Hampess

Years ago when I heard that Pak Lah's gonna be the new PM I was like - *sambil shook my head in disbelief* Oh no..What would happen to Malaysia?? To have someone whose IQ's even lower than mine at the helm would be totally disastrous to the country. And I couldnt believe the support he was getting from the rakyat either. But it surely didnt take long for both Mahathir and penyokong2 sekalian to realise that they made a serious mistake by supporting the appointment / appointing him.

Before I continue writing, let me just make it clear that I am not an anti-BN or anti kerajaan. I hate Anwar Ibrahim (before and after he was TPM) and I dont even exercise my right to vote. But if I do, I will vote for the ppl and not the party they represent. And it really pisses me off when ppl say something like - pegi oversea pkai duit kerajaan now nk lawan kerajaan plak. Well excuse me, I always sokong kerajaan ok. But whether I sokong BN or not, that's totally a different story la kan. Yes, I used duit kerajaan but the duit kerajaan didnt come from BN. Its taxpayers' money and people get taxed regardless of their political views.

My blood actually went upstairs when I read that Pak Lah just gave out two exploration blocks to Brunei for free. I never expected Pak Lah to do something extraordinary and bring Malaysia to greater heights, just, you know, continue doing what he does best i.e. sleep and dont touch anything that you dont know. But he just had to, had to you know, be a hero for the Bruneians and made them 1 billion barrels richer. Yes, sure, Malaysia can co-develop the o&g resources in the blocks for 40 years but how bout the land that's lost? I would have nothing against this 'land give away' if its done via proper channels i.e. its proven that it mmg (rightfully) belongs to Brunei. For something like this Pak Lah, u kene la discuss with everyone. Not just those few you knew would angguk to whatever you said. Kalau dah the Agong and Majlis Raja2 pon knew nothing, you tot this country belonged to you alone ke? We should totally dictate a new law act to punish those yg jual negara mcm Pak Lah ni. And our new PM, please say something. Dont tell me Pak Lah told you nothing and just wash you hands off this. I'm sure you were one of his 'yes men' then. And this kind of major blunder makes me wonder..what else did you screw up when you were up there Pak Lah? Fess up!



And it seems like the media isnt covering this enough. To me, this deserves the publicity that Batu Putih garnered. But that's expected of them la kan.

F1 @ Sepang

an outdated entry written longggggggggggg time ago...

On Tuesday, Khalis emailed me and said that we're gonna watch F1 at Sepang this weekend. He got two free tickets but only for qualifying session on Saturday.
I wasnt really excited to go - the heat, the noise, the crowd.. but who knows, I might love it..

We got good seats - Mall Area, Main Grandstand North, Lower Tier. Block N1.20, Row G, Seat 27 & 28. The seats were covered. When he first told me that we were going, I tot - alamak..what if kene duduk kat Hillstand?? So naseb baek arh..
Other than live viewing, we were also entitled to free lunch and tea and transportation (naik bus from KLCC).

It was the first time for me watching F1 live (I wouldnt pay RM1,200 for this - pegi holiday lagi bagus!!) but Khalis been here couple of times already.

So on Sat, we gerak from home at 10am and arrived at KLCC around 1030am and at 1130am we boarded the bus to Sepang. We arrived at Sepang an hour later and it was so hot!! (well, not that I didnt expect it to be).. We jalan2 around first and checked out the merchandise sold. We got to our seats few minutes before the training session started. Our seats were right in front of the starting grid..Bosan2 takde nk buat ape, we collected our lunch boxes first. The food was prepared by Hard Rock Cafe and it was ok and still warm when we had it.

Then the practice session started. The noise was too hard on my ears (not just me, everyone!) so we went out halfway, pusing2 mall area once again and bought earplugs. By now, I was sweating like a pig and everywhere reeked of alcohol. Before we got in again, we bought ourselves ice-cream but it had no cooling effect on us. We were few mints late and missed the starting for Formula BMW. We watched the race till its finished and then we saw the rain coming. Yay!! thats a blessing for me! We were hoping for an early start, but it didnt happen. So we waited until 4pm for the qualifying session to start. I have no plan to write on the qualifying session coz its widely covered in the press.

We rushed to the parking lot as soon as it's over and boarded maybe the first or second bus out.
I dont find F1 as exciting as say, tennis. My FB status few days ago read "..jatuh hati dengan bunyi jentera F1"No, that wasnt me..Khalis hijacked my FB.
I dont mind going to F1 again...but not Hillstand tho..

The tickets
One of the very few photos of the cars (during the race) that we managed to take.
The podium

Project Pentium

Remember my old laptop which had served me well for 4 years? Well, Khalis and I tot that it had rested long enough and its about time we took it out from the closet.
Khalis decided to change the processor so we bought a new processor last night - COD at Jalan Pasar (the dodgy side of KL I never knew!! - Khalis said its not fair to say that its dodgy coz I was only there at night, during the day its quite 'meriah')..Its an old laptop thus finding a compatible processor was a slight headache.

Its quite an achievement even for Khalis. He had worked on hundreds of PCs but its the first time ever he installed a processor to a laptop. Khalis doubted that he would have the patience to deal with all the small parts and the process would be very tedious that we initially wanted to pay someone else to do the installation for us.

He started at 630pm and finished at 830pm

Old processor
New processor mounted on motherboard

Good thing about this new processor is that its intelligent enough to 'speedstep'

Idle mode~~
Working hard~~
We changed the RAM a year ago, today plak processor so next Khalis cakap tuka hard disk plak.. Tuka hard disk is easy peasy..but part nk kuar kn duit susah sket =P

Again!

I will start at a new department next week. Panjang ceritanya but its not my story to tell. I will be back in HQ but am going to do something totally new to me. I'm still not sure of my new job scope, but whatever it is, i dont care la..
However..ade sedeh sket coz I just let go of a great opportunity (good rewards+good career path+something that I've always wanted to do since uni)..
Good news is, I no longer need a car..

Lunch: Summer Palace

I had a great lunch experience today. Actually I didnt know what that lunch was for. I got the invitation and accepted it, no questions asked.

The lunch we had was at Summer Palace, Marriott Putrajaya so we had to drive all the way to Putrajaya from KL. There were supposed to be 6 attendees but two bosses couldn't make it so there were only 4 of us. We gerak at 12pm and because the EVP wasn't around, we got to use his car.

When we Summer Palace, we were escorted to the VIP room and immediately the starter was served. There were 10 dishes for us on the menu. I didnt take any picture there, but I brought home the menu booklet.

Sliced Octopus with Apple Sauce
Stuffed Crab Claw with Salted Egg Yolk
Pan-fried Lamb Rack Cantonese Style
Double-Bolied Hai Fu Shark's Fin in Superior Stock
Steamed Bamboo Fish Hong Kong Style
Smoked Crispy Qing Yuan Chicken
Braised Supreme Whole Abalone with Fish Maw
Stir-Fried Baby Kailan with Garlic
Baked Rice with Seafood and Cheese in Pineapple Boat
Double-Boiled Bird Nest with Six Treasures
I cant comment on the taste but the presentation was awesome.

While having our meals, my colleagues educated me on Chinese dining etiquette/table manners.
I remember the following

1-Seating arrangement
Main host should sit facing the door (oh yes, must book a room and guests shouldnt be treated to meals at common dining area) and the second host on the opposite of the main host. If there are third and fourth hosts, the third one should sit on the main host's 9 o'clock and the fourth one on 3 o'clock. The most important guest is seated on the main host's right and second most important on the left. The rest of the guests are seated (according to rank) in clockwise direction from the second most important guest. The waiter must serve the most important guest first followed by the second guest, third guest and so on.. Guests from China would be offended if these arrangements are not observed. However, many Chinese restaurants in Malaysia (even 5-star hotels) dont know of these things so every time my colleagues bring China delegates out for meals, they always have to educate the staffs of the restaurants first.

2-Napkin as per pic below - under the plate. The rest of the napkin should sit on the lap.
3- When you wanna do the 'cheers' thingy, those of the lower ranks cant raise their cups/glasses higher than those of higher ranks

4-Chinamen pay great attention to courtesy. We didnt have 'personal' waiters for us at Summer Palace but if you go to China and book a room at a restaurant, dont be surprised to see if they allocate 2 waiters per guest.

5-Declining a toast is considered rude. And they dont understand why cant Muslims consume alcohol coz they've seen lotsa Muslims do.

6-The glass for toast should be full and it must be emptied

I was shocked when I saw the bill - it was more than RM900 per person. As for the total, multiply that by 4. Khalis didnt believe me when I told him that. He said he'd eaten at Summer Palace before and it wasnt that expensive. True - New Year's Eve buffet was only RM140 there and even I myself wouldnt believe it either if I didnt see it with my own eyes.

We reached the office at 300pm and now I'm kenyang gile..

Dinner 230310

Khalis wanted to have spaghetti last night.. He said..dah lamaaaa nk makan my spaghetti.. So I prepared carbonara for him (menyesal plak rasanya x ambik gamba..but takpe..its just carbonara je pon).. Khalis finished 2 pinggan of spaghetti and I ate 1/3 of what he had.

My fav drink in the entire universe is Coconut Shake. Imagine my surprise when Khalis said he never heard of it. Perhaps it only exists in the East Coast? coz I've never seen it in KL. My earliest memory of Coconut shake's when I was 8. maybe 9 or 10. I first had it at Kada Stop Salor. I think it was invented by Kada coz it was only 1 or 2 years after Kada Stop that I started seeing it being sold everywhere. But the taste's never as good as Kada Stop's.
So last night I prepared Coconut Shake for him. 1 coconut gave me 4 glasses. I used kelapa pandan, so the coconut taste wasnt as strong as normal nyer kelapa. But the result was still good. At least better than pasar mlm kt kg nyer. And Khalis loved it!!

Pulut Mangga

I made pulut mangga tonite. It wasnt my first attempt, but the first one didnt turn out really well so I gave it another go tonite. Khalis said that it could be because of the santan - I used santan segera. So this time, I bought shaved coconut instead and squeezed santan out of it myself. And I tell you, it was such a painful experience I have no wish to go through again. My hand hurt so much!

We also changed the mangga. Last time we used waterlily and this time we experimented with mangga madu and mas hitam. We concluded that the pulut's best with mangga madu.

Celcom B.band

One of the 'benefits' that I got being in my old dept was this.

But I handed it over today. My transfer was effective Feb 2010 but I still kept it for approx. 2 months, when I had no right to..hahahha.
I hardly used it - only when I went traveling and balik kg. Or when I wanted to download music/video files at the office. So farewell you little one. You had served me well.

On a separate matter, I went out for lunch with friends from my old dept today. Got myself good gossips, good food and good company (pls note the order..hahhah =P)..

Saturday 140310

I just stay at home today.

But I went out yesterday with Khalis and his family. First we went to see Alice in Wonderland. Was planning to watch this Fri last week but I couldnt get to KLCC on time. Anyway, Khalis and I went to Tropicana first and collected the tickets for everyone. They bought 8 tickets online when there were actually 7 of us. I found the movie ok2 only. Khalis said x best. I'd give 3 stars out of 5.

His parents went to a kenduri afterwards but they tapau Kenny Rogers for lunch for everyone. Khalis and I plak pegi drove round2 poli (me drove, Khalis komplennnnnnn aje) to perfect my cornering skills. And then Khalis and his bro went to pick up the hard disk he sent for repair and window shopping brg2 komputer.

At night we went out for dinner. To celebrate his bro's recent success in SPM (all A's) his dad brought us to One World Hotel. His uncle's family joined us too.

So yeah, my diet was ruined yesterday.
1-Sausage Roll for breakfast
2-Caramel popcorn + mirinda oren+ nugget while watching movie
3-1/4 KR roasted chicken
4-Buffet dinner

Super Junior

Back in 2008 Khalis promised me that he'd bring me to this particular concert. No, he doesnt like Super Junior. In fact he doesnt listen to anything he doesnt understand.


But now, 2 years later and 15 days to the concert, I dont feel like going.. Why? Saje malas..

Cubaan membuat roti 2

I baked again on Saturday. and I got better results this time - success rate of 75%. The bread's no longer moist, the fluffiness improved but not yet satisfactory. Khalis was neutral about my bread - he didnt mind eating it and he appreciated the effort.

This time
1-Proofing of 2 hours.
Did the dough miracle! It was a lot less stickier and easier to shape!

2-Baked longer with lower temp
The dough was slightly burnt (I mean now I got the brown colour on top)

3-Dissolved all small-quantity items in water
No more lumps!

Honestly I dont know what else to do to get better bread other than
a) buy a bread maker
b) buy new oven

For now I just make do with my bread ni je lah

Cubaan membuat roti

I was very ambitious today. I could hardly bake a cake but I skipped that and went straight to bread.

I baked roti paun

Verdict: 65% success
The taste was ok..But the texture definitely x jadi. Wasnt really fluffy and its slightly moist.
I wonder what the prob could be..
1 - The Oven?
I used microwave oven so I dunno where the heat came from. top? bottom? sides? all direction? (ok, tipu la x tau kan..the heat comes from top..but the distribution? ok, I dunno what I'm talking about) mebi when it comes to bread, the heat must come from specific direction
2-The Kneading
I used my hand. And I could still feel lumps of butter+flour.. Will try using mixer next. But dunno if mixer's strong enough for the dough
3-Too much flour?
I didnt weigh the ingredients.. Just campak2 je..
4-Didnt allow enough time for proofing?
Ok, will try 2 hours next time

One of my friends is a bread+pastry+cake expert. Was planning to ask her what went wrong but found out today that she's been diagnosed with cancer. Explains why my recent emails were not replied to. My heart goes out to her.................

Note:
Beza Bread Softener &Bread improver
Dua bahan dlm membuat roti adalah Bread (atau dough) Softener dan Bread Improver. Dough Softener melembut dan menggebukan roti sementara Bread Improver membuat ia mudah kembang.

Today's gotta be one of my happiest days this year. On Thursday, I ran an errand for Khalis. So after I was done, I said - you have to bring me shopping this week. So he agreed.
So this morning, we went to 1U. And for the first time (I'm thinking in my whole life) he just followed me as I entered and exited the shops in 1U. He didn't complain, not one word and even gave me suggestions!! You see, Khalis hates waiting - 5 mints late and you'll see him fuming. and hates doing pointless things - like go shopping without having any idea what to buy or trying out clothes and end up buying nothing. I did all those 3 today and he was still ok and even drove that extra miles to Kinrara R&R so that we could have our satay. Yes, guilt is a powerful tool, ladies and gentleman.

Anyway, what made me super happy was not that he brot me shopping. But...
because I found this one thing that I'd been looking high and low for in the last 2 years!!
All in all, I'm very happy with the stuff that I bought today.

I'm not kaki shopping.. Usually I buy like, 1 top/month..I'm a minimalist and I hate having too many things. I use all my shoes/handbags until there's no more wear left then baru beli new ones. But sometimes (like today) I just feel like gatal2 tangan nk shopping..

Cameron Highland Trip: Day 3

We checked out at 1000 and drove up to Kea Farm. First we bought fried mushroom then we bought lotsa vegie (some still in the fridge at the moment), strawberries, corn and another bottle of honey. Then we said goodbye to Cameron.
Khalis drove down the hills and when we reached Tapah, I took over and drove until Tanjung Malim. We stopped at Tanjung Malim en route for the famous Yik Mun pau. This Yik Mun pau is so wait for it..LEGENDARY (How I Met Your Mother, anyone?) and maybe the best in Malaysia. I never had a pau any softer and fluffier. The filling's generous too. Having the pau really brot back memories. I remember eating the pau with Khalis in Tanjung Malim, tepi longkang summore, during our college days.

Office Warming

On Thursday, we had office warming party at where else, our office la rite. Actually not my office, their office la..coz me, I'm just menumpang je kan..It was during lunch and they invited about 50 ppl. They had been planning this for weeks and my colleague who's sitting in front of me called the caterer (almost) everyday in the two weeks I've been here. So naturally ppl thot that I was part of the team and I only clarified this to the ppl I knew. I didnt want ppl to start asking why I'm here when I'm not supposed to.

So we had yee sang from Maju Palace.
My colleagues were preparing yee sang...

And nasi minyak + ayam goreng berempah + daging masak biryani + sambal udang + acar + fruits..

Food was great and I took some home for dinner. We had dinner at 830 and the food was still good. No signs of its gonna go stale in the next 4 hours or so

Cameron Highland Trip: Day 2

Ok..now we move on to our 2nd day in Cameron Highlands.
We went Ee Feng Gu Bee Farm first thing in the morning. No breakfast whatsoever. The bee farm was located further up Kea Farm .
Well yesterday I suggested to him that we go to one of the bee farms in Cameron. and Khalis just said no without much thinking. Said that bees would sting us..yeah, right. I didnt know what got into him that night but he suddenly googled for bee farms in Cameron and was adamant that we visited the biggest one (Ee Feng Gu) first thing in the morning

Small boxes (cant have hives here, can we?) for bees were everywhere.. The bee farm was ok2 la..nothing like fairytale..I dont know, but I think that there're not enough flowers for that many bees in the farm. Before we left we bought one big bottle of wild honey and one small jar of royal jelly
Khalis: Tgk, lebah ni posing utk kita lah!!


Then we went to Kea Farm market. Parking was a bitch. We had to go up and down the road twice before we found a spot behind a bus. Again, I bought fried mushroom. We just pusing2, see what they got there and before we went to our next destination, we bought bebola2 and corn cup. I must say this - Its the best corn cup ever!! The corn itself was reallllllllllllyyy sweet. When I bought corn cup in KL or where ever, I always asked for extra susu pekat.. I dont usually take sweet things - but in the rare occasion than I do, I prefer them to be super2 sweet.

Then we went to Big Red Strawberry Farm - Taman Agrotourism Cameron Highlands. Its big, but its really steep going up the hill and even steeper going down... (if its not steep, it aint Cameron).. Good thing was we were allowed to drive up the hill. So we saw lotsa veggie and fruits, some at their peak, some seeing the world for the first time. The cactus here was so cheap - small ones: 6 for RM10. I actually wanted to buy a few, but I wasnt so sure where to put them. There's a shop at the top and I ordered fresh strawberry juice. And guess what? Big mistake. Yes, strawberries in Cameron might look soo red, juicy, and so enticing. But they're anything but sweet. So I had no choice but to finish my RM4 sour strawberry juice (sayang duit ok!!). Khalis had strawberry milkshake which was really good.
Some pics from the farm..



Khalis had been mentioning KFC since yesterday, so when we got to Brinchang, we went to KFC. I got myself toasted twister and Khalis plak ordered this new set with shrimp nuggets. After KFC, we decided to go to Air Terjun Sungai Bisik only to be greeted by locked gate. So we went back up and stopped for a while at Cameron Valley Tea Shop (Bharat). Seriously, do not buy anything here. They sold 2 scones for RM12. There's absolutely no way a scone could cost more than RM2. Just flour, milk, sugar, salt, raisin and butter. No imported cheese whatsoever.

Then we went back to our room. We lepak2 and at night we went out for dinner. We went to the same Indian restaurant we went the night before. I ate cheese nan and chicken tikka and khalis ordered plain nan and chicken tandoori..Then we watched this Brit movie 'An Education' in our room. The movie's not bad at all. Everyone with teenage daughters aged 14-20 should make their daughters watch this at least once. Preferably with Taylor Swift's Fifteen played on the background.

Cheap lunch

There's this place downstairs where I can get Lunch for RM3.50. RM3.50!! Where else in KL can u get lunch for RM3.50???.. ok la..kat stalls by the roadside can la right?? but proper restaurant with aircond??No, right?
So this place has aircond, tables and chairs made of solid wood and half the of crews are Malaysians..Would you say no to a place like this that serves lunch for RM3.50?? I, for a fact, tapau my lunch from there like 4 days a week..saves me lotsa money..
Khalis never spends less than RM7 for lunch..and thats with just plain water.

Cameron Highlands Trip: Day 1

We're now at Cameron Highlands - honeymoon no 4. I'm writing this from our room..

Cameron Highlands Day 1 (Friday):

I went through a hard time few weeks ago. Thats why Khalis brought me to Umbai and planned for our Cameron trip this week.

We left home at 1030. At first he drove and then I drove from Rawang to Tg Malim. And he continued until we reached Tanah Rata. I havent been to Cameron for years and I didnt remember how bad the road was. Long and winding journey! Khalis was an extremely good driver. Its the first time in my whole life that I actually reached Cameron without even the slightest bit of nausea. When we got there, naturally, we checked in first.

The hotel is just 2 mints away (by foot) from the main road (or the city itself). Our room is ok. A lil bit small but its clean, pretty basic but we get what we need. Most of the guests here are mat salleh and I was surprised that the hotel (actually its not a hotel la..guesthouse je la kot) is fully booked.

The temp outside is just nice but a lil bit colder in our room. The room doesnt have aircond or fan coz there's no need for one. And the air is so fresh!

What we did during the day:
We planned to have our lunch in tanah rata but accidentally drove all the way to Brinchang! We went to one of the foodcourts and I had rice+telur bungkus+tea and Khalis had nasi goreng kg+tomyam+horlicks. Traders/farmers were setting up their stalls when we got there, so we checked out some of the stalls. We bought fried mushroom (I love cendawan goreng, I love cendawan goreng, I love cendawan goreng, I love cendawan goreng!!) sweet potato,jagung bakar and 6 packets of dried fruits (so cheap!! just RM10 for 6!!). I could totally live here. The vege is super cheap - Ten packets for RM12!!

Dried fruits


Then we went to Boh. Going to Bharat would be easier but Khalis prefer Boh coz its the first one in cameron. when we got there, its already 420 and the teashop closes at 430. But we didnt care and ordered our food anyway. We loved the surroundings. Everywhere was green and the aromatic scent of tea.

View from the parking lot
The tea shop

Scone! A must have here (baru feeling UK sket)
Then we went to the view point. The journey up the hill was 174m and we got there panting coz its really steep.

View from the View Point
Spot the head!


We didnt do much at night. Had our dinner at an indian restaurant in tanah rata. I ordered chicken soup and khalis ordered mee mamak. Then we pusing2 town - went in and out all souvenir shops that were opened but bought nothing.

Its really cold at night. Now I'm shivering in my room

Umbai Trip

I wrote this last week which means it actually happened 2 weeks ago

Khalis wanted to cheer me up so Saturday last week he suggested that we spend the night elsewhere. We discussed the options available and decided to go to Bagan Lalang.. While packing our things, Khalis suddenly changed his mind and decided to go to Umbai instead. There was only one hotel/chalet in Umbai that we could find on the net.. I was lil bit unsure coz we couldnt find any pics of its rooms.. but we booked a room there for 1 night anyway.

We gerak at 12pm and reached bandar hilir at 2pm. I'd never been to Melaka before (I mean, like really visit the places there).. I didnt really take lots of pic in the city..coz being listed in Unesco World Heritage City its not like the city's gonna change pon. I wanted to try nyonya food, but we're both not familiar with Melaka city so we ended up having lunch @ the foodcourt in this new mall at Dataran Pahlawan. So we had nasi ayam penyet and bakso soup. Nothing special with the food I guess..


We arrived at the chalet at 345pm.. From outside it was ok..It had a kampung feel to it..See the pics below..not bad eh?


Our room


But once we got into out room, it was totally a different story...Lets just say this - I've never stayed in a room any worse than this. I couldnt even bring myself to take photos of the room. and I dont wish to disclose the name of the establishment coz it could be pretty damaging to them as there are lotsa ppl out there who are like me - decide on the place to stay based on the reviews we read on the net. Plus, its a bumiputra-owned.

I kept thinking maybe its bcoz we got the worst room. Our room was the only room in the reception+dining hall building itself. They had the music on most of the time and it was really loud. The dining hall was above our room. My suspicion was that its the kitchen area coz we could hear screeches and loud bangs on its floor (i.e. our ceiling).. They did very lousy job with the paint and there're cracks on the wall. Right next to our window was the main walkway and there were few benches where other guests/employees often lepak2 at. We could hear every single thing they were discussing.

The bed and pillows were really hard. And the pillows were flat and dirty (without the cover) that if I post the pic here, nobody would go there. And the toilet - it wasnt exactly dirty, but was built with the cheapest stuff they could find on earth.

I'm not fussy. In the past when we went traveling we always chose cheap B&Bs...but this one was really really bad

The sole reason we went to Umbai was for the seafood. I tot that Umbai Terapung was the only seafood place in Umbai but there were actually a few of them. Khalis called his dad and he recommended the very first seafood place in Umbai, Parameswara at Umbai Pernu.

We ordered:

Fruits

Otak2

Siakap Bakar Plain - The siakap there were all huge.

Sotong Goreng Tepung (This was just sekor)

Pari Bakar Sambal

Razor clam masak sambal

We only ordered 4 dishes and still, we couldnt finish all.

And my verdict. Not the best I've tried. Everything was only so-so. And I aint coming back. and its not just me. Khalis too.

So we played this game - How Much. And I won. Khalis's number was RM20 higher while mine's only RM4. (both of us had no knowledge of the price/kg of everything). When it comes to money-related stuff, I'm always right. And he knows that he's no match for me.

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my birthday!!

So yesterday Khalis belanja me pre-birthday dinner. I got to choose the place. At first, we agreed on VS. Then in the afternoon when my head was clear and I could think properly, I had a change of mind. I dont like western cuisine that much, and when I said VS, I actually wanted just their soups. So we went to Sakae instead - familiar place and familiar food. I actually planned to eat a lot - but there's only so much sushi one can eat. (I really dont get it. when I make my own sushi, 5 rolls are never enough. But when I eat outside, I cant even finish 10 pieces.)

And earlier that day, I had pre-birthday lunch with my Cardiff homey,Umi. We went to this Burmese restaurant at Sogo. Food was ok and I had a great time catching up with her + korek2 gossip about other Cardiff people.

My colleagues actually planned to buy me a cake (a surprise) but bcoz of the shocking announcement, everyone just xde mood.

And me, I decided to to give myself something that lasts forever - ilmu.

I feel that my english is below par and something needs to be done pronto. I hope to improve my grammar and write better.

But I'm the happiest today coz Khalis just gave me a birthday card. I love cards from him. Nobody writes like he does.


And we're gonna have birthday lunch today. again, Khalis let me decide. and I chose satay - something that we both love.