Another bad Char Koay Teow Day.............

Searching for a decent plate of char koay teow here in KL is like searching for lost treasure in the pacific ocean. Virtually impossible.

Apart from the "Kampung Malabar" mari Char Koay Teow stall at Gurney Drive Restaurant, inside The Gardens, I have yet to taste one that I would really endorse. ahem ahem.

Penangites are always very proud of their hawker food, so proud it became an offence when the non-locals critize the local food.

I want to believe that I could find a decent CKT stall here in PJ/KL.
Each time, I passed a CKT stall and I would notice the stall owner fried the koay teow with such intensity, sweat dripped from his forehead (and into the koay teow).
I would order a plate and hope for the best.

99% of the time, I got dissapointed.

So now, each time I passed another CKT stall that displays "Penang CKT", I would shudder.

Yesterday, I fell victim to another char koay teow sorrow.
This time, it was at Pavillion food republic.
You won't missed this stall, it's opposite Mdm Kwan's Restaurant and it seemed like it's worth trying with attractive window display of actual people frying CKT with big wok.
Oh, when I saw their display of their newspaper cutting which shout "Best CKT in town", I decided to give it a shot and again, hope for the best.

Fortunately, I didn't have my camera with me to snap the pic of my CKT.
Otherwise, I would be traumatized each time I look at it !
Not only it taste awfully bad, there is no prawns at all ! not even one. ZERO !
The prawns are replaced with few thinly sliced fish cake.
And prawn is very important in CKT, the bigger the juicier the better.
It's like eating Big Mac without the chicken patty inside.
Doesn't make any sense, right?

I agreed with CS that he said he would fried a better CKT. I haven't seen him fried an egg before but I agreed with what he said !

So, the ridiculous CKT got no prawns....only has taugeh, few miserablee slices of fish cake and a sprinkle of 'koo chai'. That's it. That it all !

and it cost 7 bucks ! I wouldn't be blabbing here, if the (&$^&*@ at least taste like a bad CKT.
I didn't taste like CKT at ALL.....
To add salt to the injury, we ordered 2 plates.

Later, I realized something.....the Food Republic is a halal place and a good plate of CKT MUST be fried with pork fat. No wonder..........


This is only my personal opinion of the CKT stall. Fell free to try one whenever you're feelin' adventerous.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Attending the 7 habits class was not a planned one. Initially, I had chosen to enrol for the Grooming Class.
Yes, what was I thinking at that time? Thought it would be fun...
But my colleague thought otherwise. Instead, she said that I should go for the 7 habits class as she said it's very interesting.

Today, I completed the 3 days "process" at Parkroyal, KL and to describe the class as interesting would be an understatement.

Like what Paul said, the 7 habits is not a 3 day class, but a 3 day process.
All 16 of us join this process with "sluge" over our body and 15 of us completed the process cleansed ! (1 of the girl dropout cos she was absent on the 2nd day and Paul had to let her leave). hahahaha.....

Steven Covey wrote this book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and it bacame the blueprint for anyone seeking personal developement.
Believe me, these 7 habits are simple set of life rule yet a remarkable set of inspirational and aspirational standards for anyone who seeks to live a full and purposeful life.

I've drafted my Life's Mission Statement on the 2nd day.
There are loads of things that I would want to accomplish, some childish, some over the top, some just downright silly, but most of it are real and CAN be achieve.
Just that I have never put all these down in writtings.
All these came from deep within me and it felt so much clearer to me now after I have penned it down in words instead of just thoughts.

I'm so glad I did, otherwise it remains just a thought.

Though it's just a mere 3 days I found myself walking back on the track after going through pebbled track for a while. Now I can see where the track is heading to.


First published in 1989, the 7 habits are timeless and I found it to be even more relevant in todays life.

Sow a thought, reap an action;
Sow an action, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.