Runway 101 at HELP University College

TheNanny invited some of us bloggers to the Runway 101 event that is organized by his club and his the organizing chairman. Basically Runway 101 is a competition to choose the best student that took part in terms of catwalk and modeling quality.

The competition started at 7pm but due to work commitment, I only arrive there at 7.45 pm, just in time for their 1st half break. So, I totally missed out the 1st half of the catwalk.

The red carpet walk way.

MC of the night.

Some of the participants during the 2nd half of the catwalk. I lost the name list so can't remember the names :p

Natasha, and Denezia from Malaysian Dreamgirl 2 were the guest model there to do catwalk besides the participant.

Oh, Juanita is one of the judges.

After the catwalk session, it's time for Q&A for the top 5. The questions were prepared by each judges and the top 5 contestant will pick one from the box.


One of the contestant answering the question she picked.

Before the result is announced, we were entertained by a group, Nigel & Co. if I remember correctly. They did few numbers of song and the most interesting one if the male version of Britney Spears' "Oops, I did it again". Nice.

Jennifer (if not mistaken) emerge the winner. I thin mostly because of the votes garnered from the audience. Each audience can vote and it will contribute to the points. She's obviously has a lot of supporter there that night from the shouting of her name.

The 1st winner of Runway 101 was crowned.

It was a very successful event. A job well done, Mr. Organizing Chairman a.k.a. TheNanny a.k.a Dennis Khor. Photo with Diese, Zoe Yve, Dennis and Natasha.

Of course there's Mr. EveryWhereYouSeeHim




Angela, one of the official MDG2 Blogger.

A picture with the first runner-up winner.




ShitZoe^TM made a guest appearance to congratulate Dennis for the job well done. We all then embarked to Bangsar for yumcha session.

Pantai Seafood Restaurant, Kg Sungai Kayu Ara, Petaling Jaya

Not long ago, my colleagues and I went for a farewell dinner for a colleague that will has left our company. After much discussion, we decided to go to Pantai Seafood Restaurant, Kg. Sungai Kayu Ara. It's really not difficult to find this place. Just go along Sprint away towards Damansara Jaya, don't turn left into Damansara Jaya after you took the exit to DJ from Sprint. Go straight and then turn left at the first junction into a smaller road. Go straight all the way and you see Pantai Seafood Restaurant on your right after a short drive.

The first thing that attracted me is the aquariums that is filled with many variety of seafood.

Most of the seafood in the aquariums are not cheap. They have very huge mantis prawn that is selling for RM 130/KG @_@



Australian Lobster RM 298/KG

Exotic Australian Snow Crab, prepare to pay RM 228/KG for it.




Then there's also Canada Geoduck that people always make fun of because of the shape. RM 238/KG.

We of course didn't order any of those exorbitant priced seafood, we didn't come here because one of us won the 4D lol.

I like to take photo of my colleague's daughter, she's always have some funny face expression.




First dish that is served is Sheung Tong Yuen Choi, there's garlic cloves and slightly fried century eggs in the soup too. Just a normal dish nothing that is too out of this world.

Stir-fried snails with garlic and dried shrimps. The way the do it is like stir-fried pork intestine. The snails is quite springy. Not too bad.




Special fried tofu is fried until crispy in the outside and still soft inside. Dip a bit of the special sauce give it an extra taste.

I forgot what dish is this, I think it's stir-fried mantis prawn with salted egg yolk. Up to standard with the salty egg yolk equally covering the prawn meat.




Lemon chicken. Normal.

Steamed fish in assam. Fish is fresh and the sauce is very appetizing.




Braised pork.

In short, Pantai Seafood Restaurant is just like any normal restaurant you find out there except maybe the exotic live seafood in the aquarium. If you just want to eat a normal seafood meal, there're many other cheaper and tastier restaurants. If you have the money to splurge then you can try out the exotic seafood here.




Address:

Pantai Seafood Restaurant
Lot 13575, Jalan Cempaka PJU 6A
Kg Sg Kayu Ara
Petaling Jaya

Tel No: 03 - 7725 5099/1099

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MyView: Blood: The Last Vampire

I went to the premiere of Blood: The Last Vampire early of this month thanks to Nuffnang again.

All I can say is I was a bit disappointed, first the funny CGI and second is I was expecting the katana used be Saya to be like the one in Blood+, sigh. If you are a fan of Gianna Jun of "My Sassy Girlfriend" fame then this movie is for you. Die hard anime fans will be dissappointed by the disoriented story line. Where's Hagi??

Rating: 2.5/5

On the side line:

A lucky cosplay participant won a poster of Blood: The Last Vampire autographed by Gianna herself. She won because she sang one of the ending theme song from Blood+. Congrats. I would have did Hyde's version of the 2nd opening theme "Season's Call" if I got that early (I like L'Arc~en~ciel). I only finished work at 8pm.



I had a pleasant surprise to see Cindy sitting next to me when I got in the cinema. She's invited by Joshua.

More surprise came, Diese happens to sit next to Joshua lol. *hugz* She brought her sister to the movie.




Yennie and Jacquelyn happens to sit in front of us.

Last but not least my friend Sheila and I. :p

Phai Lin Thai Restaurant, Sri Damansara Club

Simon Says: Get yourself invited for the media screening of Land of Lost this Friday.

I was invited by KampungBoyCityGal to a food review which was organized by one of their reader. It's quite a new Thai restaurant that is in Sri Damansara Club. Fellow foodies that were there too are Tham Jiak and Jason If I was not told, I won't know that the club is open to public, of course only some of the facilities like restaurants and food massage is for the public I think. As you reach the entrance of Phai Lin, you'll be greeted with two Thai statues.

Sawadika!

Phai Lin is actually a Thai and Chinese restaurant, which means besides your normal Thai food, you'll have Thai food with Chinese influence or vice versa. There are already two outlet in Myanmar and the lady boss decided to expand the business to Malaysia. The Phai Lin in Myanmar is very big and grand from the photos that she showed us. Phai Lin is also a pork free restaurant and they are trying to apply for the Halal certificate. The lady boss is a Chinese Muslim herself.


My drink that I forgot the name. It's something like "honey something" but I won't recommend this.

First dish to arrive is the Spring Roll (Big/Small RM13/RM 8). There's sengkuang inside. Fried till crispiness and the interim is still juicy. Not too bad.

Spring Roll

Next up is Claypot Glass Vermicelli with Prawn (Big/Small RM 22/RM 15). One of my favourite Thai dish but I prefer crab instead of prawn. While using prawn is also not bad, crab gives the sauce more kick with the sweet taste from the crab. Nevertheless the prawns used is very fresh and the glass vermicelli absorbed the prawn's sweetness and the sauce. Slurp.

Claypot Glass Vermicelli with Prawn

Deep Fried Garoupa with Sweet and Sour Sauce (RM 35) got no complain from us except that we can't take a good picture with it lol. This dish I think it's a Chinese dish, if not mistaken is call (糖醋鱼). The fish is fried and then cover by the sweet and sour sauce, a very appetizing dish.

Deep Fried Garoupa with Sweet and Sour Sauce

After devouring the garoupa, it's time for Deep Fried Chicken Wings with Herb Thai Style (Big/Small RM18/RM12), such a long name lol. The herb is very aromatic and goes very well with the chicken wings.

Eating Thai cuisine wouldl not be complete without Tom Yam and that night we had Seafood Tom Yam Soup (Big/Small RM28/RM18). The tom yam is very nice and it's sourish enough. It's not too spicy so it's suitable for most people but not enough kick for me that can it very very spicy food. The soup is kept warm by the burning wax in the center of the pot.

Seafood Tom Yam Soup

Time to balanced the high protein meal with Stired-fried Mixed Vegetable (Big/Small RM17/RM11). Just your normal stired-fried vege nothing much to comment.

Stired-fried Mixed Vegetable

Mango Salad (Big/Small RM15/RM9.5) was served next and it's a good ending to a meal full for meat and seafood. Young mango is used and mixed with peanuts, shallot, bird eye chili, lime and fish sauce. It's quite addictive.

Mango Salad

When I thought that's the end of it, comes a special order that night, Raw Prawn Salad (Big/Small RM22/RM12). I think this is the house specialty because I seldom see this dish in other Thai restaurant. Very different of prawn sashimi because instead of soya sauce and wasabi, lime, raw garlic, Chinese parsley and mint leave were added to each raw prawn. The prawn is real fresh with a bit of springy texture and the mixes of the condiments covered the fishy taste of the raw prawn. Highly recommended to those that like raw food.

Raw Prawn Salad

Some hits and misses but nevertheless the food here is of good quality and affordable price. There's still a lot of dishes yet to be tried, so I will surely make another visit here with my friends and family. Good news is that they are looking to open another outlet and is now scouting for good location. Any recommendations?

Updates: I forgot, if you mentioned that you got to know Phai Lin from my blog, you'll get a discount on your food.

Address:
Phai Lin Thai & Chinese Restaurant
Sri Damansara Club Berhad
Lot 23304, Persiaran Perdana
Bandar Sri Damansara
52200 Kuala Lumpur

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I won Rexona Contest

Remember this post? I've posted it to enter the Rexona Contest. After about 6 months, finally the results are out. I won 2^nd Prize x 1 : White Water Rafting Experience for 2. Since, it's for 2, I can invite another person to go with me. I can't seems to find anyone yet. So, I open up this place for a female blogger that is first to email me with the title "I Wanna Go White Water Rafting with Seow Lang". We'll be going White Water Rafting on 4th of July 2009 (Saturday). Time and venue to be confirmed later. Please email to me before noon tomorrow (12.00 p.m. 16th June 2009) if you're interested. ;)

My email is yyseow[at]gmail.com with the details below (needed to register with the organizer)

Personal details required

1. Full name

2. IC Number

3. Contact number

4. Address

5. Health condition (eg: Asthma, high blood pressure)

6. Allergies/Pregnant

Update: Someone is really fast in sending in. So, sorry all, the place is taken.

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MDG2 Grand Finale

Last month I went to the Curve for Malaysian Dreamgirl 2 Grand Finale. This is old news by now, I know. Yet, as one of the official blogger, I felt obligated to blog about it lah.

Juanita drove home this Chevrolet Aveo 1.4l.



Managed to camwhore with Denezia way before the show starts. I was there damn early.

Alison is the red carpet interviewer. She's interviewing Pinky's bf, Ah Fai here. While Jay is the catwalk choreographer, so she's at the backstage the whole time.



I invited Bangsar Babe because she's a fan of MDG2 too. Sorry, I still have no time to get the CD from you :p Let's do lunch this Wednesday.

Zoe Yve was there and she got the extra pass from me. (This is how the picture will look like if the finger block the flash.)



Ah Fai the very supportive boyfriend made this banter for Pinky. How sweet.

Jeffro, Nigel and Suresh uses each other as tripod wtf.



How can we forget Dennis the Nanny.

A fellow official blogger, Angela.


Some of the girls from MDG1 were there too.

Fiqa

Hanis



Adeline

Online Judges:

Joyce



Kenny Sia

Kulvinder was around the area. Any plan for MDG3?



With Acha and Sharlene.

Congratulating Pinky for taking 1st Runner-up.



Diese and I congratulating Juanita that's been crown MDG2 Winner.

She called herself Pink Pork Chop but I seldom see her wear pink.



Serge wants free hug everywhere he goes.

Jay was busy the whole night at the backstage.



Ming is not too bad to make it to the top 4.

I didn't get a chance to take picture with Dawn, the 2nd Runner-up.



After the grand finale, most of the bloggers went to SS15 to have burger, except me T_T.

You can catch all the episodes, including the Grand Finale of MDG2 here.

LG Blog Launch

It seems to be a Hap Seng month last month because there's 2 events and 1 food review that I went to. The last one is LG Blog launching where invited guests dressed as Angel or Devil. It is also that this night that my camera lens really goes kaput. I noticed the problem when I see the pic I took with Aronil and Min Li.

This is what I meant by kaput.

There's a booth showing LG Arena. A touch screen phone.



You may have noticed that I went as Devil with Shrek ears.

LG is so nice to provide free pink cotton candy at the entrance. Brought back my childhood memory. ;)



Jane got so many balloons, that's why she won the collect the piece of paper inside the balloon game. She got home with LG DVD player? Not too sure because she didn't unwrap her prize.

Jolyn won a LG Cookies for the Most Confused Angel category and that's not lipstick mark on my face it's red wax.




RedMummy takes home a 32 inch LG LCD TV with her fabulous costume.

Some of the bloggers that I took picture with there.


Yennie Doll

Zoe Yve

Bernice and Carol. Nuffies.

My ex-taukeh soh.

Tey Cindy.

Pink Pork Chop that turned Gold recently.

Pam Pili

MY FM DJ Mei Yan

Kim Ong

Jamie Chin

Hitomi

Robb.

It was a fun night. There's a lot of other bloggers there but I am lazy to put it all here :p Oh, most importantly, don't forget to get latest Life's Good happenings here. Ciao!

BellyGood, Dataran Mentari, Bandar Sunway

Warning: Tidak Ditanggung Halal

Another food review session organized by Tim. This was a month ago, only now I have time to write T_T. I invited Charlie to come along as I see his Plurk that he's currently near Amcorp Mall. There were already a lot of foodies there when we reached BellyGood. 5 minutes later Nicole came in and I wave to her. Then Tim asked me, is she my guest? I told him that's Nicole, she's on the invited list in the Facebook event. That's the fun of food session like this, you'll be meeting people on your Facebook that you haven't met before. Tim then introduced me to Ev, Selena, Eu Gene, Ellie (she's in my Facebook even before I meet her, funny), and Bangsar Babe. Foodies that I've met before are Ken, Wilson and Rebecca.

While waiting for our food:

Ellie

Nicole showing her pic with Simon Yam.

Eve, the manager of the restaurant then come to brief us on the food that we'll be eating later. BellyGood practice open kitchen concept, so you'll be able to see the juicy pork being grilled.

For starters, there's Baked Portobello Mushroom with Bacon and Cheese, Chili Munchies, Salmon Salad, and Pork Cracklings. My favourite is of course the Pork Cracklings (RM 6.50), which is pork skin cleaned and fried to crisp, very good to go with beer. The other favourite of mine is the Baked Portobello Mushroom with Bacon and Cheese (RM 12.50), pork bacon were used here, enough said.

Salmon Salad (RM 23.90)

Chili Munchies (RM 6.50)

Baked Portobello Mushroom with Bacon and Cheese (RM 12.50)

Pork Cracklings (RM 6.50)

They serve Hoegaarden Light here. Nicole and her bf ordered it. Bangsar Babe ordered too. I was broke so didn't order beer. I found out that Bangsar Babe also write a column for The Star Metro. Hers is published every Tuesday while Nicole's Blogged Out will be publish every 1st and 3rd Saturday.

The lovely Babe. Buy The Star every Tuesday to see her face in Metro.

It's time for the main. Mixed Platter (RM 23.90), Original Grilled Pork Belly (RM 21.90), Original Grilled Pork Ribs (RM 23.90), Pork Tenderloin with Creamy Mustard Sauce (RM 26.90), Pork Tenderloin with Creamy Hot Sauce (RM 26.90), Pork Tenderloin with Creamy Brown Sauce (RM 26.90), Baby Back Ribs (RM 29.90), Sautéed Bacon Capellini (RM 17.50) and Sausage Platter (RM 26.90).

Mixed Platter is actually two signature dishes in one plate. Grilled pork belly and pork ribs served together bathed in our House Special Rib/ Belly sauce accompanied with mash and coleslaw. So, if you want to try the best of both world (sounds so Hannah Montana here), this is one dish that you must order.


Pork Tenderloin with Creamy Brown Sauce (RM 26.90)


Most of us like the house special sauce which is sweet and sourish. It goes very nicely with the grilled pork. The penne side is a bit bland though.

Original Grilled Pork Belly (RM 21.90)

Sorry for the blur pictures from here because my camera's lens starts to acting up here that leads me to have to bring it to the service center to have it fix. Lucky still under warranty.

Baby Back Ribs (RM 29.90)

Sausage Platter consists of 4 types of sausages - pork chorizo, pork oriental, and spicy Hungarian served with fries and thai chilli sauce.

Sautéed Bacon Capellini - Angel hair pasta tossed with sautéed bacon, mushrooms, chopped chilies, tomatoes, with garlic wine sauce.

Overall there's some hit and misses that night. I personally like the pork ribs and baby pork ribs. Of course, the grilled pork belly is also my favourite. As for the tenderloin, I found it too be a bit dry, maybe it's because I like fat :p

Proof that the rib is a must try here.

After filling up, it's time to take picture with the foodies there.


Rachel's fiancee.

I saw Rebecca Saw (yes, lame, I know)



Me, Charlie,


With Tim.


While their bfs were taking picture with other female foodies.

Address:

BellyGood
No. 20, Jalan PJS 8/18, Dataran Mentari,
Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya.
T: 03-5630 1699 F: 03-5630 1360
e.mail: reservation@bellygood.com.my

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我会中文吗？

有人承曾经问过我，我会不会中文。那我就回答，我会看还会说简单的。如果是写，那就要看是用笔还是用键盘咯。我只读过一年华文幼稚园。 我小学到中学都是在马来学校上课，只是在三年级到五年级学过几堂党一年级到三年级的母语课。

我自己也不知道几时学会看中文。大概是我十二岁的时候吧，那时候开始喜欢看七龙朱漫画。看不懂的字就会去问姐姐。慢慢的我就从看漫画到学会看小说到学会看报纸。连我自己也觉得很神奇， 为何我可以看得懂那么多中文字。什么伟诗卫斯里，金庸和古龙，我大概可以看得懂八成。第一套看完的金庸作品是“书剑恩仇录“，然后就是“笑傲江湖“。

学会看中文有很多好处噢。去卡拉OK可以选唱中文歌曲，看日剧或韩剧大多是中文字幕，在中餐厅吃饭又不用看英文餐牌来点菜（锺总觉得中菜用英文来写是怪怪的），还有就是不会给会中文的朋友笑是香蕉人。噢，会看中文是那么辛福副的事啊。

虽然我很想用中文来写部咯客部落格，但是，我还是用英文来写部咯客部落格比较快。因为我的汉语屏拼音不大好所以写起中文就很慢。就这篇短文就用了我大概两三个小时来写。如果是英文，给我半个钟锺就写完了。咳，真后愧以前没有好好学。那你说我会中文吗？

Hennessy Artistry @ The Loft

Yes. This Hennessy Artistry happened more than a month ago. I've blogged about it here. So on that night I reached the venue for the press conference, which is just below the Loft. Saw Serge there and later his guest Hitomi. I took out my camera and was about to shoot and I found out that there's no batteries in the camera. I forgot to put the batteries that was being charged back into the camera T_T. So, I'll have to borrow pictures from my fellow blogger friends.

There's no more City Hennessy Cocktail such as Miami or Shanghai. Instead there's 10 new mix such as apple, green tea, soda, ginger ale and etc. (I can't remember all lah)



The drinking starts even before the press conference. There's also nice finger food to go with the new Hennessy Mix. I was already quite high even before the event starts. In the press conference, we get to meet Starz Angels, and Caprice.

Bumped into Joyce at the press conference.

All you can drink. Hennessy Soda.

Before going to the Loft. A picture with Jamie and Ren.

With EV here.

Of course, the mature looking 租儿

Serge, me and Jack.

This is what free flow Hennessy did to Ben and I. Red face.



Lovely Jane.

I remembered I took a picture with Sarah Lian but forgot on who's camera. Sigh, never mind. Next time I'll remember to put back the batteries into the camera. A photo credit to SJ and special thanks to StephK. I say sorry first if I forgot to mention your name here because without picture I don't really remember so many. I remember Yat, Joshua, and Sidney. I saw Yee Hou and Anne too. Jess was there representing Juice Magazine.

As I was writing this, the next Hennessy Artistry is coming soon. This one is at the Zouk Phuture. The DJs are cool Lap Sap, gorgeous DJ Yasmin, VJ Spacebar and Young6IXX (American rapper). From the line up, I can already feel the great club music and hip hop theme that night.

Happening this Thursday 4th of June from 9 p.m. onwards. RSVP here.

I hope that I'll get invited again for this Hennessy Artistry event.