assorted snapshots III (Christmas mood)

bought this Christmas tree ginger bread cookie from my colleague... the money collected would be donated to the Cheshire Home and the blind centre...

these are good champagne stuff...

@Silhuotte, Spring...

and Hedo bought this Absolut 100 back for me from her Aussie trip... would probably open it for tonight's post-Christmas-Friday night party or New Year Eve party next week... hehehe...

and I got wasted on the Christmas Eve party@Soho (1st floor) btw after downing *dunno how much* Macallan + Absolut Vodka... my buddies had to wake me up when Soho was closing, which was way past 2am... wtf... -______-''

Birthday Bash@Terminal ONE

it was one of my secondary school buddy's birthday two weeks back, and the usual gang gathered together to have a birthday bash with him at Terminal ONE.

we bought cake from Secret Recipe, but the cake was made out of a combination of SIX different types... just so that everyone could have their prefered favour... and of course a bottle of Black Label was ordered to spice things up...

and at Terminal ONE, all birthday people get to have a shot of Flaming Lamborgini on-the-house... nope, not the car on fire...

but something that look like the above picture... :)

our birthday boy took up the comlimentary drink... and after 5 minutes... looked like this...

20 minutes later... BBLLUUUEEEKKK..... -_______-'

then got so wasted & KO-ed.... one of us (Ah Boon) had to drive his car and send him home, with another car following behind to fetch Ah Boon home... =.='''

it was a fun night.... :)

Imperial Duck...

Imperial Duck is another new chinese cuisine establishment launched by Lok Thian Restaurant. I went there twice with my parents, one time for breakfast and one time for lunch. Frankly speaking, the experience was pretty okay overall, with some flaws here and there...

the roasted pork tasted good, but the serving portion was so pathetic that even my 4 year old nephew could have finished it all by himself... totally not worth it...

pig's tongue... the texture was just nice... but again, the portion was a tad too small... wtf...

ordered the 1/4 roasted Peking Duck... and yeap, it's good, and the portion was reasonably big enough for the three of us...

like I said, Imperial Duck scores on the environment, and of course the Peking Duck, but I think the dishes served are slapped with a higher price tag with relatively small portion... totally not worth it (at least for me) because for the same amount of money that I were to spend there, I have plenty of choices...

Davidoff ONE...

a carton of duty free Davidoff ONE all the way from Hong Kong...

my initial choice was actually Davidoff Lights, but since there weren't any on sale, my colleague bought me this instead... many thanks still... :)

apart from that carton of Davidoff ONE, kari too bought back a few packs for me when he came back to Kuching 2 weeks back...

For the first few inhales, there are virtually no taste at all... wtf... and it burns very slowly. Overall, the taste is very bland... suites those who do not smoke much, but like to light up... and for once, Daniel finds smoking fun... cos got no taste one....  -______-'

however, there's always another way to fix the problem, which is by tearing off half the filter... and once it's done, the taste is way better... similar to typical Davidoff Lights... :)

*the filters of Davidoff ONE sticks have 2 parts, and I think the tobacco company purposely make it that way to please both smokers who do not like too much favour from their ciggies as well as those who prefer their ciggies to have a stronger taste by peeling one half of the filter...*

a good deed...

someone carelessly left his car key, together with the remote control on top of the urinal in the toilet of my office floor a few days back... and I almost took it into the office to ask around my colleagues whether any of them lost their car keys when a panicky guy came out from the lift and head straight towards the toilet obviously looking for his car keys, so I called him and gave him back his stuff... a relief guy he was after that...

I could understand his feelings completely as the same thing happened to me just a week+ ago. I went to Ipanema with Daniel at around 11pm, and only after downing half a pint of beer 20+ minutes later, and gone over to talk to some friends next door at Soho that I realized my car keys were not with me. I asked Daniel to help look for my car keys at Ipanema while I ran over to see whether my car was still there or not. To my delight, it was still there, so I walked slowly back to the club, searching carefuly for my car keys along the way until I saw someone picked it up from the two steps leading down towards Ipanema and Soho. I told that guy (got his name later - Colin Kho... thanks man...) that he had my keys and he gave it back to me straight.... I tell you no words could have described how relieve I felt that time... 

I think there's must be some connection between loosing your keys, getting them back, then helping another person got his/her keys back... a cycle or something like that... but I'm glad I could return the favour and be of help... :)

one helluva long weekend alcohol intoxication...

as I mentioned in my previous post that one of the boh-liaw clan - Kari was back in town for the long weekend... both Daniel and I brought him out drinking FOUR nights in a row, and eventually got him 'broken' by the time he flew back to Penang, with a bad sore throat and sound like Donald Duck... hehehehe....

we went to Ipanema on Friday night to open up the 15 year Balvanie that he brought back from his India business trip (luckily he went to Bangalore, not Mumbai...), and was joined by another 2 more good friends who were already there downing their 12 year Macallan, so the night turned into a Balvanie+Macallan mixing bash... 

despite the drunkness, we still manage to take a compulsary boh-liaw clan groupshot...

before he got really wasted and disoriented, and start hugging the Balvanie bottle with the 'Kari Poonani' scribble [look carefully] that I wrote..... :)

lobster overdose... again... -____-'

another member of the boh-liaw clan - Kari, came back for the weekend, so together with Daniel and I, the three of us went to the Hilton Waterfront Cafe for dinner before heading for some alchohol intoxication session (4th day in a row)... ;)

food was great, but our main focus for the night is the lobsters... yea babeh!!

lobsters + grilled fish...

octopus, sushi, lemon chicken and duck...

and of course... more lobsters... 

I think we took in more lobsters that the last time we were there on Anna's birthday...

goodbye health..... -______-'

PC Fair@Taman Kereta, Kuching

bought this transparent cooler pad with 3 fans for my Asus Eee PC... looks kinda cool especially at night with the blue neons :)

also, I bought this Logitech cordless optical mouse for only RM85 from the initial price of RM105 on the last day when they slashed price to clear up remaining stocks...

rims..........

quite a lot of choice... but very normal stuff...

Daniel says it's nice... but I don't think it's that cool....

kindda like this one... until I saw it on a Perodua Myvi... -_____-''

this 10 spoke gun metal design is by far the one that I like the most.... : )

fire

It was during lunch time at the nearby kopitiam at our workplace that we heard the fire engine siren and saw a fire truck racing past. Then we notice smoke coming from behind the still under construction shopping mall/hotel at Jalan Bukit Mata. By the time we got back to our office on the seventh floor, what we saw were more thick smoke, and later we were told that SMB Kuching High was on fire...

the news report: http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/bnm/20081202/tts-fire-school-with-pix-993ba14.html

my new gadget...

After waiting for about 3 weeks due to the shortage of the black colour Asus Eee PC 1000H models, I finally got my hands on it last Friday.  May I present to you my new toy:-

I upgraded this little bugger to a 2GB RAM, so now using it on blogging, surfing and normal office document works is more than a breeze.

some pretty extreme and nice photography...

Monkey love. The chimpanzee has been the one taking care of the white tiger since it was born and discarded by it mother.


Clash of the titans, and you definitely do not wanna be in the middle of it.


Nope, there is no photoshop on this snap, just pure creativities as well as having a kick-ass camera.


so so cute.


Playing scrabble in the ocean and having sharks as your audience anyone???


Otherwise, you can opt to play it while plunging down into earth at *dunno what speed*/second.

Special Urine Cocktail @ Terminal ONE...

We went to Terminal ONE after the lobster feast at Hilton, and Dan's sister ordered this while we had the normal Tiger draughts. Looked pretty good and presentable ehh??


well, guess what???
It's called Special Urine Cocktail, and it cost RM32 per pop..!??! wtf...

I didn't try it though

-____-'

北海道 butter cream biscuit...

Jo passed one to me a couple of weeks back when her friend bought her some on the way back from Japan.


It looked plain, but I must say that it was one of the richest butter cream biscuits I've had ever - total awesomeness.

lunch takeaway

It was the first time I went down to the Food Gallery on level 3 and ordered the Uramaki set. Not too bad if you just wanna have something light and different from the lunch routine of mix rice, chicken rice or fried noodle.

after partayy disaster.... crap...

Yea, some of you guys knew already that I almost landed my whole car in a round-a-bout after the annual dinner party. And the best part was - I wasn't even drunk yet... wtf...

Damage: front skirt gone, bumper hanging at one side, cracked paint job, bonnet not aligned, some level of damage to the front tyres, gear changing felt funny.

what a way to end the year ehh??

it's my 5th year in the company...

It started off at the Holiday Inn poolside.

The food was great, with me stuffing myself with quite a lot of BBQ lobsters again, after the fest at Hilton a week ago. My cholesterol level must be off the chart now... 

-_____-'


It's a mix of band performances by colleagues as well as professional band hired for the after party at Tribes.


The partayy lasted throughout the night until around 3am, but I left at around 1.30am, and something happened after I left Holiday Inn. UNLUCKY....

I'll blog about what happened in the next post as I dun wanna mix happy stuff with depressing stuff.... -_____-''

over-ordered...

After the usual gym session on Sunday, Dan and I headed over to Aladdin Kopitiam for dinner as that place serves one of the best fried chicken in town. Even at around 7+pm, the crowd was already overwhelming, but we manage to grab a seat at the corner. The taukeh told us that we need to wait for a while, but it turned out to be a long 45 minutes wait.


There must have been some misunderstandings when we made our order as I remembered ordering 2 thighs and 2 chicken wings with rice, but when the the meat was served, we were confused because this was served:-


I think there were at least 10 pieces of chicken wings chopped into pieces and we dug into the food straight away without having the order changed as we do not want to wait another 40 odd minutes for the correct order.

After Effect: we almost died, and there goes the effort at the gym.

0__0'