in loving memories of my darling Bit Bit - March 2001-May 2009

Monday, November 16, 2009

Future of Our Broadband

One thing to describe all our broadband - suck to the maximum

From Tmnet, P1 Wimax, Maxis, Digi and Celcom. Even if you pay 1 million with what 5GB connection - dont even think of subscribing or get conned.

I tried most of it and my conclusion it is even worst than last time the 56K modem connection. Last time connection slow but at least it is stable. This one claim so high but i cant even connect and even finish up my work.

What more if emergency? What more if you want to do multimedia streaming with this kind of connection. Vomit blood.

You see there is no such super heavy rain. Just a wet day, my streamyx is cracky. Connected for a while..loading ages........... then it comes back ok then next time you get connected it tells you sorry no connection. You on and off it gives you the irritating sensation that you give up for the day.

When you call customer service - all also same answer, check your modem blah blah... no solution but frustration.

Broadband on the go - goodness i think i have to stay up in the sky to have the best connection.

So conclusion - future of our broadband - shit shit shit...and it will never be improve for another 20 years to come.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Seoul Garden

They serve korean bbq. Hot grill and also steamboat. Adult is about RM45 after the ++ and that does not include the free flow of drinks. You can op not to drink as they have soup or ABC ice. It is a buffet style. Kids eat for free and senior citizen get discount.

Where can you find them - 1 Utama, 101 Mall (new wing), Plaza Kerichi. So far these are the places i know where to get. In Penang it should be Gurney Plaza.

This is the first time i tried korean bbq. I find it not bad. There are many varieties of meat from beef and chicken. Then there is also seafood like fish, squid, crab, mussels, oyster and etc.

They is also the standard fishballs for steamboat, vegetables and noodles.

Every table they give you the hot plate griller and also the center is the soup steamboat. We tried the tom yam instead but i heard the ginseng chicken soup is good.

What is nice there. The marinated beef is extremely excelent. Though im not a beef lover but it tastes really good on the griller. The chicken was ok. The squid was good as it was curry base.

They also had fried stuff like fried rice, mee, spring roll.

Dessert they have the ABC - ranging from ice kacang to cendol.

They also have soup for you to choose from but i found one soup rather delicious that is made of crab stick, lots of onion. The soup is clear but yet it gives you the pleasure drinking it hot.

They have variety of those noodle for dipping with your soup based steamboat.

Is it good. I find it ok and it is much better than some korean bbq.

Here are the photos. Actually im retricted from taking photo - so boring!!! :) But anyway i took half of it before someone warns me.

The Hot Griller and the pot of steaming hot tom yam soup.

Marinated meat & seafood

The meat selection

The seafood selection

Side view of all the grilling food.

Pickled stuff of Korean

Plate of meat

Crabby

This is the crab stick soup

Spread the food in the griller.

My pathetic prawn and oyster.

Lastly our empty plates

Food Foundry

Sound familiar right? They are famous for dessert - yes their crepe cakes. What is a crepe cake? It is layer by layer of cake - one piece of crepe, then cream, then chocolate, strawberry or vanilla then it goes repeating till it is high up like a cake. How does it tastes like? To me i think it tastes more like those indonesia layer cake but only this one has to be eaten chill. Not really my personal favourite but i brought someone to try :)

There is another restaurant Bruno at Jaya33 - same owner as this one in Section 17. Where to find them. At a miserable location near the old flats. You can never miss it. Very near the 6 to 10 Grill.

It occupies two shoplots, ample car park for you to pick. Decent settings environment. What they serve there? Italian food - pasta, vongole, carbonara, local food and western food. I think if you go there, go for their western food especially pasta.

We ordered our pasta and it tastes really good. Not too much but decent enough for a meal.

The carbonara is nice - not the funny thick milky taste. Just nice.

The vongole one is also nice with seafood - clams and prawn - white sauce sunflower oil.

The crepe cake cost RM9 per piece.

Carbonara pasta

Vongole Seafood Pasta

Linguine Paste Salmon + Mushroom Sauce

Spagetti with volcanic sauce + prawn (still not spicy enough as claimed)

Creme Cake

A piece of the sinful cake

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Punctured Tyre

Never had this before so finally that reality happen.

I know what to do..first... dont panic

Worst thing can happen if your car goes like that. Take out the tools, take out your spare tyre and also that car jack.

My car jack is extremely very pathetic - it was stuck at first but then i realized there is a screw hook to unscrew before you remove it.

Then find the best point to hold up your car and start to lift your car. Worst part my car jack is so small and i dont really trust it. It kills me for almost 45 minutes under the drizzling rain to remove my punctured tyre and get it replaced.

The car rim is so dirty, i dont have any glove - will think of keeping one pair for such cases in future. Whole hand all black due to the oil.

Finally got the tyre changed but still feels insecure with a spare tyre. Should be ok to get me to nearest station and get my spare tyre pump.

Next course - tomorrow i need to get a new tyre.

It was raining and i noticed i just hit into one small deep pothole till i feel the bang of my suspension. I didnt see that small hole covered with rain water and you just cant avoid it! Damn! Then i noticed my car was a little on the rough patchy all the way. As i reach the game premise - goodness me the water is like flood and was hoping my car just dont stop at the middle. Firstly my car is not some 4X4. It is a small mini and it really damn low. Damn rain a little like that you get such flood. What more if moonsoon typhoon? Flood like east coast? hhhmm... In the end i missed my games and came home with dirt.

I think i need to go hunt a better car jack that can be push with all your mighty strength instead of this 180 degree twist - like at least minimum 50-80 times before you car is being lifted.

Flat flat flat tyre.

Worrying

I guess in our life we probably worry about everything...

From small as we grow up we worry about school, then working - we worry about our work, relationship or family.

We got family, we worry about everyone around us that we love.

People just cant stop worrying. At times i wish when you wake up - you dont remember anything. Its not totally that bad you know.

We can choose to ignore but i dont think its that easy..

Lately my brother isnt happy about his blood pressure. Anyway it runs in the family. I dont deny that I have that as well and on medication. My dad is a hypertension fellow. At first you probably get so work up asking yourself why you but then again this is a common disease. I guess out of 10 at least 8 are actually at risk of high blood pressure.

How not to get which our level of stress and environment you live in. You can keep fit but you cannot run away from the fact it just happens. Unless someone who does not work, plenty of cash flow but then this person might end up depression.

He was pretty stress about his own monitoring. I advised him just see the doc or worst just start of with drug. Nobody like taking drug but at times you dont have a choice. There are many ppl choose to ignore their health but there will be something. But him into my shoe - i not only have this but i have other things in term of health. I went through my hard days but i still have to carry on. Whether i like it or not its just in me. What am i suppose to do? Kill myself? That why i dont predict i can live up to 50 as i age really fast and getting cracky everyday. I get really exhausted at the wrong time, get easily tired and i dont really know what is wrong with me. I dont want to think so much knowing I'm also at high risk of getting breast cancer since my mother is a survival.

Today i was reading an article about cervical cancel. Another killer in woman. You get jab you get a lot of complications. Every drug you take for something, there is always a complication to another. YOu dont eat drug, you dont control - you end up dead in no time.

Life is such and to me the most important thing everyone should wish for is good health. For me thinking by the time i really get critical - for operation or hospitalization - i probably wish that i could end up just like animal - pls put me to sleep - is there an option to that?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Carbonara Spaghetti

I suddenly crave for Carbonara Spaghetti. I dont really fancy this kind of pasta/spaghetti but suddenly got the craving.

So what i did? Make it my ownself. Sound silly right. You dont really eat much of this kind of pasta because its very unpleasant feeling if you eat too much.

I tried several pasta this cabonara type

2 descriptions
1. Either very nicely cook and perfect
2. Very hard to consume and it makes me puke (this is done the unprofessional way)

So how do you do it?
Easy...

All you need is the spaghetti - up to you what type you want.
1 pot of water and a pinch of salt
1 can of Prego Cabonara (you can do it from scratch with chicken stock and cream but I'm so lazy as I'm only doing for two person)
basil if you have it.... but i pluck my mother virgin basil - haha
1 piece of cheese slice - you know those Chesdale and Kraft
1 piece of ham - pork or chicken to your preference - slices into tiny square bite.

First fill up the pot with water - depending on your how many people you are preparing for as long as you can deep your spaghetti into the pot. Add a pinch of salt.

Boil about 10-15 mins till the spaghetti soften. Scoop it up and let it cool.

Open the can of Cabonara Mushroom Sauce. Pour into your saucepan and start stirring with medium fire. I added about half a cup of water to the mixture so that it is not too thick. Keep stirring and add your cheese. Control your fire to low if it gets heated up. There is cream so you do not want to burn the cream. The heat will eventually melt the cheese slice. Add your bacon and stir about another 5 minutes. Pour your spaghetti into the mixture and stir well. You can turn off the fire/gas by now.

Stir another 2 minutes and it is ready to serve/eat
Garnish it with you chopped basil to add aroma.

Dig in when it is hot, if not that plate is going somewhere else :)

Happy cooking as it already ended in my stomach long time ago. Burp

That can of Prego Cabonara can actually serve 3 ppl :)

Stir..stir...mix mix mix..

My faithful carbonara mushroom can

Awwww....nice or not sorry some of the noodle is running a bit way out from my plate

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Toy House for Hammie

i bought one toy - it was meant for babies but i remove all the required part. That toy is suppose to stimulate one baby brain cell. But i decided to buy for my Hammie.

One huge house. What i like about it because it has a huge opening door. A lot of holes for my Hammie to play with and most amazing part it is purple roofing - my liking :)

Here is him trying out his new home.

Peekaboo... My little Hammie