I Found Myself A Penang Guide

Since working for this company (of which I'm about to leave), I've desired to go to Penang & Johor for holiday & for their food. My company has projects in both Penang & Johor, so I was hoping that they would sent me down there to perform training or something, as they would provide for lodging & transport & all that stuff. Unfortunately I would not have that opportunity, so I would have to make those trips on my own.



Recently I've taken initiative to go to Batu Pahat, Johor, and try out some of their best food. I have relatives there, so that made things a lot easier. I stayed at my aunt's house & my cousin took me around. Now the place to explore is Penang. But I don't know anyone in Penang, so who would generously extend their kindness like my relatives have in Johor?

Kenny Sia did me a favour in that department.


He issued an open challenge to Penang Bloggers - "Where can I find the BEST OF THE BEST Penang food?", he asked. And I'm so glad he asked. I gave it a day or 2 before I went to check out the 2 Penang Bloggers I know... Nothing from Boss Stewie or Eve. It was only a week later that Eve came up this post.

I didn't read through the entire post. In fact, I only read 1 part, because this picture looked too good...

And immediately I left her some love...

And then waited for another 3 days to finally see this:

DID YOU SEE THAT? Let's zoom in for a better view...

Eve, I'm talking your word for it. Thanks in advance. MalaysianLah takes on PENANG FOOD with Eve!! Coming Soon!! In July!! And beyond...

MalaysianLah - 05/02/2007

It's Not Easy You Know

There's a reason why the company table fan is less than a foot away from me & on full blast. The train was late. AGAIN. God knows how many times KTM face technical difficulties in a day. Nowadays it's so common that the "we apologize for any inconvenience caused" line has been removed from the announcement.

My shirt smells really bad. It's rush hour, so the train station itself was crowded. The train took too long, the stress level rose - so people started to smoke. The new roof is useful on rainy days but when the sun is blazing & you're on the wrong platform, cigarattes aren't the only thing that would produce smoke.

My back & kneecaps are hurting too. Obviously that's because the train that finally came was jam packed (with idiots, mind you), resulting in the polite, kind-hearted ones having to wait for the OTHER next train to take us to the place that we never really wanted to go in the first place. So I would have to make up time by walking faster, which is alright. UNLESS you're walking on that dumb, architectuall-idiotic bridge (Bank Negara station). You'll have to personally experience to understand the pain and torture we have to suffer daily.

It's not easy, because everyone is expected to beon time - Everyone expect those who have monopoly over the things you need: Streamyx, All Public Transportation, etc. I wonder if I can get MAMPU to look into my case. Does anyone know if KTM falls under Public Delivery System?

Catch Phrase 3 - RDTH / RDTF

Do you remember your first experiences of online chatting? The eagerness of having the greatest collection of emoticons (so much that you can't remember what you have), the excitement of meeting new people, and learning the lingo of the chatting world... Do you remember the times when you had so many things to chat about that you can do it all day?

I believe that we all need a new chatting experience. Online chatting wasn't as exciting as it used to be. You use only those particular emoticons, ignoring the large collection of yours; New contacts rarely appear; We don't chat as often anymore - even though you and I are online the entire day, we do not initiate a conversation, fearing the awkward moments of open ended conversations & how to end it in a nice way. Then of course the YAWAs appear (people whose status is constantly "Away", for whatever reason).

I believe a new lingo would spark that revival. That's why I have come up with a term to replace "LOL". That's right my friends. No more will you want to use "LOL". It has lost its meaning. It's not IN anymore. You no longer accept "LOL" as just a normal chatting lingo, a natural response, because over & over again it has been misused & abused. You chat with your colleague sitting 10 feet away from you & he types "LOL", but you don't really hear him laughing out loud, & you are confused. Maybe he's on silent mode (just vibrating on his chair), or he's just a fake, insincere person.

The new term is just as fake as "LOL" (people using that phrase even though they aren't really laughing out loud), but instead of questioning your sincerity, the person at the other end would be filled curiousity & interest in the new term. Instead of asking "Are you really laughing?", they would ask "Hey!! What's that?"... Bringing us all back to the times when we first started to learn the chatting lingo.

Ok. Enough of the hype. The new term to replace LOL is -

RDTH / RDTF = Rolling Down The Hill / Floor.

Go ahead, spread the word, tell your friends. Let the revival begin.

How I Spent February 1st

1. MalaysianLah Coverage of Federal Territory Day Celebrations in Dataran Merdeka (Liberty Square), Kuala Lumpur.

It's my first time, and there wasn't much there lah - ministers showing up late, singing the national anthem, parachuters with flags landing on Dataran Merdeka, and a lot of marching (too much in my opinion). There weren't many people that showed up anyway. Most of them were reporters (carrying big cameras) & people with video cameras. There was a group of guys who were trying to get girls involved in the marching to pose for their camera phones... hahaha. The rest were most likely families & friends of participants of the celebration and I spotted some tourists.

I didn't stay for the whole thing lah... I mean, how long can you stand by the side of the road watching people march? We wrapped up MalaysianLah coverage & headed to the bus stop. But as we walked away we heard music... We turned back to find the best band we heard that day - the band from SMK Kuen Cheng. That was the thing that made our morning's trip worth it.

2. Winning Eleven 9

Lemuel (birthday boy) & I challenged one another. He won more games than I (5-3), but I wasn't that worried, considering that I was using my newly set up master league team versus the Brazil national team, and I lost 2 games on penalties.

3. Sushi

In the evening, dad wanted to make sushi. May was tired after working from 7am - 2pm (her company decided to work that day, so that they'll get a longer holiday for CNY), but she came & help us anyway. In the end we only had 1 plate of sushi, because we were eating as we made them... Haha.

4. Birthday Celebration at D'Fortune

Joined Lemuel & gang to celebrate his birthday. What's special about this western food restaurant is that they have fortune cookies... We scolded KeXin for taking too much, but she blamed the fortune cookie because it said "Have another fortune cookie". RDTH.

5. PICTIONARY

I invited the birthday party people to come over for PICTIONARY!! Friends, if you want to have a good laugh & your gang has no joker in it (not in our case), play PICTIONARY!! PICTIONARY ROCKS!! We had so much fun. The biggest laugh came when I was trying to draw a dog. After the first 3 seconds I knew I couldn't draw a dog (Melanie thought it was a DUCK!!), so I circled the previous pictures of a cat & a rat. I got Melanie to say "rat afraid of cat, cat afraid of duck?". Annie probably got frustrated, and a phone call came in. As I kept circling the rat & the cat & the 'duck' - with 5 seconds left - Annie said "Dog" as she held her phone on her ears... And everyone just laughed for almost 5 minutes.

So, anyone game on PICTIONARY?