boring sunday? not really.

Spent half of the day sleeping in and didn't even know when my sister got up and turned off the aircond. By the time I woke up, it's already ten forty-five and I thought of dragging my sis over to Taipan for McD breakkie but in the end, I dozed off again. I woke up the second time at eleven fifteen. I know, I phail big time. -sigh-

Anyway, I did some cooking, which I don't even think it's counted as cooking because all I did was throw two cold eggs into a pot of hot water and let them cook by themselves. Half-boiled eggs FTW yo. Never had those for sooooo long. The last time I had was in Old Town I think. -grins-

Around one hour past afternoon, W called me and wanted me to go over to PJ for lunch and being a lazy bum that I am, I declined and asked her to come over Subang instead. Ngek ngek ngek. W arrived within thirty minutes which is a new record including the time she drove her and the time she took to ready herself. Oh wow weeeee. Lunched at Strawberry Fields and I had their delicious butter prawn rice (yummmmm) again. W ordered the lemon chicken rice (the chicken were a lil sour today) which comes with a soup and we ordered an extra chicken tomyam (too much pepper!). Though the food today wasn't that nice but yeah, it's okay. The weirdest part was, my sis actually tagged along. -haha- After lunch, W drove us home and went back to PJ to work. Such sacrifices on her car petrol. -evil grins-

Update: W forgot to take her take-away tomyam. She left it in the restaurant. Wtf.

Ohohoh, my desktop is ALIVE! -jumps around- After about six months of not turning it on because I took my tablet to the office and can't find a freaking mouse for it, I finally turned it on today after I rummaged thru my sister's boxes and found a mouse, and yeah, it's alive. Joy to the world babeh!! Did some cleaning round my small office today and finally remembered to upload photos from back when me, W, YK, Cal and PShi went to Putrajaya to look at the hot air balloons. Good memories but bad weather. Gah. Did a lot of editing on the photos because they came out suck like monkey balls due to the bad weather and my photography skills ain't that good anymore. Double gah.

I'm thinking whether I should go to Sunway later. Really needs to buy some edible food so that sis can make her bentos for me to bring to work. Can't afford to eat economy rice anymore because I'm damn broke already. -cries- On the other hand, my sis offered to paint my nails after I showered. So.. Sunway or manicure? Sunway or manicure? Why so hard to decide? -dilemma-

Hmm, I think I'll just hit the shower, get my nails painted and then only go Sunway. Good idea no? Heeeee. Alright, that's settled. Sunday isn't so boring after all. Time to get naked~ ♪

There's work tomorrow. I totally officially hate Monday. Bleh.

japanese food fair.

Went to 1U earlier for dinner at Chili's and saw that they have this Japanese Food Fair going on in the center court. Can't resist to sink my teeth into awesome goodness of miso soup, corn + wine candies, baked scallops, and some (a lot of) yummilicious tit-bits, so I just bought whatever that I like. The total bill ranked up to about 70MYR.

Am so broke.

But still... I'm caving for that CALPIS SODA. Ugh. Should've grabbed that along.

new hair color + mp restaurant.

Journeyed back to Ipoh early in the morning because we've made an appointment with our family hair stylists. Can't decide whether I'd like to have my hair colored or not, but in the end, I did. Went from blackjet to chestnut brown. Latest pic:

New hair color. Nice?

Brother suddenly (no, it's actually planned) decided to treat us to dinner because he's just gotten his first month salary so yeah, let's ode to that! Heh. Dad wanted to try dining at MP Steamboat which has been around for like a quarter of a century (I lied) and serves fusion foods so bro drove us all there. Atmosphere in there is okay, not too posh or anything, just better-than-your-average steamboat restaurant. The price is sky high so we didn't have steamboat. We settled for ala-carte which consists of mainly western. Not gonna comment much and gonna let my piccas do all the talking, aight?

Main entrance.

Good ambience.

Serviette with lots of info on it.

The menu cover.

One of the pages in the menu.

Carrot, apple and the Giant Mixed Fruit Juice.

My Tagliatte Al Turkey.

Brother's Black Pepper Chicken Chop.

Dad's BBQ Mixed Grilled Plate.

Sis' Australian Grilled Lamb Chop.

Mum's Seafood Platter.

All in all, the food are all nice, especially the aussie grilled lamb. -drools- We even ordered a second serving for the lamb to be shared among all five of us. My Italian spinach flat noodle is so-so, and I didn't even manage to finish it because I was too full. In the end, I gave it away to my sister and took her grilled lamb. Heh. And the juices... ah, refreshing. I love my dad's carrot juice! The gigantic mixed fruit juice that me, my sister and brother shared wasn't that gigantic at all. Just 750ml, which is not enough for the three of us to drink. -sadface-

Total bill is about 150MYR which divides fairly to about 30MYR per person. Not cheap but not too expensive either. Will definitely go back there again the next time. -lol- 

Next stop: IPOH BERLIN'S BEER HOUSE!

Must. Go. There.

din tai fung 2 & laptop shopping.

On Saturday, we went to MidValley with the intention to help my sister to buy herself a new laptop. Dell, she wants, so we bought my brother along because he's the tech-savvy one in the family as usual. We planned to have dinner at the food court, buy the laptop, walk around and then go home. What we didn't expect was a super huge existing crowd in MidValley itself due to break fast because it's 7PM already when we arrived. This is the first time I've seen a sea of people this huge that it feels even hard and tiring to walk around. The good mood I was in, was washed away after a while.

Because of the super big crowd at the food court, we couldn't find any tables and decided that no, we don't want to dine in there. We're gonna dine somewhere were people are scarce which is like, impossible because it's a Saturday. The only option we have is non-halal outlets. So we walked around deciding where to go. At first, we were queuing up for ZEN Sushi but when it was our turn, me and my sister decided that we don't want sushi. So, we moved to the back and got in line for Din Tai Fung instead. Talk about indecisiveness. The queue for Din Tai Fung was long too, and we had to wait for like, 20 minutes until it's our turn. We were given a number and was told to wait, and while waiting, we get to order what we want with the order chit.

There were teas for us to drink while waiting too. Ah, good service. Plus, there's this cool Taiwanese (we assume she is by the way she talk and her foreign face) waitress who's serving us outside so it's not that bad. Heh. Once inside, the food arrived quickly. We ordered a lot of stuffs since it's my parents first time there and I managed to take piccas before they dig in. Here's most of them, the only one missing are the aromatic teas.

Cold drunken chicken. This is reeeeeeally good!!

My sister's pickled vegetable la mien (ramen). I had this last time.

Combo B Part 1: Xiao long bao. Very delicious!

My chicken soup la mien. Not bad, though the soup tastes a bit bland.

Mom's prawn wanton soup la mien.

Mango pudding with raw milk. Love it. It tastes like Japanese Konyaku.

Dad's pork chop la mien.

Garlic stirred fry vegetables.

Combo B Part 2: Prawn and Pork Dumplings.

My brother's pork chop fried rice was the last to arrive. Haha.

All in all, the whole meal was satisfying and summed up to about 150MYR, which means 30MYR per person. The price was a bit hefty but we're all foodies so it's okay. We like trying out new foods anyway. -lol- By the way, the uniforms in DTF looks quite nice. I wish I could wear that once.

Also, my sister didn't manage to buy her laptop in the end because my brother remembered that he has a friend who works in a computer shop who's willing to send him a list of refurbished laptops on demand. Since my sister wants to save a little, she decided to wait for the list. While me, on the other hand, is deciding whether I should be buying myself a MacBook or a Dell. Hmmm.

let's fix it.

There's a broken lamp by the stairs at the new house. So, my brother decided to fix it, and then, my father joined in. When my father failed to drill holes into the lamp base, me and my sister jumped in to help my brother instead. -keke-

Here's what we're trying to do. Make another 'lane' in the wood for the wires to fit in.

Them busy drilling and carving. Me, taking piccas. Heh.

This is the so-called lane! We're halfway through! A bit more perhaps?

The leftover woods? Dunno what to call it. Chipped wood?

Brother trying to install the wires into the base.

I climbed up the tall stairs to help... to pose! Lol. 

It was hot and sticky outside, luckily, our porch has a fan! Huh. It was a lot of fun to drill and everything but tiring as well. In the end, we managed to carve the lane, get the wires in and installed the whole lamp after almost 2 hours. Happily flipped the switch on but...

THERE'S NO LIGHT.

Checked and checked and found out that it's the wiring problem. So, we still need to call the wireman/technicians in. Aih, wasted our time and energy only! -sadface- But still, it was fun tho. =)♥

loong kee restaurant.

Went shopping at Sungei Wang last night with W because it's her off day. Wanted to buy a wig and asked around about the price. Turns out that new arrival ones are priced at 300MYR each while the out of season ones are only at 120MYR. Really liked this one wig that I saw but was too expensive so the idea of buying was scrapped. Even W said that it looks nice. -sadface-

Anyway, walked aimlessly (don't we always? lol) and saw some of W's friends who worked in Sungei Wang but we didn't stop to say hi. And then, there was this one time when we stopped by an accessory stall and I was minding my own business looking over some bracelets, out of nowhere, another girl was standing beside me. Got shocked a little, and turned, and saw a cute TB beside me, and edged away. Yeah, same old me. Avoiding dramas. Aren't I a good girl? -smiles- But honestly, the TB looks good.

So, W suggested that we have dinner at Jalan Alor. Threaded through Imbi Plaza and arrived at Loong Kee Restaurant only to be greeted by an old TB. Think she's around 50 years old, but still looks smart though and I kept on teasing W about turning out the same way. Guess she's a bit worried now. -laughs- We ordered a few dishes recommended by the old TB and waited for about 10 minutes before they arrive. By the way, I need to stress here that the service given by the old TB was really, really good. Double thumbs up for her service.


So here, piccas again.

The side dish ♥♥♥

The salted vegetables with seafood soup. Not bad, though a lil' over-salty.

Garlic fried kailans. Yum. I love this dish ♥♥♥

Spicy crabbbbbbbbbbbbb!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

After we dined at Loong Kee, W dragged me over next door to buy us some Loong Kee Chicken Gold Coins, which translates to 'Grilled Marinated Chicken Meat' and it's flat round in shape. Never had a chance to try it before so W bought it for me. -is happy- It's 7MYR per 100 grams, by the way.

W wanted to walk around a bit more after dinner but I was tired so we decided to go home. Now, this is the interesting part. Guess what? The shopping malls were closed! We couldn't go back to our car the way we got out so we got lost a little at Sungei Wang's back alley (where W freaked out like always to the exposed danger and got angry at me for walking to slow) before we arrived safely back in Times Square. Yes, we parked my car there and the parking fee cost 9MYR. To cut a long story short, I got chauffeured home by a grumpy baby but it was fun. -grins- 

apple puffs.

Baked some (eight, to be exact) apple puff pastries with sis today.

Tastes even better than McD's Apple Pie. -grins- ♥ 

secret recipe treat.

Mum and dad went back to Ipoh at around four something and I lazed around the house until about seven before my sister came out of her room (finally!) and asked me whether I'd like to have dinner with her and her boyfriend. I said okay and we went over to Sunway Pyramid, because we have no other place to go, and because it's near our house. Debated what to eat before we went there in separate cars (because I'm going to head back to SS17 after) and continued to debate after we arrived. In the end, her boyfriend picked Secret Recipe and we agreed, after much painful decision-making minutes.

I never knew that the branch at Sunway Pyramid has renovated. Proves how long I've not eaten in there. -grins- Anyways, the place was nice. Better than last time I guess and I don't know whether it's me or my imagination but, has the shop expanded or something? -shrugs-

Ordered their Prawn Macaroni with Cheese to share it with my sister, while my sister ordered their mushroom soup. Her boyfriend settled for Tom Yam Goong. After the waitress - I have something to say about her but it's not bad to talk about how bad her facial skin is so I'm not gonna - took our order, we saw the menu stand on the table and spotted this!

The words 'A FREE slice of cake to go with your meal' is smacked right in the middle of the menu and guess what? My sister's boyfriend has a Citibank card! -is happy- We weren't sure at first whether it's really free or there are some requirements to be met in order to claim the cake or something so I asked the waitress about it. And yep, it's free, provided that your single bill is over 40MYR and it's only applicable to cakes. There's some misunderstanding between me and the waitress which goes like this:

Me: Excuse me, may I ask? For this... *points at the menu* we get a cake for free if our bill is over RM40 right?

Waitress: Yeah. But it's only for kids.

Me: *blinks* Only for kids? Oh!

Waitress: Yeah.

Me: We're not kids. But what if I take away for my brother at home?

Waitress: You can choose any cakes over the counter there.

Me: I see... thank you. I'll go after I finish my dinner.

Waitress: OK

Me: *smiles at sis*

Sis: I think what she meant was 'ONLY FOR CAKES'. Not 'KIDS'.

Me: *laughs awkwardly*

There. Srsly. I don't know if it's my hearing or her pronunciation but, ugh. Funny but embarrassing at the same time. Anyhow, our dinner arrived and we gobbled down everything except for the last piece of grass mushroom because the cheese is reacting weirdly in my tummy and I can't swallow any more cheesy food. Managed to take a few pics before the food's gone. Here, piccas for this entry:

My sister with the iced lemon tea aka. TEA TOWERS ♥♥

Her boyfriend's Tom Yam Goong. Heard it's nice.

The boyfriend, wonder if he's constipated.

Our prawn macaroni with cheese. Yummm ♥♥

My sister's boyfriend paid for our dinner. I wanted to pay him back 15MYR but he refused to accept so yeah, I got free dinner again! Yay! -cackles- Still, I'd like to thank him for the food as well as my 1.60MYR bread that he bought for me as breakfast the next morning. Such a nice guy. My sis and you = I APPROVE!!

C'mon, you can bribe me with food anytime, anyday and I'll tell everyone that you're the perfect guy for my sister. -rubs hands gleefully- Srsly. =D>

happy dad's day

Celebrate Father's Day with my whole family on Sunday and semi-celebrated it on Saturday without my brother. The three of us bought 2 Austin Reed for dad and treated him to two meals, once on Saturday's dinner and the other on Sunday's lunch. We went over to 1U on Saturday because Rainbow needs his grooming so we left him at Petsmore and went our way to pick presents for dad. After that, we dined at Otak-otak Place. It's a very cozy place which makes you think about your past once you're inside. The food were nice, better that what I've expected. Anyways, I've been really busy for the past one month so less blogging. Still, here's some tasty piccas from Saturday's dinner:

Their menu cover.

Part of the interior furnishing. I like the lights.

Nasi lemak special. Me and mom ordered the same thing.

Dad's red bean soup.

Snack basket for my sister and dad.

Blackcurrant special.

Roti jala with curry chicken.

I'm so tired. I can't even type anymore stuffs in here. Will sleep now. G'nite.

shitty service at secret recipe, midvalley

Spent Sunday lazing around and headed over to MidValley for lunch. W is working today so we only managed to shop around until 16:00. I wore my new Charles&Keith shoes and that bling bling shirt I got from Kitschen on Saturday while I went shopping with my sister (using her credit card). Crazy loving those shoes even though they gave me four painful blisters on my feet. And because they hurt so much while I walk, I resorted to buying those gel pads thingy at Watsons and stick them on outside the toilet. -lol-

We went to Secret Recipe (again) for lunch and yes, I have to complain that the service crew at MidValley's Secret Recipe sucks like hell. When I say sucks like hell, it sucks like hell. There were around six staffs working in that small area and yet, when you call out to them, none of them hears! You have to like, wave around like a crazy monkey and shout out to them for them to come over with a sourly face and take your orders like we owe them their family's lives. I'm so tempted to write a review to the Star and complain about it so that everyone can agree with me. Plus, there's this sign right at the entrance that says 'Please wait for us to seat you' and yet, after you've waited for 15 minutes, none of them came over to guide us even though there are empty tables available inside. Really shitty service they have. No smiles, nothing. Not even respect for customers. What a bunch of fucking monkeys (sorry, just gotta say that).

Phew.

Okay... so, chill. I swear I'm never going back to that restaurant ever again, at least that MidValley's one. If it's not because W wanted to have their Sarawak Laksa, I'm not going to step a foot into it anyway. I wanted to try out DÔME Café, but W doesn't want to. So I'm stuck with Secret Recipe and their shitty service.

But still, managed to take some piccas because I'm such a foodie. -keke-

My spaghetti bolognese (which wasn't that nice probably because I wasn't in the best of mood).

Their Sarawak Laksa still tastes good despite the sucky service.

Parents didn't come over last weekend so I spent the weekend doing nothing the whole day when W was out for work. Ah, weekends. Who doesn't love them? ♥