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Changlun, Chinese, Humour, Malay, Thai, Travel
The Many Eats @ Changlun or Changloon (whatever you want to call it!)

Early this month, I camped at one of the northernmost place in Malaysia, a small town called Changlun, which is just 10 minutes away from the Thai border. I thought that it’s one of the most dreading trip ever, being away from the kids for so long and staying in almost a squatter like bungalow nearby. Internet connection is not the best since 3G connectivity is only available towards the centre of the town (which by the way populated near a traffic light junction) and anything further than that, you get zero connection. Food wise, there’s a mixture of Thai, Chinese and Malay food and you wouldn’t fail to at least order a plate of spicy dish when you’re eating out, even at Chinese restaurant. The town is mainly sustaining on the student population from the Northern University of Malaysia, plus the few hundreds staff working there, so I guess it’s a bit like Newcastle back in my university days minus the big shopping mall, or McDonalds or place for entertainment. It’s also pretty difficult to gauge working in a state where Sunday is a working day and Friday is a holiday, but banks follow the standard working week. Anyways,…
October 23, 2012
Humour, Our Baby, Pa-sonaru
May’s Birthday

27th of last month was May’s birthday and coincidentally it’s also marks us 10 years being together. Unfortunately, due to my busy schedule, she still haven’t got her birthday present yet so hopefully we could go shop for it this weekend. Dinner was great at Little Korea, but we left the candle blowing session at home so that the kids could have some fun. I was hunting down a birthday cake along Bangsar Village area, and couldn’t resist getting this rainbow cake from Bisou, because Kayden has been asking for a colourful cake for quite sometime. Look at his happy face when he saw the 7 layer of rainbow coloured cake. His mom is not so happy thinking that this is the only cake that I bought. Of course I did get a proper cake and it’s from Haagen-Dazs, the only place that has full cake available but it’s worth every penny because it’s just delicious and way better than Baskin Robbins. Thanks to our in house camera-girl, Jasmin we got a family shot! Here’s a video of that night. Simple celebration…but great memories before I headed off to Changlun.
October 23, 2012
Humour, Pa-sonaru, Techie
I want to learn Japanese…

I have always wanted to learn Japanese. The problem is, I’m not sure how do I get started. If it’s as easy as learning Chinese/Mandarin. I have never attended Chinese school my entire life, how I picked up the language is purely by listening to songs back when I’m in Standard 6. All the Jacky Cheung, Vivian Chow and more during those days helped me a lot in learning the words. There’s how I started to pick up my Mandarin as well. There’s no books, no anything, just lyrics. And now I’m contemplating on learning a new language, wish me luck. Speaking of Japanese, check out Dannychoo.com’s Culture Japan. If you don’t know, Danny Choo is the son of the shoemaker Jimmy Choo and I have to admire him for what he has done for his love of the Japanese culture, from knowing nothing to being able to work and live in Japan. Something that I can definitely learn in my quest to learn Japanese. Related to Japan, I’ve recently acquired myself a Sony PSP albeit the new NGP (Next Generation Portable) is launching end of this year. It’s something that I always wanted to get, but kept it at…
March 21, 2011
Humour, Techie
I won’t buy this, I will wait for (insert item name) to come out…

Have you ever heard of this sentence before? I guess most of us had one time or another hear this from our friends, or even said it before. Oh, I won’t get the iPhone 4 now, because I want to wait for the iPhone 5. Or “Oh, I will wait for PS4, because it’s coming out soon!’”. I’m sure you have heard of that before right? I got my iPhone 3G about 2 years back, when there’s not a single telco in Malaysia is offering it. I have to get it from a dealer from Singapore and of course pay a higher price. A few months later, Maxis launched the iPhone 3GS, but still costs way more compare to our neighbors down South. I didn’t regret getting it earlier, because it’s just madness. When the iPhone 4 is launched last September, there’s an event where you need to queue up just to get one and even that, you might went home empty handed. In the weeks that follows, I dropped by from telco centre to telco centre to ask the availability but was always told the same answer, “No stock!” So after a lot of “No stock” on the face,…
February 28, 2011
Humour, Italian
La Risata @ Ampang, JD Teaches Italian during Birthdays

Sometime last week, I asked my fellow friends where are we going to celebrate our friends birthday this week. I casually suggested Fukuya but that was quickly shot down as some need to eat bread for the rest of the month and kept singing “Di Persimpagan Dilemma” on his email replies, and then suggested us to head to this place called La Risata in Ampang. Dinner appointment is set @ 7PM, fearing the massive jam in KL, me and May head over as soon as get off from work. La Risata have previously underwent some renovation and the result, is quite a tastefully decorated Ristorante. Located in a 2 storey-building, the interiors provide a very Tuscany feel of Italy, especially the lightings and staircases. We were seated on the 2nd floor but there’s ample tables around, despite reviews from blogs that I have read that it’s usually full every night. Knowing that my beloved friends will be late, we ordered Antipasti Mesti (RM38) that consist of a few appetizers. There’s grilled mushroom, deep fried calamari rings, beef carpacccio and garlic crostini with chicken liver pate. Pretty special in their own way and I got to know that a lot…
February 25, 2011
Bak Kut Teh, Humour, Our Baby, Travel
The Genting Trip

Last weekend was an enjoyable one as we were able to spend it over at Awana Genting. The organizer, Lin claimed that it was a success, which is so true. We started off with Steamboat dinner on Friday night, look at the amount of food that night. Lai, posing with an Oyster mushroom. Chin Chin and Kel posing with porks. I wondered why? The room that we stayed was very spacious with 2 rooms despite looking a bit run down. Apparently a room like this costs about RM400/night. Steamboat dinner was so so because yours truly forgotten to bring the most important ingredients, the soup paste for the Tomyam soup, so everyone literally boycott the tomyam pot. Our 1st night ended with some of us heading up to the casino and came back down around 2AM. On the 2nd day, Melon and Chin Chin had to leave early, so here they are before heading down to KL. A group picture of us before leaving to Genting again. Nice photo? That’s after a few tries of running up and down like this. After we parked our cars, some of the rest already seated to have some durian. All 4 of…
February 14, 2011
Humour
Shopping for X’mas

Christmas had just whizzed past and it’s a jolly good celebration. Nothing beats a holiday where you can spend time with family and friends. There’s no water supply on Christmas Eve’s Steamboat dinner so we ended up have to buy water for the show to go on. Some friends arrived early, some late, but most had a jolly good time playing with the Kinect. And then comes the Christmas presents, this is the 1st year we celebrating it with Kayden, but we didn’t put up any Christmas tree fearing that it will be terrorize by him because there’s enough things that are already being terrorized by him around the house now. As for presents wise, we got him some Mega Block that he had no clue what to do with it aside from chewing it and a pair of Clarks’ Shoe that I got from the warehouse sale a couple of weeks back. Last year, me and May both had Blackberries as presents, this year we opt for something not so techie so we both decided to have a RM200 limit on our gifts, so I chose this. England Home and Away jerseys for about RM300, got it at a…
December 27, 2010
Humour, Techie
What is Kinect?

I will be organizing a Kinect party tomorrow, so far there’s only 1 person who can make it. The rest actually ask me what’s a Kinect? The Kinect for XBOX 360, where you are the controller. I would say this beats the crap out of Nintendo Wii because you can basically dance without fearing the Wii Mote flying off from your hands. It is able to track the whole body movement including the legs of course. At the moment I’m writing this, me and my sis is dancing on Dance Central. I’ve invited the gang over to test run, so far only 2 person have reverted so let’s see how it goes….
November 27, 2010
Humour, Pa-sonaru, Western
Coffee Bean, Tea Leaf & Jine’s Wedding

Last week was a hectic one as there’s a few jobs coming in from Wednesday through to Sunday, but luckily still able to have a day off on Saturday. Was up early so that can spend some time with Kayden and May, so decided to head over to Jarrod & Rawlin’s for some awesome breakfast but was greeted by the close sign. So take note that J&R only open at 10AM. So early on the day, we head over to Bangsar Village to see if there’s any nice place to have breakfast like The Daily Grind but alas, it was not open yet as well, so we ended up having to decided to eat at Starbucks or Coffee Bean, we chose the latter one. Coffee Bean don’t just serve Ice Blended Mocha nowadays, they also have a pretty comprehensive all-day breakfast menu as well. May’s Breakfast Set looks nice with a couple of chicken sausage, scrambled eggs and a piece of toast. My Smoked Salmon sandwich is not bad either. A large portion of smoked salmon in between tasty sandwich bun and a poached egg. Kayden woke up very early that day, so by the time that we’re starting to…
October 26, 2010
Humour, Pa-sonaru
Karaoke and Me

I only started going to Karaoke at the age of 21, so in terms of tenure-ship, I think I’m way lagging back compare to a lot of my friend or colleagues. If you don’t know me by now, I’m quite a reserved kind of person and I normally need a lot of time to warm up, and being in a karaoke place meaning that you need to sing, not only to yourself, but more likely to friends and sometimes even family. But thanks to karaoke, there’s where I learnt 80% of my Chinese (from reading to speaking), of course my mentor is no other than Jacky Cheung himself (coz there’s where I translate all his songs back in my teenage days and sing it out loud at home). So whenever there’s a joyous (or sad) occasion, I will try to organize a Cheong K party. Like the time I organize this. And of course this year, I suggested to my Lunch gang that we should go sing karaoke to celebrate my birthday, since we haven’t been singing since like 3 months back. Not all of my lunch gang could make it but as I always said, the less the merrier…
August 11, 2010