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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Festival: Happy 54th Merdeka Malaysia


Happy 54th Independance Day Malaysia!

Well, the first question in my mind is what does MERDEKA means to you? For me, Merdeka means we want a good, fair and civilized government who really take care of it's own people. This is what Merdeka really means for us. By having a corrupted and unfair government with no freedom of speech, this would really effect the people so much and this is not going to happen right here in Malaysia.

Merdeka is a day to remember where our country were freed from the other nations civilizations. We were then take over by our first prime minister, Tuanku Abdul Rahman and after that the Barisan Nasional had taken over the government for like 54 years. We will always remember this day as long as the government does not misuse its powers and to put a big pressure on the people. All of us Malaysians celebrates Merdeka together in peaceful and harmony with different cultures together as we must stand put and put our hands together to tackle difficult times to ensure our country that we lived are in peace and harmony state.

SELAMAT HARI MERDEKA MALAYSIA!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Festival: Selamat Hari Raya 2011

Me & Kimmy on behalf of alexleow-kimmy.com would like to wishes all Muslims a Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Finally, all Muslims around the globe and Malaysia will get to welcome the 1st Day of Syawal. Today is the day of joy, happiness and prosperity where friends and family members can get together and enjoy the talk and food together.

During Hari Raya, the Malay counterparts will serve a lot of kuih-muih and biscuits to celebrate Hari Raya. Besides, they also serve the Lemang or Ketupat as well. If you are planning to visit your Muslims friends, remember to be well prepared for the lovely food feast that will be serve. Muslims will also get to enjoy various Raya TV shows throughout the Raya on your local or paystation TV as well.

Please also do drive safely when you are on the road. Remember don't drive recklessly and follow the rules and signs or as well as police instructions while driving on the road. This is to ensure that you will have a safe journey ahead of the Balik Kampung rush. Enjoy yourself on this lovely festive season and remember to take good care of yourself.

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI from alexleow-kimmy.com

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Lifestyle: Power Booster Turbo Eco Extra



Dear All,

Good things come easy but then you have to pay for it as there's no free lunch. By the way, I am thinking to enhance the power and to improve my mileage on my new bought SAGA and I know I need something that can suits me and finally I found this little monster that can really help to do the job. I was very impress with this device, particularly because it's easy to use and to install as well and the most important thing is it saves fuel and give more horsepower and torque towards my car.

I got this device this morning and without any hesitation I drove to Bandar Baru Sri Petaling to have a try. Normally I won't believe all this device because most of them did not perform and they are just lies. Immediately after I plug this device into the cigarette lighter inside my car, I can fell instant difference. I was amazed by the power and torque and the pickup was simply awesome. Although not the best, but I can feel the difference as my car now has more oompphhh! The advantages of this device would be:

1.) Save Fuel up to 25%
2.) Horse Power and Torque increase up until 12%
3.) Eco Friendly
4.) Cleaner Exhaust
5.) Lower Engine Noise
6.) Air Cond become cooler very fast
7.) Radio Sound Louder
8.) Headlamp brighter

Based on all these advantages, it was simply awesome as I need to pay for RM150 (now promotion price) to get this device where the original price this device would be RM290. Based on the price, if it can save fuel then it's worth it and it comes with a 1 year manufacturer warranty. Now I will continue to try this little monster as I starting to love this device already. You can visit http://www.ecoasiaglobal.blogspot.com for more information or call Kevin if you want to grab one at 016-6960886. There's option for Pos Laju delivery of additional charges of RM10.00. MY RATING: 5/5

Soccer: UEFA Super Cup: Cesc seals Super Cup win for Barca

Cesc seals Super Cup win for Barca


Barcelona 2 Porto 0

Scoring Summary

Barcelona FC Porto
Lionel Messi (39')
Cesc Fábregas (87')


Teams

Barcelona FC Porto
1 Victor Valdés1 Da Silva Arruda Helton
22 Eric Abidal13 Jorge Ciro Perdomo Fucile
2 Dani Alves21 Cristian Sapunaru
21 Adriano14 Jorge Pires da Fonseca Rolando
15 Seydou Keita30 Nicolás Otamendi
6 Xavi8 João Moutinho
8 Andrés Iniesta10 Cristian Gabriel Barrotti Rodriguez
14 Javier Mascherano6 Fredy Guarin
7 David Villa23 Josef Dias Souza
10 Lionel Messi12 Givaldinho Hulk
17 Pedro11 Pinheiro Kleber
Substitutes
36 Olazabal OierRafael Bracali 31
4 Cesc FábregasRoque Maicon 4
16 Sergio BusquetsSteven Defour 35
11 ThiagoFrancisco Reges Fernando 25
24 Andreu FontasFernando Daniel Belluschi 7
28 Jonathan Dos santosSilvestre Manuel Goncalves Varela 17
9 Alexis SanchezCampos Braume Manuel Abel Djalma 20
Substitutions
Alexis Sanchez for David Villa (60)
Silvestre Manuel Goncalves Varela for Cristian Gabriel Barrotti Rodriguez (68)
Sergio Busquets for Adriano (63)
Fernando Daniel Belluschi for Pinheiro Kleber (77)
Cesc Fábregas for Pedro (80)
Francisco Reges Fernando for Josef Dias Souza (77)
Yellow Cards
Andrés Iniesta (51)
Cristian Gabriel Barrotti Rodriguez (30)

Jorge Pires da Fonseca Rolando (65)

Fredy Guarin (82)
Red Cards

Jorge Pires da Fonseca Rolando (86)

Fredy Guarin (90)
· Squads: Barcelona | FC Porto

Cesc Fabregas scored a brilliant volley to keep Barcelona's non-stop victory parade going with a UEFA Super Cup triumph over Porto.

Fabregas, on the bench until the last 10 minutes, took Lionel Messi's pass on his chest before rifling home to spark scenes of wild celebration from his team-mates.It means two trophies in 10 days for the former Arsenal man - who won just the FA Cup and a Charity Shield in all his years with the Gunners - with the European and Spanish champions already having the Spanish Super Cup in the bag this season and thanks to Fabregas and Messi's first-half goal, added the UEFA trophy to their cabinet.The presence of Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez on the bench served to highlight that the best team in the world are now, frighteningly, even stronger than last season.Yet it had been an uncomfortable start as Barca initially struggled to reach their own high standards. The often-criticised pitch in Monaco's Stade Louis II did not help Barcelona, cutting up almost immediately having been heavily watered and for the first half hour it was Porto who enjoyed the best chances.A handball by Eric Abidal handed Porto a free-kick in a promising position on the edge of the 'D' but Hulk drifted it over, and Joao Moutinho threatened Barca's goal again with a wicked shot that Victor Valdes turned past the post at full stretch.Some extravagant step-overs by Hulk took him past Adriano but the Brazilian bent his shot wide.Barca had only an effort by Pedro lobbed onto the roof of the net to boast of after half an hour, but they slowly started to warm up with Andres Iniesta in particular making light of the pitch with some awesome dribbling.Xavi had seen a 25-yard shot tipped over before Messi's goal came six minutes before half-time when Fredy Guarin ruined all his side's good work with an awful attempted backpass.Messi had been slow to get back and he could hardly believe his luck when the ball landed at his feet, and he strolled around Porto keeper Helton for a simple finish.Porto appeared determined not to waste their good work of the first half with two cracking efforts early in the second. First Moutinho brought another good stop from Valdes and then Guarin fired in a 30-yard thunderbolt that the Barcelona keeper tipped aside.David Villa, earlier denied by a hasty whistle from Dutch ref Bjorn Kuipers when he should have played advantage, was put free on goal by Iniesta but for once he snatched at the shot and it was easy for Helton.A stunning length-of-the-field run involving Pedro and Messi so nearly led to a second goal but Helton came off his line to prod the ball away.Villa made way for Alexis Sanchez, the Chilean winger who joined from Udinese this summer, with Sergio Busquets for Adriano leaving Fabregas sweating as to whether he would get a run-out.Busquets' misguided header over the oncoming Valdes nearly played Barcelona into trouble but Abidal stretched to clear the loose ball ahead of Kleber.Fabregas was given 10 minutes to shine by Pep Guardiola, coming on for Pedro, almost immediately to be hacked down by Guarin who earned himself a yellow card.Porto's hopes were all but extinguished when Rolando was given his marching orders for hauling down Messi and earning a second bookable offence.Then came Fabregas' moment, Messi's clip over the defence, the former Arsenal skipper controlling the ball on his chest and then volleying high into the roof of net.Guarin ended a miserable night for him personally and Porto with a straight red for a nasty lunge on Javier Mascherano. Source: Soccernet.com 27/8/2011

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Food Hunt: Otak-Otak Place, 1 Utama Shopping Complex (Part 3)


Dear All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt and ME & Kimmy had our dinner here and it's our 2nd meal over here. We had decided to take something light as we just had sushi just now. Without any hesitation, we went to Otak-Otak Place to have our dinner and today both of us ordered noodle as our food. We reached the restaurant at about 8.00pm and there are not much crowd inside the restaurant and most of them are almost to leave the restaurant after finishing their meal.

We arrived there pretty late and the majority of the people there is mainly Malay where they just finished open fast. Without any hesitation, we looked at the menu and since we've ordered noodles only, we only took 2-3 minutes to select which noodle to choose. I've chosen Char Kuey Teow (RM7.90) while Kimmy have chosen Assam Laksa (RM7.90) as her choice of noodles. For drinks, we've ordered a Ramadan Promotion which is the Mango Fizz drink for RM1 (free flow) and both of us shared out the drinks.

It does not took very long for the food to arrive and we are satisfied by the service as well. The Assam Laksa was pretty good but there's a very strong fish taste on top of the soup and overall the soup and noodle is nice and acceptable. I've tried it too and I feel the same too. For my Char Kuey Teow, it was nice indeed. The taste is nice. For Kimmy's portion of Assam Laksa, it was pretty average to big portion while for my Char Kuey Teow, the portion is pretty small and not much ingredients that was given on the plate of Char Kuey Teow.

For the price of RM7.90, I guess the portion that we get is pretty similar to what we pay. I would not say it's pretty worth it but I was surprise because from the previous visits, the food was just average especially when you ordered rice. But if you ordered noodles, it was far better than rice so I assumed that the noodles here served is pretty much better than the rice sets. If you are here and would like to try out this restaurant, you may try out the noodles instead of the rice. The total bill came and it's about RM17.65 including 5% Service Charge. Enjoy! MY RATING: 4/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4/5

* Food & Drinks Rating are based on the food & drinks we've ordered and not overall food & drinks.

Address:

Lot LG-311B, One Utama Shopping Complex,
Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya
Telephone: 03-7727 4181

Business Hours: 8.30am - 10pm daily


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Food Hunt: Sushi Q, 1 Utama Shopping Complex


Dear All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt and once again we are at 1 Utama Shopping Complex today for yet another shopping spree as the mega sales is back in conjunction with Hari Raya Aidilfitri Celebrations. The time is about 5.30pm and we walked passed Sushi Q restaurant and with our 'itchy mouth', we sat down and ordered sushi & sashimi to eat. That time the crowd was pretty less as it's not lunch, tea nor dinner time yet.

This restaurant is a self-service restaurant as we need to pick the sushi or sashimi ourselves. Besides they've also prepared the all in one sashimi and sushi box that comes with a green tea and miso soup for RM23.80. I can tell you that the portion of the sushi and sashimi is pretty less whilst if you pick up yourself at the counter (ala-carte), the sushi is much bigger than the ones inside the box (prepared earlier). I was dissapointed by the portion inside the box and I slammed the sushi and sashimi because of the portion and most importantly, the sushi & sashimi was just average where the rice is not so tasty but the sashimi is pretty fresh but the portion is too little. I read through some blogs previously and I found out they wrote good reviews on this restaurant but for me I find it totally dissapointed. The area was hot too where no air conditioned or fan available. One thing I must said about is about the miso soup where it's very tasty and I never taste so tasty before and credits must be given for their soup. Meanwhile, the green tea is a teabag based green tea and it was nice too once it was mixed with hot water.

I would say the green tea & miso soup is very nice accept the sushi & sashimi box which is pretty dissapointed. I would not recommend you to try out the sashimi & sushi box which is pretty expensive for the price we pay. But the ala-carte pick yourself sushi is not cheap either ranging from RM3-RM6 depends on size and type. I would say it's still expensive and I rather walk in to Sushi King or Sakae Sushi to taste a more better sushi. Based on the current environment, it's not good either as it was noisy if you are looking for a place for dating or chit chat and it's pretty HOT too. MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5

* Food & Drinks Rating are based on the food & drinks we've ordered and not overall food & drinks.

Address:

1 Utama Shopping Mall (bridge between old wing and new wing),
SK3, Second Floor, 1 Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama City Centre,
Bandar Utama,
47800 Petaling Jaya.
Telephone: None
Business Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm Daily


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Cinema Movie: The Fortune Buddies (勁抽褔祿壽)


Release Date: 11 August 2011
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: Info Not Available
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
Director: Eric Tsang
Cast: Yuen Siu Cheung, Wong Cho Lam, Lee Si Jit, Eric Tsang

Synopsis:

Lam Luk (starring Wong Cho-lam), Jit Sau (starring Johnson Lee), Fook Cheung (starring Louis Yuen) are laymen who do odd jobs for living. Luk proposes to his girlfriend, who readily accepts the proposal. However, his future father-in-law wants Luk to make the down payment of a flat to show his 'sincerity' of wanting to settle down. Despite their attempts, they are nowhere near to their goal... out of desperation, the trio decides to busk at Mongkok's Sai Yeung Choi Street by performing 'the impossible' of Wrestling on Concrete!

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My Comments: It was a great weekend for both Kimmy and us as we visited GSC 1 Utama to catch the glimpse of the casts that are really popular in Hong Kong nowadays and they called themselves Gods. Introducing 'Fuk Luk Sau' which comprises of Yuen Siu Cheung, Wong Cho Lam, Lee Si Jit gave their fans a round of applause and make their fans laugh hilariously. This movie talks about their love live as well as their lifestyle where they need money and dignity to live in the society which saw themselves need to enroll in Wrestling competition to earn money. It was a very well documented storyline but there are some part which doesn't make sense at all.

The most important thing about this movie is about the jokes and laughter where ME & Kimmy spends most of our times laughing in the cinema and the jokes was simply fantastic and there's no reason for you to not to laugh. Besides, there are so many stars of TVB who are acting in the movie including Laughing Gor, Pak Leong Kum, Chen Fa La, Mak Bao and many more which is very famous if you did watch TVB Drama nowadays. This movie is pretty similiar like I LOVE HONG KONG movie that was out during Chinese New Year this year and if you love that movie, then this movie is performing well like the movie as well. I would recommend you to watch this movie as it was very funny and the storyline is good, well documented and acceptable. Besides, if you are a big fan of TVB Show Fun With Liza & Gods, then this movie you should not be missed. Enjoy! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4/5


Saturday, August 20, 2011

Lifestyle: Kimmy's Birthday Cake Celebration



Happy Birthday to Kimmy.

That's what I wanted to say here as we had an enjoyable day with Kimmy's family as we went out for a dinner to celebrate Kimmy's belated birthday. We had an enjoyable dinner and then we came back to proceed to the cut cake ceremony.

It had been a great as I manage to get a cute cake for Kimmy this year. And Jelly Cake House is our choice once again this time where they really produce good jelly cakes to its customers. It's pretty tasty as well. The cake name is called My Dear 2 as describe at www.jellycakehouse.com.my. We had an enjoyable time and I just hope that Kimmy enjoyed as well. Once again, Happy Birthday to you Kimmy. Love you forever!

Best Of Taiwan Drama: Love You ( 醉後決定愛上你)


Title: 醉後決定愛上你 / Zui Hou Jue Ding Ai Shang Ni
English title: Love You

Genre: Romance, comedy
Broadcast period: 2011-Apr-17

Opening theme "不按牌理出牌" (Unplanned) by Magic Power
Ending theme "好的事情" (Good Things) by Yen-j

Cast

* Joseph Chang as Song Jie Xiu 宋杰修
* Rainie Yang as Lin Xiao Ru 林曉如

* Tiffany Xu as Tang Ai Wei 唐艾薇

* Huang Hong Sheng as Di Shuo Huai 耿爍懷
* Tom Price (白梓軒) as Xiang Ting Wei 向霆威
* Kingone Wang as Ren Yi Xiang 任以翔

* Renzo Liu as Li Da Fu 李達夫
* Di Zhi Jie as Tony
* Song Xin Ni
* Zhong Xin Ling

* Xie Qi Wen (謝其文)

* Na Wei Xun
* Bu Xue Liang

Synopsis:

Two strangers, both proposed marriage to their respective girl/boyfriend, were rejected on the same day. They decided that the best way to deal with the rejection was to get drunk, real drunk. During the 24 hours of their crazy drunkenness, these two stranger became best friends and got married… to each other. When they finally sobered up, they went on a mission to undo every crazy thing they did while they were drunk and prayed that their girl/boyfriend don’t find out before they can cover all their tracks. MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

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Synopsis:

宋杰修(張孝全飾)一個滿懷信心向明星女友艾薇(許瑋甯飾)求婚的男人。 林曉如(楊丞琳飾)一個滿心期盼機師男友以翔(王傳一飾)帶她去拉斯維加斯結婚的女人。卻在同一天慘遭被拋下的命運……
遭逢情傷的杰修和曉如,當這兩個同病相憐的人碰在一起,他們選擇一起宣洩心情的方式是……買醉忘掉一切的煩 惱! 一杯酒讓兩個陌生人拉近了距離,漸漸地心防也瓦解了、酒精衝腦的他們昏了頭、幹了一連串瘋狂的事。當24小 時後恢復意識,才發現那個該死的下午、他們真的喝的太掛了!兩人居然成了夫妻! 互相指責的兩人唯一共識是,他們得趕在彼此戀人與朋友發現之前、火速離婚結束這場鬧劇!沒想到協調後,居然 成了一對簽了契約的夫妻,這…究竟是怎麼回事?! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Food Hunt: Fullhouse, Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara


Dear All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt and today it's Kimmy's birthday and I would like to take this golden opportunity to wish her a Happy Birthday. So, since it's her birthday, she says she would prefer fine dining and I have suggested her Fullhouse situated at Sunway Giza and without any hesitation, we have decide to dine in there.

We reach the restaurant at around 8.15pm and it's not crowded but the restaurant are pretty much occupied as well. Once we sat down, we take a look at the menu while we've also have a dining voucher where we are also entitled to try out their Spaghetti Meatball which is not included in the menu as well. It took us about 10 minutes to look at the menu having said earlier I've booked the table so once we reach there, we've got a table for ourselves. After browsing through the menu, we've decided what to order. For ME, both of us ordered the Spaghetti Meatball (2 plates) (FREE) and a plate of Wok Sear Chicken Chop (RM16.90). We've also go for some Bistro Bites where we've ordered the Deep Fried Potato Wedges (RM8.90 per basket). For drinks, I've ordered Ice Korean Lemon Citron Tea (RM4.90) while Kimmy ordered Ice Korean Jujube Tea (RM3.90).

It does not take long for the food to come and it was fast too. Their service is rated excellent as their store manager Mr. Chai had welcomed us and treat us very good indeed. His excellence of services makes both of us feel so comfortable while dining in there. The spaghetti meatball is nice and it's pretty juicy and tasty as well. It's tomato flavored and both of us enjoy the spaghetti although it's not in the menu. For the Wok Sear Chicken Chop, it was very tasty. This main course is actually introduced by the store manager Mr. Chai as he said there's a lot of positive feedback from the guests where this main course is recommended. This chicken chop contains grilled chicken thigh served with mash potato, daily vegetable and black pepper raisin juice. It was rather special as the black pepper was so tender and once it served with the raisin, it was simply fantastic. I would really praise the store manager to introduce such a nice dish for both of us to share it out.

For the deep fried potato wedges, it was way too much for us to eat and we could not finish it. It was basket type and it contains at least 40 pieces in one basket. The taste of the wedges meanwhile was great and nice. It was less oil and it was pretty juicy as well. We love the taste but only it was way too much for us as we have only 2 people. Earlier, I asked the waiter how much potato wedges if we ordered but the waiter said that it's in one basket. He should have tell us the portion whether it can accommodate us so that we won't waste the food. The Ice Korean Jujube and Ice Korean Lemon Citron Tea is a must try at Fullhouse. It was simply fantastic as the tea was so tasty and special. The Lemon Citron Tea was so special as it was not so sweet and then you can taste the fragrance of the tea once you drink it. For Kimmy's Ice Korean Jujube Tea, it was also nice and the taste is almost same like what I describe earlier for drinks.

Overall, the price is pretty reasonable too. The bill came and it's RM40.20 plus service tax. Based on the food portion that we get, we are very satisfied with the portion and both of us manage to enjoy the food until we ate till full. It was a great dinner experience for us at Fullhouse and we really enjoyed the time over there. Besides celebrating Kimmy's birthday, the food served is also simply marvelous and generous and I vowed to go back there again to try out other food as well. I would totally recommend you to come on over to Fullhouse Sunway Giza to try out the food over here. A very recommended restaurant with a cozy, garden and home style themed restaurant. Not forgetting also, please look for the store manager on duty Mr. Chai as he is very friendly and if you wanted him to introduce some nice food to you, he's the man! Enjoy! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

* Food & Drinks Rating are based on the food & drinks we've ordered and not overall food & drinks

Address:

C-2, Sunway Giza Mall,
Jalan PJU 5/14,
47810, Kota Damansara,
Petaling Jaya.
Telephone: 03-61418075
Business Hours: Sunday - Thursday = 12.00pm - 11.00pm
Friday - Saturday = 12.00pm - 12.00am


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