Crunchy-Bites

Hip Hip hurray!

2010-08-16T09:38:00.001-07:00

Many many things have happened over the past one month, some good some not so good, but then life is still treating me pretty okay, i’m thankful for that. Although im currently moving at the opposite direction from the course that i’ve charted earlier, it is because the currents are so strong that i’d just let them take me, because fighting them would mean only exhaustion and unhappiness in the end. However i’ve met new wonderful friends along the way, seen new places, tried new makan place and hangout areas, blessing in disguise i guess.. :)

I hope i’ll meet more people who take yesterday as the past, learn from it; today as the present, practice what we learned; and tomorrow as the future, plan to be better! Certain events have happened beyond my expectations, and dealing with it is a humbling experience indeed, i hope i’m wiser and stronger after this. Cheers for being still in one piece! :)

I.Am.A-ma-zing

2010-07-06T03:08:00.001-07:00

For every time things come between us, I’d rebound from feeling like a hermit crab sucked into a big black hole to somewhat normal, and get to know you better in the process. But hey i thought the process was supposed to be fun, interesting, exciting??? Not that we don’t have our moments, but i really do hope these moments will exponentially increase. Cos right now i feel like to overcome the issues we face is like crossing sand dune after sand dune in the desert, and the more we sand dunes that we cross, the more we lost our bearing to reach our oasis.. I really don’t wish for this to happen, which is why i have been keeping faith, i hope you do too. However in the event that you are really not mine for me to love and cherish, and i have to let you go, it’s really nice knowing you!

p/s: Time does not wait for us to make things happen, we gotta take our chances….babies born in buses or airplanes chose the wrong timing to come out of this world too, but they turn out just fine.

If you have not immersed yourself in Xmas joy already,

2009-12-18T18:28:00.001-08:00

Click to check this out!

Cos me helped to write it.. ;D

Btw I received an early Xmas present:

Fractures at my metacarpal bone while playing futsal, so my right hand is casted in plaster of paris now. Hohoho!

Iron Man 2 Trailer Out!

2009-12-16T21:14:00.000-08:00

AWESOME! ;D

When Life gives you fishball, you make steamboat.

2009-12-15T05:48:00.001-08:00

Life is boring like a fishball lately, round and round and round again with all the same old daily routine, and our King just underwent knee surgery overseas recently so he delayed the motion to bail us out of jail and commission us as officers, which means more balls.

With so many fishballs overfilling over plates, it’s only logical that we dump it all into a cooking pot and make steamboat out of it. So last sunday i organized this steamboat feast for my 12 housemates. I got my juniors to help me with buying the raw material to feed 12 hungry mouths, so from Giant sg wang we got everything that we needed to make this a good feast, from all kind of balls to dory fish fillet to prawns to herbal soup stock to all kinds of vegies etc etc etc, we even booze up with a bottle of red wine and a smaller bottle of whisky lol.

There there out of focus pics taken with a good camera (Sony DSLR-A330) but a noob owner photographer showing us in ‘action’:

All the hungry wolves. This looks orderly, but when the pot was ready it’s not!

A pot full of balls. We feed our juniors too!

Tomyam soup stock. Sharing jokes while waiting the pot to be cooked.

Yum yum yum…. Yum yum yum yum….

Yum yum yum yum yum…. Fully satiated.

Happie! Lagi-lagi happie!

I commited a crime on alcohol that night, accidently broke this:

Forgive me dear Lord for i have sinned……..it was still 3 quarter full damn sayang!

The Christening of a Boxer.

2009-12-03T05:40:00.001-08:00

My moment on the ring had finally came: 3 rounds, 2 minutes long each and 1 minute of time-out in between rounds….jab. 1-2. hook, uppercut, hook, punch! My opponent was a guy named Najib, nicknamed po-po, i had an obvious height advantage over him, but i didn’t want to take it lightly because in earlier matches I’ve seen tall guys getting beaten up by opponents shorter than them.

We exchanged lots of punches on Round 1, i was aiming for his head trying to knock him of balance while most of his punches landed on my stomach, where layers of fat around it absorbed most of the impact haha. My opponent started to show signs of fatigue on Round 2 and i started to feel like i was controlling the match, so i went in more often with simple jabs to try to score more points, at the same time deflecting my opponents’ punches to deny him points. On Round 3 my opponent was struggling just to stand steady, i could have deliver some quick knock-out punches to end the game, but being symphatetic i just let the game stretch till the sounding of the final bell. And i won by virtue of most points collected.

It’s really true when you hear people say that 2 mins on the ring is like 20 mins outside of it, and the experience is definitely not pleasant to bear if you are the one getting beaten up. Height can be a huge advantage but it all boils down to personal stamina and fitness. I had not train much for my match therefore i’m lucky to get an opponent who’s shorter and less fit than me. But being on the ring and staying on it takes as much mental strength as physical fitness, it’s not for the faint-hearted.

Waiting to be called up onto the ring. Round 1: A jab met with a block.

As i’m taller my arm length is taller too. BAMMM!

Going after my opponent. Falling back to avoid a punch while sending one of my own.

Seconders helping me out during time-out. And i won! ;D

Graduat-ED

2009-11-25T19:47:00.001-08:00

My convocation was held at UTM Skudai, Johor last saturday. Finally after 5 years of blood, sweat and tears i have graduated with a second class upper bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I wish to thank my family and friends for all their support and encouragement given to me throughout this period, thank you terima kasih 谢谢 aligato! Although for most people a convocation is the climax of their uni life, it’s the second most important event for me, because the momentus event of my student life is on 9 January 2010, the Officer commissioning parade set to be graced by the King. That is happening later though, this is now!

Pictures………….!!

Cute little sis and i With mom and dad.

Fellow airforce mates on the left, parents on the right. =)

Family photo, minus Grace and Edwin. With mom and amanda.

Singapore! In front of Great World City. Chinatown.

Little cute poser sis.

Dad was so happy that he gave me a wad of cash after the convocation ceremony and said:”son, take this and go buy an iphone that you have always wanted and that’ll be ur belated birthday present and graduation gift.” Woohoo! Got no teddies or flowers but i got an iphone haha! ;D Thanks dad, i’ll pass u my htc google G1 when i get my iphone heehee!

After the convo my family and i went on a short trip accross the causeway to SIngapore! I got to drive on singapore roads for the first time hehe, man the people there really follow the speed limit to the dot, 90 means 90 lol and everyone moves at the same speed. –.- The greatest pleasure i on that trip was flooring the car accelerator after i left singapore and enter malaysia via the second link at the end of the trip haha! The trip was good though, had alot of good hawker food, besides coffee at tcc and subway sandwiches, and i got an awesome nike pair of sneakers at 50% off for $49.50 only. It’s a steal! Wanted to get perfumes but gonna hold it off first till i finish my current CK One and Boss.

Yeah yeah it was fun! :D

Break Free

2009-11-11T00:30:00.001-08:00

I shall stop missing you now, since i'm only such an insignificant fellow in ur life, i shall unload my feelings for you at the dumpsite and break free.

Moving on, i have just completed my six-months military training for final year officer cadets after the completion of the final exercise called Escape and Evasion this morning. Hurrah, sighs of relief haha! Lots of bittersweet memories from it. :D

What left for me now is the convocation which is next weekend and the preparations for the passing out parade which will happen on January 10. In the mean time, i have weekend leave this week and next, gonna use it to the fullest to party real hard. XD

My birthday celebration this year was quite interesting though, the actual day of my bday i was training at some ulu place in Pahang, so my mates managed to negotiate four raw chickens for rm60 from the Indon estate workers and we marinated it and barbequed it whole over woodfire, it was really awesome! And when i got back to camp, i subsidized a feast of 5 barrels of kfc fried chicken to treat them back. And hopefully this weekend i'll be able to drink and chill with my tani gang lol.

That's the short update i got for now, will write more when i got the free time, i'm already a few episodes behind on a couple of tv series that i follow lol.

Oinkoink!

2009-10-27T06:02:00.001-07:00

Some things i shouldn't have harp on. You have not spoken to me for 4 days and counting...

I'm sorry. This one's for you. >.<

Nasi Goreng Kampung ala Tentera

2009-10-26T05:45:00.001-07:00

I haven't practice my culinary skills in quite a while, so decided to make myself something good today, Fried Rice Army Style, cos i didn't have the proper utensils to be cooking something, so i just used the mess tin and the mini-stove with solid fuel....

Getting the raw materials ready....

Frying the garlic, onion and dried shrimps....

Mixing it all together...

And voila!

YUMMY! xD

Stomach feels warm and full, and i cooked more than enough to share it with my housemates too...happee!!

An Uneventful Sunday

2009-10-25T09:46:00.001-07:00

Sighhhhh, it's always easier to consume than to produce, i can spend hours watching movies/series, browsing thru blogs/forums/facebook, but when it comes to organizing my thoughts to write a good blog post, minutes seems like hours. -_-

I feel sorry for my fellow squad because supposedly there is day leave for all of us from 0800h-1800h but then it got canceled the whole camp got locked down because one of my junior got caught being out of camp without permission and being in close proximity (khalwat) with his girlfriend by JAIS. It was stupid for that junior to commit such a mistake and make us all suffer the consequences and it was also stupid for the instructors to punish everyone for the mistakes of one.

Although i wasn't affected by the lockdown because us non-muslims has got this priviledge to go out every Sunday for prayers, my plans with my squad for movie and lunch had to be canceled because of it. Angryyyyyyy!

TV Review: Private Practice (2007-present)

2009-10-23T21:39:00.001-07:00

Source: Wikipedia

Synopsis: The first season deals with Addison's move from Seattle to Los Angeles and her attempts to adjust to a very different type of working environment at Oceanside Wellness Group, a co-op private practice. The first season also deals with her budding relationships with her new co-workers. Among them include her best friend Naomi Bennett, a fertility specialist, and her ex-husband Sam Bennett, who specializes in internal medicine. Also working within the practice is psychiatrist Violet Turner, pediatrician Cooper Freedman, alternative medicine specialist Pete Wilder, and receptionist Dell Parker. It is revealed early on that the Bennetts established the practice with the rest of the doctors owning a share of it as well. Charlotte King, who serves as chief of staff at St. Ambrose Hospital, works with Oceanside Wellness through her dealings with Sam and her sexual relationship with Cooper.

My BItes: Private practice is running in its third season now, and it just keeps getting better! I like this show more compared to the other medical drama Grey's Anatomy because the dramas featured in this show are shorter (usually lasts only one episode), less complicated, less dark and best of all it usually has got a happy ending after every episode. The character in this show also feels more real compared to the likes of grey's anatomy where i think is overly glossy, at the end of the day this show is about issues on human to human relationships, whether it's parents-children. lover-lover, employer-employee etc.. Some issues i can relate to, some others are just pure entertainment fun. So catch this series if you need chicken soup for your soul and a dose of feel good. :)

Diwali Do

2009-10-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

God bless Diwali, it was freaking hot the whole day today. nevertheless it did not stop me from braving the scorching heat to attend my friend mr. arvin's open house, my family tagged along too since we got movie plans after that.

That's my plateful of food, all of them spicy, the mutton was especially nice though, soft and tasty, just the way i like it! Now the highlight here is the glass of drink that my friend served me, it's the Johnnie Walker Green Label with ice and water lol. Prior to this i have never drank liquor mixed only with water before, them Indians really know how to make a stiff drinks man, i was poured half a glass of liquor and half mixer, it's really not for the faint-hearted.. I had 3 glasses of Green Label and a glass of chivas, got real tipsy in the middle of the afternoon, with my mom's nagging not far behind.

That's my friend and i, his parents and my mom. When you are tipsy, conversation flows real smoothly haha. His father is a real gracious host, always going around challenging people to bottoms up! Don't let his simple demeanour and down to earth personality fool you, he's actually Dr. Venugopal, the deputy dental director in the Health Ministry with the salary wage equivalent to a two-star general, so how can i decline his bottom ups challenges haha.

Today is actually my get out of jail pass, cos i applied for leave specifically to spend some time with my dad who came back from India for his quarterly week long holiday. And tomorrow morning i shall go back to camp and prepare for a week long military training in Mempaga, Pahang. How do i feel now? Slight hungover with a hint of sadness, first cos i can't spend more time with my family, second cos i'm getting the cold shoulder from one that i care lots about. May things get better soon!

Exercise PACAT LENGGENG

2009-10-16T06:32:00.001-07:00

A fortnight ago I was away from civilisation and its luxury for a week, I took part in Ex Pacat Lenggeng, a Counter Insurgency Warfare (CIW) aka Jungle Warfare training exercise.

Ex. Pacat Lenggeng is actually a training exercise designed for the army cadets, with the objective to equip them with knowledge as a platoon commander to command their troops for combat in the jungle, which includes ambush, anti-ambush, insurgents' camp attack, defence position, reccee etc. For airforce cadets like me, since we don't really use these knowledge when we enter service as an airforce engineer, our role in this exercise was to become the enemy, aka insurgents, aka PENGKOM (Pengganas Komunis). Our second role in the exercise, though unwritten, is to become balachis, because we work tirelessly day and night to the whims and fancy of our instructors to make this exercise a successful one.

Our role as the enemy is quite an easy one, because basically our job is to harrass and make life out of the army cadets. And since we are not evaluated for this exercise unlike the army cadets, our life in this exercise is more relaxed and we are not under pressure to perform. Besides that, an extra priviledge as the enemy is that we are allowed to bring extra ration such as maggi, campbell's soup, instant porridge etc, besides the standard-issue combat rations. Uhm-mmm, sipping a cup of instant Nescafe Gold in the morning in the jungle taste extra good!

Why the name Pacat Lenggeng? Because the exercise is held at the Lenggeng Forest Reserve, Negeri Sembilan and supposedly there are many leeches (pacat) there. However. we are lucky because the our camp site that we were designated has got no leeches as it is situated by a hillslope and near a water stream. The water stream is a real bonus because the water is cool and crystal clear, so using it for cooking, bathing and poo-poo is no problem at all.

At the campsite, each of us set up our own individual hammock, and a common area for cooking, eating and chit-chatting. All in all, this exercise was a great experience for us and the esprit de corp among the airforce cadets has improved greatly.

Morning cuppa.

Resuscitating and foot stomping at the same time.

By the waterfalls

Eating bullets for breakfast.

Night guard duties.

Green is in!

End of exercise.

On Love and Trust

2009-10-14T08:37:00.001-07:00

Love is a funny thing, when you fall for someone, you'd do everything in the world to get his/her attention, seek for his/her approval, leave no stones unturned in your quest to make him/her happy; to do all these with nothing but one wish in mind, that he/she will know your true feelings and feel the same way too.

The funny thing is, you don't always get your way in love, sometimes every little thing you do, every little gesture you make, you are met with a six-feet wall. So the question is, how do you find balance between holding on to your feelings while climbing past every wall and preservere or to avoid being a nuisance and move on?

On trust, some people say 'trust is earned not given'. I say, towards your friends/associates/partners/lover etc, benefit of the doubt should always be given first, because if you do not trust that person, why do you want to have anything to do with him/her in the first place?

I do not give up easily in the pursuit of my happiness, after all climbing six-feet walls is my specialty cos i'm military trained, but if i'm doing it wrong, do give me a nudge towards the right direction.

A Good Sin

2009-10-11T09:21:00.001-07:00

Sorry i was away for awhile, spent the whole of last week training for jungle warfare at the Lenggeng Forest Reserve, Negeri Sembilan. And i came back to realise a nudge by liwun to write up on the night that i sinned haha. So here it is, at the night of the mooncake festival me and a bunch of friends went to the Decanter Too bar at hartamas and chug down jugs after jugs of cold tiger, accompanied by chat, games and lots of laughter.

This post comes right after the post that we should take care of our health at all times, ironic i know. i'm a hypocrite haha.. XD So right after that night i woke up the next morning with a slight hangover and i had to rush and pack cos i had to leave for jungle training that very afternoon.. Was it tiring? yeah. Worth it? Totally! Do it again? Ohh yeahhhh! XD And it's been a long time since i met up with hwee jian, it's good to catch up again..

Photos................

The Gift of Health

2009-09-30T06:21:00.001-07:00

Today i was able to exercise strenously and sweat it all out, today i got to enjoy my first cup of coffee(Aik Cheong Instant White Coffee) in a week, today i'm my usual cheerful self again! ;-) Now all these may seem tiny and easily accomplished, but not to me since i fell sick with fever, flu and a topsy turvy stomach since last Friday. Before getting my clean bill of health today, i had to tunnel thru nights of interrupted sleep, aching and lifeless body, lost of appetite, hot and cold and hot and cold, and many times there seem no end to this horrible tunnel. But thanks to my mother's healing touch and my military trained reinforced mental strength, my road to recovery got speeded up quite abit.

Why did i fell sick? Most likely i think it'd be the fatigue from driving cross-country to perhentian island and back, plus all the alcohol i had there(many many lots!) and the lack of sleep and partying with Black Eyed Peas the very next day! I've really learnt my lesson man, i'm so gonna have more rest from now on, and consume alcohol in a really really moderate amount, that means no more challenging people to drinking games from now onwards! :P

Friends, i've managed to recover fully to tell this tale that the gift of health is the most important gift of all, because without it, no amount of money and power will allow you to enjoy anything that this little planet we live on has to offer. So take good care of our health at all times!

Happy now.. ;D

Think you're a pro in tictactoe? Try beating this game!

2009-09-16T05:37:00.001-07:00

I thought i was a tictactoe pro until i played this game, click on the picture below to launch it!

(WARNING: Play it at your own risk! This blogger assumes no liability towards the game content, you may experience extreme depression if you lose this game! XD)

Movie Review: Management (2008)

2009-09-16T01:48:00.001-07:00

Source: IMDB

Ratings: 6.6/10

Synopsis: Management chronicles the chance meeting of Mike Cranshaw (Zahn) and Sue Claussen (Aniston) when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump-starts the cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing - a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button-downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after her. But once he reaches Maryland, he finds that Sue has no place for an aimless dreamer in her carefully ordered life. Obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue falls back in with her punk-turned-Yoghurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But having finally found something worth fighting for, Mike puts his hopes against her practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, ultimately freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.

My Bites: One of the better dvdrip quality movie that I've downloaded lately, the movie gives me a Juno-type feel of somewhat heartwarming and inspiring, about what a wacky average joe would do to pursue the girl of his dreams. including parachuting right into the pool of her house. And it was also about how a girl would sometimes forego the ideals of love in return for financial security and stability. Jennifer Aniston is in it, starring as the main love interest, i used to love her from Friends sitcom, her acting here is quite good too, though she’s showing signs of aging, quite gracefully albeit. Steve Zahn’s acting is worth a mention too, very convincing as the wacky average joe. Good story and good acting makes this movie worth your time. ;-)

Nice!

2009-09-11T08:02:00.000-07:00

Source: NASA

Description:

Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302

This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene.

What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -- fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!

A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. This object is an example of a planetary nebula, so-named because many of them have a round appearance resembling that of a planet when viewed through a small telescope.

The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, snapped this image of the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula. WFC3 was installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope.

NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers, expelled over about 2,200 years. The "butterfly" stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

The central star itself cannot be seen, because it is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust, which appears as a dark band pinching the nebula in the center. The thick dust belt constricts the star’s outflow, creating the classic "bipolar" or hourglass shape displayed by some planetary nebulae.

The star’s surface temperature is estimated to be about 400,000 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest known stars in our galaxy. Spectroscopic observations made with ground-based telescopes show that the gas is roughly 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is unusually hot compared to a typical planetary nebulae.

The WFC3 image reveals a complex history of ejections from the star. The star first evolved into a huge red-giant star, with a diameter of about 1,000 times that of our Sun. It then lost its extended outer layers. Some of this gas was cast off from its equator at a relatively slow speed, perhaps as low as 20,000 miles an hour, creating the doughnut-shaped ring. Other gas was ejected perpendicular to the ring at higher speeds, producing the elongated "wings" of the butterfly-shaped structure. Later, as the central star heated up, a much faster stellar wind, a stream of charged particles travelling at more than 2 million miles an hour, plowed through the existing wing-shaped structure, further modifying its shape.

The image also shows numerous finger-like projections pointing back to the star, which may mark denser blobs in the outflow that have resisted the pressure from the stellar wind.

The nebula's outer edges are largely due to light emitted by nitrogen, which marks the coolest gas visible in the picture. WFC3 is equipped with a wide variety of filters that isolate light emitted by various chemical elements, allowing astronomers to infer properties of the nebular gas, such as its temperature, density, and composition.

The white-colored regions are areas where light is emitted by sulfur. These are regions where fast-moving gas overtakes and collides with slow-moving gas that left the star at an earlier time, producing shock waves in the gas (the bright white edges on the sides facing the central star). The white blob with the crisp edge at upper right is an example of one of those shock waves.

NGC 6302 was imaged on July 27, 2009 with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in ultraviolet and visible light. Filters that isolate emissions from oxygen, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur from the planetary nebula were used.

SAY WHAT? A Guinness Event but No Guinness?!!!

2009-09-08T05:44:00.001-07:00

A while back my friends and i were contemplating to join the Guinness sponsored mc arthur’s day event featuring a concert by Black Eyed Peas at Sunway Lagoon, thinking it’d be fun partying to the tune of BEP while having a stout in hand.. :P

And then controversies started to surface when youth members of a political party started rallying against the event because they alleged that the event is opened to all including muslims and alcohol is served, thereby not conforming to society norms and a showcase of decaying of moral standards. The authorities intervened and ordered that the event shall be closed to all muslims, fair enough. However BEP apparently has a huge muslim fanbase in Malaysia and these fans protested against it, and now the authorities order that the event be open to all but alcohol sales be prohibited instead. Holy mutha *ucka!!!

Welcome to bolehland where the Government rules with oppressive policies and makes topsy turvy decisions. Is it so wrong to sell alcohol at a party? As long one does not need to buy them and drink up before being allowed entry, i see nothing wrong with it man seriously. A person religion’s do’s and don’ts is really his own business in conforming to them, an open event is an open where the organizer's responsibility is solely to make sure that everyone has fun and stay safe, nothing else!! If one feel offended by the sale of alcohol at the event, don’t attend it; simple right? We don’t see dinner functions stop serving beef because there are Hindus present, do we?

Felt real pissed about the whole situation and thinks that the rm95 ticket charge can be spent somewhere else to have even more fun. People facing the same dilemma can maybe try some clubbing fun dancing to BEP music spinned by the dj’s at Maison off Asian Heritage Row, as i went there a fortnight ago and they are having this Buy1Free1 promotion for liquor bottles at rm418 inclusive of admission for 8 guys, where as ladies enter free! Real good deal i think, definitely more fun than having to party with hypocrites and people who’s trying to impose their views on you and forcing horseshit down your throat.

Here are some pics from a fortnight ago….

Mumm-mumm

2009-09-07T08:08:00.001-07:00

Tired of the same old maggi hot cup? Here's something new to try! It looks like wanton mee, taste like wanton mee, even cost as much as wanton mee (rm4.50) but without wanton in it haha.. Taste gooddddd!

Black Gold for Cheap

2009-09-06T09:42:00.001-07:00

Observe the mug, does it look familiar to you? Well if you guessed this frozen mug of Guiness Stout is from Chillis Grill & Bar, you're wrong but i don't blame you because the restaurant that serves this mug of black gold is called Spaghetti Grill, yet however both Spaghetti Grill and Chillis falls under the same management. Hence you get the same mug same great taste and almost same dining atmosphere, but different price indeed.

For those who have not already tasted the stout at Chilis, it tastes rich, creamy, smooth and yet it's at near frozen cold temperature, in short it's really really really good! Spaghetti Grill's one tastes the same too.

Spaghetti Grill is now having all day long happy hours promotion though, it costs only rm9.95+ for a 10oz glass of Guiness or Heineken or a pint of Tiger. Leprechaun luck was on my side today i guess haha,, i ended up paying only rm9.95+ for a pint of Guiness! :P

Here's the story: My friend and i shared 3 glasses of Guiness between us, sat down ordered two glasses first then one glass at the end. But when the bill came, i was charged rm11.95 for a glass each, asked the waitress why and she replied it was rm11.95 nett, however that couldn't be because when the bill is subtotaled i was charged an additional 10% service charge and 5% government tax!

Unhappy, i asked for the manager and he told me that my glass was in fact a pint glass and not 10oz. No wonder la right when the stout came i was thinking "hey man gosh this is really really worth it, rm9.95 for such a big mug muahaha!' However however, i rebutted the manager and told him that when i ordered i specifically asked for the happy hour promotion and never have i asked for a pint! The manager was really cool though, he accepted my arguments and refunded me rm2 for each pint. Still considered cheap though if you are charged rm11.95 for a pint of such awesome black gold, other restaurant would have charged at least rm20 for a pint.

Another promotion worth mentioning at the Spaghetti Grill is the set lunch, it cost only rm9.95+ for a main menu of pizza, pasta or salad and a choice of bottomless fountain drinks. The portion is slightly less than normal though but nevertheless filled my tummy up just nice with the 1 1/2 pint of guiness haha!

All in all it cost me only rm30 for lunch and 1 1/2 pint of stout, it's a steal i think! Spaghetti Grill is located at Mid Valley Ground Floor, just a few shoplots beside Chilis Grill.

Thirstyblogger.my

2009-09-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Alcohol noob? Tired of drinking or drinking at the same old place, wanna find somewhere new?

Well head on over to Thirstyblogger and read his cocktails!

Got this blog link from friends last weekend, checked it out and now it’s on my bookmark! It has got everything about alcohol that you need to know to have a good time with: recommended chill out places, cocktail recipes, new liquor launches etc etc.

Just got to know from sis last nite that the blogger is actually a friend of hers, oh well more party fun when sis comes back next time!

As for the watering holes recommended there, i’ll post up my own reviews when i visit them all real soon! :)

When was the last time you played the swing?

2009-09-02T00:36:00.000-07:00

Sometimes life simplest pleasure gives you the most satisfaction, a visit to the playground proves just that.

It happened on the night of merdeka eve, my friends and i rocked the playground after shopping for some booze from your friendly neighbourhood macha booze seller over at Jalan 222. A sample of the rm7.50 fun multiplier:

500ml can, 12% alcohol, don't pray-pray! :P

p/s: This is my first post for this new blog, still working on lots of kinks and misses, any feedbacks are most welcome! :)