Phuket Trip (Part 2)

early morning view of the swimming pool, club house and beach...

resort's buffet breakfast...

breakfast by the beach... I seriously do not mind having my breakfast like this every single day

para-sailing... too expensive, so I didn't go for it...

Arsenal supporters would love this place... =)

my lunch for the day... super nice... and reasonably priced... =)

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

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.

Ciggie Review - Hero

Opened up the first of 3 cigarettes brought back from Vietnam this afternoon when I went out for lunch with a friend. The packing of the cigarettes is average at best, and so were the cigarettes...


I lit up one... tasted like the normal local Dunhill Red... quite strong... which is fine by me though I prefer Menthols or Lights. However, it felt more like a sub-standard product compared to Dunhill. I didn't ask how much was that pack of Hero cigarettes as the cigarettes were somewhat my CNY gift... :)

lunch at Tracy's Kitchen

went out for lunch with a friend yesterday as all the usual lunch colleagues had their own appointments. bought a few cashsweep tickets along the way as there's a special draw yesterday (didn't kena... crap!!).


ordered this ice cucumber juice... first time try, and it was actually pretty good... (RM3)


Tracy's Kitchen serves one of the better drunken chicken and pak-lo chicken/duck in town, but I opted for this rendang chicken this time instead after the taukeh's recommendation. The gravy was okay (not as good as how the Malays do it), but the thigh meat was definitely cooked to perfection - tender and juicy. (RM4.80 with rice)


also ordered this pak-lo duck liver to go with the meat & rice. tasty stuff I tell ya! the bill came to abit less than RM10 per person, so it's a reasonable place to go to.

treasure hunt crap...

was asked to participate in a treasure hunt competition for my association's youth, an annual event organized by the Sarawak Youth Association. arrived at the meeting point at around 7.30am to get the team of 4 for registration, and after that waited for almost 1 hour before all the VIP arrived, gave their VIP speeches and etc before the hunt was started.


VIP speech... owes the same boring crap talk.... -__-

the whole event was actually poorly organized with a delayed start, and no extended time of arrival at the destination. it shouldn't be called a "treasure" hunt in the first place, as there's nothing to look for except for answers to be written on the answer sheet along the specified route, looking for the answers for the riddles/questions given (answers mostly from shop names, road names or something along that line...) pretty lame I should say...


was going back to our car when I took this picture in the middle of Gambir Street...


the lunch wasn't that bad, but we're too tired to actually enjoy it...

our team didn't win anything... and was damn tired by the time the entire event was finished. reached home at about 230pm, after having lunch prepared by the organizer at Golden Dragon Restaurant, which was also the final stop of the hunt.

verdict: a waste of my Sunday

lazing around in the office...

the fast food choices at the kopitiam next to the office were pathetic today... so didn't have lunch, and only ordered an ice teh-C. then went over to Watson to grab some Chipsters...


and nope I didn't finish 'em all... only one...

productivity has been virtually zero today... as the Hari Raya mood is all over the place...

anyway, Selamat Hari Raya to all my Muslim friends!