Fruits Fiesta!

Music: 椎名林檎-ありあまる富 Mood: floating

Some people from some department in some part of the building was so nice to organize a Fruits Fiesta at the car park last Friday.

It started at 4 pm, what a great time to cabut right after ^^

Emails have been sent beforehand to notify that a great variety of fruits, including Durian D24, Udang Merah, Raja Kunyit, Teka, XO, Kampung;

...mangosteens, bananas,

...duku langsat, longans, rambutans,

...and coconuts will be served.

Whether it's a D24, Raja Kunyit or XO Durian, almost everyone attacked the durians first, completely neglecting the rest of the fruits. Some even ran off with one whole durian.

Our dispatch guy, the Durian Opener of the day!

Do feast yourselves on local kings and queens when the season is still in full swing!

Here's To Being Honest

Music: Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi- Stay Mood: food poisoning

I was at Mid Valley Jusco shopping for groceries. While heading towards the cashier, a guy promoter handed me some chewing gum samples, and there was another one who approached with some mentos samples as well. So I took, thanked and queued at my line.

Then a girl whose queuing at a line beside me saw these free samples I'm holding, presumely longing for them, told her boyfriend:

"*points at me* What's that she's holding? I want them too!"

"Then you go take lah."

She proceed to walk towards the two promoters, purposely slowing down for their attention. Neither of them moved. She made a U-turn, then strut slowly towards the two again, this time flinging her hair and pushed a fingertip into her mouth while trying to make eye contact with either of them. Again, neither of them bothered to make a move.

Girl pouts and complains to boyfriend:

"Yeeerrrr, I walked to and fro twice but nobody wants to bother me... *twisting her body like a 4-year-old kid* "

"Then you go ask them to give lah."

"Dooowaann... why they give her *points at me again* but doowan to give me?"

The boy replied dryly, "maybe they think you are not pretty enough so they don't want to give you loh."

Two failed attempts to seduce for sweets and ended up getting a cold shoulder. I nearly burst out laughing. I paid for my things and hustled off. I think I could hear the girl pounding on the poor boy.

So much for being honest XD ~

Win Soon Café / Restoran Ah Soon Fish Head Mee @ Jalan Kuchai Lama

Music: 陈奕迅-今天只做一件事 Mood: blank

Kuchai Maju, better known as Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park was developed several years ago that consist of several rows of shops. Since then, this fast growing township has more and more shops, especially restaurants sprouting out like mushrooms. Popular outlets around this area include Station One Café, Wings Musicafé and not forgetting Win Soon Café.

Win Soon Café has already been a popular spot by Kuchai dwellers; I supposed it has been made famous again after being featured in 8TV food programme Hochiak! early last year. Customers never cease to flock in especially from 12 pm onwards until 9 pm for a late dinner.


We arrived at 10.30 am, purposely avoiding the peak lunch hour at 12 pm and found a table immediately.

There are several combinations of fish head vermicelli shown in their menu, where prices range from RM6.80 to RM13.80. The upper case goes to a helping of vermicelli with fish head meat and one fresh water prawn.

Honey Lemon (RM 2.80) & Honey Sea Coconut (RM 2.50)- my honey lemon was half finished, I could have die from sweetness if I ever drink up everything, ditto for honey sea coconut.

Fish paste and fish head vermicelli (RM 7.50) - A generous portion came. I’m not sure was it just me or did it taste a little too milky? Even though they weren't fishy, too bad the evaporated milk was overpowering, making the fish head meats taste very ordinary. However, the vermicelli was decent and their famous fish pastes fare better, pretty smooth in the mouth.


Fish paste, sotong balls and fish head vermicelli (RM 9.80) – These are packaged sotong balls. The owner to this bowl had to agree with me where they taste too commercialized. It wasn’t bad, but our high expectations were brought down by the lack of home-cooked element.

Conclusion is: Woo Pin Fish Head Noodle still wins hands down. Would I be back again? Hmmm...I'll put my last bet on their fresh water prawns.

Location: 46, Jalan Kuchai Maju 9, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, 58200 Kuala Lumpur

Opening Hours: 9 am- 10 pm (9.30 pm last order)

Contact no.: 03-7981 9287

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Pan Heong Restoran @ Batu Caves

Music: Michael Bolton- Missing You Now Mood: Good Life ahead??

Pan Heong's owner started their operation since 1988 from a little rundown shack, to the extended corner shop lot we see today. Although they possess a huge following and still growing, the owner choose to run his business in this only shop at Batu Caves, hence the sign "只此一家，别无他分行" (This is the sole outlet, no other branches available) hangs proudly in their premises.

It was 11am on a Sunday morning and the crowd was naturally overwhelming, workers controlled the crowd by giving out number tags on a first-come-first-serve basis. We were lucky to get our table after a ten-minute wait as a smaller table was cleared and catered just nice for four of us, jumping queue ahead of many big families.


The four walls of fame are enough to make them stand on firmer ground.


Sang Yu (snakehead fish or ikan haruan) Porridge (生鱼粥)- other than sang yu, you also get to choose from choices of frogs, pork ribs, prawns, century egg and canned abalone. This must be the best porridge I’ve ever eaten- it was stirred and cooked to a point where one can literally swallow it- almost as smooth as baby's food.


Braised Pork Belly Bee Hoon (扣肉米粉)- I was skeptical of this dish at first having to know that they are using canned braised pork belly. Then it got me- it doesn't taste can-like at all! Although these jingling layered meats made one's mind scream “DIET!!” in dismay, your chopsticks will always react faster than your brain. They were not stringy and complement the vermicelli well by adding a savory, meaty taste to it.


Steamed Fish (蒸鲫鱼)- The fish was steamed in an unfamiliar but pleasantly light soy sauce, garnished with coriander, cili padi and black Chinese fungus. It was fleshy and its freshness was preserved by good steaming techniques.


Sang Har (fresh water prawn) Hor Fun ( 生虾河粉)- This is a highly sought-after dish in the shop as nearly all diners were having it. Even the smallest portion will have two huge generous servings of fresh water prawns. The dish really taste as good as it looks-I liked the idea of substituting fried noodles with Hor Fun as they absorbed the eggy gravy better, making the rice noodles taste even thicker. We absolutely ADORE the prawns, each bite was so juicy, springy and succulent that we walloped everything within minutes till the last dollop of gravy.


Other than the slightly pricey Sang Har Hor Fun, the rest were fairly reasonable. The food was top of the crop, definitely worth revisiting.

This place will be terribly packed during lunch hours on weekdays and there is also a primary school nearby. To avoid the crowd on weekends, do plan for an early lunch or breakfast as mostly bigger groups of people will swarm here.

Location: No. 2, Jalan Medan Batu Caves 2, Medan Batu Caves, 68100 Bt Caves.

Opening Hours:

It closes twice every month (every first and fifteenth in Chinese calendar). Do call to avoid disappointments.

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Michael Jackson Memorial Service @ Staple Center, Los Angeles July 7, 2009

Music: Michael Jackson- Butterfly Mood: mourning

Celebrities including music legends, sports figures and politicians gathered with some 20,000 mourning fans at LA, not forgetting millions of witnessing fans around the globe bade farewell to the greatest entertainer ever lived. It was an emotional and remorseful 2-hour event, a historical moment not only to be marked by social network history, but also to be engraved in the hearts of every single human being whom he had touched.


Mariah Carey sang "I'll Be There" with 1992 original song partner Trey Lorenz. She seemed to be more subtle, as if reminding herself to keep a very low profile today.


Jennifer Hudson with "Will You Be There", the most choreographed performance for the day. She has her larger-than-life voice, backed with gospel-like song arrangements.


Lionel Richie belted out "Jesus is Love", very much like a preacher singing on a Sunday morning service, warm and classic.

People might wonder, 'where's Slash?? How about Van Helen (Anyway Van is on honeymoon vacation with newlywed wife)?? John Mayer just let his guitar do the talking. His Jazzy version of "Human Nature" never fail to impress the crowd.

Stevie Wonder brought a 10-minute version of "Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer". Although his voice croaked towards the end, it was nevertheless mesmerizing.


Everyone went on stage and contributed in "We Are The World", a beautiful song co-written by Michael.

Brooke Shields gave the most heartfelt eulogy speech for the night, recalling a true friendship from an unforgettable childhood friend.

Usher sang "Gone Too Soon" while moving towards Michael's casket. He become so emotional that he took off his sunnies and choked towards the end of the song.

From left to right, Rebbie, Janet, Randy, Tito, Marlon, Jackie and Jermaine Jackson sit as they await the service to begin. The boys wore a significant white diamond glove to pay their last respect to their most famous brother.

Prince Michael Jackson I, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II.

Jermaine Jackson performs Michael's favourite song, Charlie Chaplin's 'Smile,' a tear-jerking moment when he threw a rose from his lapel onto Michael's casket.

It hurts to watch Paris fighting back her tears, telling the world that "Ever since I was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine".


Tito and Randy Jackson embraced by the side of Michael's coffin, covered with beautiful large red roses.

Far from sight but never far from heart. The king never actually left us at all, he still lives and grows in everyone.

To the most celebrated man ever lived- You can never be forgotten.