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My life = a pile of C.R.A.P.

World Heart Day 2011

A superficial burn on skin usually heals within 14 days and leaves minimal scarring.
Most types of bacterial pneumonia can be cleared with treatment within 2 to 4 weeks.
A partially torn muscle heals in 2 - 3 months if it is promptly recognized and treated, with exclusion of excessive strain on the affected muscle.
With treatment, the 5-year relative survival rate for early stage of cervical cancer is over 90%.
What is the prognosis of heartaches?

Today is World Heart Day.
Love your heart. Take good care of it.

Chemistry

It tells about the science of matter.

Atom, molecule, element, compound, mixture.
Chemical structures, chemical properties, chemical reactions.
Energy, equilibrium, thermodynamics.
Acidity, basicity, pH.
Cations, anions, zwitterions.
Oxidation, reduction, redox.
Covalent, ionic, hydrogen, Van der Waals.
Amedeo Avogadro, Marie Curie, John Dalton.

Does it tell anything about chemistry between humans?
Bonding? Exergonic? Endogonic?
Are the laws of thermodynamics still applicable?

Perhaps the third law:
As a system approaches absolute zero, all processes cease and the entropy of the system approaches a minimum value.

So long didn't blog about food. This time I don't talk about the quality of the food, but the service of the restaurant. I was greatly inspired by the lady boss of a restaurant to come out with this post.

Give a big round of applause to~~

Restoran Yong Tau Foo Chan Chan @ Bandar Manjalara, Kepong!

We, total of 4, reached at the restaurant before 8pm. We ordered 30 pieces of yong tau foo only but it took unreasonably long to get our food served. Knowing the sluggish service, once our food was served we straight away placed our order for additional 7 pieces to be taken away.

We finished our food, yet the take-away order was not done yet. We asked for the bill and also the take-away order, for SEVERAL times. Each time we asked, the workers (one chinese lady and many foreign workers) nodded but nobody had done anything on our request.

Our table was at the other side of the restaurant, so we moved to the counter and told the lady boss. She claimed that the kitchen crew were new and not familiar with the orders. She said she would ask them to cook for us IMMEDIATELY and then she went into the kitchen.

We ended up waiting at the counter for another ??minutes. For just 7 pieces of yong tau foo. Finally a chinese guy from the kitchen responded to us, "Sorry the orders are messed up. Another 2 minutes, very fast!"

What? Still have to wait. Okay fine, since it's just 2 minutes more so mum said ok, and we waited.

It was definitely more than 2 minutes yet there was no sign of any take-away order getting ready. I walked to the kitchen and asked the chinese guy for our order. If it's still not done yet then I might want to cancel it. "On the way! On the way!", he said.

Finally as the lady boss handed over the precious yong tau foo to us, I was expecting something like "Here is your order, sorry for keep you waiting...", or at least something like that.

Instead? Making a face, she blamed me for keep urging her although she had explained to me that the crew were new. What?! As if I had done something wrong! Hello, I spend almost 2 hours here just for 37pieces yong tau foo, 1 white rice and 2 chinese teas and WE PAY YOU FOR THAT! RM41! And now we as the customers being blamed.Through her tone of voice and facial expression, I thought we were not customers but the workers who didn't deliver the orders! This is really unacceptable.

I tried to keep my temper and told her not to simply give promise that she couldn't achieve; if the food is not ready yet then just tell the truth, don't let customers wait for 2 minutes and another 2 minutes,...endless! To my surprise she even raised her volume, repeated that her crew were new and I wouldn't understand because I didn't run my own business! What kind of service was that?! I really lost my temper. I do not run a restaurant, but at least I am not treated in this way at other restaurants! She shouted, "Then just go to other restaurants la!"

As her wish, I will definitely NOT going to revisit this restaurant.

I am not the only one who commented on her service. Check this out on Malaysia Most Wanted!

这个七月不一样

尤其是在大学的日子里，七月是快乐月。

2007@1U

2008@The Cave

这家餐厅都已经不在了。

2008@Piccadilly

677最大势的庆祝。

2008@MidValley

2009@Genting

2009@Tarbush, Sunway

2009@Jack's Place

2009@SCI

有谁被遗漏掉的希望别介意，因为hard disk太乱了，有些找不到。

可是每一幕，都刻骨铭心，历历在目。

这些年来，七月我学会了欢笑。

但这个七月不一样。

这一年的七月，我必须学会成长。

Happy belated birthday, dear!

Self-baked cake is a must for dear's birthday each year. Better late than never, duh?

A simple marble butter cake. Due to the tight budget, I just used up whatever ingredient I had in the kitchen.

Cake fresh from the oven, topped with smooth ice cream from Bentong.

My brother's version: kaya from KL Yut Kee coffeeshop as topping.

The simplest and spontaneous cake I ever baked without any recipe.

All cakes came late this year. Three slices of Secret Recipe cakes from my mum; Cappuccino cheese, White and black chocolate cheese and Blueberry cheese. I didn't upload the photos, they would make my cake looks bad. ;p

Happy belated birthday, dear.

Happy Early Birthday, Dear!

Abandoned this place for some time. Now I am back!

It's June now. Which means Szee's birthday month. We did not have a proper celebration, but these were what we have done.

Trapped in jam at Karak Highway. The people were heading to Genting Highland but we weren't.

We went to Bukit Tinggi.

Japanese village.

Trees. Koi. Tea house. Flowers.

And us.

Botanical garden.

Lots of bizarre looking plants.

Back to Colmar Tropicale.

Game stall.

Dinner@La Flamme

And this was when the tragedy happened. Little Lulu's head injury.

I wish I could return to the past and prevent it from happening.

Heartache!

Anyway, happy early birthday to my dearest dear. ;)

So you know what we did last Saturday

Remember this? So Szee and I went to the Gatsby Deodorant Street Fair at Times Square last Saturday.

Look at the crowd~ This event is getting into the Malaysia Book of Records for the Largest Bloggers' Gathering with over 500 bloggers!

Yes, we were given a t-shirt for each of us to be put on for the activities.

Some of the games that we played...
Shooting

Fishing

Golfing

We both were sucks in this.

Hit the peanut when it rolls out from the hole. This is really hard!

Unscrew the nuts and put the tyre on the floor within 30 seconds.

Make sure you don't fall from the bull for 20 seconds! Sounds easy huh?

For each game that we won, we will get 2 Gatsby points which could be used to redeem some prizes afterward.

The Gatsby products that we redeemed. Should have play more games if we knew earlier that these Gatsby points were for redeeming Gatsby products!

We really had fun. Thanks to Gatsby and Nuffnang!

Food! Foood!! Foooood!!! @ Miri Sarawak

Remember I just came back from Miri not long ago? Here I update you with some photos, mainly about food. ;p

First of all, of course the authentic Sarawak food: Sarawak laksa!

Then the famous kolok mee.
Another version of kolok mee.

Kuay chap. Sold by a classmate of my newly-made Miri friends. I liked it personally, though Selina and Ming Ching couldn't really accept the taste of the soup, perhaps too piggish?

Finally I tasted Lei Cha （擂茶）which was bitter. Lei Cha is a kind of Hakka food which is not widely known or accepted by most of the people. This bitter Lei Cha I had in Miri is definitely different from what I normally have in KL. No wonder Hui Ching doesn't like Lei Cha, haha.
It's a very healthy dish, made up of various types of vegetables including mint, long beans, 树仔菜, pickled raddish, black eyed peas, bean curds, etc. Anyone interested in this food? I know 2 places that serve nice Lei Cha, 1 in Tmn Sri Sinar and 1 in Jinjang. Of course both places are in KL, not Miri. I can bring you there if possible.

Another Hakka dish, 算盘子, which means the beads of abacus literally. Made of yam and tapioca flour. Many people know how to prepare this dish, but to prepare delicious, tasty and chewy ones is not easy.

A dish that I never heard or tasted before. 糟菜粉干/糟菜米粉, sorry I really don't know how to translate its name into English. Its taste was unique, so I think not everyone would like this dish. Basically it's thick vermicelli in thick soup, sour and spicy. The Chinese wine gave a strong body to the dish. Honestly I couldn't describe the taste of it, you really have to try it to understand what am I talking about, LOL.

We also indulged ourselves during the hot day by having this: the snow flakes. I forgot what's the name of the cafe, but I believe that they have branches all over Malaysia.
The soursop one was superb! With the soursop flesh but without its seeds, so refreshing and satisfying.

The trip was short and we only had half a day to walk around in Miri. Other than pampering ourselves with food, for sightseeing we just went to the Fan City (fan-shaped park?) 扇形公园.
The girls.

I'll certainly visit to Miri again someday.