Getting out of here.........

Blogger's platform is starting to piss me off. I had a discussion with a technical person to discuss pushing the system to its max and its dissapointing. Tons of people are moving to other platforms everyday and I do not think that Google is doing anything to counter that.

It looks like I need to transfer my posts which so far has not been much (luckily) to another platform. Althought I have lots of posts in mind, I do not think I will do so until I finalise the move to another platform.

Until then, ciao. Thanks for reading. If I do continue posting here. Well, then in that case, I have settled for Blogger.

I Love The World Cup.......

People always tell me that if you want to watch the world cup, you must bet on a team so that watch that time more "Kan Chiong".
I tell people, "no need bet wannnn. Why spend money unneccesarily........"
Then they ask me "who I support like that".
I say "Haiya, this game unites people marrrrrrr, best team wins lorrrrrr"
I tell you who can win larrrrrrr:




I tell you, Switzerland arrr this year, not bad you know, sure can advance, win I dunno larrr ok . No guarantee wan.

Sweden arrr, always good SOLID team you know, I think can spring a COUPLE of surprises.

Italy I tell you, 'Gaya ada, selalu punya. Tapi Mutu dan keungulan tak tau larrrr'.

If you're more into supporting Asian 'Flava'. Then you maybe can support Korea ok. But if you say win, I say you go back fantasise winning more effective.

England also like Italy larrrr......A lot of style, hype, good presentation, media coverage and all. But when they play arrrrr, supporter can only pray for free kick.........

Even Trinidad & Tobago can show quality and potential........

Haiya, America, what can I say. How to win like thattttt........

Germany, people say got home advantage. But I say they got more than that larrrrr. If they carry on with quality like that, I say then sure can 'tapau' the rest......

Brazil as usual, damn solid, full of spirit, passionate fans, ultra creative players. With players like these, how to lose.............

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!...........Wahhhh, this year, Gus Hiddink do good job man. Assemble dark horse of the tournament. Watch out, the rest of you. Down under(wear), wants to get to the top.

I like Mexico mannnn......passionate fans but like that not enough to beat Brazil......

Wah Biang......Iran, may score a few upsets larrrr, dun pray pray, but like this no hope lorrrrr......

Like that lorrrr. I am sure you will agree and like my "honest" predictions. You all can share my intuition...........

Cheapskate Nation......

Just last week, it was all over the papers, blogs, and people have gave their feedback. I am talking about the now infamous Reader's Digest survey that Malaysians are rude. Feedback does support that fact.
To a certain extent, I do agree with it. The majority of Malaysians or should I say KLites do lack basic courtesy, patience or put it broadly, civic consciousness. Everywhere I go especially on the road, the worst of Malaysian kiasu-ness and 'me first, screw the rest attitude' is soooooo prevalent. Ever board an Air Asia flight at the new LCC terminal? Ever sat in a cinema and someone's phone rings and he/she answers and keeps on with a conversation as if its their home theater? You know full well what I am talking about.

Recently, I attended the latest MAS (Malaysia Airliness) Annual General Meeting. I was reminded of another thing. Malaysians are cheap. Now, this is a branch out of the rude self-centered attitude. This time, a good example would be how Malaysians behave when they attend open houses (free food) or scramble to get something when it is 'FREE!' Look at the 'amah', or 'aunties' go on their mad dash.

Now, where was I, yeah, Malaysia Airlines AGM. Now, the AGM is attended majorly by shareholders and their proxies. We are talking about a major corporation in Malaysia, so when the secretary of the board announces that there is a quorum (in terms of shareholders), I assume, there must be a total attendance of people representing shares worth few hundred million total at least. Now, this crowd must be the affluent crowd, the rich, the so called success, that they have soooo much money to invest. So we are not talking about the general crowd here.

Its well known that at company AGMs, shareholders expects door gifts, nice food, nice venue etc. etc. This time, it was held at the MAS Academy at Kelana Jaya itself. One thing I noticed, many people actually come for the meeting for this purpose only (free gifts,free food). I don't think they understand what is going on in the meeting.

The meeting lasted 2 and a half hours and sure enough, as my prediction goes, everyone, from the uncles, aunties, grandfathers, all, rushed to the exit. Not walking but running. FOR WHAT!!!! For the free buffet at the cafeteria. I mean, they were running down the staircase (yes even the grannies) as if the building caught fire. I observed the pandemonium and about a minute later as expected, they jammed the tiny entrance to the cafeteria.

This is not all, as soon as they got to the spread, well, you name it, messing the food, cutting queues, impatiently trying to grab the ladles and so on. This plain idiotic uncle in nice office attire actually tried to reach for a dish that was obviously too far for him and the consequence, I got a few dots of curry on my shirt. The younger generation has to tell the older guy to chill. This guy could probably be the owner of millions worth of shares and afford abalone for lunch and yet, this behaviour prevails.

At last, after finishing my meal, I walked pass the buffet again and took a picture of this sign (I actually found this amusing). You would expect this sign at say, Samy Vellu's deepavali open house, but at the MAS AGM, hmmmmm, affluent crowd, well, no difference, rude will be rude, cheap will be cheap.



A picture speaks a thousand words. The need to put up this sign tells us heaps about KLites behaviour. I am not surprised that even with this sign, people will still tapau for their whole family for lunch and also for dinner and supper. "BUD-GET mahhhhhh......"

A Reason To Celebrate.....

Well, first of all, its not my birthday celebration. Its my friends' and well, well, well. It was a packed week full of it.

I don't know much about "good times" or as chinese like to put it, "auspicious moments" in the year to get married, where the stars are in line and the gods favor you. This could be an astrology or feng shui question for chinese taoist, but generally, if you calculated the 9-months period that it takes from baby making activities till the day a baby pops out into the world, it looks like mid to end of September must be good times to either get married or perhaps, the climate and environmental aura that allows passionate moments for making love ;)

OR if you wanna reverse engineer it, perhaps if the pregnancy was planned to start in the period mentioned above, maybe the end of June must be a good time to give birth and for the mother to recuperate. OR its purposely planned for a good and convenient time for people to celebrate birthdays.

Whichever of the above 2 scenarios you choose to believe, I swear to you, all this is not co-incidence. The amount of birthdays last-week is enough proof of my theories above. The last count, I was looking at 7 and those were just people I knew well, not all I knew (co-incidence you say).

Well, lots of birthdays means lots of money spent for shopping presents and for me, it comes at an extra cost. I am not good with presents and people could see me wondering from store to store trying to figure out who likes what and so on. Well, everyone says, its the thought that counts, but for me, thats a no no. A useful present where the birthday boy/girl actually uses it or enjoys it is far more meaningful than "Yeah, Here is a RM0.50 keychain I bought from Bali" and say, " Hey mann, here you go , remember, its the thoughts that count." Well, I shared some presents and therefore did not have to shop for everyone. Thanks to those who helped.

The last few weekends were quiet, but this week *wipes sweat from brow*. It was fantastic!!!!!. On saturday, it was 6 people trying to squeeze their birthdays. Fortunately, 3 was in one place and 2 was in another, the 1 left was my grand-uncle who became an octogenerian, now that definitely validates a celebration. Its no mean feat.

It was fantastic for me because I met so many people I have never met in a long time particularly in Yew Kheong's house. Meeting people and catching up is always fantastic, for the sheer enjoyment and also for a simple good laugh.

Well, at noon, tables at Shangri-la was booked for this restaurant:



Naturally, noon was still too early for some of us heavy sleepers, who had to rush to KL.
Well, it was Cindy's birthday:




This is the first time I tried the Japanese buffet here. It was alright, with the usual Japanese fare. One thing I can comment about these hotel buffets compared to what you get at say Saisaki (Menara UOA), or Shogun (1-Utama) is that the quality tends to be better. Well, without the discount, the prices naturally were double to those 2 mentioned above. I mean, its Shang-gri-la you know.....



The Interior Was Typical Of Japanese Fine Dining




One For The Doggy Bag

Li Li Au Is Good At Food Presentation

Teppanyaki Steak Was Fantastically Done. The 'Chawan Mushi' Has Endangered Sharks Fin

I Agree, The Syrup Or Whatever That is Tasted Weird

Haven't Seen This Girl For A Long Time. Well, She Came Out Of Hiding With This Cute Wannabe Pose :)

I can't eat much at buffets, but the meal after discount was still worth it. The food was of high quality and the sashimi was cut and presented nicely.

After that hefty meal, a few hours later, it was time to stuff myself again, but this time, it was Chinese cuisine. Yup, got a full course chinese meal (Restoran Chuai Heng, Jalan Kuchai Lama) treat from my octogenarian granduncle:

My pilot friends would probably recognize the guy behind the old man with a slight tinge of terror :)


Anyways, congratulations to "kau kong" for making it this far with a positive attitude in life. As for me, I was stuffed. Too much good food in a day.

After the meal, it was a quick thank you and goodbye and I rushed to Taman Tun Dr. Ismail. To Yew Kheong's beautiful house. There, it was for Yew Kheong, Lucinda and Godwin's birthday.



The Happy Birthday Couple. Don't They Look Happy



Godwin With His Present





Drinking Games Are Compulsory



Not Sure Why This Guy Is Always The Usual Target :)




Abel & Candice



Another Happy Couple



Honestly, I Have No Idea What Leanne Was Attempting.......Oh Well



Choon Ping looks like he is having a jolly good time. He even gave me a free back massage:




Trust me, this wasn't due to alcohol......



Well, me and Shirley began getting lots of SMSes by the guys to get our arses to KL as we promised. It was half-past midnight and Shirley and I were a little exhausted. But we proceeded to the next venue crusing pass the night lights of KL city to here:





We were at the right area, but I has no idea where I was going. So it was a bit of searching.



The name sounds like this one but nope. Wrong one.

Well, after some phone exchanges with Charles, we found it:



To get to the big picture:



It was my first time here and this was one club with a difference in terms of the interior. It looks at though they refurbished a pre-war shop house building. The interior was, bricks and more bricks, layered messily with lumps of concrete here and there. The so called chandelior was old and it had this abandoned old warehouse feel. The designers did quite a good job with the minimalist decor.



Here they were, all tired and waiting for some later comers :)



I was glad that it was the final event of the day for me as I was already rusted and so was Shirley. These were the remaining photos of the night:



Look At Our Eyes. It Was A Long But Good Day






This dancer was good, with the braids and all the right outfit for maximum effect and so on. However, I thought it was a guy and 'it' turned around and it was a gurl:



I know, I know, you all go "soooo whatttt"....Well, it, I mean she danced with so much energy that it was not sensual but masculine like......She could give me a few pointers.


Does this club believe in feng shui and all. This dolls spotted was placed in a weird location. It looked scary too. Like Balinese:



Waving At You


It was the end then. The end of the day that is. A long day with a positive outcome. Its time to chill out on sunday. I sincerely hoped the birthday people had a great time, after all, its their day.
If birthdays bring such positive vibes to people, then hey, bring it on more often. Until then, ciao people.......

You know you had a shitty day when........

RM 180 for medicine + RM68 for consultation + RM12 for hospital fees = RM 260 *SIGH*


1. You go to a doctor to get diagnosed for a skin condition.

2. The doctor tells you its Shingles, and could be due to extreme stress and I have a damaged nerve starting from the middle of my chest leading towards the right side of my body on the front continuing all the way back to my spine.

3. The doctor tries to advice you on lifestyle and tells me to slow down (dude am I 80 or what).

4. You leave the medical centre and an arsehole blocks the road and don't want to give way. You honk him and he turns into a road bully. He ask to go somewhere and "settle". I told him to go fuck himself.

5. Pissed off and on the way back, my sinus starts its usual flare up once again. *sigh* its manufacturing tissue dumplings time.


The last 2 weeks, suck arse, due to circumstances most of my friends already know. It lead to the deterioration of my body due to cortisol overload. Shit, I lost 3 kilos over that period. Last week I weight myself I was a shocking 55 kilos. The day before I weight myself again I gained back 1 kilo.
I need to control the adrenalin in my blood......Ohhh, by the way, I got my blood pressure checked by the doctor, he asked me to calm down if I don't wanna die young.....

So calm down I tried, well, just sing:

"Cause you had a bad day,
You're taking one down ,
You sing a sad song just to turn it around,
You say you don't know,
You tell me don't lie,
You work at a smile and you go for a ride,
You had a bad day,
The camera don't lie,
You're coming back down and you really don't mind,
You had a bad day, You had a bad day"

Tomorrow is a day of friends birthday celebrations. Got to be better.

Innovation.........

It never cease to amaze me what creative minds can think off. Its even more amazing when what is thought of can work.

Recently, I went to 'Baywatch' to catch a World Cup match. Well, damn near my place, but I did not even bother to go there to check it out after all these years. Baywatch, was designed as a hangout near Taman Bukit Mayang, next to Aman Suria and Kampung Cempaka. The place has a beach theme, complete with a shark in an aquarium.

Well, what I liked is the way they served beer. Introducing the Bazooka:







When they brought it to my table, I was like, "What the hell. Who ordered this ?"

The capacity is around 3.5 litres, however, if you look closely, there is something like a block of ice inside. Actually, its an old mineral water bottle frozen with ice inside so that the beer is not diluted when the ice melts. That takes another say 500 - 600ml space of beer. So the actual content of beer is around 3 litres. Around 2 - 3 jugs I guess.

The dispensing of beer is very quick, so tilting the glass is essential and also, let the beer flow slowly on the release knob.

Well, although I am not an alcohol consumer, I still like to play around with these things :


So I became the bartender :)

Let The Competition Roll..........

NO!!!!! THIS IS NOT BOLASEPAK OR well.....SOCCER............

I am talking about business competition. Well, it looks like the battle over our dollar bills by the cinema industry is heating up real good in the relatively new township of Mutiara Damansara. On the South, we have Bandar Utama, and on the Northern side, we have Mutiara.
1-Utama vs. The Curve.

You, see, even with the pirated DVD situation, Malaysians are still very fond of visiting the big-screen for a film. I mean why not, today's cineplexes are absolutely wonderful. Now, as they are flowering everywhere, it looks like difficulty in getting a good seat to a popular movie is a thing of the pass (well, at least for PJ folks). Before GSC opened their doors at 1-Utama, we movie-goers had little choice. Its between TGV at 1-Utama or its begging for tickets at Mid-Valley. Advanced bookings for popular movies were ridiculous. 3 to 5 days in advanced.





The reason I choose to blog this is that when I mentioned about this new wonderful cineplex to people, very few knew it was opened. Something for their marketing team to think about. I am here to help them out as so far, their service has been examplary.

This cineplex is opened by the Cathay Group. They were the biggies in the last generation of massive single hall cinemas such as the ones in Bukit Bintang and OUG. Places where I went to see films like Superman 4, Willow, Roger Rabbit, City Hunter, Home Alone, etc. when I was kid. Suddenly, they fizzled out. Until the post-modern cineplexes opened, Cathay was missing in the Federal Territory. Now, they are back, bigger and better. Very impressive comeback indeed.


Well, since I live so close to this place, first of all, for me it damn convenient to purchase tickets and also parking so far is a breeze.





The building is massive. Don't let the exterior fool you. Purpose built for a 10 screen cinema complex and lots of retail outlets to compliment The Curve, Ikano Power Centre and Ikea, not to mention the nearby Tesco. So its all in one. Well, the majority of the hot chicks are still at 1-Utama :)

Well, besides the staff, the design of the seats are comfortable, with a larger armrest. I still don't understand how come the new cinemas do not design the arm rests to be able to be lifted for couples to cuddle, or allow us to lie down or stretch our legs in an empty cinema. Leg room is normal and the elevation is pretty comfortable for viewing (tall people will not block view).

Don't ask me about the pop-corn, I haven't tried it.

There is a customer service area:






You can even book a lounge for gatherings, birthday parties, corporate events and so on:





Here is the general Box-Office Area. 2 Snack bars and also a Big-Screen for previews:





The merchandise shop is at best pathetic at the moment, DVDs are for sale but looks like thats all to it now:




Ticketing Counter (my camera sux, I know that) :





And errrrr .....what else, well, how bout hot & friendly chicks manning the ticket booth:




But as I was about to snap, she goes walking away...damn...in fact, she was the outstanding one (as in hot chick :)






In conclusion to this post, besides me needing a new camera, I hope they give TGV and GSC a good run for their money. In the near future, a bowling alley will pop up. Another reason to avoid the crowd at 1-Utama, and another reason for well,......hot chicks from 1-Utama to hang out at The Curve :)