random pics during the Gawai break...

I love cash...


coins as well...


@Perodua Showroom... Viva anyone???


one of those yumcha sessions @ Jln Song


Hing with his new found love... -__-


taking a break @ Holiday Inn Coffee House...


tea time @ Kaya & Toast Petanak...


Daniel's birthday @ Soho


me... abit tipsy after a few Heineken...

random purchase...

saw it, liked it, bought it... -_-


the G-Shock Mudman series...

Gawai visiting (part 2)

after the first three visits, we drop by Krokong town for a while before heading to another friend's place...


the old kampung road...


abandoned house...


standing on the bridge overlooking the Krokong river (I think that's the name lah...)


the other side of the river... somewhat deeper...

I suppose this was part of the river where Francis Ho of kuchingkayak.com and Kenny Sia went kayaking somethere last year... hehehe... real nice place...


a shot of myself before heading down to 7th mile for the last visit...

Gawai visiting (part 1)

Gawai is usually linked up with good food as well as fine rice wine, or what we call tuak. this year, together with the usual gang, we went over to pay a few friends a visit during their annual celebration at Bau area.


driving towards Niny's house at Singai...


the curry was rich...


I forgot the name of it... but it's damn good I tell ya...


my second serving...


some tidbits...



the greens in front of the house...


driving towards Wind Cave...

Gawai Eve BBQ...

since I was gonna be home alone for the long Gawai holidays, another BBQ/pot-luck was organized... the usual suspects were, of course there... 10 to be exact...


the starter - lasagna from Thongs... so rich until I was half full after finishing just one piece...


the meat...


more meat...


everyone lazing around after the food...

except for one... who plays with the fruits...
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Hing with his man boobs... it's just ridiculous...

Rillos Cigar

was having the usual beer session at Cottage when Jo gave me a cigar to try... dunno from where one lah... the wrapper there says "Rillos"...


still in its wrapper...


lit it up, very strong taste... a few times more than that of the typical Dunhil Reds... however, towards the end, it tasted abit weird, and bitter...


sitting in front of Cottage, overseeing Kuching's next to non-existence night life...

leaving on a jet plane...

nope, not me... it's my parents who flew off to Penang yesterday to my sister's place for a week-long holiday...


it was 7.10 am when I sent my parents to the Kuching Airport yesterday...


sky still blur...

and for me - one week of home alone... one week of everything to myself... and one week of being king of the house...

BBQ party tomorrow... then the Gawai visiting/makan-ing plus the Friday till Monday long holidays... yEAH babeh!!!

dinner @ The Junk

I haven't been to The Junk for more then a year, and on Sunday night, that place was chosen over San Fransisco Grill. one good thing about The Junk is that the second floor is air-conditioned, and smoking is allowed, compared to San Fransisco Grill whereby wanting a puff means having to go outside the restaurant..


the ambience was soothing, with minimal lighting...


ordered a bottle of red wine...


then came the medium done sirloin...


not too bad a place to hangout...

Ambience wise, The Junk wins hands down. However, food wise, San Fransisco Grill edges out on the portion and taste...

badminton @ KGS

was invited to go play badminton at Sarawak Golf Club, also better known as KGS on Sunday afternoon. went there with Daniel and his HSBC managers as well as some other big shots in the corporate world.

the badminton session was pretty okay, albeit my somewhat tight leg muscles halfway into the games even though I've done enough warm-up and put on some cream to loosen the muscles beforehand...


the driving range...


the facilities - tennis courts, badminton & squash hall...


the carpark...

car repair (Part II)

I drove over to one of the Proton Service Centres to ask for another opinion on the squeaking sound of the engine, and the taukeh told me it should be the beltings that were creating all the noise as the two belts were quite worn out, and oily as well. (yea, my car's mileage is now close to 100,000KMs, and the belts have never been changed yet...)

I said go ahead and change it. waited for about 45 minutes for the mechanic to change the belts and clean up the mechanical parts.


took out the engine belting...


the second of the 2 beltings taken out...

Then Walahh!!... started the engine, and it was purring ever so smoothly again... no more irritating squeaks...

paid the RM180, and plus the RM250 I paid for the engine and transmission oil change the other day, this drive of mine just swallowed RM430 of my hard earn money in 2 workshop visits... darn!!!

car problems...

recently, the engine develops this funny squeaking noise once the Drive gear is engaged, and the air-condition turned on. the sound is that loud I could hear it in the car when I lower the player volume...

flushing out the engine oil and transmission fluid...

went over to my air-con mechanic to ask for his opinion. verdict - maybe engine pulley not good liaw... need to check...

then went over to change my engine & transmission oil. asked the other mechanic what seemed to be the problem. verdict - one of the engine mountings (driver side) crack liaw... as the noise only occurs when the air-con is engaged, and gear shifted to "D". plus previously about 2 years ago already got a mechanic friend of mine who told me that the engine mounting got one minor crack... so this time the problem might have been abit worse... sien...

looks like it's time to go 4G63 shopping just in case this 4G18 of mine decides to retire anytime soon... -_-

on a separate case, we have been such regulars at Havana Club that the taukeh-nio has been giving us happy hour rates despite the time...

the front...


4 mugs for RM25... what is there to complain??


less noisy, cool night breeze...


and staring at the night-lit Kuching road...

long time no play...

haven't been playing pool for a long long while, and some cheeky dude asked me to play a game or two while we were having the usual drinks...

I still managed to snook out a win out of 3 games, and against some "I dunno lah... heard he's pretty good in some crap open tournament" ----censored---- ... sigh...

*sometimes I wish I could swear freely like FireAngel...*

how long have you not played pool???