..:: My Jingle Little Diary ::..

I had watch quite a number of musical and theater play and when the recent musical is in town. I decided to drag my other half to go watch it. We are suppose to go watch P Ramlee earlier of the month, but due to our tight work schedule, we decided to skip that and just go for Beauty and the Beast. There's lot of kids watching it that night, and it's really annoying when there's a small little girl sitting beside me, who keep asking question non-stop. At one point, I feel like telling her mother to shut her daughter up. But since we are civilized people, we decided to give them a break as it's a children musical after all. It was a surprise to see Jeremy and his girlfriend there. It was even more surprise when he told me that his parent is also there!

 
Beauty & The Casts - Taken during this light refreshment session before the show.

So that was all for end of June. After the show, it was work and work again. I did not even have the time to get my broken fishing rod replace. Maybe will buy another one, while send this broken one for replacement or repair. At the same time, I was also trying to buy a new running shoe, my old one didn't survive my China's trip (must be too alot of walking in extreme condition). Running shoe are not cheap nowadays and I have yet to find one that I like. I was thinking of getting one of those Nike one that can be use with Ipod. But then I'm still considering about it.

With this tight schedule lately, I had turn down lot of my friends request to hang out and watch movie together. It become so bad till some of them think I have some sort of problem. They think it's problem with my relationship, and one of them even send me sms to console me or whatever. I responded back with another sms, and then I was told not to be like Mr T and his singlehood's poison. Mr T, I think he must be badly hurt previously by some bad relationship, but then I have no problem with that. I always think for whatever shit God took from you, God gave me triple in return. Yeah, Kelly and David told me that long time ago. I have to admit, it's very true. I have more than triple whatever that I had loose.

Anyway, incase, you are wondering why I don't have time for hanging out together with my friends. It's because the hanging out turn out to be dull and predictable nowadays. If you know, I'm a rather spontaneous guy, who like new stuff, and new experiences. Check out the photo below and you will know what I mean.


Mr Ed dozing off when we were all hanging out at SS2 Wongkok Char Chan Teng. If you ever been there, you know it's bloody noisy, and yet ...

 
Another Mr #$@!^& dozing off when we were hanging out at Strawberry Cafe. Can you believe it?

Disclaimer: The above photos of friends dozing off is just an illustration of the writer's feeling. It may not reflect the true event or incident.

If you been watching Prison Break, you will realise all those guys had a similar hairstyle, and I realise it's sort of a trend recently that almost everyone I know or don't really know decided to change their hairstyle to a prison break hairstyle. One fine extremely hot day, I think I had enough of all this messy hairstyle, and I decided to ask the hair stylist to give me a crew cut! The hair stylist ask me they have number from 1 to 10. Well, it take alot of courage to change it (I dare you to do the same, if you think it's easy), and after a short consideration, I told the stylist that I want number 2. Okay, I didn't want to be the number 1 guy (number 2 is okay for me).

As I'm the only customer at the shop, the hair stylist been telling me alot about the tough life nowaday. He think it's not easy to earn a living nowaday especially when the petrol price is so expensive. Okay, it's not easy to earn a living nowaday, especially if you are only earning less than 2k per month. But still, I think I do have and know many people who earn less than that, and yet life still goes on for them. Maybe no family or wife, but still happy jolly life. But seriously, if you are earning only 2k per month, I think it's barely enough if you need to pay for house rental, car installment, petrol, food and entertainment. Maybe that's why alot of hongkies have 2 jobs, one full time, and one part time, such as driving cab. Sucky, right?

 

Living life nowaday is like Mr Don. Always hungry for better treats and newer toys. Not just the economy is sucky nowaday. The local politic scene is also sucky! There's news or maybe rumour that DSAI might get arrested by the police for some sodomy case again. If he is really guilty last time, he should not be release in the first place. But if he is been release, the public perception is he is been frame, and every smart tom dick and harry won't use the same trick twice. Remind me of what silly Taufik once said, it doesn't matter whether a plot is old as long as it work. Not in this case, I believe. I think the citizen is sick of something, and that's why there's a tsunami in the recent political landscape.

Like this afternoon, I was in KL, and there's so many riot police. I believe there's a riot going on somewhere (but didn't see any). The stupid police close so many roads, and in the end causing inconvenience to everyone. Imagine, I had to take one whole big round to go back to the place I'm going because all shortcut road had been closed. At one point, when I was stopping my car at the side of the road, one angry traffic police ask me to go off. I have to admit I been a little crook for taking my own sweet time because I know he won't give me a summon. You know why? Because he dare not give a summon to the car in front which has heavy modification, and the driver daring as ever, just leave the car there, while he is somewhere else. At one point, the traffic police is so pissed, till he show me his summon book on the air and showing me his hand (while mumbling something on his mouth). Well, I guess he is piss with something, especially when I think he is really affected by the recent fuel hike, and he can't protest because he is the law enforcer. So I decided to give him some face, and drove one big round again. By the time, I reach back there again, it's about to rain, and suddenly you see all the riot police and almost all the police rushing off (because it did rain heavily after that).

Why can't our local law enforcer be like those in Hong Kong or Singapore? What happen to professionalism? Geee ... maybe that's why we need to have the IPMC and if my government can't give me that, I might consider kicking them off their job!

Look like I'm one of the many disgruntle citizen who happen to blog ...

The internet line is turning from bad to worst these day! Later today, I think I will call up the ISP support and give them hell.

 

Whenever me and Su Ling travel, we will always end up eating McD. So the previous trip when we was in Bangkok, we try their samurai pork burger, pineapple pie and yam pie. I can't imagine eating yam as a desert (Anyway, it was quite delicious). The recent banana toffee sundae at our local McD is also good! Unfortunately it's no longer available.

 

After doing this site for a while, it's finally going to be live soon ... time to release some stress?

Maybe smoke like this joker!

Just like the petrol price, the twin tower is really high!

I have not been watching movie in the cinema for a long time, and I don't even remember the last movie I watch in the cinema. I had skip Indiana Jones, Rambo, Ironman, etc. You name it, and most probably I would have not watch in the cinema. But recently, in order to cheer up my depressing gf, I actually make an exception, I went to watch King Fu Panda. My gf is a little weird sometimes, she don't really enjoy Rambo (which is a good thing because I find it to be quite crappy as well). But when she drag me to watch Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I get a shock of my life, since when she is keen to watch something so complex and deep. Anyway, I think our 2 other friend who join us for that movie, didn't really enjoy it. One of them like all sort of brainless action flick, so I guess this sort of genre didn't really suit him. This 2 friend always visit the cinema, and recently one of them even go watch Ironman twice. They are a big supporter to the cinema industry in Malaysia, whether it's a silly show like The Happening or Meet The Spartans, they will sure pay 11 bucks to watch it in the cinema. Sometimes I really envy them because I'm also very into watching movie (but recently have difficulty finishing even one movie and ended up watching the middle part or ending another day). Life is crap when you get older, I guess.

If you are wondering why the heck I'm so free now blogging crap ... it's because all my bandwidth is fully occupy, and both my computer processing power is also occupy with work. So better write this offline (with Windows Live Writer) while waiting for the uploading and downloading to finish.

Gee, I think I better go back to doing something more useful than writting more rubbish online ....

I decided to write something this morning as I realize I had not been blogging for a long long time. Even one of my online banking had been temporary deactivated (until I start using the account again). Then it occur to me, maybe if I didn't blog for a long time, maybe blogger might even deactivate me (or my reader will).

 
Friends decided to look for gold (by the river) in Semenyih one early Sunday morning. I wish I had took some photos of my previous trip to Paka. It was a good fishing trip. I broke my rod but caught many fish. Maybe will blog about that next time.


Mr Don, cute as ever, but not as loyal as last time. Last time when I was in Penang, whenever I work downstair or working in front of the TV, he will be sitting or sleeping nearby. Nowaday, he is not even close at sight. While I blog this, I think he is sleeping somewhere upstair (in some aircond room). Hmm, he didn't realise I'm the one who sponsor all his favorite chickie strip and greenies.

 
Finally had the chance to post some of the photos I took when I was attending the cabaret show in Calypso. I find it more entertaining than the puppet show I had the night before. Most of the pretty chicks you see in the show used to be a guy like me. If you are visiting Bangkok, you should not miss this show!

   
There's Japanese dance and song in the show (and also Korean, Bangkok, Chinese, Arab, etc).

Strip show as well ....

 
Interesting Cabaret show and of course some drama (like you see in the photos below).

Okay, that's all for now. If I didn't had lunch with Jeremy this afternoon, most probably I think I will still be too busy to write anything. Alot of things change in Sg Buloh. Even William is no longer around. I was told that he had now migrated to Batu Pahat for work and life. What happen to people like Ah Heng (aka Ah Tee), Stanley, Kelvin, Dillian, etc? William used to be my bak kut teh's kaki(s) too ... but I guess now I will need to find someone else. Jeremy don't really fancy Bak Kut Teh, I think. Today, the first thing he mention when I ask what to eat ... he instantly shout "Fish Head!".

Well, the fish head is good, tasty too...

Extremely lazy to write anything this weekend. Maybe too lazy when I was in SL's house (due to the hot weather).

Bangkok is hot unlike Guangzhou. I never remember a cool or windy Bangkok during my last trip there. This trip is no exception. The only time it's cooling was when it's raining. It rain when we were about to leave JJ Market and it also rain heavily after our cabaret show. More photos will be posted for the next post.

There's one reason why I like Bangkok more than Guangzhou, and it's because of coffee. In china, tea is everywhere, but in Bangkok is totally opposite. Everywhere I walk, I see a stall selling good coffee.

After coming back from Sungai Petani last weekend. It's about time to use my passport again. As my previous trip to China is not really a vacation (too much walking and sort of business related). I'm going to take this opportunity to have as fun as possible in Bangkok before our business peak period in the next 2 month. Bangkok is something me and Su Ling are looking forward to. Pork Burger! Something that we didn't eat when we were in China. China McD only offer us some spicy chicken burger ... sigh.

McD's Pork Burger! Even the thoughts of it make me hungry now!

I been to Bangkok before, and this time, I plan to skip all the silly sightseeing. My plan is to see either the popular Calypso Cabaret show or Joe Louis Puppet show. Other than the 2 show, I only intend to use most of my time in "The Mother of All Market". 

Chatuchak Weekend Market - The mother of all market in Bangkok. Over there, you get to see Cowboys performing (maybe you will even get to see me performing if I need some spare change). Hidden somewhere in the market is a delicious blue mountain coffee stall. It's so good that even Black Canyon is no match. Okay, maybe I over exaggerate ... too much of BC ice coffee. Anyway, I'm very sure my crazy girlfriend will be buying tons and tons of stuff there. The last time she went with See Mun, she bought many boxes of @#*~!&@ ...

 
Leon (the greek from Aus) will be in town this weekend. Last time they took him to Penang. Well, this time I heard it will be some Island. Arrr .. if I don't have this Bangkok trip, I would rather go fishing in some island ...

 

This is one of the many variety of tang yuen I had when I was in Guangzhou. Not much stuff to blog these day. Still trying to get more rest from moving around too much. A week or two after I came back from China, I actually made a trip up north to Sungai Petani. Alot of things change since I was there 10 years ago. This guy I know now run the hotel as chairman and unfortunately I didn't see or meet anyone I know. Anyway, I was only there for a while. To my surprise, there's even a Starbuck in SP now. Most likely I will be going there again for fishing someday soon.

A paronoma of Miniature Forbidden City in Shenzhen. We took train to Shenzhen from Guangzhou.

 

Train Station at Luohu District. In Shenzhen, our trip is all about eating and shopping. Apart from East Gate Shopping Center, the only exotic things we did was going for a leg massage.

Some miniature building inside Splendid China. The weather in Shenzhen is extremely hot compare to Guangzhou. Not a good weather for sight seeing. Next time, I think I will just drop by Shenzhen for a while (for eating only). This restaurant that I went serve one of the best Dim Sum I ever eat. They even serve fried rice that I think is one of the best I had eaten so far in my life! Exactly like what I saw in Cooking Master Boy (the anime).

Shenzhen is pretty developed compare to the place I came from. They have sophisticated public transport, wide road, many highrise and lot of people! Lot of fake money as well. My girlfriend almost got con with a fake note.

 

Tsingtao is pretty cheap in China, but I think the level of alcohol is quite low. No kick after drinking it.

Luckily I didn't bring any summer clothing for this trip, as it turn out to be raining almost everyday in Guangzhou! It was raining season and with an average temperature of 18-26°C everyday. Taking photos is almost impossible as it's almost raining or cloudy each day. Apart from the lack of sunshine, the street is wet and muddy.

The first thing we did was to visit Bei Jing Lu (Beijing Road). It was madness as there's so many shops there. A shopping paradise for some people, but nightmare for me. After exploring almost a quarter of the shop there, I found something interesting in the middle of the road. There's an ancient road from Ming and Song Dynasty underneath Beijing Road.

 

I ask Su Ling to pose in front of the ancient road but unfortunately the photo turn out bad (due to cloudy and dark sky). The ancient road is actually underneath the glass panel.



Apart from Beijing Road, we also went to Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Street. It's a shopping place like Beijing Road, but in a much smaller scale. of course other than Beijing Road, I had also visited the other places such as Comic City, Jade Market, Antique Market, etc. I even took this opportunity to eat their local McDonald's meal. The set meal is a grill chicken burger dipped in spicy sauce (Sichuan pepper) and milk tea (not coke). Quite spicy if you ask me. The food in Guangzhou is amazing! We had tang yuen almost every other day, street food, sichuan food and of course cantonese food.

Another interesting thing is I get to watch the latest TVB series on their TV. Their TV network is showing D.I.E. at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't have much time watching TV there as I need to spend all my time on business related matter, and sight seeing the city. I even saw a pickpocket incident while walking on the street. It's not only muddy and wet on the street, but also dangerous and dirty. Maybe the city is just too big, over populated, and the people are just desperate. Luckily we are not the victim (but what they say about beware of pickpocket and bag snatcher is true).



 
After coming back, I did a research on this building, and I found out it's actually call Jinlun Guild Hall. It's actually 300 years old. Well, I think I was walking along the jade or craft market, and suddenly I found this old building. At least it's a bonus as I didn't get to go to "The Western Han Museum of the Nanyue King Mausoleum".

 

To compensate for that, I actually went to eat dim sum at one of the oldest restaurant in Guangzhou, Tao Tao Ju. But it's a short dim sum session, as we need to rush off to Shenzhen. Coming up next ... Shenzhen.

 
 

Earlier this month, I went down to Muar for PG's wedding. Eddy, the guy at the photo above took this opportunity to go for otak-otak and other popular local Muar's food as well. Gee, I think work really made my brain dead nowaday. After coming back from China, if there's still free time, I think I must go for a spa treatment. Looking at Eddy photo above, I realise I have not laughing or smile like him for a long-long time. Okay, I think I over exaggerated here, maybe it's been a while.

There's quite alot of people at the wedding dinner, alot of them I don't even know. I was actually surprised to see Josh there. I had been ages since I saw him. Small world. Long time ago, I know this chap thru friends like Jui Hong and Oon Yeoh. Well, he is still a popular guy now, except no longer young and good looking like last time. Maybe that's why I'm getting stress out. Talk about stress, I even feel stress the other day, when this silly Taufik ask me how I want to plan my wedding. Gee, I have not even look at the proposal ring yet, and have not even buy any at the moment. There's this issue of too big for a proposal ring, and then this issue of too small for ring! Su Ling is talking about carat! But my business associate, a diamond specialist think carat is for aunty, and it's not suitable for young lady. See? Now, I think I'm getting sick, too big, too small, best is to ignore it for a while.

Hmm, I wonder if I can import a boat from China or not. Since my girlfriend is importing tons and tons of thing, maybe that's why I'm having stress. Last she is talking about finding a warehouse! Warehouse for godsake!

This is getting fun! I think I have a solution for Taufik!

And the only reason I'm back is I need to test some software for my friend, Taufik, who want to write aka blog.

This photo was taken during my recent fishing trip at Paka few days before PRU 2008. Alot of things had happen since the last time I blog. All I know was I been to lot of places, meet lot of people, drink lot of coffee at Black Canyon, watch quite a few movies such as 2000 BC, Before the Devil Knows ... (don't really remember the show name), eat lot of tenggiri, and did alot of work as well.

I'm currently writting this using Windows Live Writer and so far so good. Taufik, the guy at the photo above is actually a writer, and he is planning to write about his fishing adventure soon.

Hmm, few more days before I go china. Must go see if I can source any good fishing tackles from there.   

Sometime before chinese new year, I had actually wake up early on a Sunday afternoon, to take Mr Don out for a dog day at central park bandar utama.


This fella here remind me of some actor in Flyboy ...


Mr Don talking with another dog in the park.

Mr Don hibernating from 2007 till 2008 and he will only wake-up from hibernating for chicken strip. With Mr Don hibernating throughout the hours, I can only celebrate 2008 with a bottle of beer from the freezer. Now, my face is still warm, and my brain is a little there, but not there yet. I don't think 1 bottle of beer can bring me there ...

December had been a very busy month for me. I travel the most on December, from Penang to PJ, back to Penang, back to PJ, all the way to Melaka, back to KL, back to Penang, and then back to KL. Well, I don't even remember how many times. Maybe that's why Mr Don choose to hibernate (smart doggy). Then it's all about unpacking, furnishing, more unpacking and more furnishing! Don't even have time for fishing, anyway, it's moonsoon season nowaday.

Okay, time for me to hibernate as well. HaPPy NEw YeAR!

Few days ago, a friend from Yunnan came visiting. This friend don't drink coke or coffee, he only drink tea. Okay, tea is not so bad, I drink tea too, so I ask him what kind of tea he drink. He told me that he only drink raw puerh, cook puerh, toucha, puerh cake, puerh candy and aged puerh. WAIT THE MINUTE .... it's not like he drink sencha, oolong, green tea or ceylon. He only want to drink one type of tea, and it's only puerh!

So, we ended up hoping many tea shop in KL and Melaka. Not to mention, he also give me puerh as gift. After so many days of drinking puerh in the morning, afternoon, evening and sometimes even at night ... now I'm having some sort of withdrawal symptom. Somehow this few days, I stop drinking coffee few times a day, but ended-up drinking puerh few times a day. Where did I find puerh to satisfy my addiction? Well, my girlfriend do have a collection of expensive cake and I started breaking it for brewing. I'm starting my addiction with her RM100 per piece cake. Although I'm not an expert in this type of tea, but I think I'm lucky to have drink more expensive cake, from very old tea to some rare tea. Of course I had also drink many cheap and loussy puerh in the past! Those that don't even deserve to go into my mouth (that's how loussy the tea is).

Okay, time to go back to my drink ....

I had my lunch, supper and coffee there. They are having some sort of promotion but my obsession is not the food but this sweet looking girl working at the drive-thru. She had all the quality of the perfect girl ... perfect smile and perfect in every aspect.

Okay, I don't think I'm that crazy. That's just my imagination.

Today, while having dinner, Taufik tell me about his new resolution which is he will try not to talk bad or about the negative aspect of a person. He will also ty not to talk too much, too fast, and .... well, I don't even remember what else but he did write all in a small piece of paper, and he carry it with him all the time (to remind him of that). Must be his new year resolution. Well, I don't even have any new year resolution. A woman even ask me what's my vision for my company, and I just tell her that I don't have vision for my company. Come to think of it, it's such a sad situation, especially when your company have no goal or vision, other than making more money. With so much money, I realise it only come with stress. Stress because you start to worry about the value of the money you have. The value is getting less due to inflation. Stress because you start to think that your girlfriend or wife is there to steal it all or to con it all. Stress because you start to think you might end up as a useless playboy flirting all your money away. And the stress just never reach an end.

Anyway, back to this friend, Taufik. He wanted to go fishing during the monsoon season and his female friend (not girlfriend aka it's a complicated thing) think it's dangerous. I told them, it's not that dangerous, afterall I'm the type who like to take risk. We never know what will happen tomorrow and we should live life like there's no tomorrow. His female friend intervene and said "Then we should just eat like there's no tomorrow".

Taufik just reply to her ... "You crazy ar, I don't want to die as a fat person. I want to be slim and good looking."