Last shout out

... the last entry of the year. Macam sedih pulak. Konon. Heheheh

Let's have a recap of 2009 so far.

Holiday trip, in no particular order:
1. Sydney
2. Singapore (2 kali... masya-allah)
3. Saigon
4. Bandung

Concerts, in no particular order:
1. Jason Mraz
2. Coldplay
3. Duffy
4. Air Supply

Note: Kudos to Jason Mraz concert cause it start on time.

Malay movie, in particular order :)
1. Setem
2. Pisau Cukur
3. My Spy
4. Papadom

Note: Ada jugak Talentime... hmmm aku tak berkenan sangat la. Banyak sangat heavy stuff. Will not be watching Mualaf. Cukuplah drama dalam hidup yang dah sedia ada.

English movie yang aku ingat:
1. Valkrie
2. Sherlock Holmes (elementary Watson)
3. 500 days of Summer
4. Hangover (OMGGGG)
5. Harry Potter (yawnnn)
6. Love Happen (yawnnn)
7. Ghost of Girlfriends Past (hahah.. great soundtrack)
8. New in Town (hahah.. karut)
9. Shopaholics (tak best adaptation dia)
10. The Proposal
11. The Ugly Truth
12. Couple's Retreat (hahahahhahahaha... yoga scene is the best)
13. The Box (only if you want to die afterwards)
14. Marley and Me

Cartoon movie:
1. Astro Boy (this is funny)
2. Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs.

Freebies:
1. Papadom (premier siap ada pelakon datang lagi)
2. Love Happens
3. Harry Potter
4. Astro Boy
5. Pandorum
6. Air Supply concert
7. Manure training tickets ( bukan aku yang pergi please take note, haram hukumnya)
8. Kay ada bagi ticket free tak ingat apa.
9. Marley and Me (nasibbb free)

CD of the year aku:
1. Adele 19 ( people you should listen to this)
2. Stereophonics Decade of the Sun (also must own)

Song of the year:
1. Melt My heart to Stone - Adele.
2. Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.

On personal note, dad passed away in July. I always thot that I will not cry, but I did. Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat.

And this year, if not much, really changed my prespective of life. And I learn a thing or two. I suppose there's no one that you can rely on except yourself. And, a word of wisdom to myself, sometimes it's not about the one thing, it's about the other and only gods know what's it's all about.

Sighhhhh

So, sayonara 2009 and here's to a new year. May it bring loads of new adventure and Stereophonics concert to KL... hehehhe.

And to all, Happy New Year!

Coldplay Live in Singapore - Viva La Vida 2009

I meant to blog properly about this. But since dah tak larat, suffice to say it was HEBAT BANGAT

Let the pictures be a reminder that I was there :)

Diriku Tak Yang Laku Laku

Hahahahah... aku sangat nak berkenalan dengan penulis lirik lagu ni. Kelakar Bangat!

Cari Jodoh by Wali Band:



Apa salahku apa salah ibuku
Hidupku dirundung pilu
Tak ada yang mau dan menginginkan aku
Tuk jadi pengobat pilu
Tuk jadi penawar rindu
Tuk jadi kekasih hatiku

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Timur ke barat selatan ke utara
Tak juga aku berjumpa
Dari musim duren hingga musim rambutan
Tak kunjung aku dapatkan
Tak jua aku temukan
Oh tuhan inikah cobaan

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Ibu-ibu bapak-bapak
Siapa yang punya anak
Bilang aku aku yang tengah malu
Sama teman-temanku
Karna cuma diriku yang tak laku-laku

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Pengumuman-pengumuman
Siapa yang mau bantu
Tolong aku kasihani aku
Tolong carikan diriku kekasih hatiku
Siapa yang mau

Back to *, **, ***

Ibu bapak punya anak
Bilang-bilang aku aku yang tengah malu
Sama teman-temanku
Karna cuma diriku yang tak laku-laku

Back to ***

Shop Shop Singapore

Closing time. This is the last trip for 2009. Shopping in Singapore during Xmas. 3D2N. We stayed in Bugis in the same hotel that I stayed in when I came with Kay for Coldplay and Duffy's concert. The hotel used to be known as Golden Landmark Hotel tapi now it's Village Hotel ke.

Memang shopping extreme! (bunyi macam banyak duit...tapi sebenarnya semua blasah credit card).Barang bukan murah sangat tapi gatal jugak nak membeli. Ni shopping sampai kaki tempang. Pastu dah la takde tempat nak duduk. So banyak kali aku pergi toilet and duduk lama-lama untuk regroup and catch a breath. Senonoh ke tak? Aku tak kuasa nak cerita apa yang kitaorang beli, but suffice to we visisted all M&S outlet in Singapore in 2 days. We went to Mustafa after midnight, two nights in a row. Tah mana lagi la kitaorang pergi... aku dah hilang ingatan.

Let me just highlight apa-apa yang menarik

1. Orchard has now 3 new shopping mall: Orchard Central, Sommerset 313 and ION. One of the mall - 313 tu kot had carpeting all over. Apa ke gila.. satu keje pulak asyik nak kena vacuum aje. Nanti lama-lama carpet tu jadi busuk. Orchard Central pulak was this artsy weird place with a alfresco dining at 8th floor. We went there to eat Ben and Jerry and takpe ke... memalukan diri posing dalam Ben and Jerry. From it's balcony, you can see the whole Orchard Road and what not. Best jugak. Then we discover that there a nice restaurant selling lunch set for SGD8++ siap ada air segala. Apa lagi.. makan dulu.

2. Lights along Orchard. See for yourself

3. I found 500 Days of Summer and Glee soundtrack. Yipee

4. We ride buses! Ok selalu naik LRT or MRT aje kat sana. But dah bosan, so we study the bus routes pulak. Skang sudah tahu macam mana nak naik bus from Bugis to Orchard. Also know how to get to Orchard to Mustafa via bus. As usual jakun ambik gambar dalam bus. Just that the first time to Mustafa, we stopped too early, resulting a 1km footrace. Sampai Mustafa kaki dah tempang lagi.

5. Wak Pariaman - nasi padang ke nasi minang? Tapi nasi la... sedapnyaaaaa.... dah tu murah pulak tu. Aku order semua benda yang nampak kat kedai ni.. ok almost. Ingat dah kena SGD 30 ke... sekali tu SGD13 aje... The opposite shop, Sabar Menanti was a bit pricey. We had breakfast the other day there. Will definitely come back to Wak Pariaman.



6. Watch Sea Games footie final. Yang penting Malaysia menang. Yang penting lagi, aku tengok sambil berselimut dalam hotel... sambil makan murtabak. Priceless!


Lowlights

1. Changi airport - dah jadi macam puduraya. Terminal 1 is still under renovation so macam tak best. Plus, maybe it's peak season.. punya ramai. Tapi paling tak tahan geng-geng Bollywood yang macam alien investation. Pening sial. Dah la macam unruly bunch. Tak pedulik trolly depa blocking ke... duduk tengah jalan ke. Aku practically terpaksa tendang trolly depa supaya ke tepi. Dah jadi macam barbaric pulak. Paling tak tahan... masa nak queue kat imigration. We saw one lane was empty.. while the next lane had this family of four. So..ok la no rush... tetiba.. baru je nak approach line kuning tu.. head of the family notice that our lane was empty.. and quickly rush in front of us, almost knocking my sister down... pastu, ni line of the year " COME ON EVERYBODYYYY.. OVER HERE..". Pastu ramai-ramai pulak kerumun officer tu. Kitaorang macam terkena stun gun kejap. Eh, what just happen? Tak kuasa nak layan... pergi je la lane lain. We arrived at the airport like 4 hours early... semata ingat nak shopping... tapi sebab tempat tu dah jadi macam apa je.. terus takde mood. Dah tu flight delay lagi. Yeayyyy.

2. LCCT - dah sampai Malaysia pulak... LCCT macam pusat pemindahan banjir. Ramainya manusia. Padahal dah pukul 1 pagi. Lepas tu banyak pulak flight sampai around the time. Baggage handling dah memang macam tempat sembelih ayam... main campak aje semua benda. Just imagine... ada dekat 2 ribu orang... 4 ribu luggage.. agaknya orang yang angkat ada 4 aje... and it's already malam buta. Ingat larat ke? Semua orang hilang bag sudahnya. Kata baggage claim kat belt 4... tetiba bag kau kat belt no 1. Kat baggage claim for your flight kat belt 3.. sekali tengok kat belt tu.. flight lain... MADNESS. Memula ingat bag dah hilang... nasib ada. Orang kat lost and found tu.. dah lost of words dah.. tak terkata. Aku tengok ada satu adik ni dok beriya tolong tolakkan bag yang tersangkut kat conveyor belt tu.. bila la pulak tangan tersepit. Gang bollywood pulak.. dah biasa kot dengan benda-benda ni.. mesti nak dramatik lagi.... panjat and lompat-lompat pulak atas conveyor belt tu sambil kejar bag dia. Ya Allah Ya Rabbi Ya Tuhanku.. semoga service ditempat ni akan dipertingkatkan... Ammiinnn.

Dah flight malam... sampai after midnight, nak naik taxi pun dah double. Tapi aku hari tu mmg hati batu... aku nego macam sial dapat la RM20 dari KL Sentral to my place in Bandar Sri Permaisuri. Memula depa nak rm35... pastu tu 25... aku buat dono je.. cakap nak rm20. Last-last ok la.. tapi dia bawak macam sial.. agaknya if aku tercampak kuar dari taxi, suka dia. Kakak aku maki hamun aku secukup rasa... sebab cakap aku jahat, hidup tak berkat nanti orang taxi tu asyik maki aje... Apa-apa la.. janji dah sampai rumah :P Pasni tak nak dah naik last flight lagi.

With that I conclude trip for 2009. Here we come 2010...

Betnam Break (6-8 Nov 2009)

Tim Nguyet has been in Saigon for quite a while. She has invited us several times to stay over, and yet after the enthusiastic nods of yes, haram pun sorang tak menjelma. Finally, I said, ok I'm coming over and I have booked my flights. Bibah pun game and booked her flights also. Tim Nguyet, you better be at home.

As it turn out to be Tim Nguyet was in KL and will be flying back with us to Saigon (aka Ho Chin Minh city aka HCM ). Upon hearing that the two of us will be accompanying her to Saigon, her mum would like to join in as well. So the four of us boarded the flight on a Friday afternoon and Betnam, here I come!

We reached Saigon at night. I was surprised to see that the city was brightly lit. Bibah kata, tah-tah tu lampu halau tikus tengah sawah. Hahahah.. perhaps. It was dark so can't really tell if it's streetlight or lampu minyak tanah.

While taxing down the runway, heading towards our arrival gate, I was impressed to see how huge their new airport was. It looked very modern macam KLIA. Betapa la sombongnya diri ni, ingat negara sendiri aje yang hebat. Tak sedar tadi take off dari KL dari bus stand yang namanya LCCT. Seems that everyone is catching Malaysia in the rat race. I suppose I should travel more and see the world, biar terbukak sikit pandangan dunia ni. I need to have a talk with my money tree.

Anyhoo... back to Betnam. Bibah and I were the last one to clear off the immigrations. Memang our luck, berdiri la line mana pun.. semuanya lembab. Tim Nguyet had arrange for a driver to pick us up at the airport. Her Boss had assigned this dude to bring us around since Mummy Nguyet is around. Yipeee... Ms Nguyet, thank you for your first class hospitality. Dah la belanja makan, bawak jalan-jalan, tumpang rumah lagi.. :)

Right, there's a few things that I wanted to do in Betnam. Suffice to say, I got it all done except to go to Mekong Delta. But no regrets, I think I wouldn't be able to enjoy the tour as we're just staying for a short period in HCM. Perhaps next time. The 3 days there was fun, fun, fun.

The first one was to see Nguyet's house. Dia dok cerita pasal rumah dia tapi aku tak boleh nak imagine. Her house is 3 story high tapi staircase dia... macam staircase to hell! Sekarang baru kau tahu kenapa aku nak pindah dari rumah ni bak kata si Nguyet. Houses in HCM is narrow and build along even narrower snake like streets. Hers was previously an office. So instead of a front door, it had this automatic shutter instead that goes up and down, securing the house. Aku dok gelak aje tengok benda tu. The first floor was the living room and kitchen. 2 floor was entirely Nguyet's room. And on the 3 floor, there's balcony, 2 rooms and a toilet. Bibah and me slept in the room with slanted roof. Tetiba terasa macam cerita VC Andrews's Flower in the Attic plak. And Bibah had this imagination that there's a Vietnamese toyol equivalent hiding in the washing machine (that would jump out any minute now) outside on the balcony. Penat punya pasal, dalam takut kitaorang terlelap jugak.

The next one was to ride motorbike in Betnam. I have set my heart on this eversince I read 10 things to do in Ho Chin Minh. The guide suggested that I should ride the bike during rush hour. Baru thrill. Well, Ho Chin Minh has 4 million bikes on the road. Isn't it exciting? Nguyet asked, are you out of your mind? Kalau jatuh kena langgar dengan motor lain ... mati tau, after I told her for the 5th time.. nanti kau cakap Vietnam eh dengan brother motor tu... suruh pusing-pusing. Tak pun kau suruh dia hantar aku pi Ben Thanh market, nanti aku jumpa korang kat sana. Well, having witness how crazy these motorbikes are (they ruled the streets indeed), I settled for a 5 minute ride along a calm looking street from the War Remnants Musuem to the Parlimen building? Well it was a sort of an administrative building. Jalan tu memang takde motor sangat.. tapi celaka sebab semua motor-motor lain tau yang aku ni tourist.. saje je nak langgar-langgar. The mamat motor was very pleasant and cool. He can speak English. Very polite, everytime he wants to address me.. he would say.."Err sorry miss.." Yang aku tak tahan tu, aku siap cakap kat dia... ok.. slow slow.. want to take picture... eh sempat pulak buat peace sign. Check out below the shots taken by Nguyet

Next after reading about how people felt very depressed after vising the War Remnants Musuem, I was intrigued to see what's it all about. Ambik kau! Memang depressing pun. 10 minutes in there, jadi insaf kejap. Some pictures were showing the bodies that was shot dead, or burnt. They were childrens, women, old people. One picture was taken by a journalist of two brothers being shot. They looked like 10 year old boys. Then they have pictures of kids being born with deformities due to the toxic chemicals that we sprayed upon their villages in attempt to kill them. Apa ke gila? All this because they had an idea to become communist? Well some of them. But does that justify the shiploads of young men came from you know where and killed these innocent people? All in the name of freedom? A little comfort came when it seems the effect of the toxic chemicals affected the soldiers as well as they too had kids with deformities, as they were exposed to it during the war. Seriously, siapa yang bodoh? Of all the items on displayed, I like this one the best:

Well, bak kata Boss si Nguyet, next time don't go to the Museum because you will see loads to dead Vietnamese... go to Chuchi Tunnel, you'll see loads of American dead. Hahahahha... well, Chu Chi Tunnel is indeed part of my to do list. It's pronounced KhuChee.. bukan Cuci. Malu je aku dok sebut cuci.. cuci. I first discovered about the tunnel in Gary Trudeau cartoon called Doonesbury. If you want to read about ridiculed American politics, do give it a try. Memang kelakar bangat. (Check out here)

Back to the tunnel... I never knew what it was called, but understood that despite the modern American warfare in Vietnam.. they failed to smoke to Vietkongs out from their hidding place. The story goes that, the clever Vietkongs dug a network of tunnel spanning the whole area of ChuChi river and keep on popping eveywhere ambushing the troops. I find it funny that the guide told us that they actually crafted the sharpnel from the bombs that landed in their village, into boobytraps that killed the American. How ironic is that? We asked loads of questions, like kat mana depa berak, macam mana bau taik tu tak kill them, how did they dig out the tunnel, pakai apa, kenapa tunnel tu tak collapse, etc etc.. aku masih lagi ada soalan tak terjawab... but perhaps it's for next time. The guide brought us into one of the tunnel. According to him it has been widen for the tourits. It was far smaller originally. Yang celakanya... mamat tu tak warning pun nak masuk tunnel tu... dia just cakap.. come come.. this way... aku ingat nak tunjuk apa.. lama-lama makin ke dalam ke dalam... and gelap. Boleh la nak bongkok-bongkok sambil jalan macam orang rukuk tu... tapi sebab panas, sempit.. sakit badan. Aku jadi claustrophobic pulak. Si minah dua ekor tu sikit pun punya suka berposing-posing and holding people up. Ye la depa kecik molek.. ok je la nak jalan dalam tu. Aku one point rasa macam nak merangkak on my knees aje dah. Bila the guide ask... you want to go out here or go the long way. Aku sepantas kilat cakap... HERE! The long way is about 100 meters... the short one about 50 kot. Tapi rasa azabnya... macam 1km. Aku tak tau la macam mana orang tu semua boleh survive bertahun-tahun duduk dalam tu. Simply fascinating. Keluar aje dari tunnel tu... basah lencun baju berpeluh.. memang terbakar semua lemak. (Well utk aku... bukan la semua.. maybe if lalu lagi tunnel tu 10 kali hehehe) . At the end of the tour, they served ubi rebus makan dengan kelapa campur gula. Orang putih semua macam jamah hujung jari aje. Kitaorang makan..... macam makan KFC. Sedap menjilat jari. Check us out in the tunnel. Oh and the other picture with the 4 of us - motif: Nguyet bukak tutup lubang, aku terkejut tengok ada orang dalam lubang, Bibah gembira ada orang terjumpa dia yang terperangkap dalam lubang, Mummy Nguyet - pening kepala. That is actually the lubang to enter the tunnel in the olden days. Bontot aku sah-sah tak muat.

Another fun thing that we did.. which was unplanned was the cylo ride. At first, Mummy Nguyet aje naik sebab jauh nak jalan-jalan. Lepas tu apa lagi, 3 budak terjal ni sibuk la nak posing. Kau kayuh, aku tolak. Snap! Aku tolak, kau kayuh. Snap! Ok kau buat-buat pose penat. Snap! Ok ok.. toleh belakang Snap! Sudahnya satu HCM terpegun tengok kitaorang yang tengah buat-buat photoshoot tepi jalan. Pastu tu brother cyclo tu pergi panggil pulak member-member dia yang lain... so skang sorang satu naik cyclo. Berlawan-lawan dengan motor-motor. Hehehe... chill. Memang la kitaorang nak kena conned hari tu. Mula-mula kita tak nak naik yang lain-lain tu, tapi kata mamat tu don't worry bayar kat dia aje. Orang lain ni free. Pastu kitaorang cakap nak pergi Notre Dame Catherdral.... tapi macam jauh aje dia bawak. Kitaorang dah terasa dah memang nak kena la ni. Betul pun, bila dah sampai tempat tu.. dia mintak macam-macam la pulak. Kena la sembur satu round dengan Nguyet. The best part was, lepas dah balik Malaysia baru tahu yang tempat bukan Notre Dame Catherdral. Tah church apa la yang kitaorang pergi. Tapi tak kisah la.. janji it was fun and enjoyable.



Satu lagi berangan nak buat pedi and meni sebab Nguyet cerita murah. Betul-betul kat depan rumah dia pun ada. Tapi memang la dodgy sket. Tapi setakat nak ketip kuku aku and sental kaki aku yang aku pun tak sanggup nak sental.. apa la salahnya. So me and Bibah brave the odds and went to the place. Si Bibah.. tah apa ke gilanya, tiba-tiba tanya nak buat hair treatment ada ke. Aku cakap kat dia.. hey kang gugur pulak rambut kau. Tapi dia terus tak jadi sebab bila tengok minah tu guna limau yang sama nak kilatkan kuku aku, kilatkan kuku dia pulak. And sebelum tu limau tu macam dah digunakan untuk kilatkan 15 kaki yang lain aje. Kitaorang memang gelak aje sepanjang masa. Dah siap.. bayar.. ha RM4 sorang. Patut la limau pun share.Ni gambar artistik Bibah, try nak capture kitaorang dua orang.. tapi tak nampak plak minah yang tengal sental kaki tu:




And of course tidak lengkap la kehidupan jika tidak bershopping. Ben Thanh Market tu memang ada all sorts of trinkets and bags and what nots. Bag-bag kat sana memang cantik and murah. Tapi aku paling fascinated dengan baju kurung berbeaded yang super murah. Kedai yang kitaorang pergi tu, siap Raja Permaisuri Agung and Datin Seri Hasmah pun pernah shopping. Hebat ke tak hebat. Tapi yang tensen shopping kat sana, depa memang hati batu. Pastu selamba buat muka kalau tak puas hati. Aku banyak kali gagal nak bargain. Tapi last-last beli jugak... sebab murah.


Tapi.. (banyak pulak tapi), dalam banyak-banyak shopping episode, yang ni la yang paling lawak sekali. Lepas buat pedi and meni tu.. aku tengok aku still lagi ada a few hundred Dong. Memang nak habiskan sebab tukar balik kat Malaysia nanti rugi. So jalan-jalan la keliling rumah Nguyet, sekali terjumpa satu kedai ni... jual good imitation t-shirts. Ada polo la, lacoste la.. apa la. Aku sudah berkenan dengan satu t-shirt Paul Smith ni. Cukup la duit yang ada ni. Sekali tu si Bibah yang pandai yang bawak US20 aje tu.. tetiba nak membeli jugak. Tengok-tengok duit tak cukup, kedai tak accept plak credit card... since dia bersemangat jugak nak beli.. si Bibah pun balik rumah pinjam duit dengan Nguyet, nasib tak kena fire. Bila dia datang balik, tengok-tengok duit still tak cukup. Hahahahaha.. aku pun kata la.. it's ok, I'll pay in Malaysia ringgit sambil tunjuk duit RM50 depan boss kedai tu. Mamat tu kata.. ha ok.. so 2 t-shirt RM69. Aku kata.. I'll give you RM70... depa pun suka la.. sekali tu korek-korek semua kocek, bra, seluar dalam, dalam setokin... ya salam.... ada RM68 aje. Lain semua duit RM50. Mana pulak nak tukar. Ya rabbiii maluuuuuuunya. Dah la tadi kan main cakap nak bayar RM70. Aku pun bayar la the balance in Dong. Tapi memang kitaorang kena gelak dengan mamat-mamat kedai. Hai la Bibah, lain kali bawak duit banyak sket. Kita ni selalu disampuk hantu shopping.. US20 tak cukup cik kak oii.


Nguyet did suggest a trip from HCM to Hanoi pulak. Ha tah bila zaman la pulak tu nak pergi. Insya-allah, jika ada rezeki.

p/s: thank you jugak pada Mr Driver - Durian sebab penat melayan kitaorang drive ke sana sini. Also thank you for enduring all our attempts for intellectual conversation with you though you were tired and feel like swerving the car into a ditch. heheheh

Surreal Gourmet @ 7atenine

My sister won an invite to an afternoon with Bob Blumer. The surreal chef, in the toastmobile. Or toaster van. It's the guy that cooks in the van that looks like a toaster in the show called Surreal Gourmet. Ok you get what I mean. Travel and Living channel was doing this event as part of the new season launch for the show. We were to watch Bob cook and get to taste it afterwards. I like it already.

And... it's being held at 7atenine.. supposedly one of the places to be seen at in KL (err.. but not anymore now that I've been there :P) It's at the lobby of Kirana and Ascott across the street from KLCC.

We were welcome with goody bags. An apron and a book by Bob. We try to ooze cosmopolitan vibe while trying to perch our big ass on the small, yet high and wobbly bar stool. Sipping Strawberry Fanta no less. Sungguh tak sesuai untuk rancangan memasak, ini tempat. We were at the lower level of the club which was open air. Meaning, no aircond and it's 3 pm. Ok panas... nasib ada kipas... and the flowing soft drink (by now I've switched to Pepsi pulak. This is a sure fire for a series of cirit birit later). Mana si Bob ni.

Finally this DJ guy came out with his make-believe-toungue-twisting-American accent. He'll be the MC of the day. Then Bob appeared. Yeay. We can finally eat. Oh not yet... Bob is going to demo/cook while telling us about, what is in store in the episodes of the new season. He broke some sort of a record for flipping pancakes, he almost die while diving for sea urchin? or was it pearl? and... Ok I have short attention span when 1) it's hot and 2) i'm hungry. Bob keeps on facing one after another technical problem... minyak tak panas... kuali pulak panas sangat sampai macam nak terbakar... udang kecik sangat.... Aku pulak risau... eh cukup ke untuk kita semua nak makan ni.....

So finally... the dishes are ready. Cekodok udang rupa macam lolipop cucuk dalam nenas, ayam bungkus macam wantan yang buruk, ada something involving watermelon..and something bebola... tapi ada wasabi ke apatah. To everyone's horror.. the dishes were whisked away by a bunch of people who need to take photographs of it. I think for some magazine or newspaper article.. I saw it it again in the papers. It look far better than it taste. The one with the wasabi was deemed 'sedap-lagi-clorox'.

To everyone's relief, the waiters came out from kitchen, with trays of the dishes. Ha melantak time. However, we had to play cat and mouse pulak with the waiter because the one yang lalu depan kitaorang asyik bawak yang tak sedap aje.

Next it was authograph session with Bob. Oh right... the book. We can also have a poloroid taken with Bob. How fun. Of course we were still eating while everyone starting to queue... Finally it's our turn. My sister went first. I was trying to come up with something clever to tell him. He told us earlier that at the begining of his career as a chef... he did a lot of faking... (berlakon-berlakon pandai masak).. well he said, just fake it till you make it. Eh sounds like me at the office aje...hehehehhe (cume aku tak make it je lagi..)

Ok, my turn now... so while he's signing my book... (I can't believe this came out from my mouth).."So, Bob, how long have you been faking it?"..... After the words floated out of me... I suddenly realize I might have implied something sexual instead. Bloody hellllll..... but keep smiling....He took a look at me, take a deep breath and force a laugh. I laughed as well... and quickly pose for the photo. I thanked him... and walk out from the place never looking back.

Accept when I swipe a pen from the registration counter.

Hahahahahahahahhahaha

A trip Down Under - Part VI

Day 6 - final day

Our flight was in the afternoon so we didn't really do much today accept just walked around Potts Point. We had booked a van to pick us up to the airport. It goes around the city and picked people up from various hotels. We get to see Sydney one last minute. I even saw the staircase leading to the botanical garden. Memang jauh macam dari KLCC pergi Puduraya. Forget it. Another reason why we didn't really venture out was that we wanted to melantak one last time especially our leftovers.

So how was the food in Sydney? To me lousy. I dreamt of seafood galore.. tapi 1) tak mampu and 2) mostly ada alcohol. So it's all fish and chips and friend seafood. There's a lot of asian food restaurants even in Potts Point. Penang cafe ke apa tah.. tapi ada serve Bak Kut Teh. So malas la nak check out further. And there's even a Laksa house ke apa tah... very big kat QVB. Hebat. Tapi again serve pork, so macam mana nak makan. One time we tried Greek food, sebab kedai dia ada ayat Al-Quran, yakin boleh aje la halal. Makan falafel ke apa tah.. tapi rupa macam murtabak. Best jugak sebab lapar.

Anyway, we survived by eating Indian food hari-hari. Dia tulis situ halal... aku assume halal aje la. Hulamak... wa cakap lu. Dia punya curry memang power zass. Hari-hari la kitaorang blasah Vindaloo la... Pakora la.... Lamb apa benda tah. Ada satu tu kari letak kacang pea aje (balik siap try kat Malaysia lagi). Sedap siut (I mean yang kat kedai India tu.. bukan yang aku masak). Makan dengan nasi.. Pastu kitaorang suka nak beli chicken wing dia. Then balik hotel, goreng telur plak. We also bought bread, tuna, butter, juice and patato parsley yang tinggal kena panas kan aje from Woolsworth. Nasib ayam tak halal... kalau tak roasted chicken la.. BBQ chicken semua aku blasah. Hari-hari la muka kitaorang kat kedai tu. India tu pun dah kenal kitaorang. Pastu breakfast, buat la scramble egg, makan yogurt yang murah and portion macam satu gayung. Tak habis pun semua tu... kitaorg tinggal aje kat dlm fridge kat hotel.

Naik flight plak makan memang mewah. Tak rugi naik MAS. Tak main la nasi lemak Pak Nasserr. Pergi makan chicken tah apa benda, siap ada bread pudding tu. Balik... macam tau-tau aje aku berdoa nak makan lamb... MAS serve lamb. Alhamdulillah. Akak siap mintak lagi. Steward tu bagi lagi satu tray. Ambik kau... memang flight tak penuh pun. Dah tu for breakfast siap ada cheese la.. chocolate la.. and yang aku paling suka siap ada bagi power bar. makan... makan lagi.

And while in Sydney, we have developed a love for hot chocolate. Especially hot chocolate kat Krispy Kreme (Tak sama pulak yang kat Malaysia ni) Krispy Kreme tu siap ada tanda halal lagi. Ha.. hari-hari lalu kat Krispy Kreme.. asyik la blasah donut and hot chocolate. Sia-sia aje jalan jauh hari-hari.

Finally we arrived in KL. Dah petang dah pun. All in all memang fun trip. Sampai 6 part aku tulis. Kalah cerpen nak masuk Dewan Remaja. Tulis ni rasa macam nak muntah, harap yang membaca tidak la muntah.

But the whole time we were there... satu je aku nyesal tak buat. Tak pergi Bondi Beach and memposerkan diri! (Ha yes... aku dengar. Ye ngaku Loser...capital L for loser.. whatever). Asyik shopping sampai tak sempat nak pi sana. Padahal just a few stop from our place (ceh.. tiba-tiba our place... dah dapat PR jugak nampaknya). We did go at night... tapi apa la yang ada malam buta. I wonder... if pergi sana nak pakai apa. Kang aku pakai jeans and t-shirt dah macam orang Arqam aje in the midst of topless and skimpy clothed people. Tak menghormati majlis la pulak tak?

Alasannnnn......

Finally, I love this add at a bus stop. I just wish I can do it over and over again.
And I wish people get to see Sydney as well. People are very nice and friendly (read: not paranoid as some other continent) and the weather is brilliant.



Shall I return? If ada rezeki, suka aje. Tapi tak tau la apa yang aku nak buat lagi kat sana...except pi makan Indian food and naik ferry keliling sydney and see Bondi Beach in broad day light. Or maybe whale watching or visit the fisherman market... hmmmmmm Visa expired April 2010.... hmmmmmmm