a b e - s t e r i a

Happy 24th birthday to my mate, Aaron. Hope you have a great one, dude.

I wanna say a very big thank you to Yolene, Ah Mo, Eric, Maggie, Olivia and Joey for the great time I had in Hong Kong. Especially to Yolene, Ah Mo and Maggie for their touring assistance hehe. I hope to see all of you again really soon :)

(Continued from Part IV)

Tuesday, 27th December 2005 (Last day in Hong Kong)

Good things come to an end, they say. Well, this was our final day in Hong Kong before our flight the next morning. This was also the day we had to do our last minute shopping before heading back to KL. The past few days have been pretty hectic and hence, didn't get to do much shopping.

Woke up to a frosty morning yet again and met up with Ah Mo down the road of our hotel after our breakfast. Accompanied Ah Mo for breakfast while Seb and I sipped on our drinks.


This is how their coffee shops look like

After that, we went on a search for mobile phones since I heard it's cheaper in Hong Kong than it is back home. We went from one shop to another and finally, we found a movile phone heaven! It was like Sungei Wang but specially for electonical gadgets. After much searching, I finally found a phone I liked - Nokia 6111! Woohoo! Got it for a reasonable price too. Check it out (pics taken after returning from HK):





Sweet, eh? I was excited like a lil puppy. After getting the phone, we met up with Maggie and Yolene. Yolene and Ah Mo then went off on a laptop hunt while Maggie, Seb and I proceeded to Ladies Market for some last minute shopping. After much walking, I got a couple of items for some friends back home.

We then decided to head back to the hotel to chill for a bit while we wait for Yolene and Ah Mo to finish their hunt. Plus, I had to take a dump rather badly and the hotel room toilet was the only one I was willing to use.

Finally, Yolene and Ah Mo returned from their hunt and off we went for a Teow Chew porridge dinner. I was pretty full from all the food that Ah Mo ordered and left a lot uneaten. Olivia, another of Seb's friend joined us for the feast.

Having filled our bellies, we proceeded to Cavern in Lan Kwai Fong for a last round of beers before we leave for KL the next day. Lan Kwai Fong is a really nice place. I really did like it there and Cavern was an awesome bar with a live band. As the night progressed, Elleen and her brothers (friends of Seb and Olivia) joined us and it really was a great night. It was fitting for our last night in Hong Kong *sniff*


The people


The band

And so, Seb and I had to leave for the hotel to do our last minute packing since it was going to be a really early morning for us. As we walked down Lan Kwai Fong, it was my last time to experience mobs of people. This time, the crowd was getting into a club. I never really did get to club in Hong Kong due to the hectic schedule. Oh well, there's always next year :)


Keep on thronging, people

Well, that wraps up my trip to Hong Kong. It was definitely a trip I will always remember. God willing, I would be there again really soon.

(Continued from Part III)

It was quite a pleasant time in OP. Weather wasn't too hot nor too cold. Scenery was awesome and they had escalators going up to the highland. These escalators were looooooooong. Might as well, since most of the rides and attractions were located at the top. Thankfully, they had cable cars for the ride down.

As we progressed through the park, we had to combat the heavy human traffic. Again, you have your rude fucks who don't apologise to you after knocking you unconscious or bumping into you and causing you to shake your hands while you're trying to capture the beautiful scenery on camera.

I was told that the Raging River ride is one of the best rides there and that we should go for it. I was like, "Sure, why not?". Then, we saw the queue. It was as long as the ride itself. Heck, the time gauge sign was more than an hour long. We decided not to go for that yet and just play the others first. Perhaps we could come back later when the crowd has dissipated a bit.

And so, we went on the Space Wheel. Nothing too life-threatening, though. You sit in it and get spun in various positions and then stops. Hoo haa. But it was a ride nonetheless.


Spin.. spin.. spin..


Maggie waving prior to "lift off"

After much pretentious screaming, we headed up to the highland for more of the attraction. This was where we awed ourselves with life of the undersea. Whoa! My kind of thing! I've always enjoyed looking at underwater creatures. Brings back fond memories of my snorkeling days in Redang Island many years back. Aaahh, I miss those times. Gotta go for it some time in the new year.

And so, we tantalised our eyeballs with the many different species of sharks, sting rays, squids and other sea creatures from the deep. Needless to say, I was like a lil kid aah-ing and ooh-ing at them. 'Twas really fun!


Mmm.. sotong masak tepung...


Sea Angels


Errr they're called planktons...

Having educated ourselves with the various sea lifeforms, we continued our journey through the jam packed park for other rides. The minute we got out of the Atoll Reef Aquarium, once again, we encountered another sea of creatures - people. Gah!


Throng.. throng.. push.. push.. throng.. throng..

We then headed for the Turbo Drop ride. Similar to our Genting Highland's Solero Shot. Only difference is, the Turbo Drop is a twin tower so 2 groups of people can go simultaneously. This was my favourite ride in the entire park. The adrenalin rush was simply awesome. My heart was suspended for a good 2 seconds. Awesome...


Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!


Wanna take the plunge with me?

We wanted to go for a second round on the Turbo Drop but by then, the queue was a bit too long. So, we proceeded on another ride - the rollercoaster! Wheee! My favourite! Too bad the rollercoaster didn't have the same effect as the Turbo Drop. I like dangerous rides. Kinda puts your tolerance to the test.


In action


Looks scary but it really isn't


Sunset at Ocean Park

For the final ride, we went on the Crazy Galleon. You know, one of those ship things that sway back and forth. It was pretty child's play but the fun part of it was it being funny. You sway back and forth and we got the girls sitting on the opposite side of us and we had a screaming competition. It wasn't scary. We just played to see which side screamed the loudest. Quite funny haha!

And so, night fall came and we decided to try our luck on the Raging River once again. We WALKED all the way down back to where it was and lo and behold, the line was still as long as we first came! Like, oh my god. We thought the queue would've subsided by nightfall but noooo, it's still there. Dammit. Thus, we had to forego this ride till my next visit to HK. Then, we WALKED all the way back UP again for the cable car! GAH! My legs were already partially paralysed from all the walking. Sigh. I guess it's the experience that counts, eh?

We arrived at the queue for the cable car. It was LONGER than the Raging River's! Y'Allah! Mm hai ar ma?! Sigh. Another long wait just to get down. After queuing for about 40 minutes or so, we finally got into a cable car and headed down to the foot of the hill to go home.

(To be continued in Part V)

(Continued from Part II)

Sunday, 25th December 2005 (Merry Christmas!)

This day wasn't as heavy going as the first few days. The fatigue from walking all over Hong Kong and being pushed and shoved the previous night finally set into Seb and I. I had a problem getting Seb to wake up as he was just being plain lazy and my stomach was begging for food. Dragged the log out of bed and off we went to Tsim Sha Tsui yet again in search for some nyum nyums.

Because it was Christmas day and being a Sunday, people were everywhere, filling up the streets. The roads were still closed off to vehicles to make way for the heavy pedestrian traffic. Headed for the train station and as you might've guessed, it was packed as well. People were cramming up the train doors and every train car was filled almost to its maximum capacity.


A can of sardines


And the thronging continues...

Got off at our destination and headed to the nearest coffee shop for some food. Interestingly, I ordered their curry pork with rice just to see how Hongkees make their curries. My goodness, their spices consist of pepper, pepper and more pepper. Nonetheless, it was an interesting meal and to make it more interesting, Hongkees eat their rice with chopsticks! Like, wow. I thought they just gave chopsticks by mistake.


Curry pork


Interesting cutlery to go with rice on a plate

We were so tired, we decided to waste the day away by just stayng in our hotel room. Seb took a long restful nap while I entertained myself with the idiot-box. Hours later, we met up with Yolene and Maggie and headed out to have a Korean barbecue dinner in Central. The dinner was quite fab. Nothing authentically "Hongkee" about it. Pretty much your average Korean barbecue restaurant you can find back here. However, as quality of the food goes, I'd give it a thumb up.

Having filled our bellies, we made tracks for Causeway Bay to meet up with Eric for some beers. Along the way, we did a little shopping as stores were everywhere. Especially G2000 and Giordano. Hongkees really love these brands, don't they?

Met up with Eric and headed to some bar (can't remember the name). I remember it to be a Turkish bar cos they had Shisha aka Turkish Pipe. Had a couple rounds of beers and soon, more friends came to join us. A couple of hours later, Seb and I decided to leave earlier to crash out. Boy, we were still tired from all the walking.

Monday, 26th December 2005 (Happy Boxing Day!)

This was the day we went to Ocean Park! Wheee! Initially, it was supposed to be a visit to Hong Kong's latest attraction - Disneyland. But alas, we got poor feedback about the place and decided not to go there. However, Ocean Park was just as great.

The day started off well. We woke up feeling quite rested and once again, headed off to Pacific Place in Admiralty to meet up with Ah Mo, Maggie and Yolene. Pacific Place is a shopping complex - a very expensive one, supposedly. We met Ah Mo in McDonald's and decided to have our breakfast there too. Now, there's something that the McD's over there has that we don't get here - macaroni soup with ham and egg. It's a breakfast set. Quite good, really. Maggie and Yolene joined us later and so, Seb and I decided to do a little shopping at FCUK while waiting for them to finish up their meals. FCUK was having a sale and being the horny FCUK lover, I went a tad bit crazy over the clothes and bought a few. I mean c'mon, they were having a sale! How could anyone resist?


McDonald's Macaroni soup with ham and egg set

Shopped till my heart dropped, we went on our merry way to Ocean Park via a Double-Decker bus. I've been on one before in Singapore so, nothing much to shout about it. I was pretty excited going to OP since I've heard exciting stories about the rides there.

We got to OP safely and alighted the bus. The minute I stepped off it, I was greeted with yet again with throngs of people! Dammit, don't these people have anything else better to do? Oh, that's right, it was a public holiday. Damn.

The scenery in OP was beautiful and breath-taking. You could sea Hong Kong's landscape from OP. That prompted me to go on a photography rampage. My poor camera almost had a seizure from my incessant snapping.

(To be continued in Part IV)

(Continued from Part I)

Walking amidst the cool air is something awesome. Everywhere we went, the cool breeze kept us comfortable enough. We walked along Victoria Harbour where Hong Kong celebrities imprint their hands unto tiles. Much like Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Snapped Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's tiles. Pretty neat.


Jackie Chan


Sammo Hung

Left, right and center there were people. It's like Hong Kong suddenly had a nationwide rave party. Furthermore, Hong Kong roads aren't that big so perhaps it was an optical illusion that there were that many people around. Even so, it was a bump here and a bump there. One thing about celebrating Christmas in HK - they really go all out to celebrate it. I mean, they only have 3 main festivals that they celebrate - Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival and Christmas. So I don't see why they shouldn't go all out. It really did feel Chrismasy in HK. Decorations were everywhere and the weather just made it even more awesome.

After much walking and snapping pictures, we headed to Shelter, a bar recommended by James. It's a really nifty place. Everything there is white and you get a lovely view of the bustling city from the windows. The bar is situated on the 27th floor of Henry House in Causeway Bay. Can't really recall which floor nor which building it was. Also, what's cool about the bar is that they show commercials from different countries. It was really entertaining. Had a couple of drinks and then headed back to the hotel via the MTR for a good night's rest.

Saturday, 24th December 2005 (Christmas Eve)

Woke up feeling frosty. Mind you we slept in the hotel WITHOUT the air-cond on and yet it felt as if someone left the window opened. And the hotel room didn't have any windows! Not sure why it was built that way. Nevertheless, 'twas very chilly indeed.

The day was pretty easy going. Seb and I were on our own until meeting up with his friends in Lan Guai Fong - much like our Bangsar on a smaller scale. This is where all the bars and clubs are at. Seb and I decided to have brunch at a nearby coffee shop where I had Siew Yoke Fun (roasted pork with rice). Just to illustrate how expensive HK is, the total cost for our brunch was HK$75+. That's just for 3 dishes and 2 drinks. Insane. Mind you, it's not some fancy cafe or restaurant. It was just one of those kopitiam we have here.


Lan Guai Fong lined with bars and restaurants


The many floating Santas

And so, after brunch, we walked around Lan Guai Fong for a bit while waiting for Yolene to meet up with us. Had wine at a place called "The Corner" which, really was situated in a corner. Then, suddenly somethng caught my eye - a restaurant serving Malaysian cuisine! Haha! Thought I'd never see one of those in HK. Didn't try the food there though. I mean, why go all the way to HK to have Malaysian food?

Much later, Yolene arrived and we decided to have beers at a nearby bar called Bit Point - a bar that serves German beer. It was a cool place and the beers we had (Bitburger Beer) was really smooth. A pleasant drinking session. They sell beers by the amount ie. 0.4 litres and such. Little did we know, 0.4 litres is actually a lot lol. Nonetheless, we drank on and we were later joined by Maggie all dressed up to razzle and dazzle. After much hee-hawing, we decided to head for a steamboat dinner before diving into the crowd heading to the Harbour for the Christmas countdown they have annually.


Mmmm... steamboat

Having had our dinner we made our way for the Harbour. By this time, all the main roads leading to the Harbour have been closed for human traffic. This is when I realised how much Hongkees walked and I can tell you, they walk A LOT! At every nook and corner we took, we were greeted by seas of bobbing heads. Everyone was heading towards one direction and only one - the Harbour; where the clocktower stands. One thing about Hongkees - they're not very polite people. All the while I was being pushed and manhandled but not a single "Sorry" or "Mou yi see ah" were uttered from their lips.


Have you ever seen a street filled with this many people?

Finally, after much pushing and shoving, we ALMOST arrived at the Harbour. Or so it seems. Little did I know, we were back walking on Tsim Sha Tsui and when we got there, there were massive mobs everywhere. Something was going on. The crowd couldn't move and neither could we. We were just stagnant. That's when we found out - the police closed our route to regulate human traffic from other directions.

10 minutes to Christmas, we were still stuck at the same spot for about an hour without budging. We weren't even close to the Harbour yet.




And so finally, we did our countdown at where we were - couple of meters away from the Peninsula Hotel (HK's most expensive hotel). Oh well, at least I got to experience HK's way of ushering in Christmas - being mobbed by thousands of people.

At last, we made our way for the hotel. One thing about being in HK is that we were out the entire day - from morning till night. That's why when nightfell, we were like vegetables with aching feet.

(To be continued in Part III)

The long awaited post - my Hong Kong trip entry.

I had the best time of my life in Hong Kong and I really do wish to go back there again some day. It's a really beautiful place and well, interesting. It was my first time travelling abroad (ie. apart from Singapore and Thailand). Least to say, I had a blast there and the experience was simply simply marvellous.

Thursday, 22nd December

Seb and I departed from KLIA around 6.45PM and arrived in Hong Kong International Airport at 10.05PM. Seriously guys, MAS is very efficient and their service is really good albeit, some rude and grumpy flight attendants. Overall, it was a good smooth flight. They even served beer! Woohoo! Their service really made the flight a pleasant one.

Upon arrival in HKIA, we made our way through the customs and my, what a long queue it was. After getting our passport and relevant documents checked, we made our way to hitch a cab to get to Mong Kok, where our hotel was. Before stepping out of the airport, a GIANT Louis Vuitton bag caught my attention! It was freaking huge!


The LV mothership has landed

After much awe and gawking at it, we headed to the cab stand. Boy, I didn't expect the weaher to be so chilly. But hell, it was a great feeling walking around in that weather. Very very comfy.

One thing I noticed about HK was that, everything there was sooo freaking expensive! Everything was basically double the price of what I'd pay back here in Malaysia. For example, our cab fare from HKIA to the hotel was approximately HK$220+! That's equivalent to RM110. Back here, a cab ride from KLIA to Kelana Jaya was only RM80! Talk about a major difference.

Anyways, we got to our hotel safely and I savoured the sights of Hong Kong at night for the first time while on the way to our destination. Very beautiful.

Got ourselves checked in and we went off to meet some of Seb's Hongkee friends (Yolene - from Indonesia, Maggie, Eric and Ah Mo) around the area for supper. Man, it was really different there. The buildings were small and compact as opposed to Malaysia's vast spaces. Their coffee shops were air-conditioned and smoker friendly. One thing that posed a problem to me was the language. As many of you may know, I have VERY limited command of Cantonese and conversing with the locals would soon be an obstacle. It also didn't help that the locals don't really speak English. To make matters worse, the Cantonese in HK are somewhat different from Malaysians. Thankfully, I had Seb with me as my translator - for reading AND speaking. So, YAY!

We had our supper and we headed back to our hotel for a night's rest to prepare for the sight seeing the next day.

Friday, 23rd December 2005

Woke up pretty early due to the fact I was such an eager beaver to go sight seeing and whatnot. The weather was pretty cold and I was trying to keep myself warm with the little jacket I had on. Not much of a help, really. I decided to buy a thicker jacket after our breakfast at a "yum char" (ie. Dim Sum) coffee shop in Tsim Sha Tsui.

We moved around using their public transportation - the MTR. It's very much like our LRT but definitely more efficient albeit, a little complicated getting to the tracks we're supposed to be on. Walked for a bit and finally arrived at the designated brunch spot and waited for Yolene to meet us. I was famished. Finally, we took our places in the restaurant and was eager for a gastronomical adventure! This was my first time tasting authentic Hong Kong dim sum with the same assortments we get back here but served differently and obviously, tasted different as well.


Steamed Prawn Dumplings


Corn Pau


Char Siew Pau


Fried Wan Ton


HK Chee Cheong Fun


Lo Mai Kai

It was a hearty brunch, needless to say. I even tried the original infamous (famous in Malaysia, that is) Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun. It tasted nothing like our local ones back here. It was 5 times better than ours. Totally rad, I must say. Ah Mo arrived to have his brunch shortly after we were done.

After much eating, we made our "tour" around Tsim Sha Tsui with our supposed official tour guide, Ah Mo. Now, since we do not have a car, we do much of our travelling via on foot or public transportation. Walking wasn't so bad as the weather was very pleasant and besides, walking is a norm in HK. Plus, since the cost of living is so high in HK, it'd make more sense to be economical and just use your feet. Honestly, I've never seen so many people walking around a city before. It's just so different. It's nothing compared to Malaysia. Back here, everyone would rather drive than walk. Can't blame them, the weather here is way too hot to be basking in the sun.

I took in every single sight and sound of the bustling city. From the people, right up to the architecture of buildings. It was definitely a different experience. People of all walks of life throng the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui to get to various destinations. Everywhere nook and cranny, there was something to see and buy. Magazine stands from one corner to the other, 7-11's at EVERY corner and of course, coffee-shops. One thing that fascinated me was that these magazine stands sell pornographic magazines in the open. Now, that's something you will never see back here. They even sold gay porn magazines. Pretty neat. I almost bought a few but was kinda embarassed to do so.

We walked over to the HK's National Science Museum and the Museum of Natural History. I was very disappointed with the National Science Museum. For one thing, it was so expensive and there wasn't anything you could do! It was extemely boring and the exhibitions there were basically for educating children on conserving energy. We left and headed to the Museum of Natural History. Now, this was more exciting and it was a lot cheaper! There were more things to see and learn. Nothing like the National Science Museum.

After much tiring walks, we made our way to have something to eat in one of the nearby coffee shops before heading to Causeway Bay (the Harbour) to meet up with Maggie for more touring.


Wan Ton Noodles


Wan Ton Soup


French Toast with Butter and Honey

Least to say, I was extremely pooped out from all the walking but it was definitely worth it. The scenics were definitely breath-taking! Hong Kong at its best. When night falls, the lights lit up and voila, you get a different view of Hong Kong.

Note: I'm going to break up the post as it will be too long to read. Besides, I need a break too ;)

HELLO ALL and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! A thousand apologies for not blogging for so long! Been uber busy prior to leaving for Hong Kong.

First and foremost, a lot has happened since I last blogged and for the love of me, I doubt I can recall everything so I'll just skip to the most recent for my next post.

I'm still in the midst of clearing my room and unpacking and sorting things out since coming home yesterday.

To my faithful readers, I do apologise for not updating my blog. Especially those who get cranky when there's nothing new to read on my blog in the early morning - you know who you are haha!

As you may notice, I've changed the pictures in my flash photoslide with the Hong Kong ones and I do hope you like them. I snapped approximately 311 pictures during my trip there but I can only manage to upload some of them. However, I will upload more when I get the time to do so.

Till my next post, adieu!

This is my first time ever blogging from work!

Haha! Yeah, I've often thought about it but didn't really have the time to actually do it.

So here I am, sitting in front of the PC and blogging away. What an awesome feeling.

Most of you do not really know what I do or what I work as. Briefly, I'm my boss' Personal Assistant / Research Assistant. I basically assist him with an assortment of things such as organising his schedule, making phone calls to people and word processing. Pretty clerical, really. My boss also writes books on the Law of Contract and I assist him by researching cases and latest developments in the law - both English and Malaysian laws.

Oh well, enough about what I do. Let's hear about ME! Wee! (I fail to see the difference in what I just said)

My day was pretty alright. Woke up around 8:30AM or so and lazed around my room for a bit. Took a shower and got ready for work. Boring stuff.

Was supposed to have breakfast at home but dear ol' mom ate everything. Eesh. Like, what about her beloved, most precious offspring? Oh well, she made it up to me with a huge glass of cereal drink. Yum.

At approximately 10AM, I made my way for work.

Arrived for work on time and before I could have a cigarette, I was sent off with my boss' driver to head to Equitorial Hotel to run some errands. You guys should've seen the massive traffic congestion. It was insane. The closed roads in conjunction with the 11th Asean Summit sure made it whole lot worst. However, thanks to my boss' driver's good, albeit crazy driving skills, we arrived unscathed.

Completed the errand and proceeded back to work. Nothing much exciting happened in between till now. Boss has gone to take some shut eye while I watch over his children. So much for watching them. I'm sitting here rambling on about my day.

Oh well, the kids want to use the PC and so I guess I better sign off first. Hope you guys are having a good day. Cheerios!

Happy 23rd Birthday to my mate, Jay Monteiro.

Spent my whole day admiring my work on my blog haha! Hey, I gotta give myself credit for being able to insert the Flash Photo Slideshow thingie. I'm not so good with HTML and codings but I managed to scrape by. Yay for me!

Nothing much happened today as I spent the entire day at home and doing numerous unproductive activities. Except for my blog, though hehe.

Boss was in Ipoh, Perak the whole day for a meeting and I pretty much got the day off. He came back not too long ago. Now, I'm not sure if I'll be going to work tomorrow morning as he has a lunch appointment and a dinner appointment.

My whole day was more or less a bore and I could've hung myself out of boredom just to feel what it's like to suffocate. Have you guys ever felt that way before - feeling so bored that you'd try anything just to entertain yourselves? No? Well, I have. Sometimes, reading a book just ain't enough haha!

Sidetracking, it is approximately 10 days before I leave for Hong Kong on the 22nd and return on the 28th. I'm really excited about the trip. I mean, Christmas in Hong Kong? It's gotta be the bomb. I heard the temperature there is as low as 9 degrees. That means, I have to bundle myself up real good. Else, I'd freeze my nuts off.

Anyways, since nothing much has happened today, there isn't much for me to write. Guess I'm gonna shower and play Ran Online for a bit until there's something exciting to blog about.

Cheers!

Woohoo! My blog rawks muahaha!

Got this really neat Flash Photo Slideshow thingamajiga from Flickr. It's pretty neat, no? However, it works only with Internet Explorer and not Mozilla Firefox. Hence, view my blog with Internet Explorer or Opera if you want.

For some reason, the codings and display get messed up when I view my blog on Mozilla Firefox. So now I'm editting most of everything to suit Internet Explorer.

I hope you guys find this new addition to my blog something to shout about haha! I'll upload more pictures when I can. Till then, enjoy!

EDIT: Oh, now it works with Firefox.

Greetings, people.

I know I've not been blogging for like, a day or two. This is caused by 2 reasons:

1. Being lazy
2. So many things have been happening, I don't have the time :þ

We left off at Thursday, 8th December. Well, nothing much happened on that night nor on Friday night. So let's just fast forward to Saturday night.

'Twas a typical saturday afternoon for me. Lazing about the house and just having some time to myself. The plans for the night had yet to be confirmed. It's either stay at home or have a drinking fiasco in LQ (yet again and yes, it's getting rather boring -_-). Just so you know, I go there to patronise the outlet. The people who work there are friendly (not in that gayish-I-wanna-get-into-your-pants sort of way, you freakazoids). Contrary to what most people think, LQ was never meant to be a gay bar. It just so happens that gay people are over-populating Malaysia and have no where else to go. Soon, your regular clubs / lounges / bars like Zouk, Velvet, Bar Savanh, Bar Blonde and what-have-you's will be converted into some homo-pad. Bliss and Frangipani have already succumbed to them haha!

Okay, let's not get carried away. I didn't do much on Saturday afternoon. Had brunch with Jeff at the Babi Shop and made tracks for home. Been home since then. Nothing exciting happened during the day. Least to say, I was agigated from all the boredom. Then again, it wasn't all that bad. Had some quality time with myself haha. Again, not in that pervy-I-want-to-touch-myself way. Also, had a Simpsons Marathon! Yup, downloaded the entire Season 16 and watched the episodes back to back. It was wild. Matt Groenig is a genius!

(For some reason, I'm paranoid blogging this post)

Came the night and decided to have an awesome Japanese dinner with Seb before heading out to LQ. He picked me up and off we went to Phileo Damansara's Ryu Tei Japanese Restaurant.

I've known this place for a couple of years now and the food still retains its quality and taste. I do recommend this place for its good food and service and reasonable prices. This place is however, NOT halal.

Flipping through the menu, I decided to have the Katsu Curry Set instead of my usual Yakiniku Set (Beef Set) or Tanuki Soba (Buckwheat noodles with Tempura crumbs). Seb decided to have his Sukiyaki Set like the last visit there. The last time we were there, we over ordered and had a big ass problem finishing it. So, this time, I decided we should just limit ourselves to TWO side dishes - Gyoza (dumplings or wor tip) and Mabo Tofu (tofu fried in thick spicy gravy with minced pork) and our main courses each. Yup, this should be more than enough to satisfy our hunger.

Minutes later, our lil appetisers of Chawan Mushis arrived and we dug right in without skipping a beat. Man, I love Chawan Mushis. They rock.


Katsu Curry Set


Mabo Tofu


Japanese Salad


Chawan Mushi


Gyoza

As we stuffed our faces silly with our Chawan Mushis, one by one the dishes arrive. To my shock, the portions were HUGE! Now, how the hell are we going to finish everything? Our main courses combined were enough to feed a school full of hungry children! Despite limiting ourselves to just 2 side dishes, we still faced the problem of finishing our food. This is soo sinful. I'm sure God is "tsk-ing" me right now.

Still, we continued eating and tried to eat as much as we could. We managed to finish the Gyozas but unfortunately, we weren't able to finish the tofu. Sigh. What a waste.

Then again, had we eaten everything, we would've had a problem walking to the car. Or to anywhere, for that matter.

And so, we left the tofu half eaten but we finished our main courses and the Gyozas. Though we felt bad for not finishing the tofu, it was a really good dinner. Next time, we'll just go ala carte and order as we eat to prevent the glutton in me from sapu-ing everything from the menu.

After that hearty dinner, we lazily made our way to LQ to proceed with the drinking fest. We got there REALLY early. Say, 9:50PM? Yup, that early.

Got ourselves a bucket and began the drinking while waiting for the rest (Alif, Emily, Andrew and Paul) to arrive.

This time around, I did not really get drunk as I was playing a babysitter to most people and making sure everyone had fun. Also, I was being conscious about my actions and words as I did not want last Saturday's fiasco to repeat.

The night progressed rather well and nobody got hurt lol! Andrew and Paul got home safely and so did Seb, Emily and I. Alif left much earlier before any of us. Seb decided to crash out at my place and before I knew it, I'm lying on the mattress on the floor like a log and snoozing my lil ass away. I guess I was just tired more than anything else.