady officer trying to talk to him and get information on what he had just seen.

It turns out that Jake was actually a soldier fighting in Afghanistan. The lady officer then tries to jolt his memory by doing a few memory exercises. He later finds out that he was being sent on a mission to try and find the bomber of that particular train he was in as there was another threat of a nuclear explosion. How was he going to do that?

The US Govt. had created a programme called the Source Code, that allows them to send someone (in this case, was Jake) to take over someone's body in his or her last eight minutes of life. What they didn't know though was that it was actually more than that! Won't wanna spoil it for you guys but you will just have to watch the movie for yourself! Trailer for movie below!

29th April 2011

2011-04-30T00:45:00.001+08:00

Saturday, 30th April 2011

29th April 2011 - what an exciting day for everyone!

First it was the Royal Wedding. I even knew people who purposely took days off just to watch the Royal wedding. I guess it is quite exciting. Just trying to imagine myself as Kate. What are the chances of you getting married into royalty!

Second - iPad2 launch in Malaysia! Again, I knew of people who made their husbands go line up in front of the shop so that they could get the iPad2! I don't blame them. It's so sexayyy and nice!

Last but not least?! Maroon 5 concert! Just got back from it actually. Pretty good I must say! Will blog more about it with pictures and video to show!

Can you imagine if a person did all 3 of the above! It would have been a super long day for them!

Bumblebee Had His Wash - FINALLY!

2011-04-29T09:00:00.000+08:00

Friday, 29th April 2011

Bumblebee finally had his wash last weekend - after probably close to 9 months going with out one! :P In that 9 months, I've had to take my doggies to and from houses, perhaps to the vet as well a coupla times. Mum also takes it to the market btw. :P Dun judge me! Imma girl! Which girl washes their own car?! Plus, have been complaining to bf that I wanted to take it for a wash for the longest time and he only took me to this place that was near his house last weekend! So not my fault! Blek!

But yea, car was getting really bad. Dust was all over the place. And worse part was I had dog fur EVERYWHERE! Until the point that I was so shy to use my car for anything besides transporting me and my bf. If it's anyone else, I'll try and get them to drive instead! :P

Anyway, so Bumblebee is nice and shinny now. Not bad for RM10 job which includes vacuum. Only thing I can say was that the guys probably didn't want to clean it properly because they kinda knew what fur was stuck on my matts etc. But either way, it's way cleaner now. :P Now all I need is an air refreshner to mask the smell of my doggies. Hekekeke.. :P

In Search for the Best WonTon Mee

2011-04-27T09:00:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 27th April 2011

Had been craving for 2 things in the past coupla weeks - WonTon (not even the noodles :P but since it came with it.. why not) and Nuggets.

Therefore, am in the search to try and find the best WonTon mee around! Have definitely already tried a coupla places but since it was not blogger about - I will start afresh! :P First stop? Damansara Kim. I did not take down the name of the coffee shop but it's the one that is further away from EuroDeli.

Photo doesn't quite do justice for the noodles. I had already mixed it around once. Therefore, there is a few more pieces of charsiew to what you see in the photo. :P Also, forgot to take a photo of the WonTon! *face palm* (Damn fail right considering WanTon is supposedly my main focus and not the noodles?!)

Anyways, noodle was only okay. The black sauce did not seem to have any taste making the noodles quite tasteless. The charsiew on the other hand was actually not bad. And the WonTon? It came in a small bowl with only 2 WonTon's. I think the lady had forgotten to mix up her pork mince because 1 of them (which was the first one I ate) had no taste at all while the other was REALLY salty. Having said that, for those who know me or have been reading my blog, I am one who fancies salty food and the 2nd WonTon had actually boosts some points for this stall. :P

Apom @ TTDI (Outside Devi's Corner)

2011-04-25T09:00:00.002+08:00

Monday, 25th April 2011

Went for a drink last Friday night with some of my bf's friends in Devi's corner in TTDI. One of his friends went to apparently order Apom. I was like where in the world is he going to get Apom here? Apparently, the stall just outside of Devi's corner does! I was uber excited!

Apom was my favourite snack while growing up. I remember my dad used to buy them for every weekend when we went to the market. He kinda stopped buying them for me once the prices kept going up and he suddenly came to realise that it was getting too expensive and not worth paying for something which was just made out of flour.

Anyway, back to the Apom stall - I've always seen the stall there when going back to my bf's place but I never what they sold. From the looks of it (from inside the car), I always thought that they were selling Chinese newspaper or something. :P

So anyway, first thing my bf's friend told me was that the guys that were manning the store were deaf - like literally. He had to point and use hand gestures to order. I didn't think much of it then.

So his apom arrived and then I realised that he had CHEESE in it! I was like wtf?! what kind of Apom has cheese in it?! Apparently, this store's speciality is not just normal Apom, he makes Apom with "stuffing"! He adds cheese, egg, banana, nuttella, etc. I had never seen/tasted this kind of Apom before! And so I was even MORE excitied! See below for his menu (abit blur cause it was taken at night with my phone)!

What's not in this menus is his specialty Apom with durian!

I had a bite of my bf's friend's apom and it was pretty good! The Apom was slightly thicker than the normal ones we get from the pasar/hawker stall and yet still nice and crispy! Plus the cheese part made it even yummier since I'm a fan of cheese! Bf couldn't resist at the end and he even bought one. :D

Just looking at the guys striving to make ends meat made me feel bad for them. :( Also, bf told me rumour has it that they are selling Apom to help support their home for the mute and deaf children. How true that is, I'm not sure. Tried Googling and nothing came up. But even if it's not true, I was like we should buy an Apom from them everynight just to support them. :P

Energizer Night Race 2011!

2011-04-23T11:05:00.001+08:00

Saturday, 23rd April 2011,

I know this is kinda late to blog about the Energizer Night Race considering it has gotten so much grief from the media since the race. But thought I should just blog about my experiences for the night.

Left the house with my sister and bro-in-law at about 6ish to Sepang and only arrive at about 7.15-7.20?? Kind our fault slightly cause I think we ended up taking the wrong turn and went through the back way which definitely took us a longer time to reach. Anyways, once we got there and parked, only did we realise we had to walk another erm.. 500m - 1km to reach the building. We needed to pee so badly so badly so we quickly used the toilet. We then continued to cross what everyone calls the "tunnel of death". Once on the other side, first thing we saw was that ALL the headlights were gone. Which was our first dissapointment (not a big one but still). Me and sister was just thinking should Energizer know how many people registered? Anyway, didn't really phase us. So we just continued.

Me and bro-in-law were doing the half mara. Once we got there, we heard on the PA system that it was going to start soon ON the track itself. But there was SOOO many people and NO signage on where to go, we were kinda lost for a second. Me and bro-in-law was rushing to try and get to the start line before they started. They started counting down.. I got so desperate I ended up just jumping over the fence. :P We managed to catch our breathes for a min or 2 before the race actually started but the walk FROM the carpark to the starting line already got us sweating!

Anyway, horn went off and we started. We started moving.. but VERY SLOWLY though! To the point that bro-in-law asked to confirm whether we had started. What was holding the line was because we all had timing chips, we ALL had to squeeze through a small lane to make sure we had ran over the mats! I'm sure it took us a good 3 minutes from where we were standing to actually get through the small lane.

Anyway, for the 21km runners, our route was to do 1 large loop outside and then 2 loops inside the track. My outer loop was pretty good - enough water stations (which was all that mattered to me in a run). Only thing I have to complain about was that although they had water stations, they only had 2 tiny tables which resulted to everyone crowding around the tables just to get a drink! Drink stations are just meant to be on the go and shouldn't have a need for people crowding and waiting. I had to even pour my own drink. Anyways, as I was saying. Apart from the small tables, I was quite happy with the run. I was doing good time and was pretty satisfied with the number of drink stations therefore I didn't drink much thinking that I could get more in the next one.

Once we got to the circuit though was a totally different story. Circuit was quite a hard route to run for me actually. Having being able to see the grand stand (which was the start of the loop) the whole time kinda played mind tricks on me thinking that it was just around the corner. Apart from that, it was quite hilly as well! Lastly, there was only 1 drink stop in the WHOLE track which was a 5km loop! Add mind games + hilly + 1 drink stop = total FAIL for me. And that was my only issue with the run. When I finished, I really felt like I couldn't breathe. Felt like I was going to pass our or vomit at the same time. Not sure if that's even possible but that's how I felt.

Everyone had complained about riots during goodie bag pick up etc but I was still doing my run then, so am not sure what happened. I saw the line yes - I heard the lady over the PA system yes. But did not see anything else.

Sorry - really lengthy blog without pictures huh?? Couldn't take any photos cause had left the phone in the car. Anyway, finished my run in really poor timing. Was really not happy with self. Had to walk pretty much the last loop cause I was dying. Left me with a pretty demoralising feeling right after the run and have not ran since that night.

Tow Kee @ Seremban Wet Market

2011-04-12T09:00:00.006+08:00

Tuesday, 12 April 2011,

For those who remember, me and my bf made a new year resolution to try and go out station at least once month. It is now April, and we have only done it twice - once in Feb to Aus and last Sunday, to Seremban. I guess I went to Penang in March but I personally think it shouldn't count cause I didn't go with him.

Anyways, why Seremban? Because there's this food court above the Seremban wet market which serves really nice awesome Hakka noodles. The first time I went there was after a hiking trip in Broga in 2009! Store is called Tow Kee and the wet market is located on Jalan Pasar. Why is it so special? My bf swears that they boil the noodles in pig lard because the "sauce" is slightly thicker than your usual. How true that is, I'm not sure. All I know is that it is super yummy. Even ta pau-ed 10 packets to bring home!! Haha!

What's terrible about this place is that because it's situated above the wet market, getting to the shop is seriously a struggle! The place REALLY stinks and I mean really!! I seriously felt like puking when I got there. The bottom floor smells fishy and when you go upstairs, next to toilets - OMG *puke*. Smelt like the toilet hadn't been washed in years! Doesn't help much that there is a HUGE drain like just outside the market.

Moving along - I forgot to bring my camera again (sucky blogger huh?), so all credits to photos below goes to Google Images ya!

Photo of the market from outside

Photo of the stall

Photo of the delicious bowl of Hakka noodles!

A big day out!

2011-04-10T21:45:00.001+08:00

Sunday, 10th April 2011,

I know this is late - blogging about last Sunday but better late than never? Hehe! Anyways, made my bf take me to Pavilion last weekend cause I was kinda sick of the malls around my area. We hardly go down to KL so I took this as a special day out for me - it was a big day with big shoes to fill! So corny right? :P Only said that cause I wanted to post these photos below :P

Found this shoe in a super hero shop which sells RM100++ t-shirts even for kids! Anyways, check out how big the shoe is compared to my feet!

Found these Havaianas outside Pavi. So tell me - wasn't this a big day with big shoes to fill? :P

Anyways, once we got down town, what we didnt' know was Red Bull was actually doing an event. They had stands up and they even blocked the whole Bukit Bingtang road. We were lucky that we got there early so we managed to get to the parking. They even brought an actual F1 car to take a drive down the road. It was really hot that day, so we didn't stay to watch that but even when in Pavi, we could hear the sound of the cars. Managed to get some photos below:

Once we got to Pavi, we got some lunch at Ben's which is on the 6th/top floor of Pavi. This place was apparently opened by the same guys who did Delicious.

Look at my anti social bf who was playing with his ipad while he was out with me. :P

Decor of the place. Quite nice and cosy.

Our food. We ordered the mac and cheese and also the cheeseburger. Burger was yummy with a nice onion sauce on the the top. For those who have tried the burger in Plan B, me and bf felt that this place was much better. Mac & cheese was good too. But to be honest, I have never had it before in my life. So according to bf (who used to stay in the US and where Mac & Cheese is quite normal), it was quite good. Although, thought it was quite jelak towards the end - it was baked with 3 types of cheese!

Last photo for the blog - check out the huge lamp! Guy was taken in the photo to use as a gauge of how big/tall the lamp is.

What Did I Get Myself Into?!

2011-04-03T19:43:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 3th April 2011

FML! What did I get myself into! Me and sister have been talking about doing the full marathon for some time now but we haven't really done much to train for it. To be honest, I'm getting a bit too tired to wake up in the mornings now to run. Haha! don't know if this comes with age? :P Anyways, sister got jolted to sign up for the full marathon 1 day because she found out one of her friends who only started running last year signed up for the full too! Immediately, she signed up for herself and me!

For those who don't know, a full marathon is 42kms long! 42 freakin' kms! That's like running all the way to erm erm.. subang and back from my place!

Anyway, went for our usual weekend run yesterday and boy was that run bad! I felt like I was going out of breathe, my thighs started to hurt! Unsure if this was because I'm kinda still SLIGHTLY sick and body is not working at 100% to take oxygen in.. OR the fact that I haven't been training much during the weekdays anyway and it's ruining my weekend runs. Eitherway, the pressure is on, there's only 13 weeks till the full marathon. Have a half marathon in 2 weeks which I don't even know if I can do it now... :S Sis is still pumped like madd and already researching and coming up with timelines for our training!!

I guess worse comes to worse, i'll just walk the whole way?! I have walked 30kms before?! haha.. what's another 12 rite? RITE? :P

Paranormal Activity 2

2011-03-29T21:36:00.001+08:00

Tuesday, 29th March 2011

Blog inspired by my brother. Haha! Guess it feels good to know that people out there do read my nonsense. Anyway, he was asking about Paranormal Activity 2 at dinner just then and since I hadn't blogged about it yet - so I thought I'd do up a blog now.

Actually watched paranormal activity quite a few weeks back. Thought that the first movie was must better though. This movie just kinda explained why the first chiq in the first movie got possessed and what happened AFTER she killed her husband/fiancee (I can't remember who it is now). So therefore, it was pretty much a paralel pre-quel. Also thought that this movie had slightly less scary scenes than the first.

Movie started out with a couple bringing home their new born baby. It then went on to show that they're house got broken into hence getting CCTV's installed in the entire house. Felt that this was to satisfy some of the feedback they got from the first movie. If I remember correctly, alot of people (bf included) couldn't not stand how shakey the camera was in the first movie. Hence the CCTV' to ensure a stable recording. Anyway, moved to the mum starting to hear weird noises in the house and then their older daugther. Dad did not believe a word they said until he found his wife kinda just dazed and hypnotised. Shall not spoil what they did after that so you guys will just have to watch it. :P Anyways, as usual, trailer below:

Check out 0:54 - the baby is seen in the mirror reflection but not in his actual cot - jeng jeng jeng!!!

LOL! For those out there scared to watch the actual trailer above, see the one below! LOL! Found it when I was looking for the official trailer.

A day in Penang

2011-03-28T00:27:00.001+08:00

Monday, 28th March 2011

About 2 weeks ago, on a Thursday, dad suddenly decided to uproot the whole family to go to Penang during the weekend for my grandma's birthday. I was actually kinda lazy to go cause if we went, it was going to be only for a day (ie. fly in Sat and come back on Sun). Anyway, decided to go anyway, which was a good thing because it turned out that my my grandmother was turning 90! Something my dad forgot to mention! Yes yes - I know, I guess I should have gone anyway even if she wasn't turning 90 but hey! 90 is a good age! And that deserve celebrating!

Anyhow, we flew down by Firefly. Was kinda surprised with them and their timing actually. Have heard many stories that actually delayed a flight for more than 12 hours before! But when we went, our flight took off on the dot. But when we came back, flight was actually delayed for 30 mins, but yet, we still managed to arrive about 10mins later than original. So ya!

Anyway, this was actually going to be my first time on a Firefly airplane so I was kinda excited to see the propellers! So, as jakun as I am, I HAD to take some photos as I was walking to the plane. :P

The flight there was terrible! I don't know if it was because it was a really misty day or what. But I swear, at 1 point, I really thought the plane was going to crash! *choi choi*. Shouldn't be saying things like this! The turbulence was just terrible! And when we landed? Oh emmm efff geee... :S

Nothing happened to us of course, if not I wouldn't have been able to eat / take pictures of the delicious char kuey teow below. Both taken from 2 different places. Don't ask me how to get there because I wouldn't have a clue. Had 2 meals (not including grandma's dinner) and I had char kuey teow for both. I don't know why, but somehow Penang manages to cook the yummiest char kuey teow eva! It just taste so different to the one in KL!


P/s: Sorry, it's past midnight and I had forgot to rotate the photo beforehand and am kinda lazy to do so now. :P

Bro and dad had a gala time, they pretty much ordered like an extra serving each meal to go around and share. Above is a photo of Hokkien mee. Also pretty good if you asked me. Need to make eating trips down to Penang more often! Hehehe..

Who Thinks It's Time to Change my Blog Layout?!

2011-03-24T13:02:00.001+08:00

World Invasion: Battle Los Angelos

2011-03-16T22:48:00.000+08:00

16 March 2011, Thursday

Went to watch Battle LA coupla nights ago. Bf managed to get free tickets - woots! Don't worry, no spoiler alert this time. Why? Cause this movie is THE BOMB! So, I'm not going to ruin it for you. But... for those who already know what this show is about, I think you can probably already figure out the gist of the show. To be honest - I actually didn't know that this show even existed. Only reason I said yes to go for this show was cause of my friends FB update which said how good this was compared to Skyline!

Movie poster followed by trailer below:

All I can say? Aaron Eckhart is my new hero!! :D

JUST GO WATCH IT GUYS!

Did you know?

2011-03-05T11:56:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 5th March 2011

It's been almost a month of not blogging AGAIN! Sorry... :(

After I came back from Australia I was just having post holiday syndrome and after that, worked just picked up like nobody's business!

Anyways, here I am. Back again! Just a short one to kick it off. Did you know...

That there is this place is Austria called "Fucking"? Don't believe me? Click the link! It's even on Wikipedia.

Was out for yum cha yesterday with my bf's friends and they told me about it. It's tiny ass town in Austria with a population of only 104 people. Surprising isn't it? You would think with a town name like that - you'd have more people in it? :P

Anyway - their town signage is the most popular visitor attraction and is also the most stolen by souvenir hunting tourists. This apprently is the only crime in the town as well. Each stolen sign is actually costs 300 Euros to replace!


Photo credit: Wikipedia

Haha! Interesting ain't it? Read more about it on Wiki!

Food list updated! - Last one...

2011-02-10T07:30:00.001+08:00

Thursday, 10th February 2011

Am leaving Sydney tomorrow. So think this should be my last food update cause am just going to have a slow day - do some last minute shopping and just laze around.

1. Lowenbrau
2. Italian in Leichart
~~3. Korean food~~
~~4. Hurricanes~~
~~5. Thai (again - what's good now? Spice I am? Chat Thai?)~~
~~6. Eggs Benedict~~
~~7. Red Rooster Chips~~
~~8. Nam Neung~~
~~9. Harry's~~
10. Japanese
11. Vietnamese Pho
12. Pancakes on the rocks
~~13. Meat Pies from Cox's road~~
~~14. Ramen Noodles - Haymarket / North Sydney~~
~~15. Fried Mars Bars~~
~~16. Fish & Chips - at a beach somewhere~~
~~17. Belgium Beer Cafe~~‎

~~18. Prasits~~

~~19. Fish market~~
~~20. Ayam Goreng 99~~
~~21. Lebanese food - Jasmins~~

It was a good run! 18 items crossed off in 9 days! Now all I need to do is lose the weight I gained in 9 days.. :S

1 week down!

2011-02-06T13:25:00.001+08:00

Sunday, 6th February 2011

1 week down and 5 more days to go! Here's food update so far!

1. Lowenbrau
2. Italian in Leichart
3. Korean food
~~4. Hurricanes~~
~~5. Thai (again - what's good now? Spice I am? Chat Thai?)~~
~~6. Eggs Benedict~~
~~7. Red Rooster Chips~~
~~8. Nam Neung~~
~~9. Harry's~~
10. Japanese
11. Vietnamese Pho
12. Pancakes on the rocks
~~13. Meat Pies from Cox's road~~
14. Ramen Noodles - Haymarket / North Sydney
~~15. Fried Mars Bars~~
~~16. Fish & Chips - at a beach somewhere~~

~~17. Belgium Beer Cafe~~‎

~~18. Prasits~~

~~19. Fish market~~
20. Ayam Goreng 99

12 down - 8 to go! Have crossed out prasits because I've already had 2 thai dinners... so decided that I shouldn't waste another meal on thai food.. :P Although, forgot to update that I did get a bonus meal on my first day..

~~21. Jasmins - lebanese food~~ (Thanks Steffarocka and Suen!)

Food Update!

2011-02-04T14:03:00.001+08:00

Friday, 4th February 2011

4.5 days down and 7 off my list! another 13 more! come on!! =)

1. Lowenbrau
2. Italian in Leichart
3. Korean food
~~4. Hurricanes~~
~~5. Thai (again - what's good now? Spice I am? Chat Thai?)~~
6. Eggs Benedict
~~7. Red Rooster Chips~~
8. Nam Neung
9. Harry's
10. Japanese
11. Vietnamese Pho
12. Pancakes on the rocks
~~13. Meat Pies from Cox's road~~
14. Ramen Noodles - Haymarket / North Sydney
~~15. Fried Mars Bars~~
~~16. Fish & Chips - at a beach somewhere~~

17. Belgium Beer Cafe‎

18. Prasits

~~19. Fish market~~
20. Ayam Goreng 99

Gong Heii Fatt Choi!

2011-02-03T08:20:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 3rd February 2010

Gong Heii Fatt Choi!!!

Food update?

1. Lowenbrau
2. Italian in Leichart
3. Korean (what's the best place now?)
4. Hurricanes - think i'm going to eat with my high school friends though
~~5. Thai (again - what's good now? Spice I am? Chat Thai?)~~
6. Eggs Benedict
~~7. Red Rooster Chips~~
8. Nam Neung
9. Harry's
10. Japanese - (what's good? Mahkoto?)
11. Vietnamese Pho
12. Pancakes on the rocks
~~13. Meat Pies from Cox's road~~
14. Ramen Noodles - Haymarket / North Sydney
15. Fried Mars Bars
16. Fish & Chips - at a beach somewhere

17. Belgium Beer Cafe‎

18. Prasits

~~19. Fish market~~
20. Ayam Goreng 99

3 Days has passed and have only crossed 4 off my list! this is not good! Need to pick up my game!

Red Rooster @ Eastwood, Sydney

2011-01-31T20:54:00.001+08:00

Monday, 31st January 2010

1st day in Australia and had already crossed 2 items off my list of food. Will try and blog about all of them but this post is meant for the Red Rooster chips from Eastwood.

These red rooster chips in Eastwood is not the same as any other Red Rooster chips. I had to learn that the hard way. It was only then did I realise that the Eastwood joint was privately owned. First difference was that the chips in Eastwood were crinkle cut, the other joints were normal fat chips. Second difference was the chicken salt. The Eastwood chicken salt is to die for. I think that's like the best chicken salt I've taste so far!

Me and my friends used to get red rooster chips almost every week! So today, I went again with them.

It wasn't the same anymore. The large box felt like it shrunk and the chips - I don't know. Felt like something was missing. Even my friend said so. She figured that it was cause of the change of ownership of the store which she recognised immediately after stepping in cause of certain skin tones... (if you catch my drift).. :P

My Eating List

2011-01-31T16:36:00.000+08:00

31st January, Monday

Here's my food list for Australia.

Day 1 not over yet - and already accomplished 2!

1. Lowenbrau
2. Italian in Leichart
3. Korean (what's the best place now?)
4. Hurricanes - think i'm going to eat with my high school friends though
5. Thai (again - what's good now? Spice I am? Chat Thai?)
6. Eggs Benedict
~~7. Red Rooster Chips~~
8. Nam Neung
9. Harry's
10. Japanese - (what's good? Mahkoto?)
11. Vietnamese Pho
12. Pancakes on the rocks
~~13. Meat Pies from Cox's road~~
14. Ramen Noodles - Haymarket / North Sydney
15. Fried Mars Bars
16. Fish & Chips - at a beach somewhere

17. Belgium Beer Cafe‎

18. Prasits

19. Fish market
20. Ayam Goreng 99

Unstoppable

2011-01-23T09:15:00.000+08:00

23 January, Sunday

I know this is old. But me and bf only managed to watch this recently on DVD coupla nights ago.

Staring Denzel Washington and the ever so hot Chris pine, this movie brings your 'kan cheong-ness' to the max! My usual movie watching stance is to just lie on the bed but for this movie? I was practically sitting up the whole time cause I was too kan cheong already! :P

Movie plot? Nothing very fantastic. Quite cliche stuff actually. Train gets out of control and the 2 heros above go and save the day. But the way they kept the suspense going for the whole movie was pretty good!!

Trailer below - just realised I didn't watch the trailer before. And by just watching it, also make me kan cheong! Highly recommended! For those that haven't seen it - go watch!

Sammy's Adventure: The Secret Passage

2011-01-17T09:00:00.000+08:00

17th January 2011, Monday

Before I start off, just realised that I freakin' backdated my last 2 blogs to 2010! Haha! So for everyone's sake and for mine, just so I know when I come back and read my blog 10 years from now that my last 2 blogs were meant to be in 2011.. :P

So anyways - Sammy's Adventure. Finally watched it on DVD a coupla nights ago in my bf's place.

The movie started out cute and promising. But judging from how I worded my last sentence, I think you know how this movie is going to turn out.

It was down right stupid and boring. The whole movie you could tell was definitely just made for the 3D effects. The story was just bleah, no climax, no nothing. It was like watching 1+ hours of nothing because the movie kinda ended in like 2 mins just as you thought something more exciting was going to happen. I was kinda ticked off in the end because it was like wtf?!

Gah! Anyways, just don't bother watching this movie if you're expecting some sort of nice story line like Finding Nemo. Watch it only unless you want to experience the 3D effects I guess.

Our very own Lipton Ice Tea Taste Test

2011-01-16T15:30:00.000+08:00

16th January 2011, Sunday

Can anybody tell the difference between the 2 bottles? Bought them from the Shell station in Damansara Heights opposite the Manulife building. Bf was pumping petrol and saw that they had a promotion of buy 2 for RM4.00. Bf thought it was quite cheap and since I liked the drink, he went and bought 2 bottles when he was paying at the counter.

But anyways, back to the bottles - I kid you not, it's not cause of the sunlight or whatever excuse you can think of. The colours of the drink in the 2 bottles were different! We then did a taste test on them to see if there was any difference at all.

The left bottle (darker colour) had slight more tea taste hence taking away some of the sweetness in the drink. The right bottle (lighter colour) on the other hand had just tasted more like sugar water. They were both from different batches I think because the expiry dates on them were different. Someone in the plant must have forgotten to put an extra shot of tea in the right bottle or something. :P

Darabif @ Damansara Uptown

2011-01-15T09:00:00.004+08:00

15 January 2010

Bf and I didn't know what to eat one night so we decided to go check out this placed called Darabif in Damansara Uptown. Bf's friend managed to buy a coupon from GroupsMore which costs RM2 and it entitles you to get a burger and fries AND a free membership card which usually costs RM15 for free. With this membership card, you are entitled to like 10-20% (I can't remember which it was) for purchases above RM20. The most exciting thing is that with this card, you also get access to their secret/special menu which is not on the normal menus at all.

This special menu had 3 extra burgers you could choose from. Not going to tell you the flavours cause then it ruins the surprise. Haha! Go get your own membership card. :P

Anyways, me and bf ordered the spicy chicken burger (left) and the wagyu beef burger (right).

It also came with fries (left) and the drink (right - it's more a closeup pic of the logo ON the drink:P )

Food was quite yummy. Both the burgers has very different sauces which made the burgers interested. The fries as well tasted like it was fried with some extra herbs. Our meal came up to RM16.00 even with the coupon. A normal set without the coupon is roughly about RM10 for a single pattie burger and RM12-RM14 for double pattie burgers. The special menu burger sets are at RM16.00 which was what had to pay for as it was a top up from the coupon.

Oh! Last but not least, you could also choose your patties - whether you wanted them lean or juicy. They had this paper (above) as placemats on the trays telling which part of the beef you'll be getting depending on which pattie your order.

Gulliver's Travel

2011-01-13T23:43:00.000+08:00

13th January 2010

*Warning - Spoiler alert*

Went to watch Gulliver's Travel 2 weekends ago with my friends in Tropicana City Mall. For those who don't know, this movie by Jack Black is actually loosely based on Gulliver's Travel - the 18th century novel.

What happens? Well, from the trailer, you already know that he went on a boat trip to the Bermuda Triangle and he gets caught in a freak storm. The next thing you know, he is strapped down in a place called Liliput by little men who at first takes him as a beast. But the minute he saves the King of Liliput by releasing himself (by pee-ing for those who didn't get me), he then gets treated like a king there too. He starts making up stories about him being the president and him being Jack from Titanic etc. But all good things come to an end and obviously people eventually find out that he was bluffing and he then gets banished to an island with giants. Lala - long story short, he manages to get back to Liliput and really defeats the evil general who took over the place and earns back the trust of all the tiny men.

What can I say about this movie? It was a typical Jack Black movie. It was funny and entertaining but only because they had silly/stupid jokes. The script? My bf swears that it was written by Jack Black because it's dumb as heck.

Anyways, trailer below. Enjoy. =)

Happy New Year!! and a Merry Christmas??

2011-01-02T23:44:00.001+08:00

Sunday, 2nd January

First of all - Happy New Year to everyone! And sorry for the long hiatus. Just been caught up with the year end holiday mood. :D

Resolutions for the new year?

1) Lose weight because I've been eating non-stop for the past 2 weeks and have put on more weight than I was at before the biggest loser
2) Visit some place (at least outstation) once a month

Anyways, since my last post - have just been catching up with friends. For Christmas eve, we celebrated it with my bf's friend's place in The Tropics. Bought us a turkey, roast beef and just ended up chilling/chatting the night away. For Christmas morning, I went to meet some of my friends. Was going to head to Tom Dick and Harry's but we didn't know it only opened at 10AM (and we got there at 9.30AM).

The staff was rude in telling us that they don't open till 10. And when we asked if we could just sit here and wait till they opened, they assured us 3 times to say that they will not serve us till then. Then, as we were just sitting down, they decided to blast the music out loud which in my opinion felt like they did it on purpose just to shoo us away. We left the place in the end and decided to head to this place called Departure Lounge in Damansara Uptown.

The most unique thing about this place - Make your own breakfast. This place allows you to choose 3 iteams from the list for RM8.90, 5 items on the list for RM11.90 and 7 items for RM13.90. All come with bread which you are then allowed to upgrade to french toast.

Me, Mun Yee, and BK

Me and BF

Us playing Monopoly - they had a set lying around and I've always wanted to play monopoly again for the longest time so we started a game until the food came. :P

Food wasn't fantastic though.. I ordered the Egg and Salmon omelette on bread. The bread was hard and the eggs and salmon was not fantastic. BF ordered the breakfast set with 5 items and again, nothing to shout about. Each order a drink and our bill for 2 people came up to RM42.00. Not bad for Christmas breakfast but I think if it was for a normal occasion, it might be slightly on the expensive side for me. :P

P/s: For those who were wondering about the title, it's because I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year first but then started to talk about what I did during Christmas. Haha.. :P

I Entertain Myself...

2010-12-22T00:39:00.000+08:00

22 December 2010

Short and sweet one because I know if I don't blog about it now. I'll never do it.

Was in the car on the way to meet my family for dinner. Bf picked me up from work cause he took half a day off. He was texting/working in the car still though. Out of a sudden, he asked how do you spell "outlet". So I spelt it for him:

o...
u...
t...
l...
e...
t...

I knew straight up what was happening - he was using predictor text on his Nokia phone and the word "outlet" was not getting picked up. He then continue to ask whats a "moulet"

I proudly said it's a "mou lei" (think canto) with a mullet!

Hahahahahaha!!! I cracked up laughing and in fact am still laughing at myself. :P I dunno.. maybe I was just high that time.. :P

For those who don't understand "mou lei"? Well - I can't really explain to you also. So help anyone who is reading this? :P

P/s: Other random fact? I'm hungry and it's 12.40am now. :(

M.I.A -> Korea!

2010-12-20T11:00:00.000+08:00

20th December 2010

Sorry been M.I.A again. It's been close to 1 month with no updates! Time really flies! Last week at work, I kept thinking that it was only at w/c 6th December and kept giving deadlines for end of w/c 13th when usually it would take about a week to get proposals out the door.

Anyways - better late than never rite? Here's a brief run-down of the Korea trip (if I can remember).

Day 1
Arrived at Korea around 7ish in the morning. Had to wait for the longest time at the airport because there was a bunch of us that got stuck in the immigration. After that, we headed straight to the DMZ Zone.

Before we could get into the zone, we had to get our ID's checked. Managed to sneek a picture of the dude coming onto our bus.

Monto & Superpig @ the observatory tower. There was a yellow line where the photographers were not allowed to cross. Behind them were a line of telescopes which allowed you to look over to the North Korean side.

After this, we were then taken to see the tunnels which the North Koreans tried to dig their way to South Korea. Unfortunately, no photos were allowed there so there's nothing for me to show.

After that, they took us to a abandoned (well, at least I think it was because there was no one there at all) train station called Dorasan. Apparently they are going to make this the national train station because it was going to connect both South and North Korea.

By the time we finished this, we was past 1PM. All of us were starving. We then headed to our lunch spot where we had Mushroom hot pot. Thank god there was other stuff I could eat (ie. meat, and all the sides).

Photo of our hotopot. Yummers! Think we were all just very hungry.

Photo of freedom bridge which was right outside our lunch area. Place is called Imjingak. LOL! I kept laughing at the name because it reminds me of "mhm jin gak" like not "jin gak" in Cantonese? Haha! Okay - maybe I syok sendiri :P

After all that, they took us to Dae Jeong Gum's set. Everything looked kinda run down already though. Kinda sad because it was such an iconic movie and they couldn't even spend a little to keep the place running. Some random photos of the place below:

After that, the tour took us to some shopping area which looked kinda high class. We didn't get much time in that area. Plus - didn't look like they had alot of things to see. So didn't get anything. Me and Lee Fen, ended up in the supermarket buying snacks! Haha!

This was during dinner. Pork hotpot! Tasted kinda like lunch though. So was not very impressed.

So there it is. Day 1 of Korea. Will post more soon! :P

Ireland Potatoes @ Midvalley

2010-11-29T23:33:00.000+08:00

Monday, 29th November 2010 - 11.22pm.

Just finished work and got home not long ago. So thought, what better way to just kill my 20 mins of time before I go to bed - so here I am... :P

Had to take my mum to Jusco Midvalley the other day because apparently she always gets lost in shopping malls and doesn't know where she ends up parking etc. So as we were walking to Jusco in the lower ground area which links Gardens and Midvalley. We saw a new store open. It was called Ireland's Potato.

Me - being a huge fan of potato obviously was intrigued. All they pretty much served were french fries with various sauces/toppings. I stared at the menu the longest time and finally decided with my mum to try. I wanted to be adventurous and try something different and not like have just cheese sauce on top, so we tried what they called the "Ireland Chicken Sauce" (if not mistaken - forgotten already.. :P sorry). They were not cheap. It was at least RM8.80 for a cup of fries and that was already the cheapest.

Interior of the place. Not very big. Left photo - tables and some benchtops. Their "kitchen" was situated on the right of the left photo (lol.. confusing kah?). Right photo was what they had plastered on the wall right at the back of the shop.

My Sauce

Left photo is how big the cup was. And right photo was how much fries we got plus our sauce.

Overall, I thought my sauce tasted quite yummy although would have loved to have more of it. The sauce made my fries soggy and for those that know me, that's my favourite kind. However, having to pay RM8.80 for it? I think that's extremely expensive considering it's just potato at the end of the day. And my chicken bits in the sauce was quite close to nothing. Definitely not something I would go and buy all the time considering how much I like potato chips. Me and mum think it'll just be something everyone would try once and not try again because of the price. If it was priced cheaper at RM5ish, then maybe it's something I would consider to buy each time I passed it.

Vietnamese Beef Noodle @ Pho Hoa, The Curve

2010-11-25T23:33:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Decided to go Pak Toh with bf yesterday since getting back from Korea. While waiting for him to finish work, I went surfing the net trying to find things to eat. We always have this problem of deciding what to eat so I thought I'd do a little bit of homework before driving around aimlessly again and end up eating in the same places. :P

After looking for about 15 minutes, I found this Vietnamese place in The Curve called Pho Hoa. I thought why not - let's go try. I haven't had my Vietnamese fix probably since I got back from Australia which was about close to 2 years now (holy crap! It's going to be 2 years! WTF! Means I haven't seen my beloved NmC for so long!! *nostalgic moment* *flash back*) and I used to eat this stuff almost once a week because there was a place which served quite decent pho near my place in Aus.

Anyway, below is what we ordered:

Vietnamese Drip Coffee with Milk and Ice. I have never seen this before! So, when it came, you should have seen me! I was so jakun! my bf can vouch for that. Haha! We had to wait for the coffee to finish dripping first. Stir it with the condense milk at the bottom and pour it over ice. Top it with more water if you did not want it to be too strong. It was really good! Coffee smell was nice and had just the right amount of condense milk and water!

For appetisers, bf ordered grilled chicken skewers. That was just alright - nothing to shout about. It came with sweet sauce as well but think it tasted better without.

Lastly - photo my of pho. Had the steak and meatball pho. The soup was really good! Comparable to the ones I get in Aus. But the noodles was a bit disappointing. That was the first thing I noticed when I got my bowl of noodles. It was thin-ish noodles. I didn't even know what kind they were. They just looked similar to "lou shu fun". :P I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong with my bowl of noodles because the soup was amazing. So am guessing it because I didn't like the noodle itself very much.

So for 2 bowls of regular noodles, 2 drinks, and 1 appetiser, our bill came up to RM50. Pricey if you asked me. Food was average however if you are craving pho and need your fix, think this is the only place I've been too.

Burger King @ Incheon Airport, Seoul

2010-11-23T23:24:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Remember the time when I said I have a mission to go around all the airports to see how much their Burger King cost? I first started this mission during my Bankok, Thailand trip here.

So here's my 2nd encounter on the way back from Seoul. Actually, I totally forgot about my mission myself until I saw this. And I was like "shit.. now I HAVE to eat Burger King"

So I checked out the menu and order a Bacom Double Cheese burger. Ordered it because it reminded me of the Bacon Deluxe in Australia. One of my most favourite burger of all time. Always feel sick after but it's the most satisfying feeling ever! Haha!

Picture of me meal. Somehow looks pathetic? Is it cause it laid on a piece of white paper instead of the colour branded Burger King paper?

My measly 2 slices of bacon.

Overall, the burger felt quite normal. Lacked the mayo which came with the Bacon Deluxe back in Aus. As for the fries, felt that it was quite bland and hard. For those that know me will know that I love soggy fries and also salty stuff. But I think Korean food in general is very bland - ie. no salt, no pepper. Just depend on the natural taste of the ingredients used.

Now, how much did this meal cost?

Seven freakin' thousand won!

That's equivalent to close to RM21!! I guess the Bangkok one was still more expensive but I think I had more satisfaction eating the Bangkok Burger King. The burger felt slightly bigger, fries were soggy and actually salty.

What I forgot to try is the KLIA Burger King. Is there even one? I will make sure I remember next time. :D

Skyline

2010-11-15T00:17:00.001+08:00

Monday, 15 November 2010

This is probably my first actual post for the month. Well after Tuesday night and a week from that, I'll have plenty to post about! Fingers crossed I don't get lazy because Korea - here I come! Woohoo!

Anyway, went to watch Skyline today at Tropicana City Mall. Without much further a due - trailer below:

Looks kinda cool huh? Well, what you see on the trailer is pretty much you get - both in the poster and in the trailer! Wait - except for the part the newscasters were talking about Stephen Hawkin. I wished there was so much intellectual dialogue in the movie! :S WTF! The script was so bad! It's like they HAD to make the characters talk to each other when they were stranded in the apartment, so they thought "hey... let's chuck a couple of useless lines here.. and here.. and HERE!". I'm not even going to bother giving a spoiler alert because everyone should really know what happens in the end so that nobody goes and waste their time watching this show! :S

They had a pretty good cast though - Eric Balfour, Donald Faison (dude from scrubs), David Zayas (dude from Dexter). But what they did with the movie - my god! I seriously hope it doesn't kill their movie career.

But yea - gist of story? Aliens came, pretty much took over the whole world, used human brains as "power" for all kind - from powering themselves to machinery/spaceship.

Eric Balfour, who was somehow "the one" managed to gain super strength. Not sure if it's because he managed to fight his way out of getting sucked into the aliens - not once but TWICE! But when the aliens tried to use his brain to power up one of their little alien buddies - he managed to keep himself conscious as a human (although in a alien body) and save his girlfriend and unborn child from dying. And that's pretty much how it ended - him taking on all the other aliens.

THE END!

Dingy - you should pay us for going to teman you to watch this movie. :P

Nooooooo!!

2010-11-08T08:24:00.001+08:00

Getting sick! Sore throat hurts like a b*tch! Can't get sick! Heading off to Korea next week!

Yes - that is all I have today. Thanks for dropping by. :P

Laters.

Stupid thing for the day..

2010-10-26T20:56:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 26th October

Woah.. First I don't blog for like weeks and now I've been doing it 4 days in a row?! Got to be some record. :P

Anyhow, just a short one before I head out for the night. During lunch today I went to get myself some lunch. Tapao-ed nasi lemak from this orange van in front of our building which happens to also be in front of 7-11. Decided to get a drink from 7-11 and so I walked in. Got my drink and back to my office building. Halfway through, it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't paid for my drink! I quickly scuttled my way back to 7-11, worried that someone in there might suddenly realise and call the guards after me.

Once I got in, trying to not look like an idiot and head straight for the cashier (because that would look so dodge - bringing a can from OUTSIDE). I pretended to take a walk around 7-11 and THEN head for the cashier. ROFL.

Haha! Was too engrossed in what I was thinking about that I totally forgot to pay! Haha! Luckily I didn't get caught. :P

Can't Torch This...

2010-10-25T23:29:00.002+08:00

Monday, 25 October 2010

So there you go - the chronology order of all my phones. I didn't think much of a phone last time. When I was back in highschool, they were just so that I could message/call me parents when I was out and needed a lift home. When I was in Australia, it was more to just keep in touch with friends.

Then, when I first got back to Malaysia in 2009, I finally felt the need to have wifi. I wanted to be cool like those kids in Starbucks where they spent most of their time at. This was also my first encounter of a touch screen phone.

And earlier this year, my brother in law bought a new blackberry and asked if I wanted to have his old one. I was hesitant. I didn't know what the hype was about having blackberry. It was only a month of 2 ago did I hear/know of the term called the crack berry and that all the blackberry users could not live without it. I was thinking:
1) Qwerty? Bleah, who needs that when I can type sms' with just 1 finger on the normal keypads!
2) Sync email - so what? I can always check my emails when I'm on the computer which is 24/7 anyways.
3) Bbm - So what? I'm on MSN 24/7! Even more so with my current job! :P Plus, who do I know that has a blackberry for me to bbm with anyway!

Anyhow, finally gave in and decided to give it a try. And now? I can't live without my phone! The qwerty keypads are so much easier to use! I don't have to check gmail aymore and bbm! I can't live without my bbm! Apparently I knew more people with a blackberry than I thought I did! Suddenly, I was the happiest blackberry user. I didn't care if my model was old and none of my colleagues even knew what model it was. Most of them thought that I had a cool cover change! ROFL! :P

When the iphone4 was launched, my brother tried to brainwash me to get the phone. He planted thoughts in my head saying that "whatever the blackberry can do, the iPhone4 can do it better" with mostly more aps la... which was one of my biggest pull. But after much debate, mental struggle and torutre, I finally decided and took my stand! I was not going to succumb and convert to an iphone user! I saw the light! The blackberry torch showed me the light! Muahahahahaha.... geddit geddit? Torch - light? :P okay.. nvm.. maybe I syok sendiri again.. hahaha..!

ANYWAYS, THEN, I heard a little white man screaming that Celcom will be first to launch the phone end of this month with plans as low as RM50 a month! Their plan includes:

- 15 sen call rate to any number. Nothing complicated;
- Automatic discounts every month
- up to 30% discounts the more you use
- FREE Celcom Broadband Basic Plan for 1 month

Now, with the 3.2" interactive touchscreen (which allows you to do the same pinchng motion to zoom; and rotational display), 5MB camera with flash and image stabilser; video recording, etc., it's my turn to say "whatever a iphone can do, a blackberry can do it too!" Hehehhehee.... =)

So take that apple! *humph!*

(P/s: Don't get me wrong, Apple - have nothing against your products. Love your ipod range and cannot live without it!)

(Pp/s: my parents now own a iphone 4 each! How can I lose to them by having an older phone?!)

Pancake House International

2010-10-24T09:59:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 24 October 2010

Saw the number of blogs I have done in the past month and got a shock of my life! Didn't think I was that far behind in blogging! LOL! So quickly started this post. But once again, this happened like maybe 3 weeks ago! Even before my Nike Run. :P

Me, sister, and brother in law went to go and pick up our Nike run stuff in town. After picking it up, we decided to head to Pavilion for lunch. We didn't know what to eat so we just went down to the food level first to kinda scout out what there was. We passed this:

There was a menu on the font and on this menu, they opened to the page of a picture of a blueberry pancake! Oh boy! Did that look good! After much debate, we decided to give this place a try and sat down.

We ordered:

1) Pancake with sausages

2) Waffle with chocolate and peanut butter sauce

3) "THE" Blueberry pancake

4) Halo halo - Philippines Ice Kacang. So am guessing this chain is from the Philippines.

And this is what came out:

Pancakes with sausage. Check out the size of the sausage. :S

Lol! Brother in law could fit all the sausages onto the fork. We each had 1 in 1 bite and they were gone! :( We actually paid more for this as well cause it had "sausages"

Halo halo - not bad but on the sweet side.

Waffle with chocolate and peanut butter. Not enough chocolate and the waffle was not a waffle. It was more like a pancake with waffle patterns. :S

Didn't manage to get a picture of blueberry pancake that made us decide to eat in this place. Albeit the food was not bad, it was nothing to shout about. The sausages and the waffle was kinda a turn off as well. So don't think we'll be coming back here again.

Nike City 10km KL Run!

2010-10-22T08:27:00.000+08:00

Friday, 22 October 2010

(Wah! This is way overdue - sorry guys!)

So I went for the Nike City 10km run like freakin' 2 weeks ago! It was my first official run in like the longest time.

Anyways, got up at 5.30 because sister said she was going to pick me up at 6am. Was wondering why so early because the race only started at 7.15 but I didn't question. :P It turned out that they were aiming for 6 because they knew they were late. Think they only came to pick me up at about 6.20-6.30am. So I fell back asleep (in my running gear) while waiting for them. Haha!

Brother in law dropped us off because he didn't join but he went for his usual running route. I wished I had a camera because there were a couple of things I would have loved to take! But I never run with anything besides my ipod and keys (if i had to drive).

1. There was this uncle and auntie that had (I-shit-you-not) Princess Leia hairdos made with towels!! ROFL! Haha! I guess that's the new in-thing to keep sweat from your face??
2. Our t-shirts were all neon yellow. So once the street lights were switched off, we were all glowing!! Cause there was still only minimal light, it wasn't that obvious but was imagining that if the lights went off earlier, it would have been so cool!!!

Stole the above photo from Nike Malaysia's twitter page. Check out all the people! Quite cool huh?

I quite enjoyed the run. I think it's because it's a new route and there are new things to see. Getting on and off the elevated highway was pretty cool because you kinda run out into the open and see everything in the horizon in front of you. Although, the hills in and out the elevated highway were pretty tough as well (for me la at least). The other thing I din quite like about the route was the part where we had to go through a tunnel and they didn't block off the other side of traffic so we had to inhale fumes as we were running through it. I could see that everyone was actually running faster to get past the tunnel to get some fresh air!

Anyways, results came in today and because I can't remember how to print screen for the life of me on mac and I'm too tired to figure it out, I'm not going to post the screenshot. Although I would really like too though. Anyway! I managed to finish in 1 hour 3 minutes!! woohooo! And I think I was probably in the rear end of the pack so I might potentially have finished in 1 hour 2 minutes which I am very happy with! The last run I did which was the energizer run, I finished in 1 hour 5 mins! So improvement for me! Yay! Also, did rough calcs that IF (just IF), I manage to keep this pace for my half mara, I would be able to finish within 2 hours 15 mins which is what I'm aiming for!

Here's a photo of our finisher "medal". Cool huh? Another thing which I thought was unique for Nike. All the other runs, they just give you an actual medal, which I'm not complaining - because I get to keep track of my accomplishments; just that this was something different and unique! Mine was a different one. I wonder where the characters are from though. Haven't seen them before! Only way to make this finisher "medal" cooler? Maybe have inscriptions on it to SAY that it's a NIKE 10km run finisher so that other people who see it will know straight up what it is.

P/s: was too lazy to take a picture of mine and couldn't be bothered anymore in the end cause this post is way overdue! LOL...

Runner in Morning, Media Planner by Day (and mostly nights), and Blogger by Midnight

2010-10-05T22:26:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 5th October 2010

Yes - you read it right! I have 4 jobs! Haha! Sound like damn real like that right? Well... what's been up?

Job No. 1 - Runner by Morning
Have been trying to train up for my half in Singapore in December so I have pumped up the running again. Managed to get my momentum/steam going and am finally back to 3 times a week with close to 25kms in total. Next race is actually the Nike City 10KM run this weekend. Haven't officially been in a run in a long time. The last time was probably the Energizer night race.

Photo of me in the last Stan Chart Singapore.

Finished the Singapore Stan Chart half mara in 2 hours 40 mins if not mistaken. But aim for this year's is 2 hours 15 minutes! 5 minutes shaved off from my finishing time in the KL Stan Chart

Job No. 2 - Media Planner by Day (and Mostly Nights)
Yes - still working as a digital media Planner in GroupM. Only reason why I have the time to blog now? Somehow the documents which I sent to myself at work did not come through so do not have ANY of what I need to do.. *FML*. So have to wake up extra early tomorrow to get into work to finish up!

Job No. 3 - Entrepreneur by Night

For those who don't know. Me and my sister have started our own little business. Pretty Baby Bump. We recently expanded to sell baby clothes as well. Sample of one of the products we carry. Ain't it cute?! So yea - at nights, when I do not have to work, I just sit around to see where I can blast my link too so that I can get the awareness of my brand out there! :P *hint hint - cue nudge to whoever that is reading this for help*

Carter's Ice Cream Sleeveless Onesie

So if anyone is interested, you can order directly from the website. Or if you are just looking for updates, do join our Facebook page!

Job No. 4 - Blogger by Midnight
So - here I am. Haha! Blogging cause I finally have the time. Run = went this morning. Work = didn't bring home so tomorrow I die. Website = update all products and can't think of anything else to do. :P Hehe..

Till my next post? Wait till I've done all of the other 3 first again la. Hehehe....

I did it again...

2010-09-29T21:38:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 29th Sept 2010

I did it again. Yesterday morning, after my run, I got home and my mum was still at home. She then told me that she had to send me to work instead of my dad/driver because dad had to go to the airport. Instinctively, I started to rush through getting ready because my mum usually leaves the house at 6.45am just to get to work!! And her being home meant that she was late for work, had to send me to work and go through jam - yadah yadah yadah.. which would lead to her being unhappy. And trust me, nobody wants to piss off my mum. LOL!

So anyways, I went straight up to take a shower (usually I would procrastinate in front of my computer while I kinda cooled down). After shampoo-ing my hair, I reached out for the liquid soup and plasted the 'dop' of liquid soup which I had pressed out onto my hair. It was only after 2 seconds, did I realise that I was meant to either take the conditioner and do that.. OR use the liquid soup for my body. I quickly washed it off and did it the right way. :P

-The End-

Phnom Penh - Last Day :(

2010-09-21T22:50:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 21th September 2010

Last day of Cambodia. We woke up early cause we wanted to get some stuff done before we headed off to the airport. Bf also decided to see if we could have our breakfast in the room this time instead of going to the bar. And it was possible! Only thing was we had to go and grab it on our own and bring it back to the office.

After breakfast and kinda packing everything up, we headed out to try and find the Seeing Hands massage parlour. A massage parlour where all the masseuse were all blind! From the lonely planet, a massage only costs about USD5-7! Which is like RM30! Haha! Where to find something like that here... hehhee.. :P

Place is kinda dodgy though. It's a small shop lot with 3 floors and possibly about 5 rooms with about 6 beds in them.

Photo of bf and his masseuse. The uniforms we had to wear made us look like we were patients in a hospital.

I actually thought that this place was kinda sad. I don't know.. just the fact that they're already blind and they have to do everything in their will just to survive. But I guess that's the good side as well... At least they're just not lying in the streets somewhere... Anyways... massage was.. erm.. painful! Haha.. they style they used was Japanese Shiatsu and it felt like they were poking in between my joints!

Anyway, after our massage, we headed back to the hotel. Packed up a little bit more and then went out to get some food before we headed off to the airport. We went back to The Shop because we thought the food was quite nice and they had nice bread which bf really liked.

Last photo of me on the day bed.

Photo of the menu inside The Shop and we ordered:

A sausage and pear sandwhich. Sounds funny? Haha... taste was quite interesting though. Adds a little sweet flavour to every bite cause of the pear.

A pasta salad... which my bf found a worm freakin' still moving in it while I was eating. Thank god i didn't actually eat it!!!! Bf took it back to the waiters and they were really nice about it. They offered to give us a replacement but we were kinda full because we had finished the sandwich and almost halfway through this one. Also, bf wanted to save space for the dessert which looked absolutely yummy! Oh, apparently reason there was a worm was because they don't use insecticides...

Photo of our chocolate mouse or fudge cake. I can't remember. But this was SOOOOOO yummy! It was sooooo rich! Not to mention sinful too! Hahaha.. :P

So that's that. Our 4 day holiday. Came and left so quickly.

Next up? Korea in November! Wooohoo!!

iScream @ Tropicana City Mall

2010-09-16T20:24:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Went to watch Resident Evil the other day in Tropicana City Mall. We saw that that there was a new ice cream place as we were going to the cinema so me and bf decided to check it out on the way home.

Photo of front of shop

Close up of their menu...

They also had free tasting just like Baskin Robbins

They even had a cold slab so that u could mix and match ice creams or add your own toppings. This reminded me of Cold Rock Australia.. haha! my fav place just before I left Sydney. The only thing I kept looking out for when I saw this was whether they had Nutella! *yum* *on nom nom nom* but they didn't have.. :(

BF decided to the get the vanilla chocolate chip (i think) in a waffle basket. The waffle basket cost RM2 extra but since they were new, the had a 20% discount. 1 Scoop of ice cream came up to about RM5.90 I think. Ice cream tasted pretty good too! Thought it was not as sweet as Baskin Robbins!

Resident Evil: Afterlife and the wtf's...

2010-09-12T22:22:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 12 September 2010

*NB: Spoiler alert*

Resident Evil: Afterlife starring Milla Jovovich, and Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller (the Prison Break dude - *drool* Too bad - apparently he's gay! Booooo!!)

Movie begins with a voice over of Milla Jovovich and how the Umbrella corporation was researching on something called the T-Virus and it broke up killing everyone in the world.

I'm not sure if it's because I forgot the storyline of the first 3 movies or they did do a bad job because I felt that there were alot of things which were not explained. It then goes on to show how Milla Jovovich breaches the Umbrella corporation underground and it turns out that she has clones? Like alot of them as well. This is no. 1 of wtf?. Did they in any of the first 3 movies say anything of how she got cloned? Anyhow, she ends up getting injected with a serum that neutralises the T-Virus making her lose her super powers and making her human again. All this happened when she was on an airplane which then crashed but yet she still came out of the crash un-harmed. No. 2 of wtf? How that can happen when the freakin' planne really looked like it exploded to bits.

She then picks up a signal which indicates that there is a safe haven - a place which has no infection and offers food and shelter. She meets Ali Larter which apparently they have met before (no. 3 of wtf? Did that happened in the earlier movies?) and Ali Larter had this contraption that looked like a spider that was attached to her heart - making her lose her memory. No. 4 of wtf? Haha.. they didn't even explain what the contraption was for! Anyhow, that safe haven wasn't much of safe haven.

They continue traveling together and they finally find a bunch of survivors living in a maximum security prison surrounded by zombies. No. 5 of wtf? The zombies now have suddenly evolved to be able to eat people with extra tenticles that come out of their mouth? The zombies I remembered earlier just bite people normally. Anyway, prison gets attacked and breached. They had this huge ass of a dude carrying a huge axe. No. 6 of wtf? Where the hell did this dude come from?! I roughly remember him from the last movie I think but wtf? Explain a bit la.. even 1 liner from Milla also can qua...

Milla Jojovich finally finds out exactly where this safe haven is and they all try to gwt to it. Once they are there, they realise that the signal for help was just a decoy by the Umbrella corp to get non infected humans to research on them. Aiyah, then the usual la.. fight fight fight, they manage to kill the baddie and they manage to free all the humans but then the umbrella corp finds out and sends like a bunch of helicopters after them.. then the movie ends.

Haha! What a way to definitely set it up for no. 5 rite? Anyway, actually thinking of getting all the movies before this to watch again .. hopefully can clear some of my wtfs... :P

Trailer of movie below..

Phnom Penh Day 3

2010-09-12T10:45:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 11 September 2010

P/s: Blog full of photos!

Third day of Phnom Penh. Slept in a little bit today because we were not on a schedule. We wanted to go check out another temple called Wat Phnom which is apparently used for all formal ceremonies. We paid another 2USD to take us. We were surprised when we got there and to think that we were actually going to give this place a miss! It was once of the nicer temples that we have been too. It was surrounded by a well shaded park so the place wasn't as hot as other temples.

As the sign says, prepare to pay USD1 per person. Only thing is, not sure how they are going to differenciate you. LOL! I mean, okay la.. WE looked quite tourisy but what if we kinda dressed like them next time? Haha..

Staircase to the temple

We found an elephant. According to our driver, it's about USD20 PER RIDE! That's a freakin' rip off so we had to take photos from a far... too scared that they would even make us pay cause were taking photos up front.

Hekekkekee... enough said. :P

Another photos of bf with the lion.

Inside the main temple. There was HEAPS of statues!!

Saw this huge ass clock at the bottom of the temple. Bf there pretending to look at his watch.. :P

Random monuments within the park.

Opposite the temple, there was square that had only this statue right in the middle. We tried to find signs on what this place was or the person up there is but there weren't any.

Us doing stupid shots. How can you not when there just soo much open space! Hehe.. :D

Anyway, after that, we wanted to find this massage place where apparently all the masseuse were blind. We checked the map and it was apparently like just around the corner. In the end, when we asked someone, they told us it was near the riverside which was about 15 walk away? Where exactly? We didn't know. We were completely lost already cause the map showed us someplace different. So we ended up walking the WHOLE riverside. I don't even remember how long it took us! It was just so hot and all I was concentrating on was "keep walking... keep walking! The faster we get to our destination, the better!" Haha! After walking the riverside for a bit and couldn't find the place, we gave up and decided to just go straight for lunch and check out this place where everyone keeps telling us to go. It was called the FCC.

Their menu. It kinda looked like it was printed on recycled paper and looked like a little boy had just scrunched up the menu and they passed it back to us... :P

View from where we were sitting.

There was nice cool breeze! Can you tell can you tell?! Both our hairs were blown to the back!

View from 1 more floor up

We ordered a Carbonara and also a Lamb pizza. Lamb pizza was quite interesting. Not your typical pizza where all you kinda taste is the cheese.

After lunch, we headed to this other temple which was 5 minutes away. We asked a waiter once what that place was called and he told us it was the Silver Pagoda which we knew was part of the Royal Palace. We went to check it out only to realise that, that place couldn't be the Silver Pagoda. It was just another temple called Wat Tulao or something like that. :P

We didn't stay long here. Just walked in.. took a coupla photos and went on our way. We wanted to head up the royal palace and also the Silver Pagoda despite everyone telling us that we might not be dressed correctly. On our way there, we saw that the roads were barricaded, then some tuk tuk driver came up to us saying that the Palace was closed today! I was so freakin' disappointed when he told me that! How could we come to a country and not visit the Royal Palace ESPECIALLY if the place is open to tourist. He then tried to persuade us to take us to all these other tourist spots which we went before so we didn't go in the end. We decided to just walk outside the Palace and to take photos of whatever we can. But we still saw ALOT of tourist people around. We then decided to ask one the guards and sure enough, the palace wasn't closed! WTF! Stupid tuk tuk driver tried to con us so that we would follow him around!

Anyways, so we went in. What we were wearing was fine. Slippers are okay too for your info. It cost us USD12.50 for both of us to get in though! It's USD3 for the palace, another USD2 for the Silver Pagoda and then apparently if you're bringing in a camera it costs another USD2! So I went in and snapped all the photos I could!

This was taken from the outside.

They had a freakin' mini garden which you had to walk through just to get to the actual grounds!

Us with the royal palace behind us.

If he gets the lion statues.. I get the snakes! LOL! too bad I only started mine on the 3rd day of the trip. Haha!

Restricted area behind us. Probs where royalty were actually living.

Thought this was fantastic! They had a model of what Angkor Wat looks like nearer the exit of the Royal Palace! The model was so intricate and detailed - it was amazing!

It started to rain as we were halfway through walking so didn't get to see as much as we could I thought. We then walked home in the rain because it was only about a 10 minute walk and we refused to pay the tuk tuk driver any money considering that we were already wet!

P/s: Gahh!! if you guys want to see more photos.. check out my facebook! They've already been uploaded! LOL! Was actually getting quite lazy to upload the photos here! Haha! :P

And for dinner, we decided to try some Khmer food! Would have been better if there were more people so that we could try other stuff but oh wells. We went this place called the Sugar Palm and we ordered the Fish Amok (apparently Cambodian's unique curry - left) and a Pomelo Salad. Fish Amok kinda tasted like Otak Otak and the Pomelo salad.. well.. don't think u can go very wrong there. It was quite yummy.. Pomelo was quite sweet and they had tiny bits of prawn and also salted fish I think in it. BF ordered a Vodka Espresso which I thought tasted nasty!

Phnom Penh Day 2

2010-09-10T00:07:00.001+08:00

Friday, 10th September 2010

Woke up the next morning early-ish because we had hired a taxi for USD25 to take us out to the Choeung Ek killing fields which was about 15km away, the Russian market, and also the S-21 Tuol Sleng Gencide Museum. So we got ready, and headed out to have our breakfast which was already included with the hotel stay. We were served with 2 kinds of bread, butter and passion fruit jam, choice of coffee or tea, and also a juice.

Although 15km, the roads in Phnom Penh are still quite small and most of the time, they are single lanes each way, so, it took us about 30 mins to get there. Expect to pay USD2 per person to get in. For those who don't know, the Cheung Ek killing fields was and is still is the grave for thousands of people who died during the Khmer Rouge era. Reason I say "is still a grave" is because out of the 129 graves, only about 86 has been excavated. This totals to 8,985 bodies recovered. Apparently there was a total of 17,000 who were executed during that period.

Bf in front of the Memorial Stupa. The first thing you see as you walk in through the entrance. Built in 1988 and holds all the bone fragments of the bodies excavated behind glass panels. Said to have about 17 levels housing the clothes of the victims in the lowest level, and skulls in the next few levels, and the various other body parts in the top few levels.

Photo of the skulls close up

These skulls were belonged to females 15 - 20 years old...

Area where they have already excavated the graves. Can't really tell from the photos but basically there are holes on the ground. Bodies were just dumped into these holes and just covered up later.

Pieces of bone fragments after the excavation

This was once a grave for more than 100 women. Most of which they found naked when excavating.

Random plot on the ground. Unsure what this was but found it quite interesting. It had little bumps on it. Only thing I could think of was could this be the graves for the babies they killed?

Mass grave with 166 bodies found - headless. If not mistaken these people were the ones who were traitors to their own kind.

The tree which was used by executioners to beat the children to death.

Once we done with our rounds outside. There was a seperate building where they had more information regarding the place - kinda like a museum in which they had a video room where they had would showcase a documentary of what happened.

After this, we headed to the Russian Market. It was about another 20 minute ride. Again, this place ended up like another mini version of Jatujak. Although we did not want to shop, we thought that since we were there, we should just walk around anyways. Bf did manage to get a back scratcher for about USD3 I think if I remember correctly. It was made of nice dark solid wood though.

Next, we headed to the S-21 Tuol Sleng Gencide Museum - formerly a school which was then turned into a detention/torture centre. Place was divided into 4 buildings - A,B,C D.

Photos from entrance in. There was kinda like a court yard in the middle.

Building A was pretty much for jailing, interrogation, and torture. I did not dare that any photos of the actual rooms/cells because I was actually quite eerie-ed out and was worried that I might see something with my camera. But inside these rooms were all the old bed frames and also photos of the dead - after being tortured.

Building B. Can't quite remember what they used this building for but I don't think it's very different. :S Building was all barbed wired so that the prisoners could not try to escape especially from the 2nd/3rd floor to try and get the easy way out.

Building C was where they kept all the prisoners. Ground floor was made out of bricks, 1st floor was made out of wood and 3rd floor was the mass detention rooms. Again, barb wire was used to prevent victims from commiting suicide.

One of the only photos I took INSIDE the rooms. Only did it cause I saw this white lady snapping away on her camera. Each cell had a chain attached to the floor.

And building D had become a memory/actual museum. They had all the photos of all the victims. Most before but some after torture. They also showed us some of the instruments used for torture.

Once we were done, we got our driver to take us back to near-ish our hotel for food. We tried this place called Tamarind bar which again happened to be on the Lonely planet. Food was not bad and the portions were decently sized that we could not finish and had to take away. It was close the 'The Shop' with the bread, so we decided to get some bread to eat with our left over later.

We went back to hotel to rest a little and waited for the sun to come down so that we could hang out in the pool area. Btw, me and bf finished the whole season 4 of Dexter while we were on this trip. Haha! Okay, maybe not all, we were left with like 2 episodes or something. :P

At night, we decided to check out the biggest and the only casino hotel in Phnom Penh called Naga World who is apparently own by a Malaysian. We decided to go have dinner at this Fusion place. Once we got in, only did we realise that they were doing a buffet dinner. Me and bf decided to go for it. It cost us USD16 each! *ouch* rite? Like so expensive. But me and bf said, "what the hell, we're on a holiday". Food was only so-so. There weren't as many choices as we thought they had but okay la. At least ate till we were busting in our pants. :P Then, we headed down to the casino where we played the 10c roulette machine table! Haha! We lost about USD10 in the end but that lasted us about 1.5 hours!

By the time we left and got back to the hotel, it was about 11 ish. And 1 thing we realised was that pretty much the streets were empty! To get into our hotel, we had to get the security guard to come and open up the main door because it was locked!

Anyway, then it was wash up and time to sleep... :D

Phnom Penh Day 1

2010-09-06T09:00:00.001+08:00

Monday, 6th September 2010

All of a sudden, I just realised that I have quite alot of things which I haven't blogged about but there's so little time to do it! Gahhh!! Anyways.. Cambodia, here we come!

Woke up before the light of day (at about 3AM) to be exact so that we could do some last minute packing and get a drink before we head off to the airport. Our flight was at 7AM in the morning! :S Bf's parents were nice enough to wake up in the middle of the night to drop us off at KL Sentral so that we could take the bus.

Then, the usual, go to airport, checked in, walked around, boarded ya-dah ya-dah ya-dah.. and finally, we arrived Phnom Penh at 8AM (local time). They are 1 hour behind us btw. We didn't have any check in luggage and the flight was quite empty so getting out of the airport was no problem at all. Before we left, I had also arranged for a taxi to come and pick us up for USD10 one way. If you ever need the contact of the taxi company, drop me a message and I'll gladly pass it to you.

Anyways. ride to our hotel took about 30 minutes. We stayed in a boutique hotel called the Pavilion. First thing that caught my eye while we were driving was this:

Okay... wait - I lie. The first thing that caught my eye was the fact that the it was a left hand drive country! I didn't know that! I thought all South East Asia countries drove on the same road! Anyways, then yes - the above picture was the next thing I noticed. 3 freakin' people on 1 motorbike. And those are 3 full grown people as well. I saw some which had 4 people but they had kids with them. WTF! How dangerous would that be. Anyway, for the not so clean minded people, I'm sure the above photo will also project a different image to you. :P

So we reached the hotel it about 9ish? Our room wasn't ready yet which was expected so we left our stuff and headed out to get us some food and also do some walking. A couple of photos of our hotel below:

Our pool. There are trees/plants all around with day beds surrounding the place so that the guests can go and chill out. On the right of me is also a little bar area for guest to get food

Picture of one of the many day beds around the pool.

Anyway, we got some directions from the reception on the nearest place to get food and then we headed out. It was only about 5 minute walk to a street with a quite a few restaurants/cafe. Some of them were not open yet because it was too early so we decided to try the shop. Yes - it was called "The Shop". Don't believe me?

The place was looked quite decent with nice decor. There was a fridge as you walk in filled with desserts and also a little counter top with all the fresh bread. They also had a little garden at the back where they placed a few tables and chairs. We were starving by the time we got there so I straight away went to order.

Yum yum bread!

We ordered what I thought sounded like eggs benedict from the description beut I guess it wasn't :P

We also had the chicken foccacia.

It was only after did we realised that this place was also featured in the the Lonely Planet. After that, our original plan was to go and visit the royal palace because it was just outside our hotel but since we touched down, we've heard various versions of what you can and cannot wear there so we decided to give that a skip and try to find out more before going there and getting rejected. So we went to the National Museum instead.

The entrance to the museum

Photo of the whole museum from the front.

It cost USD3 per person to get in and once you get in. No photography was allowed once you got in. The museum was alright. Full of scultures of the buddha and when and where they managed to excavate them. They also had parts of the Angkor Wat temples. The carvings on them were really pretty though. Haha! Was telling my bf that's probably because they didn't have anything else better to do during those days and spent most of their life just carving a piece of rock.. :P

There was a little garden right in the middle of the museum - here they allowed photos.

Look alike? :P

Next we headed to the Central Market. Nothing much there to be frank unless u're looking to shop. It's pretty much like a small version of Jatujak in Bangkok and considering we already spent out life savings in Bangkok, we didn't want to shop nemore. The only thing worth pointing out from this place is that there's 1 section that sits under a dome like figure building. Didn't manage to take a picture from afar but this is kinda what it looks like inside.

Quite pretty. My photo doesn't really do justice.

Seeing as we didn't want to shop. We didn't stay there for long. Next up, we headed to the Victory Monument on a Tuk Tuk. According to the Lonely planet, we could go down to take some photos etc. but as we were closing the place, we saw that it was all barricaded. So before our Tuk Tuk fella dropped us off, we quickly told him to take us around the monument (because it sat on a roundabout) and paid him and extra dollar to take us to a temple - Wat Botum - which is quite near our hotel.

One of the few photos we managed to take from the tuk tuk.

Photo of me in Wat Botum

One of the many buildings in there

I called these guys the "flying men". For some reason, they seem to be quite popular on most of the buildings.

After we finished walking, we walked back to our hotel which was about 5 minutes away. The room was still not ready so we decided to just sit around and wait cause we were kinda tired from the morning flight also also the heat. Oh wait! But check what signage we saw right outside the entrance to our hotel:

Haha!

Photo of part of room. Bed was nicely made when we got there with flowers on the headboard. =) Air Cond was also turned on so felt REALLY good once we stepped in.

TV and small desk in front of the bed.

I kinda ko-ed after taking a shower and pretty much slept for about 3 hours! Haha! I know.. what was I thinking rite? All the way there to sleep? Haha! It's to catch up on all my sleep ma! Plus it's a holiday.. hehee.. I am entitled to sleep rite?! :P Woke up at just in time for dinner so bf and me decided to check out restaurants near the riverside. We decided to walk this time and it took is about 15 minutes to get there.

We decided to try this restaurant called the Metro Cafe. This was by far the best dinner/meal we had while we were there. So therefore this place is highly recommended! We ordered:

The steak, prawns and scallops with vege. The steak was perfectly done the way we asked for and the brown sauce that came with it? omg... it was to die for!

Lamb Kebab. This was kinda small and kinda felt rotted for how much we had to pay for it (can't remember now though) but I guess it was meant to be a starter. It was still pretty good though.

Black Pepper prawns. Think this might have been my fav out of the 3. Black pepper taste was strong with various other seasoning as well. They had some salad at the bottom which I finished cause the dressing was soooo yummy!

We both also ordered an alcoholic drink each after which my head felt a little light headed after. Haha! After dinner, we walked around a little bit more. Got chocolate gelato which tasted kinda funny - had a tinge of mint as an after taste if you ask me and then headed back to the hotel for an early night. I actually fell asleep about 30 mins once we reached the hotel. And to think that I would have trouble sleeping that night. :P

Mamma Mia... Here I Go Again!

2010-09-05T08:20:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 5th September 2010

Filler post! Realised my Cambodia post is going to take a while so thought I should keep you guys entertained with other stuff first.

Was at my bf's place yesterday and we were out of DVD's to watch. So he put on an old one which I hadn't watched before - Mamma Mia! The Movie. Starring (and headed by) Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and a couple more.

The movie was adapted based on the actual musical with additional music added and composed into it by an ABBA member - Benny Andersson, who actually makes a small appearance on the movie. The movie is about how Sophie (Amanda Seyfield), a 20-year-old bride-to-be, wanting to look for her real father and therefore sets out to send 3 invitations to 3 men whom she thinks has the most possibility based on reading her mother's journal.

And of course, like all musicals, songs kinda breakout about every 10 minutes but this movie managed to do it really nicely in a sense that they somehow could always tie back the song to the actual scenario they were in. Plus, it's ABBA songs! How can you not like them! I was pretty much singing to them (at least the ones I know) everytime they bursted out into a song. At the end of the movie, I actually wanted to download their album of songs! Haha!

Anyways, only downfall of this movie? *Faint* Just thinking of it now seriously makes me wonder what the producers/casters, etc were thinking! You could be wondering what could be that bad? Let me tell you - Piece freakin' Brosnan! WTF! He was just there for.. god knows what. All he did was butcher ALL their songs by singing as though he had something shoved up his butt or singing through his nose. He sounded like a freakin' frog. It was just BAD! And to hear him next to all the big time broadway actors, the difference was just .... woah.. let's just say, how can he not be shy or at least self conscious about his singing! Aiyo! They could have found someone so much better! Ewan McGregor or even made Colin Firth the main star instead of him! It was just bad bad bad!

Don't get me wrong guys. The movie was awesome. It was set in a little private Greek island so the setting was superb. Storyline and how they meshed up the songs together were great. The singing/songs were enjoyable but when it came to Pierce Brosnan singing, I felt like taking a knife and stabbing it into my heart! LOL! Haha.. like damn qua cheong.. but seriously.. for those who haven't watched it.. please go and tell me what you guys think.

Other random facts I found out about this movie (because my bf has seen it like a million times cause he likes this movie and he went to read up about it) are:
1) They managed to finish filming the movie in 1.5 months
2) How they do that so fast? Since they were mostly broadway actors, apparently even if they had a slight misqueue, the actors/actresses managed to ad lip and carry on which I thought was pretty cool
3) Meryl Streep did a whole song with just 1 take! And that song was definitely not an easy one to do

okay! I'm done complaining about Pierce Brosnan. Haha! Go watch the movie guys! =)

I'm back!

2010-09-02T21:04:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 2nd September 2010

Hey guys! Back from Cambodia already! So bloggies to come soon! Remember to come back to read all about it. =)

Salt & Pepper

2010-08-31T01:02:00.001+08:00

Tuesday, 31st August

Just a short one. Remember the time when I blogged about Salt here? Haha.. well, I have something which I kinda (sorta) came up with myself.. :P

Me and bf went DVD shopping last weekend in SS2. The dudes there are always introducing shows to us (obviously to get a sale). So he was like randomly calling movie titles out,

The Killers,
Green Zone,
The Orphan,
etc. (btw, these titles are not exactly what the dude named)

And then he finally cam to "Salt". Then bf answered, "yea, we watchd it" but I immediately blasted out (in cantonese), "mhm gao wu jiu funn!"

Haha! so so?! Who's do you thinks is better? No dout, bf came up with the concept of it but I though saying it in cantonese was a whole different ball game. It even sounds funnier than his "not enough pepper". :P

Pretty Baby Bump

2010-08-27T22:56:00.001+08:00

Friday, 27 August 2010

Sorry guys. Another M.I.A week. Bad month I guess. Told myself I'd try and blog every other day but it seems like i'm blogging every other week more like it. Haha! Next month! I promise I'll try! :P

Anyways, reason for why I haven't done anything this week is due to a few reasons:
1) Work has been hectic
2) I've been too busy with the below!

Pretty Baby Bump !

Something me and my sister started out. What is it? An online maternity clothes store! All started when my sister was pregnant and she was shopping around for maternity dresses and found out that all the nice ones are usually really expensive! So that got her motivated. And me? I've alway wanted to start something on my own. So here it is! :D So do check it out if you guys have the time!

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get the most up-to-date information about us. (P/s: There is something brewing in the pot.)

We've also been featured in a local lifestyle website called Iamchiq. See our article here.

Last but not least! Do try and take advantage of our launch promotion which will be ending in 4 days!

So c'mon, flaunt that baby bump!

The Expendables

2010-08-22T10:12:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 22 August 2010

NB: Not even going to give you a spoiler alert because serioues, this show has nothing to be spoilt. :P
Went to watch The Expendables the other day after having Japanese buffet with my friends in the Equatorial Hotel. We were celebrating my friend's, Nicky butt's bday and also kinda like Yee Boon's cause we didn't have a chance to meet up with her during her bday. :P

Anyways, Nick had already booked us all tickets to the movie in Pavillion and that's where we headed after lunch.

When me and my bf saw the poster (not the one above - but the one which features all the faces of the cast), we knew instantly that the movie will be only full of action. And that it was! For those who don't know, the cast includes action veterans like including Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The movie was a whole lot of "bang bang bang" and felt like it was 6 rambo guys put together to make this movie (although I don't really remember what Rambo was about). These 6 people could even freakin' take down a WHOLE army without getting hurt! WTF! Oh, best part about it was, whatever dialogue they had (which was not much) in the movie, it felt like it wasn't even written and it kinda given the cast a free hand on what they wanted to say because everything didn't make sense! It was a lot of 1 liners or alot of lines which STILL didn't make sense.

Having said all that, I guess the movie was alright - in a sense that it managed to generate some talkability (alebit not good ones). Because, that's all we were talking about during dinner and how crap the movie was. LOL! Ok la, ok la, need to give face to the veteran action movie stars - the movie would be perfect for guys cause all they did was just blast things up! :D

Anyway, trailer for movie below:

The Reason I've been M.I.A

2010-08-20T23:16:00.000+08:00

Friday, 20 August 2010

I once had a aim to blog every other day for the month of August but I guess that didn't work. Haha! And the reason I have been missing this whole week? See below:

Haha! Anybody recognise this interface?! LOL! It's UFO Xcom Enemy Unknown! When my bf told me that his friend had managed to find the game and downloaded it, he tried explaining it to me but it was still a blur. After seeing the interface above though, I got so excited! Haha! I used to watch my brother play this game when I was a kid and even had a go at it myself! So yea, bf installed it and have been playing this the whole week!

Besides this, also have been occupied with something else. I'll post a blog about it once it's ready! Haha! Till then, hopefully I'll get inspired to blog about something else first in between! :D Laters..

Kafe Indulge @ Off Old Klang Road

2010-08-14T18:07:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 14th August 2010

*NB: Photos will look kinda sucky cause they were taken with my BB because I didn't bring my camera.

Went out for dinner with bro and his family, and dad last night and went to this place called Kafe Indulge off Old Klang Road. Think mum first heard of this place when it was featured in the newspapers earlier this year. Since then, this is my 2nd time back although I think my family has been back a few more times than me.

Place is nothing special (ie. no special deco etc.) but food is decent and affordable too.

For starters, we ordered the Ceasars Salad to share and dad ordered an Oxtail Soup.

Ceasar Salad was decent. Had good quantities of cheese on it so it was quite yummy. The Oxtail soup on the other hand was different. The texture was more like curry than soup. Have never had Oxtail soup like this before. It was also quite tasty and it came with 2 pieces of meat inside.

For the mains, we ordered:

German Bratwurst (is that how u spell it? :P) with mash potato and saurkraut

Beef ribs with chips served with what tasted like black pepper BBQ sauce. I particularly liked this dish because they did it quite nicely. Meat was tender and easy to get off the bone. Sauce was also generous which is always a plus for me especially if the sauce is yummy. =)

Lamb shank served with carrots and potatos

The last main, I didn't manage to get but it was just Spaghetti Carbonara with beef. It was served with 2 piece of garlic bread as well. And for desert, we ordered,

Cheesecakse with chocolate drizzle on the top. And also some apple something. Can't remember what it's called.

Do not have the individual pricing, but the whole meal for 4 people came up to (all the above, including 2 drinks) RM115. Dad even brought his own wine which they didn't charge corkage for. =)

Salt Needs some Pepper

2010-08-12T09:00:00.005+08:00

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Bf talking to sister: We watched Salt the other day

Bf's sister: Oh, how was it?

Bf: It needed some pepper.

Liyen: Shakes head and faints at the side.

LOL! I'll leave it up to everyone to think what they want about the comment. Haha! Anyway, as per the usual:

*Spoiler alert - please do not continue reading if you would not like to know any content of the show whatsoever. However, will also try to give my opinion without revealing too much (if that's possible)*

Salt featuring Angelina Jolie. Wasn't actually too keen on the movie for some reason however because there were no other shows available, we decided to watch this instead. If not mistaken, think me and bf went out to try and get tickets to Inception (which we now have seen - review to come later).

Well, judging from my bf's conversation above, don't think he liked the movie too much. He thought the movie was predictable and only had just mindless action the whole way through. I on the other hand, didn't think it was that bad though. Kinda already expected Angelina Jolie to be like the hero of it all. For the feminist, I guess they'll be happy cause she kinda kills everyone along the way but not sure how I feel about that. Just a tad too much I think.

Movie kinda really begins when Salt had to interrogate a Russion spy only to reveal a little secret that she now has to run for her life. ROFL! I guess I kinda gave that away already huh? LOL! Well, just in case I didn't, I guess you have to watch the movie to find out. And for those who know what I'm talking about, well, then you just have to watch the movie to see what happens in the end. LOL! This being cryptic thing isn't working too well here. LOL! Gahh! Here's the trailer. See for yourself! :P

Thailand Day 3

2010-08-11T00:31:00.002+08:00

Tuesday, 10 August 2010

It was our final day in Thailand! And I hadn't bought anything yet NOR have we gone to a massage! How can! The things I wanted to do the most and I hadn't done it yet! Anyways, woke up early again - this time, to make sure we have enough time to do whatever we wanted to do.

So we woke up, packed up our luggage because we had to check out before leaving the hotel as we were only going to come back later in the evening before we left for the airport. First thing on the list? Get a freakin massage! Haha! We headed out to one of the spas in Thailand called Healthland. This place is now a chain in Thailand.

Photo of outside the spa.

After the massage, we went to Siam Paragon to check out their food court. Pretty nice have to say. They did it well - kinda like Pavilion style but nicer! Haha! They had a wide range of choices for us to choose from.

Check out their freakin' chickens!! They look like ducks! or rather pregnant chickens! Way bigger than our freakin Malaysian chickens. Haha! :P

Anyways, after lunch, we headed over to my beloved MBK! Muahahaa.. now that's where all the shopping started. Bought my dresses, food, etc!

Once again, the photo will not rotate. But look at all the weird stuff they have there! haha!

Haha! huge ass crocs shoe with bf's finger sticking out the holes.

After walking pretty much the main areas of MBK, we decided to head back to the hotel early cause we had to pack all the new stuff we bought during the day and thank god we did! It was raining and it took forever to get a taxi AND get back to the hotel. And from the hotel, took a while to get to the airport! So by the time we actually got there, it was just right timing! Checked in, got dinner, and then headed to the gate straight away.

Speaking of dinner, me and bf thought since we've already had so much local food during our trip, we'd go for some western food and what's better than...

Burger King!!! *drool*

The thought of Burger King in a foreign country - a country full of pork just got me excited because that only meant 1 thing! BACON DELUXE with ACTUAL BACON in it! Woah! Even thinking of it now also I "lau hao sui". That's like my fav. burger of all time when I was in aus! Haha! Everytime after I eat it, I get so sick but it was so damn worth it! Haha! But too bad, they didn't serve it and I had to resort to a Double Cheese burger. As my bf was lining up for food, all of a sudden, he came back and whispered in my ear, "babe... each value meal is like RM25!". My eyes lit up and my forehead scrunched. How can that be?! How can a freakin' FAST FOOD meal cost RM25? I squinted my eyes (didn't bring my glasses) and checked and yes! It was freakin 245 baht for a meal!!! Me and bf quickly took our luggage and literally walked off to check out other places to eat. Bf checked though that all the other places were also about the same price! So we decided to go back to Burger King. For 2 meals, that how much it costed us to eat at the fried chicken place the night before for 5 people!!

Woah! This is ridiculous man! It's like the govt is punishing us in the airport for buying all the cheap stuff in bangkok itself! It's like.. "Let's kill them before they leave the country". So next time guys, word of advice? Eat before u get to the airport! Photos of our meal below.. come on.. it was freakin RM25 for fast food man. I HAD to take photos!

Picture of our meal

Picture of the burger. Not to say damn nice also.. something was missing. Maybe not enough sauce or something. I don't know. Maybe it's just psychological cause I know we paid RM25 bucks for the burger. Haha!

Us staring in awe at our RM50 meal... :S

I now have a mission to go to all airports to eat burger king to see how much it'll cost. Of course, only applicable if the airport DOES have a burger king. :P

Thailand Day 2

2010-08-07T09:39:00.004+08:00

Saturday, 7th August 2010

Tips while travelling learnt after day 1?

- Check if the one of the hotel services includes a shuttle to the freakin' MRT/BTS station!

Photo of our shuttle. LOL! If only we found this out on Day 1. We would have saved ALOT of walking.

Haha! Bf found this out as we were walking out of the hotel to go across the road to 7-11 to get a tube of toothpaste because both of us forgot to bring ours. Anyway, by the time we got ready, left the hotel and got to Jatujak (the super huge weekend market I was talking about earlier) at about 9ish? This place has literally everything under the sun - from clothes, to furniture, to pets, to erm.. aiyah.. anything! you name it, they have it! You just have to find it. Didn't take very many photos though. Would have loved to take a picture of the map of the whole place but I couldn't find it this time around. but check out this Sharpei (is that how u spell it?) we saw!

Can't even see the fella's eyes! Haha!

Anyway, walked till about 12ish there - had lunch at one of the stalls and had some super spicy minced pork with basil. The waiter looked at me and started laughing because I was sweating all over. LOL! Then we left. Aunt had told us to go to this other mall which apparently sells really cheap shoes called Union mall which was about 2 train stops away. So we did but didn't find much there so uncle and aunt told us to walk over to Central Lat Prao. Haha! For some reason, this whole trip, me and bf kept taking the long way to get to things. LOL! Eg. when we were trying to get to Platinum mall, going to BTS/MRT when there's a freakin shuttle, getting to Central Lat Prao - we walked through the subway instead of walking straight to the place etc. Haha!

Anyways, walked around a little there, tried to get massages but they were all full - must be because it was a Sunday. Decided to go back to the hotel because bf had to get some work done. He worked while I slept. :P Then went out for dinner again with uncle.

This time, they took us to this shop in a tiny lane. The place is called Polo Fried Chicken. And apparently this place is actually in the lonely planet for Bangkok. As we were walking to our seats, we scouted out all the other tables and they ALL had a plate of fried chicken on their table. Woah! me and bf was getting excited! Haha... Uncle ordered heaps but they were all soooo yummy..

Photo of the menu. Once again, don't know why the photo would not rotate.

Close up of the address because I'll never know how to take you back there. :P

Photo of the fried chicken! *drool* The stuff on top was like fried garlic and something else. I don't usually eat fried garlic but this with the chicken - OMG... *faints*

Laarb Gai a.k.a Mince Chicken with Basil.

Somtum a.k.a papaya salad. We ordered 2 of this in the end. 2nd time we asked them to add salted egg. Think I prefered that better. Hehe..

Some slice pork stuff. Can't remember what this was called. Kinda tasted like char siew.

After all that food, uncle and aunt even ordered us desert! We had cincau with brown sugar. Din manage to get a picture of that though. It was quite yummay as well.. :P Can anyone guess how much that meal costed us? There was 5 of us (aunt brought a friend along), 5 dishes, 4 deserts, 4 bottles of water, and a small little tub of sticky rice.

*drum roll*

Only freakin' 550 bht!! Which is equivalent to about only RM55 bucks! WTF! You ate like that here and that would have easily cost you like RM100 bucks! Haha! me and bf were shocked! I seriously had my jaw down and eye wide open in disbelief.

Anyway, had a early night that day. So we just went back to the hotel and just chilled.

Thailand Day 1

2010-08-05T23:20:00.004+08:00

Thursday, 5th August 2010

Day started out early. Woke at like 6ish so that I could get ready - wash hair, do some last minute packing, etc. Had to be at bf's place at bout 8 so that I could wake his ass up and leave for the airport at bout 8ish cause flight was at 11ish which meant we needed to be there at bout 9ish. Anyway, check out my luggage!

Haha! for those who can't see properly.. it's a cabin bag (with my clothes) inside my empty suitcase!! Muahahahaha!

Anyway, reached the airport at about 9ish? Checked in and went to get some breakfast in Marry Brown. Don't know why people actually go to Marry Brown. Didn't think the food was nice and the cleanliness of the place was terrible! There were flies flying ALL over our table and food! Bf ordered the sausages and the sunny side up and the egg felt like it was plastic! I ordered the nuggets and they were not bad but like bf said, nobody can go very wrong with nuggets.

Pic of bf eating my nugget :P

Some random shots of us. Does this pose look familiar? :P

Haha! I thought the pose looked kinda similar. Photo above was taken when we were in Genting.

Photo of us (and some random chic) walking to the plane.

Arrived Bangkok at bout 12ish (Thailand time - they are 1 hour behind us) and after going through immigration (which took forever btw) and customs, we headed straight for the hotel. As we were leaving the airport, bf pointed out a freakin' huge ass billboard (which he saw the last time he went for business trip). Check it out!

Freakin' Samsung LED billboard was like farking long! Haha! The 2nd pic above couldn't even take the whole length of the billboard. :S

By the time we got done and settled, it was already 2ish - 3. We ventured outside our hotel for some hawker food. We had super yummay beefball noodles!! The soup tasted like it was bak kut teh soup! Haha.. Oh! And they gave super alot meat as well..

Drool...

Before we came, everyone we told we were going to Bangkok told us to go to Platinum mall which is apparently like a wholesale shopping MALL and the prices are comparable to Jatujak (which is like a super huge ass, cheap weekend market). So we decided to go there after lunch. Called my uncle along the way, and he said that a taxi would cost us about 60 bht but I thought since we were there and thinking that the MRT/BTS would be cheaper, we chose to take the trains. Boy, did I make the worse mistake during the trip. Haha! Before we headed out from the hotel, we asked the receptionist to circle on the map (like true tourist fashion) where this mall was. And from the looks of it, it looked pretty close to the BTS/MRT station (which was one of the reasons we took it in the first place). Freakin' hell took us like 1 HOUR to get there because we had to walk like 20 - 30 mins!!

But when we got there, woah.. it was levels after levels after levels of clothes! After a while, all the clothes looked similar! Haha! didn't even know where to start! But we managed to buy quite a lot of things from there - mostly souvenirs but bf managed to score a pair of shorts. I was pretty good - don't think I bought anything for myself there. Oh wait! Besides a belt I think.. :P

We met up with my uncle for dinner after that. I requested he took us to this place where they brew their own beer. Not for me though - don't drink beer usually anyways - it was more for my bf. Also remembered that the food was not bad there and people told us that there are usually cabaret shows while u're eating as well, so yea. The place is called Tawandang German Brewery

Signage outside the place.

The roof of the place even looks like a keg.

Photos of crispy pork knuckle and also pork ribs. Hands down the best dishes for the night.

Above are just photos of where the beer is brewed and also the distillers. Distillers were placed right in the middle of the bar which is pretty much at the the middle of the restaurant.

After dinner, we went to Suan Lum night market. Managed to get somemore souvenirs and bf managed to pick up a linen top with a golden/brown dragon on one side. I was still very good and did not get anything for myself yet. Didn't walk for very long in this place because quite a few shops were not open. This place was apparently suppose to close down because the land got bought over by the Australia embassy but most of the locals have refused to budge.

Photo with my uncle and aunt.

So that's Day 1 of my holiday. Day 2 coming up soon! =)

I is backs!

2010-08-04T00:36:00.002+08:00

Wednesday, 4th August 2010

I'm back guys! Haha! Fore-seeing a hectic week in front of me so will try my best to update about my trip as soon as I can! Stay tuned!

=)

See ya folks!

2010-07-31T07:04:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 31 July 2010

I'm leeeaaavvvinggg... on a jet plane! (NOT! :P)
Don't know what I'll be back again.... (actually it's on Monday night)

Haha! heading of to Bangkok guys! So I'll see you guys next week! :D

PEACE OUT! Haha... wheeeeeeee!!

9th Genting World Lion Dance Championship

2010-07-30T09:00:00.007+08:00

Friday, 30th July 2010

A coupla months back, one of my bf's friends suddenly asked if we were interested in going to watch the World Lion Dance Competition. I was like wtf as first because I didn't even know where was such a thing! And apparently Malaysia has won all championships prior to this! ROFL! Of all things Malaysia beats the whole "world", it's lion dancing! Haha!

Anyways, the competition was held in Genting's Arena of Stars. Tickets costed us RM60 however that allowed us to go for all shows (qualifying and finals). Bf and a few of his friends decided to only go for the finals. Because seriously? Who's going to sit there and watch lion dance for 3 days!!

Anyway, overall I would have to say it was kinda interested. Have not seen a competition of this kind and if you noticed I tagged this blog under sporting events cause I guess it is a sport - right? Malaysia won again this year. At first, bf''s friend told us that part of the score is the "alike-ness" the lion had to a real lion and again I was thinking in my head "wtf... how the hell do you judge that!". But true enough, I saw it with my own eyes, the Malaysian team did have a more life-like lion compared to the rest. However, the other teams, China and all were doing like back flips and stuff and still didn't win! Oh! And the stilts they had to jump on top off! My god they were high! Bf's friend said that the day before, someone actually fell down and broke a leg! *OUCH!*

Anyways, below are just some photos we took of the day. Oh! And speaking of photos! WTF! The host was really 'cheong hei'. EVERY single chance he could get which was in between teams, he would say that flash photography is not allowed and no video taking! Geezz! We get it already! Far out.. :P Just checked the photos I took and they were really not that great. So dissappointing! Haha! So here's just a hand picked few:

Setting of the floor. Check out all the stilts. But thought they were pretty hopesless because only like 2 teams used the bottom right side of the stilts, and another 2 teams used the top right side. Haha! The other didn't even bother!

One of the few photos we took that is actually "clear". LOL! Guess you can guess how bad the other 2 were.

Managed to catch the lion on the screen. This lion looks more like a dog. :P

Check out the tacky lights they put on drums!

Check out the tacky lights they put on the lion! Haha!

Lastly - just a short clip I managed to get which I am not supposed to. Haha! Don't remember which team this was though because frankly, after a while, all of them pretty much did the same tricks. :P

Biggest Losers Winners Announced!

2010-07-28T21:11:00.000+08:00

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Sorry for being MIA! Haven't really had the time to just sit down and blog about the winners because straight after the weigh out, me and bf went to whack Segambut Seafood Noodles! LOL! Haha! And then after that I came home and bombed my toilet. ROFL! Must be the all the oil and the tummy wasn't used to it after such a long time. After that, I had a client event which went on for the whole night.

Then, the next day, I went up to Genting and was pretty much there the whole day already. Then back to work lor! Haih! :P But not to worry - count down 3 more days! Woot!!

Anyways, sorry - side tracked again. Pretty much half the participants didn't even bother showing up because they thought they didn't lose weight at all, which was quite a downer I guess but it was also sorta free money to the winner? Nonetheless, this meant the winner had less people to "fight" with although it was pretty obvious that he lost the most once he came to weigh out. So, without wasting anymore time, the top 3 winners below:

*drum roll*

In third place - Chris Wong!

Chris Wong lost about 5.1kg which is equivalent to 6.1% of his body weight. His method was just simply cutting back on snacks and having lighter less sinful meals. "I didn't even push myself" he said due to the lack of exercise he had during the period. Reckon he could have lost more and won the challenge if he did push himself more. Anyways, good jobs babes! Under 80kg like what you wanted! :D

In second place - Chan Boon Keat!

Boon Keat lost about 6.5kg which is about 7.4% of his body weight. His diet included some exercise and also eating less snacks and sinful food. According to him, his diet died when he had to go to Jakarta for work. Am guessing also could have done better if he didn't give in to Jakarta food. Hehe.. but I think that would be hard. :P

And finally, the winner of our very own biggest loser challenge - Adrian Tan!

Adrian lost about 7.6kg which was equivalent to about 8.6% of his body weight! He wow-ed everyone because we actually did like a interim weigh in just to see where everyone was at and he had lost the least! That meant that in the last coupla weeks, he had stepped it up! "The funniest thing was I didn't even go to the gym for the last 2 weeks". "I was back on my tuna and egg white diet". Wow - can't imagine having tuna and egg white for a week. I think I would have died. LOL!

Anyways, congratulation to Adrian! Now let's see you try and KEEP THAT WEIGHT OFF!! :P

Till the next challenge? Haha! If there really is, I doubt I'd be joining nemore. :P

Weigh out!

2010-07-24T10:19:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 24 July 2010

The weigh out is today guys! Stay tuned to see who's the winner of our very own biggest loser!

2 people have already weighed out with 1 of them losing weight at a shocking number!

So come back for more updates! =)

Despica-meeeee!

2010-07-23T09:00:00.009+08:00

Friday, 23 July 2010

*Spoiler alert*

Haha! Yes - I'm talking about Despicable Me... accidently called it Despica Me the other night when I tried saying it fast and that's me and bf's name for the movie now instead. "It's so fluffy!!" Anyways, managed to book the tickets online the other day on GSC E-Payment which by the way is soo much better and faster! Haha! I ididn't know this e-payment thing existed! It even let us choose our seats when paying! There's an extra RM1 surcharge if you use this service but hey! I think it's worth it if we can avoid the queue! My tme also worth more than RM1! Haha.. Anyway...

This is a story about a supervillain - Gru... well, not quite supervillain because apparently he was quite a fail supervillain - if there is even such a thing :P Anyways, a new up and coming villain comes in to the picture who apparently stole the pyramid and Gru is jealous. He then starts a plan to steal the moon and in between, to make his plan work, he had to go and adopt 3 little girls from the orphanage. Haha! The youngest girl is the cutest! See the clip below and you'll understand!

Haha! Those that come out from the movie can most probably only remember 2 things - "It's to fluffy!!!" and that they want a minion. Haha! Anyways, with 3 little girls in the picture, perphaps all of you can already kinda figure out what happens in the end. :P

The movie had a good mix of cuteness, evil, sarcasm, and the warm and fuzzy feeling in your heart. =) Won't spoil it anymore for you guys. Just go watch it! It's that good that my bf wants to get the dvd just to keep at home! Hehe.. :D

Mr. Miyagi Re-incarnated?!

2010-07-21T09:00:00.017+08:00

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

*Spoiler (sorta) alert below. Will try and not reveal to much!*

Who can remember the days of Mr. Miyagi?! Who can remember his move of waxing on and waxing off! Haha.. frankly? That's pretty much all I can remember from the original Karate Kid series. LOL! I don't even remember what the storyline was like! :P

The new karate kid featuring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

Gone were the days of Mr. Miyagi and is waxing on and waxing off. Now they're into the "putting on and taking off a jacket"! ROFL! What does that mean? Guess you'll have to watch it and find out. Thought the movie was pretty decent. Jaden Smith was a scrawny little kid who just moved to China with his mum after his dad died. Why they moved over - I don't think they mentioned unless I missed that part of the movie out! Haha! had to watch this movie in a span of 2 days because I fell asleep on the 1st day after about 1/4 of the show in... :P

Anyways, he gets into trouble with some chinese kids who knows kung fu and Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) comes to save the day and ends up teaching him how to fight. Have to give kudos to Jaden Smith though. Thought he's acting was pretty good. I don't usually look at acting skills but I guess since he's Will Smith's son, i've kinda got double standards.. :P And he looks absolutely like his father! Pretty cool too that he gets to work with Jackie Chan at such a young age!

Oh! And if you are thinking that this movie is more for kids - guess again! The fight scenes - OMG, the actually looked painful and these kids are meant to be like 12 or something like that! WTF! Should they even be teaching them to bash up other people that hard?! Haha! It gave me the feeling of Ong Bak!! Haha... okay la.. not that 'kua cheong' but somewhere along those lines la.. maybe about 10% of it. LOL! :P

So yea, pretty decent movie. Probably worth checking out if you have the time. =))

Repossion Mambo

2010-07-19T22:10:00.003+08:00

Monday, 19 July 2010

Eh Mambo! Mambo italiano! Eh Mambo! Haha! That always pops into my head when I see/hear that word. Hehe... Anyways, Repossion Mambo - apparently the original version of the new Repo Men 2010. Unsure if this movie has been released here yet or even if it's going to be released cause the movie is quite distrubing (ie. quite gory)

I haven't actually heard of this movie until my bf picked it up from the DVD shop. I didn't even know who was in it until he turned it on. And when he did, the first impression was, "Yer... Jude Law? Sure gonna be some weird-ass show". For some reason, of all the movies that Jude Law has been in, the only one that I can remember is A.I. And boy did I really hate that show! I thought it was like the stupidest show I've seen at that time.

Anyhow, Repo Men is set in the future, year 2025, where a company has manage to perfect the creation of artifical organs. Any organ you want - you name it, they had it! They even had the freakin' female reproduuctive system! WTF! Anyways, these artificial organs obviously don't come cheap. They sell it to you at a premium and if you can't afford it, you can take a loan fom them at a freakin 20% interest rate P.A (haha! I think it was 20. All I know it was like a ridiculous number). And when you can't pay your instalments, after 3 months, they send someone after you. Dosn't really matter where your organs are, they'll just cut you up to reclaim it back and kinda leave you for dead. Jude Law of course was one of these people. But of course, like all shows, something has to happen. If you want to know more, watch this and you'll find out. It even had an interested twist at the end too! =) Managed to find the trailer on youtube. So if you're interested, can check the trailer out below:

I oddly enjoyed this movie - sorta. The ending did kinda throw it off a little - but in a good way I guess. It's one of those movies where you come out kinda feeling nothing and you'll be ler "err... okay... wtf.. but okay..." Haha! so yea... do check it out when you have the time.

Can't Wait!

2010-07-15T00:03:00.001+08:00

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Can't wait! T-minus 15 days! WOOT!

*Edit*: Hint - where am I going?

Lala - too sleepy. Good night!

More Thomas Sabo Charms!

2010-07-10T17:02:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 10 July 2010

Thank you Yee Boon-ies!! Haha! Love the present! For those reading, Yee Boon bought me a belated birthday present and from the title, I'm guessing you guys can already guess what she got me! Hehe... More charms for my bracelet! Whee! Haven't had the chance to take an actual photo of it so stole one from the website to show you guys what she bought for me.

It's a dog bone! Haha! When I got it, I thought for sure it was because she read my Thomas Sabo bracelet post here . But she said she didn't! Either way, thank you! Love it heaps! *hugs*

Jarrod & Rawlins @ Damansara Heights

2010-07-06T21:58:00.002+08:00

Tuesday, 6th July 2010

Should be doing work but had the sudden urge to blog. Somehow felt like I've neglected my blog although I just posted like 3 days ago. Can this be counted as getting into the whole blogging thing?

Anyway, last Saturday afternoon, I just suddenly thought that I haven't seen my friends in a long time, so decided to call them for a last minute dinner and also to hang out after to watch the Germany & Argentina match. Only Mun Yee, Kiok Sinn, and Nicholas could make it though and after much thinking, we decided to go to Jarrod & Rawlins in Damansara. Haven't been here before but we have another friend who apparently really likes this place but couldn't make it for dinner.

For those who know the area, this place is further in from the Manulife building etc. It's actual address is on Lorong Dungun. And again, for those who know the area, they would know that parking there is quite the b*tch and is like a gold mine for the jockey! They freakin' take all the spots by using those cones and won't let anyone else park unless you use them. Grr.. Our car was literally parked like 10 seconds walk away and we had to pay RM5 bucks.

Anyway, when you first go in, the first thing you'll see on the left is a Deli where they sell all sorts of sausages and steaks and pork chops etc. Apparently you can just request them to cook anything you'd like from there. And on the right, there are fridges full or processed stuff like pies etc.

Nick called to book earlier and were indoors but Kiok Sinn suggested that we sit outside in the garden cause apparently the atmosphere is better. There weren't any tables so we had to sit and eat on top of a barrel. Haha! Sounds funny just reading huh? But too bad I don't have a photo of our "table". It had a glass top on top of the barrel of course for those who were wondering.

So we ordered dinner. Everyone had a round of beer while I had my ice lemon tea. Beer was going at Happy Hour price all night because of the world cup so it came to about RM 20 per pint? For the mains, I ordered a linguine carbonara because I've been craving for pasta for a while now while the bf ordered a pork burger (hmmm.. pork burger and beer - doesn't say much about his diet now huh? :P) Anyways, nick ordered a beef burger while Kiok Sinn and Mun Yee ordered the crispy pork to share because apparently is supppose to feed 4 ppl.

Photo of bf's burger. It was quite yummy but fries were so-so. But that's most probably because they were not soggy like the way I like my fries. Price: RM24 + RM3 for the cheese.

My pasta carbonara. Quite enjoyed it. Nice and creamy and had real bacon! :P RM24

The crispy pork. Came with Apple and some spicy sauce. Don't even know what it was. Photo taken after about 1/3 of it was eaten. But even then, how could this feed 4 people! RM60 (I think or RM66 - but somewhere along those lines)

Photo won't rotate for some reason. But Kiok Sinn going at his bone which was later brought back for my bf's rottie.

Didn't take a photo of Nick's burger because besides the different patty, the plate pretty much looked the same like my bf's place. Here are just some other photos for the night.

Mun Yee & Kiok Sinn

Nicky butt with his new hairstyle. Hehe.. brings back memories from high school.

Me & bf

And us! =)

By the time we finished dinner, it was about 9pm and we decided to just stay and watch the match. For desert, we all ordered 1 slice of "Death by Chocolate" for all of us to share. Looked pretty yummy in the fridge. But for RM13.50 a slice, which was not very big by the way, it was quite dissapointing. We didn't even finish the cake! And there was 5 of us. Granted Nick didn't eat I think and me and bf were trying not to eat so much. But still!

Just before the match started, bf ordered another beer! That's like 1k calories in total down the drain just on beer alone! Haha! How to win biggest loser like that?! :P Anyways, the match was pretty erm... let's just say frustrating. I seemed to be the only one supporting Argentina and that didn't help when they Germany scored the freakin' goal at about 3 minutes. WTF man! And to lose 4-0 by the end? That was just embarrassing! They had the player of the year in the team man! At least try and retaliate! But no!!! They just kept letting goals in their way! :S Towards the end, I was seriously quite pissed off. That and also because of something else :P

We left right after the match. Mine and bf's bill came up to about RM120. Quite pricey. The food portions weren't even that big as well. Overall food was not bad but don't think I'll be going back there often. Maybe once in a while cause the atmosphere was pretty good.

Knight & Day

2010-07-03T00:38:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 3 July 2010

*Spoiler alert. Will try and not reveal too much so that I won't ruin the movie for everyone*

Bf and me went to watch Knight & Day the other night at e @ The Curve. This was the night where he parked his car in the middle of nowhere. To read about it, click here. Can you imagine if we didn't realise it was not a parking spot? Haha! He would have been blocking the road! LOL!

Anyways, Knight & Day is the new Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie. Two of them really look old now compared to their Jerry Mcguire and The Mask days. Ya - did you all know/realise that Cameron Diaz was actually in The Mask! She was the chiq that danced with Jim Carey at the end. Anyways, even though Tom Cruise looked old, he still got quite a yummy body *shy*. :P

Hehe, anyway, overall a very funny and entertaining movie. More like an action packed chic flick if there is such a thing. There was actually a point where my bf and me didn't know whether the movie was meant to be a serious movie or a parody. Haha! Tom Cruise was portrayed as the psychotic ex-CIA agent who is trying to steal some super canggih technology and sell it to the baddies and Cameron Diaz got sucked into it somehow (something the movie didn't really explain why they did it). Movie was also slightly over exaggerated. Tom Cruise would go out and cause masive destruction to the town/cars/highways etc. and would still be able to come back without a scratch on him. He alone like can take the whole CIA agency down. Haha! But I guess, movies are movies, so shouldn't complain so much. There's bound to be some unrealistic portion to it. So just go and enjoy the movie guys! =)

My Funny Story For The Month

2010-07-01T08:20:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 1 July 2010

It happened yesterday so it's my funny story for June. Just a nice short story today. I was getting ready for work yesterday morning. Had just taken a shower, brushed my teeth, dried myself up and was going to change in to my work clothes. The next thing I knew, I was still walking around in my room in my pyjamas! Haha!

The End.

Scirocco Cup & Japan GT @ Sepang International Circuit

2010-06-29T23:34:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

About 2 weeks ago, my bf took me to the Scirocco Cup & Japan GT in Sepang International Circuit. Actually, no wait! Haha! To be correct, Eric took me to the Scirocco Cup & Japan GT. Haha! Cause he had the extra ticket. Not my bf. :P My bf was kinda there for work because he works on the VW account. Eric, on the other hand, managed to get the tickets because he recently just bought a Scirocco! Hehe.. :P

Quite exciting I have to say. Have never been to the Sepang International circuit before and have only seen those races on TV. So yea, something different. Overall? It was just loud and you probably see the cars drive past you for like 2 secs each lap. LOL!

Anyway, day started out be meeting up my house and we headed out to Sepang in 2 cars because Eric had to go somewhere after that. So we headed out - 45 mins drive to Sepang. As we were reaching, there were actually billboards to promote the Japan GT. I never knew that it was such a big thing. Haha! but you're talking to a car dummy here so can't say much :P

Anyway, after about another 10 minutes! We finally arrived!

I met up with Eric to pick up our tickets while my bf went off to park elsewhere because he wanted to get to another carpark which was nearer to the grand stands. He didn't know whether we would be allowed to get into the grand stand because he didn't know what tickets were going to be given out. Anyways, so after picking up the tickets, we just walked aimless inside and finally reached the circuit and actually managed to catch the start of the Scirocco Cup. Not knowing where to go, we stupidly went and sat in the heat at first! It was freakin' hot that day as well. We were so tempted to leave right after the Scirocco cup which was what we went to see. :P

Photo of the start of the cup. =) You see all the glassed up area? That's where the grand stand is. Sheltered and air-conditioned. :S Underneath the glass area, is the pit stop area.

After the race, I msged my bf to say what kind of tickets we had and only then, did we realise that we were allowed to go to the grand stand and the experience was much better! Haha! It was sooooo much cooler, they gave us freebies, and also there was food! I was starving because I haven't had lunch yet and if not mistaken, I went for a run that morning as well!

Anyways, after we managed to lug our half burst asses over to the grand stand, they actually opened up the pit for people to go see the cars (and girls). I would have loved to go but I was too busy cooling down from the heat and also wouldn't have wanted to fight with everyone down there.

Check out all the people! Photo from above the grand stand and rght opposite where Eric and me were sitting initially.

Can you spot the guy with the "Pit Walkabout" banner?

Eric & Me enjoying the grand stand. =)

Anyways, after that, we kinda went to check out the "garage" - the area where they kept all the cars when have finished their race. Don't think we were allowed to go there but knowing the "security" in Malaysia, nobody even stopped to ask who we were.

A banged up Scirocco...

The apparently really dressed down GT "queen". Haha! :P

Eric managed to get his photo with the girls. Hehe.. Pretty or not?! Bf says the girl next to Eric is FHM's girl next door. *woot*

Anyways, we headed back to the grand stand just before the start of the Japan GT race. People were actually allowed on the circuit to check out the cars before they started.

So many people!!

Managed to get a shot of 2 out of the 3 (?) GT queens running back for shelter when the race was about to start

We didn't stay till the end. After a coupla laps, we left. Wasn't going to sit and watch the cars finish like 54 laps! :S So we started to walk back to the car which was quite far away. BUT! we managed to hitch a ride! Check out our ride! :P

And we all managed to fit! LOL! Thank you to our smiley and friendly driver!

All of us, hanging for our lives. The photo of Eric & Michelle was like take 4. LOL! I couldn't get the right angle to take their photo. Bf had to do it in the end.

Last adventure before we headed home? Bf's car couldn't start! So had to jump start the car. :S

P/s: More photos on my Facebook. Those interested, can go and see. =)

My Thomas Sabo Bracelet =D

2010-06-28T23:24:00.002+08:00

Monday, 28 June 2010

My company actually gave us a Thomas Sabo bracelet last year as a token of our efforts for the year. For those who do not know what Thomas Sabo is, it's a brand that originated from Germany and sells sterling silver accessories from bracelets, to necklaces, to watches, to handphone danglies, to charms. The one which I think they are more known for are their charms because they are quite cute and quirky. When they first arrived, I never knew what the fuss was all about but somehow I have succumbed to the brand and have the sudden need to fill up my bracelet with charms :P. Somehow, it actually gets quite addictive. The dude who came up with this idea was seriously a genius.

It all started when Chris' friends bought me those 2 extra charms to put on my bracelet for my birthday. I got excited and decided to get 2 more as a birthday present to myself to celebrate my coming of age of becoming a quarter century old. So, the extra 2 I got was the letter 'Y' to accompany my 'L' take came with the bracelet when my company gave it to us. And also a green 4 leaf clover for luck! So now, I have a total for 5 charms of my bracelet and I actually think my bracelet is getting quite nice! Hehe.. but they're not cheap. Each charm ranges from RM100 to about RM400 :( So the next one I can probably get is only during Christmas or something - no more splurging. For those who don't know what to get me next time *hint hint* *nudge nudge* LOL! Hehe..

Anyways, photos below for viewing pleasure.

Photo of the 2 extra charms I bought for myself.

Photo of how my bracelet looks like now =)

Bumblebee is home! =)

2010-06-26T11:33:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 26th June 2010

Bumblebee is home! Wheeeee... For those who don't know, he got sent to the workshop like about 2 weeks ago because we met into and accident. Nothing major, so nobody panic! The story goes like this. My mum was driving me to work 1 morning and as we were reaching my office in Pusat Bandar Damansara, there was a slight jam (as usual). My mum's phone suddenly rang and she was kinda bending down to get her phone out of her bag which was at the bottom of the driver's seat. Both of us put our bags there now because we were told not to put it on the passenger seat because people might come and break your glass while driving if they see something there. Anyhow, so my mum was kinda struggling to get her phone and instead of pressing the brake when the car stopped in front of her, she accelerated! We hit a Volvo in front of us and the Volvo hit a truck in front of him.

Haha! Want to know what's funny? Let me show you what happened to bumblebee first and you can guess the extent the other dude's car got damaged.

Looks quite 'seong' rite? the whole front part kinda dented inside. The Volvo was nowhere near this 'seong' though! He had like a few scratches at the back and his worse part was we broke his brake lights! His front was quite bad though but that's only cause he banged into a lorry in front of him! If not, nothing would have been wrong! Haha! Volvo rocks! LOL! :P

Anyways, so we brought the cars to the side. Mum knew she was at fault and kept apologising but the guy was being and ass. Kept saying he needed the car to work etc. blah blah la. Kept insisting that we pay for it la. He didn't look like he was going to work. Freakin wearing khakis and an old t-shirt. Looked like he was freakin 70. We're not going to run away K! Piece of shit! He just wanted to bully us. You know what he said when my mum asked for his name? He went "my name is blah blah (lol! cause i can't remember it now), don't worry about the tan sri or datuk in front. It's okay". WTF!! What was that comment suppose to mean?! You think we're scared cause you're a tan sri or datuk? Go suck cock la you! Haha! Sorry! Just remembering that moment is really pissing me off. Then he KEPT insisting that we go to the Volvo workshop because he wanted to get his damaged assessed straightaway but mum insisted on going to police station to make the report. Woah! When we got there, SUDDENLY he SOOOO damn polite to the police officers. WTF! If you're a tan sri or datuk, you'd be talking in the same tone you have been using while talking to them! Grrr...

*phew* Goooooosseeeeeefrraaaabbbaaaa... hahaha.. shit! really got me riled up again! Haha! Anyhow, the point is bumblebee is back!!! :D looking all brand-spanking new! :D

Also, if you would like this know, this is bee's 2nd major damage. The first time was my fault. He was only about 1 week old then! That time REALLY sam tong. :( You can read about it here.

P/s: Just realised something. Do you guys get another ad pop up when you come and visit my site? Please let me know! Because I'm getting it and I think it's damn annoying and def. do not want my readers to be annoyed too! So let me know so that I can try and see if I can fix it on my end!

Parking in the middle of nowhere..

2010-06-23T00:28:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Gonna keep this short and sweet because I actually have to try and finish up some work. So anyways, bf managed to score us some tickets to Knight and Day (review to come in different blog) in e@thecurve. So after work, we headed over. Once we got to the parking lot, P1 was kinda full so he decided to go down to P2 instead. It was kinda empty - so yay! Can park anywhere he wanted (which was close to the entrance). So, he found a park he like and slot himself in. When we got down, he was looking back at the car funny and I was wondering what the hell he was looking at. I turned around and realised he parked at a NON parking lot! LOL! It was actually a LANE to get through the parking area. There was an ARROW underneath his car saying that users can either turn left or right. ROFL! Hahahaha!

The end.

My Batu Caves Adventure!

2010-06-20T09:39:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 20 June 2010

A few weeks ago, while sitting in my bf's dining room and flipping through newspapers, I suddenly had a brilliant idea of going to Batu Caves. I thought since I've never been there before in my entire life and me and my bf are on a journey to lose weight, it'd be a good change to do something different! Plus, then at least I can tell my overseas friends that I've been there and I'm a true Malaysian. Or at least tell them what to expect when they ask me about it la... Haha! :P

So anyways, sent out a bunch of msges and managed to get a small group together to go. Got together earlier to get ourselves some McD breakfast and we were off! And since pictures says more than a thousand words, here are some for you guys below! :D

P/s: I'm just lazy to write.. :P

Getting ready to climb. 258 steps up! (I think)

And the journey begins...

View from halfway through the stairs

View of top of the cave and some statues inside

First thing you see when u get to the top of the stairs...

Ke Bin on the way up his 2nd time.

P/s: He went up and down 4 times!

The journey down...

Monkey with saggy tits.. :P

Monkey with her baby...

My 200th step! But this was 2nd time round.. So technically it's my 400th step! :P

Me & Kebs on top of the hill...

Dinghy dying after the 2nd time...

Me & bf =)

World Cup Fever!

2010-06-18T22:14:00.001+08:00

Friday, 18 June 2010

Sorry! Been MIA on my blog again. No internet at home really does not help. PLUS it's world cup! Haha! But honestly, haven't really been watching much. Kinda stuck in the middle because I'm neither happy in my house or bf's house. Cause when I'm home, I have a TV to watch in the room but because my internet isn't work, it's kinda not fun cause I'm an internet junkie. Whereas in my bf's place, got internet, but no TV to watch IN the room. So yea...

Anyways, teams I'm supporting this year? Japan, Argentina and Germany. However, after Germany's last match against Serbia, I'm really not sure nemore. :S Anyways, reasons as to why I chose those 3 teams? Japan because of my Asian pride. Argentina because I thought they played a really good game against South Korea, and Germany, because they trashed Australia and I couldn't be happier!

Don't get me wrong. I love the country. But when it comes to sports, they one freakin' sore loser country. The last game with Germany? Do you know what they are saying as to why the lost? They are blaming the freakin' balls! WTF! Everyone didn't get the a chance to practice as much as they would like. So, suck it up and admit defeat like men! Grrr! So angry! Crap, there was an article on smh.com.au which my brother manage to find but I can't find it now. They were whining about the Jabulani balls. Will try and get it from my brother and post it up on my next blog.

Till next blog. Laters and Happy World Cupping! =)

*Disclaimer: Image are property and rights of FIFA and am merely using it for decorative purposes.

The Biggest Losers Malaysia (By Percentage) - Final Part

2010-06-13T18:09:00.000+08:00

Sunday, 13 June 2010

So we're up to to the final set of contestants.

Left most photo - Van
Age: N/A
Occupation: HSBC Executive for Global Banking and Securities
Official Weigh In: 83.8kg
Goal: 5kg
Reason: To lose weight for his wedding end of te year and also for health reasons.
Plans/Techniques: To increase cardio workout from nill to 3 times a week for about 30 mins.

Middle photo - Kim
Age: N/A
Occupation: HSBC Excutive
Official Weigh In: 77.9kg
Goal: 8kg
Reason: For her wedding end of the year.
Plans/Techniques: Food diet and also increase exercise from nil to 20 mins a day

P/s: For those who don't know already, Van and Kim are a couple getting married end of the year! So wish them congratulations everyone! =)

Right most photo - Saw
Age: N/A
Occupation: HSBC Excutive
Official Weigh In: 103.5kg
Goal: 10kg
Reason: Because he looks fat and ecause he wants to get back to his weight in Form 5 which is apparently half his weight.
Plans/Techniques: Food monitoring - no Siuew Yuk Meen, no Hokkien Mee, no supper. Currently does not work out at all, but plans to increase work out to at least once a week if he can wake up in the mornings.

So there you go. A total of 12 contestants. 7 weeks of toture. RM600 bucks up for grabs. Who will be the biggest loser? Stay tuned to find out. =)