Life has its little pleasures, celebrated a simple birthday dinner with some homecooked lasagna, cheese sausages and fresh vegetables with family. Below:my portion… Below:Kid no.1’s portion. Below:and one for other the kid… Below:There was also a brownie-chocolate-ice cream cake to top it all off. Below: Said cake, after 10 minutes. Another 364 days of being a slave to the grind. Life on the skids can get you down, but moments like these make it all worthwhile. [tags]birthday, cake, chocolate, brownie[/tags]

Reporter – Thank you, Studio 1, we are now live in Jalan P. Kandiasamy right here in the city. Together with me here, is a very special guest, Lee Tuck Keong, who, although many of you may not know who is it, but he is truly one of the great, exemplary Malaysian. Ah Keong – … (mouth open, staring silently at the reporter’s mike) Reporter – Now, we have heard of many feats of wonder by our fellow countrymen, like Azhar Yusoff, that two guys who climbed Everest, umm… sorry their names escape me at the moment, and Datuk Michelle Yeoh, but Ah Keong here also has a great achievement,…

There’s this ad on TV (and by TV, I mean satellite TV, I have no idea what they’re showing on local), I think it’s by a local [tag]telco[/tag], where they show the evolution of [tag]handphones[/tag] (or as the Americans call it, [tag]cellphones[/tag]). First there was the huge brick-like ones (can anyone remember the Nokia Mobira and Primero Basix?), then the mass-market basic [tag]Ericsson[/tag] and [tag]Nokia[/tag] garden patch variety (everyone had one, only with different coloured casings and [tag]ringtones[/tag]), and one to the present day [tag]MMS[/tag]-[tag]Java[/tag]-[tag]3G[/tag]-whatchamacallits. I think the whole premise of the ad was how the cellular lifestyle has influenced and been a part of our lives, and not so…

I haven’t had this much fun writing a post for such a long time. Dedicated to all my friends, both real and online. “I’m only going to check my e-mail.” “Hot girls are waiting to talk to you now.” “No, I never googled any of my friends.” “Click here to unsubscribe.” “Fastest growing petrol stocks.” “Click the monkey and win a prize!” “I never surf the internet during office hours.” “Credit card for authentication only.” “My name is Mahmooud Ghafoor and I’m the former Minister of Finance of Nigeria.” “I was just surfing, I didn’t even know how I got this website.” “No, I don’t know any porn sites.” “Your…

Top Ten Signs That the Mooncake Festival Is Getting Far Too Commercialized. You want to buy lotus paste single yolk but the the neighbourhood shop only sells ‘new‘ flavours like snow skin vanilla with Ipoh white coffee and tiramisu. And low sugar white lotus and cheese. Mooncakes shaped like Garfield are SO last season. This year’s new trend – shaped like Chairman Mao and the Firefox logo. Instead of metal or wooden boxes, this year, if you buy 4 [tag]mooncakes[/tag], they give you a Targus leather bag. (Suitable to be reused for carrying notebook or projector). The cheapest variation of mooncake on sale costs a “very cheap” price of RM9.75…

Speaking of women’s tennis, the US Open final is on this weekend. I’d like to say that the US Open is probably the most exciting of the 4 slams, Wimbledon is full of tradition but tennis on grass don’t look so great if you’re not serve and volleying. And what’s with the white-gear-only ruling? Anyway, as my dad says, when it comes to finals, the grass is mostly dead and gone, it’s pretty much like playing in clay. [tag]Roland Garros[/tag], well, it’s OK, except that kind of clay reminds me of construction site backfilling works. And Aussie Open comes on too early in the season for me to get into…

My dad was English educated. He went to this colonial school in the Straits Settlements. He rarely speaks of his halcyon school days in the late 40’s, but I remember once he told me that he had a teacher called Schumacher, whom the kids called “Shoe-maker” and he had a classmate called Happy Chong. He also told of the Japanese raids and his elder sister, my auntie, carried him piggy back into the jungle. He was the youngest of four, and he was the fortunate one to finish school and had the ultimate luxury to go to college. After that, he went to work with the government, until the very…

Dads and moms are notoriously difficult to shop for when it comes to birthday presents. There are only so many times you can give mom cookbooks and vases, and dad already has FOUR ‘World Greatest Dad’ mugs on the mantelpiece. I can’t really come up with new and fantastic ideas for your parent’s birthday, but I can think of some stuff NOT to give them… (if really desperate, just write a cheque…) Presents NOT To Give Your MOM On Her 60th Birthday Imeedeen Paris Hilton’s New CD DVD boxset of old 80’s sitcom ‘The Golden Girls‘ A copy of “Dummies Guide to Growing Old Gracefully and Acting Your Age and…

Long time blog-pal Inevitable tagged me this one, I’m supposed to write 6 random facts about myself. Six? Only six? Let me see… Fact Number One: This afternoon I tried this roasted pork sold as a specialty from a [tag]wine[/tag] shop called the The Vintry in Damansara Heights. Yes, Chinese-style “siew yoke” from an Italian vino shop. Quite nice, though. Fact Number Two: Speaking of wines, I love this non-alcoholic Lorina Frenchberry Juice that Parkson Subang Parade used to sell. Since Cold Storage took over, they’ve stopped selling it. The only other place I know that sells it is Xtra Supermarket in Mines. Yeah, I know, its weird. Fact Number…

Went up north for a short holidays again last week. And thankfully missed the floods in KL. This time I took a lot more photos than the last, i will be posting them up every now and then when the wind blows right. One of the days we wanted to go to Kellie’s Castle, it wasn’t the old building i was so much interested in – the last time i went there, my mom pointed out to me that there is a small statue of the William Kellie Smith on the roof parapet of the temple in front of the castle, standing proudly among the pantheon of Hindu deities. Smith…