"ASIMO @ Queensbay Mall!"

Heard from gf that ASIMO was in QB, and today was the last day! Went there at 2.30PM but QB was super-crowded with massive crawl to the carpark. Sorry la.. we try again later ;) Then 6.30PM went there, ah.. clear! The next show was at 8PM, so we went makan first. Then 7.30PM start gathering around the stage area. Man, freaking crowded, especially with little kids running around :-S



Pretty interesting show (though ASIMO's 'voice' was kinda fake). His movement was pretty fluid, and he can run and dance too!

Got video also, later upload it here ;)

"Happy Birthday to me Part 2!"

And here they are, my gift to myself.. Haha.. 2 carton of Star Wars!




Vehicles! Homing Spider Droid, V-19 Torrent Starfighter (woo-hoo!!), Anakin's Modified Starfighter and Griveous' Starfighter (which I already have :-S)



Clone Wars basic figures! Yeah, after I rewatch the Clone Wars movie, find it really nice. And best of all, now they continue the adventures on a half-hour show every week!

Wave 2. Got this from Parkson Gurney Plaza on the 1st day of the reopening of the Gurney New Wing! That day was damn packed with people. Not much to the new wing though; most of the shops are already seen in Queesbay Mall. But I got a shock when I saw Parkson's new toy dept filled with these new basic figures! That's why have to go to any new mall openings on the first day ;) In fact, by the time I arrived (12+), some of the nicer figures already gone :-S



And Wave 3, with Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress! When I get the rest of the figures (notice I dun have Wave 1) then can start posing them for dioramas :P

Also, Toys R Us is having the sale period, and some things start to go for clearance. Found these 2 Evolution packs, with RM15 discount each! Amazing. Some more these are new stocks :P Also, I used the RM30 gift voucher from TRU, so got these 2 came for a pretty sweet deal :D

Ok, that's it for this month. Next month will be a blast with the Christmas/year end shipments coming ;)

"Happy Birthday to me!"

Thanks for all the wishes! And the trend this year seems to be writing on the Facebook wall.. interesting!

What else to do for birthdays except to EAT. Yes, eating again so soon after the Rasa Sayang buffet :P This time I wanted to give Dragon-i another try. The first time went there ordered the 'la-mien' and 'siew long pau'. This time wanna try their other trademark dishes ;)



Went there early to avoid the weekend crowd. Nice peanuts. While waiting for the food.



Which didn't take long. Tofu. And gf ordered la-mien again, but this one comes with the side dish.



And the main dish: Their trademark Braised pork. And comes with these mini buns to stuff them in.

The tofu is really good. The la-mien too. But best of all has to be the braised pork. When you sink your teeth into the fat layers mix with the tender meat, mix with the sauce... phew~~~ straight away in heaven dy! It's really THAT good!! But we seriously underestimated the portion: this could easily be a serving good for 3 person :-S

In all, really enjoyed eating here. The price came to about RM70++ yeah, not cheap! But CIMB credit card (gf paid) got 10% off, so it came to about RM60++. Not too bad.

Dinner time. What to eat. Seriously, after the consecutive sessions of good food, I was feeling reluctant to eat anymore. Too much of a good thing ain't good! But gf say "it's your birthday" so end up at Ichyo....



More food... Gf likes to order the noodle set as it comes with the superb garlic rice.



My Bento set. Got chicken (nice), fish (nice) and salmon (not so fresh). Ichyo has it's high points, but still feel overall Sakae Sushi is better, especially the wasabi :P The bill came up to about RM50+ I think.

Ok, that's it for food! Ugh, really eat too much dy... Next, let me show you MY gift to myself! ;)

"Team building 2008 @ Rasa Sayang"

This year's ATS team building was Makan-makan @ Shangri-la Rasa Sayang Resort, Batu Ferringi! Woo-hoo~~! Although there were some disagreements from the managers (what does makan have to do with team building-- more like body building!), they eventually relented. Hey, what other activity can you guarentee maximum attendance??


Admiring the beautiful surrounding...



... but really hungry dy, so lets go straight to the food! And we are having the buffet at Spice Market cafe. On display are some of the spices famous in our Asian cooking! The smell is really strong at the cafe's entrance... Mmm............. :D



And here are the two most drool-inducing food I found: Top show a variety of Indian curry and rice and below is our local fav satay, grilled to perfection! The meat chunks are tender and topped off with the outstanding peanut sauce! Also on table is Tandoori chicken: Insanely good!!

The various food counters. The theme that day was International Cuisine. We basically took a little portion of each, just to sample the taste. You can bet by the end of it, we were stuffed! In fact, I didn't even managed to try the Japanese food :-S Not all the food tasted nice, in fact most of them are pretty standard fare. The Chinese food was mixed; some outstanding but some flat, the Western food you HAVE to try the heavenly Seafood Lasagna, stuffed with huge prawns! The fresh seafood was also mixed: mussels were good, but several of the prawn/mini-lobster variants were not really fresh (and had the 'raw' smell, eww...).



Desert were cakes (so-so), fruits (by that time, nearly wanna muntah dy) and my other fav: The chocolate fountain! Somehow managed to find space for a few sticks of strawberry dipped in the melting chocolate ~~~~ phew



Top: the guys paying, and bottom: the group photo. Guess how much it cost per person? RM110++!!!! So, lets thank Modo again... coz I definitely won't spend this much on food! :P

"Modo Technical Symposium '08"

By great 'fortune', my paper was selected to be PRESENTED in this year's Modo Symposium at Equatorial Hotel. And we were also put up for POSTER session. Oops. No dropping by just for lunch this year!



Early morning already had to meet up with the guys and prepare for the Poster session. There are four of us in the paper, so we split the task among ourselves: Fren2 and Raymond manned the poster booth for the morning session, Yasz and I go on stage for oral presentation in the afternoon.


Breakfast time...

With the boss

Inside the main hall. Yawn. Now see a lot of people. After lunch more than half disappears!

The poster hall

Main2 before the crowd comes. Too bad our poster when printed out seemed so different than the PowerPoint version.

So we stand there for 2 hours++ entertaining people and explaining our paper. Mostly entertaining friends la :P WM and LK's booth were just beside and there were so many other friends that day... Hahaha...

Lunch. Gosh, lets forget about lunch. The food, especially the fried rice redefines BAD. Furthermore, feeling the butterflies in the stomach, nervous for the presentation after this. Erk.



Mine was the 3rd presentation after lunch. Man, just before my turn, the butterflies in the stomach spinning like mad. Damn, now I know how Cow, Shawn, LK and the rest felt when they had to present! When I walked up the podium, took the mic, face the audience, I froze. Blank. Shit. :-S But thankfully as I started talking, slowly, the hours of rehearsal began to calm the mind and on we go with the show!


Heheh...

Blablabla

Duno they understand or not...:-S

Amazingly it actually became fun after awhile! And then I handed over to Yasz for the 2nd part...

She was also enjoying the moment!


The Q&A session. Can afford to smile dy :D

When it was finished, felt sooooo lega~~! And for that effort, we got RM30 Sunshine voucher each and a laminated cert.

"Star Wars: Force Unleashed"

Thanks to fellow Jedi Knight Shawn for pointing out the link for ALL THE CUTSCENE and CINEMATICS from the FORCE UNLEASHED game that is available on every other platform except PC. The good thing is, that means we get to know what the story's about without having to go through the game! :D

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:


Part 4:


Part 5:


Part 6: Light Side Ending


Part 6: Dark Side Ending

"The Return!"

This morning was still thinking whether should go to work. The fever seems to have died out, but my whole body felt like just been electrocuted by Palpatine... bzzzttt!! Every step is painful, turning my eyes to the corners also painful. On Friday I was looking through the Dinner & Dance photos with this flu-like symptom. Suddenly I was struggling to open my eyes. Brain processing seems to stop. Thoom. Lie on the bed. Cover with blanket. Shit, it didn't look good.

Next morning see the doctor. High fever. You know how when you have fever, your body starts to feel extremely uncomfortable. Feel cold, yet not cold. Joints aching. Head like gonna explode. Gosh, I was so glad to see the medicine for fever! The only thing is, it takes awhile to kick in! And then you can sleep well. Until the effect goes off, then struggle again! Sleeeeep.... Medicine...... Sleeeep.... Medicine......

2 Days later. Monday. Although sad that weekend gone just like tat, but hey, at least fever's gone..... or did it? No... Fever returned. Knock out again. Sleeeeeep.... Medicine.... Finally eat medicine until finished dy. Antibiotic also finished. Seems like recover dy. Ahh.. Except the part where the body aches like hell! Bzztt!! Ouch.

Btw, this Sunday is Penang Bridge Run. I put myself in for Fun Run category, 10km, no prize one. If the body can still take it, I'm gonna go for it! Starts at 6.30AM, hopefully can get some nice view from atop the bridge! Or maybe in the end just sleep through the whole thing and forget about it. Haha... such interesting times!

One yet another side note, although I was half-dead on Saturday, I still manage to catch Arsenal v Man U. Already a contender for Game of the Season, the quality of football on display was majestic. Of course, Arsenal winning 2-1 made it all the sweeter! Still, full credit to Man U as clearly either side could've won that day. Go Gunners!

"Fever and Flu"

The author is now down with high fever, flu and bacterial rashes on his body. He wishes for speedy recovery so that he can go out and whack some nice kari sembilang and killer pari. Have a nice day.

"Motorola AURA"

Always wanted a Modo phone? Here's one you will like!

It's called Motorola AURA:





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