I’m a Sherlock Holmes in the Making

One of my favourite detective of all times is now in a movie, although there's a lot of Sherlock Holmes movie made :p. I've always been a fan of Sherlock Holmes, the private detective in the 19th century that lived in 221b, Baker Street, London. Even though it's fictional, there's really a Sherlock Holmes museum in the same address. I've been there for a visit when I went to London a few years ago. Too bad I don't have digital camera at that time.

So when I heard that I get a chance to watch Sherlock Holmes on the 22nd of December, two days before the premiere on Christmas' Eve from Nuffnang, of course die die I must post this blog post to get myself invited. Seriously, the clues are a dead giveaway. Well, Nuffnang is always very good.

Sherlock Holmes 2009 starring Robert Downey Jr. (yes, Mr. Tony Stark) as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. This will be a very different Sherlock Holmes indeed. I watched the trailer and I found it to be more like a 19th Century James Bond lol. I do hope the sarcastic remarks and quirkiness of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is still there.

I wished the clues are more difficult, how to be Sherlock Holmes when it's a dead giveaway? I was already a Sherlock Holmes apprentice when I started reading Sherlock Holmes in my primary school's days. Two of my favourite stories are "A Study in Scarlet" and of course "The Hound of Baskervilles". This is not even elementary Watson. (Actually Sherlock Holmes never did says "It's elementary, Watson." in the stories). If you thought Redrum is an episode from CSI, think again. It actually appeared in one of Sherlock Holmes story. Redrum is actually Murder. The power of deduction. ;)

a) The Land of Cheeser Dot Com (mix it a little to find the answer) Cheeserland.com

b) KYCakap Dot Com (a little translation might help) kyspeaks.com

Ringo put the mystery image in the middle which is quite easy to find.

Where else, KY put it at the end of his sidebar, so you have to scroll down quite a bit to find it.

Nuffnang Glitterati if you want to watch Sherlock Holmes before anyone else, faster get the details here.

Mint Toy Museum, Singapore

Continue with my Singapore trip. The day after the Nuffnang Award Dinner, the foreign bloggers were treated to a 1 day tour of some of Singapore's interesting places thanks to Uniquely Singapore (Singapore Tourism Board). We were grouped into a few group, each group will go to same place at different time. At the end of the day each group will have visited all the same places but at different time of course. Chris and I were grouped into Group A, so our first stop is Mint Museum. It's just behind Raffles Hotel, which was supposed to be our real first destination.

Zoe Yve & Wei Wei, Group C members that woke up late and has to follow Group A first.

It consists of 5 floors, each floor will showcase rare mint toys of different theme and different time. Admission fee to the museum is SGD $15 for adult and SGD $7 for child. There's a restaurant in the basement if you don't want to go on a tour in the museum.

Greeted by Astro Boy at the museum entrance.

Hanis is in Group A too.

We were brought up to level 4 first, if I'm mistaken. A very experienced curator, whom previously is a Master Jeweler is our guide. Level 4 is Robots or Sci-fi. There's robot toys from different time and different country. You can see that the colour that like to be used from different country is different from each. Japanese toys tend to has a lot of improvement or more features.

For Star Wars fans.

Mickey Mouse earlier versions.

The first version Felix the Cat is one ugly cat with a tail that looks more like a third leg lol.


Apart from being a rare mint toy museum, the design of the museum also won architecture awards.

The transparent floor in the 3rd floor.

The wonder of the design also is because the 4th and 5th floors are actually hanging in the middle.

I took the picture of 4th and 5th floor from 3rd floor.

Not only toys can be found. This is a autographed postcard of The Beatles. Which is very rare now because you won't be able to get John Lennon and George Harrison autograph anymore.

Popeye with tank.

The top floor is a pub that was decorated with a lot of very old and rare signage. The curator told us happy hour rate here is damn cheap.


One can take a very good picture of Raffles Hotel from the balcony of the pub.

Even the restaurant in the basement were filled with rare posters of food and beverage product.




The architecture award that Mint Toy Museum won in 2007.

The curator told us that the collection showcase in the museum is only less than 10% of the total collection that the owner has. The rest of the collection is kept in a very big warehouse somewhere. Crazy!!! The value of each toy ranged from a few hundred USD to about thousands or maybe even hundred thousands of USD.

One should really drop by here once at least in his or her lifetime to find out the history of toys. Nowadays the toys are just mass produced and in low quality. The collection are swap every 6 months.

Opening Hours:

Mint Museum
9.30am to 6.30pm

Mint Shop
9.30am to 6.30pm

Mint Cafe
9.30am to 10.30pm

26 Seah Street
Singapore 188382


Contact:

Mint Museum
Tel: +65 6339 0660
Fax: +65 6334 3373

Mint Cafe
Tel: +65 6339 6266
Fax: +65 6883 2212

Email: info@emint.com

Bawang

Tadi aku pergi jalan-jalan kat Jusco, Metro Prima. Tujuan aku ke sana ialah untuk membeli mata wang Hong Kong tapi aku di beritahu mata wang Hong Kong sudah habis di jual. Apa??? Ramai ke orang pergi ke Hong Kong. Nasib baik aku ada satu minggu lagi baru pergi ke Hong Kong untuk makan angin dan juga melawat saudara-mara aku di sana.

Mata wang tidak dapat di tukar, jadi aku pergi ke supermarket Jusco untuk beli sedikit barang. Ah, nampak ubat nyamuk, bukan yang perlu di bakar atau pasang dekat suis punya tu. Ini natural punya, ubat penghalau nyamuk, di buat daripada serai (lemongrass). Kesannya baik juga.

Pergi ke seksyen minuman untuk dapatkan minuman berkarbondioksida kesukaan aku. Coke Light lol. Kemudian ternampak pula bawang. Bawang ini betul-betul mujarab. Dikatakan ia dapat memperkukuhkan akar rambut. Ah, jumpa benda yang bagus ni, rambut aku semakin hari semakin nipis, lima tahun akan datang, aku akan jadi Botak Seow dah T_T. Cepat-cepat aku beli bawang. Nanti aku balik rumah boleh cuci rambut akua dengan bawang. Walaupun bawang ini harga tinggi juga, RM 24.90 tapi mesti cuba dan tengok kesannya. Kalau berkesan, aku akan beritahu pembaca-pembaca belog aku.

Nah, ininya Bawang yang aku ceritakan, bukan bawang yang diguna untuk masakanlah lol.
















Syampu Bawang (霸王), Menguatkan Rambut Dengan Ekstrak Herba Cina. Jangan main-main, Jackie Chan pun guna.

2012 + Ninja Assassin

I went to two movie screening recently. One is a disaster movie 2012 and another is a blood & gore action flick, Ninja Assassin.

2012

The story is as what a disaster movie is all about. Discovered that there will be a E.L.E happening in the near future. Execute plans to prepare for E.L.E Near E.L.E found out that it will happened sooner than estimation. During E.L.E, show people from different parts of the world how to face the judgment day and see how the lead actor (John Cussack) miraclely escaped near death event while trying to get his family to the safe point. The only thing that change is what causes the E.L.E and the method used to safe the world from total extinction of species.

Sorry Mr. President sir but the E.L.E will be happening much sooner.

Cliche story aside, this kind of movie will make you think about the world that we are currently living in. E.L.E will happen in the next 50 years or so if we don't stop polluting the environment. With global warming and all. There's already signs like flood, tsunami, earthquake and abnormal weather changes happening recently. Play your part to help the environment. Say no to Plastic Bags. Save paper, use the hand dryer instead of the paper towel after you do your thing in the toilet. Save power, turn off any electronic appliances if not in use, I know most of you do not turn off your PC even when you are not using it lol.

"I wondered if it is meteor again this time."

The CGI in the movie is great. See how the volcano is chasing John Cussack in the ass lol, the White House is destroyed once again (ironically by a US aircraft carrier lol) and loads of earthquake, and tsunami scenes. Proud to mentioned that one of the 3D animator is our homeboy from Malaysia, Ng Chun Seong, younger brother of Super Wilson. Look out for his name in the ending credits yo! Another sad case of brain drain in Malaysia.

What do you know? Chinese saves the day.

Why does the US President always has such a pretty daughter?

Hailed! Chun Seong and his colleagues for the great effects.

Rating: 3.5/5 for the story and Rating: 4.5/5 for the CGI (0.5 less is to give room for improvement for the next shocker)


Ninja Assassin

Showing it all in all major cinemas on November 26th 2009

First, I like to thank Yee Hou for teaching us an easy way to spell assassin with ass-ass-in lol. After watching this movie, I can only say one thing. It's all about Rain and Rain only lol. There's so many scene that you can see him showing off his muscular body that he purposely put up hours of training for this movie.

Rain showing off his body.

As Robb put it," Ninja Assassin - Guys enjoy watching the limbs chopped off, girls enjoy watching Rain's topless body, gays enjoying both." Yupe, secretly I wish I can have a body like Rain in the movie but I am too damn lazy, so forget it. I like the blood & gore in the movie legs sliced, blood purging out, fingers lost and etc. I find the blood is a bit too fake though. No thanks to our moral inspector in the censorship board, there's a few cut here and there, violence and vulgarity I guess. Yet, there's a few vulgarity that they missed (on purpose?)

Again showing off his body.

It will be nice to watch the fighting scene if it's not for the camera shaking like the cameraman was put on a earthquake testing machine. Yes, I know, you're trying to show how fast the ninjas move but hey, you don't have to make me dizzy, I fainted how to watch? Also, the extra skill that was added into the story makes me feels like I was watching Naruto and Bleach. Suddenly ninjitsu is so magical -_-

Why she didn't show?

Bleach fans should watch out for the shunpo like fighting in the end lol. Lucky there's no Bankai, if not I'll really be RLOF in the cineplex.

No, this is not Bankai.

Rating: 2.5/5


On the side note:

I went for the Ninja Assassin Flash Mob that happened in Sunway Pyramid. I took the video and upload it to Youtube. Then it got quite high viewership. The most view as compared to my other Youtube videos. Not to mention quite a feedback too. Here's it is for your viewing pleasure.



Talk about coincidence. When I was putting up this post to Innit. See what is the word verification? "bleach" is this a pure coincidence or what?

Food in Tiong Bahru Market Food Court, Singapore

Time to blog about my Singapore trip. Phew!! Too many obligatory posts in the past few weeks that I have not time and space to blog about my Singapore trip. Let's start of with food. Can you believe that I ate in the food court in Tiong Bahru Market for 3 days in a row while I was in Singapore for 3 days? Well, there are two reasons for that, too many good food there and it's just across the road from Link Hotel (5 minutes walks) where all the Nuffnangers were staying.

Day 1:

We arrived at Link Hotel around 4 p.m. and I was only be able to check-in to my room at about 5.30 p.m. and that was not without the hassle of getting a wrong room number first. By 6.30 p.m. we have to get ready but my sister, my mum and my niece were here to meet up with me. So, we make a quick trip to Tiong Bahru Market food court for a quick bite.

Seeing my niece Ruth makes me calmer even after the long wait and the mistakes made by the hotel staff. Not enough experience to handle such a big group check-in I think. We're about 120 strong.

Teochew Fishball Noodle, Tiong Bahru Market

The fish ball, fish cake and fish wantan is really good. One can really taste fish, unlike some that mixes too much flour or too much MSG in it. The sauce that mixes the noodle tasted a bit bland though. Next time I'll just order the fish produce with soup and skip noodle.

Rating: 3.5/5

Fish ball noodle SGD $3.5 (I added extra fish wanton)

Tiong Bahru Fried Kway Teow

My sister ordered what she referred as "white char kway teow" (CKT ala Singapore) as opposed to what we Malaysian make our char kway teow. I don't want to argue about whether char kway teow is a Singaporean or Malaysian pioneer food. Both version has similarity yet very different.

The "white char kway teow" is wet version of char kway teow much like the KL CKT. It's white maybe because it uses light soya sauce instead of the dark soya sauce. Pork lard is no where to be found in it. Penangites will spit on this white version. I myself also thinks that Penang CKT still rock my socks, even the normal one. My Malaysian taste bud really can't get used to this version of CKT. Well, it's always good to try on different things in a foreign country even if it's not as good as you'll expect it to be. Funny thing is there was quite a long queue of customer ordering from this stall.

Rating: 2/5

Tiong Bahru Fried Kway Teow SGD $3

Day 2:

The day after the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards dinner, me, WeiZhi, Chris, Christine, Swee San and her friend planned to have breakfast in Tiong Bahru Market before we go for our 1 day Singapore tour sponsored by Uniquely Singapore. This place is of course recommended by me lol, which my sister recommended. There's still a few good stuff that I haven't been able to try yesterday.

Tiong Bahru Fish & Chicken Poriddge

I felt like having porridge. It's been a while I haven't take porridge in the morning. So, I ordered a raw fish slices porridge. The raw fish slice is really smooth. Eat it with the warm porridge, which will cooked the raw fish slice in just a matter of seconds. The fish was marinated with sesame oil, soya sauce and granished with ginger and spring onion. It's really hard to describe the feeling of mixing all this into the warm porridge and take a scoop of it. All I can say is "Delicious". Sorry I forgot the price. Should be around SGD $4.

Rating: 4/5

WeiZhi bought us some very nice kueh mangkuk lol, sorry I forgot what it's call in Hokkien. I know Cantonese it's call "put chai go". This is one of the best I've ever tasted. You should really try this if you are here in Tiong Bahru Market food court.

Rating 4.5/5

Tiong Bahru Pau

My sister told me the egg tarts from Tiong Bahru Pau is very nice but alas the first day, it was sold out, the second day it's not ready T_T But, the fried minced pork popiah here is very nice too. I bought some for WeiZhi, Chris and Cristine yesterday, and this morning WeiZhi bought it for us lol. This is just one of the Tiong Bahru Pau outlet, there's a few more outlets in Singapore. My sister told me the HQ is just somewhere behind Link Hotel.

Rating: 3.5/5

Teck Seng Soya Bean Milk

My sister recommended this soya bean the day before but they were closed. So day 2 morning, we all go for this. The queue is seriously long. Thank you Chris for queuing up to buy the soya bean for us ;)

Swee San had cincau & soya bean milk mix

My small soya bean milk

My tao fu fah (豆腐花)

I know why the queue is so long because the soya bean milk and tao fu fah were really worth the wait. WeiZhi told us she still prefer the tao fu fah in Ipoh. As for me, I think the one here has a more solid feel while the one in Ipoh is more watery. Both has it's pro and con.

Rating: 4/5


Christine and Chris shared their yam cake, chee cheong fun and economy fried noodle. The queue to these stalls is quite long too or maybe it's just because Singapore is very densely populated lol.

Christine's Yam cake and chee cheong fun.

Chris' Economy fried noodle

Day 3:

I woke up early at 7am because I slept damn early the night before. While, Chris my room mate is still sleeping (he came back like 3 or 4 in the morning). So, I walked to Tiong Bahru Market for breakfast alone. I really don't know what to eat because I've already been here for the third time in a row now. So, there I was walking around the food court, until I spotted a damn long queue from this stall, no it's not the soya bean milk stall even though the queue also very long there.

Tiong Bahru Lor Mee

Instinct tell me this lor mee must be very nice. Duh.

Got proof!

The lor mee here is more like lum mee in KL. I like the generous condiment of cut chilis, diced garlics and Chinese parsley. Mixed it all up with the gravy and take a bite of the noodle. Satisfaction baby! Of course, you'll have to like raw garlic per se. You can tell the boss not to put any of those. They will let you put the condiments yourself.

Rating: 4/5

And I think the third time is a bliss because I finally able to but some egg tarts from Tiong Bahru Pau lol. It's nice, crispy skin and soft fillings. Comparable to Tong Kee's. Just that the former sweetness level is lesser than the latter.

Rating: 4.5/5

Egg tarts from Tiong Bahru Pau

See, I am so nice I listed down the other outlets of Tiong Bahru Pau here. Click to enlarge:

That is my 3 days in a row Tiong Bahru Market Food Court adventures. I just read that the kway chap here is not bad too. A bit crazy right, one food court so many nice food. LOL.

Address:

Tiong Bahru Market Food Court

Google Map here.

Gu Xuan Ju (古轩居), Bandar Puchong Jaya

Simon Says: My high school friend Beary Chef is now selling her homemade cakes online. She is now back in Malaysia after her apprenticeship in some of Australian 5-stars hotel. Cakes available are like Tiramisu, Pavlova, and Strawberry Shortcake. Chocolate lovers will be surprise on so many variety of Chocolate Cakes that she's offering. Customized very nice decorative cake for different occasion and of course the buzz word nowadays, cupcakes also available. Visit Bearylicious Cakes to see more variety of cheese cakes, tarts, mousse cakes, and other dessert there.

A few weeks ago Wingz invited me for dinner in a new restaurant in Puchong. It's a Chinese restaurant that was just started business for 3 weeks. The shop that is now Gu Xuan Ju (古轩居) was previously a vegetarian restaurant. Gu Xuan Ju by the way is not a vegetarian restaurant lol. We were also joined by Ken and Sidney and a few other non-blogger friends.

Let's move on to the dishes we had that night. We started off with a very aromatic Indonesian Style Seafood Claypot (印尼三鲜煲) (RM 36 for medium size). According to the boss, it doesn't have curry powder at all. I tasted lemongrass, chili and yellow ginger. Condensed milk is used instead of santan. The seafood or 三鲜 in this dish is prawns, cuttlefish and fish slices. Even if this is not a curry dish, the gravy is so nice to go with rice. I finished half of my rice just on this dish.

Rating: 3.5/5

Indonesian Style Seafood Claypot (印尼三鲜煲) RM 36

Prawn, cuttle fish and fish slice.

Damn nice to go with rice.

Village Style Steamed Black Tilapia　(家乡蒸黑翡翠) (RM 36 for 1.2 kg) is up next. According to the chef, he learned this dish from the villager of a fish village. Fisherman always knows their fish best ;) Just using simple ingredients like spring onions, garlic, Chinese parsley and specially mixed soya sauce all put on the black tilapia and steamed. There's no muddy taste at all on the fish and the meat is fresh and springy. The freshness is on par with Lan Je，amid the different style of steaming. The simple style of steaming kept 鲜 taste of the fish intact.

Rating: 4.5/5

Village Style Steamed Black Tilapia　(家乡蒸黑翡翠) RM 36

Pork rib is up after the steamed black tilapia. Not your normal pork rib king (排骨王) but Pork Rib King with Butter Sauce　(奶皇排骨王) (RM 22 for medium size).　First time eating pork rib that is cooked with butter sauce. Quite interesting but if eat too much will have the jelak feeling. If you bored of the old sweet and sour tasting pork ribs, you can give this a try.

Rating: 3/5

Pork Rib King with Butter Sauce　(奶皇排骨王) RM 22

After 3 meaty dishes, time to cleanse our stomach with a detoxifying Stir-fried Bitter Gourd and Bean Sprout with fried salted fish (苦瓜炒牙菜)　(RM 10 for medium size). Another interesting combination, the bitter gourd tasted bitter sweet rather than bitter and it's still very crunchy. Cooked at the right duration. Not much seasoning was used, the sweetness from the bean sprouts and bitter gourd and a bit of saltilness from the fried salted fish is enough to make this a great green dish.

Rating: 4/5

Stir-fried Bitter Gourd and Bean Sprout with fried salted fish (苦瓜炒牙菜) RM 10

After some vegetables, it's time for a bean curd dish. Golden Bean curd with Minced Pork (黄金菜香豆腐) (RM 18 for medium size) uses homemade bean curd made by the restaurant slightly deep fried on the outer layer hence I can get a bit of crispiness outside and smooth and soft inside. I can also taste very nice soya bean taste in the bean curd. The minced pork has diced preserved vegetable (菜宝)　in it. Too bad, I already finished my rice and I don't want to order extra rice because there's more dishes coming.

Rating: 4/5

Golden Bean curd with Minced Pork (黄金菜香豆腐) RM 18

Highly recommended to garlic and prawn lovers. Baked Prawn with Garlic (蒜香焗明虾)　(RM 40 for 400g) is the dish that we had next. Seafood, should be cooked as simple as possible. This is what this dish is all about. Just garlic, soya sauce and prawn. Remember to dip some of the soya sauce when you're eating the prawn because the juice from the prawns is sipped into the soya sauce. Diced garlic is really a match in heaven with prawn.

Rating: 4.5/5

Baked Prawn with Garlic (蒜香焗明虾) RM 40

Another vege dish, Home Style Stir-fried Eggplant (古味炒茄子)　(RM 15 for medium size). The eggplant is cooked just nice, you can still see slices of the eggplant meat. If not mistaken, miso paste was used for the seasoning. Another nice dish to go with the rice.

Rating: 4/5

Hong Kong Style Chicken Soup Dumpling (港式云吞鸡) (RM 18) is the soup dish of the day. Using free range chicken to cook up the stock. It's a bit oily, not that I complain but for healthy conscious people today, it might be good to skinned the chicken first, so that it will be less oily. But hey, I think chicken oil is way healthier than trans-fat oil. Minced pork, mushroom and prawn made up the filling of the dumpling. There's is a special kind of taste missing from this soup that I tasted in Hong Kong. Can't really tell what it is. Nevertheless, it's a very nice soup.

Rating: 3.5/5

Hong Kong Style Chicken Soup Dumpling (港式云吞鸡) RM 18

We ended the night with very filling dishes, XO Sauce Seafood Fried Rice (XO 海鲜炒饭) (RM 10 for 3 pax)and House Special Fried Noodle (招牌炒拉面) (RM 10 for 3 pax). Instead of the normal noodle, Japanese ramen was used for the House Special Fried Noodle. The XO Seafood Fried Nice is really nice.

Rating: 3.5/5

House Special Fried Noodle (招牌炒拉面) RM 10

XO Sauce Seafood Fried Rice (XO 海鲜炒饭) RM 10

Gu Xuan Ju is an air-conditioned restaurant and strictly no smoking inside the premises. So, one can surely have one's meal comfortably inside the restaurant. Another nice eatery for Chinese food in Puchong.

Address:

Restoran Gu Xuan Ju
No. 35, Jalan Kenari 21,
Bandar Puchong Jaya
47100 Puchong, Selangor
Malaysia

Google map here.

Click to enlarge map:

Lenovo Live Mannequin Blogathon is Over...

But another contest begun after that. First of all, congratulation to Wern Shen for winning the Blogathon because he has got so many geek pals and fans that RT like crazy!!! LOL.

I went to Pavilion on the second day of Blogathon to give my support to Ringo, KY and Huai Bin. By the time I reached Tangs 2nd floor entrance, they were out on their first toilet break.

I bought a gift for Huai Bin. Jeng, jeng...



Dr. P adult diapers lol. Why? Because on the first day, from his Twitt, I found that Huai Bin can quite hold his pee, and thus getting penalty point for going to toilet before toilet break. So, the adult diaper can help, he can literally pee in his pants if you can't hold till the toilet break lol. I'm not sure he made use of the gift or not by the way.

Wern Shen thinks that he can put the adult diapers to good use here lol.

Bumped into Natalie there too. She's working there.

She has the privelege to go behind the windows to help the bloggers. Here you can see Huai Bin is giving her his Debit Card, so that she can help him buy some "snacks".

Suan misses KY so much that she charged onto the windows. :P




The contest that I've mentioned at the beginning is the like my picture contest. They took a picture of me and Huai Bin and now it's in the fan page's photo album. Come help me win this. I'll be able to win a Lenovo Netbook. Click on this Facebook link here. Join the Live Mannequine Blogathon 2009 Fan Page first if you haven't done so. After that click "Like" on my picture with Huai Bin there. The the person that got the most like will in the Lenovo Netbook. Please help me by liking the picture and also help ask your friend to like it too. Voting ends on 19th November (Thursday) 5 p.m. So fast fast go "Like" my picture. ;)

The prize that I might win in the Facebook contest.

Thank you. 谢谢。Nandri. Terima kasih. ありがとうございます。당신을 감사하십시오. Merci. Grazie. Gracias. Вы. Obrigado. Σας ευχαριστούμε. Danke. Dank u. Kam Sia Lu. Duo Jeh Sai. Ng Goi Ngi.

College Girls Like Simon Says

And I didn't pluck that from thin air. I have proven facts that girls like to read my blog. Don't ask me why because I don't really know. I'm not good looking but I am not ugly either. Maybe I'm cute to them lol.

Don't bluff, you say? Show you the facts? Okay, okay. Hold your horses there. The facts coming up in a scroll.





See? 61% of my readers are babe and that's out of 3855 response.

And not any girls wei. It might be hot college girls too. Most of my readers aged between 19-23 years old, 44% of the readers in percentage wise. So, most definitely not auntie or uncle reading this blog. Not to say auntie and uncle not welcome lah. I'm not very young also myself.

Cheh, young doesn't mean they're college babe mah. Well, well, well. From the survey, we can see that 57% of my readers are student!! Adding Survey 1 = 61% Babe, Survey 2 19-23 years old, and this Survey 3 = 57% Student. We can roughly come to one conclusion. College Babes Like Simon Says!!

Shiok sendiri :p

Please note that the survey is not photoshoped because my PhotoShopping skill sucks. I only noticed the survey results when I was playing around in my Nuffnang account options two days ago. The result was screen captured directly from my Nuffnang survey. Oh, by the way. I've created a new Nuffnang survey in the side bar. Answer it if you're free. I only created one question. So, it'll be fast.

Okay now, Nuffnang you can give me ads like makeup, lip gloss, lingerie, slimming products, menstrual pad, tampon and other girlie stuff. :p

For example:

Simon Says recommend to you girls out there Happy Tampon. No more fear of doing sports when your Big Aunt come and pay you a visit. Especially you active college girls out there, now you can swim everyday you like......

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CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 101

I've been blogging about updating my Facebook status using SMS after activating the CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service. What about the other Facebook options that can be utilized through this 1st Facebook SMS service in Malaysia that only charge RM 1 for unlimited weekly usage? So, today, I'll conduct a simple CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 101 course here lol. More like a crash course kekeke.

The first lesson is of course to activate your Facebook SMS Service. Click here for my informal lesson or click here for the official lesson of how to activate the service after you got your XPAX Prepaid Package.

After you've activated the Facebook SMS Service, there are a lot of Facebook options that you can use now just by sending text messages or as we say it in Malaysia SMSes.

Facebook Status Update:

This is the easiest to use. Just type in your message and then send to 32665 and voila you have your FB status updated. Note that you'll see a [via Celcom SMS] at the back of the status message when you see it in your Facebook.

Follow your friend's status update via SMS:

After activating the CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service, you'll be able to see a new option called "Subscribe via SMS" when you click into your friend's Facebook Profile. It's just like the Follow option on Twitter only that now any update will be send to your mobile phone and there's no data upload/download whatever calculation involve.

So, for example, I clicked on WeiZhi's "Subscribe via SMS" and I'll be able to get her every status update (especially on food :p) sent to my now Facebook Phone.

Poke your friend:

It's as simple as updating your Facebook Status but you have to add a keyword in your text message. Type poke friend's profile name and send to 32665. For example, if you want to poke me then type "poke yyseow" without the quotation marks of course and send to 32665 and you've poked me (omg, that sounds so wrong).

Okay, I told you this is only a simple course. If you want learn the advance course of CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 202 and 303, I'll have to charge you for that lol. Just kidding. Click here to learn more on the other Facebook options that you can use. Happy playing around with your CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service. ;)

Howling at the New Moon

It's almost dawn. In the back alley of Heritage House in Jalan Yap Ah Shak were two men dress in black suits with bow ties having conversation in whispers. Man with beard whispers to a tall and thin clean shaven man,"So, have you got it?" Clean shaven man replied,"Yes. The security is very tight there but with my shape shifting ability, I was able to shape shift into one of the guard. What's so great about this New Moon movie anyway?"

Bearded man smirked and then says,"What? You haven't heard of the Twilight Saga? The stories about vampire and werewolf that is not what we've thinking about all this time. Vampire is not afraid of the sun, it's just their skin will shine under the sun so they stay under the sun to not to arouse suspicion among the humans. I want to find out their weakness and this Twilight Saga might be able to give me a clue. I read that in New Moon, my kins will have a more active role in the movie. I might learn a trick or two from there to fight against those bloody vampires."

"Quick, show me the tickets to the premiere of New Moon that you've stolen from the office of Tayangan Unggul.",said bearded man while snarling at clean shaven man. "Here it is. New Moon opens at 26th November 2009 in major cinemas in Malaysia.", said clean shaven man while giving two pieces of move tickets to bearded man. "What???", bearded man growled. "The tickets I want is for the premiere, which is a day before the openings. I can't go to the movie on the 26th, it will be full moon that night and I can't control my transformation, you bloody idiot." "But..but, these are the only tickets I was able to find in there.", shaven man stuttered.

Bearded man is now very furious. His suit is starting to tear apart as his body is growing bigger and fur growing out from it. Just as when the werewolf was about to rip clean shaven man apart. A handsome young man in white shirt and white slacks appeared in the alley. "Wait!", shouted the handsome young man. "Maybe I'll be able to help. You can start your own blog and join Nuffnang and be a Glitterati member. Go to this page and join the New Moon movie screening contest. Isn't it easier than ordering the shape shifter to steal? Here's my card, if there's anything you don't understand you can give me a call." And the handsome youngman walked away after leaving his name card with the werewolf. After seeing the name card, the werewolf howls at the New Moon and then miraculously, the werewolf transformed back into the bearded man which is now in his teared suit.

The name card reads,"Nuffnang Sdn. Bhd. Robb Chew, Blogger Liason Executive."

Lesson of the story is that, you don't have to have shape shifting ability to get premiere movie tickets, just be a Nuffnang Glitterati member and post blog or comment to fulfilled the requirement and you'll have a high chance to get the premiere tickets.

As, I've wrote in the short stories, Twilight Saga is not your traditional vampires story where the vampires only goes out at night, scared of the cross, will die under sunlight. In Twillight Saga, is very different where the vampire does not fear the sunlight and they have super senses, strength and speed. There's also the irony of a human girl falling in love with a vampire and the other vampire clans that feeds on live human blood wanted to hunt the girl down. The latest development in New Moon, from the trailer I see that werewolf will play a part too. That's why I like Twilight Saga, it has so my non-cliche ideas about the fictional monsters that I've read about ever since I was a child and the plot just thicken with each sequel.

Yut Kee, Jalan Dang Wangi

Warning: Tidak Ditanggung Halal

On the morning before gathering in front of Heritage House for the bus to Singapore for the Nuffnang AP Blog Awards. I purposely went there earlier so that I can have breakfast in Yut Kee. Reached there by cab at 6.45 am, and it's not open yet. Then, Chris and Christine saw me and asked me to join them in Christine's dad's car. Took a round trip and came back to where they picked me up lol. Christine's dad told us that Yut Kee opens only at 7am.

Yut Kee coffee shop is older than my father. It started in 1928, already 81 years. The third generation is helping out in the business now. Famous for their authentic Hainanmese style coffee shop food such as pork chop, roti babi, kaya roll, half boiled egg and kopi.


I think the furniture there is older than me but still very sturdy.

We were like the 2nd group of customer to went in and when we're inside, they were not even ready yet to take orders. Waited for about 15 minutes only then the waiter starts to take our order. The couple had breakfast already, so they only ordered drink.

Christine & Chris (he was my room mate in Singapore :p)

The new and the old, quite a rare scene to be found in KL.


This is my second time to Yut Kee. I tried Roti Babi before, so this time I ordered Pork Chop as my breakfast. It's very meaty and not like some other pork chop in other coffee shop that only gives a very thin layer of pork. The worchester sauce tasted just right not too salty. Given the pork chop just the right juiciness.

Rating: 3.5/5

I wash it down with my favourite teh-C. Not the best teh-C but who's to complain. Maybe next time I should try their kopi.




I went to Yut Kee again last Friday because I need to go to Nuffnang office to collect the prizes that I wont from Project Alpha contest. You can read about my winning post here. I reached Yut Kee around 11.30 am, just in time for the salivating Auntie Margaret's roasted pork roll which is only available on Friday and Sunday from 11 am onwards. 11.30 a.m. is just nice, not that many crowd yet. I read that it'll be finished by 1 p.m. normally.

I saw the staff was just taking out 5 freshly roasted pork roll out to the table where the roasted pork was cut and serve to customer. Look at the skin, look to crispy and golden in colour.

Inside the roasted pork roll are herbs. I can taste rosemary is one of the herbs.

I ordered two slabs of roasted pork. Cost me RM 10 a slab. Costly but worth it.

Of course, it won't be complete without the specially made apple sauce that goes with the roasted pork.

The roasted pork is done with the perfect proportion of 20% fat and 80% meat. That's my perfect proportion, not some universal standards okay?

Rating: 4.75/5 (0.25 less from perfect scoring is because the skin is not as crispy as I would have like it to be)

Two slabs of roasted pork is not enough for a brunch, so I order a set of half boiled eggs. Yut Kee using free range eggs? Why is the shell white? But the egg here is bigger than the egg in the coffee shop near my house.

Look at the orange coloured yolk. So beautiful, not to mention tasty too. Filled with the goodness of fresh egg.

A dash of white pepper and soy sauce. Gulp, gulp, gulp. Ah...satisfaction. Beats the Omega 3 eggs in Oldtown Kopitiam anytime.

Soy Sauce.

I also bought two boxes of kaya rolls on the go. One box is for the Nuffies and one box to bring home.

Address:
Restoran Yut Kee
35, Jalan Dang Wangi, 50100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-2298 8108

Close on Monday.

Google map here.

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Turning My Old Phone Into Facebook Phone

As I've blog before that I have an old Samsung phone that is not in use much anymore except for receiving calls from bank chasing me on my debts :p Recently, I don't even get calls from the banks anymore because I pay my debts on time now!!! Uhuhuhuhu.

Finally, I bought a XPAX prepaid package so that I can turn the old phone into my personal Facebook SMS Service phone.

Following the instruction from CHANNEL X, I key in "F" then text it to 32665. But low and behold, the confirmation that I got is "Sorry, we can't process your Facebook request right now. Please try again." I tried it for the 10th time, still no success. Then I dialed 1111 to call Celcom Careline. Found out from the helpful Careline staff that I need to call out to one credit deductible number first to activate my XPAX line because my line is still in pre-active status. So, those of you that just bought XPAX remember to do this step first before activating any CHANNEL X services first to avoid disappointment.

After activating my pre-active line, just one text to 32665, and I've got my activation code for my Facebook SMS Service. Then I have to login into my Facebook account, go to Settings > Account Settings > Mobile, add a phone. Choose Malaysia for the country and Celcom as the telco. I was be shown the step to text "f" to 32665, since I've done that already, I click next to key in the activation code I received. Voila. I received a confirmation SMS from 32665 telling me that my Facebook SMS Service is confirmed.

I keyed in my first Facebook status update using SMS even thought I am sitting in front of my laptop connecting through Celcom Broadband lol. There my status is updated almost immediately. So easy. Now I can put my old phone to good use. Any of you have old phone sitting around should try this too if you don't plan to buy a smart phone.

O'Briens Sandwich Delivery Service Launch

I got invited by WMW to attend the launching of O'Briens Sandwich Bars Delivery Service last Thursday. I was able to attend because I'm off shift on that day. I arrived there quite early about 9.45 am. I waited till 10 am only then I went to register. Once I registered I was presented with a goodies bag and a O'Briens Sandwich Bars member card. Nice. I found out later that there's RM 30 was loaded into the card already and inside the goodies bag are a lot of discount vouchers. You'll be seeing me eating O'Briens Sandwich a lot this month.

My member card.

My goodies bag if very fresh lol.

Jokes aside, just as the tag line on the paper bag says, the ingredients used to make the sandwich in O'Briens are really fresh. The bread are made and send to the outlets on the day itself and no leftover bread will be use. That's why you always get fresh bread.

Fresh ingredients.

Fresh breads.

Wilson, Jocelyn and Rebecca were there too. So, us bloggers of course sit together in a table. After all the media and guests settled down, it's time to start. Brian Pua the Operations & Business Development Director of Master Franchise of O'Briens Malaysia start with his speech of why O'Briens Malaysia is starting the delivery service and how it will be done.

Brian giving his speech.

After Brian's speech, it's Mr. Hugh Hoyes-Cock's, the CEO of O'Briens Irish Sandwich Cafe, Asia-Pacific based in Singapore turn to give his speech. We found out from him how Brian got his name. He says that Brian does not have an English name when he went over to Ireland for the training to manage the franchise of O'Briens Sandwich. His Chinese name is very hard for the ang moh there to pronounce, and so they gave him the name Brian lol.



Up next is Mr. Eoin Duggan the First Secretary of the Irish Embassy. He told us that even though Ireland and Malaysia are two quite small country but the trade between both countries has reached about RM 2.6 billion and growing.

The handsome First Secretary

After the speeches, it's time for a small ribbon cutting ceremony to launch the delivery service.




After the ribbon cutting session, two of the delivery staffs then come out and started the delivery motorcycle and horn to the loudest volume to symbolize the launch.

Now you can call 1300-30-3000 and have healthy fresh O'Briens Sandwich sent to your door step. From the delivery menu, I see there's large platter set too, which is very good for office that want to do an office breakfast or lunch or to hold a power lunch meetin in the office where they have VIP from oversea visiting for those MNC company. The O'Briens Malaysia menu can be downloaded here.

After the short launching ceremony, it's Q&A time. Some of the info I got is that the outlet in The Curve will cover until Kelana Jaya and Kepong area. There will be a delivery charge. As of now, there will not be any online ordering in Malaysia but if the response is great, they might replicate the online ordering system from O'Briens Ireland and bring it here.


Q&A

It's time to savour some of the delicious O'Briens Sandwiches prepared by the staff there. Slurp, I haven't have breakfast yet leh.

Egg sandwhich with crunchy chicken crisp.

I love the chicken crisp in the egg sandwich, which is quite crunchy and aromatic.


With Jocelyn Coco. Sorry, I didn't adjust the white balance.

O'Briens doesn't only serve up good quality sandwich but also have other stuff on their menu to cater of more taste bud. Like the healthy All Veggie Wrappo, which is very healthy, you'll like it if you like vegetable and sun-dried tomato. Marketing Director told us that their salmon quiche is very good and is one of the best selling item. When we wanted to order one that day, we're told that it's sold out. T_T. Never mind, I'll drop by another day to order the salmon quiche using my member card :p Who want to join me for an O'Briens meal? Got discount wor.

Sausages sandwich and chicken slice sandwich.

Wasn't able to try the sausages sandwich due to limited stock. You'll have to ask WMW about the taste lol.

Chicken slice, cheese, egg mayo and tuna sandwich. These are all mine muahahaha.

While most people left, we bloggers got a chance to chat with Hugh and Brian. Hugh even told us interesting story about unreasonable complains lodged by customers. He personally want every complaint lodge to O'Briens Singapore sent to him. Talk about hands on. He also told us how one Lebanese customer complains that the hummus served in O'Brien is not good enough. So, Hugh asked the customer to show him how to make a good hummus. Everything else is the same except for the important step that is different. First, the chick peas have to be wash after it was cooked and then crushes ice have to be add in when the chick peas are being blended.

I love the cheese sandwich the most, they put something like cranberry sauce in it, which goes very well with the cheddar cheese. Really, who want to join me for O'Briens? I got loads of discount voucher with me. If you're lazy to go out then just dial 1300-30-3000.

My History With Adidas Deodorant

Ok. This is a video blog of me and Adidas Action 3 Deodorant. We came way back. Yupe, way before it hits Malaysian shore. So, here's my short chronological video of me and Adidas Action 3 Deodorant. Wait, did I just repeat myself? Sorry, I was too excited watching my own video :p

Project Alpha Season 1 has successfully ended. Please don't forget to watch all the Project Alpha episodes too, those too are interesting. Thank you for the good show.

Phobia 2

Thanks to Nuffnang and David I was able to be the extra to go to the movie screening of Phobia 2. This horror flick is consists of 5 different short stories that were directed by 5 different directors. The directors were also that brought you Shutter, Dorm, Alone, Body and 401A.

Now I know why some of the film name like Shutter and Alone were mentioned in two of the stories. The 5 stories combines horror, drama, comedy and also real life situation like drug and human trafficking.

Starting off with:

Novice

The camera angle used by the director is kind of an art house film. The message in Novice is to tell us that what goes around comes around, karma. Do not do bad or evil things or else sooner or later you'll have to face the devil inside you.

Ward

The story took place in a hospital, more precisely in a ward. The main character was warded in the same ward with an old man that is about to be taken of life support. Imagine the restlessness of the main character in this situation. One of the more horrific part in the 5 part.

Backpackers

This story is about two Japanese backpackers hitch a ride on a truck to Bangkok and things started to goes wrong. This part is the most boring unless you're a fan of Bio Hazard. Oh by the way, the Japanese girl is talking to her mum on the phone about shopping and the things are cheap in Thailand for those that doesn't understand Japanese because in this scene there's no subtitle.

Salvage

Personally, I felt that this is the most horrofic stories of the five. Second hand car dealer mum looking for his son that is playing in the car warehouse. After watching this story, I might not want to buy a second hand car anymore. Scary.

In The End

My guess is this part is directed by the director who made Alone. Took place in a studio where they were filming Alone 2 lol. This is my favourite part of all the five. It got the most response of the audience. A must watch. I don't want to spoil the surprise here. :p

Overall, Phobia 2 is worth to pay money and go to the cinema and watch. Hey, Thai horror movie if of good standard. It's already in a cinema near you, now go and have good scare and a good laugh. ;)

Rating: 3.75/5

The Craziest Project Alpha Blogger

Crazy! Crazy! These are the two first words from the opening song "Crazy" sang by Ash Nair that you'll hear when you are watching the Project Alpha video. Crazy is the right word to describe the current Project Alpha featured blogger that is on this week. It's non other than the infamous blogger from SixthSeal.com, Huai Bin.

Those of you who follow Huai Bin's blog will know that he used to do drugs. From designer drugs to heroin, which he also blog about he's usage of it. He went into rehab three times to kick of his drugs addiction. Finally in his 3rd time he successfully kick the habit after spending 1 and a half year in the rehabilitation center. From the video, he says that one can't even stand a day in rehab, and he's been in there for so long. That also explain his MIA from the blog scene during that time frame. Nicole, another Project Alpha blogger even did an interview with him for her column Blogged Out titled "Former drug blogger comes clean about his past" in The Star, Metro. He even got arrested for drugs possession. Now isn't that crazy? But he's come clean now. Drug free. If you want to listen to him telling the story catch it on Project Alpha. I'll show you Episode 1 here to get you started.



He also a fanatic for pain. I really don't know how many piercings and tattoos he has on or in his body. His wrist, tongue and even his nipples got piercing. His back and his hand got tattoo. The picture below is Huai Bin's X-ray film. You can see the piercing in the chest there. Taken from his blog post "Mama my nen nen got thing stuck inside"

He also like flammable stuff. He did experiment with petrol, kerosene, you name it. Maybe it's because it's influence by the pyrotechnics street show he saw at Gurney Drives when we were in Penang. You can see that in one of the episode in the ending credits you see him spitting out kerosene. My guess is that he's trying to perform one of the fire tricks.

Gurney Drives fire show.

Taken in Gurney Drives

He eats crazy stuff like live octopus and most recently dog meat when he was in Korea. When I was in Penang with him, even after each of us had 2 jugs of beer and were on the way to the hotel entrance after his friend dropped us back, he still can remember that we had planned to go eat Sup Torpedo (bull penis soup). The funny thing is, the day after, he totally forgot that he ever had Sup Torpedo.

We were pretty high on beer already.

Huai Bin with his bull penis.

Me with bull cock. Picture taken by Huai Bin. I think he's almost there.

So, if I say here that he's one of the craziest bloger yet that is in Project Alpha won't be to far fetched right? There were a lot of other crazy stuffs that is not proper to be blog about here :p
CRAZY! CRAZY! Project Alpha: SixSeal.com Episode 6, which will be the latest episode released today will be on his ex-gf. Stay tuned.

Oh, Huai Bin, if you are reading this. I bought the New Adidas Action 3 Sensitive deodorant already.

So, you can have my half-used Adidas Action 3 Sensitive for your er... sensitive nipples :p

Poke Your Friend in Facebook Through SMS

"Hey, I poked you in Facebook and I don't even need an Internet connection!" LOL, isn't it nice if you can tell this to your friend. Ahem... ok ok, I just shiok sendiri lah. Well, thanks to Xpax, even if you don't own a smart phone or a mini notebook or you have no Internet access, you can now poke your friend by just using SMS.

Of course, it's not only limited to poking, duh. Just by paying RM 1 for a week of unlimited access of most Facebook options like status update, wall posts, adding friends, writing notes and more here. It's very easy to activate the service. If you're already a Xpax user, just follow the steps below:

If you're not a Xpax user yet, go and switch to Xpax now and be the early adopter of the first Facebook SMS Service in Malaysia. 你 switch jor mei!?

No Compromise for Mister Potato Fiesta 2009

Last year, they've got Project Trafford. This year, it's time for the #1 Mister Potato Contest.

I am very fuzzy about my chips because I eats potato chips when I am watching TV. If my chips is not good, even if I am watching Oscar winning movie will turn into watching Turkey of the year. Searching high and low. Mister Potato is still my favourite potato chips of all time.

Why? It's crunchy. It's not too salty. And the most important of all, it taste like real fried potato. Unlike some other brand that maybe mixed a little bit too much corn flour to it. I make no compromise on the potato chips that I eat. Too salty, failed, not crunchy, failed. Good thing is that Mister Potato pass all the test with flying colour.


That's why I have to rob Robb (pun intended) to get the Mister Potato. I even kissed Robb to get more Mister Potato.

Now gimme all your Mister Potato so that I can go to Mister Potato Fiesta 2009. Muak.


Now back to the contest. You want to try your luck in winning some nice cash prize?

1st Prize - RM 5,000, 2nd Prize -RM 3,000 and 3rd Prize - RM 2,000

One can buy a lot of Mister Potato with the cash ^_^

There are 8 stages of game that you'll have to play. Like the Plucking game.

Chip chrunchiness audio test. You know why I have to kiss Robb now don't ya? See who's been playing the #1 Mister Potato Contest all this while.

Cash prizes asides, after completing the tasks, you can upload your photo of you dressed up as Mister Potato and if you garnered the most vote, you'll be invited to the Mister Potato Fiesta 2009.

Faster go here and play the games and win!

I'll get back to eat my Mister Potato.

Michael Jackson, This Is It!

Thanks to Nigel and Sony Pictures Malaysia, I was able to catch Michael Jackson, This Is It at the night of the premiere which was last Wednesday. Since Beyonce concert was postponed until further notice, why not go ahead and watch this concert that is made with heart and love. Trust me, you won't regret it. If Michael Jackson is still alive, I am sure he won't cancel or postpone his concert in Malaysia lol.

Source Wikipedia

Some fans in the premiere that night prepared a box of tissues just in case they can't hold their tear.



I borrow the tissues as props to take picture with Regina keke. Who's hands were those behind me??

The hands belong to these two jokers sitting behind me lor.


The movie will only be screened for two weeks. So you have only a week more to catch it before it is pulled from the big screen, and you will want to watch it in the big screen. Just for RM 10 or a bit more and you'll get to watch such a great concert made by the King of Pop. Go now. Still not convinced? Read Eyeris not a review on This Is It. He's better in telling it.