Gathering & Food: Venezia Italian Restaurant, Taman Segar Cheras

Hello folks,

Welcome back to the edition of the New Year Eve Gathering which took placed at Venezia Italian Restaurant at Taman Segar in Cheras. It was attended by 10 of us including Me & Kimmy, Sai Kit & Chloe, Han Chung, Matthew, Sai Kit 2 Friend, Steve Chai & Kevin Kong. We reached the restaurant at about 8.30pm after there's not much traffic jam in the city just yet. It was barely dissapointing when we enter the restaurant because there's no place to sit because the place is entirely small. All the tables were occupied. I told the waitress that I've called for booking for 9 persons. After 9.00pm, we still did not get our tables yet until 9.15pm. Then we were provided by a 6 persons table as a temporarily because still the tables were all occupied. Finally we got the table to be joined together at 9.30pm as after joining the table, it can accomodate 9 of us. We were very frusfrated because although we do booking already, we still did not get our seat until 9.30pm. The waiter service was OK but the system (booking & table allocation was very poor).


After sitting down, we looked at the menu and there were lots of varieties to choose from pizzas to pasta's and speghetti's. Me & Kimmy meanwhile had ordered a mushroom soup, a pasta and a shared 3 pan of pizzas among Sai Kit & Chloe as well as 2 of Sai Kit's friend. We ordered Green Tea as our drinks. (Please see below). The mushroom soup was not so tasty and it was not enough sweet and enough of mushroom taste. For pizzas, it was just fine and pastas was too oily and not recommended to take. Overall the food was just average and not up to my expectations. I would not recommend you to this restaurant if you want real quality of Italian Food. Frankly speaking, Michealangelo (SOHOKL) is much more better than this restaurant and the pricing is almost the same. MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5.


About others, they ordered various food and drinks (please see below). The feedback I get from them is the food was just average and not as tasty as expected. We got some recommendation from our friends and from the blogs saying that this restaurant is worth a try because it's tasty but unfortuntely the food aren't so tasty and great as expected. OTHERS AVERAGE RATING: 3/5.



We left the restaurant at about 11.15pm and head towards the UE3 building near Taman Miharja to catch the glimpse of fireworks display where we can actually get a great view of KLCC, Times Square as well as KL Tower. There are splendid fireworks display after 12 midnight and that's it. We wish everyone Happy New Year 2010.

Address:

No.1, Jalan Manis 4,

Taman Segar, Cheras

56100 Kuala Lumpur.

Business Hours: Mon – Sat (11:30 am – 3:30 pm, 6:00 pm – 11.00 pm), Sun (11:30 am – 11:00 pm). Close on Friday

Telephone: 03- 91308992

News: Redemption points can be used to pay for credit card service tax

PETALING JAYA: Banks and card issuers are allowed to enter into arrangements with card holders to use redemption/reward points or rebates they earn through using their cards for the payment of the RM50 service tax, the Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) said on Monday. The association also said in a statement that debit and petrol cards do not fall under the purview of the RM50 service tax imposed on credit or charge cards.

“The other cards (exempted) include closed community charge cards used at work places, schools and clubs as well as loyalty cards and e-money such as Touch ‘n Go,” it added. The ABM also said that the service tax would be collected by banks and other card issuers from credit or charge card holders and paid to the Customs and Excise director-general. “In this respect, the amount of service tax payable will be set out in the card holders’ monthly statement separately,” it said. The association added that the tax becomes chargeable at the time when the credit or charge card is issued, on the anniversary date or upon renewal.

The tax will not be charged for replacement cards issued due to lost or spoilt cards or fraud. In Budget 2010, it was announced that starting from Jan 1, a service tax of RM50 a year would be imposed on each principal credit or charge card and RM25 a year on each supplementary card. For enquiries on the service tax on credit and charge cards, call the ABM toll-free hotline 1-300-88-9980 from Monday to Friday or e-mail banks@abm.org.my. Source: The Star Malaysia 28/12/09

Cinema Movie: Alvin And The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel

Release Date: 24 December 2009

Language: English

Subtitle: Malay, Chinese

Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes

Director: Betty Thomas

Cast: Jason Lee, Jesse McCartney, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler.

Synopsis:

In the "Alvin And The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel", pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby (Zachary Levi). The boys must put aside music superstardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the US$25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as "The Chipettes" - Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.

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My Comments: Today is Christmas Day and our movie marathon continues where ME & Kimmy had decided to go to TGV in Kepong to watch the movie Alvin & The Chipmunks 2. It had been ages that I haven't been to TGV cinemas to watch movie after I already got the GSC Credit Card. The screen in TGV Cinemas are twice as big as GSC cinemas but the seats of GSC are much more better and confortable than TGV. OK! Let's go straight to the movie comments. As expected, this movie does not dissapoints me rather. I was expecting a full time of laughter and YES! This movie has all the requirements whereby there were fun for the whole family. It was very funny throughout the whole movie as the chracter of Alvin, Simon and Theodore. The storyline meanwhile was pretty simple and nothing so special bout it. Since this is a laughter and cater for childen movie, the storyline doesn't that important at all as long as the kids understands the story of it. A very good recommendation for movie goers who loves to laugh all the time and I believe 100% of the movie goers would love to watch laughter movies right? Haha! Enjoy yourselves during this holiday season with pretty much laughter and jokes! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

Cinema Movie: The Treasure Hunter

Release Date: 24 December 2009

Language: Mandarin

Subtitle: Malay, Chinese

Running Time: 1 hour 44 minutes

Director: Kevin Chu

Cast: Jay Chou, Lin Chi Ling, Eric Tsang, Chen Dao Ming.

Synopsis:

In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourish and fall, there is rumor of a treasure of unbelievable riches buried among it. A group of mysterious guardian have been guarding the map to the location of the treasure until a fierce rivalry erupted. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunted down the map keeper and before they managed to secure the map, the keeper passed the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei (Jay Chou).Ciao Fei was forced to give up the map to save the live of his mentor’s daughter Lan Ting (Lin Chi Ling),. Teaming up with Hua Ding Bang (a famous archeologist) and Lan Ting they embark on a dangerous journey to recover the map and fight to protect the ancient treasure.

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My Comments: Merry Christmas! It's Christmas Eve and ME & Kimmy had decided to go to GSC 1 Utama to catch the very new movie released today. It was a fully packed cinemas because most of the movie goers would take this opportunity to watch the movie of their choice including this movie The Treasure Hunter at night. Our movie time is at 10.15pm and the movie ended at about 12 midnight. Let's go straight to the movie comments. Before I watch this movie, I did have a very high expectations towards this movie and guess what it was pretty dissappointing as well. The action was moderate and the storyline was not fantastic at it seems because it was just a meaningless story when they wanted to look for the treasure city. Jay Chou acted pretty matured in this movie and he did shows his enthusiasm but in the way he was sometimes too 'cool' in this movie and over react. This is the first time that I've seen Lin Zhi Ling acted in the movie but still there's a lot of improvement need to be done. Her acting was seemingly not matured enough as well. The joker for this movie of course goes to Eric Tsang as he did a very good job in leading this movie with his outstanding jokes and I like him throughout the movie. Without him, the movie seems to look a bit dull. Overall, this movie I believe does not lived up to expectations and I would not recommend to you to watch it but if you have time or free time to be exact, you can try and watch this movie but do not give yourself too high expectations. Cheers & Merry Christmas. MY RATING: 3/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 2.5/5

Lifestyle: Happy Birthday Alan Leow

I on behalf of alexleow-kimmy.com would like to take this golden opportunity to say Happy Birthday to my brother Alan Leow who celebrated his birthday today. It's Christmas Eve and of course not forgetting my brother's big day as well. Every year, his birthday was celebrated in an average manner and hopefully this year, his birthday would be a happening ones. May your wishes come true and all the best in your love life as well as your career. Cheers!

Leisure: TFP Solutions Berhad Annual Dinner

On Wednesday 23/12/09, I've attended my company annual dinner held at Bukit Jalil Golf Club Ballroom in Kuala Lumpur. About 60 of us attended the functioned held in a moderate celebrations. Well, this is the first time that our company organize our annual dinner since the listing in Bursa Malaysia early this year. Our Theme this year is "UNIQUE IN GREEN".

The dinner kicked off at about 7.30pm and we was entertained by a group of band which was hired by our company. We had a wonderful time there whereby in between our dinner, the organizer had organized some table games for our fun which offered various prizes to be won. Besides, there were also lucky draw as well where about 40 lucky draw prizes to be won as well. The most attractive prizes throughout the night would be a HP mini netbook and a Mont Blanc pen. Others include electric appliances, cash vouchers as well as computer peripherals. There were also other contests as well such as The Best Dress Male & Female as well as Couples who dressed in green. We had a wonderful time with of course a wonderful food served by Tai Thong.


For me, I've picked No.18 as my lucky draw number and I've won myself a mini speaker from Sonicgear. Actually I would like to aim for more higher prize but still it's better than nothing. There were also a short message from our company chairman regarding our company performance throughout the year performance as well. The annual dinner ended about 11.00pm and then we were also allowed to dance as it would be a footloose time. We had a wonderful time there as well and enjoy!

Cinema Movie: The Storm Warriors

Release Date: 10 December 2009

Language: Cantonese

Subtitle: Malay, Chinese

Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes

Director: Pang Brothers

Cast: Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Charlene Choi, Nicholas Tse, Simon Yam, Tiffany T.

Synopsis:

Japanese evil warlord Lord Godless desired to conquer China. He imprisoned a large number of martial artists and tried to make them subjugate. Among the prisoners were Cloud and the martial arts elder statesman Nameless. Wind came to the rescue. The trio was badly wounded by Lord Godless's evil martial arts attack. Chu Chu was also knocked out when she blocked Cloud from Lord Godless's strike. The remaining martial artists sacrificed their lives to save the trio, in the hope that the trio would beat Lord Godless one day and save the country.Chu Chu was badly wounded and stayed unconscious. Cloud was filled with remorse and vowed to take revenge. Wind chose to take the evil way to quickly boost up his martial arts skills, so that he could protect the people. During his training, he met the girl who changed his life, Dream. Meanwhile, the troop of Lord Godless came to attack. Wind's training was interrupted when he tried to save Dream from Lord Godless's assault. After some killings, Wind ran away and disappeared...Lord Godless took The Emperor in captivity and stationed his troops in Heaven Cave. Cloud arrived alone and started a combat with Lord Godless. Lord Godless had the upper hand. In the meantime, the half-evil Wind appeared and joined the battle. During the fight, they inadvertently discovered the secret of the sovereign. The real intention of Lord Godless's invasion was related to an ancient tomb, a forbidden ground buried with the Royal family's secret. The truth was finally revealed. At last, how would the battle end? Who would eventually rule over the country?

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My Comments: Welcome to the world of fantasy at GSC 1 Utama! Well, YES! This is a truly comic based fantasy movie that caters for these movie lovers. Today ME & Kimmy had watched Storm Warriors II here. Well, in the first place, I was pretty afraid and worried that this movie would dissapoints me because most of my friends who watched this movie gives me a very bad rating. But everything's change when I watch this movie. It wasn't very bad at all and it was totally amazing. The graphics and the movement was pretty energertic and very nice also that makes me keep tight on my seat while watching. I would give 5/5 for the graphics and movements of this movie as Hong Kong movie had moved into a new era of mass improvement on its graphics and movements. The storyline was sometimes hanging by a moment and doesn't really impress me but I believe the reason they do this is because they will be Storm Warriors III coming up. Ekin Cheng & Aaron Kwok as well as Simon Yam stole the limelight most of the time during the movie and I was impressed with their acting as well. A must watch movie of the year 2009 for chinese movie. The dialog was pretty less in the 1 hour 50 mins movie as it caters more into action. 80% of the movie was filled with movements while another 20% caters for the dialog only. Overall, ME & Kimmy was very satisfy with the movie and we would give full marks for this one. For those who said it was a very bad movie, there must be a reason behind (or maybe different from the novel) for saying so but for me I would recommend you to go and see it and you would enjoy it! :) MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

Cinema Movie: Zombieland

Release Date: 10 December 2009

Language: English

Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson.

Synopsis:

Woody Harrelson star in the horror comedy "Zombieland," which revolves around a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies. Harrelson plays one of the men, a zombie fighter named Albuquerque.

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My Comments: It was a unplanned situation where me & my brother Alan had decided to catch a movie at GSC Tropicana City Mall after on a Saturday night, we do not know what to do. So, without any hesitation, we have chosen ZOMBIELAND as our preferred movie choice this time around. We manage to make the decision at about 6.30pm and the movie time is about 8.45pm. OK! Let's go straight to the movie comments. Laughter is best described about this movie because it contains 80% of total laughter and fun. It should be a horror movie but it seems it's a comedy cum horror movie which doesn't really impress after all. The storyline was pretty messy and sometimes it doesn't makes sense as well. I don't really amazed or impressed about the storyline at all but it is still acceptable. Only the laughs saves the rating of this movie and if you like comedy movie more than horror, this movie is just for you. Don't expect too much (because already expected the movie will be like this) bout this movie and if you got nothing to do, perhaps you can give it a try and watch this movie or you are having a hypertension on your life, this movie will guarantee gives you the best medicine to cure you too! MY RATING: 3.5 / 5 ; ALAN RATING: 3/5

Lifestyle: GSC-EON Bank Credit Card - The Ultimate Movie Card

Finally an Ultimate Movie Card has been designed to cater to the needs of movie-goers like yourself - the GSC-EON Bank Credit Card.This is the first Credit Card that gives you up to 50% discount on movie tickets, concession purchases and F&B outlets in GSC. This means greater savings for regular movie-goers in the long term.Furthermore, you can also enjoy all the benefits & features of an EON Bank Group Credit Card.Life just gets more rewarding with the GSC-EON Bank Credit Card, the Ultimate Movie Card. Sign up for a GSC-EON Bank Credit Card today!

For more information, check out http://www.gsc.com.my/gsceonbankcard/page.asp?search=gsccard_bfit

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My Comments: Finally I have applied for the GSC-EON Bank Credit Card. In my opinion, it was a brilliant card for movie goers as you can enjoy fantastic discounts while enjoying your movie. This card that benefits me most is the Bonus Value. Upon approval of your credit card, you will received RM60.00 (Gold Card) or RM100 (Platinum Card) bonus value (see pictures above) as you can do redemption to offset your ticket price. Example, if you purchase a RM22.00 movie tickets and you will enjoy 10% discount on each ticket as well as 50% redemption to offset the Bonus Value. So you just need to pay RM10.00 for 1 pair of tickets (2 tickets). After you have finished the Bonus Value, then you will just enjoy the 10% discount on tickets. It's still worth it. Besides, upon approval, you will also get many exciting vouchers that you can use while paying with the GSC-EON Bank Credit Card such as Buy 1 Free 1, 10 - 50% discount vouchers etc. (please see pictures). I am very satisfy with this card and if you are a movie goers who always visit to GSC, then this card is truly for you. Enjoy the benefits! RATING: 5/5

Lifestyle: Dear Bloggers, Enrich Your Blog with I Speech

Hi All,

I am back again and this time I would like to share with all of you especially to our dear bloggers. For those who like to blog or owned a blog, you can enrich your blog with the audio experience to entertain the visitors who visited your blog. It was a totally new technology where visitors do not need to read your wordings instead of listen to it via the audio podcast. In my blog, you can experience it right now where each and every post that created either you have an option to read it or listen to the audio. Unfortunately this feature only limited to English Chracters and it cannot read other languages such as Chinese Language. If it's a written chinese language, then it will returned an error.

Well, besides blogger, you can use it for personal use where you can convert your text to audio speech as well. Simply by visiting http://www.ispeech.org/, it's much more simple now. Do try it out and have fun!

Best Of TVB Drama: The Beauty of the Game (美丽高解像)

Title: The Beauty of the Game 美丽高解像

Cast: Kate Tsui (徐子珊) , Christine Ng Wing Mei (伍詠薇) , Raymond Cho (曹永廉), Sharon Chan (陳敏之) , Chris Lai (黎諾懿) , Yuen King Tan (苑瓊丹) Wong Cho Lam (王祖藍), Law Man Chong (羅敏莊)

Episodes: 20

Producer: Tsu Yue On

Scriptwriter: Lau Chi Wah

Synopsis:

Setting out on their quest for fame and fortune, three female TV stars of different backgrounds are resolved to achieve their dreams at any price. But after so many ups and downs in their acting careers, they finally come to discover the secret of true beauty.
Driven by sheer vanity, KO CHING MAN (Kate Tsui) takes part in a beauty pageant despite the strong opposition of her mother, a long-retired actress named CHEUNG LAI HUNG (Yuen King Tan), and leaps to stardom soon after winning the championship. Rising actress TONG HO YEE (Sharon Chan) feels threatened by MAN and decides to join another TV station to look for a breakthrough, which is not supported by her production assistant friend DEACON CHONG (Chris Lai Lok Yi). Leading actress KEUNG CHIN FUNG (Christine Ng) used to be a bitter rival of HUNG. Realizing that MAN’s acting career is taking off at top speed, FUNG means to approach her as a mentor, through which she hopes to drag the girl into her moral downfall bit by bit. Desperate for everlasting beauty, FUNG injects herself with illegal substances in an attempt to slow the aging process. But things do not really go as planned and her face starts to change in shape. Her advertising deal with a cosmetics company is subsequently canceled and MAN has soon replaced her as the new product endorser. Even the Award of Best Actress, which she has won for years, is slipping out of her hands. To vent her anger, FUNG seeks to extract revenge on MAN, finally plunging her into a world of pain and trouble. RATING: 4/5

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三名不同出身的电视台女明星为名逐利，追寻永远美丽的神话，不惜付上难以赎回的沉重代价；三人的演艺生涯经过惊涛骇浪，千帆尽过，才领悟出创造美丽的不二法门。
高青雯(徐子珊)为满足虚荣心，不理息影母亲张丽虹(苑琼丹)的反对参加电视台选美，勇夺冠军后一夕窜红，新紥姐仔唐可儿(陈敏之)感自己地位受到威胁，为求出位跳槽敌台做一姐，任职助导的好朋友庄迪勤(黎诺懿)对她多番劝导亦无效。另一边厢，当年与丽虹有过节的电视台一姐姜展凤(伍咏薇)见青雯气势如虹，故意指导她演戏技巧，为要讨好她，引诱她沉沦堕落；可惜展凤妄图永远的美丽而过量注射美顏禁药，令容貌变形，化妆品广告被青雯取代，就连蝉联多届视后之位亦恐怕拱手让人，展凤愤恨难平，施阴招连番加害青雯，累她饱受千夫所指，一蹶不振.. RATING: 4/5

SEA Games: Malaysia beats Vietnam 1-0 in final

VIENTIANE: Malaysia finally ended its 20-year gold drought in the SEA Games men’s football competition, when it defeated Vietnam 1-0 in the final played at the Main Stadium of the National Sports Complex in Vientiane on Thursday.

The National Under-23 boys, who came here as non-medal prospects, pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the Games to win the gold. Malaysia last won the football gold in the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games in 1989, with a 1-0 victory over Singapore. Vietnam's Mai Xuan Hop (right) weeps as the Malaysians celebrate their 1-0 victory in the Laos SEA Games football final. Mai's own goal proved to be the 'decisive winner' for the Malaysians. - AP Photo

The ‘winner’ came courtesy of an own goal by Vietnam’s Mai Xuan Hop’s in the 84th minute of a toughly-fought final. The football gold medal was also Malaysia’s 40th gold medal in Vientiane.
The victory was all the more sweeter as the Malaysians had lost 1-3 to Vietnam in a group match on Dec 6. Earlier, the young Malaysians had knocked out defending champions Thailand 2-1 in the group stage to win a place in the semi-finals. Then in the last four, they downed Laos 3-1 in front of a sell-out 20,000 fans. Source: The Star Malaysia 17/12/09

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My Comments: Finally after 20 years of waiting, Malaysian football finally found its pride and it had been proved on tonight match as they had finally won the Sea Games Gold Medal. It was indeed a proud performance from the young Malaysian side who did very well in their last 3 matches beginning when they beat Thailand. I believe many people will be very shocked and happy to see the results because normally Malaysia will not go away as champions but tonight is indeed their night again. I would like to take this golden opportunity to congratulate the Malaysian team for winning the Gold Medal and my advise was don't be just too happy or too proud about winning the sea games medal and the team should continue to improve games by games and try to show maturity in every match. There's still a long journey to go and we hope our success does not stop here only. Gambateh! Our dear National Team! :)

World News: Thousands flee Philippines volcano

Thousands of people living near the slopes of Mount Mayon in the central Philippines have fled their homes after the volcano spewed lava and sent ash plumes high into the air. Soldiers and police oversaw the evacuation around the Mayon volcano on Tuesday, amid concerns that an eruption could occur at any moment. "After the series of ash puffs and ash explosions of 1,000 metres [high], we cannot rule out a major explosion," Cedric Daep, the head of the disaster relief operations in the eastern Bicol region, said.

Daep said the authorities aimed to evacuate nearly 50,000 people from villages within eight kilometres of the volcano by Thursday. Volcanologists raised the alert level on the 2,460-metre high volcano to two levels below eruption on Monday after lava was seen dripping from the crater. However, the national volcanology institute also said Mayon could yet calm down and might not necessarily erupt.

Frequent eruptions

Officials said it is unlikely that villagers would be able to return home before Christmas, the biggest holiday of the year in the mainly Catholic country. "It's 10 days before Christmas. Most likely people will be in evacuation centres, and if Mayon's activity won't ease down we will not allow them to return to their homes,'' Nunez said. Mayon is the most active of 22 volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted more than 50 times in the last four centuries. Residents in Albay province are used to moving away from Mayon, which spewed ash last month and prompted some villages to flee. The last time the volcano erupted was in 2006. Mayon's most destructive eruption came in 1841 when lava flows buried the town of Cagsawa and killed more than 1,200 people. The country lies on the volatile "Ring of Fire", a belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean that is also prone to earthquakes. Source: Al-Jazeera News 15/12/09

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My Comments: It was yet another epic of a minor 2012 happening this time in Philippines. The Volcano had become active and anytime ready to abrupt. Perhaps, the GOD wants to punish mankind on earth for massive destruction as shown on the movie 2012. Well, what we hope that everything will be back to normal and we are able to cope with the disaster surrounding us. To those who are staying near to the volcano, do listen to the authorities there and evacuate immedietely to prevent something bad happening. Life Must Go On......

News: Supervisor killed in gas explosion

MALACCA: The much-anticipated opening of the largest AEON Jusco outlet in the country in Jalan Legenda, Bachang, here is likely to be postponed following a gas explosion that killed a 25-year-old supervisor and injured 16 others. The explosion is believed to have occurred at the food court section on the ground floor of the three-storey complex just before 1pm yesterday when workers and tenants were busy making final preparations for Thursday’s grand opening.

The force of the blast blew a 2m-wide hole in the building’s wall, showering glass and debris over a 25m radius and causing a small fire. Firemen from the Kubu station, who arrived six minutes after receiving a distress call, found two injured victims lying outside the building. Intensive damage: The glass and ceiling panels of this restaurant were completely shattered by the explosion. Tiau See Peing, a supervisor from Batu Pahat at the Old Town White Coffee, was found dead with a neck wound caused by flying debris. Other victims were pulled out alive from the rubble. State fire department operations deputy director R. Ezhumalai said the blast is believed to have been caused by a gas leak when workers were testing gas meters from the centralised liquid petroleum gas system.

“Several survivors mentioned there was a smell of gas shortly before the blast,” he said at the scene, adding that the injuries and damage came mostly from the blast and flying debris.
“We are still investigating to determine the exact location of the blast and what may have caused it.” At press time, seven victims were reported to have suffered serious injuries while three are in critical condition. They have been warded at the Malacca Hospital.
Six other victims received outpatient treatment. Meanwhile, state Human Resources Committee chairman Datuk Yaakub Md Amin said the Department of Occupational Safety and Health had been directed to investigate the blast, adding that investigations would focus on whether the contractors had followed safety measures. Source: The Star Malaysia 14/12/09

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My Comments: Well, we have been hearing accidents happening again and this time a different news which is the mall explosion. What have the authorities done is causing this big mistake? Although only 1 lives claimed staked this time and 16 others injured, the authorities must made responsible for this incident and please sentence them to death after failing to ensure their workers safety in their workplace. There is no excuses otherwise many lives will be claimed in future. A sad news but Life Must Go On......

Lifestyle: Finally got my Pasport!

Finally I've got my first ever passport in my life after 28 years. No joke, I never owned a passport before this and finally today 11th December 2009 is a historical day for me perhaps. Haha! Funny isn't it? Today I step in the Immigration Department at 8.45am located at Jelapang in Ipoh. Then it took me about 3 hours to complete the whole process with something funny happening too while applying for the passport.

Let me just share some with you all. I have to wait for about 1 hour before it's my turn and after I step into the counter, the immigration officer asked about my photo. He asked me how long already is this photo? (It seems I don't look like the same with my photo). Well, I told him recently only and he laugh at it. Duhhh! Doesn't it looks the same Mr. Officer! Still, it managed to go through and being processed. After that, I head towards the cafeteria for a short breakfast break before heading back to the Immigration Office to collect my passport an hour after. Then, when I reach the collection counter, I handed the resit to the guy and he told me "Nak buat collection sekarang ke?" "Sekarang Pukul Berapa?". He laughed out loud and ask me to wait. In my surprise, in less than 5 minutes, the counter already call me and my passport is ready for collection. I thanked him for his excellent service and he smiled.

So, I have got my passport already and I am ready to FLY! For those, who haven't get their passport and ready to fly, get yours now at your nearest Immigration Offices now! Happy Holidays! :)

Best Of TVB Drama: A Chip Off The Old Block (巴不得爸爸)

Title: A chip off the Old Block 巴不得爸爸

Cast: Ron Ng Cheuk Hei, Sunny Chan Kam Hung, Myolie Wu, Shirley Yeung, John Chiang, Gigi Wong, Nancy Wu, Yuen Siu Cheung

Episodes: 20

Producer: 监製：潘嘉德

Scriptwriter: 编审：陈金铃

Synopsis:

While the saying “Like father, like son” holds true for most fathers and sons, it does not for CHOR FAN (Sunny Chan) and CHOR TSZ (Ron Ng). There is a world of difference between their personalities, manners of dealing with people and even goals in life. FAN is an out-and-out 60’s person, whereas TSZ believes he is well ahead of the 21st century. A thought-provoking time travel modern comedy, A Chip Off the Old Block reminds audience of the Chinese saying “Man is not born to greatness, he achieves it by his own efforts.” TSZ is accidentally sent back from the 21st century to the 1960s. He befriends his father, who is a young man then. FAN puts TSZ up in his place, where TSZ comes to know the stingy KO SHAN CHEUN (John Chiang), who runs a noodle stall, the shrewish landlady TAM LAN CHING (Gigi Wong), the argumentative CHING LAN FUN (Shirley Yeung), who later becomes his sweetheart, and LEUNG PIN PIN (Nancy Wu), who comes from a rich family. TSZ is always abusing and offending people. Other tenants, especially corrupt sergeant NGAU CHING WING (Yuen Siu Cheung), hate him very much. Except for FAN, who always defends him and even later introduces him a job at a department store. In the 60’s now, TSZ however is as flamboyant as when he is in the 21st century. He finds FAN being too old-fashioned and kind-hearted. He almost makes other tenants homeless once, and he tries to destroy FAN and SO FUNG NI’s (Myolie Wu) relationship. Later when he realizes his wrong doings, he is shocked to know that.. RATING: 5/5

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俗 谚虽有云「虎父无犬子」，但对於楚氏两父子来说的确有点牵强，因他俩不论性格、对人处事、甚至人生目标都是南辕北辙。父亲楚帆(陈锦鸿)由内到外尽是六十 年代情怀、儿子楚慈(吴卓羲)则嫌自己活在廿一世纪步伐还太慢；一个跨时空、跨时代的时装喜剧，当中发生的情节不单使人百般回味，更让人悟思到「将相本无 种，男儿当自强」的硬道理。廿一世纪的楚慈阴差阳错回到父亲楚帆年少气盛时的六十年代，父子情摇身变了兄弟情，楚慈获楚帆好心收留后，因而结识 了麵档缩骨老闆高山泉(姜大伟)，泼辣包租婆谭兰青(黄淑仪) 、斗气小情人程兰芬(杨思琦)及千金小姐梁翩翩(胡定欣)。楚慈得罪人多，称呼人少，令同屋共住如敛财沙展牛正荣(阮兆祥)等人皆对他神憎鬼厌，只有楚帆 一直处处维护他，又介绍他到百货公司工作，但好大喜功的楚慈一如过往，只懂埋怨父亲作风守旧、损己利人的性格，更不慎连累同屋共主几乎无家可归；楚慈又恶 意破坏父亲与老千苏凤妮(胡杏儿)的感情关係，正当他悔悟过来时，才知道自己原来……。RATING: 5/5

Leisure: Looking Forward To Trip To Bali, Indonesia

Hi All,

Welcome back folks. I am back again for my blogging time after a week being so quiet on board. Well, this time I am pleased that I am going for a trip in merely 3 months from now to Bali. My trip will be from 09 March - 12 March 2010. In fact, I would be extremely happy to be in Bali because this is my first time going overseas (outside Malaysia) after 28 years old. I've also heard feedback from many people saying that Bali is a very nice place to visit based on the beautiful beaches and its nature beauties. Besides, Bali also famous for its temples which mostly stand near the sea. Amazing isn't it?

I would like to thank AirAsia for providing this promotion and after some comments given from my close friends, they said the price is pretty reasonable and worht for a visit. Even a 4 Days 3 Nights trip would be a tight one but I believe it would be also an enjoyable trip because I have planned which place that I wanted to visit and I strongly believe that I have enough time for it. After a week of frustration for me this week because a lot of obstacles need to overcome before me & Kimmy finally agreed on this trip (e.g. financial, time consumption etc). So, without talking so much, I am really looking forward to this trip and guess what before going, I need to prepare myself a passport (paiseh lah, because I never owned a passport before after 28 years old).

Don't forget to catch my blog from time to time as I will update my blog most probably after coming back from this trip because I will not bring my laptop over there. For those who went to Bali before, I would really hope that you could give your suggestions to me based on the trip and feedback to me via e-mail, telephone or my facebook too. Thanks so much and if you guys are going for a trip too, enjoy yourselves yeah! Adios! :)