Year: 2008

Luxury Cafe

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This cafe opened for operation few weeks ago I think. Was told about it but got no time to go because was busy. Then last Saturday was a bit freerer, so decided to went over to try out.


Located at 4th Mile, next to Am Bank, Behind Food Avenue.


It’s pretty dark in there, it’s actually a karaoke place at night(I think 😛 As there’s two TVs there and they kept playing karaoke songs hahaha…), it will turn into nightspot and it’s a smoker paradise. You can smoke your heart out in there and no one will complain though it’s air-conditioned, the place is not enclosed, the aircon can “escape”. It seems like many places are using this concept now. To me, it’s really a waste of electricity.

The drinks you see here are Bubble Red Tea(RM2.50) and Curacao Blue Soda(RM3.80)


Left: Luxury Fried Rice(RM4), heard that it’s just fried rice…
Right: Crispy Chicken Chop Noodle(RM4.50), hmm… How to say? It’s so easy to do hahaha… Just plain noodle with a bit of spicy soy sauce and fried shallots, few stems of veggies and crispy fried chicken chop. You must mix the noodle with the spicy sauce(but not that spicy) below before you eat else it’s tastless noodle hahaha… However, the bowl was kinda small to mix.

Food Porn

Big Apple Donuts & Coffee In Kuching

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Now! Now! Here’s one thing that makes fellow Kuchingites lining up in long long queue… Everyone is heading over there for donuts… Big Apple Donuts & Coffee is in Kuching! It’s at tHe Spring. On the first day of opening, I heard that the first 100 customers would get free donuts. I wasn’t there, I didn’t plan to try it out any sooner as well. I’m broke! Unless someone willing to treat me hahaha… Also the queue is damn long… Will wait till the crowd disperse, I’m not that kiasu afterall… That’s because I’m BROKE la 🙁 Wonder how many donut I can have with the RM60?

I’m not sure how good it is but by seeing the donuts on the poster here, I don’t think I can finish one donut alone, I’m not into sweet things. It seems like very sweet, sugar overloaded. For those with sweet tooth, I’m sure you will be on top of the world after having them.

We don’t have Krispy Kreme here, we don’t have JCO here, not Dunkin’ Donuts too, only Big Apple. Wonder how long it will survive…

Food Porn, Uniquely Kuching

My First Laser Tag Session

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Made a last minute decision just now to join Anna and friends to play laser tag because there weren’t enough people, the more the merrier.

There’s only one place in Kuching to play laser tag. It’s located at Bangunan Ko-Perkasa, the shoplot behind KWSP at Simpang Tiga. I heard of it many times but never had the urge to play. Then the chance came today. Took the opportunity to try out.

It’s only RM4 and you can play for about 1 hour(depends… definitely more than half hour). It’s very affordable, great way to exercise also. We played two games, split into two groups to fight against each other. It took us about 1 hour as you need to rest in between each game and then reload your laser gun. Each game lasted for 15 minutes.

I’ve not been sweating and working out for so long. After the game session, my hand was numb as the gun was quite heavy. In addition with the squatting and running, my legs were so sore hahaha…

How to play? It’s basically same concept as paintball but it’s not as messy and painful as paintball because it only involved the vest with sensors and the laser gun, you cannot shoot anywhere you want, it won’t have any effect. It’s all about team building and strategies. It seemed like nothing, the room is small but when you are in it, it’s really SOMETHING! Don’t judge from what you see.

It’s really fun. I’m loving it! Let’s go next time, the more the merrier, maximum people for a session is 16 people. Anyone can play as long that you are more than 5 years old.

By the way, be sure to wear black or dark coloured clothings and shoes if you can, don’t ever go with bright colours as you will be easily seen by your opponents. Oh… You must do your booking first before you go to ensure that you get a place.

Got the contact!! Call 082-427867 🙂

Personal Events

Burnt A Big Hole In My Pocket…

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This is my second time colouring and highlighting my hair, first time was in 2006 at promotional price of RM150(cut, highlight, color, treatment) at a salon at Travilion(closed down).

I’m not going to tell you where I did it this time due to some restrictions that I cannot reveal. I faced a bit of problem with them but eventually accept it as I believe the hairstylist skills will not disappoint me as he has many experiences under his belt for more than 2 decades, I’m sure he would do a great work for me. Just that the price gave me a huge shock, see this…

Freaking RM190 for cut, highlight and coloring my hair!! No treatment or even hairspray after that, only shampooed off the colour and blow dry. My first time spending this much on my hair. Add on with the previous RM22 hair cut sigh… Basically I had just wasted my RM22 last week to this new cut.

First off, I know if the hairstylist is the one cuts my hair, the price is RM60. My main aim was to get my hair coloured and highlighted, that’s all. I thought they would consider my hair as medium length but it turned out that it’s considered long -.-” So I’m charged with the long hair price which is RM160 but with the half price promotion, it’s RM80, not that bad right? The highlight is RM100 but half price, it’s RM50, OK right? Initially I should be spending RM130 only or less if they considered my hair medium length.

After few minutes of discussion on how I want my hair colour turn out(learnt a lot, didn’t know there’s so much things to consider to get the right hair colour), after about 45 minutes of highlighting, then colouring for 2 hours+, the hairstylist told me he would trim my hair.

OK… I didn’t tell them that I want to trim my hair, since he said that he would trim a bit, I was thinking maybe it’s just a bit of customer service as it’s my first time there, you know… To make sure you get return customer summore I should have a bit of special deal(I’m too naive) since…(cannot reveal due to confidentiality).

I just said,”Oooo…”. Then he started to trim, trim, trim, I sensed something not right… I said to him that he trimmed quite a lot, I didn’t ask him whether he would charge me for this or not as it’s halfway already, I couldn’t say no, else my hair will be ruined -.-” He told me this will make my hair looked better after wash and easier to maintain. Fine… I trust him because he’s really an expert and I had seen many good hairs coming out from him.

Now… It’s the time to pay… I’m charged with the extra RM60 because of the trimming from the hairstylist. I shouldn’t have let him trim but what to do, I didn’t know. Lesson to learn here, make sure you ask them whether they charge you or not if they do extra thing. Since I’m not the kind that frequent hair salon especially the kind that charge pretty expensive service charges or different charges with different hairstylist, I didn’t know that “law”. It’s an expensive lesson to learn, RM60 for a trim!! My first time having such expensive trim. I hope after my hair wash 3 days later, it will give me a good hair else I’m going to complain! Frankly the cut previously was a bit hard to maintain due to my natural curls and made my face looked very square. That’s why I took my before photo from the side.

Here’s the result after about 3 hours+ and a total damage of RM190. I’m so poor this month… Spent too much… Why Pikom has to be in April also? -.-” I had planned earlier on for this hair colouring, as this half price promotion only valid in April during weekdays, I won’t go if no promotion. If there’s no promotion, my hair would cost RM320!!! Goodness gracious! Expensive! Including the wasted RM22 hair cut, it’s RM342, only for my hair this month. *SWEAT gao gao*

The colour and the highlight aren’t that obvious in the photos though. In fact it’s quite obvious if you see me in real person. It does enhance my skin colour. The final result with no hairstyling products, just blow dry, the salon effect.

This will be my first and last time having such expensive hair services. Unless it’s sponsored.

Crazy! Guys… You can imagine how much girls spent for their beauty? Please don’t compare me with the other girls out there as I don’t spend as much as they do in beauty or shopping. To others, this RM300+ for hair services is nothing, for me is really something I have difficulty digesting. I’m still trying to digest the fact that I had spent RM60 for a trim, this explains why I can’t smile properly in the after photos -.-”

Girl Stuffs, Me, myself and I

Ah Long Pte Ltd

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Very, very late update hahaha… Watched this two Sundays ago hahaha… Too many things to update and too many things to do.

The message is straight forward. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out what the movie is all about. It’s not suitable for those below 18 but it seemed like young and old are allowed to watch it, there’s no restrictions at all. The movie has many cursings, sexual elements and violents in there. Still it is able to pass the message to the viewers.

I’m sure you know many people borrow money from loan sharks aka ah long, when they can’t pay up, they are threatened and attacked. Everyone blames the loan sharks aka ah long for such act but do you ever think of it from the loan shark’s perspectives?

I know(not personally but sort of distant) and heard from people that are involved in this business complaining about their problems. Imagine there are many people that borrow ten over thousands from them, all these people didn’t want to pay back even though they can pay back after borrowing the money as their problems are solved from the borrowed money. How much the loan sharks aka ah long will lose? One person is fine but when there are many of them, how are they going to survive?

They are also the victim too. They have to find ways to get their money back, they also have family, they also need money to live, they also need to pay their “workers” money too. They borrowed it to you, you must pay them back and not escape from them. These money aren’t money that fall down from the sky for free to them, they have to “work” for it as well.

If you stick to the contract that you previously signed with them, they won’t attack you, they will treat you nicely. It’s because you treat them like shit, not obeying the contract, they also will treat you like shit.

Of course, you must make sure you can pay them back and not take it for granted. They are the one that gave you the emergency money when you needed quick money to solve your monetary problem. Personally I know many people who are able to pay the money back but become much greedier and decided that they didn’t want to pay back. It’s not easy for the loan sharks aka ah long to differenciate who really has the real problem to pay up and who doesn’t, therefore they have to take the extreme measures.

It’s not that I stand at the side of loan sharks aka ah long. That’s the fact. The same theory is applied to anyone who helped you by borrowing you money when you were desperate for it. It’s “BORROW”, means you must “PAY BACK”. If you can’t pay all, at least make the effort to pay bit by bit, NOT escape. We all know, borrow is easy, to get it back is hard. Right? Those who are owed money by people will definitely understand the agony, I’m sure you also want to take the extreme measures to make them pay up but you can’t.

I give this movie 2 thumbs up. It’s a really a great movie. This movie is worth watching. Just some funny parts which are very illogical like playing durian soccer but these scenes are the things that make the movie interesting else it would be boring and serious movie. Messages that are potrayed in light and easy ways will get better respond than using the strict hard ways.

Lesson to learn, please pay back the money that you owe. These people(your friends or anyone that had helped you with your financial problem) were kind enough to help you. Don’t take them for granted. If not for them, you wouldn’t be living to see the light now. Everyone has to play a part in making the world a better place to live.

From My Angle, Review It!