Year: 2008

Memories @ RH Plaza

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Last Sunday went to Memories at RH Plaza for lunch as we need to meet up with someone to discuss about some stuffs.

Couldn’t think of what to order so decieded to order the promotion set lunch.

Left: Interior.
Right: The set came with one type of your chosen dish, a drink and a rice. We ordered two sets.

The two dishes, Secret Recipe BBQ Pork(RM8) and Rainbow-Mixed Vegtables(RM9). The portion was so small… It’s very expensive to charge this price especially the mixed vegetables.

Still quite busy 🙁 Sigh…

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Hot Plate @ Food Bazaar, tHe Spring

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Here’s quick update… Extremely busy and I don’t even have time to update properly and even explore my new laptop. 🙁 I haven’t been touching it for 2 days already.

Went for lunch at Food Bazaar at tHe Spring last Saturday after I bought my laptop. Couldn’t decide what to eat as I was still very full from the morning laksa. Simply made a decision to try out Hot Plate. All I can say, “NOT NICE, NOT WORTH”.


I have know idea which was which. They looked the same *LOL*. So basically we ordered Hot Plate Rice with Traditional “Baba” Sweet Sauce Chicken and Hot Plate Rice with Oyster Sauce Chicken, each RM5.80. When it came, I didn’t know which was mine so I tasted both sauces and *HORROR* they tasted the same except one was a bit spicy, one wasn’t. *SHRUG*

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Lunch @ Mother’s Recipe

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Was invited to Mother’s Recipe to try out their food. My first time got invited to taste food for free hehehe… Felt strange when reached there *LOL* paiseh. There was a minor breakdown in communication earlier on, she thought we would go on Saturday but we went on Friday as we had changed the appointment time several times until we got confused ourselves. This means whatever we ate and saw that day(last Friday) were not specially prepared just to impress us, it’s just their usual stuffs.


She briefed us on how they started this business and of course introduced us to what they have to offer. Since there were 2 of us only and it’s our first time doing thing like this we were pretty shy *LOL* She asked us to order any food that we want but we didn’t know what to order. So we asked her to recommend. There were so much food! Portion wasn’t small too.

They serve home cook food, it’s really home cook style the Nyonya’s way, not fast food style. Even tasted very homey. Not many people appreciate it though. For those that seldom have chance to have proper meal at home or away from home, especially cooking from your mother, I’m sure you will appreciate it. No MSG added in the cooking. I’m not saying good thing about them because they let me eat for free, the fact is that it really tasted like my mother’s cooking.


Left: Pan-fried fish & lime (RM6), the fish will depends on the fish they have on that day. This one is hong boi(in Hokkien), they also have other meaty fish availabe as not many people will like to eat this. Me too, I don’t really like it but it really tasted like home.
Right: Ko Kua (Bitterground in Hokkien) stir-fried with eggs(small-RM6, medium-RM8), I’m sure you are familiar with this. Miss home now? I didn’t know how to eat this last time but now I kinda enjoy it especially fried with eggs or steamed it with the middle stuffed with pork .


Left: Mother’s blanched midin with ‘Ulam’ Dip (RM6), the “Ulam” Dip has santan in it. We usually have this at home by frying it with belacan minus the santan(coconut milk in Malay), this is Nyonya style according to the owner.
Right: Belacan Beehoon (Nyonya-Style) – RM5, usually the belacan beehoon we have is the wet type right? This one is dry. It’s just like eating salad. The belacan is spicy, sweet and sour.


Left: La Kia Kio(in Hokkien, I don’t know what it’s called in other languages hahaha…) Fish Soup(RM5), another homey dish. I love la kia kio.
Right: Mixed Veg Curry (RM5), their new dish. The curry was quite thick however the owner said they had diluted it a bit this time to see whether it’s acceptable by the diners or not as some people don’t like thick curry but still quite thick. Personally I like their Thick Nyonya Chicken Curry that I had last time.


Left: Cinchalok Dip (RM2.50), we sometimes have this at home too.
Right: The whole table for two of us only. Hahaha… We didn’t finish them all, only finished the curry, the la kia kio soup and the fried fish. She asked us to tapao the belacan beehoon back hahaha…

Though it’s Nyonya, it’s almost exactly like what I have at home everyday. Not that we are the Nyonya, just that I’m sure every home in Malaysia will sure be serving food like this at home.

By the way, it’s located near AmBank at Tabuan Laru. Just few shops away from J&J Cafetaria.

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Dell XPS M1530 Review

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Finally bought a new laptop!! It’s a Dell XPS M1530 for RM4199 at Pikom yesterday. My budget is around RM3000-4000. I narrowed it down to Toshiba, Sony and Dell and at the end Dell has better price with such kind of specifications. Besides, checked it online and only lower specifications available, it’s already RM4299. Therefore it’s really a deal.

Got free upgrade of RAM from 1GB to 2GB, a carry case, bluetooth and insurance for one year that worths more than RM400 for the laptop in case your laptop is stolen, burnt, flood or burglar carted it away for your house. Online offer only gives free optical mouse.

Performance wise, I haven’t check *LOL* For now it’s still new and clean, of course it’s fast and perform well except Vista that I hate! *LOL* From the Internet, the comments about the performance aren’t that bad. What kind of review is this?!?!? I’m concentrating more on the non-technical parts. At least I know it won’t be as slow and as lag as the one I’m using now.

Specifications(This is not full specifications, just some major ones):
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100(2.1Hhz/3MB/800Mhz)
2GB DDR-2 SDRAM(after upgrade)
15.4” WXGA Display with TrueLife™
250GB SATA Hard Drive
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel web cam(below left)
DVD Super Multi Dual Layer Drive(below right)

256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
HDMI-out
Card reader(SD/MMC/Memorystick, just to name a few, I lazy to check the manual hahaha…)

Biometric FingerPrint Reader

MediaDirect one-touch-access

1-Year licensed Anti-Virus, McAfee
MS Works 9.0
Windows Vista® Home Premium
1-Year limited warranty
CREATIVE earphones
CD organizer
Weight: Starting at 5.78 lbs6 (2.62 kg)
Width: 14.06″ (357 mm)
Height: 0.93″ – 1.38″ (23.7 mm – 35.1 mm wedge)
Depth: 10.34″ (263 mm)

Pro:
Lighter than what I’m having now.
Better sound system than what I’m having now.
Better graphic card than what I’m having now.
Nicer design.
Bigger than what I’m having now.
Better performance than what I’m having now.
Huge screen.

Cons:
You need to hold the base down when opening the lid, as it’s light, the whole laptop would move or flip.
Power cord pulls out very easily.
Power cord very short. This is one reason why I didn’t consider Dell at the first place.
Vista suckssssssssssss! That’s why it took me ages to find a new laptop as new laptops now all come with Vista.
Quite bulky.
I don’t like built-in webcam.
Battery life is only 3 hours.
Fingerprints everywhere!! However, easily cleaned with the cloth provided.
The lid closes very LOUDLY when you are not gentle, there’s no way you can close it like normal laptop. You have to hold it and gently close it, if you didn’t pay attention and let go of your hand when it’s almost closed, it will SLAM down by itself! Imagine opening a book and then close it when you are angry. It will give you a loud “PAP!!!” Almost got heart attack for this.
(Told you I’m jinxed! Contacted Dell’s customer support already, waiting for their reply)

Need to get used to:
Vista… Sigh…
Don’t like the keyboard, just need to get used to it, no umph when typing 😛
The touchpad, need to get used to it too.
The screen has huge glare, the major problem with all glossy screens.
Slot load drive instead of the traditional press and eject.

Funny fact:
Wrong sticker!! Hahaha… It should be Intel Core 2 Duo but it has Centrino sticker on it *LOL*

It’s strange that I can’t find proper reviews on the Internet search except from Dell’s site itself. Maybe it’s still too new.


Left: (bottom to top) Free carry case, CD organizer, the case provided.
Right: The cables and the box, even the box design is so cool!


Left: The earphones provided.
Right: Even the the user manual looks like a nice notebook.

Anyway, I need to wait for Dell Support to contact me about the lid problem. Told you I’m jinxed!! Sigh… I bought 3 laptops(Toshiba, NEC, now Dell) and all sure to have problems! Will tell you about this in other post hahaha…

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Pikom PC Fair 2008

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My hair is back to its normal state after wash. Hahaha… No difference at all 😛 It’s not that short after all. I thought it will be very short after the curls are back. Will show you the photo next time 😛

I’ve been talking about getting a new laptop but till now I haven’t get any yet. Since I’m in the mood to hunt for one, decided to go to Pikom PC Fair at Permata Carpark yesterday afternoon to see what kind of offer they have.


The hall was so HOT! They said the air conditioning wasn’t on. No wonder… It’s working time and there were quite a lot of people there already. GOSH!! Imagine later in the afternoon and evening and the last day of it!


It’s almost the same every year except this year you get more female promoters, wearing the respective company’s baby tees with short skirts or tight jeans. Too bad… There’s no Canon girl to see *LOL*


I got some brochures and flyers on the laptops on offer, had studied it tru’ and I think I’ve found it. Might be going over later to grab it *LOL* I hope they accept credit or debit card without charging few percents extra. There’s no way I can bring so much cash along! Crazy! If they do… I won’t buy. It’s not worth it anymore. I’m still not that desperate.

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