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Thursday, November 05, 2009

WEEEE!!!~~~

Going Langkawi in 2 days time!!!!

*back to my room cleaning...*

Monday, October 26, 2009

We Were Just Too Late - Tenji Finally

When we first heard about Tenji, a new Japanese Buffet Restaurant, opened in Solaris, Mont Kiara, it was all about heavenly food.
"With over 200 dishes"
"I have lost count on the number of sweet coconut drink I had. Yes, they are free flow and you can have as many as you want."
"Imagine our excitement when the sight of the big fat juicy fresh oysters lying on the bed of ice welcomes us the moment we stepped into the dining area."
Ref: http://preciouspea.blogspot.com/2008/12/tenji-japanese-buffet-solaris-mont.html
Finally I had the chance to go and try out the 'heavenly' restaurant last week when Tenji was having a lunch promo for RM49.90++ during weekday. After much persuasion, I got my sis and few other close friends to go together. My, it was far from being heavenly.

First, I don't think it has over 200 dishes, at least I think that the conventional Japanese chain has more variety of food. Next, the sweet coconut wasn't really free flow as it went out of stock after my friends had 2 servings (I only had 1). The restaurant replaced with the normal coconut after that. Next, the oysters weren't big fat and juicy, and 1 of my friend claimed that it wasn't really fresh. As I wasn't a big fan of oyster, I didn't wanna try them. The oyster section was always empty anyway. Besides the sweet coconut and oyster, the salmon sashimi, being a high demand dish, was also out of stock quite frequently. My friend went to the section few times came back empty handed. (I did manage to get quite alot though)

I was also disgusted with the cleanliness in the restaurant. First the cutlery was not cleaned properly with food stain still sticking on them. Then the plates were not dried up properly with water still dripping from them. (I'm a person who dislike my utensils to be wet).

Despite the food shortage problem, the food overall was not too bad, fresh prawns were fresh, salmon sashimi was good, the waffles were nice, and Lifern said the cod fish was good too. The best of all, good times with friends.



If you ask me if I want to come back to Tenji, I don't think I will. I might want to try Jogoya again since the last time I went I was not feeling quite well so my reviews do not justify and I heard they have improved alot.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Old Song, New Sing

Ok the title sounded so cina. Whatever~

I was listening to MyFM the other day (I listen to them almost everyday anyway), and they were running a string of promo for 方大同 (Khalil Fong). One of the songs that caught my attention. A very old song, a new style of singing. I like.



Another one, by Joanna Wang. She's only 21. I like too.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Be Grateful

I have always remind myself to be grateful. Although it's just a small gesture other people offers, accept it with a grateful heart and with a smile, say thank you as often as you can.

Every morning mom will prepare breakfast for us, sometimes lunch as it's expensive to have lunch at my work place due to the location. She don't really have to as I'm old enough to take care of myself. I'm grateful and every morning I'll say thank you before I leave for work.

Most of the time when I goes to work, grandma or uncle, sometimes mom will wait at the gate and help me to close the gate so that I don't have to get down to close it (my house doesn't have an automatic gate). They don't really have to but yet they will still wait for me to drive out my car and help me to close the gate. I'm grateful.

At work, sometimes when I needed help carry heavy boxes, or when I was busy doing packing of stuffs, my colleagues will stuck their heads out and ask if I needed help. I'm grateful for the help they offer.

These are the little things happen in life. Offering a help, a ride, an advise, even a call when you think they might need it, is just a small gesture of kindness.

Sometimes I wonder, what do I get if I offer my help to other people? Will they appreciate it? Taking me for granted? Well, I don't wanna know. Although sometimes I do feel disappointed or sad when people are not appreciative, but then what can I do? Forget about it? Or continue doing what I believe? I think I'll choose the latter.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun



These are the gals in our youth group. It was a random idea that came across my mind when they were having fun at the beach during church camp. "Hey gals, come let's do something I wanna take photo", I said. "Jump as high as possible, raise up your hand and do as exaggerate as possible, ok?" They kept on jumping and jumping, I think ppl around us must be thinking that this bunch of gals are crazy. We really had fun, especially when they threw Jean into the sea, and Joyce was grabbing my legs so tight when they wanna throw her into the sea. That's the good part of holding expensive stuffs like camera, phone and wallet lol.


photo by Joash


photo by Ethan

After almost all the gals in the water, they turned their target to May. May said: "no need, I'll go in myself" XD

Sunday, September 06, 2009

GET LIFE TOUCH Camp 2009



40 campers up the mountain, 4 days never ending excitement, fun and laughter, having life changing experience, getting blessed by God and people around them, releasing their potential within, making new friends, their life will never be the same again.

Stay tuned for more...

Friday, September 04, 2009

How Could I Live

How could I live without You
How would I survive
Without Your love
Without Your touch
You're the One that heals me
And cleanses my heart
And sets me free

Now I come right before You
With my hands lifted up
And my heart humbly bowed
At Your work on the cross
As You hung there and die
You were paying the price
For my life, For my life

For Your love is higher than the heavens
is deeper than the seas
And all I want is You in my life
No one else can satisfy my soul
Can make me feel this way
Only You Lord, only You

Everytime I listen and sing this song, I'll be so moved by the beautiful lyrics. Tears will just flow thinking of the love God has shown in my life. You don't have to know why, don't have to understand, you just need to believe.

Jez says it all.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

A Random Crazy Road Trip

It all started when Joseph left his phone in the campsite under the pillow that day after the camp. He only realized it when we were on the way down the mountain.

So came this road trip out of random mission - to rescue Joe's phone. It was planned on Sunday, and initially there were 11 people wanna go on this 'mission', then Ben T. was sick and another 2 unable to make it, we had 8 people in 2 cars.

We started journey after breakfast in KLC mamak. Joe and Ken both were the drivers, taking Becka, Jack and I in 1 car, Joash, May and Rachael in another. It only took us around 1 hour 40 minutes to reach Tapah instead of that day 3 hours bus ride. We had Westlife concert all the way up.

We reached the campsite around 2pm and mission was accomplished at 2.15pm.



We had some gossips, exchanging news and laughing time at the campsite before deciding where to lunch.



We drove up to Tanah Rata and it rained quite heavily and we couldn't find any steamboat shop there, so we heading down again to Habu and the only steamboat shop was closed and not gonna open until 6. So we ended up eating 'tai chao' next door because we were starving. The food were great and cheap, only 4.80 per person.


Tea plantation along the way

Then we drove down to the place where we stopped the other day for fresh vege. The gals minus Becka were busy buying vege. The price fluctuated in just less than 48 hours, but the aunty gave us same price after I told her we were there 2 days ago. She also gave the gals 1 rose each for buying so much from her.



After that we headed down. Since we didn't get to eat steamboat, we planned to eat steamboat elsewhere for dinner instead. I suggested the steamboat place in USJ 1 for its salmon.

It was still drizzling on the way down, and due to the 'tai chao' I was feeling nausea. A lot of cars were going down and we saw a car smashed flat on the head.

After a journey that seems forever, we finally reached Tapah R&R. As today was 31st of the month, we bought Baskin Robins :D (It turned into water as the journey was too long, it's now chilling in the freezer hopefully the taste won't turn too bad)

Jack took the wheel and we drove all the way to USJ. We had a great laughing session about drooling on pillow to vomiting and even more disgusting stories together despite the food wasn't that good compared to the previous time I went.

Finally, we need to get back to Jalan Ipoh as my car was parked in Joash's place. So near yet so far, this time my turn to drive the City. *yay*

The crazy road trip ended at 11pm when we finally head home.

It is really great to have fun with friends, especially friends we know for life. We do random stuffs together, laughed at random jokes, go random places...it's really great.