My first Wesak Day Procession

My 1st Wesak Day Procession Chronological of Events. Starring..............................................

As every now and then, you do see these familiar faces in my blog entry......no need for me to introduce further.

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Posing before the main float arrive.

We met at Pulau Tikus market, so it make perfect sence to feast first before walking the the Penang Buddhist Association at Burmah Road for the events. Brings back ol' memories eating our favourite lok-lok with uncle's speacial peanut sauce.

Taiwan Sausage Vs the humble vegetable.

We got so carried away dipping and eating and dipping and eating...that we almost missed the procession. Luckily, her mom called us just in time.

WhAT ?! Elvis has left the building ! hahahaha......"chabor, kia keh liao...kah meh ciak !"

Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk Walk
From Pulau Tikus market to Penang Buddhist Association.

Right behind the main Buddha float. Many people thinks it's auspicious to at least touch or hold the rope circulating the main float. All of us had our chance.

The Main Buddha float.

Feast again after the procession.

And don't forget to pretend you are the handphone promoter. This is one of her many cheap poses.


The END

Le Meridien Buffet

For RM90++ per person for a buffet dinner on a weekday is rather on the higher side, I thought.
But when the dinner is at the classy 5-star Le Meridien next to KL Hilton at KL Sentral, I thought why not? They might have something new.

And so we went. All 15 of us.

Arrived at the entrace of the underground parking and our cars were inspected for bombs, maybe drugs or dead corpse and any explosive materials by several Gurkha's guard.
Scared that we are some terrorist disguised in office wear coming to bomb their buffet spread.

Finally, we arrive. Spread looks good at one glance except for 1 thing. When I started to help myself, I can't help but wondered. The spread wasn't anything to shout about at all lor !!!
In fact, a bit (okay, maybe a lil' bit more) dissapointed. I tell you why i'm dissapointed:

1. The grill section not happening at all. No scallop. No Lobster. No Lai Lieu Har (mantis prawn). The chef grilled those stuff in advance and leave it in the pot. When you eat it, its already cold ! It's like, they grilled it and leave it there for 1/2 and hour.

2. We ordered 2 plate of paste. The pasta on one of the plate came out waaaayyyyy before Al Dante. The other plate came out perfect. Not consistent.

So I ended up devouring couple of california roll and their grill cod fish with butter sauce. Ah, these 2 I personally like. I like I like I like.

My favourite part, DESSERT.

I personally think that, if I were to ever pay RM90 bucks for their buffet, the ONLY reason I would come here for is their DESSERT !

Quite unique. Maybe I'm a bit hutan, but I never heard or tried TEPPANYAKI ICE-CREAM before lor. And I have eaten chocolate fondue many times before, but I never tried WHITE CHOCOLATE, DARK CHOCOLATE and MILK CHOCOLATE fondue all at the same time. Yes, they actually have 3 types of huge choc fondue side by side. I'm delighted.

Pictures !


Dark, Brown and White chocolate fondue.

Ice-cream teppanyaki. 2 scoops of ice-cream of your choice. They have over 30 selections of toppings to choose from. Choc chips, corn flakes, dried figs, apricot, macadamia, walnut, almond, marshmallow, raisins....so many more. You can choose as may toppings as you want. The chef will mix everything up on a piece of cold plate.

Looks like a piece of shit.


My DIY ice-cream teppanyaki. The flavour of my choice and the toppings of my choice. You can't get it anywhere else in the world.

My movie of the year

I have loads of stuff that I wanna yak about. Some overdue happenings. Right now, I just wanna talk about the popular best-selling Marvel comic book character...........

The IRON MAN............................and........................................

the man inside the awesome suit................
Robert Downey Jr is Tony Stark who is rugardly good looking.

I was being indifference about this movie when CS bought the tickets at GSC. What Iron Man?
So what if its THE popular comic book character. bah ! The name itself sounded boring to me. I thought Cicakman sounded more appealing.
Reached the theatre almost 15 mins late. Not excited. So "mor" a bit lor.

I ain't no comic book fan and I tought, please spare me the torrid trash acting mingled with cheesy fight scenes and cheesy superhuman in colourful costume.

Boy I was WRONG !!
I hace misjudged the movie completely. And I mean COMPLETELY !!

Downey played a very good Tony Stark.

I liked that Stark is a genius rather than being exposed to radiation or bit by a super spider.

I'll give it a score of 8.9.

Cant wait for the sequel.

Bits & Pieces

yeah, I know. I have not been blogging for quite a bit. Good new is, this blog is still alive and kickin'. Bad new is..........there's is any.

Here are some of the bits and pieces of what happened since my last post till yesterday. Only as far as I could remember....

Recently refinance my house loan to another Bank for what else, BETTER INTEREST RATE !! of course. Customer loyalty does not exist any more, as far as the banking line is concern.
Unlike, the golden days, where one have to look into the dictionary to find out the word "refinancing". And in the golden days, it is unimaginable and unthinkable just to change Bank. These people still exist (though slowly becoming extinct) today. And I salute them. Why pay more when you can pay less?

I reformat my PC and was down for couple of weeks. No, it wasn't attacked by virus. No, it didn't crached either. I reformated it for fun. I felt like my PC was slowing down and I thought weird things started to happened. It feels like my PC has suffered 1st stage cancer and it has to undergoe chemo and radiation before it's too late. Crazy, but true.

Bought a brand new car. The old car stays. Earlier, it was City. Maybe Vios if my old car broke down and is beyond repair. Vios will not be my 1st choice, cos it reminds me of the dirty ugly cockroach underneath my washing machine. Proton and anything Buatan Malaysia is TOTALLY AND COMPLETLY out of the subject. If you are the owner or have previously owned one before, you should know what I mean.
Anyway, one step into Tan Chong showroom in Section 13 completely and absolutely turned the table over to this baby over here......


Triple Combo ! My I/C no. came out 2nd Prize in Da Ma Cai, CS I/C came out 1st prize in Magnum and my car no came in 1st prize in Toto. All on the same day !! I'm not a compulsive gambler, merely a social one only. But this is too much. I spent 5 bucks last year and RM3.50 so far this year.


Spicy Soup with our Makan-Makan sambil Jalan Friends. Located in Serdang. Please bear in mind that this is the pepper spicy type and not the chili spicy type of soup, which I thought it would be. They serve this dish in a big clay pot full of all pork and pork's spare parts drowned with pipping hot coarse black and white peppery soup. I have never eaten soup with this much pepper innit. Perfect for a cold rainy day.


Yesterday, it was Ampang Steamboat with my usual partner in crime. After our paisan session and tien hou temple, we headed to Times Square for our usual chaotic get-together. After trying thousands of sunglasses and finally bought only 1 at 20% discount (with the help of our LCE sales girl, Buwaneswari). I think she would have included us in her blacklist, if she has one).
Anyway, we decided to have dinner feast. After surveying Berjaya Hotel buffet dinner and Melia Hotel Steamboat and International buffet, we decided to head to Ampang instead. Main reason....cheaper and can explore more of KL after livin' here for 5 years. But the actual reason, is we just wanted to hiau only, or better known as itchy backside.

Uncle pouring spicy and clear soup into our pot. Can't wait.

After that, uncle lights the fire for our stove with a match stick. No. it's not auto. If you accidently turn off the stove, you have to piss off the uncle to light it up again.

Cooking starts. While waiting for our mushroom + prawns + variety of balls to cook in the pot, melt the butter and start to BBQ. Lookin' like a pro it actualy fact you're looking at a stamboat bbq pro.

This one, may look like a pro but she is not. Why? good question. Who BBQ with a SPOON ?????
you can use chopstick, like me or you can also use a skewer. but not spoon. OK ?

I like this place, it's on the 1st floor overlooking a great view. You can enjoy the mainroad and admire the traffic jams while waiting for your lamb to cook. What's cool is it's open air and the owner install countless of those water spray that you usually see at mamak to keep the air cool.

raw seafood and hommade chilli dip.


That 2 miserable clams are mine.

If you're interested, this place is called
Korea Stone BBQ Steamboat located at
33A-1, Jalan AWF 1, Ampang Water Front, 68000 Ampang.

It's at the main road, you can't miss it.

Choy San & The Lion

I know it's waaaayyyyy too late. But I'm still gonna wish everyone who read this blog

GONG XI FA CAI !!!!!!!

This year the Bank decided to shake up all and drum out all any bad chi inside the building to bring good luck and properity. What better way to do it other than a group earth shattering, ear numbing noice and organised chaos from the Lion Dance Troup.

Never had I experienced a lion dance right in front of me and do the 'kow-tow' thing in front of me, and I could pat his head and goes "here lion, bless me more and I'll save more angpow and a big pomelo for you".

Choy San Yeh ! Peaceeeeeeeeeeee............! Crazy Photo sessions before the arrival of the lions.

More Choy San Yeh ! Who does not want to be the God of Prosperity ?

2 lions taking the escalator. A rare site. Pity the guy at the lion's tail. Excellent balancing act, considering it must be pitch dark underneath the costume.

Bless the department. Blesss the Manager's room. Bless the workstation. Oh ya, don't forgot to bless your client's kid too ! By this time, my ear already starts to feel numb. The noice could easily be heard 5 blocks away and enough to drive any evil spirit away. haha.

The last ritual. This is the part where i'm clueless, but it seemed like the most important ritual. Don't know what they put inside the red cloths. I thought it's Mandarin oranges.

The the lion lay down in eating position and its whole head covered the red cloths and the stuff underneath it. It maintained that position for like 15 minutes and then got up.

Walah ! It's a pomelo and oranges ! The guy inside the lion actually tore up the whole pomelo and turn it into a work of art. haha....and he did it all under the lion's head. What a true master.

MAY THE NEW YEAR BRINGS EXCELLENT HEALTH, ENDLESS GOOD LUCK, NON-STOP FLOW OF WEALTH.

Sales Comference

Annual Sales C onference at First World Genting. This happened somewhere in mid-January, got no time to post it till now.

Leave me Alone !

Usually, or rather ALWAYS (for my case) when a long lost friends, or some friends whom you have not being in contact with for years, suddenly called you up for lunch.....do not take it LITERALLY.

I've been dubbed once, almost twice, but not this time.

Couple of years ago, a former classmate in college of mine called me out for a dinner at Evergreen Hotel. Excited was I to meet her after all these years. She was also my housemate in KL years ago. When I reached there, I realised i've been fooled ! Apparently, it's those conference thingy cum makan cum networking cum recruitment of new people like me.
Duuhhh ! I drove home straight away.

Now, another almost lost friend of mine is trying to take me in as her "partner". Not that kinda partner but partner in business sense. Get it?
I have great admiration for their perseverance and ingenious ways of getting your butt out to meet their so-called "manager"/"colleagues" (whatever they name it) so that they can brainwash you and become one of them.
If you know me well, my butt is heavier than a siemen truck and stick like a siemen in a concrete.
Wel, she almost got me out to meet her for dinner. That's how creative these people are. Luckily, I'm smarter than her this time. Ha ! Ha !

Again.
Another classmate from secondary school SMS me recently asking me to attend a function at a hotel in PJ. I thought "NOT AGAIN !!!"
This time, I'm gonna be DIRECT and not to beat around the bush.

Those of you who are involve in the following and are looking for new recruit.......
1. Multi-Level Marketing
2. Get Rich Program
3. Direct Selling
4. Insurance Agent
5. Work-At-Home-And-Earn-RM5k-A-Month Scheme

Please Leave Me Alone !!!
You are Targeting the Wrong Person.

Wanna earn good and steady income.....go to the Stock Market, gal.

2008, I welcome you with my OPEN arms !

Christmas has ended and the year 2007 has come to an end.

Another brand new year. A brand new start.

I thought I'd write a summary of what happened to me to have a closure for the year that has passed.

Only then I realised something.

2007 is just another year. Nevertheless, a GREAT Year because........

This year I oficially moved in to my brand new apartment. Hooooo Hooooooo !

2008 is gonna be another GREAT year.

I shall end this chapter with a picture of my marble top dinning table.

Happy New Year boys and Girls !

ReUnion

Went back to Penang couple of weeks ago. Hang-up with the gals at New World. All of us have been waiting for only-god-knows-how-long to have ALL of us in this photos.

The Tans

Dad called me last Friday and told me "mehh, wa beh tan i loke KL". Mehh, I can't wait to go KL.

Hmmmm......................................I was a bit sceptical. I don't mean that he was feeling otherwise or stuff like that, just that there must be something else that could justify what he just said. Afterall, KL is nothing but Crazy overcrowded shopping malls, endless traffic jams and almost non-existent street food. He is not a fan of all the above and Klang Bak Kut Teh certainly was not enough a justification.

What could it be?

Then......"papa siau ai beh nor teng motorbike"

But what he meant was..............

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THIS !

The All-Terrain-Vehicle (ATV)

He finally got one from a guy who operates the Extreme Park at Sunway Lagoon.

Anyone who is interested in one or interested to rent one, call me dad.

On the 2nd night at Chee Cheong Kai, the night I discovered my hidden talent.

The ART OF HAGGLING.

Fortunately, I found it rather addictive. Like a throphy won when the vendor begs you with his 2 hands clapsed together on prayer mode not to squeezed his already 'thin' margin.

yeah, right.

Then you proceed to squeezed him further knowing that he hungers for your business and that he had already 'suck the blood' of many innocent victims.
Up to a point where we reached the price that mom is willing to pay and the guy almost already reluctant to sell.

That's 76% off the Initial Offer Price.

Well, he wouldn't have sold that fake Adidas to us, if he'd made a loss, now would he?

We bought this 'Iron Tree' at IKEA for RM1.90 and thought it was an amazing deal !

On the way to the Airport the next day, dad saw the exact same plant by the KAKI LIMA growing like lalang. Mom tried to console herself that the 'iron plant' she bought was more respectable than the one we just saw.

I was in denial.

But hey, it's just RM1.90 and the leaves got 2 colours.

More photos:

The Tans at the apartment poolside.

Starhill Gallery. Mom and Ah Meng.

Counting Sheeps.......

Now I lay me down not to sleep.
I just get tangled in the sheets.

I swim in sweat three inches deep.
I just lay back and claim defeat...

Lids down, I count sheep. I count heartbeats.
The only thing that counts is thatI won't sleep...

My mind is racing, filled with lists of things to do and things I've done.
Another sleepless night's begun......


At first, it's almost impossible to doze off at night.
The when I have no problem dozing myself off, I found myself waking up almost every morning at 5 !
WHat in the world is happening to me ???

I googled insomnia and found this:

A. Transient (short term) insomnia lasts from a single night to a few weeks.
B. Intermittent (on and off) insomnia is short term, which happens from time to time.
C. Chronic (on-going) insomnia occurs at least 3 nights a week over a month or more.


BAH !


Currently reading Marley & Me (2nd round) and True Singapore Ghost Story.

Dilemma

I found my self in a teribble dilemma for the past couple of days over what to do this saturday.
1. Attend my colleague's potluck cum beer drinking session at her house
2. Join Siong and buddies for 'yum char session' with 'Uncle Lim'
3. Stay at home alone and chill up and catch-up on my sleep or I could also catch-up on my
endless housekeeping task or I could go buy some shoes.

Dilemma ! Dilemma !

Option #1 seemed fun. I missed the loud and chaotic night filled with fun musics, trash talking and juicy gossips. Itching to go, but at the same time for some reasons I felt otherwise. I see them at least 50 hours every week. That's 200 hours a month which is 2,400 hours a year! The least I would like to do is have the weekend without them.

I tried to avoid option #2 as I was never excited on Genting Highland since I was 12. During that time, when mom and dad brought us (me and ah meng) up there, all we did was took crazy photos of my orange rabbit soft toy in different pose while mom and dad busy cashing in at the casino. On one extreme ocassion, I took photos of Meng while he "flew" from one bed to another. We would be busy chasing moth out of the window. And then we would have a midst blowing competition outside the hotel lobby to see who can blow out the most midst out from our mouth.

But if I don't take option #2, that will leave me with option #3. Frankly, I have longed for option #3 for quite sometime, but spending the entire Saturday alone, seemed overwhelming. What if I got bored?


So I decided on Option #2.

And guess what? I won't RM50 bucks from playing Casino War ! Initially I won RM150 bucks but greed almost got the best of me. Despite this, it wasn't that bad after all !
I learnt a new game and glad to announce that I have oficially dish tai-sai.

Pangkor, you are better than Cherating.

Who says Cherating is better than Pangkor?

I was at Pangkor, a week after my Cherating Trip and look at all those fishes !!!!!!

This lil' island is called Coral Island.

Got very exited as I spotted several long lost 'friends'.....parrot fish, sea urchin, sea cucumber, rabbit fish and that lil' fish with a black round spot on its body (i think it's called ikan supat, but then again I thought that fish is suppose to be in fresh water, no?)
Where is NEMO?????

It's sad that's there is no sea anemony (not sea enemy, ya. it's sea ane...anae....anaemony....

(*&%$& how to spell Nemo's home??????)

All the corals are dead.

Oh, when you're inside the hotel room, there's this sticker on the wooden door to the balcony with a monkey holding a banana picture. The sticker has a cross over it that say "do not feed the monkey". Like the "dilarang meletak kereta" sign, you follow what it says la. Do not feed the monkey.

What they didn't warn the hotel guest was, BEWARE OF DOOR OPENING MONKEYS !

while I was watching tv, suddenly I heard door knob twisting, and its coming from the balcony.

Since when the housekeeper comes in from the balcony? Can't be what.

It happened quickly and just like a human being, our "distance cousin" came it and looked around.

I know these monkeys can ransacked your kitchen and garbage bin. I didn't they can open door knob like human being !!!!

I started to lunged myself forward and shouted as if i'm a Ugly Green Orge. Clearly it didn't work. I'm not scary enough meh ???

I was about to run into the bathroom and lock myself in when my bf saved the day with the king sized comforter and shoo the monkey away. Just like that.

You ain't messin' with this fish.

The great ocean view from the hotel. Turquois blue sea and powdery white sand. Ah.......

On my way to the round island and snorkelling trip.

Everyone eating KFC at the Ferry Terminal.

Hotel view.

Free-jumping Hornbill. Look ma' I can jump !