Month: February 2009

Mister Bean @ Petanak

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Mister Bean, is a fairly new place for dining in Kuching. Actually I saw it somewhere last year if not mistaken but never got the chance to try it out. So went over yesterday.


It’s just located opposite of Popwave and the ex-Bestberry(now known as Zest) at Petanak. They specialised in soya milk and beancurd(tau hu hua in Hokkien). According to the banner there, they are made from high grade bean from Canada, 100% pure and no preservative.


The interior is some sort of like Kaya & Toast and Zest. Ordered wedges(RM5) for fun. I think the portion is slightly small for RM5. Hmm…


Left: Chocolate soya milk(RM2.80), it should be soya milk added with chocolate syrup.

Right: Xin Ciau Beancurd(RM2.80), there’s two type for you to choose, cold or hot. What you see here is cold one. Not so sweet but the xin ciau(cincau) really took a bit of time for me to get used to as this is my first time having beancurd with xin ciau(cincau) served with crushed ice.

Quite an interesting place. I think the pricings are pretty much like Kaya & Toast.

For those health concious people, maybe you can try out this place. Not Halal, only no pork served.

p/s: The colour of the photos are quite dull because I’m using my phone, I didn’t bring my camera.

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Hong Kong Noodle House @ Padungan (3)

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It’s been a while not posting eating out post. Last Sunday, mom didn’t cook, so we went out for dinner and ended up at Hong Kong Noodle House at Padungan again…


Left: The dried chili oil but it’s not oily, it’s quite dry. First time encounter the dry one here. It’s quite hard to dip when it’s not wet.

Right: I’m not sure what this is called, translate from the Chinese name is Champagne Pork Rib Rice, but in the menu it’s called Fried Pork Rib Rice and the one above it also got the same name. Therefore if you want to order, you have to know either the Chinese name or the number. For this case, it’s number 27. Too sweet for my liking. Last time I ordered, it came with cucumber slices and tomato, now not a single slice of any of those. The price? RM5.00.


Left: Roast Duck Noodle(RM4.50).

Right: Pork Porridge(RM3.50).


Saw this at the entrance so decided to order it to try. This is called Crispy Pork Intestine(RM8), a mixture of deep fried big and small pork intestine. Indeed very crispy. To me, I find it OK, not so bad but my parents didn’t like it, they said better eat Kueh Chap hahaha…

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Songs I Used to Sing in Karaoke – Duet Collections

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Continue from Songs I Used to Sing in Karaoke – Solo Collections

Here’s my collections of duet songs that I used to sing in karaoke.

After I posted up the solo collections, I did get some people telling me that I can go to open concept karaoke(you sing in public) rather than in the room.

I did go to this kind of place few times and I really hate it! It’s not my kind of place, I hate the smoking(everyone is practically smoking), drinking(I don’t drink, soft drinks are just too expensive!), no freedom in song selection(flip the files and it takes time, if you decided to not sing the song halfway, you will have to wait for ages for your turn. You can’t experiement with new songs too), the number of songs you can sing(can only sing less than 5 songs in so many hours provided you go early during happy hour) and the waiting(if it’s almost full house, and your table got lots of people, you might have to wait for at least 45 minutes-1 hour to reach your table and it’s not your turn yet, it’s your friend’s turn!). Not worth my time, money and health. Everytime after those sessions, I will suffer from non-stop sneezing. I rather have singing marathon than having sneezing marathon. It sucksssssssssssss!

Even going to the room type karaoke, I have to choose who is to go with me also, I do not find smokers to go with me because they will surely light up and puff non-stop!

So yea… With all these reasons, it’s unlikely for me to go sing karaoke in any near future. As if I have the time for it hahaha…

The following are songs that I usually sing but too bad… No one can sing with me now also I have no time for it. Ah well… Just watch the videos and sing-along for now, what to do?

广岛之恋 – 莫文蔚&张洪量

你最珍贵 – 张学友& 高慧君

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Marriage is the Biggest Challenge in this World

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I came across an interesting article today from the brochure I got from church this morning written by the reverand.

By the way, the title of this post is not the title of the article, the title is my summary after reading the article. Click on it for bigger version if you can’t read the small version here.

I’ll just roughly translate the whole article for those that don’t know how to read Chinese. I will skip the bible verses translation.

There are 5 conversations in the article:

For the deeply in love couple:

Girl: After getting married to you, I will share all your worries and sadnesses with you.
Boy: Honey, you’re so sweet but I don’t have any worry or sadness.
Girl: Oh… That is because we haven’t get married.

For the newly wed:

Groom: If my father didn’t leave me with all the properties, will you still marry me?
Bride: I don’t care who leave you with what, I will surely marry you.

Bride: What do you love about me? My pretty face? My nice body?
Groom: I love your sense of humour.

For the long-time married couple:

Wife: What are you doing?
Husband: Nothing.
Wife: Nothing? You are staring at our marriage cert for 1 hour.
Husband: Oh… I’m looking for expiration date on the marriage cert.

Wife: Why you keep my photo in your wallet?
Husband: If I’m facing any problem, I just have to look at your photo and everything will be fine.
Wife: WOW! I got such huge impact on you!
Husband: When I see your photo, I will tell myself, the person in this photo is the biggest challenge I have to face in my life. There’s no other challenge bigger than this.

If you notice, no matter how successful a person is in his/her life or very strong in facing the challenges thrown to him/her, when his/her marriage is having trouble, everything in the world will turn upside down. Marital issues are life issues. If you don’t want to change your life, no matter how educated or how rich you are, there is no way to save your marriage.

I hope this article will inspire you a little and something for you to ponder upon.

All I can say is that, marriage is no child play. Marriage comes with huge responsibilities. A marriage can either make or break a person. Think carefully before you commit yourself to it. It’s not something as easy as just signing a paper to get married just because you feel like it and later sign another paper to get a divorce when there is no feel anymore.

From My Angle

Happy Valentine’s Day 2009

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It’s that time of the year again where everything is hiked double, triple or even more. Every couple practically flood every single eatery in Kuching not even letting go of the hawker stalls. Road is jammed too as everyone is heading out for celebration.

To all those legal love birds:
Wish you all the best and may the love showers you with all the happiness.

To all those illegal love birds(cheating spouse or third party):
Wish you all the worst and may the “love” showers you with all the sorrows when the time comes.

Shoo! I’m not talking about you, don’t perasan! If you think I’m referring to you then that’s your problem. Means you admit that you are wrong.

It just happened that since last year until now I’ve been hearing a lot of cases like this happening and it has affected those around me badly even though they are not the ones that got involved in it. Not just one case but severals *HORROR*

Can you imagine how many I have to listen to because they need my ear for it? Not that I complain, I’m willing to hear you people out as long that it can help in reduce your stress level even though I can’t do anything. That is why I’m very sensitive in thing like this nowadays.

Thing like this is not only about the couple but it will affect anyone close to the cheating spouse or the third party. It comes in a package.

Be it legal or illegal, a relationship is not about two people but the whole package of the person ranging from the past, the present, the future, the family, the friends and so much more.

To all the singles or those having their loved one somewhere else:
Let’s hope next year will be better. We can celebrate Valentine’s Day on any other day! Why must it be on the day itself when everyone is trying to earn more than an extra piece of your money and squeeze around with others? Even you are madly in love doesn’t mean that you have to be a stupid consumer. We don’t have to follow the crowd at all. Make your own Valentine’s Day! Agree?!?!

Anyway… It’s Saturday and I’m having class then after that stay at home jiak kaki. Dear… Do you hear that? ;p Don’t think so… So long we share the same sky, the same sun and the same moon, it’s better than nothing. *MUAKS*

By the way, anyone wanna date me tonight to spend our very own without-lover/single Valentine’s? Come to think of it, I don’t think we have a place to go at all *LOL* I better prepare for my presentation tomorrow ;p Not in the mood to go out, don’t want to be part of crowd.

I’m so bitter… So what?!?!? It’s not like my bitterness will cause your Valentine’s Day to go bitter also. Like as if you will be reading this, you don’t even have time at all. You are too busy spending time with your Valentine.

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