@h PhEn's Confession Room

My friend, Miss C

2008-11-30T01:14:00.005+08:00

Last Saturday, it was my 2nd visit to Phuture and I am assigned to pick up a friend whom I will name her as Miss C who can be very funny and clumsy at times. Fortunately for me, I get to experience one of those funny classic moments again. I will share the classic funny case study with you...

Miss C : Gosh..we are so late and its freaking jam in front. (At the end of Federal Highway).

Me : Yea wei, I will take another road to Zouk..pass by Jalan Yap Kwan Seng.

Miss C : Stephen, pass me your phone. Let me call Choo Soon and check if he arrive at Zouk already or not.

Me : (Not being kiamsiap but curious) Why can't you use your phone?

Miss C : You damn kiamsiap-lor. Make one phone call also cannot. So kedekut..(Showing sour face)

Me : No, I am not kiamsiap but I am just very curious why you can't use your phone but mine. Anyway..nah..take it and call Choo Soon and pls....I am not kiamsiap.

Miss C : Hehehe..My handphone low batt la..(Happily take my very user friendly phone, Nokia)

About 10-15 seconds later....

Miss C : Stephen..why you got so many friends in your phonebook one? I cannot find Choo Soon's name. There are so many people's name start with the alphabet "C" in your phone!! Arghh....

Me : What you mean by you cannot find and please don't exaggerate until like I have thousand names in my list. Can you just use the search function?? (Feeling super puzzled and weird)

Miss C : Really don't have!!!

Me : Huh?? If I can find, you better eat my phone and buy me a new one!!! (Super confident tone cause I just spoke to Choo Soon before Miss C step into my car about 30 mins ago)

Miss C : Fine..i will!!

Me : Pass me the phone and you are so going to eat my phone.

At that time, we were at the traffic light nearby Jalan Yap Kwan Seng and I stared at my phone and I was freaking stunned...

Me : Miss C!!! Why on earth are you searching for Choo Soon's name in the dictionary section?? Can't you see the words? Cabbage? Cholesterol? Chopstick? Chocolate? Oh my God...you gotta be kidding me!!

Miss C : What the *********!!! (Laughing like there's no tomorrow)

Me : You are going to eat my phone right now!!

Miss C : (Still laughing). No wonder lar... I was thinking why you have friends with such weird names!!

Me : Sigh.. I got nothing to say about you. Damn classic and super dumb!

Anyway, this friend of mine really entertains me from time to time and I was damn happy that, I used one of the shortcut keys in my phone as the dictionary function. If not, I wouldn't be able to share this classic funny case study with you guys. Now she has yet to eat my phone and buy me a new phone.

Since then, I started calling her Miss Cholesterol and that's why I used Miss C in my case study.

Bowling Champion??

2008-11-28T14:23:00.004+08:00

Every month when I ~~roughly~~ gently tear open my salary/pay slip, without fail, RM 2 is deducted for the benefit and contribution to the firm's sports club. Recently, the sports club organised a sports carnival and amongst the games, they have bowling, go-kart and futsal. Being kiasu for all the deductions made against me, immediately I gang-up a few guys and registered my names for the 3 games mentioned above.

Unfortunately, I was assigned to Sarawak for 2 weeks and the organisers brought forward the go-kart competition. Damn it!! Wasted big time because I didn't have the chance to show off my drifting skills :P

Anyway, the futsal game almost killed me because it felt like my lungs were punctured within the first half of the first game. Luckily, I have a team-mate who plays quite frequent and without him, the other teams definitely gonna kick the crap out of us. Failed to qualify for the finals but was placed 2nd in the group of 4 teams. Won 2 and lost 1.

Finally, the last game was bowling. Team event and each girl in a team will get a handicapped points of 15 for each game. There are about 20 teams and my team is the only team without females which means we don't have any handicapped points.

Hohoho...we won with an aggregrate score of knocking down 1727 pins and the 2nd place team were about 1500-1600 pins. It's so unbeliveable as I have never imagined that we will win because we have only 3 amateurs and 2 beginners who last played bowling about donkey years ago.

Hehe.. I can't wait to get my hands on the prize of RM 200 and medals but wait...RM 200 divide by 5 person...

RM 40?!?!? Ok la..still a gain for me because

Contribution to sports club
= RM 2 x 12 months
= RM 24

Gain
= RM 40-RM 24
= RM 16.00

Sweeeet!!!

My trip to Kuching

2008-11-24T23:06:00.007+08:00

About two weeks ago, I just came back from Kuching and I don't have many photos to upload onto this site as I only have one day to walk around Waterfront and the places around there. I was there for work, remember?!?!

The Tua Pek Kong temple

One of the cafes facing the river named James Brooke Bistro and Cafe

The Chinese History Museum..

By the way, admission is free so if weather is melting you down, stopover at this small little museum for some cool air.

Inside view of the museum

As for lunch, we had some curry chicken pork rice with egg..

First time trying such combination

Sarawak laksa

After lunch, we decided to visit Fort Margherita which was built by Raja Charles Brooke in the 1870 to protect the city of Kuching.

Cost only 50 cents per ride~~

To get to Fort Margherita, you need to walk past some kampung houses and some bushes whereby you will encounter some 4 legged brown monster along the way..

Horsie horsie ~~~

Fort Magherita

Supposed to be some police museum whereby they showcase some old guns or rifles or some photos about how prisoners were kept at this place but when I was here, I saw only 6 identical rifles in a cabinet and that's all. When we climbed up the stairs, the rooms are empty and that's all. Admission was free but seriously, what the hell.. it was way way below my expectation and therefore, I have to leave a comment in the guestbook and leave before the guard comes back..

Seriously, no offence to Fort Margerita lovers.

I saw the White House!!

2008-11-16T23:35:00.005+08:00

Last week, I was in East Malaysia for an audit assignment. I get to travel from Miri and all the way downwards to Kuching as my final stop. From Miri, I had to take a 3 hour bus ride to Bintulu and it was really a fun experience. Get to see those Rumah Panjang and lands becoming "empty" due to the logging process in the timber industry.

Yup, RM 20 for a 3 hours bus ride from Miri to Bintulu

During the journey, I was too bored so I decided to take a closer look at the bus ticket and guess what is written there..

Reductions in fares to certain groups of bus users...
No8. People claiming to be "Hard Core Poor"

I am not making a joke out of this statement but I really wonder how and based on what reasons or excuses that someone will be deemed as hard core poor! Maybe you need to show the bus companies your EPF statement or bank book?

Hehehe..try going to Pudu bus station and tell them that you want fare reductions because you are hard core poor. I wonder what will happen..

Anyway, when I was in Bintulu.. guess what I saw again..

The White House!!

Barack Obama is coming to Bintulu town~~~

Human Clones

2008-11-05T23:17:00.003+08:00

Recently, a friend of mine told me that she is coming back to Malaysia soon and as always, we suggested that we must go club when she is back. This time, she said that I must bring a handsome guy along and if I don't, she will not go club with me. In a way, she is already telling straight to my face that I am not handsome (I agree) and she's already bored with my face. Maybe I will save up some $$ to restructure my face one day. Anyway, read the MSN conversation we had..

Miss XX sia sui says:
faster.....

Miss XX sia sui says:
any leng chai or not

Ah phen @ Bintulu says:
faster wat.

Ah phen @ Bintulu says:
u think i clone humans one meh

Ah phen @ Bintulu says:
if i can..i will give u one dozen everynight.

Ah phen @ Bintulu says:
ok??

Miss XX sia sui says:
hahahha

Miss XX sia sui says:
ishh

Ah phen @ Bintulu says:
haiyor..i dont mean to be so sarcastic but I cant help it..

So if you have any friends who always ask you to intro hot chicks or handsome guys to them, use my trick. It should work and keep them quiet for a moment.

Hong Kong in Sept 08

2008-09-14T14:58:00.023+08:00

SATURDAY, 6th September

Last week, it was my first ever chance to work in Hong Kong and I was so excited about it because I get to visit Hong Kong for the 3rd time and Hong Kong always use to be a place which actually brings me alot of memories because I grew up watching TVB drama series and those gangster-gangster and Stephen Chow's crappy nonsense and entertaining movies from Hong Kong.

Nathan road

My first trip to Hong Kong was with tour and because of the packed schedule, I only managed to visit the Ladies Market (Tung Choi Street), Sport Shoes Street (Fa Yuen Street), Avenue of Stars and Disneyland. It was more of a "touch and go" trip because we were at Shenzhen for few days before the Hong Kong trip. My 2nd trip to Hong Kong in Dec 2006 was a memorable one as we celebrated New Year's eve at HK Disneyland (will blog about it when I am really free).

California fitness centre along Nathan Road

As my client is only paying for accommodation from Sunday onwards and the fact that I wanted to explore HK abit, I took a flight on Saturday, therefore I have to find my own accomodation. During my 2nd trip to HK, I stayed at ChungKing Mansion at Tsim Sha Tsui because that's where the cheapest hostels are. You can find these hostels at AirAsia's website. This time, I stayed at Vincent Guest House at Mirador Mansion, somewhere near the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station which is also very convenient for backpackers.

Upon reaching the Hong Kong International Airport, I was deciding whether to take the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui or be adventurous abit to take the bus. Let's check out the fare first. Taking the MTR will be HK$90 (RM40.14) and the bus will be HK$33 (RM14.72). Of course, I will take a bus, save some money and eat something nice, rite? For those who wanna take bus to Tsim Sha Tsui, take the A21 bus and trust me, you won't be lost because there is computer screen which actually displays the next stops etc.

Dodgy..Dodgy..

If you are planning to stay at these places, make sure you remember the building's name and the hostel that you are staying. Because there are alot of con-man hanging around the streets nearby these buildings and they will approach you (if you are carrying luggage bag) and tells you that you got the wrong address and they will take you to somewhere else if you fall for their trick. Just be brave and go ask the security guards in blue uniform about the address if you are not sure.

Super tiny bathroom

My small little room, cost only RM61 per night.

Without wasting time, I checked-in and dumped all my luggage in the room and head straight to the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station to start my adventure in Hong Kong.

Anyone wanna guess what MTR station is this?

First stop will be Sham Shui Po MTR station which are 4 stations away and it costs HK$4 (RM1.78). At Sham Shui Po MTR station,look for Exit C2 and head towards Apliu Street Flea Market because the street is well known for selling bargain-priced new and second hand electrical devices and electronic products.

While walking around the street, this stall caught my attention. This stall sells roasted chicken, roasted pork and roasted goose. It's the same as those chicken rice stalls in Malaysia but these stalls are different because of the varieties they have. Don't expect a packet of chicken with roasted pork and rice to be RM 4 or RM 5.

If I am not wrong, a packet can cost up to HK$20 and above.

The amount of people lining up to buy from this stall is unbelievable.

This place is like our very own Plaza Low Yatt, just that this place is more cramp and packed.

My first meal for the day in Hong Kong.

Instant noodle served with fried egg and pork chop and ice milk tea, HK$23 (RM10.25).

One of the shopping centres in Sham Sui Po.

Second stop will be the famous Mongkok MTR station (Exit D3), whereby Ladies Market and Sports Shoes Street are located. At the Ladies Market, you can find bags, accessories and inexpensive women's clothing. There are also toys and souvenirs such as T-shirts etc for sale. As a general rule, if you are interested in an item, you can ask for about price and when please think twice before you counter offer. I had a friend who offered to buy a pair of shoes at a price and when the seller agrees, she changed her mind and decided not to buy. She was scolded by the auntie and I thought it was really funny the way she "scolded" my friend.

Ladies Market (Tung Choi Street)

Krispy-Kreme for donut lovers.

The Sports Shoe Street is actually beside the Ladies Market street so once you see a street whereby all the shops are selling sports shoes, jerseys, sports accessories and etc, you know you are at the Fa Yuen Street. Make sure you get yourself a few pairs of shoes here because its cheaper compared to the shops in KL and there alot more choices. All genuine stuff. Can't bargain unless there isn't any price tag around the product. Besides that, you can find alot of restaurants and stalls selling interesting food.

Sports Shoe Street (Fa Yuen Street).

I bought myself a pair of Nike shoes at HK$ 341 (RM 152) and when compared to the price in One Utama yesterday, they are selling for RM 199.00

Next, I walked from Mongkok and all the way to Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui for about 30-45 minutes. For those who don't know how far, you can click here.

Andy Lau's handprint

Avenue of Stars

It was around 11pm by the time I reached back the hostel and I grabbed a quick supper at a nearby McDonald restaurant and starts planning for tomorrow's journey with all the tourist booklets I got from when I reached the airport.

SUNDAY, 7th September

As I need to check out by 12pm, I woke up around 930am to take the MTR to Jordan Station from Tsim Sha Tsui. Take the Exit A and look for G/F, 63 Temple Street where you can find this famous Mido Cafe, which has retained its interior design and furnishings for 60 years. If you can't find this cafe, ask around or find the Tin Hou Temple and its just beside the Mido Cafe.

Mido Cafe

Try their famous egg tarts, milk tea and coffee, baked rice with pork ribs, and iced red bean and lotus seed drink as those mentioned above are all its signature dishes. Do come early as places are limited unless you don't mind waiting.

Hot bun stuffed with Butter (Bor Law Yau)

The Baked Pork Rice

I forgot how much was my breakfast but its defintely not cheap too, but worth giving it a try for a local breakfast "feel". Right across the Mido Cafe, this is the Tin Hau Temple I was talking about.

Where the senior citizens compete with each other in a "bloody battle" of chess games and catching up sessions..

After checking out, I took a 15 minutes walk to the Star Ferry Pier for a ferry ride to Wan Chai. My destination is actually to the Park Lane Hotel which is located at Causeway Bay but if I were to take the MTR straight to Causeway Bay, I will need to pay HK$10.50 (RM4.68) and since I have the time, I decided to walk to Star Ferry Pier and take a 10 minute ferry ride to Wan Chai which only cost HK$2.20 (RM1.03) and along the way, I saw the Clock Tower..

Star Virgo..

Star Ferry Pier

Ferry ticket vending machine

Picture taken from the waiting hall and that's the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.

People rushing to get into the ferry

Air-conditioned room at the front of the ferry.

Upon reaching the Wan Chai Ferry Pier, you will see the bus terminal. Those who want to go Shenzhen, you can take a bus here. As for me, I went straight to the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre and Golden Bauhinia Square to snap some pictures.

Golden Bauhinia Square. Click here for more information on the GBS.

There are only a few ice-cream vans of this kind left in Hong Kong. Famous for their super soft ice-cream (HK$7 or RM 3.12)

After snapping some pictures around, I was on my way again to the Wan Chai MTR station to take a train to the Causeway Bay (HK$4). Along the way, I saw this famous 3 letter words..

Lee Kum Kee, the famous oyster sauce.

When I came out from the Causeway Bay MTR station, I was so shocked to see the streets at Causeway Bay packed with Indonesians and I suddenly felt like I am in Jakarta as I could understand their language as I walked past them.

Sunday is actuall their day off and these Indonesian maids are out meeting their friends and doing some shopping in Sogo and Times Square or have picnic at the Victoria Park.

Weather was freaking hot and it was a good sweat out session. After I checked-in into my hotel, I was too lazy to go out again and decided to rest awhile until my stomach feels hungry.

The view from my hotel room.

Around 5pm, I went out to explore the area around my hotel until I saw this small little restaurant which this famous traveller ate at this restaurant before..

Let's give it a try

Wan Tan Mee with "ping pong size" Wan Tans (HK$28 or RM 12.49)

After the meal, I took another few steps and I saw this bakery shop selling fresh egg tarts.. Should I buy?

Of course, I should buy

Super delicous HK$5 (RM2.23) egg tart.

Watching movies at cinema ain't cheap too, the price is about HK$70 (RM31.22) and early birds need to pay about HK$40 (RM17.84) on weekdays. For the remaining hours of the day, I met up with my client and another colleague and we had dinner at nearby Japanese resturant and walked around before taking an early rest so that we don't feel tired at work the next day.

MONDAY, 8th September

Our office are located ontop of a shopping complex called the CityPlaza One at TaiKoo Shing. Having lunch here and almost everywhere is crazy, you have to make reservation and if you don't, be prepared to stay back for OT because I am pretty sure you will be back late into the office after lunch. The 3 of us had our early lunch around 1155am and ate at a Chinese restaurant which the bill comes up to HK$440 (RM 196.24). We had claypot chicken, dim sums, fried rice, vegetables and some pork meat.

As for dinner, we had

Porridge with alot of oysters..

Hong Kong kai-lan

Not chicken or fish fillet

Squid actually...taste damn bloody good

Recycled chicken head...

Dinner was HK$215 (RM 95.89) , so you judge for yourself if the food is expensive or not.

TUESDAY, 9th September

Since one of my colleague has never been to Hong Kong, I took her to Avenue of Stars to watch the Symphony of Lights before going to the Mongkok for dinner. At Mongkok, we had Wan Tan Noodles again.

HK$20

After our dinner, we walked around the Ladies Market and Sports Shoe Street before going into this famous dessert shop called Hui Lau Shan.

Coconut with bird nest...HK$48 (RM21.40)

My Mango Pudding in Mango Juice with extra Mango..HK$30 (RM13.38)

WEDNESDAY, 10th September

Lunch was at Food Republic and I had roasted goose with roasted pork

HK$40 (RM17.84)

For dinner, we had ramen at Crystal Jade in Times Square and after that, we went to somewhere nearby where its famous for the..

Crispy bun with condensed Milk (Around HK$ 11 or RM 4.90)

Crispy pork chop bun (HK$22 or RM 9.81)

Very good stuff. Sorry, I don't have the address :P

THURSDAY, 11th September

Dinner was at Mongkok this time. We went to this special restaurant called the Modern Toilet Restaurant. This restaurant resembles a washroom, having ice cream served in a container shaped like a squat toilet or brownie and spaghetti served in a container shaped like a wash basin.

At Mongkok MTR Station, look for Exit E2.

Ask around for Room 3B, MPM, 240-244 Portland Street, Mongkok.

Everyone sitting on toilet bowls.

Tadaa~~~my "Spare Ribs in Wuxi Style".

Black Tea with Ice Cream

Fried Chicken Wings..HK$25 (RM11.15)

Seafood Steamboat..HK$82 (RM36.57)

On our way back, we went to KFC as their egg tarts are also highly recommended by one of my client's staff. And she wasn't lying, this egg tart really taste damn good.

HK$5.50 (RM2.45)

FRIDAY, 12th September

Before leaving for the Hong Kong International Airport, I bought 48 egg tarts from the Macau Restaurant and each egg tart costs HK$7 (RM3.12) before heading to Central's IFC Mall to take the Airport Express train to the Airport. One way is HK$100 (RM44.60).

I "lup" the egg tarts :P

Money No Enough II

2008-09-06T01:09:00.003+08:00

Last Tuesday after work, I quickly packed and was planning to reach home before 8pm so that I can continue playing Resident Evil 4 on my Nintendo Wii. But as I was coming down the escalator at Avenue K, I was terrified to see the huge amount of people lining up just to get pass the entrance machine where you slot in your LRT ticket and tap your Touch N Go card.

It was pretty obvious that the trains are facing technical difficulties (it happened during the morning rush hour also) and in order to keep matters under control, they do not allow everyone to get pass the entrance machine for the fear of chaos, people fainting etc.

I knew that if I were to line up and wait for my turn to get into the LRT, it would probably need to take me an hour or more, JUST TO GET INTO THE DAMN TRAIN. Therefore, I decided to catch a movie all by myself.

Few days after the launch of this movie, I received alot of positive feedback from my friends and colleagues who have already watched the movie. All I can say is that Jack Neo's movies never fail to entertain me especially when jokers like Henry and Mark are part of the film. But the spotlight should actually go to Lai Meng, the veteran who played as as their mother in the movie.

Jack managed to combine all real life situations involving money and anyone of us will surely experience that particular situation as we grow older each day. Have you actually thought of jumping out of the rat race but you couldn't do so because you are afraid that you might fail in your plans, not enough money to survive after quitting your "Rat race" job. There's once, a person told me, "Money is enough only when you are unable to calculate exactly how much you have in your bank and including your assets." Think about this statement.

Well, just go watch the movie, enjoy the few scenes which will really make you laugh till you fall off your chair and please, understand the meaning of the whole movie towards the end. Bring along a few packets of tissue papers as well.

I am going off to Hong Kong tomorrow so see you guys a week later.

No More Hey Hey You You!

2008-08-21T00:15:00.003+08:00

Merdeka Merdeka~ Malaysia Boleh once again. For those who have bought Avril Lavigne's concert tickets, I can feel your anger, frustration and sadness. Avril Lavigne's concert has been cancelled at the very last minute. Thanks to who? This time, the culprit making the headline is the Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Shafie Apdal (I don't even know he exists).

You can visit this link for further information but I can tell you, its all rubbish excuses. Its the same as the incident when Man Utd tour to Malaysia was cancelled to make way for the Asian Cup and I was so bloody frustrated that time. Check out the story here.

Among the lame excuses given were:-

a) the concert falls during the nation's independence period and was not a suitable time to hold such a concert.

b) the Ministry does not want the independence and the near Ramadan month to be filled with such pop and rock culture.

c) we should be instilling good culture in the young.

WTF, rite? In a way, they are saying everything related to Avril is a bad culture and those under 18 should not be listening to her songs and its affecting those celebrating Ramadan. I think they would prefer you guys to stick to Barney and Friends or Teletubbies songs.

The Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister has planned for many events for Aug 29th and he does not want the concert to "steal the limelight" from his events, therefore he cancelled it. But would you guys be that patriotic to attend even if Avril's not coming at the first place? Feel free to criticise me for not being patriotic because I don't even feel like celebrating this year's National Day, thanks to those rulling ~~bastards~~ angels running the country.

If Avril is such a bad culture and threat to Malaysia's culture, why allow the sale of Avril's CDs and they should ban people like Kanye West or Will.I.Am who goes around singing if you are ugly, that's because your mother is ugly.

If Avril agrees to sing and perform by wearing baju kurung throughout the whole concert, I think Minister Shafie Apdal would change his mind.

If this kind of lame shit goes on with other international artists, Malaysia will be the first country that they will blacklist and everyone now must go to Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore or Hong Kong to catch these international stars.

Noob Fella.

This Lift Is Going To?

2008-08-12T21:19:00.002+08:00

Have you ever asked something silly without yourself realising it? I guess almost everyone experience it before. Well, I just experienced it last Monday and let me share with you how noob one person can be.

Currently I am back in KL attending training for this whole week. Our training venue is at this building's 10th floor (Block C of Megan Avenue II) which is about 20 storeys high. During the break, my colleague and I went up to 16th floor where our main HQ is located, to fill up our drinking bottles.

After filling up our bottles, we were at the 16th floor, waiting for the lift to take us back to the 10th floor but when the lift arrived, we went in straight without realising it..

Colleague : Eh, the lift is going up.

Me : Aiyar, never mind-la. Still got time before the training session continues.

(Ting~~ Lift stops at 20th floor and a man steps in and technically logically speaking the lift is already at the highest floor and it couldn't go anywhere beyond 20th floor)

Noob Man : The lift is going down, is it?

Colleague : Yeah, it's going down.

Me : (Gave a blank stare at the Noob Man until we left the lift). Hey, I can't believe you just answered him just now. What on earth is that noob asking? He came into the lift at the 20th floor which is already the highest that a lift can go. You know what? We should have tell him that this lift is going up to heaven and welcome him onboard.

Colleague : Hahaha..I didn't realise that too.

Shot(s) over the Weekend

2008-08-11T00:57:00.012+08:00

Since I started this blog, most of the friends that "appeared" in my blog are mostly my college friends. And because of that, sometimes I get teased by a few of my ex-schoolmates saying that they are not important anymore..bla bla la di da. The truth is, they are studying overseas and that explains how limited our chances are when comes to hanging out together.

But today, ladies and gentleman, welcome to this exclusive sneak preview or should I say, "The first time ever appearance by Miss Wong in my blog." LOL. I have known her since Form 1 and being a KIND, GOOD & CONSIDERATE friend, I decided to take a bus down to Singapore on a Friday night (25th July) and celebrate her birthday over the weekend.

Earning RM and having to spend S$ is a very tough challenge for me and as a first step, I asked around and found out that Transnasional buses only charges RM 30 for a trip to Sg and RM 50 back to KL. The bus left Puduraya around 1030pm as scheduled but around 1230am, we had to stop at some rest area because of oil leakage. In between that 2 hours, those sitting behind including me have been "sniffling" diesel and we thought it was normal until one of the passenger went to complain. Cut the story short, I reached Singapore's Lavender Street around 530am and managed to catch a few hours nap before starting the day.

By the time everyone gets ready, it was already lunch time and being the special guest, I get to choose what to eat for lunch. Anyway, the birthday girl eats almost anything and the first thing that came to her mind was the Onion Loaf (Full Loaf) in Orchard Road's Tony Romas.

WSY with her love, the oily Onion Loaf

In Msia, Tony Romas does not serve pork ribs and when you are in Singapore, do give it a try. We had Chicken Caesar Salad, Onion Loaf, the Original Baby Backs and St.Louis-Style Ribs. Really good stuff.

Siao Ning, Ray, Eddie and me. Birthday girl has the privilege to be the camera-woman.

In the month of June, I was in Singapore also and WSY took me to Attica and Gotham on Fri and Sat night. Since then, we were discussing which other clubs have "Siu Mui Mui" and "pretty handsome guys" and Butter Factory is the answer if you prefer younger crowds.

Butter Factory (Did not bring my camera along >_<")

This is my first time going into a club for free just by showing my namecard and identification card. Luckily Ray, SNing and myself kept our namecards wherever we go and poor Eddie and SYenn need to pay for cover charge with 2 drinks free (basically you are paying for it).

Time for B52!!

SYenn was so excited when the young ~~Siu Mui Mui~~ waitress told us that if we purchase selected shots during the happy hour (11pm-12am), we get additional one for free. Guess what? We ordered 6 shots of Slippery Nipple and 6 shots of Sex On The Beach.

(6+6)+(6+6) = 24 shots :)

That night itself, I think we ordered around 30 shots and with WSY around, 30 shots are never enough.

Ain't she funny..

Wong Siao Yenn, Happy Birthday and you still owe Eddie and me Maggi Curry Noodle. She cheated us that she will cook Maggie Curry while the both of us go and buy McDonald's nearby but when we are back, she's sleeping like a pig.

The journey back to KL was even horrifying. One Indian lady started singing Tamil songs from N.Sembilan and all the way back to KL. I was so irritated and "sshhhh-ed" at her twice. It was kinda loud and for a normal person, you will just shut the hell up and sleep, rite? She giggled and she continued singing. What the hell, rite?

I am Back.

2008-08-06T23:43:00.004+08:00

Yes. I am back once again. I did mentioned that I am going to stop updating my blog but hey, humans are fickle minded creatures and I am not an animal, therefore I can be fickle minded sometimes. Yeah, I was lazy in updating my blog partly and decided to stop it completely that time because of the following reasons:

Lazy to upload photos;

"Hormones unbalanced" for a period of time and

I was and I am still busy spending time with my new girlfriend.

Yea, she's quite fair and prettttty and cool. Let's talk about how I met her. I met her long time ago online and wasn't really interested in her or make the first move because she has this expensive pricey look and cheap ass like me couldn't afford having a girlfriend like her. Oh, she is also everyone's desire because apparently, alot of guys out there likes her too. But my whole impression of her changed since I went to Singapore twice during the month of June and July. My friend talked me through and instantly, I was interested in her already. From then on, everything is history and its up to me to make the first move...and let me introduce her now.

Still want me to intro her name? She takes 2nd spot and Ms.City is still my first wife.

Faster step down!

2008-07-11T00:43:00.004+08:00

Today our beloved Prime Minister made an announcement that he will be stepping down in mid 2010 and pass over poor Malaysian's fate to the hands of his deputy, Najib.

Everyone knows PM can tell wonderful lies. For example, no petrol price hike this year then midnight raise to RM2.70. Najib will probably feel very happy about it, maybe because PM might just step down within 2 months or maybe within 2 weeks? Haha..

Bunch of monkeys. He should have step down long time ago.

Indonesia's KFC sucks!

2008-06-26T23:06:00.004+08:00

I am currently down with food poisoning in Balikpapan, Indonesia. On the extreme side, I have never made so many trips to the toilet in my life before. I have never really like Indonesia food because its either very oily or its fried stuff.

Back to my trauma, my colleague and I went to Balikpapan for a one week assignment and our hotel, the Grand Tiga Mustika is about 20 minutes walk away from the only shopping centre nearby. Side-track awhile, when I was in Palembang last month, my colleague and I did not try the KFC even when we ran out of choice because the menu really looks like crap, not appetizing at all. But this time, we decided to give it a try.

The combination of the KFC menu in Indonesia is damn freaking weird. Trauma No.1 is the menu. One or two fried chicken with white rice/french fries served with a drink? How appetizing can it be? Of course, I chose the fries instead of rice. Trauma no.2 is the chilli sauce. Chilli sauce is supposed to be spicy but the one I had taste salty (feel like puking now). Trauma No.3 is the damn fried chickens. Freaking tasteless.

KFC is an international brand and at the level of expectation is that at least all their friend chickens taste the same. Besides that, I am sure they will customize their menu to suit the local taste but white rice and fried chicken? I am so tempted to write to the CEO or CFO of the KFC International to invite them over to Indonesia and try their own KFC.

Trauma No.4 is my 9th trip to the toilet now. Bye!

Don't you ever try the KFC in Indonesia. Pissing me off.

My beloved Prime Minister

2008-06-13T00:38:00.009+08:00

Today our beloved and honest Prime Minister made an announcement again. I am not sure if you guys should feel happy or you should pee in your pants because of the scary feeling, the feeling of being cheated and the feeling of not able to survive anymore due to increase of price in almost anything and everything.

The headline from the StarNewspaper, "FUEL PRICE INCREASES CAPPED". Here are the highlights,"However, the Government realised that the rakyat is still trying to adapt to the higher petrol prices. The Cabinet has thus decided there will be no more increase this year.” I'm seriously wondering if he is going to give us all a BIG SUPRISE again tomorrow or next week, if you get what I mean. If you don't, it shows that you have not been reading newspaper and especially the honest statements made by our Prime Minister.

Talking about us, the rakyat trying to adapt to the higher petrol prices... He also mentioned that Ministers' and deputy ministers' allowances will be slashed by a WHOOPING 10%..(excuse me, 10%?) and their PAID HOLIDAYS limited to local and ASEAN destinations to help the Government to save RM2 billion this year.

PAID HOLIDAYS limited to local and ASEAN destinations? What the hell is this man? Does that mean that all this while our ministers have been using the rakyat's (taxpayer) hard-earned money and visit Europe, Africa, North Pole and probably around the world? Who knows? They might have made a few trips around the world with our parents' money and our money. I don't think this is fair because we earn our own money and travel using our own money. These baskets travel for free and worst of all, Europes etc. Do they go alone? I don't think so..I am sure they brought their wives and kids. Click here if you don't know what am I talking about.

Sometimes, I just feel like smashing my laptop's screen or tear the newspaper whenever I read those sincere comments made by our Prime Minister. Let me quote some sentences made by him and also my humble comments:

"The savings will be channelled to subsidies for low-income groups,"

- How? What? When? Who? So damn vague and he thinks we are stupid. What an intelligent statement!

“Everybody will have to be thrifty in these difficult times, including the Government. Therefore, we are taking these measures to ensure administrative expenses are spent wisely. We have to show leadership by example.”

- Show leadership by example? Slash all the entertainment expenses and pay for your own holidays lor...show by example~ma!! Take public transport to work~la instead of having a driver.

"Official overseas trips will be limited to important international or inter-governmental meetings, with not more than three officers sent, and even then only those directly involved."

- Does that mean that previously its a practise to bring a big group of cheerleaders along to official meetings?

I was rather quite pissed the day when he announced that the price is going to be increased to RM2.70/litre after midnight. I wouldn't have been so angry if he fulfilled his promise that we might see an increase in August instead of June or July. But within a few hours, he made that announcement and the whole nation went havoc, feeling cheated and feeling depressed heading towards the petrol station to pump petrol for the very final last time at RM1.92/litre before saying goodbye to the familiar numbers.

The very next day, he asked us to ubah gaya hidup(change our lifestyle). Bloody hell, he just indirectly changed our lifestyle over the night with the surprise announcement without giving us a warning or a timeline. Change lifestyle. I suggest that the ministers and PM himself try taking public transport to work, get squeezed like sandwich in LRT/KTM and don't use the policemen's help to clear the way for this big shots during traffic jam hours.

Do you all remember when he said that the Parliament will not be dissolved when speculations were flying around? Few hours later, he dissolved the Parliament for the coming general election.

Like what he said just now,"We have to show leadership by example." Tomorrow I will go to my boss and say,

"Boss, I love working with you. I will never quit and will die for this company." Before 545pm, I hand in my resignation letter. Our beloved PM taught me this trick.

"Boss, I will secure this client's business for you. Sure can help you hit the revenue target this year". Next moment, I quit and join my client's company and seek for the services of my boss's competitor. Our beloved PM taught me this method.

"Dad, I will help you to bank-in this money by evening at the nearest bank." Next moment, I bank-in all my dad's money into Genting's casino cash deposit machine. My beloved PM taught me this.

"Father-in-law, I am going to propose to your eldest daughter next week. Can I have your blessing?" Next moment, I proposed to his youngest daughter. PM ajar punya.

"Students, I will give you all some tips for tomorrow's exam. I will be testing you guys on capital restructuring and forex exchange. Please study!!" Next day, I hand out the exam paper about Ethics and Corporate Governance. Muahaha..caught ya'all students!! I am a big fan of PM, must act and talk like him!

Oh well, imagine if everyone follows him as an example, Malaysia will be a fun country to live in. Don't you think so? I trully agree. Sometimes I wish he can just shut his mouth and continue sleeping like how he does during official meetings or official opening of an event.

Personally, I feel that it can be true that the price of fuel wont rise again for this year. Why? Because UMNO general election coming~ma. We shall see what happens after December.

Disney's Beauty & The Beast, The Broadway Musical

2008-06-11T18:24:00.005+08:00

When I was a young, I grew up watching Disney's Beauty and the Beast. And now, CIMB Bank is presenting the broadway musical to all lucky Malaysians, first time ever staged in Malaysia and have seen by over 25 million people and won a number of international awards.

Disney's Beauty & The Beast, The Broadway Musical
Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
24 June - 3 July 2008 , 3:00 pm & 8:00pm

Belle and the Beast

Lumière the candelabra and Cogsworth the clock

Looks familiar?

Who wants to go?

I want to go!! I want to go!!

Devar's 12 Sprint

2008-06-09T22:22:00.014+08:00

Last Sunday, I had 2 invitation to the Devar's 12 Sprint which is being held for the 3rd successive year at the Selangor Turf Club. I was kinda excited because I have never been to a turf club in my life and its a rich man's game depends on how you see it.

Cute invitation card

Since its a VIP event, they gave us a RM6 parking ticket and we do not need to pay another RM6 for entrance as we just need to show them the invitation cards. The fully covered white tent with air-conditioned was set up at the left hand side of the field with a clear view of the race track.

The best shot by the security guard after 3 attempts

Most of the guests are uncles and aunties..we are the youngest there :)

Buffet lunch (Fried calamari, oysters, prawns, mussels, lamb, ice kacang, laksa, bak-chang, special sausages, fried rice, sphagetti, desserts etc etc)

And free flow of Devar's 12

Its free seating so we had to sit with another 8 uncles who speak fluent Hakka and one of them saw me wearing the Polo T with a number 3, he immediately bought the no.3 horse and he lost..

His friend is disappointed with him. By the way, for those who are lazy to step out to watch the race, they can watch the live race on the left tv. The right TV is showing the live race from Hong Kong while the middle one shows the betting odds.

Addict gamblers.

Another view of the turf club

Surrounded by gamblers

Everywhere you go, you can see people holding a book and a pen or staring at the tv for the latest odds.

Since I am here, I should follow the crowd and analyse what they do before they place their bets. After the first 2 races, I noticed that these folks will stand near this area whereby the competing horses will walk in circles so that the the public can analyse the horses from the size etc.

Pick your choice

I think horse no.3 not bad..let's bet on horse no.3!!

Being a newbie, I seriously have no idea on how to bet as there are a few categories for you to choose before telling them which horse you wanna place your bets on. All I know is the minimal bet is RM5 and I just handed the cash over to her and told her that I WANT HORSE NO.3 TO WIN!!! Funny part was she asked which category that I wanted and all I can do is give her the stoned-look as I couldn't hear anything she explained. I just said, ANY WILL DO.

Counters to place your bets.

Race No.3, Horse No.3

Before the race starts, the jockeys will ride around the circle with their horses and the crowd will rush to the side again to look at their pick and start making funny remarks bout their pick and other horses.

Can find horse no.3?

The horses reaching the finishing line...where's my horsie???

MISERABLE 5th place, I think.

The winning horse comes in through this Winners Gate where everyone can catch a glimpse of the jockey and the horse.

Horse no.12

Lucky draw also no luck...Sigh

By the way, there's one race which the horse went cuckoo and ran the opposite way while the other jockeys ride their horses to the starting line. Those gamblers who bet on horse no.12 for that particular race were making hell lots of noise so that this horse will be pulled out from the race and get their refunds back. Haha...horse gone cuckoo

Oh well, it was a memorable experience for me and thanks to Dewar's for organising this event.

Someone LIED again!!

2008-06-04T23:34:00.009+08:00

As I was driving out from my house around 8am, the radio deejays were requesting the public to call in and give their feedback on the news about the so-called new fuel subsidy scheme etc. The public was speculating that the price of fuel might hit up to RM4.00/Litre. I can't imagine how my life will change if it ever reaches RM4.00.

From 4pm onwards, I kept refreshing my IE to get the latest news as our "beloved" Prime Minister is scheduled to make an announcement. Bloody hell, RM2.70/Litre? Correct me if I am wrong, I read in the newspaper that the BN and those big shots promised the rakyat that there will be no hike in fuel prices by probably end of the year but now, WHAT THE ~~FUCK~~ HELL!?!?

Bloody hell, increasing the price by 40% is equivalent to slashing our salaries by 40% or even more as my favourite Bak Kut Teh, Nasi Lemak, Steamboat, Pan Mee, Jap Food, every single damn thing will go up.

During my primary school days, I was taught by my teacher that Malaysia is one of the largest oil producing countries. Yipee...logically, the fuel should be dirt cheap compared to other countries rite? May I direct your attention to the table below..

Source: Malaysia Today

and MALAYSIA BOLEH!!! RM 2.70/Litre is definitely at the top position or we call it the pole position in F1 terms.

On the other side, we have a RM625 cash rebate per vehicle with engine capacities of up to 2000cc which we're getting roughly RM52.0833 cash rebate per month. On average, we visit the petrol station 2-3 times. Whatever it is, the more I count, the more sad and headache I get. Go work out the calculations yourself.

By the way, buying old and unwanted steel junks from Russia and sending some moron to the space and make teh tarik and roti canai was a PURE WASTE of rakyat's money.

By the way, I have something interesting to share with you guys!

"Abdullah is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964, having originally wished to pursue a degree in Economics but failing to meet the required standard after failing his statistics paper." Click here for the source.

And he is also the Finance Minister? Pui!!!!! He doesn't even have a proper education on finance and economics and he is the Finance Minister? What nonsense? Its like asking me to be the Minister of Health when I know nuts about it. Why does he like to tell lies?

First, Parlimen tidak akan dibubarkan, next moment, sudah dibubarkan at the end of the day. Then, kerajaan jamin tiada kenaikan harga minyak, next moment, sudah make announcement to naik the price to RM2.70.

Can someone ask that bugger to step down and ask my boss to increase my salary and increase my mileage claims?

See you guys at Kelana Jaya LRT station and KLCC station. Sigh..

Caught in the Act

2008-05-26T18:04:00.009+08:00

Iggy and Beauty Chock are best friends and both graduated from ACCA sometime ago. Both of them had a steady job in the world's leading accounting firm, YE and GMPK. One day, YE's partners found out that Iggy has been spending unimaginable huge amount of time playing Parking Wars, Who has the Biggest Brain, Bowling Buddies, Friends for Sale, SuperPoke, Office Poke and scribbling other people's Wall in Facebook. In fact, it was the 3rd time that they caught him Facebooking during office hours.

Immediately, they terminated his contract with YE. Poor auditor, now he has no job and have all the time in the world at home to Facebook everyday. Feeling very down and disappointed to be terminated by the YE's partners, Iggy called up Beauty Chock and shared his problems with her. Being a nice buddy, she planned a trip to Phuket to cheer him up and tries to persuade him to join GMPK. She also told him that there is rumour-rumour that all staff are allowed to Facebook every 45 minutes in office, this is to keep the employees' brain fresh and produce excellent work in casting and vouching without falling asleep. Sounds great rite? Immediately Iggy decided that he should work in GMPK but deep down inside, he knew that its very tough to get accepted into GMPK if there are no employees quiting GMPK in the near future.

How can he join GMPK? Murdering Beauty Chock is the best option around since no employees want to leave GMPK which provides good benefits and force them to Facebook every 45 minutes. Since then, Beauty Chock's days are numbered. Iggy is waiting to take action during their trip to Phuket's Prompthep Cape.

Beauty Chock and Iggy

Guess what happen next? Iggy pushed Beauty Chock down the slope.

Evil monster lizard

After watching Beauty's tragic fall, Iggy posed like some super hero character in Final Fantasy with the sunset backdrop.

Beauty Chock managed to survive the fall and had to rest for few days before she can resume work at GMPK. Iggy is currently eating Nasi Lemak everyday in Sungai Buloh Prison as he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for attempts to murder a beauty and a best friend for his own benefit.

Lame shit stories happen when I am bored.

Sandakan

2008-05-11T12:32:00.001+08:00

Sandakan, the second largest city in the state of Sabah was my final destination for this month of May. Once I was informed that I will be going to Sandakan, I went online and asked my friends especially RLJM to find out A-Z about Sandakan.

First on the menu is the Yau Char Kwai with Kaya from this place called Mile 4. This simple dessert can be DIY at home. Taste quite good actually. Once you ate one, you can't stop. Haha..

Kaya Yau Char Kwai

Sandakan is located on the east coast, therefore the seafood is cheap there. The locals came up with this dish called Seafood Bak Kut Teh. During lunch, we went to Kedai Syn Lok Bak Kut Teh which is situated at Bandar Nam Tung to solve our taste bud's curiosity...

Prawn Kut Teh?

Bak Kut Teh with meatballs

Fish Kut Teh?

Vege Kut Teh?

You must really try this dish if you happen to be in Sandakan, really taste delicious. You can also DIY at home but seafood in Sandakan is cheap. Total bill for the lunch is RM 33.80.

Nearby Bandar Nam Tung and up above the hill, PUU JIH SYH Temple offers a great view of the Sandakan town and the sea.

Unlike the Doi Suthep temple in Chiang Mai, the entrance into the PUU JIH SYH temple is free. But will be closed around 6pm onwards.

If you get hold of the Sandakan Map, you will find the icon or details of the famous Agnes Keith house and the English Tea House accessible using the Tangga Seribu or One Hundred Steps path. Confusing?

I think so too. Of course its not One Hundred Steps, its One Thousand Steps. Experiment will be done later.

Oh tragedy..look at the Tangga Seribu

Its been quite some time since I last exercised and going up the hill and Tangga Seribu almost killed me instantly (exaggerate). I am damn fit ok?! Let's visit the English Tea House and Restaurant first.

Entrance into the English Tea House and Restaurant

Nice view of the Sandakan town from the top

Next, the Agnes Keith House. The famous author who stayed in this house during her time in Sandakan. To name a few of her famous books, Land Below The Wind, Three Came Home and White Man Returns.Click here to find out more about her.

Entrance into the Agnes Keith House is only RM2 and closes at 5pm

At the entrance of the house, tourists are reminded not to snap pictures or record anything using their video camera or handphones. I am someone who follows such instructions because I do not want to see any unwanted images in my camera. Some say that the house is haunted although it has been refurbished but I had this spooky feeling when I stepped into the house.

During my visit there, there was no one in the house and it was darn quiet. After reading the history and admiring the old photos in the kitchen and living room, we went up to the second floor. I was the first to step into the master bedroom and once I stepped into the room, a lady in a blue baju kurung was slowly combing her long hair infront of the oval shape mirror. Upon seeing me, she slowly turned around and smiled then I realised she's actually the cleaner of the house. Damn it..why must she comb her in that manner?!?!

In that masterbed room, there is a small article about the haunted house. Obviously I read it and to make things worst, the freaking lady scared the shit out of me again. She walked around without a single creaking sound from the wooden floor. As I turn out of the room, there she was, walking in front of me again.

Dear Readers, I know she's a human because her feet is touching the ground ok?!

The Agnes Keith House

On our way back, my friend suggested that we should calculate the steps we take to reach the foot of the hill using the same way, Tangga Seribu.

After One Hundred Steps, he is not even halfway. LOL

Ok, its time for seafood dinner. RJLM suggested me to have seafood dinner at Pasir Putih and after checking with the local people, they gave us the direction using the map and advised us to take the taxi which can cost us up to RM 1O for one way for a 3-4 km distance. Being an adventurous and jimat-cermat guy , I decided that taking a bus with the locals are more fun. The fare was only RM1.50 for both ways.

Terminal Bas Sandakan

Pusat Makanan Laut Pasir Putih (Baru), Mile 2 1/2

Black pepper mantis shrimp (RM 35.00)

Kam Heong Crab (RM 12.00)

Steamed Grouper (RM 25.20)

Yau Mak (RM 6.00)

Next time I will make my way back into Sandakan again to visit the world-famous Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve, precious home of the last wild Orang-Utans of Northern Borneo. Anyone wanna tag along to visit their cousins??

Palembang, Indonesia

2008-05-03T23:25:00.001+08:00

Sorry for the slow update once again. Hehe..shortly after I came back from Jakarta, I was on my way back into Indonesia again. My destination this time has something to do with Parameswara.

Definitely not Melaka because Melaka is not in Indonesia.

Answer : Palembang.

As far as I know, Palembang is not a tourist area and its more of a commercial and industrial area.

The roof-top swimming pool in Horison Hotel

Horison Hotel provides free shuttle service to the famous places in Palembang during the weekend. Since its free, why not just hop on the van and walk around rite?

On Saturday night, I checked with the receptionist in the hotel regarding the places printed on the map of Palembang and also the places which the hotel provides free shuttle to bring us there.

During the war in Palembang many many years ago, they built this wall...

Benteng Kuto Besak

Right hand side of the Benteng

I thought there is a museum behind the Benteng but as we walked pass the entrance. We were stopped by the guard and he said that visitors are not allowed to go in because this is military area. Damn.. come all the way here just to see the wall?!?!?!

Just opposite the Benteng, its the Musi River.

18-SX

This is the Ampera Bridge, the main characteristics of Palembang. It was built on 1962-1965 and has 78m high of tower.

When you are around this area, those boat owners will approach you and offer to take you to other small island nearby Palembang. Especially the Kemaro Island which is about 6 kilometers from the Ampera Bridge.

The boat ride was kinda fun because:-

1) No lifejacket was provided;

2) During the journey, the boat was making all sort of weird sound as if its gonna sink everytime it hits the wave created by other boats;

3) the unlucky one will get a taste of the brownish water from the Musi River

The Chinese vihara (klenteng Hok Tjing Rio) which are under renovation when we were there. Kemaro island is a famous place among the Chinese as the religious event Cap Go Meh is held there very Chinese New Year.

Lastly, an image of the Ampera Bridge during the night.

Jakarta, Indonesia

2008-04-22T23:51:00.022+08:00

Hmm..what can I say about Jakarta? I have never been to Jakarta but I sort of expect the city to be something like KL. Guess what? I personally think Kuala Lumpur is way much better, obviously.

Come to Jakarta if you love traffic jams..

Come to Jakarta and take their ~~Lan Jiao~~ Blue Bird Taxi, the most reliable transportation in the city because they have established a very reputation in terms of quality of service and the usage of fare meter, if you get what I mean.

But most of the time, you will experience yourself waving your hand around your face just to shoo the mosquito away or if you are lucky like me......this is what you get

In Jakarta, its very normal to see people selling stuff along the road or even congested highways which have 3 lanes and close to residential area.

During one of the working days, I was offered a packet of lunch by one of my client's staff. Reason? It was his birthday so he bought everyone a packet of Nasi Ayam Penyet for lunch. Cute eh? Maybe next time for my birthday, I will buy Chicken Rice for my close friends.

During the weekend, we went to Ancol where the public can visit the 2 famous beaches (Carnival and Festival Beach) where there's cable car along the beach, a theme park called Dunia Fantasi, water parks like the Atlantis Water Adventure and SeaWorld.

Indonesia's foreign BeachBoys

In the cable car

One of the beaches

Sampan or boats for those who wanna "sail" out to the sea

The Atlantis Water Adventure Park

So~So~So Scandalous. Scroll up to see who..

Jakarta is also a place where you can find donuts...I mean famous donuts everywhere you go.

In Mal Kelapa Gading

Donuts

Shared and ate 6 donuts before exploring Mal Kelapa Gading

In the evening, we went to Ciputra which is a hotel cum shopping mall.

i-Crave donuts

Till now I still don't understand what does Baso Malang means..

By the way and before I forget, my 2 weeks stay at FM7 Hotel has been wonderful because its only a 3 stars hotel but the quality of the food and services are almost as good as 5 stars. Visit their website for more info because I forgot to take pictures of the hotel.

No..this is not FM7 Hotel..this is the famous Cathedral Church in Jakarta

The official name is Gereja Santa Maria Pelindung Diangkat Ke Surga, consecrated in 1901

Inside the Cathedral Church

Statue of Mother Mary carrying her son, Jesus

Looks like those european churches

The altar in the Cathedral Church

Another part of the church where this area is to pray to Mother Mary

Am I in Europe or Jakarta?

Food stall along the streets

In Thailand, we can find Tuk-tuks but in Indonesia...

They call it Bajaj

One of my mission in Indonesia is to get to Holland Bakery and buy the famous Kek Lapis and Kek Surabaya as humbly requested by Lin's mom. Came to this outlet to make some reservations to be collected on Sunday when I depart for Malaysia since they have an outlet in the airport.

Inside view of the Holland Bakery outlet

One thing quite special about Holland Bakery is that, they do bake Disney themed cakes

Kek Lapis Chocolate (104,000 Rupiah) and Kek Lapis Pandan

Kek Lapis Tikar and Kek Surabaya

Because I love my friends so much, I endured great challenges bringing Krispy Kreme and Holland Bakery Cakes back to Malaysia. On Sunday, due to some problems which my colleague encountered with the hotel, we were delayed for more than 45 minutes and I was so worried that I couldn't buy the the donuts and collect the cakes from Holland Bakery.

The Krispy Kreme shop is located at terminal 1 where my departure hall is at terminal 2. Luckily the hotel driver was patient and kind enough to let me do my last shopping. I was running with a heavy laptop bag on my back and struggling to get through the crowded airport and busy looking for the paper which consists of special flavours requested by my beloved friends.

After paying for the donuts, I was really wondering if I bought too much. I did not count the number of donuts and I just kept pointing and pointing and pointing at different donuts until the guy said,"Beli 6 lagi, baru ada diskaun" then only I stopped.

My colleague was quite shocked to see the number of donuts I bought and both of us rushed to the check-in counter before we can collect the cakes from Holland Bakery from the domestic departure hall. I had to run to another end of the airport again just to get the cakes and by the time I board the plane, everyone was staring at me as if I am selling donuts and cakes in Malaysia.

I definitely violated the rules and regulation. Each passenger is only allowed to carry a hand luggage not more than 7 kg. I thinkmy krispy kreme, cakes and laptop bag weighs more than 15 kg.

I can't imagine if they refuse to let me board the plane and force me to eat everything before I can board the plane.

I think I will die.

Teapot Cafe, SS 2

2008-04-06T01:10:00.001+08:00

Last Wednesday, I met up with my ex-colleague for dinner at SS 2's Teapot Cafe. The reason why we met up was to celebrate a few things.

1) I did not attend her farewell when she resigned a month ago.
2) To congratulate her for getting a new job.
3) Her ~~victim~~ boyfriend romantically proposed to her for marriage.

4) My promotion..

5) Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentines Day...wahahaha...

Name on plate

The bar or counter..whatever you call it

The Chicken Paprik Rice (RM 10.90) she had was quite good because its quite spicy.

My Chicken Kiev (RM 21.50). So-so only

She insisted on ordering this for dessert...

The Eclair Chocolate (RM 2.00) per piece....not bad..quite nice for a light dessert.

Catching up with her was really fun. She can crap non-stop and I don't understand how her boyfriend can stand her. I can tolerate her because.......we are the same kind. Hehe..

Miss Wong Chee San

Is this considered cam-whoring?

I hope not.

Hard Rock Cafe, Kuala Lumpur

2008-04-01T23:59:00.004+08:00

Grace Tan and I are very punctual employees. On March 21st, we left our respective offices sharp at 530pm and 545pm so that both of us can shop for "last minute" presents for the March Babies (Lin Lin, Jessica, Michelle and Jian Eu) and also Jack's belated birthday dinner celebration. Grace walked from Bukit Nanas Monorail Station to ZOUK so that I can pick her up from there while I get stuck in traffic jam. This time around, we chose Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur as the venue to celebrate their birthday as I have a RM50 voucher from Jit Jian for my own birthday gift last year. Thank you, JJ!

Grace Tan a.k.a the energetic, super semangat, power woman prepared a list of stuff that we needed to buy and do once we reach MV. After shopping for all the presents and "materials" and dinner at Nandos with Kok Fai, she reminded me the things that I need to do the next day.

First task : Go Ikea and buy a photo frame. (Around A3 size)
Second task : Buy birthday cake.

Guess what?! I bought the frame and I happily went to pick her up around evening and showed her the frame.

Grace Tan : Stephen? What is this? U bought this frame for yourself issit?

Stephen : No..The frame that you wanted lor..

Grace Tan : Why is the size so small?!?! I said slightly around A3 and RM 9.90 (RM 9.90 info given by Lin Lin)

Stephen : Yalar..RM 9.90 ma...correct lor..

Grace Tan : Nooooo...this is like bigger than A4 abit only.. I want bigger than A3!!

Stephen : Die..how ah?

Grace Tan : Let's call Michelle and Jian Eu if they can buy... (After the phone call)...Ok, they will buy before going to HRC.

Stephen : Phew...OK, let's go!

Grace Tan : Stephen..where is the cake?

Stephen : Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I forgot!!!

Grace Tan : I wanna faint!! Give you 2 simple task also fail miserably. Aiyorrrrrr...

Stephen : Argh..I need a personal assistant already. Come..faster!! Let's go buy the cake!

Both of us reached Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur and parking at Concorde Hotel was almost full until the management had to open up the tennis court so that other cars can park in. That night, HRC was quite packed with foreigers because of the Kuala Lumpur F1 Grand Prix the next day. Parties were held all around Kuala Lumpur which caused additional unwanted traffic jams.

Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur.

Lin and Jess.

Forgetful fella and Power Grace.

All of us took quite a long time to study the menu and it was really very hard to make a choice on what to order because you just feel like trying everything on the menu. Thanks to my mistakes, Jian Eu and Michelle reached half an hour late. Thanks Michelle and Jian Eu.

Min Hao and Jack.

For starters, we ordered..

Hard Rock Nachos - fresh corn tortilla chips piled high with Jack and Cheddar cheeses and seasoned pinto beans. Served with sour cream, chopped green onion, pico de gallo, jalapenos and a side of fresh Hard Rock Grilled Salsa.

Paul ordered..

Famous Fajitas - Choice of grilled chicken of beef served with pico de gallo, shredded Jack and Cheddar cheeses, fresh guacamole, sour cream, shredded lettuce and hot flour tortillas.

I ordered..

Hickory BBQ Bacon Cheeseburger - A fresh 7 oz. Certified Angus Beef hamburger, basted with their special Hickory Bar-B-Que sauce and smothered with caramelized onions. Topped with crisp seasoned bacon and melted Cheddar cheese.

The only reason why she took a photo with me is because of the burger...hehe

Jess also the same.. :(

Grace Tan ordered...

Herb Grilled Chicken Breast - A boneless, marinated half-pound chicken breast, grilled and marinated with fresh herbs, garlic and pure olive oil. Served on top of smashed potatoes, with oven-roasted mushrooms and a light herb sauce.

She only eats if I feed her.

Jack ordered...

Something which is not on the menu downloaded from the internet. Hahaha!!

Busy writing birthday wishes for each other during dinner...

Min Hao ordered...

Hickory Smoked Bar-B-Que Chicken - Famous Southern-styled, half chicken, ~~molested~~ rubbed, grilled and basted with their authentic Hickory Bar-B-Que sauce. Served with seasoned fries, fresh coleslaw and baked beans (missing from the plate).

Lin and Jess shared the...

Jumbo Combo - A delectable array of their most popular starters that's big enough to share. Includes Santa Fe Spring Rolls, Hickory-Smoked Chicken Wings, Onion Rings, Potato Skins and Tupelo Chicken Tenders. Served with 4 different sauces for mixing and matching.

Jian Eu ordered..

Marinara Pasta

Michelle ordered..

Cajun Chicken Sandwich - Grilled Cajun-spiced chicken breast, topped with seared Cajun Andouille sausage, melted Cheddar cheese and fresh lemon mayo. Served on a toasted bun with lettuce, tomato, red onions and seasoned fries.

Shortly after the waitress cleared up the table, its time to give out the presents...Michelle's first..

Grace Tan made the gigantic Stitch birthday card herself and we also bought a book for Michelle.

Lin asked Paul whether he knows what creature is that. He answered,"Pokemon?" I think its a good thing that he got it wrong. Proved that he is not into kiddish stuff. Haha

Jessica's...

Another masterpiece from Grace Tan.

Lin Lin's...

A box full of various types of dark chocolates.. My evil plan is to make Lin Lin chubby..

Her reaction was so funny when she saw the dark chocolates. Hehe..almost fainted!!

Jian Eu's..

Engraved pen with his name on it.

March Babies.

With Jack and Grace.

Jack was very fascinated with the Japanese "Mona Lisa" that night. That lady in the picture is actually Yoko Ono.

Get what I mean?

Honey Bee Cake.

Poor Jack can only have her birthday cake 2 months later. Happy ending for the night!

Thanks to the wonderful food and atmosphere in

*Those highlighted in yellow are additional facts that I left out. For more info, please read the comments.

Mu~ or Moo Burger?

2008-03-31T00:59:00.009+08:00

Recently, a friend of mine from Phuket came to Kuala Lumpur for a 2 days training course. Since she brought me around when I was in Phuket, its PAYBACK time. So we met up at KLCC and after taking a few photos with her and the twin towers, we went to SS15's Asia Cafe for dinner.

After dinner, we were talking about the time I had in Phuket's Patong Beach...

Stephen: Pikky, why isn't there any mu~~~ (pork) burger in Patong Beach's McDonalds? My friends told me to try the mu~~~ burger. My friend even tried one in the McDonalds in Chiang Mai's Night Bazaar.

Pikky: Got moo~~~ burger there. You did not ask properly?

Stephen: No..I asked the girl at the counter a few times. Do you have pork burger? Mu~~~ burger!! And she just kept shaking her head saying no.

Pikky: Cannot be. Can you pronounce again? Say pork burger again in Thai.

Stephen: Mu~~~ Mu~~~

Pikky: NO!!! Its moo~~~, not mu~~~!!! Do you have any idea what is mu~~~???

Stephen: Of course I don't know!! Your reaction sounds bad and look bad. What on earth is mu~~~?

Pikky: Hahaha... no wonder the girl at the counter kept saying NO!! Mu~~~ is

Stephen: What?? Snake burger?!?! Damn! Eh..but I am very sure I look at the menu and there's no Pork Burger!!

Pikky: Hehe..ok ok, I will check and let you know again. Hahaha

Stephen: ........ =_="

Kin San Kichi Japanese Restaurant

2008-03-27T19:08:00.007+08:00

Lately, I was really high on Japanese food. I just can't stop the craving. If I have a past-life, I think I am a Japanese Chef who always eat non-stop while preparing sushi or handroll for customers throughout the 4 seasons.

Chef Sutefupunu

Yesterday, Grace Chng, Sze Mei and I went to Desa Sri Hartamas for dinner. We went round and round to look for a parking and we realised that there are alot of Japanese and Korean restaurants around.

From where we parked our car, there are 3 Japanese restaurants available for us to choose from. After looking at the menus which are displayed outside the restaurant, we decided to give Kin San Kichi Japanese Restaurant a chance to impress our taste bud.

Eh, Grace! We forgot to take a picture inside the restaurant.

Fried Baby Crab (RM15.00) and Kani Karage Roll (Soft shell crab) (RM7.50)

Grace Chng's Kake Somen (RM15.00) and her Chawan Mushi (RM3.00)

I had Katsu Curry Rice (Pork Chop) as my main dish. Throughout the whole dinner, both of them ~~scooped and scooped and scooped~~ kept trying the curry from my plate. That shows how delicious the curry/gravy was. Anyway, its not spicy at all.

RM24.00

Sze Mei's Chicken Tepanyaki (RM16.00)

Thumbs up for this Kin San Kichi Japanese Restaurant. Worth trying.

Address : No: 16, Jalan 27/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel : 03-23003889

Kedai Ikan Talapia Lan Je

2008-03-24T19:05:00.005+08:00

Two months ago, I was working in Rawang for around 3 weeks. During that 3 weeks, I am certainly quite sure that we had the best food in Rawang for lunch. For those who loves eating fish, you must come to Rawang's Kedai Ikan Talapia Lan Je / Lan Je Fei Chow Yu (in Cantonese).

In a duration of 3 weeks, I visited this place 3 or 4 times for lunch. During my first patronage to this small restaurant beside the main road, my ex-manager said that the "practise" here is that each person orders a fish for him/herself and true enough, almost everyone is "practising" that.

My steamed Talapia Fish

Vege

Sweet and Sour Chicken

This restaurant is famous because of the Talapia Fish so don't other specialities from their menu. Thanks to my ex-manager, she made this place of my favourite place for lunch/dinner!!

Kedai Ikan Talapia Lan Je is open everyday except Tuesday.
Opening hours:- (11.30am - 3.00pm) and (6.00pm - 10.30pm)
Address:- No.27-28, Block C, Jalan Rawang, Gerai MPS Bt.16, 48000 Rawang, Selangor.

Call 012-3397800 if you do not know the direction.

Christmas in Year 2007

2008-03-12T22:26:00.002+08:00

Darn!! Christmas was 3 months ago! Anyways, for the past 3 years, I have been organising pot-luck Christmas party at my house because Christmas is not only about celebrating Jesus's birthday but also to share presents and food with your friends and family.

My new White Christmas tree

During year 2006, my talented friend, Hui Leng who is aspiring to be a famous chef-accountant made us all very delicious meals. No doubt, I asked her to repeat her wonderful feat again.

Hui Leng cooked all these with the help of the "Ham-Kas"

Spicy Sphagetti

Cynthia also contributed...she baked a mango cake.

Lastly, Grace Chng also baked a chocolate cake which I forgot to take a picture of it. Though its abit out of shape but at the end of the day, the chocolate cake is nowhere to be seen. The below picture is contributed by Grace Chng. Hehe~~

Can see the cake?

Jack and Michelle were busy tagging the numbers on the presents for the "Presents exchange session"

The following pictures are pictures of the "contributer and receiver". No couple couple but if you wanna know more or interested in any of the below "candidates", drop me an email. Hehe~

Lin Lin & Ze Yoon

Sue Leng & Rachel

Ming Hee & Chung Wei

Siew Han & Jit Jian

Kim Li & Ming Hee

Jessica & Hui Leng

Michelle & Sze Mei

Jian Eu & Foon Yee

Jack & Grace

Sze Mun & Jit Jian

Chin Pin & Michelle

Jian Eu & Ze Yoon

Grace & Jessica

Foon Yee & Iggy Wong Tai Loong....look at his hand! First time meet people somemore..

Michie & Sze Mei

Pui Gin & Mel

Kim Li & Chin Pin

Sze Mun & Kar Hseng

Cynthia & Pui Gin

Look here~la Cynthia. The camera is here!!

The contributer is Jun Seong but he wasn't free that night so Cynthia had to pose alone.

Lin Lin & @h PhEn

Aawww~~~

Sometimes when your buddy and you are posing for the camera,

make sure Sze Mun is not around, because she just like to belakang mari (come from behind)

Jessica, Rachel and Sze Mun

Ah~~ I am not ready!!!

OK, I am ready now!

The girls with Michelle & Jian Eu's Chocolate Fondue

Before I end this late entry on my 2007's Christmas, the highlight of the night was the reunion of 2 old friends or can I just say, "Friendships are forged once again through exchanging presents"?

Iggy Wong and Sue Leng

I love Christmas.

Election 2008

2008-03-09T04:18:00.006+08:00

Time now is 4:19am and I am still awake because I am too excited due to the on-going results of the Malaysia's General Election 2008. Let me tell you why am I so excited:

PM: ‘We’ve lost, we’ve lost’ - 4.12am
These were the only words which Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could muster when quizzed on the ruling coalition’s shocking defeat in five states.

Unofficial: BN denied two-thirds majority - 2.42am
According to unofficial tally, the opposition has apparently denied the ruling Barisan Nasional its crucial two-thirds majority by winning up to 82 parliament seats so far (PKR - 29, DAP - 28, PAS - 25). To deny the government two-thirds majority, the opposition must win 75 seats. On the other hand, BN has won about 130 seats. There are still a few more seats to be decided.

Unofficial: Opposition wins Selangor - 12.25am
Selangor has fallen into the hands of the opposition. PKR has earlier announced that its secretary-general Khalid Ibrahim will be named mentri besar. In Selangor, DAP has taken 35 seats (DAP - 15, PKR - 11 and PAS - 9) out of the 56 seats in the state. It is expected that DAP leader Teng Chang Khim could be picked as deputy mentri besar.

Unconfirmed: Samy is out - 9.43pm
Unofficial: MIC president S Samy Vellu has suffered a shock defeat at the hands of PSM’s Dr D Jeyakumar for the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat which he has held for nine terms. Jeyakumar polled 16,874 votes to Samy's 14,408. Today is Samy Vellu's 72nd birthday.

Those short news above are sources from Malaysiakini and I have only highlighted a few out of my many reasons to be excited! I am proud that the big guns like Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Teresa Kok Tony Pua, Jeff Ooi and etc from DAP and other opposition leaders made BN eat their own words of winning 2/3 majority in parliament.

Even the PM also said, "We've lost! We've lost!". Samy Vellu finally got thrashed after defending the damn seat for 9 terms. Happy Birthday, Samy Samy.New candidate, Yeoh Tseow Suan contesting for the first time for Subang Jaya (N31) also won. Very happy for her. Besides that, Selangor has fell into the hands of the opposition. The next few years will be quite interesting as the PM can't afford to fall asleep during meetings again because we have more opposition leaders in the parliament now to wake him up and fight for the rakyat and also make life hard for those who have been enjoying sucking easy money.

I will now let the statistics tell you why am I so excited.

* As at 5:13am

I am just too excited.

I am supporting DAP!!!

2008-03-03T23:50:00.003+08:00

I was kinda regret because I did not register for this year's general election. Anyway, the least I could do now is publish this entry to show my support for the political party which I would be voting if I registered at the first place. Recently, I was hooked to Lim Kit Siang's blog which I strongly recommend you guys to read or if you are lazy to read, PLEASE watch the short video clips of DAP's ceramah on YouTube.

According to the 100% accurate kennysia.com Who-To-Vote-This-Election Decision Generator™, I am SUPPORTING the...

DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY!

Who Should You Vote For This Election?

Disk Defragmentation

2008-02-22T19:52:00.006+08:00

2 months back, I had a Christmas party at my house. After everyone left, Ze Yoon, Grace Ch'ng, Rachel and I went to my room for a "let's catch up with each other session". Halfway through the chatting session, I had to use my company laptop to show them some stuff and...

Stephen : Stupid old laptop. Damn lagging!! See...hang kei again!

Grace : Haihs..how often do you defragment your disk?

Stephen : Aiyor, defragment what-la. How much can it help?

Grace : Can one!!

Stephen : Grace, its like asking your grandfather to go to the gym and jog 15 minutes on the treadmill and then do you think he will be very healthy and can run faster?

Ze Yoon : Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Grace : (Stamps her feet) Ish!!

Sorry-lah Grace. I know I am mean and sarcastic at times.

Anyways, for the full definition of disk defragmentation, click here.

Skipping Lunch?

2008-02-21T12:42:00.005+08:00

I have been wanting to talk about this issue long time ago until today, this issue happened again. I find it super duper annoying if you decided to skip lunch/dinner due to various reasons like :

1) You had heavy breakfast/meal and you are not hungry for lunch/dinner;
2) You are having stomach discomfort therefore you don't have the appetite;
3) You have lunch appointments but you do not want other people to know;
4) You had medication or food poisoning therefore you don't have the appetite;
5) You are fasting for a reason
6) You slept very late yesterday and want to take a power nap during lunch time
7) You have no money and the list goes on and on

and people come to you and ask, "Eh, why don't want to eat ? Wanna lose weight / kam fei is it?" This is the most common and general remark that people will say to the lunch skipper.

I think the best answer to answer these people are...

If I am skipping lunch means I wanna lose weight. Then if you are eating means you wanna gain weight is it?

Yes, its advisble to eat 3 meals a day to maintain a healthy lifestyle but if one decides to skip a meal, do not make such remarks~la.

As if you will feel hungry if that skipper is not eating. What?! Now the skipper's mouth is connected to your stomach is it?

Bye..Going for lunch now. Gonna update my Shenzhen trip soon!

Online Petition for Nian Ning

2008-02-05T00:40:00.000+08:00

On the 25th January, the same old accident happened again. This time, the accident took place at Slim River in Perak. When I first read the news, my instant reaction was "Crap, not again?!. How come these morons are still on the roads driving buses? "

I remembered once in late August when I was in Johor , it was bloody difficult to get a bus ticket back to KL because the bus drivers refused to drive due to the heavy inspection by the authorities. These morons have numerous or uncountable summonses against them. Yet, 6 months down the road and all these morons are not nabbed and are still employed to drive these buses.

Alot of people I know are really disappointed with the way Malaysia's authorities work. They only work their ass off if anything major happens and within few weeks or months, some of them will end up with their favourite, "Jom, pergi minum" or "Tak apa" atitude.

I don't need to list down all the suggestions or recommendations to minimise these accidents from happening again as I believe that the Minister of Transportation can get his hardworking and smart officers to sit down over the mamak table and list down the actions that need to be taken.

As days go by, I did not keep track with the story until last Friday, a friend of mine told me that she went to Penang to pay her last respect to Nian Ning. Out of curiosity, I asked her to tell me more about the whole incident. The world is so small, eventhough I don't know Nian Ning's existence until the accident, I happened to know her boyfriend, Chung Lern through some college event when we were studying in Sunway University College.

I just felt so terrible for him. My friend told me that, Nian Ning was on her way to from Penang to KL to visit Chung Lern then the accident happened. Imagine yourself in Chung Lern's position. Waiting at the bus terminal, sending numourous smses with no reply, kept calling but network fail. I really can't imagine myself in his position. Moreover, its Chinese New Year now. Instead of celebrating the Chinese New Year, their friends, families and relatives are now mourning over the loss of a bright and wonderful girl.

Some people will say something like, "Sigh! These are God's arrangement, can't avoid one la cause its fated and bla bla bla". Hang on a minute! Is it fated that the driver must sms while driving? Is it fated that the driver happily owns 13 summons so that he can show off to his friends? What's the bloody use of a co-driver when both are sleepy-heads? Are these bus companies fated to employ these morons to drive? Are the JPJs fated to accidentally or mistakenly approve the inspection checklist of the buses? Are the owners of the bus companies fated to pay bribes so that they can continue to operate their business? Well, at least a small kid can differentiate what is fated and what is wrong!

Once my friends and I were onboard an express bus heading to Pulau Redang via Kuala Terengganu from KL. During the journey, most of us were asleep until we felt the constant swerving from left to right and right to left in the bus. Eventually one of my friend vomited, thanks to the driver. That moron drove like as if he was driving a Daytona. There's also once, I was coming back to KL from Johor, this driver was sms-ing all the way. What an idiot!

All I can do now is request for your kindness and please sign the Online Petition or visit this special blog dedicated to the 3 victims. The campaign will not stop until they get 26,000 signatures. My signature is No.7053. What bout you?

These entry is dedicated to Lee Nian Ning, Mohd Zailani and Pang Boon Eng.

My Encounter with Malaysia's Policeman

2008-01-28T17:34:00.000+08:00

Last December after Christmas, I was assigned to work in Butterworth for a few days. One of the nights, my colleague and I went to AutoCity's Starbucks for coffee and of course, to enjoy the free Wi-Fi service.

We left AutoCity around 1am and while we were on our back, we were stopped by a few policemen at a road block just outside of our hotel, Pearl View Hotel.

Policeman : (Stared at us for awhile and signalled me to wind down the mirror)

Stephen : Yes?

Policeman : Tunjuk IC dan driver lesen.

Stephen : (Slowly take out my IC and driver's license)

Policeman : Oh, dari Kuala Lumpur! Sudah banyak lewat, datang dari mana dan sekarang pergi mana?

Stephen : Tadi kita pergi AutoCity untuk buat kerja. Sekarang balik hotel-lah. Neh..hotel kami sana saja-ma.

Policeman : You orang kerja apa?

Stephen : Auditor.

Policeman : Auditor? Apa itu? (Looks puzzled! As if auditors are linked to terrorism).

Stephen & Colleague : Auditor check accounts orang (stunned by the policeman's reaction).

Policeman : Park kereta dekat tepi. Saya nak check boot kereta awak.

Stephen : Ok! (Drives to the side of the road).

Colleague : Eh, later if he checks the car boot, I will go down with him. Afraid that he will put ecstasy pill and accuse us of possessing drugs.

Stephen : Ok, good!

While my colleague was observing the policeman checking my car boot, suddenly I heard a soft *Brum Pum* (something was being thrown back into the car boot). My colleague got back into the car and

Policeman : Cepat pergi...jalan jalan!

Stephen : OK!! Bye!

I asked my colleague what was that noise. He just can't stop laughing and he said that the policeman threw my soft toy because the policeman was freaked out of my soft toy.

Guys and girls, now you know what to put in your car rite?!?!

Sze Mun's favourite

2008-01-28T09:55:00.000+08:00

As requested by Choong Sze Mun, she was asking me why I don't have any picture of sexy ~~guys~~ girls in my Bangkok post.

Choong Sze Mun, I shall grant you your wish.....

Taken at Pratunam.

My trip to Bangkok

2008-01-17T23:05:00.000+08:00

Last October, I went to Bangkok on an assignment for a week. The night before the trip (Saturday), I was at Poppy with my colleagues and the next day, I was having abit of hangover until I almost forgot to bring along my Thai currencies to the airport. I quickly settled down in the plane and plan to have a long sleep since I was high on alcohol but my colleague was so excited when the air stewardess served us wine on board.

The inside view of Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Because of the laziness in updating my blog, I forgot the chronological events that took place in Bangkok so I will just write whatever I think of based on the pictures that I uploaded.

One of the meals that I really like in Bangkok is the pork knuckle rice. This dish taste abit like our very own Bak Kut Teh. Make sure you give this a try when you are in Bangkok. Widely available everywhere.

Yummy! In Mandarin, they call it Chu Jiao Fan.

Prior making this trip, my colleagues have been telling me how lucky I am to be selected for this assignment and they even told me how nice and expensive Bangkok Boutique Hotel is. This hotel is located near the Petchaburi station and a 5 minutes walking distance to my client's office.

The TV which provided me Amazing Race while I'm preparing to go for work.

Monday morning, we were having complimentary breakfast at the hotel's restaurant and all I saw was colourful cabs stuck in traffic jam, working adults rushing to work and teenagers rushing to the nearby university while they saw two morons slowly enjoying their breakfast and reading newspaper.

Guess what's our reaction when we stepped out of the hotel? We just stood still and stared at each other. The place where we were staying is like Jalan Sultan Ismail where there are hotels, restaurants and offices. What we saw was a sort of like morning market. Everyone is buying breakfast from the stalls and guess what, some stalls even sell children's cloths, toys etc.

RM0.50 per piece.

There are also a number of stalls selling all kinds of coffee and they even have their own coffee machine to blend the coffee beans. Impressive?! If its in Malaysia, I think the DBKL will ~~surely~~ not confiscate the coffee machine and the stall.

During lunch time, I had the same thing again.

Pork Knuckle Rice!

Haha..I cant remember if this is chicken or pork noodle.

Almost everyday after work, we would stop by this stall and takeaway their fried oyster. Only cost RM 2.50 to RM 3.00 per plate.

Not so oily and taste damn good.

Besides frying oyster, they also serve Pad Thai.

Not to forget, another Must-Have-Snack. A stick of BBQ pork or chicken meat (RM 0.50/pc)

One thing about Thailand, you can easily find mini stalls selling BBQ meat along the road which serves spicy sauce. Not to worry about the possibility of starving at night in Thailand.

One of the weekdays, my manager came to review our work and we had to meet her at the Suvarnabhumi Airport. We had our lunch at the airport's food court centre which is located at the ground floor. Make sure you try this

Spicy pork ribs noodle.

At night, we took a 15 minutes walk from our hotel to the Sukhumvit Station (BTS Line) to the Siam Station, the famous shopping district where you'll drown yourself with shopping bags from the shops in Siam Paragon, Siam Centre, Siam Square, MBK Centre and etc. Upon reaching, we found ourself trapped in the crowd.

Thanks to the ELLE Fashion Week 2007

We had seafood dinner nearby some restaurtants and were too busy eating to snap some pictures. The only picture I have is this

Mango sticky rice!

During dinner, it was very noisy due to the heavy traffic and along came, this blind man and small kid. The kid sang with a very sad voice and it works, Bahts came pouring in from the foreigners.

Part time job for the kid as he is still in his school uniform.

I heard from my colleague that even Hong Kong stars also visit this place to pray.

Aquarium

One of the nights, I took a train from the Petchaburi station to the Lumphini Station to this famoust night bazaar. If you don't have the time to visit the Chatuchak weekend market, do visit this Suam-Lum Night Bazaar. Click here for more info.

Need me to say anymore?

The cheaper range of food can be found here, just right outside the Lumphini station.

Stephen picks one, Uncle weighs, Stephen pays, Uncle cuts and Stephen eats.

Van in Bank or Bank in Van?

Small shops in the SL(~~Stephen Lee~~ Suan-Lum) Night Bazaar.

The SLNB also have restaurants and food court where you can have find almost any famous Thai food under a roof. Besides that, you will be entertained with the live performances from local singers and bands. The SLNB is open from 3pm to midnight. Worth spending an evening there.

Condom vending machine in the public toilet.

On Friday afternoon, we went over to Siam Central World which is also nearby Siam Paragon for my colleague's last minute shopping orders from his cousin.

At that time, the King was ill and those white star shaped notes are wishes from the public praying for His Majesty's health.

Balloon car

Balloon gorilla

This is the reason why we ended up in Central World Plaza. He is ordered to buy bags from NaRaYa which have 50 over branches both locally and internationally at countries like Turkey, France, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, Guam (USA) and Saudi Arabia.

By the way, it's illegal to take pictures of the NaRaYa outlet.

You can find bags, children's products, kitchen's products etc. Click on NaRaYa for more info.

The 4 faces of Buddha statue.

Hainan chicken rice for lunch. I forgot the location but if you bring me along to Bangkok, I will bring you here. Famous and delicious.

This place is called the Pratunam Market where you can find souvenirs, clothings at retail prices. And also the cheapest massage centers are located on the left hand side of the photo.

One of the mode of transport in Bangkok is the usage of boats. We took the Khlong Saen Saep Express Boat at the Pratu Nam Pier to the Klong Tan Pier. Can you imagine these boats carry about 60,000 passengers a day? Its the cheapest mode of transport in Bangkok because my fare back to the river near my hotel cost me only about RM1.00 which is only like 10 Baht.

When the boat arrives, the crowd force themselves onto the boad, squeezing in to find for a place to sit or stand. It's quite difficult to leave as you need to step on the bench. So girls, please don't wear skirts, especially mini-skirts if you want to be adventurous and take the boat. Oh ya, make sure you bring along something so that you can cover yourself in case another boat comes from the opposite direction because you can taste the flavour of Bangkok dirty river. Don't worry, as the boat leaves the pier, they will pull up the canvas to protect passengers from getting wet.

That night we had dinner at the Oishi Buffet Restaurant owned by the Oishi Group Public Company Limited. They serve a wide range of Japanese and Chinese Seafood.

After dinner, we visited the famous night clubs in Bangkok. Just get to Ratchadaphisek Station and you will find all the night clubs there. We did not enter any of these clubs because we were wearing shorts that time. Just to check out the ~~girls~~ location only-mah!

Our flight is scheduled on Saturday around 4pm, therefore we still have time to visit the famous Chatuchak weekend market which you make a stop at the Chatuchak Park Station. The shops are also as small as those that you can find at the SLNB but this market receives about 200,000 to 300,000 visitors each day.

Different kind of Ice Creams.

Different kind of flowers.

Before we leave Bangkok, it will be so sinful if we let go the chance of trying the McDonald's Pork Burger. Hehehe..

After our lunch, we quickly rushed back to the hotel because we requested the hotel to change our check out time to 2pm. Managed to reach the Suvarnabhumi Airport on time so its time to explore the airport.

And we found this note....

Damn @#$%^&!!!

Super Chun Car

2008-01-06T15:44:00.000+08:00

Few months back when I was working in JB, I came across this sports car in one of the shopping complex along Jalan Dato Sulaiman. I have never seen a car with so many exhaust pipes and different types of metres indicators on the dashboard.

Legal in Malaysia?

Oh Dress!

2007-12-19T21:25:00.000+08:00

I am not into fashion and especially girl's fashion. I can't tell if the dress looks nice or ugly unless it's those extreme ones. But trust me, most of the time I will say the dress looks nice if girls ask for my opinions. Haha.. Anyhow, recently my friend asked me to help her generate traffic volume by helping her to promote her online dress-shopping website. There you go..

Guys and girls, Visit
Oh! Dress. Girls, check out the dresses. Guys, check out the female models.

By the way, free delivery for purchases made before 25th Dec 07.

Happy Checking Out!

Penang

2007-12-15T23:10:00.000+08:00

I'm back! I'm back!! Sorry guys for being such a lazy bump in updating my blog because I have been working hard *ahem*, that's why I don't have the time. Anyways, more to come. I promise I will update everything I can before year 2007 ends!

Last Monday, I was actually sitting for my final exam paper and the very next day I was assigned to Penang for work. Some of my friends recommended me to take the Aeroline, a first class shuttle bus.

Convenient way to fly?? Hmm...air turbulence on the highway??

The double decker bus departed from 1Utama ~~Airport~~ Bus Terminal and FLEW 4hrs 30 minutes all the way to Sungai Nibong ~~Airport~~ Bus Terminal. Due to my post-exam hangover, I actually slept all the way. Throughout the whole journey, I woke up once to gobble down my free Subway sandwich and attempted to keep myself awake to watch the movie,"White Chicks" which were being played. In the end, I gave up. I would rather sleep and dream of real White Chicks instead of watching those 2 black White Chicks. Oh well, its still my all time favourite movie.

Talk about Penang, you will end up talking about food. Knowing me, I was easily lured by my colleague to go on food fest during our nights in Penang. On Tuesday night, we crossed over to the mainland and went to Taman Chai Leng to gang up with 2 more female colleague for dinner.

Steamboat ingredients are normal but the special thing about this steamboat is their 6-7 types of spicy sauce. I'm loving it.

According to my colleague, the best Lin Chi Kang is from the Hello Kitty Lin Chi Kang Stall. Look out for the Hello Kitty stall if you have the chance to eat here. Worth trying anyway.

1st Highlight of the night..I have never tried such delicious BBQ Chicken Wings in my life before.

So-so fried meehun with fried fu-chuk

Sad looking Wan Tan Mee

2nd Highlight of the night..Chicken Floss with BBQ dried pork meat with honey in 2 soft buns. Remember Ratatouille's expression when he ate something delicious and fireworks on the background? I was feeling like that when I had my first bite

Fried oyster.

After dinner, we went to this place called AutoCity, Juru and I was quite impressed with the area because the shops are so different from those that we see in KL and PJ. Somehow you will feel like you are out of Malaysia.

Manhattan Fish Market, Sushi King, KFC, SOHO, Starbucks and etc

I was kinda excited when I saw the 2 Hello Kitty (Kitties?) at the Penang Lantern Festival 2007. I thought it was some funfair or carnival but its all about enjoying the colourful lanterns and brightly lighted up christmas trees. Entrance ticket for an adult is RM15.

The 4 of us ended up having 1 jug of beer and chat till midnight.

On Wednesday night, we went to Gurney Drive to buy

Chicken skins, nuggets and crab meat balls... Sinful sial!!

Then we went to this cosy restaurant just along Gurney Drive. Visitors might think that this is just a normal house because the sign board of the restaurant is quite small. The restaurant's name is Crepe's Cottage, I think.

Roast Chicken on Crepe. Black-peppered boneless whole leg chicken bathed in Crepe's Cottage secret sauce.

Hidden Treasure. I think the girls will like this dish because the treasure are all vege and small slices of chicken meat.

The special thing about this Crepe Cottage is their dessert and the ambience.

I can't remember all the names of the desserts that we ordered. The 4 of us really scared the crap out of our director and manager because we acted as if we have not eaten for weeks. Do give this restaurant a try if you happen to be in Penang but don't expect fast service because the aunties grandmas cook very slow.

Oh~~Tragedy

2007-10-27T19:57:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I was out with my wife and we met with an accident. A red Proton Iswara could not brake in time and knocked into my wife's left face. I am safe and sound but my wife need to be sent to the hospital for plastic surgery. Her left eyes were badly damaged and she needs a new eye. I was so devastated when I saw my wife's face. Here are the images of her damaged face....be very prepared indeed...

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Sad case rite?

Eagle Ranch, Port Dickson

2007-10-16T20:15:00.000+08:00

Two weeks back, my company organised a team building event in Eagle Ranch, Port Dickson. I heard about this exciting place before but have never been there. This resort is located about 30 minutes from the Port Dickson town. Upon reaching this resort, you sort of feel like you are a cowboy or a cowgirl because of the name and design of the whole resort.

Some of my colleagues stayed in this Paddock Chalet which is rather smaller as compared to mine..

The Log Cabin..

Inside view of the log cabin.

The coolest part of the log cabin is the bathroom. There is no roof in the bathroom and there is a mini waterfall. Look up while you are bathing, the birds or monkeys might be watching over you

At Eagle Ranch, they have go-kart as well. If I am not wrong, it's about 5 laps for RM20. I learnt how to DRIFT and it was damn freaking fun.

As for team building, we went through 20 obstacle courses. At the end of the obstacle courses, most of them were complaining of OVER EXERCISING in an hour plus compared to the number of times that they exercise in a year or few months.

We went for sea rafting as well. Built our own raft and sail out 50-100m to the sea and get our flag. The team who returns first wins.

Which was obviously my team because I can paddle as fast as a boat's engine. =_="

By evening, everyone was freaking exhausted but we really had a good BBQ dinner and few rounds of Happy Hour. Beers and beers and beers.

The next day, the word "revenge", "pay back time", "you are going to be so dead" are on everybody's mind because it's PAINTBALL time and we are allowed to aim and hunt for the managers, directors and seniors who gave us a horrible time at work. Oh well, some managers and alot of girls did not participate in the game.

Potential hero

In this game, 2 teams will compete against each other to snatch the flag. Whoever gets the flag first and run back to the base with the flag wins. Whoever gets shot must raise their hand and run back to the base to get a "new life" and the dead can play again. LOL

Our base with 3 guys and 5 girls in the team.

In total, there were 4 teams. My team managed to get into the final and won the whole damn thing. It was a tiring game especially when you get shot all the time and had to run back to the base to start all over again. Ultimately, the highlight of the game was me getting a real HEADSHOT

On the way leaving Eagle Ranch, I was stopped by a policeman for overtaking a car illegally. As the policeman is heading towards my car, I told my colleague to act as if we are rushing to the hospital because of my injury.

Policeman: Selamat tengahari, boss!

Stephen: Eh..I overtake kereta tu sebab saya nak pergi klinik la..Saya kena tembak dekat kepala!! (Showing him my injury)

Policeman: Huh? Serious-nyaaaaaa!! Kenapa orang dekat Eagle Ranch tak hantar you pergi hospital?

Stephen: Mereka tak cukup staff laaaaa. Friend, sakit ni..nak pergi klinik cepat.

Policeman: Tunjuk IC dan lesen dulu.

Stephen: (Gave him IC and Driving license)

Policeman: Apa pasal tak pergi hospital? Klinik jauh la..dekat town. Hospital depan saja..you jalan terus, hospital ada dekat kanan nanti. Cepat pergi

Stephen: Baik boss. Byebye.

Happily drove pass the hospital and head back to Kuala Lumpur. ;-)

Grace Tan's XX Birthday

2007-10-14T01:18:00.000+08:00

On the 13th of October, a bunch of friends celebrated Grace Tan Yang Bertauliah's XX Birthday at Uncle Duck (Hong Kong) Restaurant in Berjaya Times Square.

For those who opt for steamboat, they have Satay curry soup, tom yam soup, ABC soup etc to go with the Steamboat Set that you prefer

The Beef Set

The Seafood Set

Sorry, the duck was too delicious. Blame Grace Chng as she's the camera girl for the night

Grace Chng's "uno stacko"

Rachel, the planner for Grace Tan's birthday thought that normal birthday cakes are becoming very boring so she went to buy a dozen of Big Apple donuts as birthday "donuts". Cool rite?

Within 15 minutes, the Big Apple donuts became

2 greedy wombats looking for juicy donuts. Juicy?!?!

I personally like this picture alot because everyone looks very cheeky..

1st row : Grace Chng, Grace Tan, the lovebirds Jian Eu and Michelle Yeoh and "CUTE" Rachel
2nd row: Me and Jun Seong

Happy XX birthday, Grace Tan yang Bertauliah!

Miri

2007-10-01T23:59:00.000+08:00

Gosh, I am so tied up with work until I don't have the time to update this blog. I'm sure some of you are quite sick of the seeing the same post on my XXnd birthday celebration which you guys visited a zillion times. Anyway, one week after my birthday, I am quite excited to be going to Miri, Sarawak. Reason being is because I have never been to East Malaysia. Have not fly over the South China Sea.

This was also my first time taking KLIA Ekspres from KL Sentral to KLIA. Before boarding the train, we checked in our luggages in KL Sentral. Quite cool, huh? Usually I take about 35-40 minutes to reach KLIA by car but this time, I felt very weird when I reached the airport because the journey takes only 28 minutes.

You can own the whole carriage with just RM35 because most of the time, the train is empty.

We were having lunch in KLIA's McDonald's then I saw the 8Tv's HoChak hosts and the winner of the SuperStar singing contest. It's quite obvious that they are going to other states for filming etc so I decided to grab this chance to take a photo with them. The only time when I watch the HoChak programme was when I am beside the Tv at the right time and the right time. Therefore, I don't even know the hosts' name. As they were leaving McD, I approached the guy and asked if it's ok if I take a photo with them. They guy was being nice, he said "OK". But then, a tomboy came from behind and said, " Sorry, we are rushing for flight".

I was like,"What the hell? I am using a digital camera,ok?!?!?! I am not using those traditional camera where everyone needs to wait a few seconds to give me time to change the bulb!!!"

Give them a chance to appear in my blog also they don't appreciate. Lol

Miri's beach

My ~~sad~~ happy meal in MAS airlines

Upon reaching the Miri airport, we had to take a 40 minutes drive to our destination. I am going to stay in NIAH CAVE for the next 10days.

The FRIENDY restaurant where I am going to have my meals for the next 10days

The place that I stayed was a small town so we had no choice but to eat there everyday until a point of time when I can't take it anymore. I am going to eat this for dinner...

Hahaha..

My xx Birthday Celebration

2007-09-22T00:35:00.000+08:00

Birthday Birthday! I really forgot the last time I celebrated my birthday with my parents. Not to mention about blowing a cake at home.

Year 2005, Siao Yenn and Chan Veevern celebrated in my "red monster car". This was really a surprise because I did not expect that Veevern was actually carrying a cake in the plastic bag when I picked her up. Thank you, Siao Yenn and Veevern.

Friday 15 September Year 2006. Supposed to be a very grand celebration but it was a silent and peaceful one though. My close friends from Sunway Tes had a mini celebration for me in their office before my evening class with Ms Menon.

He ain't heavy, he is my brother for life

After the class ended at 930pm, we were supposed to celebrate somewhere but the time seems to pass very quickly that night. Ended up cancelling it. Rachel Ong was very sympathised for me as it was my 21st and she can't accept the fact that I am spending birthday night at home. She dragged me out to OUG's Wong Kok Char Chan Teng with Alicia for a short celebration. If you celebrate your birthday on the actual day in Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, with a minimum of 5 person and a bill of RM 30, you will be given a super gigantic glass of milk tea. When we were at the restaurant, we were really scratching our head because we are short of 2 person. In the end, Alicia called her sister and brought out her nephew of 4 yrs old to make up the number. Thank you, Alicia and Rachel.

Alicia and Rachel from Sunway TES

Saturday 15 Sept 2007. Grace Tan, the mastermind for this year with a few others. She sent an email to everyone and even message some of my friends (whom she don't know) in Friendster and tried gathering everyone for the surprise party. Too bad, I was one of her recipient in her emailing list. I was really suprised, haha! Grace Tan celebrated with me on the 14th in SS2's Hau Xiang Lai Steamboat because I was craving for Bak Kut Teh and Steamboat when I was in Phuket.

This year, we celebrated at The Curve's Italiannies.

Grace Ch'ng, don't simply touch la. Public ok!!

Grace Chng and Ker Ching were looking forward to my birthday because of one reason. They wanted to take revenge. During Ker Ching's birthday in May, I requested the TGIF staffs to make her stand on the chair and do all sorts of stuff. As for Grace Chng's birthday in August, I made her stand on the table in TGIF also. By the time,Roney and his gang reached our table with 2 slices of cake, I knew I was in trouble because I have offended 2 sweet ladies during their birthday.

Roney the waiter giving me a hard time

Grace Chng showing off her skills in eating cake with 2 forks and a spoon

Thank you everybody.

Standing up : Jun Seong, Jit Jian, Siew Han, Beauty Ker Ching, Bertauliah Grace Tan, Rachel, Jack, Hui Leng (why all wear black? berkabung meh?)

Seated : Ze Yoon, Grace Chng, Ah Pek, Lin Lin, Jessica

Came late : Sue Leng

That's all for 2007. A week after my birthday, I realised something...

I did not get to blow a full round birthday cake but 2 slice of cakes from Italiannies and the most important of all,

I HAVEN'T MAKE A WISH!!!!!!

Who haven't celebrate for me? Time to redeem your second chance in year 2007.

Phuket

2007-09-16T15:07:00.000+08:00

Day 1

Phuket is one of the places that I wanted to visit for quite some time. This time, I am travelling on AirAsia's FEMALE plane instead of the Manchester United Airbus 320 aeroplane.

One thing I really hate about long journey is that you need to bear with those irritating passengers who sits around you. I encountered one bloody fool on the way to Phuket. Throughout the whole freaking 1 hour 45 min journey, he kept talking nonsense and make some idiotic sound when the plane changes direction. Trust me, he is at least 23-24 yrs old. Bloody hell! One of his conversation goes like this:

Bloody hell : Eh, look down there! Can see the shark ah?

Poor Friend : We are so high up. Can see meh?

Bloody hell : There...over there la! See properly!!

I was damn bloody irritated by him and I really pity the poor friend and the 2 girls who are travelling with him. Well, I think he can see the pimples on your face from 20 metres away. The worst part was when the plane take off and land. You will feel like asking him to shut up because he tried to imitate the aeroplane's engine!!!

Can you spot the shark? I can't but that bloody hell who sits behind me can

Upon reaching the airport, we got down to work to cover as much as we can as half the day was gone.

My dinner for that night, Pork with fried egg and rice

The hotel that we are staying this time is the 5 star Naithonburi Beach Resort which is about 10 minutes drive away from the Phuket International Airport and along the way, you will pass by small villages which are mostly occupied by Muslim Thais. Naithonburi does not provide free transportation to the airport everyday. They will only provide free transportation on your check in and when you check out which means on other days, you have to pay 300 Baht if you want to get to the airport. Upon arrival at the hotel, they will serve you a nice refreshing cold Ribena drink (I think) and a face towel. Good serviceee!!

The view of the swimming pool from my room's balcony

The view of the lobby and reception area from my room's balcony

By far, this is the most "romantic" hotel that I have stayed in because of the "slide window" in the bathroom. Means you can peep who is outside while you are bathing. Haha..more like the other way, right? But slide window is going to be closed for the next 5 days because I don't feel comfortable seeing a guy bathing.

They provide a ping-pong table and a pool table. Play all you want.

As usual, some balls are missing

Day 2

During the morning breakfast, I was craving for Teh Tarik or Teh Ais badly. Somehow the staffs bought us a drink which tasted something like Teh Ais.

Super sweet

As for lunch, we went to the Thai Restaurant which is in the airport itself. From the airport, you can see aeroplane landing and taking off from Phuket. The food in Phuket suits me better and the food that we ordered tasted super AROY (delicious). Forgot to take pictures.

Dinner time. The staffs went to the local market (something like pasar malam) and shared some local food with us.

Grilled flattened banana with coconut milk

Tom Yam Kung

Plain rice with Tom Yam Kung and fried omelet

Day 3

Well, day 1,2 & 3 are purely for work. I can't wait for the 4th day as we are nearing completion of our work.

I will talk about the hotel since there's nothing to talk about work. Naithonburi Beach Resort is located about 32 kilometres away from the Phuket town and Patong Beach which are located at the south. Since it's not peak season, there's no one along the road and the beach. Hollow area but definitely a great place to rest and relax.

Imagine walking along this street at night. I did!

The entrance into Naithonburi

Nice-leh?

Wonderful-leh?

Glamour-leh?

Boring-leh?

Sexy ass-leh?

I have been eating this kind of food for the past 3 weeks.

I tried eating HoneyStars, CornFlakes and KokoCrunch with orange juice. Freaking sour man. Anyways, it's already Wednesday and we are almost to the finishing line. We completed our work by evening and the staffs were on standby mode to assist us and provide info for our one day trip around Phuket tmr. Bla bla bla~~

At night, we were brought to Phuket town for dinner. The dinner was so good and sorry, no pictures again because it's rude to take pictures during dinner. By the way, an earthquake with a 8.2 scale magnitude struck Sumatra that night and they were very worried about possible Tsunami hitting Phuket again like last time. You can see the fear in their faces and how quick the phone calls kept coming in. Thank God, there's no tsunami.

Day 4

For convenience, flexibility and cheapability, we hired a car from one of the staffs. She rented us her private car which is a Toyota Vios. Only for 900 Baht for one day. I think it's cheap! What say you?

Proud owner of a Toyota Vios for a day

Driving around Phuket is like driving around in Langkawi. The road signs are clear and I think it's quite difficult to get lost in Phuket. Our first roadtrip was the famous Patong Beach where skins are being revealed to the public. Too bad, it's low season! Nothing much to see except aunties and uncles.

Along the beach, you can see alot of these signs. When we were at the beach, our new friend alerted us about the aftershocks and asked us to becareful in the event of a possible tsunami hitting Patong Beach. How thoughtful of him! And Pikky as well!

Can roughly guess how strong is the wind? Look at my hair

Red flag means no swimming is allowed

We walked approximately 2km along the beach and it's time to hit the streets.

One of the shop that provides scuba diving lesson

The famous BANANA disco which is also the oldest disco in Patong

Seeing that big banana makes me feel hungry. Since Phuket food suited us better compared to Chiang Mai's, there's no way we gonna have expensive western fast food for our meals.

Old Coconut

Seafood fried rice

Spicy moo (pork)

I think our lunch only cost us some 200-300 Baht.

Another famous disco, the Seduction Discotheque

Bangla Boxing Stadium where people gathers to watch Muay Thai or Thai Boxing. Not Bangladesh fighters

This nutcase saw me holding a camera and asked me to take photo of him and his Thai companion

Oh Si bar

Quite a famous club in Bangla Road

Unfortunately this McDonalds in Patong does not sell Pork Burger

Before leaving the Patong Beach, I went for an hour of Thai massage for 250 Baht. Pikky is my new Thai friend and she was on leave that day so she's taking us out to visit Phuket. We left Patong Beach around 4pm and drove to the Tesco Lotus to meet up with her.

Driving in and out of Patong beach really gives you a great feeling. Probably because you have to drive up and down the hill before reaching the other side. Anyways, these Tesco Lotus's McDonalds sell Pork Burger. So if you go to Phuket, I have already tell you clearly where to find Pork Burger.

Yes..Pork burger sold here

Our friendly tour guide, Pikky brought us to Kao-Khad Viewing Tower. From here, you can view the scenery of Phuket town and the sea. Not many tourists come here because of the long journey deep into those small villages.

The view from the Kao-Khad Tower

We spent around 20 minutes at the Kao-Khad Tower before leaving for our next destination. The Thais told us, " If you come Phuket and missed the Promthep Cape, it means that you have not step into Phuket". Being a kiasu, I MUST VISIT PROMTHEP CAPE NO MATTER WHAT!!!

Promthep Cape is the most suitable place where you can witness the sunset "into the sea" right infront of your eyes.

Pikky!! My tour guide

Unfortunately, Mrs Cloud was hiding Mr Sun

Here's a short video clip of the view from the Promthep Cape!

For those lovebirds, there is a restaurant where you can dine and watch the sunset

When you reach the Promthep Cape, there are alot of stalls selling souvenirs. This stall sells...

Pay 30 Baht and you won't regret eating the squid with their spicy sauce

Pikky wanted to bring us to her favourite seafood restaurant but she was quite worried about a possible tsunami since the restaurant is beside the sea. She brought us to another seafood restaurant which is in town.

Curry crab

Sour and spicy steamed fish

A bowl of Seafood Tom Yam

Yes..Pork again

After dinner, she brought us to another hill to enjoy the view of Phuket town at night

Ladies and gentleman, the night is still young and we shall head to Patong Beach!! Pikky couldn't join us as she's working morning shift the next day so we dropped her back to Tesco Lotus and here we are...

During the daytime, Bangla Road is busy with Tuk-tuks, cars, motorbikes etc but when comes to the evening, the road is closed only for party goers. Along the road, you can see alot of bars and clubs blasting their sound systems and their own girls doing the pole dance.

Somewhere in the middle, you can see a large crowd of people standing and doing nothing but watch the ladyboys dancing around, taking photos and asking the "victim" to put money into their cleavage. I saw 2 ladyboys danced sexily and they stared at someone randomly while licking their lips and showed some seducing facial expression. Besides that, they purposely dropped their top or dress to show off their fake boobs. Anyways, some ladyboys are just so pretty until you can't take your eyes off them.

At one of the bars, I was harassed by a few Thai ladies as they wanted me to drink at their bar. One of them stopped me by laying her hands on my chest and then the rest started pulling my shirt and hand to their bar. Seriously the force of 4-5 girls can't be underestimated. I struggled to break lose by pulling a passer-by's hand asking for help but he said, " Oh Oh...good luck to you man. I am going off!!Haha!!" Along the way, there will be Thai people asking you to visit their A-go-go bars along the Soi Seadragon and others are found on the side lanes off Bangla Road where the girls dance sexily in their bikinis. Go search online if you want to know more. I didn't visit the a-go-go bar because I am a innocent boy.

We chose a decent beer bar with no poles and sat down with our small bottle of Heineken, 80 Baht each and drank till 1am. More stories if you meet up with me personally!! Hehe..

Day 5

Our last day in Phuket and I have yet to swim along the beach. That morning, the weather was super weird. It rained and stopped and rained and stopped for almost.......uncountable times. Haha

Short video clip of the Naithonburi beach

Prior to check in, we had our last lunch in Phuket Airport. I have seen this Chester's Grill in Chiang Mai and was tempted to give it a try.

Yewwww....REGRET! Double Regret!!

Time to leave Phuket.

15 minutes before landing at LCCT

Phuket has become one of my favourite place on earth and it's only enjoyable if you are here with a group of friends.

Sunday 16th September 2007 - The One Two Go budget airline's plane departed from Bangkok and was carrying foreign tourists to Phuket. The weather was bad and the plane crashed while the pilot was attempting to land the plane.

When I was at the Promthep Cape, I came across this T-shirt

Few hours after the accident happened, Pikky msn-ed me and told me that this was the answer to the 2007 What's next question.

This post are dedicated to those who lost their lives during Sunday's tragic event.

Chiang Mai

2007-09-09T12:15:00.001+08:00

Day 1

This time, I am flying off to Chiang Mai, northern part of Thailand. I don't mind dying while on board because I am flying off in the Manchester United Airbus 320 aeroplane. Only 2 person were allocated for this assignment so my colleague who was onboard with me is Tan Sen Yong (Tan).

It was almost lunch time when we reached the CHIANG MAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT so we head straight to the CENTRAL AIRPORT PLAZA which is a few minutes drive away from the airport. This shopping complex is quite similar to Midvalley and Sunway Pyramid.

We had our lunch in the food court where you can have almost all varities of Thai food. Some stalls don't display English in menu so I just had to look at the photos of the food that they serve. The practise here is that everything is self service. You wait at the stall while they cook and you carry the bowl to your table. After finishing your food, return the bowl to the stall.

Tom Yam Kung Noodle (30 Baht)

This stall sells all kinds of fresh fruit juices and it's 25 Baht.

The Thais really love and respect their King alot. Almost everywhere you go, you can see the potraits of their King and Queen. From roadside's billboards to framed photos in everyshops. This year is some kind of anniversary to celebrate the King's birthday, I think so now you can see Thais wearing this special yellow collar t-shirt everywhere. Tesco Lotus are selling for 299 Baht, I think.

The hotel that we are staying for the coming 5 days is Lotus Hotel Pang Suan Kaew. This hotel is situated just beside a shopping complex called the Central Plaza which is almost like Summit USJ Shopping Complex.

The reception

The lobby

Twin Deluxe room which comes up to 3500 baht per night

Due to the different power sockets that the Thais used, our made in Malaysia gadgets couldn't be used so we had to explore the shopping complex just to look for this item.

The promoter at the electrical shop couldn't speak English and thank God, we brought our laptop cable with us.

We were quite excited on our first dinner in Chiang Mai as we walked around and around to search for local cuisine but the stalls are almost closing and it's only 830pm. We ended up having KFC for dinner.

The KFC menu in Thailand

This lousy meal cost me 99 Baht and compared to our Malaysian menu, this is much more expensive with no salad and mashed potato. Their Spicy flavoured KFC chickens are TASTELESS!!!!

Anyway, there is nothing much we can do on the first night so we head back straight to the hotel to continue our work.

The night view of Chiang Mai from my room's balcony

Day 2

Good morning, Chiang Mai!

For the next 4 mornings, we are having our daily buffet breakfast in San Kam Pheang Restaurant. There's nothing to shout about for the buffet breakfast that they serve. The hotel provides free shuttle bus service to the airport every hour. Upon reaching the airport, it's all about work, work and work.

We went to Thai Restaurant in the airport for lunch.

Pork is called Mu in Thai.

Tom Yam Kung (shrimps)

After work, we decided to explore the famoust Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai. One of the staff offered to send us to the Night Bazaar and joined us for dinner. Maybe because she foresees that we will have difficulties in ordering food etc.

Fried eggs with sea mussels

The famous Pad-Thai. Fried noodle with mu (pork)

Green curry fried rice

All the above dishes are medium size and the bill was 310 Baht.

It was around 8pm after dinner, she is not joining us for the Night Bazaar walk so we are on our own now. The Night Bazaar is quite similar to the Ladies Market in Hong Kong but this Night Bazaar is much bigger compared to the Ladies Market in Hong Kong in terms of number of stalls and the length of the street which the stalls are operating.

This is the "red cab" which looks like covered pick up trucks where passengers sit on the back benches. Remember to bargain before boarding the Si Loh Daeng.

This is not cam-whoring session

Day 3

We went to Tesco Lotus in Kad Kamtiang and the whole concept of the hypermarket is the same as those Tesco(s) in Malaysia. The only thing different is their language in the signboard.

As for lunch, I had.....

Green curry chicken with rice. The curry tasted horrible. I am beginning to miss Malaysia's curry.

After lunch, it's time to explore Chiang Mai. Our first destination is the Doi Suthep Temple which is located on top of a mountain overlooking the city. We took the Si Loh Daeng and the journey up reminds me of Genting Highland. The temple can be reached by climbing a steep 306 step staircase with naga siderails and if you are lazy, you can take the cable cars. The temple is built in 1383. Remember to click on the link when you are free.

Small stalls selling souvenirs

I forgot to off my camera's flash when I took this picture. The kids' mom turned and mumbled some Thai words and I ran off quickly. Haha...

I ran with a laptop ok? That's why I felt tired. Living in self denial actually. Most of the tourists looked at us one kind because we were wearing formal and carrying laptop bag

The white colour signboard said, " Foreigners must buy ticket for admission. Only 30 Baht"

Before entering the temple, everyone must take off their shoes at the Rest Hall.

The Prabudha Srivichai Stayue

A closer look at The Prabudha Srivichai Stayue

The Stupa Pagoda

The Aon Muang Vihara where the monk sits inside and sprinkle holy water onto people who pray inside

They called this the Big Bell

The viewpoint overlooking the Chiang Mai city

Anyway, it's rainy season now in Chiang Mai and we are stuck in the temple because of the sudden heavy rain.

We had only one umbrella and I refused to walk under the rain in one umbrella with Tan because the chances of one of us rolling down the 306 steps are quite high and it's slippery. When the rain stopped, we quickly make our way down to the entrance where our Si Loh Daeng is waiting for us. The uncle charged us 300 Baht for bringing us up to the temple, wait for an hour and send us back to hotel.

Along the way, we stopped by this stall to buy the corn in cup. Cost 20 Baht each.

Before we head back to our hotel, we decided to watch Rush Hour 3 at the Vista Kardsuankaew. To our horror, the movie is in Thai language. I can't imagine Jackie Chan saying Sawadeeka etc. Ended up buying the 930pm slot for the movie, The Invasion starred by Nicole Kidman.

Thais love to play games. They can invest in so many TVs and Playstations and gamers only pay for 10 Baht per game.

Frankly speaking, I couldn't adapt myself to the local food, don't know why. Somehow we preferred western food. In Chiang Mai, you will notice that the numbers of The Pizza Company definitely outnumbered Pizza Hut. Probably the best pizza restaurant in Thailand.

The Pizza Company branch in Central Plaza

Currently they have this promotion where they give free 6 BBQ Chicken Wings valued at 79 Baht with purchase of any Medium Pizza at regular prize 220 Baht or more.

Very Alloi (delicious in Thai)

This is BBQ Pork Deluxe. The ingredients are Pork Sausage, Italian Sausage, Bacon Bits, Sliced Ham, Sliced Bacon, Pepperoni, Onion, Red and Green Chilli with Sausage & Cheese Crust. Their menu are bigger than our secondary school textbooks and the pictures of the pizzas really make you drool on the spot

The bill came up to 448 Baht with 2 refillable Pepsi at 39 Baht each and Pizza at 370 Baht. Now it's time for movie, the Vista Kardsuankaew cinema is like those old cinemas in town. The cinema hall where we are watching The Invasion is a 120 seater and only 5 people watched the movie including us. The 5 people were all foreigners.

70 Baht

Day 4

During the 3 days, we met Mr.Art is a freelance tour guide and he offered to bring us around by charging us a minimal fee. He brought us to the Maetaeng Elephant Park which is situated in the Maetaman Valley, some 50km north of Chiang Mai. We can witness over 40 elephants wallows in the brown water of Maetaeng River. We paid 1200 Baht for the elephant rides, elephant show and bamboo rafting along the Maetaeng River.

The trainer ordered the elephant to spray water to the crowd

Before the elephant show begins

The elephant drew this with their trunk and the painting is sold for 2000 Baht

I am on an elephant! I am on an elephant!

The elephant ride was around 30 minutes and it rained halfway during the journey. Throughout the journey, the elephant stopped by and ate whatever green plants along the way. If the elephant does not do whatever the master says or go the other way, the master will hit the elephant on the head or poke it. Sigh, quite cruel and I am not going to sit any animal rides anymore.

Bamboo rafting

It rained again during the bamboo rafting

After our lunch, Mr.Art asked if we want to go anywhere else. I asked him if there's is any place where I can go for Bungee Jumping.

Wahaha...I jump, you jump!!!!

This bungee jump costs 2000 Baht and guess what?!?! I was so disappointed when I saw the place where the bungee jump takes place. I was expecting the jump taking place from the Hanging Bridge and down towards the river.

I am not going to pay 2000 Baht to jump from this lousy crane and down towards a small pond!!! Yes....unattempted this time around!

We went back to hotel for an hour rest before making our way to the Central Airport Plaza for movie and dinner. We wanted to watch the ORIGINAL Rush Hour3 in English so we went to the Major Cineplex. This cinema is similar to GSC and TGV and 100 times better than the one in Central Plaza.

120 Baht

As for dinner, we went to the........

This Hot Pot Buffet offers patrons a variety of Dim Sum, Japanese Sushi, Steamboat ingredients, desserts, salads and almost 8 types of drinks for only 199 Baht

After dinner, we went to the Night Bazaar again for last minute shopping and MASSAGE!!

Our first Tuk Tuk ride

60 minutes of Thai massage for only 150 Baht

Day 5

Time to check out!

Something is very wrong! Check-out at 12am?

Again our return flight to KL are being retimed to 120pm instead of 1120am. We had lunch at Black Canyon Coffee. Surprisingly, wherever you go in Chiang Mai, you can find Black Canyon Coffee. Guess what, Black Canyon Coffee is originated from Thailand. Check out the link.

Goodbye Chiang Mai.

Time to pack!! I am going to Phuket tomorrow. Goodbyeeeeeeee!