Lunch at Sudu, KL Hilton

Have you heard of semi-buffet? It means, we can order a main course, then the starters and desserts are in buffet style, you can eat everything over the buffet counters.
On 3rd November, we were actually having a function in KL Hilton. And, working committees need to be there early for the set up, so, company actually buy us lunch there, in this restaurant, named SUDU.
This is my first time eating semi-buffet. There are 3 categories of main courses for us to choose, RM109, RM99 and RM89. Hey, if you were me, which will you go for? Hahaha, greedy cat.

Of course, most people go for the RM109 one, but, I'm sick, I can't eat spicy food, and I don't eat beef, so, end up, I'm taking the RM89 smoked duck breast meat!
After we ordered the main course, we proceeded for our starters. Holly cow! There are varieties of starters for us to eat! All kind of caviars, sashimi, oysters, prawns, scallops, cheeses, salads with variety of sauces, hot or cold starters, just to name a few... We kept on eating and eating, and wondering what take the chef so long to prepare our main courses.
I'm not a big eater, after eating a few starters, I felt full, so, I stopped. After a while, a waiter walked to me, asked me if he can serve my main course. Oh no, he was actually waiting for us to finish our starters then only they can serve our main course. He should come to stop us (the hungry ghosts) earlier.
I'm sorry, I should have taken a few photos of the starters, but... too hungry, forgot to take... next time ya, if I get another chance to go there again.

Here are the main courses.

Grain-fed Australian beef rib eye
Cooked to your liking with spring onion & potato croquettes, chunky ratatouille

Lamb loin

Another lamb dish

Lobster linguine
Can you see the lobster and scallops?!?!

Beef rendang with rice, salted egg and "papadam" (Indian cracker)

Asparagus & smoked duck breast
Chilled asparagus spears tossed in French dressing, black truffle, soft poached egg & thinly sliced smoked duck breast

Basically, after finished my main course, I was 110% full already

Don't forget, it's dessert time now!!!!

Strawberry Fruit Tart! oh, so tempting.

Hey, should I eat this warm chocolate cake? OMG! I'm on diet!

I don't care, eat first, talk later...
Chocolate cup, here I come

Chocolate cake & mango pudding

Tiramisu

Chocolate Moist Cake

A type of pastry, I forgot the name

Lastly, coffee or tea? I ended my lunch with latte
(but that's cappuccino in the photo, because I think the cappuccino looked nicer than my latte)

p/s: I felt so guilty after eating so much, don't forget, I'm on diet. This lunch actually has exceeded my 2 days quota, I think. But that's not end of the story... stay tune for my another post.

My Own-made Sushi

This is not my first attempt to make sushi. The first 3 attempts were totally a disaster. So, I didn't take any photo, but this is different, I have my enough own sweet time to make it, the rice turned out was just nice, everything went smooth. That day, my parents has a meeting with other community members, so I need to settle my own dinner. And I wasn't in mood to go out to eat or asking any friends out, so, I have decided to make sushi for dinner.

Mixed vinegar, sugar and salt with Japanese rice
(have to let the rice cool down before mixing)

Filled the rice in the sushi mold and pressed to make it firm.

Take out the sushi, it will be looked like this.

Inserted the sushi into Inari skin.

My first dinner dish - Inari

Spread the rice on a piece of seaweed

Put the crab sticks and Thai chili sauce on a side

Roll it up with the bamboo mat

Cut it into pieces, here's my 2nd dinner dish!

Tar da, my dinner!
(Don't be frighten, I am not a big eater, of course I can't finish all of them, so, I kept it in fridge and next morning, they served as my breakfast)

What does Love mean?

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toe nails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
Rebecca- age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."
Billy - age 4 (so sweet…)

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
Chrissy - age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
Terri - age 4 (genius!)

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
Danny - age 7

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss"
Emily - age 8

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
Bobby - age 7 (opps…)

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"
Nikka - age 6

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, and then he wears it everyday."
Noelle - age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."
Tommy - age 6 (hands and legs up, you are absolutely right!)

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Elaine-age 5 (or you daddy and mommy give you the best to you)

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford."
Chris - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
Lauren - age 4 (oh, is this what love means? I’m not sure!)

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."
Karen - age 7 (so sweet)

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."

Mark - age 6

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
Jessica - age 8

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry"

(Well, for me, I think some of the statements up there are not suppose to come out from a child’s mouth. But I love them, they are direct, pure, innocent… they speak what’s in their mind. If you ask me the same question, “What does Love Means?” Oh, I’m not sure if I can write a single word out. However, for me, LOVE should be unconditional.)

Tiramisu at Alexis

Tiramisu at Alexis is famous in town for it's deliciousness... hahaha
I highly recommend you to go to try on yourself, you wouldn't regret
Furthermore, the price is absolutely reasonable!


Oh yum...

Eat with strawberry sauce, I think they soak the sponge layer with brandy, the top is a layer of sugar coated almond and nuts, you can't stop once you start eating it

Dark chocolate in the middle, surrounded by cream cheese

Pretty Shei Lee at the back
while they all waiting for me to take photographs, I took the first bite

Wyeth New Office Opening (27.10.07)

Wyeth moved to new office Jaya33 in Section 14 on 27th October 2007. The office is an open concept, very nice, very modern... however, I'm not going to share how's the new office looks like, but show the flowers that we received for the opening.

Wyeth metallic logo at the reception area

Red and white roses, fabulous!
(red and white, Wyeth cooperate colors)

Elaine loves the balloon and roses

One of the florists once told me what's the name of this flower, but forgetful me keep forgetting, let's name it tissue flower, because the petals look like facial tissue.

Tissue flowers with pink daisies, great combination!

My team mates, Susan and Bryan at the reception area

Bryan, Elaine and Chris (lou po zai) at the hot dest (cold chair) area
p/s: the whilte color thingy are flat screen monitor

The nutrition division colleagues

Amanda & I
(photo taken by somebody else, obviously)

Another basket of flower, this time is a combination of yellow roses, red daisies and sun flowers
I personally don't quite like the combination, because I don't like yellow roses.

Me at the entrance
(photo taken by Bryan)

Wild lily

A basket of lilies with red roses, so passionate!

A type of chrysanthemum, but this is pink one.

Well, for a week after opening, the reception area was full of flowers, they seems effective to calm me down after jamming all the way from home to office early in the morning.

Public Transports Riding Day...

OMG, I don't really know when was the last time I took LRT (Light Rail Transit) and bus in town before today.The story went like this. This afternoon when I was working around Ampang, I received a call from a friend, she was asking me to join her for lunch at SOGO. Yup, sounds very far, but I wanted to go because never seen her for long time. So, I have decided to take a cab to Ampang Star LRT station and take LRT to SOGO. It is absolutely very convenient (I'm not trying to be sarcastic).

Actually I was quite uncomfortable taking public transports, I always felt that, your life is under some stranger's control, and normally public transport has their route, seems like you can't reach your destination with other optional way, or short cut, you have no control in your time, your choice... But today, don't know why, I want to do this. (maybe to avoid traffic on Friday - sembayang day for Muslim).

When I got in the cab, I have no idea since when the basic charges is RM2.00? I thought is RM1.50? RM1.50 was how many years ago history? In about 5 minutes, I reached the LRT station and pay RM2.60 for the cab. Then, walked across pedestrian bridge, reached the LRT ticket counter, took out RM2.40 (I thought it was more than enough) and told the girl that I wanted to go SOGO. Then she said is RM2.80. I confirmed with her with the station name, she said yes, RM2.80. Oh, nevermind, I'm using money to buy convenient, still think the ticket worth that.LRT took about 15-20 minutes to reached SOGO, when I got down, I saw there was new pedestrian bridge directly linked to the shopping mall, oh, another surprise, the RM2.80 really worthy.

After lunch, of course I need to take the same train back. But paying another RM2.80 was a little bit painful, I felt. Because if you do a simple add up, I've spent RM8.20. When I reached Ampang, I decided to take bus, because it is easier to take bus from this direction. I still remember last time I used to take Intrakota, Metro Bus, Mini Bus... ok, we can still find Metro buses, but I wanted to try the new bus, Rapid KL. The bus that I took is from Ampang to KLCC, this bus will pass by Ampang Point, where my car parked. But, when I went up the bus, I need to pay to the driver, if I'm not mistaken, Intrakota ticket used to be RM0.90, so, I prepared only RM1.00. But the driver said the ticket is RM2.00, wow... what a big jump! And my destination was 2 or 3 stations down. But I have a question here, the RM2.00 is a day ride or one time ride? If it is a one day ride, I should took bus to Ampang LRT station just now, at least the ticket more worthy ma... dionk!
So, today I spent RM10.20 on public transport in just one afternoon.