Yes, I know it’s a bombastic title, but i couldn’t resist it… Anyway, we had a (very small) mid-autumn festival thing at home last week. We had a lot of mooncakes, and brought out all our old RM1-for-three paper lanterns we kept from last year. For candles, we had three boxes, supposed to be for birthday cakes. Anyway, i’ll let the pics do the talking. Below: lighting the lanterns (and trying not to get them burnt in the process…) Below: Finished product. I need more lanterns. (and GAWD, i need to paint my wall!!!…) Below: My second kid lighting candles. Hard to get a clear pic without using the flash.…

My wife and her sister has been trying to call through to NasionCall for weeks, and recently we found out that the reason why we have not been getting through, is because . . . NasionCall Has Gone Bankrupt! . . . Arrrrgh!!! Actually we only have one card remaining, with about less than RM30 left in the card, but it’s still money. The least they could have done is notify us that they’re going kaput. We’re writing in to get a refund, which isn’t going to be easy, since they’re, like, BANKRUPT. NasionCall provides discounted STD and IDD calls. Or USED TO, i should say…

I was going to blog something about a boy named vincent, but after mulling about it for 2 minutes, i decided not to. I decided then to blog about something else. I’ve been reading quite a lot of [tag]manga[/tag] recently, and spending less and less time watching [tag]anime[/tag]. Some have been quite bland, but i found a few good ones. Ironically, the ones that caught my attention were the outside my usual sci-fi and fantasy diet, which is probably a sign i should read more of other stuff. Here’s three that i liked. [tag]Yotsuba&![/tag] – This is really cute. It’s a comedy manga about a small orphan girl who has…

Okay, footie post. So after three seasons with Chelsea FC, Mr. Jose Mourinho has left the London club, through mutual consent. Let me just say that while i first thought of him as an unnecessarily arrogant jerk, and still think of him as one, he was an excellent manager, and brought success to Chelsea where many others have failed. Of course, there are some qualifications – good as he may be, he isn’t in the same class as Wenger or Ferguson, and the other one that will haunt his short stay in England – that a huge part of his success lay with the obscene amount of money spent on…

Looking for frappuccino, but not willing to pay like RM12 for it? Stuck in the neck of woods and craving for espresso and bran muffin but there’s no Starbucks within 134km radius? Don’t worry… . . . . Check out the pakcik out front, man. And the kampung style authentic timber decor… If you need directions there, turn left at the Restoran Mak Doner, just before the Pizza Hock stall… [tags]starbucks[/tags]

Sunday lunch has become a big deal for us these past few years. It’s a time when we meet up with our friends to have lunch together, and recently we’ve been eating around SS2 a lot, since that’s where we’re at. SS2 is a food haven really, you can check out any of the many food blogs that have sprouted out of late. In recent times we’ve found that we’ve always gone back to these favorites: Friendship Herbal Restaurant (捕一宝) in SS2 – We love the set lunch – RM9.80 gets you claypot meat, vegetables and rice (white or brown).Ironically we’ve never tried the famous coconut chicken soup, we should…

Yep, more of my time is disappearing like fresh oysters from the free buffet spread. Consuela and Pat have both gotten me onto the Facebook bug and it’s addictive… I’ve never got on the Friendster / MySpace craze, now i can see what the whole fuss is all about. If you guys are on Facebook, come look for me! And by the way, the photo there isn’t of me, if you guys still haven’t figured it out yet… *** Right. Speaking of wasting time, this is another thing i’m doing that is really addictive. It’s simple, all you have to do is stop the creeps from reaching the right side…

It’s Sunday night and I am at my PC blogging and surfing instead of watching TV. You know WHY i am not watching TV like every other Sunday night? . . . . Because my kids are watching the premier of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, that’s why. . . . Ever since they announce the date Disney Channel is going to show the SEQUEL some months back, i have not stopped hearing about it. It’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL this and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL that. There’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL special version, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, dance along, the books, the soundtrack, bengangnye aku. It’s 8.10pm, i won’t get the TV remote…

Before we get to the Mocha Mud Pie… Cost of changing 4 NCT5 Goodyear Eagle tyres – RM640 Cost of new car battery – RM160 Full tank of petrol – RM69.14 Driving on the LDP with excellent grip knowing my family is safe and sound – PRICELESS. *** Well, i finally got my tyres changed (the story can be read here) To cap my day off from work to go shopping with family (I call it my BIG DAY OUT), we spent the entire day at 1-Utama (that was after dim sum lunch at Bandar Puteri). We even bumped into Amylea of Akademi Fantasia 3, and had dinner at TGI…

Oh wow, she was super popular back then, wasn’t she? My pals were like totally worshipping her, with huge posters of her on our college dorm walls. She did this series of ads for Canon BubbleJet, and one of my pals even managed to swipe this life-sized cardboard cut-out of her holding the small printer… Seriously, she wasn’t that great a singer (nothing compared to Anita Mui) but she looked really cute, and that’s probably the main reason the was so wildly popular back then. She also acted in a few forgetable films, you know those with more singers than actors appearing in them. One of them was Fruit Punch,…