Disappointment

Yes. Disappointment was what i felt when i saw my "pizza" arrive at my table. I went to the Curve again and after much wandering around on The Street, i settled in this classy little italian cafe-restaurant called the La Gourmet House, which serves quite a nice delicious stew. But i was dismayed to find out that they no longer serve their grandma stew. So while waiting for Cow, who was stuck in jam in LDP Snailway, me and Nico decided to order a pizza. And this item caught our attention.


10. Folded Mediterranean and Makarash Pizza
Flavourings are folded into the pizza dough instead of being placed on top. It's surprising and delicious!

Something like that la. And i was so captivated by the cosy jazzy ambience of the restaurant and the description of the pizza (surprising!) so i ordered it. When it arrived i saw this 4 slices of double crusted pizza, with flavourings inside. And their flavourings turned out to be tomatoes, carrot strips, black olives, some wrinkly mushroom, and raisins. Oh my goodness. It was rather sour, yet tasteless. V.v. bad. Their pizza crusts were wonderfully crispy, i admit, but the rest was just horrible. Vege Pizza! Man! Nico was saying, "eh. There's no meat inside here leh.."
No meat!! What kinda pizza has no meat? It's not ethical. We're purely carnivorous, man. "We should go report to the persatuan pengguna!"

We were supposed to order other stuff when Cow arrived but the pizza turned us off so we paid up and scarpered. Oh. La Gourmet House actually serves very delicious food. Their bruschetta are heavenly. Just.. Don't order the wrapped pizzone thing. Bleargh.

So anyway, we shifted to Italiannies to further continue our foodscapade. We shared this Chicken Arrabiatto thingy which was rather grotesque. It was like those tomato based spaghetti, except that there were four enormous pieces of fried breaded chicken on top. Apart from chicken, the rest of the spaghetti sucked. The sauce was just too sour >.<.. And once again, Italiannies serves very delicious food. Their salmon fettucinne is heavenly. Just... Don't order the Chicken Arrabiatto thing. Bleargh.

Damn!

Urgh. Am dying here.

The Internet disruption is driving me nuts. Apparently there was an earthquake in Taiwan that ruined some international links.

X(

I can't log in to MSN!

Bleargh!!

Golden Flower

Ah! After much anticipation, i finally went to see Curse of the Golden Flower @ CineLeisure (people, CineLeisure's popcorn is fucking mind-blowing. go eat it. it's divine!) with my family and Ronnie.

Overall, the movie was great. That is.. The censored version was great. As usual the more exciting scenes are cut out, much to the public's dismay/anger/outrage/disappointment etc. etc... My parents haven't been to the cinema for donkey's years, and obviously were not accustomed to the rules of the cinema (whatchoo doooing?! turn that mobile offfff *bang*). Dad was blatantly pointing at Jay Chou, saying, "wah. hey he's holding the guan gong spear!" with Mum responding with "where?" while i sat there, mortified. It's ironic. I've been raving on and on about movie spoilers and my parents turned out to be... It's like a anti-drug officer whose son got caught smoking marijuana until his brains fried and his balls shrunk. Oh well. They weren't actually spoiling the movies hor.. Hehe. =P

Man i tell you. They must've had a hard time finding a bunch of girls with jugs the size of basketballs. Damn.. Each one of the dayang-dayangs in the palace looked as if they had 2 pomelos strapped to their chests, then squashed together by push-up dayang-dayang costumes to form obvious cleavages visible a mile away.

Sis was beside herself when Jay Chou, the prince, appeared brandishing his guan gong spear left right and centre. She kept gushing "Ohh!! Jay Chou!!" while at the same time sticking her hands into my pack of popcorn. But some of the scenes were so magnificent i think sis could've died. It was like gold vs. black. And they died and died like falling chrysanthemums in the wind. Ooh. So majestic. =P Absolutely thrilling.

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Discovered that the Curve is actually quite a funky place to hang out around. There's this The Street there, which is a street full of restaurants. V. atmospheric. Must go there one day.

Christmas Eve!

oh god. it's christmas eve!!

and am all ALONE!!

all by myself...
dun wanna be all by myself...
on Christmas Eve...

damn. this is horrible. sis went out with ron. mum and dad are out. and am stuck at home! No!!

pathetic la. am a KL-ite. should be out counting down!!

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went for aunt Heko's Christmas Lunch as usual. Was back-breakingly freaky as usual, having to pretend to be a perfect gentlemen with wonderful table manners. Ah well. I got a eau de toilette thingy as a present. And it smells much better than the one dad lent me (grotesque).

dragged dad off to see some handphones just now. i need a new one. i want a new one. yes.

p.s. finally defeated Mateus the Corrupt in FF12. Am overjoyed!

Argh!!!

Not for the last time, am bored!! It's now 4.15 in the morning and am hunched up in an unorthodox position on a chair, typing feverishly and running over a list of various disadvantages and dire consequences of leading an unhealthy nocturnal life. Bleargh! Just two days ago i woke up at 5a.m. feeling really high and decided to play Final Fantasy. But i discovered that sis was awake too (night owl family. it runs in the blood) so i spent around 2 hours being her counsellor + psychology doctor before forcing her to go buy McDonald's Breakfast with me at the 24hr Drive Thru at Bandar Utama Centre Point (i drove there btw, and i freaked sis out coz it was really dark and i couldn't see the road properly and kept banging recklessly into potholes).

Holidays are gonna be even more boring after this coz many of my friends will be buggering off on happy and jovial christmas vacations while i am stuck here in this hellhole, feeling a virulent mixture of jealousy, envy, and outrage. My usual DotA friends are not around anymore. Melv flew off yesterday to Egypt (the most unChristmassy place to visit, but nevertheless interesting). Fish has classes in Uniten. Ennie's gone away to Tasmania. Danny's backpacking through Europe. Brown Bear will be going to North China tomorrow to experience the wintry frosts (now i have to go to gym myself). Urgh!!

Ah well. Yean May called just now in the afternoon while (and she was scandalized to discover) i was still sleeping, informing me about a movie outing on Friday! Whee. At least something to look forward to.

Eragon

Went to watch Eragon today. And despite all the hype about it, the movie turned out to be just so-so. Not great.

The movie has a little bit of everything, but just not enough. There was little (close to none) humour used in the movie apart from "expected you to be more..... well, more". All the action and fighting in the movie was just sad, few slashes here, a burst of magic there, nothing much. The war featured in the movie was sad too, coz the dragon just spat some fire and whoosh, that's it. And the most annoying part is.. No romance. Am not a fan of lovey dovey scenes lah.. But the only thing the main character kissed was his dragon's scaly snout. According to the book, there was some sorta chemistry between the elf-Arwen-lookalike and Eragon. But the most intimate scene they had was her wearing his armor for him. That's wrong!! Urgh!!

Ok lah. The movie might be nice to some people, but it's hard not to be biased coz my Eragon movie experience was terrible. Y'see. I was sharing a cinema with some fucked-up idiots. One of them was sitting behind me. Every 2-3 minutes or so, he would give one large exclamation of "HAH!" Not "huh", not "hah!", but "HAH!" When he first did it, i thought he was clearing his throat or something. Then it happened again. And again. And again throughout the movie. And each time he did it, i lost concentration on the movie. I was trying hard to turn around and ask him to shut the fuck up. Didn't know what he was doing la. Crazy fella. In addition to the HAH!-ing asshole, there was a row of giggling girls sitting on my right. Giggle giggle. Giggle. Man! And there was no romantic scenes in the movie for them to giggle at! What the hell? Giggle? Wanted to slap them one by one. *Slap* 'Ow!' 'Giggle somemore la, u whore!'

So. To hell with people who spoil my movies!! May they rot there like a heap of flesh!!

Y'know.. Sometimes it feels good to bitch about hateful people.

Now i feel good. Good enough to continue about the HAH guy. Apparently Cow stuck around after the movie to have a good look at HAH. So when we went bowling after that, Cow pointed out that HAH was bowling too. And the five of us joked about going near him and yelling HAH everytime he bowled. LoL!

p.s. Bowling sucked. I lost terribly to the bunch of chattering aunties on the next lane, all of whom, had more than 110+ total scores. X(

p.p.s. Finally got myself arsed up enough to play Final Fantasy 12. After a few hours of gruelling training, i managed to increase Balthier's, Fran's and Ashe's levels by 2 to 28! Whee. What a huge achievement huh? =)

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Holidays are turning out to be boring as ever! And to prove it, i went out for late-lunch-early-dinner (lunner? or dinch?) with Dad. Normally i would've stayed at home and played games. But after a week of hardcore gaming, i needed a break. So we ended up at Jarrod and Rawlins (Purveyors of Fine Food and Wine) at Sri Hartamas. Jarrod and Rawlins is a unique restaurant as they let you select what you want to eat, and how much you want, anything from a piece of ham to twenty sausages. They have this whole range of meats from which one gets to choose. Hams, bacons, sausages, steaks.. Whatever. And those displayed are raw. After you make the order, the people in charge will sizzle them into perfect, juicy and succulent pieces of food that will satisfy even the most intense of carnivorous cravings. Mmm.. Oh. And they charge a RM10 for sizzling the food, so.. it's wise to select all you want in 1 go. Asking them to cook only 1 piece of sausage for 10 bucks is stupid.

So. Dad and I shared this platter of extremely fattening, but nevertheless appetizing sausages and bacon. 7 pieces of sausages in total. 1 freaky dunno what cranberry thingy, 4 spicy chili sausages, and 2 chili dynamite sausages (flaming. tsssss. stuffed full of cili padi!). I also ordered two tiny pieces of streaky bacon and 2 pieces of shoulder bacon. Just to try. The platter came with a bowl of creamy mashed potatoes and mustard (which i did not touch). The restaurant was stacked full with wine. Wine. and more Wine!! There was a whole rack of wine there. And i think we were the only ones there lame enough to be eating food. The rest of the patrons ordered wine. Saw this ang moh woman sipping gracefully at a glass. Another man and his friend were inhaling wine-fumes indulgently. @_@" Bleargh. Anyway. After that loaded lunch, i will eat only salad for dinner tonight. =) Mum made me one for lunch but i was still asleep.

And speaking of sleeping till past lunchtime. My body clock has gone haywire as usual. It's customary for me to stay up till the wee hours of the morning during holidays. It's great, not having to wake up early in the morning, all groggy-eyed and nauseated. But then.. I slept at 9 this morning. A.m. Stayed up the entire night reading novels. At 9, after flipping through more than 600 pages of paper and minute printing of words, i felt groggy-eyed and nauseated. X( And i fell into a dead sleep swirling with confusing dreams of cars being dented, people laughing and cellphones running out of credit.

Rain!

To further dampen my holidays spirit is the rain. I mean c'mon! It's practically pissing with rain everyday. As i type out my words here on Blogger, there is a colossal storm raging outside with streaks of rain hammering on the awnings, whooshing wind uprooting plants, thunder booming so loud that my roof is rattling and lightning threatening to sizzle my modem into one of Jarrod & Rawlin's sausages. Terrible. I have better turn off my comp now. A thunder-struck modem is gonna add a load of misery to my holidays.

Oh and as a small p.s. Ron is back! Sis went to fetch him earlier this morning. Hehe. S'been a long time.