Tuesday, December 4, 2007

$1 Car Hijack Awareness

Motor Trader Journalist's car nearly got hijack with this new method. Here's his article :

“Hey, brake awak sudah pecah, minyak keluar (your brake is broken and oil is coming out)!” Normally, a warning like that from another motorist would alarm you and you would immediately stop and jump out to look. But these days, that’s not such a wise idea, even if you are worried about the brakes leaking. This is because one of the tactics of robbers now is to use that warning to make you stop and get down – as this writer discovered this afternoon. Fortunately, however, I am not an average motorist who doesn’t know a lot about cars and whose first two thoughts were: “brake leaking… why didn’t the warning light come on?” and “two guys on a motorbike… be careful!”.
Fortunately, the second thought made me hesitate about getting down and in fact, even when they (two Indians on a motorbike) drew alongside me in the jam along Jalan Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur, I only wound down the window a bit to ask them what they were saying. As I stopped the car, I was still thinking about the absence of a warning light which would normally come on because a leak will drop the brake fluid level and the sensor (which most cars have) will pick it up.
As I pulled over, the two guys stopped their motorcycle in front of me and the tall pillion rider got down (which also struck me as suspicious because most people usually shout a warning and then go off). It could be that because they were both wearing dark blue shirts with a Shell logo, they expected that unsuspecting motorists would let their guard down thinking they were mechanics. Anyway as the tall guy was getting down, I noticed that in his hand was a small container (like an Eye-mo bottle) and that immediately stopped me from getting out. I immediately drove off and kept an eye in the mirror but didn’t see them following me.
I drove on looking for a spot with plenty of people so that I could check on the front wheel and turned into the carpark at Muzium Negara. I was still alert for the possibility that they followed me so I quickly ran to the front to check – no oil, nothing visibly wrong – and as I rushed back to the door, around the corner they came! I jumped in and they did a u-turn and went off.
So be alert for this tactic which may be a new one. They may not want to hijack the car and probably just want to steal things and that container may have soapy water or something that can burn your eyes and as you are blinded, they open the doors and steal whatever they can find. So whatever you do, don’t get down and don’t stop further along thinking it is safe. If it is a brake problem, just drive carefully till you get to somewhere that has security guards nearby. And it is best not to head straight for home because you never know if they may still be following you, determined to rob you (hopefully, you were an unlucky random choice).
While on the subject of modus operandi, as the police have warned, be alert when you are rammed from behind and don’t get down. Drive to a police station to make your report – you are not committing an offence if no one has been injured and you can tell the police you were suspicious of the car that rammed you. Also, do not think that if there is just one person in the car that rammed you, it is safe because there have been reported cases where another car comes up and stops ahead and two guys get out with parangs and do their nasty things. You also need to be alert for the possibility that if you are talking to one of them one one side from inside the car, it is not safe because the others can smash the glass on the other side and grab you.
Sadly, it’s a dangerous world we live in these days and being alert and staying calm enough to be able to recognise danger signs is critical.


Signs of Oil leaks.

1) If your brake fluid is indeed leaking you would notice that the pedal is softer and there will be a sinking feel when you step on it. Either that if it leaks badly you will surely hit something LOL!!! Your OIL indicator warning will be lighted on your Dashboard display.If its leaking on one side then you car will be pull to the sides as you hit the brakes.

2) Engine oil leaks will also bring up the OIL indicator warning lights. Once your engine oil/Engine lubricant (china man calls it black oil) wears off your engine will cease and your car will just roll till stop.

3) Clutch/ Auto transmission Fluid(ATF) its the same oil used for your brakes. If you're losing this, you'll notice your clutch is very much shorter than your usual step all the way to the back. Will eventually give you problem engaging your gear cause your Clutch is not engage properly.

4) Gear box oil, very seldom this will leak. If it does, please read number 3. Same problem engaging gears.

5) Fuel/Gas leak. Can you tell your car is on fire from your Mirrors?? Or feel the heat DUH!!

Careful, lately 4 wheel drives are still on top of the list, Hondas are also quite hot. If you drive a Proton like me then you wont have any problems. Dont flash your fancy Gauges and stereo sets in your car, you're inviting trouble. Just saw a Satria GTI smashed up in MidValley last 2 weeks after watching a movie, nice turbo car and pity the owner of the car. All the fancy gadgets gone. My co-worker's Mitsubishi Storm nearly got hijack few months back after he's done partying in KL, one car just ram into his rear at the traffic lights outside of Brickfield's Police station. Second car stop next to him and 3-4 fellas came out tried to take his keys but he fought back and drove off.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Finally It Arrived


After nearly 2 months it arrived last Saturday. Really worth waiting for my new toy. 1GB Silver IPOD Shuffle came fully charged yeeehaaaa!!! I wont buy a new one for sure cos its too costly just to the bitten apple logo. I heard from my friend that some Shuffles were going out cheap last Thursday in Sunway Pyramid new wing. MYR99 promotion going on during the launch of the new Apple center in the mall. Also heard the queue was crazy.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

I'm back from the dead!

Finally woke my lazy ass up to spend some time here. Wow I've gone for more than a month. Some pictures from the prize we won from the Walls Cornetto contest.


Meet up with organizers and winners at Subang Terminal 3 Airport. Getting our interview by Elaine from Hot/Fly FM. Apparently our recording was aired few days later during my sleeping time. Not that I care, I must have sounded like I just woke up and thats the fact. Apparently I heard Griza telling Eugene it was mainly Kalai and Aaron's voice over the radio more than any of us.



The lovely ladies who also won the contest with us. Half Griza face on the left, Chi Ling, Kalai and Elaine from G2 the events company that was running the show. Fries for lunch, the cafe doesnt have much to offer.


Our City Tour aircraft, Cessna 172 owned by the Royal Selangor Flying club hence the registration gets the 9M(Malaysia)-RFC. Me & Griza or Li Pin was the first to go up, Mr.Kan just tag along for field recording for reporting. The craft was darn small for me and it was seriously hot inside at the back seats. I felt like I was squatting more than sitting. Lucky Griza was petite and she seems quite comfortable even though I was occupying all the back space.



Mr.Kan caught in act, our official photographer for the event. Lucky fella get to work and paid and also enjoy at the same time. Tempted to rob his camera and all the accessories.


Bird's eye view of section 13 and 14 Petaling Jaya. Me office is somewhere down there. All the uncomfortable and hot feelings just vanished when we took off, the view was out of this world. Damn darn good experience, maybe once in a life time.


Malaysia's Parliament.This is where all funny and weird and crappy laws are made.


Captain Kumar impressing the gals, he's also the flight instructor for the Royal Selangor Flying Club. We had to ground after a short flight due to strong winds and it was starting to rain, our landing back in Subang was damn shiok!!! Plane was wobbling left and right felt like we gonna crash! Love the feel and the adrenaline rush. So the others couldnt fly on the same day, it wasnt advisable according to 3 pilots we had there. Aaron was giving his technical flight talk,... blah blah... yada yada. So their flight was postponed to the next afternoon.


Off to Sunway Extreme park for the 2nd event of the day. Just an overview of the circuit. Perfect sky, not too hot and sunny evening. Cant wait to trash and crash. Which I did -_-


Our slow carts, they didnt have any 100cc race cart around so no complains since its free. Alot of action on the track, I spun twice and crashed once trying to over take Kalai Schumacher. She was super FAST!!! What to do, I weigh nearly 3 times more than her. Each hairpin I over take her, she just zoom off on the straights. DAMN she was fast on the straights, not to mention she was only driving with one hand on the wheel and the other trying to keep the helmet from flying off her head. It was entertaining enough just to watch her from the back LOL!!


Meeting up again at Tarjine along Jalan Bukit Bntang for our dinner date. Lucky we guys had time to go home and freshen up other wise our bodies would have expired by the time we meet up for dinner at 8PM. SilverArrow team dating Chocoluv, lovely and intelligent ladies abit quiet and shy on the other hand but great companies. once more Chi Ling on the right, Kalai, Griza, Eugene, Aaron and meself.


For appitizers, we were served some salads and breads with the mashed paste. Never tried Moroccan food before and we were all starving. Food just kept coming till we had to drag another table just to put the dishes. Sorry no time to snap pictures on the food I couldnt resist the food. Highly recommend! Food price are quite reasonable from the menu and tasty as well. The gals was saying the food here beats Tarbush hands down. Tarjine lamb and the tomato rice was simply marvellous.


Chatting and waiting for dessert to be serve, lets not forget their infamous Moroccan black mint tea. Hot clam and soothing after a heavy meal. Taste like sweetened Listerine mouth wash.



Final picture of the night before we all left our own ways. Thanks to Walls, I'm sure we all had a jolly good time. Tarjine Restaurant is near the McDonalds at Bukit Bintang cross junction, just above of the luggage shop one shop from the alley. Will post more sky tour pics tomorrow.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

2 Days Countdown.

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Lurve Kliks

Woohooooo we won the bid contest!!!!! Walls office just called us up to arrange for meeting and briefing for the prize. Elaine sounds very sweet over the phone hmmm I wonder how she looks like on the other end. Very often voices can be very deceiving. Whacked all 10,000 points into the bid last 3 minutes and no one came close. DAMN the previous team WSC, bunch of youngsters won 2 prizes back to back. WHOOPED THEIR ASS!! Felt good, whooped Kenny Sia's team too. Final prize coming up soon and it will be the best prize and also the worse to bid for cause they can only afford to pay for 3 person on a 3days 2nights cruise trip to Phuket,Thailand. Higher competition and I'm just happy that we won the Wings of Lurve contest.
Here's what we won :
  • Sky trip on a plane around KL city
  • Go-Cart racing somewhere
  • Apple IPod nano shuffle (the most worth it)
  • Dinner date with the winning gal team (bunch of 21 ripe legal years old gals)

Wonder when we will be partying. Cant wait!!

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Trust & Lies Best Combination

Just watched Chris Rock movie recently tittled "I Think I love my Wife". It's a funny comedy with teasing scene, theres a good moral on TRUST we can all learn from the show.

I'm quite sure most men and women will go thru part of their life where they stand at a cross road and dont know which way to choose. This movie is quite good helping you to decide what's right and what is wrong. Lots beautiful bodies in the movie and alot of trust issues and how to abuse trusts. Basically Chris Rock plays a married man with a boring routine sexless life after 2 kids and his mind begins to stray especially when he meet his best friend's ex gal who I must say was quite hot and meaty. He was tempted so many times by her and she was those kinda sucking vampire bitch who only wants to have fun and no directions in life. Aint gonna spoil the movie for you, go watch it. I'm sure most of us walked this same path in the movie but at the end of the day we..... erm I mean most of us will choose the right path to walk. Some may find that Chris Rock cheated on his wife in the movie but to me, I wont consider his actions in the movie as cheating. What do you think? My question is,..... can you trust someone 100%? To me trust will need years to build and takes seconds to destroy it, that is why I can never trust anyone 100% NOT EVEN MYSELF!

Go watch the show,.... dont know if its out in cinemas yet but I manage to catch it on some PC. My opinion of the movie is that Chris did the right thing at the end of the movie and kept it all to himself. I dont think his wife played by Gina Torres will be able to handle the truth behind all the activities. If I was Chris Rock in that movie,...... I would have cheated my wife for sure mmmmm yummyy succulent piece of meat. MUAHHAHAH. Sometimes lies helps to make things better rather than ruining it. Abuse trust and lie our way through might eventually help, I dont encourage it but it would be a best last resort if you're beyond saving.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Malaysia's 50th Birthday


Malaysia gone thru half a century of hardship and we're doing quite fine and good. Tough there were several incidents in pass that really made our people suffered but we all turned out pretty good. Was watching the live telecast of the celebration at Merdeka Square last midnight and I was quite curious and wonder what the hell was going thru their heads. True enough the people were there to celebrate and its a joyful event but few things werent right at all during the celebration. I was taught back in school that we should respect our national anthem unlike some Johor dickhead in Taiwan who thinks he can sing so well. I dont blame him for his opinion but there were thousands of Malaysians last night did a similar thing including of our Ministers and VIPs. When the clock struck 12AM our Prime Minister announced and shouted Merdeka (Independence) and the National Anthem was played. Instead of standing up right and still to sing our anthem those dumb pricks was happily waving mini flags. How ironic!

Second thing I notice was the flags that was waving in the crowd, it wasnt only the the country flag was being waved. I was surprised that there were UMNO (Malay Political Party), MIC (Indian Congress party), MCA (Chinese Political Party) and Gerakan (People Action party) flags were waving all over as many as the Malaysia flag. WHY??? Is it because that all are pro-government parties? Where are the political opposition parties? Arent they Malaysians too? Where was our ex Prime Minister? Was he too old to hang out late?

Thats why Malaysia is a great country, never fail to amuse me with funny thoughts. Great place, great food, great people. All equally balanced out with several negative matters which I will not wanna get involve with. I'm not a political writer like Jeff Ooi, but I am proud to be a citizen of Malaysia not the best place on earth but its good enough for 1 Malaysian Ringgit.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Walls Cornetto Lurve Kliks

Walls makes the best ice cream cones and lately to hyped up and market their product more, they came up with some friendster alike web community for Cornettos lurvers. Its a brilliant site to boost up their sales with contests and redeemable products and discount vouchers with their business partners. Cornetto Royale comes in 5 amazing flavours and of cause its made in Thailand and that country my friends, are surpassing Malaysia in ice cream making and manufacturing. Stupid Malaysian ice creams are mainly palm based instead of dairy based, YUCKS. Then again if we dont buy back our palm oil our country's economy might just fall and crash.

$1 rates Cornetto Royale in the following order from best to the not too bad.
Royal Chocoluv - triple chocs consist of center filled choc sauce, chips and ice cream..... OMG super HIGH!!!
Royal BlackForrest Blossom - Choc ice cream with center filled raspberry sauce and tiny crushed Oreos on the top.
Royal Cookies & Sweet Dreams - Dairy ice cream with crushed cookies and center filled choc sauce....... I see the light, I think I'm in ice cream heaven.
Royal Tiramissyou - Tiramisu choc coffee ice cream with choc sauce.
Royal Miss You Berry Much - Only has long name but no chocs. Not too bad strawberry cream with bits of almonds and strawberry sauce at the base

First time in my life I participate on a public contest, Cornetto FRENZYYY!!!!! Aaron was so free and he signed a group to participate and bid for the prizes. He text me on Sunday and it really looked like it was something important "Check your yahoo messenger I left you a message". When I logged in and he left me a site and told me to register quickly, so I checked out whats the biggie and saw the contest. Lurve Kliks Bids.





The contest needed a group of 3 person below age 28 and we couldnt think of any so I picked Suben and got him to register too. Ever since then we've been hunting high and low for Walls freezer in convenience stores and petrol marts. Got conned once by buying old stock cones with not contest point

How the contest works?

Gather as much points from buying Cornetto Royals with the Contest Lid. Make sure its Flip & Click like this.

Each lid will have a code behind of it where you're suppose to key it in at the contest site and each lid will give you 100 points. The points may be used to redeem gifts, goodies or donate it to the team to bid for the prizes. Team will then decide which prizes to bid for and the auction begins, groups will then try to outbid each other till the very last minute before the auction close. Best thing is, the auction is divided into male participant groups and female participant groups so there are less competition. Main idea of this contest is for the wining male group to date the wining female group. 4 main prizes up for grabs in total but at the moment we're only hot on 1 which is called Dive into Lurve.

Dive into Lurve Goodies

Both group winner will get chauffeur to KL Aquaria then prep up for a dive in the large indoor tank with the Sand Tiger Sharks. Get shot....................... on camera and video. Then followed by dinner date at the Prime Grill, Crown Princess Hotel KL.

Good news our team Silver Arrow (dont know how on earth Aaron came up with that) are leading and hopefully we're gonna win. Unbelievable amount of Cornettos stocked in our freezers, I think its enough to last us a month! I hope the female lurve clits group winners...... ermm I mean kliks team are pretty and hot. Might need to use come cornettos to cool us down after dinner.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Reza & Lavinia's Wedding

Recently attend Reza & Lavinia's wedding at the Lone Pine Hotel located at Ferringhi Beach, Penang. Not many people could afford to throw such a wonderful and romantic wedding, I think it would be most gals dream to exchange vows by a sun setting beach followed by a garden pool side dinner with the sounds of rolling waves hitting the shores. It was a great party apart from the usual old fashion and normal chinese weddings I attended. This is something fresh to me and Mrs$1, although the cost for us to drive up to Penang plus hotel accommodation was costly but it was very well worth it.



We arrived late a missed them walking down the isle to exchange their vows.




Groom's family & relatives.




Path to heaven




Beach photo shoot : Waiting for the sun to touch the horizon




Found out that I've got some talents in photography




Some shot of the garden and pool side setup.




Excellent table settings. Hand made gifts for everyone by Lavinia. All tables were named after famous beach paradise, we were seated at Tahiti. Sea shells shape fridge magnets with our names written on with a small photo frame of their wedding picture. Baby blue and white theme for the night.




Macro shot on some decorative.




Started early on fluid diet, there were red grape juices, golden barley juices and single malt juices. Swaying like the trees before dinner started.




Yum Seng!!!! Toast to Mr.Carls and Mr. J.Walker




Bouquet tossing. Reza's sister caught it let hope theres another wedding here again some time soon.




Newly weds dancing.




Party time!!!! We're all doing the bhangra dance. Especially the light bulb twisting action.







Hot and humid night. Luckily it didnt rain because it rained the night before and the next day. Thank god there was a pool and many got thrown into it. Reza was thrown in 3 times and lost his mobile to the water on the 3rd deep. Poor dude injured his toe and was limping around all night. Fantastic night, great food except for the extremely well done lamb. Only suckie thing was I had to drive back to my hotel in Gurney and most of them stayed in Lone Pine. And the damn shitty thing was there was a road block on the way back to my hotel. Had to make a turn and went back drinking till 230AM.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Malacca's Food

Some good food to share from my recent Malacca trip 2 weeks ago, been really busy to post this. They're not that all to die for but great food enough to satisfy my fussy tounge and tummy. Didnt had much time this trip to get all the good food, so we'll just have to eat what ever. I know there are more food around but these are just something we discovered ourselves from our previous trips. it always easy to spot good food anywhere, just look out for long queue or non stop busy cook.



Meet Jonker Street uncle popiah. Indeed the best popiah in the world rated by $1, its even better than Penang's.



Close up shot by Hiew's camera, its perfect to me cause the skin is not too thin like most other popiah sellers. Its not soggy soaking wet with the turnip's gravy and best of all, the main secret ingredient is lard. You can opt not to have it in your but there no point without it. A teaspoon full of lard and crispy fried fat chucks.




Uncle also sells deep fried spring rolls, no lard in this but he makes it all up with his crispy home made skin. Perfect! These sells off extremely fast cause its limited, I couldnt get it this trip cause I only went there at nite.Photo courtesy from Hiew again. So remmeber if you wanna get your hand on these, get to Jonker at 6PM on weekends.





Dim Sum stall at Jonker, nothing special but good snacks to eat while walking around Jonker. Used to be MYR1 then went up to MYR1.20 and now its MYR1.50 for any 4 pieces. Forget the rest just choose the white coloured 'siew mai' on the top right corner. Thats the best, infact better than some other dim sum places I've been to.




Didnt had time for this also sigh,..... if you have a sweet tooth like me, please help yourself to this small lil bowl of diabetic chendol. Ice is very fine shaved, quite generous with the coconut milk and chendol jelly but best of all the thick 'Gula Melaka' (palm syrup) will sent you straight up to heaven. Also found at Jonker, you'll see 2 shops in the midlle of the street selling laksa and chendol. Both shop serves good chendol, Anyway its the syrup that makes me come back over and over cause they leave the syrup on the table and you just help yourselves with it as much as you can.


Recent discovery after I stumbled into some blogs while I was doing some Malacca food research. Tangkak beed noodles at Melaka Raya, awesome beef stocked brooth served with tender beef chuncks and tripe and brisket. Excellente!! Half muslim friendly place, its not certified Halal but iits doesnt server pork and there was a sign for non Halal food is prohibited in the shop. Saw some malay customers while we were eating there.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Devan & Tharsa's Engagement

Tried to sleep after a long salsa night in KL but I had some task to finish up for Dave's engagement party. It took me a while to go thru my 2000 songs to select his music by the time I finished it was nearly 5am. Still couldnt shut my eyes after a cold waking shower. Felt like a few moment and it was 10am and it was time to get ready to leave, had to go to Reza & Lavinia's nikah ceremony at Reza's house. Mr&Mrs$1 was dressed in casual jeans and polo but that was really too under dressed compare to everyone else in Reza's house. We felt ackward, the ceremony was supose to be at 1030AM and the damn idiotic imam made everyone waited till 1250PM. Lucky I arrived late at noon and I didnt catch the nikah ceremony either, I had to leave to Malacca before my internal bio clock decides to shut down for rest. Bid farewel to Reza and off to Malacca, had to stop for fuel for my car and fuel for my tummy and something caught our attention.

As we all know that Malaysia is a multi racial country, but this is the first time we see a multi religion house. Highest level had this fat toaist laughing Buddha, then you can see the white statue of Virgin Mary carrying baby Jesus. Finally on the ground floor theres a ash coated Indian pumpkin to ward off bad omens. How bizzare!



Arrived, checked in and knocked out cold. Hotel service was rather crappy. Booked a single bed room and they fuckin gave me 2 single beds so whats the point of the booking for.When asked for extra shampoo they said "Sorry Sir we dont give extra" WTF??!! Damn room smells of ciggerattes. The room was fine after we aired iit for a while and the bed was comfy and clean.
Ceremony started at 8PM at the Church of Christ's kindergarden, all family members, friends and relatives were all present. Pastor Batumalai were giving a short sermon followed by some songs of praise. He then blessed the rings and engaged them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy ghost.



"With this cuffs, I bid my freedom and bachelor life goodbye"


Dinner Time! Awesome curries served. Not much left for second helping especially the mutton masala.




Simple and nice Rangoli (aka kolam) at the entrance to the hall where the ceremony was held.




Poor Ceasar. He was tied up to the pole outside. I still think he has small oriental eyes.



Kudi karans of CSA/CSC Advance Call Center.

Since we were on holy ground, Pastor already said that theres no spirits served because there were too many holy spirits around. So we had to rush off to Jonker St before our tables were given away to other customer at Ringo pub. And so it begins, endless flow of beers for the next few hours just like the Nordic halls of Valhalla. I was worried I would be knock out drunk with the whole kudi karans gang.

Nothing like a icy cold beer after a warm nite with curries. First round at Ringo pub.




2nd session at Libra just few doors away. Ringo was too hot so Raj went next door and started another session. Cheaper booze here too, MYR30 for a bucket of 5.



Toasting aomng ourselves at Libra before Dave came and join us.




Still at Libra waiting for Dave & Tharsa.........lost count of bottles.




Back at Ringo, Jay (with camera) came all back all the way from Miri for the ceremony and celebrations.




Dave & Tharsa dancing.





Ringo entertaining us,... real talented fellow runs a decent good pub and sings well.





Goutham came from India to attend this function.






Bunch of happy aunties jollying themselves, line dancing to Ringo's songs. Happening aunties.



That's it,...... if I go on posting more pics it will never end. later thos aunties came in and started picking us young guys and formed a very long conga line. next thing I know our whole gang and the aunties were doing the conga on the street. Good fun!! Said farwell to the whole gang as Ringo sang his last song for the night. Me & Mrs$1 left as the whole group went back to Libra to continue drinking. We didnt really count how much beers we purchase on both sides. My guess is a good 50 buckets that make 250 bottles of beers. Non of us were drunk and everyone was sober like hell. Dont need to get drunk to have fun, we all drove safely back to our own hotels.