Birthday 2008

30th May 2008 ~ It was a "Sex and The City" night. Out on the 30th May! Exactly right for the occassion!

As expected, most of the audience were women. And of course it was a really girly movie. And I really really like it!

I'd say men would never know how to appreciate it, but it's a good potrayal of urban women dwellers trying to make the words Love and Life in the city works.

Aww and Carrie's dresses were so beautiful! Many said it was an overrated movie, and just another SATC series. Although I can't justify the fact, I can only say it is either you love it or hate it. And I Love it!.

Now tempted to buy the whole set of six seasons of SATC !!!

31st May 2008 ~ There is always a reason to pamper myself a lil and reward myself with a delicous and scrumptious meal in a Michelin star restaurant. The reason: my 26th birthday, went to Hakkasan (ref: Matthew Fort on Hakkasan) , the only current Chinese Restaurant with Michelin star rating.

Having only 6.30pm and 9.45pm bookings, we went for the half six one. Really nice decor, dimly lit decorated with black wooden frames and furnitures. Food wise, we ordered the dim sum platter which comes with eight variety of siu mai and har gau, the roasted duck with mango sauce and pork dumplings. The duck was really good! The meat is just tender and soft. I really mean it! haha. Main courses, the stir fry oystrich with yellow bean sauce was the best. The roasted silver cod with champagne sauce was nice too. And they also do Zai Choi (vege), the Monk Vegetables with beancurd was also yummy! We ordered a few other dishes: the jasmine tea smoked chicken (it was nice but can't really taste the jasmine tea, it taste more like soya sauce chic to me), a pork belly dish (think it was the Hakka stew) and a simple garlic stir fried morning glory. [Hakkasan Online Menu]

All in all the food was distinctly high quality. Considering we had two rounds of cocktails plus the yummy food, and the bill came to around £50 per person, it was a reasonably good experience. Being sort of a birthday bash thingy, would really like to thank Yi fei, Annie, Jun Jhen, Carman, Holly for the lovely pressies and also Freddy for the gorgeous cake :).

The table was meant to be booked for 2 hours. Although it got quite busy around 8 to 9, they didn't chase us out, and we stayed till around half 9 before leaving to AKA/The End clubbing.

@Hakkasan

Clubbing @ The End:~


p.s. More Pics...The only down side of AY's restaurants are the no photo policy. I really think it is completely unnecessary! Although we took 2 *grin*

Complimentary Pics: Birthday cards I got for my 26th Birthday. Did you sense something wrong? LOL. Just wonder why I keep getting cute stuff :)

Four Things

I got an email the other day asking me to state four things for each question about myself that you may or may have not known. Instead of hitting the reply button, I decided to stick it in here, just so that I think it is a really good flash back in 5 or 10 years later the answers to the following questions may well be completely different, reflecting just how much I myself have changed.

Four jobs I have had in my life

1. Software Developer
2. Peer Assisted Student Session Tutorial Leader
3. Cinema Usherer
4. Office Admin

Four movies I would watch over and over

1. 10 Things I Hate About You (how can Hollywood survive without Heath Ledger!)
2. Needing You
3. Love Actually
4. My Blueberry Nights (current craze...will definitely change)

Four places I have lived

1. Gopeng, Perak, Malaysia
2. Shah Alam, Malaysia
3. Pandan Jaya, Malaysia
4. Manchester, UK
5. Hatfield, Greater London, UK

Four TV shows I (used to) watch

1. Beverly Hills 90210 (classic!)
2. ER
3. Friends
4. Desperate Housewives

Four Places I have been

1. Kind of hard to limit it to four, but if you don't mind, I can go by continents - Asia
2. Europe
3. North America
4. Australia

Four People who e-mail me (regularly)

1. Does work emails count?
2. MSN messenger and Facebook is more convinient
3. Yea I get spammed a lot
4. My brother cos he gets retarded on MSN, he just don't reply sometimes (*just kidding*...love you bro muaks)

Four of my favourite foods

1. Egg Tart - for some reason I don't ever get bored with it
2. Porridge with Chicken Floss
3. "Yau Cha Guai" with Coffee
4. Milo with Cream Crackers ("So Ta Peng")

Four places I would like to be right now

1. Maldives - already missing the beach and spa after Pangkor trip
2. New York - missing the shopping especially jeans and Woodbury Commons!
3. Tokyo - aww never get bored with jap food!
4. Don't mind Kuala Lumpur ^-^

Four (a couple of more than four ppl hopefully;) family or friends I think who would respond

• Not Applicable - having a friend saying you are psychotic is not the end of the world!

Andy's new MV

Lovely...

Anobii

Many people may think I love books. Or at least that I love reading. Although I can't say this statement is completely true, I can confidently admit that it takes much more than a book to make me finish it. i.e. I normally end up reading books half way. I find that not many books are "interesting" enough to sustain my concentration. And most of the time, I drifted off into my daydreaming world...

I came across Anobii and thought it will be fun to keep a record of books I'm reading and have read. And most importantly, to look for any other interesting books other people are reading...So if you love reading or at least do read once a while, why not try out this Anobii beta version and create your own shelf. And if you have, do add me to your friends list :))

P/S: Check out my shelf under Nico's reading...

How to get to Paris from New York - Ref: Google Maps

Got this from Hui Leng's blog...

Follow the instructions below for your dose of laughter for the day:
Go to Google Maps
Click on "Get directions" tab
Enter in the first text field: New York, New York
Enter in second text field: Paris, France
Click "Get Directions" button
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New Toy

My new toy:


Yes, I've finally got it!

The Impossible Quiz

It's Friday again !

You HAVE to try this out! I've spent one and a half hours on it and got to question 75 only... But it is REALLY FUN!

http://www.leetest.com/game.php?id=174

It might take a while to load but it is all worth it!

Japanese Name Generator

My japanese name is 吉国 Yoshikuni (good fortune country) 千秋 Chiaki (very fine in autumn)

Get your japanese name today!

Created with Rum and Monkey's
Name Generator .

Puzzle 2

4 people A,B,C and D. The must cross a bridge to the other side. It is dark and they only have one torch. The bridge can only take the weight of 2 people. And when 2 people cross over, the time it takes to cross over is the time of the slowest person. EG A & D cross over it takes 10 mins. Once they have crossed over, a person must travel back with the torch. Find the quickest time...

Puzzle 1

You are in a house. In the cellar there are 3 switches which you know are connected, each to one of 3 lights in the attic (which have just been fitted with brand new 100 Watt bulbs from Fred Meyer). Each switch has two labeled positions: "On" and "Off". You are allowed one trip to the Cellar, and one trip to the Attic, can switch the switches in any combination you like, and must be able to say which light is controlled by which switch.