During the previous Raya holiday, me and Ah Su drove off to Muar to buy some otak-otak. The small town (also PG's hometown) is famous for otak-otak, claim to be made from mackerel fish paste. Somehow I don't really believe it's made from mackerel ... afterall it's not easy to catch a mackerel these day. When I was eating the otak-otak that day in Muar, my mind could only imagine the otak-otak was made from some commercial fresh water fish such as catfish. Apart from otak-otak, we also had some pork satay at that street. We didn't eat much as we need to rush back to Malacca for dinner. Yeah, nice dinner awaiting us in Malacca. Back in Malacca, we had steamed cod fish, suckling pig, deep fried calamari, etc. In short, expensive dinner but I was a little to full to fully enjoy it.
The traffic Muar is fine but coming back to KL was quite a nightmare. The traffic was extremely heavy even when it was still second day of Raya. It was a back to back drive, and at times I was only driving at about not more than 80kmph. Then next day, some business associate treated us lunch at some chinese restaurant in Jaya 33. Su think the lunch this time is better than the one we had in Oriental the last time. But anyhow, I'm quite bored with these kind of chinese lunch and food. In fact, I told her that I was not keen to join them for lunch, but alas, I still need to socialise and do some biz networking. These day, I been label by Su as an anti-social guy. I think it's because I mix too much with Mr Don! Mr Don is not really a friendly dog. He don't mix with the neighbor's cats and dogs. Mr Don only mix with pretty girls (human) and sometimes with me (afterall, I'm the one who always bring him out for joyride in the city). 
Okay, I will need to go back to work. Not exactly work, but more to compiling my holiday/business itinerary. I'm going off for a deep sea fishing this weekend, and next weekend, I will be off to ...
1) Going for afternoon dimsum and dinner at Sunday Chiu Chow King (三岛潮皇粤菜酒楼).
2) Going for my tangyuen desert.
It had been ages since I last blog anything. I think I had been working a lot since 1-2 months back. It's now mid of September, and I think I had been busy since end of July. In fact, I don't even remember the last time I had my black canyon coffee. I really hate it when work keep coming in, and there's no opportunity for me to rest. But I can't really complain much since the reward is tremendous. It's like the documentary The Deadliest Catch. When it's crab season, you just need to go out and catch as many as possible. Unlike Deadliest Catch, this work is not risky and you don't have to go out to the deep sea.
If you are wondering what has work to do with Mr Don? Well, everyone is busy working like a dog but the dog is busy having fun in the house. Mr Don sleep, play and eat all the time. Such a lucky little fella.
Okay, I hope the crab season will end soon. After this crab season, I will be going off to China again. China remind me of walking, walking and walking!
I just need a quiet beach vacation like Lanting or Pemanggil Island!!!!!!!
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.
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?
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).
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!
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!
