Welcoming 2007

First things first, wishing all my friends a happy new year. No wait...happy new year is so yesterday. Wishing all my friends a rockin, hip-hopping, high-flying, ass-kicking 2007~!!!

Now, my new year resolutions. Mine is simple. No more point 1,2,3,4,5...and so on which I can never keep. Basically, I just want to have a great time, to make money and to be happy and healthy. Cheers!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas y'all!!!

...and a Happy New Year

Gelatine...whoopee

Here's what I found out about gelatine, it is created via long term boiling of connective tissues including cartilage and skin of animals such as cattle. Apparently it's a protein which when cooled, is formed into some kind of gel that is semi solid. Thank you Wikipedia.

So basically, the thing that I'm chewing on right now...an apple flavoured chewable candy where part of its contents are gelatine as well as ice cream, jam, apple juice, margarine and so on which do sometimes contain gelatine. In other words, I've been chewing on cow hide for all my life. Well, you won't get anything but a soft sigh from me on this fact because although I'm Buddhist but I have occasionally gone down the beef eating path. Like last night, I just had an A&W Mozza burger. So eating this candy made from gelatine that comes from - I suspect - cows, is actually not a big problem for me. I may have sinned a little but who hasn't right?

The problem is I can't get this thought out of my head. You know what that thought is? Ok, read this on home-made items: unflavored gelatin can be made into cheaper versions of hair styling gel. The thought of what I'm eating now can actually be turned into hair gel is not exactly a pretty thought. Just imagine eating hair gel...not literally, but really...think about it. Gooey..

Why the insult?

Help me out here...I'm having trouble understanding why women are constantly put-down and insulted here and still the sources manage to turn it around and say that it is for the good of women. I'm still shocked at reading about the news on a suggestion to give polygamy awards to men who are willing to take single mothers as wives. *jaw drop* I don't understand it. Is it a joke? Single mothers don't need the pity of men and don't need to be drawn into a relationship..a marriage..which is just a sham..which is just based on rewards. That's not love. Mother nature will be fainting right now. I think for some single mothers, they are even happier being a single mum, despite financial problems. At least they are not tied down by husbands who bully them, and they have the freedom to pursue the things they like in life rather than being controlled by a man. Nevertheless, single mothers..women, have a right to choose and not to be chosen like an object - a thing. Omigosh!

And what about another thing I read recently about advice given to women that they should behave properly at work and not to neglect their families in pursuit of career success. Duh! This is not 'how to be a woman 101'. Every grown up woman knows how to think for themselves and behave accordingly. Why is it that women are told to behave themselves and not to neglect their families and men are not told to do that. Is it ok for men to neglect their children but not ok for women to do so? Every mother, every father should love their children and they can decide for themselves the best method of handling work-life balance. It is unfair that men are not told to give priority to family and women must give priority to family. Responsibility doesn't fall on women only, what happen to gender equality?! I hope we have not become the laughing-stock of the world when outsiders read these things.

The harmonica

I'm getting restless and my fingers are itching for some action besides the constant tapping of the keyboard and clicking of the mouse. I've been playing around with the thought of learning up another musical instrument. Not that I have mastered my guitar...no where near that but it's getting a little tiring carrying it around. I'm a tiny person and the guitar is overbearing. I'm interested in learning something new...something smaller, less stretching, portable...something like a harmonica! That's it! Though, I don't think it's easy to learn. I mean imagine putting that thing in your mouth and sliding it side to side and twisting and tangling your tongue just to get the right sound. But I'm really into it and have been for many years, I just never got to a point where I can independently say, hey I wanna learn it. Now I have...but I think one major obstacle I'd have to get past is the thought of covering that piece of instrument with all my saliva and drooling while learning it. Hmm..worst case scenario, I could settle for a flute..

Re-design

As you can see, I've gotten pretty bored..to a point that I was bored with the design of my blog. I've replaced my flamboyant blue and yellow with ..just plain blue. How blue it looks now...and why the hell did I even do that. Now I miss my old colours. I spent so much time customizing it last time. Well, I guess this doesn't look too bad, but it lacks something...something in the form of my identity. Crap, now it looks like any other blog of any other people who happen to choose this template. Damn it...I need to add some 'oomph' to this.

Last day in US

It had been a good 2 weeks here. It was something new, met new people at work, successful testing and a really fun experience. I loved every bit of it. Today is the last day in Sunnyvale and Ivy and I had nothing much to do today. In the evening, we decided to go to the Flea Market but unfortunately, we got lost twice and I pretty much drove on and on for a while and couldn't find the road we were suppose to find. In the end, well..yea it was scary also because we didn't want to get permanently lost and miss our flight back home although that flight is midnight...haha long way to go. Anyway, what supposedly was a 12 minute drive turned into more than 1 hour because of wrong road and traffic jam. In the end, we found our way back to the place near our office and just decided to fill up the tank and go to the airport.

Even the trip to the airport was long, the roads were all jammed up. We took an hour to reach there. All in all, 2 weeks finally came to an end and I loved it, I'll miss it but I definitely do not want to spend months in the US like most people do. That would have driven me nuts. 2 weeks is just fine! Perfect. Now I'm on my way back home. I already spent like 12 hours from San Fran to Taipei and 4 hours from Taipei to Singapore. I'm so looking forward to a good bath. As I'm typing this, I'm currently in Singapore and it is 11 Nov at 1.45pm and waiting for my flight back to Penang. Home sweet home!!!

Malaysians are friendly??

I don't think so. I still don't understand why people who visit Malaysia always say that Malaysians are such nice and friendly people. I don't know but it seems to me that over here in US, people are so much more friendly and polite. 9 out of 10 people that I meet were like "Hi, how are you?", "How's your day?", "Good morning, how are you doing?", "Thank you", "I appreciate that", "You're fantastic". But in Malaysia, we pass people and it would be like ...dead silence or people just look away from us or complete ignorance. I just went to the restroom and just as I was going to open the door, a lady walked out and she was like "Oh, I'm sorry" and she holds the door open for me. I was surprised and thanked her and went in. I mean in Penang, you would wish that they would do that, unfortunately they will most likely just let the door slam on my face. I definitely don't agree that Malaysians are friendly. I'm a Malaysian, I see that everyday...definitely not as friendly as what you'll get over here. Another thing was that it really is like a culture here that when someone sneezes, people will say "Bless you" to them. I mean, this I know but I didn't realise it happens all the time. Someone will sneeze and someone else sitting at the other end of the room will say bless you and the sneezer will say thank you. It's cute and it's really nice to hear that too. Not the sneezing la!Anyway, tonight is our 2nd last night in the US. Finally, for dinner, Ivy and I went to Chillis. We had the Jamaican Paradise magarita, chicken crispers and a very nice dessert called chocolate molten cake. Both of us shared all the 3 things because it's too much to finish. Very nice and the whole meal costed us $27.00. Again relatively ok if you live and work there.. :)

Day of food

Today we had a very nice lunch. A friend of ours took us to Sweet Tomatoes which was a salad bar buffet restaurant. It's just USD7++ per person for buffet. I mean it is for USD! Forget the exchange rate...if everything is compared to the exchange rate, we'll be starving here. :) It's basically a salad bar, lots of veggie. I took a full plate of those and then I went for clam chowder which was followed by potato wrapped in tin foil. Baked potato? Something like that. It was good. After work, we went to Costco (this is like Makro, just nicer) and this was followed by another visit to Fry's. Haha. I'm a sucker for Fry's. I could go bankrupt in there. I have to control myself. For dinner, my colleague's brother took us to Pho' Queen Noodle House for vietnamese food. It's along Tasman Drive which is about 10 minutes away from the hotel. After that, we stopped at Ranch 99 supermarket at Milpitas. I saw that the Haagen Daaz there is so damn cheap! For the small tub it's USD3.99 and the big tub is USD5.99. Why the hell do they get things so cheap? These are like expensive delicacies in Malaysia! *cry*

For the sake of Abercrombie :)

It's Fry's day again. Second visit to Fry's and I still like it there. This time we went there to get our Ipod Nano which was at $149. We sacrificed lunch for this. Imagine our desperation. Haha! Later that night, I built up my courage to go to Greatmall again despite what happened last time, getting lost and all. This time I printed a different map using a different route which got us there and back safe and sound. The reason I went there was to get the Abercrombie & Fitch jacket for Ding. I figured something that displays that brand name big and clear would be worth it. So Ding, this'll keep you warm in the office. Later that night, my friend took me to Castro city for dinner at a japanese shop selling ramen. I took the butter corn ramen which was simply deeeelicious. You know USD8 for a big bowl of ramen is so very cheap for the people living here. In Penang, it's like RM15 to 20 for a bowl of ramen. Sheesh..

Shopping again

It's Monday again. After a day at work, Ivy and I planned for a visit to Westfield Valley Fair which was about 15 minutes drive away. It was supposed to be 15 minutes drive but due to traffic jam, it turned into almost an hour. This mall has got almost the same outlets but the range they offer, I guess, is more expensive. So we went walking around but I couldn't find anything for myself except some things that I bought for my mum. One good thing was that it's easy to get there. We were suppose to check out Santana Row near there. Apparently it's quite a happening place with lots of restaurants but we forgot. :(

Hollywood and all

Today, my colleague's brother drove us around trying to find us a good spot to take a photo of the HOLLYWOOD sign on the hill. Finally we got it and we were suppose to go to Warner Bro's studio for a tour but then it was closed on Sunday so we just settled for taking photos with a Bugs Bunny statue outside. Then we went to Universal Studios. We didn't have time to enter the themepark but that's fine. The Universal City Walk was interesting enough. So many shops, so colourful..very nice and we took photos in front of the famous Universal Studio globe. GRIN. After that it was almost 4pm and started the journey back to Sunnyvale. The drive back seemed longer and very tiring too. By the time we reached Sunnyvale, it was almost 10pm so we went for BBQ steamboat till midnight. There were a group of people celebrating birthday there with nice cake and so on. They were nuts...they turned a perfectly nice, edible cake into mush. Those idiots went outside and started throwing cake at the birthday boy. Bunch of idiots. Finally, we went back and settled in for a good night's sleep. Hmm..ok I didn't sleep till almost 2am. There was a nice movie on TV. I can't help it ok!

Los Angeles

The journey to Los Angeles on the road was about 5 hours and it is warm there. Much warmer than Sunnyvale. The highways were dark and long and curvy. There were hardly any rest areas around. Not as much as what we see on the highway from Penang to KL. Over here, there's not many rest areas and not many places to stop. It's not good for the driver. My colleague's brother must have been really tired driving such a long distance without much rest along the way. Around 6am, we were near already. We stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. I had the hot cinnamon roll which was freaking sweet. Urgh..that's a diabetic nightmare! After that, we went on and somehow got lost trying to find Disneyland but finally we found it and checked in at the hotel near Disneyland. I shared a room with my colleague and we settled in, freshened up and headed straight to Disneyland. We decided to cover both the parks which cost USD83. We figured, what the hell, we should try to cover it because there may not be a next time for us to come back to USA. What are the chances right? That was probably our first and last time. We tried the California Adventure park first and took pictures with Hercules. I ran up to him and asked for a photo with him and it was great. Next we 'attacked' Pluto. He was standing there taking photos with people, hugging them and so on. Along the way, we went into the Animation Academy. I thought it was a ride but it was actually a class to teach us how to draw Donald Duck. Hmmph...When we came out, we saw Mickey Mouse bouncing along and didn't managed to catch him for a photo. Sigh...so we went for lunch and then we saw Mickey Mouse bouncing back and headed straight into the toilet. Followed by Cinderella...haha. We headed for the Tower of Terror. It was an elevator ride that plunges down and up. Oooh scary but really exciting. The next ride was Soaring. It was really nice. This was followed by a roller coaster ride California Screaming. That was damn good! It was totally exciting. We headed to Disneyland themepark in the late afternoon. By then it was 5pm and getting dark. There was so many people in Disneyland and I was quite dissapointed that the photos I took didn't turn out so well because it was dark and I couldn't use the flash because it blacks out the pictures. But without the flash, the pictures came out blurry because my hands kept shaking. Anyway, we managed to catch the parade..it was nice then we rushed off for rides on the Peter Pan ride. At 9.30pm was the start of fireworks. It was a beauty that lasted about 20 minutes then we rushed off again for as many rides as possible. Our adventure ended at 11.45pm as we headed back to the hotel and slept like pigs. What a long and exciting day! I'm really glad that I got to see Disneyland for the first time. It has been a week of first-timers. I came to US for the first time. I went to San Francisco for the first time. I wore my leather jacket for the first time. I drove on the opposite side of the road for the first time in car that is a left hand drive. It is a great experience! But I had a hard time differentiating the money. The dollar notes all look the same. And the coins were confusing. They only have 25 cents (quarter) which is the biggest coin. 5 cents is a bigger and thicker coin than 10 cents (1 dime) which gave me a hard time trying to figure it out with a long queue behind me. ;)

It is Friday! Later on at 3am, my colleague's brother and family will be taking us to LA. But before that, today we visited the famous Fry's electronics store..gigantic store. It has everything. I believe my dad will go crazy in there. It has EVERYTHING electronic and I mean everything. It's like an electronic heaven in there. Even I was captivated. Fry's is very near our office. Just less than 5 minutes drive away and we spent about 2 hours there and had dinner at Coco's. This restaurant is nearby too and they serve a lot of sandwiches. Ivy and I shared a sandwich and we can't even finish it. It's begin a burger/sandwich week for us. We keep seeing burgers everywhere. On TV, along the road, shopping malls..everywhere. So sick of it. But the food at Coco's is quite nice just that it's too much. Everything served in US is too much and too big. But prices of food are really reasonable. It's an average of USD8 for a meal of burger or sandwich or italian food and so on. As long as I don't think of the exchange rate, then it's really cheap here. Dinner done, hunger reduced..we went back to the hotel and waited for 3am to come along.

Journey to Gilroy

Our adventure streak is starting again. This time it's further away but apparently much easier to reach because it's just one straight road along the highway/freeway/parkway...whatever they call it. I don't know the difference. In Malaysia, we just call it highway, simple as that. Over here, they have freeways, parkways, expressways. Argh! Anyway, today the 2 of us headed off to Gilroy Premium Outlets which is situated in Gilroy, of course. I guess it's like a town or city. Premium Outlets is a huge open air area with lots of outlets/retail outlets such as Guess, Nike, Coach, Timberland and so on.

Places such as Greatmall and Gilroy offer cheaper prices. So, to get to Gilroy is like a 30 mile drive (30 minutes drive) but we got there..yes we got there with nothing but a car, a map and my handphone with a dead battery. There were about 4 huge blocks of buildings, we managed to cover 3 as it was too late to cover the last one because all shops close at 9pm. When we got to Gilroy it was almost 7pm. All in all, it was interesting and a different style of shopping center. Even the drive back to the hotel was smooth except that at one point, I turned into the wrong side of the road and I saw cars coming slowly towards me. I panicked, stopped and made turn to get back on the right direction. *Sheepish grin* That was scary. Our dinner tonight was Carl's Junior take-away and lights off to bed, ZZZzzz.

Dinner at Fish Market

Tonight, we had a group dinner at Fish Market which was along El Camino Real. That's like just 5 minutes away from the office. The place was packed. I tried the red snapper dish which wasn't really that good. In fact, it was quite tasteless. I guess the Fish and Chips looked better. Nothing much going on today except that.

Greatmall : Part 2

Today, after work, we decided to venture of into the unknown by ourselves with nothing but a car, a map and a whole truck load of gut. Ok, it's Greatmall again but the difference this time is my colleague and I are going by ourselves. The journey there was somewhat smooth. We got there, we found the place..yippee. Shop shop and shop then got ready to get back to the hotel.WE GOT LOST! Somewhere along the way, we saw Lawrence Expressway. That's good, means we are near. So I took the turn but as I drove on...I didn't see anymore signs which says Lawrence Expressway. We started to see Mountain View, El Camino Real and some other street names and finally, we knew we were lost. Oh god..panic started to kick in. We stopped at a Baskin outlet to ask for directions but they didn't know where it was and I thought "Shit, are we so far that they don't even know how to get there??!!" Uh oh. Finally we stopped at a mini market and I went down to ask this guy how to get back. He was like "Lawrence Expressway?? You are very far from there!" I looked at him, dazed. Fortunately, he said the magic words, he was quite well-versed with the directions, which was good for us. Thanks to him, we found our way back and whew..that was close shave from ending up in nowhere land. Yippee!

Visit to Greatmall, Milpitas

Monday morning started off with a BANG! No la...I just thought it sounded nice to say that. It was actually quite cold and then we had breakfast then set off to office. AMD was just less than 5 minutes drive away. My friend took us for lunch at Tofu House along El Camino Real. Their dishes are all tofu (beancurd). It's beancurd in a claypot of different flavours served with rice. I took the seafood beanfurd pot and it was quite delicious and affordable too. Fast forward through the day, we left work and my colleague's brother took us to Greatmall at Milpitas for some good 'ol shopping! That place is full of what we in Penang would refer to as branded outlets. Guess, Levis, Abercrombie & Fitch, Nike, Timberland, Dockers and many many more. It was definitely jaw-dropping cheap in comparison to Malaysia. I mean in US, let's assume they make like USD3000 a month for their salary. They only need to spend USD20.00 for a Levi's jeans or USD40.00 for a pair of Guess jeans. We make let's say also RM3000 a month in Malaysia and we have to spend RM300.00 for a pair of Levis or Guess jeans. Absurd isn't it? The cost of living in US (for people who work and live there) is SO LOW. A BMW costs USD50000 in US and it probably cost like RM200000 and above in Malaysia. *gasp* Even vitamins are way cheaper. *snort* Well, the shops close at 9pm and we shopped till 9.01pm and left. To be continued...

San Francisco

In California, we are 16 hours behind Malaysia but somehow I didn't feel the jetlag that people always talk about. I don't know why. I kind of want to know how that feels but I didn't really feel sleepy during the day and awake during the night. It was just normal for me. Today, we went to collect our car at San Jose airport. They gave us a Hyundai Sonata which is quite a powerful car and spacious too. After that, my colleague's brother took us to San Francisco. It was about a 40 minute drive to reach there. The temperature there was much lower that Sunnyvale so we had to wear thicker jackets. One of the place that we stopped over in San Francisco was Lombard Street. It's a really beautiful, curly, curvy and steep street whereby if you look from bottom up, it's simply captivating.

After that, Ivy and I dragged our butts up to the top and to take photos from top down this time. We are just too free! The houses in SF are cute and cosy looking. It's so full of hills there that most roads go up and down..up and down. Such a beautiful view. We also went to see the Golden Gate bridge and Alcatraz from afar and took a couple of photos amidst the windy weather. During the trip, we stopped over at IHop for some light snacks. It's quite a famous pancake/waffle diner-like place. I say it's famous because it was full to the brim. Later on, we visited the Exploratorium. Not inside. We took some photos of the landscaping there and set off to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. Now, that place is hip, hop and happening! So many restaurants, so many people. Very interesting place. As the time ticked away, day turned into night and we set off back to Sunnyvale and to get ready for the next day.

Off to USA

I have to catch my flight at 10.30 am to Singapore and from there to Taipei and finally to San Francisco on business class. To cut the story short, I missed all of that except the Penang-Singapore flight. Not my fault. All SIA's fault. That flight was delayed by an hour and a half. I don't even want to dwell on that matter here because it pisses me off. Anyway, we finally got a flight to San Francisco which transits at Hong Kong. We reach San Francisco at 7pm on 28 October US time of course... :) time travel huh? It's funny when I think of it. An airplane is like a freaking time machine. Well, the one bad thing about this journey is the delay and the fact that we were forced to take economy class on the alternate flight because everything was fully booked. I was so freaking pissed. I argued with shitty ground staff at Penang airport and the only thing they can say is "Oh, you'll have to work this out with the staff in Singapore and they'll arrange something for you". Arrange their ass ok! I got there and i went to the transfer counter and started proclaiming that this is all absurd and I'm not flying economy. Well nothing worked, the only thing they could do was put me on standby for business class. Crap! That's like saying no chance ok? If it's so full, and that they committed that I will get priority standby for business, why is it that another passenger who didn't even insist on getting priority standby be moved to business class when we reached Hong Kong? This is absurd. I was so pissed of at that passenger because he did nothing but stood there and took the freaking credit when I was the one arguing for my business class bookings. By the way, during the flight, I was sitting at the window seat and next to me was my colleague and next to her on the aisle seat was a freaking log. Tree trunk. Pillar...whatever you want to call it. That bitch just sits there and sleeps like a piece of wood. Doesn't budge and the whole 15 hour or so flight, never once did she get up to go to the washroom. I don't know what's going on but I think she's got a gigantic bladder. My colleague and I had to go out a couple of times to walk around and to the washroom and it's so hard waking that tree trunk up. What a bitch! I go to the washroom for a minute or so and I come back and there she is, sleeping again and didn't even have the courtesy to stand up so that I can get in easier. She's a freaking wood with the expression as if her dog just died. Screw her! All Anyway, I reached SFO finally. My friend picked us up and we checked in to the hotel. It was chilly in Sunnyvale. Quite a change but I like it. Later on, we went for supper and finally settled in around midnight. Next day, off to San Francisco for a tour!

Save me from myself

It's been hell of a long time since the end of MBA, yet it was just a month ago. I haven't achieved much truthfully, none of the 'having fun', 'celebrating freedom' or 'feeling light and easy' happened at all. In fact, the past 1 month has been filled with problems and issues right from 1st Oct onwards. I came back from Singapore on 13th Oct after a week there for training. Can't say it was exceptionally fun. It wasn't. A chance to travel is a good thing but if we're travelling on business trips...it ain't fun. It's stressful. I'd prefer to travel on holidays rather than travel on business related ones, coz then we won't be able to fully enjoy it. I'm off to US next week for the first time for 2 whole weeks. I'm kinda excited about it but yet I feel upset and a little down about it because it's a business trip, not a vacation. Speaks for itself. I hate packing, I hate trying to figure out how many clothes to take (too much is too heavy, too little is not enough %#$#@!!!!) These past 2 weeks has been full of rushing and moody blues week and sometimes I just wish I could have a break. Year ends are always hectic times...for some it's hectic partying season, for me, it's times of depression and agony. :) Why moody blues? Maybe overwhelmed by the upcoming US trip and I just wonder when I'll get the chance to just sit in front of the TV and relax. Trust me, I've been sitting in front of the TV for the past month but my mind has been constantly worrying about work. Gosh...I wonder how it would feel like just to take a really long vacation away from it. I can only dream about it.

Anyway, 2 weeks gone from home, half the world away. I'm gonna miss everything about it and everyone. I do hope I can at least enjoy a little bit of the trip, excluding the work related times. Ding, please don't get anymore M fever. :P

food for thought

This article on today's Star newspaper (22 October 2006) under StarMag section, page 5, entitled "You left, We stayed". It's about people who migrate overseas and constantly blabber about how great life is there and indirectly indicating that 'losers' stay on. I like that article. We choose our own lives and we make the best of it. No where is perfect...but in the end, no where is like home. Cheers to the writer!

4 days post-mba

It has been almost a week of sorts. I spent last Saturday afternoon completing my final of all final exams of MBA. Alas! After 21 months, I have closed another chapter of my education life. The next day, I went down to KL for a one day trip and Monday night was a very fun night. I went for a company dinner and my colleagues and I had loads of fun, dance and great music. My Tuesday and Wednesday was usual with nothing much interesting going on except that I can proudly declare that I managed to do 2 things that I wanted to do.

1. I brought out my dusty 5 year old guitar and tried to play something. I guess a few notes from Johnny Cash's Walk The Line was reasonable enough to call an achievement...I mean, despite the fact that I suck at it. Come on! it's not that easy to learn ok!!

2. Finally, applied for an MPH readers club member card. I know...I know, I listed a whole load of crap that I wanted to do in my previous post but I need some time to do that, especially the part which involves cleaning my room. :)

Things to do after the last day of MBA

Count down..... 0 days to go!

1. Buy my first vanilla latte from Starbucks, sit and watch people walk by.
2. Pray hard for good results.
3. Help Ding burn his books ? *this is still pending confirmation*
4. Read my brand new novels till my eyes pop out.
5. One Tree Hill and TVB Cold Blood Warm Heart marathon.
6. Spring clean my bedroom...again.
7. Apply for MPH member card.
Correction (due to special request)
9. Seafood feast *Ding, Peen, Lynn & Soon Yee let's go someday and get diarrhea for the next 3 days*
9. Try self-learn Mandarin, Spanish and revise Japanese. *what a challenge..i'm screwed*
10. Go shoe shopping.

Life is like a novel with its end ripped out

"Life is like a novel with its end ripped out". This phrase caught my attention today. It's a part of the lyrics of one of Rascal Flatt's songs. Well put...Life really is nothing but a story without an end until we finally reach the end. Yet again we won't know what the end would be...*deep*. I don't even know what I just said.
Frankly, this life journey is so unpredictable. Literally said, it's just like a novel with the end ripped out. We're happily reading a novel and we can't find the last page...what's going to happen? happy ending? No one knows. We meet all kinds of people in our lives..I know I have. And these different kinds of people either make you or break you, yet again, we wouldn't know it till the end. Sometimes things could be going so well and the next minute, we could be clawing at each other for no apparent reason. Freaky isn't it? Sometimes bad things that happen are followed by good things. Sometimes it is followed by worst things..and getting worser until you crawl into a hole and wish that you will just disappear into thin air. I hope that doesn't happen. Anyway, I think I like the thought of life being a novel with the end ripped out. I wouldn't want to know my end until the day comes because then if I had known...that would be boring. I'm definitely not the type to go sky-diving, mountain-climbing, re-creating dinosaurs or wrestling with lions, so why would I want to know how the rest of my story goes. I'd prefer it to surprise me...in a good way that is! Like maybe I might stumble upon a winning lottery ticket, or suddenly wake up in an orange Ferrari which is mine..all mine! or...*reality check* find myself fantasizing about materialistic items and suddenly fall back down to earth to where my 5 assignments are waiting to be finished and exam waiting to be studied for and work waiting for me to crack my head on. *sigh*

Training-The Breakup-Assignments

9.32am on a Saturday morning. Hell..it's been a week of fun and downs too. I just came back from KL on Wednesday night where I went there for training. The training session was quite alright, interesting learning experience. Not much happening besides that. I stayed near the training center which was a plus because I didn't have to wake up early and rush. It only takes me 5 minutes to walk there.

So back home then. It's not so great. I've been feeling pretty moody and down because of 2 assignments that need to be completed. Everytime I open them I feel like throwing myself at a brick wall. Gosh...I never knew doing assignments can be so freakishly depressing. I hope to finish one by today. It's really taking a toll on me...I get so upset that I feel guilty not able to read my storybooks without thinking about assignments. I went to watch The Breakup on last night. Somehow, it was a good show but I constantly kept thinking about assignments that are waiting for me at home. How upsetting it is. Now I'm awake and sitting here..staring at space. I'm doing my homework now. Hopefully I can get it over with. Now about The Breakup. Jennifer Aniston looked so damn good in there. I don't understand how in the world Brad Pitt can leave her for Angelina...I mean yea sure..Angelina's sexy, pretty, pouty and stuff...but she does portray a certain image......scary. Well, whatever. Anyway, the whole show is nice and funny except the ending. There was no ending which made all of us more pissed off.

Alright, I'll end off here. Guilt is bearing me down. I better go continue my homework.

Cheers~!

Post Exam Syndrome

Exam for one of my papers were over on Saturday. Two more subjects and I'll finally end this very tough journey. Now I'm spending the rest of the week in decline mode before the next subject starts. I spent my Sunday lazing around nursing a headache and stayed up from 2am to 5am watching World Cup finals. Later in the afternoon on Monday, I went to watch Superman with Ding. Not bad..quite a couple of funny moments too. I'm trying to cram as many songs into my head as possible for all the times that I missed and all the times that I spent worrying about assignments and exam that I couldn't even listen to music in peace. As of this moment, Jessica Simpson is pretty much yelling at the top of her lungs from my speakers. Gosh, this girl is loud! I better switch to something less dramatic before my ear drums explode and splatter all the gooey matter from my ears out. Patrizio Buanne belting out some Italian song in his smooth silky voice just did the trick. I'm just swaying to the music and enough for this post as I'm starting to feel floaty and I'm not aware anymore of what I'm typing..that's all for now before I start typing gibberish. Goodnight!

Summing up World Cup 2006

Here's my version of what I thought of this year's World Cup. Actually this World Cup was the only one that I actually paid attention to. Back in 2002, I didn't really care to watch. In 1998 I was still too caught up with NBA basketball. And I took the effort to stay up from 2am to watch the finals between Italy and France. That was really good and coincidentally, Monday was a holiday so I thank my lucky stars.

It started off with me supporting 3 teams, England, Holland and Spain. Well, it was a no-brainer that England totally got kicked out with their lacklustre display except for good work by Beckham, Ashley Cole and some others. Holland got kicked out by Portugal which was a big boo boo and Portugal went on to knock England out which was even worst considering the fact that I never liked Cristiano Ronaldo. Spain...ahh...Spain Spain Spain. They were good, young but good. I guess give them a couple more years and they'll 'blossom'.

On to the finals between Italy and France. I considered that an enjoyable game to watch because I didn't support either side and I didn't hate either side. Whoever wins, I support! *Grin*..but Italy did play well and I was pretty impressed by Fabio Cannavaro. He's really good. Aside from his good looks, he does play impressively. It's true! That's all for World Cup.

Italy are the champions of the world~!!!

End of The Road

Hail, The Great David Beckham!
Too bad, world cup hopes are dashed and over for my favourite teams England, Holland, Spain and Argentina. Beckham has stepped down as captain of England but nevertheless, he was and is still one of the best players ever and he played such a pivotal and remarkable role in England's journey in this year's World Cup.
The final four : France, Portugal, Germany and Italy. I hope France wins!

Birthday Greetings

I would like to wish 2 of my best buddies a happy birthday, if they are reading this.

Happy Birthday, Soon Yee

(on 26th June 2006)

Happy Birthday, Yee Leng

(on 27th June 2006)

World Cup Wishes

This is it. Tonight's the night where either England stays or goes. Sames goes to Holland.

Of course I would hope to see the next knock-out match between England and Holland which means England beats Ecuador tonight and Holland beats Portugal. Gosh..that's a tough one. Portugal's quite strong. And England is still under-performing. I hope they don't lose to Ecuador. Then I would have no one to support anymore. World Cup 2006 would have lost its meaning.

If both my favourite teams win, it's gonna be a great match the next time round.

World Cup 2006

WORLD CUP HAS STARTED!

OLE OLE OLE!!

My support goes to England, Spain and Holland.

Grease : The Musical

Grease was held at the KL Convention Centre. We bought the RM90 category which was the cheapest one and it's quite alright. We took our seats in the hall and waited a while and finally the show started.

It started off with a short contest on stage for anyone who wants to go up and get jiggy with it (dance around). The winner of that shake-ur-bon-bon session got a Grease T-shirt...so much for all the dancing. I enjoyed the show, though the second part of the show was much more exciting. The best vocal part was for the song Beauty School Dropout which is done by a female singer this time, unlike in the movie which was a male singer. That part was really good. There were some funny moments too especially at the drive-in movie scene. The downside was that the sound system in the hall was less than satisfactory. There was too much echo which made it hard to listen to the dialogue in the show and there was A LOT of talking parts whereby the unsatisfactory sound system really was a spoiler. With the complaints aside, it was truly a great show put up by the Grease cast. Good work to them, they deserve a standing ovation. Too bad nobody shouted for an encore...and I was too shy, as expected, to chant that out because everyone would be staring at me if I get no response or nobody joins in to chant.

My KL Trip

Day 1 @ 7:30pm
After an enjoyable 4.5 hours ride in the bus, half of it spent watching Fong Sai Yuk (which was really damn funny), we finally reached our destination : KL. We were taken to Chili's for a sumptuous, mouth-watering, taste-bud satisfying dinner. Aahh...the mash potatoes make me crave for more.
Day 2 @ 11:00am
We took a cab to Midvalley and the first thing I wanted was Burger King! Well, what can I say right? We poor little Penangites don't get the opportunity to savour this ultimate fast food chain back in Penang...so we saved all our energy for this chance in KL. Onion rings~! Love them love them love them! Anyway I had this French Chicken burger and it was delicious. After that, off to some window-shopping and we took the kommuter to KL Sentral, from there to took an LRT to KLCC. More window-shopping and frequent feet-nursing on any available seats we could find. Later on, we went to satisfy my desire for Dunkin Donuts!

Day 2 @ 8:30pm

We headed off to the convention centre for the main purpose of my trip - Grease:The Musical. I enjoyed it...I just love musicals. Expensive but worth it. It was a good show by the Grease casts.

Day 3 @ 11:00am

We went off to Low Yat Plaza via cab and spent a few minutes there while waiting for Ding's brother-in-law to meet us and take us for "drunken-chicken noodle" brunch. After that, all of us took a walk around at Metrojaya and then out to Sungei Wang. When all that was conquered, we headed off to Lot 10 and finished it in 15 minutes. So, we had to make a last minute decision to change directions and we decided to go to 1-Utama. We took the monorail to KL Sentral and from there, an LRT to Kelana Jaya. Upon reaching that station, we took a cab to 1-Utama (new wing). OMG. It is huge...Thank God we decided to go there. We spent the entire afternoon exploring that place and finally found Subway which was our destination for dinner afterwards. Next stop was Dunkin' Donuts again..of course. That was our last day at KL, I must get some donuts coz Penang doesn't have Dunkin. How pathetic right? Shopping haven island, tourist attraction destination -> Penang...and it has pretty much nothing but A&W, Mcd, Pizza and KFC. I didn't realise locating the Dunkin Donut store was such a tiring tasks. It was a really long walk. After that, we attempted to get directions from the guard on where is the nearest taxi stand...to no avail. No doubt, the guard was helpful and long-winded but we just couldn't understand a single word he said. His accent was so heavy that Oval sounded like Awal. Finally, we managed to escape from his never-ending speech on directions and found the taxi stand. I would say the taxi ride wasn't so great, first of all, was the taxi drivers attempt to get extra money for the fact that apparently the road would be jammed. So, we relented and said ok..fine. So off we went. The road wasn't jammed..the driver was full of crap but anyway, we paid him the extra RM2 (with very much unwillingness) plus the meter charges. One thing about the taxi system in KL is that...the drivers tend to round UP the values instead of asking for the exact amount unlike in Singapore where the drivers are much more disciplined and with less of those greediness in their manner. Over here, RM 14.80 got rounded up to RM15.00. We've met 2 out of 3 taxi drivers during our short trip in KL who rounded up the amounts. Ding refused to pay 15 which the driver pretentiously proclaimed that was the fare. It's either the drivers in Malaysia have lack of mathematical capabilities or simply greedy. There is no OR actually, they are just simply ignorant and greedy. Anyway, he finally changed back the 20 cents for us. If Malaysia wants to be world-class...try starting from solving the problem over here.
Day 4 @ 8:30am
Boarded the bus and headed off home!

If you want to see some photos of the trip, visit my photo album site. You can find the link on the side menu or otherwise, here's the link:

http://mellim.myphotoalbum.com

Books, Books, Books!

Visit my book blog if you love to read and love to share some recommendations with me. It's specially set aside for my thoughts on the books I've read and I would appreciate your thoughts too if you've read it. Here's the link, you can find it in my sidebar link library too. Have a nice day! Cheers~!

http://mellim-bookcollection.blogspot.com

Magical World

We went to watch Disney on Ice. It was pretty fun and I totally enjoyed it. The dance, the skating...beautiful. There was Mickey and his better half, Donald Duck, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White (but no dwarfs), Aladdin and Jasmine, the genie, The Incredibles clan, Nemo and the shark(the shark was so cute when it came out) and many more. Fantastic figure skating and accompanied by those great Disney songs. I loved it.

Sushi King drama : The sequel

It was Thursday evening. Ding, Peen and I headed down to Sushi King to take advantage of the last day of the RM2 promotion. Ding reached there first and waited in line while we were on the way..that's really sweet of him too (I have to give him credit for that. For standing in the humid, hot condition). When I got there, a big crowd was already starting to form at the entrance (not to mention the bigger crowd already in there eating). Anyway, we waited a bit more and finally got our seats. Haha..it was perfect...finally I will be able to fulfil my desire of having that tempura prawn sushi which some uncle hijacked way back in last year's promotion. This year..it's all about revenge. The Sushi King fella finally...finally (after much 'tarik-harga')...made that dish. It's not like it's so damn delicious or something but during normal times we wouldn't eat it coz it's like one of the more expensive...correction..most expensive ones on the belt. Didn't manage to snap a photo of it coz we were all too busy chomping it down. Anyway, I did manage 2 photos. This first one, we didn't eat it coz it's not part of the promotion and coz we just don't eat that. But I've got to post this up coz it reminds us so much of Lynn. And if Lynn is reading this, hey..how are you in US? Quick get back here and we can go have dinner again and you can have your..green beans thingy. GRIN. Pls don't kill me..

And this next picture is salmon roe sushi? Something like that. One of Peen's favourite. Ding and I tried one of the round reddish ball thingy on the rice and decided that we'll just forego it for our own reasons :P

Cheers~! Here's one for the memories.

Sushi King drama

My colleagues and I went to Sushi King for lunch..11 of us! It was the RM2 promotion thingy. That place was packed like hell. Ate as much as we could...I have to blur out my friend's image there coz if she ever finds out I posted this up with her face in it..I don't know what she'll do to me. :)

The song that makes me cry

Ever had that one song that really touches your heart? rips at your veins? There's one song that always makes me feel like I want to cry when I listen to it.

Vitamin C - Graduation (Friends Forever)

Everytime I listen to this, I'll think of the times I had when I was in school...walking along the corridors of MGS and talking crap with my friends in class which is my best friend ever, Soon Yee and Sher Mein, Yee Leng, Michelle...Don't get me wrong, I don't like school, I don't like the homework, I don't like the heat and I sure don't like to run 12 rounds around the school field and panting like a dog just for the sake of passing PE. That was horrifying, and Lynn can actually run the complete cycle without breaking sweat. FANTASTIC! But I sure do miss the company of my friends. You know what else this song makes me think of, COLLEGE. Aahhh..those were great times too. I really miss it. We had a lot of fun, me, Peen, Lynn and Yuen San. Just hanging out, discussing guys, girls, music, movies and lunch dates. *soft sigh*

A new resolution

Something suddenly dawned upon me a couple of days back. I realised I tend to mutter the F word a lot..to myself anyway. Mostly I type it out when I'm chatting online. I don't say it out loud because I still want to portray my 'nice girl' image to everyone although I don't get it why no one ever believes that I'm innocent and unpolluted! *sigh*

So the F word in this context is actually the famous 4 letter F word which I won't state here coz' ...I'm a nice girl. Sometimes.

So, now onwards, everytime I think of saying the F word, I'm gonna replace it with "Shit" instead, if I get a dollar everytime I say that, I'll be filthy rich. Once I've improved to that level, I'm gonna replace all my Shits with something more subtle..like "Damn", "Oh Crap" or... "Holy Crap". FINALLY...when I reach the level of total purity..I'm just gonna say "SWEEET" for everytime that I have the urge to utter the F word, or the Shits, or Bitch..whatever. Let's see how long I can keep this 'holy crap' image up.

Formula 1 Grand Prix

GO RENAULT!! Fernando Alonso claimed top spot in Bahrain and fought back from 7th starting position to 2nd spot behind fellow teammate Giancarlo Fisichella in Sepang. It's gettin' hot in here...

I love the colours. As you can see, I've even tried changing my background colours to match it.

Great Rendition of Old Songs

Here are some covers and live performances of other singers doing their version of original singer's songs which I think are really worth listening to:

• Jordis Unga in Rockstar INXS did a very touching rendition of John Lennon's Imagine, live on stage during Rockstar INXS show. So good I can't get that song out of my head.
• The Corrs did a cover of Linda Ronstadt's Heart Like A Wheel. It sounded so smooth, relaxing and heartfelt. Great version! I loved it!
• There are a couple of versions of Extreme's More Than Words re-done by Westlife, BBMak and more recently, Frankie J (urgh..). I think BBMak did the best rendition of the original and the backround sounds were just..perfect.
• Carrie Underwood sang Could've Been on last season's American Idol and she did the song proud. That rendition made me support her, along with her other performances of Air Supply's Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, Guy Sebastian's Angels Brought Me Here, her duet with Bo Bice on the old song Up Where We Belong, Roy Orbison's Crying, Alone originally by Heart.. and yada yada yada..whoopee~!!
• I SO totally love Take That's version of Bee Gee's original song, How Deep Is Your Love?. WOW!
• Chris Daughtry of this season's American Idol sang a bit of the song Emotions during Hollywood week (I think it was Bee Gee's song?, also re-done by Destiny's Child). *drool* He is hot, he rocked the song and it was good~!
• I really like Human Nature's cover of Eternal Flame which was originally done by The Bangles. Ever heard that? It's a ballad, love it love it love it!
• Gareth Gates doing Unchained Melody. This fella can really sing.
• Now this is the show-stopper! Cartman's rendition of the Christmas song, Oh Holy Night in one of the Southpark shows. MUAHAHAHA! *GRIN* Don't be surprised but I listened to it over and over again, cute.

What other covers or live renditions of people singing other people's song that you fell in love with? *Note* William Hung and his She Bangs shenanigan is not allowed.

Creepy Cool

Vampires and werewolves. Who can resist? Remember Van Helsing...gosh, he makes one hell of a super sexy werewolf. And who can forget Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview With The Vampire *drool*. I didn't finish watching that movie then coz I was stuck alone in a hotel room in Singapore in the middle of the night with that movie on. Hahaha..I was spooked. Now it's Underworld 2. I've not watched part 1 before but anyway, who wants to when part 2 is so damn good! Although the leader of the vampires (what's his name again..Marcus?) looked like that thing from Jeepers Creepers when he gets pissed off (I quote Ding on that). But Selene played by Kate is SO cool/stylish/pretty. I wish my eyes could turn blue when I lose my temper. That hybrid guy is SIZZLING too~! *GRIN*

Sometimes, vampires are portrayed to be such cool creatures in these movies that you'd wonder how it would be like to be in their shoes for one day. Just being forever young, strong, can fly, can jump higher than a monkey...with exception to the blood sucking part. My point is, Underworld 2 is one heck of a good movie...I can't remember even looking at my watch because I was hooked from the start.

What's up?

Familiar sight??

What's your take on the future of Komtar? It used to be such a pride to Penangites. Maybe it still is..I don't know, maybe it's already forgotten or it's just there but nobody really notices the significance anymore.

Now it's just standing there amidst the hustle and bustle of the town, bathed in sunlight, looking gloomy and old, even the windows don't reflect light when the sun shines on it. Could it be that the glass is coated with thick layers of dirt and dust of the years gone by?
What's the feeling that people get when they think of Komtar? I know for sure when I think of it, gloomy?, eerie?, dirty?, smelly, unsafe, dark, old and unmaintained, every corner is lurking with danger, a lot of scary people hanging around..bla bla bla ??? and the list goes on.
At the bottom of it you will find a very dark and dirty looking bus station. Very badly lit, old car park. Hopefully someone comes up with a bright idea before it becomes nothing but a name and a past tense. (not that it isn't already a past tense) :P

It's nothing but my own opinion.

Great classic rock love song

This is an old song by Meatloaf. One of his many great hits.

MEATLOAF - I'D LIE FOR YOU

I'd never tell you one lie

I'd never let you down

I'd never leave, I'd be the one who'd always be around

Baby give me a chance

I'd pull the sun down from the sky to light your darkest night

I'd never let one drop of rain fall down into your life

Put your heart in my hands

Baby believe me, I could never do you wrong

And I would never paint your world blue

And if sometimes it seems I must lost my mind

I might be crazy, but I'm crazy about you.

This is where the song hits its climax. I love the chorus so much!

I'd lie for you and that's the truth

Do anything you asked me to

I'd even sell my soul for you

I'd do it all for you

If you'd just believe in me

Just take a look in my eyes, You'd see a love that's blind

Just take a hold of my hand, I'll take you to paradise

Ain't a star that's too far

Every wish will be a wish, That I will make come true

And if you want the moon, I swear I'l bring it down to you

Let me into your heart

Believe me baby

Got your name carved on my soul

cause you're the only one that I'll give it too

Go let 'em say that I'm fool to act this way

cause if I'm crazy, I'm just crazy about you

Damn those striped tops!

And especially those horizontal ones! I just love blouses/tops with stripes but no matter how much I like it, and how damn cool I think they look sometimes, it's hard not to acknowledge the fact that stripes are so easily recognisable from a mile away. We always face the danger of another unknowing person wearing the exact same clothing to the exact same place I'm going. Of course it can happen with any clothing but no doubt, stripes are very easy to spot when it's identical! Many times I've seen people wear striped tops which I actually have one also or someone else I know has one. So easy to recognise.

Last night I dug out my sleeveless top with a very nice shade of green and white stripes and I thought how unlucky would I be right? The chances of someone wearing the same thing as I would to where I was going for dinner would be not so probable. I WAS WRONG! Damn freaking wrong. I mean the last time I wore this was a few months back to my colleague's housewarming party because I guessed I won't find another person in the same one as nobody wore it to the office. I guess I was right then. Anyway I had my dinner and I went to Giant to get some stuff and I saw a woman staring stonily at me and I thought "What the hell is wrong with this bitch?!" I just walked past but somehow at the corner of my eye, I noticed her daughter wearing the very same top! Oh crap...but it's not like I committed a crime. That woman had better shut her eyes before I poke them out and squish them under my brand new Vincci shoes. Stripes = Danger. The next time I think of wearing striped tops, I will think again...and again...and I should just bury that at the bottom of my closet.

A little step, goes a long way..

Charity starts at home. One should always..always learn how to give back a little to others what you have earned. There are people out there who are so much less fortunate than us (we are sitting here, in the comfort of our own home, using our brand new gadgets, notebooks, powerful personal computers, earning big bucks from your high-end jobs and reading this). This is by no means a post to promote anything or anybody, not even myself. But today is a day of giving. Chinese New Year is just around the corner, so me and Ding went off shopping to buy some daily stuff such as adult diapers, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, toilet paper, coffee, milk and etc which are useful for people in the old folks' home. It may not be much but something is always better than nothing. Look at the amount of stuff..wow, 2 trolleys ain't enough and we had to go 2 rounds. Imagine the face on the cashier when he saw 2 trolleys full to the brim..I suppose he must be thinking ("Oh man, why'd they have to pick my lane") haha..The people in old folks' home (especially the poorer homes) need assistance, we need to contribute a little and a little bit always goes a long way. If everyone puts in a little to give to the poor and needy, it would amount to a lot. This is not for the sake of recognition, fame or whatever. We don't need that kind of shit. What's important is making these people especially people in the old folks' home where they are old and weak, their families are far away, unable or unwilling to care for them everyday, to feel a little comfort and to help them in whatever ways we are able to in getting through the rest of their lives by having the basic necessities. Last but not least, THANK YOU to those close to us who have willingly contributed their part in helping us help others. You guys are really good and may god bless you!

This is the receipt of the items we bought. WOW! Look at that...I've decided to crop out Ding's photo coz' he would totally 'kill' me if I posted that in. But I'm just so amazed at this long, long piece of paper, although I think last year's was much longer. Haha!

Phases of green life

If you still remember, I posted on my blog a few months ago on this plant my colleague gave me. Here are some updates..though I'm not too proud of it. The pictures (from left to right) shows the phases it has gone through for the past 3 months. As you can see the first picture shows a beautiful and healthy looking plant with 2 leaves. Closely followed by one of the leaf turning yellow, but nevertheless, out with the old, in with the new. The third picture shows the plant (sans the yellow dying leaf, or should I say cut-off, dead and gone) but take not at the bottom of the cup is a new life. A tiny new leaf growing. :) Now the final picture is the latest, the new leaf is still growing strong but I have replaced the water with some green-plant-jelly thing...or whatever you call it. How long do you think this fella is gonna last?

Christmas!! Trees and all its glory..

I'm back from a dark journey...oh glory glory. My exam for Corporate Finance is finally over and I have a a couple days to rest and relax a little (I hope so anyway) before the next brand new subject starts. I'm dedicating this post to some Christmas trees that I managed to capture with the convenience of a camera phone (*wink*).

This one above from left to right, the big and gorgeous Christmas tree in Shangri-la Hotel, on the right is a very small but cute, blue-lighted table top mini tree.

Above are 2 photos of 1 Christmas tree...one very tall Christmas tree in Gurney Plaza and due to my lack of skills in the photography department (as well as limited photo features on my phone), I have to take the top half of the tree and bottom-half in 2 sessions.

Ok, this a fantastically elegant, classy looking Christmas tree, beautifully decorated..excellent. I give it 2 thumbs up for all the hard-work put in as I stood watching a lady put up ribbons and decorations on this tree. Done with so much patience and dedication...I'm amazed. And hey, it also comes with a little brick house on the side with teddy bears and stuff. This photo is taken at a very unexpected place to find such a lovely sight, at a hospital...of all places, this hospital has got one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've seen in year 2005 (in my humble opinion).

Christmas Eve...Year 2005, on cool, breezy, rainy night. Memories are meant to be cherished, well at least the memories of good food should be. Ding and I had dinner at Sobayoshi (I hope I got that name right, I'm so forgetful these days..) The food was great, worth every damn dollar. The taste was just right, not too sweet, not too salty. Price was reasonable too.

Here's to the Christmas that just passed, all the beautiful decorations have been removed and replaced with the also- beaufitul-in-its-own-way, pink and red for Chinese New Year. Get ready, here comes the Year of the DOG~!!