If you called me out on Tuesday nights some time in the 80’s when I was in secondary school, I’d probably have to say ‘no’ on the account of a TV show – MacGyver. Everyone of my friends watched that show – guys and girls. It was so popular that anyone who is good at fixing stuff with junk is still called ‘MacGyver’ even today. For the young punks, the show starred Richard Dean Anderson (who later starred in StarGate SG-1) who works for an ambiguous organization called the Phoenix Foundation doing non-profit work. He’s the regular only star of the show, the only other cast member to appear on…

Pat asked why i don’t do lists anymore. Well, subpoena from David Letterman notwithstanding, here’s one. If you are bored at the office with nothing to do, there are a lot of things you can do to pass the time until the all-important 5.00pm when you can scoot off. If you have internet without company firewall, all the better. Don’t have Internet access, change your job. No, I’m kidding, there are also ways to pass the time, but few of them are legal. Armed with a PC and broadband (forget about dial-up) here’s some ideas: Go on Facebook and throw sheep at all your friends. Or play Scrabulous. Play Desktop…

Felt a bit sick yesterday, today was REALLY sick with the flu. Not helping that i had to be in air-conditioned office all day. Must be all that good food i had last Saturday. Kevin and 2ann had their baby’s full moon party and the food was AWESOME, man. All the way to Subang i was thinking, “the food better be good, man… the food better be good, man…” and thank goodness it was. There was mutton curry, fried chicken, home made lor bak, nasi kunyit… No wonder I’m sick today. But worth it… *** So one day, after the sales of Harry Potter and the Circus Finally Comes to…

Back in college i used to own a kapchai. It was a Honda RC80, and my friends call it an old uncle motorbike. Surely a far cry from the modified bikes mat rempits and mat motors ride these days, but it was enough for me. Even back in those days, my bike wasvery close to the BOTTOM of the motorbike hierachy in Malaysia, only slightly above the old green vespas that old uncles rode, and the guys who had to make do with their father’s ancient 70cc motorbikes. There were also this Honda Passola that aunties used to go to the pasar pagi to buy sayur. It’s like a bicycle…

I’m back from my Ipoh trip. I’m still on two days annual leave, and since it is my wedding anniversary today, we went on a big day out. And what do we do on big days out? WE WENT SHOPPING! But first stop, we went for breakfast. We went to try this Hainanese coffeeshop we’ve been dying to try for some time – Yuk Kee Coffeeshop on Campbell Street (called Jalan Dang Wangi these days). They serve lots excellent Hainanese / colonial dishes, including local dishes. We tried the roti bakar, pork chop and roti babi (with apologies to my Muslim friends). The latter is their signature dish, was rather…

Tomorrow morning we’re going back to Ipoh again to my in-laws for the long weekend. Kevin is hitching a ride with us, so we’ll get to see 2ann when we get there. But more importantly, I’ve got my itinery all planned out. Breakfast at Foh San – probably have to fight off 200 waiting families to get a table. Salted Chicken Rice for Lunch – As if i don’t eat enough unhealthy food. What the heck, my health screening isn’t for a few more months. Supper at Lou Wong Taugeh Chicken – the stuff here is addictive, man. Like REAL addictive. Dinner is always at home, this weekend we’re having…

You know how it’s cool to be environmentally friendly and recycle, right? Like how Jay Leno recycles his jokes (ad nauseam, might i add), so we bloggers are going green and recycling… our first posts. This is from Lilian… you KNOW you are getting on with age when people always refer to you as ‘old blog buddies’… as if the expanding waistline isn’t bad enough… 🙁 Anyway, this was quite fun. Let me take you back awhile… it was early 2005, almost 3 years ago, when i was sitting around in the office, new on the job, without nothing much to do… (come to think of it, nothing much has…

Consuela tagged me all the way from Hawaii on this one. We are supposed to post a snapshot of how our desktop looks like, no cheating (but apparently some photoshopping is *allowed*. Whew) Let me just say that MY WIFE set the desktop background not me. . . . . Nice family pic. Sorry about the censored bit, i’m too lazy to go and photoshop it properly… But i have written approval from Mickey and Minnie to show their faces here on my website. If i got time i’ll pixelate the pics properly. Not likely to happen tho. Better than the blue Windows default background-lah. Taken from out trip to…

I’ll give you a very good reason. Have you tasted their AWESOME mocha mud pie? Have you?! If you haven’t, this is what you have been missing. Plus, there are buffalo wings, chicken fajitas, the various delectable Jack Daniel’s-infused dishes… but far and away, I’m dreaming of the mocha mud pie… Friday’s is always a time of good food and great fun with friends and family, with their warm ambience and great staff. My children love the kid’s meals, plus the large portions means there’s always plenty to share all round. Well, as The Cure puts it so eloquently: “Friday, I’m in Love.”

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