Thursday, August 27, 2009

Temptation of the bling-bling

A recent hunt for a gift gave me the opportunity to score jewellery stores - as in the "real" thing. Hell yeah its more expensive that I realised.


I have this experience frequent enough where when speaking on blings-blings, some will retort that it is best to have the other half to shower them with bling-blings.

This draw to my attention on how women can still be naive enough to hang on the fantasy of having men to lavish them with jewellery. So what happens if you don't get to have a man or you one who are either no $$$ enough to get you a decent one? You will go to your grave not having one then?

Again, ironically, these are the same people always hang the phrase" Equality in Men & Women" on their sleeves still depend / expect / assume men to give them some?

I am not being a hypocrite here by saying I dont need a man to get me some, I do like and value if eventually I get the bling-bling presents from them. Of course, it would be great if there are people willing to get me some - I would love that gift and that person as well * wink wink *


Just that it have always been an anticipation to the day I can purchase some real bling-bling with my own earned dough. It will be a milestone for me, in which indicates * to my own self only this is * that I have reached the point in life where I am capable to earn enough $$$ to be able to afford lavishing my self with this luxury.

WITHOUT NEEDING TO RELY ON OTHERS TO GET ME ONE.

Again, I stress that this is not a discrimination and that I love people to present me with blings-blings, it's just that I want to know too that I can and have reached that goal of mine to own that financial independence and extra.

* =) *





Monday, August 24, 2009

I made my 15th entry this month!!!

So SP, I keep to my promise and delivered 15 blog entries this month.

* muahahahaha * howling.... *


I admit that it helps to set a monthly target. I know, this sound more like a task / work, but it does help to drive me to update my blog * =) *

Yeah, I have many pending entries... * LOL * am trying my best not to be lazy meow and update you guys...

But then again, my life is boring... * wink wink *


Agefuku, Taipan

** Super Delayed Entry **




Pammie will cubit me on this - I think we had this like one year ago... * hahaha *

But nevertheless I feel that I must blog about it as I kinda like this place * heehee *

The Jap fast food place in Taipan also sports a cool buffet for lunch and dinner. Despite it not being a big place, the food variety was good - with complete range of Jap food from sushi to teppanyaki to grilled skewered meat, and a good place to pig on Jap food on a lazy weekend where one is lazy to don pretty clothes and make up as well as brave the crazy mall crowd.

Just some pics to capture this... Too long ago to remember much * hahaha * Yeah, pinch me, I know...






Ipoh Road Trip: 21-22 March 2009 FOOD

Okies - as promised, food we stomached during the Ipoh trip. I recently whined to Daniel that there were some food we missed and it seems like the conversation may led us to another trip down to Ipoh. Who wants to join this time? * wink wink *


The pics is not in particular order of our itinerary - lazy meow here just touch on the highlights. Don't merajuk ya, SP... * =P *



Toast at the famous Ipoh White Coffee kopitiam. Mind you, not the modernised franchise but the old school kopitiam!


I know I should take the hot white coffee but I needed a cold drink then! * =P *



Dimsum!!! My favorite breakfast! And I like how this restaurant have mini, specialty dimsums - the size of their dimsum is bite size!

Loh Mai Kai


HK Chee Cheong Fun



Porridge! yum yum! another favorite food of mine


Char siew pau - no, we didnt order that much!!! I just quickly take the pic when the aunty dropped us one - promise! * =P *


Yummy bite-size dimsum


I likey the fish balls! Very yummy!



Yumcha at night at uber cool Josephine's


Choc cake

Tiramisu

My hazelnut latte




We can NOT MISS the famous Ipoh Steamed Chicken! Daniel intro to us another really local store, not the over rated, over advertised tourist Ipoh Chicken place and this is seriously damn good! I fell in love with it!



Chicken was smooth, the sauce was just right

Originally, it is eaten with Hor Fun instead of rice - equally good noodles!

And the fantastic bean sprouts / taugeh. It was so good, we had 2 plates and even converted Pammie the taugeh avoider to ate lots of this! * LOL * ROTF *
Hell yeah, it was that good!


And definitely the dessert that swept me off my chubby paws is this...

The super, mega delicious taufoofar... I get excited just remembering how soft and smooth the sweet curd trickled down my throat... OMG - fantastic - you can not miss this if you are in Ipoh!




Assam laksa

The famous "char liew"


Dragon fruit juice which is more like ice blended

Chee Cheong Funn


Popiah - fresh and deep fried


Sotong Kangkung in a very unique peanut sauce - unlike the usual in KL...


The very yummy salted chicken!!!


I really enjoyed myself in Ipoh and must hereby express my sincere thanks for Daniel for his time and fantastic hospitality.

Not only you willing to spend the weekend with us, you have been patient, thoughful in planning our itinerary and shared many stories with us.

Thanks, Daniel. Very very much appreciate this.


Curro

Hello! This is Curro, our new pup. Welcomed him into the family for almost 4 months already, but I delayed the commitment of introducing him to everyone - just in case he * ..... *

A mongrel, hyper naughty with sharp teeth and high tolerance to pain.


Curro at 3 weeks old. Was such a cutie who is actually a devil in disguise behind the fluffy fur

Innocent looking? Don't be fooled!!!

Chewing his frustrations...

Curro : I want out from the cage!!!


I absolutely adore his chubby paws!!! But he is almost 4 months old now, gone were the chubby paws i love to gently stroke with my index finger...

He is more like a gangly teen now... Shall get his latest naughty pic for you guys soon!


Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ipoh Road Trip: 21-22 March 2009

** Delayed Entry **


Ok, another one that will make SP reward me with a fat pinch * =P * Finally a short update on the road trip to Ipoh in May.

Pammie, Ivy and myself headed up to Ipoh for the weekend, having Daniel as our tour guide. Many Thanks to Daniel for his time and willingness to be our tour guide for this, not to mention having to stand the weekend with 3 shrieking girls - well, shrieking we tried our best to put it in a minimum level - or at least I did my best to not be so excited * hahaha *

I thoroughly enjoyed myself a lot, and glad that we made that trip. Think we should try to do things like this more often * =) *

I did mention before that this trip bears the main objective of Makan-Makan, but of course, we need to do something to burn off the calories before making space for the next meal * =P * So this first part on the places we went...


Padang Ipoh

The Ipoh Railway Station

I like the old victorian style architecture of it

Nice place to take those professional pictures * heehee *


The very old, original lift to the 1st floor. It is still working !!! And we took a ride in in * =) *
We also round Ipoh town in our car as its more of just sight seeing the old buildings...


We then headed to Kellie's Castle - a freaking sunny, hot day it was!




The tree which looks like there's a bear hugging it - very unique!


Kellie's Castle! If only they managed to complete it - can imagine that it would be splendid!

We were fascinated by this toilet which are separated with these really low panels - you just need to stand up on your toe and you can peep at the next cubicle!

Oh - and we went to a Funfair! Yeah, it satisfied my childhood cravings for wanting to go to a fun fair - its very old school feeling. I was a lil disappointed to find no one selling cotton candy or else it will be perfect!

Believe it or not, we were tempted to go in but chickened out * LOL *


But Pammie and I did took this ride! * wink *

Sunday Flea Market - very crowded and you can find lots of antique, old stuff! Very interesting!

The Ipoh White Coffee place.

Next entry will post you the delicious food we greedily had in Ipoh * wink wink *


Thursday, August 20, 2009

100 year-old Alley in USJ

** Delayed Entry **



This was a disappointed meal, where we heard good reviews about the place but the food turn out to be just plain. Perhaps it was one of the new franchise outlet hence the difference in terms of quality of taste - let me go try the original shop and will get back to you guys if it was over rated or plain difference in location.

Char Kuey Teow - taste was OK but a bit too wet to my liking




This was rather good - the seafood banana deep fried fritters with cheese


The disappointing prawn mee. Apparently this supposed to be one of their specialty but I don't like it at all.

I shall go try the actual original shop to understand why people give this brand a good rating in the 1st place... Who wants to come with me? * =P *

Kerang Life Training

** Delayed Entry **


I attended this residential training which lasted a week in KL end of May 2009. I really enjoyed myself during this despite having to check into another hotel a day after I return from HongKong.

There was many group activities, which were very fun and involved lots of interaction. Interesting games, dynamic young people. Plenty of reflection and useful learnings. Met many different people, eye opening experiences.

Not able to share more details on the training, let me share with you this experience I had at the hotel... * wink wink *

For the 1st time, I found that that privacy is not needed in the room. There is a huge glass window overlooking into the bathroom and THE DOOR/SHADES ARE OUTSIDE THE BATHROOM instead of inside!!!

Meaning people OUTSIDE of the bathroom can open and close the door and not the person in the bathroom!!!

Sexy, hor? One can conveniently open the door and stare at the person taking a shower (or a dump) in there * =P *

Huge, fresh oysters for the buffet lunch. This is to tempt SP as I know she likey * =P *

This was actually eaten by a guy colleague, who ate like 20-30 oysters AT LEAST for lunch EACH DAY throughout the course! * LOL *

And I dont like the housekeeping team here. They dont respect my Mickey!!! * hmphh!!! * frown *

I leave Mickey in bed when I leave for my training and each day I return finding Mickey being ill treated!!!

Mickey end up on the chair instead of the bed one day!!! And mind you, not seated propoerly on the chair buy halfway FALLING off the chair!!!


Mickey being left ON THE BEDSIDE TABLE!!! Can you believe it???


The only "decent" position Mickey was left in was this...

Haih... What happened to all the sweet, thoughtful housekeepers? ...

JB and I deliberately schedule to attend this same course on the same date so we get to meet up again! There is less chances of me able to fly to Philipphines hence he has to come over to KL!!! * LOL *

Had a great time, hope to meet up again ya! Missy you!