Monday, April 14, 2008

做人难

是不是很奇怪,从前很崇拜的人,久而久之就开始被人讨厌了。现世可能就是那么现实吧,人往往只看到白板的一个黑点,而忘了它的白。

人应该多一点宽恕,每个人都有他、她的短或长,当自己在别人面前说别人坏话时,或许该想想自己是不是也有给别人讨厌的地方。身边的人,不由自主的,被灌输了那么多坏话后,突然对那个人也有了坏印象。被讨厌的人是不是会觉得很无辜?煽动别人讨厌你不喜欢的人,毕竟还是不好的。有什么不快,就和当事人,三口六面讲清楚呗。

听着别人说坏话,再想起别人从前的崇拜,真的很刺耳。

Sunday, April 13, 2008

20080412 Balik Pulau Day 1

Life never been bored when you are in Penang. Despite of the thesis VIVA on the next monday, we, the hbp team,with 1 pure maths, had departed to Balik Pulau, to explore the unexplored, to discover the mysteries.

The tour start at 4:30pm, 2 cars (Sunny and Waja), with 7 beautiful girls and 2 handsome guys. The road to Balik Pulau is never be easy, the long cum winding cum hilly road, will always give you surprise. So, tenses your nerve when you are driving, or we will see you in hell.

After approximately 30 minutes of drifting, we finally arrived the legendary Balik Pulau. We dared not spin around the town as we were newbies here. We definitely need a tour guide. The first person who came into our mind was Hong Yee, the Balik Pulau "Dai Ka Jie". She has quite some reputation in this area, everybody knows her and whenever you are in deep shit, no money to pay, got people bully you, etc, just split out her name. However, she is more known with her other glamourous name, RS - red shirt.


*Our tour guide - HY

Balik Pulau is an old town, it look exactly the same with the old streets at Bentong, Karak, etc, with all those historical British Colonial time building. Therefore, it gave me a strong feeling of belonging, as i had spend my some of my childhood in a small town like this. Everything seems so familiar to me. Most of the things were miniature, including the road, roundabout, fire bridge, etc. Before we started our first destination, we had a chance to take a glance at HY's former school, Sacred Heart. It has a historical catholic church with a thin long sharp rooftop. It is quite a landmark here. Too bad, we didn't stop for photo session.

Ok, finally, we were on our way to the first place, indian man's mee goreng. Honestly, the mee goreng was quite delicious (dunno is because of my stomach was so hungry at that time or not). Everything was great except for some hygienic issues. The Indian guy had used his hand to take the overflowed mee back to the plate and, tap water was used for making limau ais...


*The mee goreng were finished before i could take a photo, a pack of starving wolves.

After energised ourselves with the food, the next station was an unknown beach at Pulau Betung. Along the kampung road, we noticed that there were some local people fishing there, as the sea is just beside us. Look like we had ran into a fishing sanctuary. Too bad there were only me and lai who had bring our "rod", if u know what i mean... hehehe...


*The Turtle Island according to our guide.

15 minutes passed and we had arrived the beach. There were people taking their wedding album there, not a easy job as the scorching sun still high upon the sky. After some water splashing and sexy posing, we got to watch the sunset... It was so cool! But then, our stomach got hungry, we had to proceed our journey to hunt for our dinner.


*Group photo at the beach.


photographer: Go get your bitch back for the photo!
bridegroom: Sien... Dun want to marry her liao...



*Girls hiding in the rock.


*Ah Long pte. ltd. 2 - this time she is marrying 2 guys... y me?


*I am hunting for crabs, lobsters, shrimps, lala, kappa...


*No! sun please go away!

I always have a small bladder yet i tends to drink a lot... So at that point, i was actually needed a place to "pay my water bill". Luckily, our "Dai Ka Jie" want to bring us to her untold, secretly located HQ -- in short, her home la. Glad to hear that, ^_^.

Again, you will never find the place if you are not leaded by HY. We need to go to a school first (ya, can you guess the gangster head of Balik Pulau is actually live behind the school? haha, just kidding), then u need to turn into a small thin path, and her house was just like popped out in a middle of no where. POP! Here we were, HY's house.

HY house has many dogs as any typical house in the orchard. After HY introduced her parents to us, we had eaten the fried "buah roti" / "so kun". No wonder Khor So Kun cant win during the election la, because Balik Pulau people keep eating "so kun". Haha!!! It's taste like fried yam, except it is a bit tasteless, so chilli sauce will be the best companion. 


*Me and my buah roti.

Guess what were our dinner that night? Satay! It's not any ordinary satay, it is 25 cent each satay! So, what are we waiting for? 

Half way we stopped at a fried chicken stall. It was not because the fried chicken was so delicious, it was mainly because the girls found out the owner was quite "engtao" and want to take a closer look. Anyhow, i still had my fried drumstick, not bad la. 


* I never knew that my gf is opening a fried chicken stall here.


*Free urut, i should had gone for it.

Finally we arrived at the food court beside the bus station to have our satay. Honestly, the satay a bit small where you just need to have one bite to finish it. However, for only 25 cent, the satay tasted really delicious! Thumbs up thumbs up! Within few minutes, we had finished the 100 satays. We asked for more! and more and more! But the stall was closing at 9pm and they had ran out of chicken satay... Too bad! 


*Behind the satay stall (before it got rained).


* We should had ordered 200 satays.

The night was still young which indeed it is, so we continue to climb all the way up to the mountain road, stopped, enjoyed the night view and breeze. It wasn't much light in Balik Pulau, most of them were tiny little light spot from each of the houses. The strongest one was the newly built bus terminal cum market cum food court. I personally think that it was a gift that not much city light in Balik Pulau. In Georgetown, the sky is in orange although night has fallen. It often make me sleepless, too bright for an old men like me.

*Captured by lai. The brightest spot is the terminal.


*Group photo on the way to a hill-top restaurant.

Night getting late. Sigh, due to some circumstances, i, as the humble driver, had to go home without spending some quality time with the others. In a car of 4 people, we were heading home while the others were enjoying their "dua bang" with nice chilled beers... T_T

-end of day 1-

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Thank You U-heights Lift

After having dinner at bali-bali and finishing my RM 1 per 'LOK' banana (this banana is abnormal big, guys, please dun compare it with ur precious... :P), then, go home la, what else?

Wise people always say, shit happens! So, today, shit happens! and the shittest is it happen to me.

The lifts (yes, all 4 lifts) were malfunction, they stopped at every floor, open and close open and close open and close. Details please ask jing nin, he is the first batch of victims. At the GF, i met them. Su Qi from ID advice me not to take the lift, even though i stay at the top floor, level 19.

Ok, i had taken her advice. Now, my legs cant stop shivering... :'(

Thanks to you, u-heights lifts, for giving me 2 rubbery legs!!! BTW, i was faster than Suk Peng and Mei Yong at level 14, as they had taken the lift.. HAHA, LOSERS!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Another R' US in Penang

As you all know, there is a lot of Toy R' Us in Malaysia. In Penang, we can already found 2, perhaps? one in Queensbay Mall and another in Gurney Plaza (perhaps?). But this time, i had bumped into a slightly different R' Us in Tanjong Tokong.

The incident happens during last night, where ah lai and his soul mate'S' went to "Small Genting" (without me), and Kah Ming was celebrating his 23 birthday at REDBOX, Gurney (again without me). The surge of adrenaline force me to do something to counter them!

I had decided to go to a new restaurant called Pizza R' Us, yeah, babe, that's the R' Us i am talking about. It is located at Jalan Fettes, Bandar Tanjung Tokong (around BEK HUN SUA). How do i know this restaurant? There are some forumer in CARi had discussed bout it, and Lingzie's Tummy Treat had given it quite a positive comment.



So i called my beloved, her roommate ELI, and the sucker, Yee Teng:"Common guys, let's give it a try!" After blinking eyes for a few time, we had arrived the place. The signboard was quite easy to be noticed, as it is red words on a black background.

The environment was quite light and easy, red is the main theme, but ANG ANG BO HAI LANG, so i am cool with it. Waiters are friendly (maybe the restaurant is still new, so they dare not 'lansi'). One of them has the china / taiwan accent in talking (wonder where that girl come from).

So, as always, i had to do the order. There were no family package or what so ever, it's only ala carte during dinner time, which i found out quite annoying. Anyway, i had ordered the four (4) of us Buffalo Wings (for 4), 2 mushroom soups, garlic sticks and chicken spice / deep dish flavour one pizza (2 flavour on 1 pizza, amazing!).

Now, the writer would like to comment on their food (OMG, this writer is writing craps, selling stuffs, reviewing on some stupid games, and now he try to comment people food).

Forgot to bring my camera, so this will be a stupid food blog without any mouth-watering food picture. PAISEH LA! First of all, the buffalo wings. I always think that buffalo wing taste like the chinse "fu yu" (in cantonese). It was so spicy and sour, weirdly sour (ELI was struggling so hard to finish it, she dislike sour food). So i will say the wings 'boleh tahan je la'.

Then, the mushroom soup and garlic stick! Well, the soup was creamy and thick, very 'gao', and the sticks were crunchy. Unlike the Pizzahut's soup and garlic stick, the pizza r'us taste like home, but pizzahut was like giving us so 'outside-also-can-buy' crap. Boo pizzahut!!!

Ok, finally the main character, the pizza. I would say that the chicken spice was a bit tasteless. The deep dish chicken pizza was nice, especially when you eat with the chilli oil. However, the shop was quite generous in the topping, and the bread is eatable, unlike pizza hut pizza bread which u need to cut with knife! It seems that you can add extra cheese and topping for just a few ringgit. Surprisingly, they are having solely cheese pizza in their menu too!

So how bout the price? 4 of us with all the dishes above, normally it will cost us around RM 59 (government and service tax had already included into the price, no extra charged), but customer who is birthday in April now will have 15% discount (lee eng b day is on april). So the bill was only RM 48, high five! And the shop is having promotion on every wednesday, buy 1 free 1 pizza for delivery and take away.

I guess i am not really good in writing food blog, so why don't u guys just go and give it a try urself? I am sure u wont regret that. So just click the link below and take a look.

PIZZA R' US