Showing posts with label Makan-makan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Makan-makan. Show all posts


That's me on the left. Went out for lunch at Bubba Gump with a couple of my office mates a few days back. Had myself a Bourbon Street Baramundi and a lemonade. The food was great, especially when the guy on the right was the one who pays for them - sweeet~


And for those who's maybe thinking that the Bourbon could be haram (since the name kinda sounds like an alcoholic beverage), here's an excerpt from the Sun newspaper website,
You can wiki what bearnaise means on your own I suppose. In any case, I think I'm starting to miss the meal already.

p/s: I also have a new favourite drink! It's called the Oreo Milkshake of Secret Recipe :)

Just got back from Subang Permai. And with that comes the sudden realization that you're not free yet - you've got some laundry to take care of!

Crap.

And the fact that you have a semi-auto washing machine does not help either.

Major Crap.

And slowly I'd drag my ass off of my bean bag and slowly plunder through the luggage and lazily put it in the washing machine. If only we had them automatic ones I thought to myself.

No pain, no gain. Or in our case - gain first, pain comes later on.

The weekend getaway at A Famosa had gone smoothly I suppose. The bungalow unit itself was..well suffice to say that we got what we paid for I suppose. I've seen better - but I guess to see those better ones, then I'd really have to earn the rights to them I suppose.

So much for relying on freebies...owh those were the days :)

Anyhow, we did manage to have a BBQ by sundown. Which was great I guess. I mean at least we did do something worth mentioning about. At least, for myself-lah. Yasir it seems had the most fun - quoting the words of Abah - "the level of noise that he made in the pool had a direct correlation to the level of fun he is having" - which later brought our conversion to some mathematical equations on how an exponential graph would look like if we were to map his fun level VS noise made. Talk about having an intellectual discussion with your dad-in-law.

The BBQ was nice. The burger by Darabiff was awesome. A whole lot better than your typical Ramly. But then the price would also I guess be in the "awesome" region too - which would mean that I'll happily (forcefully make myself happy) stick to my Ramly as usual.

Managed to get some reading time too - surprisingly. It wasn't as much as I had wanted, but at least I'm moving somewhere. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is quite an interesting read. An interesting read about an interesting topic. Maybe when I'm done with this, I'll get his Outliers too (and rest assured - my 360 Degree Leader would remain untouched for another day...hurm....maybe I should finish that first...).

All in all - the weekend was great. Ate some good food. Spent quality time with family. Spent quality time with self. Not too shabby there I suppose.

Though I'm still waiting for my "ideal" weekend getaway (picture a person sitting lazily on a couch watching his favourite movies while eating junk food all day long..) - which I don't think would be a reality anytime soon..not with my wife having lots of creative ideas every now and then.

Next week is Raya Haji. And on the next week we'd probably be off to Malacca for some wedding reception. And the week after that is my friend's wedding reception. And probably some time in the middle we (my wife and I) would probably be asking ourselves "When in the world are we going to paint this lounge of ours?"

When indeed.


p/s: Yasir, if you're reading this - please build that pool ASAP.

I guess this is my first time blogging about a donut.

It's THAT good.

Hahaha. I mean, I don't know about you guys. You might say I'm a bit exaggerating or what not, but erm..yeah I am aren't I. But it's nice to be able to eat a different kind of donut from the ones you usually get at Dunkin Donuts.

I just had a 'Moonraker'. This type of donut has a chocolate topping with sizzles of cocoa pops on top. Crunchy and yummy at the same time. I'd show it to ya if I hadn't ate it already.

The biggest difference that I can spot between 'it' and the donut from Dunkin Donut is the size. Big Apple donuts are quite small. I mean they aren't that thick and can be quickly munched. Due to it's rather small size, you tend to get better taste of the various toppings that is offered - or in my case the chocolate coated cocoa pops.

Maybe it's the 'in' thing right now. Everybody seems to queue up at Big Apple Donut these days.

Oh did I mention that the donut was given to me by my fiancee?

Hehe..you gotta love them freebies :)

Today is pretty boring. I'm feeling sleepy at work all-day long. Maybe the constant moving here and there (work and dinner at putrajaya and back home) for the past two days have taken it's due toll on my body. Maybe I need a break. My head was feeling pretty tensed while driving late last night. 
Last night I did some re-calculation about my kahwin budgeting - seems like I may have to depend on only RM400 for minyak and makan and toll and whatever for the next 5 month. Crap!
But lets not talk about that for now. Let us talk about the Nasi Lemak I had yesterday at Precint 9, Putrajaya instead. :) . I've never been the kind to Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan before but somehow yesterday I felt to do so. 
Originally though me and fiancee were looking for a Western-food selling place there - that was recommended by her colleague. After awhile getting lost in Putrajaya (we actually got in Putrajaya, then somehow managed to get out, then had to go back in.) we finally found the place. 

Arriving there, I suddenly lost my appetite for Western type food and went instead for a plate of Nasi Lemak served with ayam berempah and telur mata kerbau. The aroma of that Nasi Lemak caught me across the cafeteria and I'm hooked right in.  


That's me getting a quick shot of the Nasi Lemak with my ever trusty Sony Ericsson. I had to switch to using hand instead of the usual fork and spoon since they were too slow to use. Also had a tauhu bakar along the way. Bes giler~

Yesterday my family went to the Grand Millenium Hotel. I'm not sure many of you have heard of it, since the place looked quite new to me. 
Went there kinda early actually - since it's location in the heart of KL and all that. So early we went that we were able to go to a shopping complex nearby - The Pavillion. It was my first time there, and yeah..the stuff sold there are rather expensive. Dad got himself a Pierre Balmain shirt. Me? I got me a Jeep polo shirt. And my sis' paid for it. Sweeet~
So anyhow, the berbuka place is quite okay lah..not too shabby. It was not packed, which is good lah. Food were applenty, but I've seen better. The most interesting dish had to be the ketam berempah - man i haven't any ketam in months, and this place has them in abundance; berempah even (whatever that means). It was OK-lah, I only had one, and even it was a cold one (since I went straight to the surau after a quickie break fast).
The ice-cream was good. The teh tarik is excellent. :)

Before that, early this week I got a chance to open fast at one Equitorial Hotel. We as a family were invited there by my old training place; DDS Engineering Sdn. Bhd. It's an annual thing held by them. According to them, this year's event was their biggest yet. 
And perhaps it is. There was a lot of food available! And they taste good too! 

Not that I care much though. What I enjoy most about that day was the fact I could meet up some of my old colleagues and play some (brief) catch up with them. It was nice really. 
On Friday, me and my fiancee plan to have a berbuka together somewhere in Mines. Nak dijadikan cerita, her tyre went flat along the way. Her car stopped at quite a convenient place, near Masjid Uniten and Upten. So OKla I thought. Might as well eat there. The pic below is of me fixing her tyre. Hehe.

I got myself a nasi putih and telur bungkus for buka puasa. Rm 5 more or less. Ok la kan compared if I were to eat at Mines. Later I went and had my maghrib prayer at Masjid Uniten. You wouldn't believe who I met there. Padil!! Wahaha.. It really brings back memories. Really miss those days. Anyway we chatted a bit after the solat, you know..to catch up on things. Met Ijal and some SIFErs as well. Who would've thought eh..



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