"Deepak Chopra: Buddha Jesus Muhammad"

New reading material, exploring the 3 major religions in the world...

"Birthday 2011!"

Went to Daorae Korean BBQ restaurant on 22nd Nov to pre-celebrate my birthday for 2011. But we didn't order the BBQ set coz it was too expensive! Hehe, just ordered one meal for each of us.


Ok, I don't look too bad after the fall..hahaha


Wasn't long before they served us the usual starter dishes


Wife's favourite, the kimuchi soup with tofu and pork... served with rice


My fried rice with glass noodles


comes with soup

Then they surprised us by handing out these freebies:

steamed egg..


pancake...


fruits...


and this sweet/ginger-ish desert.

Wow! All for RM40. Really satisfied meal!! :D The next day I had lunch with my colleagues at Kim Gary , utilizing the 50% discount voucher, and had a light japanese dinner at Azuma. Had to drop by TRU, managed to find myself a 2nd Marvel Universe figure:

Darkhawk... ain't he cool? :P

"The trip that was not meant to be..."

Well, things didn't go exactly as planned. I had finished packing on Friday night for the trip to KL, excited and all. But on Saturday 2AM, I woke up to go to the washroom. As I was coming out, I slipped and fell forward, hitting my head on the floor. THUD!! That is one sickening sound! I was just one or two steps away to go back to bed, and now I'm lying on the floor clutching at my bleeding head! Wife was shocked speechless. Drove me to Pantai emergency and had the wound cleaned up. Fortunately, the wound is an abrasion (superficial) and does not require any stitching. More importantly, the Doctor asked if I fainted, or if I had double vision, or blurred vision, any of these and I would need to go for CT scan. Luckily I did not, but if any of these develop over the next few days, it could be a symptom of internal bleeding... :-S

Hey, I don't look too bad rite?


Look again... now I am Two-Face!

Actually, when I bought these tickets a few weeks ago, I had a funny feeling like I was not going to get to sit the bus. Oh well, at least I live to fight another day! And so did Arsenal, who scored an epic 3-5 victory over Chelsea on Saturday nite! I was so happy cheering that I almost forgot that I had injured my arms during the fall! :P

"Happy Mooncake Festival!"

Yesterday morning, some of my frens wished me Happy Mooncake Festival. Then kinda wished that I had a nice piece of mooncake to sink my teeth into. Ok, lets go and buy it after dinner! But sadly, the shop where I wanted to buy mooncake was no longer opened... apa la... spoil the mood only. Wife said, why not try at Sunshine Square? Ok, went there, also cannot find it :( But since we were there, might as well go toy hunting ;)

... and guess what I found :D

Captain America figures!! Untouched!!! Holy crap! In one go, I found ALL the figures I'm looking for~~~ Hit the jackpot! Strike gold! Hahaa...:D

Then Wife asked the cashier if they sell mooncakes (oh ya, in my excitement, I totally forgotten why we were here) and she said the counter is near the shampoo area. And there it was, the last stall, closing dy. we quickly grabbed one piece. Mission accomplished :)

Our haul...


All 3 Hydra soldiers... perfect for army building!


by KLT :P


Pearly Jade Mooncake flavour.... yummm~~~~ ^_^

"A sign of times"

A year ago, we usually ordered 3 dishes for dinner and that would cost us below RM25 for 2 person.

A few months ago, we downgraded and ordered 2 dishes and 1 fried rice for dinner. That costs below RM20 for 2 person.

Just now we ordered only 1 dish and 1 fried rice for dinner. That costs RM13 for 2 person.

Haha... a sign of times indeed! :-S

"Stress-relieving post!"

After a very exhausting week, here's a stress-relieving post!

1) Macross

Starting with my current display piece, Macross Quarter! Seldom transform it due to the very stuff joints... but I like to leave it in Attack mode, holding his massive cannon :D

I thought it might be fun to see how far we've gone with Macross along the road:



Macross Frontier collection!

... and Yamato's side of the story: From Macross Zero, DYRL and Macross Plus! Macross collection is very very expensive (if you do a quick math, each one roughly costs RM600-700), but it gives the most satisfaction :P

2) Star Wars

And my favourite trio from Star Wars Clone Wars Season 3! The season finale was aired last week, overall some really nice episodes and some really terrible ones. But it's nice to see Ashoka maturing into a fine Jedi, unlike the annoying character we saw earlier. Anakin has also become much more reserved as the war drags on, and as we see from his uniform above, reflects his character in Episode 3.

Also, I've decided not to buy by carton for the Vintage collection. This means I'm very unlikely to complete the collection... but hey, money is a premium, and I don't really need updates to characters which I already have. Here are a few managed to grab from TRU from time to time:

and more random Clone Wars figures

3) Souveniours

First, from the Champions League trophy tour... the Carlsberg ladies took these Polaroid pictures for everyone... and I took two :P

And a nice little souvenior from Zoe who came back from Japan business trip, prior to nuclear leak, of course.

"Summer Place Condo"

This is the new condo which interest me the most... called Summer Place, just recently obtained OC:



Contains 3 towers



Guard house



Entry to each tower requires security access card



Multi-level carpark. Each unit gets 2 car parks, which is rare in Penang!



Swimming pool



Playground



3 lifts to service 12 units per floor



Corridor



One of the units we visited... there are different types available



This is the 1012 sq ft type... cheapest :P



Kitchen for the 1109 sq ft type... forgot to take one of the 1012 sq ft, but it is one or more tile lesser in width



It has a dry yard... could be problematic as people can climb in from outside..!



Master room



Master room's toilet.. the nice thing is that it already comes with the glass panel



Bedroom 2



Bedroom 3... very small.. potential candidate to be converted into the Museum! :P



Common toilet.. both toilet seems pretty small I feel...



The best part is the balcony! Depending on which tower and which unit, you can get the Penang bridge view....



Or the jetty view...



Or the most expensive.. swimming pool view!

So... why don't buy it yet?

1) Price skyrocketed from RM 395K to 420K, depending on view! Original developer price was starting from RM298K, which is almost RM100K increase..........

2) Leasehold... left 97 years...

Sigh...property in Penang has really become the playground of speculators and investors, driving property to ridiculous prices... :( Pity those of us who really want to buy for own stay. The saddest part is that I could actually have bought it from the developer TWICE at cost price... double SIGHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~~

"Car handle stolen!!"

Wouldn't you believe it... someone stole my car handle!!

No wonder the car doors were unlocked when I wanted to go to work last Monday... sigh.. this is the problem of parking by the roadside :-S Nothing seemed taken though... actually, there's nothing worth taking anyways :P

And just came back from workshop... spent RM100 to get a replacement handle.. which is black in color! Haha.. well, as long as it covers the gaping hole. What a unique CNY gift!