makan makan @ Tarot Cafe

the signature dish Tarot Cafe Nasi Lemak...

Nyonya Chicken with rice @ Tarot Cafe...

I like this one... Fried Seafood Udon...

and finally, wash everything down with this huge pint of ice-cream Coke... 

*buurpppp........*

just to show that i'm still alive...

that bugger As-X has been bugging me for the longest time to update my blog as the last update was on March 24, and it wasn't even blog material, just some paid post that I did... so okla... just to layan (应酬) him, here goes...

Kuching Chicken Rice (猫城鸡饭) @ Song Kheng Hai (宋庆海) hawker centre, probably one of the best chicken rice you can get for RM3.50. This one was RM5 instead as I tambah the sam-cham-bak (三层肉) and tu-teng (猪肠) in my order... and it was seriously good man... 

typical roasted chicken... it was during mum's birthday, and when my sister was back in Kuching for the Chinese New Year... apparently I only remembered to take a snap of the roasted chicken... the rest of the dishes all forgot to take pictures... -_____-'

lou-sang (捞生) @ Lok Thian Restaurant before CNY... 

*yea I know... way overdued picture... so many months ago liaw...*

Daniel & Anna went to Taiwan for their honeymoon, and got me a box of 凤梨酥... many many thanks...

interior...

some of the stuff that I added into the interior...

Tarot Cafe

was introduced to this new cafe in town called Tarot Cafe a few months back... and I like it alot...

not only it serves pretty reasonably priced drinks and food, anyone can book a tarot session to have their future read... not bad of a concept huh??

WIFI is free, and I have been hanging around this place when I need to get some work done over the weekend... 

some light meal to fill up that tummy in order for the brain to function...

and this post is written here at the cafe while doing my work... heh...

my new ride...

this is how it looked like after 3 days out from the Toyota showroom... hehehe... :)

**will post up more photos of the car when I am less busy... followed by a post on my best friend's wedding... shit man... these are really wayy overdue stuff....

another note: "bye bye to my Waja... it has been quite a colourful eight years being with you..."

SOLD.......... to me..........

it was exactly 41 days ago.... when I went over to UMW to sign the loan application and other paperworks...

*will update on the bodyworks and ICE setup that I did to my new ride... got it all done a week+ before the Chinese New Year celebration... hehehe...

another birthday bash@T1

it was a birthday bash + farewell party + New Year celebration... and the attendance was great, almost everyone showed up... :)

Glenfiddich 15 years... seriously good stuff...

the Absolute 100 that Hedo bought back from her Aussie trip...

there was another bottle of Chivas (I think)...

won this huge hamper after the birthday girl decided to dance in the Terminal ONE cage... and there were no other girls who dare challenge her... -_____-'

a bottle of wine - Primo Amore, won after playing some competition organized by the management

and we all ended up piss drunk, with the birthday girl's handphone deciding to go for a dip in her Absolut 100... a good excuse to go buy herself a new gadget for her birthday huh??

Verinice Restaurant

this is a super delayed post (December 2008 - ____- ), but better get it up than never right?

went to have lunch with Daniel on a working weekday, and he recommended going to this place called - Verinice Restaurant....

I was like: "Huh?? WTF is with the name... the food very nice mehh??"

the Verinice menu...

I ordered the meat porridge with century egg... have to give credit when due as the quality of food served... seriously quite good, and the price reasonable...

also, we ordered this Furong Fried Egg (煎芙蓉蛋) to share... not bad also...

the restaurant is located somewhere behind HSBC Kuching, opposite Big Potato (大番薯) Kopitiam

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