The BIGGEST Party is Back.... Hennessy Artistry '09

Artistry

The whole KL was there, were you???

It was one of the most anticipated party of the year, having been to the last few (@Aloha, @Orange, @Bkt Kiara'08), when I heard over the grapevine that @Bkt Kiara'09 is coming, I know I'll not miss it for anything!


Danny, Jill, Me, Ziling

Many pictures ahead, and I'll let them do the storytelling. Sorry to waste your bandwidth for once!


Recession times calls for recession size glasses....

Of course not! For all the Artistries I've been to, good times or bad, the organizers never scrimp on the size of their free flows! These shots are only meant to tempt you for more drinks inside! But really nice touch though- the welcome drinks and the cute glasses. Wasn't drunk enough to steal a few of 'em home.




The very awesome DJ Decks

Following are pictures of my fellow colleagues (who are all very hip&haps).


Eric, Me, Jessie, Stef


Fellow MTs- Me, Stef, Danny, Jill


Aaron, Laurence, Me


Stef, Rachel, Me


Ziling sesat in the 'colleague' crowd


Some LED dancers and DJ spinnin' in the background


Fatman Scoop in da house!

I thought the only act worth listening to was only One Buck Short (yoohoo to our own homeband!) and the DJs spinning in the beginning and end. Nobody really paid attention to the rest in between as we were either, 1) Busy drinking 2) Merry-making 3) Don't know what they singing 4) All of the abovementioned.


For the Very Important Party People


... and the Super Important Party People

The VIP areas were segregated into 4 sections- V.S.O.P. All 4 VIP areas had their own bars, sitting lounges and great view of the stage.

Moving on to pictures of collegemates, long lost friends, family dan lain-lain!


Shoniya & Me- long lost&found high school classmates!


Jill is everything in between- colleague, collegemate, friend dan lain-lain!


Jill & Co


Jill, Suet Li, Me- long lost&found collegemate


Calvin, Jill, Jen, David, Me


Me, Citygal, Eiling- Ipoh girls reunited!


David, Jen, Calvin- Two photographers and one red chiq


Greg, Eiling, Me- The usual Artistry gang


Jen and Calvin- Spongebob's greatest fans!


... last but not least, some sisterly love!

Overall, I must admit the party's better than last year's but the drinks (mixers) were abit disappointing this time. I still prefer the Hennessy Miami (with lime juice and mint leaves). Full credits must be given to the organizer and event management co for the great set up of the event (from the breeze registration, photography sessions- where's ze polaroids?, security, entertainment, bartenders, design and set up of venue...). Hopefully the powers-to-be will stop being an ass and restrict this&that! Grrrrr.

Other than that, well I had a great night!

Did you?

Last but not least... Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

I know I may be the last to blog about this, but I guess it's better late than never! Anyone and everyone who has had a Krispy Kreme will say the same thing, "It's ze best! So fluffy, melts in your mouth blablabla... I wish KK is in M'sia!"

Berjaya Group heard your wishes and saw the opportunity in bringin' KK to our Malaysian shore... and *tadah* it's here now, currently at Mid Valley and Times Square and many more stores soon, I believe you'll soon be able to find all three popular doughnut stores- KK, JCo and Big Apple together in the same mall soon, just like where there's a Tesco, you'll find a Giant.


New York Cheesecake


Chocolate Glazed Cake


Cappucino Kreme


Glazed Cruller


Green Tea Twist


Hershey's Cookies & Cream


Hershey's Dark Chocolate


Powdered Strawberry Filled


Almond All Over


Original Glazed

We bought the Combo Deal 2 which consist of a dozen of original glazed and a dozen of assorted at RM37.90. If you want to get less than a dozen, each sells at RM2.50.

While this is not my first experience with KK, I would say I am less than impressed actually. I had my first bite when E brought 2 original glazed back all the way from Dubai (yes, travelled the miles by air, through immigration and customs, taxi ride.....) and they still tasted better than the supposingly fresh ones from Mid Valley. The assortment is nothing to boast about, then again I prefer my doughnuts original- no fancy toppings pls. However, I find the original glazed here overly sweet.


Pop-8 secs-Enjoy!

It was an impossible mission to finish 24 doughnuts in a day, so it's best that you pop them in the microwave for 8 secs to enjoy a warm piece of sweet dough.


CheeriOs!


Krispy Kreme
@ Berjaya Times Square
@ Mid Valley Megamall

[disclaimer: the opinions expressed here are based on my personal views, tastebuds and preference and may vary for others. please dont sue me, i dont have money. kthxbye.]

Carnivore @ Chijmes, Singapore

Sorry for the long spell of silence, been way too busy to even go to the loo.

Pardon the jakun in me, but I have never heard of and been to Chijmes @ Singapore, so during my latest trip to the neighboring country, my colleague suggested we have dinner there, I was blur for a moment......... until I found out that Chijmes is NOT a restaurant but rather the name of the place that houses a few restaurants, bars and shops.



Chijmes sits on the old Catholic convent building. What is truly amazing about this place is, where else can you dine, watch football and have abit of happy hour drinking on a holy ground? The night scene is amazing too.



We had dinner at Carnivore which is a Brazilian Churrascaria. What is so attractive about Carnivore, as you may tell from the name itself, is the meat buffet! Meat, meat and meat galore! Definitely not very vegan friendly hehehe. I hope you read the ALL YOU CAN EAT header :-)



Supposingly condiments to go with your food- bell pepper, cheese (which looks like peanut biscuits/tau sar peah), and some salt-like thing.



Vegans can eat this buffet spread, real carnivores wait for the meat in skewers!



Before "carnivorous" mode was on.....



... And after! There's lamb, ham steak, chicken, beef, sausages, and fish. Be a caveman, we don't care.



The passadors (knife-wielding chefs) move from one table to another bearing a sharp knife and skewers of meat. They will carve you your meat, all you gotta do is....



Indicate Yes! or No! to more meat! Besides meat, there is also grilled pineapples (warm and sweet- yum yum!)



Finish the meal by balancing the (un)healthy diet of protein with some vitamins :-)



The corridor of Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ). Now what do you think does CHIJMES means?? Hmmm...


Carnivore @ Chijmes
30, Victoria Street,
#01-03/06,
Chijmes, Singapore 187996.
Tel: +65-6336 1818

[disclaimer: the opinions expressed here are based on my personal views, tastebuds and preference and may vary for others. please dont sue me, i dont have money. kthxbye.]

Food Republic @ Vivo City

I thought I'd better write on my Singapore posts before it gets abit too backdated and obsolete hehe. I'm going to start on my part time professional studies soon, so my weekdays and weekends will be preoccupied, won't leave me much time to even go to the loo, what more blog??! Sighs.


Everyday is Chinese New Year here

Food Republic by far sets the standard for food court food and deco. Can't say much about the debut in Pavillion but in Singapore (I've been to both Vivo City & Atria's), FR really lives up to its standard. Even if you don't eat, it's nice to just linger around with such great ambience- you're automatically transported back to the olden days.


Ham Chim Peng

There were so many stalls to choose from, but we spotted the golden brown fried crullers and decided to settle on the traditional fried crullers and tau foo fah combination.


Dou Jiang You Tiao

There's a Chinese saying that goes by "Dou Jiang You Tiao" (a song by the same name by Taiwanese based Singaporean singer Lin Jun Jie) meaning "inseparable". What a meaningful breakfast eh?


Bimbimbab

A stone bowl of piping hot bimbimbab... very healthy choice indeed ;-)


Huat Huat BBQ Wings

Huat Huat BBQ Wings comes acalling. Had this during my visit to Singapore last year and it was great! Decided I should relive the good taste and memory......


BBQ Wings + Pie Tee

I ordered the Pie Tee (4 pieces @ $3.50) and BBQ Wings (3 pieces @ $3.90), both from Huat Huat BBQ Chicken stall. Finger lickin' goodness of a breakfast.

All recharged, we decided to go... SHOPPING!

The Ice Cream Man

I was down in Singapore early of the month (yes, I do notice that it's end of the month already) and was harping on the MOS burger which unfortunately I didn't get to eat it :-( We were at Orchard Rd and it was then again I chanced upon the mobile Ice Cream Man. Actually there were few of 'em along the streets but I was too estatic when I saw the first one! I turned to my fellow colleagues and told them we must have this, shopping can wait, ice cream can't! I had this during my visit to Singapore last year and haven't been able to forget the taste since........



There's no rocket science involved to make this simple yet delicious and cheap streetside dessert!



A block of ice cream, any flavour of your choice- Chocolate, Raspberry Ripple, Durian, Mint Choc Chips, Pecan, Chocolate Chips, Cappucino Chips and Mango- wrapped with a slice of soft fluffy bread! The bread comes in really cheerful colours too, pandan green and rainbow combination :-)

p/s: Ice cream used is King's brand, no need for fancy schmanzy Haagen Daz or Baskin. Taste just as awesome!



$1 (± RM2.40) for such simple pleasures in life. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands :-)

CTNF: Istak Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage

Istak Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverage- Peach, Lemon, Malt

I find products like these a little bit ambiguous. It's kinda like saying vegetarian beef or chicken. It's beef, but it's made of flour, but hey it tastes like real beef! Uh huh....


Istak Peach

So when E returned from her exhibition (MIHAS-Malaysia International Halal Showcase) earlier this year with the usual loots (can you tell I love her job?? The looting part I mean hehe), one of the bags had bottles and cans of these "non-alcoholic malt beverage" which she said it's beer, but it's non-alcoholic, and it's halal! You bet my reaction was, "Uh huh........."


All flavours in just one can

I don't know about you but this non-alcoholic malt beverage sounds just as ambiguous to me... Everyone knows the equation of Malt = Beer, Malt is what makes Beer! But if vegetarian beef can taste and look like real beef but they're not beef, so can malt drinks right??


Istak Peach

I wasn't too excited with having the malt drink (I don't like beer), so I opted to give the peach and lemon a try instead. Well they taste somewhat like shandy, looks somewhat like shandy but I'm jolly well sure it doesn't have alcohol content like shandy! So now even our Muslim brethrens can enjoy non-alcoholic shandy like how our vegetarian friends are having flour-made beef and chicken!

Istak Non-Alcoholic Beverage Malt Beverage are not avalaible in the M'sian market yet but I suppose it has already been around in the Middle Eastern countries.

Cheers!
(and not get drunk)

Happy Daddy's Day!

Silly things that my dad does

There's a Chinese saying that says there are 3 things in life that is destined-
1) The family you're born into;
2) The person you're going to marry; and
3) The day you die.

... or something to that effect.

For #1, there's no doubt it is pre-destined. Nobody can choose who or which family they want to born into, else the poor and less well to do will never have children.

I don't know about your daddies, but I know I have a GREAT one :-D I was sick yesterday and he took care of me, bringing me water and tucking me to bed. Ocassionally asking me if I'm feeling better (and asking if I had H1N1) and asking if I wanted food.


Making paper boats on a rainy day

I remember when we were younger, dad would also take great care of us when we fell sick... I remember him freezing towels and putting them on our forehead to absorb the heat. I remember how he used to throw in Tora and other junk food into the house and quickly drove away to let us know "Daddy is back!!!". I remember how he plays hide and seek with us when he's back from overseas and when we failed/can't be bothered to find him, he'll come out from his hiding sweating profusely and asked why we didn't look for him (actually we were busy ransacking his luggage). I remember his silly jokes and bedtime stories to put us to sleep (to E & Z: remember Mr Samy's long hands??? Hehehe). I remember him being very paranoid with us eating chillies and going to sleep late (the paranoid-ism still remains till today...). I remember how Z will cry when dad goes back to KL on Sunday night instead of the usual Mondays. Dad is the King of self-create acronyms too and they are all very lame ones!


And letting it go to sail away!

Dad taught us to be selfless and always be generous. He reminds us to be happy everyday. He taught us that learning is a never ending journey. He instills the 'family-first' value in us (To E & Z: You guys must say yes to whatever I ask ok?? I am your only youngest sister what...) and tells us that charity begins at home.

I'm going to just put it short and sweet to my daddy who I know is reading this.


My Daddy and Me :-)

Thanks for all that you've done for me. Love you Lim Baba!

Happy Daddy's Day to all Good Daddies in the world :-)