Kim Tek Bak Kuh Teh

Recently, YS introduced to me this Bak Kuh Teh shop at Kepong/Selayang. According to him, the Bak Kuh Teh here is very popular. Normally, it will be sold out before 12pm. Indeed, the meat is very tender.

MMU Convo

Recently, I attended the convocation of my 2 juniors, Lisa and Loo Mun. It had been a really long time since I met them and Lisa can’t recognize me at first. *sob sob* It was a nice hang out with some old friends and I met a few new people as well.

Nette, omedetou!

Congratulations Nette! You have made it for the JAGAM scholarship. I am really happy for you. Keep up with that spirit when you are in Japan.

Puti Bongsu Batam

This restaurant near KLCC is serving Padang cuisine. Padang is a city in Indonesia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, “The cuisine of the Minangkabau people is commonly called Padang cuisine. Padang restaurants are common throughout the country and are famous for their spicy food and their unique way of serving it. Padang food is usually cooked once per day, and all customers choose from those dishes, which are left out on display until no food is left. It is served in small portions of various dishes, but constituting, with rice, a complete meal. In a Padang-style restaurant, the table will quickly be set with dozens of small dishes filled with highly-flavored foods such as curried fish, fried tempeh, stewed greens, chili eggplant, curried beef liver, fried chicken, and of course, sambals, the spicy sauces ubiquitous at Indonesian tables. Customers take - and pay for - only what they want from this array of dishes.”

The food is nice but not healthy. This restaurant is a bit pricy and the seafood dishes are extremely expensive. 1 sotong is RM5!

Pasta Zanmai

Pasta Zanmai is a restaurant selling Japanese-style pasta and assorted Japanese food. A friend of mine highly recommended this restaurant but I find the pasta so-so only. The assorted food is quite nice though.

This one is yummy. It's like a thin crust pizza with scallop.

This one is nice too!

Shanghai 10

I visited this restaurant sometime ago with my colleagues for lunch. At that time, there was a buy 1 free 1 promotion for siu long bao. The food there is okay and a bit pricy. For the taste, I still prefer Dragon-i.

Semester 2: >50%

Currently I am half-way through my second semester. There are a lot of readings for this semester. For the past few weeks, I had been reading and writing a lot. I was introduced to Harvard Business Review (HBR) for my reading materials and I find them very information.

http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/

Restaurant 88

This place in Aman Suria is recommended by CC. The food is okay and it is quite cheap. We ordered 1 Fish Head Noodle, 1 Fried Bee Hoon, 1 Claypot Tofu and 2 Herbal Tea. All in is around RM21. The Fish Head Noodle portion is super huge (even though it is ‘small’). But, suprisingly the Claypot Tofu is a bit small.

Ring Zhi Vegetarian Restaurant

Ring Zhi Vegetarian Restaurant is located in Kepong, one of the shops opposite Jaya Jusco. There is a lot of variety for vegetarian food and it is quite nice. A bit pricy though.

Yummy mushrooms~

Dim Dim Yuen

Last Friday, I met my ex-colleagues at Dim Dim Yuen, Transfer Road, Penang for dinner. The place is right beside Caltex at Transfer Road. The shop is a normal kopithiam, selling western food. It seems that they have just renovated the place. The price is reasonable. I ordered a Garlic Fish for RM8 (it also comes with a piece of garlic bread).

1 piece of garlic bread

Garlic fish

Semester 2: 0%

Time flies. Today marks the beginning of my 2nd semester. The subjects for this semester seem to be more interesting and not so technical. I browsed through the study materials last night and thank god, they are not as thick as last semester’s!

Signs

Jimmy recommended the following short clip a while ago and I really love it! It is one of the 2009 Cannes Lions winners! Highly recommended.

Signs, Patrick Hughes
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYLMvYhl-5k
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_20XEFjRBqU&NR=1

Malacca 1 Day Trip

I have not visited MMU or Malacca ever since I graduated a few years ago. I still remember the good old days, indulging myself with my favorite “Cendol” in Jonker Street or when we squeeze ourselves in one car for “Satay Celup”.

The area around the campus is well developed now. But, the campus itself is poorly maintain, in which my friends and I are quite upset about. The campus back in our days was very new and nice (at least it looked much better back then). It was not repainted at all ever since we graduated (judgement based on the outlooks). In addition, the facilities are poorly maintain - chairs with ugly labels, tutorial rooms with ugly looking and non-standardized locks etc. In addition, we noticed large, visible rubbish everywhere. OMG, can’t students nowadays be a bit more concern about the cleanliness of their campus or the cleaner is not doing their job properly? What has happen?

Look at the roof

The bridge connecting CLC and the "new building"

My juniors also mentioned that students nowadays are not active in club activities. There are not many events around the campus. The campus is basically quite death. I still remember the good old days, whenever it comes to club registration week, CLC concourse will be packed with students and everyone will be discussing which clubs they’ll be joining and so on. I guess, we won’t see this anymore nowadays.

Okay, let’s focus on the brighter side now. The Malacca town looks nicer now. The ugly and polluted river beside Jonker Street had transformed into a tourist spot. Not to mention, a nice gathering with some of my coursemates - AC, Danny, Daniel, Teck Yong, Sylvia and Jin.

Daniel just found a new promosing job at T-systems! Congratulations!

I have never thought of taking photos of this river before this...

It looks really new...

Jonker Street

My beloved Cendol... still yummy...

Bon Odori '09

It had been 2-3 years since my last visit to Bon Odori. I remembered attending the last one with Kelly in Penang, where I wore my new purple yukata from Japan. Kelly helped me out with the make up and “whoola”, a totally different feel. (Kelly, I miss you...)

This year, I went to the one in Panasonic Sports Complex, Shah Alam (previously known Matsushita Sports Center). It was a surprise to see Andy there, distributing the paper fans. I also met a number of Unimates, such as Wilz, Huwi Yin, How Zan, Jing Hui and those names that I cannot remember. I had to agree with Andy that many of the Japanese food there had been Malaysianized.

Sahara Tent

Almost a month ago, my team had our team lunch at Sahara Tent, somewhere near Jalan Bukit Bintang. They serve Arabian food. I called for enquiry prior to the lunch and their response was very fast. Their service is excellent! I like the bread there, it is just nice. The fish is good too. As for lamb mandy, I prefer Al-Rawsha's.

Overall, I still prefer Al-Rawsha in terms of taste and price.

1/2 babylon chicken

RIP, Wai Chien

Wai Chien @ Chris is my ex-colleague. She is a very sweet and nice girl, same age as I. I still remember the day when we just met. She came over to my cubicle to introduce herself. 2 years ago, we joined the departmental Christmas party together. I fell down from the staircase and was feeling dizzy. She comforted me and I was really touched.

More than a year ago, she was in coma due a strange and incurable disease. At that point of time, I can say that almost everyone thought that she wouldn’t make it. But, she regained consciousness and had been on medication ever since. I last contacted her via sms after she was discharged from the hospital more than a year ago.

This week, I suddenly received a shocking news from Lai Yan. She told me that Wai Chien had passed away. She was so young…

Life is short. Just live everyday to the fullest. Do what you wanted to do.

Wai Chien,
We will always remember you… rest in peace.