My Very First Blog

Happy Chinese New Year of The Dragon, everyone! It's that time of the year again to ..... yes, collect ang pows! Lots and lots of them! Haha!

After the traumatic experience at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum that left me feeling depressed, it was a great relief to hear that our good friend and host would be bringing Jam, his friend and I to the karaoke that night!

So right after that enjoyable French dinner at Van's Restaurant, we went straight to a karaoke place. We were brought into a large room complete with nice sofas and of course a karaoke set. Sorry there are no photos as cameras were strictly forbidden. I thought it would be just like Redbox Karaoke in Malaysia and I was eager to choose the songs I wanted to sing.

To my utter surprise, a row of young and beautiful girls were lined up in front of us! Seemed like it was more than just a karaoke - it was more like a night club! The three of us had to pick one girl each. I picked one and she sat next to me the entire time.

We had some fun singing and dancing but I did not do anything more than that (if you don't count the touching and hugging) although we were allowed to do so. The girl could not really speak English and so we had some kind of communication breakdown. But in the end, I learnt a few Khmer words and phrases from her LOL!





When we returned to out hotel room later that night, the three of us decided to call for massage service in our room. We had massage almost every night since coming to Cambodia - the rates were so cheap! There was a notice inside our room which states the rate for massage service, which is USD5 per hour. We told the receptionist at the lobby about our request before going up to our room.

Fifteen minutes later, the door bell rang. Jam went to open the door and in came a short, plump lady. She gave a puzzled look when she saw the three of us in the room and then she giggled out loud. What the heck! Both Jam and I let our friend had her first LOL!

A few minutes later, another lady came in. She's pretty hot but I thought with her very heavy make-up, she looked more like a hooker than a masseuse! Anyway, I quickly secured her as my masseuse cos I did not want to risk putting up with another plump lady! Hahaha!

By this time, we were already wondering how come they did not all arrive at the same time! We were told that the third lady was on the way. She eventually came not long after.





What happened next was nothing short of a joke. It was the worst massage I had ever experienced in my life! The girl massaging me did not know how to use the proper pressure and massage techniques. I could hear Jam complaining and scolding his masseuse. Apparently, she did not know how to massage either.

It soon became obvious that the three ladies were not there to provide massage. They were prostitutes! No wonder that plump lady gave us a puzzled look and started to giggle when she first came into our room! Horrors!

Jam was angry and told them to leave. The girl who massaged me was not happy that I paid her USD5. She said she had to take a taxi to reach the hotel and USD5 was not enough. I told her that the rate was agreed beforehand but of course, she had expected me to tip her for the sex service which of course she did not provide because I did not want it!

Anyway, after some argument, I decided to pay her USD7 just to get rid of her. She left with a sour face. I guess it was our first time calling for massage in a hotel room and we did not realize this actually meant calling for prostitutes! How naive we were!





But that's not the end of it. After the girls left, we got a call from the receptionist at the lobby asking us if we were happy with the service. Apparently, he was trying to ask for tips! Jam's friend told him off angrily over the phone. We had wanted proper massage, not sex!

It was a horrible experience for us. What a night! But I have to honestly say I had no regrets. This incident had somehow made my trip that much more memorable and kept me in stitches even to this very day!

Today is a special day. No, it’s not my birthday.

It’s 20112011

20^th November 2011. A Double Match.

It happens only once in a lifetime! You’ll never get such a number again. So I guess I would like to wish everyone a wonderful day!

If you feel a sense of deja vu reading this, that's because I posted a similar post with the exact same wordings (except for the numbers) last year. Read it HERE.

Last year, the special day was on 20^th October. That gave us 20102010.

So next year it will be 20^th December which gives us 20122012.

While everyone was obsessed with the number 111111 on the 11th November 2011, I was more attracted to this date 20112011. The number 111111 may sound special but according to feng shui, there is really nothing significant about this date.

There were many couples who chose this date to get married, but feng shui expert Joey Yap had tweeted that it was actually not a very good day to do so! Oh well, hopefully all the couples who got married on that day would live happily ever after and not follow the trend set by Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries! LOL! OK just kidding there!


Kim & Kris image courtesy of celebs.gather.com

Errr...don't you think Kris is too tall for Kim?

There were also many babies being born on 111111. Now that's really something cos I bet the parents would have no problem remembering their child's birthday!

Anyway, I do not consider 111111 very special as it will occur again on the 11th November 2111, which is 100 years later. Whereas 20112011 will never ever occur again anytime in the future!

Since we are talking about dates, here are some important dates coming up. Do take note of them, even if some of the dates do not concern you. *hint hint*

Dec 1st 2011- My birthday! to me!!

Dec 25th 2011- Merry Xmas! Best time of the year!

Jan 1st 2012- Happy New Year 2012!! Will this be the final year for humankind? Personally, I don't think so!

Jan 23rd & 24th 2012- Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year Of The Dragon!

Feb 1st 2012 - Federal Territory Day. PJ will get jammed badly as many KL-lites throng PJ streets and malls.

Feb 4th 2012 - The day your feng shui changes so be prepared for it!!

Feb 7th 2012 - Thaipusam Day
Feb 14th 2012 - Valentine's Day

Mar 11th 2012 - My Very First Blog's 4th anniversary! Started way back on this day and month in 2008, I have come a long way in the world of blogging! I am still loving it as blogging is my passion. And I hope to continue blogging for many, many more years to come, perhaps for life!

Apr 1st 2012 - Don't be the fool on this April Fool's Day!

Apr 30th 2012 - Last day to submit your personal income tax if you are an employee.

May 1st 2012 - Labour Day. Yay!!

May 5th 2012 - Wesak Day

July 8th - Launching of iPhone 5! This time it comes with the incredible "Beam me up Scotty" feature that will render airlines and air travel obsolete! Just kidding!

Aug 19th & 20th 2012 - Hari Raya Puasa. Yay! Will be purposely driving around KL.

Aug 30th 2012 - Hungry Ghost Day. Be careful not to roam the streets at night during Hungry Ghost month from Aug 17th till Sept 15th.

Aug 31st 2012 - National Day. Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Sept 16th 2012 - Malaysia Day. Holiday! Holiday! Holiday!

Sept 30th 2012 - Mooncake Festival. Please donate me some durian mooncakes! Thank you.

Oct 26th 2012 - Hari Raya Haji

Nov 7th 2012 - My 3rd anniversary with Twitter! Created a Twitter account on this day and month in 2009, I have no regrets about joining Twitter and I'm loving it more and more! Come follow me on Twitter if you have not already!

Nov 13th 2012 - Deepavali

Nov 15th 2012 - Awal Muharam

Dec 1st 2012 - My birthday again!! *hint hint*

Dec 20th - It's 20122012! Awesome!

Dec 25th - Xmas Day. Merry Xmas!!

Dec 31st - Wow! We survived the Doomsday prediction! Let's celebrate!!!

1. I am so looking forward to the coming weekend and the Hari Raya holidays next week! It will be a long holiday for me!
Happy holidays everyone!

2. How many of you still do not have a smart phone? If you don't have one, do not worry. You don't need to have a smart phone cos it's smarter than you. What you really need is an iPhone! LOL!

3. I discovered something. Every time I eat a slice of pizza whether it's from Pizza Hut or Domino's, the slice of pizza will always turn into a fish! Look!



Does it happen to your slice of pizza too?

4. I think I have mentioned in my blog before that I don't really fancy McDonald's. That's why I love this T shirt which I bought from Bangkok last year!



Do you think it's appropriate for me to wear this T-shirt to McDonald's?

5. Talking about T-shirts, I have just ordered some T-shirts online at Threadless. I thought they were pretty !! You may want to check out their T-shirts HERE.

6. Still on the subject of T-shirts, and touching a little bit on marriage, are you married or still single? I am specifically asking this question to my male readers so female readers need not answer. Why's that? Cos if you are still single, let me give you a message from my T-shirt.



Get it? Haha!! This Graffitee T-shirt never fail to turn heads whenever I wear it!

7. Do you like guessing game? Here's something for you to guess. I think I have posted this on Twitter before so some of you who are following me on Twitter would know the answer already.

Anyway, look at this picture. Is it an orange or a lemon?



Scroll down to number 11 for the answer

8. I love fried rice! Do you?

Although I only eat 1 small bowl of white rice for dinner, I can eat 3 big bowls of fried rice if no one stops me! Haha! Usually I love eating the fried rice wrapped in lettuce leaves!



Yummy! I am thinking of having fried rice for dinner tonight. They sure help to put on the pounds but I'll worry about that the next day! LOL!

9. Have you ever heard a nice song on radio or somewhere but you did not know the title of the song and who the singer was? You were dying to find out so that you could buy the album or at least search for the song on YouTube but the radio DJ failed to mention the name of the song?

Well, if you have an iPhone, your frustration is over! Just download this app!



This is such an amazing app! Whenever you hear a song you like but you don't know the title of the song or who sang it, just click on Shazam and it will sample the song and figure it out for you! Now you know why I must always carry my iPhone with me everywhere I go!

10. Last night, as I was biting into a tomato, I had the shock of my life! This was what I saw!



Can someone please tell me what the hell are those freaking things inside the tomato?!

At first I thought they were worms but on closer inspection, they actually looked like bean sprouts or taugeh. What the hell are the bean sprouts doing inside the tomato? Cross breeding? Mutation? Genetic engineering?

This tomato was bought from an organic vegetable supplier. I threw the whole tomato away and did not dare to eat any more tomatoes after that!

11. OK, here's the answer to the "Orange or Lemon" guessing game.



It's an orange! Did you get it right?

Do you always ask yourself this question "What to eat for lunch today?"

I do.

I am not sure if that question is grammatically correct but that's how I always ask this question to myself. And it's not just lunch, mind you. It's the same with dinner.

Always, the same question will pop up again and again with no apparent answers. What to eat? What to eat?

Well, I have no problem with what to eat for breakfast as most of you would already know by now, I eat only fruits, fruits and more fruits for breakfast!


Cream chicken @ Pan Cafe

But when it comes to lunch and dinner, I will always face this problem of not knowing what to eat. Sometimes, I get so fed up with the food in coffee-shops and restaurants I feel like cooking my own food.

Maybe I should learn how to cook but then again, if I do know how, another problem will arise. I may start to ask myself "what to cook?" instead, which I think is ten times worse than "what to eat"!


Egg tarts @ Canton-i

In fact, I am sometimes so bored with outside food I rather cook myself instant noodles. I know it's unhealthy but I guess once in a while is OK! By the way, my favourite instant noodles is the Cintan brand and my favourite flavour is Asam Laksa. How about you?


My Cintan asam laksa noodles

So here I go again. What to eat for lunch today?

Popiah rolls?



Mee rebus?



I feel like eating Pasta Zanmai's Unagi kabayaki to onsen tamago



Or Tang House Of Fishball's celery mee



I guess Bao Bao's pan mee with dumplings are quite nice too.



Or maybe I just keep it simple and eat Bread Story's Panda bread. Haha!



Oh well, I guess I will never ever find a solution to this. I will always be asking this question every single day - What to eat for lunch today?

Note#1 : All pictures in this post were taken using my iPhone 3Gs and not my Panasonic LX3. So please excuse me if some of the food shown were not exactly appetizing.

Note#2: I highly recommend that cream chicken rice from Pan Cafe (1st photo) and the unagi kabayaki from Pasta Zanmai. The others are not too bad either, although in the case of Canton-i's egg tarts, I think Tong Kee's ones are better.

Today is a special day. No, it’s not my birthday.

It’s 20102010

20^th October 2010. A Double Match.

It happens only once in a lifetime! You’ll never get such a number again. So I guess I would like to wish everyone a wonderful day!

If you feel a sense of deja vu reading this, that's because I posted a similar post with the exact same wordings (except for the numbers) last year. Read it here.

Last year, the special day was on 20^th September. That gave us 20092009.

So next year it will be 20^th November which gives us 20112011.

While everyone was obsessed with the number 101010 on the 10th October 2010, I am more attracted to this date 20102010. I wonder what is so special with 101010 - it was a bleak day for Malaysians as it was the day of the horrible accident involving a bus and several other vehicles on the North-South Expressway near Melaka, killing 13 people in the process!

Besides, 101010 will occur again on the 10th October 2110, which is 100 years later. Whereas 20102010 will never ever occur again anytime in the future!

Since we are talking about dates and numbers here, let me dwell on this topic today.



First, about the year 2012. It's such a famous year, made famous by the movie 2012 that it is the year that the world will finally come to an end. Do you believe 2012 is doomsday year? Personally, I don't.

You see, dinosaurs have ruled the earth close to 165 million years, but humans only existed since 7 million years ago. Is it time for humans to be wiped out? I don't think so. Unless we got the number of years wrong, of course : )

Maybe humans are actually aliens and we have existed billions of years ago and were living on a different planet? Who knows?



Second, the year 2020. Will we Malaysians achieve Vision 2020?
I really have my doubts! But then again, never say never!

So there are plans for a 100-storey tower to be built and completed by 2020? I am not going to go into a debate whether this tower is feasible or not. All I can say is if you want to build a tower, please build a 100-storey rotating tower like the one in Dubai!!

It'll be cool to see a landmark building changing shape every hour!!



Thirdly, some important dates at least for me!! Do take note if you want to!

Nov 2nd 2010 - The launching of Mariah Carey's new Christmas album! Can't wait!!

Dec 1st 2010 - My birthday. You're welcome to give me a birthday present! Haha!

Feb 1st 2011 - Federal Territory Day. Nightmare day in PJ as KL-lites jam up PJ!

Feb 3rd 2011 - Chinese New Year. Best time to make easy money collecting angpows!!! Ka-ching!!

Feb 4th 2011 - The day where your feng shui changes so be sure to prepare for it!

Mar 11th 2011 - My Very First Blog's 3rd anniversary!! Let's celebrate!!!

Mar 12th 2011 - The official launch of iPhone5! Yippee!! *I'm kidding : D

April 30th 2011 - Last day to submit your personal income tax if you are an employee. Don't procrastinate!

May 1st 2011 - Labour Day. They should turn this into Labour Week! You know, holiday for one week? LOL!

Aug 13th 2011 - Hungry Ghost festival. Stay home at night!

Aug 30th 2011 - Selamat Hari Raya!! Best time to drive KL roads!

Sept 12th 2011 - Mooncake Festival. Make sure you don't miss the durian mooncakes!

Oct 8th 2011 - International Panda Day! *I'm kidding again! Haha!

Nov 11th 2011 - The day with the most number 1s! 11.11.11.



Lastly, how old would you be after your birthday in 2011? Well, here are the age of some Hollywood stars on their birthdays in 2011 if you are curious to know!

Tom Cruise - 49

Tom Hanks - 55

Jessica Simpson - 31

Harrison Ford - 69

Nicole Kidman - 44

David Duchovny - 50

Charlize Theron - 36

Whitney Houston - 48

Ben Affleck - 39

Madonna - 53

Keanu Reeves - 47

Adam Sandler - 45

Will Smith - 43

Sigourney Weaver - 62

Eminem - 39

Julia Roberts - 44

Meg Ryan - 50

Jodie Foster - 49

Tina Turner - 72

Christina Aguilera - 31

Brad Pitt - 48

Ricky Martin - 40

Denzel Washington - 57

Jude Law - 39

Leonardo DiCaprio - 37

David Archuleta - 21

Simon Cowell - 52

Jennifer Lopez - 42

Whoopi Goldberg - 56

Lindsay Lohan - 25

Eva Longoria - 36

Teri Hatcher - 47

Britney Spears - 30

Tyra Banks - 38

Justin Bieber - 17

Lady Gaga - 25

Adam Lambert - 29

Kelly Clarkson - 29

Milla Jovovich - 36

Angelina Jolie - 36

Sam Worthington - 35

Jessica Alba - 30

Paris Hilton - 30

Megan Fox - 25

Taylor Lautner - 19

So sorry if I remind you about your age! Haha! Well, hope you have enough about dates and numbers today! Cos I have had enough! Have a good day everyone! : )

OK, just for once I shall write a very short post.

The Top 10 things that make me say ...



1. I am in the middle of nowhere and my iPhone battery goes dead.

2. I dine at an expensive restaurant and when it comes to paying the bill, I can't find my wallet.

3. Mariah Carey's pregnancy is false and she is in fact, just plain fat!



(Note: She is still my No. 1 singer whether she's fat or slim!)

4. The final scene of Inception.

5. Lady Gaga is following me on Twitter.

6. Taylor Lautner reveals on Oprah that he is a girl!

7. I open up a letter found in my postbox and it reads ...



8. After watching a disturbing video, I answer a phone call and a very creepy voice says "Seven days."

9. I die, go to heaven, and God says to me "Congratulations! Welcome to the real world. You are now out of The Matrix."

10. I just came up with this Top 10 in under 10 minutes!

Have a great weekend, everyone! : )