Coffee @ The Apartment

My best best friend - Kitman and I went to The Apartment @ The Curve for coffee after attending another best best friend's son's fullmoon party. This is probably the 3rd time I went there, frankly, I don't remember anything that I ate in that restaurant, which I think maybe the food is not what my tastebud fancy.

Since we were not eating, so, I was thinking maybe we can sit @ the bar station, of course I did ask the waitress can we sit there but not drinking (I mean alcohol), she asked if we were going to eat, she was considering we may not be comfortable sitting there while eating and this courteous gesture of hers give me a whole new warm and good impression.

Then sitting @ the bar, a black guy was ready to take our order, you know he was trying to be friendly, but seriously, racist ppl like me do not get his joke. Hahahaha

A nice view from the bar table

I ordered latte (caffein allergic ppl like me can only drink latte), then Kitman ordered mocha (in the picture)...

by sitting at the bar, we can actually see how the bartender makes our coffee...

While chatting, this dispenser diverted my attention... I bet anybody sit there will experience the same thing, the striking yellow is so attractive, especially with black background and lighting... it's interesting.



Kilkenny sitting next to that dispenser, interesting too, but not as attractive/ hot like the Strongbow

mini drama happen in the restaurant with me:
Kitman has a nature call, I was sitting at the bar day dreaming. The bartender walked to me and asked me what's bordering me, then I was like "huh, no no no, I'm just day dreaming". Then he introduced himself, saying that he is from Nigeria, came here to study, asked me to guess how old is he, so, bingo, he is 21, so I pointed at another group of people at the table, "so, you are like their age". He questioned how old am I, so I tell him straight! I think he gets what I mean, and he kind of stepped back a little bit and then, Kitman was back and she save me!

Haahhaha... gosh... why black? Can you give me a white or a hot/ good looking Chinese?

This dispenser is hotter, can't resist, got to take a final one before paying my cheque.

Since, I don't remember how does the food taste like, probably I should give them a try next time!

Kitman, I enjoyed that night very much, we should do it again before you are going back to your honey in US!!

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the apartment
(The Curve)

For reservation:
living@atheapartment.com
Tel: 03-77278330

Dating 101: Is He Mr. Right?

This morning when I was about to click in to my yahoo mailbox, I saw this headline in the homepage. Knowing myself for almost 30 years, I never thought that I will or need to read this... hahahah...

Lately I've been listening to a lot of romantic stories... they are real stories... so, probably I am being poisoned by their sweetness, and now I am thinking to cultivate some romantic gene in me, I need to learn how to be a true libran! That's the only reason I can find why this title has diverted me from my mailbox, see what's the author written...

http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/datingtips/88959/dating-101-is-he-mr-right

em... nothing much I can learn from there, but I do agree with those points, especially listening...
initially I have many thoughts about romance, but when I was half way writing... a customer (guy) walked in and here's the conversation:

(cut the crab and I go into the last few sentence before he left my shop)

F: R you married? Do you have a boyfriend?

me: nope... (still being very friendly)

F: You are such a young girl, it's unbelieveable you don't have a bf

me: ya, I really don't have a bf

F: how old are you?

me: almost 30

F: I'm 53, for sure you are not looking for an old man like me to be your bf

me: (smile)

F: you are still travelling from KL to Seremban everyday?

me: ya (still smiling)

F: why don't you stay here? I got a house.

me: I prefer my bed.

F: My wife has stroke, she can't speak well, and now she has just undergo an operation, has
removed her uterus... and I'm now looking for someone.

me: oh, you are looking for a maid/ nurse?

F: (started talking bad about his wife, which made me very uncomfortable) I have 2 sons, age 27 and 26, and I need to find myself a partner.

me: (WTF!!!) Perhaps now your wife needs you, you should spend more time with her (still smiling, see, now I've got a very good EQ).

F: (continue talking... and I faking myself as if I'm listening), yesterday I tried to call to your shop, no one answering.

me: I currently do not have a staff, so the shop is closed during weekend.

F: Can I have your number, so that next time when I want to come to buy stuff I can give you a call first.

me: (I think my face is turning black) OK

F: can you key in for me?

(I keyed in my number, then you know what? He called rightaway, and of course I gave him the right number, just that that's my company number)

F: Ok, I got to go, got something to do (as if I'm interested)

me: Thanks. Bye...

This guy has mess up my day and has ruined my mood of being romantic...

Girls' Time!

I love going out with this gang of girls, everyone is unique and we are all from different background, some like me, Chinese ed., English ed., some very money oriented (haha, you know who I'm referring), some have big heart, some has great determination but overall, they are all kind people.

I have visted Fullhouse @ Jln Yap Kwan Seng during friend's ROM, and last month I found out that Sunway Pyramid also has one... So, I'm bringing these girls to try.

Kar Foon, Kar Foon, what can I say?

she is so pretty, tall and hot... I really think she should go to do modaling...
hehe, but she is going to have her own yoga studio soon...

congratulation girl!

Appertiser - Soft shell crab

My Club Sandwich

Chicken Chop for Keat & Timin

Smooties Fish for Kar Foon

taste like sugus candy...

Dory Fish for Shook Fun

Overall, the food there is like super fabulous, but still worth trying and it is not very expensive!

But I really like the concept of the restaurant... very lifestyle and make you feel very like home.

Initially there were more girls joining, but a lot of them fell sick and some outstation and working... so, got to wait for another day, we should go try the NZX one.

Love the wall cartoon

Don't ask me why I'm taking this pictures... it's for Shook Fun use only

Love this picture so much... how wonderful if the rest of the girls were available and join us in this photo...

Credits go to the interior and the waitress who helping us to take this photo.

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Fullhouse

Lifestyle Store & Cafe

LG 1.96, No 3, Jalan PJS 11/15,

Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall,

46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Website: http://www.fullhousecafe.com.my/


p/s: All Fullhouse outlets have Mini as their signature display in the restaurant, Shook Fun said she will buy one Mini when she is making "enough" (of course this enough is determine by herself) of money wo... I'm sure she will get one soon, Shook Fun, don't forget to give me a ride...

TOMOI

I was "dating" with my college girl friends at Sunway Pyramid for lunch last Sunway (21.03.10) and then shop around the mall for gift to my friend and guess what? This is way too far from what we expected to see - TOMOI competition (for me, it's boxing...).

Actually I don't feel comfortable seeing something violent, I had serious headache after watching, em... what's the name of the movie? All I can remember is it's a lady version of Ong Bak. And I got a punch on my nose before when I met a thief 2 years back... so, for me to see people punching is kind of scary and remind me of that terrified incident.

But, since my friend wanted to stay and watch and I thought this would be once in a lifetime watching this kind of competition (cause I don't think I'll purposely switch to any TV channel to watch it or go for a live "concert" seeing something like this), so, I decided to snap a few pictures just to proof that, yea, maybe I could conquer my fear.

The Malay guy is so strong and he was hitting the Chinese and the Chinese fell

ouch....

Friendship 1st

Can you see how many people is watching this?

The 2nd group... if not mistaken I think I heard the emcee saying Cambodia or something...
The referee was explaining the rules, I think

Start fight!!!

Oh... that's enough for me... and coincidently, my camera's battery died off, so, I didn't finish watching all. But that's still not my favourite competition tho.

BNI X Charity Hunt 2010

Date: 13th - 14th March 2010

I had a very meaningful weekend and had tried something which I never experience but always wanted to try, that is treasure hunt.

First of all, let me introduce my teammate, Roiree (left) and Ziyad (middle).

The hunt was organized by BNI (Business Network Internation), I'm not the member but Roiree and Ziyad are. I was one of the invited "hunter" to this event by Roiree. Roiree told me this was the 2nd time BNI Malaysia organized treasure hunt, and each year they are planning to do so. 1st time was a national event and this time, it's mainly among Klang Valley plus a team from Penang.

Altogether, there were about 35 cars, each car will have either 3 or 4 hunters. And, we were team 3.

Purposes of this treasure hunt were to raise fund to NASOM (The National Autism Society of Malaysia) and to create awareness towards Autism (internationally, 2nd of April is World Autism Awareness day).

I couldn't make it to the pre-hunt briefing, luckily I did receive handout and notes from Roiree and Rajj from Purple Antz Events (event organizer for this hunt). Although I did go through every single page of the note, but yet... I think the hunt is really really tough.

Everyone gathered at Titiwangsa (starting point) at about 6am - 7am, when the sky was still very dark... but I can see, everybody was very excited and looking forward for the hunt to start. The picture shows everyone was paying full attention to the final briefing... "treasure hunt is not a race, safety first!"

Marcus Hwang, Organizing Chairman for this BNI X Charity Hunt 2010 was presenting the mock cheque of RM20,000 raised from this event to Mr. Teh, Chairman of NASOM before journey started.

Did I mention that this treasure was from KL - Cherating?

Believe it or not, although I always "cuti-cuti Malaysia", I never been to Cherating (last year Legend Hotel gave me a one night stay voucher at their Cherating resort, and it has expired before I could squeeze out my time to go enjoy the stay), and this was one of the reason I wanted to join this hunt.

The journey started smoothly... on the road there were route challenges, sponsor challenges, JKJR challenges and physical challenges... well, 1st few challenges were alright... I mean to my level.

1st town that we need to answer 8 route challenges - Bentong
Of course that wasn't my first time to Bentong, and most of the time, I went there for AirBatuCampur @ one of the lorong, and each time, this place normally just a pass-by town for me. This time was much different, not got to read and study each of the shop's name... because of this, I see the beauty of this town.

I name this photo - "Missing you"

One of the lorong (small alley) in Bentong town





The shop worker was throwing something on the road and all the pigeons fly down.


Nice classic window...
dotted with pigeons and a pot of chrysanthemum



Roiree busy hunting...

It's very very sunny that day...
Look back at my recent photos... ya ya... it's time to get tan... my skin color was too freakingly pale.



I was trying very very hard to help, but... it was really difficult you know...
no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the answer right.


Then I bumped into this...


Jalan Loke Yew here is much different from the one near my house

Purple Antz commented most of us have very bad time management, for professional hunters, they usually will equiped their car with food, but... we were taking our own sweet time eating here and there, slowly finding the answer... hanging around... end up, not only we didn't manage to finish all challenges, and I didn't manage to take photo in each of the town.

At the end, our team still manage to submit our answer at a minute before closing, phew!
End point: Suria Cherating Beach Resort
also the Resort that we stayed on that night.


Enjoying sea breeze before the gathering dinner


It's really my pleasure meeting every single nice and friendly people in BNI and I really admire their all-time high spirit. And I learned a lot from them, positive character as well as the business they are running...
That night we had gathering dinner, charity auction, games and business sharing etc. food wise, don't expect too much... but that night was really really fun, especially the emcee, very funny and he is really good in bringing everyone together to have fun and play.

For non-muslim, that's not the end of the night... I followed them to Impiana Resort for drinks.
I didn't go to the beach for quite some times already, even if I did, it usually work-related. But this time, all night is mine. I went to the poolside to watch stars, butjust for a while, because it started to rain.
When we back to our resort and the reception greeted us "Good morning"... checked out the watch, 2am

Roiree was saying she will do beach jogging later on, my answer "please exclude me"... hehehe

Then both of us slept until 10am... na... forget about the jog... the bed is comfortable enought to rest our tired heads and we both felt refreshed!

The breakfast provided by the resort almost finished when we got to the dinning area, but some BNI members were saying they will grap lunch at Kuala Kemaman, which is around 30 minutes drive away from the resort before they go back to KL. So, we followed too la.


She was following her dad to do the charity hunt... at the beginning she was a bit moody most probably she wanted to go home, but her dad was bringing her to this malay restaurant.


Saw this along the road... famous in the restaurant that we had our lunch too... must try

I thought only Muar famous for otak-otak, after trying, I think Kuala Kemaman otak-otak is nicer than Muar one

Food that I ate in the restaurant
From top: (right) The worker bbq-ing the satar, lekor

(left) The restaurant, nasi pulut in banana leaf and coconut leaf

Then 3 cars including our car convoyed each other back to KL, but don't know what has happen, one of the cars' tyre burst while we were on the road, and again, I saw a team spirit among BNI people in fixing the tyre.

Although when we reached KL, it's already past 7pm, I felt contented, I'm happy that my weekend was well spent!!!

My Hair

Cloudy Afternoon

Due to work, I got to do a day trip to JB.

It's a cloudy day and when I was travelling back, a sudden turbulence in the plan has waken me up and I thank God that I've finally landed safely in the airport.

When I was very very young, I've read a story, I can't remember the whole story but the little boy in the book described cloud like cotton candy, and I think he is right... I saw a lot of big and thick cotton candy floating in the sky... So, I smiled and felt not so scared anymore.

The Last Wisdom Tooth

My dentist already suggested me to remove this tooth before CNY. But you know, if I remove it before CNY, then I can't enjoy much food during CNY, right? So, right after CNY, I went to see him again... He said it can be removed without a surgery... So, there it goes...

so long... my wisdom tooth.

I have no idea where I got the courage to do that, because I had a very very terrible experience when I removed my previous wisdom tooth which was years back. And, this time, I'm facing it alone... Please give me a big clap!!

Quick & Easy Walnut Cake

Ingredients:
250g butter
200g fine brown sugar
4 eggs
300g self-raising flour, sifted
5 tbsp milk
6 tbsp chocolate paste/ Nutella spread
60g walnut, chopped coarsely

Method:
1. Put all the ingredients for cake into a mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy.
2. Pour 2/3 portion of the cake mixture into a greased and lined baking mould/ paper cup and spread to level.
3. Spoon the chocolate paste/ Nutella spread on cake mixture. Top with the remaining 1/3 portion of the cake mixture, (optional: swirl with skewer), then smooth the top.
4. Sprinkle walnut on top and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degree Celcius for 45 minutes - 1 hour or until cooked and golden brown.
5. Remove, leave to cool before cutting into pieces and serve as snack.

Tips from the recepi book:
- This can be baked into a big cake or small cup cakes for easy serving.
- During baking, cover the cake with a piece of aluminium foil if it starts to brown too quickly.

I tried this recepi twice, the first time I don't remember I baked for what occasion, but the second time was for Qiaoyi's birthday. Because I couldn't find Nutella in my kitchen, so, I melted the baking chocolate. Then the second time, my mom bought a different chocolate recommended by the bakery shop, and the shop owner said the chocolate will melt by itself in the oven when baking, so, I didn't pre-melted it. But it was a wrong wrong decision... the chocolate still in pieces after the cake was done. :(

Overall, I still the cake very much... it's very easy to bake even for 1st timer... I guaranteed.