Posted in Happenings on Aug 31st, 2007
How was your 50th Merdeka celebration last night?
My wife and I were at the IKANO Power Centre. When we arrived at Mutiara Damansara at 8pm – with my son who later went off to join his friends – we discovered road diversions. The traffic wardens directed us to the car park at CineLeisure, where […]
Posted in Etcetera on Aug 29th, 2007
While having breakfast with a colleague, she lamented: “Eat we die, don’t eat also die” – literal translation from Cantonese to English. She was referring to the front page report in the New Straits Times (27 Aug) about vegetables that were tested positive to be “highly contaminated with carcinogenic pesticide residues”. The test, conducted by […]
Posted in People on Aug 26th, 2007
In the rush to complete a work assignment, I’d overlooked saying ‘good-bye’ to my colleague, Wendy Chong, who’s based in our branch office in Labuan, an idyllic island off the coast of Sabah. She went on her annual leave mid last week prior to leaving the organization. But it’s never too late to extend my […]
Posted in People on Aug 24th, 2007
In one of my earlier blogs, I had mentioned going to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai for a holiday sojourn; and posted a photo of a teenage Karen girl. From that collection of photos taken at a Karen Hilltribe show village located on the outskirt of Chiang Rai, I’d like to share photos of 3 […]
Posted in Etcetera on Aug 20th, 2007
It appears that it was Dato’ Sri Dr Lim Keng Yaik who had disagreed with the MCA’s initiative to accept Wee Meng Chee’s apology and instead spoke out for court action to be taken against the Taiwan-based university undergraduate for his Negaraku rap parody video clip posted on YouTube.
And who let the cat out […]
Posted in People on Aug 19th, 2007
It’s certainly good to keep in touch with ex-colleagues; better still, meet up now and then to catch up on how they’re doing in their new workplaces. One ex-colleague, Susan, or Salya as we used to call her in the office, popped by last week and was seen distributing her call cards. That’s what […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Aug 19th, 2007
It’s been more than 2 years since I last dined at Backofen, a cosy little Austrian cafe in Desa Sri Hartamas. Back then, occasionally went there for lunch with my colleagues. We used to order different items to ‘share’ – with everyone having small bites of the dishes, including the desserts. However, I learnt that […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Aug 18th, 2007
Of late, we have seen a mushrooming of kopitiams – albeit not the traditional, typical kopitiams of the years gone by – but the so-called pseudo-kopitiams. To quote an entry in Wikipedia…
Recently a new breed of kopitiams have sprung up. The popularity of the old fashioned outlets along with society’s obsession with nostalgia and increasing […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Aug 18th, 2007
There’s a new kid in town…and it hails from the land of kimchi. It’s BBQ Chicken. BBQ (pronounced as B-B-Cue) is the largest fried chicken restaurant chain in South Korea, and ranks as the country’s No. 1 chicken restaurant.
Earlier this week, my friend, Kelvin Loh, and I were in Desa Sri Hartamas for lunch. […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Aug 16th, 2007
I know of folks who would make a day trip to Ipoh just to eat its famous Ipoh Hor Fun. Not me, though. So, where in Kuala Lumpur or Petaling Jaya can you find good, if not the best, Sar Hor Fun? I guess it’s difficult to nominate and vote for the ‘Best’ as we […]
