Vote For Freddi & Co.

In case you don't already know, I've entered a competition with my excolleague, Freddi, and May. Well, initially it was just about trying our luck. Amazingly enough, we were chosen as one of the ten finalists, and wow, we need votes to win it. So go to this website and vote for us, Freddi & Co. Thanks guys.

To view our first submission, click here.

My Picture on The Star

It's not much, but it's ok. Click here to find out why.

YATTA!!

We've made it as one of the 10 finalists of the Star Drive For Food competition.

Freddi, May and myself attended the briefing last Saturday, and we had the chance to meet our rivals. The organisers also showed the videos of the 10 finalists (except ours, don't know why) and boy oh boy, the competition is going to be extremely tough. Maybe that's why I'm not as excited as my friends are for me. Doing a travelogue has always been my desire, and I really felt I could impress The Star with the 2nd phase of the competition. But it didn't turn out the way I expected it to be.

The task is this: showcase the nice places to visit & food to eat along the route from KL to Penang, and do it all in a 3-minute video. 3 MINUTES?!! That is going to be tough. Another tough part would be that we don't know when we are to submit our final video. Organisers are keeping it a surprise. But they are asking that we bring laptops to edit our videos in Penang, so I'm guessing that we'll have to get it done by the following day.

1 thing I like about the competition is that we have about 8 - 10 hours to travel from KL and Penang, thus having much time to explore the countrysides. So friends, if you know of a really nice place with beautiful scenes & tasty food along the KL-Penang route, please let me know. And when I meet tasty food, I don't mean FAMOUS FOOD. I mean TASTY FOOD. REALLY REALLY GOOD FOOD. It would be nice if you used to live there before or something... Email me at joashchan@gmail.com or leave a comment here.

I thank you so much for your help. Wish us luck.

Oh, by the way, our team is called Freddi & Co., named after my ex-colleague.

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...