Vengeance Is Mine!

It's finally coming!!! The 3rd in the trilogy of vengeance by Park Chan Wook (after Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Oldboy). Nicknamed Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, the Korean title literally means Kind Miss Geumja. That's Lee Young Ae, by the way, who's gaining popularity across Asia for her role in the series Jewel In The Palace (Dae Jang Geum).

My Parents' Eatery

Here are some of the offerings at my parents' makan shop in Melaka... hope you enjoy looking at them at much as I enjoy eating them! ^_^

Curry chicken and rice



Laksa



Rojak taukua



Cendol



Nasi lemak and rendang chicken



Fried rice



Fried kuay teow



Mee siam



Singapore beehoon



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More Painted Skies

A whole page of sunsets I shot - some from KL and some from Melaka... have a look!

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Seiko Galante

The Seiko Spring Drive powered Galante... quite cool and definitely eye catching with the curved seconds hand.

Showgirl Tour!

Finally... Kylie makes it to this region with her Showgirl Tour... who's going?



For details, CLICK HERE

Painted Skies

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It's amazing what a little post processing can do ^_^

SIHH 2005

SIHH 2005 report... a must read... 10 pages of horological goodness!!!

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Seiko on paper

Cool or what... Seiko and Epson developed this watch from electronic paper.

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Heartache

Back when I was young... many moons ago, I used to write stupid cliched poetry to reflect how I felt. In a way, it help me ease the pain that I had felt in some instances. Here's an example...

Come…
Into the darkness of the night
Into the centre of your soul
Where the demons show their might
With the light nowhere in sight

Come…
So the hatred grips your heart
And your spirit turns to ash
Strike your foes and strike them hard
Make the malice play its part

Come…
Into the rivers of despair
Into everlasting doom
Live your life and show no care
Come I tell you, if you dare!

Lately, my mood has been oppressive and I felt like looking back at this poem once more...

Vertu at Cilantro

Courtesy of a good buddy and Swiss Union, was invited to the launch of the premium handset in Malaysia in partnership with Swiss Union... wow what a dinner! Fine food (salmon, fois gras, lovely dessert), superb wine, beautiful women and excellent company filled the evening (at Cilantro). The phones themselves are amazing in hand... heavy and tangible - they have gold, rubies and platinum with a sapphire display. Not technical marvels (some models don't even have MMS), most of them are bought as political gifts ^_^ The cost? RM18k for the cheapest... going to RM29k for the gold one and RM100k for the platinum one.

SIC 27 Masked Rider Zolda And Masked Rider Taiga

New acquisition!


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Wow... Basel 2005

The reports are still coming in... I can't help but share this wonderful report with you!

Unhealthy food!!!!

A sinful dinner... some Ramly beef burger patties sizzling in the pan...



I also prepared some salted and peppered thick cut fries...



Of course you can't leave out the tomatos, cucumber and lettuce!



And down it all with Hoegaarden... burp!

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Zeta Legs

Another 2 nights and what we get is a pair of legs...



The 1/60 scale of the Perfect Grade is not only amazing in detail but also in size. Here you see the leg dwarfing my 1/100 scale Master Grade Rick Dom... wow!

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Quick Mee Goreng

Cooked dinner today... some bastardized version of mee goreng with sliced sausages, udang kering, sambal, fried shallots...



Of course I had some side dishes... here's some fried taufu balls and some foo chok...



And some sliced cucumber and lime for the mee goreng.

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Friedchillies Food Guide 2005

Was invited for the launch of the Friedchillies.com Foodsters Guide 2005 at Marmalade Cafe in Mont Kiara today. Good food and great people make a wonderful event. Thanks to the FC crew for the invite and I recommend you to grab a copy of this publication quickly at your local newstand. Also met up with regular FC kopitiam members (SongX included) as well as the FC Foodsters.

Initial D - HK version

Yes... it's time for the HK movie version of the famed manga/anime about that unbeatable AE86 'Hachiroku'... Jay Chou and gang better not fuck it up!!!

2 nights for 2 arms - a Gundam story

2 night's worth of assembly work on my Perfect Grade Zeta Gundam... whew! But I am so anxious to see the end results... this will be a bad boy indeed!!!

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MG Gundam Wing Zero under the spotlight

Finally completed a Master Grade Gundam Wing Zero. That also prompted me to fix the spotlight in my glass cabinet... I like it... do you?

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Citigold is gold...

I believe Citigold Restaurant at BTS is one of the best HK styled coffee shops around. It has a damn good ham nissin noodle (make sure you ask for chilli padi)...



Couple that with luncheon meat and egg sandwich... yum! They do the bread here nicely steamed with a big fat slab of omelette and luncheon meat. Very nice indeed!

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Rain!!!

Rain has been crazy of late... one moment it's pouring like cats and dogs, the next, we're back to hot humid Malaysia.

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More Basel reports...

Seiko Spring Drive (finally!)

HERE!

and others...

HERE!