Draemonte on the move....

KL business trip 2 (15-16/7)

2009-07-18T08:35:00.009+08:00

This trip I didn't get to bring my camera, as I thought it would be a very short trip and won't have anything unusual/special. The day before I was only got back from Singapore. Boy I was wrong. Regret didn't bring my camera and have to settle with my 3mp camera phone instead.

Stayed at ParkRoyal Hotel opposite Sungei Wang shopping mall. Very strategic place for shopping. But I was there for urgent meeting.

Pics below are my room, share with an engineer. Thank God we got a twin bed room. Initially there's not twin bed and only king size bed available. Bahaya ni, persuaded the counter lady to keep finding the room we preferred, hahaha. Finally got one!!

It's a special room we got arranged to. We the pics then u'll know. See the toilet, GLASS wall!!!. I was shocked!!! I was like "I'm not going to show my jewels to the guy I'm sharing the room with while I'm in the toilet!!" The he went in and have a look, and thank God there's blinder to close the toilet view, phew!!!!

View of my room

SONY LCD

Comfy beds

DVD player somemore.

Toilet view. got 2 rooms..

Shitting room

and shower room. This shower room got this horizontal spray thingy which is almost the same as the hotel I stayed in Singapore 2 days back. Syok!!

Decorations outside my room.

Nice and relaxing view rite?

Late supper me and my roommate went to Alor street. Had typical fry kuey teow.

Then we saw some durian stalls, both of us love durian, so we go attack!!!

Ordered those expensive types of durians. 1st one was very nice, milky and creamy, soft and small seed! It was almost perfect! Labuan or sabah durians can't beat this at all. Totally worth the money. I forgot what type of durian was that.

See,....small seed!

2nd durian was a super bitter durian. It was really bitter and the most bitter I tasted so far on durians. I liked it!!! Also soft, creamy, and small seed. 2 durians is enough for both of us, serious. A lot of meat. Thumbs up!

Next day meeting in Petronas twin tower.

Guess where this is (pic below). Wohooo!! It's the bridge connecting between the twin towers! Been thinking of going up there since years ago but keep forgetting. This time I got the chance as the person in charge brought us pass this bridge to the other tower for the meeting. Glad I made for this trip, no regret at all!!

Another view from the bridge

all of us visitors SAKAI!!

Another view

Public Bank building

After meeting we went back to the hotel for quick rest and free snacks. Then go for short walk before heading back to Labuan on the evening flight. Thank God for the fruitful trip!

Singapore Business trip (13-14/7)

2009-07-17T23:22:00.018+08:00

Been quite a while since I've visited Singapore. Finally got the chance to travel there. Was on a business trip, meeting with some important on business matters.

Not much people travel through KLIA on the international area. I wonder why. Or was I on the different hall since we're only travelling to Singapore instead of other further countries?

Really look empty.

KL now is hazy. 2 weeks ago it was good weather. Damn those neighbouring countries' bush/forest fires. Really been an issue for many years.

Chivas 25 yr old whiskey. Rare find even in Labuan. Very Pricey

Me and colleagues stayed at Meritus Mandarin Hotel, at the famous shopping area, Orchard Rd.

The view from my room

Greeted while entering my room.

The room is really nice. Just a deluxe room. Got many sorts of magazines that I can read during free / relax time. Even give complimentary National Geographic magazine for me to bring home.

Cordless phone somemore.

My bed, so comfy. In the early evening the room service will come in and take away the decorations on the bed and get the bed ready.

Other view.

LCD TV!!!

U see the resting chair beside the bed? That is a very comfortable chair. So comfy that I can really sleep on it. No need my bed anymore. It's easy adjustable and can rest my legs too, while watching the LCD tv.

Working table

I love the toilet. It has almost everything!

Bath tub, but I didn't get to use it, not enough time to enjoy.

So many toiletries, for free!!! (hehe)

Even got weighing scale, especially for the food lovers to monitor themselves.

This shower room is one of a kind. It has 6 spray nozzles that spray horizontally toward your body.

Closer look, can u see the nozzles rite?

The nozzles at work, see how they spray. I can just position them to spray which part of my body. So you can easily guess where I position the bottom 2 nozzles la rite? wahahahahah.

Took some pics of the area around the hotel.

Yes, I'm really at the ORCHARD ROAD

Another view.

Quick browse at the Takashimaya mall and bought light snack before meeting. Sushis!!! hehehe. Price is ok, not too bad, considering that they are fresh and nice!

After meeting, went dinner with my colleagues and the clients at a famous restaurant. Seeing this clam, can't resist not to take picture. Didn't get to eat that though. Didn't get to take pics during dinner, afraid the clients and colleagues felt appalled by my behaviour, hehe. Next time.

Night shot's from my hotel room.

While doing quick browse at the mall after dinner, found this durian puff!!! I must try!!!! So i bought a pack of four.

The puff were surprisingly good!!! The durian paste were actually real fresh durian puree. No additives / preservatives. And generous fillings. No regrets buying them. costs me SGD3.50.

Generous filling, not sure if u can see the fillings clearly.

After that went outside for short walk, and took some pics around.

The place, and the road system are good. Very systematic, comfortable and clean. The pedestrian walkway is super wide! I think can fit 2 car lanes!

See how wide!!

Next morning breakbuffet at 39th floor. The views are great, minus the hazy condition, really turn off.

It's the shopping season in Singapore, and the Changi Airport also having sales. Each of us were givan an SGD5.00 voucher to spend on with a minimum SGD20 in a single receipt. Really good! So many shops with free duty are around the airport, very different from KLIA.

Another view of the airport shopping area.

Overall the trip was good. Meeting was productive. Travel was on time, bit tiring. Then got an urgent call for meeting in KL the next 2 days! So need to rush the reports for the meeting, and need to travel to KL. Next post on KL trip coming up!

Dinner review @ Mawilla Restaurant

2009-07-17T23:15:00.004+08:00

Went dinner with my bro after badminton and volleyball last Sunday, and together with the See/Seh sisters, as both of our parent went for church's PCC dinner. We went to Mawilla Restaurant. Been a while since I had a meal there. The place haven't change much, but the food quality, I reduced slightly. I used to like the hot and sour soup, one of the best in Labuan. But that nite disappoints me. Not as good as it used to.

Ordered ikan pari panggang, hot plate toufu, Thai chicken, and Kailan vege. It was ok, average, didn't raised my eye brows. But enjoyed the fellowship though.

The See/ Seh sisters.

BBQ nite

2009-07-05T14:41:00.006+08:00

BBQ nite organised by my bro and his friends. I just join in the fellowship and help out. They bought 2 boxes of Heineken, and less than 10 left in the end of the nite, gila man. Overall it was good, they enjoyed the nite, that's more important.

KL business trip (30/6 - 3/7)

2009-07-04T22:51:00.017+08:00

I was in KL again, after 2 months. But this time was not on leisure, but business purpose. I'm needed to attend a meeting in financial related. I won't explain more, P&C bah.

Overall the trip was good, and tiring. Get to meet some friends and meet new people in the corporate world. It's a good exposure for me and surely will help me more in my future career.

I stayed in Capitol Hotel, just beside Low Yat Plaza, my shopping heaven(provided I have the cash though).

The Hotel I stayed

My room, spacey and comfy. The window view is almost superb! I had a view of twin tower and KL tower. Good rite? hehehe

My room window view

I reached the hotel almost 9pm, I boarded the evening flight. Then arranged to meet a friend in Bangsar. Been years since I went there for lepak or for a drink. The place now is almost dead. It's quite, not much people around the Telawi road. 10 years ago is was one of the famous place to hangout, for both rich and middle class people. Got mamak, great pubs and classy restaurants.

The pic below is the new shopping mall, Bangsar Village 2. Didn't get to go in coz it was late.

Another view.

This road was famous years ago. Now looks almost empty. Don't be fooled by big numbers of cars, actually they just park the car there and went somewhere else. When I walked the road, not much people, not even in the shops around. I saw it was less than 10 people in every shop, which is bad for business.

Where are the people????

Met my friend and had my dinner/supper in Dave's place, an Indian place. Apa lagi, eat Indian food la.

A long time friend from Labuan, but working in KL currently.

My food!! Mutton curry, sambal brinjal and taugeh. SEDAP!!

Wah, who kena saman???

KL night life, the city that never sleeps

This is the morning view in my hotel room.

The meeting was good, very stressful, but I learned a lot. New experience and exposure for me. Thank you GOD for the opportunity!

This the view from the hotel doorstep, on the right is the Low Yat plaza and the left building is the BB Plaza. Convenient rite? Everything can get just a short walk away. Even street food!!

Centre of the Bintang walks.

Performances, snake and monkey. I wonder if this is legal?

Midget statue wannabe. Can he really stand hrs just doing that?

2nd nite went to Pavilion for dinner and movie with my friend that I met the nite before. Just to catch up and enjoy the company.

Entrance fountain of Pavilion Mall.

Had dinner at Dain Ti Hill restaurant. The only establishment in KL, and have chains in other Asian countries. The food was good, highly recommended. I like the environment too, relaxing.

The window view of our table. Good food, nice environment, and good window view, what can be better than that? hehe

I let my friend do the ordering as she's been here before.

Looks so appetizing.....

The appetizer is really one of a kind. The base is made from pumpkin. I actually don't fancy pumpkin, but this is nice, really different. It even have fish roe inside. Soft and creamy.

Lotus.

Spicy chicken. Never tasted anything close to it, really something different.

Next went for movie in GSC. Initially wanted to watch Transformer 2, but it was a Wednesday, cheap ticket day, so they sold off very fast, can't get my hand on them. Sigh, nvm. Watched "17 again" instead. It was alrite. Google it if you wanna know the synopsis of this movie.

Late supper.

View from my boss' hotel room. hehehe. Guess where he stayed from the looks of the view.....

After meeting some clients, went back to hotel to freshen up and off to Low Yat for a walk, see what I spend on, hahahaha. I bought myself a new Ipod Shuffle. It's the cheapest model of all the Ipod models, hahaha. I actually don't need an MP3 player. But tangan gatal, I buy a small and very portable ones. The reason? hmmm,.....I'll give one, I can use it when I go for jogs in the park. Having bigger size MP3 player can be annoying when bouncing in the pocket. This one I can just clip somewhere and just jog without feeling anything. It's easy to operate too, with voice that can read out the title and artist of the song. COOL!!!

Very small rite??? Envy or not? hahaha

Birthday dinner for Brooke Anne (2/7/09).

Brought her and Joshua for dinner to celebrate her birthday. She lucky I'm in KL. Went to Pavilion again, since it's a new and nice place, and also just nearby the hotel I stayed in.

Had dinner Tony Roma's. It is famous for its BBQ ribs.

Nice Environment.

Happy si Brooke bah...

Limited time Promotion, 13-inch platter of its famous ribs.

Ceaser's salad, love this salad, period!

Potato skin. Really nice too

The dish of the nite!!

Mojo chicken

Yummy man, no joke!!! Juicy and tender!

Buurp!!!!

After dinner we went for movie, again. The past 2 yrs visiting KL I didn't get to watch any movie in cinema, not once!! But this trip I went twice!!

This time we watched Ice Age 3, in 3D version. Since we never watched 3D version in any other movies before, might as well take this chance and try out.

Our new glass, cool rite? Actually we need to wear them when watching the movie, to give this 3D effect. The movie was good, funny. But the 3D effect is not wat I fancy. Can't get used to it. I till prefer the old fashion way, hehehehe.

Ada style eh!! hahahah

Roasted Chicken

2009-06-20T09:13:00.004+08:00

Roasted chicken for dinner when my mom was away to KK to attend a seminar. It's been a while since I cook something good, or doing an experiment cooking.

This time I use very different method. Instead putting the chicken in the roast pan with the vegetable, I separated them.

The marinate is simple, bought a rendang paste, add with onions and garlic, and salt. That's all to it. You can use any other paste, according to your preference, bbq sauce, chinese sweet sauce, anything.

Closer look.

The vege that I use this time. Me and my bro love brinjal, and brinjal do go well with roasting or BBQ, from my past experience. But they must be cooked well til soft, vert soft. Then will taste great!

Into the oven they go!!

See how I separate them. I put the chicken on the grill. Reason is I want a proper roasted chicken till crisp to the skin. If I roast with the chicken, they won't crisp properly, coz of the moist retention from the vege and under exposed of the heat to the skin. Initially I set the heat at 140 degrees for bout 30 mins to let it cook thoroughly to the inside, and still keep the meat juicy and moist. Then after that I set to 180-200 degrees for 15 mins or so, depending how dark you want the skin to be. That is to crisp up the skin, take more of the fatty oil out of the skin.

I put the pan underneath to collect the juices and oils produced from the chicken as they are being roasted. The juices will enhance the vege's flavour.

This is the result. See the dark colour skin on the chicken? They are nice and crisp. Really meet my expectation, hahahah.

Another view.

The brinjal is almost 100% cooked, but not up to my softness, but still ok though. Have them with rice, and soak the vege with the chicken juice from the roast, they are nice! Me and Ivan really enjoyed it. you should try too!

Down to the last bone, nothing left, Buuuuurrrrppp!!!!!

ASB Badminton tournament (6-7 June'09)

2009-06-08T21:58:00.004+08:00

Asian Supply Base, the company I work for, organised a badminton tournament within the company only. I've been told that it's been a while since they had this tournament. This event is in conjunction with the company's 25th anniversary celebration. I'm part of the organising committee, and also taking part in the competition. The turnout was good. Many people took part, especially the men's categories. 32 men's single and 39 pairs men's doubles. Ladies category was not that big of a number.

I took part in men's double and mix double. Managed to get 1st place in men's doubles (YAY!!) and 2nd place in mix doubles. In mixed doubles final I played against my own teammate in the men's double! He's more better than me, but I did gave a good fight till the 3rd set, won't wanna let him win the prize easily. (hehe)

Registration and time keeper counter.

SMILE!!!

Discuss....

Turnout on the 1st day. Everybody played their hearts out

2nd day, all categories' Semi-final and Finals

My teammate in mix double

My teammate in men's doubles

Ladies' doubles

Overall it was good. The event went smoothly, better than expected. Prize presentation will be done on the Family Day, probably end of July'09. Congrats to the winners, and try again next time for the unlucky ones!

KK Trip June'09

2009-06-04T14:50:00.010+08:00

Went to KK again for the 2nd time in 2 weeks. This time is to sit for my ACCA exam. KK is the nearest exam centre available, so I have to make this trip. Stayed over at Archdeacon John Yeo's place. Supposedly to drive my car there, but due to the Sabah harvest event, I have no luck in getting the ferry ticket, bad habit of me being last minute. Gotta be early next time round.

So ended up taking the ferry express to KK direct. Been quite a while since I sat one, due to easily getting motion sickness from the moving of the ferry boat. Surprisingly I did not get any from both trip to and fro, thank GOD!! The pics are low quality, only used my handphone coz I forgot to bring my camera's battery along, so absent minded!!

View in the ferry express.

KK port.

Dinner near Luyang there. The shop is famous for it's dumpling, pan fried and steamed. A friend of my mom's works there, a family business. She used to be in Labuan but moved to KK for many years already. She's close to my mom, and still recognise me and my bro when we payed a visit there.

Sotong kangkung

Famous dumplings

Fried noodle

Ikan pari

After dinner me, bro and friends went to Secret recipe for dessert @ Warisan Square. Missed the cakes there, super nice.

Chocolate indulgence

Caramel cheese

Chocolate brownies, love them all!!!

Bravo chillin on the floor. Fat and cute!! hahaha

Next morning, went back to the same coffee shop for breakfast

Lunch at Wagamama @ Asia City. I quite like the food there, been there once before. The sushis are expensive, but the ala carte food are reasonable enough.

Menu

Only had this sushi dish

They had a promotion, order a main dish and free a side dish, so me and my bro ordered 2 sets. I know it's a bit too heavy, but what the heck, it's not always that we have decent Japanese food.

Salmon and chicken side dish

My main dish, fried beef

My bro's stewed beef. I forgot the exact name for them all.

The exam went well for me, not as difficult as I expected. Confident that I can pass this.

At night attend the "Night of worship" at ChristChurch Likas. A team from USA is in town and they and Jonathan Tse led the whole hour of worship. Really good and refreshing. Feel touch by God through them.

Next early morning, before going back to Labuan, stooped in town for quick breakfast. AD John Yeo brought us to a place where they serve fish noodle. Yes, literally fish noodle. The noodle is made of fish paste, serve with dumpling, fish meat and much more. Something new and creative. Enjoyed it.

Big Thanks to AD John Yeo and friend for their hospitality. Really enjoyed myself throughout the trip.

KK trip May'09

2009-06-02T00:15:00.016+08:00

My car in the ferry. 1st time to drive my car to KK. So excited!!

With some friends together attending the wedding for tomorrow.

Playing cards, as usual. To kill the travelling time to Menumbok.

Lunch @ Penang Village, 1Borneo. The lunch was good. Halal of course, that's the bad part, hahaha. But overall still good.

Appetizer

Main dishes

Hotel room @ Tune Hotel. Paid around RM97 for 2 nights. Quite a good deal for me.

Window view. Not bad!!

View of the shopping mall, 1Borneo. Only bout 1 yr old, the mall is badly built. There are lots of carpet patches around the floor of the mall, due to cracks to the tiles. Bad, really bad. When other new malls open, I don't think I wanna travel far to 1Borneo just to do shopping. I bet there are better malls out there, opening soon.

Yam cha @ Old Town cafe

Steamboat dinner @ foodcourt,1Borneo

Ice-cream dessert @ Archdeacon John's place

Late supper @ Damai

Rev. Timothy Sng @ Ps. Soo Jean's wedding day

Random shots with friends

After that we head to Warisan Square for some walking and shopping

Bought Masks for myself, persuaded by the ladies below, sigh.....try try lo...

Shop till drop? or till dry?

After that me and bro went to Tanjung Aru beach.

Nice beach view. A lot nicer than Labuan.

Those bunch for bikes below are from Labuan. Yeah, one of them is my colleagues. They have those gatherings for the fans of Harley Davidson brand.

Back to hotel for light supper.

Next morning, time to head back to Labuan. A big cup of coffee to kick-start my day!

View of the hotel @ 1 Borneo

COHS champion 2009!!

2009-06-02T00:12:00.002+08:00

3 on 3 Labuan interchurch basketball competition

My KL trip April'09

2009-06-01T10:30:00.036+08:00

Breakfast @ McD with mom before flying off to KL

Prawn fishing place @ Setapak. Really something totally new for me.

Late lunch

Dinner. Highly recommended @ Sunway Pyramid

Lavender shake. They really put those lavender flower buds inside. Tasted really lavender-ish!

Badminton time!!! While shopping for a pillow, hahahah

Laksa Shack, high recommended. Love the Singaporean seafood laksa, must try!

Subway, healthy meal for all

Gelato ice-cream @ 1 Utama

Korean Fair

Food at Ikea foodcourt. This is Daim chocolate pie. Really nice

Famous meatballs, but tasted normal to me, nothing special

Boston Wings, tasted normal too.

Big crowd at the foodcourt, CRAZY!

The Curve

Top view

Dinner. I like the place. Nice environment, extra friendly waters/waitresses, good service. It's all about Forest Gump. Pricey, but worth a visit.

Show this sign if you wanna order / assistant

show this if you are ok with everything

Bowling @ Pyramid

Competition of the best ASS. Whose ass is better looking?? (LOL)

Guess I'm the winner. LOL!

Karaoke @ Red Box

Food

Dinner. New place, nice environment, and good food. A bit pricey though, but still ok.

On the way to Lowyat. People on the street are making movies/documentary. Not sure. Really distracting the traffic flow as they need the road shoots.

Late Dinner @ home. Tapau food from Jasco at 30% off. Nice adn not too costly. hahaha.

Meeting my sis Florence & family @ Midvalley. My niece Gianna

Lunch @ Carl's Jr

My dear sis Florence

Florence and Family

Yum!! I love the fries, much better than McD

Fruit juice near Ampang Park

Muffins while having juices

Melaka here we are!! We staye just a street away from Jonker Street, famous street which sells food and other interesting stuff.

Popiah seller

The place we stayed in. A guesthouse. Middle of the house have those plants and a well!! Very rare to see. Really nyonya style

See the well. It's unused, just for decoration I think.

The lobby, hahahaha

Went to A'Famosa for short visit. Not really into historical things. But at least I was there.

then we head off to the Potuguese Settlement. Nice sea view. No beach, coz it's rocky. The sunset not bad, as good as in Layanga in Labuan.

I'm not berjiwang ah, just some random shots

The restaurant there serves good seafood. A bit pricey, but at least I've tried.

All the food sellers trying to lure us to dine at their stalls. Felt very uncomfortable coz all of them gather around us trying hard to persuade us. But surprisingly they are friendly among the competitors. All we need to do is to name the stall that we going to eat and they won't bother us anymore, wauh!!! Pressure!!!

Eye of Melaka?

Then we head back and walk at the famous Jonker Street. Really pack with people.

they even have a place to dance.

See, they are dancing. I'm not sure they haev to pay a fee or not. But really interesting to see.

Cendol durian!

Laksa

Almost the end of the street, there's a big stage where everybody can take part to sing Karaoke. Just bring their own CD and the organiser will play them.

Next day, nothing better to do, sing karaoke at a small box at one of the gaming arcade in Mahkota Parade.

Small cubicle right? hahahaha. Can't believe we did that.

Next, famous chicken rice balls

Dinner at William's @ SS2 PJ. Everything is BIG!!!

Birthday surprise. Really didn't expect it. And I almost forgot my brithday too, hahahaha. Guess I was too tired to notice it. the trip was good, tiring, but still I enjoyed it.

On the way to KLIA. Been quite a while since I sat on MAS from KL back to Labuan. Got this super deal for RM70 only!!

ERL. Took me only 28mins to KLIA, super fast!!

KLIA

KL Trip plan (17-26/04/09)

2009-04-04T23:06:00.016+08:00

Yes, as the title above said, I'm going to KL very soon, purely leisure only. At the same time my bro (Ivan) finished his diploma, so good time to crash his place and enjoy life. So what's my plan in KL? Well.......

I got some places I wanna go.....

1 Utama

The Curve

Most importantly, Lowyat Plaza.

Will crash at a friend's place in Wangsa Maju, in the same time revisit my root, TAR College, now converted to a Unitversity. My 1st college that I studied when I 1st come to KL. A fren of mine wanna go Melaka. So,(fingers-crossed) we'll make the trip.

Things I'm gonna do......

Indoor Archery

Bowling & Movies & Karaoke???

And a lot of walking

Things I wanna buy....

IT stuff

Clothing and other apparels

And FOOD to eat......

Local Malaysian food

Western offers

Asian cuisines
Korean

Japanese

Especially on food, I have no particular plan where to eat yet, but you all can play a part in suggesting some good place for me to eat during my trip in KL. I will be in Subang Jaya, KL city and Wangsa Maju. Do leave a suggestion in comment box or the chat box on the right and I'll list them in this post from time to time. Do tell me the name of the establishment, type of food, and address. Thanks in advance dear readers.

Birthday Boys (March'09)

2009-03-27T22:13:00.003+08:00

Celebrate birthday with my CG members.

Ding (23/3/09)

Vinod (28/3/09)

We celebrated Vinod's birthday early. Had "Nasi Lemak Nite" last nite. Had a good time, laughing hard during ice-breaker, and good food for dinner.

Vinod and Wife, Ling

Makan TIME!

Got santan rice, which I cooked it, brinjal by my mom, fish curry and steam by Ah Teng&Peggie, Sambal and curry puff by Ah Wei, Eggs and vege by Marie, and Red Bean santan dessert by Vinod&Ling.

Mari makan!! ; )

Yari Yara March'09

2009-03-27T21:47:00.005+08:00

Pork skin!!! Had this crispy pork skin in CG, brought by a CG member, homemade!! Really nice man, but surely not good for the faint of heart, hahahaha. I learned tips on cooking that, and I'll try to do that in the near future, stay tune!!

See how dry and crispy it looks!!

CRUNCH!!!! Yummy!!!

Saw this pita breads in a bakery and decided to buy one pack for Saturday morning's BRUNCH. I had big idea for this pita bread.

The ingredients or fillings for the pita bread. BACON, fish fillet and pork. Gonna fry them together.

Use less oil, coz the bacon has fat in them and they'll melt to oil as you fry them in high heat.

Other fillings are scramble eggs, and fresh thin sliced vege (carrot, tomatoes & cucumber)

Appetizing???

Different angle

Not bad for a brunch!

A weird situation happened...

Changing bass guitar strings (9/3/09)

2009-03-27T21:10:00.004+08:00

My bass guitar is about 1 yr 3 months old now. It's time to change the strings as the sound is getting poorer and out of tune easily. I read the tutorials on changing the strings from the website. I even read few more times to get familiar and make sure I don't screw up the new strings when I change them. It's not cheap!!!

My new strings

See the worn out strings

So you're convinced already that I should change the strings rite? hehehe

The new strings. My bass guitar is a 5-string bass, so it's bit costlier to change compare to a normal 4-string bass.

Took out the old and clean the frets and the wood.

Polish polish polish!!

Tadaaaa,....new string finally! I didn't do any mistakes, phew!!

New Look! And definitely, NEW sound!

Wohoo!! Can't wait to try it out....

Birthday boys

2009-03-10T20:55:00.004+08:00

Tshing Teng's B'day (27/2/09) @ Mehfil

So shy..... we sang the b'day song loud loud, that's why he shy, hahaha.

Fruitty cheese cake, not bad...

Rev. David Thien's b'day (19/2/09)

So much fooood!!! Sweat!!

Shofar course (19-20/2/09) @ COHS

2009-03-10T20:39:00.003+08:00

A shofar (Hebrew: שופר‎) is a horn used for Jewish religious purposes. Shofar-blowing is incorporated in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

A shofar may be created from the horn of any kosher male animal from the Bovidae family except for cattle, which is specifically excluded. In practice two species are generally used: the Ashkenazi shofar is a domestic ram (see sheep), while the Sefardi shofar is a kudu.

The sound from Shofar. The tekiah and teruah sounds mentioned in the Bible were respectively bass and treble. The tekiah was a plain deep sound ending abruptly; the teruah, a trill between two tekiahs. These three sounds, constituting a bar of music, were rendered three times: first in honor of God's Kingship; next to recall the near sacrifice of Isaac, in order to cause the congregation to be remembered before God; and a third time to comply with the precept regarding the shofar. (copy from Wikipedia)

Yari Yara 3

2009-03-10T20:12:00.005+08:00

Dinner @ Pulau Labuan Restaurant (18/2/09). Fellowship with my fellow cg members and friends. Did not manage to take the main dish photos, but the dessert is something really new for me. I'm not sure if i remember having them in the past, but that nite really got my attention. It was peanut butter soup thing(not sure what it's called in Chinese). It was almost like those bread spread peanut butter, but diluted. Really nice!!! But mind you, one bowl is enough, very heaty. No JOKE!!

Samuel really enjoying it, hahaha.

Chap Goh Meh dinner (9/2/09). Me and CG members dinner gathering, last day of CNY celebrations (15th day). Fellowship was good. Nice atmosphere, NICE food. Look at those bountiful of food!! Got KFC and Pizza Hut somemore.

KFC

Pie+ice-cream, nice dessert!

Fishing outing (30/1/09). With my bro, Leon and Leonel @ Alfred Lim's place. Enough of CNY visiting and EATING, need to relax and do things I love to do, fishing especially. Fishing at the seaside has it's risk, no fish. But fishing at the pond, especially at Alfred's place, can almost guarantee a catch! So put down the risk and go for the pond la!

Wohoooo!! Decent big fish!!

So many fishes we caught. I think I caught almost half of them. I'm the winner of the day, hahaha.

Mr & Mrs Justin Koh's wedding banquet. They held the banquet @ Ah Ban, A.K.A Goldfield Restaurant. Justin got married back in the U.S., as far I remember. Congratulations man!! Happy for you. Will post up their pic later on, haven't get my hands on them yet.

The menu, don't ask me, I can't read.

CNY eve dinner 2009

2009-03-10T19:26:00.004+08:00

Normally me and my family would be having our CNY eve dinner at home. But since left me and my bro, so we decided to skip the cooking and head to Grand Dorsett for the dunner buffet, CNY theme. Cooking dishes for just the 3 of us at home is a little troublesome, and smaller portion. Time for new experience, eat out.

Grand Dorsett offered CNY theme buffet, which the food was good. The place was almost packed with Chinese, which, like us, lazy to cook at home and eat out instead.

Table decoration.

Candle light, romantic eh. he atmosphere was just nice, not too bright and not too dim.

Mom

Bro

And me. Met a few of my CG members there too, lazy to cook and eat out, like me, hahaha.

Appetizers and soup

Main course

Side course, a must have Heineken.

Desserts.

Got a free personal organiser from my company wit my name on it, sweeet...

My bro got me a 4gb memory card for my digicam. I feel that my current card (2gb) is not enough, so get another 4gb card, which costs RM35 only, CHEAP!!!

Pre- CNY dinner @ Wilbur's hse (18/1/09)

2009-03-09T13:53:00.005+08:00

Had pre- CNY dinner with the COHS staff, PCC and family @ Johnny Yeow's resident.

Brought along my camera just for the fun of it and take some pictures.

Pray.....

MAKAN!!!!

Fuh!!! So many ppl...

Wilbur's camera shot. for sure far better quality than mine, he's using DSLR camera whereas mine is a humble compact digicam.

Most of them are homemade dishes, amazingly good!!!

Yari Yara 2

2009-03-09T12:30:00.010+08:00

(6/1/09) OH MY!!! After 2-3 weeks of constant high-calories, heart-stopping celebration meals, it's time to head back to the gym and work my way back to my normal self, and in addition to reduce more weights for healthier living, one of the new resolution for 2009, hehehe......

The gym I'm attending. Federal Gym at Saguking warehouse, opposite FLT.

Bought a bread maker.

Part of the healthier living at home??? Of course!! haha

Luncheon with CG members (4/1/09)

After church service, me and my cg members went for good lunch, 1st Sunday lunch of 2009, hahaha. Had lunch @ Mehfil. It's a Northern Indian cuisine establishment, which is not bad, for Labuan standard. I'm sure there are better restaurants our of Labuan, so stop comparing ya. But do recommend me good Northern Indian food at your area you stay at the chat box, thanks!

In the afternoon, I think 3pm, went to Layangan for satay, with my sis, Noah, Gianna, Sophia and her family.

Nice shot of me and my little niece

FOOD!!!!

Jimmy See, Sophia's dad, managed to catch a medium sized crab by the beach, looking how big it was, amazing......

Don't crawl away you!!!!

Aiya.....no good view of sunset, sky filled with clouds

What to do,.....go HOME lo.....

Cell Leader's gathering (1/1/09)

A refresher one-day course for the cell leaders and interns.

ice-breaker

At nite, appreciation dinner for the COHS Christmas events organisers, helpers and casts @ Fisherman's wharf

Ai,....my messy hair as usual..

Right after that, Teh tarik session @ Malindo

Western breakfast (3/1/09)

It's been a while since I had a typical western breakfast. Bacon, eggs and bread. hehe. I bought the bacon @ Aik Guan shop weeks before but din manage to have them. So finally having them with my sis Florence and Noah.

Bread, cheese cheddar, egg, bacon, chili sauce, mustard. Awesome!!!! Oh yeah, with hot coffee too!! Shluuuurrpppp.....

The same day went to the market to a small badminton shop to get some stuff (I'm almost a badminton freak) and I passed by the pork stop (pasar babi). It was closed. Not holiday closed. PERMANENT closed!!! The entrance was permanently grilled, so nobody and go in and sell pork anymore. I feel we Chinese are being discriminated by this action. After all these years,.....why now? Wonder if there are increasing racial discrimination in Labuan? Till now there is no proper venue for pork trading as the traders refuse to trade as the designated spot provided by the Govt. When will this issue gonna settle?

Feel like a cruel act man.

Yari Yara 1

2009-03-09T11:15:00.009+08:00

Wuuuu.... whose perfumes are they?? Can guess??

New year's eve dinner @ home (31/12/2008)

After having so many good dinners outside the past 2 weeks, we decided to have our last dinner of 2008 @ home, but turned out wasn't a simple meal after all, got good food somemore, wauh..

chew chew chew chew......

mayonnaise prawns,.......

One of my favourite, roasted duck, all the way from Miri. I really love Sarawak ducks, really different from local ducks here, textures are moist, thicker meat, and Sarawakians do know how to roast them well...

Then before mid-nite, off to watch the fireworks at a parking lot in Patau-patau water house (rumah air). the view was good enough, we were avoiding the traffic congestions in town, as we have experienced year after year, hehe.

About 5 minutes into the firework show, suddenly, the heavy rain came!!!! We rushed back to the car before decided to skip the show and head of to McD for supper, wat a nite....

Fries, chicken nuggets and drinks

Nothing better to do, so just do this joke for fun. FYI, all the 4 pics are taken within the same minute, funny man.....

Outing with relative, touring round Labuan (29/12/08)

One of the places - Chimney point

For remembrance

Layang-Layangan beach. Pity that we were late, satay all sold off, sigh...

Gianna havving fun dipping her feet into the water.

SS

Caught a crab...

Sunset view was good though. Pictures are taken using my Nokia handphone, good view rite? hehe

So nice.....

Another view....

Drinking game

2009-01-07T21:39:00.001+08:00

Be afraid,......be very very afraid!!!

Lionel & Diana's Wedding Day 27/12/2008

2009-01-07T20:54:00.006+08:00

Woke up a bit early than usual. Noises coming from everywhere in the house, preparing their own thing for my sis' wedding. Went out of the room for quick look before washing up.

The hairdresser and make up artist were there preparing my sis.

My niece still asleep......so adorable

The wedding went very well and smooth. The church literally packed with friends and relatives! This is really a good sign. I didn't get any wedding pics of my sis and Lionel yet as there were professional photographers, I don't wanna do any photo shoot. So I will update later when I get the copies. Below are some pictures that I took with friends and relatives.

We headed off to Membedai Shell Club House for the lunch reception after the wedding.

Niece sweating and enjoying the cool breeze from Rachel.

Some random shots

My cousins from Kuching.

Wedding dinner was at Dorsett. Great food, great fellowship and company, and great WINE! hahaha.

The 4 Chin-keteers, hahahah. Been quite a while since all 4 of us siblings meet together. Took some pictures with diff pose for remembrance.

After the dinner some of us head towards "Fun Pub", the place that used to call Some Place Else (SPE) in Dorsett. We have some drinks and the some of them trying to make Lionel drunk, but failed. They announced the newly wed in the pub and being pulled to the dance floor, hahaha. Once a lifetime bah.....

Romantic eh.....

Lovely couple indeed...

Relatives gathering dinner 26/12/08

2009-01-07T20:27:00.007+08:00

It was the eve of my sister's (Diana) wedding. Lots of relatives especially from Sarawak came over to witness and celebrate the joyous occasion. I especially looked forward to meet my niece!! We had dinner with the relatives at my house. We practically prepared the food for them. Me and my bro were in charge of the meat section while the rest help out the rest of the food. I roasted the turkey, and with my bro did the bbq lamb, wings, and sausages.

The whole affair turned out good, lot of good feedbacks, especially on the food. They liked my turkey and also the fruit salad, prepared by my mom. It was a good nite when everybody were happy with the food.

Who is this girl???

My baby niece!! Gianna.... cute right!!

Durian cake from my mom's friend. One of the best in town (Labuan).

BBQ lamb.

The food.....

BBQ wings....

Roast turkey. Really nice.....

The fellowship of the CHINS and YAPS.....hahahaha

After they left, we were told to hand the red cloth above the entrance door. Chinese tradition....

It was not the end of the nite yet, we have to pick up Brooke from the airport. She had a very delayed flight from KL. She was kind enough to brought us donuts, all the way from Jakarta!! woooo.....

These are mini donuts.....

These are the typical, all demand donut. All of them taste nice, no joke. I bet it would be nicer to have them in Jakarta fresh from the oven! I wonder when I'll have the chance to go there....hmmmm.....

December happenings No. 4

2009-01-03T00:12:00.009+08:00

Christmas dinner @ Chals Country Cafe (25/12/08)

I wanna wish you all readers a Merry Christmas 2008 and a Happy New Year 2009!! This year's Christmas experience is a bit different from the usual. Didn't get to spend and celebrate with my Kairos members, partly due to tiredness from the Christmas Eve service celebration. Overall it was still good, as I get to spend time with my family and friends.

Went to Chals Country Cafe for dinner as we didn't prepare dinner, might be lazy kua, and just wanna relax after roasting my turkey.

Waiting for food

Salt & pepper...... testing my HP camera, hehe

chocolate drink. They don't serve alcoholic drinks, too bad....

We were not really hungry, so we ordered 3 dishes that we can share together.

Carbonara

Pizza

Another view of the pizza. The price altogether about RM60. A bit too pricey, considering the establishment doesn't have air-conditioner, else it would be worth it. Service not that great either. The place can be improved for sure.

Next place we went to Italian cafe, which is near Tip Top or Picotec. Went there for few rounds of drinks and pool and fellowship with friends. The place owns by an Italian guy, together with a partner. We ordered some snack, pizza, carbonara and fritters.

Beers.....sweet.......heineken bah....

Waitress serving us pizzas.....

More drinks....

and more drinks...... the place is nice, the atmosphere and surrounding is bright enough and cozy...... the price, a bit on the pricey side, but still can be ignored once a while, LOL!

Christmas Turkey!!!! (25/12/08)

I always make a point to at least roast a turkey for Christmas. The turkey was well done, juicy and aromatic. Everybody liked them, sweeet~~~~~ Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve Service

Some random shots. It was a good night. A usual big turnout. It's a JOY to serve the Lord... hehe

Me and Tshing Teng bergoreng.... goreng goreng!!!

Resting....

Ipod-ing and posing......hah

ROAST Pork belly (24/12/08)

I tried to roast a pork belly, but it was a failure. I can't really get the pork skin to crisp. I'm sure I got the ingredients right, guess the heat and the time spent wasn't correct / accurate enough. Not easy, but will try again next time

Halfway cooked

Cooked, but the skin is not the desired texture, not crisp, sigh......... FAILED!!! I know from the looks of it, it does looks appetizing.

Friends reunion 22/12/08

Been a while since I saw my old friends who have moved to Australia. Now they (Lance & Gordon) are my in-laws. hahahaha. Glad to meet them up again and catch up with the old times

Gordon......

Farewell Lunch for Ka Seng @ Pizza Hut 20/12/08

Christmas Decorations

Starry nite oh..........

December happenings No. 3

2009-01-02T23:07:00.013+08:00

STEAMBOAT BBQ buffet @ Manja Rasa 19/12/08

Since we've been there for fishing, and seeing quite a lot of people went there for dinner, we planned to go there for dinner.

The view from the restaurant

the restaurant

Start fire!!! booom!

Boiling boiling boiling.......

Other ready to eat food that they serve

Fruits. It was ok, but going once is good enough, hehehe....

VINEYARD'S Christmas harvest event. 15/12/08

I somehow joined the party at one of the member's hse. Nice house. They even had the gift exchange thingy.

The host has 2 cute puppies.

the other puppy

Posing and getting ready to PARTY!!!!

We started the event with Carolling, the main event....

shaking hands and the last song, We Wish You A Merry Christmas!!

Food prepared....

Free flow of wine!!

Makan time

Roast pork!!!

YUM!!!! They really know how to prepared good food man,....

Fellowshipping....

I got a bottle of wine as a gift, in exchange for my Cadbury chocolate, hahahaha.

Dinner @ Ah Ban (14/12/08)

*and also testing out my new handphone camera. It comes with 3.2mp, sweet*

Food was ok, considering the price, as compared to Pulau Labuan Restaurant. I like the pork the most, super NICE!!!

Heineken, my favourite brand!!

3 Layer pork

Thai Chicken

Homemade toufu

Vege

Sesame chicken

December happenings No. 2

2009-01-02T22:42:00.003+08:00

Pizza lunch (13/12/08)

Something funny happened, me, ivy and Caressa ordered splitza pizza which has a combination of two flavours at half a side. The waiter got it wrong and gave gave us 2 regulars instead. We rejected the order and request them to re-do. In the end they gave us both the regular pizzas for the price of one splitza, awesome!!! We di get to fi nishe the pizza though.

Got myself a brand new Handphone!!!! My old handphone is a wreck on the outside, so had no choice but to get new decent phone. I'm not really in to phones with all the latest tech features (ie wifi, touch screen, etc), not yet. So I bought a Nokia 7610 supernova slide. Some of my friends wonder why I changed to Nokia brand (used to be SE user). Mainly I like the look of this phone (very). Caught my eyes when I saw it the 1st time. So, I just test out and works fine, I go for it!!

Nice phone actually, bit laggy at times, but bearable.

December happening No 1

2008-12-31T00:20:00.009+08:00

1st bbq + fishing outing 8/12/08

Had a simple outing with some friends at seasport complex. BBQ + Fishing + overnight camping. I skipped the overnite camping though, not into sleeping in tents. Went home about 4.30am.

Nice tide

Out camping ground

One of the tents

The food was awesome and nice. Chicken curry, sweet and sour prawns, fry meehoon, and bbq chicken wings & sausages

Another view

I din manage to catch anything, dunno why, but fellowship well spent. My bro caught something wierd, not a tiny garoupa, but something poisonous, and wat my friend told me.

BBQ by the beach

Clever spot to bbq

2nd bbq + fishing outing 12/12/o8

Lionel and You Kai want to have bbq on the own version at the same spot. So we went again and hope to catch good fishes.

BBQ-ing

Nice spot

Yum

Up-close

Makan time!

Got fish!!

Some friends stop by and lepaking, good fellowhip..

Fishing time.

Sigh, again, didn't manage to catch any......

View of me focusing on my line

Fixing the lines

Relax bah....

Adui....sampai tidur pula......

Ivy's birthday.... 7/12/08

Cut ur toungue then u know.....

Fishing trip @ Alfred Lim's place 29-11-08

My bro happy he caught one

So many fishes we caught

Another view

I have been tagged

2008-12-04T20:53:00.007+08:00

Viviana and Ivy tagged me to answer some questions. Hmmmm,..... ok la, answer just for you readers' curiosity.

Instructions:
Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. What is your full name?
Donald Chin H. M.

2. What is your most favourite thing to do?
Fishing. I can do that all day provided I have the time, good weather, and high tide.

3. What is your 1 regret in life?
Not taking God seriously

4. Who inspires you?
My mom, to be generous, loving and compassionate

5. What is your dream job?
To make people's "good" wish come true. I like to see them happy.

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Logically, no. But by faith, yes.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
God. Coz I was "lost" many times and I was afraid

8. What do you feel like doing, right now?
McD chocolate cup Sundae, RM2 only, promotion oh!

9. If you can get out of your current life circumstance, would you?
No, that will mean that I'm playing GOD, and won't have any surprises in life anymore

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Talkative, loves food, and fat like me, hahaha

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Loves God 100%, and me of course.

12. What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
Not being Honest.

13. If Jesus being your Saviour, what would you want to do for Him?
Do anything that he said, but I know it's not easy.

14. Is anyone really perfect?
Nobody besides Jesus.

15. If you had a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick ?
Happy. I have seen the root of $$$ richness with/without Christ, mostly are damn ugly

16. What is the one thing you would like to do most before you die?
Seeing the WORLD that God created, no matter how ugly or awesome they are.

17. Who is the person (people) that can share all your problems with?
ALL my problems? hmmm no one,.... only GOD........(seriously)

18. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
Being a Family man who is GOD-centered

19. What is the one thing you love about yourself?
I love sports

20. Explain in ONE word, What is love to you? [my own question]
Sacrifices

Tag 3 persons..
Alfie, Ding, You Kai......

JKIDS CAMP 2008

2008-11-24T22:20:00.016+08:00

REGISTRATION

GROUP PICTURE

DANCING PERFORMANCE

MAKAN TIME

WHO PREPARES THE FOOD?

I mainly in charge of drinks, milo and cordial orange. Not easy to do to quench the thirst of 300+ children and adults.

Popiah making

I also helped out in frying the noodle. There's total 40kg of noodle need to be stir fried. Really tiring man.

Chicken wing!

Stuffed tau fu

GAMES TIME!!

MISC PICTURES

PRESENTATIONS

FINAL TEA TIME (Egg banjo burgers)

Pre - JKids Camp 2008

2008-11-24T21:51:00.005+08:00

This year's JKids Camp I'm helping out in the kitchen team. It's my 1st time. Previous I've been in Security, teaching and assistant teacher. I like to try out new things. Since I like food, why not helping out in the kitchen? hahahaha......

Preparations on the nite before. Stage were set up, teachers preparing their teaching materials.

Busy busy......

Trying hard to understand the teaching material?

I went to the kitchen, setting up. We're gonna feed 300 people, students and volunteers combine. Won't be easy I tell you.

Testing the gas stove.

Pasting the class groups on the floor.

Another view.

After setting up everything, we, as a team, prayed. It's important to pray as we prepare for the coming 2 days. Surely will be busy. I'm not only in the kitchen team, but will also taking some pictures for the children's handicrafts and games session.

Misc pics taken during the preparations

My bro just got back from Subang.

Testing out my camera.

This is the sample pictures that I will take for the children's handicraft.

After the preparation, me, bro, sis and friends went for Yam cha and late supper @ Tanjung Aru

The stalls serves wide range of coffee and tea. CNI brand wo.....

Fellowshipping

Another view

Ordered nasi goreng ayam. It was ok, but I think got other better food. They stall serves wide range of food. Should have asked what is their specialty.

My bro had nasi ayam. The chilli sauce was good.

JCo donuts

2008-11-24T21:37:00.002+08:00

A dear friend of mine kind enough to get me a 1/2 doz of donuts from Subang. JCo donuts, quite a new and famous donuts around now. Surprisingly it's widely accepted by the Malaysians. The company originates from Indonesia. Very smart of them to venture their business abroad. I'm sure they are doing good currently and will continue to do good in few more years to come. It's typical of Malaysians that we will tend to get bored of it after a certain period, unless JCo is smart enough to continue to evolve to be more creative in order to continue to capture our eyes and appetite. That's how business is in Malaysia. Nothing lasts long if it stays the same.

The box

The donuts, I'm not sure each of their name, but they all tastes good.

Another view, with my new camera.

The Bite, it's fluffy in the inside, I guess that's why people love them, easy on the mouth and stomach.

Another angle of the donuts.

My CAR!!!!

2008-11-24T21:32:00.002+08:00

Accidentally "hurt" my car a week ago. Banged a cement pole in church while reversing, so clumsy of me, didn't notice the pole. Broke the signal light and scratched the bumper and fender, sigh.... Now it's in the workshop getting it repaired. Don't worry my "dear", you'll be nice and new again!!!