Year: 2008

Toy & Anime Convention at tHe Spring

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Went to tHe Spring yesterday to find out about the Toy & Anime Convention. Goodness gracious! You called this convention?!?!? More like toy fair and only one small portion for anime, so misleading. Lots of toys on sale with discount up to 50%, is there 70%? No idea… Didn’t really go tru’ them.

There’s a remote control car track for remote control car lovers to play with.


There’s a new game called Nerf, some sort of like laser tag or paintball but this is using soft bullets. They have a Nerf Gun shooting ground that you can play for free. There’s even cards or block games like UNO or Jenga for you to play on the spot.


More toys and there’s also a small section for you to taste some drinks and junk food. If you are thirsty or hungry, go get some free food and drinks samples there πŸ˜›


This is the small section by SAMS of Swinburne. The so called anime section, just this small section. The figurines were so nice!! It’s not cheap, the students had invested a lot in it, it’s their hobby and they are showcasing their collection at tHe Spring.

If you would like to get toys or see these figurines, you can always go to tHe Spring on 20th-31st August from 10am-9pm.

Public Events

Jambu With Patrick

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Today is 20082008, someone’s birthday today hahaha…

Patrick came back to Kuching for a short stay before heading back to UK. Since he’s leaving on Thursday, we met up with him last night at Jambu after several changes of time :P. I went there with Allen. It’s my first time go to Jambu. It’s a really nice place albeit a bit spooky hehehe…


The place is too dark to take any nice photo especially the signboard, summore it’s located quite far away from the entrance. Located at Crookshank Road, just road side before you reach Civic Centre. We sat at the back which is outdoor, you can see the settees with very colourful cushions.


Left: Just outside the washroom.
Right: At one of the corridor.


Left: In the ladies hehehe… Lots of mirror, camwhored a bit in there until the guys thought that I fell into the toilet πŸ˜› The toilet is so fancy and so clean *LOL*
Right: One of the decor just next to the flush button.


Left: Potpourri just below the sink.
Right: Some spices as decor above the sink.


L-R:
Nachos beef(RM20), a moderate portion served with Mozzarella, Jalapenos, Guacamole and sour cream. It’s really tasty, recommended. Great for sharing.

Patrick ordered some beers(RM9 per mug), he drank it himself of course hahaha. Even if he ordered for us, I won’t be drinking, I can’t drink hahaha… I just don’t understand what’s so nice about beer also hahaha…

I ordered Pina Colada(RM10), Patrick thought it’s alcoholic drink πŸ˜› Hehehehe… Nuh~ This is the non-alcoholic version, it’s a mixture of pineapple, coconut milk topped with French Creme, I think it’s very nice, sour and at the same time the coconut milk and French creme gave balance to it, this is a very sinful drink I should say.

Allen ordered banana milkshake but apparently the bananas weren’t ripe yet, still hanging on the tree and they didn’t tell him about it until he asked for his banana. So he ended up ordered Yellow Jacket(RM10), a drink with mixture of pineapple, orange, and lemon. Sounds very sour right? According to him, it’s sour!! πŸ˜›


Left: Some of the decor you can see from the window before going to the back.
Right: The view of the restaurant before going in.


More views of the building.


Group photo, it’s very hard to get nice colour photo in such dark place. Thanks to Patrick, he paid for everything. Nice meeting you.

Food Porn, Personal Events

Some Extras From Ten Ichi

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Since these few months, I had been getting bad/unfortunate news from my friends, it’s like a chain reaction. Sigh… Life is so fragile, unexpected, short, twisted etc. I can’t do much to help them but can only pray for them. May God bless all of you.

Was supposed to post this up long time ago but lazy πŸ˜› Anyway, just to show you some extra stuffs from Ten Ichi that you can get. I don’t know their real names though, I’ll just use common names hehehe…


Left: I don’t remember what’s this πŸ˜› It’s a kind of fish dish with potato salad. The fish is quite salty and it’s meant for eating with rice.
Right: Grilled sardine if I’m not mistaken. In fact this is not the local sardine, it’s imported and the flesh is nicer from the local one. I don’t like local sardine, as for this, it’s not that bad still I don’t really like to eat fish with lots of bones πŸ˜›


Fried ice cream. The ball is big. It’s different from what you get at food fair. It’s only RM3.50 if not mistaken. The ice cream is just the usual ice cream that you can get from the market. If only they can provide the filling with Japanese ice cream that they make themselves. That would be really special and of course price would be higher but I think for people that know how to appreciate it, they will think it’s worth it to spend this kind of money.

That’s all for the day πŸ˜‰

Food Porn

Photos of Celcom Blackberry Night @ Boulevard

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Here’s the photos that I took last night. My new camera made my life easier. I don’t have to spend too much time on taking steady photos.


This fair is located just outside of Boulevard. I think it will go on until the end of August.


You can “throw” your money here if you like πŸ˜‰


This is the latest addition to Boulevard Mall. Children can play here but parents please keep an eye on your children and don’t leave them there playing alone.


This is the highlight of the night, BandItogether08 where all the local bands would be performing.


Last night, there were 6 bands and I only saw 3 as I didn’t stay till the end.
Left-right: The two MCs, the two lead singers of blue-something-something, another group which I don’t remember the name.


The bloggers that went last night. Obviously everyone was lost and didn’t know what to do but sat there and watched the performance hahaha…


Hunted up and down for Blackberry to test and there’s none but notebooks and Wii bowling competition. Guess who won it? Wombok!! Hahaha… He didn’t wear his mask last night.





Finally the twist, the girls came out with the 3 Blackberries.


We got to touch and test them a bit but it’s not good enough. Couldn’t hog it for long as there were many people waiting to have a look at them and we can’t feel the usefulness of it. The first one, the navigation is on the side. The second one, it’s using joysticks to navigate. Both aren’t really nice to use, they are very hard to navigate, the joysticks one has built-in camera. You need to get used to their navigations for smooth navigation. I didn’t manage to test the third Blackberry as I had no idea where it had gone to.


After that, it’s time for STM to perform. They sang lots of songs, new and old songs.

After that, I was thinking of leaving because there’s really nothing to do there except sat, watched and listened. It was late too and my parents were waiting, they had done their shopping but who knows…

My “Blueberry” moment. -.-” You can see how Silas reacted to it. GOSH! So embarassing…


When I went up the staircase, aikss… it’s really shaky, I almost lost my balance. When going down, I was so scared ARG! DAMN shaky!! I’m very bad in balancing!! Luckily I didn’t fall and manage to got hold of my composure. Once down there, I was in a state of shock and everything went blank for quite a moment even when I’m leaving.

I think I had made a fool of myself talking up there and making some crazy requests which I don’t see those bloggers down there respond to it. They might be embarassed with what I had say. There were two more went up, one I know, one I don’t. I’m not sure was there any other bloggers went up after I left. I heard complains that there’s no freebies for them. *SHRUG* I know I got it because I was the first one reporting to them.

By the way, this event got nothing to do with kuchingbloggers.com, we were not involved in any of the organising or planning of it. We were only asked to inform the bloggers in our database about this event that everyone was invited. I know there were many people complaining and pointing fingers to us but you guys had pointed your fingers at the wrong direction.

Read the feedback here if you want.

Public Events

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