Cafe No. 8

Me and Lisa went out to have a drink last weekends. I told her specifically no alcohol outing. We went exploring some new shops in Bukit Jalil, we found a nice quiet Cafe & Pub in this new area. The atmosphere is nice, they serve illy's coffee and some local food. It is a 2-Floor pub, it is best place to be if you want to have a long conversation with friends.

We ordered a Jug of Heineken & Club Sandwich. Price for the sandwich was RM8.88 after the Cafe's No. 8 Slogan. Too bad the lights was not good, have to blame the alcohol for shaky hands too. But it was sure a nice place to hangout for people whom leave about the area.

Cheers Lisa, hope we enjoy this place again when I get my salary.

Blog for Evan

I had a very close friend, whose name is Evan. She happens to be either too smart or too dumb, never in-between. Recently she was hospitalized near my work place, I only found out when I called her to check out her company outing on the weekends.

I was given a room number to hunt her down after work, 226. It leads me to Maternity Ward, "!?" Maternity? This must be serious. But she was only hospitalized for this...


As someone whom always enjoy good food, I was teasing her with my lunch box from Aleef Restaurant.

My lunchbox VS Hospital Lunch

Evan, sincerely hope you get speedy recovery. Welcome to the gang of special-people.
Your 1st executive parking privileges is here:

Friends of Evan, please put your wishes for her on the comment column. She will view it from time to time.

Casio G-Shock GT-000

This happens to be my 5th Casio Watch but my very 1st G-Shock owned. This watch has been with me since almost 10years and it is still running fine. Thou there are minor bruises here and there, hey this is G-Shock which is not made of MARVEL IRONMAN suit!

This watch was brought from Japan Casio Factory, there is Japanese Characters if I need to save some information in it. The features of this watch:
- Time 12Hours / 24Hours
- Telephone (Shared Storage 100)
- Schedule (Shared Storage 100)
- Vital Stats (Personal Information: Name/Blood Type/Birth/Credit/License.. etc etc Storage 9)
- Alarm (1)
- Stop Watch

I don't think any G-Shocks come with telephone & schedule storage anymore. Both useful but had a hard time selecting characters by pressing 2 buttons.

Bad things happen to this watch over the past 10 years?
-Grey Mode Button faulty / Replace Black Mode Button
-Original Band Buckle was faulty / Replace Normal G-Shock Band (Lighter & easier to wear)

-Authorized G-Shock Shop assistance change the battery for this watch and did not put things back in place which results the watch was drowned when I went swimming in Bukit Jalil Swimming Pool. The shop was closed, I hope they were no longer authorized now.
-1 Month recovery after it was drowned and paid almost RM150 to get it fixed

So far to me this is a fine piece of G-Shock, some people tend to not recognized this as a actual G-Shock watch and had some bad comments on it. But heck, at least mine went to Mt. K.K., London, France, Scotland, H.K., Japan.... (will be more places too)

The time displayed for this watch is until 2039, almost another 30years. So will this watch survive then?

Festive Greetings

Selamat Hari Raya to my friends whom I work & gain weight with during buka puasa session!

Happy Holidays... do everything safe-ly! Don't save your duit-raya if you are giving it to me.

Before that, Singapore 1st F1 race for 2008... who will win?

1.5cc Car Review : Honda City

5Honda has a heritage of keeping the badge name of their car globally, this is one of many reasons I admire them. They were able to plan, design, manufacture and sell it in a small range and yet be Japan 2nd powerful car factory.

Honda Malaysia has owned back their production factory & marketing from the locals reason being able to control their history in building cars then, now and future. I wont mention the histories here as that is more towards politic issues (from my point of view). But us being consumer, beware for the 1st batch of manufacture defect as their car now are manufactured locally. I'm not biased, but every S.O.P. handed over to local factory were not followed 100% which is why caused defects happen. That is when you being a consumer, complains must channel to factory directly or the service centers. Most salesman don't bother helping you, Senior-Tze has this experience.

City was market to complete with mostly the Toyota Vios, even the second hand car value is very interesting for these 2 models. Both these models were born from the existing smaller car, 2002 City was mainly adopted from Honda Jazz / Fit as 2003 Vios was from Yaris / Vitz. The name however originally carried from 1982 City Turbo, size of a K-Car and very popular in the 80's. It came with open top versions too.

Existing 2002, 2005 and 2007 are from a same 4th Generation of City heritage and share most parts with the Honda Jazz / Fit. Pictures already been posted like hotcakes from around the globe and Thailand have launch the 5th Generation 2009 Honda City / Aria Fit. Seeing from the line of honda cars, this new model sharing parts with other models such as new 2009 Honda Jazz / Fit, existing Honda Airwave, 2008 Honda Feed and 2007 Honda Civic hatchback. Sharing parts eventually lower down the budget on manufacturing. As what Toyota did for VIOS/Belta, Honda City disguise in a way to make this is complete looks as new built as does not carry forward most parts from Jazz like the 4th Generation.


2009 Honda City 1.5cc SOHC i-Vtec
Malaysia will launch this model by end of this year, booking is open and price range is around RM88~RM98K. Nothing official yet, finger cross. Thailand Honda City does not come with standard CD player! Honda Malaysia is sorting things out for Malaysian market now. Picture can be found at Paul's blog. Honda even plans to sell to Europe! Wonder if there are sport performance package to share the City Hatchback. Diesel 2.3cc Engine?


*pictures are link from paultan.org

2008 Gatsby WorldWide Holiday #04

Lady-N gave me some good news today! She manage to find me accommodations to Indonesia Bali but it is on the 4'Oct.

Medewi Bay Retreat

Still need to re-arrange things again with her but she was a great help.

Nihon Kai Restaurant

Nihon Kai is a family restaurant located along side of Old Klang Road. The place is hard to find.. good things are HARD to find.

Atmosphere is remarkable good, they have Japaneses newspaper, mangas, magazine and books for you to enjoy. This restaurant is located in such a place where there is a Japanese population nearby. The service is great, I have got a VIP privilege in this restaurant. How do you have it? I will let u know later.


Counter area & Sake Counter



Forgot the name of this dish, but it is crispy vegetarian & salmon dish


Salt and pepper Salmon set, can be shared among couples


I name this dish Chicken & Egg & Rice.

You can see the pictures of the foods on their menu, so no worries on ordering the wrong dish


No. 4-2, Jalan Telok Gadong, Off Jalan Klang Lama Batu 3 1/2, 58100 KL.

Oh! my VIP access is actually my retired-parents, they are regulars. I need to bring them along to enjoy FREE ice creams, new dishes & specialties. Dishes can be requested but with a price tag attached.

I eat for free if I bring along Anthony (future-potential-director) but I need to pay for his plane ticket from Aussie.

Just need to highlight: I did not recommend this restaurant because I know these people, it is because I know the GOOD FOOD they served!

Drop-Blog

Hey this is an interesting links:

50G's is a blog about the Casio's G-SHOCK

Being a Casio owner I am surprise there are so many other units available, take a look

Drop-Blog

Yeah, I felt blue. I miss hanging out with the guys at MFX.

Blue Karipap ... this site rocks. I totally forgot to share it since 2006

latzelife o-meter [█████████░] 89.99% Blue as their karipaps

*found consumption of GUINNESS upon posting*

# 0001 犯賤

犯贱 [fànjiàn]

My moto, like all human beings at most times we are just the decision making bastards. I want to buy Product-A but I still want further discount (even after the product is after discount).

Being *M.B.C. I really don't know how to further describe this word for you in English. Perhaps a quick search and:

1. Nciku will describe more on chinese
2. Translate.Google will tell you nothing

But for example from Nciku says "People do not want to see you, you also seeking a people see you"

My example:
Me: "Why don't you stay over at my place?"
Emelyn: "What is the reason? I am never your wife"
Me: "Why you want to be?"
Emelyn: "Well, do you want?"
Me: "When?"
Emelyn: " When you had the whole package & plan in-motion"
Me: "Well, I will arrange a date when We are free"
Emelyn: "Staring at me in 1 kind"

I am 犯賤 as I know where the first question was leading to.

*Malaysian Born Chinese - kennysia has funny thoughts on this

Mid-Autumn Festival

Wishing you all a warm Mid-Autumn Fest. Every year, this festival makes me want to puke seeing varies moon cakes available. I dont like them since I was a child as the skin texture is thin and there will be loads of red beans in it. I once did a charity and make 50 red bean moon cakes to raise funds for the Chinese Society in my school, yes it was halal. Thou traditionally, there is a moon cake which has nuts and pork in them.

Moon cake has evolved to another era where you can now find SAMBAL as an ingredient. There are even more bizarre.

After 2000, many people begin to realize traditional moon cakes are not healthy. Once MaMa-tze came out with Agar-Agar Moon Cakes. Haagen Daz too came out with their ice-cream moon cakes. Quick search, icylifememories blog about it. Believe me, many join the band wagon... let me recall seeing brand such as Sushi King, Starbucks, Baker's Cottage and I remembered there was once S.H.E. too sold it in a very nice packaging in Malaysia/Singapore only. My pal send a whole collection to his SHE-finactic friend in Taiwan.

Let me introduce my readers to my brother-chief-tze, he is a low rank chief in a well known Chinese Restaurant in KL. He is brushing his skills from well known chief in the Chinese Restaurant business, and of-coz his great teacher/student of all time Senior-tze. He made some great moon cakes over the past 2 years, their restaurant was rated on of the best moon cake makers this year. Rated without any awards thou.

Here are some of the homemade moon cakes that my family make, hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy eating them.

This is Snow Skin Moon Cakes Durian Lotus, then the green will be Green Tea. Receipe of the paste was from Senior-Tze, Ingredients will be by Brother-Chief-Tze and Production+Packaging was done by Mama-Tze.

Once bitten on the paste of the snow skin moon cake, there was a rather bouncy texture which taste of sweet & cold candy. Then when the durian spread towards the tongue as of I had a durians instead. Yes, brother-chief-tze uses real durians and cooked with lotus.

MaMa-tze other special Agar-Agar Moon Cakes
Yellow : Durian Lotus / Green : Green Tea Lotus / Red : Red Bean / Purple : unknown

The Durian has strong Aroma and Taste, not meant for the weak

Which role was I on the whole process? Taste/Test Rat. Only limited moon cakes was produced and sold only by demand orders.

Somehow or rather I will still enjoy moon cakes with traditional hot chinese tea, with family and friends. Children still light up the lanterns and candles on the porch. This year Mid-Autumn festival will be on Sunday, hope you all have a wonderful time. If you had no plans yet, there is still time to make one.

2008 Gatsby WorldWide Holiday #03

End of the working week, a Lady called and inform she was from TLC Customer Service Agent for Malaysia/Singapore. Lets name her Lady-N.

If you followed my previous posts #01 and #02, eventually I have given up this free trip as I budget to spend my money elsewhere. If I were to take this trip these are the things I must do:
-Apply Unplan Leave
-Purchase last minutes air flight tickets
-Arrange 3 friends to participate
-Research on the interesting places and activity on that vacation
-Spend more money

Thou vacation is a nice thing to do once in a while... but Lady-N claims unable to provide more info on the phone. She asked for my email address and basically send me a replacement breakaway..

Greenhill Resort, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia

That was totally what I have not got in mind, I reply Lady-N nicely that I just came back from that place then she nicely replied me...

Duta Palms Resort & Anglers' CLUB

So I asked anything out of Malaysia? I know... I felt 犯賤. It is a contest I won, I have the right to choose and arrange with Lady-N for a better deal.

Thou felt winning the O.D.M. Watch was a better deal.

Dinner : Baby Seafood Restaurant

Not meant for babies thou. I'm always lost in KLANG, I do need GPS guide when I am here in KLANG. GPS is sometimes as lost as I am.


Snacks to kill time.


Fried Sotong, like all fried stuffs the texture is great and serve with Thai Chili sauce.


More of a Szi Chuan Soup goes on the fish...

then you can drink the soup and eat the fish at the same time

Spicy and yet delicious, then the fish is about to finish. We continue to pour the soups and then slowly enyoying it. Did I mention it uses traditional charcoal-heating-technology?


Fried Shrimps with Oats, the shrimps shells fried to a perfect texture where you can really eat it (at your own risk) with oats.


Vege is mixed with mini-corns, mushrooms, carrot & chicken meat

Pork ribs are cooked with sweet & sour sauce with pineapple and chili to make it looks more colorful, believe me.. it taste as good as it looks.

For 5 Person, the bill was RM100.00. Its reasonable but this dinner is meant for 6-7 Person.


186A Jalan Sungai Putus, Batu Belah, 41050 Klang

Overall, the foods here are great. Service is fast, we arrive before 19.30 and was not very packed. The food was ordered by my pals from Klang. Fried Chillies also recommended.

Updated 11Sep08:
Yeeng, previously was too busy to mention the taste. Hope I made all readers' stomach grumble.

Travel-Blog : Kuala Kubu Bahru

This is a small town, will be noticed if heading towards Fraser Hill. Located in between the Tanjung Malim and Batang Kali town. I manage to drop by for a lunch.


This Chinese stall located near towards POS office in town offer very nice and healthy Chinese Teo Chew's food.



You can easily get nice organic fruits here, but at your own risk



If you manage to locate this restaurant, have a tea time

They serve nice Kaya, RM2.20 for 1 plastic jar