My boyfriend says that I’m so “popular” because I had three “gatherings” lined up on Saturday. Told him that I couldn’t see him until evening for the 3rd “gathering” which was in fact my mom’s birthday dinner. In the end, the second gathering was cancelled, psh! But I did think that my Saturday was planned out quite “packed”… am quite glad that one got cancelled, though don’t get me wrong — I really did want to meet my friends too.
Saturday started off rather disastrously for me because I was supposed to pick my friend up at 9:45am, but I woke up at 10:05am. -___- I am so fail, and the funny thing is that my friend didn’t call me up. By the time I picked her up and met up with my other 2 friends, the other 2 had finished eating the breakfast. Sigh… fail Leech is fail. However, it was great meeting up with them, and I am glad that I made it in the end. Who are they? They are my primary school mates! The one I picked up is called WSL, the one who organised it is June and the one other one is WJ. WSL used to be the “nerd” back in high school (then again I was also a nerd, so who am I to label others? Maybe this is why we were friends?), and today she is a successful doctor practising in UK. To be honest, I was really surprised to hear that she was back in Malaysia. At first, I thought it was because of Talent Corp’s success in luring back our foreign graduates. But in fact, she came back to pay back JPA for her scholarship. -___- She said it is better for Malaysia if she returns at a later date anyway as she finds that she is gaining way more relevant experience overseas. It’s quite sad when I hear about stories like this — I think I’ll save my “analysis” for another day.
WJ is also a doctor, working in a local government hospital, while June is a lawyer! I think it’s interesting to see how we have all grown up from our primary school days.
Oh, June also was from FGT (where I used to attend), so it’s really a small world. This is a picture of how June & I looked in our younger days :

I don’t have any old pics of me and WSL or WJ, but this is how we all look now :
Myself and WSL
Myself, June and WSL
LWJ & June standing, myself and WSL sitting.
Really a nice meet-up, get to hear all kinds of funny stories about how our lives have been. Some of this girls, I haven’t seen for more than a decade! Luckily my 2nd gathering got postponed, because otherwise I could stay with them til 12pm only. Instead, we chit-chatted til 1:30pm, after which I went to Empire Shopping Gallery to buy my mom’s birthday present.
Oh, in case you’re wondering, I was going to meet my colleagues Justin & Pauline who wanted to treat me to ANOTHER farewell lunch in KL. Japanese food + macarons! You know what, I’ve never eaten a macaron in Malaysia before. I ate macarons in Laduree when I was in France, and after that I felt that nothing could ever compare. So why eat sub-standard products. HAHAHA! Please excuse me, that was me just being an utter snobby bitch. To tell the truth, I don’t remember how they taste, but I remember that exquisite, mind-blowing AWESOME feeling I got when I first bit into a macaron. I’m hoping that there is a macaron in Malaysia that can duplicate that feeling. I don’t know .. I really didn’t bother to check it out. Any recommendations?
Pauline and I even talked about making our own before! But it’s a whole lotta hassle…
Anyway, the Pauline + Justin outing got cancelled — Justin called me while I was searching for new shoes (and my mom’s birthday present). In the end, I got her the whole Olay Regenerist range… hahaha! Anti-aging products! I think it’s so apt, don’t you? I also randomly bumped into Dullnut in Charles & Keith (sales generate some kinda magnetic force field that attract us), and Dull said my present for my mom is insulting. Hmph! You don’t know my mom, Dull!
Called Tron to pick me up earlier since I got ditched by my friends, and he gallantly came by and took me out for … McDonalds! That and a few rounds of Street Fighter. Erm… when you play Street Fighter, do you memorise how to execute each move, or do you just mash the buttons? I’ve been mashing the buttons all the while. *ashamed* Tron kept asking me “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?” and there was one point when I was using Cammy and he was using Gen… and he kept doing the “snake hand” and I couldn’t even penetrate that move at all. *ashamed* After cruelly defeating me multiple times, he taught me how to do the hadouken… after which I can SOMEWHAT do it, but he can do it ALL THE TIME and effortlessly, but for me, it’s kind of a hit-or-miss thing. Hmm… I must learn more so I can defeat Tron… beh tahan his cruel taunts after defeating me.
My knight in not-so-shining car rescues me from an afternoon of being bored stiff after getting ditched by my friend… :p
Afterwards, we went to Extra Super Tanker Restaurant in Damansara Kim to celebrate my mom’s birthday. My sister ordered and paid for the food, and as expected… it was all super yummy! =) This restaurant is now my mom’s favorite restaurant, and my dad is thinking of throwing 63rd birthday here as well. I’m wondering if I should take photos of food then cos they plan to order back the same thing! =p This is what we had :
Roast duck… half of which is eaten just like this …
And the other half is made into “Roast duck sandwich”! This is the “signature” dish of Extra Super Tanker. When Tron first ate this, he said, “What is this? Why so nice wan?” Hahahaha!
Another signature dish – the thousand layer tofu, which is tofu sandwiched with some pork and sandwiched with more tofu… and pork. Etc etc. Not really thousand layers, of course.
Boiled prawns… absolutely yummy when dipped into soy sauce with chillis.
Most expensive dish of the night (RM115) is this crab meat + mihun + egg + pine nuts concoction which is wrapped within some lettuce leaves and eaten. Healthy and yummy.
Some normal veggies…
Our favorite dish of the night – venison fried with celery and sweet peas.
Assam fish.
Longevity noodle.
The people who attended :
My sister & my brother-in-law.
My maternal grandparents, sharing a joke with LY.
Uncle CF and Aunty Kim. She’s very prepared for my “paparazzi” camera, ever since I had uploaded soooo much of our family gathering pics onto Facebook! I think she looks nice in my “impromptu” shots, but she begs to differ.
See, she posing so nicely here with her son, VH.
My mom cutting the birthday cake…
Which looks like this! Strawberry cheese cake! Yumms!
And of course, my date for the night – Tron.
Next morning — Father’s Day celebration, but Tron celebrated by taking me for dim sum at Oriental Pavilion in Jaya 33. <3 The place is actually super packed, and I thought the “traffic” would ease up after 1pm, but it was as packed when we were leaving as when we first arrived. The dim sum is good, but I think it’s comparable to a lot of other places, e.g: Maju Palace and Ming Court (both also under the same branch as Oriental Pavilion actually, lol). I think the other two places are not as crowded kua. Then again it was Father’s Day weekend, so who knows.
The bad thing about dining for 2 is that you don’t get as much variety as when you eat with your whole entire family, but I think we tried a lot of stuff as it is already :
Salad prawns… my favorite! Evidently, Tron’s one too since he got this without me asking.
Some pastry with BBQ filling inside… I don’t know what it’s called, but Oriental Pavilion’s pastry is really light, buttery and yummy! The pastry for the egg tart was just as nice. Love it!


The waiter just plonked these 3 types of dim sum in front of us, and said, “Which one you dowan?” So we just said “ok” and it made it easier for us to decide what to eat. Otherwise it would be the same ha gou / siu mai / yu mai lah… at least got something different now. =p
Tron ordered some char siu… but I think can do without it next time. Not so good.
My must have — pei dan (century egg) porridge! Ok la…
Tron’s must have – char siu pau.
Bill came up to RM81++ … thanks Tron! <3 <3 <3 After that, we wandered around Jaya 33 for a bit, and then ended up at a Mary Kay roadshow. To be honest, I’ve never been really that interested in their make-up (cos I don’t know about it. I’m only interested in what I can see, e.g: what I can purchase at the local drugstore, hehehe), but they have some mineral foundation that I am quite interested in! It’s better quality than the Maybelline / L’oreal one that I bought last time, I think comparable to Everyday Minerals. Sigh… should I buy it? But it’s quite expensive lor, going for RM70 per package… I wrote more about the event on my beauty blog, but basically, this is how I look like after the makeover :

And I won their TimeWise Firming Eye Cream (going at RM150) :

That night, I went out to Chili’s — not to celebrate Father’s Day, but to celebrate my brother’s birthday in advance. Reason being that my sister will be going to London and she won’t be back until after my brother turns 21, so best to celebrate earlier. Thought of going to TGIF as I know they’ll be quieter… but my brother said he will “sacrifice” and go for Chili’s as my mom prefers the latter. Sigh! The only Chili’s near my house is the one in Empire, and I know it’s darn darn difficult to get a seat there because they always have so much people. I insisted to them that I’m not making reservations (I know, I’m so bitchy… and lazy), so we should go earlier. Though we arrived by 6:30pm, the waiting time was 20 minutes. After we had waited 20 minutes, we heard the person in charge say the waiting time was now 50 minutes. Crazy! Why do people still put their name down? If it were me, I would just go to Italiannies next door.
Well, I was already angry even before I got seated, because what happened was the person in charge saw me, saw it was only a party of 5 and then said they would check if there were tables or not, I MIGHT be able to be instantly seated! But after ding donging here and there, there were none, and then someone from behind me just put their name on the list and cut me. Wtf! If no table then straightaway put my name on the list la, right? Why go and let someone else cut me? Thankfully, what mine is mine and can’t be taken away, as later the couple that cut me (unintentionally) didn’t come back after 20 minutes, so I was able to get seated after that.
Other rants that I later wrote about in their “customer service survey” that night :
[...] Secondly, there was a table available, but because of such a long line of customers waiting to be seated, they left the table empty for so long before allowing guests to actually come in to be seated.
Thirdly, the waiters frequently pretend not to hear (don’t know pretense or they really didn’t hear) when we wanted refills for our drinks. If you all feel so hard up to give us refills, then just take bottomless drinks off the menu. Even when we manage to catch someone’s attention, they either quickly walk away, or say, “please wait” and then never come back!
Fourthly, when I made payment already, they took my credit card and never came back with it. Someone else cleared our whole table and we were just waiting to sign the bill and go! But we can’t, cos they just took our credit card and never came back to us! Our original waiter (who served us) saw us and instead of checking what happened to the bill, asked us if we had already ordered. We had to actually go to and find the supervisor / floor manager to find out what’s going on, and THEN they tell me they’ve lost my credit card! This is unacceptable! He just acted as if I had never given my card in the first place and waved his hands around the computer / cash register as if to say, “See? It isn’t here”. I was totally “stunned” for a moment.
When he saw I was about to give him a piece of my mind, he said I should give him 1 minute to find the card. During the time period, I was actually prepared to call up my bank to cancel my card. After more than 60 seconds, he miraculously managed to find my card (apparently they placed my card into the “paid” stack … whatever). Should I even be charged 10% for service like this? I understand that it is Father’s Day, but it should be the restaurant’s perogative to make sure they are adequately staffed, NOT MINE!
Oh, and when we were waiting for our table, I noticed other people who were having a lot of arguments regarding bookings being made and their name not appearing on the waiting list. Chilis, please take note of when there are “festive celebrations”…
Yes, at the end of the night, they even “lost” my credit card… damn char dou, really BAN BAN BAN this place and not going to eat at Chili’s — or at least, the one in Empire Shopping Gallery. I repeat what I asked in the survey — should I even need to pay 10% service charge for “service” like this?
At least the food is alright in my books, so when we were eating, we were joyful. Too bad the before and after is not worth it at all!
My dad and mom.
Lol, my dad looks so leceherous in this picture.
The siblings.. aiyah, the one that smile the biggest has the nicest teeth la… lol lol lol
My sister’s quesadilla explosion salad… the portion is GINORMOUS. When she saw it, she was so happy, and kept going, “This is so worth the money!” (I’m paying anyway, lol)
The Triple Play starter that arrived at the same time as our food. -___- But it is our perennial favorite.
My brother’s dunno what lime fish or something …
My parents shared the Big Mouth Bites… I love the onion rings that come with this dish!
My South Western quesadilla combo (honestly cannot tell if I’m eating chicken or beef also. Fail.)
That’s all for the weekend update…. a lot of food, I know! I’ve been trying to gym it all off, and to be honest, it’s very difficult, haha. I’m very tired and sleepy at the moment, but I am trying to will myself to go for a Body Jam class which starts in approximately 58 minutes time. Still thinking whether I want to go or not because the new release for Body Jam is 50-50 in my books. I’m afraid that if I go for it, I will end up too tired to go for Body Attack tomorrow… sigh!
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