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Brand Ambassadors

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:07:15 GMT

I should have blogged about this earlier during my holiday but I was too reluctant to touch anything to do with work during the period that I was supposed to be relaxing with my family, so here it is now

My boss invited some of the Malaysian celebs like Chantelle Chuah (Miss Malaysia Model of The World 2007)...

...and Pietro (MIX fm DeeJay) to the outlet.

I look short beside her!
I'm happy because I seldom get to experience something like this lolx.

Chantelle and the new coffee machine

Although they are perfect ambassadors for Malaya Optical, but I still think that my boss' son, Donovan, is the best candidate of all!

He just pwns them flat

Don't you think so too?

LAMMEEYA @ 1 Utama

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:24 GMT

After a visit to The Secret Garden, we went to watch Poker King.

Gotta love Louis Koo

Later on, the 3 of us went to LAMMEEYA for lunch.

We were super tempted by the food pictures in their menu...

Soyabean Milk

David's Lam Mee

Darling's Nyonya Curry Mee

My Dry Chicken Kuey Teow

Shared Cheong Fun with Soya Sauce and Oil

Fulfilling lunch for 3

哇~ 饱死了！

The Secret Garden @ 1 Utama

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:38:32 GMT

1U's Halloween display, how cute!

I don't remember how I stumbled upon a blog entry about a secret garden in 1U.

Seriously, I didn't know about this place although I've been to 1U for hundreds of time.

Door gift...

Source: thestar.com.my

Rooftop garden offers a respite from hustle and bustle of the city.

As many as 500 species of rare tropical and temperate plants are flourishing in a secret corner of 1 Utama shopping centre, Petaling Jaya.

Fondly named the Secret Garden, the 2,787-sq metre rooftop garden is certainly a convenient and cost-free respite if you happen to be weary and dreary of the daily hustle and bustle.

Leaves swaying in the wind and flowers blooming in various hues fill the otherwise concrete platform in a harmonious order. Foot paths meander through the garden’s seven themed sections, leading visitors on to a therapeutic excursion through calming sights and scents.

It is a magical corner where desert and highland plants co-exist while climbers, herbs, spices, fruit trees, flowering shrubs and even a mini-padi field beckon. Pergolas, waterfalls and ponds made to classical elegance complete the experience.

Together with the shopping centre’s popular rainforest enclave, the Secret Garden is also cultivated by botanist Dr Francis Ng who was recently awarded the prestigious David Fairchild Medal 2009 (Plant Exploration) by the National Tropical Botanical Garden of the United States.

“The garden took eight years of research and nurturing to reach the maturity today by thriving naturally. Through novel experimental technologies we now house 500 species; some aren’t found in other parts of the world,” said the shopping centre’s director Datuk Teo Chiang Kok.

He said the garden, which could be the largest rooftop and experimental garden in South-East Asia, had been kept a secret. Even staff members did not know its existence.

“With today’s rising concerns to reduce carbon footprint, green roof is the latest antidote to climate change. Once considered a waste of space, rooftops are presenting countless opportunities not only to go green but to save energy cost, improve insulation and air quality and for water management,” he said.

The garden adopts recycling technologies such as chilled water irrigation sourced from the shopping centre’s air conditioning system to grow temperate plants and a rainwater harvesting system for general irrigation.

The plants are grown on a soil mix based on granulated horticultural carbon, Ng’s breakthrough creation said to have been adopted worldwide. The mix is made from sawdust that has been compacted and carbonised. It also deters pests, so fewer pesticides are used.

“The Secret Garden’s vast amount of carbon is sufficient to replace an entire rainforest of equivalent area and reduce the shopping centre’s carbon footprint. We have in a way contributed positively towards amelioration of climate change,” he said.

Watch the grand opening of The Secret Garden.

This place is beautiful~ Darling & I enjoying the scenery

I love this unique plant's name - Bishop's Hat Cactus.

David's camouflage failed

Darling & I obviously played too much Plants vs. Zombies!

The Secret Garden is open to visitors from 10am to 6pm every Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free but the number of visitors at any one time is limited to maintain its serenity. Tickets to the garden can be obtained at the Customer Service Centre on the ground floor Highstreet. I recommend you guys to go early in the morning or around 5-6pm because it tends to get really hot up there!

Windows® 7 Upgrade Campaign

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:24:19 GMT

My Sony Vaio laptop is qualified for the free upgrade! So I happily ordered the free Windows 7 here and my order reached about a week later.

Actually the package arrived a day late. As you can see, DHL asked me to contact them 2 days ago because they could not find our place. After giving them the direction to the house, the DHL delivery guy appeared at our doorstep yesterday. Darling asked him whether it was hard for him to find our place and he confessed that actually there were too many packages to be delivered on Monday, and didn't have enough time to deliver ours :X It doesn't matter because it arrived in perfect condition anyway!

Happily unwrapped the package, backed up my files and let the upgrade begin!

I've my ever so addictive novel to keep me company while waiting for the upgrading process to be done which took around 2-3 hours. Seriously, you girls just gotta read this novel! I can't put it down until I finish reading it within a day

Finally, upgrade complete! What a stunning new user interface! I can't help but notice that Windows 7's UI feels 'smoother' on my laptop than before (Windows Vista)! Thank you Sony for the free upgrade

Plants vs. Zombies™

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:07:23 GMT

I haven't been playing any MMORPG lately. I've tried a lot of new MMORPGs like Emil Chronicle Online (ECO), Zodiac Online, YulgangSEA, GhostX.. but all of them just seems so boring!

Justice Xwar 3 (JX3) (nice game but what a shame because China server is way too lag for Malaysians to play)

During my holiday back home, my brother handed over his pendrive to me and asked me to try this game called Plants vs. Zombies™ by PopCap Games.

The game is really addictive once you start playing it and it is cute too!

This is the cutest strategy game what I've ever played

Different plants needed for different stages/zombies.

A view of the mini games list.

Mini Game: Wall-nut Bowling
(spot Michael Jackson zombie inside )

Mini Game: Beghouled
(cute name for the zombie version of Bejeweled )

Other than Facebook games, this game kept me busy during my free time. I know I will get bored of it soon, but let's enjoy the game while it lasts

Primary School Days

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:50:43 GMT

My formal primary school classmates asked me to scan and upload our primary school photos to Facebook a few months ago, but I didn't get to do that because all my photos were back home in Kuching until I managed to go back home for holiday during the past 2 weeks.

The small girl in the photo is me.

I had long hair and looked cute! A few years later after that, my parents decided to snip off my hair because they said I didn't know how to manage my long hair

Guess which is me in the photo above? Haha. I'm the one on the left. I looked like a boy! The last straw was when I reached Primary 3. It was the Chinese New Year and we had our family photo taken. I hated how I looked in the family photo. Wearing dresses, blouses and skirts just won't go with that hairstyle! After that, I swear to myself that I won't let anyone cut my hair boy short ever again! :X

Primary school days were awesome. Looking back all these photos made me wanna go revisit my old primary school again, so who wants to tag along?

Uploading all these photos to Facebook and tagging them out to my primary school classmates is one of the best things that I've done because most of us found many long lost friends in return!

Although most of us are not in Kuching right now, but I hope someday we get to gather together again

2 weeks in Kuching

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:02:26 GMT

2 weeks flew by so fast! I'm once again back in PJ. Kuching is like a fantasy to me while PJ spells R-E-A-L-I-T-Y! Home is still the bestest place ever~ Although I really don't have much friends left in Kuching, but my family will always be there for me

Airplane makes me sick especially during in flight turbulence :S
Argh, I hate flying!

(Hot Chocolate with Marshmallow on top & Cheesecake)

Everytime I go back home, I just feel like slacking at home.
I'm so lazy to go out!

(Mom's ever so good fried rice )

Hometown friends will say, "Bo sim la, come back also never find me."

(Kuching's Tomato Mee)

I'm sorry you guys~ I will try to do so next time ._.

(Kuching's Chicken Rice)

I love the old usual street food back home.

(Nothing but wantan <3)

Sio Bee is Kuching Siew Mai. It's nothing like the Siew Mai I eat in KL.
I personally prefer Sio Bee over Siew Mai.

(Sio Bee, The Kuching Siew Mai)

One of my fav, Belacan Beehoon
My bf won't eat cuttlefish, which means this dish doesn't suit him at all.

(Belacan Beehoon)

You just HAVE to love the drinks in Kuching!

(Wheatgrass C)

I totally dig Wheatgrass Juice!

(3 Layer Wheatgrass)

New Kuching food that I had.

(Black Chinese Vinegar Noodle)

Foochow food~

福州炒煮麵 (Foochow Noodle Soup)

Something sour! Just what I had in mind <3

糟菜粉干 (Foochow Preserved Vegetable Noodle Soup)

Latest fav~

(Great Hog Plum a.k.a. Kedondong Juice) 沙梨汁

My friend seems pretty unhappy lately, so we went to Barsaga for a drink.

We had Nachos & Heineken

Michelle is the only friend that I met up with during the entire 2 weeks :X

Anyway, I dug out lots of old photos at home that I want to scan and tag them out to all my friends from home, so stay tuned

Picnic with the Family @ Matang Family Park (Stage 2)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:08:46 GMT

I smsed my aunts when I was in PJ a few weeks back and told them that I felt like going to Matang Family Park for a family picnic. My aunts thought that it was a good idea and they volunteered to organize the trip. I couldn't wait to fly back home

My last time here before this was 6 years ago with the Pure Clan members
I wondered if any of them remembered that trip.

There were 5 photographers there on that day
Photographing is like the latest trend in the 21st century!

The photo of the youngest photographer on that day.
That's my youngest cousin and she's 12
Photographing is such an influential hobby!

A nice spot to settle down.

Potluck Picnic

Geronimo!

We all wanted to get into the water, regardless how cold the water temperature was!

Time to sit back in the water and relax~

Ahh~ This is the life!

Mother Nature is just too beautiful

The Art of Spiderwebs

My uncle caught a crab

Water war anyone?

Junk food! I haven't had this in ages.
It reminded me so much of my primary school days.

Sushi

Spaghetti

Fried Rice

Chicken Curry

Porridge

Pandan Jelly a.k.a. Agar-agar

There was even ice-cream

All of us enjoyed ourselves very much on that day.
It was a good getaway from the city.

We all think that we should do this more often when we have a chance

CM Homes Cafe @ Tropicana City Mall

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:03:01 GMT

Not many people visit this cafe because it's a corner shop situated on the top floor of the mall. Not exactly a strategic place for a cafe to be I would say.

We wouldn't have came if not for the advertisement on the magazine.

Menu

Cute drink names

CJ7 (Honeydew + Vanilla)

The drink really does look like CJ7

Lohanese Vege Special

Fried Rice with Pineapple & Chicken Floss

Cheese Baked Chicken Spaghetti

Sum up

The cafe's atmosphere was good, the food was good, it was all good

Raya Open House

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:29:17 GMT

2 weeks ago, Darling's classmate, Syikin, invited us over to her place for dinner.

Rendang, Satay, Malay Food

Mee Soto

Cookies

Cici was invited too

The housemate's hamster looked so pitiful as the wheel was so small, but that didn't stop the little guy from fully utilizing it

Group Shot

The house was very crowded and the seats were limited, so it was time for us to leave~ Thank you Syikin for the invitation!