finally done with my work... and fell sick!!! crap!!!

okay, I'm finally done with my reports... and now I'm sick!



down with cough and flu... aduh... >__<

.........

still busy with work.... arghhhh!!!

sorry for the lack of updates.

actually I've got quite some stuff to write about but just haven't got time to blog lately.

will get back into action once I'm done with my work... probably after next week...

planning to get a few days leave by then as well... somewhat overworked already...

"-______-

Ciggie Review - Jet Cigarettes

I opened up the second of the three cigarettes bought back for me from Vietnam yesterday night when I went out for a drive as it was damn boring at home...


this Jet brand is typical of American cigarettes, similar to those of Winston, which is too strong for my liking. After the first stick, I was already abit pening... -____-

I only took 2 sticks last night and was already thinking: "How am I gonna finish this pack ahh??"

I brought it to the office and left it on the table... maybe I'll treat some other colleagues who smokes Winston...

have been busy lately...

I have been pretty busy lately, typically with work. Just finished an assignment, and another report is due in two weeks+ time... crap!!!


The above is just a snapshot of past industry reports done by yours sincerely.

Have been doing this for the past 4 years, and this is the 5th year I'm with the company. Stress level is actually minimal, and only during deadlines that I am busier with getting the respective reports out.

Chicago 7

I wrote in a previous post about trying out the broasted chicken from Chicago 7, so this time, I'm posting about the restaurant itself...

it was raining when I reached the place, but with plenty of car park around, it's relatively convenient...


the restaurant is simple and clean... pretty much the standard of fast food chains...
there are microphones on each ordering counters, so after you have placed your orders, the one serving you will let the kitchen know the orders over the microphone...


plenty of seats available, and there is even a desktop for customers to use...

also, there are a few tables set up outside specially for those who smokes...

the place opens up until 12am daily, so those who hang out late have another choice for late suppers apart from going to the 24 hour McDonald's downtown. The KFC opposite opens until 11pm only...

raining in Kuching for the past few days....

it has been raining for the past few nights, and it's somewhat frustrating as we had less choices to choose from when going out yumcha, or worse still, chose to stay home instead...

however, it was Liverpool vs Bolton on Sunday night, so despite the rain, me, hedo and her ah-bee went over to Victoria Arms@Merdeka Palace to watch the game as our usual 3rd mile open air kopitiam was infested by people listening to them politicians giving out their speech for the coming weekend election...

Liverpool went on to win the match 3 - 1, with a comical opening goal from captain Steven Gerald. It would have been a great place to watch football albeit for the loud live band playing at the background...

new year dinner @ KWS Association

went to the KWS (Kwong Wai Siew) Association for the annual Chinese New Year dinner/gathering thingy yesterday night. it was full of people, and us who are under the KWS Youth were busily taking pictures and entertaining guests.


there were lion dance at the front entrance to welcome all the guests


getting everyone seated before the KWS Chairman went up for his speech on the stage...


guests queuing up to get the food...


after all the food, there were games as well as Ang-Pow giving ceremony, and apparently everyone who attended the dinner went home with at least an Ang-Pow.

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... :)

ciggies all the way from Vietnam...

My usual ciggies-from-other-countries supplier went to Vietnam for holidays during the recent Chinese New Year to sort of avoid the Kuching CNY visiting and all. Like always, she bought me local ciggies...

I have not tried any of them yet, so will review each of them after I'm done burning them up... :)


ESSE Lights


Jet Cigarettes... funny name...


Hero... hmmm... lidat oso can??


lastly, a group photo of the Vietnam ciggies...

I think I'll start with burning Hero first...

Paypal Withdrawal...

*Click picture for a larger view*

I made a withdrawal from my Paypal account to my Public Bank Visa Electron on the 20th last month. The total withdrawal was US$324 after Paypal deduct US$5 as transaction fee.


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It only took 5 working days for the transaction to go through, and my account was credited with RM1055.41, the conversion rate being 3.257, not too bad laaa...

now you'd probably know what did I spend on with the extra cash huh??

yeap, spent it on getting the Seiko Chronograph, thanks to all the paid posts that I wrote in my blog all these while..... :)

HP Pavillion Entertainment PC for sale... after 4 months...

remember when I blogged about Jo's newly bought HP Pavillion Entertainment PC some 4 months ago (November 2007)??



well, despite the fact that the Tablet PC being a pretty good all rounder, she finds it still somewhat heavy (only 1.9kg) when she goes outstation, so she is now wanting to sell it off at RM3000, and go for the smaller ones - those with 10 inch LCD displays. The notebook was bought for RM4.2k four months ago, and it is seriously under utilized... meaning to say it's practically still very very new.



Basically, it is running on AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58 (1.90 GHz, 512KB + 512KB L2 Cache) with 2GB of RAM, 160GB of Hardisk, Dual-Layer DVD Burner, Window Vista Home, together with many other stuff like remote control and etc. It's a touch screen by the way...

anyone who's interested on getting the HP Pavillion, do leave me a comment with your email address, and we could go into details regarding this.

Many Thanks!

it's either the Seiko or the Tissot

before I actually bought my Seiko Chronograph, I was in a dilemma on whether to get that one or the Tissot PRC 200...

Well, if you were me, which one will you go for??


Seiko Chronograph (SNAB53P1) or Tissot PRC 200 (T17.1.586.52)???

For your information, the price that I got for the Seiko was RM800 while the Tissot is selling at RM1000, after major discount of course...

Anyhow, I took another snapshot of the Seiko a few minutes ago... :)

tried out the broasted chicken@Chicago 7

went over to the newly opened Chicago 7 located at the 3rd mile traffic light junction (the old Maybank branch) to try out their broasted chicken. I ordered 3 pieces of broasted chicken, takeaway.


very similar to that of KFC packaging lor...


3 piece chicken cost RM8.70, which is somewhat cheaper compared with RM8.98 from KFC. taste wise, I think the broasted chicken here is not as dry as the KFC ones on the opposite side of the road.

I'll surely come back for more...

bought a new Seiko Chronograph...

I decided to get myself the Seiko Chronograph (SNAB53P1) over the Tissot PRC200, so last Friday I went to my usual watch dealer - Ocean Watch at Tun Jugah Tower and bought it.


The Seiko box...


Seiko Chronograph. The entire watch is black ion coated. Jo said that it's pretty unique and cool while KY mentioned that it looked wicked. I can't agree more... :)))

Ah Wei's wedding attended...

it seems that there are gonna be a lot of couples getting married this year, starting with my secondary school mate - Ah Wei yesterday. us brothers were told about the date earlier this year, so many of them who are working in other places managed to get back for his big day.


we started drinking beer even before the dinner started. it was also sort of a new year gathering amongst us old friends...

I couldn't make it to the morning routine of accompanying the bridegroom to fetch the bride, so many many apologies there. Missed plenty of drama and hilarious acts before the brothers gang manage to help Ah Wei get to his lady, as I was told during dinner.... -____-'


then came the food... there were more than enough to feed us 8 men + 2 ladies...


a compulsory group photo of us buddies... too bad a few more had to leave early due to other appointments...


and guess what... the car plate number of the Mercedes used for the wedding - which was 8888 actually came out as Magnum4D's consolation prize (RM60) yesterday night, and ironically none of us, including Ah Wei's dad bought the number... -_____-'

Starbucks@The Spring

took a few days leave before CNY, so went over to The Spring in the morning to ease our caffeine addiction at Starbucks. There weren't much people as it was still a working day...


Starbucks is located at the left side of the main entrance of The Spring...


while Secret Recipe is at the right side of the main entrance...


my ice-blended caramel latte, and Alex's ice green tea latte...

it's nice sitting outside having our drinks, being able to light up, use the free WIFI and constantly feeling the cool air-cond breeze from inside the shopping mall when the automatic main door opens for incoming/outgoing shoppers.

rear disc brakes repaired before CNY

my rear disc brakes have been giving out this weird irritating sound whenever I step on the brakes while reversing, and knowing that the rear disc brakes needed trimming due to uneven surface, like what happened to the front disc brakes a year ago, again I went to the workshop to get the problem fixed.

before that, I went over to my usual spare part shop to purchase a set of better brake pads (both front and rear) as well... those with less brake dust...


the workshop guys took out the rear discs first... and sent them for trimming...


then they change the front brake pads...


fixing the rear brake calipers in place was the worst part as it took the longest time... and I waited close to 3 hours at the workshop.... but I guess it was worth it as now the problem is fixed, and there is no longer irritating sound while braking the car anymore... :)

total damage: RM220

a typical food post...

I'll start off with the Fried Rice the I had a while ago at Monster Tongue. Price was around RM5, which is reasonably cheap considering the air-conditioned environment + and puff...

Then came Thongs' Burger King all the way from KL during the first day of Chinese New Year for Hedo and me, 2 Swiss Mushrooms each... hehehehe... many many thanks!!!
I can't tell you how much I miss Burger King lar... that damn Spring should have open up one instead of the stupid Chicken Rice Shop and Sushi King... -____-'



went for dinner at Hilton Steak House AGAIN... yea I suppose you guys already damn sien & boring looking at pictures of my sirloins or rib-eyes or t-bone... but I'm going to put it up anyhow just to piss you guys off... hahahahaha...


this is called Sorbet... didn't know what it was at first, so ordered it for dessert. asked for the orange favour, and it turned out to be somewhat a fusion of fruit favor + ice.. not too bad lar...

last week (I think), got this Patchi chocolate thingy from Jo when we went to watch CJ7.
*damn stiupid but still can make us laugh movie....*


on the side note, Star Cineplex must be feeling the heat as Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) is opening at The Spring soon, and another cinema (not sure which one) will also be opening up at Boulevard. That's why we were surprise when they changed the old ticketing system, where you select your seat from a pathetic piece of paper showing theater seats to a computerized ticketing system. I foresee that soon, Star Cineplex will do renovation works on the entire cinema hoping to retain their cinema goers...

verdict: monopolization is bad for growth, and consumers get peanut... competition, on the other hand is good... :)))


ok, back to the chocolate - apparently it's some expensive stuff brought back from *dunno where*... pretty good I should say... not too sweet, just nice.... and I was really surprise that despite leaving it in the car for the whole night, it didn't even melt a bit when I got home and ate it...

*hehehe... this time I remembered to take photos before chucking it into my mouth...*

Jo's little furball...

naughty Leo... (he's a Peking-Shih Tzu mix btw)

I kid you not people... you think this Ah-Leo kiut kiut lidat then wanna pat him... hehehe... if he no-like you, then habis lah kena biten... :)))

I've seen first hand one of her friends jumped onto the sofa on his way to the washroom, when halfway Ah-Leo came barking and running towards him... all the marcho-ness kena flushed down the drain... ~haihh~

but I think he's gay coz he kept on trying to hump my hand when I pat him.... apalar..... -____-'

*should have dragged the gay fartmachine along that day...*

Jase's Tea Room

one of the newer hangout place amongst us friends recently is Jase's Tea Room.

It's on the 1st floor of * forgot building name*, facing Jalan Tun Jugah (the one on the way to the Kuching Airport) just opposite the Isuzu/Suzuki/Perodua showroom. *refer to business card above*


ambience is soothing...


with seats of your choice - normal coffee table/seats, bar stools and ala-Friends couches... some more got free WIFI...


beverages are priced reasonably, tasted pretty good... and when you accumulated 10 chops (1 for every drinks purchased), you next order on drinks is free...


BUT... the best part is - despite the fact that it's air-conditioned, smoking is allowed...

so, on any humid nights, going there would be a great choice as we don't have to sweat it out at the kopitiams or Star Bucks for our caffeine addictions, and light up at the same time... :)))