Month: June 2008

Shop Safely Online

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Many people like to shop online these days. I’m one of them also. It’s so convenient to shop online because you can shop anytime you want, anywhere you are and get the item send to your doorstep. Sometimes we have to shop online because the things we need aren’t available locally or we could get it online with cheaper price even after including the shipping fee. With the petrol price increase nowadays, many people try to stay home as much as they can to reduce the petrol usage. Therefore shopping online seems to be a very good option.

Many people are not confident in shopping online because they are afraid of credit card fraud and indentity fraud. Identity fraud getting rampant nowadays be it offline or online. There are many unscrupulous companies that sell your information to third parties and this explains why everyday we got so many phone calls from telemarketers trying to sell you their products or scammers calling you up trying to scam you.

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Tech Stuffs

The Two Bananas

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^*^$%$% I wanted to pay for my first installment and 2 exam fees but why la make me pay for my second installment with my payment!!! Now I have to pay extra this month for the exam fees again! SUCKS! Supposed to be spending RM1300 this month and now I have to fork out another RM300 for my exam fee! You know RM300 can do a lot of things in a month or not!??! Damn it! Ever since the first day I attended class, you guys kept messing up my payments!

Went to Two Bananas for lunch. It’s located at Jalan Keretapi. Will show you the location map later.


I notice it quite sometimes ago but always forget about it hahaha…


Left: The name is quite funny and the menu… I’m so sorry… I just can’t stop giggling when I see the two bananas. Hehehe… You know what I’m thinking? *LOL* As if they are trying to outdo each other :p I mean it just seemed so wrong to me *LOL* *SMACK HEAD* Excuse me but these two are male bananas!! OK! OK! Enough!

Right: Barley lemon and ice lemon tea, both RM2, quite small glass.


Left: Thai Chicken with Rice(RM4.50), so sweet… I had difficulty finishing it. I never like food like this, don’t know how to explain *LOL* the two pictures above is enough to explain the kind of food I don’t like. I always try to avoid ordering food like this, it’s just too boring and nothing special, I always not satisfied after eating this type of food. Picky, picky…

Right: Kam Hiong Sotong with Rice(RM5), first few bites of the sotong wasn’t bad but too much of it, it’s pretty salty!!

Overall, food price I think it is not so bad, pretty standard for place with air-conditioning but I don’t see the food has anything much to rave about. Just so-so to me, at least for the food that I had. Other food, I don’t know, don’t have such money and luxury to try out more.


The location map I promised.

Food Porn

Green Heights Mall

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Sigh… There you go… My nightmare begins… I was invited for a food tasting this afternoon but because of my class I can’t go 🙁


I didn’t want to loss out so I went to Green Heights Mall yesterday. This is the latest mall in Kuching. If you are expecting it to be another big one, you’re so wrong, it’s so small. Very small that meant to be for those staying nearby instead of huge mall like tHe Spring or Boulevard. When everyone is trying to build the biggest mall, this one stands out by just being the smallest one.


The opening ceremony was over when I reached there. Coffee Bean isn’t open for business yet. So do other shops, you can even count with your 5 fingers.


Left: Cold Storage is finally here in Kuching. I had surveyed some of the stuffs there. Some of them are slightly expensive compare to other places. They have lots of imported food that I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere in Kuching before. They aren’t cheap of course. There’s a cheese section, wow… See the stock of cheese, I’ve never seen so many different types of cheese before. At the meat section, they have meats that are marinated and nicely presented, don’t be fool by the cheap prices you see, it’s actually displayed based on per gram instead of kilo hahaha…

Right: Desserts, the third branch in Kuching, it’s expanding really fast.


Left: The only escalator you can find.

Right: Second floor has nothing yet. Only 4 stalls are opened. The rest still not open for business.


Left: They try to bring in the natural light with this.

Right: Random shoot of the decorations hanging from the ceiling.


Left: View of a section of Cold Storage taken from the second floor.

Right: Guardian is having special offers now. If you buy more than RM80 worth of products, you get a goodie bags! I got it and there’re lots of samples in there. Great for my trip to Penang this October. If you buy more than RM50, you can get RM5 discount with the voucher available on the flyer they’re giving out.

It seemed like most people went there and ended up with bags and bags of stuffs. Business seemed pretty good hahaha…

Uniquely Kuching

Here In My Home

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I know… I know…I’m extremely late in posting this. Anyway, it’s better than never, enjoy the music video. Ponder upon it.

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This muisc video was introduced few months back if I’m not mistaken. I never have the chance to watch it because everytime I wanted to watch it, it just didn’t want to load. Even if it loaded, there’s no sound coming out or it would only load for few seconds and not moving anymore. Finally yesterday it works!

Some said that the video is sensitive, I don’t see it… Hmm…

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Interesting

The Chasing Dreams

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Currently running out of things to blog 😛 Actually have some photos but quite lazy to do them hehehe… It’s been a while not posting random things like this.

Why blog about dreams? Actually I dreamt of something few nights ago and oh my it’s was really adventurous, it’s as if I’m watching a movie starring me in there! Hahaha… Anyway, let’s go to some dream patterns that I’ve been having for 26 years of my life. ARG! I’m 26 -.-” 4 more years to the BIG 3-0!! OH NO!!! 😛

I always have dreams in colours. I don’t think I remember any black & white dream. I always got dreams with bad guys chasing after me but at the end I always managed to get away from them. I noticed a pattern in this kind of dream of mine. The story line is always almost the same but the bad guys and the surroundings are different. I always got this kind of dream after I’m done with my stress instead of during the time I’m stressed. That explains why I always manage to escape from them hahaha…

When I was a kid:
I always dreamt of me being chased by monsters or some robots and I was running away from them at colourful places. I was actually wearing some cute clothings hahaha… I even ran away from them by floating inside a bubbles, running up colourful stairs, hiding in colourful mazes and, and flying away with a balloon. All the cute and colourful stuffs except the bad guys were very ugly.

When I was in my early teenage years:
I would have dream being chased by monster, you know those monster we usually watched in Ultraman, Power Rangers and so on. I don’t remember what I’m wearing though. I would be running around hiding and escaping from them at home, at school or some unknown places with staircase. They are not that colourful and cute anymore but still had colours.

When I was in my late teenage years and in my early 20’s:
I would dream that I’m being chased by bad human be it men or women instead of monsters. I would be wearing casual clothings ranging from jeans to skirts. It’s always places with staircase. I could jump from one place to another without logic. It could be in a house and suddenly in a garden or then out of sudden to somewhere like the beach and so on. It’s never logical, it’s scattered everywhere.

Now…:
I’m would be wearing some formal clothings like office wears, power suits, heels, you know… Corporate clothings. I would be in full make up, hair well managed and so on. I would be chased at places like hotels or shopping malls or office, basement carpark, lifts, staircase, in the middle of the a metropolitan and highrise buildings. Now, I’m not alone but with people helping me to escape even undercover policewomen or even spies and we all dressed up so nicely while running away hahaha… This time, I don’t have to always run as there would be a vehicle at least for me to escape, then run again, vehicle again hahaha…

OMG! Hahaha… See the patterns? Interesting right?

Me, myself and I, Randomness