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Secret Recipe Is Officially Open!

April 20, 2007April 20, 2007 sweet surrender 17 Comments

Thanks to Anna, she told Jimmy it’s open yesterday. So we decided to go there without Pinky hahaha… Our initial plan was to have an early celeberation for Pinky’s birthday on the 18th but who knows… They delayed the opening. Then it opened yesterday, her birthday! Well… She already had birthday plan so she couldn’t join us. We decided to go in the afternoon for tea break hahaha… Coz I’m sure at night there will be a lot of people.

From the outside.

The inside.

Left: Many people when we were there.
Right: Browniessssssss…. Most of the brownies cost RM4/piece.

Left: Cheesecake and fresh cream cakes, each is RM6/slice except blackforest cake that costs RM6.50/slice.
Middle: Tropical Smoothies(RM7), quite sour. Well…It’s good as the cakes were sweet, not really that sweet actually, I don’t like sweet stuffs but the cakes’ sweetness was OK.
Right: Vanilla Milk Shake (RM8.80). Not very sweet also.

Left: Tiramisu (RM6). It’s no very sweet. The cake was really moist.
Right: Chocolate Cheese(RM6). It’s not very sweet as first, the more you eat the sweeter it became but with the not-so-sweet drinks, I could tolerate the sweetness.

Left: I bought a piece of cake back home so that my parents could try it out. They were shocked to hear that it’s RM6 for a slice like this. Hahahah…
Right: I bought Mango Delight(RM6). I almost ordered this after seeing the picture in the menu but ended up ordering Tiramisu 😛 The fresh mango chuncks in there with mango puree on top of the fresh cream looked yummy, this is a bit more on the sweeter note than the Tiramisu I had.

Umm… Price range is more towards the higher end. If you dine in, you need to pay 5% GST and 10% service tax. There is no way to indulge in it everyday. Only once in a blue moon maybe… I’m not sure when I will be going there again. I doubt that it will be so soon. Hahahaha… *shrug*

Food Porn

I’m OLD!!

April 19, 2007April 19, 2007 sweet surrender 6 Comments

Secret Recipe is opening for business already 😛 Went there just now. You’ll see the post tomorrow.

OMG!!! Sh**… Sh**…Sh**!
I found out that I have a strand of white hair!!! It’s not grey! It’s WHITE! 🙁 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
My dad said that it might be due to me dying me hair 🙁 We do not have family history of having grey/white hair in our 20’s 🙁 OH NO!!!! This sucks big time! It might be due to stress 🙁 Stupid stress. Or I’m really old already 🙁
Summore, someone told me I looked my age!!! Double NOOOOOOO!!!
*find a corner, stare at the white wall, sit and sulk*
Why? Why? Why?

Hahaha…. You think I did that? Nuh… I got a bit of shocked when I thought I found one, then I asked my mom to see, she said there isn’t any, not giving up, I went to the mirror and look for it again. After that, I asked my bro to see, he found it -.-” and I’m trying to accept the fact that I’m getting old now. I’m not old!!! I’m still young, I’m young, I’m young, I’m still so so so young.*hipnotized myself*

Me, myself and I, Randomness

Kuchingites Or Kuchingnites?

April 19, 2007April 19, 2007 sweet surrender 13 Comments

Secret Recipe will only open tomorrow,20th April.

People! Tell me which one is correct? “Kuchingites” or “Kuchingnites”? I’ve been seeing these two versions everywhere. HELP! I’m getting confused now! I used to use “Kuchingites”, then lately I saw many people using “Kuchingnites”, so… I’m super duper confuse now! Which is the correct one? If there is no definite answer, I guess we will have to end up calling ourselves “Kuching Kia” Hahaha… This one will be 100% correct! 😛 Ok… Seriously… Which one?

This leads me to introduce you to my recent project that I’ve been doing with Jimmy lately and decided that now it’s the time to fully release it to everyone.

Why we started it?
This blog is dedicated solely for money making and Kuching. You can only make money when you have proper content for your blog. If you only want to make money and you don’t have the content, it can’t work. This is because there are rules that you need to obey to make money. Nothing is free.

Since catscity.net has a higher PR compare to this blog, it can make more money. Summore nothing was done to this URL for a while already, it used to be a very high traffic Chinese forum, that’s why it has such high PR. So we decided to put everything about Kuching that we had blogged before into it to make it into an information blog with ratings from us. The write-ups are not the same as the one you see in my blog. This means I have to come out with two versions of write-ups. One for my blog and another one for catscity.net. If I just copy paste my content over, PPP would not approve catscity.net. Therefore, if you go to catscity.net, you will be seeing a non-sponsored post followed by a sponsored post.

It’s not an easy work. We have to find content to put in between the sponsored posts, else PPP won’t approve us at all. I have to update two blogs about the same thing but with different content. So it’s not all about making money, it makes us work extra hard to find things related to Kuching to blog. For the record, I had blogged 10 posts(2 blogs both with their own contents and own sponsored posts) a day within 3 hours, such madness! The post in between the sponsored posts must be of certain standard too. You cannot just dump a video or photo in. You must have at least 5 sentences in your non-sponsored post and of certain length.

Such crazy job but love it 😛 The craziest part is to grab PPP opps for catscity.net and my own blog. Summore PPP opps are not easy to grab nowadays. They’re gone too fast! They can gone in seconds! Goshhh… That’s why sometimes you can see continous sponsored posts and then later on I will insert the non-sponsored posts in between them.

Ok… Enough of the introduction. Hahaha… Hop over to catscity.net and you will know what I’m trying to tell you. We make sure we update it everyday with quality content of course. Then I can write at least one sponsored post a day. If we are lucky, I can write three sponsored posts a day and this will mean I need to compose another 2 to 3 non-sponsored posts a day. Crazy right? It’s legal way to make money anyway 😛

Let me get this straight, the domain name belongs to Jimmy, the photos belong to Jimmy, the write-ups belongs to me except the newspapers articles. We split the earning 50-50. Fair enough. OH! Is it Kuchingites Or Kuchingnites?

From My Angle, Interesting, Uniquely Kuching

6 Weird Things

April 18, 2007April 18, 2007 sweet surrender 3 Comments

Secret Recipe is only open for business on 20th April! Not today… It’s delayed…
WOW! I found a new hobby! And I spent almost USD100 on it -.-” Not revealing what it is yet 😛 Hehehe… That’s the luxury of having USD in Paypal, don’t know is good or bad. *SHRUG* Hope I can earn back this money with it.
OMG! Johan got married already! I’m sure many girls will be heart broken 😛 You can see his wedding photos in Friendster. Nevermind if you don’t know who he is *LOL* this is meant for my collegemates.

Got tagged by akho. Tagged me with 2 memes in one go -.-” Not tagging anyone. It will stop here hahaha…

Here are the rules:
Each one starts out by telling 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write (in their own blog) 6 weird things as well and state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave each of them a comment letting them know you tagged them and the cycle goes on.

1. Whenever I eat something like soup noodle, at the end the soup would be left behind and all the stuffs inside would be gone.

2. As everyone knows, I’m moneyface hahaha… Yet the strange thing is that I don’t know how to spend the money, if I have the money I don’t splurge on things, instead the first thing comes to me is that how to I make it into more money or keep it.

3. No matter which stage of life I’m in, there will always be a guy that is very close to me, as in best friend and most people would mistaken that he’s my boyfriend hahaha… It’s just all platonic. Well, I might admit there were a bit of crush or something but as time goes by it’s just as platonic as it can be.

4. I have a water bottle that I will always have next to me at home so that I can drink whenever I want without going to the kitchen to get a cup of water and then have to wash the cup after that. I’m just plain lazy besides I will not remember to drink any water if there is no water near me. So, this is the best way to get me to drink water hahaha…

5. Hmmm… I don’t think I’m the only weird one on this hehehe.. Most bloggers are especially those blogging about food. I will take picture of your food and ask you the name and the price when you dine with me hehehe… For those that know me, they’re used to it already, for those that don’t they will look at me in a very strange way and thinking to themselves, “Like that also want to take”.

6. My camera is usually not for taking photos of those hanging out with me but for stuffs like food, sceneries, and of course for self-portrait :P. I seldom ask people to pose for my camera that’s why many people is wondering why am I bringing camera around when I don’t take photos of them *LOL* I only do it when somebody brought it up or special occasion else I won’t take it out to shoot people hahaha… This might have offended some friends becasue they might be hoping to have photo taking session during our meetings since I bring a camera but at the end there isn’t any. *shrug* It’s not my habit to take photo of people, if you want to take photo might as well tell me else it will never cross my mind. That’s it. Don’t get too sensitive over it. Aiyooo…

Took me 3 days to come out with my 6 weird things. -.-“

Me, myself and I, Randomness

Country Decastle

April 17, 2007April 16, 2007 sweet surrender 21 Comments

Secret Recipe will be opening for business on 18th April. I’m definitely going on that day! HAHAHA!!! Cheeeeeeseeeeee… Cakessssssssss… *drool*

Actually we wanted to go to Bestberry to try ou their new menu but forgot that Monday is their off day hahaha… So we ended up at Country Decastle. It’s situated at Jalan Song Thian Cheok sort of behind EON Bank and DHL. Previously it’s Dynasty (had my lunch there that fateful day of 2004, I almost spilt my drinks and spilt a spoonful of chili paste). Now it’s taken over by new management and the name is changed to Country Decastle Restaurant Sdn. Bhd.

Left: Decastle Ma-Lak Beef(RM6). Nothing special, just spicy beef with plain rice.
Right: Miss Strawberry(RM4), itâ€™s just shake with chocolate rice and colourful sugar rice, and Ice Grape Tea(RM3).