Hapi B'day Wei Leng!

A very Happy Birthday to Wei Leng! I have really lost count of how many birthdays have gone by for the past 2 months. This is seriously crazy.

I got up early this morning for a conference call at 7am in the office. I tot i could go back home earlier, but then i got stuck in my work which i would want to get them done asap. *sigh*

Anyhow, a few of us went to Vivo @ The Curve for lunch today. The restaurant was totally empty when we stepped in. It felt a bit weird, u know, all the waiters and waitresses looking at u like u are some kind of alien.


to live; be alive (doesnt that come along with my blog?!)

Classic caesar salad, baked spaghetti bolognese, Oriental Chicken pizza, Turkey BBQ pizza, baked chicken chop and carbonara pasta.

Not bad, really not bad. Price is ok too.

BMW Thinks of Everything

This morning, i came across this joke from one of my frens. It is amazing to see how some people can come into a conclusion so fast, but yet so wrong! Are they normal or dirty minded? *muahaha*

On a golf tour in Ireland, Tiger Woods drives his BMW into a petrol station in a remote part of the Irish countryside. The pump attendant, obviously one who knows nothing about golf, greets him in a typical Irish manner, completely unaware of who the golfing pro is.

"Top of the mornin' to yer, sir," says the attendant.

Tiger nods a quick "hello," and bends forward to pick up the nozzle. As he does so, two tees fall out of his shirt pocket onto the ground.

"What are” dose?" asks the attendant.

"They're called tees," replies Tiger.

"Well, what on god's earth are dey for?" inquires the Irishman.

"They're for resting my balls on when I'm driving," says Tiger.

"Bloody Hell," says the Irishman, "BMW tinks of everyting!"

THE TWO CHOICES WE FACE

Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.

To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.

Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?

Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.

Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of whom and what they have become.

by Jim Rohn

Power is back

After bearing with a faulty adapter for more than 3 months, the replacement finally came in this morning. The delivery was delayed by almost a month, this is DELL that we are talking about. *sigh*

If it is delayed longer (till next year perhaps), i think i wont be needing it anymore cos by then, i would have gotten my laptop replaced by Lenovo. It is expiring next July. -___-


My new baby...

Now i dont have to switch the power on and off intermittently to force the electricity into my laptop. *yippie*

Jogoya Japs Buffet

Jogoya has been the talk of the town for some time. I have always wanted to go there, but knowing myself is a very light eater, i was quite hesitant to spend so much for the buffet. So when my team lead suggested the venue for JoMo last dinner in Malaysia, I couldnt agree more!

The place is really huge! We had a room to ourselves, called Support (how ironic), with an electronic door only to be opened when u place ur hand on its metal detector. Cool huh?! :D

While i was waiting for the rest to arrive, i took a few photos of the sushi bar and the hallway, only to realise that we were not supposed to snap any picture of the place. Luckily they didnt throw me out of the place. *oopppss*



I walked around the restaurant with Pei Yee for about 10 mins, we couldnt decide on what wei want to eat. There are just too many choices, ranging from sashimi, sushi, teppanyaki, hot steam food, tempura, sukiyaki, main course, ice-creams, cookies, desserts, grilled and fried stuff, etc, etc. Finally, i picked up an oyster and a chawan mushi as starter. The rest, are history.

Scallops & salmon, raw oyster, half cooked oyster, beef, soft shell crab, sushi, mackerel fish and desserts (diff type of mini cakes).

We were too busy eating, i didnt even get to snap all of food. I was really amazed at how much my team mates could eat. Unbelievable! Some of the food they took, i have never even seen before. It takes a lot of courage to try on those weird looking, long legged, striking colours creatures. *eeekk*

Thanks to JoMo for the wonderful treat on the dinner. I was really stuffed to the max. *burp*


The entourage; Eric, JoMo, Thomas, Pei Yee, Jane, Teck Sing, YD, Siva, Koon Seng and Soo.

Lunch RM78++
11.30am - 1.40pm (Weekdays)
11.00am - 2.00pm (Weekends/Public Holidays)

Late Lunch RM68++
1.40pm - 4.20pm (Weekdays)
2.00pm - 4.20pm (Weekends/Public Holidays)

Dinner RM88++
5.00pm - 9.30pm (Weekdays/Weekends/Public Holidays)

Supper RM78++
9.30pm - 12.00am (Weekdays)
9.40pm - 12.00am (Weekends/Public Holidays)

Jogoya
T3, Relish Floor
Starhill Gallery
181, Jalan Bukit Bintang
55100 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel: +603 2142 1268
Fax: +603 2148 8171

Food frenzy II

I have heard so much about this Dragon I restaurant from my colleagues. Located at the Cititel Hotel, MidValley, i've decided to bring JoMo there for a light lunch (considering that it serves nice shanghai noodles a.k.a. La Mien which is not as filling as rice). We gotta save some spaces in our stomach for a Japanese buffet dinner. *yum*yum*

Fortunately i made reservations before hand, cos the place is damn crowded during lunch time. It took me a while to figure out what to order, cos everything looks good on their menu. *_*

As i observed the crowd while waiting for our food to arrive, i realized that most of them had dumplings on their table. There is no way you cannot see that these Shanghainese dumplings are their signature dishes! Xiu Long Pao as it is popularly known in Cantonese, it consists of minced pork wrapped with a thin dough. When you give the dumpling a bite, you will be able to taste the sweet soup which was also wrapped and concealed inside. That is really something that u cant get from a normal dumpling. No wonder it is so famous! It is really good. I can still imagine the taste in my mouth now.


Shanghainese dumplings.

I seriously couldnt recall what are the names of the noodles that we took. But i did remember to ask JoMo to demonstrate how the Korean and Japanese people eat their noodles, with a loud slurping sound *slurrrppppssss*

I didnt manage to get my hands on their dessert this time around. I heard it was not bad, according to some online blogs. Maybe some other time..

The price of the food here is quite pricey. For eg, the dumplings in the set of 4 cost us RM8. This is not something that u can afford to eat daily, but u can give it a try though, once in a while or on special occasion.

Stop drooling... ^_^

Dragon I Restaurant
Main Lobby, Cititel Hotel
Ground Floor, Mid Valley City
Tel : +603 2282 0155

Food frenzy I

Okay, i have been feasting for the whole week. Mom told me last nite that i could have gained a few extra pounds. Gosh, I need to go on diet next week. I only have 2 weeks left before Wei Siang's wedding dinner...

To sum up what i have been feeding myself, here goes. Pictures tell a thousand words.

MUM'S Place is a huge place -- a seven-shoplot boutique restaurant (inclusive of two first floors). Owners Chris De Mello and Ken Yap have decorated the place well with wood and rustic material softened by fabrics and lights. Located in Damansara Perdana, their menu of Malaysian and local Portuguese cuisine will delight your taste buds amid a tropical setting.

As for the health conscious, there is no need to worry about indulging in spicy fare, as their dishes are cooked with cholesterol-free palm oil. I personally like their cencaru fish with petai (although i dont really fancy petai), but we didnt order that cos JoMo is not so into spicy food. Better let him try the mild one first. Hee.

Butter garlic tiger prawns, Otak-otak cubes, Chicken "Pong Teh", Daun keledek sawi, Portugese beef slices and the restaurant.

MUM’S PLACE
31-39 Jalan PJU8/5A
Bandar Damansara Perdana
Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Tel: 03-7727 8443/8449
Business hours: 11am to 10.30pm

Out of energy..

I am a bit tired and sleepy. I havent been having enuff sleep for the past few days, most probably because i was out every night. Lots of lunches and dinners..

JoMo flew over from PHX on Mon to visit the team here. Although it wasnt the first time he come to Malaysia, but he has never been to KL before. Therefore, we planned out a lot of activities to keep him occupied at nite after work, to experience the KL lifestyle. Thomas was supposed to bring him to Petaling Street on Monday shortly after he arrived, but unfortunately, his luggage was missing. It took him quite a while to get everything settled so they only managed to go to KLCC at nite for dinner.

Tuesday was the craziest nite among all. After a long day of meetings and presentations, we headed to Bar-B-Q Plaza @ 1U for dinner. It was a Thai styled steamboat & BBQ, something new that none of us have tried before. I personally was really looking forward to try the food.


Bar-B-Q Plaza entrance.

We made reservations earlier but we were told that our tables will be given away if we were late for more than 15 minutes. But when we reached there on time, there were still a lot of vacant tables. -_-


A hemisfere hot plate area with the soup poured around it.

Here are some of the pics of the food.

After the dee-lii-ciouss dinner, we proceed to the Neway Karaoke. Kevin specifically requested for a singing session, i wonder if he is a good singer. There is really no doubt that he is a great singer. He was practically holding on to the wireless mic the whole nite cos he can sing all the songs that we've chose. Ranging from high to low pitch, female to men song, english to chinese, anything! He could even made the chinese songs as his own remix songs. Oh man, that guy is unbelievable. JoMo in the meantime did a lot of rap and r&b songs. Both of them were damn good!


Neway Karaoke @ 1U.


Kevin was happily dancing on the dance floor.

The room that we've got was perfect, large space, 3 plasma TVs, personal toilet, wired and wireless mic... no complain at all. We had a lot of fun, but towards the last 2 hours, we were asked to change our room to another smaller one. That really pissed us off. But we still continued on singing, until past midnite. My voice became hoarse the next day... :(

Birthdays again

I know u guys have seen a lot of birthday posts for these 2 months. There are just too many of them lately.

Happy Belated Birthday, Chee Yee! He is another fren of mine for 13 years. I am so thankful that we can still keep in touch and hang out every now and then. It is really not easy to keep a frenship alive for so long. Thanks for being my close fren.

Happy Birthday to Ka Boon as well! I know ur birthday is tomoro, but in case i forgot, so i better put it up here, now. All the best! Havent seen u for more than a year. Hope that we can gather some time soon!

Another HK style restaurant

I was only here last weekend, and i didnt know that these tenants were not there anymore. Either i wasnt being observant enuff, or they moved less than 7 days ago.

I was at Time Square today and i realised that Delifrance is gone! And Pizza Uno too! Wow, what happened? Is the business really not that good?

Anyhow, i had my lunch at a new place called Food & Tea Hong Kong Restaurant. It is very very similar like Kim Gary, like about 95%. Even the bowls and plates are lookalike. I wonder if they will ever get sued for this.


Located next to the GSC Cinema at the third floor.


The chicken wings looks nice and yummy.

I had a set lunch meal; Shanghai Noodle with hot and spicy pork dice which comes with a free drinks and a dessert. Priced at RM6.90, it is considered cheaper than the normal HK restaurant that we have frequented previously. The food, normal.

Happy Birthday Kok Tong!

How long have we not seen each other? Well, i cant really recall, maybe more than a year or so. But i am so glad that we still keep in touch with each other. Thanks for remembering my birthday last month, and how could i not remembering yours at all? :)

Dont hesitate to buzz me online whenever u feel like it, i am not as busy as u think i am ya!

Once again, Happy Birthday! A great senior, and a great fren!

Happy Burst-day Siew Kim!

Me, Tee Hui and Siew Kim.

Happy Birthday, another year gone by. Sorry for not being able to have lunch with u today. My meeting was scheduled at a very wrong timing, but im sure u had a great time as well.

Wish u a very great year ahead! And all your dreams come true too! *muaks*

Rakuzen @ Hartamas Shopping Centre

I was helping my fren to check out some japanese restaurants in Google, when i so happened to come across this name - Rakuzen. I seriously have no idea at all what is so special about this particular restaurant, but it seems to have a very good review.

So today during lunch, we went to check the place out, the one which is located in the Hartamas Shopping Centre.



The entrance itself looks grand. And it has a very very nice environment, best of all the Japanese restaurant that i have been so far. Each table is nicely decorated and we were given a table of 6 in a closed room, sat on a cushion, just like what u saw in the japs drama. I really felt like im physically in Japan. Are all the restaurants in Japan like that, Phei Shan? Or Japanese dont really eat outside, but make their own sushi instead most of the time?

Once seated, we were already excited and were talking like a bunch of kids from school. Ran through the menu and hurriedly ordered our food cos we were starving dy. I ordered the Higawari Zen, which is only limited to 20 sets per day.


Close up shot for Higawari Zen ~ fried mash potato and chicken cutlet.

Min Min tried the Unajyu Zen, check out the amount and size of the delicious unagi in the pic below. It looked, smelled and tasted great! Jeff, u are so gonna love this!!! :)


Close up shot for Unajyu Zen ~ unagi.

The Chicken Teriyaki Zen was one of the cheapest set lunch available. But u will not be disappointed at all.


Close up shot for Chicken Teriyaki Zen ~ well, obviously chicken teriyaki we are seeing here.

But the award goes to the Sakura Chirashi Don! It has a lot of variety of sashimi, but if u are someone who does not appreciate raw food, i dont think u will enjoy this. I am not a raw food fans as well (i only eat the salmon and prawn), so i guess i am gonna give it a pass. But seeing Miki's expression while savouring the delicious food, u can sense the satisfaction thru her eyes. =P~


Close up shot for Sakura Chirashi Don ~ for the sashimi lovers, consists of hotate (oysters), salmon, maguro(tuna), ebi (prawn), ebiko(fish roe), tamago (omelette), octopus, cuttlefish, seabass, sliced mushrooms and sliced cucumbers.

Each set comes with a cup of chawan mushi, miso soup, a plate of fruits and cooked brinjal. I think i am gonna come here again next time and try the unagi set. Probably get someone to give me a treat :)

Give it a try and see what u think as compared to other Japs restaurant. Your opinion would be interesting.

RakuZen Japanese Restaurant
Lot P17, Plaza Ground Floor
Hartamas Shopping Centre
60, Jalan Sri Hartamas 1
50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel No: 03 - 6201 2060

p/s: I think it would be better to make reservations before hand. Although there are quite a number of tables available, but it seems that the restaurant is pretty filled up during lunch/dinner time.