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Month: June 2008

Dinner @ Pondok Laguna @ Crown Square

Posted on June 20, 2008November 21, 2008 By sweet surrender 8 Comments on Dinner @ Pondok Laguna @ Crown Square

Made a last minute decision to have dinner at Pondok Laguna, an Indonesian restaurant at Crown Square. Never been there so went there armed with our RM50 voucher that we got hahaha… Means we’re there to eat for FREE πŸ˜› One meal for RM50 for 2 persons it’s a bit too much I guess *BLEK* Don’t care! We’re going to try as much food as we can at the end, we only spent RM48+, we thought it would be more than RM50. That’s because they only charged 5% GST. There… RM50 voucher gone… Hahaha…


It’s quite seclude, sandwiched between two shops at the ground floor. If you don’t pay attention to it, you won’t notice it. You’ll see it when you make your entrance at the other entrance at Mr. Ho’s.


The interior. You can opt to use one of the 3 private rooms but reservation is required. I quite like interior but a bit too dark for taking pictures.


Left: This snack, keropok, cost RM3, we didn’t manage to finish it, was so stuffed. It tasted quite nice. It’s served to you once you’ve done your order, it’s not free. Maybe if you dont want, you can ask them to take it away, then you won’t be charge, not sure about this πŸ˜› Or RM3 is table charge no matter you want it or not.
Right: Carrot juice(RM4) and Avocado juice(RM6), these are real juice! They are thick and yummy.


Left: Standard cutlery, fork and spoon. They provided napkin instead of serviette.

Right: Sate Kambing(RM8.50), lamb satay the Indonesian style. You don’t get the usual peanut gravy. The gravy is spicy!!! If you cannot stand spicy food, I won’t recommend this to you. It’s quite tasty but my stomach cannot really stand the chili, after the first stick, I felt like my stomach started to cramp due to the spiciness. Only 8 sticks per plate.


Nasi Timbel(RM2 each), rice wrapped in banana leaf. I would recommend you to order this rice rather than the plain rice which is also RM2 because it’s different and it’s so cute πŸ˜› Kinda sticky and tough though but once you mixed it with a bit of the soup or the gravy, it’s OK.


Left: Gado Gado(RM6), mixed veggie with peanut sauce(think of our local satay gravy :P), the mixed veggies were blanched and served with peanut sauce. I always heard this in TV but never know how it looked and tasted like hahaha… Now I know.

Right: Soto Bandung(RM7), sliced beef with mixed vegetable and tang hoon soup. Nothing much to rave about this.


Left: Rendang Daging(RM8), beef rendang. Portion very small, 6 cubes only. It’s considered spicy for those that cannot tolerate spicy food.

Right: The menu.

All these food can actually feed about 3-4 persons hahaha… We were so stuffed and left some Gado Gado, a stick of lamb satay and the keropok behind. I should have dabao the keropok! I’m not sure how good is their business, it’s was so empty when we were there -.-” Are we seeing another food establishment that going to close door soon?

Frankly, the food are quite reasonably priced and the environment is very nice too. A great place to go with friends and family. Splitting cost is the best way to save πŸ™‚

Food Porn

Doing The Karen Cheng

Posted on June 19, 2008June 20, 2008 By sweet surrender 11 Comments on Doing The Karen Cheng

LOL… I’m sure most of you know what is this. If you don’t then you might want to check Doing The Karen Cheng out. I’ve been camwhoring inside the fitting room ever since I have a digital camera but I never post about it in my blog. I’m sure many girls like to do this, camwhore in the fitting room, toilet or anywhere with mirror or anything that can reflect hahaha…

It happened that Karen also did this very often and she posted it a lot in her blog and she has many readers that actually e-mail them their camwhoring photos, so she started this group. Why didn’t I think of it?!?! πŸ˜› Else you’ll see Doing The Irene Law instead πŸ˜› Hahaha… Joking…

You wondering who is Karen Cheng? She’s a Perth based blogger, she’s a mommy of 2 and she’s HOT! Her husband is one lucky husband. I always visit her blog when I’m free.

I decided to join this group in Facebook just for the fun of it. I’m out of thing to blog and found some photos that I had taken from 2006-2008, so might as well share it with you hahaha… Another reason for me to post my photos πŸ˜› Vain I know… I usually use my mobile phone because it has auto-focus feature that I won’t worry about having shaky photos.

Here you go… Just filter some out hehehe…

All taken this year.
(L-R)
Taken at Crown Square, forgot the name of the boutique. It’s too low cut and I don’t have huge boobs for it:P That black thing in the middle is my bra *LOL*

Taken at G2000 during their opening at tHe Spring, trying it out for fun, not intended to buy, I don’t need this kind of clothing as I’m not an executive πŸ˜› It’s not cheap too.

The rest all taken at Nicole at tHe Spring. Hmm… Not buying also, I don’t wear pricey clothings… No money… Wanna sponsor me?


(L-R)
Mom found this dress from one of the boutiques at Hock Lee and asked me to try it out, it’s nice but too bad too big for me πŸ˜› It’s size S and it’s still too big for me!! *LOL* Psst… My dream wedding gown would look something like this hahaha… You’ll just have to wait till that day but I don’t think it will be any sooner *LOL* My prince hasn’t arrive yet hahaha… 10 years more maybe…

Got my hair coloured this year and after the colouring, I got the most expensive haircut in my entire life!

Both dresses taken at one of the boutiques at Wisma Saberkas last year. Tried both and ended buying the first one which I wore on the first day of CNY this year.


(L-R)
Had my hair permed last year.

The black and yellow tops, taken at Tun Jugah Urban & Co., I LOVE the clothes there but they are too expensive for me πŸ™ I was shopping for 2006 CNY clothings.

At bing!’s washroom πŸ˜› Hehehe… The full length mirror with my brother’s phone as my camera was sent for repair. I was there for a bloggers’ meet in 2006.

2006, got my hair coloured for the first time, it took me 6 hours(3 hours per day) sitting at the salon. -.-”

OK… That’s all. πŸ˜›

Girl Stuffs, Me, myself and I

I Overheat My XPS M1530!

Posted on June 18, 2008June 18, 2008 By sweet surrender 17 Comments on I Overheat My XPS M1530!

I’m on XPS now!! Actually can use yesterday already πŸ˜› Only update now hahaha…

The tech support came to fix it at 11.30am-1.30pm, yesterday. He unscrewed everything and replaced the motherboard. There’s some scratches but not so bad, the deepest is the one near the XPS logo near the on/off button… Oh well… What to do? This design is different from normal laptop, it’s not easy to take out everything. Want to see the parts? πŸ˜› I took some photos when he dismantled everything, didn’t take all because I didn’t want to disturb him working *LOL* Just took some that were closer to me.


The “dead” motherboard.


One unknown part and DVD drive.


The scratch. Poor baby… *sob sob*

All photos taken with my phone πŸ˜›

The verdict!?!? OVERHEAT!!! WAH PIANG! For the first time I used a laptop until overheat! Motherboard replaced. I’m only using it for about 2 months and I heated it up so badly! πŸ˜› I guess I’m too hot for the laptop to handle *LOL*

I know this model heat up very fast from the reviews I read, I didn’t expect I could actually kill it in such short span of time. I still can’t believe what I did! Hahaha… I think I have to go out and hunt for a fan for it *LOL* Else we’ll be seeing another overheat episode from Sweet Surrender and I will become Dell’s regular customer for motherboard replacement, sure will get blacklist :P.

Tech Stuffs

My 1001th Post

Posted on June 17, 2008November 21, 2008 By sweet surrender 7 Comments on My 1001th Post

It’s my 1001th post for using WordPress!!! *CLAP CLAP CLAP* πŸ˜› My 1000th post is taken up by a sponsor hahaha… So I can only announce it on my 1001th post *LOL*

I hope the tech support from Dell will come today… I hope it can be fixed on the spot. All my latest data are in there, I can’t do much with my old laptop except doing things that I have copies online, those not stored online, it’s all in XPS. *SWEAT*

On this 1001th post, I’m going to tell you that I’m jinxed to the max!! Sigh… Every single gadget that is belonged to me and bought by me will sure have problem during its lifetime. This XPS is less than 3 month old only ok?!?!? Don’t ask me to go into the BIOS, I totally cannot even see a startup screen, how to go into BIOS? It happened after Windows update. It must be caused by the stupid Windows update. Just one update and that’s it, how “lucky” am I? I hope I’m not going to be charged with maintenance fee later. I hope they will come today! Must come today!!! Else I’m going to file a complain because the tech support told me yesterday that he’ll “most probably” send one over today. Do they keep their words or not? I’m not so sure with the “most probably” hmm…

So far, Dell tech support is good but their warranty team and customer service team are BAD! I was asking about extended warranty and it took them more than one week to reply me after I pressured the tech support team for the extended warranty quotation. Then when I got it, I have some parts that I’m not so sure and want to seek clarificiations but no respond from them for more than two weeks. During this period of time, I sent 4 e-mails containing the same questions and the quotation expired also.

Then I decided to just take up the offer given in the quotation that it will upgrade my current warranty and extend my warranty for another 2 years. I e-mailed them again asking whether the quotation still valid or not but no respond at all!!! How am I going to pay you when you don’t repsond to me?!?! I don’t want to pay and then later telling me that the quotation is no longer valid and need me to add on money for it again! This is so not right. Till now, I’m still stuck with this one year limited warranty thanks to the warranty team! “Lucky” me, there’s a problem now! If they are going to charge me for it, I will going to make sure Dell is going to compensate me for all the stress and time wasted! How am I going to do it? Blog big big about it? πŸ˜› I don’t know… It’s not like I’m having 10K visitors per day hahaha…

We’ll wait and see… Still waiting for the tech support call to come over. Hmmm…

Let’s see how bad I’m jinxed:
1. My first laptop, Toshiba (don’t remember the model but it was pretty high end that cost about RM5K+), it “electrocuted” me whenever I typed. -.-” At the end, they refunded me fully as they cannot replace it, the model was no longer in production and it’s a factory defect, that’s what they said. All happened in 2 weeks time.

2. My second laptop, the one I’m using now, NEC also cost RM5K but slightly few hundreds cheaper than Toshiba with specification so much lower than Toshiba gave me problem in less than one week with the screen! My screen was “sliced” into half by a vertical blue line -.-” Sent it to repair. Two weeks later, it’s done but there were huge ugly scratches on my casing, it was so ugly! I demanded them to replace the whole unit to me but they said they could only change new casing for me. It took them another 2 weeks or so because they need to ship the casing over.

3. My home PC, I decided on the specs and it gave problem too not long after we used it.

4. My current camera, Canon Ixus i zoom, battery contact problem ever since the first time I used. Solved and using it until now. More than 2 years already.

5. XPS… Elaborated just now.

All these are the gadgets I owned so far since 2003. At least my mobile phone never give me any problem. I only have 2 mobile phones so far. My previous Canon Ixus was OK too because it’s not bought by me and I’m not the one choosing it also.

That’s why if people ask me to recommend eletronical gadgets, I won’t say too much. I never want to help anyone buy any gadget also. I’m very “lucky” with them *LOL* Hmm… Next time my DSLR, I think I better don’t go buy it myself, I’ll ask people to help me buy hahaha…

Bulletin Board, Me, myself and I, Tech Stuffs

Guess Who In Sunday Papers?

Posted on June 16, 2008June 16, 2008 By sweet surrender 14 Comments on Guess Who In Sunday Papers?

Update: I tried to call Dell again and after all the possible diagnosis on the phone, they have to send a technician over tomorrow. The tech support was blur about it also, never he encounter such problem *LOL* At least he assured me it’s not my hard disk problem, I’m so relieved. For the time being, have to make use of this old laptop, hang… Hang… Hang… Wait… Wait… Wait… TOLD YOU I’M JINXED!!! No matter how good the gadget is, as long that I’m the one buying it, I’m the one using it, there would surely be at least one problem πŸ™

SHIT SHIT SHIT! MY XPS is now in huge trouble! It can’t startup!!! It kept accessing the DVD drive, it sounded like Transformer and no loading of Windows -.-” I tried to slot a Dell driver CD in and thought might be able to prompt the screen to show something but to no avail and worst it cannot be ejected!! *CRY* Called Dell support and all the agents were busy and waiting for them to call me back. Now using old laptop… Hang, hang, hang… I almost want to reformat everything from this old laptop and fully use the new one, luckily I didn’t. OMG! WHAT HAPPEN!!! Yesterday was fine. Before I shut down, Windows update itself and this morning cannot startup πŸ™

Anyway, let’s go back to the main topic…
Hehehehe… For the first time so many of us appear in the newspapers yesterday hehehe… Let’s see:

Can you spot us? πŸ˜› See the four arrows?

Top: Shen(right) and I(left).

Bottom: Jimmy(left) and Edwin(right).

It’s about Mummycare Baby-in-Walker Driving Contest 2008 in TheSundayPost. We were invited to cover the event πŸ˜‰

The highlight of the day!! Guess who’s on the first page of Postmag? Looks familiar? No? Hahaha…

It’s Edwin and his son! I got a bit of shock when I saw it hehehe… WAH! First page, cover page summore.

When am I going to have this opportunity? πŸ˜› Hahaha… Joking. I don’t think I want to hahaha… Too much exposure πŸ˜›

Me, myself and I, Randomness

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