Leisure: Chinese New Year Decorations 2011 at Mid Valley Megamall

Hello All,

Welcome back to the last visit of Mall Decorations where we have chosen Mid Valley Megamall as our last destination before the arrival of Chinese New Year. We had been so active especially in the month of December and January as Christmas and Chinese New Year draws close and it would be a very special occasion for us as well.

We reach Mid Valley at 7.45pm despite failing to get in about noon today and we are pretty disappointing because we could not go there early but luckily we did not go there earlier because the decorations there looks pretty simple and nothing much. Many people in their blogs had given a very good marks for the decorations over there but I don't think so. The decoration were just normal and simple. The main attraction is only the mini stalls setup there and they do not focus much on the decorations. This year theme for Mid Valley would be "Chinese New Year Spring Village" and it happens from 13th January till 6th February 2011 only. MALL DECORATIONS RATING: 3/5

Politics: BN keeps Tenang with 3,707 majority

BN keeps Tenang with 3,707 majority

UPDATED @ 07:04:45 AM 31-01-2011

By Adib Zalkapli

January 30, 2011

Azahar (centre) celebrates his win in Tenang along with other BN leaders. — Picture by Choo Choy May

LABIS, Jan 30 — Barisan Nasional’s (BN) retained the Tenang seat today with a 3,707 vote majority, short of the 5,000 majority the ruling coalition had expected from the Umno stronghold.

BN’s Azahar Ibrahim polled 6,699 votes against PAS’s Normala Sudirman, who took 2,992 votes from the 12 polling districts.

A total of 9,833 voters or 67 per cent of the 14,753 electorate turned up to cast their ballots despite the rain.

The result was announced by Tenang election officer Md Asri Amir at 10.05pm, at the tallying centre in the Labis Municipal hall.

The announcement had been pushed back from its original 8pm schedule after several ballot boxes arrived late at the counting centre due to delays caused by the floods in the area.

Also present when the outcome was announced tonight were Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Johor Mentri Besar and BN’s election director Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman, and Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Several Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders had, prior to the official announcement, sent Twitter updates saying that Azahar had won today’s by-election, which was hit by a day-long deluge and flash floods.

PAS vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar had also sent out a congratulatory message to Azahar via Twitter.

Shortly before polling closed, the EC had sent out boats to ferry voters to four polling centres as heavy rains flooded several areas in the constituency.

Earlier today, Muhyiddin had expressed concern that rainy weather would affect turnout in the Tenang by-election and may result in Barisan Nasional (BN) winning with lower majority than expected.

BN had initially targeted a victory margin of 5,000 votes. It retained Tenang in 2008 by 2,491 votes, half the majority obtained in 2004.

The Tenang seat fell vacant when incumbent Sulaiman died last December 17 due to complications with diabetes. Source: The Malaysian Insider 31/1/2011

Food Hunt: T-Bowl Restaurant, Sunway Pyramid

Hello Everyone,

First and foremost, I would like to wish Happy Chinese New Year in advance to those who will be celebrating Chinese New Year in a few days time. Our Food Hunt continues and we will try out something new today and YES! We have made it to T-Bowl Restaurant in Sunway Pyramid to try out the popular food in the toilet bowl! It looks a bit disgusting when you are eating the food over there but whatever it is, it a great experience to try it out.

We had our early dinner tonight at 6.00pm and the crowd are not so much. It was a great atmosphere inside the restaurant where the table was actually designed with bathroom utensils below the table and it can be seen. Of course, the meal that you can see in its menu mostly contains a bowl where a toilet bowl is supporting below it. It's a pretty new experience for me and Kimmy although this restaurant already opened for quite some time as we don't have the chance to try it out yet but today we've decided to try it out.

I've ordered Cheese Baked Rice with Chicken Chop (RM 12.90) with a glass of Honey Lemon (RM2.50) while Kimmy ordered Si Chuan Spicy Sour Ramen (RM10.90) with a glass of Honey Lemon (RM2.50). For desserts, we've also ordered Mushroom Soup with Garlic Bread (RM4.50). OK! Now we come to the most important part which is the taste of the food. I can tell you that overall the food was very disappointing and it does not look promising at all. Both of us are very sad of the quality of the food as it does not meet our expectations. WHY? The Cheese Baked Rice with Chicken Chop was tasteless as I can only taste the heavy flavor of Cheese and the rice was simply tasteless and the Chicken Chop was rather not well cooked and looked raw. The Honey Lemon drink meanwhile was very sour and it does not have the Honey flavor. Kimmy also feedback about the Si Chuan Spicy Sour Ramen as well. It was so sour and not much spicy taste and the meal looks very disgusting too. It's hardly to digest and eat and she said she was disappointed with the food and planned to BAN this restaurant in future.

Both of us enjoyed the atmosphere at the restaurant but not the food. The food is really sucks to the maximum and there will be no next time for us eventually. It was just a try for us and they really let us down. I would not recommend you to go for the quality of the food but if you would try out something new about the toilet based restaurant, you can give it a try but as I have said earlier, do not put high expectations on the food as it was very disappointing to us. The price meanwhile was pretty expensive based on the food portion where it was just average to small as well and the whole bill came and it's about RM39.00 including tax. Good Luck to you! MY RATING: 2.5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 3/5

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

Address:

No. 1F-96 & IF-97, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Complex,
Jalan PJS 11/15. Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Telephone: 016-8086661
Business Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm


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Leisure: Chinese New Year Decorations 2011 at Sunway Pyramid

Hi All,

Welcome back again to yet another edition of Chinese New Year Decorations 2011 at Sunway Pyramid. This year's decoration at Sunway Pyramid was rather simple yet attractive as well. If you arrived at the concourse area, you will see 3 big statue of human symbolizing the Orchestra Of Prosperity. It's also Sunway Pyramid theme for this year and it's called "An Orchestra Of Prosperity" happening from 14th Jan till 17th Feb 2011. You can see lots of human statue and the costume wear of orchestra being displayed throughout the mall and it's very nice too.

Actually we did not plan to go Sunway Pyramid for today but it's just because of the heavy traffic jam at Mid Valley as we had changed our plan to Sunway Pyramid. I would recommend you to come over here to enjoy the beautiful decorations and of course there will be lots of great performances from various traditional Chinese community including the Lion Dance and the Chinese Cultural Dance will be doing their performance at Sunway Pyramid concourse area here. Enjoy! MALL DECORATIONS RATING: 3.5/5

Food Hunt: Papa John's Pizza, Sunway Pyramid

Hi All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt. It was a chaotic day for us as it was raining whole day long and the best thing is, we are suppose to go Mid Valley during lunch time but ended up going to Sunway Pyramid as the crawl was about 2KM away and hardly we can enter Mid Valley. But in Sunway, it was rather a different story where parking was available easily during lunch break.

We reach Sunway Pyramid about 12 noon and of course we started to crave for good food. Of course, we have selected Papa John's Pizza as our menu choice of the afternoon. The crowd that time was just average and not many people. Once we sat down, we were brought a menu and the service was rather fast. We've ordered Set Meal A which consists of A Breadsticks, Potato Wedges, 2 glasses of Coke and a pizza which you can choose from. We've chosen BBQ Chicken with Beef as our pizza of the day.

Overall, the food was just average and not so nice as expected. I would have admit that it's a very healthy pizza as it has less oil and fat. But the food quality os not as good as Domino's and Pizza Hut. We've ordered thin crust pizza and the thin crust taste was just like a soda biscuit. It was not so nice but still acceptable. The portion of the pizza was just average as well as the potato wedges. But the breadsticks was very nice as it's large in size and the smell was great.

The price meanwhile was pretty reasonable too as it was priced at RM33.50 plus tax. It's up to you whether you love healthy pizza or not. But I can tell you that Papa John's Pizza is a healthy pizza and you should try it. Although in my blog, I will definately give points based on the taste of the food, Papa John's Pizza is definately a letdown and not so nice as expected. You may give it a try and perhaps you can feedback to me how's it taste like in future! Enjoy! 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:

OB3-G1-1 & 2 & G1.129,

Oasis Boulevard 3, Ground Floor,

Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall,

No.3, Jalan PJS 11/15,

Bandar Sunway,

46150, Petaling Jaya,

Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Business Hours: 10.00am - 10.00pm

Telephone: 1-300-88-7272

Website: http://www.papajohns.com.my

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Food Hunt: Ring Of Fortune by Pizza Hut

Hello All,

Welcome back to yet another edition of Food Hunt and YES! The spirit of Chinese New Year is just around the corner and I bet you would like to try out many special dishes that will delighted yourself. ME & Alan had gone to Pizza Hut to try out the Ring Of Fortune which was introduced by Pizza Hut. Wondering how it tastes like?

The illustration says it all but it was a rather disappointing as they original picture shown was not exactly as it seems. It was very small portion and the shape also does not look alike. ME & Alan paused for a while and once we looked at it, we feel like oops! Alright, no rocket science or anything but just an ordinary pizza. The only thing is there's a lot of cheese but the pizza taste was just normal and nothing special about it. Still, you need to eat it with Chili Flakes, Tabasco, Cheesy Flakes to make it more tastier than its original taste.

The price meanwhile was very expensive. For a Combo Meal for 2-3 persons, it costs about RM29.00 per set (not plus government tax 6% yet). As usual, the sets contains a soup of the day, 2 glasses of drinks, a garlic bread and a regular pizza. Nothing to impress and do not get lied by the posters lying everywhere. Still it's normal to eat like a regular pizza as I taught it should be tasty as it seems. Enjoy! MY RATING: 3/5 ; ALAN RATING: 3/5

Leisure: Ah Beng 2 (阿炳2)

Ah Beng 2

阿炳2

随着首季的《阿炳》深受各阶层观众的喜爱，Astro本地圈决定乘胜追击，推出第2季的《阿炳》。除了原班人马，即林德荣、颜薇恩、Royce陈志康、曾洁钰及邱文博将继续领衔主演之外，第2季的《阿炳》更加入了网络著名美女模特儿Agnes Lim（林丽薇饰），成为卖菜莲家的其中一名租户。

第2季的《阿炳》继续将一般被认为严肃的时事课题以及发生在我们身边的一些社会新闻，以轻松、幽默的方式呈献。由于所讲述的故事内容都是本地的时事及新闻，因此观众在观看时将倍感亲切及感同身受，而次季的《阿炳》节奏将更快、内容将更加爆笑、更贴近民心。除了大人之外，由于《阿炳》拥有很多忠实的小孩粉丝，制作单位也加入了一些正确及正面的讯息，好让他们从小培养正确的价值观。

另外，部分MY FM DJ也将在《阿炳》中客串，包括Jeff陈浩然饰演摩托佬阿贤、菲比饰演拥有一名女儿的富家太太、卓卉勤饰演永远都在怀孕的水嫂以及尹匯雰等等 MY RATING: 5/5

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Ah Beng 2

My Comments: This comedy series revolves around Ah Beng and Ah Lian, who both live under one roof, but dislike each other with a vengeance. This is a sitcom and it is currently airing at Astro Wah Lai Toi CH311. It was a great sitcom and I am sure you will laugh off your seats as this sitcom is a real hit among the Chinese Community in Malaysia. Recommended to watch. MY RATING: 5/5

Cinema Movie: Homecoming (笑着回家)

Release Date: 19 January 2011
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English / Chinese
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 1 Hour 32 Minutes
Director: Lee Thean-jeen
Cast: Mark Lee, Afdlin Shauki, A Niu, Jack Neo, Jacelyn Tay, Huang Wenhong, Rebecca Lim, Koe Yeet

Synopsis:

HOMECOMING is a series of stories about family and what it means to go home. The characters, and their families in the stories, come from a diverse range of generations, races and social backgrounds. These characters are (or become) interlinked, either through blood, friendship or geography.

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My Comments: YES! Homecoming is what we are going to do during the Chinese New Year holidays where I will going back to my hometown to celebrate Chinese New Year with my parents. It was indeed a great moments every year and this is the movie we should watch druing the festive season. Today, ME & Kimmy spend the whole day at the Golden Triangle area to walk around while enjoying the beautiful decorations on shopping malls and of course to watch movie as well. We had watched this movie at GSC Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur and it's been a while where I stepped in Pavilion to watch movie. Out of our expectation, this movie is simply brilliant. I did not expect this movie to be good as it contains a great sense of humour for our Malaysian and Singaporean style.

This movie running time would be 90 minutes and out of the 60 minutes, I laugh non-stop at the cinemas as it serves a great jokes around especially during Chinese New Year season. This movie is full of jokes and of course the storyline was great too and easy to understand. The storyline stress about the journey home for reunion dinner and the obstacles they had encountered. It's all about family reunion and how to preserve the reunion tradition and it was indeed a happy movie to watch. You may bring your family or couple to watch this movie and remember to bring a lot of tissue papers because you will laugh until you cry! The casts of Jack Neo, Ah Niu and Afdlin Shauki makes a perfect combination and will bring maximum laughter for you too. It's a cheerful movie to watch for everyone and last but not least, wish you drive safely home for Chinese New Year! Enjoy the movie! MY RATING: 5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 5/5

Leisure: Chinese New Year Decorations 2011 at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur

Hello All,

Welcome back and of course we continued our journey after Pavilion KL to Berjaya Times Square to see the decorations there and it does not dissapoint us as well. We walked all the way to Berjaya Times Square from Pavilion KL to see the atmosphere there. This year theme would be "A Reunion Of Tradition" happening from 10th January to 17th February 2011. The crowd is so busy and so packed at Berjaya Times Square and we hardly have a time over there as shoppers began their shopping spree ahead of the Chinese New Year.

Once you stepped in the entrance of Berjaya Times Square, there will be a great tanglung displays and also a mini traditional hut displayed in front and you can take pictures over there. There will also be blossom flowers as well as some old vehicle displayed over there. Over at the centre court, you actually see a old traditional long chinese house displayed and in front of the house would be the reunion table where artificial food being displayed with a large table symbolizes the reunion where Chinese will gather among themselves a day before Chinese New Year. It was a great theme and do remember reunion dinner is the most important and please do go home for reunion dinner. It was a great decorations as well and I would recommend you come over here to check it out yourself. As usual, I will be displaying some photos over here and for the full photos view, please do check out my Facebook as well. Enjoy! MALL DECORATIONS RATING: 5/5