I'd taken a quick time off from the world of blogging mainly due to my dsl line problem at home and the slowliness of Jaring's dial up. There are so many things I wanna write...I don't even know where to start.
Saturday
Went to Jusco Cheras Selatan for movies. Planned with my friend Has to watch 3 movies, Beowulf, Enchanted and Bee Movie. The last movie that I watched was .... I can't remember but it was before Ramadhan. Anyway just ended up with only 2 movies coz Bee Movie seats were almost full. I love everything about Enchanted!! Almost pee in my pant for laughing like mad. Beowulf tu so-so la but the graphics are fantastic. I'll try to make a review for these movies in another post.
The traffic jams on route to city center were terrible even after 9pm. Has and I were stucked more than 30 minutes in traffic on our way back home. The HINDRAF rally really got to my nerves. Cant helped boiling everytime I watched the news. What happen to my beloved country...is this the present we get for our 50th independence? Some Malaysians just become stupid and more stupid each day...nincompoops!!! Ahhh I don't wanna talk about this...spoil my mood je.
Monday
Still patah kaki...been more than 3 weeks now the car stranded in workshop. It taken more time than promised by that Ah So. So for the first time after more than a year I decided to have a "public transport day". I had Danone's product survey group discussion in Uptown at 9:30am so I left home 10 minutes before 7am. Took the first bus to Ampang and board the next bus to KLCC. Then I took LRT to Kelana Jaya station and then hailed a taxi to Uptown. I arrived 45 minutes early. Discussion ended around 11:30am. Me and 2 of my new friends from the group shared taxi fare to the nearest Putra LRT. I went back to KLCC and had lunch at Secret Recipe with my cousin at AvenueK. It was my first time there believe it or not. Then I took a bus to Bukit Bintang and walkd to Low yatt. I bought ADSL modem and PCI to USB device. Turned out I got the wrong USB. Didn't know there are different types of USB. After Low Yatt I took a bus again and headed to Selangor Dredging to get a free ride home in Pidah's auto hehehehe. Had a light reading at British Counsil while waiting for her to finished work. Her office is somewhere in the building.
In 1 day I had my journey on busses, taxis and LRT. The costs? RM2 for Utama bus, RM2 for Bandar bus and RM4.80 for lrt trip to and from KLCC to Kelana Jaya. Total up to RM8.80 for Rapid KL fare plus RM7 for taxis to and from Kelana Jaya station and Uptown. Sum up to RM15.80 for public transport fares in 1 day. I should have taken the All-Day Sepadu Ticket which cost only RM7 so I could save RM1.80 on Rapid KL.
The experience? Priceless! As usual I had my motion sickness few minutes after I board the first bus. To make it worse I sat on backward position on the second bus. But I reached the final stage of sickness (which mean puking) when an Indonesian guy with bad BO stand in front of me but I managed to put myself together and braved the unfortunate event and arrived safely without a puke on my tudung. Still hate waiting for busses. There were so many busses around but none of it the one I was waiting for...how ironic.
Aiya too sleepy to blog la...already 3am. I can hear the sound of a snoring coockoo outside. So I'll continue later.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Time off from the Blogging World
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Dunno What to put as Title
I'm still using the dial up connection...can't figure out what happen to my broadband tho I strongly believe it has something to do with my phone line. Nevermind...I just couldn't bother bout it at the mo.
I'm supposed to be writing about the trip I made with my cousin Pidah to Gambang (somewhere near Kuantan, Pahang) last weekend. I accompanied her to send her sister (my other cousin that is) who is studying in a college over there. You might realised that her name (Pidah) kept popping up in almost every post I made. Well...she's my best buddy what can I say. She's not only my cousin...she's my friend and a sister to me. Some friends come and go but when you were bonded by blood, the friendship kinda stays in you. I've many cousins but our a year age differences made us closer than other cousins.
Back to the trip thingy...I snapped quite a number of cool scenery pictures behind the window glass of Pidah's new car. Yep...when I said new...I mean it! very NEW. Infact she just got it a day before our trip. I'm so proud of her...now she got an asset (also a liability all in one. Oopss...sorry mate). Oh ya...actually we went to Tanjung Karang first on Saturday and made the trip to Pahang the next day straight from there. I'll post the pix as soon as I make the upload which I don't know when *sigh* dang.
I was so tense these pass few days and yesterday I decided to go for a massage. Went to the usual massage place in Taman Maluri called Absolute Relaxation (a blind massages centre). I wish I could go there every week to pamper myself instead of going only when my body ache or my mussles tense. Til now I can still feel the hands that massaged my shoulder and neck yesterday...hmmm...
I'm still patah kaki...just checked the car yesterday and by the look at the condition...it might take another week to complete!!! Huaaaa Zalim gilos...I am soooooooooo desperate to drive again. Thank goodness Pidah let me drove her car (not the new one la...) to Tanjung Karang last Saturday where we drove separately..."lepas gian" as the malay said it.
What else to write? Hmmm I think that is all. I had a boring life so not much to put in here. By the way Miss A, now you know why I didn't blog. I am still stranded at home. No I haven't start working yet...and no I'm not busy with work coz I'm still out of job...but yea...I started the web project trial...a day before ahaksss!!! and I'll make sure to put it on that freelance site ASAP. I lost my list of designs "again" when I reformatted my PC last month coz I put everything in C drive instead of D drive. Learnt my lesson but can't help repeating the same carelessness all over again. Not that history repeats itself but bad habit die hard *wink*.
So alright folks! thanks for reading this. Appreciate it :)
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Friday, November 16, 2007
No Broadband...Dial Up kan ada....
My broadband connection decided to go on strike since yesterday. Now I am using dial up connection. Dang too slow to surf. Wonder how I got along with this kinda speed years ago when chatting was my life and Internet was my heart and soul.
Nothing to blog anyway...just that I'm a little upset coz I've been "patah kaki" almost 2 weeks now. I miss driving. I'm singing "rain rain go awayyyyy.....come again another day....". Why rain? Coz the car is being sent to workshop for body paint. That Apek told me all depends on whether it rain or shine to complete the work. Its been raining almost everyday this week so :( I can do the math myself...it going to take another week to get that car back huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
What else to post? Hmmmm nothing lah...so later-later la I sambung. Takde mood. Wait til I get new adsl modem kot baru boleh blog balik? Tension sehhh....
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Ampang's Sloppy Joe
Tried my first Ampang's "Sloppy Joe" 2 hours ago...with great dissapointment :( Here is my story...
Last week my cousin informed me about this so called mouth watering Ramly Burger infront of 7-11 at Ampang (near the International school & SPCA). I read few blogs and reviews about the place complete with YouTube videos. Most of them claimed that the stall made the best ramly burger in town. I was tempted by the look at the pix and videos.
I was eagered to try it and tonight I had the opportunity to check out the place. Went there with Pidah. Ordered special beef for me and special chicken for Pidah. We saw the hot pan were covered in oil/grease. So the burger patties were actually half deep fried not grilled. To our surprised the eggs and cheese were also fried in those grease. "Hmmmm...no wonder it is sloppy...the grease made it sloppy rupanya" I said to myself. I didn't see lea & perrin sause around so not sure if the stall owner use it in his burger like other bloggers informed me earlier. Paid RM7 and got in the car. We open our burger wrappers...had out first bite and kuang kuang kuang kuanggggg...dissapointed to the rooftop! huaaaaaa what a spoiler. Not only it doesn't taste as good as we expected...it doesn't live up to the standard of the ramly burger I made at home. It was very greasy...the chilli sauce not spicy enough...and not enough vege (only 1 slice of cucumber and a small chunk of cabbage and chopped onion).
Both of us suddenly remember the best ramly burger we ever tasted years ago at a Ramly stall infront of MacDonald Jalan Silang. My college was just across the road so I was a regular there during lunch hour...always ordered beef burger with everything extra! extra mayo extra vegs extra chilli and extra tissues/napkin. I just said "Bro! daging 1 semua lebih ek!". Always ate my burger while sitting on the flower bench next to the stall looking at people cramping around the wheeled stall waiting for their burgers. It was sloppy and slurpy...the BEST I've ever tasted TO DATE. Me and Pidah were wondering where are that bro now. For sure he wasn't at Jalan Silang anymore. Last time I bought his burger was in 1999 where he already moved his stall behind MacD (between MacD and Kenny Rogers). Haven't seen him since. BRO!!!!! I miss your burgerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.................
So two thumbs down for this well known Ampang Ramly burger from me and my cousin. Sorry mate...we may not be on the same page as you guys are if you still say the burger is the best you ever tasted.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
My Fascination : Double Rainbow

Can you spot the second rainbow from the 2 images above? Look harder if you still could not see it. At first I didn't realised there were 2 rainbows...I was very excited snapping photos while Pidah helped clearing the screen (coz it was raining). Only after few shots I saw the second blurry rainbow next to the bright one. Isn't it wonderful? Never in my life I witnessed such a magnificent view of Allah's creation.
Here's another 2 of the images I managed to captured:

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Too lazy to write...again
Why am I so lazy to blog? Is my life too boring and dull that I don't have anything to put in writing? I've a lot to tell but I'm out of words to even describe the simplest thing happening around me. Maybe I need to change my medium kot. Start to write in malay...that sounds interesting eh?
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Man United vs Blackburn Rovers 11/11/07
Man United vs Blackburn Rovers 2-0
I'm chanting glory glory Man United again today as my team continue to shine...I am dang too sleepy to blog tonite...perhaps later on...
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
My Story : Open House and Secret Recipe
Today I accompanied Pidah to an open house of her friend Ija at Kelana Jaya. Ija's husband is a local footballer currently playing for UPB-MyTeam club. There were few other footballers around during our stay. Couldn't recognised them...except for one guy that looked quite familiar to me. They all maybe well known to those who follow Malaysia league...I don't!! Ermmm I used to (until 1995) but not anymore.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Man United vs Arsenal 3/11/2007
Game : Barclay's Premiership
Date : 3/11/2007
Result : Man United 2 - 2 Arsenal
I totally forgot to update my blog on Man United last game against Arsenal. Really not in the mood to do so. United lead 2 goals to 1 but what should have been United's game turned to a draw when Arsenal equalised just before the game ended at minute 90.
I can'tput the highlight in this blog as I couldn't find a single video available in YouTube. Every highlights posted there had been removed with the message "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by NetResult"...what the toottttt!!
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
My Story : Trip to JB Part 2
Woke up early at 6am...performed prayer and fell asleep again til 7am. Everyone already awoke. Around 8am we left hotel for final touring...but 1st we looked for a place for breakfast. I was so not wanting to eat in another Mamak's but they're everywhere. I was so desperate! We went to this Nasi Padang restaurant but they only got lontong and the lauk pauk for lunch. No nasi lemak or plain kuih muih...I was boiled!!! And decided to entered whatever restaurant/stall we found next...so we ended up at Mamak's...very unpleasent ambient and the food were tasteless. Arghh what with us failed to find a decent place to eat. We're just hopeless case I guess.
So moved on...We went to the train station and bought our return tickets. I asked around for a place to buy dodol. My dad called last night and requested JB dodol. We went looking for it around the city but no dodol can be found. Mission incomplete! Then Pidah suggested us to visit Danga Bay again since we only covered half part of the area last night. Good idea since we're just going on circles there in the city!! We wanted to get on a little choo choo train at Danga Bay so we took a taxi there. On our way to buy train ticket we snapped some photos of the bay and confronted by a guy asking if we're interested to take a boat trip that cost only RM10. The catch was we need to wait for another 2 passengers to made up 12 adults for the boat to sail. Not wanting to waste our time we went straight for cho choo...hehehe.
I needed something sour. We went to the food park nearby. Food is expensive here. A glass of lemon cost RM4...mee bandung RM5...mixed rice (fish, spinach and begedil) RM7. I don't mind if the taste is good but it just mediocre...Forget about JB food.
We hailed a taxi back to the hotel to finished packing and then checked out. 5 minutes walked to the train station and we're ready to leave JB. I don't know when will I be returning to this state but surely this is the last train journey to JB in a very long long time. Farewell JB...I had fun...and I had a mess of time here. Train left station at 2pm. It was a little kinda culture shock sitting in the economy class coach after a confortable journey on 1st class coach. The leg rest was not ergonomic that I've to put my back down my feet to make myself comfortable. Thank god I sit next to Pidah coz a plus size body like me on that small seat might caused body cramp not only to me but people next to me. lost the anxiety to take any photo along the journey coz We got a backhead coach. There goes my motion sickness again...but only for a short while..my dizziness went away right after I stuffed myself with Marry Brown chicken and nuggets. Fell asleep for 1 and a half hour...woke up...eat more...tried to sleep with no success. Looked around and just observing people around me. it was a very noisy coach. At Kluang came a malay couple who sat infront of my mom/our front row. I didn't realised anything until the guy moved to face his girlfriend. He just sat facing her all the way to KL. At first nothing suspicious about their behaviour but after a long observation...me and Pidah realised that they were actually smooching and snogging unlike Ron Weasley and Lavender brown in Harry Potter book. The guy even did some "massaging" and working his "garfu" up the girl's thingy...all under the coat wrapped around her body. What a view for me and Pidah...even my mom noticed their x-rated show. We gave some sarcastic remarks on them but they just so blur and stupid to realised we were on them. They just stupid malays!!! So cheap and desparate! Arghhhh...tension la ngan budak2 melayu zaman sekarang ni. Nampak cam educated tapi bongok! eeeeee...buat malu kaum je. I think even a chinese couple behind us noticed the malay couple actions from their view. I heard their giggling from behind. Shameful those fools!! Ish...buat dosa je aku ni kutuk orang.
Anyhow...the train made a long stop at Gemas station. At this time I already had bad headache and couldn't make myself to stand and walked around the station or even going to the toilet. I just sat there on a non moving train while my heart kept saying I need to make a walk. Finally I managed to take my butts off the seat and went to toilet...and the train decided to started moving while I was in the toilet....cheh...
The journey continued and the darkness of the night came to view (I closed the curtain all the way). I just can't wait to arrived at KL Sentral. Finally...at 8:45pm the train made it to its destination and off we jumped off the coach and made our way home...This is my story...and I know I could make it more interesting but I am to dried up to recalls everything that occured on this trip to JB and back again to KL.
Well next trip?! My mom wanna go to Ipoh...and that is where we're going to next time on the KTM train.
Til next time....ta ta...
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Monday, November 5, 2007
My Interest : Ikan Bakar
Huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ikan Bakarrrrrrrrr.....I want Ikan Bakar!!!!!!! Out of desperation I searched YouTube for Ikan Bakar videos and found few...
This is how I want my Ikan bakar to be grilled!!!
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My Story : Trip to JB Part 1
Arrived back safely in KL at about 8:45pm last night after a 6 hours and 45 minutes journey on a return train from JB. The train made an unexpected long stop at Gemas station causing our delayed arrival. We took the economy class coach instead of the 1st class coach we boarded on the journey to JB. My my my...it was a real double standard between those 2 coach types. My advice if you have extra bucks to spare on a train trip and don't mind spending double ticket price, do take the first class...less noise, more comfortable seat and leg rest, cleaner coach and toilet, fully functional automatic coach door and PA system...and you might not have to watch "live" X-rated reality show of a malay college couple making out from the front seat...seriouslyy! I feel like putting the video in here so you can watch it too hahahaha.
Well there are so many things I wanna write about but hardly know where to start. My cousin Pidah, my mom and me left KL on a 8:30am train for a 6 hours journey to JB. It was our first trip on a 1st class coach and we were enjoying ourselves taking photos. We were really excited. The 6 hours went so fast that we didn't felt like it was a long journey. The train made a 10 minutes stop at Gemas Station and we arrived at JB at 2:40pm.
Fist thing we did once we set foot on JB soil was looking for a hotel. First we went to this hotel called A Vista Merpati infront of train station. There was no tripple bedroom available so we moved to find another hotel. We went to Grand Paradise Hotel, previously named Causeway Inn at Meldrum street, situated next to a police station. We paid RM70 for a tripple bed room (RM90 with RM20 government rate discount). Don't expect much on a budget room but the room is big for 3 of us tho a bit run down. THe hotel is strategically located where taxis are available infront of the hotel and train station is only 5 minutes walk away.
We only started our touring in the evening where we walked around the city for food and ended up at mamaks we me and Pidah ordered Mee goreng and mak had roti telur. I found that here in JB city centre mamaks are everywhere. Then just continue walking down the street and made a quick hop in the Guardian to buy some stuffs. While we were inside there was this chaos that I didn't understand at first. Then I realised that there was a bashing happening outside the shop. Around 20 teenagers aged not more than 17 kicking and punching a boy around their age. Everyone just stand still and stared and Ohhh...Noo...Ahh...Heyyy....Eeeeee without doing anything including me. Everyone don't have the guts to butts in and tried to help and I don't blame them. These kids just terrified us. This group had helmets and sticks gripped in their hands...I believed they don't mind bashing anyone who tried to help. Police were around the city but no one was there when the incident happen. I just can't believe my eyes that I saw this thing happening right infront of me...I only saw this on TV. I'm in JB, in my own country...not in New York or Manchester. Even in KL I never seen such brutal fight. What happen to JB residents? Is this the price they paid living next to Singapore? Can we blame Singapore for things that happen to JB? I've no answer but seeing what I just saw made me wanna left the city instantly.
I asked a local lady a place for a seaside view and she recommended this place called the Zone. We hailed a taxi...The fare was RM6 (not using meter). It is a duty free zone but we're not here in JB for shopping so we just walked along the concreet shore and snapped photos and enjoying the sunset view. Later we took a taxi back to Hotel for Maghrib before going out again for dinner. Me and Pidah were craving for Ikan Bakar. We asked every taxi drivers but no one could provide us info on the best Grilled Fish/Ikan Bakar in town. I read earlier from the Internet about Yong Yong and Tip Tip Ikan Bakar but none of the taxi drivers suggested the place. So we went to a recommended "Singgah Selalu" place since it is at Danga Bay. I thought its a seafood restaurant but turned out to be a food court situated across the street from Danga Bay. To our GREATEST dissapointment the ikan bakar sucks...big time!!!! I wouldn't call it ikan bakar but Sambal Ikan. They don't have cicah KICAP or just plain kicap!!! Dang dissapointed again after an earlier dissapointment at Kuantan last month. I came all the way from KL for this?!! No way!!! Even Ikan Bakar Jalan Bellamy is better than this. If I got another night in JB I'll definately go to the first place in mind, the Tip Top Ikan Bakar at Tepian Tebrau. I said to Pidah that we need to go to Umbai and tried the ikan bakar coz people keep giving good reviews of the place. If Umbai still didn't satisfy my appettite...I just have to set-up my own business for Ikan Bakar. I remember Pidah made the best Terubuk bakar with cicah kicap cili last ramadhan...the wonderful aroma of smokey fish grilled on charcoal and not on a pan like most ikan bakar places these days.
Forget about the put-off ikan bakar and let me continue the story of our trip to Danga Bay at night right after the dissasterous dinner. Even the live telecast of Man United vs Arsenal couldn't brought myself to enjoy the meal. We left the food court right after Rooney scored the first goal. Although I was a little hessitant to leave after the goal...I've to moved on coz I'm on tour and there were places to visit that night. Crossed the street to anga Bay. There was fun-fair there and me and Pidah bought 5 game tokens for RM10. Failed to win anything heheheh...and I still owed Pidah half of the paid tokens. We later walked along Danga Bay Street Mall and I bought Rojak Buah for super munchies. Then we paid RM10/person and entered a tanglong festival site to snap photos of beautiful tanglung designs. Actually the site was more beautiful from outside view than from the inside. We watched a short acrobatic performances and left the area. Mak Looked so tired so we decided to went back to the hotel and relax. It was a beautiful view of old buildings along the Lido beach on the way back to the city.
OK I'll stop here and continue later kay...
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Friday, November 2, 2007
My Story : JB Here I Come!!!!
I'm too lazy to update this blog this week...Not that nothing interesting happen around me but I just can't get myself to blog. All I did infront the PC all the time were playing yahoo! pool and googled info about Johor Bahru...YEP! JB. I'm going on a 6 hours of choo choo trip to JB this weekend with my mom and my cousin Pidah. This is not gonna be a typical well planned trip. I just bought outward journey tickets for three of us...with no return ticket. We'll see what happen when we get to JB...either we're staying overnight or catch the late night train back to KL. Obviously I've no idea of our directions...but there are Plan A and B...and backup plan if things doesn't work the way it should.
We only plan this trip last week tho Mak been telling me since before Ramadhan how much she misses being on a train and she really wanted to go south on a choo choo. Last time we boarded KTM train was in 1998 to north for a holiday in Langkawi and it was fun and a great 10 hours experience. What is so great and fun about being on a very long journey by train here in Malaysia? Well I'm not sure how to answer my own question...but I can list few :
- my face wouldn't turn all blue and vomitt all the way like when I was on a backseat of a car or on a bus. Got it?! I always mabuk la on a moving vehicle but somehow not when I was on train...Tension tul!
- although the view is not as scenic as the one in european countries but I can still appreciate the exotic beauty of my own country. I don't know what to expect on this coming journey to JB but I sure love the countryside view of padi fields and old towns on a train to Arau years ago.
- laid back journey where I can collect my thoughts and let it wander aimlessly without having to ask myself "are we there yet!...are we there yet" over and over again. Can't do it when I'm taking a bus coz the only thing on my head would be how much longer I had to wait til I reach my destination. Traveling by train to me and my mom is not the medium of transportation to get to our destination because the train itself is one of our destination if you know what I mean. We want to be on it...to enjoy the ride...to see places we might never get the chance to see when we are on a bus or a car.
My next question would be : Why JB of all the places in Malaysia? No particular reason actually. It just my mom wanted to be on the train...since she already experienced the northern journey now she wanted to see what would it be like on a journey to the southern tip of peninsula Malaysia. As for me...I'm looking for a GOOD FOOD!!!! So where to go when we reach JB? not much of a historical nor artistic traveler so museum, galleries, historical building or palace would not be on top of my wanna go list in JB. There is this food stall with good reviews I've been reading about: Tip Top and Yong Yong Ikan Bakar stall at Tepian Tebrau. That is on top of the list. Danga Bay and Waterfront are definately 2 places to go. Since the three of us will be arriving around 2:30pm so might just walk around the city from train station and see what they got to offer us.
I'm all excited...already packed my things yesterday and now I'm about to pack for my mom. I'm using my traveler's backpack again for the first time after I came back to Malaysia 3 years ago. I don't know if Pidah finish packing her stuffs...but I'm sure she is as excited as I am bout the whole idea and taking our first weekend trip on public transport. We are not that used to "light traveling" as we always travel by car, where we can stuffed everything from our slippers to our blanket and bantal busuk...Its gonna be a challenge to fit everything in one not so big bag/backpack. Pheuhhh...hard work...
Well...I'm off to continue packing hehehehe..and surf bout JB...
Later mater...
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