Which category are you in?

Taking a cue from Magus Young, on the topic of Connected, now I proceed to write about my thoughts while I was working out in the gym today.

Today, the whole day, I have been to Fitness First (FF) at Island Plaza and Celebrity Fitness (CF) at Gurney Plaza. While I was doing the RPM (the cycling exercise routine) at FF, suddenly, the thought about "No pain, no gain" struck my mind. Thoughts after thoughts came streaming through my mind after that. So, now I would like to share those thoughts with you all. All right, here we go:

Category 1: No pain, no gain
Read: Hey you couch potato, get up from your comfort zone now and do some workout lah! Don't just stay there doing nothing! You get nothing by doing nothing!

Category 2: No pain, got gain
Read: I think you must have taken the shortcut to get that dream body, you blady cheater! You must have been taking the steroid, eh?

Category 3: Got pain, no gain
Read: Hmmm... I guess you must have done the exercise routine wrongly, man! Get a personal trainer if you can't figure out how to use that machine!

Category 4: Got pain, got gain
Read: Yay... congratulations... you have achieved what you have been dreaming for so long, all through your hard work! You have got that good-looking body!

So, which category are you in?

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Xiao Long Bao - contain delicious meat fillings in steam soup. all inside each of these small treasure bundle.


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2. Poke a hole in the thin skin and let the soup flow out. Suck on the zhiap to enjoy it.

3. Put a few strips of ginger on the dumpling and you can now savour the meat fillings as a whole.



Shanghainese Pork Ribs La Mian (Pulled Mee)


Man Tao

to be eaten with Shanghainese Braised Pork Belly with Beancurd Skin


Steamed rice with marinated chicken slices, mushrooms, chinese sausages and hong kong kailan


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Steamed rice with a combo of cuttlefish, salted fish and pork topped with hong kong kailan


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me: Eh choi. Kaneh. The pencuri loot wat away? But everyone safe den nvm lo :)

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supposed to go out for dinner with Cedric and Emily at 7pm yesterday nite...



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me: Dept Head changed my shift. Today full day d :( til 10pm.

cedric: Kaneh big fuck! Cibai cockhead la tu. Pukimak tu keongkan sai am hantu.


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Hmm

More pics of food. Visited Dave's with Iconico last Friday. Don't confuse Dave's with Dave's Deli. They're owned by the same person, but the difference is huge.

Dave's, situated opposite T.G.I.F. in 1-Utama. I love the ambience there. It's just so cool. So jazzy. And they play the oldie's jazzy version of Maroon5's This Love.

I see the writing on the wall!

Sometimes i just wish that my room is something like this. Damn. Sexy. There's just this dim, warm and homey feel to it.

Dave's has really good food, unfortunately at a high price. They have a variety of crispy pizzas, roasted pork ribs and so on. But i always come here for the pasta, and only for the carbonara. Y'see. The cream carbonara is one of the chef's specialties and so far the best i've tasted.

Fettucinne carbonara with bacon. Rich creamy sauce + aromatic smoked bacon + sprinkle of chilli flakes = spoonful of heaven. *sighs*

Dave's has this promotion going on. So hop on over. Pastas are 50% off on weekdays from 12-5p.m. and are served with complimentary glass of white wine (2 tablespoons of white wine more like). So hop on over.

Here it is! Complimentary "glass" of wine. Oh well am not complaining.

My failed attempt at imitating the faggoty snootiness of Anton Ego from Ratatouille.

"Surprise me."

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While i was back in hometown i went to eat this divine divine beef kuay teow.

It is sold in this place called Parit Buntar, several kilometres away from my grandpa's house, and it is marvellous. It looks like any other beef kuay teow in the picture, but oh my god.


I've been eating this since i was a kid, and every time i eat i swear i can hear angels singing. I even forget to hate the coriander leaves sprinkled on top of my kuay teow. The secret of this fantastic dish is, i suppose, this:

Fried garlic in oil, minus the oil, plus soya sauce. Adds a freakin' karate kick to the kuay teow! Normally i order beef, as in the meat. They also have beef stomach (urgh), beef tendon and other grotesque parts.

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Lastly.


My luminescent glass of iced water at Dave's, with an extra slice of lemon.

JJ's Birthday @ Golden Sand Beach (Finale)

The Hubby's eating style also so pien tai... sigh.

wenDY the cake cutter! heh!

The Shouters having fun in the water...


Those who preferred to stay on the land. clean, dry and comfy.

The Birthday Boy doing the compulsory take-candles-buried-deep-deep-in-the-cake-with-your mouth-and-be-ready-to-get-your-face-in-the-cake ritual.

the prerequisite exercise in order to get the birthday present... 18 push-ups with Cedric on his back. ahaks!

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Dinner?

Two days ago i went back to my hometown for my cousin sis's wedding dinner. It is a fishing village situated in Perak, Kuala Kurau for those who has heard about it or seen in some certain geography revision books back in form 3. Takes a 3-4 hour drive. My parents (after mum dozed off while driving) finally let me drive, and i zoomed like the wind.

Personally i hate going back to hometown. The humid sea air is terrible as it makes me sweat profusely. And the place is loaded with old busybody relatives (related, not-so-related and the random sister's husband's niece's daughter's son-in-law) of whom i have no recollection of. Anyway, the wedding dinner took place right outside my grandpa's house. Not of v. good taste, i must say. The music. Holy... Those loud shrieky hokkien songs + Teresa Teng + some 80's Chinese music + a mic for them to sing. I suppose it was to please those freakin kampung relatives who have no taste.

Some pictures of the food.
This is the strangest starter platter ever. Going clockwise. The aluminum dish does not contain loh mai kai, thank goodness. It contained otak-otak. Next, taiwanese sausages cut into flowers. Next, fried breaded prawn balls. Strange... oh well. The whitish stuff are some sorta saladish acar which tasted funny. Moving on the the black crispy fried chicken (strange but tasted good) and beside them water chessnut dessert thingies. In the middle is a clump of scrambled egg + carrot shreds + mushrooms + supposedly shark's fin shreds. V.v. strange combination of food, but tasted pretty good regardless.
Urgh. Chicken, mushrooms and parsley coriander leaves. Pretty simple dish. Mushrooms great. Chicken edible. Parsley grotesque. Hate parsley. Technically speaking those aren't parsley but i don't know what they're called. Anyone wanna clarify? *edit* Not parsley, but coriander. My parents told me.
Next up was this large bowl of shark's fin soup + crabmeat and mushroom (v. shark unfriendly) but it got distributed real quickly, so this is my bowl. Passable... Nothing special.
Aaaand here comes the dish i dislike most. Pork trotters + sea cucumber. I absolutely abhor sea cucumber. It's disgusting, man. Sure, it has lots of calcium and whatnot, but i'm just not a fan. And the trotters were 80% fat and 20% meat. The older generation seemed to like this dish though.
Thing good about having dinner in a fishing village is that we get super super fresh seafood. And i mean super fresh. God this fish was divine. The steam pomfret had no fishy smell at all. The meat was just heavenly, springy and soft. Ooooohh!!
Mixed vege with squid and clams in squid sauce. Squid! V. nice. And this is coming from a predominantly carnivorous person like me.
Huge plate of super super fresh prawns. Served with a crude dip of soya sauce + garlic and cili padi. Lovely, lovely prawns. They didn't trigger my allergy. Hehe.

The dessert was just a typical white fungus and longan soup with ginkgo nuts. No point posting a pic of it here.

As i said, this is just a simple dinner to please the kampung fellers, who are miserably skinflint to the max. Kiam siap penny pinchers. It is customary for people who attend Chinese weddings to give ang paus to the bride and groom. Apparently the village relatives (related, the not-so-related, and the random) gave like 20 or 30 bucks. After that...

You see how they drink. Alcohol.

More alcohol.
Even more alcohol.
Holy crap, a whole lotta alcohol. And how much does a bottle of those Martell V.S.O.P. cost? 300+? I saw this particularly obnoxious uncle and his drunkard friends put away one bottle in less than 5 mins, then coming back for more. Sighs.

Ah well. I shouldn't be bitching. Weddings are occasions for celebration. Here's to thrift, frugality and greed. XD

My cousin will be hosting a more formal and proper wedding dinner (free from karaokeing uncles clad in slippers, shorts and batik shirts) in Hotel Istana on Saturday, and i'll be posting up more pics soon.

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Anyway i made some chocolate fudge using Yvonne Woi's recipe which can be found here.
I tweaked it a bit by using almond flakes, which wasn't a good option. Will try almond strips next time as they are thicker and will provide a better crunch. Fudge turned out too sweet for my liking. I think it's probably because i didn't buy the dark chocolate. Will visit Guten Braun next time (btw, jaya jusco supermarket failed me for the first time: i couldn't find cooking chocolate there and had to go to giant instead).

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Rushed back to Penang today as grandpa, 90, fell down and fractured his pelvic bone. My goodness. They replaced it with a plastic one. Thank god he fell down sideways. If he had fallen on his spine, or head-first... Brrr. Best not to think about that. Dad said his hands were all bruised as he used them to reduce impact. V. tough man, my grandpa, for someone his age. Escaped here from China few decades ago when the communists were stirring up havoc.

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Aaaand...

Green hair. Initially it was bottle green like this.

Then it faded into some sorta peacock green.
Now it is just blue. Will fade even more as i'll be going swimming (in chlorine) tomorrow.