Angels and Demons

I am sure most of you have been asked this question "Do you believe in spirits or ghosts?". Well, how do you answer it? Though many of us do not possess the "gift" of seeing beings from the underworld, but we still believe in their existence, no? Because of this not-seen-and-yet-believe scenario, we would normally jump onto any opportunities that will help us clear our suspicions and curiosities of the paranormal beings.


Angels?

The latest movie in town"Angels and Demons" which stars Tom Hanks is a very much anticipated movie by me cuz I really enjoyed the Da Vinci Code. It tells the story of how an underground society (which was driven underground by the Churches) called the Illuminaties plot a public revenge on the Christian community as a whole and Roman Catholics in particular. I was at the edge of my seat throughout the whole movie, ogling and digesting the story (although I did finished the same book written by Dan Brown last year). Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) displayed his experience, knowledge and wit to search for clues and decypher the codes laid out by the Illuminaties to prevent the biggest catastrophe in mankind. Despite the minor glitch half way through the movie- it was halted for at least 15 minutes (I even called my fren whose daddy owns the cineplex to ask him to confirm what happened, but he never got back to me... tmd), I would still give this movie a BIG 8/10.


Demons?

Note: Angles = Butter, Demons = Red Bean (These photos were shot while I was in DanShuei 淡水，Taiwan last year. Gosh I miss Taiwan!

Sunday Morning

I had to wake up at 6:30 this morning to send my bro to school for Taekwondo training. Training is from 7am ~ 8am (curse the coach for choosing such hour for training... For heaven sake, it's a SUNDAY!!!)

After training, me and bro went to C121 coffee shop (near Stutong market) for breakfast. We both ordered teh-c-peng (iced milk tea) and laksa. I ordered 2 eggs for extra ummpphh~~~. When the eggs came, I was shocked cuz the waiter brought a mini tower with the 2 eggs inside. Bah, check out the photo collage below for details.

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Secret Garden Cafe

Pardon the sakai-nees in me when it comes to good food around Kuching City. But thanks to my bradaa and sistaa, I was introduced to a few nice eating outlets in Kuching which have been around since erm... forever.



Went to this food cafe with my bradaa and sistaa about a month ago... Secret Garden Cafe (not a secret after this I guess). It's located along Jalan Padungan (near the big white cat statue).

I ordered butter chicken rice (highly recommended by bradaa) and it was mmmmmm..... very GOOD!


Damage done : (don't quite remember but I think it's around RM6~RM8...which isn't too expensive)

Will definitely go back to try the other food on the menu...

爱玉 from Taiwan

I guess most of you have not heard or seen this fruit... Yeah, it is a fruit. One glance it sure does look like a fruit with sesame seeds. After being processed, it does look something like 仙草 (cincau) except it's transparent.

Ice Kacang - Take 2

Remember the post where I showed all of you the ice kacang (shredded ice) which I had while I was at 西子湾？

Here are some more pics.... Behold~~~


Nice or not? Got strawberries, guava (locals call it pala fruit), pineapple, cincau.... bla bla bla


watermelon, groundnuts, bananas....


Fit for 5

No kidding! It's HUGE!

Kuching Food Bloggers Gathering @ Village Fast Food

Note: All photos were taken by Allen. I didn't have my baby with me that night cuz I wnted to concentrate on the food!

I was lucky enough to be in part of the bloggers in Kuching bloggersphere.

Why?

Because we were invited to taste food for FREE at Village Fast Food




Village Fast Food












Brada Calvin


Amber Chia's younger sis - Em


Mikey


Naomi


Sandwiched by 2 leng luis - my sis and Em


The coolest uncle in town - Uncle Francis


I even won something that night... a cook book...LOL!

Overall the food is good that night (maybe I was very hungry, so i was biased). But nonetheless, it's nice to get to know the femes kuching bloggers...

Cool

Me and my fellow Malaysian friends were at 西子湾 and were tempted to try this fit for 5 pax
mouth-watering-finger-licking-mother-of-all-ice-kacangs.

And in fact, you can even order a bowl for 10pax. wtf.

Fruits

(from left to right clockwise: 蜜梨 honey pear，恐龙蛋 imported date，香瓜 mini honey dew，芭乐 guava)

I had the chance to buy some fruits from a fruit shop here in Taichung. They look like "our" fruits in Malaysia but I must say these fruits cost me a bomb.

NTD$169 (~RM18) in total! In Malaysia, you can get all these fruits for less than RM10.

Bag of Chips

I bought this bag of potato chips from Costco. It's a huge bag of chips.



I am not kidding you when I say it's a HUGE bag of chips... see...



And it only cost me NTD100 (~RM11).

I love Taiwan!

Kuching Festival 2008

This is a loooong overdue post (pardon the pun)

Kuching Festival is an annual food festival where Kuching's very own top food stalls and restaurants gather together at the premises of Dewan Masyarakat to do their business. Business starts in the evening and normally this is the time when the hungry Kuchingites come out to feed! (did some one just say dracula?)

Here I will just let the photos do the talking...


Throngs of hungry people... we just love food don't we?


Nice food gallery


Food galore


Mutton Soup with "kao kao" flavour


They even have bak chang in August!


Southern-Small-Chicken-Drumstick


More hungry peeps...


More food...


Fried Sotong (i think...)


Well decorated stall...


Not steam, not baked....but fried jagung


Thai food hawkers


Crispy Mushroom...


Fried Bird... ???


Fried Oh Jian aka oyster

Buuuuurrrpp....

Me and my accomplice didn't stay too long cuz it started to drizzle. We were so concern about my lil baby aka my DSLR camera so we hurried ourselves to the car before the rain started pouring in. It was indeed a nice experience (any experience with food tagged along is a good experience) but too bad the photos didn't turn out good. I need a Speedlite.... Presto!

Laksa... anyone?

Nothing can beat laksa for breakfast on a Sunday morning!


but too bad the prawns were tiny

Dinner at Secret Recipe

Last Monday was Steven's birthday. But he wasn't available on the day itself so I invited him and his missus, Helen for a birthday dinner at Secret Recipe, the Spring on Tuesday night.


Birthday boy

For those of you out there who are not familiar with me or Steven, allow me to intro our history. I am proud to say that we go way back. And when I say way back, I REALLY mean waaaaaay back. We were kindy mates, and that's like 22 years ago. We were in the same class for 2 years. Then we went separate ways for our primary school ed. But fate has its way again when we stepped into secondary school. We were classmates again from Form 1 right through Form 5. We would normally hang out together quite often before he met his wonderful wifey, Helen. But we still keep in touch and normally we would go out for "lim teh" sessions once a week. This year Steven's celebrating his 27th birthday, and also his last birthday before officially being called a DADDY soon by a little girl.


The happy couple

And with me still feeling the after effects of getting bitten by the photography bug, snapped away.


Meatballs spaghetti


Not sure what's the name for this dish


Chicken cordon bleu


Juicy stuff... perfect!!!

Dessert


tiramisu chocolate cake (i think)


White chocolate macadamia...OMG


Not sure what I'm frowning over...????

Thank you for being my best buddy all these years mate. Too bad I wont be able to see your Chloe till end of the year.

Why? Stay tuned for my next post...