Meet my new girlfriend, Omega

Some people say love at first sight is never real and it will never last, but thats not the case when I lay my eyes on Omega. At that instant, I knew its love at first sight and I've got to have to own her one day.

Being born is a rich and famous family that she is, getting up close and personal is not easy. During the early days all I could do was to take a peep at her through the glass display. My dream of getting her got closer when I was rewarded with a Watatime cash voucher from my company for outstanding performance and contribution to the company's business.

Courting her wasn't easy even when I have the cash voucher, because I still need to fork out a huge sum of cash just to own it(well to some people it maybe just peanut but its definitely a big deal for me). It took me slightly more than 2 month of shopping and thinking, thank god I'd an understand girlfriend that shopping with me again and again. Sometimes i feel that I'm worse than a girl when it come to shopping. hahah

On 28th February 2011, which is happen to be the last day of my voucher validity, I finally made up my mind to bring her home. I bought her from Watatime outlet at Mid Valley.

and here she is nicely packed and resting on my study table.

Before I continue, let me side track a bit; After I bought it from the store, I was carrying the Omega red paper bag on my left hand while my other hand held onto my girlfriend's hand. I remember clearly that while we were walking from Midvalley towards The Garden on the ground floor, one girl with a LV bag who is walking from the opposite direction gave us a stare with a jealous look on her face(bet she must be thinking that I bought my girlfriend an Omega).

The packaging itself is as impressive as the price tag put on her.

With the kind of price, Omega comes with an International Warranty and a unique serial no

It even comes with a super tick instruction manual

Out of 445 pages, I only understand 10% of it cause that's the only section in English. Honestly I didn't really bother reading, instead I asked the sales lady for to teach me how to operate it.

Love this embossed Omega logo on the red hot leather casing

And this is my new girlfriend, the Omega Speedmaster Day Date OA 32205000

Her vital stats are, Scratch Resistant Sapphire Crystal, 100 meters depth, and automatic chronometer movement.

Now that I've brought her back home, I realise that I have a big issue. She is so precious, I don't know when I should bring her out with me. Probably only on special occasion or when I have a major business meeting.

Frankly this is one of the most expensive item I've bought in my life thus far. What do you think of my new investment cum girlfriend?

MRCA Chinese New Year Dinner 2011

Just came back from a corporate Chinese New Year dinner which I attended on behalf of my company, DiGi Telecommunications. Hosted by the Malaysian Retail Chain Association (MRCA) at One World Hotel., its attended by majority of the local retail chain owner. It's extremely tiring when you have to mingle with some 1,000 corporate figure, so I shall just upload 2 photo for the day.

Andy Goh, Managing Director of Fujihome Global Bhd

If you are shopping for Kitchen Appliances, let me know, I can get some good discount from him.

Henry Yip, founder of Dragon-I, Ms Law Hwee Ching, General Manager of Sushi King and her Marketing Manager

I'm dead tired and got an early meeting to catch tomorrow. Over and out...

Malaysia's First BlackBerry Community Gathering by RIM

As many of you might have already know, I founded the BlackBerry Malaysia Community(BBMYC) fan page on Facebook back in May 2009. Since then the fan page has grown from zero to almost 16,000 fan based today. All these was achieve without spending a single cent on marketing.

The tremendous growth of the fan page caught the attention of Research in Motion (RIM), and they decides to talk to me on the future of the fan page. The result of the discussion? Well RIM will manage BlackBerry Malaysia fan page while the fan page which I managed will be rename to BlackBerry Malaysia Community to avoid confusion among BlackBerry fan. In return RIM will continue to provide me with support and exclusive invites for all my fan to all BlackBerry's event held in Malaysia.

The first event which was organised after the successful negotiation was the Malaysia's First BlackBerry Community Gathering held last Friday. The party took place at Top Hat Restaurant which is about 2 minutes drive from KLCC.

Oh well, I will let these hot and juicy photo tell the story,

The event saw close to 150 BlackBerry fan from various walk of life attending.

Lindy Khong from RIM's PR agency, myself and Oki Lai from DiGi Telecommunications

The ever hot and enticing Daphne Iking, the host for the night

Me, Rachel Lee and Gerard Ang, the Social Media Manager from RIM.

As most people would have already know, Malaysia is a heaven for food and a party wouldn't be consider successful without some nice and juicy food to satisfy everyone's taste bud.

Satay

Mini fruit tart

Pastries

a fan busy bbm-ing to win the a brand new BlackBerry device.

The fan paying full attention to the enticing host.

a lucky fan who won himself a brand new BlackBerry Bold 9700

Me and Gerard being enticed by Daphne at the end of the party.

The night view of Top Hat

The event ended at slightly past 10pm. A handful of people left laughing with a brand new blackberry Bold and Curve while the others left smiling that they made some new friends. That's all for now.

To participate in future BlackBerry event, do check out these 2 fan page and click LIKE;

1. BlackBerry Fan page which I founded and manage at BlackBerry Malaysia Community


2. The official BlackBerry Malaysia page.

Melaka Satay Lok Lok @ Setapak

It's Christmas day and its so jam everywhere as everyone took advantage of the public holiday to travel in and out of town. Initially I wanted to go Malacca for some Chicken Rice Ball and authentic satay celup. However I change my mind and decided to try out a new place in town.

As my gf and I had this craving for satay celup for some time, we decided to try this place called Melaka Lok Lok. As far as I know, this is the only place that sells satay celup in Kuala Lumpur (if there are any, please share by commenting this post).

Locating this place isn't much of a problem if you are familiar with Setapak area or have a reliable GPS to rely on. However do take note that crime rate is rather high here, ladies, if you are going, please try not to bring your handbags(this was advice from the friendly boss, didn't manage to get his name thought).

To make its customer feels as thought they are actually in Melaka, the owner put up a gigantic portrait of Melaka landmark building such as the A Famosa Fort, the famous red colour Christ Church Melaka and the city centre clock tower.

Portrait with Melaka Landmark building

Just like any satay celup place you visit in Melaka, the assorted raw food prepare in sticks (known as satay sticks by local) are store in display fridge with glass panel to keep the food fresh while making it easy for you and me to see and choose.

A wide range of variety fresh food seafood to vegetables are available.

For those who fancy processed food, you will be spoil with choice too.

So which process food do you like ?

Satay celup would not be complete with the wide variety of raw food but without the hot boiling satay sauce. This place allow you to have 2 type of soup at the same time. So we had satay sauce and clear soup. Just in case you are not a local and totally clueless what is Satay sauce all about? Allow me to briefly explain, satay sauce is prepared with crushed peanut, tamarind juice and spice paste which gives the sauce a rich aroma and flavour.

Clear soup and Satay sauce.

If you asked me how the soup and satay sauce taste, of cause this is nothing close to both Capitol or Ban Lee Siang in Melaka. But when you have craving like me and too lazy to drive all the way down the Melaka, this could the best option available.

This is probably because they don't recycle the soup(satay sauce) unlike the 2 famous restaurant in Melaka where they top up fresh sauce on top of the used one. So yeah, if you are wondering why the sauce in Melaka taste so good, that's because the sauce is reused over and over again in the same pot. They probably only wash it once every day if they do actually wash it in the first place.

This is what I had for my first round.

The owner even gave us 4 sticks of grilled satay. Nothing to shout about. Guess its just part of their eat all you can package.

The grilled satay, marinated in 2 different variety.

Overall, this i a good place to be at when ever you have craving for satay celup and Melaka seems to be too far and time consuming. This place charges RM23.80 per head for its eat all you can package. Drinks however is chargeable based on the menu. I've spend a total of RM59.50 for 2 pax and 3 drinks.

Verdict: If compare, its definitely not as good as the authentic satay celup in Melaka. I know friends who are crazy enough to drive all the way to Melaka just for satay celup and then driving back to KL. If you are not as crazy as my friends then this place is probably the best place please your craving. Variety is also much lesser than what you have in Melaka, this could be due to the low traffic of guest which made it too costly to provide a wider variety of food selection.

This is just my humble opinion which you may choose to differ.

If you would like to give this place a try, here's the address:
Melaka Lok Lok,

A-G-7, Plaza Prima Setapak,
35, Jalan Prima Setapak 5,

Setapak, 53300 Kuala Lumpur.

Al-Amar Express, Fahrenheit 88 @ Bukit Bintang

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Celebrated Christmas eve with a little twist this year. Started with dinner with someone special at The Ship, then followed by the screening of Gulliver's Travels @ GSC MidValley and then Christmas eve countdown at Bukit Bintang.

Everything went on well until me and my date arrived at Pavilion for the countdown celebration. It's was the most horrible countdown that we've been too, a handful of the crowd were terrorising all the innocents people like myself with fake snow spray sold by unscrupulous traders who took advantage of the celebration and make some handsome profit.

To avoid being a victim of the chemical made snow spray, me and my partner had to slip and hide among the crowd commando style. That's when we decides to make Al-Amar Express (Lebanese restaurant) our temporary hideout. Located in an aquarium style designed outlet at the entrance of Fahrenhiet 88, it seems to be the perfect place to hide out while being able to have glimpse of the situation outside, not to mentioned try out some of its menu.

Having had a heavy dinner early, we decided on something light to munch. So we ordered these:

Baked Potato @ RM12 ++

Nothing to shout about, just your regular baked potato stuffed with butter and cheese and served with sour cream. Still love making it myself with chicken mayo. For RM12 ++ its definatelly overrated and overpriced.

Cheese Roll @ RM2.50 ++ /piece

Nothing special, prepared with spring roll wrapper with cheese melted in it. Still prefer the traditional chinese spring roll served with savory seasonings and crisp texture of vegetables.

Bavaria Peach @ RM10 ++ / bottle

As for drinks, my date tried the non-alcholic beer, the Bavaria Peach which she like very much but I still prefer my all time favourite, the Hoegaarden. On the other hand, since this is a halal restaurant and no beer were served, I choose the conventional all time favourite, Ice Lemon Tea.

Ice Lemon Tea @ RM8 ++

Overall, the restaurant has one of of the most sough after location which is strategically located along Jalan Bukit Bintang, couple with its aquarium style design which enable its guest to enjoy the bustling life of Kuala Lumpur. When it come to food, I wasn't impressed at all but this is probably because I've not tried their authentic Lebanese recipe. Will make it a point to visit this place ago to do just that.