30 August 2005

Dinner At Chun Yuan


Its merdeka eve, everyone is out at the Padang Merdeka of Kuching, waiting for the arrival of the National Day. My parents decided to have a nice merdeka dinner at the nearest western food outlet which was a house set up into a cozy and pleasant environment for people to enjoy their expensive western food in their garden. Its name is "Chun Yuan 春园" which was situated at one of the corners to the Hui Sing Round-a-bout. It had romantic night lights set up in the yard and the best of all, they didn't have Malaysian Flags around the house, which would make it look so stupid and so "Ah-Beng". Anyways, it was a nice and comforable place to eat in. The waiteresses were friendly and one of them showed us today's special which was called the "Holiday Special" which was written on this mini chalk board. It contained "Mushroom Soup in Bun, Prawn Cocktail, Braised Lamb Cutlet, Grilled Rib Eye" and more. After looking at the mini chalk board, I decided to choose something from the menu instead. I ordered my favourite drink, The Ribena-Sprite which was what I always order when I come to this place with my friends. This drink is just ordinary Sprite from a can with some Ribena fluid. It tastes spectacular and YES its sweet. This drink is only best when its served chilled and when its stirred right! This beautiful drink has always been my thirst quencher when I played in the Private Clubs of Sarawak. It not only looks good but its taste is out of this world. Then it was time for the main course to be served. Firstly, we had this Garlic Dory Fish Chop, it looked again spectacular and very photogenic too. Its fried Dory Fish with garlic and spices toppings. They had mayonnaise and a slice of fresh lemons to mix together the aroma of this dish. A little bit of salad on the side and of course, Frech Fries. It was a very beautiful dish. Next, we have the famous Chicken Chop. It looked almost the same as the Dory Fish Dish, but it had this nice and soothing sauce on top of the chicken which was juicy and tender and oily too. It was much more simplier but it still had a very delicious taste. Then we had the BBQ Lamb Chop which costed the most and we ordered 2 dishes too. The amount of lamb chops on this dish was very little, but it was tasty enough to be satisfied with. The decoration was perfectly done with baked patato with mayonnaise and of course a bigger salad than the rest of the dishes. It was spectacular as well. It was the king of all chops and it had this delicious BBQ sauce that kept us asking for more. Too bad the amount of lamb chops on it was too little. But it was nice and delicious anyways. It costed us a lot but it was a dinner that our tummies would remember... until we had our Number 2!

And then again, Merdeka! to all Malaysians and a happy new day! Please don't fight at the Padang and destroy chinese people's cars this year!

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25 August 2005

Popiah Vs. Sotong KangKong

I'm going to start my blog again with food food and more food. I don't have my Digital Camera with me these few weeks as it broke, I had no choice but to look up for my older Food project pictures which were in my computer hard drive.

This time, the destination is Kuching, Sarawak (My Hometown). I was asked to talk more on food which was requested by most of my friends in Kuala Lumpur, especially Kumagoro, who wanted to know more about Kuching's Delicacies. Well, I'm going to start off with the famous Popiah, which can be found mostly in almost every state of Malaysia. Well, Kuching has its own way of making its special Popiah. Firstly, the words "Po Piah" is actually Hokkien dialect for "Thin layered cake". In mandarin, it is pronounced as "Bao Bing". According to research, Popiah was said to be originated from China during the Qing Dynasty. Its ingredients during that time was a surplus of vegetables in the market. Other ingredients have found its way into Singapore and Malaysia for a hybrid experience.

In Kuching, popiah can be widely found in most Kopitiam (Coffeeshops). It is always very obvious for a stall that sells this Popiah as the sign boards they used consists of these hugh words saying :POPIAH! It is a popular side dish or snack for chinese individuals in every meal. These cute little thingies are neatly wrapped in very delicious food roll. The ingredients inside the food roll are mostly the same, shredded sweet turnips and carrots, crushed peanuts and pieces of boiled egg. Some popiah has food roll skins made with shredded chillis which brings out the spicy and juicy taste. Provided, it comes with these black coloured sweet sauce which is recommended when eating popiah. It gives the popiah a sweet and balanced taste that will be absorb by your every bite.

As most Popiahs have the same type of fillings, the skill of the stall holder is not depended on how tasty the food is, but they will be judged by how tight and full the Popiah is made. Skilled Popiah sellers can make big and firm Popiahs which will not fall apart even after cutting and holding up by chopsticks. But, in Kuala Lumpur, the popiah is not only small and expensive, it has green coloured popiah skin which makes me lose appetite whenever I see it. In Kuching popiah prices ranged from RM0.60 to RM1.50 Depending on where you get your Popiah. As small as the RM0.60 popiah is, its one of the most tasty popiah in Kuching. It can be found at the round-a-bout market of "3rd Mile", Kuching. Usually these small popiahs need reservations and are not always available for people who gets to the stall late.

Next, we have one of my favourite dish, The "Sotong Kangkong" or in Kuching, we call it "Ju Hu Eng Cai" which means the same. This dish is also widely known throughout Malaysia, especially Penang, where most Hokkien people stays and also Sarawak. This dish is also very simple but widely loved by Malaysian Chinese. This dish's price ranges between RM3 to RM10. Depending on the portion you desire. It can only be found in some famous coffeeshops and food stalls around Kuching. Sotong in english is Squid, which are actually dipped in boiled water for a few seconds in order not to overcook it. This way, the taste and smell of the sotong will be as nice and fresh as it reaches your taste buds. This squid is actually dried squid soaked in alkali water. Sotongs are usually the cause of this dish to be more expensive as Kangkong vegetables merely cost about RM0.50 for a big bunch. Kangkongs are then presoaked in boiled water to also gain the freshness and the chewable texture on the particular vege. Which makes it juicy and desirable. After that, less pungent rojak sauce is pured on top them while spreading some grounded peanuts, which gives eaters a chuncky and sweet feeling. Unlike the ones I tried in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching's Sotong Kangkong's sauce is more sticky which tastes better and can be eaten with chopsticks. In Kuala Lumpur, this dish is watery which is like soup and I don't think I like the ones I tried in KL.

Anyways, this dish normally known as a salad dish or a side dish depending how you look at it. Besides the exotic taste of this dish, the colour combination also attracts most foreign customers. Using red plates for this dish brings out the complimentary colours of the KangKong vegetables, which by fact, gives viwers a balanced and tasty look. Although simple, it still looks as tasty as it is. This photogenic dish always look good in every angle.


Which dish do you like best?

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23 August 2005

My Ex-School, CHMSno1

Its been a very long time since I updated my blog. I've been back to my beloved hometown, Kuching. Where trees grow naturally and most of all, there's no goddamn haze. I've been waiting for this term break where I can actually relax completely in my real home. Its cozy, Its cool, Its Home. Well, I've got some serious problem with my digital camera just like 2 days ago. The display went crappy and what I heard is that the CCD chip (its brain) is totally spoilt. I had the camera sent to Canon for repair and won't get it back for a week or two.

I was then browsing through the internet hoping to find something fun to look at. I thought of my ex-school which had been the place where I actually spent 6 years of chinese studies. It was the place where I met my fellow friends who gave the most support to what I do. The little city of Kuching that actually has this big, gigantic school with a compound filled with ponds and sports field and a football field (which we were forbidden to even kick football with). It USED TO BE known as the "highest academically level school" in Sarawak. Now,its just plain crap, after some weakling principal and bossy "Co-curriculum master" came to place. The school had changed from "Best Results" to "Wah, your school looks like shopping mall but why the result like shit one har?" So, everyday, we'll hear the school saying that the number of students is decreasing and parents are not sending them to Chinese Independent Schools and all those crap. But Think Again... what went wrong? Get a grip, its so damn obvious. Why other chinese schools in other states are doing better than us? Think...

I went to check out the school's website. What the school board is bragging about every year. Saying that it is one of the best ways to promote the school and let the world know more about the school. When I first logged into the site, my immediate reaction was: "Awww... Kaaaay!!" This was what went through my mind:

It was total crap when I actually looked at it. The "sophisticated" design which makes people mind-bloggling and confused. Old Fashioned Gif Animations? Hah~! News scrolls which actually doesn't even work effectively. It moves itself (there's nothing wrong here) but when you want to see what's going on the next month or two, you have to wait till it scrolls to that date. Who in the world has that time to wait? You can't even control or scroll it manually with your mouse. That's total crap. I registered a new user for its forum and what I found out was this SHIT:


I couldn't help but to feel embarrassed of what happened to the english standard of my beloved high school. It wrote "You will got a email in 15 minute, please click the link in your email to active your account" OH MY GOD, where are the english teachers of the school? Or is this the translation of our "Taiwan English Graduate teachers?" Oh My Goodness, I now noticed that this is the cause of my drop of english standard. Even a 5 year old can spit out the wrong grammar usages in this crappy sentence. Here's the address, Go and take a look and experience yourself
http://forum.chms1.edu.my/register_mail_confirm.asp?ForumID=0

Next, I want to show you the web developers of the school. I wonder who was the one who translated that 'cute' sentence. Even Ah Bengs are better of with building english sentences. Wearing purple dog tags around their neck and keeping the forum out-dated where good suggestions to the school are totally filtered so that the school image will look good. I wonder if they have ISA in the school? If they do, I hope that many of those people who suggested are not listed.

Here's my thoughts:

  • I hope the school do better changes than spending all the money on useless computer labs which you don't even let students use while letting the computers rot in their place. How Revolting and disgusting.

  • Spend more on academic purposes and science labs.

  • Why spend it on useless LCD screens in the wall for students and visitors to look at?

  • Spend it on those employees who don't even know what the heck they are doing in the school and paying them for sitting around the broadcasting room? How stupid is that?

  • Security guards who only knows how to open the gates and drink coffee and leave after 5pm?

  • Listen to the students and teachers, not just the goddamn masters or principals!!

  • The school board should do more spot checks more often, so that the school will not hide its negative sides ?)

  • Really, don't waste money on things that are not necessary. Who will donate money to you if they see you spending on wierd things like computers while your academical results are falling like bird droppings??)
  • Spend more time on studies not some stupid newspaper collecting, or charity to raise money or stuff. I hope one day the school won't become a city dump or something. What the hell you want so much money for? useless computers and useless employees again?


  • Embarrassed, I Feel!

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    12 August 2005

    Jolin Tsai - Babaric Games


    蔡依林 - 野蛮游戏
    老鼠 老虎 傻傻分不清楚
    滿臉 泥土 失敗的被俘虜
    小賭 豪賭 想愛就別怕苦
    看不 清楚 遲早粉身碎骨
    不知不覺其實你已上線
    感情的世界戰火連天

    如果不想每一天以淚洗面
    提高警覺快張大你的雙眼
    偽善的臉你要能懂得分辨
    越是危險顏色越是鮮艷
    寬大的肩可能會崩潰
    放電的眼常常會露電

    野蠻遊戲 LOVE 沒人被赦免
    野蠻遊戲 NO 不同情可憐
    野蠻遊戲 YOU 快勇往直前
    受傷在所難免 都值得紀念

    等到你遇見完美的人選
    離勝利那天已經不遠
    敵人不會乖乖等著屈服
    太輕易認輸很難得到幸福

    有人微笑就有人會哭
    義無反顧是你唯一戰術
    不要害怕路上有人會攔阻
    老天故意要讓你覺得辛苦
    永遠記得要自我保護
    不要害怕暫時的孤獨


    Jolin - Babaric Games (Direct Translation)
    Mouse, Tiger, Stupid Stupid Can't Differentiate
    Whole Face, Soil, Defeated and got caught
    Small gamble, Big gamble, Wanna love then don't be afraid
    Can't see, clearly, Sooner or later you'll be torn into pieces
    Didn't know didn't notice that you already on line
    Emotion world, it's war everyday

    If don't want everyday to use tears to wash face,
    Alert your responses and open big big your eyes
    Real and false face you must know the difference,
    More dangerous colour More Vibrant!!
    Broad shoulders also can collapse,
    Electricfying the eyes always always can short-circuit

    Barbaric games, Love, No one is let go
    Barbaric games, No, No mercy pity
    Barbaric games, You, Quickly and bravely rush front
    Injured at place are inevitable, but it's all cherishable

    Wait until you find the perfect one,
    Leave victory already not too far.
    Enemy will not good good waiting to be defeated,
    Give up too easily very hard to find happiness

    Got people smile then got people cry,
    Is duty-bound not to turn is your only tactic
    Do not be afraid on the road some people will become obstacles
    Heaven intentionally will let you feel stress
    Forever remember must protect oneself
    Don't scared temporary Loneliness

    蔡依林的名誉就这样被我们顺坏了!

    Jolin's Reputation has been spoilt by our unique engrish!

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    11 August 2005

    Toys Of The Future 2


    August 11, Thursday, another hazy day in Sunway. Well, everything here has worsen ever since the haze started last Tuesday. The mood of walking to school, The mood of drawing, The mood of eating, and the mood of scratching balls.. all had changed. But this haze has caused my Figure Class to be postponed until Monday when my history presentation will also be held. Peninsular Malaysia faces its worst pollution crisis in eight years. Choking haze from forest fires on Sumatra island is threatening public health, disrupting transport and stoking fears for the economy. Schools in Selangor would be closed for the rest of this week, state Chief Minister Khir Toyo said. Well, we had to buy 3 days of food from the supermarket in order not to leave the house for any reason. During the shopping spree just now at Giant Supermarket. I couldn't help but to find more China toys to laugh at again. This packaging design was actually quite impressive from the start. It had this professional looking box and some cool shading colours. But the grammar is so wrong. It quoted "The Special For You Of Children Design". I thought maybe I read it wrongly? I decided to read it in a different manner:

    (1) Special For You Of Design? The Of?
    (2) The Children Special For You Of Design?
    (3) The Special Design For Children of?
    (4) The Design Of Children For Special You?
    (5) The Design Of You For Special Children?

    Acks, I still couldn't get it. Anyone who comes by with a good one and makes sense. Just post it in the comments section. Haha..

    Here it states "Power Rangers - The Best Welcome Gifts For The Children" From the look at this toy, its just a lame old plastic sword called "Super Power Sword" I noticed that China Chinese People like to use the word "Super" in most of their products!!! Sounds kinda Tacky. Anyways, as its stated the best welcome gifts for the children. Should get it. Cough!* Cough!* Bill Gates & Steve Jobs has another new competitor. CHINA TOYS!! The latest computer system named "HOME OFFICE". Provided with preinstalled sticker monitor and miniature floppy disks and mouse that is larger than half of the CPU!!! WOW!! I bet that Uncle Bill haven't thought of that right? Hah~ China Toys is the next generation of future technology. No wonder they say that China's economy is rising and is the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Awww.. Yeah!!! (taken from Puppy of RABs)
    and last but no least our all time favourite "Call-Call". Well, its obviously a walkie talkie with 'skins' that you can change. Hmm.. sounds cool, but looks kinda wierd. It also quoted "Faces are changeable" and I think they meant the cover of the walkie talkies right? Naming the toys in a cute way is nothing wrong, but quality is more important in the toy industry. These things cost more than I expected and its giving wrong information to kids and adults as well. I've lost confidence in my english ever since I met with these Future Toys of China. Hmm...

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    9 August 2005

    One Night With A Puppy

    Puppies are normally very active and very curious too. Well, this just explains everything when Luis (housemate) brought a little puppy home last friday. From what I heard, this puppy was one of Luis's Indonesian friend's Pup. Well, you can say that this puppy had this very very very cute face that would make anyone (and I mean it) goes EEeee.. and Oooo...so cute so cute!! just like that. The puppy was here at our house to stay overnight, I didn't know why but from her (the puppy) looks, she's worth the stay. Just look at her innocent face.. Awww... And so I learnt that her name was "Chivas" which at first I had mistaken it for "Chibai" which means vagina in Hokkien Dialact. I had been calling her name and enjoying it during that night "Chibai, come here" "Chibai, Don't Bite Me" and "Chibai La" well, it was a good experience and to have a new "room mate" in the room. She was the most precious thing I had ever seen. A breed that even "Doggy Expert Russell Liew" and "Puppy Expert Edwin Yiing" didn't even know. I didn't care about what breed it was. I just hope that Chivas couldn't find my Fruit Tart that was hidden under my computer desk. She was playful that she wanted to bite our innocent modem and LAN cables. I had no chance but to use some empty plastic bottle and trick her into playing with it. And it succeeded! WOo-HoO! And then again, Luis came and picked her up and kissed her Aww... ( I mean the puppy ar) Chivas was so playful that she had finished her energy in a flash. She looked very sleepy and Luis gave Chivas a blanket and then she fell asleep. But suddenly, after a few minutes, Chivas woke up and ran towards my computer and started to PEE!!! OMG, Luis screamed so terribly and carried her instantly into the bathroom. Luis put him into the bathtub in order not to let her escape again and simply pee around the room. Well, suddenly I heard a loud Shreek "SHIT!!!!!" I tought that something went wrong in the bathtub, so I had to stop blogging and went rushing into the bathroom to see what had happen to Luis & Chivas. When I looked at her from the bathtub, she was barking and wanting to get out of the bathtub like so. Aww.. another cute moment. When something unfortunate happen when I stood up and stared INTO the bathtub. It wasn't chocolates, it wasn't a sausage. IT WAS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! Awww... all I could say was SHIT!!!!!! and this was one of the smelliest Dog Poo I have ever smelt. It was terrible and it wasn't a good sight. But I captured the moment with my IXUS again. Acks.. my bathtub was bombarded by this THING:Just after 2 hours of caring time with Chivas it turned from Aww..So Cute to Aww..SHIT!!!! and this is what our Luis had to say to amatuer Dog Lovers. Be sure to know how to take care of Dogs before bringing them home especially poo poo training. Its the worst thing that can ever happen to anyone. And I mean it... I can still smell it!! YUX!!!!!!

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    8 August 2005

    Sketching at Sunway Lagoon

    I was supposed to post this a few days ago, but due to this stupid streamyx broadband which had only the speed of a 56k connection, I wasn't able to continue blogging for quite some time. Stupid Telekom! Telekom really sucks bad and the broadband is just a piece of shit. Slower than anything in the world, sometimes we had to wait for 5 minutes to load a page with only text in it. Can you imagine how slow that darn thing is? How are we malaysians suppose to surf the net, Dumbass Telekom TM! Anyways, after all that complaining which to no avail, is still slow cerrently. I decided to blog this Sunway thingy. Well, Friday (5th August 2005) our class (CD01-1) had our figure sketching class at Sunway Lagoon. It was a life sketching session and we all had to meet at the entrance of the lagoon (which was a carpark of Sunway Pyramid) at 10:45am. Me and my friends went there as early as possible hoping not to miss out this trip. But, the lecturers only appeared after a 45 minute wait which was a total waste of good sleeping time. I was so fed up with the damn heat and was walking around waiting for the lecturers to get our Damn entrance passes. I noticed this sign: Finally we gained access to the lagoon and was assigned to draw 4 different people from the lagoon. We all ran to the nearby place (which I don't know what that place is called) where it has a view of some of the playgrounds with the most people. I was too lazy to look for good people to draw and decided to just imagine someone and just draw. Well, we had a couple of cooperative classmates who posed for us. As a result, they too became imaginary figures for my sketching, cause I was too tired to focus on something and draw draw draw. Then it rained and we were damn stuck in that shed while all the people in the lagoon ran for shelter leaving no one in the pools and parks. It was a nice and cool vision of sunway. The awful haze in Sunway has finally been washed down by rain. It was a comfortable sight. Rain was rare in Sunway and this was the moment to cherish. As I was enjoying the raining sight, classmates in the shed were chatting, drawing, running, screaming, laughing, sleeping, boasting and so on. It was just like class. Nothing changed much when I saw these gals fighting over a pair of groovy spectacles. After the rain, the sun was out again and the smell of the haze was gone. Me and a few friends went for a stroll in the lagoon and hoping to find something interesting. I saw a whole lotta 'Ninjas' around the lagoon. Walking, Jumping, Transforming and stuff. We also noticed that Kakashi Sensei was there looking for his 3 missing Diciples (Naruto, Sasuke & Sakura) as there were too many ninjas around. It was sure hard to find 3 active ninjas in the pile of 'ninjas'. Everyone looked the same. I was wondering what the hell are they doing here anyway? They can't take off their clothes, they can't let people see their faces in the public. Damn, stupid people, paying so much money just to come into the lagoon and walk around? How stupid is that? We're suppose to come to Sunway Lagoon to swim, play, draw and fight! Hell, these wierd 'ninjas' Must have mistaken Sunway Pyramid as their Egyptian Pyramid of Giza. Haha.. Seriously, really what the hell are they doing in the lagoon if they can't swim?

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    6 August 2005

    Big Success!!!

    It was an afternoon after Fine Arts Class....
    After the introduction of the post: Best Teh Ais In Sunway environment in the Chola Spice restaurant has changed quite a lot. Customers (mostly from my class CD051-1) come crashing into the famous Chola Spice. Bloggers like Justin , Kumagoro (Xiao Wen) , Eugene, Rachel, Sabrina and more also joined the crowd in the famous food outlet. To my astonishment, everyone of them (and I mean it) ordered the famous Best Teh Ais. It was an overwhelming and exciting phenomenon. Besides them, other customers such as blue and white collars and tourists also couldn't resist to try out the cool and delicious food Chola Spice had. I didn't want to just stick to one type of drink and get tired of it. I ordered Teh-O-Ais and Teh-O-Ais Limau. Very refreshing and light. No condensed milk at all and very chilly. It wasn't the best I tried so far, but it still passed from my food encyclopedia (my Taste Buds). The weather was getting hot and the customers were piling up. I was pissed off when the food I ordered haven't arrived on my table yet. I waited under sweat and saliva, when suddenly, my long lost love, the Roti Pisang (Roti Banana) arrived. Yay~~! The obvious bananas inside the Roti (some flour made fried stuff) made me drool even more. Sweetness from the banana with roti was a good combination and nothing was more delicious when it came to this snack. Next, the main course came, my favourite, THE MUTTON PARATHA has arrived. Royal trumpets began to ring in my ears. The fat and juicy paratha with mutton curry filling. Oh~ the aroma, the smell, the sight! All came crushing into my brain. I couldn't resist this delicious, juicy indian speciality. Everyone, You should try this out. A price of RM4.50 is just worth it all while students (Yay!!) have 10% discount for all the food and drinks in Chola Spice. After Blogger Eugene saw my delicious Roti Pisang, he himself ordered one for himself. He didn't gave much comments but the evolutionary and legendary Critic of all time, Kam Fook gave a thumbs up for Chola Spice. It was the signal for success! Chola Spice, You Did It! and so did I. Helping such a nice place to promote their delicacies was my honour. I'm a food lover what do you expect? Good Food Requires Respect!! It wasn't an easy task. I had to take picture, try this and that, pay this and that, get this thing written right and all sorts of thingamejig. So, suddenly I noticed that Blogger Russell (Chuan Ho) ordered this little round roti. I asked him, what the hell is that? He answered "Roti Bom!" I was totally shocked by the "gigantic" size of that particular roti. It was as small as Russell's palm and I instantly knew that this little menace won't make our Russell full this afternoon. It was a Rm1.50 little cute roti with sugar as filling. I was lucky I ordered the Roti Pisang instead of this little menace. And so, the story continues as Russell orders another course for this meal. Time was leaving me fast, I had to catch up and paid the boss and asked for my special 10% discount. I left while everyone waved Goodbye to me and dashed home for a bath and a good nap.

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    5 August 2005

    Oily Maggi Goreng

    So, well, the story starts again in the Bandar Sunway. I never really get to see much of the beautiful skies of this place. Til today where the cruel haze has just returned home to the jungle, I was able to enjoy what I have lost since I moved to Bandar Sunway. A vision of a beautiful sky is more relaxing than sitting on a sofa when its a red hot day sweating till your rashes burst out. So, it was time for dinner and my housemates were pestering me to get dressed. I asked them (as usual) "Where are we eating tonight?" and the answer would be the traditional most-used mandarin word in the world "不知道!(I Don't Know!)" I gazed around and I saw this beautiful sky shining on my eyes and I couldn't resist to take down this picture: I loved the sky beacause it consist more of the colour I love, Blue! So, we continued our dinner journey across the busy streets and walked slowly among the shoplots when Juliana (housemate) wanted to go to this Mamak Stall called "The Taj Curry House". Well, it wasn't my first time there and the food was quite Okay. I agreed and so did the others. We walked to Taj Curry and entered the shop. I ordered Maggi Goreng (Fried Maggi Noodles) and a bottle of Alfalfa Drink. I waited for just a couple of minutes and both my orders were here. That was really fast. I have to say that the service there is fast but... unfortunately the waiters there seems to have hearing problems. For example: My friend asked this waiter to "tambah ayam (add chicken)" and the waiter nodded while saying "tambah nasi? (add rice?)". My friend repeated again and the waiter repeated what he said before. My friend was annoyed and folded his arms to his armpits and acted like a chicken in order to let the waiter understand what the F*** he wanted. Then again, the waiter says "nasi (rice)"!!! But the wierd thing was... he brought him the chicken he wanted instead of rice. Hmm... I was damn confused. Okay, back to the point. The Maggi Goreng Ayam... a famous delicacy in the mamak culture. It looked nice and it was tasty. From the first look at it, my brain gave me an "OK" signal and was ready to go for it. Maggi Goreng tastes a bit salty but if you love lime, you better squeeze them onto the dish to even out the taste. So, Maggi Goreng Ayam is just Maggi Goreng plus some Indian Fried Chicken. You can notice the way they cut the chicken meat is unlikely correct but it doesn't really influence the taste... but just the look. Ok, so I ate and ate and ate... and I noticed something terribly wrong. There was damn whole lotta oil on that darn fork! It was the oil from that particular Maggi Goreng Ayam. It scared the wits outta my appetite. I couldn't waste money at all and I had to finish that darn dish. I wondered if the past maggi gorengs I ate in Taj Curry was like that, and I couldn't help but to think that this is the big cause towards many types of cancer and teenagers' most evil nemesis, ACNE!!!! This crappy goreng will shorten your life by one week with that grease. I knew that I wasn't going to order another one from this wierd shop anymore. It was a good thing that I ordered this Alfalfa drink which was quite healthy and better off, it has less sugar in it than any Teh-O-Ais or Air Tebu. The Alfalfa Drink comes in a cute little bottle and some ice. Well, I preder to drink it direct from the bottle as I don't know what kind of crappy water they used to form that ice. I never seen Alfalfa drinks sold in other restaurants except for mamak stalls, and I think I know why. Its because of the greasy food made by the mamak and Alfalfa is the only drink that can nautralize the whole oily process. Alfalfa drinks in Taj Curry is sold at the price of RM2.00. Its more worthy than a glass of Teh-O-Ais which is normally just sugar and ice. Well, the taste of this drink is a little sweetness plus a little vege feel. When drinking it, it feels like its washing down the ugly looking grease on the maggi goreng to give you a more relieved feeling. The colour of the drink also provides a natural feel together with some extraordinary taste. Try It and you'll love it too. Well, children who eat healthy school lunches are stereotyped as "posh" or "uncool", according to new research from UK children's charity Barnardo's. I tought maybe trying one of these wierd looking Alfalfa drinks might change their minds. hehe...
    What Else Do You Want?

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    2 August 2005

    E2's Drama Class


    Today was a very very tiring day. It was the day for our drama play. I was suppose to be nervous when I woke up at 12 this morning, but I rushed to the toilet and pooped non-stop for no reason. Frankly speaking, our play (including Me, Andrew Chan, Chuan Ho & Hoean) was a last minute work. Although the script was written, but it was editted on the day before the play. We only had 1 or 2 practices which was (to Gary) not enough. But we managed to do the play anyways. Our play was titled "A Pirate's Lesson", and it was story with a setting of modern time pirates who sells VCDs and DVDs in the infamous "Chu Cheong Gai (Petaling Street) of Kuala Lumpur". We settled in our seats when drama class started. We had to pass our scripts up to Gary (Our Lecturer) before all the 3 plays started. Audiences came, from the E1 class, because darn Fatimah (Copywriting Lecturer) had an emergency and they had no class.

    Kum Fook's Group ( starring Andrew Chen, Kum Fook, Abby & Pei Jien) played some story about real pirates with a setting which was 300 years ago ( I didn't know that they had pirates back then). Anyways, it worked out well, with cute screaming of Pei Jien and Kum Fook's Humorous Dancing, Abby's Evil thoughts and Andrew's Blur Navigation. Anyways, It was a great play. I loved it!!! The thing was the costumes and the make-up. I couldn't help but noticed that Andrew Chen's make-up artist made him looked like Gaara (Character from Naruto). So I took a picture and tried to use photoshop to make some comparisons. And alas, it was definitely right. Just Look: Okay, so next, it was our group's turn. We were modern pirates, very different pirates. Haha... and so the story goes and goes, about 2 friends called "Jin (literally means 'very')" & "Soi (literaly means 'unlucky')" who wanted to make money fast. So, they became VCD pirates through some underground organization. It was a wierd ending but oh well, it turned out well because we stalled enough time to make the whole play a 15 minute~! Woo-Hoo!! Although we missed out some of the lines. Well, it was funny as there was this character named "Ah Chun (played by Chuan Ho)" who in the play is a total retard and a henchman of Adam (the gangster). And bad things happened to the 2 friends and blah blah blah.... Anyways, here's a preview of the Cover: Then Then Then, the last team was Xiao Wen's Group (starring Xiao Wen, Sook Ee, Justin & Aaron) about some Japanese stuff. Which till now I still don't really get what the story is about. All I know is that this girl Mimi-Go (played by Sook Ee) goes to the past when she went to some toilet and met some japanese samurais or shoguns or something. (Not sure lar) and... erm.. some cool fighting scene.. Oh Yea!! Very Cool fighting, Guys. Using some Samurai swords or something (correct me if i'm wrong). And... after all the scenes were played, they still had about half a minute to go till 15 mins. They hurried and came up with some wierd scenes to stall the time which was actually the only part I understood. Haha... Anyways, It was great too. Love It, Guys. You All should watch it too. One of the coolest scene: And so... the day ended with laughter and hunger. It was tiring but it was fun. Watching everyone's acting skills while comparing it to mine (which was total crap) made my balls seem smaller (That's bad). Haha.. Well, everything turned out nice and fun. Great Job Everyone from E2, You Guys ROCK!!!!!!

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    Vegetarian Restaurant

    1st of August, a sunny Monday. We had our final History Of Art & Design 2 Exam in the morning. It was an unexpected phenomenon. There was only one question to the whole exam. I was like... WTF? Its a final exam and there's only one question? Well, okay, I settled down, getting ready my pen, and positioned my balls comfortably on the plastic chair of the Lecture Hall, I read the question: "Please design A WATCH by applying one of the following art movements and not copy the artist's style" Ok, maybe i changed a bit of the question (Cause I can't remember) But the meaning is still the same. Well, Ok, i was like... watch... The only art movement that came mind was Hornism (Pervertism), leader was Raymond Thian. Hmm.. haha.. well, ok i then chose Symbolism from one of the 4. And my design was really disturbed.

    At night, me and some housemates went out for dinner. As usual, we couldn't make a decision to where we are suppose to eat on that night. It was a terrible thing to do. After walking towards the nearby shoplots that is near to our college, Edwin wanted to eat vegetarian. Hmm.. maybe its because the night before, we watched how farm animals were tortured and made into meat in ogrish.com . It was terrible... really! We couldn't continue watching it. Then, after settling down on a nice round table, the waitress handed us the menu. I began to scan through all the stuff they had for a vegetarian restaurant, when I came to this:

    Ok, so this might be just a typo error as the letter 'T' and 'Y' on the standard keyboard is next to each other. I began to choose something else, something more soothing and nice to eat. I scanned and scanned and scanned.. till a sudden stop.
    "Cantoness" Kuey Teow with Egg? And I doubt that this is a typo error. Cause maybe it sounds nice when its put with Kuey Teow. And then again I must point out that "Kuey Teow" is NOT "Hor Fun" as the chinese translation on top of the dishes' name is typed as "河粉 (Hor Fun)" which is wrong. OK? Damn these people, don't even know how to differentiate 'Kuey Teow" and "Hor Fun"!!! and look! Pepper is spelled wrongly too. Aduh! Next, I saw this: "Bitterguard" whatever that is! Good thing there was chinese translation on the top which was correctly spelled and written as it actually meant "Bitterguord"! Tiew~ this cannot be a typo error right? The letter 'A' and 'O' is so far apart on the standard keyboard. Wonder what happened to copywriter's eye. Oh well, then again, I noticed that I haven't chose something to eat! And my stomach was mumbling! I quickly ordered this "Sweet and Sour Vege. Fish Rice" which had quite a reasonable price of RM4.50. I waited and waited, drinking my "雪茶 Xue Cha", i waited and waited again. My housemate's order was here, and they had been gobbling up their food like savages for a few minutes already. After 4 disturbing minutes, my dish came. The waitress put it on my table and I looked at it. To my astonishment, I saw THIS: HOLY CRAP! RM4.50 for this thing??? How could they? I counted, 1,2,3,4,5...6! Six crappy wierd looking vegetarian fish with some leftover pineapples served with this .. this.. rice? Oh My Goodness, what have we done to this world? I picked up my spoon and started to eat. After 3 minutes, I finished the whole dish. I began to wonder: " I waited for 4 F***ing minutes and I only enjoyed my food for only3 minutes? and that I finished first among my friends while I was served last????"

    What kind of crap is that? Oh Shit, and it costed me a king's ransom for that pile of shit. I couldn't belive it. I still felt the same hunger since I walked into the restaurant. It was as if I paid RM4.50 just to sit there and feel hungry. Is that how all the vegetarians in the world feels? Oh Crap, Eating vegetarian food which taste and shapes like meat? What are you vegetarians trying to do? If you don't want to eat meat, Just go eat Vegetables!! Not eat something made from beans and flour and imitates meat exactly!!!!!!!!!! That's just like eating meat.. Dumbasses! Vegetariansmerian... Yeah Right! And it doesn't even make you full. You call that eating? Darn, how can people grow big balls (like mine) if they don't eat meat? Meat is nutritious, but just don't eat too much. Man, that's as logical as 123.

    And I had to go to the bakery (Picture above) to fill my 'empty' stomach with tasty pastries! WOo-HoO! Fruit Tarts Here I come!!!

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