Living a life

T.G.I Friday

2009-03-20T09:47:00.001+08:00

My 1st time dining in TGI Fridays.. Forgotten who paid the bill (me or brother le?).. hehe. But it was really well worth the money.

The pasta was the best dish that we ordered

Burger for Annette

Cheese balls... Best side dish The cheese oozing out

Taste great but not sausy enough.. Chinese saying 'hen kan'

Sandakan, Sabah

2009-01-19T10:38:00.007+08:00

I totally love this small town Sandakan nicknamed 'Little Hong Kong' is full of delicious food from morning till night. Went there twice but still not enough. You really need a local to guide you to this places to find the most delicious food around town. Also the best and some say cheapest seafood can be found here.

Have you ever tried Bah Kut Teh Seafood.. Bah kut teh fish n prawns.
There are 2 kinds of soup that can be ordered.
The normal one or spicy 'pedas' for those who like spicy.

A very special mee called 'Tang giung mian' in hakka dialect with seafood (3 prawns, 2 scallops and 2 fish slice) all either thick or big in size

The same mee with Pork meat wrapped with Pork Skin and the famous 'Pi Tan' dumpling

Egg Tart with a very very thin layer of skin (still hot from oven)Seafood for dinner. Steam 'Lai Mang' fish, scallops, prawns n fried sotongs (squids)

The pasar in Mile 4 has quite a number a food from morning till late night. The must eat is 'You Cha Kui' and kangkung with sotong at tea time.

I have yet to taste the best ABC n satay in town ,also a very smooth Teh C Ping and 'Wang Jiu Tian Chi' (Frog cook with Chinese Rice Wine, good while drinking beer)..... Also forgotten to take pic of the best crab that i've eaten. Hope to go there again soon.

How Time Flies..

2008-10-23T09:20:00.009+08:00

It's been really long since I last blog.
A lot has happen in my life.

Let's see now.. memorable events like James & PeiLing's Wedding, Kok Hou & Chui Ling's Wedding, Patricia's performance as lead guitarist at yayasan sabah, another Pulau Tiga trip (this time overnight at survivors island and also learned the basic of fishing) with Fung and his family and coming soon mesilau trip with colleagues. Not forgetting my 1st 7KM sunset jog organize by Sutera Harbour and Borneo International Marathorn where I only join the 10KM run. It was great and I plan to join more of this kind of events in the future.

Some regrets like yogazone y-fitness that has gone bankrupt. Don't even have any new news. Aboandoned in City Mall and the bank keeps charging me every month.
That's about it about my life up till October 2008

4D numbers

2008-05-22T08:51:00.003+08:00

I put my car to wash on Tuesday. When i got it back, the number of my plate was missing a number 7705 become 7_05.
Wednesday morning a few colleagues of mine ask me to buy toto for tat number.. add a zero somewhere in 705. But i didn't care at all.
SDK toto rm200 came out 7005......
I told myself if it isn't yours it isn't yours.

Pulau Tiga

2008-05-06T13:39:00.003+08:00

Survivor Season One was held here many years ago in Pulau Tiga.
This is my 1st visit here and it was the best pulau that I have visited so far (better than Pulau Sapi)
Snorkelling was great there. It was my 1st time snorkelling very far out to the sea. Can see fishes and corals but everything was blur to me as I didn't have contact lens.
Not much visitor during our trip here. So we had most of the beach to our own.

Crystal clear water

Is called Pulau Tiga because there will be 2 river that cuts the island (maybe during high tide) to become 3 island

There's a mud bath 1-2km walk from the beach

SMS Scam still lives

2008-02-29T14:48:00.004+08:00

I thought these SMS scams have long gone but these people changed a little tactics by using a local company and Malay language.

The content of SMS i receive:

Pgmmm.dr PETRONAS Mlys,tahniah! Sim anda bertuah MMNG HADIAH, Cektunai RM14,000. Sila hubungi: 006281318952697 THANK.
From: +6281510604141

Translation ' Announcement. from Petronas Malaysia, congratulations! Your Sim have won a prize money cheque of RM14,000. Please call.....'

Does anyone one to try the number and see where it is send from.??

Christmas gift exchange at workplace

2007-12-22T09:54:00.000+08:00

My 1st year joining a Christmas gift exchange event. A few simple guidelines was made so that all the gifts received and given are considered fair to everyone.

1. Gifts are to be above RM15
2. Unisex presents ( Can be used by male or female)
3. Non consumable items
4. Price tag or receipt should be wrapped together with the gift

After searching high and low, I bought a ready made gift from Bodyshop. Quite simple with 3 face towel wrapped in a basket with Merry Christmas wordings.

The day came for the exchanging of gifts. As told by some of my colleagues, a game of exchanging gifts was held.
The game is quite simple to play. Gifts that are open can be stolen.

1. Everyone gathered takes a number.
2. 1st person picks a gift on the table and opens it.
3. 2nd person can choose to steal from 1st person or pick a new gift to open.
4. If the 2nd person decides to steal, then 1st person have to pick a new gift
5. Gifts can be stolen 3 times only. After the 3rd time, the gift will be with its new owner.
6. Gift stolen cannot steal back by same person.
7. 1st and 2nd player gets a chance to steal gifts after the round finishes.

What present i lost. A stylish clock, RM20 Giant gift voucher, a 'hugging couple' to put salt and pepper, a small pillow and a Cadbury full of chocolate ( a forbidden gift coz is edible).

I finally got a Sheaffer pen.

Badminton lovers

2007-10-31T18:24:00.001+08:00

To follow the badminton matches, visit this site for live scores only (No action)

http://tournamentsoftware.com/

The FRENCH SUPER SERIES 2007 is currently playing.

KK badminton courts around town.

http://alantangelus.blogspot.com/2007/08/kk-badminton-courts.html

World's Largest Floating Bookshop

2007-09-26T09:57:00.000+08:00

To all book lovers, MV Doulus, the World's Oldest Ocean-going Passenger Ship will drop by KK for 2-3weeks in October. More than 8000 wide range of books for sale.

Location: Berth 8, KK port
Book Fair
Open to public 13-25 October 2007
Tuesday to Saturday & (15th, Monday) from 10am-10pm
Sunday & (22nd, Monday) from 2pm-10pm

Discover Doulos
13th & 19th from 1pm - 5pm
14th & 21st from 2pm - 5pm
15th from 11am - 5pm

Painting competition on Oct 7 to decorate the 360-foot walkway where the ship will arrive. Children age 12 and above only. Entry forms and details of the competition can be obtained at Murobond Paints showroom at Lot 2, Block B, 1st Floor (Corner), Kolombong Industrial Development Shoplot, or call 088-436339

Merdeka Day

2007-09-05T13:21:00.000+08:00

On Merdeka Day when all of my friends were fast asleep. I was in a marching band. All for this certificate

50years independence. Will be quite memorable as I don't plan to do this again in the future. It will only be a once in a lifetime thing.

KK Badminton Courts

2007-08-15T13:43:00.002+08:00

Badminton courts around KK are quite hard to find if you're lazy.
I'm just listing down a few places with pricing n contact no.:-
(All prices are for 1 hour play only)
1. SM All Saints KK, (RM12 for Newcomers, RM10 for regulars), En. Romanus 012-8340371
2 KK High School, RM10, Mr. Liong 088-262578
3 Taman BDC, RM8, 088-435657
4 Beverly Hills Ph.1,2,3, RM7, 088-727522
5. KK Community Hall (Damai n Luyang), RM8, DBKK 088-521803
6. KK Community Hall (Others), RM5, DBKK 088-521803
7. Foo Chow Hall - RM5 before 5pm per court. RM10 after 5pm per court (i may be wrong), 088-240028
8. Likas Sports Complex - RM11. Many courts available. 088-259466

Will update often as I get more details and feel free to help me update the contacts. If there's a mistake, I'm only human.

Lok Kawi Wildlife Park

2007-07-28T11:04:00.000+08:00

Opened since Chinese New Year '07, is most probably the best zoo u can find in Sabah. 2 roads connect this zoo, one from Donggongon and another from Putatan. If u need me to guide u there, just leave me a comment. The entrance looked like this

Entrance fee for locals are RM10 for adult n RM5 for Children
If ur 60+years old or kids wearing school uniform (Free Entrance)
Foreigners are charge RM20 and RM10 respectively for adult and child.
The best day to come is on Sat&Sun. It's becoz more activity will be open for the kids during weekend & public holidays. The time to come is between 10am to 12pm, feeding time for the animals. A map of the zoo.

In this zoo, u can see a lonely rhinoceros, restless sun bears (sometimes wrestling), group of elephants, posing tigers (only active when lunch arrive), a noisy n mischievous pair of otters, orang utan (didn't get a chance to see them monkeying around coz close on tat day for upgrading works), gibbons, etc..
.................................. My niece petting the young elephant
............................................. Wrestling Sun Bears

1st Try

2007-06-18T13:40:00.000+08:00

just giving this blog thing a try..
To start with, I'm just back tracking my visits as it lingers in my mind. Maybe boring to read but I created this blog so that I can read it when I'm old and memories get blurer n blurer..

What I miss about my 1st Job

2007-06-10T09:46:00.000+08:00

All the times that I missed, the goodness and kindness that I gained from my 1st Job. Ranking the good to the best.

10. Cheap key duplication and learning to open lock doors (unsuccessful practical attempts but at least have the theory of it in my head)
9. Post office on Ground Floor
8. Near my home and start work 9am.
7. Training at KL but I did not make it there. But just dreaming of it also makes it good.
6. No Politics(you know the meaning) as the workplace has not more than 20 workers.
5. Surrounded by Jehovah witnesses colleague. Good natured, friendly and kind as Christians.
4. Free badminton weekly, paid by boss.
3. Manager looking after your back all the time, slowly passing all his skills of survival from experience)
2. A kind boss with very good talking style (Smiling while talking with very deep meanings inside all his conversation. Usually encouragement to do better in everything especially improving my selling skills)
1. The most missed reason: Free homecook lunch by lau pan niang (I think or maybe maid) on mon,wed and fri.

My First Job

2007-05-31T16:41:00.000+08:00

At last.... After years of education to get a degree ,an extra 5months searching aimlessly in KK and a few interviews, I finally found a job.. Yeah!!

My 1st job title: Product Engineer. What is that, everyone keeps asking me. Well, it's all about switches and smart home system. All I have to do is market the product which I absolutely have no idea and despise of and doing some programming.

Conclusion: Sleepless night is what you get when you can't sell well enough. Worrying every single day about ways to market and sell the product. Very stressful. Last a month and a half in this job. Left the company cause I desperately needed to leave this kind of life and I found another job. I became happy, restless and carefree on the last day of the job. All my worries gone with the wind.

Recommendation to myself: I don't do well as a sales person even though I am friendly person. Will stay away from any job that requires doing sales.

Planning for trip of a lifetime

2006-09-07T10:23:00.000+08:00

This may be the only trip that I can afford in my lifetime
(Can't tell the future right)
Budget - 500-600Pounds

8/9 -11/9 London. 4days 3nights
12/9 - 15/9 Paris. 4days 3nights
16/9 - 18/9 Rome 3days 2nights
19/9 Brussel 1day
20/9-23/9 Berlin 4days 3nights
24/9 Amsterdam 1day
25/9 London 1day
26/9 Manchester airport
27/9 Back to KL

7nights in bus and 11nights in hostel

York

2006-08-15T10:18:00.000+08:00

At the middle of the summer course, we were treated to a visit to York by LJMU. York, located in the middle of England, is a tourist attraction city. The town is surrounded by a wall and a few gates for entry purposes.

One of the gates to enter the town. The old map of the town.
Spotted this tower and decided to take a closer look.

What was a fortress, is now left a tower standing tall alone.
The view from the tower. Paid a small fee to enter the tower. (Declan and me rode on the ferris wheel..quite embarrassing haha)

We were fortunate enough to find a once in a lifetime chance to drive a boat. 1 hour boat ride, of course with a small fee to pay shared by the 3 of us. We were given a short lecture on how to drive a boat. But I only remember 1 rule and that is to always keep to the right hand side of the river. It's an international rule if I'm not mistaken. We took a lot of pictures along the way but I'm just sharing some. There's Victor, me and Declan.

After the boat ride, we continue our exploration around town. We managed to get a photo with this guy guarding the entrance to a Dungeon ride.
Before getting on the bus back to Liverpool, we walk the wall surrounding the town. 20minutes walk and we have to back track back to where we came as it seem to be a long way ahead and time is running out.

Blackpool Model Village

2006-08-01T11:26:00.000+08:00

Located in the outskirt of the town. We got lost finding this place but after asking around the folks, we finally reach this place. My first thought was what a small shop. Is there anything interesting to look at. Well just look at the photos to see for yourself.

I'm stuck on the windmill. HELP!!!

Have to bend over to fit the background

Someone's getting married

Fun fair going on while someone's doing prison break

Gypsy camp and a cricket game. There's a Mr. Bean with a funny cap

UFO visit

Loius Tussaud, Blackpool

2006-08-01T10:46:00.000+08:00

Louis Tussaud is a waxwork museum and a subsidiary of the famous Madame Tussaud if I'm not mistaken. Eventhough is quite small but it's quite worth the money to make visit here in Blackpool.

There's quite a few famous celebrity made of wax here.
Keanu Reeves, Star Wars characters, Arnold S., Marilyn Monroe, Sir Elton John, Angelina Jolie, James Bond, the late Mother Teressa and Princess Diana and many others

Me and Sir Elton John

After an hour or so of seeing all the wax works and taking photos with them, it's time for the scary part of the wax works.
Still remember Freddie from Elm street

Frankenstein
A scene from the movie exorcist (The body starts to lose control when ever anyone comes near it, forgot to take a video of it, such a waste)
This guy is actually real, u can see his skin underneath the mask. After Declan took this pic, the guy moved and tried to scare us. Luckily he suceeded with the help of two screaming ladys behind us.

Blackpool, A Holiday City

2006-07-31T10:09:00.000+08:00

Blackpool is a town north of Liverpool, is a place where u would wan to have fun n relax.. This is not a place where u will see people wearing smart attire and rushing to work. No.. This town is a place to have a holiday with anyone no matter the age.

1st thing u need to know is that the town's very quiet in the morning. Shops and amusement centers starts their business as i recall around 10am. We arrived there at 8.00am but the town was like a ghost town except
Mc Donald's opened(haha ate Mc Breakfast before going around the town)

U wont miss the famous Blackpool Tower
Live dancers, shows and casino

Lost a few pounds in this place where gambling is legal

Manchester, busy town with the world's famous club MU

2006-07-15T10:16:00.000+08:00

Manchester, a busy town with the world's famous football club Manchester United, MU for short.
Me and a few of my friends reached Manchester early in the morning and went around town. Nothing much to see. Took a few photos as we walk guided by a map.

Small chinatown area

It's summer, the way to cool down in the middle of town

Can't find a toilet, just use this (MEN ONLY)

After sight-seeing around town in the morning mostly shopping malls, we decided to head for the MU stadium Old Trafford. Just one train ride plus 15-minutes walk and we reach the famous Old Trafford stadium. Didn't get a chance to see the football field as there was a limit for visitors visiting everyday. We were only allowed to visit the museum. Feeling dissappointed we didn't go in the museum (10pounds per entry). We took more photos and shop for MU stuff before we left.

Before we left Manchester, there was a protest on the streets of Manchester. From the banners, you can clearly see that it was a protest against war on Iraq. People of all races and religions join in on the protest.

Start Class '06 n around town in daytime

2006-06-14T15:01:00.000+08:00

3-months course starts in LJMU. Around 500 student from TARC and Megatech came for the degree in various course. LJMU various departments are scattered throughout Liverpool town centre. Luckily for us, our Engineering Department is just a 10-min sweetless walk from hostel. LJMU library is just next door of the hostel with a statue in front named SUPERLAMBANANA(below).

After class went around town their's lots of sights to see..

Liverpool is the only state to have 2 churches, Anglican church above and Church of England below
At the maritime dock, the Beatles museum is just around the back and if u
need a ride for sight-seeing in Liverpool, u can try the Amphibian Bus

Liverpool Week 1

2006-06-07T11:42:00.000+08:00

What is my first impression of Liverpool?

After a few days sight seeing around town. Well, my conclusion is Liverpool's a great place for retired folks. A place full of culture n heritage. Is the home town to the historic Beatles group.

Beatles Muzeum. Entrance fee around 10Pounds(Less than RM70)
Not much of a Beatles fan so did not enter.

Young women n men seems to dissappear (Too exaggerating, there are still some) in the morning but can be seen when the sun's set when they come out to partey. The night scenes around town r nice.

An old English Pub above (Choo, Victor, Daniel, very friendly boss, Ah Keong, Declan, Me) A very happening pub below

Trip to UK for studies

2006-05-31T17:10:00.000+08:00

Left from KL in Emirates Airlines to Manchester Airport. Before that we had to transit at Dubai International Airport, a huge airport if i may say so.
Quite a strict airport, we have to take off our shoes n belts before going through the scanners. By the way, I'm not traveling alone. Have a few close friends with me. Choo, Declan, Me and Victor.

Liverpool at last. We arrived a day earlier (the next day we get our accomodation) to explore a bit of Liverpool. Carrying our heavy luggage to look for a place to stay overnight we went to a look for hostels (especially YMCA) but are all fully booked. Lucky someone introduce us to a house hostel which is cheaper to stay for a night.