Month: August 2008

Celcom Blackberry Night @ Boulevard

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Photos will come later. I’ll give my feedback about it first. Just got back from it one hour ago, I couldn’t stay till the end as I was tagging along with my folks as they wanted to do some shopping there. Didn’t expect to stay so long there.

Let’s talk about the good part:

  • It’s refreshing to have this kind of party
  • We got to move around freely to take pictures, thanks to that πŸ˜‰
  • The decor wasn’t so bad
  • Sound system was good
  • Lighting wasn’t bad, I got many good pictures
  • The Wii competition was interesting but I was lazy to play πŸ˜›
  • The effort for bringing in bloggers is GOOD! Sadly not many turned up though.
  • The catwalk was a refreshing twist

The part that needs improvements and I’ll give some suggestions, hope you don’t mind since you guys said that we can talk about it whether it’s good or bad:

  • Bloggers were lost, they didn’t really know how to get started
  • As I said when on the stage, we were all expecting there’s few units of Blackberry(sorry that I blurted “Blueberry”, didn’t mean it, it just slipped out as I was thinking about food just now coz I was hungry πŸ˜› Blueberry cheesecake please…) on display and let us test it out and let us do live blogging with it so that we can brag about it hahaha… Indirect publicity! You might get some people sign up on the spot! Most of us were looking high and low for it but instead there were only two laptops. I brought my laptop along and I didn’t use it because I have no idea about the availability of WiFi. Also, at least there’s something interesting to do instead of just sitting there listening to songs and taking photos.
  • There is not many information about Celcom Blackberry and we can’t blog much about it. It would be great with goodie bags that includes some Celcom merchandises and brochures about it. In fact, we were expecting at least something like this.
  • Someone left a message in KuchingBloggers.com chatbox saying that bloggers that bring laptops will have goodies awaiting(refer here)… Hmm… I don’t think I got any except going up to the stage for a tube of chocolate with a cute Mr. Bean’s bear keychain. Well… Maybe later in the night but anyway I didn’t stay till the end of it. I might be wrong.

By the way, to Albert(one of the photographers there) if you read this, I’m so sorry that I actually forgot to say bye to you even though you are so near to me, in fact just next to me. My mind was blank that time after coming down from the stage as the staircase leading up the stage was shaky and I was still in a stage of shock with the shakiness(I’m afraid of shakiness especially if the platform is high with nothing that I can hold on to), and was in a rush too, I only remembered to say bye to the bloggers -.-” So sorry about that, do keep in touch. Also I couldn’t recognise you, it’s been a while not seeing you, you looked familiar to me but I just couldn’t recall who.

To wrap up this post, I would like to thank all those that involved for including us. πŸ™‚

From My Angle, Public Events

Scotch Haggis

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Scotch Haggis, traditional haggis in a skin but it’s more like traditional haggis in a plastic. My sis bought this from UK because her friend told her it’s nice *LOL* My mom decided to cook it few weeks back and we were thinking it might be some kind of sausage, who knows when we opened the can, OH DEAR! How do we eat this?!?!

We quickly did a search on the net and found this in wiki:

Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish.

There are many recipes, most of which have in common the following ingredients: sheep’s ‘pluck’ (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for approximately three hours.

Haggis somewhat resembles stuffed intestines (pig intestines otherwise known as chitterlings or the kokoretsi of traditional Greek cuisine), sausages and savoury puddings of which it is among the largest types. As the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique puts it, “Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour.” (p592)

Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a casing rather than an actual stomach.

Ok… What’s next?!?!


We searched for the recipe *LOL* Still ended up confused as we didn’t have all those ingredients and my dad won’t want to eat anything “new” if you get what I mean πŸ˜› So we decided just to heat is by steaming it and cut it open and eat the inside just like that. It doesn’t look very appetising don’t you think so? Hahaha…

It tasted like combed beef hahaha… FYI, this is made in Scotland and it’s from all the parts of pork πŸ˜›

Anyway that’s our adventure with haggis. Here’s some ways to serve Haggis in case you still don’t get, got these from caledoniankitchen.com:

At many Bed and Breakfast establishments in Scotland, haggis is served for breakfast as a part of the wonderful “Full Scottish Breakfast”. You can usually find eggs, porridge, bacon, haggis, black pudding, kippers, tomatoes, scones, pastries, toast, as well as all the great jams and marmalades Scotland is famous for in that tremendous breakfast. Additionally, Haggis goes beautifully with scrambled eggs or over toast points on a more continental style of breakfast.

My Kitchen

Java Juices For Second Round Dinner!

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*LOL* Never in my life I did that hehehe… I didn’t know I can have second round dinner. I had just finished my dinner 15 minutes before Lee and I went to Java Juices. Summore ordered such filling dishes! Hahaha… It’s my second time there.


Now, they have WiFi available and they are grade A eatery. They don’t serve pork but they are not halal. It’s located at the same row as Madaya. If you still don’t know, just drive to Hock Lee, don’t turn into Hock Lee, drive straight up over the bridge, then go straight again, take note of the shops on your left, you will see it there. There’s a gym upstair, Muscle for Fitness, if I’m not mistaken, it belongs to the same management.

Girls! If you wanna feast your eyes πŸ˜› You can go there and hang out at night hahaha… Anyway, to me… They are just not my type though they have nice bodies, still not my type! Hahaha… Not interested. *LOL*

Don’t be fool by the photo as it looked empty, we were there around 8pm, there was only one couple there. Later after 9pm, so many people came for dinner! WOW! It seemed like this place is great for having late dinner huh? It’s not the youngsters but families! Surprise!


Each table has these. Yeap.. Semboi, your eyes didn’t fool you. You can have as much as you want, no charge hahaha… However, I didn’t have any, this kind of semboi just not my type. I don’t like.


We ordered a jug of juice which is only RM6.80. We ordered Kiwi, not a very good choice. It’s not pure kiwi drink I think… More like syrup. Besides kiwi, you can have papaya milk, watermelon, passion fruit juice, pink guava juice, pineapple juice, ,mixed fruits juice, or honeydew juice. This jug can share among 3-4 person. It’s really worth it.


Beef Baked Cheese Spaghetti (RM9.80), you can opt for chicken meat if you don’t eat beef. I would give this 3.5 stars over 5. The portion is quite big, you can share with 2-3 persons. I managed to finished this whole plate even though I just had dinner not too long ago *LOL* Lee tried some and most I ate. I didn’t expect I could actually finish it up with nothing left except the oil πŸ˜›


Cheezy Fish(RM13.80), according to the menu, it’s authentic fish & chip with something special *LOL* I have no idea how authentic it was though as fish & chip is never really my type of food. πŸ˜› The top is actually melted cheese, nothing special. I would say 2.5 over 5 stars.

That’s all for the night. It’s been a long time not dining out with Lee. Don’t even say other friends of mine that we used to hang out with. Don’t know when will we have the chance to see everyone turns up, it’s been quite a while. Lots of catching need to do yo~

All photos taken with my new camera and all of them had their curves adjusted because I didn’t change any setting to the preset manual mode of the camera. It’s quite a surprise this camera can perform quite well under low light condition.

Food Porn

Do You Think You Are Nuts?

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I’m nuts about Reader’s Digest. I don’t read anything else but this. I will never miss it. Other magazines can come and go but I’ve been reading this for more than 10 years! Every month, never fail.

Here’s one interesting article that I would like to share with you, it’s called Are You Normal or Nuts? Don’t worry if you don’t have a copy, you can always read it online. Go read Are You Normal or Nuts? and then come back here to share your views with me will you?

As many people know, I’m afraid of snake or anything long, slimy and without legs. EWWW!! This is defintely normal, so I’m not nuts. It’s just like you are scare of rats, spiders, cockcroaches and so on.

How about this? One pretty odd one of mine, I would be squeamish when wet hair stuck to my body or hand when I’m wet like when having shower and washing my hair. I must quickly remove them else I feel very uncomfortable. Talking about me with long hair and hair fall is quite common when washing. πŸ˜› I don’t mind dry hair that fall but the wet hair that sticks to me really makes me squirm. So? Is this nuts?

I found this one pretty interesting quirks in the article:

I cannot eat certain big, tricky-to-bite things in front of people unless I know them very well. Facing a huge sandwich at a business lunch is a nightmare. And a floppy wet salad on a date? Forget it. That’s odd, no?

Do you feel this? I’m sure many of us feel this way too! Hehehe… I’m one of them. So are we nuts? Of course not, we just want to take care of our image ;p With those that I know well, don’t care it’s male or female, I don’t care, I’ll just eat as much as I like, no matter how messy it is hehehe…

Just go read the article and find out more. You will know you are not nuts but normal.

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Interesting

Kuching Festival 2008 – Part 3

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Let’s see more food from Kuching Festival. These were taken last Sunday, we bought the food home for dinner. The photos are pretty yellowish because that’s the original lighting of my house and I didn’t use flash. I only use macro to take these photos.


These are o kueh(yam kueh) and pumpkin kueh *LOL* Don’t know how to call them with proper name πŸ˜› This is how we called them at home.


Left: Pineapple rice again… I usually ended up buying pineapple rice if I can’t decide what I want to buy hahaha… The one from Bangkok Thai is still the best. This is from another Thai restaurant because Bangkok Thai’s stall was packed!
Right: Penang assam laksa. Not so bad just that the weather was hot and humid, eating this was really torturing! πŸ˜›


Left: Fried emperor noodle, so small portion, so not nice.
Right: Cuttlefish with sweet chilli sauce. Yumm…


Left: Belacan beehoon is belancan beehoon :P.
Right: I don’t remember what this is called, in Chinese it’s “guo tieh”, hahaha… Something like fried dumpling. Not nice.

Last Sunday was my fourth time there. It’s always very hot and humid there. Lazy to go even though it’s quite near to my place hahahah…

Food Porn, Uniquely Kuching