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I HAVE MOVED

2005-12-13T10:00:00.000+08:00

Hi boys and girls, pros and noobs alike. I have moved to kyspeaks.com. Kindly update your links, bookmarks, etc to the new location.

Thanks thanks.

KY eats - Dragon-i Restaurant at 1 Utama

2005-12-09T10:55:00.000+08:00

So as I was walking to the Vietnam Kitchen at 1 Utama new wing from MPH bookstore. Something new caught my eye, it was the new and shiny banner of Dragon-i restaurant. It displayed something like "He has arrived! We have waited for 10 years!", and "Gunniess book of records." I remembered seeing that on Kimberly's post, hence I told myself I would check that place out, that was a few months ago.

Nice setting with pretty good interior decoration.

The restaurant name in Mandarin is "Long de Chuan Ren", which means the people of dragon, but they've put a spin to it and instead of the "Long" of dragon, they used to "Long" of "Siu Long Pau", which literally means pau in a small basket. The restaurant's speciality as advertised is siu long pau and their ramen.

One thing that this place definately get a vote from me was their menu. Every single item is accompanied with a photo and some description of the dish. It helps alot to decipher what some of these dishes come with.

are you hungry?

We ordered the ramen soup with ribs (since the picture they shown on the menu was the largest..), a bamboo shoot side dish, a fried ramen entry, and a dessert.

The ramen soup was pretty good, the ramen itself quite fine and very smooth. The soup doesn't carry very strong taste but gives a subtle hint of aroma, which was nice and didn't feel like those that are overly laden with MSG. The ribs would have been perfect had it been a bit more fatty, but that's just my taste. Maybe these days people are slightly more health concious? *gasp*

The bamboo shoot side dish was pretty decent, though looks abit like eating centipede carcases. The sauce was a little bit too sweet though, but the texture was very nice. As for the fried ramen, my dinner partner of the evening was not able to finish it, claiming that it's a bit too oily. I tasted the dish, it wasn't bad, however it was too oily even for me, and didn't really impress my taste bud one way or the other.

As for the dessert, it was as if they tried too hard. Either that, or because we were the late customers, we got it filled with too much fungus and longans and all those ingredients, but not nearly enough liquid to let those little things swim in. It ended up overly sweet and didn't do a particularly excellent job as far as thirst quenching goes.

Overall, it's a pretty decent place with a very nice atmosphere with pretty reasonable price (the meal was some RM40 or so if I remember correctly). Perhaps I'll have to try their siu long pau next time, avoid the fried ramen.

It is situated in 1-Utama, new wing, next to Vietmanese Kitchen that's on ~~3rd~~ 2nd floor by MPH bookstore.

KY saw - Saddest Chicken and Sotong Pictures

2005-12-08T10:37:00.000+08:00

Two of the saddest pictures of the day. A picture speaks a thousand words, so here I present to you this 2000+ word post.

how sad...

how cruel..

cheers!

KY eats - Melaka Street Restaurant at SS2

2005-12-07T09:44:00.000+08:00

it was kerol, horny, and myself

So we were hungry and we were at SS2, if you have ever been to the area at dinner time, you know it's not easy to find a parking space. When we finally did, we were not far from this Melaka Street Restaurant. After taking a look on the menu to make sure that it was within budget, we were off to the uncharted water.

drool? drool anyone??

The place is reasonably new. I believe they might have taken over the old Vietnamese Kitchen shop lot after the former decided to concentrate on it's 1 Utama establishment. Interior decoration is pretty basic but rather comfortable. It does try to create an old school Melaka's atmosphere, I think.. not that I've been to Melaka yet..

check out our traffic light drinks!

We ordered fried asparagus with belacan, sambal squid (kerol's favorite creature to eat), and this fried chicken with the name that has escaped my mind (something like aunty lam or .. .) The asparagus was absolutely fabulous, squid was equally good but not too spicy. As for the chicken, it came with some chili sauce for dipping, the taste gives a hint of belacan and a pretty decent job at marination. The rice served was well cooked and in a pretty soft texture, I usually avoid restaurants with hard rice no matter how good the food is.

Overall the meal was pretty good, though I am not sure if it's a true representation of Melaka delights. The taste was just right and we did not even need any soya sauce or chili padi that usually goes with every meal. The price was rather reasonable too, for a proper restaurant setting with air conditioning.

So easy to get there..

KY saw - Paul on Magazine & FA Posing

2005-12-06T16:13:00.000+08:00

Thanks to the pointer by Erna, I found myself at the PC fair in front of PC.com Magazine's booth, and look at what I found. An article on WiMax on the November 2005 issue of PC.com Magazine featuring none other than the infamous dancing boy, Paul Tan!

Look at how the fella tried to appear like a thug but failed.

On a related story, FA tries to get a magazine to feature her but is still yet to be successful despite the ability to do the perfect pose at KLCC.

perfecto!

KY teaches - How to make a wooden lock

2005-12-05T08:56:00.000+08:00

From the having-too-much-time department, here is how to make yourself a wooden lock. Good for security, and simply excellent in aestheticity. Follow the steps...

First, buy yourself a normal lock, like the trusted SOLEX.

Next, get yourself from wooden stickers from hardware store. Like the HOME WORKS at SS2 opposite the McDonald's. We went there so many times during the Koi Pond construction the owner got to know us pretty well.

Finally, apply the sticker on the lock with surgical precision. To achieve this you must have a nice and sharp knife, with alot of patient you cut the sticker to the lock's dimension. As for the rounded hinge, use the hair dryer to heat up the sticker as to stretch it abit to make it fits better.

There you go, a wooden lock for that old school look.

KY - Honda EX-5 Accident, almost.

2005-12-01T18:19:00.000+08:00

This happened once upon a time, when I was actually still going to high school and such, yah I was a teenager, and still remain so in spirit. I kinda had an accident due to an ill advised handling of the motorcycle that was the Honda EX-5 which I once rode from KL to Penang, 7 hour journey that made my butt almost divorced me, but that's another story.

So I used to ride the bike to tuition. Everything was perfectly routine, class ended, there were at least 50 peers outside the center waiting for their rides, bus, and so forth. I started my bike, and without hesitation nor looking at the road, followed the other bike that was crossing the road.

Big mistake, the guy ahead of me crossed the road with no slack at all. As I look to the side of me, a car was coming, and approaching fast. But somehow while the event was unfolding, I remained perfectly clear headed. To avoid my left leg being crushed by the oncoming car as I was sure that I was going to hit it's side, I lifted it from the pedal and..... ended up in between the 2 side mirrors.

I didn't fall, was swaying around and came to a stop. About 100 eyes staring at me and I could hear some laughters. The dude who drove the car that I hit just told me to ride carefully since I only added about 0.5% more scratches in his beat up car.

Moral of the story: take off the side mirrors.

KY party - Halo Cafe at Sunway Pyramid

2005-11-29T15:41:00.000+08:00

Not a big fan of smokey clubs with overly loud music that will make your ears end up like this? We decided to have a couple drinks and chill out over the weekend and went to Halo cafe at Sunway Pyramid instead.

can you spot the silhouette of FA? and the dumb pattern fox arranged on the table

Some of you banana (English educated Chinese) noobs might not have realised that there exists two big franchise of semi open air pubs with live performers singing mainly chinese songs. Rice cafe is prominent in Penang, while Halo Cafe is pretty established here in the Klang Valley.

The place serves some finger food as well as a few entries that can fill your stomach should your date be late by 2 hours and you miss your dinner altogether. In terms of drinks, they have coffee, tea, beer, mixed cocktails, and even whole bottle of whiskeys and wine to choose from, all reasonably priced. For example, a margarita is RM 17.50 and jasmine tea at RM 10 or so.

The live performance was excellent, there were 3 male singers for the night, with one of them playing the guitar. One of the singer sang Hikara Udata's "First Love" that was totally out of this world. FYI, the current Malaysian Idol used to sing at Rice cafe in Penang.

It's a pretty nice place to hang out, enjoy live music that isn't too loud for you to still be able to chat with your friends. Probably a great place for a date too, now any hot chick want to go there with me?

KY eats - Best Rawang Steamed Tilapia, Sister Lan's

2005-11-28T09:20:00.001+08:00

With horny's awesome driving skill, we somehow arrived at Sungai Buloh, when we had initially wanted to go to ~~Puchong~~ Kepong for bak kut teh. Since we were already pretty much half way to Rawang, we decided to go the extra mile to sample the famous Steamed Tilapia fish at 'Sister Lan' (Lan Cheh in Cantonese) road side restaurant.

check out my pro way of eating a fish!

The fish was really good, it was the best tilapia I've ever had. They steam it with alot of diced garlic, very finely shredded ginger, and some chopped chili padi. The sauce is a very light blend of soya with some other sauce. All these is topped with some parsley and sliced spring onion.

now look at suan's noob way of annihilating her lunch

The ingredients, especially the strong aroma of ginger, garlic, and parsley, were especially effective in doing away the undesireable smell that is often associated with fresh water fish such as tilapia. The fish is steamed just right, properly cooked and yet not overly done, which left the meat still very tender. The sauce was just the right taste that I hardly have to reach for the soya saucer.

we had something else going together with the fish too

Other than the fish, we ordered 2 dishes of vege and a prawn entry to complete the meal. The salted prawn was excellent, fried baby kailan was passable, but do avoid the kangkung belacan as it was not even average.

Overall, this is definately a place worth visiting if you do not mind t he half hour drive from KL. The tilapia is a must-eat and the salted prawn was also one of the best I've had.

omg my mad skillz in map

I am guessing most of us aren't very familiar with Rawang, so here's a slightly in depth direction.

From KL, using the PLUS highway, take the Rawang exit
After pay toll, go straight till you find a T junction, take a right to Rawang
Go straight, pass a few intersections, till you are going up a slope, turn right at the traffic light on top of the slope (which is also an overhead bridge)
Go straight for almost a kilometer or so till you pass a pedestrian bridge overhead
The restaurant will be on your left just about a hundred meters or so after the bridge
Enjoy the fish!

Business hour is 11am to 3pm for lunch, and 6 to 10:30pm for dinner, closed on Tuesday.

KY saw - 3 wheel waja

2005-11-25T09:30:00.000+08:00

As noticed by horny and later myself, there was this waja with 3 wheels in the neighbourhood. Thinking it must be a new version of Proton much like the Chancellor 2.0 V6, I was eager to take a look at it. So the next morning when I go to work, here it was...

requires a really heavy driver to not tip the car

Lucky for the owner, a friendly neighbour decided put a warning notifying the fact that the car is crippled. The evil person who did this was obviously banking on an evil laugh if an when the owner tries to drive the car. However, if the owner is really heavy, the car might still work as usual afterall! (apply your own physics logic)

replaced with a nice little wheel, lighter, saves petrol

The waja had a prosthesis the next day. The lesson of the story: use at least one special lug nut for your wheel to prevent this prank on your car!

KY eats - Japanese Instant Noodle, Black Sauce Curry

2005-11-23T17:09:00.000+08:00

So I ran out of idea on what to have for lunch one day while I was at Isetan, saw this aisle full of Japanese instant noodle and decided to grab one and give it a try. This particular cup of black sauce curry noodle costs me RM4.99, and comes with some real meat (limited amount)

Instruction for "cooking" this cup noodle is same like any other, pour in hot boiling water, and let sit for 3 minutes. Of course, you have to pour the ingredits from the 3 little packs into the cup first. However, don't ever say you can cook if you did this. Cooking is such a lost art, sighhhhh

simple to prepare, isn't it?

This cup noodle tasted better than the standard maggie variety, then again, it costs more than twice as much. I don't know what they meant by black curry, it tasted a little salty, not spicy at all, and the soup base is actually a little more to the thick side. There are little chunks of meat, but barely enough to feed a hamster. Overall it's not a bad meal, but you do tend to get hungry again in a couple hours time..

I think I might try some other types next time. They sell some that cost more than RM 10 per bowl.. advertised as having real big chunk of meat and all. At least the pictures suggest so, I can't read Japanese other than Kanji.

KY eats - Awesome Steamed Rice at Kelana Jaya

2005-11-22T11:30:00.000+08:00

So we got hungry one of the Saturdays, and since we were around the Kelana Jaya Giant, we decided to try out some unexplored kopitiams around the area. Got to this one behind the furniture mall that is next to the small giant, and Sotong discovered the steamed rice stall that her friends were recommending to her all the time.

new awesome feature: integrated map!

Horny ordered salted fish with fatty pork, and I had pork ribs with mushroom and a bowl of dried vege soup. True to the reputation and the handful of newspaper cuttings pimping the establishment that's plasted on the counter of the stall. The food was very good.

The rice is pretty well cooked, with flavor reaching to the bottom of the bowl and not just on the top. The meat is soft and the taste is just right, not overly salted nor too blunt. Easily one of the best steamed rice I've had, and better than the one in Wai Sek Kai at ss2 I used to frequent. The soup is nothing too special, pretty good, but then again I haven't tasted any dried vege soup that stands out in either direction.

If you are looking for a good and cheap lunch and happen to be going to Kelana Jaya near Giants, give it a try.

KY eats - BumbuBali Restaurant at Puchong

2005-11-21T14:16:00.000+08:00

Some of you lucky noobs had the experience of holiday in Bali, for the rest of us, there is BumbuBali restaurant, giving a taste of Bali that is close to home and offering a peace of mind while dining.

nice menu with illustrations, good atmosphere too

The establishment is located in Puchong, at the shop lots opposite the Giant hypermarket of Bandar Puteri. Saturday night was very busy, we had to wait some ten minutes for the table even though we got there pretty late for dinner at close to 9pm. Obviously that was a good sign for a restaurant.

We ordered Nasi Campur BumbuBali (mixed rice), and Campur-campur tiga (3 mixes). We had initially wanted to order more, lucky the waiter adviced against it as the portions are rather large.

Nasi Campur BumbuBali is served with either potatoe rice (or yellow rice), with beef (or chicken, or lamb), squid, fish, prawn, and kangkung belacan (vege). It was more than a full meal and I reckon even Kim could not finish it.

are you feeling hungry?

Campur-campur tiga is supposedly an appertizer, but the portion can feed a suan. The three combinations is deep fried calamari, chicken wings, and satey on lemon grass stem. The satey was especially good and highly recommended by your culinary expert, me.

The food was great, something different and yet pretty close to local taste. It's a bonus if you are one of the ex-bali tourists who misses the Bintang beer, they sell it here! However, as a good boy and all, I had star fruit juice instead. Total cost of the meal was RM 66+, pretty reasonable for a taste of Bali without the terrorist threat.

this is how you get there, yo!

You can also SMS the restaurant, just send "BC Bumbubali P" for promotion, "BC Bumbubali RSV" for reservation, and "BC Bumbubali E" for enquiry to 36399. Rather innovative! Of course, you can always call 03-80618699

KY Pimps - Eliza of suemefordreaming

2005-11-18T10:39:00.000+08:00

Here's another installment of the hugely popular pimp series. Please welcome yet another blogger, Eliza from suemefordreaming. She's still doing her taboo exams and will be free for taking on dates in less than 2 week's time, so lets find the lady a candidate, shall we? Here are the previous KY Pimps entries.

Introduction:
Name: Eliza
Age: almost legal, be patient
Weight: average size with good packages
Height: petite size
Speciality: camwhoring and blogging
X factor: comical relief on her blog and bryanboy imitation

Synopsis:
This is a young cute lady who is a great entertainer, self proclaimed possible next big thing after dawn yang. Just look at her hardcore dancing video as posted on rojaks, this is at least at equal par with the famous paul tan videos.

Hope over to her blog to get to know her more, and see for yourself that this is truely a great discovery. Don't lose out!

unlike some probloggers, these pictures are original. so cuteeee

To date her:
Get in line and let the bidding starts, of course, proceed goes to charity that Peter Tan specifies. No more hair for hospice though, but maybe pimp for hospice? Bid it!

KY eats - Hokkaido fest at Isetan

2005-11-17T10:32:00.000+08:00

So I went up to Isetan supermarket again to get myself some lunch to go. It was a big mistake, Hokkaido fest was in full swing, and being a Japanese food lover, it can only mean that my pocket is going to get terribly lighter.

just look at them sushis and bentos!

There were all sorts of offerings from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, synonym to great Japanese seafood in the culinary vocabulary. The little area next to the 3rd floor escalator of Isetan were packed with quite a large selection of Sushi, Sashimi, dried fish, scallops, fried seafood, cakes, and even Doraemon's favoritte, dorayaki

bestest office lunch

Being a huge fan of both Ikura (salmon roe) and Hotate (raw scallop), I just couldn't help it when noticing the perfect combination on display. After the battle of taste buds vs financial sanity. The raw sense scored a stunning defeat over logical sense and I happily paid RM 39.90 for a take-away bento.

The stuff was very very good, scallop was sweet and juice, and there were 3 whole scallop in the serving. 2 of them raw, and the remaining is lightly cooked/marinated. The portion of ikura was generous and tasted like how ikura should be, slighlty salty, terribly oily, and absolutely juicy. The bento was easily one of the best I had from anywhere.

If my memory serves me correct, the fest runs until the end of the month and won't be back again until the next year. Tempations, tempations....

KY eats - Best Penang Roti Canai at Transfer Road

2005-11-16T14:17:00.000+08:00

Everyone knows about Char Kuih Teow and Hokkien mee in Penang, but do you know that you can find one of the best road side roti canai place on the little island too? Hungry stomachs seeking something other than Chinese food in Penang rejoice, as a bonus, it's Halal mamak food, too.

just look at the curry beef!

The stall is located at Transfer Road a stone's throw away from the Chulia Street junction, in the heart of Georgetown, Penang. The must-try item is not exactly the roti canai itself, but the curry beef that is the side order for the roti canai. The meat is absolutely tender and never over cooked, it tastes sweet and juicy. I had the beef with roti telur and a glass of teh ais for breakfast, and everything came to less than RM 4, if I remember correctly.

the patented KY's map

If you are in Penang looking for something different, or something halal, do try this out!

KY party - Paul Can Dance, original clear VIDEO

2005-11-15T00:18:00.000+08:00

Thanks to Mack from Brand Malaysia for the hosting. I am proud to present you the original 3gp files of Paul Tan dancing to you, unedited and uncensored. If you can't play these files, please get the Apple Quicktime player here. You might want to right click to save it to your disk before playing.

1st video
what happened: Paul danced abit and then Xaviera camwhored.

2nd video
what happened: Paul busy wiping the counter, I think he spilled some drinks. Xaviera was kind enough to show us what went down Paul's throught. Vodka+ Orange Juice.. yumm..

3rd video
what happened: Paul dancing mindlessly, had more exercise than the past 4 years combined.

Now that we have the unjerky edition of video, dare you still say it's a stunt double, Paul?

KY - New Mailbox from Terence

2005-11-14T20:14:00.000+08:00

I have been without a working mailbox (house, not email) for the past 8 months or so. Or more accurately, since that fateful day that is the 20th of March during the Faggots Birthday Bas h.

It went like this, Goh got terribly drunk. Someone suggested to him that the mailbox looked cute, he destroyed it with his King Kong power. End of story. Well, drunk people do all kinds of funny stuff, just look at Paul Tan dancing, FA puked silly, and kim being wasted for example.

New Mailbox, Finally! Installation included too.

No more wet envolops, woohoo! It's a good thing too that Terence has since quit smoking, and reduced his drinking dramatically. One less problem for the Klang Valley.

KY party - Paul Can Dance!

2005-11-12T11:06:00.000+08:00

Well we had a great time on friday night. Partied at Qbar (not Cuba) with a bunch of noobs including ST, Kim, FA, fox, Xaviera, Kerol, Terence, Paul, and a few other friends. The highlight of the night was, PAUL DANCED.

Paul wasn't exactly sober.. and then he discovered we have the video

A picture speaks a thousand words, and a video, man, that's court room evidence. Now let me bring you the first exclusive video (thanks to fox) of Paul dancing silly in the club. It was all great, some energy was definately sourced from FA's fantastic moves (sorry no video for that) and the big dude got more exercise last night than the last 4 years combined.

Video link - Paul Tan Dancing ~~Queen~~

more incriminating photos

Clockwise from top left: Screw Driver. ST, FA, and Xaviera. fox shaking his head, and finally Kim trying out her best model shot.

It was a great night, music was a bit tad loud. Ringing sensation (goddamn tinnitus perhaps) in the ears. A pair of ear plugs might help. Parking was only RM 2, can you even believe it? No KL traffic to contend with. And when you have these crowd, you're all set.

Join us next time ya!

KY eats - Dim Sum at Jalan Ipoh

2005-11-11T08:33:00.000+08:00

While most of you might associate dim sum with breakfast, some of us who usually do not like to wake up in the morning still wants to enjoy this delicacy too. So if your stomach is hungry and your taste bud yearns for something other than mamak food, the Jalan Ipoh dim sum will be an excellent alternative.

Galvin said it's the good.

There are actually two different dim sum restaurants seperated just a couple of shop houses between each other. It is said that the one on the left sells better char siew pau (roasted pork pau) while the one on the right might have slightly better tasting small dishes.

So we dined at the one on the left side as the lads wanted to have some char siew pau at midnight. Overall the dim sum was very good too, but the especially awesome dish was the porridge. It was very thick, but very smooth, with almost a whole piece of chicken breast in each bowl. Galvin swallowed 2 bowls of that.

Price wise the place is pretty reasonable. Came to about RM 30 or so for three. Another place you can find around the clock dim sum is Sri Petaling, next to the artificial pond with artificial hobby fishermen paying good money to fish in the man made pond for man fed fishes.

I do not gurantee the accuracy of this map. hehe

KY meme - me me me me ... from cyber-red

2005-11-09T22:54:00.000+08:00

So Reta tagged me in this meme thing, before blogging more about food or pimping, let me just do this instead. You might get to know me better after reading this, then again, you might not, but here goes:

10 years ago I was:
finishing high school, probably having the great SPM exams. Didn't know what I would be doing next.

5 years ago I was:
planning the trip from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Washington DC metro area, driving the old trusted 1987 Honda Accord. It was a journey of approximately 1,300 miles or roughly 2,100 km ONE WAY. Spent the Y2K new year there.

it was teh far...

1 year ago I was:
trying to sort out this whole getting a house thing.. meeting with lawyers, bankers, and all that jazz. And we planned for the x'mas party that was coming.

Yesterday I was:
at this hour I think I was reading the last few chapters of Diaspora by Greg Egan. Either that or trying to convince a young lady to have dinner with me tonight.

5 snack I enjoy:
chocolates, nachos, dried guava, dried mango, dried plum. best.

5 songs I know all the words:
happy birthday, ais kacang song, this is my house (mandarin song, damn best), some dave matthews band and radiohead tunes, negaraku (maybe)

5 things I would do with a million splurges:
buy 5 russian brides.

5 bad habits:
making fun of people who chew their nails, yes all 5 of their nails on the right hand. As shown on this post "why you shouldn't bite your nails" by yours truely.

5 biggest joys:
friends, car, bike, pay day, and sitemeter telling me there are noobs reading me blog. woohoo

5 things I would never wear:
bras, tampon, sanitary pad, high heels, 1st generation hyundai coupe

it's the ugliest "sports" car ever. all 111hp of it. cis

5 favorite TV shows:
Don't really watch tv nowadays, but Simpson, Futurama, and some stuff on Discovery, TLC, History, National Geogrpahics, and NOVA used to get me glued on the tube like chewing gum on your pants.

5 fictional characters I would date:
I can think of at least one girl whom if without a boy friend I would date, but since that's not the case, she can qualify as a fictional character. But not nice to put the name laa.. Maybe I should put in the standard gwen stefani, liz hurley.. (insert hot female celebs here)

KY saw - Importance of hand brakes for your car

2005-11-07T20:50:00.000+08:00

This is what happened when you park your car without pulling the hand brake, and especially if your car is parked near a slope that is next to a huge monsoon drain..

eye witness accounts and squashed grass confirmed the path

Account of the incident:
(as reported by an anonymous source from the neighbourhood)

a couple parked the car and happily took the LRT to work
forgot the hand brake, most probably
at about 1pm, the car slowly slide down the drawn path
owner discovered the incident after work
tow truck came but had no idea what to do, a crane is needed
everyone gathered around and tried to look for the number plate after dinner
btw, a dude said it's 2034

Kerol and Horny being busy-bodies

So, ladies and gentlemen, PULL YOUR HAND BRAKES

KY blog meets - Botak Peter Tan and more

2005-11-07T00:35:00.000+08:00

To cap off the holiday season and the success of hair for hospice charity drive by Peter Tan, we had hosted a blog meet at my place. Some twenty people turned up and it was great fun.

Peter had dutifully shaved off his head a couple days ago instead of doing it at my place, I thought it would have been a lot more fun otherwise. With Paul's facial hair and his probably daily shaving practise, I'm sure he could have done a job on par with the barber that Peter consulted.

As per Peter's initial request that everyone should prepare enough food for 20, we ended up with more than we can possibly gobble up. There were pasta from Emily, 20 pieces of huge curry puff from Paul & fox, sausages from Reta, fried mee hun from FA, yong tau foo from Kenneth, drinks from a few other people, and more..

everyone like happy happy like that..

Some of us had the remaining food for dinner, and still there are leftovers. I just want to say "Told you so, Peter boy!"

some noob photos

Clockwise from top left: Kenneth and fox acting surprised, Jolene trying to gain some weight that she really needs, Andreas and Emily drinking and having curry puff, and suanie trying to measure her boobs in a strange way.

more noob photos

Clockwise from top left: Reta taking a picture of me taking a picture of her.. heh, Emily, serge, and a smiling Reta, Albert standing in the middle and Chea Yee at the far right, and suanie with horny seems to be having a ball.

We ate, talked, ate, watched 2 DVDs (the longest yerd, and euro trip), ate, ate, ate.. social social abit. It was a nice meet up and I hope everyone had fun. To the noobs who over slept, had to work, or stays too far away, it's your lost. hehe

The noobs that came includes (in no particular order):

Peter Tan
Suanie
mata kecik
Paul Tan
Reta
serge
Emily
Andreas
FA
Chea Yee
JoMel
Kenneth
foxtrotecho
Jolene
Xaviera
wuan
Albert
Jack
horny
myself

Might have not known your blog link or spell your name correctly, do let me know.
See you again!

KY - Blogger's meet with Botak Peter Tan

2005-11-04T11:24:00.000+08:00

If you have read Peter's blog here, you would have known already. We are having pot luck at yours truely's residence. All are welcome, and hot chicks especially so. The details as follow:

The place:
8, Lorong SS3/59B, PJ. It is behind the Taman Bahagia LRT station, a couple of minutes' walk. Look at the map lah.

The potluck:
Peter asked each of you to bring enough food for 20, he's just being ridiculous. Imagine if 20 people brought enough food for 20, each. We'll end up with food for 400. Even suanie might not be able to finish all of those by herself! So, do bring food but not overly excessive, finger food are especially welcomed.

The highlight:
You get to see Peter botak, I hope we can shave him there instead of him doing it at a barber or some dodgy place.

The date/time:
6th November, 2005. 2pm, late comers are to be fed to the fish.

The direction:
Look ma, nice map by KY!

and curtesy of google map:

See you there! I mean, here!

KY eats - Okonomiyaki, Japanese Pancake/Pizza

2005-11-02T10:28:00.000+08:00

So i stumbled upon this little restaurant at Low Yat plaza offering Okonomiyaki. Now I had no idea wtf it is, but the pictures sure looks good, my stomach was conducting a concert and I'm not puasa, so we decided to have a meal there.

Okonomiyaki is a Japanese pancake kinda stuff, with various ingredients in it. Main stuffing seems to be noodle, onions, and vege, then you get all the other good stuff such as prawn, beef, pork, squid, salmon, and more. Read more at wikipedia's okonomiyaki entry.

they cook it right in front of you

We ordered the "Supreme set" that is good enough for 2 hungry stomachs, the stuffing were prawn, bacon, and squid. The set meal is divided into 2 parts, one okonomiyaki, and another udon omlete kinda stuff. The udon omlete is served like "nasi pataya" style, egg wrapped around udon with some bacon in it, topped with some okinomiyaki sauce that tastes pretty much like oyster sauce. A plate of kimchi came with it too, don't ask me why.

these stuff looks great, don't you agree? drooling yet?

The taste of okonomiyaki is pretty decent, tho not the greatest of things I have eaten. If you are a noodle lover, you will for sure love this thing. The taste may come across a little blunt too, but there's nothing some extra okonomiyaki sauce won't help. Give it a try and decide for yourself if you think it's good. There are several choices to choose from, like salmon, pork, and even cheese. The price was less than RM 40 for two, pretty reasonable.

KY Pimps - Penny of -PeNNyPupZ-

2005-10-31T10:26:00.000+08:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, here's another pimp post. This time we got Penny, with her femmes pennypupz blog. She's been telling me that she wants to have a date, so lets fix one up for her shall we? As usual, you can find the previous pimping entries.

Introduction:
Name: Penny
Age: almost legal, I think.. =/
Weight: don't ask, but abit chubbier than me lah
Height: tall, like 5'7 or something like that
Speciality: camwhoring
X factor: they said it's the mammalian glands, I wouldn't know.

Synopsis:
Now, to many of you who read Penny's blog, this girl needs no introduction. She goes to church, but don't be fooled thinking she's a hardcore religious young lady for she confessed that she sometimes fall sleep there. She also cooked up an About Me page on her blog, so take a look there to know more about her.

photos abit dark lah, she covered the moonlight.. =/

To date her:
So guys, don't be hesitating, she'll be the perfect companion for you in a great outing. If you are the indoor type, I'm sure she has something in ~~her sinister~~ mind too! So let the bidding begin!

KY - Embezzlment - Peter Tan!

2005-10-27T09:20:00.000+08:00

It was reported by an unamed but yet reliable source that Peter Tan has taken the money and ran. The report also came with this exclusive photo of the said event!

p/s: aiks i misspelled embezzlement, but i'm leaving as it to not break the pps linkage

KY eats - Buka Puasa dinner at Saloma Bistro

2005-10-26T09:26:00.000+08:00

Following the first puasa trial last week, I decided to do it again since there was this free buffet dinner sponsored by a particular company. The buka puasa (break fast, no, not breakfast) place is at Saloma Theater Restaurant at Ampang, near KLCC, and right next to Zouk.

very nice, high class setting

We arrived there about 6:45pm and there were already hundreds of people there. There was a stage, with some local boyband trying to entertain the crowd best as they can with their dry throats. My colleague Moorthy and I were the two non-muslims in our group, and I spotted maybe a handful of other potential non-muslims. We were definately the minority representing perhaps 2% of the crowd, but were treated the same like everyone else. Well, I did puasa for the day too though, had my instant noodle at 5 am.

The buffet line is huge, the offering includes chicken, lamb, beef, fish, prawns, various malay kuih, ice kacang, otak-otak, satey, rice, briyani rice, teh ice, soya milk, syrup ice, and more. As suggested by delia, I started out with dates and cold soya milk.. well, since they didn't have those wholesome ones that came out of the cow's multiple breasts. I then proceeded with fried chicken wings, cucuk udang (fried shrimp cake), rice with beef rendang, raw vegetable, crab, eggplant, okra, and some raw vege with sambal.

my stomach was very very full...

Since they practically serve all Malay food imaginable, gluttony was unescapable. We ended up sitting there to rest for another hour after the meal just so we can manage to move our limbs in a coordinated way that resembles the bipedal walk. The food was good, but somehow a little bit more salt or soya sauce would make it just perfect.

Jack0 puasa on monday, and Bryan said he was doing it too. Best.

P/S: Please invite me to your Hari Raya open house. hehe.

KY eats - Takoyaki, Octopus Balls at SS15

2005-10-25T10:22:00.000+08:00

Takoyaki, or Octopus Balls, but not Octopus' Balls, is a Japanese delicacy made with chopped octopus, cabbage, green onion and pickled ginger all wrapped a flour and egg shell. There are also some Japanese named ingredients that I had no clue. You can find a sample of recepi here, though it'll be hard to cook it at home since you'll need the mold.

Topped with mayonese, yummm

Asia Cafe at SS15, Subang Jaya, just happened to have a stall serving Takoyaki. They come in a package of 6 balls for RM 4.00, a pretty reasonable price. Please do not eat it straight away when they're served cos usually they are very hot and will easily burn your mouth (just ask ST.) The taste is pretty rich and quite greesy but managable. Overall, with the mayonese topping, it's pretty good for finger food, or when you just want to cram that extra 8000 calories in your system. You're all skinny, right?

Huey Fang says it's teh delicious

Similiar stuff is served in 1U Jusco at ground level. It is slightly more expensive but comes in extra varities, such as the Unagi balls. I have yet to try it there.

KY game - UNO exercise

2005-10-24T08:35:00.000+08:00

UNO, the game you have most likely played when you just about knew how to stop peeing in your pants, is a fun and exciting card game. It was a slow weekend, and since we don't wish to gamble for money nor to force each other drink alcohol (that would be FA's choice). We put in a very healthy ~~reward and~~ punishment system for the noobs.

It goes like this:

When you win, you get nothing other than bragging rights.
Loser with the 2nd highest card count gets to deal the cards for the next round.
Loser with the highest card count gets to either do push ups, sit ups, or a humiliating squat and stand exercise while holding both ears. To the number of cards you have on hand.

Isn't this a healthy game?

I did about 40 push ups, horny did a couple dozens too. Carol was the real athlete, she did over 40 sit ups, a couple dozen squat and stands, and probably around 10 floor hugging push ups. Huey Fang and Chan got away without having to do anything tho.. those lazy noobs. hehe.

We used to play the Chinese card game Big Two (chor tai tee) that way too. But if the game ended and you have 13 cards on hand.. it's a painful 39 push ups... Try it, and get healthy!

KY cam - Public Sleeping

2005-10-21T11:32:00.000+08:00

Taking public transport can be exciting and amusing at times. Just look at the pictures of public sleeping that I have managed to take! Cheers!

How lovely.

Now I must confess that I have slept in the LRT on numerous occasions, and I have missed my intended station more than once. I would put a picture of myself sleeping on LRT just to be fair, but then again I don't trust my phone with a stranger especially when I'd be sound asleep.

Public sleeping not confined to young folks only!

I am convinced that our LRTs have some anesthetic treatment to it's air conditioning system that makes us all go zzzz.. If you are an insomniac, please give it a try. Too bad the service is only from 6am to 12am, they don't operate when we need sleep the most.. sigh.

Repeat offender caught!

I wonder if the STAR lrt line and the KTM are just as nice to sleep in.

KY eats - Kepong Crab, 30 varieties

2005-10-20T10:08:00.000+08:00

So Horny was supposed to bring his colleagues for a crab feast, and we were asked to join along. His colleagues somehow fakeplanned him, but since we were already all worked up in anticipation, we went for De Foodland crab place at Kepong anyway, just horny, sotong, FA, and I. Suanie was too sleepy, and ST was busy fixing his hdd.. boy did those noobs missed out.

Kerol eating her ebiko from cold storage, siao. FA is hungry

We were starving after fighting through the slow ass moving cars on LDP. We ordered sweet and sour crab, steamed crab with chinese wine, vege with foo yu, tofu with fakeplan abalone (mushroom), rice, and also a roll for dipping that sweet and sour sauce. Kerol brought along her ebiko to look sophisticated.

How's your appetite?

The tofu was very smooth and the fake abalone mushroom was especially well textured. The crabs, they were excellent. Big fat claws and they are well crushed too, this is the first time that I did not need a nut cracker, a hammer, or my yet to developed wisdom tooth to crack the shell. The sweet and sour crab was a bit messy to eat, but the taste was very rich. Dipping the bun in the sauce, and it was like OMFGodly good. Too bad we were too hungry and gorged down a plate of rice prior to the crab arriving, otherwise we would have ordered more rolls.

That's how you peel a claw, noob!

The steamed crab with chinese wine was something I had for the first time. It was a pretty different taste, I don't usually associate herbs with crab, but the combination was rather delicious. FA couldn't stop drinking the soup base, she said it was sweet and tastey. We think it was because of the alcohol. The fried vege was very good too, by the way.

The shop serves crab in 30 different ways. They are: Marmite, Cantonese Style Steamed, Lighty Soya Sauce, Special Taste, Black Pepper, Hot & Spicey, Sweet & Sour, Kam Heong, Black Stout, Kong Pao, Curry, Pepper Salt, Stir Fried, Cheese, Fragrant Flower, Pan Fried, Creamy Mushroom, Fermented Black Bean, Creamy Butter, Mee Hoon Fried Crab, Nyonya, Crispy Butter, Ginger & Spring Onion, Steam with Chinese Wine, Vietnamese Style, Claypot Creamy, Claypot Drunken, Steamed with Yellow Wine, Claypot Yellow Wine, and finally, Salted Egg Yolk.

They also have about 10 items on the menu that you have to order 3 days in advance. Those stuff are probably rather pricey. Our dinner costs RM 160 for 4, not exactly cheap, but the food was definately good, and the service was fast. It was a weekday afterall.

I always show you how to get there, don't I?

Address:
25&26, Jalan 3/62B, Bandar Sri Menjalara
52200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-6274 4796

KY Puasa - and still alive.

2005-10-18T14:10:00.000+08:00

I had promised my colleague some weeks ago that I will try to puasa (fasting) for at least a day, just to get a feel of what it is like. So yesterday I did just that, and since you can read this entry, it's a living proof that I am survived it.

The hardest part of the whole ordeal was waking up for Sahur (pre-fasting breakfast). I crawled out of bed at around 4:30am in the morning, drove all the way from PJ to Ampang in a hurry. Fasting time starts at around 5:40am, I reached Ampang at 5am to allow ample time for a nice heavy breakfast.

Try having a full plate of rice with fried chicken and curry at that hour, it was not easy to gorge all of that in. I drank a glass of teh ais and another glass of warm water for good measure.

Sahur time (5am), and 4pm, dancing stomach.

So, not a single drop of water or an food in my system, from 5:30 am onwards. It wasn't really all that bad. The morning was fine, you do get thirsty about 3-4 hours after the meal, but it's not any more than after exercise, and it didn't really get progressively worse as the day went by. As for hunger, my stomach had a rock concert going on at around 3-4pm, but sort of got used to it thereafter.

My colleague called at 7pm to wish me Selamat Buka Puasa, I told her I was buying boxed noodle at pasar malam, with pork. hee-hee. It was an interesting experience, to paraphrase one of my friends: "you feel more in control of your body after you do that." I might do it again next Monday, anyone wants to join?

KY eats - Woo Ga Chon Korean BBQ - Hayanna's

2005-10-17T10:40:00.000+08:00

So we found out that hot chick blogger Hayanna (suanie said so) posted an entry on this korean BBQ place her mom recently opened. Being possessed by the hungry ghost soul, we went to check out Woo Ga Chon Korean BBQ restaurant at Ampang last weekend.

Half a dozen of us went there, rojaks, v0ices, fox, paul, horng, and myself. The place is not terribly easy to find, and thanks to rojak's excellent lead, we had to make several u-turns en route. Kinda made us look abit funny. But lets get to the juice, the food.

Combination of Real Charcoal + Propane, Efficient

The deal is like this, you choose the types of meat you want for BBQ, and there'll be a host of other companion dishes that follows, and those are bottomless. In a way, it's a buffet that you never need to stand up, good for lazy buggers like most of you here. I mean, when you have to go to a regular buffet line for the 5th time, you do get a bit annoyed.

Don't tell me you're not drooling, noob.

We ordered beef, marinated beef, and "uh hwa jou" pork. The pork is actually kinda bacon, but in thicker slices, and fresh, not marinated or smoked. The staff did the BBQing for us, they usually make it to about medium rare before cutting it into bite size. If you want yours well done, just leave it on the pit for a few more minutes, it's that easy.

The owner (Hayanna's mom) showed us the proper way of dining Korean BBQ, get a piece of meat, dip in the sauce/seasoning, put in the leave + vege, add garlic if you like, put another type of sauce, wrap, eat, pwnage! It was really mouth watering.

Look at those boys enjoying, too bad Hayanna wasn't there

The side dishes were too numerous to name, there were fried tong fun with chicken and mushroom (paul practically drank that,) few types of fried vege, miso soup with coagulated pork blood (best,) pickles, kimchi (of course,) and more. They were very good, and as soon as we finish a plate, the staff would be trying to shove 2 new plates in. You just simply can't keep track of how much you have eaten.

The bill came and it was RM160 for 6 of us, or slightly less than RM 27 per pax. For this type of food, boy, it was well worth it. Highly recommended! Dont' let the deco fools you, the food is way, way better than the setting, which is somewhat simple and plain. But why do you want to pay more for interior designing of a restaurant anyway unless you want to impress some high maintenance chicks.

So rojaks don't have to get you to do a few u-turns to get there

Here's the address, and of course, a highly professional map for your navigational needs.
Woo Ga Chon Korean BBQ Restaurant
G20 Jalan Sulaiman 1 , taman putra sulaiman, 68000 ampang
Ampang
Tel : 03 4270 4211

KY Pimps - Reta of Cyber-Red

2005-10-14T09:08:00.000+08:00

Another pimping post for you noobs. I got someone femmes to pimp to you, please welcome Reta of Cyber-Red, a veteran blogger that will put your 100th post to shame, cos she did more than 5 times as many as you, noob! Previous pimping entries can be found here

Introduction:
Name: Reta
Age: early twenties, don't ask lah
Weight: slender & curvy type
Height: almost as tall as me, maybe 5'5?
Speciality: organized ~~crime~~ campaign for STD
X factor: nail biting, so you save on the manicure

Synopsis:
This young lady is an almost graduate from a femmes college at Klang Valley. Over legal age and barely qualify to register as a voter. She is also a veteran blogger with over 500 posts! As a comparison, yours truely here is only working on the the 120th. That makes her more than 4 times better.. or something like that.

i'm so happy, yeay!

If you can get her to go to Sunway Lagoon, an unamed source told me that she'll put on bikini and looks really good on it. Rumours also have it that she enjoys playing pool, and can sometimes go to Asia Cafe at Subang Jaya. But yet another anonymous source warned that this girl has a curfew, a mama's girl, a modern day Cinderalla. Probably a good thing, you know she's not contaminated by KL's night scene... yet.

yet another proof that this is genuine, hehe.

To date her:
What are you waiting for? Go pledge to Peter Tan's Hair for Hospice, higher you pledge, higher your chance is! It's all for a good cause anyway.

KY eats - Cheap and Good Malay Food near KLCC

2005-10-13T08:54:00.000+08:00

Following the entry on Cheap and Good Chinese Food near KLCC, as promised, here's the installation for the Malay variety. So for our Muslim brothers, there's cheap lunch available at the golden triangle, too. However, please wait till after this fasting month, hehe.

bet you didn't know this kinda places exist just a stone's throw away from KLCC

This Malay "food court" is referred to simply as the BSN food place. It is a collection of Malay hawkers located at the parking lot that is right across KLCC tower 1, and in front of the BSN building. There are over half a dozen stalls there selling everything from Mee Soto to Nasi Kandar, and Roti Canai to Sotong Kangkung.

best or not?

One of my favorites is the Ikan Bakar (bbq fish.) A piece of what you see in the picture only costs RM 3.00. That's mighty economical, don't you think? Other than sting ray, there serve another two types of fish, and they always come with two different sauce for your just-in-time seasoning. A salty and sourish lime based sauce with diced onion and chilli padi, and a soya sauce based sauce, and again, with diced onion and chilli padi. However, they varied in taste.

This meal, with the generous sized water melon juice and rice with some ulam (fresh raw vegetable) and curry gravy costs me a grand total of only RM 6.00, that's counting the fish. At the KLCC food court, you can probably get a plate of plain noodle and some ice water for the same price, and it'll probably suck too.

The particular stall that I got this serving is the 1st of the second stretch of stalls. I heard that the place is serving pretty good buka puasa dinner this month.

KY - Wantan Soap

2005-10-12T11:21:00.000+08:00

I'm not ordering that... so sorry, this isn't a food review. I don't eat soap

from restaurant sweet home

Please try it and tell me if it tastes better than those from the body shop

you know they know the correct spelling of soup.

KY can cook - KY Style Awesome Fried Rice

2005-10-11T09:20:00.000+08:00

Been a while since I posted my recipe, so lets learn how to serve up a plate of mouth watering and yet easy to prepare fried rice dish. It's from KY, so you know it tastes awesome! You can find my other recipes here

work up your appetite yet?

The Ingredients:

Rice
An egg
Some shrimps and Crab Sticks
Garlic
Chilli Padi
Dark Soya Sauce, Soya Sauce, Salt, and Pepper for seasoning

See? So simple.

The Steps:

As you can see from the pictures, first you fry the garlic
Add in the shrimp ("marinate in salt water first"), and then the diced crab stick and some chill padi a minute later, fry till you can smell wholesomeness
Add in rice, and add dark soya sauce, stir till the color is even
Use the spatula to create an opening in the middle of the frying pan, and crack the egg there, add soya sauce to the egg.
Let the egg cook for half a minute or so, then stir it up with the rice
Add some pepper, stir, and serve

If you can't read, I'm sure you can follow these photos, noob.

Please give me a standing ovation, thanks thanks.

KY - BBQ with the noobs

2005-10-10T09:09:00.000+08:00

We got a free BBQ set with the purchase of Petronas Syntium engine oil just last week. After coming back from the market, we thought: hey, why not a barbeque? It was just a random idea and contrary to my neighbour's assumption, it wasn't anyone's birthday.

So we marinated some chicken with garlic, onion, ginger, and salt, a fish with curry paste, sliced beef, some sausages, tomatos, and for appertizer while waiting for the grilled food, we fried some roasted pork with garlic and thick soya sauce. Of course, there were some alcohol involved..

The grilled tomato was delicioussss

As this was totally unplanned and we didn't have that much food in stock, we didn't really invite anyone other than the two famous people who happen to stay a stone's throw away (your stone may vary.) So suanie joined us for the cook-out, while FA arrived later, for some alcoholic treatment.

Yeah, kerol was drunk

It was a great evening, the atmosphere was perfect, with the sound of running water from the pond, the music, the breeze from the fan, pretty good BBQ food, friends, and of course, a bit of booze. You should get yourself a BBQ set.

KY eats - Kedah Asam Laksa at Alisan, SS4, PJ

2005-10-07T09:48:00.000+08:00

How many times has it occured in your mind that you so want to go to Penang just so you get to devour the asam laksa there? Well, if you're a laksa lover living not too far from PJ, you have salvation. According to kerol and suanie, this shit is teh good. (I'm not a huge laksa fan, and prefer real dinner like bak kut teh, heehee)

suan and kerol look so happy!

The stall is situated at this eating place called Alisan, basically a mamak + kopitiam type of setting, with numerous hawker stalls offering fried lala, yong tau foo, wan tan mee, and of course, the laksa. According to kerol, this laksa is of the Kedah style, which is slightly less soupy than the Penang type, but otherwise pretty much the same.

This plate shouldn't be hard to clean..

The asam laksa is served in a plate rather than a bowl, and comes with generous portion of chillie padi on the side. In the plate there are your standard laksa noodle, shrimp sauce, fish based soup, chopped vege, cucumber, and some other stuff that I cannot name. It's delicious, that is why these 2 girls finished it clean even after just having a heavy dinner less than 2 hours prior. I didn't eat, I was still full. hehe

A thing to note though, this laksa stall is like the superstar of the hawker stalls at this area. It had been on some chinese newspapers twice since I moved there. As a result, it is always pretty busy and they ask that you self-serve. Other than laksa, they have pretty good Jawa Mee, Chai Kuih, and some Chinese dessert soup/drink. The laksa is RM 3.50 if I remember correctly.

Call me when you go there, I am only 5 mins away on foot.

P/S: Peter Tan is having a charity drive and he's SHAVING HIS HEAD FOR HOSPICE, please do lend your support, thanks thanks thanks.

KY eats - Cheap and Good Chinese Food near KLCC

2005-10-06T12:55:00.000+08:00

Now many of us have been bitching about how much food in KLCC costs, a plate of mixed rice can set you back at RM 10, and a sugar cane drink goes for RM 2.50. However, if you are willing to walk across the street, there are cheap and frankly, better tasting food just around the corner.

Enter Sweet Home Restaurant at Wisma Sentral. I would actually call this place a kopitiam instead. The shop is on the ground floor facing the parking lot, directly opposite Isetan side entrace. If you walk from KLCC, it is less than 2 minutes under the sun.

Nice little kopitiam

Other than mixed rice, the shop also serve to order, like any "tai chow" place. The price is very reasonable, usually a single entry goes for only around RM 5.00 or so. We ordered vegetable (yau mak with fu yu), pork knuckle with vinegar, and herbal chicken. With 3.5 plates of rice and 2 chinese tea, it only costs Rm16.50. That's a very full lunch for 2 person, and cheaper than a burger king set lunch.

leave no prisoner

Other dishes that are highly recommended are vegetable with roasted pork (choi tam siu yok,) fish with tofu and kang kung belacan. The portion of the dishes isn't very big, but it is economical, and perfect for lunch. Comparing with other similar places that I dined in, I would rate this above average taste wise, and top of the list budget wise.

Don't complain about the lack of affordable meal at KLCC. I'll show you some other cheap and good Malay food stalls nearby some other time.

KY eats - Ampang Yong Tau Foo

2005-10-05T09:47:00.000+08:00

I am sure some of you noobs here have heard about Ampang Yong Tau Foo, and might have gone to some shady shops with the "Ampang Yong Tau Foo" signs. However, if you haven't gone to the original place, all you've had would just be akin to any stalls in KL claiming they serve "Penang Char Kuih Teow". Lets get old school, lets get the real stuff.

argh, i'm starting to drool..

Now there are 3 shops right next to each other at this original Ampang Yong Tau Foo place that is situated in an old school area with all the pre-war buildings. I have tried each of the 3 shops and thus far think that all of them are pretty much equally good. So these days we just go to the one that we manage to find a parking space.

we ordered quite a feast for 3 people

Last weekend we visited the middle shop, called Restaurant Orchard View Yong Tau Foo. Each piece of yong tau foo is RM 0.60, and they serve a variety of other dishes too. We ordered "mui choi khau yok" (fatty pork with some fermented vege,) glass chicken legs (boneless chicken feet, served with carrots, chillie, parsley, lime,) peanut soup, oily vegetable, and 20 pieces of mouth watering yong tau foo. Terence was there, that explains why we ordered so much.

Some purists will say that the place should sell nothing but yong tau foo, and I think one of the other shops is like that, but I think it doesn't hurt to have a little variety. The yong tau foo is fresh and have a pretty nice texture to it. They come in chilly, okra (lady's finger), bitter guord, tofu, foo chok, and gyoya if you just ask them to mix it up. Of course, you can order seperately.

Here's the map, foo!

If you love yong tau foo, this is the place to go. Any of the 3 restaurants will do justice to the Ampang Yong Tau Foo name. I never walk out of that place with an unsatisfied stomach. There was once I had to down 18.5 pieces of yong tau foo cos we mistakenly brought a Malay friend there and found out it wasn't halal after ordering 30 pieces for 3 person. The other chump only had 11.5, wtf.

KY eats - noodle in a box, SS2 night market

2005-10-04T10:19:00.000+08:00

Night market (Pasar Malam) at SS2 runs every monday night. There are several type of fancy food sold there that you don't usually find at local food courts or restaurants. One of them would be the noodle in a box, more appropriately, a plastic container, or in Cantonese, "hap chai min".

Looks good, no?

This dish is sold by 2 young chaps, and they usually set up their stall nearby the Magnum 4D shop. It's usually quite busy and frankly it's hard to miss the stall since the set up is quite unique.

The noodle is similar to those you have in wan tan mee, but of finer variety. You can choose from the 3 ingredients: BBQ pork, pork in sauce, and chicken leg + mushroom. Noodle with single ingredient is sold for RM3.80, combination of any two for Rm 4.00, and all three for RM 4.50. Obviously I ordered with all, it was a no brainer. hehe

Slurps.. the little plastic container is going to be empty in a few minutes

Other than the main ingredients described above. The standard stuff are green onion, fried shallot, mushroom, fungus, green chilli, and of course, the noodle. A thick soup/sauce that tastes pretty creamy is poured over to give you that rich taste.

The dish tastes pretty good, almost like a cross of ordinary chicken leg and mushroom wan tan mee and beef noodle (though this is pork.) I especially like the fact that it is served in the plastic container, makes it easier to eat it at the nearby misai mamak stall. They even give you chopsticks.

Try it, I think you'll be delighted.

KY Pimps - Anne

2005-10-03T09:38:00.000+08:00

Here we go again, boys and girls, another pimping entry. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Anne. You know the drills, look back at entries on FA, Xaviera, and Vanessa for info. So, lets get it on!

Introduction:
Name: ~~Pocket~~ Anne
Age: Legal, can apply for her own passport
Weight: feather weight
Height: she doesn't want to talk about it
Occupation: Oil and Gas Exec
Speciality: Acting like a high school girl
X factor: Travelling with her is economical, she fits in your check-in luggage. Flexibility!

Synopsis:
This is the cute little girl next door, but don't let the high school look alike image fools you. This girl can dance like a snake, play pool like a pro, and sing the "shanghai beach" song like you've never heard it before. You'll be surprised. And oh, she has one of the most femenine way of walking.

This girl also enjoys fine food, from Japanese sushi, to Kepong bak kut teh. Bring her to play some pool after dinner, or catch a movie, play bowling.. er.. maybe we should scratch the bowling option unless you can find the 8 lb ball.

If she isn't cute, I don't know who is

To date her:
No, you don't have to be taller than 5'3. So, lets bid! I guess this is where I bring in Peter Tan, he'll specify a charity for the money to go to if I ever recieve any.

KY's birthday - Thanks Guys

2005-10-02T20:51:00.000+08:00

So it was my birthday on Saturday. I'm not telling you how young I still am, just old enough to drink and young enough to still be single. It was a blast, and here's how the whole fakeplan thingy the noobs did for me.

11am - Terence fetched me for lunch, with Sai Meng. He gave some stupid reasons that he wanted to spend me dinner but was going to be busy at night, so, lunch. I believed that bugger. We went for some yong tau foo at Ampang, it was the good. At this time Kerol was pretending to sleep and skipped the lunch... it was all fake.

2pm - We reached my place after lunch, I opened my room door and wtf.. whole room filled with post-it notes, everything was labeled! On my bed itself there were more than a dozen notes... mirror, lamp, books, photos, speakers, laptop, every single bottle of liquor.. The noobs (ST, Kim, FA, Erna, Kerol, Chan, Huey Fang) were all there.

3-6pm - We went to Chillies at Bangsar Shopping Complex, had some beer, food, and OMGWTFBBQ Suanie got me a birthday cake, it was cholate with banana inside, was cold, was cool, was good. Suanie & Matakecik joined us at this point.

Dinner time - Had seafood at Telugong, Klang. A few more joined us, including Sheryl, Zess and his gf. There were about 13 of us if I remember correctly. Margie & Faggot weren't able too join us, but thanks for the bottle of French Merlot dude!!

It was a great day, not looking forward to the next one tho. After the 21st, you just don't really look forward to the subsequent birthdays..

THANKS GUYS! I had a great time, and really appreciate it. I also want to express my gratitudes to everyone who called, sms, left friendster msg, YM msg, MSN msg, and IRC wishes. hehe.

KY Quiz - Split a watermelon to 9 pieces

2005-09-30T10:16:00.000+08:00

Hie ladies and gentlemen, here's another KY quiz time. This time we do something easy, the question is simply: How do you slice a watermelon into 9 easy pieces with just 4 strokes using a knife?

The answer isn't something cheesy or lame, just exercise your braincell and visualize abit, I'm sure you can do it! Even Kimberly did! Cheers!

Mouseover to get the answer when you give up.

KY eats - Raku Zen Japanese Restaurant, SS15

2005-09-29T09:17:00.000+08:00

From the post about Isetan Sushi, some of you might have the idea that I love Japanese, which is, er... very true. Now, not all Japanese food are made or served the same, repeat after me. "Sushi King & Genki are for the noobs." Thank you thank you, now let me tell you about this Raku Zen place.

Now this is what I called a real Jap restaurant

This place is located at Subang Jaya SS15, at the row of shops situated directly opposite Subang Jaya Medical Center. The sign board isn't terribly big or visible, but squint your eyes like a Japanese and look hard, you'll find it.

Can you imagine how these go down the throat? yummmm

The Hokkaido Seafood season happened to be this time of the year for this restaurant. Basically it means that you get to enjoy fabulous seafood that were caught offshore Hokkaido, the island at northern Japan. We ordered a generous plate of sashimi, 2 hand rolls (salmon roe & softshell crab), a dish of big fat scallops, and some absolutely amazing beef.

All these dishes have some funky Japanese names, but for the life of my koi fish, I can't remember any of them, so beat it. The sashimi was served with perfect cuttings of salmon, tuna, yellow tail, octopus, raw sweet shrimps, and another type of white fish. The dish was served in perfect temprature, too. Those are the little touch that some other places ignore.

The beef is cooked medium rare soaked in some type of sourish soup. It was the first time I had this dish. The meat went down very smooth, and surprisingly tender and rich in taste. Scallop was served with some mushroom and chilli, you cook them with a heated scallop shell and some type of sauce. I like my scallop half cooked, so that suits me pretty well. It tastes very sweet and sumptuous.

All gone.. another satisfied customer

While this is definately not a budget restaurant, the price is rather reasonable. You can get a Chirashi Sushi set for around 30 ringgit. Don't ask me how much this meal cost tho, but it was worth every penny.

KY vacation - Redang Trip, Diving, and Project Aware

2005-09-28T08:33:00.000+08:00

So last weekend a bunch of us jokers went to Redang. Some of us are divers, and some are noobish snorklers. Others just love to sleep, and at least one noob got serious sunburn on her shoulders (she is the famous blogger who went on the star.)

There were Suanie, ST, Kim, Terence, Saint, Margie, Faggot, Kerol, and Zess. I also got to know Ong & Vivien who joined us as Terence's friends.

Don't you wish you have an awesome vacation too?

We stayed at this place called Redang Beach resort. Basically I didn't care too much about the place, give me a place to sleep and a hot shower, that's all I needed. My main interest is diving. However, Redang Beach proved to be rather comfortable, and the food was pretty alright, barring the salty "fresh" water that they serve.

Diving & Project Aware, yeh we're good people

One of the many reasons we came to Redang was for project aware. It is an awareness program aimed at education in conservation of our wonderful underwater world, including reefs, mermaids, and neptunes, or something like that. What happened was we helped pick the rubbish off the beach, attend a seminar or two, and got like 4 free dives. All nice and dandy to me.

I ended up with 3 dives cos the dive sites our leader took us wasn't terribly exciting and I was more interested to just chill at the beach for the 4th. I did, however, manage to see a huge school of small barracudas, 2 turtles, a huge sting ray, murral eel, some funky jelly fish with tiny fishes in it's tanticles, titan trigger fish, and of course, nemo.

I don't have many normal friends

Vacation is all about the company, and when you have the luxury of joining a bunch of jokers like these guys, it's loads of fun. It was discovered that some of us has had some sizable horizontal expansion since, so beach shorts and bikinis wasn't exactly such a godly sight. I will keep those photos so I can extort them when they are rich and famous.

Off the island, and back onto mainland

Time flies when you're having a good time, or when you're sleeping (ST slept 15 hr straight at one go.) All of a sudden it's already Sunday. We reluctantly packed up and got our butt back to mainland. Had lunch at Kuala Terengganu, bought ourselves some keropok lekor, chill at the rest house abit, and off to the airport.

We "gambled" on cokes while waiting for the delayed flight, and Terence won big, he carried extra 17 cans of soft drinks back to KL. Some passangers thought he was trying to compete with airasia on flight catering, then again we were on MAS.

It was a great holiday, now back to work!

p/s: no, FA didn't go.

KY eats - Bak Kut Teh at Sungei Way, PJ

2005-09-27T09:41:00.000+08:00

Now you see it, now you don't

Being a bloke from Penang, the island of awesome hawker food, staying in Klang Valley means I have to constantly go out of the way to satisfy my taste buds since most of the food here, well, basically sucks. There is, however, a few dishes that are usually better around here than in Penang. One of those dishes is Bak Kut Teh, one of my favorite non-halal dishes. YUM!

drools... argh

Now when it comes to bak kut teh, many of you would argue that Klang serves the best. I would not argue with that notion, but sometimes it's just a blardy bitch to drive all the way there and fight your way through all the chow ahbengs to have a meal. So we've found some pretty good establishments in PJ itself.

Ah Sang Bak Kut Teh is situated at Sungei Way (map below.) The place is rather crowded, as most good food places are, and opens only during lunch time, and I presume morning as well.

Now the food. The soup has a very rich herbal taste and smell, and the meat well cooked and soft. We ordered some oily vege to go with it too. The difference between PJ & Klang version is the lack of oily rice at the former, which is a shame, but probably what makes people from the rest of the Klang Valley be smaller size from them chow ahbengs.

2 of us had the food and the bill came up to less than RM 20. Pretty cheap and a rather good place satisfy your bak kut teh craving.

How to get there, you asked?

Correction: It's Bintang Supermarket, not Jaya.

KY brand - FA's fashion

2005-09-26T10:58:00.000+08:00

Did you think FA is hot? Did you think she puts on awesome attire that seemingly fits the occasion all the time? Yah, I thought you'd say yes too. This is the chick that has her own fan site!

The secret to a girl's attractiveness, other than obvious genetic factors, is the clothings that covers her the birthday suit that all of us so eager to see. In the case of FA, like an Armini jacket on Brat Pitt, she has KY fashion on her. That, my friend, is the secret. Take a lookit lookit

Original KY fashion makes a hot chick hotter.

Now I don't know where FA bought this piece of fine art to put on her, but the girl certainly does justice to the brand name. I must only say I am mightly proud.

No, the cloths aren't coming off.. sorry folks.

Now I can only wonder what KY equipment can offer the guys..

Guess KY isn't just famous for the Jelly

KY drinks - Happy Brithday DRUKEN Suan, got hot chicks too

2005-09-22T08:51:00.000+08:00

Today is Suanie's birthday, our charismatic blogger who went on THE STAR newspaper carrying the flag that represented many of us. Last night, however, she was seeing altogether different type of stars, mostly spinning on top of her head. She was so royally intoxicated by alcohol I doubt she remembers what happened.

So Suan, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Oh I love the toilet bowl, omfg I'm drunk! I love all of you too.

It was a surprise birthday party thrown for our beloved friend somewhere at Bangsar. I am sure pretty soon there will be pictures posted by the almighty Peter Tan and some other jokers. Yours truly didn't bring his ~~brick~~ camera to the occasion, so only managed to snap a few shots of some of the hotties at the scene.

I just wanted to make sure these girls are still hot when I look at their pictures sober.

p/s: Suan, it was gary, yes it was him.

KY drinks - Happy Hour with FA, ST, Suanie & Kim

2005-09-21T09:19:00.000+08:00

Last weekend Suanie called up and said she was starving.. about 2 hours later (don't ask), we arrived at 1U. Since FA & I had ate earlier, we decided to wait out for the happy hour. Who doesn't love happy hours?

Do you not love this picture of FA with the appropriate caption?

We had earlier went to the Fish & Co, their menu looked pretty good with some nice alcoholic mixed drinks. Then the waiter dropped us a bomb,

"sorry guys, we don't have those drinks."

"Anything alcoholic then?" asked Suanie

"Yah, Tiger Beer"

"YOU ARE TEH SUX WE ARE LEAVING KTHXBAI"

So we went to Chillies instead. Rang up ST and Kim to join us for some good old afternoon non-halal drink fix too.

FA waiting for the the clock to hit 3pm for HAPPY HOUR!

Service at Chillies 1U sucks ass. You can read more on suanie's post about it. Anyhow, it was still a great afternoon, especially when you have so many beautiful people surrounding you, don't you think? (yes, they've gotten beautiful after my margarita)

I have my margarita, ST & Kim waiting out their food, and Suanie eating hers

Is your life as fun? Cheers!

KY eats - Pizzeria Bella Italia at SS2

2005-09-20T09:44:00.000+08:00

Many of you ah bengs love to enjoy fine food, but don't really want to lose an arm and a leg for a meal. Well here's something for you, awesome authentic Italian food that is easy on the pocket. How does RM 9.90++ for set lunch sound to you? Great, me too.

RM 9.90++ in an authentic place, you can't ask for more?

The place is located at SS2 next to Public Bank, or, directly behind Maybank. Parking might not be easiest to find during weekdays, but weekends should be alright. The restaurant is run by actual european white boys (ok, maybe old men), and the waitresses wear the Italian football jersey as their uniform. The interior decoration is not overly complicated, but definately with an Italian taste. And yes, the toilet is clean.

Big plate of spaghetti, GONE!

The RM 9.90 set lunch is the cheapest combo. You can choose between mushroom or minestrone soup, a glass of soft drink, and a main dish. Usually I go for spaghetti primavera, all vege. You can also get pizzas, rossito, and more.

The food is great, the price is good. Dating a chick when you're on a budget and yet you want to go to a quiet place with great food, go there!

Cheers!

KY Pimps - Vanessa

2005-09-19T08:33:00.000+08:00

Here's yet another pimp post, backed by popular demand after FA and Xaviera were featured not terribly long ago. You know the drills, you know the rules, check the previous posts to avoid any confusion. Lets get it on!

Introduction:
Name: Vanessa
Age: Barely Legal
Weight: Lighter than yours truely
Height: Taller than yours trulely when on 4" heels
Occupation: College Student
Speciality: Pool, though I pwned her with my noob skills.
X factor: A nyonya, how many of those do you find? Ah, and she blogs too, at toastbwead.blogspot.com

Synopsis:
A simple girl who likes to play pool, shop, sleep, party and such. Loves to eat McD fries and slurping ice cream, so definately not one of those high maintenance type. At the tender age of 19, she still qualifies as a teen, so some of you old farts can stay away. But if you are still in your twenties, you are qualified to date her, and I assure you that some of them guys will be looking at you with envious eyes thinking "WTF how did this fugly d00d be able to go out with this cute ngonya chick?"

She plays pool, didn't I tell ya?

See, I didn't just get her picture from some online paysite, I really do know her!

To date her:
Let the bidding begin! Highest bidder gets the deal, well, of course she must agree to it. Money goes to SPCA, or some other charity Peter Tan specifies.

This is high class college sweetie, don't get left behind!

KY - McD & Starbucks at Coffeebean, FA, Suan & Horny

2005-09-17T17:17:00.000+08:00

After having the fusion of fastfood - Burger King and A&W at Starbucks, we decided to go for an encore. This time around, it was McDonald's and Starbucks at Coffeebean. Remember, when you can't decide what type of coffee or tea or food the group has to agree on, you don't! Do not let the corporation controls where you want to eat!

FA trying to be cute

Suan decided to be a monster, she loves her Starbucks & fries.

WTF NOOB Horng! It's COLD WATER

Highlight of the night. Horng was supposed to refill the teapot with some hot water, but the noob never look at the label. We ended up having cold water soaking tea leafs.. didn't exactly work out that well.

KY meme - the se7en tag. Goddamn Suanie!

2005-09-16T09:24:00.000+08:00

OK, suanie's reverse psychology works, I am going to do this meme thing, grrr. For all you noobs out there, the word meme was first introduced by Richard Dawkins, an awesome evolutionary biologist.

Meme is the replicator of ideas and believes, or, a cultural unit. Read "The Selfish Gene" by the same author, if there's only one Popular Science book you'll ever read, read it, and not "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Green that I'm reading now, cos it's difficult to digest, and I tend to fall asleep every few minutes. Makes an excellent insomnia killer tho!

Alrighty, lets get the meme thing going..

Seven things you plan to do before you die:

Attend most of my friend's funeral, hee-hee
Attend the "Greet the 22nd century Count Down"
Travel to Nepal, and many other places
Buy a TV
Buy a washing machine
Make sure the water of my koi pond not green
Build a bigger koi pond

Seven things I could do:

Get a haircut
Wash the car
Whore my blog more
Wake up a little earlier everyday
Shave my legs, kidding, kidding.
Eat more awesome food
Not cave in to Suanie's reverse psychology, goddamn

Seven celebrity crushes:

So many porn stars.. I can't just choose 7, it'll be unfair, I'm skipping this.

Seven often repeated words:

fakeplan
kanneh
hungry
diu
lokchut
mamak
yumchar

Seven physical traits I look for in the opposite sex:
heh, I don't really concentrate that much in physical traits, female I dated are as different as they come physical wise. I'm gonna answer however I want anyway, which is not just physical.

cute
knows how to laugh at my jokes
cannot answer my riddles, hence give me entertainment too
allows me to hamsup her
will go to KLCC Aquaria with me
lighter than me
trust, it's all about trust

Seven tags to go:

Just cos I can half expect that these people read this post. hee-hee.

KY eats - Segambut Seafood Noodle, SS2 branch

2005-09-15T14:16:00.000+08:00

Some of you might have heard about the Segambut seafood noodle, but do you realise that they have an SS2 branch? and in fact, a Subang branch too. Now if you are a seafood lover like me, you should definately try Restaurant Yu Ai.

Got clean toilet too, what more can you ask for?

The shop at ss2 is located behind the slighty famous Chow Yang kopitiam, and a few shops next to KAYU nasi kandar at Jalan SS2/10. Pretty easy to find, there is sometimes a yellow Lotus Elise sports car parked right in front of the shop, rumours to be the shop owner's.

The main branch is on 42, Jalan Segambut utara, and the Subang shop is at 28-1, USJ 9/5P. The business card claims that the place is air-conditioned.

See the prawn? All peeled except the head and tail, very the pro! I like!

The seafood noodle comes in 3 flavors, clear soup, curry, and tomyam. Personally I like the curry flavor the best, it carries a very rich and creamy taste. They provide chili paste in a container on every table, all you crazy people who loves to have their food overly spicey need not be worried.

The noodle, or kuih teow, or mee hun, comes with 3 big prawn, fish meat, sotong, and a generous serving of dried oyster and lala. Very very sumptous. At a price of RM 11 ringgit and RM 13 ringgit per bowl for the small & big size respectively, it is not exactly cheap (how else do they finance the Elise?), but it's worth every penny.

My stomach is full, how about yours? hehehe

KY eats - Teapot Cafe at SS2

2005-09-14T09:48:00.000+08:00

How many of you are sick of Starbucks and Coffeebeans? Places with somewhat decent drinks but basically no FOOD, and with lotsa Ah Bengs gathering at those places lately like vultures surrounding a dying elephant... er.. how to continue.. nevermind...

here's how to get there, noob!

Introducing, TEAPOT Cafe at SS2. A place for tea lover, a drink with less caffien and won't stain your teeth. Plus, it also makes you look slightly more sophisticated, especially if you can fake a British accent (something even the mat salleh can hardly do these days.)

nice environment yeh? just abit too many aunties tho. =/

Other than a handsome choice of tea, including the common Earl Grey, English Breakfast, to the more exotic fruit teas, they serve a variety of local and western food too. I tried their Chicken Kiev, and it was pretty good. Nice big flab of chicken breast with juicy butter & herbs trapped inside with the help of a few tooth picks. Yumm. Fish & Chips

FA said Hi, and made a FU Peace sign

This is a perfect place to bring your chick for a date and away from prying eyes of the Ah Bengs at Starbucks & Coffeebean. It shows that you have taste, or that you merely read this blog. If you don't have a gf/bf, you can always be like me, bring someone whom you can somewhat confuse otherd to be your significant other, contrary to the reality. heehee

Cheers!

p/s: If you're a hot chick and you would like to go there with me, drop me a mail!

KY Quiz - The Dead Mountain Climber

2005-09-13T08:45:00.000+08:00

Been a while since I give out any teka-teki (quiz), but here goes:

2 climbers, lets call them A & B, went climbing at Gunung Kinabalu, and they were going up agains the difficult wall. Almost to the summit, B lost his grip and fell down to the lower plateau.

A, being his friend and all, yelled "dude you ok...?"

B: "OMFG i broke both my hands and my legs, shit is hurting as bad as delivering a quadruplet"

A: "Aight mate wait up, I'll get on top and pull you up."

So A climbed up, threw a rope down and started pulling B up... and that's when he got curious and asked

"Dude, you broke both your arms and legs, how am I pulling you up?"

"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....... " KAPIAKZ, was the next sound A heard as B plunged to his death.

Question is, how did B die?

Mouseover on the graphic below to get the answer.

Koi Pond - Reading the Water Parameter

2005-09-12T10:43:00.000+08:00

Any koi keeper will tell you that the most important thing about a koi pond is the water parameter. In fact, some dude from koi.com.my forum has a signature that says "I am the water keeper, the kois take care of themself", or something to that effect.

So I don on my white lab coat and become a scientist all over again.

No, for the last time, these aren't pregnancy test kits!

There are 4 tests I run on a regular basis to ensure that the water is in good condition. They are pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate level. The best condition for a koi pond would be a pH level of between 7.5 to 8, and the other 3 kept to the minimal.

Results were not bad at all

The readings from this test:

pH - around 7.8
Ammonia - less than 5 mg/l
Nitrite - less than 0.3 mg/l
Nitrate - around 5 to 7 mg/l

While the readings were pretty good, the Nitrate level should still be lowered somehow. As Nitrate act as plant fertilizer, it causes algae bloom that makes the water green. If condition does not improve in the next few months, I might need to make a trickle tower dry filter to suppliment the current wet bio filter.

6 fishes now, still adding, will post pictures of them when the water gets clearer.

KY teaches - How to Write Romantic Poems

2005-09-10T02:15:00.000+08:00

Following the lesson on how not to write friendster messages, I have realised that it is not a very good idea to only teach about what you can't do. So, to give a more constructing lesson, I am going to attempt to teach you the art of peotry.

Upon completion of this lesson, you will, hopefully, be able to compose some ultra romantic poems to get that chick that you have always set your eyes upon.

Exhibit A:
lets sit in horng's waja
and go to genting
when u are on my paha
i feel very the stim

Analysis:
This one is a little on the naughty side, you know, you can only write this to a chick whom you have gone out with, but has been difficult to get the relationship to that next level. A little hint that you want her to be your new laptop companion might stir up her imagination and viola! You're on your way to a happy ending

Exhibit B:
we are destined together
like fish needs water
for you without i
is like wingless bird cannot fly

Analysis:
Slightly more romantic, a good use of analogy to showcase your creative side. Be imaginative, be bold, be wild. It's a confession of feelings, you know, like telling you really belong to her, that with you by her side, the life is oh so more meaningful. Use this one when you are parepared to take the plunge.

Exhibit C:
your smile is so sweet
like god put extra sugar in ur mouth
i am happy as a kid
when u are inside my house

Analysis:
A reflection of the time spent together in your house. You want the girl to know that you appreciated whatever both of you have done in your house, and that you want her to come again. Well, that can mean both of you sat at your couch watching Shrek 2, or maybe something more interesting, I'll leave this to your imagination. A message like this will surely melt her heart like butter under hot sun. Totally owning.

Conclusion:
Well well, here I presented you the 3 classes of poems you can use to impress your chick. Lets recall:
1st - you want to get a bit physical
2nd - you reveal your true feeling
3rd - you want her to live with you

That's it folks, be creative. Thank you thank you, I'll be here all week.

KY - Fastfood Fusion, Suanie went nuts

2005-09-09T09:16:00.000+08:00

Such brand harmony.

Horny, Kerol, Suanie, and I were at Carrefour after a heavy dinner. Being hogs that we are, we decided to have our supper right there and then with total disregard of how much food a person should have within an hour.

However, Suan wanted Starbucks (she rich laaa), Kerol thinks Burger King's the pwn (she did not have her dinner), Horny wanted Curly fries and Onion Rings, and I just wanted a good old mug of non-alcoholic root beer. We did just that, Kerol tarpao her BK, we sat at Starbucks, and I ordered from A&W. We had a good time, but if FA was there, we could have totally un-halal the table with her choice of drinks.

How lovely is the Suan!

Suan also showcased her FUCKIN' GONUTS t-shirt in front of the original Dunkin Donuts. Don't worry, little kids were not harmed during the process. Afterall, having the F word on your t-shirt in public isn't illegal, right?

KY's friend - FA makes Vodka Ribena

2005-09-08T10:50:00.000+08:00

I'm sure most of you already know who is FA by now, the girl who dances good and parties hard. However, many of you do not realise that she also drinks, and for that she doesn't need a special reason nor occasion.

chilled vodka, and some ice.. ahhhhh, best.

Today she's showing us how to enjoy a good ol' WEEKDAY afternoon by mixing it up with some sultry alcoholic drinks. Item on the menu to day - vodka, Ribena, water, ice, semi-hot-chick (progressively hotter with the flow of vodka down the throat)

see? just add some ribena so they won't say she's an alcoholic drinking vodka straight up

Steps: Simple enough, mix it all up, the more alcohol, the merrier.

vodka ribena + reading blogs, oh so wonderful

Drinking happy, what a way to pass the afternoon especially when all your friends are working their ass of while you are taking your leave. Well, if you're not on leave, you can get a jump start to your working day by mixing up some Bailey's in your 3-in-1 milo for breakfast, now where did I get that idea from... ?

Koi Pond - Pond Appreciation by Neighbours

2005-09-06T15:19:00.000+08:00

Since we started building the koi pond, we have been getting to know alot of neighbours. So if you move into a new neighbourhood, I suggest that you build yourself a pond too, it's the best ice breaker, brings everyone together, world peace and all.

So pretty so pretty, young men. Oh thank you thank you, uncles.

There are currently 4 fishes in the pond right now, and the water is like.. green. Hopefully the biological filter kicks in a few weeks time and clear the water up.

Lovely, no? :D

Oh well, there's still this mural that Huey Fang and Chan are drawing up to complete the garden, we'll see how long it takes them... about 1.5 months now so far.. hehe

KY teaches - The Wrong Ways to Write Friendster Messages - inspired by FA

2005-09-02T09:13:00.000+08:00

So I was talking to FA yesterday, and the topic of friendster came up somehow. Being the hotstuff spicey stuff that she is, she gets alot of friendster messages from all sorts of guys. Unfortunately, most of them are Ah Bengs incapable of formulating any coherent thoughts, or mastering the English language. Why she attracts those kind of guys? Well that's a different topic of discussion altogether, and I am hesitant to formulate a theory as I still feel like it's a good thing to have my head attaching to my neck.

Here are the few examples, courtesy of the ever more interesting FA. For you guys, remember, these are the examples of how NOT to write friendster messages, if you want to have any hope.

Exhibit A:
r u real lady or a doll ? u must have come from other planet,God put extra sugar in ur smile, i came from canada but i m here in kl sunway area.,write me abt ur smile pls

Analysis:
From FA: "IT's NOT EVEN CUTE TO A TROLL!"
Advice: Do not be too cheesy, and if you must, at least respect your target's intellectual capacity.

Exhibit B:
Hi, can we as friends??? So our relationship may Improve from time to time (like a fish need Water). Hope u accept mind as best friends in yr Life. Let's my love goes in yr spirit. I care for you;let's us share all (you and me) happiness and burden. Lets us be friends until this end of the world. Can I have yr contact number/MSN/Yahoo Messenger ID? Have a nice day and u so beautiful

Analysis:
From FA: "NO! LOOKS LIKE A RETARD!"
Advice: So, do not freaking write like a retard, learn to use better analogy, and don't assume that you will live to see the end of the world.

Exhibit C:
ello....u sooo cuteeee i would like to add u izzit ok ? actully i dun really konw english my fren
type it for me ger...so can i have your hp no...? most easy way to chat about if cannot nvm or u can send e mail to me ok here my mail ~~dannyloong41@gmail.com~~ (censored-email) hope can get your mail back as soon u can...or better can get your hp number.......miss u byeee hehehe

Analysis:
From FA: "WTF!??!?!?! WTF WTF?!?!", "HIS name is "o my god"
Advice: First, it's bad to ask your friend to type a friendster message for you. Second, if you must, at least make sure your friend can really write in English. Third, naming yourself "o my god" is never a good idea.

Exhibit D:
R u have MSN Messeger ? If u have , add me K? My ID is ~~loveJamesNg@hotmail.com~~ (censored-email, again) Hope can meet u online soon ya .

Analysis:
From FA: "LOVEJAMESNG!! KILL ME NOW!"
Advice: Never, never use such a stupid sounding email address.

Exhibit E:
Hello dear...my name's Shin...how are you?? I'm fine here.. hope you're fine too.. *hugs*.. I just
came across your profile... would like to be friends first, maybe more than that later.. First
of all... let me introduce myself.... I'm 30 from KL....am currently involved in networking biz with friends.. previously was working as an IT consultant... I'm 5'7", short black hair, dark brown eyes, slightly tanned, wear specs, thin and tall.

I love movies, sentimental and instrumental music and reading.. plus snooker, sports and outdoors.. I love nature and enjoy taking strolls while enjoying nature's beauty.... I'm the quiet and sentimental kinda guy....can be quite shy at times....but do know how to have fun after getting to know each other better.. I think that roughly covers the general part of me....If you have anything you want to ask...please do.....I will answer everything truthfully and to the best I can.... *smiles* Please do tell me a general introduction about yourself.... *smiles* I think I have to go now..... will be waiting for your reply... By the way, ..hope to hear from you soon..Bye.. love,

Shin..

Analysis:
From FA: *chokes and dies*
Advice: I feel lucky that this guy is no longer in IT field. I'd die if I have to read the documentation he writes..

Conclusion:
So, a very big thank you to FA, we shall learn from this. If any of you wish to leave a "frienster style message" to her. Please do so in the comment, she might be interested you know. Since it is pretty much impossible to write anything worse than the examples, you probably stand a decent chance.

KY eats - Penang Char Kuih Kak - Pan Fried Radish Cake

2005-09-01T08:46:00.000+08:00

Yet another entry to the ever growing food related entries. This time I'll talk about the Char Kuih Kak, a hawker food you seldom find here in KL, but quite a common dish in any hawker center in Penang.

Char Kuih Kak with seafood!

Char Kuih Kak, or in a more descriptive English term, Pan Fried Radish Cake, is basically a simple dish with radish cake, dried salty vege chips, bean sprouts, and egg fried over sauce made up of mostly soya sauce, dark soya sauce, and chili paste. The radish cake came is usualy chopped up to little half-mahjong size bits, smaller they are, the better they are, since a smaller bit ensures more coverage of the sauce. Occassionally you can have seafood in it as an option.

This particular stall is located at the hawker center opposite Penang Chinese Girls' High School, PCGHS, at Jalan Gottlieb. The stall also offers Fried Oyster. Judging by the taste of their Kuih Kak, I would definately try their fried oyster on the next trip. It was definately one of the better Kuih Kak that I had.

For those of you who are in Klang Valley, the monday pasar malam at ss2 has a stall selling Kuih Kak too, no seafood option, but tastes pretty decent nonetheless. I get my Kuih Kak fix from there a couple times a month.

KY Pimps - Xaviera

2005-08-30T09:29:00.000+08:00

Following the insanely popular but morally not-so-correct pimping FA, here comes the next installation. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I'm pimping again, and we have Xaviera on the auction block.

Again, as a disclaimer, I'll have to tell you that this is by no means sexually related. It's all about getting you to enjoy a nice evening with this lady, if you are the higgest bidder, of course. So here goes!

Introduction:
Name - Xaviera
Age - Twenties
Weight - It's a secret, but properly distributed, you'll see
Height - Probably around 5'4 or so?
Speciality - Drink & dance, and sometimes whack the shit out of the sandbag
X Factor - Motherly figure, won't starve the baby.

Synopsis:
This girls know how to party, and yet have a softer, more domesticated side. She doesn't need to be that high maintenance chick who insists on fine dining on cavier and champaign. As you can see, she gets satisfaction from Burger King and McDs too. You can't find these kinda chicks around KL easily, now can you?

To Date her:
As some of you might have read about the FA pimping post, this is no different. It's all about getting a decent date for Xaviera, for example, she might not enjoy it if you bring her jogging and all you do is running in front of her, in reverse, with your eyes fixed staring at particular parts of her body.. that's a no no.

So .. gentlemen, start you bidding! (with a Daytona theme.... kinda goes well with those headlights)

KY saw - Camping Zone Outside Ikea/Ikano

2005-08-28T23:03:00.000+08:00

So I was hanging out with the gang having a drink at Starbucks at IKEA/Ikano, and spotted this sign..

NO PARKING, IT'S A CAMPING ZONE!

That's something new. I've seen alot of clamping zone signs, but this is a first. Who's got a tent now, I can't wait!

KY saw - Klang's very own Twin Towers

2005-08-26T09:02:00.000+08:00

Going back from eating the Pork Rib rice at Klang, I spotted the lesser known twin towers of Klang. This is a well hidden secret, uncovered by yours truely.

They have planned to build a connecting bridge, too!

Buildings specifications:

Height - 5.5 stories
Location - nearby some nice pork rib rice place & indian cinema
Speciality stores - mamak restaurant & kedai runcit
Unique features - old school house of heritage smacked in between
Landscaping - done by MPK, decorated by garbage
Design - done by some Ah Beng over 2 drunken nights & slightly too much bak kut teh (note the difference in the windows)

Can't wait to see how the connecting bridge turns out.

KY eats - Banh Xeo, Vietnamese Crepe

2005-08-25T08:42:00.000+08:00

As some of you might aware, I have written quite abit about Vietnamese food such as the BBQ & steamboat. The latest installation, I bring you Banh Xeo, something akin to crepe.

We went to this place called Banh Xeo 46A, an old school place by the roadside, with extended roof however. The place is packed with mostly Vietnamese, but I did see a table of mat salleh smacked somewhere in there tho.

As you can see on the bottom 2 pictures, they serve BBQ prawn and fish too.

This is what we came for, Banh Xeo, it's got shrimp, bean sprout, and some other stuff in it. As with most Vietnamese dishes, it came with a generous serving of fresh vegetables. We also ordered fish, and some fried pork that came with something like very soft pohpiah wrapper.

The way you eat Banh Xeo, as shown by my Vietnamese colleague.

Tear a serving of the "crepe"
Wrap some fresh vege over it
Add some sauce and maybe some chilli
Indulge your senses

Typical tourists never get these kinda true Vietnamese food, it was awesome.

KY eats - Klang Pork Rib Rice

2005-08-24T10:04:00.000+08:00

Last weekend my housemate ~~Horny~~ Horng decided to bring us (myself and kerol) to Klang for some pork rib rice which he claimed to be very good. So we called up Galvin the Klang Chow Ah Beng to join us, since he stays nearby.

The place is smacked between the old bus terminal and the Indian movie serving cinema, right at the town of Klang itself. Ask anyone, or the Ah Beng himself if you can't find it.

Do they look yummy or what?

We ordered for the portion that feeds 4 people, a plate of the signature dish, the pork rib (top right), mutton curry in claypot (bottom left), and some vege. As busy as the place was, it only took some 5 minutes before we were served.

It turned out that we finished all the food and Galvin didn't even eat. Later he claimed that Kerol is counted as 2 person.. =/

The pork rib was by far the best that I had, it's sort of deep fried but yet not hard. The fat content is rather high but that's probably what makes it so smooth with the melt-in-your-mouth texture. It is served somewhat like chicken rice style, with some sauce over the meat.

The mutton curry was good too, as well as the vege. The place also serves asam fish, pork knuckle with vinegar, and more.

Drooling? Remember this is non-halal ok...

The Klang way of eating rice is a bit different, you pour dark soya sauce over it. That makes the rice a little sweet, and with an underlying richer taste. At this place, you can also order drinks that comes in big, recyled soya source bottle. We ordered a bottle of Chinese herbal tea and a bottle of soya bean.

You gotta try this place if you haven't yet. It was good and it was pretty cheap. Costs us about RM 25 for everything.

KY saw - Penang Ah Beng Style Karaoke

2005-08-23T09:34:00.000+08:00

On a recent trip back to Penang, I discovered something that I truely did not feel too proud of my home state, and that is the Ah Beng Style karaoke booth and your-own music video shop. This is truely an innovation to fulfill a narcissist's dream, on a budget.

Goddamn Ah Beng color scheme too. Couldn't find the Type-R sticker anywhere tho.

This was at Prangin Mall, there's this whole area filled with these karaoke booth. You just go in, feed the machine some notes or coins, and sing your life away in the booth. I guess the booth must be giving a shower-room effect and make you less shy.

Look, got glass door!

Interestingly, the booths aren't completely opague, there's a glass window on the side and on the door too. After much comtemplation, I figure it is for safety issues. You know, just in case your partner can't take your horrid voice anymore and started foaming, at least someone from outside would notice it and save him/her from a slow and painful death.

Your own MTV! OMG HOW COOL

If your budget and your narcissism is on the higher side, you can make your own MTV at this place! I think they use state-of-the-art blue screen technology (like HOLLYWOOD, like how they make STARWARS!). You sing in front of that piece of cloth, and they instantly transfer you to whatever background you wish! London, NY, even KLCC I bet! You get your MTV on VCD when you're done, so you can show it to your mom. Lets just hope she won't start foaming too..

I was informed that some of the coin operated booths will also let you make your own MTV, perhaps with not as sophisticated as this shop I guess? heh.

Maybe this is why I prefer to stay in KL despite the good food in Penang...

p/s: I don't know how much those stuff costs as I don't intend to use them, but i think Goh would love them.

Koi Pond - Filtration System and Plants

2005-08-21T17:34:00.000+08:00

After taking a swim in the koi pond, we decided to get slightly more serious and got some plants to decorate the pond side nicely.

We got five of those whitish green plants and 4 of those reddish plants as well as some bamboo look alike plants and floating water plants. Looks pretty impressive isn't it?

Floating plants on the waterfall, and a japanese ZEN theme is in with this little stone pagoda thing at the far side of the pond. We installed a small light bulb in there too!

Here's the all important biofilter.
First chamber - Japanese Mat, with aeration
Second chamber - Bio Balls, with aeration
Third chamber - Bio Stones, with aeration

Hope this set up is sufficient, or else I'll have to start thinking about a trickle tower...

Cheers!

KY - Best Minesweeper Player in Malaysia

2005-08-19T17:19:00.000+08:00

... and sometimes Singapore & Thailand too.

As an IT geek, I'm probably one of the very few who do not engross myself in the world of cyber games such as World of Warcraft, Gunbound, or any other multiplayer games. However, as a old school guy, I play Minesweeper instead.

I'm so good in this it's totally ridiculous. Then again, with the amount of time and lost productivity from office, it's just natural.

63 frigging seconds for expert level, will your mom believe it?

Lately I discovered minesweepers.org and the world of uncheatable minesweeper competition, in "real time", online. It's a pretty neat concept, you play their version of minesweeper, and when you win, you can submit your score online and compare it to the other, even crazier no-lifer who doesn't have anything better to do than clicking their brains away.

OMGWTF, SO COOL.

I am like, 3rd fastest all-time in the world at 63s and fastest for August. Amazing ain't it? That's a way to make your country proud!

I am now proposing anyone who can challenge me in this game, winner will get a free dinner, and losers, well, just spend me teh-o-ais. COME! I DARE YOU!

p/s: omfg i'm a geek.

Koi Pond - Swimming!

2005-08-18T08:55:00.000+08:00

Since the pond is almost done except the proper set up of the filtration system, I decided to christen the pond by taking a swim.

It was alot of fun, I brought out the snorkling gear, and did some exercise over the water, too. You can see Horng at bottom right enjoying the waterfall.

For some of you with higher bandwidth, you can see a video we took over here. I did a death man fall, Horng took a dive, and you can even see FA visiting us! Too bad she didn't bring her bikini, heh.

Koi Pond - Waterfall and Spotlight

2005-08-17T08:26:00.000+08:00

Following the previous post from the Koi Pond series, this installation will showcase the waterfall and the spotlight that we recently set up.

Look at Horng imitating ninja turtle on the upper right

We bought this feng sui waterfall thing from one of the many places that sells them at Sungai Buloh. Costs me almost 400 bucks with the gravel and all.. but it's all pretty and dandy, saves me tonnes of work from creating something that resembles a natural waterfall with my limited skill in that department.

Water leaking without the mini-pond, upper left pic

After connecting the pipes and switching on the pump, we found a problem. Water kept spilling and splashing out of the waterfall to the side of the pond. A decision was made and a mini-pond constructed underneath it to provide a way for the spilled water to flow back to the main pond. The small mini-pond would also served as a very small vege filter (basically a place to have some aquatic plants to soaked up the NO3 that would be converted from the good bacteria from main filter.. but I'm sparing you the details for now.)

And let the be light

A 300 watt halogen spotlight was installed on top of the wall to illuminate the now-almost-awesome garden, too.

Next post would be gardening and the main filter, but at this point the pond is 90% done.

KY eats - SS2 Poh Piah, gone

2005-08-16T09:37:00.000+08:00

So we finally decided to try out the Poh Piah (wet spring roll) stall at the monday night pasar malam at SS2. As the stall was usually way too crowded and our stomach way too hungry, we usually passed up the idea of waiting in starvation.

This time around, after buying our usual dinner packages to be enjoyed at Misai mamak stall, one of us decided to order 4 pieces of poh piah. The friendly hawker said "come back in half an hour". So we enjoyed our Char Kuih Kak, Nyonya Kuih, Fried Chicken, and so forth at Misai, and finally went back to the poh piah stall.

Sure enough, the uncle still remembered that my friend had ordered half an hour ago. He was way busy in preparing for another batch of poh piah to be served to his crowded customers surrounding the stall.

And I do mean crowded!

While waiting, we started to chat up with the hawker. All of a sudden, the uncle said "I'm retiring.. been selling for 30 years and it took me 5 years just to get the skin right. It's tiring and this will be my last day "

Everyone around the stall displayed a look of dissapointment on their face.. We tried to convince the uncle to teach one of us to take over the business, but he said it'll take months to learn, full time, and basically probably telling us to just keep our day job and stop harrassing him preparing the lasts of the poh piah.

Feeling somewhat lucky and yet dissapointed at the same time, we collected the poh piah and head home.

Overly satisfied customer

And it was really good! Easily the best poh piah I've had in KL. Too bad this first one is also the last one.

I secretly hope that the whole retirement thing is just a trick for getting more customers. We'll see if he comes back next week. hehe

KY can cook - Beef with Mushroom

2005-08-15T08:25:00.000+08:00

Following the recepi of Kung Pao chicken, fried fish, and indomie, here is another excellent entry presented to you by none other than your friendly chef, KY. Here's the mouth watering entry of beef with mushroom, complete with ingredients and steps.

Step by step, so easy

The ingredients:

Beef, sliced
Mushroom, duh.
Garlic, Ginger, and Spring Onion
Cornflour
Salt, Soya Sauce, and Maggie Seasoning

The steps:

Marinate the sliced beef with maggie seasoning and soya sauce
Heat up the oil and fry up ginger and onion till you can smell it
Throw in the beef, fry for a while
Throw in the mushroom, fry.. what else.
Add in premixed cornflour and water as the "juice"
Serve on a plate with spring onion sprinkled on top
PROFIT

This is so yummy we finished everything

note: The way you want the beef to be cooked (rare, medium, well done) depends long you fry the beef on 3rd step.

KY fakeplan - How I conned people into eating sand

2005-08-12T10:32:00.000+08:00

A friend of mine went to Redang last year, and brought me a cup of sand from the beach, that was kept in a starbucks cup. I put it on top of my PC, and it remained there without much fanfare, and I thought: why not get some entertainment value outta it?

So I had a discussion with my clients at my workstation a while back. Both of them are women of 30+, conservative Malay ladies equipped with tudung and traditional baju kurung. Lets call them Puan A, and makcik N.

Puan A got here first, and in the middle of discussion with her, she asked "what's that on top of your PC? Some sort of kacang or asam?"

"Well why don't you try some?" I replied. Since I always ate her food at her office, I thought I'd return the favor.

She took the cup, slowly open up the lid, dug her fingers into the sand.. took some .. and before I had the chance to stop her, she put it into her mouth.

"YUCK YUCK YUCK *puke/spit* " and I gave her some tissues while laughing my ass off. She was the first victim of the day. "Jahat la you" was what she said. hehehe

Makcik N arrived thereafter, and inevitably she started asking.. "Oh, what's that in the cup?"

"I don't know, but you can try some" or something was what I replied. Knowing me, she was abit suspecious, but she still thought it's some sort of food.

"KY ni jahat, must be something funny.." she said. "You can ask Puan A what it is, she's tried it just now" I said.

She was trying to ask Puan A while extending her hand to the cup... but all Puan A could do was laughing non stop while Makcik N repeated what Makcik N did 10 minutes ago. Putting the sand in her mouth.

This time both of us were rolling on the floor laughing while the makcik wiping her mouth off and spitting into the tissue and telling me "Ku akan ingat kan youuuuuuuu!" (I will remember you!)

hehehe.

A couple of weeks later, an excerpt of the email sent from Makcik N to the team including myself and Puan A.

"Puan A,
Whatever it is.. kite dua2 makan pasir ! (both of us ate sand!)"

hehehehee. I love my job.

KY eats - Vietnamese BBQ and Steamboat

2005-08-11T08:26:00.000+08:00

In previous posts I have introduced you noobs about Pho, an expensive Hue meal, and vietnamese coconut ice cream and coffee. This time around I visited another excellent old school type of food establishment to have some classic Vietnamese BBQ and Steamboat kinda thing.

Don't exactly know the name of the place or where exactly it is located as my friend zoomed through the narrow streets in the scooter bringing me there. It's somewhere nearby District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, and I think the place, or the food, is called Lau Ca Bong Keo, or something like that.. anyway.

The setting of this restaurant is almost like a kopitiam, but with very low chairs and tables (perhaps a foot high). Kinda cute in a way, but also very pragmatic, you don't have to stand up to put the food on the burner or in the steamboat like how we usually do it here in Malaysia.

BBQ old school style, with charcoal like it's supposed to be! I had marinated shrimp and a type of river catfish. My host told me the fish is seasonal, so I must have been lucky. It is served with some soya sauce and red chili. The fish tastes sweet and the shrimp.. was AWESOME. Tastes slightly salty but very, very sweet and succulent.

After the BBQ, the next dish was something like steamboat. This is served with burning charcoal and a healthy dosage of fresh vegetable such as lettuce, bean sprout and basil leaves. The main ingredient was the fish again, it was very good. While the marinated BBQ type was sweet and succulent, the steamboat with soup, brings out a different taste and texture from the same fish.

A bottle of Heineken went really well with that meal. Like Pho, this is a must try if you go to Vietnam.

KY's House - Female Santa Claus Spotted!

2005-08-10T08:31:00.000+08:00

By now most of you have probably seen my housemates Sotong and Horng (sometimes spelled as Horny). There is however, another hidden and sometimes invisible female santa chick living with us. Her name is Heuy Fang and have you seen someone looks more like santa than her while brushing teeth?

I hope she's not reading this, she might decide to stop drawing the awesome mural on the garden wall otherwise. hehehe.

Have a nice day.

Koi Pond - Tiles, Water Neutralization, and Xmas Tree

2005-08-08T21:46:00.000+08:00

After leveling the garden, we headed to Sungai Buloh for some plants and carpet grass. You can see that the pond is really coming together.

Grass is in, and we planted 2 miniature x'mas trees, too. By the time I'm in my middle age I'm sure the trees would be big enough to allow me to hang some x'mas deco, maybe on Sotong's 40th birthday or something.

The grass costs about RM 3.50 per 2 sq. feet. 30 pieces of those are used.

Look at these tiles! Believe it or not, those are homemade. Horng did most of the job in this one. Wooden brackets are used as moles, mortar is then poured in and miniature yellow river pepples are stuck on top of the tiles. We then put a layer of sand and arranged the tiles nicely. Nice and dandy ain't it?

Since the pond is made of cement, the water is highly alkaline. Nothing would ever really survive in the condition like that. To reduce the pH level, we throw in a couple bottle of acid bought from the hardware store, as well as some pineapple skin.

Waterfall and filtration system coming up soon.

Koi Pond - Water Meter, Drainage, and Water Proofing

2005-08-08T00:10:00.000+08:00

The previous post on the Koi Pond construction featured rounding the top of the cement pond. Since then quite a bit of work had been done on the project, but lets talk about the elevation of the garden and water proofing here.

Since we were elevating the garden by about 1 feet near the gate, we had to line up bricks around the water meter to prevent it from dissapearing into the ground. I'm sure the SYABAS meter reader dude appreciates this. Wire mesh is used to strengthen the foundation, and concrete is poured.

2 layers of water proofing agent was then applied to prevent water seepage through the cement. A layer of pure cement water was applied prior to this. Acrobatic act was needed to accomplished this.

Water was added to the pond to test if there was any leakage. So far so good.

Stay tune for the next post. Next up would be planting grass and some lanscaping work.

KY travels - Yangon, Myanmar

2005-08-03T08:18:00.000+08:00

I recently travelled to Yangon, Myanmar in a company trip. The experience was very different from Vietnam, a place where I have been on several occasions. While Ho Chi Minh City is bustling with development, Yangon appear to be more like a throw back in time, a backwater of ASEAN.

In Yangon, citizen are not allowed to own motorcycles. While this is a good thing evironmental wise, it makes travelling a very difficult task considering the lack of modern transportation facilities, and cars are prohibitedly expensive. For a country where GPD per capita stands at around US$1,700, a lousy used car can fetch up to US$10,000!

What happen then, is what you see on the pictures above, people crammed on the little modified truck, and pay US$0.02 for the trip to work. Often time a small truck fills up so many passengers that some of them might have to hold on at the back as if performing some stunts. Jackie Chan would be proud.

Most people wears Sarong and sandles to everywhere. Perhaps shoes are a bit too expensive for the economy there. I noticed at the airport (with one and only terminal) that even the lower ranked security officials (up to Sarjen) wore sandles instead of black shoes.

Fortunately, despite the sanction, the city is not all too dead, and there are a few international hotels to be found. I was staying at Traders Hotel, own by non other than the Shangrila group of Malaysia. Bring plenty of cash if you need to pay for your hotel, credit cards are not accepted in Myanmar, due to the sanction. Room rates at a 5 star establishment is decently priced at $50-$70 USD.

2 things you can't miss in Myanmar. The spectacular Buddish temples, and scores of beggers everywhere. There are alot of monks too. After speaking to a hotel worker, I found out that people at Myanmar usually become a monk when they reach the age of 20. It is optional and done as a traditional/religious practise. One can elect to be a monk for a week, a month, a year, or however long you wish. Many older folks will become monks when they're old.

On the streets of Yangon, you can find alot of things. Including condoms, don't ask me about the price, I don't know. If you have eyes for jade and precious stones, this city offers alot for you. I only got some small jade elephants for friends as I don't know how to judge the quality of precious stones or jade at all.

Food wise, if you are accustomed to Malaysian food, you should find no trouble at all. Bordering Bangladesh, India, China, and Thailand, the taste is a mixture of those countries. Halal food isn't hard to come by either. However, I do find that the food generally exhibit a saltier taste than in Malaysia.

Other things to note:

Communication is heavily restricted. There is no roaming. During anniversaries significant to the now detained democratic leader, phone services are switched off altogether.
You cannot connect to YM, MSN messenger, Yahoo mail, or Hotmail. I tried to connect to Dalnet server on IRC as a last resort but was redirected to irc.communists.org or something like that.
Bring alot of cash if you need to pay for the hotel. Credit cards are not accepted since the sanction.
Exchange rate at airport is 450 kyats to US$1. At "black" market it is 1075 kyats to US$1. Don't change your money at the airport!
A visa is required to enter the country, can be obtained from the embassy for RM120 or RM160 if you want them to issue it to you in a day's time.
Malaysian girls are alot prettier.

KY Pimps - FireAngel

2005-08-01T09:12:00.000+08:00

I have formally recieved a request from FA to let me pimp her. Now, by definition, pimp means "Arrange for ~~sexual~~ partners for others" for a small fee, that is. Just thought I should make things clear to avoid confusion.

Introduction:
Name - FA
Age: quarter century young
Weight: below 50kg, can't say that for every girl these days
Height: more than 5 feet, dont' ask
Occupation: classified, but hates her work
Speciality: ranting, but occasionaly cute
X factor: great in dancing, sometimes described as "babboon on chili padi"

Synopsis:
This girl knows how to have a good time with you too. Just look at the photos below. 1.She parties good, 2. will drink till puke, 3. passing out on the bench and then 4. hug the mamak stall's table. How lovely is that? A night out with her will gurantee a smashing time!

She enjoys good books, anime (naruto), movies, and shopping at ikea buying things nobody knows the actual usage nor her intended usage.

To Date Her:
This is a pimp post, so of couse it's all about getting FA a decent date. And since by the definition of "pimp" earlier described, a small fee is to be paid, commensurate with the relative attractiveness of the client. (she wants hot guys).

If you're interested, kindly leave your details on the comment and I will get back to you if you are chosen as a prospective client. Remember, this is high class stuff.

KY eats - Nasi Briyani at Myanmar

2005-07-29T12:07:00.000+08:00

That's right ladies and gentlemen, they serve nasi briyani at Yangon, Myanmar. With a little ASEAN geographical knowledge you'd know that it is just natural. Myanmar borders with India and Bangladesh to it's west.

It actually tastes alot better than it looks

This particular nasi briyani place (they spell it nasi biryani) is located down the next turning from Traders hotel in Yangon. While there are quite a few nasi briyani restaurants there, you can't miss the place, it is always the one with the most customers.

The rice is served with a single piece of 1/4 chicken. Since this is Myanmar, a highly unindustrilized country, we get real tender kampung type of chicken. It was awesome. A small bowl of soup and some fresh lettuce accompanied the meal. We ordered some extra gravy too. Except for the soup tasting a little too salty, the meal was very good. Easily better than most all of the nasi briyani served by mamaks here in Malaysia.

Drinks is a little bit tricky, the drinking water came in a bottle that looks like those we use for car battery, so that was a bit odd, to the tune that my friend brought two bottles back to Malaysia. The local Star "coke" was pretty bad, do not feel too compell to try it.

KY eats - Poppi Seed Pancake

2005-07-28T10:07:00.000+08:00

Poppi Seed Pancake, Yum

First off, no, I don't know where you can find this in Malaysia. I had this pancake in Yangon, Myanmar while on a business trip. I don't even know if it's legal here.

The composition of the pancake is pretty much the same as ordinary pancakes we get around here, with one addition - lotsa poppi seeds laced on top. Initially I was a bit wary of consuming it, but after some reassurance from my colleage who is also a medical doctor from Myanmar, I gave it a go.

The stuff tastes like any pancake, but just amazingly better. It was good, you could feel the texture of the seeds in your mouth, crushed between your teeth. A different aroma mixed up with your saliva and it all goes down smoothly in a somewhat sweetie taste. Did I tell you it was good?

That plate was supposed to be shared by 6 people, but I ate about half of it. hee-hee

Give me some more!

p/s: there are rumours that certain famous nasi kandar house cook their curry with poppi seeds to add to the taste.

KY saw - Don't Do This at Petrol Station

2005-07-27T11:07:00.000+08:00

While filling up the tank yesterday at a petrol station near Ara Damansara, I saw for the first time what Galvin said he's done before - Driving off with the petrol dispenser.

So this dude in a Proton Saga filled up his tank, and without putting back the dispenser, he decided to simply drive off. Perhaps it was an attempt to test the effectiveness of the anti-stupid-driver mechanism that the petrol station has fortunately set up.

The connector of the dispenser to the kiosk immediately snap off and the safety valve went to work without spilling any petrol, by design. The dispenser was now stuck to his car, the dude heard some dragging sound and decided to stop and investigate. You should look at his eyes when he found out what he did.

I was quick enough to snap this two pictures while laughing my ass off at the same time.

Petrol station worker wondering how dumb this guy could be

OMG it's too high for me to connect this back.

Kim's Birthday, Suan's Ikea Bowl

2005-07-25T14:51:00.000+08:00

Kim's Birthday
So I was at Myanmar, checking my email and found out there's a party at my house on the coming saturday several hours after my scheduled flight back to KL. That was kinda interesting, but since it was for Kim's birthday, it was all good. Kim posted about it, and Suan has a gallery here.

The party was fun, but too bad Kim herself spent the least amount of time awake. Before she left the house, I was fortunate enough to snap this picture with my phone. (digicam's memory card went dead)

How lovely, everyone who celebrated birthday at my place ended up doing this.

Suan's Ikea Bowl
and how she feels so at home there.

So I went to the Ikea sales with FA and Suan on Sunday. I bought 4 pieces of dining chairs that match my dining table and were on sales. When I initially bought the dining table, it was on sales too but the chairs weren't. Sneaky Ikea never anticipated that a guy would buy the table and then wait for half a year for the chairs.

FA bought some magic markers and colorful straws. I stopped her from buying the milk carrier thingy.

Suan wanted to get a blue bowl, so she took one and put it in the bag. 15 minutes later FA found out that the bowl was the sample, you know, the one you're not supposed to check out cos it's attached with some extra descriptions and such? So suan ran back and got another while FA and I waited 10 minutes for her.

Few minutes later, as we were looking at some bookends, Suan decided to drop a stainless steel bookend on the bowl, and managed to chip it. So we had to wait another 10 minutes as she went to get the 3rd blue bowl.. I'm giving her 2 weeks before she destroy it anyway.

Ikea encouraged you to try their furniture in the store before you buy them. I didn't know they meant sleeping in their bed like this..

Lucky I'm not related to this woman.

KY eats - Butterworth Loh Mee

2005-07-19T13:56:00.000+08:00

Whenever anyone talks about Penang food, we always refer to the island. However, there are still some hidden gems on the other side of Penang Bridge, Butterworth. The Lean Gaik Hokkien Mee House at Chai Leng Park is one of such places.

Slurps

The distinction between Hokkien Mee (better known as Prawn Mee in KL) and Loh Mee is the soup. Loh Mee uses the thick and heavy soup made with lotsa flour, while Hokkien Mee comes with somewhat clear soup.

This kopitiam serves both Hokkien Mee and Loh Mee but nothing else. What sets this establishment apart from the others is the variety of "extras" you can add in to your particular bowl of noodle. Including roast pork, pork ribs, pork leg, mantis shrimp, prawn, fish ball, and hard boiled egg.

I had the Loh Mee with rosted pork and pork ribs added. Would have preferred mantis prawn but they ran out of those. The also have chili paste and garlic on the table, saves you the trip to the stall to ask for more if you're a chili happy person, or if u're like Galvin the Chow Ah Beng who can't have enough garlic.

While it might not be the absolute best Loh Mee that I had (there's a stall nearby the old temple in Penang that I thought was better), it was certainly still very very good, especially with the extra ingredients you can add. I would recommend it to anyone who eats non-halal food.

KY eats - Penang Char Kuih Teow

2005-07-18T09:15:00.000+08:00

Many of us cannot deny that the best hawker food in this world are found in Penang, the pearl of the orient. While there are variety of offerings, I have decided to introduce you the most talked about penang dish of all - Char Kuih Teow.

There are two acclaimed Char Kuih Teow places in Penang and they are situated only about 1 kilometer from each other. The Macalister Road Sister's Char Kuih Teow, also known as the 5-junction Char Kuih Teow, and the other that is situated at Lorong Selamat.

Personally I go for the one at Macalister Road simply for the fact that the Lorong Selamat aunty has been way too arrogant and over her head. You have to wait at the stall under the searing sun, sometimes up to half an hour, to serve yourself that plate of Char Kuih Teow. That is too much trouble I'm willing to spend just to save the stall owner RM 30 bucks hiring a helper a day.

Here's a typical plate of Sister's Kuih Teow. Served on a piece of banana leaf, with bean sprouts, egg, huge prawns, and topped with some awesome crab meat. Try some when you are in Penang next time!

You drolling yet?

Here's Lorong Selamat's stall, you can see those desperate dudes lining up under the sun to self-serve their kuih teow. I'm not doing that.

An interesting trivia: rumours have it that the sisters used to be "working girls" when they were young. Luck was on their side that when their bodies aren't desirable anymore, their cooking skills came to the rescue.

KY's Friends - Chow Ah Bengs

2005-07-14T22:58:00.000+08:00

The definition of Ah Beng:
Ability to speak hokkien, and especially fluent in cursing with the language. Likes to eat bakut teh and hokkien mee. Other than that, ah beng also must have short, spiky hair inspite of thinning hair line.

A: Klang Chow Ah Beng Galvin Tan Kar Leng
This guy stays in the definitive Ah Beng area that is Klang, loves to eat pork, and likes to say "kanneh" alot. He also loves to terrorize coin-operated cars.

B: Subang Chow Ah Beng Terence Goh
This dude loves to eat curry mee with lotsa pork blood, and was a drunk and chimney, recently quit both in fear of getting his ears pulled by the significant other. He also have a weird sense of taste in car modification

C: Penang Chow Ah Beng Choo Heng Horng @ Choo Heng Horny
The latter name given by a particular hotel in Johor that miss-spelled his G to Y. I've known this guy for over 20 years and he's currently my pond co-builder. Of course the Klang and Subang Chow Ah Bengs helped, too. Dude also occasionally gives the middle finger.

Aren't they cute? I have weird friends, heh.

KY eats - Isetan Sushi

2005-07-12T23:09:00.000+08:00

Alot of us sushi lovers don't get to eat sushi as often as we like due to the fact that these stuff are pricey. And any self respecting sushi connoisseur would not step into Sushi King or Genki Sushi. Those places use pre-molded rice and pre-cut fish that aren't terribly fresh. The outer part of the rice also gets dried up, making the texture left to be desired. Last but not least, those places only create an illusion of economic sushi, they certainly aren't cheap at all considering the quality of stuff you get.

Enter Isetan

Aren't these YUMMY?

Now most of the stuff they sell at this 'prestige' Japanese departmental store aren't cheap, or even average. However, much to my delight when I started working at KLCC, their sushi is priced very reasonably, and I would say even cheaper than Jusco and Cold Storage. They carry a wide selection too.

You get Amaebe for RM 1.50, Salmon for RM 1, Tuna for RM 0.75, Scallope for RM 1.50 (where else do you find single peace scallope?), Surf Clam for RM 1.50. They sell some bento too. The stuff is fresh, and 7 pieces of sushi fitting nicely in a disposable plastic container usually costs me less than RM 10. A good choice for light lunch.

I tarpau from there so often I have a bottle of soya sauce in the office. If you don't have the luxury of working there, you can always tarpau and then eat at the food court at 2nd or 4th floor.

10 bucks for fresh and good sushi with a good selection, what more could you ask for?

KY eats - Vietnamese Ice Cream & Coffee

2005-07-12T00:29:00.000+08:00

Now that you've read about my entries on Vietnamese meals here and here, it's time to move on to the desserts.

Now, I'm not really a huge fan of ice cream, but everytime I came back from Vietnam, my mom had always asked me "So have you had the coconut ice cream yet?" This was my 5th trip to the city, and I thought what better time than now to try it?

Coconut Ice Cream in a.. coconut, of course!

The toppings are dried logan, nuts, and that rolled up bakery thing. Fresh strawberry and grapes on the side, too. You eat some ice cream, you mix it up with some fresh coconut meat, man, this you gotta try it for yourself. It was sweet and it was great! Nevermind I had to drink about 3 glasses of water later.

Vietnamese Coffee, really black

Vietnam is also famous for it's coffee. They come really thick and black, and they come pretty sweet too. What you see in the picture isn't a half filled glass cos I drank some, it was how it came. Really thick that you can't possibly drinking a full glass without instantly having caffien overdose. Starbucks & Coffeebean ain't got nothing on Vietnamese Coffee, and it's way cheaper too.

Oh yeah, I had to drink another few glasses of water to clear my throat and tongue. hehe

KY eats - the most expensive meal ever

2005-07-10T21:48:00.000+08:00

This has gotta be the most expensive meal I've had, ever. Figuratively anyway, but the food was awesome, and totally worth it. Just see for yourself!

Aren't you envy now?

The stuff that went down my stomach:

Tiny Steamed Rice Cake
Steamed Cake with Shrimp
Minced Pork Cake
Bamboo Shoot Salad
Lotus Rice
Grilled Pork Rib
Mussle Soup w Morning Glory
Juice

The Place- Hue Traditional Crusine, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

Look at the bill, 322,350 VND!
I'll leave you to find out conversion rate of VND to Ringgit as an exercise. Bon Appetite!

Btw, my colleage picked up the tab, THANKS! :P

KY eats - Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, Pho

2005-07-09T12:29:00.000+08:00

You gotta love this stuff!

Well, after showing you boys and girls my cooking prowess here, here, and here. I'll let you in some exotic stuff that I myself haven't master yet. Introducing Pho, pronounced as "fe-er", or Vietnamese beef noodle soup.

The ingredients (as best I can tell)

Beef brisket, sliced meat, tendon, beef balls, or other beef parts
onion
spring onion
basil leaves, jalapeno peppers, lemon, and lightly boiled beans sprout on the side
rice noodle
awesome beef soup with some herbs and stuff I seriously have no idea

This stuff tastes awesome, and carries a different flavor from the Malaysian hawker food. It is not sweet but slightly salty, and carries a mild salty and beefy flavor. The basil leaves and bean sprouts further enhance the flavor of the soup and really add to the color too. Some Jalapeno peppers will put a kick to the soup for those who loves hot food.

I had the pho in my must-visit restaurant everytime I go to Ho Chi Minh City. It is located at District 1 and situated just behind the Renaissance Riverside Hotel. Here at Kuala Lumpur you can go to 1-U new wing and try it at the Vietnam Kitchen restaurant. However, the local pho doens't do justice to what you can find at HCMC.

A satisfied customer. Total bill was about RM 8.00

What Can Meat Cut?

2005-07-07T18:37:00.000+08:00

As we all know, knife can cut meat. But what can meat cut? Think, think, think.... Move your mouse over the graphic to see the answer.

KY can cook - KY Style Awesome Indomie

2005-07-04T01:31:00.000+08:00

KY Style Indomie, looks awesome, no?

Following the popular Kung Pao Chicken and Fried Pomphret Fish, I've decided to teach you a simpler dish that mere mortals can cook up. Now I am sure many of you are able to prepare a pack of Indomie, but does it taste better than KY's version?

This dish is simple as simple can be, prefect for the college kitchen and the lazy singles.

The Ingredients:

A packet of Indomie, or two if you're really hungry, or if you're ST
An egg
2 crab sticks, you can also subsitute this with prawn or fishball
1 onion
some garlic
2 dried mushroom

The Steps:

Boil up the water and start cooking your Indomie, throw in the dried mushrooms
While you are boiling the noodle, cut up the crab stick, onion, and garlic
Take out the mushroom after a minute or so, and cut it up to thin slices
Now heat up the pans and start frying the ingredients while mixing Indomie sauce with some hot water in a small bowl
When the noodle's ready, throw it in, stir, and add in the premixed sauce
Add egg, shake some soya sauce to it
Serve and be happy after another few minutes of frying

I've included some pictures of the preparation work this time for you noobs. It's easy, simple, and tastes pretty awesome for a 10 minute job. For simplicity sake, I did not decorate the dish this time around, but it's Indomie, that's as much honour it should get.

These are all the ingredients

Stirfry the onion, garlic, crab sticks, and mushroom first

By the way I haven't gotten any emails yet, start sending me emails, hot chicks!

KY can cook - Fried Pomphret Fish

2005-07-03T01:21:00.000+08:00

KY's Fried Pomphret fish - THE PWN!

Well, everyone now knows I can cook awesome Kung Pao Chicken, but KY's cooking skill doesn't end there. Today we shall learn about the famous fried pomphret fish that I make. Of course, recipe included.

The Ingredients:

Pomphret fish x 2, fresh
Shallots (small onions) - 4-5
Garlic - half clover
Ginger - few slices
tomatoes - 3 for decoration
Chilli Padi - according to your taste buds
Oil, salt, and soya sauce

The Steps:

Apply some salt on the fish, make sure it's dry
Heat up the oil, then fry some the ginger, garlic, and shallots in succession
Take out the fried stuff, but leave the oil in the pan
Fry the fish now! If the fish are dry then they won't stick on the frying pan, and oil won't splash out to your beautiful apron. Fry till golden brown
Put the fish on the plate, and put the prefried shallots, garlic, and ginger on top
Cut the tomatoes and decorate your dish
Pour 2-3 spoonful of soya sauce to the fish
PROFIT

Looks best or not? Any hot chicks who wants to date me, you know my email. hehe

Satisfied housemates, AGAIN!

KY can cook - Kung Pao Chicken

2005-07-01T18:51:00.000+08:00

This is how the KY's Kung Pao Chicken looks like, yum!

Just read Peter Tan's blog on his Chiken Kurma. Not to be outdone, I'm going to talk about my Kung Pao Chicken here.

You see, yours truely does not only build pond his own pond (with lotsa help of course), but cooks too. If you are a hot chick digging guys who can cook, please email me your resume, preferrably with photos and body measurements. Thanks.

Now lets get back to the Kung Pao chicken. The recipe is from a combination of mom's advice, over the shoulder peeping at local kopitiam chef, and 4.5 years of intense experimentation while I was at the States.

The ingredients:

Chicken - portion according to the size of your stomach
Dried Red Chilli and Fresh Chilli Padi - portion according to the sensitivity of your tongue
Shallots (small onions) - portion according to how often you want to fart
Ginger - few slices
Garlic - you can never go wrong with adding garlic in anything Chinese
Parsley - for decorative purposes
Soy Sauce, Salt, Dark Soy Sauce - according to taste

The steps:

Heat up the oil till it's like damn hot
Throw in the sliced ginger and chopped garlic, then run away as the oil sparks everywhere
Throw in the shallots, in wedges or in whole, if they're small
Throw in the chillis
Throw in the chicken, fry for a couple minutes
Add in the mixture of your premixed sauce consist of the 3 items mentioned above
Fried till chicken is cooked
Serve with parsley on the top

Simple yet awesome in taste.

The chicks digging it, too

Nothing but empty plate left, best or not?