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.

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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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