on Sayonara to 肉骨茶，芒果捞，点心，BBQ鸡翅膀和Ramli Burger。。。

*Have this song ringing in my head as I'm writing this entry *

Reach Sentral KL early in the morning around 7.30-ish - lemme tell you, sleeping on the upper bunk on the overnight train is not much restful, as compared to sleeping at the lower bunk! Nearly led my friend to wander around KL, as we sough to reach our destination at Puduraya. Turns out one does not stop at Station Pudu to get to the bus terminal. Think must be the grogginess of not enough sleep. Thank God that we still managed to get to our stop, even though we paid the train fare for a few more stops.

We're supposed to check in our hotel around 11 am. So we dumped our luggage at the hotel reception and went gai gai around "Ji Cheong Gai", Chinatown area. Had 皮蛋粥 with 油炸鬼and 冬瓜茶 (Century-egg with pork floss congee 与 "oil fried ghost"/fried dough stick 和 winter-melon juice) that's quite average. Sat there for quite a while to people-watch, before walking 1 round round Chinatown. Went back to shower and sleep at the hotel. My friend arrived with another friend, who is a food connoisseur. She took us back to almost the same spot and let us tasted great wonton mee (云吞面)! I nearly wanted to lick the plate clean of its gravy.

After that we went shopping for beads, as my friend is going into the beading business. She haggled and bargained for almost an hour. Me and my friends were just amused her making the proprietors sweat with her buying tactics. After the long wait, my friend rewarded us by taking us to sample the "best tiramisu in KL". And I must say, it's worth every cent of the RM25 price. Not only the quality of the cake, but also the ambiance and setting of the place - I felt almost out of place with my jeans and sandals in the nice, nice hotel lobby. Plus, it was a good time catching up with old friends and new alike, cracking silly jokes and ribbing one another.

Well, to make room for more tummy space for dinner afterwards, my friends took us shopping around town, and we walked and walked and walked and walked... :D It was a good and cheap way to exercise. We didn't go to the usual place at Jalan Alor for dinner this time round, as my friend said we should try something new. Her friend (our new friend) recommended a new place for BBQ chicken wings that were even better than the ones found at Jalan Alor! Amazing!! Then we "tabao" the chicken wings and went to another place for steam-boat. Ate for about an hour, just cooking the food slowly in the steam-boat and chatting as we ate. Then our new friend again took us to a great desert place for shaved-ice with mango sago (芒果捞)~ All in all, didn't stop eating till past 11.30pm ah... :D

The next day, we wanted to go to church for Sunday service. So our new friend offered to bring us to her church at DUMC Sea Park. Took us for dim sum (点心) breakfast before the start of service - so we fed our spiritual man physically before the start of service.  After that, we travelled back to fetch our friend from her place, who chose to go church with us in her dreams.* Our new friend again took us to a marvellous place in Klang for "bak ku teh" (肉骨茶). It seems that over there, the "bak ku teh" is very much different from our Singaporean flavor. Theirs is more of a stewy and broth kind, as compared to ours. I wolfed down at least 1 and a 1/2 plate of rice, and must have eaten 2 big bones of pork flesh with the fat and collagen. Think I frightened our new friend a bit with my voracious appetite.

After that wonderful meal, went back to my friend's place to chill and rest, before heading back to our hotel to check out our luggage, as well as to hunt down my Ramli burger... All in all, it was a good trip~

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* No kidding! She was too tired from her overnight working on her beads, and it actually shows in her beading. There was particularly one string of beads which we found the combination to be extremely weird. So my friend was quick to point it out that the strange assortment probably came around 5am, just before my friend hit the sack. Moral of teh story: Don't do work till so late at night!

N.B. No pictures will be posted up, so as not to cause you all to salivate beyond your imagination.

YouTube - Simpsons 300 Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z4YZnja988
hahahah, a very well-made trailer, if i must say... :P

on up, up and away~ to KL...

yeaps, travelling via night train tonight to go KL. People has been asking me why Kuala Lumpur? Ain't it just like Singapore? Ain't true, my friends... For one thing, the Ramli burger is of a different kind. :P and the dim sum, the dark hokkien mee, the "lala", and the chicken wings~ of so much higher quality! :D Food paradise, here I come...

Names of God - Nathan Stone

http://www.ldolphin.org/nathanstone/
Wow, somebody actually transcripted the whole book! ~

:p A very good read, though the author might seems a bit outdated and opinionated.

on having a great time off last Friday...

in appreciation of our hard work as the organising committee for an even at work, the "president"* of the committee managed to get us an afternoon off last Friday. On top of that, he invited us to his place for a barbecue. We had a mix of American and Asian foodstuff. The guys got to leave office at 12 noon to go and do shopping, as well as get the foodstuff that we ordered from online. Haha, I never thought I said this, but its fun shopping at the supermarket, even if it's with 2 other grown men... :p

We went to the venue, which is at a nice little condominium corner in the East. We ate more food upon arrival, cause the hostess' salad was absolutely delicious and fit for a king~ Then had time to chill and rest for a while before going to start the BBQ fire. This was the first time i used charcoal briquettes to start a BBQ fire. According to my colleagues, these kind of fuel is better cos it's more hygienic in the burning process, and gives off less soot. Well, whatever it is, it's still charcoal, and we got our hands dirty while starting the fire. The weather looked as  if it was about to rain, but we prayed to God that He'll let us have a good evening for BBQ instead. And He did :D The rainclouds were sped on their way farther out, but it still wasn't easy to start the BBQ.

After the fire was started, we started to cook our food in earnest. There were 2 pits, and I took care of 1 pit, cooking the otah, the satay and the sting rays. The other pit was taken care of by "Mr. President" who was cooking generous slabs of beef for the 10 of us. Think the Americans have a different idea of "barbecue" from us. For them, as long as they have beef  and corn, that's a BBQ enough for them. For us Singaporeans, we must have our bee hoon, chicken wings and satay. :D Well, as with most BBQs, we had too much food prepared. That was why I volunteered to do the coking, so that the eating can be left to others :p But i must take my hat off to "Mr. President". He just used salt to season the beef^, and it tasted fabulous~ Must learn how to cook from him liao...

We ended the BBQ by 7pm, because we had been cooking and eating for 2 and a half hours since then. After that, me and another colleague hit the swimming pool to do some exercise**. After that, we had a wonderful shower and sauna at the men's changing room - we must have spent about 45 minutes in total, 'cos we went to the sauna room twice!

 

 

 

 

Well, we rejoined the rest of those who stayed for a round of Häagen-Dazs® ice cream. We had Rum Raisins, as well as Belgian Chocolate, topped with Hershey's syrup~ To end the wonderful meal, we looked through our hosts' (Mr President's and his wife's) pictures when they were younger. Man, I wanna go to Montana and visit the mountain ranges!

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*well, his official title should be "chairman", but it's more fun for us to call him "Mr. President"... :p

^Initially he wanted to buy for us corn-fed beef, which costs about S$35 per chunk. But we told him to have mercy on our stomach, 'cause our Asian stomachs cannot really take all that red meat. :p He gave a succulent slab of medium-cooked meat, with a tiny region of pink meat at the centre, with fantastic marbling and chunky fat at the corner... man, my mouth's salivating even as I recall the taste... mmmmmmmm

** as well as to get rid of the grime and oil off our bodies... NOT! We're not so disgusting la. We did shower ourselves before going in to swim :p

on a week of no-blog...

well, been a while since i last updated on my daily activities. Too much work, too little time :P well, am glad I manage to catch up with my datelines at work, by HIs grace. Now taking a breather after lunch to come in and just relax a bit. Onto my postings!~

the mrbrown show: it’s all in your mind.

http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2007/07/26/the-mrbrown-show-its-all-in-your-mind/
hahaha, juts reminded me of the hypnotism scene in Austin Powers:International Man of Mystery.

"You will get me an orange-flavored sorbet"
"You will see 2 fishballs instead of 1"
"You will see there is no price increase"

Scary... (^^ s)