Yellow Cab Pizza Co.

Looking at the seriously contaminated "teh ais" river and Maybank tower, you know I'm somewhere in KL.

The next thing you see is the yellow cabs. Hmm it does not seem I'm in KL.

This picture tells you the answer. (Don't tell me you still don't know where I am when you see so many national cars =.=)

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Yes, I'm in KL, somewhere near Dang Wangi LRT station, at Jalan Raja Abdullah to be precise.

Our external exam is around the corner. And we have to go to Faber Imperial Court, right beside Sheraton Hotel to have our exam. Since my friends do not know the way, as someone experienced in going there (this implies I failed MANY times), I showed them the way right after the class last Tuesday.

Dang Wangi is quite far from PJ, for me at least. So after showing them the exact location, I suggested them to have our high-tea time at Yellow Cab Pizza as it is pretty near to our exam center and the food blogger recommended it before. This is the one and only one outlet in Malaysia. And they just provide delivery around KL area. So since we were there, I took the chance to have a try there.

Instead of using cab to deliver,
they use this kind of ancient motorcycle.

They are focus on delivery mainly, but you still can eat in the outlet or outside the outlet.

They place a few tables outside
the shop for diners
who prefer to have it alfresco

We then ordered a 10" Hawaii Classic Pizza as we were still quite full. As I said they are focus on delivery, the pizza was just put in box instead of pan.

Yummy!!!

It was great with the thin and slight crispy crust with the bonus of the topping which was full of chicken ham, pineapple and beef bacon, not to forget the cheese was melting over the whole pizza. I love it especially the cheese!

Huiboon on the left and
Shuzhen on the right

However the price is slightly higher than Pizza Hut and Domino's. But I think it is worthwhile if you are someone who stresses on quality rather than quantity.

The time we dined in.

Plastic plates,
as I said they concentrate on delivery

Well, answer revealed, I was
not at foreign land.

French and Greek?

Learning a foreign language is one of my many new year resolutions (ashamedly speaking, I haven't accomplished most of the resolutions; some cannot be accomplished for sure). I need an abyss to jump into to kill hide myself. *shame on me*

Enough crap said, back to my main topic. I promise my friend to attend a French language class next sem as this sem I am too busy. So I told myself I should get myself some French learning material. This friend of mine also introduced me Greek few days ago and I have interest in it as well. Simply because it's one of the oldest living languages, the Holy Bible (New Testament) was first written in Greek and I learn quite a few Greek symbols in my studies (Math especially). But those material are costly. Luckily, this week (Oct 22 to 27), there is a MPH warehouse sales going on and the great thing is, MPH distributor office is located just next to my campus. This is a chance I cannot miss!

Hence, I went there to hunt for French and Greek dictionary yesterday. There were so many books, ranging from novels, philosophy books, story books, cookery books, magazines to dictionaries,

and not to forget the crowd. I had said and heard a few times of "excuse me". =.=

reminiscence of the past,
it used to be my favorite.

And of course I came back "fruitfully".

A thick French dictionary,
a medium-sized Greek-English dictionary,
a thesaurus for my loving bro,
a French grammar book, and
a French pocket dictionary.

This morning I went to my campus to have an academic discussion with my friend and since he wanted to purchase a Greek dictionary too, I went MPH warehouse again. I saw a French pocket dictionary and without any hesitation I bought it. It will be convenient for me to read in thebus (going back hometown) or when I am having a long journey. (Reading dictionary was and will be my hobby) *sounds determined*

Thought of the day: I think with my friend's force, I will persevere in picking up at least one of these two languages. My priority is on French though (to be able to communicate with sexy, romantic and handsome guys when I visit the country of romance in the future :P).

Time

Time is seriously running out!

It's just 18 days before my two external papers. And not forgetting there are three internal tests a few days before my external exams.

I'm sorry that I could not blog on the Pangkor Trip Day 2 and Day 3.

This short sem is indeed stressing, but I will not let it to stress me, I will only stretch myself to my maximum to keep a constant and quick pace to finish this sem. I will treat this as a marathon but not a sprint, so there will only be stretching but no stressing.

God bless me please...

I believe He always is... Haha...

Coxsackie

A friend of mine asked me during the Pangkor trip if I would learn swimming after coming back. How I wish I know to swim!! But sometimes reality and the surrounding happening are always against your will and wish. Same applies to me.

I went swimming every Friday when I was in primary school. But one epidemic drew a full stop to this weekly activity.

It should be 1998 or 1999 when there was an outbreak of this kisskick-ass Coxsackie disease. And unfortunately my little sis was contracted with this serious illness; and fortunately at the same time my sis was contracted with the not serious type and thus she survived. Since then, we NEVER go swimming, not even those theme parks like Sunway Lagoon or Bukit Merah (our favorite). Another reason might due to the hectic tuition schedule we have.

Should I tell my parents I wanna learn swimming again? I actually have tonnes of reasons to tell them why I should learn swimming. *grin* (I'm a bad daughter)

I purposely wrote this to remind myself of the name of this disease, I used quite some time to find it out.

Pangkor Island Day 1

Note of the day:

A) Upon a few requests, I finally spent the freaking 1.5 hours to write out this piece of shit and another freaking 2.5 hours to upload some lousy pictures. Please bear with the inartistic me.
B) Please click to enlarge the pictures for better visual.

This was a trip I was reluctant to go for several reasons. Thus I did not have much expectation on this trip.

Rushed to the LRT station near-by after getting a call from the trip leader, Alvin. And then a group of five of us made our way to Pudu Raya Bus Station to gather with another seven members. The bus was not comfortable as it was too narrow for a plump person like me.

After a four-hour-ride, we finally reached Lumut, a gateway to Pangkor Island. Once we reached there, the strong salty smell hit our nostrils, and we knew we were somewhere near the fishing village.


It is a small and quaint town beautifully decorated. There is practically one street only in the town with some souvenir shops, restaurants, small hotels, banks, and a bus station along the side.

The town is famous with its shell and coral handicrafts.

It is famous with its seafood too.

We then boarded the ferry heading off to Pangkor Island.

There was air-con inside the ferry

There is a national navy-base on the left hand side when we made our way to the island (I only found out this when our so called tour guide told us). The ride was about 30 minutes. There were some ancient-look war ships at the middle of the sea, as they were stationary, I thought they were there as a decoration. I only found out they were actually still functioning the next day.

We then reached the terminal. It was also beautifully constructed, unlike Penang one. There was no picture taken, as I thought I would take the pictures when we were on our way home. However, we boarded the ferry at a small dock when we were making our way home on the third day.

There were quite many rented vans waiting to pick up visitors at the entrance of the terminal. We then headed to our resort which was a 5-10 minute drive from the terminal. The ambience of the resort was soothing and soft though it was not grand and luxurious.

The backyard of the resort

The semi-alfresco dining area with a lounge bar beside

The swimming pool at the backyard

Some sun loungers beside the pool.

We then checked in the resort and had a quick and late lunch at 2.30pm. The food was unbearable for most of the group members, but it was okay for me, as it was edible. *smile*

We then changed into the swimwear to have a snorkeling session and island hopping later. The beach was just behind the resort. The golden beach is soft. However, it was seriously polluted, most probably because it was right after the Raya Festival.


Half an hour later, the speedboat with a robust and cordial Malay young guy on board came and picked us up . The Malay guy then passed the life jackets to us.

At the beginning of the ride, a gentle wind was blowing; it ruffled our hair and caressed our cheeks. The sun rose majestically in the sky with the radiant rays bringing us much vigour to this trip. Later the Malay guy started speeding the boat, we were exactly like sitting in a Kancil, driving at break-neck-speed in the residential area with bumps along the road, and once in a while small pebbles flying into our eyes. The bumps were actually the waves and the pebbles were actually the water drops saturated with salt. Along the way, the Malay guy introduced us some famous islands and bays. There were even some parts of beach owned by some wealthy tycoons.

Later we anchored off near a bay with emerald clear water. We were able to see many tiny fishes near the surface of the water, as well as sea cucumbers and some damaged corals underneath the seabed. We then wore the mask with snorkel and got ourselves ready to "jump off the boat" into the pellucid warm water. When I dived into the water, I swallow the water accidentally, it made me very uncomfortable and breathless. This was because I was once nearly drown in the swimming pool many years, so I kinda have hydrophobia until now. Luckily one of my friends gave me a hand, and my group members asked me to relax and assured me I would be safe with the life jacket. Slowly, I relaxed myself and started enjoying being floating in the sea. Then Chua taught me how to snorkel. It was fun to see fishes swimming past under your eyes and body. Later we came up and passed our masks to the another five members. But some members were still enjoying the floating in the sea. Ka Fai and I were staying on the boat and throwing the bread into the sea to attract the fishes. It was even clearer and more comfortable to see the fishes on the boat. *smile* Perhaps it was because our masks were not very good, there was water infiltrating into the mask forming fog.

With courtesy from Ka Fai

After an hour of snorkeling, it was an end of the island hopping. I was sitting next to the Malay guy sailing the boat. Not long after, he instructed the nine members in front to sit at the proper place to balance the boat, and here the bumpy and adventurous ride came! After a few minutes, he signaled me to sit nearer him, and then he let go the steering wheel, and asked me to hold it!!! He then continued signaling me to turn left or right, and at times, he just let me turn the steering wheel as I wished!!! My group members must be chickening out. Before reaching our resort beach, the Malay guy once made a few drifts to push the situation to the peak and we were screaming with excitement!

(No pictures were taken as I did not bring my camera out, my camera is not water proof)

Later we all jumped into the swimming pool to clean ourselves.


I went to my room to shower myself after soaking in the pool for the short while. Then I proceeded to the seashore to start my photography session. The beach was placid as it was off season. I then enjoyed substantially with the rustling of the slight breeze through the trees which caressed my face when blowing gently towards me.

Off season, the sea was relatively quiet too.
Not many people were jet-skiing.

At night after dinner, we had a gambling and personal attack session. :) I left earlier as I just managed to take an hour sleep the night before while my whacky friends continued their game. It was a bad start of the day but an ecstatic end.

I shall end this post with pictures doing the talking.

I was praised for being artistic (writing those
words on the sand) for the first time.

The breeze that day was not strong, so I could not write
"the coconut palms were dancing to the rhythm of the wind"
(my favorite imaginary sentence during secondary school).

Some swings and jets

Some chalets of Puteri Bayu

A melodious rhythm was formed
by the wave pounding on the beach ceaselessly.

A tranquil scene in the evening

The only solo picture I had in the
entire trip, you guys
better appreciate it :)

Pangkor Island

Just back from the three-day-two-night Pangkor Island trip. It was a thrilling and memorable trip. Will update soon. But I doubt I can upload many pictures, as it is time-consuming and Blogspot does not allow me to upload large files. Each picture I took is about 5MB (equivalent to a song). =.=||

Result of Year 2 Sem 1

The previous semester's result was out. I checked the result when I was holiday making in Pangkor Island. I should be nervous, or whatsoever, but with friends around me, their presence actually diluted my excitement nervousness.

Well, I am satisfied with the result, though I should have done better.

In order to prevent others saying me being the one who always complains the bad, but never shares about anything good, I'm here to reveal my result. I scored 3.9438 for the GPA. Got A- for Public Speaking. =.=|| I did not do well in the last presentation.

This result is not significant for me, but I just study a bit hard to get this to please my parents. *a wry smile*

More work to come in the coming two months. *cross fingers* Hope everything will be plain sailing.

Photography

With courtesy from Skye Images
(click to enlarge)

This is a picture which is impossible to be captured with any normal digital cameras but a SLR with wide angle lens. Wide, I mean really wide!!! (Unless you take a few pictures of them, then combine them in one. =.=)

Every hobby will seem to burn us a hole in our pocket if we are really engrossed in it.

Time with Family

At this time, if I was still studying last two weeks, my dad would surely drag me along to go jogging with him. And yeah, I'm a good daughter, went twice with him out of my 14-day-stay at home. =.=|| I really wish I have more time with dad jogging, chatting with him more, but exam preparation occupies most of my time.

Have a good 14-day-stay at home eating this and that, with the most unforgettable steamboat with CRABS (my favourite)!! I prefer crabs than abalones seriously, am I silly? We seldom go to those classy restaurant to eat seafood, as for me, my mum's cooking skill with caring and love embedded in is more superior than those chefs'.

Have some days watching dvd non-stop, at the end I was scolded by dad. But I still turned a deaf ear on his scoldings.

I have fewer and fewer time with my family, but my heart is always with my family.

At this moment, all I would like to say is I love you all, papa, mama, Bro Nini, Girl Girl and Baby!!!

Canon PowerShot A640

Never did I think I would purchase a new camera, as I am not much into photography.

But when I was back hometown last week, I saw a brochure of camera fair held by KY Group. That aroused my interest a bit to get a new toy. But soon I ought to forget about it, I have no money.

After reading the brochure, I told Shane about that, as he needs a camera for his 3-month trip in USA (Florida, Miami, San Francisco, and New York). *jealous* Then he consulted his photography-freak friend about the camera suitable for him and etc. Later Shane found out this photography-freak friend of his knows a camera salesman who can give a lower price.

This really stirred me up. It made me wanna own a camera more. A habit of wasting money once conquered me, I'm never able to conquer it. I decided to purchase A570 which was printed in the brochure as RM699, later Shane told me that salesman recommended me A640 with also RM700, but of course better features. This further stirred me up, unquestionably.

I even checked my account book to see how much I have, yeah!, I have enough money to purchase it. But I forgot to bring my IC back, and soon I ought to forget about his source of money too. Then I tried to reflect to my parents that I want to have a camera, but without me further explaining how good this deal is going to be, they rejected me straight.

My best friend, Ewe Chin did offer me a loan, but I could not accept that. I felt bad of loaning to get my new toy. Soon, I really ought to forget about owning this new toy.

However, things suddenly. Shane asked me again on Thursday night if I wanted to purchase A640. Once again, I told my parents I wanted to purchase it. And for don't-know-what-reason, they agreed!!! Happily, I sped my car to Shane's house to pass him that RM700.

Later that night (3am), the salesman came and gave Shane the two cameras!!

This is the camera I bought:

My gorgeous babe!!

I particularly like this flip-out LCD screen

With this flip-out screen, we need not
turn our head or body to snap
pictures at different angles, all we need to do
is to flip this screen.

Shane's handsome partner:

Sony Alpha a200 with his masculine look

Cheras + KLCC

Went to Cheras (Cheras is kinda far from PJ, I went to University LRT Station by bus, then transited to STAR LRT at Masjid Jamek @@) to get study manuals from Sis Poh Yan (only look for her when I need her *slap me*). Hauled Shuzhen to go with me as the manuals are heavy. Chatted a while with Sis Poh Yan about her actuarial work in Hong Leong Assurance; she is doing well, I'm glad for her. Her condo is spacious and windy, a conducive place to stay, and the bonus part is the rental is cheap.. It's expected as it's in Cheras.

Went to KLCC after that. Without any hesitation, I decided to try the spaghetti in the food court, as it was recommended by Nicolekiss. Yes, the spaghetti was really delicious with the strong scent of cheese. I ate Meat Ball Bolognese, should have eaten Shuzhen's Mean Ball Marinara, as it tasted better. And guess what it only cost RM 7.99!!! Cheap!!!

Beyond praise, considering the price

The lunch was definitely a relaxing one as we got to sit beside windows to enjoy the breathtaking scenery outside, I felt I was like savoring great food in a classy restaurant, like those in Hong Kong series.

This is the only part in Msia which is a bit classy

Another side of view of Tasik Titiwangsa

Headed to Kinokuniya after the sumptuous lunch. I wanna purchase a book(Sophie's World) recommended by Chris long time ago. (Actually I went once not long after he told me about this book, but that time Kinokuniya was closed for clean up)Seriously we really can't blame Malaysian to read less; it's so hard to get a book. The well established book stores are Kinokuniya and Borders only. It's been a long long time I do not browse Kinokuniya, and of course is not aware of its handy book searching machine. It amazed me.

We just need to key in title/author of
the book we are looking for. And it will show us
the details. For people who are 'direction blind' like me,
I can print out the map to look for the book easily.

The map

It was really Shuzhen's day as she bought three novels by Kathy Reichs, a great author and international bestseller. Seeing her buying the novels happily made me recall those days when I was addicted to thriller novels. I can save money on novels now by just borrowing them from her. *smile*

After two hours burying ourselves among book shelves, we went to Isetan to buy Sushi. According to Shuzhen's mum, Sushi in Isetan is far nicer than those in Sushi King and Sakae Sushi and it costs cheaper too. I just learnt today that Isetan was opened by Japanese. There was a Hokkaido Fair there too, a lot of Japanese food there cooked by Japanese chefs on the spot. But we didn't buy anything as we were too full, and they were expensive too. A small tiny pancake cost RM2.20!

A wide variety of sushi

Didn't buy any (those who know me well should
know how much I love Western food and how much
I dislike Japanese food). Maybe I should really go
Japan to sample the real Japanese food
and I would love it... Japanese food in Msia disappoints me a lot.

At last we were shopping randomly. I swear to be on diet!!! I can't fit in more and more blouses anymore!!! As a result, I didn't buy any blouses though it was a megasale going on.

Reached home finally at 5.15pm. Slept like a log when I reached home.... A nice outing indeed. I was happy though I was worn out (a sentence I like to write when I was in primary school) *smile*

A Summary of My Recent Happenings

Finally I have time to blog. Too many happenings happened in the time I was away from this so-called e-activity. Life is still the same, still as hectic as ever. Tests, assignments and presentations really caused me having ceaseless nightmares. Frankly to admit, I’ve lost the momentum and enthusiasm to blog, mainly due to my lacking of reading and writing (my new year resolution of reading twenty novels is hard to reach already). Let me briefly highlight the main happenings in this few weeks’ time.

Passed my first actuarial examination, Exam P/1 finally, but failed the second, Exam FM/2. Quite relieved about it as I only managed to prepare Exam P/1 in one month’s time, in between I had seven tests, quizzes and assignments in total. I was quite excited when I saw the screen with the message “Congratulations! ….”, quickly I grabbed the pencils I used to do the exam and calculators and ran out of the exam room. Until I signed out that time, then only I realized I shouldn’t take out the pencils, they didn’t belong to me, and I apologized to the in-charged officer. She smiled back at me, and reassured me it was okay. I called my parents and texted my friends once I reached the lobby (I was having my exam at a quite classy place, Sheraton Imperial Court.) to tell them the “glad tidings”. *exaggerating* Went loitering in Mid-Valley straight after the exam (not loitering actually, I had purposes of getting there-to get my book, do some grocery shopping and get some blouses). Shuzhen gave me a surprise when she texted me telling she was in Mid Valley too, where she was supposed to attend Public Speaking lecture. Shuzhen, GinHwa and Alan “interrogated” me on the exam and mainly about my feelings. They didn’t believe when I told them I was happy but not to the extent of cloud nine. This is what Shuzhen said, “come on, can you please not to stay cool always?” Seriously, I don’t think this is anything to be proud of, as I failed FM/2. Anyway, Shuzhen treated me to eat scallop porridge and XO chocolate bar. *thanks Shuzhen*

Okay, to be frank, I admit, July 24, 2008 was my day! I will remember it. It signified my first step in the actuarial long and bumpy path.

After P/1, I resumed my piling work in UTAR, gave my best to catch up whatever I missed. The good news is I have been doing okay (perhaps I don’t expect much from myself in UTAR’s exam anymore?). Another bad thing to comment is my gang (Shuzhen, Alan and GinHwa) always has our meal in JayaOne after the test on Wednesdays, it doesn’t only burn a hole in our pocket but also shoot up our weights. @@ *blame JayaOne of having so many nice food*

I still haven’t gotten rid of my bad habit which is carelessness. Perhaps it’s incorrigible (another new year resolution unreached)? I left my whole bunch of keys inside my room on one of the Mondays. But the point was I was not panic at all, I just asked my housemate to open main door for me to go out . @@ The reason I could stay cool was I knew Alan has scissors to cut the padlock. *smile* *sweat on me* I was touched when Alan, GinHwa and Shuzhen purposely came to help me after the class. Alan hammered the padlock out. If he just gave me all the tools, I’m sure I couldn’t get it open. He is really skillful in hammering the padlock (as a result of having a few experiences as mine @@). Yea, I use the word, ‘hammer’, the scissor was too small to cut my padlock. After that, we went to the night market in SS2. We couldn’t resist the aroma of durian hitting our nostrils, and so we were STANDING to eat the durian by the stall without second thought of our image, only to realize when Shuzhen asked how if we bumped into any acquaintances. We only ate two durians, and they cost us RM25.

The vendor who recommended us the two so-called branded durians

Two durians are definitely too few to satisfy us, the gluttonous eaters. The durian fever still went on. Last Friday evening, we went to eat durian again in SS2. But this time, we were “smart”, we ate at a place which let us eat as much as we could with only RM10 each head, only to recover from our ignorance, when we only managed to eat some. We did try to throw in as much as we could, but later I warned them not to take our lives for granted, our lives definitely do not worth only that 10 bucks. *laugh*

Good for heavy eaters; bad for dieters

The same afternoon last Friday, Alvin treated me to eat in KFC, as a reward I passed P/1 (after two weeks of the exam, unquestionably, because both of us are so busy). *thanks Alvin* A secret here, I’d been fighting hard just to get this meal. As I told him, I’m really short-sighted, I just strive for the short-run profit. *kidding* Anyway, I still owed Alvin a debt of gratitude, as he always reminded me from time to time about the meal before the exam. A great friend, no? This was the first time we chatted face-to-face for so long. As Alvin claimed we had just talked face-to-face in less than an hour in total since we know each other. Strange huh? But of course, we did chat on msn far more than ten hours. I’m smiling when I’m typing this, I feel that it’s quite odd.

The same day, Dharmen called me to remind me that he counted me in the futsal competition in UTAR Sport Carnival. I felt cheated when I went for training on Saturday. Dharmen told me beforehand that I was just the reserve, all I needed to do was to sit at the bench watching them play. This is because each team was required to have at least a female player, and his girl friend would be the main female player. To my dismay, his girl friend didn’t show up during the training, and I was required to play. I started to feel something amiss, and so I “questioned” him. Then only he told me his girl friend would have a Taekwondo competition on Sunday. In other words, I would be the key player; I needed to play every match, with no substitute. I was in quite a distressed state, as I had a test on Wednesday, and a presentation on Thursday (which is today), the worries gnawed at me the whole Saturday night. The main reason was I never listen during the lecture and Shuzhen had not yet gotten her ingredients ready for the demo speech. But as the Chinese idiom goes, “a ship will sail in straight when it reaches the dock”, things came naturally well. I did okay for the test and the presentation, though I fumbled a bit during the demo.

Back to the sport carnival, the strategy Dharmen used was I was required to disturb the opponent’s male players or block the opponent’s female player from disturbing my team’s male players. Funny, right? We lost in the first two rounds, but scored three goals during the last round and it qualified us into semi-final. During semi-final, we had a draw. And so a penalty session was held. And each team’s female player was required to play. As expected, I didn’t contribute the goal; as expected too, the opponent’s female player didn’t contribute the goal too. It’s would be really the goal of the year if female player had any goal (quoted this from the male players @@). We won the penalty! And so we were qualified into the final!! We scored a goal not long after the game started, but our defense collapsed after that, and let the opponent scoring three goals. It was too late to make any amends when the referee blew the whistle to signal the end of the game. We were still happy though we lost as our opponent was a strong team, last year champion.

The first runner-ups

I joined UTAR IDOL 2008 Organizing Committee to get to “decorate” my resume next time and of course to know more friends. This was the first time I joined something out of academic activities. And guess what one of my new friends told me?! “In my impression, you always attach to a girl, and just bury yourself with your book during lectures and break time.” Gosh, I’m not anti-social and nerdy, ok? Explanation implies hiding the truth; I shall let them to know me day by day, to let them know how friendly and how wild I could be… wahahaha…..

Mainly these are my highlights in these few weeks. Now I’m just waiting for final to come and preparing for the coming actuarial exams (damn, I’m behind the schedule!!!).

p/s: see how incoherent my writing is?!!! I need to read more novels!!!