More than Just Food

De Hunan Restaurant 湖南湘菜馆 @ Kuchai Lama, KL

2010-08-12T20:50:00.008+08:00

Mince meat + Eggplant

I had a very full lunch this afternoon with some new friends, it was Sammantha's birthday. It's a surprise lunch! 7 girls 1 guy, 8 dish, 4 appetizer! I've never met so many lady big eaters! Amazing! It was lots of fun! =D

There's no exact name to dishes cos' I had no idea what they ordered. Food was pretty good, but it was excessively greasy/oily, everything was SPICY!!!

appetizer #1 : Pig ears

appetizer #2 : cucumber

appetizer #3 : Seaweed

appetizer #4 : Toufu skin

Fried Egg w/ garlic, onion, chili...

Stir fried cabbage w/ slice pork belly

Glass noodle w/ mushroom

Chicken

No clue?
Very exotic type of mushroom and something else that has a hint of aromatic tea flavor

Toufu + Salted Egg

Fish head in spicy soup

Noodles added into the soup

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No. 2, Jalan Kuchai Maju 6,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
58200, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Business Operating Hours:
11:00am - 11:00pm
Open Daily
Tel: 03-79879318

Pancake - Recipe @ Home

2010-08-11T19:20:00.004+08:00

Butter + Honey

Fresh fruits anyone?

I'm BACK from an extreme long M.I.A... it will happen again since I've been too busy and too uninspired by the food that I've been eating for the past... many months?

Anyways, been having the urge to cook at home ever since I came back from a long trip in Canada. Finally today's the day! it's Pancake Day! ❤

- Ingredients -

1 cup all purpose flour

1 cup milk

1 large egg

2 tablespoon melted butter/olive oil

2 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoon white sugar

pinch of salt

- Method -

Mix dry ingredients & wet ingredients separately, then pour wet ingredients into dry mixed ingredients, whisk well.

Heat up non-stick pan, pour batter mix into the pan about the size of 3-4inch. Cook till lightly brown.

What are you waiting for? Serve while it's still hot!

Topping of your choice: Maple Syrup/Honey + Butter, Honey + Fresh strawberries/blueberries, peanut butter...etc.

Enjoy! ;)

Pacific Coffee Press Conference @ IOI Boulevard, Puchong

2010-05-17T22:12:00.005+08:00

Hey guys!! Been a long time "again". There's not much to blog about recently for I've been really busy building up my career -- Photography. Not always I get to go hunt for yummy stuff nor even try out different recipes and partly I got bored blogging about least happening stuff. Well! This will be some juicy bit! I shot for the press conference of Pacific Coffee this afternoon! Check it out ;)

Friendly services =)

Should try this one day?

Snacks & Bites catering *YUMsss*
*Red Velvet was really good for my 1st experience. The cream-like stuff on top was lightly flavored cheese! Taste really good!

Tartlet
*I tried Mini Triple Mushroom Tartlet, crust is crispy unlike the usual slight/very soggy texture. Filling was flavorful! Nice!

Food Photography by request
-Take 1-

Food Photography by request
-Take 2-

Business Hour :
SUN - THURS & Public Holiday
9.3oam - 11.oopm
FRI - SAT
9.3oam - Midnight

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42-G, IOI Boulevard,
Jalan Kenari 5,
Bandar Puchong Jaya,
47170 Puchong, Selangor.
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Mille Crepe Cake @ Nadeje Patisserie Cafe, Malacca

2010-04-29T18:00:00.004+08:00

I'm back to posting! Gosh... I can't believe how long I've not posted anything until I check my last entry *shamesss*

So yea... the last visit to Malacca I forgot to write about this wonderful Crepe cake that I've tried. I went for the 2nd time yesterday! We tried two flavors this time.

Original Mille Crepe
Lightly sweetened. cream in between every layer of crepe. Great layered texture compared to spongy cakes. Absolutely yummy-licious!!

Double Chocolate Crepe
Chocolaty flavorful! you'll definitely love it if you like "chocolate indulgence" from Secret Recipe.

*from front to back* Manila Bay, Summer Time, Summer Dream
I had no idea why they named summer for both the other drinks, taste nothing like summer! Haha! I find mine (Manila Bay, mango flavor) ALOT more summer than the other two drinks. Taste alot nicer too. lol

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- Where to eat? -
Located above Dataran Pahlawan, Melaka.
Nearby Vior Gallery.
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Gingerbread Man - Recipe @ Home

2009-12-30T13:41:00.003+08:00

At time I'd like to get a little adventurous with food... and to avoid myself from feeling boring this Christmas I've decided to make Gingerbread Man!

- Ingredients -
3 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1 large egg
2/3 cup unsulphured molasses

- Method -
In a large bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and spices. Set aside.
In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg and molasses and beat until well combined. Gradually add the flour mixture beating until incorporated.

Divide the dough in half, and wrap each half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside while you roll out the dough.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1/4 inch. Use a gingerbread cutter to cut out the cookies. With an offset spatula lift the cut out cookies onto the baking sheet, placing the cookies about 1 inch (2.54 cm) apart. If you are hanging the cookies or using as gift tags, make a hole at the top of the cookies with a straw or end of a wooden skewer.
Bake for about 8 - 12 minutes depending on the size of the cookies. Small ones will take about 8 minutes, larger cookies will take about 12 minutes. They are done when they are firm and the edges are just beginning to brown.

Remove the cookies from the oven and cool on the baking sheet for about 1 minutes. When they are firm enough to move, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

If desired, you can press raisins, currants, or candies into the dough for eyes and buttons while the cookies are still warm. Otherwise, confectioners frosting can be used to decorate the cookies. You can also use the icing as a glue to attach candies, raisins, and sprinkles.

*note: It looks very dark compared to the ones you can buy outside cos' the molasses I used is very dark in colour and I added quite a lot to make sure it taste good! The Gingerbread Man of this recipe would turn out slightly softer, unlike cookie.

Enjoy! ;)

Christmas cooking @ Home

2009-12-29T02:30:00.005+08:00

I've been having family gathering marathons for Christmas this year (*actually every year). So guess what? I FORGOT TO BRING MY CAMERA!!! T___T *sobs* so yea... I missed all the good photos of whatever-it-is during Christmas!

Oh well, I still stand a chance to take photo of food that was serve one of the days. Usually you'll get to eat during Christmas... or sometimes during special events such as Birthdays... or... uhm... that's all I guess =p

Chicken Pie
*Family's favorite!! Made by mum.

Roast Chicken Thigh
*with garlic & olive, seasoned with salt & pepper.

Baked potatoes in cream
*this is something no one would ever want to miss! it taste so good it worth every inch of fat gained =p

BBQ Chicken Sausage wrapped in Bacon
*Simple, yet great!

WAIT A SEC...!!

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I FORGOT TO TAKE PHOTO OF THE DESSERT!!!
*Noooooooooo..........!!!!*

just ignore me for a moment while I get disappointed with myself *sobs*

Stay tuned!! Next update would be a baking recipe! Gingerbread Man!

Basic Aglio Olio - Recipe @ Home

2009-12-17T20:21:00.004+08:00

Another day of being alone at home without anything to eat for dinner. It's raining and I couldn't go out! =(

Like what I'll usually do is just have couple of plain biscuit and that's it for dinner! Oh well, sometimes I do whip up something I can find it the kitchen. Hehe... since I've not blog often why don't I cook today?

Here's what I made~

- INGREDIENTS -

Garlic

Shallot

Nice Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Speghettini / Angel Hair

Salt & Pepper for seasoning

-METHOD -

Slice garlic n shallot and dump into "Cold" extra virgin oil. cook in very low heat for 15mins. While doing that, boil pasta too. Season the oil before tossing Hot pasta. You might want to add a little crushed chili for extra kick!

Tada!! You're ready to eat!

Enjoy! ;)

*Credit to my Chef friend Daniyal Goh for sharing me this recipe =)

Visit his blog here ---> Daniyal Goh

Merry Christmas Everyone!! hearts

2009-12-14T15:46:00.004+08:00

Yay! I got rid of my previous blog header image and replaced a Christmas header!! ^^

Anyway... I hereby wish u guys a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!! Be sure to spend some time with your love ones or maybe friends... It's a get together season! Prepare your presents soon cos' Christmas is around the corner~ I don't mind if anyone of you wants to give me a present too *shy* Hehehe! just joking k... =P

Cheers! =D

Milo Ice Cream - Recipe @ Home

2009-12-05T18:40:00.003+08:00

I bought an Ice Cream Maker!!! Finally ♥~ It's not very popular to use an Ice Cream Maker to make your own Ice Cream at home. Maybe cos' Malaysia is just waaaaayy too hot. Oh Well, I'm just too disappointed about the ice cream sold in the market right here. Flavor is limited... quality is hardly up to standard... *sigh* So I'm making my own ice cream~ Yay!!

- Ingredients -
1 1/2 cup Milk
1/4 Sugar
200ml Cream
3/4 cup Milo
2 Eggs

- Method -
In a medium saucepan, mix milk and milo. Warm until foam forms around the edges. Remove from heat.

In a large bowl, beat the egg yolks and sugar until frothy. Gradually pour the warm milk into the egg yolks, whisking constantly. Return mixture to saucepan; cook over medium heat, stirring with a wooden spoon until the mixture gels slightly and coats the back of the spoon. If small egg lumps begin to show, remove from heat immediately.

Pour the mixture through a sieve or fine strainer into a bowl. Mix cream into the custard. Cover, and chill for several hours or overnight.

Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer to a sealed container, and freeze until firm. If the ice cream is too firm, place it in the refrigerator until it reaches the desired consistency.

Add any topping like almond flakes or chocolate rice as desired. And lastly ENJOY!! =D

Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan @ Melacca - Part 2

2009-11-30T15:27:00.005+08:00

So... Malacca is just about eating~ especially for people from KL (let's say Malaysians are all gluttons k? XD)

Spent most of the time at Jonker Street where most of the good food are there. The crowds... the shops... not much on the historical attraction. I prefer hunting for food rather than visiting the historical places since we Malaysians have been studying their history in school since Elementary till High School (Yawn~)

What's next after Beef Noodles? Of course their famous gula melaka Cendol & Laksa lar!!! How can you miss that?!! Penang is not the only best place to eat Laksa k... but anyway I'll visit Penang soon for another Jalan-jalan Cari Makan session. Weeeee~ ^^ I'll let you know which Laksa I prefer after that. Ekekeke...

Look at the crowd!! It's already full house inside and people are still queuing outside. Btw, why is everyone in blue? Such a coincident.

Cendol Aunty very busy now

Hmmm... I felt like ordering almost everything in the menu. Too bad I don't have such a humongous stomach. Owh!! In the menu No.1 is the best!!

Laksa
*it was a lot more presentable before I messed it up becos' I forgot to take photo of it *shame on me* It was nice... better than KL of cos'! the soup was just right! not too thick nor too watery, no heavy stinky fishy taste, the fish they added was definitely fresh!

Cendol
*My favorite!!! I can't stop myself from loving sweet stuff! their gula melaka was SOOOOooo thick even when you mix the whole thing the sauce still sticks on to the spoon and won't melt so quickly! I don't mind having another 2 serving!

Inside the eating place still remains the old style. It adds the extra feel while you eat!

The good ol' days

Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan @ Melacca - Part 1

2009-11-29T03:06:00.006+08:00

Tangkak Beef Noodle Soup

Who's up for beef noodle soup?????!

Here's a place in Malacca introduced by a friend who studies at Melacca for a couple of years already and visited this place many times. They serve good beef noodle specially the one in soup! I don't know about the dry noodles... in my observation there ain't much people ordering any others than their good ol' beef soup noodles... the soup must be their specialty then! =D

The soup has a nice beefy yet not too heavy taste that goes well with their noodles (Mee!面 Beehon 米粉 will suck up all the soup before you can slowly enjoy it!!)

Beef meatballs

I heard it was the original Tangkak beef noodle soup, and really famous too... look at all the reviews they have!

This is not the only place that serves good beef noodles though~ this place is good at their soup. There's one shop located at Petaling Street K.L. that serves really nice dry beef noodles! Hope I'll not forget to bring my camera there the next time cos' I missed it the last few times *shame*

Pavlova - Recipe @ Home (Part 2)

2009-10-25T23:55:00.007+08:00

I'm into making cakes again!! Pavlova again this time! Since I weren't very happy with the previous one I made... cos' I didn't manage to get the *Must Have* ingredient that time, which is Blueberry~♥ Well, I bought it this time, am really please~ *big smile*

I made a smaller portion today due to the lack of ingredients, just too careless. I assumed that there's enough eggs at home while there's only 2! Sheesh... No worries! I'll make a smaller portion! =D

- INGREDIENTS -

Part A (Meringue)
2 Large egg white
8 Tablespoonfine castor sugar (the finer the better)
1 teaspoon vinegar (may be subtituted with vinegar, lemon
juice, cream of tartar)

Part B (Topping)
100ml Heavy Whipping Cream
2 Teaspoon of granulated white sugar
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Strawberries
Blueberry

- METHOD -
In the mixer bowl, start of with egg whites and vinegar, make sure bowl is CLEAN greaseless. Beat the whip attachment on medium low speed until it foams up till the meringue holds soft peak. Start adding sugar a tablespoon at a time and continue to beat medium-high speed until the meringue holds very stiff peak. Test whether sugar has dissolved by rubbing between your fingers. It should not feels gritty of sugar.

Gently spread the meringue inside the circle drawn on the parchment paper (baking paper, grease proof paper, or silicon paper) smoothing the edges. It doesn't have to be perfectly neat, but at least a nice flat top or with higher sides (you might want a slight well center to place whipped cream and fruits).

Put the meringue into the oven and drop the temperature to 120 celcius and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until outside is dry and takes on very pale cream color. Turn oven off and leave it to cool completely in the oven (about an hour or so).

The cooled meringue can be made and stored in cool dry place or airtight container for a few days.

Just before serving gently place the meringue onto a serving plate. Whip the cream in your electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, until soft peaks form. Sweeten with the sugar and vanilla and then mound the softly whipped cream into the center of the meringue. Arrange the fruit randomly, or in a decorative pattern, on top of the cream. Serve immediately as this dessert does not hold for more than a few hours.

Serves 4 to 6

Previous Post ------>> Pavlova Recipe @ Home (Kiwi & Strawberry version)

Almond Cake - Recipe @ Home

2009-10-19T12:55:00.008+08:00

I've been away from my blog for too long... =( cos' I'm working at home, didn't have much time to go out hunt for more yummy stuff. So yea... I'll make my own food at home for awhile. Hehe ^^

Some time ago my aunt came back from UK for a visit and taught mum this recipe to make Almond Cake, without the use of flour AT ALL. Gawd~ It taste too good!! And it's Easy to make, Healthy to eat. So I decided to share with everyone of you ;)

Cooling the cake

Just before I'm about to indulge it =p

- INGREDIENTS -

4 Eggs
190gm Butter
310gm Ground Almond
180gm Brown Sugar (If you don't like it so sweet, u can always cut down)
2 orange zest

- METHOD -

Preheat oven to 180 celcius for 10-15mins

Put EVERYTHING (ingredients) into the mixer and mix well!
Pour into 7" cake tin of whatever shape you like, round or square is good. Make sure the mixture is even.

Drop temperature 160 celcius and bake for about 1 hour.

When it's done. Remove cake from cake tin and leave it to cool. You would like to try it when the cake is still warm! while the outer layer of the cake is slightly crispy! Awww~ taste good to the last bite!

if you eat it the next day, it's taste really moisty with a hint of orange zest. a total different experience u must try!

Enjoy! =)

Portuguese Grill @ Oasis, Midvalley

2009-09-29T22:19:00.005+08:00

Anyone here likes spicy food? I bet there are!

Well, lots of local stalls serve Portuguese Grill, usually seafood. They'll wrap the seafood of your choice in aluminum foil with their own spicy sauce then take to grill. Not only the seafood freshness is important, the spicy sauce plays a HUGE role in this dish. Many I've tried, a lot of them don't keep their seafood freshness up to standard, and most of them did the spicy sauce very bland.

This particular one I had that taste great! Spicy enough, and yet very distinctive flavor. At all the strange places, can you believe that one of Midvalley's food court actually serves such good food? Haha! It's one of the stall inside The Oasis. Food was so good that every meal break people are queuing up to order. Gosh...

Prawn with Ladies Finger & Petai

Squid with Ladies Finger

Only Ladies Finger
*I know I know... you must be thinking I'm hell of a ladies finger huge fan. But NO! not me! it's my mum!

Look at the crowd!
*note: it's a public holiday where most people aren't here. you should visit during the weekdays then you'll know how PACKED it is.

In terms of price in these kinda places (food court), a lil' pricy though... but yea... it's seafood. So, it's pretty much expected.

Owh! Aside from Midvalley, there's another place that is very famous with this too. Petaling Street!! It's located at the center of the whole street, at where the famous "Longan Loh Hon Guo Leong Shui" is. It opens only at night if not mistaken. I'll introduce it more when I come to it ;)

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Midvalley Megamall
2nd Floor, Center Court.
Near the IT area.
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Ah Koong Eating House @ Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah, KL

2009-09-24T17:04:00.005+08:00

During hari raya, alot of shops are closed including those that are run by chinese (I really wonder what has it got to do with them?). So yea, we couldn't think of anything nice that suits my aunt's taste bud until we thought of this place, Ah Koong Eating House 亚坤纯正西刀鱼丸 at Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah, nearby Shaw Parade & Time Square.

Fish Cake, Prawn Cake & Etc
*Like most reviews I heard, the fish cake is really bouncy! Taste very fresh as well, nice~

Noodles Soup with fish cake
*Even though it's clear soup, but it's tasty (hope it's not the MSG)
as for the noodles itself so-so lar... not homemade wut...

Mix Ingredients
*I ordered this, not that I fancy noodles so much =P
Did I mention they put mince meat into the soup too? Nice!

Dry Noodles
*Nothing much about this, noodles very soft.

Generally food is not bad here, anything made of fish paste are great! Oh...!! They even have oyster and abalone there as well, not sure how they cook that. They have curry mee, yong toufu... etc. I'll come back again next time =)

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Ah Koong Eating House
Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah
Near Shaw Parade, behind Berjaya Times Square.
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Yum Char @ Sri Kembangan, Serdang

2009-09-21T14:47:00.007+08:00

There's this kopitiam located right behind my aunt's shop, where all the working uncles around that area will go there for lunch or tea-time. It's a Hakka area, Sri Kembangan. This place serves really good drinks which anything you order it's already extra "KAO", where else can you find such place nowadays in KL?? Lots of mamak stall also milo not enough "KAO" even though you repeatedly said "KAO". Aisay... Cannot lar...

So far this is the best places I tried really "kao kao" milo, teh, kopi...etc. I usually order "3 colour tea" a.k.a 三色奶茶 (sam sik lai char), the best I had in so many other places. Accompanied by my all time favorite Roti Bakar... Ahhh~ Mum will order her favorite drink Kopi-O Ice Tarik! I know her kopi sounded weird, but trust me... it taste great!

3 color tea 三色奶茶

Kopi-O Ice Tarik
*Look at the foam on top? It's not milk, It's Kopi-O!

Roti Bakar
*Something I can never have enough

Anyone up for a drink there lemme know ya ;)
Btw, the kopitiam opens until around 4-5pm only, the other food store will be all closed by then as well.

Don't know what to eat @ The Garden, Midvalley

2009-09-20T19:10:00.008+08:00

Mum had her lunch early before we decided to do some shopping at Midvalley, so yea... I'll have to decide what I'm gonna have for lunch, myself! Sheesh...

We were at The Garden at first, so what I had in mind? Italianese? Nyonya Colors? Alexis? Mum said that I should go on a budget meal... *sobs*... Okay lorr... I'll go for the food court then =/

I've always liked trying different food varieties other than the usual stuff we find in Malaysia. There's an Iranian stall inside The Garden food court, and that is what I always order when I happen to be there. Not that it is really "WOW!!", but I really liked it! They serve kebab with rice, lamb, beef & chicken (I think), I only go for the set with lamb & beef... Yummy~ ^^

Owh!! One more thing... It supposed to be a budget meal adviced by mum...but yea, just this set is about Rm20. Not a budget meal after all =P

Just before we head to Midvalley, I paid a visit to "Delectable by Su" again. They sell very cute, pretty looking, and of cos' DELICIOUS dessert there. Checking out anything new on the shelf... I just LURVE dessert~ Lookie what I found this time!

Gawd... I didn't check what's this called! But what's important is to know that this taste absolutely GREAT!! Soaked sponge cake topped with cream (custard?) & cubed peaces & pieces of chocolate too! Everything goes really well together, fruity... creamy~ chewy! I'll definitely go there and get 1 again! Can't wait!

What else I tried from their shop? Click here --->> Delectable by Su @ The Garden post

Wanna know more about them? Click Here --->> Delectable By Su

Xenri, Japanese Cuisine @ Old Klang Road revisit

2009-09-11T12:37:00.005+08:00

During the 2 weeks stay at Perak, when we talk about food someone mentioned sushi!! Oh gawd... this kept me urging for Japanese food for 2 torturing weeks!!

Oh well, since I'm back for good *at the moment*... I can have Japanese meal whenever I want, right? =D

I visited Xenri the 2nd time. Food was still pretty up to standard *smiles* Check out my 1st visit experience!! ---> Here

Otcha
*a must have for a Japanese meal. Cleanses the oil and it won't make you feel too full!

Toufu
*lightly fried in flour batter, top with crisps of not sure whether it's made of squid or fish and soy sauce. You just have to eat it straight away while it's served! Remaining the nice crispy outer layer while eating with the soy sauce soup! *Mmmm*

Mushroom Chawanmushi
*steamed egg with mushroom. Soft & smooth texture with mushroom aroma makes it tasty and yet clear. Mum's fav ;)

Salmon Sashimi
*freshly sliced salmon , nicely presented and preserving the freshness on crushed ice. You just can't have enough of it! Better if served with fresh grounded wasabi instead of powder form ones.

Saba Shio
*Mackerel salt grill. I wouldn't recommend you to order this here at Xenri, fishy taste is a little too strong. Not sure whether does it have to do with the freshness of the fish? I tried better one at "Zen, Sunway Pyramid" (last time lar...)

Seasoned Jelly fish in vinegar
*My FAV!! this was really nicely done! not too sweet, the crunchiness of the jelly fish is still there. Serve with seaweed... perfect!

Axian Dim Sum @ Bandar Puteri, Puchong

2009-09-09T11:16:00.008+08:00

I was woken up so early in the morning (to me) by mum, it's 9am and I was asked to go have breakfast. Ugh... I'm having insomia and I don't want to get up lar... @@~ Oh well! It's a good thing I tagged along! We went to Axian Dim Sum last week and didn't get to eat it due to the extreme good business and it's all sold out by 2pm. Gosh... madness...

So, here we are!!

see? look at the crowd!
*FYI* borrowed this pic from somewhere else due to my forgetfulness of not taking the facade of the shop.

Consider alot of people for a weekday at 10am... I wonder why aren't they working? *hmmm* Enjoying life is good anyway =D

Char Siew Pao 叉烧包
*a little too sweet for my liking. Avarage for this.

HAR MAI 招牌蒸虾卖
*instead of siew mai. prawns are fresh!

Crystal GAO
*i skipped this. can't stand the taste of corriander (x_x)

Spring roll 虾卷？
*don't remember how this taste. obviously not memorable...haha

Steamed Pork Ribs 蒸排骨
*my favorite! but it's still an average rating for this!

Crispy Salad Roll 沙律脆皮卷
*very crispy outter layer. NO bad oily taste as well. Not bad~

LAUSA Pao 招牌流沙包
*Looks good. Taste good! most youngsters will love it! One bite and the inner creamy slightly sweeten buttery sauce bursting out! Uwah~~~

WU KOK (Yam) 芋角
*Not too bad. but still not the best one I had. Anyone who likes this would try out the one at Bidor, Perak (*note : will update on Bidor)

Salad Prawn 沙律虾
*Prawns are fresh!

Shanghai SIU LONG Pao 上海小笼包
*The soup inside is not bad, taste is quite light compared to others like "Ding Tai Fung" or "i-dragon".

Crystal HAR GAO 水晶虾饺王
*corriander inside. skipped!

Food was quite good! Especially for the dim sum that uses prawns, it's fresh and crunchy! I guess this Dim Sum shop is mainly known for the prawn dishes. Among so many so called famous dim sum places, food is quite good. The way they designed the space is good too! Need not look high class or some sort, it's Simple yet presentable =)

Food : 7/10
Ambiance : 8/10
Service : 7/10 (don't forget I went there in the middle morning of a weekday)

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Axian Dim Sum
25-G, Jalan Puteri 2/3,
Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong, Selangor.
Tel: 03-8063 6866
Business Hours : 7am - 3pm
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Check out Axian's blog! --->> 阿贤人情味 Taste with Jason

Pavlova - Recipe @ Home

2009-08-31T21:21:00.006+08:00

It's been long since I last blogged. I've been away for about 2 weeks and just got back! Now it's time to blog again!! ^^

During the time that I was away, haven't visited any nice places nor search for any nice food... *sobs* What I did was taking up Feng Shui lesson, it's been 2 months now... Oh well, guess I'm back for good!!

Mum bought a new mixer and wanted to try out, thought of baking normal butter cake at first but I thought it's just so BORING!! Since I like Pavlova so much... I'll give it a try =D

Let's see how I did...

Pavlova w/ strawberry & golden kiwi

- INGREDIENTS -

Part A (Meringue)
4 Large egg white
1 cup of fine castor sugar (the finer the better)
1 teaspoon vinegar (may be subtituted with vinegar, lemon
juice, cream of tartar)

Part B (Topping)
1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1 1/2 tbsp of granulated white sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Fresh fruit - kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, passion fruit, peaches, pineapple, or other fruit of your choice

- METHOD -
In the mixer bowl, start of with egg whites and vinegar, make sure bowl is CLEAN greaseless. Beat the whip attachment on medium low speed until it foams up till the meringue holds soft peak. Start adding sugar a tablespoon at a time and continue to beat medium-high speed until the meringue holds very stiff peak. Test whether sugar has dissolved by rubbing between your fingers. It should not feels gritty of sugar.

Gently spread the meringue inside the circle drawn on the parchment paper (baking paper, grease proof paper, or silicon paper) smoothing the edges. It doesn't have to be perfectly neat, but at least a nice flat top or with higher sides (you might want a slight well center to place whipped cream and fruits).

Put the meringue into the oven and drop the temperature to 120 celcius and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until outside is dry and takes on very pale cream color. Turn oven off and leave it to cool completely in the oven (about an hour or so).

The cooled meringue can be made and stored in cool dry place or airtight container for a few days.

Just before serving gently place the meringue onto a serving plate. Whip the cream in your electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, until soft peaks form. Sweeten with the sugar and vanilla and then mound the softly whipped cream into the center of the meringue. Arrange the fruit randomly, or in a decorative pattern, on top of the cream. Serve immediately as this dessert does not hold for more than a few hours.

Serves 6 to 8

Recipe reference from --->> joyofbaking.com

Paddington House of Pancakes @ The Curve

2009-08-13T16:35:00.004+08:00

My 2nd visit to Paddington House of Pancakes!! My camera ran out of battery the 1st visit so I didn't get to post it! *sobs* Oh well, since I visited again couple of days back now there's photos of it! =D

Passion Soda? Soda Passion? (forgotten the name)
Very aromatic passion fruit taste with hint of tingling soda, a drink where I'm sure most people would love it!!
Highly Recommended!

Lamb Chop (forgotten the name as well)
The lamb is not well marinated, almost tasteless & most of all not tender enough. The pancake that comes with it taste alright, fluffy with a lil' potato taste to it.

Steak with Fruits & Vege along with Passion fruit sauce (forgot the name again)
This could be one of their best seller for steak. I absolutely love the steak when u pour the passion fruit sauce over, Yummy!! Very different than the common black pepper sauce we use to eat.
Definately recommended for people who loves steak =D

I'll surely visit again when I have the time! I can't wait to try more of their food! Their menu have so much varieties that you just can't decide what to it. Especially having the main course looking like dessert as well is so so so tempting! *hearts*

Mango Frozen Yogurt - Recipe

2009-08-11T17:02:00.010+08:00

"Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour"

- Ingredients -
2 cups plain yogurt
1 1/2 cup fresh mango, cubed
1 tbsp maple syrup

- Method -
Lay the cubes of mango in a single layer on a baking sheet, and freeze for at least 4 hours (alternatively, use frozen mango).

With a blender or food processor, blend all ingredients until smooth.
Serve immediately or place in the freezer until ready to serve.

Serves 4

From --> Craving Greens

Recommended food blogger @ Taipei, Taiwan

2009-08-10T21:36:00.006+08:00

Hey hungry people!! Here's a great blog I found!

Check it out!! --->>> a hungry girl's guide to taipei

She blogs everything about the food she eats around Taipei. Lots of info of where to eat, what's good and what's NOT. Photos of what she had with critics and prices, and of cos' address and map to the place as well!

Shredded Chicken Soup Noodle & Popiah @ Taiping, Perak

2009-07-31T12:54:00.005+08:00

I travel to Taiping every once a year or once every 2 years. Taiping is where my ancestors lived. Peaceful & quiet place, live up with the name itself "Taiping" (means Peace & Harmony). Love the place very much!

I would like to introduce a few local food at Taiping, noodles which is in business for at least 60 years passed down from mother to daughter, and the daughter is now already 70+ years old. Woots!

Here it is!
Opens in the morning until 12pm only.

Simple clear noodle soup with shredded chicken
The soup was tasty cos' I went there late

Bouncy Fishball
I'm not a big fan of fishball

Taiping Popiah have been famous in Malaysia, one of the best one I had was at Taiping! I was told it was very better when it is made before the precious owner, his father. It was sold for at least 40 years.

Popiah stall
(Located opposite "Public" Kodak photo shop)

Popiah
*Yuummy...*

新荣香 Fluffy Kaya Puff @ Ipoh

2009-07-29T16:34:00.005+08:00

An old family friend of ours brought some kaya puff from Ipoh, I was told that it's famous and they sell it for many years already. Gotta be good, aye? =D

Fresh crisp fluffy puff with nice pastry aroma, minus the oily taste.
Lightly sweeten Kaya filling. Puff made in small size instead of the usual big ones, so 1 is never enough!

Rating : 3.5/5

Salted Egg yolk in Lotus paste
Of cos' they sell other stuff than kaya puff! But this is just so-so for me.

Rating : 2/5

Address to Kaya Puff

Pork Satay & Caramel Pudding @ Ipoh

2009-07-26T14:06:00.006+08:00

I told you guys about me not at KL for the time being huh? Well, I'm now at Perak. Eventhough I don't get to online as often as I like, but there are WHOLE LOTS of food to explore! Thank goodness I brought my darling (camera) with me.

I visited Ipoh the first few days I reached Perak. My family's old friend brought us around Ipoh to have breakfast and early tea-break. I didn't take photo of our breakfast!!! T____T the noodles there were so good!! Better clear soup noodle than those in KL.

This is the first time I had pork satay! It's unbelievable cos' we're living in Malaysia, a muslim country where pork cannot be widely sold. They have pork meat satay and pork intestine satay, not bad for a first time experience. The pork intestine satay tasted quite interesting! A little chewy, but not hard to munch. Satay sauce was just so-so lar... nothing to shout about. The best Satay sauce I had was one of the satay shop at Kuala Selangor.

Pork Satay & Pork Intestine w/ satay sauce

Rating : 3/5

The same shop that serves this pork satay is an OLD kopitiam (more than 30years I bet?). This particular kopitiam sells caramel pudding as well! Even more unbelivable! It's sold limitedly everyday, and it has been in business for many many donkey years, and still taste as good as ever.

Caramel Pudding

Rating : 4/5

The caramel pudding has very smooth texture, aromatic eggish milkish creamy taste... with caramel sauce that makes everything taste so good!! something I can die for! Can't wait to go and eat again next time =D

Another thing I ordered was herbal tea with egg. I was like WHAT? Since I've never tried it... no harm right?? When I taste it, it was just normal kopitiam herbal tea lar... with hard boil egg in it. Hahaha... I thought what was it so strange pulaks...

30+ year old kopitiam

I'll keep my blog update again pretty soon... stay tuned ;)

La Zha Mee & Curry Bun @ Port Dickson

2009-07-26T13:13:00.005+08:00

It's been so many uncountable years (Exaggerating =P) since I last been to Port Dickson, around 14 years I think? Ok lar... not so uncountable lar right? Hahaha...

Anyway, I spent 2 days 1 night there, stayed at Avilion PD. The resort is amazingly big & nice!! Ok, I'm not here to talk about the resort. Let's get back to food shall we?

On the way heading back to KL, we stopped at one of the known place along the main road to eat "La Zha Mee" (拉渣面, "Dirty Noodle" if you were to "carelessly" read in cantonese). Don't worry, it's not dirty of cos'! They prepare it in different style. We ordered it plain (kosong) & fried with the usual ingredients like meat & vege.

Ordered another two side dish which is mix ingredients in soup. One is seafood (prawn, fish, mince pork, pork, vege) & another one is Beancurd mix (fish ball, various beancurd, vege, meanball, pork).

I personally prefer the La Zha Mee cooked plain, without all the vege & meat that takes away the taste of the goodness of the handmade La Zha noodles. In other hand, the one cooked with meat & vege taste just like all the fried noodles we can find at any local chinese food place.

Dry plain La Zha Mee

Dry Fried with meat & vege

Seafood mix soup

Beancurd mix soup

Soup is tasty, hope they didn't add too much MSG in it to taste. Seafood is fresh there, so the soup taste alright. The Beancurd not bad too, some of it they use fish paste in the beancurd, Nice!! Owh!! you may want to add a little more pepper onto the soup, trust me... it taste better ;)

After a good stomuch filling meal, bought curry bun (Huge size) which located just a couple of shops away (on the left if you were to come out of the noodle shop). What so special about this curry bun? I don't know myself... Maybe it's becos' they wrap the curry chicken with curry sauce in plastic wrapper with aluminium foil and bake the bun together.

Huge curry bun in the display shelve

So huge.... lol

How do you eat it??
Cut the bun open, unwrap the plastic with the curry chicken in it. Start peeling the bun and dipping it into the curry and eat it! That simple!

So I guess it's the way they did the bun and the way we eat it makes it special huh? Taste of the curry chicken is just averagely good.

Away...

2009-07-23T13:17:00.002+08:00

I'll be away for the time being. So sad myself that I can't be blogging and updating all the good food I had recently. No internet connection at where I'm staying now (far away from my home *sobs*)

Well, I'll be sure to post ALOT as soon as I get to online properly and not just a short while. Lot lot lots of food showing here when the time comes... hehehe...

Hope anyone who follows my blog miss me!! T_T
I won't be gone just yet!!

I'll be back... (terminator 2 quote) XD

Ciaos~

Delectable by Su @ The Garden

2009-06-19T13:56:00.007+08:00

Im Back~! Finally updating my blog. Not sure whether anyone miss my blog or not ... (Doubt so) *sad face* Ahh~ Well, got pretty lazy on collecting food. Haven't been hunting lately... =(

Owh! Anyway, I made a visit to this new designer cake shop which was open pretty long time ago (Just that I didn't update, Shame on me). Extremely CUTE looking cakes, cupcakes ... etc. They are so detail in everything! The place looks absolutely pretty, eventhough it's not very spacious. Love it to bits! The taste of the cupcake? Not too bad... but the cute lil' oh so adorable thing is OMG sweet if you consume too much =P

Take a good look at their packaging details ... *hearts*

they even gave me a bag! not paper bag nor plastic bag. very thoughtful of green earth! #1!!

packing up their cutie cupcakes

Taa-daa!! Cute aye? ^^

cupcakes comes in few different flavor
Vanilla, Lemon & Chocolate

7 Sins of Chocolate
Layers of the most sinful chocolate stuff. very moisty, creamy, chewy~
*not for someone who can't stand overly chocolatey stuff. but, DEFINITELY for people who is obsessed with chocolate!

Final Project of Interior Design Diploma

2009-06-02T09:19:00.005+08:00

I did it! not pass but I went through it I mean. Not as bad as I expected, the assessors was so nice to flood me with comments and advices more than criticism =)

Owh! I said that I was going to post up my work when it's done right?

Here it is!

Phew~ Finally...

2009-05-29T08:37:00.004+08:00

Time flies... few years back I was out of highschool, going to college, then come 1st year of college, and now it's my finals already. So much had happened lately, from suffering to struggling to anything you could think of, even giving up... which happened couple of weeks back. I wasted precious 3 weeks out of 8 weeks, or was it 10 weeks?

Anyway, I almost gave up my course when I'm about to reach my destination of my course, waste huh? Yea... the fact of my creativity have always been 0%, it's extremely tough life to be a designer. Everyone has been wondering, since I don't have it, why go for it? Well, you see... MONEY mah! Though it's a tough job, since I can draw & thinking that I "might" be able to design, together with my good enduring skill, why not? Can try wurt... isn't it? good pay check and not to be worried of being jobless was my 1st choice. Even though I could be a better chef than a designer. Hello... I was just 18 back then. LOL!

3 years of struggling something I almost ain't fit to do leading me to give up. For the very first time I went to have a talk with my dad. Just a short 30-40min conversation, it was all precious & valuable words. These words got me back on my feet right away! Never to give up! It's not the matter of whether you fail or you're last placing among all competitors! It's not being first place or not, but it's to reach the goal no matter what it takes. It's the unbeatable spirit within yourself! Where have I been these years? I lost this thing that was within me all these while... but now I am back in shape! Going on like how I use to be.

I thought I was going to fail my course FOR GOOD. exactly 2 weeks ago, I've not done anything at all, which a complete work couldn't be done in 3 months neither. Right now, I've done it! I could even get a PASS *hopes*! I even got last few days to rest while waiting for Monday to come, my presentation day... when everything *almost* will end. Indeed I'm nervous, I'm happy with a little disappointment & a wee-bit of regretfulness. Doesn't matter... believe that everything will be fine =) I gotta be more courageous and to trust myself a little more now...

- Believe the Signs of the Rainbow -

Now that college life will end pretty soon... I'll surely miss the good and bad days. Not sure would I get back to college again, a new course maybe? I don't know... or just work? We'll see... =) Time will bring me to where I should be.

I will be posting my final work here pretty soon! After my Finals! (I was a bit impatient to almost post it up right now =P )

Cheers ;)

Happy Birthday to ME...!!

2009-05-12T19:56:00.011+08:00

Oh my... I'm 21 now! Officially an adult (in terms of "Law"). So, if I were to ever kill someone I'm going to jail instead of rehab. LOL XD!!

Many things had happened throughout my 21 years life. Joy... Sadness... Frustrations... Life was never boring, lots of ups & downs till I sometimes will hope that I have more time offs.

There's no big celebration for me, unlike everyone else that usually make it BIG. Wrong timing that clashes my birthday and my finals, sad case... =/ But there are still something special happening around, sad & happy tears flow together at the same time...

So, what have I gotten so far?

1. Bonia bag
2. Swatch watch
3. Chinese oriental purse (*I wonder why?)
4. Ang Paos
5. Key pendent, but of cos'!! (*but still on the way, didn't make it on time)
6. John King birthday "Cake/Tart" (*let me HIGHLIGHT this!)
7. Apple earphone with remote & mic
8. Handmade Lucky Star, Konata with Neko ears!! XD
9. 2Gb Mickey Mouse mp3 player (*very unexpected. Thanks ^^)
10. -N/A- "yet"

-N/A- "yet" will be from my dearest babies! *I think* =P
not hoping much, but the thought that counts.

Many wishes that I've received. Some are unexpected ones... Tee-hee! Thank you so much for remembering. I don't feel left out anymore cos' of all of you that cares for me =)

Oh yea! of what I have "Highlighted" just now. Here's my birthday "Cake". Specially ordered and 1st time made by John King. The chef personally made it cos' the size is not like those small ones sold at their retail store that are made by machine. Special Thanks for John King egg tart "Si Fu" & Manager =D

Tony Roma's @ Pavilion

2009-05-04T00:08:00.009+08:00

I "some sort" was on a un-strict diet for quite some time. Spoiling myself on & off during my so called "diet". LOL!! Doesn't make any sense now since still I ate a lot of good stuff =D

Wagyu (other terms, Wahyu) beef is beginning to get pretty popular here in KL. Previously, you could only savor it at expensive western dining restaurant which is extremely costly. Firstly, let me introduce you about this Wagyu beef. The cattle is breed in Japan, Australia & America, known for its marbling characteristic, increased eating quality through a naturally enhanced flavor, tenderness and juiciness, and thus a high market value. These cattle are very properly taken care of unlike other animals as food. LOL!!

Here's how it looks =D

Extensive fat marbling in slices of high-grade wagyu beef.

I made a visit to Tomy Roma's couple of days back, found out they serve the good ol' Wagyu Ribeye steak that caught my eye. It's more expensive than the other steaks in the menu, but still not as expensive as the ones serve in those proper dining restaurants. I'm sure the quality is just the regular standard of Wagyu beef.

Oh well, here are the photos!!

Pineapple dunno what juice
*so-so for my taste bud, nothing to shout about.

Small Loaf of warm bread serve with their very own butter
*The butter is very creamy and it has a very nice flavor to it. Could be herbs they added in and some extra flavoring.

Grill Chicken (I think)
*I don't remember the taste since the beef was too memorable =P

Wagyu Ribeye Steak
*I ordered a Medium-Well.
Very juicy, natural flavor that need not have any special sauce for it.
Tasted A LOT better than the normal steaks we can find.
Rate : 7.5/10

KLCC outing

2009-05-03T15:31:00.005+08:00

Went to meet up with a new friend. Not bad a person, fun to be around with =)

At KLCC food court :

Mine
*Can't remember the name

Ma Fren's
*Don't even know the name. Tasteless

The Apartment KLCC :

Passion Fruit Cooler

The Interior

Uncle Hon B'day dinner @ Serdang

2009-04-27T03:29:00.006+08:00

Uncle Hon, my best friend meow's father's Birthday last Friday. Invited me and mum together with some other of the family friends. He's 60 year old now! Hope life is good for him and his family =)

Lots of dishes they ordered that day! Thank goodness I brought my camera with me *^^*

Steam Herbal Eel

Toufu with Vege

Fried belacan mix vege

Fried "dunno which part" of Intestine
*this is nice, the intention doesn't have strange taste. In fact, it's chewy!

Curry fish head
*I don't see no fish head? =P

Chicken in Mamit style (left), & batter fried (right), coleslaw (middle)

Sweet & sour sauce crab
*I love tomato sauce, but I don't really like how it's cooked here.
The sauce and a lil' bland

Salted Egg fried Crab
*Now this is absolutely tasty! They made it taste pretty creamy and a lil' sticky, with very nice salted egg aroma.

Fried bun
*dip with the sweet sour crab sauce. It's super duper oily

Brownie of the day!
*from secret recipe. As usual

The happy couple
*Uncle Hon & Aunt Anna

Daidomon, Authentic Japanese BBQ @ Great Eastern Mall, Ampang

2009-04-21T12:05:00.012+08:00

Heard this was newly opened not long, thought it would be a good idea to try it out. So far, I've only tried Korean BBQ "once" (still hunting for more). More and more BBQ restaurants are coming out these days, another one recently opened is "Yaki-Yaki Japanese BBQ", which I haven't tried it too. They might have more varieties than Daidomon, I think.

Well, it weren't very pleasing for my taste bud. I find the varieties of food at the buffet counters are pretty ... Lousy? Hmm... more like Disapointing I would say. There's very minimal choices from fried rice to fried hokkien mee! I was like ... WTH???! No wonder everyone was running for the Ebi Tempura. And as for the meat to BBQ it, you have to order and wait for it to arrive. The nice ones run out extremely fast, which only left all the not so nice part of the beef.

Anyway, here are the photos :

3rd Floor of Great Eastern Mall
*could easily see it by taking the left escalator up.

Part of the Interior

Daidomon very own BBQ sauce (left) & Soy Sauce (right)

Mix Seafood
*white fish, salmon, prawn, cuttlefish ...etc

Random stuff from the buffet table
*Bamboo mussel, Seasoned Eggplant, Vinegar Seasoned octopus, snail, Baby octopus

Beef Tongue
*This is something really different! Never tried it before, but it taste great!
Slightly tender and chewier than beef meat itself

Strip Loin (Beef)
*So far the best taste among all the other beef choices

Onigiri
*Not very nice. Prefer it home made with TLC (Tender-Loving-Care)

Charcoal BBQ Pit

Melting Butter

Oyster

Butter Oyster (left) & Scallop (right)
*Both of these took quite awhile to get cooked

They have nice Japanese dolls display there! Love it to bits ❤

Daidomon Special Washoku & Yakiniku Buffet
50% OFF*
*Terms and conditions apple.
(Monday - Thursday dinner only)
(Weekend & Public holiday Lunch only)

Adult : RM68++
Child : RM38++ (101cm - 120cm)
RM 10++ (80cm - 100cm)

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DAIDOMON
Charcoal Barbeque Japanese Restaurant
Lot 4, Level 3, Great Eastern Mall
No. 303, Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Tel : 03-42528155
Fax : 03-42528166
Operation Hours : 11.30am - 2.30pm; 6.00pm - 10.30pm
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大树头连记 @ Tmn Connaught

2009-04-13T12:20:00.005+08:00

I was told that there's this "Coconut herbal chicken soup" that tasted so good at at Taman Connaught, Cheras. It's located very near to UCSI, not sure whether where it's exactly located. It's inside some terrence housing area and UCSI College is nearby too.

So, I visited this place last Saturday. And here's the photos:-

it's really under some trees thought

Toufu Yong Tou Fu

Stir fry vegetable with garlic and "Gei Ji"

Coconut Herbal Chicken Soup
*This is the best thing served here among the other dishes. MUST TRY!!
even better than the one I tried at Serdang.

Braise Yam & Pork
*This is Hakka style dish, I'm sure the ones cooked at home tasted better

Ginger steam fish
*Not the type of fish I favor. No comment

Xenri, Japanese Cuisine @ Old Klang Road

2009-04-09T21:23:00.009+08:00

Xenri Signage

*Owh! I stole this photo from KampungboyCitygal , they are bloggers too =P

Weeee~ it's Thursday and I have a huge urge for Japanese food! Since I didn't want to travel anywhere far like Bukit Bintang nor Damansara Utama, and I would like to have a nice Japanese meal, so I decided to pay a visit to Xenri since it's so DAMN near but I have no idea why I didn't go ever since it's open for so DAMN long.

Okay, cut the crap. The food ain't that bad (tasted better than Zen & Rakuzen), though it's slightly a little pricey than Zen / Rakuzen, but the portion is bigger. So, still resonable lar... (for nice jappy food). Ambiance is great too! Freshness for food also not bad, since I read some reviews saying that they bring in fresh seafood every 2 weeks. Only thing I worry is there aren't much crowd due to it's location. Maybe it's weekdays... I don't know.

So, here are the photos I took and food I ordered just now.

Menu

Where we sat
*There are other seatings with nicer ambiance

Sushi Deluxe Rm68

Salmon Sashimi Rm26

Phoenix Roll Rm30
*they have another version that is mango instead of avacado, but I personally prefer this.

Unagi Kabayaki Rm38

Kaki Furai Rm35
*my fav, fried breaded oyster. It goes well with mayonnaise too if you don't like the sauce they serve.

Sushi Deluxe Rm12
*sakura season special from 1st April - 30th April
very expensive! the rice flour skin texture is not perfect, not gooey, sticky and soft enough.

This is how SMALL it is (X_x)~~~

now you know what I mean by "expensive"!

Location Map
*Pls click the picture to enlarge

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Restaurant Xenri
No. 9, Wisma Elken,
Jalan 1/137C, Batu 5,
Jalan Kelang Lama,
58200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03 77838118
(directly across Pearl Point Shopping Mall)
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Mini cheesy cupcake @ The Loaf, Pavilion KL.

2009-03-20T17:46:00.005+08:00

Ever been to the bakery shop named The Loaf at Pavilion KL? which is known that it was opened by our PM's daughter.

Anyway, I passed by this bakery shop yesterday evening and found something NEW they were selling! They called "U hu hu! Let's say cheese (^u^)v". It's cheese cupcake! Not like the usual cupcake/muffin we usually see selling in the bakery store. this is just like cheesecake, in a cup!

Alright, let me tell you about how good it is. Definitely "Highly" recommended by me. Better go try it now before quality turns bad (which I never had faith in KL's food quality maintenance). It's been a very long time since I last had cakes that satisfy me. I'm bored of hotel cakes and cakes that are sold in starbucks and coffee bean. Now this is slightly different, in spite of the cake in the cup thingy... which is something new here. The taste and texture is heavenly. It has a very smooth and soft texture, it's like the texture between a very soft sponge cake combined with cheese. Not too sweet, just nice (for me). Aroma is not bad too. Go and give it a try. Dessert lovers will absolutely like it!

I haven't tried all their flavors yet. But I tasted some that I can give comment about.

Caramelised Heartiness - First time when I taste it. I was in heaven~ the cheese and caramel taste goes along pretty well, neither one of it tasted too heavy. There's also a very soft biscuit/crust at the bottom, very moisture and aromatic as well. Should really try this!

Luxurious Chocolate - This is recommended by the shop keeper. To me, it's recommended to dessert lovers who like it less sweet. The chocolate is semi-sweet, which is just one layer one top of the cheese cake. Inside, it's plain cheese cake with the soft moisture biscuit bottom. Nothing to shout about if you're bored with chocolate flavor.

Box Design

One Dozen box Rm 29
Half a Dozen Rm 15
Per Piece Rm 2.80

Top : Harmonious Green Tea
Left : Caramelised Heartiness
Right : Luxurious Chocolate

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The Loaf Kuala Lumpur
Lot3.13.00 & 4.12.02, Level 3 & 4,
Pavilion Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Bintang
Tel: 603 2145 3036
www.theloaf.net
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Sem 6 Term 1 break celebration @ Telok Gong, Klang

2009-03-20T03:23:00.005+08:00

After a long stage 1 war of finals (actually not that long, 3 months only). Finally it's term break now! Right after the last day of term 1, almost the whole class (except for Sue Jan & Korosh) went all the way to klang just to have dinner. We had lots of fun of cause! So much of crapping and laughing. At last, our classmates are coming together. It was envy in my eyes to see students from other class getting along so well, they do almost everything together. And now, I can see that we're building up into a larger strong group of people! Love you guys! Looking forward to the next gathering! =D

The Girls
From Top Left : Jing Jing, Yih Xing, Joyce, June, Sasa, Xiao Ling, Tree, Phoebe & Kimmy.
From Bottom Left : Me, Nicole, VK, Madam, Sun Sun.

The Guys
From Top Left : Roy, Branden, Ricky
From Bottom Left : Eddy, Madam & Alan

Here comes the F.O.O.D!! How can I not take photos of it, right? =)

Butter Milk Prawn

Salted Roast Crab

Chili Sause Red Snapper

Tomato Crab

Seafood Toufu

Coconut Tomyam Prawn

Vegetable

Bamboo Shoot Clam

Health for Women - Menstrual

2009-02-19T23:59:00.005+08:00

Women have their menstrual cycle every month, we all know generally the amount of blood lost from the body that usually causes Anemia (low on red blood cells) to most women, which leads to dizziness, feeling faint, and so much more other health problem. It's pretty important that womens take note about this and make an effort to maintain a healthy wellness.

Here's some ways to deal with it. The Chinese Traditional way is to take certain herb or medicine every now and then especially after each period. The convenient way is to take "白凤丸" Bak Fueng Yun, which is sold in various Chinese herb store. Of course there are another better way (if you were to have the time), it is to boil herbal soup which is called Pat Chan "八珍". You can easily get it from Chinese herbal store, they'll pack all the needed herb and teach you how to boil it.

Well, about the herbal Pat Chan soup. Some people may think it's slightly bitter, it really depends on the types of herbs that is boiled together. More honey dates will make the soup taste sweeter, tastier I would say. But anyhow it taste it's good for females.

Pat Chan herbs

This is how the soup looks like with Egg.

Pink Valentine's

2009-02-16T13:10:00.005+08:00

Strawberry Cheesecake
*I'll consider putting up the recipe next time

1st stage of blooming

2nd stage of blooming
when it is at the prettiest stage

Fully bloomed

Unfortunately some wouldn't survive =(
*so far never happened to the roses I've received

Happy Valentine's Day soon

2009-02-08T02:16:00.005+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day to you guys in advance! Anyway, I just changed the title image (Finally). I almost forgotten Valentine's Day is around the corner. Too much of CNY celebration... got carried away =P

To single guys, if you guys have any girl in mind/heart, PLEASE do not miss this good chance to plan something special for "her". As for the single girls! Save as much ENERGY to attract good guys to you. For everyone, Valentine's is a day of L.O.V.E, not only to couple kind of love but also friends and family. Do show appreciation and don't hesitate to tell them how much you love them and how much they mean to you before it's too late (well, you wouldn't know right?).

C'mon cupids! Time for you to do your job right to bring Love to everyone! Cheers~*

Happy Birthday Isabelle <3

2009-02-02T20:45:00.004+08:00

It's Isabelle's birthday today, 2nd Feb. We celebrated last weekend together as usual at their house. A double lot condo which is almost bigger than usual single storey house. Oh! I can't remember how old she is now, 9 years old I guess? Haha... Well, here are the photos ;)

like a glass window when it rains

It's still Chinese New Year =D

Piano
(wished that I could play it)

Say your prayers

Uncle Grand Yap + Isabelle

Happy Birthday dear cousin sis ^^

One big happy family
(Nigel, Annabelle, Isabelle, Aunt Joanne, Uncle Wilson)

Lunch @ Kuala Selangor - Part 2

2009-02-01T22:07:00.007+08:00

This place it located near the seashore. Which I don't know where it is. Food there is good. I heard it was open for many years already.

Curry Fish (土杀鱼)
*definitely not recommended for people who doesn't appreciate any fish other than salt water sea fish.

Steam Fish head (Double)
The fish head is freaking HUGE!

Sour Spicy Red Snapper Fish

Fried Cuttlefish
*As usual, kid's favorite

Simmer Ginger Lala? (Clam?)
*free mini teeny weeney crab in every lala. which is real scary to me.

Mill Wheel 泡兵 @ Jusco, Bukit Tinggi

2009-01-30T23:32:00.007+08:00

I saw this from Eggy's Blog quite some time ago. Finally I went there yesterday! Hahaha! Good feedbacks from Eggy so I wanted to go there. Here's some of the stuff we ordered that day =D

Watermelon + Peach + Yogurt (This is a great mix!)

Chocolate (nice, if you like it plain and original)

Watermelon + Yogurt (not too bad)

Chocolate + Lychee

Vanilla + Mix Fruit

I find it quite nice. I like the way they mix the shaved ice with various flavor especially those with yogurt. Great combination! I'll go for more next time! =D

By the way, the location is stated below:-

Operation Hour:
Sun to Thu - 12pm till 11pm
Fri & Sat - 12pm till 1am
holiday eve- 12pm till 1am

Address:
No. 72 & 74, Jalan Metro Perdana Barat 2, Taman Usahawan Kepong, 52100 Kuala Lumpur.

Lunch @ Kuala Selangor

2009-01-30T23:07:00.006+08:00

Like the title says it :)

Tons of mini crabs down there

Muar Toufu

Curry Fish

Asam Steam Fish

Fried Cuttlefish

Steam Mix Seafood w/ Soup

2nd day of CNY @ Sid & Pat's

2009-01-28T00:21:00.006+08:00

First of all, I would like to thank Uncle Sidney to invite us in a forceful but fun way!

-Phone ring from Uncle Sidney-

Sid: "Hi Flo (mum), where are you now?"
Mum: "Oh! I'm at home."
Sid: "Okay! So I'll see you in 30 minutes time ya! Dinner at my house."
"See you! Bye!"
Mum: "Huh???! O_o??"

Wow!! For the first time we got invited by our relative in that manner. Hahaha! But I thought it was really fun! I think it might be Aunt Olivier who told Uncle Sidney that mum turned down the invitation when she called awhile ago. Dinner was great! Good to see my cousins there too!

Loving Couple (Aunt Joanne & Uncle Wilson)

Aunt Jo, Nigel, Uncle Wilson, Grandpa Yap

Mum

The most consistent photographer Uncle Sidney!

Some random photography of my choice ;)

CNY Annual Dinner @ Chemor

2009-01-27T23:33:00.006+08:00

If you're wondering where's Chemor, it's in Perak. More or less an hour journey to the north of Ipoh. Before Taiping of course! Anyway, that's where my grandparents stays. I'll always go back to visit them 2-3 times a year. Yes I know it's not frequent enough, hope I'm more able to visit them more often after I graduate. Sure hope that I'll be capable by then. Grandpa is getting real old from time to time, high time for me to learn as much as I could from him.

Here are some pictures taken while preparing for dinner and some night shots!

Teeny Weeny Snail that caught my attention while preparing the ginger

Adult Table

Kid's Section

Happy CNY ;)

House of Taiping relative

2009-01-26T22:41:00.004+08:00

It's been ages since I last visited Taiping, my Choy relative's house. Grandpa used to stay in Taiping and brought up there so is dad and his siblings. Then grandpa moved to Chemor, Perak. Taiping, 太平 means Harmony in Chinese. This place stands for it's name. It's a really peaceful, quiet and nice place. I love the place there even though I hardly go there. Food is nice there too! Especially the famous Taiping Popiah, you just wouldn't want to miss it! It's even more original than those "crispy popiah" selling everywhere nowadays. I like it original =)

Okay, here's some pictures taken when I stayed 2 days at my uncle's place.

The Garden

The Backyard

I've never seen the Hibiscus grown so beautifully, even the ones in the public garden wont beat this.

Shi Ling's (my cousin) free running rabbit in her garden

Jump

Merry Go Round

Happy CNY 2009

2009-01-22T23:03:00.003+08:00

Hey guys! Happy Chinese New Year to all of you in advance ("IF" you happen to visit my page). Those who are married I wish you all peace and harmony within the family, to those who are NOT marry, like me... wish you guys with lots of luck in studies/career, have a happy life. AND PLEASE go grab more ANG PAO due to the global economy crisis. Haha! I better of going everywhere visiting IF I were to have the time.

Hope I get to take lots of pictures of the known 10 dish 1 soup family gathering dinner on the 30th night of the Chinese calendar =D Hahahaha! I'm so excited! And I really do hope this CNY won't be as boring as the previous years (Thank god I have my darling PSP to keep me companied). Okay, enough for today. Happy holidays guys! *Hugs*

Strange driver, strange car "Decoration"

2009-01-17T17:07:00.006+08:00

I was at Federal Highway at about 4pm just now. As usual it's away jam no matter what time and whatever day it is. It's hectic... boring as well. Felt like sleeping after running around Glenmarie and Subang Jaya. Until this car passed by that caught my eye and I couldn't stop laughing for some weird reason...

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WHY ON EARTH do people "cucuk" a bunny on to their receiver?!!
Weird lar these people. LOL!!

Japanese... Burp oops! =P

2009-01-10T17:46:00.006+08:00

Kampachi, Pavilion Bukit Bintang.

I must be stupid not to take photo of the main course. Sorry lar... too hungry marh... lagi stupid is that I missed out the dessert (How could I??!!!) Too full... haih... Too early also. Handmade dessert there are Dorayaki, Mochi, and Forgot. Only available on Sat, Sun & Public holiday from 3pm-6pm. Lansinyer... I was there at 12pm+ til 2pm. Too bad lar... Nvm. Not so interested. not typical Japanese dessert anyway.

waiting to be served

Assorted sushi that we picked

Wild Salmon & Farmed Salmon Rm75+
(Great Dish! Though pretty costly. It's the fresh wasabi that gave the extra "kick")

Rising Sun of Kuala Selangor

2009-01-07T16:45:00.003+08:00

As the title says it ;)

7:34am

7:40am

7:49am

Food at Kuala Selangor

2009-01-05T21:45:00.007+08:00

Here's another entry of eating out at Kuala Selangor. This particular place only serves about 5 type of dishes and that's all you can order. it's very much like the home-cook style.

The first time I went there food was absolutely delicious, so I took photos the 2nd time I visit =)

Fried Bitter Gourd with Egg
I like this dish very much. The bitter taste is very mild with light aroma that contrast with the other heavy tasted food. Balance is good *wink*

Curry Leaf chili Prawn
Aside from the freshness of the prawn, the cooking style has a very unique home-cook taste but yet no one could figure out how it is done to deliver the same taste.

土杀鱼 ("Tu Sha" Fish)
Taste is good. But not the choice of fish for me =P
Me likey salt water fish more than clear water fish

Tiger Shark
Yea.. "Shark" I meant. This is one of their highlight dish. Funny thing it looks like fat pieces of pork meat cos' it has a real thick layer of Shark fats, I guess it's still healthier than pork fats huh? Not to mention the texture is quite similar to pork though, pork from the sea XD
Btw, this is another slightly spicy dish.

I don't know this fruit name is English, in Chinese it's called "Sha Li"
This fruit juice is added with sour plum, a freaking good mixture cos' Sha Li fruit itself is very sour and it has a weird after taste that not all people like. But when added sour plum its different! I like it intense! Some place serves you very few fruit extract and add LOTS of water into it and doesnt taste good anymore. This place did it great! The extract enough juice and add sour plum, and it's prepared in bottles and refrigerated long enough before serve, so the sour plum is well soaked into the juice and brings out the full taste of it. *Thumbs Up*

During Christmas day(s)

2008-12-30T11:13:00.005+08:00

Some photos I took at different time and day at Aunt Loraine's house at Sungai Long =)

These are the shots that was taken on the 3rd day Christmas at the same place.

Presents Unwrapping

2008-12-27T12:02:00.007+08:00

Always the most exciting part of Christmas, where you'll be wondering what in that lil' nice present box with your name on it. Hehehe... Well, I loved this Christmas very much though my relatives aren't here. But I still have my family and friends around. Their existence is the best thing that ever ever ever happen to me. I'm nothing without them! Love ya all *Muacckksss*!!

Sharon Jeh & Mum with her doggies

My Christmas Pressies of the year!! WEeeee~~~ ^^
*Muackksssss 2 u*

This bunny very cute but very kacau

Christmas Pressies!!

2008-12-26T14:55:00.010+08:00

It's boxing day now, didn't have the time to blog last night. Too busy with the family and friends get together thingy. Hehehe.. Had fun~ Lots of fun! Did a couple of dishes for Christmas with dear Mummy *Love*

Don't play play ar.. Really Handmade wan ar~

Snowman

I've made changes for the back.
There should be a "Merry Christmas 08' " sewed on too =)

It's Done!!

Next!!! This part of photos are taken last night. Christmas this year is celebrated at my own house, so happen my relatives have gone overseas this year, left us behind *sob* Oh well! Hope by the time their back I'll be receiving a nice hand carried imported pressie from my dear cousin! Hehehe... I better get ready her present before she gets back =P

WARNING!! HIGHLY TEMPTED PHOTOS BELOW!! Please DO NOT view if you're starving and could not ease your hunger immediately! :-

Haha... Just joking lar... "Partly" I mean =P

When it's in the oven

Woo-Hoo!! Roasted Chicken

Paprika Garlic Prawn

Roasted Brussels Sprout

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Garlic Bread to serve with the soup

White Cream Potato

Lemon Sour Plum

Every dish here except for the garlic bread were cooked for the first time. Glad that everything turned out great! *Happy*

More entries to come! I'm going for the boxing day gathering at Aunt Loraine's house =)

Hope you guys enjoy reading so far. Cheer ;)

Pasta Again!

2008-12-25T13:26:00.011+08:00

It's almost the same as the last one I posted. But this time I added Brown Mushroom. Couldn't find flour this time, so the sauce isn't thick enough. Thank god the taste is still there ^^

So, here's how it turns out like :-

- Part A -
+ Spiral Pasta
+ Herbs - Dried Parsley
+ Olive oil / Butter
+ Salt

- Part B -
+ Butter
+ Olive Oil
+ Garlic (chopped)
+ Thick Cream
+ Milk
+ Brown Mushroom (sliced)
+ Streaky Bacon (small stripes)
+ Herbs - Oregano, Rosemary, Tarragon, Basil...etc
+ Black Pepper

*everything by your own sense of measurement.

Part A :
Boil a pot of water, put a little salt into the boiling water to taste, then add the pasta in (of your choice). Stir occasionally, you won't want your pasta sticking at the bottom of the pot.

Get ready a drainer and a large bowl of ice water while waiting for the pasta to be done. When it's done, drain the pasta and dump it into the ice water. This will make your pasta more "bouncy" (I don't know how to describe =P)

Drain the pasta again and put it into a bowl, mix in some olive oil/butter & parsley to smoothen the pasta texture. You're done with Part A!

Part B :
Fry the bacon til it's cook (but not til crispy!!), take it up and put it on a paper towel so that it's less oily.

Throw the excess oil away from the bacon, wipe your wok/pan with the paper towel (don't have to wash), but PLS be careful not to burn yourself.

Heat up the wok, pour some olive oil/butter (or both), fry the garlic for a while, dump in the sliced mushroom and fry it together for a while. Add a bit of water to simmer the mushroom til it's soft then sprinkle some black pepper in as well. Then, pour in the cream and some milk as the pasta sauce, add a bit of flour if you want it thicker. Next, sprinkle the spices in and dump the bacon u fried just now. let it simmer for a while till the taste fully comes out. Add a pinch of salt if you think it's not salty enough. Now, Part B is done!

Ready to serve ;)
Enjoy!

I had a dream...

2008-12-23T10:39:00.004+08:00

Just before I got up this morning, I had a dream... weird dream in fact. I have no idea what does it mean nor portrait.

All I remember was I'm with a few person, a girl that I do not know in reality. It was something I said that made her mad at me and there goes the commotion. We began to cat fight, she's really tall... hard for me to fight back huh? And she was holding a hot kettle. While I grab her wrist to stop her from attacking me or something, she uses the kettle and burned my cheek. Gosh... the fight goes on and on till I successfully pushed her to the bed and have the kettle burn her thighs O_oll What kinda dream is that?? Then everything stopped, I went out and saw my mum, she asked :" Oh my! What happened!?" but with very less emotion shown on her face.

I wonder... Who's that tall girl anyway? Never seen her before nor any familiar scent. Hmm...?

Haha... Oh well~ Strange huh? I've got lots more strange dream. Should write here if I could remember it!

And Yea.. I was having lunch alone today. As usual I'll be having Indian Food. Ordered a few indian snack (Don't know the name) Dall or something, and roti bakar. Okay... about this roti bakar (Toast bread) at Mamak. This is what happened...

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OIII~~~!!! Roti Bakar ini macam ke!?!?!

Random shots at Aunt Jo's place

2008-12-19T12:25:00.003+08:00

I feel bad not having a lot of photos to show off. My sight of spotting nice angle on nice stuff is just HORRIBLE. How la call myself a Design? Ish... Alright then, guess I need more practice. Better be sure that I make full use of my Canon G9 before hunting for a new DSLR, must not waste... Bad girl =(

Here are a few shots I took at Aunt Jo's house during Aunt Oli's birthday gathering. Aunt Jo travels overseas pretty often and she have this huge piece of wall that she hangs decorative stuff that she gets from overseas. And most of all... she made her house look GREAT! I'll post the photos up the next visit =D

Annabelle's Favorite pass time, Mine too!

Tissue Roll cover. Nice right?

Obviously you should know where she got this from

I love this! But I have no idea where she got this!

Coca-Cola Classic

"How-to" Letter Meme

2008-12-18T14:15:00.004+08:00

I've been Tagged! Tho I'm a lil' late but anyway Thx Shakie boy =___=~
Now You've been TAGGED!!

RULEs: Do the "Letter MEME". Tag no less than 5 other people, and leave them a comment, informing them that they have been tagged. Then copy the "How-to" Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry.
How you do the Letter Meme:

Dear ________(the last person who left a comment on your blog/journal):I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___. I think I realized it ___2___ ___3___ and I saw you ___4___ ___5___. I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___. I'm returning ___8___ to you, but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory. You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___ .

___12___,
-Your name-

1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kebab - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - ManO.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - HighHouse - Scared
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - MongolicIdol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I've felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn't exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we're cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this.
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Overjoyous - That I'm open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader-poster
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - How awful I've felt
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David's tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B -C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water- Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drink - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - Fuck off now
France - In pain
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Dear MARCUS,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'll join the monastery. I think I realized it First of May With George Bush and his wife and I saw you Sit on My best friend. I'm sure you're Middle-class enough to understand That there is no solution to this. I'm returning Your ring to you, but I'll keep Your collection of butterflies as a memory. You should also know that I Always wanted to break Eggplant-fetishism .

Go burn,
Stephanie

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tagging:
1. Timothy
2. Lize
3. Prince_L
4. Json Yeong
5. Benjamin Kong (I doubt you're reading la)

Happy Burfday Aunt Olivier

2008-12-17T14:25:00.001+08:00

15th December is Aunt Oli's exact Burfday. Celebrated at Aunt Jo's house last night. Hehe... Wishing her a very happy and wonder birthday. May her wishes come true. *Huggsss*
Here's some photos =)

1 big HAPI family

1 whole big HAPPI family

The all time loving couple w/ their child

Sista 2 Sista

Burfday Cake of the day (surprisingly I didn't lay my hands on it. LOL!!)

Like most of our gatherings, there's ALWAYS home cook dinner by Aunt Grand Mary. One of the best cook in the family! *Muacks* Love ya!

Fried don't know what Fish

Fu Yong Egg

Steam Chicken (This is one of her best dish!)

Chili Pepper Squid (Tapao wan larrr... but tasty lor =P)

One thing I just realized... why all the dishes seems to share the same tone of colour ar??! LOL! coincident wei!

Christmas at Midvalley Megamall

2008-12-14T20:54:00.000+08:00

Everyone has been blogging Christmas Decoration in various shopping complex. Haha... I'm kinda late for blogging this myself. Hard to catch up on new stuff these days due to my very inflexible time. Here are some photos I took yesterday when I went Midvalley for christmas present and deco hunting, thought I only got 1 present and christmas cards after hours of shopping. Ugh...

I must have this cheesecake next time!!!!

(I've got a terrible urge of using a spoon to scoop and just eat it like that)

Header Image for Christmas

2008-12-12T00:11:00.001+08:00

Well, all of a sudden I've just got the urge to create an image for my header for Christmas! Now it looks a little more "Christmasie". Hehehe.. Do you agree? I think it looks kinda kiddy though.. Haha! At least it looks colourful enough to me. Christmas SHOULD be that way! I'll see whether I've got the time to improve it soon.. I hope =P *a big smack on my lazy bum* Christmas has got to be FUN this year! It's a must! I've got to make it extra special! (But I don't know how yet) Hehehe... I'll surely post what I'll be doing/making/preparing! Just can't wait for more things to blog!! *super duper excited*

Do keep track =D
Cheers~

Online shopping Addict..!!

2008-12-04T12:18:00.000+08:00

Recently been surfing so much websites and forum cos' working time is Hella BORING! Normal surfing website makes me sleepy too. Online shopping is the NOW thing these days. You can get practically anything through the net. These people are so smart to tackle female's addiction even through online! I'm sure they do good business, cos' the sad thing is that Malaysia's Fashion style is so so OUTdated, aside from the high end fashion retail shop that will torn your pocket and purse into ashes and dust. LOL!! Well, I do hope one day I'll be capable enough to shop that way. Hehehe...

So, here are the stuff I purchased these few days:-

White boots

Light Brown Boots (Mum's)

Slightly Darker Brown (Mine)

I seriously hope these boots doesn't turn out with horrendous workmanship cos' I'm seriously not into any sort of that. It will be the last call to order these if it were to be terrible. This is why I don't really find much nice clothings around.. even shoes too! (One thing it's becos' I'm extra Petite) Ugh..

Next piece...

Glam Brocade Dress in Onyx - by Rox/Sta Studio

I'm not too worried about the outcome of Rox/Sta Studio 's garment workmanship. It should very well sewed some the price are about the same like good retail store in the market. Some special edition garments can goes up to Rm200++. Imagine how good it should be right? Haha.. Anyway I should Thank my dear classmate Sue Jan for introducing me this website. You guys should visit it too!

--->> ROX/STA Studio

Enjoy ;)

I "H.A.T.E" Dieting

2008-12-03T12:17:00.000+08:00

Vanity is really killing me. I'm getting plummer each day and I'm just overly conscious to wear spaghetti top or halter bare back tops. Arghh..! T-shirt everyday!

Man... It really sucks. Now I got to go on a diet against my own will, cos' I'll be starving every noon an hour before lunch. I've got a huge appetite and if I'm not feed enough I'll get hungry very soon. Everyone must be thinking that my digestion and metabolism should be very high since I'm slim and get hungry very quickly. NO WAY MAN! Sitting all day in the office is making me chubby even I in take lesser food... Torturing larrrrrrrr... I can't wait till training is over and I get my ass back to college.

Now I got to consume food replacement "milk shake" to substitute my breakfast that can barely last me 2 hours. Or else I won't be able to fit in my jeans and mini skirt soon. Ish... I miss the period that I don't seem to even gain any weight though I've been eating a lot (2x more than usual female). Now I didn't even have the time to go for work outs cos' of the full-time training. *sigh*

Pls pls pls let the time fly faster for the time being T__T

Seafood...!!

2008-11-30T14:41:00.001+08:00

Had lunch at one of the restaurant near the seaside of Kuala Selangor. Noticed that there's a lot of car park there. Must be some good food right? Believe me ... it's real good food! I guess this place is pretty famous. Some of the tables aren't Kuala Selangor people, bet they are from KL cos' they speak Cantonese. Most of the people in Kuala Selangor is either Hokkien or Mandarin spoken.

I brought my camera with me this time but I forgot to bring it along while going out!!! ARGHHH... @^&$#%#@$!! Thank god the hp camera is good enough to take macro shots ~__~
So here we are!!

Restaurant. Look at the number of cars!!

The view

1st Dish. Errr... sea snails? with chili dip

Homemade Otak-otak (*not from Muar, Johor)

Fried cuttlefish with salted egg (Yumyum!!)

Flower crab with not sure what sauce

Deep fried bun that goes with the crab

It was a good experience trying out the nice looking shell snail though... the only snail I remember eating was Escagot (French Snail). The texture is tougher than the usual snail we eat, dipping it into the special chili sauce taste great! Only thing is that I don't really fancy that sorta taste. Hehe..

Next dish is their homemade otak otak. Tasted so different compared to the Muar otak-otak. More seafood taste! I don't know how to describe but it's really delicious. It's served with chilli sauce that's quite sour and it enhance the taste of the otak-otak.

Then comes the fried sotong with salted egg. You can never find a deep fried sotong tasted as good in KL!! The crunchy-ness of the sotong is damn freaking fresh! And the taste of how they cook it is ... Uwah~~~ Kekekeke...

Last dish is the crab. I don't know how they cook it anyway. The sauce is milkish yellowishy and they cook it with curry leaves. Just tasting the sauce really can make you feel like you're in heaven! That was what I felt when I first try the sauce. Man.. I can't forget the taste at all! The flavor is slightly like the crispy thingy of "Butter fried prawn". Hope you get what I mean. But this is sooooooooooo delicious! Taste to die for! It comes with the fried bun that you can dip it into the sauce and just eat it. Though I'm so full right now I think I can still have another serving. Hahaha!

Hope you guys enjoy the photos ;)

Saturday pasta crave

2008-11-29T17:11:00.001+08:00

It was another boring day at work, been real "free" these few days. There's almost nothing to do other than looking for more images to please the client. Most of the time I'll be surfing the net, surfing the net, surfing the net ... *repeated. I'm sure you can imagining how that is. Thank god it's Saturday and it's only HALF DAY!!!! Woo-HOO!!

I've got this sudden craving for pasta while I surf a Taiwan forum and came across this healthy talk thingy and they mentioned pasta! So Yea.. That's how it started. Then I decided to go have pasta at my mum's girlfriend's daughter's boyfriend's restaurant (Phew @_@~). The last time I visited this place was more than half a year ago when it was newly open. Food is not bad there, service is great too! This restaurant is located around the area opposite Sunway Pyramid. It was a coincident that the review on their restaurant is in The Star newspaper today! These are the dishes I ordered for today ^^

Oglia Olio Pasta + Prawn (Chili is optional)

Grill Butter Fish

Cream Cheese Mussel + Garlic Bread (garlic bread not included)

Dragon Fruit Juice (Highly recommended!!)

I kinda like the Olio Pasta for it's different than what I always eat and kinda got bored of it (cabonara & bolognese). They serve it plain, prawn, beef pepperoni, vegetarian and chicken as well. You can have it with chili if you like it spicy, as for me I prefer it spicy =P

As for the Grill Butter Fish, it's real tasty! They grill the fish and serve it with cream sauce that goes well with it. Best thing is that the fish doesn't have that strong unpleasant fishy taste. Don't forget to squeeze the lemon too for extra tingly taste! Oh! One more thing is that butter fish meat texture is slightly tougher than Dory and Cod Fish, but it taste good!

Cream cheese mussel is my Fav! Maybe cos' I love the sauce especially when you order garlic bread and dip it with the cream cheese sauce. It's absolutely yummy! The mussel itself ok lar.. cannot compare with the high class buffet mussel yet (Price counts mah!!)

You definitely cannot miss the Dragon Fruit drink!! You may choose it with longan or laichee. It's not very sweet but it very refreshing! I'm sure girls will like it very much <3>

Nici Christmas Edition 08' -- Jack & Jill Husky Dog

2008-11-24T16:45:00.000+08:00

Woo-hoo!!! I can't believe Nici's Christmas Edition soft toys are Winter Huskies!!! Only thing the soft toy itself didn't do a very good job to convince me to get them. But the accessories are!!! Muahaha!! I love the mug and Latte Cup they did. The design is very christmassie indeed with the husky cartoon print on it is so cute! I must get them soon! [Hyper-excited]

*wanted to post the Mug and Latte cup as well, only thing is that I have no idea why the picture in the net have chinese text on the cup!! Ish...

Jack the Husky Dog

Jill the Husky Dog

I'm obsess about Siberian Husky for a loooong time. Recently I found a nice Husky puppy selling thru the internet and it's soooooo ADORABLE. Great looking husky pup, show quality! Oh my.. How I really wish I could own it =( Too bad I'm staying in a condominium. It's sad to see my poor lil' dog not having enough place to run around. Especially big dogs like these need space and time to groom them well. I'm so getting a house with a huge lawn/garden for my dog next time.

He looks active

Isn't he adorable?

Awww.. me wanna bring him home =(

真正爱...？？

2008-11-20T12:18:00.000+08:00

--男生版--

真正愛你的女人，不介意你的外表，你的錢有多少，只想你陪在她的身邊；

真正愛你的女人，在沒人的時候會對你撒嬌，像個貪吃的小孩總是粘著你要糖，有人的時候卻又一本正經了；

真正愛你的女人，傷心的時候你只要一個擁抱就可以讓她招回快樂，因爲她只是想讓你注意她，不要冷落她；

真正愛你的女人，不會總要求你給承諾，但你偶爾也要說說，因爲她不要求並不是她不想要；

真正愛你的女人，會記得你們之間的每個細節，怎麽認識，怎麽相愛；

真正愛你的女人，你送的每個禮物都會珍藏；

真正愛你的女人，想的最多的應該是你們一起生活，有個可愛的寶寶，最好是兩個或許更多，再加一隻小狗就成了一個美滿的家庭；

真正愛你的女人，不會向你要求名牌的衣服，昂貴的首飾，她只會希望與你共用一雙筷子，共用美好時光，共赴一個命運，再共睡一張床；

真正愛你的女人，或許沒有漂亮的外表，婀娜的身材，動人的聲音，但是她樸實，無華，默默卻又真正存在於你的心中，爲你打理著一切；

真正愛你的女人，在受委屈的時候總是第一個想到你；

真正愛你的女人，在你遲到的時候責怪你，不是真的罵你，而是珍惜每一次和你在一起；

真正愛你的女人，真的很小氣，眼裏容不下一顆沙粒；

真正愛你的女人，會陪你一起看你最喜歡的節目，即便是自己最討厭的；

真正愛你的女人，總是要你慢點吃，因爲怕你會有胃病；

真正愛你的女人，會爲你收集你最喜歡的東西，因爲只要你高興；

真正愛你的女人，不論在嘴上怎麽挑剔，在她心裏還是最愛你；

真正愛你的女人，很容易被你感動，哪怕是一件極小的事情；

真正愛你的女人，當有人欺負你，會比你更氣憤，不顧什麽淑女形象，和你一起大罵對方，直到消氣爲止；

真正愛你的女人，無論你有沒有成績，都會一直鼓勵你；

真正愛你的女人，會在自己的好朋友面前不斷提到你，因爲她也想讓朋友瞭解你；

真正愛你的女人，不喜歡你有什麽事都自己一個人承擔，那樣她會更加擔心；

真正愛你的女人，每次和你聊天都捨不得自己關掉語音或是掛掉電話，都會等你關了之後才安心；

真正愛你的女人，在你爲生活忙碌了一天以後，不會因爲你身上的汗味難聞而遠離你，會溫柔地爲你擦去汗漬；

真正愛你的女人，會在你內心空虛的時候陪你度過一個又一個晚上，而當你忘記她的時候，她卻不會怪你；

真正愛你的女人，在你提出分手的時候雖然很不捨得，但還是會馬上答應你，因爲她知道你和她在一起已經不會快樂；

真正愛你的女人，會在買自己東西的時候對比三家，但會毫不猶豫地買下你喜歡的東西；

真正愛你的女人，總是把自己最活躍的一面展現給你，因爲她希望你看到的總是一個陽光的自己；

真正愛你的女人，在你傷害了她後躲在自己的房間裏偷偷地哭，因爲她不想讓你心存內疚；

真正愛你的女人，一顆心總是在你身上：今天過得好不好？有沒有注意休息？

真正愛你的女人，不會和你說她有多麽的在乎你、希望你時時刻刻在她身邊，因爲她知道你喜歡自由地呼吸空氣；

真正愛你的女人，在撐傘的時候總會把傘靠近你，因爲她寧願自己生病也不願意讓你淋一點雨；

真正愛你的女人，會拒絕所有對她示愛的男生，因爲她的心裏就只有你一個；

真正愛你的女人，會全心全意地支援你，和你一起做你喜歡做的事；

真正愛你的女人，不會讓你因爲她而停止了前進的腳步，她會鼓勵你讓你沒有顧慮地往前走；

真正愛你的女人，在分開以後還是會常常想你，然後給遠方的你打電話或發短信和你說要注意身體；

真正愛你的女人，從不會要求你送她什麽貴重的禮物，她只希望在她生日的時候你可以陪她度過一整天；

真正愛你的女人，她會一直等，等到你對她說“我愛你”的時候。

--女生版--

真正愛你的男人，一下子說不出真正愛你的理由，只知道自己顧不上注意別人；

真正愛你的男人，其實總惹你生氣，你卻發覺不了他到底做錯了什麽；

真正愛你的男人，很少當面讚美你，可是心裏肯定你是他最棒的；

真正愛你的男人，會默默地記住你不經意說過的話，在某時某刻重覆它們；

真正愛你的男人，不會輕易做出承諾，因爲他想讓自己成爲你心中說話最算話的男子漢，只想給你最可靠最安全的幸福；

真正愛你的男人，總告訴你不要胡思亂想，因爲其實他在爲你們謀劃著最美麗真實的未來，同時讓你無憂無慮地等待他要給你的驚喜；

真正愛你的男人，可能不像你一樣清楚地記得某些紀念日，他覺得愛你是每時每刻的，並不是靠這幾天簡單的日子；

真正愛你的男人，不會輕易對你當面說“我愛你”，因爲他爲你做過的每件事都已經這麽說了。除非在非常時刻，爲了不讓你無端地誤解他；

真正愛你的男人，總覺得有些話只說一遍就夠了，因爲你已經瞭解他的心。說得多了，他會覺得不珍貴；

真正愛你的男人，如果他去機場接你，不會像你期望的那樣捧著玫瑰大聲叫“親愛的”，只是自然地提過你的行李，然後想用眼睛抱緊你似的心疼地說，怎麽瘦得像豆芽菜了？

真正愛你的男人，當你發脾氣時，只會不做聲地聽你把火發完，然後慢慢地說，你明天有課嗎？早點睡吧。

真正愛你的男人，不懂當你生氣掛掉電話後應該立即打來，過了若干小時候會發條短信問你消氣了沒有？如果你質問他爲何這麽久才打來，他會理直氣壯的說，你生氣時我的解釋一定沒有用，等你的火消了，我的解釋才有效果；

真正愛你的男人，總是叫你小姑娘，可是每次他做什麽重大的決定，卻總想先聽聽你的建議；

真正愛你的男人，當和你發生爭執時，總是控制不了地先妥協，先承認“我錯了”，過後發來短信以“神經病”開頭，以“寶貝”結尾。事實上你也清楚，這次是你有點無理取鬧；

真正愛你的男人，很想很想你時，也會買玫瑰送你，傻傻地等著你，卻不知道自己捧的是月季。沒關係，他的心裏送的是玫瑰；

真正愛你的男人，嘴巴都不甜，但是他的吻能傳遞他所有的熱情；

真正愛你的男人，當聽到你對他講很“酸”的話時，他反而會裝得很正經，其實心裏很甜很甜；

真正愛你的男人，如果不能經常見到你，他會讓自己忙碌起來，爲了不去想你，因爲他知道一想到你將會一發不可收拾。

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年轻的男男女女都很喜欢看的一篇《其实XXX》还是《真正的XXX》，便希望有一天会遇到会找到这样的一个伴。有以上条件的男女不是没有... 也不是绝种... 也不是死完。但也不是说叫你默默去等待这样的人到来，顺其自然就好。

其实世上存在着不少这样的人，只是说生活中的经历还有周围的影响会改变一个人。很多时候就是因为有“选择”而变得不忠诚，放弃了好好的另一半而改变了那另一半原本的人格。再不然就是城市生活的种种不良的影响力吧~

说到最后，人合人缘，有缘有份的自然就会有火花~ 祝你们好运吧！

StreamyX

2008-11-20T10:42:00.000+08:00

It's gets stupid every single morning with consistent "downs" and on-off "downs" in the afternoon.

What have most of us sign up for?

Rm88/month for 1Mbps download rate that never reaches 1Mbps, I doubt it even reaches 500Kbps. This package comes with unlimited internet access that does not guarantee stable line.

Inclusive of bad customer service with bad communication skill and horrible UNDERSTANDING skill and terrible Efficiency. (*what did their pick-up call staff learn in school?) - TMNUT:"Budget very low lar.. we can only afford to hire cheap workers"
Common cases when you call up, U:" I'm having some problem with my line, it keeps discconecting". Customer service:" There's an upgrading work right now so you will encounter connection problem for the time being. " Ataupun, Port got problem need to be fix (means need time again), some always happens punyer technical problem... etc etc etc etc etc. Kasi manyak manyak complain pun sama jugak.. better save your breath.

Technical service available to fix your problem (with extra charges of cos'). But they almost can NEVER tackle the correct problem. Eg: Cable got problem they say your IP or your PC got problem, IP got problem they say your port got problem, Port got problem they say your modem/router got problem kena change (another extra hole in your pocket for nothing)

So, why do we still pay Rm88/month for headaches? Unfortunately, this is Malaysia. Malaysia services never never never efficient, we have no choice but to live with it cos we can't live without internet. What to do? Malaysia Boleh!!

Mr. Wu GUAI

More 3Ds...

2008-11-14T20:18:00.000+08:00

Man... I'm rushing through my 3D work these few days. Everything just gotta be done by today--Friday (aside from "MORE" amendments). Phew~ I did couple of amendments on the last few work and rushing through the last piece today. It's crazy man... and definitely turn out horrible. Never never rush your work like that. I'll upload it and you guys will get what I mean.

I'm a Interior Designer Trainee, but the company where I go for internship made me work like a junior designer. I do stuff from Autocad drawings (very very unPOfessional ones) to Newspaper Ad for the company to Newspaper Article to promote the company (That's not my scoop of work) to Paperwork such as Filing the promotion package price and description (EH! Bukan ni Admin punyer kerja?) to Research & Complilation of Idea & Concept ---> Presentation board for Proposal to client (I've never seen any client at all) to 3DsMax work cos' there's only 1 designer who can do 3D available there that's pile up with hell a lot of 3D work herself (Salute!!). OHH!! Not forgetting to mention this VERY IMPORTANT thing after doing so much work.. I don't learn much from this company cos' there's not much guidance and tips on our field of work. They are more like squeezing every bit of me but not teaching me through what is needed to know. And the best thing is.. they pay like I DUNNO... and they deduct salary like I DUNNO reason. Hahaha... Now that's what I called Training (in a not so common way). Btw, bare in mind... this is not a complaint. I'm sharing my experience of what I went through =)

Life is fill with ups and downs. Life will never be always happiness or forever depression. Sometimes it's just how we look at things. I'm basically very positive minded, cos' I have to. Having to go through the tough waves that seems never ending is suicidal for people who are negative. Well, I believe everyone has to go through a designated life for us to become who we want to be. I sure hope that all these hardship are God's Will to make me a strong and successful in time to come (p.s - everyone's definition for successful is different). I just need to be more patient cos' I'm so lack of it. LOL!!

Enough of the blabbing.. I felt so long-winded. Here are the 3D work I rushed through these 2 days:-

Guest Room 2 (the horrendous piece)

Guest Room 3 (view 1)

Guest Room 3 (view 2)

Guest Room 3 looks best among the other 2 Guest rooms. I'm partly please cos' there's a little improvement in there, but it's still never good enough. I feel so tiny when I see my colleague's work which is so so so far more better than mine. More practice!! Will do better next time.

*Dear all collegemates, if you happen to read this. Do pay a visit to my dear classmate Korosh Gol's facebook. His 3D effect is just GREAT!! ---> Korosh Gol

Cheer =)

Some 3D work...

2008-11-12T19:12:00.000+08:00

Well, these are some 3D work I've done in about 2-3 weeks. Supposed to be doing 15 pieces of perspective out of 11 interior space, which duration is less than a month and I'm just a trainee with very minimal skills of 3D work and designing skill. It's CRAZY!! Thank god hearing my S.O.S that there's another designer that split up the work load with me. So, I've gotta do 8 pieces of 3D perspective out of 6 interior spaces. Here are the outcomes:-

Oh... One more thing, don't expect too highly on lil' pitiful me >__<" I'm less than an amature in 3DsMax. Feel free to give comments and critics ya (^-^)*

AV Room

Girl's Room (View 1)

Girl's Room (View 2)

Guest Room 1

Dry Kitchen

There'll be more to come!! 3 more perspectives to go and amendments for the ones shown above AND dateline is around the corner, man... Stressing. I envy those who can do 3D so so much better than mine and able to almost master it within a very short period of time. Goshh... Time to work harder!!

Adobe Comes into Live

2008-11-11T16:32:00.000+08:00

"Ever wondered what Adeobe Photoshop would look like if it wasn't a piece of computer software? Well, our neighbors in Indonesia certainly have, and we're lovin' the way it looks on this poster that was created for the Software Asli agency. And if that hasn't blown you away, the sheer scale of this real-life mockup will. You didn't think they'd use miniature paintbrushes, now did you?" --- Lowyat.net

Now this is some real great job the team had made. I was totally amazed on how they made it and it looked so good! This is a real life mock-up that looks like a real software screen shot. Amazing!

For more photos at Flickr.com, Check out Art Snob Solution
Enjoy ;)