..at the crossroads..

..i'm at a junction, quite uncertain whether i should turn..left, right, or forge right ahead?..

..it's been really great the past few months but like they always say..all good things must come to an end..

or must they?

why does it always have to end up like this? why cant it feel eternally wonderful all the way..?

..maybe it's just a roller coaster ride..and i'm just having a blast going through the ups and downs and the twists and the turns..maybe this train will still reach its destination after all ... or maybe i'm just headed for the ....

u want pussy? u want??

.."mixed breed" pussy cat available for adoption. name's mr momo. he's a 2 year old kitty cat, very handsome, toilet trained on most days, entertains himself most of the time (you know what i mean..?? wink2 :OP) .. anyone interested, pls let me know.. hehe

it's good to the last drop..!!

..no, i'm not talking about the shell V-power petrol here..nor am i talking about anything remotely naughty for that matter..hehe

it's just my recipe for a most delicious Yum Yum creamy tomyum shrimp noodles, a most ingenious concoction that will take you to tingling taste-buds heaven in 3 minutes !!

so..this is how u do it..(pls follow steps very2 closely, one misstep and disaster awaits you !!)
















1) first, take a nice deep porcelain bowl, break an egg into it, do not stir
2) then add about 350ml of hot boiling water gently
3) then add the seasoning that comes with the pack
4) put the whole ensemble into a microwave
oven and cook on high heat for 90 seconds
5) now, take out bubbling hot tom-yum soup and add the noodles, plus throw in a half teaspoon of crispy prawn chilli. take a second to smell its distinct aroma, then..
6) put the bowl back into microwave and cook on high for another 90 seconds
7) take out the almost finished product and add a bit of fried shallots for extra ooomph..


and now, it's ready to give you unspeakable gastronomic delights...woot3 !! (now..if only i had 3 huge prawns to cook with..)



so simple, yet so fabulously delicious... i always wonder why the Thais are so good at making their instant noodles. our local brands just pale so much in comparison..haih..

aiyooooo....

...this has got to be the best fried chicken i have tasted so far, i think.. hehe

was at Tropicana Mall yesterday to watch a movie (Tron) but before that had dinner at the ChicKing outlet. wasn't really expecting much even though i was really enamoured with the posters of their fried chicken on display. had to be careful after the con by the fake cheesy potato the other day. nowadays, must never be too trusting of nice foody pictures..haha

so i ordered a two piece set that came with mash & coleslaw but asked for an exchange for 2 mash potatoes instead. my initial apprehension was proven right again when i opened the covers to the mash potato cups. they were so watery they were like potato soup..aiyooo. too much gravy or not enough potato? hmmm..But..one taste and it made me feel better. i even ordered some french fries to dip in the potato "soup".. maybe they purposely made the mash potato that way, so one can have a pseudo-soup or have it as potato dip, at the same time...hehehe

what came next truly made my day. from appearance, the chicken looked just like any other hot & spicy fried chickens out there, not extremely impressive. but one bite and i was in fried chicken heaven. it was crispy on the outside (everyone in there was making so much "krok2" sound), with soft tender meat on the inside, and the taste was rather quite exquisite..had a bit of spicy taste to it with a hint of garlic..yummmeh.. the only let down was i asked for a thigh and wing but i was given a wing and a breast. a bit strange that people working in chicken outlets cannot differentiate chicken parts..and the fries were quite on par with McD's if not better i would say.. they were quite good actually, very crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and most importantly, without that artificial potato taste..







<------- very clean looking fries, not oily or soggy.. if only i had some cheesy dip to go with them, would have been absolutely orgasmic..hehe ... and oh btw...Merry X'mas ya...

Oh..quick..guess what ?

..i got my HTC Desire HD smartfone about a week ago. been keeping really quiet about it coz i wanted to play around with it first before giving my opinions..

well...so far, so damn good ah..!! actually, IMHO, it's probably one of the better if not the best smartfones to have come out from HTC. i'm still having loads of fun exploring all it's capabilities. My only gripe, err well, got two actually...is 1) the battery life really sucks. lasts about a day or less when i use the browser actively, with social networking in between, make a few calls here & there etc..wish it would at least last 2 days or more. even when i switch off the internet connection and all background auto-sync processes, i could perhaps stretch the standby to about 3 days max. well..with a few sms messaging and a few calls done & maybe played a short game or two... 2) the battery & the SIM/SD covers look a bit retarded and not really compatible with the rest of its body, not exactly an engineering marvel i would say..but what the heck..the android 2.2 with the HTC sense UI still amazes me..

but...otherwise, i like the big 4.3 inch screen, the display bright & sharp enough despite being an LCD and not an AMOLED screen, the 8MP camera took really good pics, plays videos wonderfully but the speakers were a bit of a letdown...even when volume is pushed to the max. guess using a headphone would resolve this. switching between apps was really fast, the browser connection and downloads were just as good too. i'm still learning to use the navigation app, so cant really tell how good that is yet..but i'm sure it'll work quite well..

anyway, if you guys have a bit of money to throw around (like about rm 2299..), you might want to go check this phone out. i hear the demand is much much more than the supply can handle at this moment.. so discounts may not be so freely given for now..

but if you are short of cash and yet still want something that looks just as good as the htc desire hd plus having similar hardware specifications, then check this out instead..

..I kinda had expected...

more actually from this event.

considering the fact that we are one of the largest motor vehicle markets in the asean region, the number of car exhibits and the number of players who took part, were kind of disappointing...

i'm talking about this years klims (kuala lumpur international motor show) held at the putra world trade centre recently...or for that matter the annual klims event for as long as i can remember..hmm

the models (cars i mean) on display were either already available on the road or about to be launched, with 4 exhibit halls and a quarter of that space already taken up by proton & perodua, there weren't that much space left to accommodate any other makes..or maybe they just decided it's not worth their while to participate...

anyhow, i guess at rm20 per entry, not much should be expected...and if you can just see the below pics i took, then you would have seen pretty much most of the exhibits at klims..i didnt bother to take every single car model on display as they were like those movie extras, just to make up the numbers or maybe just to fill up leftover space


..but all's not lost when i managed to catch this really cute & funny lady "promoter" (i think she'll scream if she ever hears someone calling her that..hehe) at the asimo (honda) exhibit. she was like talking non-stop while riding on a one wheel anti-gravity, almost gyroscopic-like type of gadget, and wheezing back & forth and across the stage the whole time...chatting about this robotic vehicle that she's sitting on and talking about having insights (that produced the asimo vehicle) that can change the world we live in..(hint2, hmm must also be referring to the honda insight)....oh man, she's such a natural, all those cajoling, and teasing and interacting with the audience..she's good, really good especially when all her facial funnies get shown on a huge projector screen !!....(she's the last pic on the bottom right)..


i actually spent > 30 minutes just listening or rather getting entertained by her.. i believe the organizer should just pay her the rm20/ person entry charge cause she deserves it..!!

a bit of hype..

...and more..

so..i went to watch this movie last sunday with a friend. it wasnt really planned. we just happened to be walking around at berjaya times square and wah lah..the cineplex was right in front of us..and we saw the poster for this movie..

Now Showing "The Social Network"...woot2..we've been wanting to watch it since a while back..and it was perfectly beautiful timing on that day..nothing to do on a sunday, walking around in a shopping complex, no new handphones to buy and too early still for dinner...hmmm


...anyway, it was good from the minute it started to the end when the credits rolled. a pretty good insight into the minds of geniuses (hmmm..as compared to us mere mortals who are more on the idiotic side i guess..hehe), the drive and focused aspirations of these entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams, plus the necessary "wild and treacherous" lifestyles that must accompany such dreams.. :P

in any case, it's amazing to kind of be able to see how a small idea, sparked by an emotional incident, eventually gave rise to a global social networking platform and in turn revolutionizes the way we communicate with each other..wah and they say big successes come from small things..hmmm..so true eh??!! you guys should go see it..

what the...??

..what was that all about?

had gone to watch a movie at the pavillion with a friend yesterday. we were queueing up for the tickets and just really wondering which movie to go for, when my eyes saw this really interesting poster of the movie "Skyline" on the wall and i thought, wow..looks kinda cool, looks like it could be quite interesting..let's go for it..

5 minutes into the movie, i turned to look at my friend with this OMG expression on my face and i had the same reaction from him..urrgg..i think the alien got me there and then, and that was it, until the end of that movie..i was totally stunned, frozen in an alien timeline, unable to move my limbs or keep my eyes open to witness the continuous assault on my numbed senses...i fell asleep.........

here's the trailer link .. if you go see the movie, do let me know if you are just as mesmerised by it.. :OP

anyhoo, i had a pretty nice italian pizza for dinner at the valencia in taman segar after that, so all was not lost despite the gloomy weather and the really2 horrible movie.. hehe

hmm..looks good eh..

but...looks can be deceiving like they always say...

..had a family dinner just yesterday at this little restaurant near my place. as usual kinda crowded and this time i noted an extension to another portion of the building. hmm, business must be good. and i remember the dishes served here to be rather tasty and nice...but that was like about a year ago..and so, we ordered the usual array of seafood dishes and our expectations were reminiscently high..

but alas..we were somewhat disappointed. the dishes came out looking really mouth-wateringly good but when we tasted them, something was missing..we felt it was kinda salty in the deep fried sotong with pepper, the crabs were fresh but were rather tasteless despite the salted eggs added, curry fish-head looked really good but tasted quite bland..

the only one that was nice were the prawns with spring onions, which were fresh & succulent and perhaps coming in second was the stir-fried asparagus & french beans, again probably as a result of the fresh prawns used.

all in all, it wasnt the best dinner we had but considering the price for 7 seven persons at RM232, it was reasonable..the portions were really huge though..

so if you are into huge portions of seafood at reasonable pricing, although not as tasteful as you'd want it to be, you may want to check this place out. maybe you can get lucky with tonnes of other dishes that we didnt try.. :O)


this restaurant located somewhere near bukit tinggi 2, klang..

this just aint ever gonna end..

...right?

just when i thought i had the best and the latest gadget to play with, out comes an announcement of this new toy...aiyoo, looks like i gotta really go print some money...haha

with 7 inches of screen & 16M colours, that's just gonna make my world a lot more beautiful..woot !! on the other hand, it might just feel a bit awkward answering a call & having to slap that 7 inches on my face, luckily it's flat & not long and cylindrical...hahaha

anyhoo, i just can't wait for it to be launched here. just hope the pricing will not require me to go rob a bank.. :o)

folks, you are looking here at the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which i believe will blow both the iPad & iPhone away in one single launch...kekekeke

weird one eh..

..had this weird dream that kept playing the whole night..

..it was like i had a wife and a kid, a nice little family, but i was able to go back and forth in time and view the connections i had with them. and in each period of time, we would somehow come together as a family...through the ages. and in one of those time-porting experiment, i was able to leave a pen mark on my "wife's" hand and fast-forwarded to another time, sure enough, she bore that mark on her hand..woooweeee..this dream telling me something? coz i got no wife and kid neh....hahahahahaha !! on the other hand, i suppose it just kind of confirms for me the probable "existence" of reincarnation, rebirth, recycle whatever (haha), never-ending life yadda, yadda, etc..or maybe it's just my imagination gone wild or perhaps the fear that death would one day consume me and i'm working hard to come up with all kinds of excuses to come back to this world..Oooo..but the thought of having to go first before i can come back is a bit scary,no? Why hasnt anyone come up with any no-need-to die pill??

on another note, my affair with the HTC Desire was brief, very beautiful but very very brief. hehe.. coz i really should have gotten this one in the first place !! but it's better late than never.. kekekeke :) you see HTC, although i like the solid feel of your body, your Sense UI that works so well with android, Samsung Galaxy's super amoled screen and it's built-in 16GB internal memory just bowled me over....and now i can install like a thousand apps on my phone...hehehe !!

























p/s: oh btw, whoever it is that's been leaving comments in chinese on my blog, please note that i dont read chinese & therefore have deleted your comments...bwahahahaha

goodbye and oh..hello..

hehe..

i bid goodbye to my HD2..in return, i said hello to this fella below..























never knew android could be so much fun to play with..so smooth, so fast and best of all, it dont hang like my HD2..hopefully this one stays with with me for a long period of time..

hmm..but i hear HD3's coming out and there's also a Samsung Galaxy 2 in the works.. OO..oo !!

this is nice...

...absolutely tasty and yummy but so so sinful..hehehehe..

i could just about eat this every single day but i dont (need to keep fit ma..)...haha

i have come across many many stalls selling nasi lemak but so far none is comparable to this one..this particular one looks simple, but leaves a lingering taste in your mouth for hours after eating..the sambal is extra spicy with a tinge of sweetness in it, and the sambal prawns are absolutely yummy !! and with a fried egg, cucumber, anchovies and peanuts like what you see in the picture, you could be in nasi lemak heaven for a while. all these for RM3.80 !! the stall is open from 8am until it gets sold out by 10am..so you need to go there early if you want to have all the extras..!!

if any of you guys are in the bukit tinggi area (the one in klang that is..), this table-top stall is right in front of the hong leong bank (on mon to fri only), you cant miss it...

yum..yumm

..see what i had for dinner last night..

strawberry cheesecake with world class chocolate in a cup..a fabulously delicious combination..hehe!!

i'm talking about Baskin Robbins ice-cream here woot2..!!

sorry i've been real lazy, so not much blogging activity of late plus i had to take care of a friend this past couple of weeks so i have not had much time to come up with anything worth talking about..hehe

so until my next post, do go try this combination at your nearest Baskin Robbins outlet..

hmm..on second thoughts, i think i still kinda prefer Haagen -Daz...hehehe

hmmm..while we're on the subject of ice-cream, are you one of those who'd just eat any ice-cream or like me who wouldn't put anything other than BR or HD in my mouth..? i know people who would gladly chomp down an "ais-krim potong" (which to me is more like artificially-flavored ice sticks..!!) happily and still be really contented...i know i will never go for those or even walls or magnolia iced stuffs..eeewww...so gross aren't they? ..hahaha !! what about you?

..more smarties..

...was walking around the digital floor at sunway pyramid yesterday and saw this at the HTC outlet..kinda cute, nifty little bugger.. noooooooo..i did not buy another smartfone although i would have loved to, if only i had unlimited funds...haha..but anyway, just to let you smartfone newbies or wannabees out there know, this one is actually rather cool, very very affordable (ori set at RM 799 only) and gives a pretty good introduction to the world of smartfones..remember the time when u had your first mobile phone? yeah?..and you had that excited & expectant feeling as you contemplated a whole new world of adventures awaiting you...

well, it's the same feeling with a smartfone. a whole new dimension we're talking about here. My advice is.., take it nice and slow....let the HTC Smart be your first love and when you find that you need more out of your smartfone, then you can move on to the HTC Desire or HD2 or god forbid even an iphone (pfft..) as your next gadget..or it could be that perhaps you're just thinking of throwing away that old silly looking nokia, SE or samsung mobile phone that you've had for ages and wanting to try out something new, then rest assured the HTC Smart wont fail you..


..and although it is not in the same league as the HD2, Desire, HD mini etc..etc..it is nevertheless sufficient to get you connected to your friends quickly and very efficiently too, i.e twitter & facebook apps built-in...and of course, what's a smartfone without the necessary camera and 3G connection and this one has them plus a bit more..do check out the specs and if you are near any HTC shop, go ahead, take a look at this beauty, feel the smooth and sturdy structure in your hands, and play with it before you buy... :)


...i had to slap myself silly to control the urge of buying one..hehe....



..

very smart leh...

...haha..i wasn't actually referring to myself although for the most part i do believe i am quite smart except nowadays i don't seem able to quite remember a lot of things. i keep forgetting this and that...hmmm i must be getting old..birthday's coming soon and i'm gonna be twenty eight again..haih..sad isn't it?..hahahaha

this post is about my latest fascination with smart-phones (what else..?? pfft...). I had actually bought myself this phone about a month back and was having so much fun with it until....








this little one came out like 2 weeks later..grrrrr !!! so i decided to hawk off the earlier one and bought this one on the spot...haha. Now, now...I'm still having loads of fun with this one although i do get a little bit of problem now and then with my big fingers on a cute tiny screen...so dont get me wrong....




















it's just that i just saw this new one (see pic below) on the internet the other day and i'm just like totally blown away by the specs (click on view full specs...) 4G, 4.3" screen, Android 2.1, 1GHz snapdragon processor, dual cameras, mobile HDTV, HDMI output...etc..etc..hot damn..!! who wants an iPhone when you got this right?...duhhh..!!


so how?, you tell me...what's a man gotta do with all these amazing technological wizardry??



Buy it lah of course...!!


..the only sad thing is that it's not out yet but won't be long though, i believe before it hits our stores here..

so now...i am anxiously waiting for this one to show up....



Please please please HTC..please release this one here as soon as you can.. don't make me wait..ok?

:)






p/s: err.i could not tahan oredi, so i got myself another HD2. think it's gonna be awhile before the evo 4G comes out and i'm really having a problem trying to squeeze my big fingers on the tiny HD mini keyboard..hehehe