scrumptious brekky

after reading pixel's entry on pork bacon, i am so tempted for american breakfast and this morning, i've decided to have my brekky at strudels. although, they don't serve pork bacon but they served delicious turkey ham and sausages that tasted so much like the one in woolies, aussie.

both me and sm had the american breakfast that comes with a choice of either sausage or turkey ham, 2 slices of panini bread, egg (either omelette, sunny side, scramble), hash brown and a cup of free flow coffee or tea. it doesn't come with any fruits or orange juice as what pixel had in BKK but overall the servings were relatively big and it's enough to fill you up for the morning. on top of that, you'll get extra 10% discount off the bill when you pay by HSBC credit card.

so far, of all the american breakfast i've tried in hartamas area, strudels are highly recommended. recently, we've got a recommendation by sap to try out the breakfast at the delis in shoplex, mont kiara and will be looking forward to give it a try one day.

local news

have you ever noticed that our local news is full of tragic? i have been keeping track on our local news for almost 2 years and without failed, everyday, there's at least a couple of news with regards to accidents, rape and murdered. what is the problem with this country where it's supposed to be a harmony and peaceful country. my thoughts, malaysia is a wonderful country where we can have many races living in the same country without racism and why are we having such a high number of crimes. it's not easy at all to have so many races living in the same ground.

i was in brisbane, australia for almost 2 years during my uni days and i find it so hard to even come across with any tragic news in a week. having someone murdered or raped on the news is so rare and it's like a hot topic whenever there's one. anyway, we all do hope for the best of living in this country where tragic news like that should be reduced over the years and not increased.

cyborg name for you?

have you ever wonder what does your name or nickname means in terms of cyborg age? check it out at The Cyborg Name Generator. as for me, it sounded like below. it's kinda cool!!!

feeling worried?

have you ever been in a situation where all of a sudden you felt worried over something that you don't know. has it got to do with your mental imbalance? well, once in a while, i do felt that kind of worriness whether i'm at home, office, outdoor, with friends or without friends. whenever i'm in that kind of situation, i kept thinking very hard to find out what is the worries all about. the worries seems to relate to me very much rather than my family or friends. at the end, i just can't think of anything and i'm sure i pretty much thought of all possibilities. could it be my sixth sense telling me something bad is going to happen? i seriously don't know. that kind of feeling only last for a couple of hours or sometimes couple of minutes and it's all gone.

is it hard to park in the box?

i have always been asking myself that how hard is it to park your vehicle into a parking lot and does it requires a huge amount of time just to get it park properly. i noticed nowadays, especially the younger drivers, they don't seem to have the responsibility to make sure their vehicle is parked properly within the parking spot provided. common sense just doesn't exist in these people when they could park their vehicle all over to the next parking spot. eventually, this makes it hard for the other motorist to park their vehicle as some of the spaces were taken up.

this morning, i was having breakfast with sm and noticed this young lady was reversing into a parking spot without really looking at the space provided. as a result, her vehicle was parked over to the next spot. initially, i thought she would move forward and backward again to park in the spot but she just doesn't seem bothered at all. she turned of the ignition off, alighted from the vehicle and just walked away. to me, what's so difficult about parking it properly and it only takes you another minute or so. don't you think this makes it difficult for the motorist to get into the vehicle next to it. aren't they afraid of the other motorist would just step up to the car and give it a nice few scratches? man... this are the modern lazy buggers that have this thinking of 'tidak apa' or 'tak kisah la'!!!

no wonder there are more and more cases of vehicle windscreens got smashed, scratched and etc etc. it doesn't matter what vehicle you drive, as long as everyone keep in mind of such responsibility when driving on the road or parking their vehicle.

new life born to this world

it's such a wonderful day today as sm's second sister gave birth to a lovely baby girl at noon and the baby girl weighs over 7pounds. her mummy was admitted to the hospital early this morning around 4am when she felt the kicking by the baby girl. the baby girl have been given the name 'lee sze jea' where she's the latest addition to the family after alex and aleecea. will have to wait till end of the week before i could see her myself. congratulations to sm's family and also lee's family.

funny prank calls

yesterday, i received an email with a mp3 attachment and i downloaded it onto the laptop. it sounded to me like a well-planned prank call conversation but they were so real till no background laughters. the story was about a man A making prank calls to man B for a couple of times. man B got so frustrated and made a call back to man A. man B then verbally abused man A with very rude english and hokkien vulgar words. the 2 man exchanged vulgar words and furiously abused each other in the conversation till man A chicken out and had to apologise when man B forces him to do so.

while, i was browsing through a couple of blogs today and found that one of the blogger (BOUNCING ALONG IN LIFE) uploaded the prank call conversation on the internet. check it out and i bet you, it's FUNNY!!!

is she adorable?

by the way, she is sm's niece, she's only 17 months old and she's called 'aleecea'. took her out with sm to one of the shopping malls few weeks ago and it's definitely a good experience taking someone that young out for a couple of hours. hehehehe!!! nope, not planning for one soon.

authentic hainanese chicken rice

have you ever heard of the authentic hainanese chicken rice called "nam heong"? i bet you have. as some of you might already know that "nam heong" have been bought over by esquire kitchen in the recent years. personally, i find that it's not as good as before but some people would disagree with me as different people will have different food expectations.

the famous "nam heong" chicken rice started back in 1938 and in the recent years i found out that the original people whom used to run "nam heong" before it had been bought over is running a new chicken rice shop called "kai yong". it's still along jalan sultan where it's a few blocks from the "nam heong" chicken rice shop and personally, i think they serve a better and more authentic chicken rice where they don't have roast chicken. i am not promoting for them but just like to share my opinion on good and nice varieties of food to all chicken rice lover out there.


the thing that i don't like dining there is because it is not air conditioned compared to "nam heong" but for the society nowadays, they prefer a more comfortable and cooling place to dine in. for the older generations, i think they prefer good food than eating place conditions. i have heard stories from the older people saying, if you're a tourist and have not been to that place for chicken rice, basically, you have not been to kuala lumpur at all. hehehehehe!!! so, if you're somewhere in petaling street area, why not give it a go.

mooncake festival

it's the 15th day of the eight lunar month in the chinese calendar where chinese around the world celebrated mooncake festival or some called it mid autumn festival. it's a festival where adults prepared offerings such as mooncakes, fruits and etc to the Moon Lady also known as Chang-Er while the younger ones will play with their colorful bright lantern in the evenings. to know more about the mooncake festival historic values, check out this website. as for me, we haven't been celebrating this festival for quite some and normally what we would do is have dinner at a restaurant and mooncakes.

routine work

had a nice sleep last night after a scrumptious dinner at sakae sushi after my first time a couple of weeks ago. woke up at around 1020am and knowing that i have lots of time to do my usual cleaning routine as sm had gone out for a friend's wedding lunch and won't be back till late afternoon. so, i did my usual routine cleaning my fish tank, mopping the floor, hang the washing and clean my room.

after all the work, my stomach starts to make noise and i cooked myself a bowl of maccheroni with tomato purees. sat in front of the tv and start flicking through the channels till i came across jamie oliver's cooking show. his show is one of my favourites as he made cooking sounded and looked so easy and casual unlike other shows which is so monotonous and boring. today's recipe appeared to be something different as he's making the "japanese shabu shabu" and fried "gyoza" which this is the first time i've seen him cooking something asian. all his recipe looks fantastic and i've yet to try it on my own. hmmm... i think i should make something from his recipe book one day. hehe!!

change of template

there were some problems with viewing my blog using IE where the sidebar's alignment were all messed up and it only appears at the end of the blog page. this only happens when viewing using IE browser while Firefox have absolutely no problem. i had the same problem couple of weeks back and after altering the codes, i manged to fixed it. as for this time, i really had no idea what happened and even a friend of mine's blog that has the same template as mine have the same problem when viewing in IE.

  

as a result, i have tried to switch to another template to see whether is the template issue or browser. tried 2 templates and as expected, it still doesn't resolved the problem in IE but Firefox works just perfectly. then, i tried the current template and amazingly it works fine in both IE and firefox browsers. so, is it blogger, browser or the template that is causing all the alignment problems?

a diamond is forever

before today, i have no idea how to tell whether is a perfect diamond or not. after doing some reading over the internet, i have a rough idea on how does a perfect diamond is measured with the value. some of you might be thinking how come i am blogging about diamonds, am i getting married? well, the answer is simply "NO". it's just that i felt every men should know about diamonds as it comes handy when the time is right to do the thing.

there is actually 4 criterias to determine a diamond with its value. the 4Cs is "Cut, Color, Clarity and Carat" to be combined with a certificate that guarantees the authenticity of the diamond that you're buying.

Cut - refers to the cutting and angles of the diamond where a brilliance cut allows light to enters and dispersed back to the top of the facets. there are different types of shapes such as round brilliant, princess, heart, marquise and etc.

Color - most of the diamonds comes in white but diamonds are also found in all colors of rainbow. the colors of diamond are describe on a letter scale from D (colorless) to Z (tinted color).

Clarity - refers to the natural inclusions or birthmarks that is used to describe the diamond's clearness and purity. the inclusions requires a higher power magnification to be seen and not easily apparent to the eye. it is scaled from Flawless/Internally Flawless to Inclusions Visible to the Naked Eye.

Carat - refers to the weight and size that will determine the price of the diamond. points are often used to determine the carats where 100 points is equivalent to 1 carat. 2 of the same carat diamond comes in difference price where the cut, color and clarity differs.

there are a couple of organisation that issues certificates of authenticity for diamonds such as GIA (Gemological Institute of America, New York & Carlsbad), HRD (Hoge Raad voor Diamant) and etc. i found this tutorial on the internet that guides you in buying a diamond.

she's got it!!

today, all of a sudden my colleague, MY, called out my name and turned to me, she said "I'VE GOT IT". at first, i was so puzzled what does she meant by that. after some thought, finally, i got it and i'm so happy for her because she have been granted the australian permanent residence status after a year long of application.

i remember we were talking about it a couple of weeks ago and it's taking a long time for processing and wondered whether is it rejected. all the wait has proven after receiving an official letter by the dimia. i'm so happy for her after knowing that she was quite worried during the initial phase of application. so, MY, WELL DONE!!!!

airbags on bikes?

i was reading at gizmodo today till i came across this article of motorcycle having airbags. does it really works? well, i don't think it will work as not all motorcycle comes with a back rest for the riders. the airbag works fine when a motorcycle come with a back rest especially the bike hits hard on the front that triggers the airbag. when one doesn't have a back rest, imagine the airbag knocking the rider to plunge backwards that will eventually causes more impact and injuries.

ex5 or c70 with airbag?? nah.. i don't think so!!

911 4th memorial

it has been 4 years since united states of america was landed on a serious terrorist attack that claims 2749 of innocent lives when 2 US hijacked planes crushed their way into the world trade center twin building. within minutes of the crashes, both the building collapse to ground zero. another 2 US hijacked planes crushing into the pentagon and a field in pennsylvania claiming nearly 3000 lives in total.

this morning at 846am, 903am, 959am and 1029am (EDT), families and americans gathered at the floor of the 16-acre site, which remains virtually empty after the attack felt into silence to remember their loved ones that perish in the attack.

we all pray for the terror to stop so that everyone in this world could live in peace and harmony.

what went wrong??

i have always wanted to bake a cake using our newly bought panasonic 1.8lt rice cooker as it comes with cooking, steaming, heating and baking functionality. i was thinking about it for a couple of days until i decided to bake a 'orange butter cake' using the recipe provided with the rice cooker. so happen that sm's friend had organised a 'pot luck' moon cake festival dinner tonight and i told sm that i will be baking a cake for it.

had all the ingredients and tools prepared last night before i go to bed and this morning i woke up around 830am and started measuring the flour, sugar, butter and etc etc. seriously, i have not baked anything using a rice cooker before and this is my first time doing it. after getting the right measurement of the ingredients, i started putting them into the mixer and start mixing them according to the recipe. when it's all mixed up, i pour them into the rice cooker jar spread with greasy butter. the function was set to 'cake' and the timer was set to 50 mins and the baking process started. hoping that it will turned as what mentioned in the recipe, i then went out for a quick breakfast while waiting for it to baked.

had my brekky, came home, baking is all done and i took it out to be left cool for about 2 to 3 mins. after it settled down for a while, i inverted the jar to get the cake out onto a plate. the cake doesn't look pleasent where it sort of got burnt a bit and some cracks. so far so good and after a while i decided to cut a slice to see how it looks like beneath. oh crap!!!! it's not spongy at all and the texture looks like those 'kuih-muih' and hard. the taste was alright where there's this fragrant smell of orange but the texture does taste weird. i was wondering to myself, 'is there anything that i missed out or did i not mix them through enough?'. oh well, what the heck!!

i, then decided to bake another one to see what's the problem since it doesn't take long and tedious to do it. this time, sm was kind enough to offer her help as she used to bake a lot those days. so, with her overlooking what i am doing according to the recipe, the chances of going wrong is pretty low. so, i started everything all over again with the measuring of stuffs, mixing them in a mixer, setting the function and the timer right and bake.

50 mins pass and the baking was all done. same as what i have done during the first baking, left it cool for a couple of mins and then invert it out of the jar. this time, it looked much better than the first one where there's this spongy bit on the top of the cake. waited for a while before i started cutting it into slices and this time it screwed up again!!! damm!!! "what went wrong??". although, it's a bit better where there's a small layer of cake and the rest is exactly the same as before while the texture is still not as soft as a cake.

earlier, we suspected of the mixing of ingredients but now it's almost the same and we just can't figure out what's the problem. it could be the mixing or the self-raising flour. that's it!! i had enough of baking now and i will not use that rice cooker to bake cakes anymore. still oven is more reliable and now i have to think of what dish am i going to bring over for tonight's dinner.

time is running out and it's already 3pm and i have FAILED miserably twice in a row for the day. after a long thought, what about soup? we need a little bit of starters before the heavy meal. well, my alternative is cooking a pot of 'extra creamy mushroom soup' with additional large button mushroom. considering the amount of hours left and ingredients available before the dinner, that's what i did. thank god that this time it came out perfectly as what i wanted.

rm 1 coins

ever since the national bank has announced that RM1 coins will not be legal for tenders starting from december 7th, malaysians already started having problems in exchanging them into notes in banks where a lot of the banks in klang valleyis not accepting them and claiming them as fake coins. even though if the banks accepted them, those that is found fake are confiscated. in a consumer point ofview, how on earth do we tell it's genuine or fake. this is the mentality of some people being irresponsible in this matter and the banks are not providing the proper service to people. as mentioned by our deputy finance minister, all RM1 coins are still legal and should not be rejected by banks or traders, whythe banks are putting a hold on this issue. this eventually causes more dissatisfactions among the consumers.

"Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said traders and banks should not reject the coins as they were still legal tender until Dec 6, adding that the public should exchange the coins before the deadline."

“I assure everyone that the RM1 coin is still legal tender and there is no reason for banks or anyone to refuse to accept it or to set conditions before accepting it,” Dr Ng said here yesterday.

as a result from that, most of the food outlets are giving changes of RM1 coins to their customers and how is the customer going to exchange it into notes. this just doesn't make any sense and believe it or not, even the neighbourhood's bread seller is not accepting any RM1 coins.

sources taken from thestar

sleeping problem

been having sleeping problems nowadays as no matter how early or how tired, i just can't sleep well for the full 8 hours. in a week, probably i would say only 1 or 2 days that i can sleep tight without getting up in the middle of the night and stay awake for another few hours. this morning, it started to rain at around 330am and it was the best condition to get a comfortable sleep but i just can't sleep again after i was awake from the thunder noise. then later in the evening around 3 to 4pm, that's when i started yawning and feeling sleepy. it seems that my sleeping clock is all screwed up. wonder why this happens to me all of a suddent. insomnia maybe? i hope not.

back @ work

after 2 days of medical leave, here i am back at work feeling tired and my body is still aching from the sickness i had over the weekend. traffic to work is absolutely terrible and we took more than an hour to get to office where usually, it takes around 30 minutes. initially, we thought that there might be an accident occured somewhere along jalan duta that causes the massive crawl. later when we were able to get to jalan duta, there's not even any accident but a bunch of morons cutting 'Q' along jalan duta exiting to damansara heights. there were a total of 4 lanes when all 3 lanes were stuffed with cars trying to get to the exit leaving the only lane heading towards jalan kuching. it's really pathetic to see drivers cutting in and out the 'Q' just to get in front of others. if everyone were to follow their 'Q', i bet you the traffic would definitely smoothen. that's enough of frustration for the morning.

got into office and luckily there isn't much for me to catch up over the 2 days of absence. had a short meeting with the team before lunch and seems that there's nothing much to work on at the mean time. just got back from lunch and it is fuming hot out there from the walk to and back sri hartamas. guess i need some time to settle down and if possible, a nap would be good. hehehehe!!!

lunch @ 84 years old cafe

here i am blogging about food again and this time we went for lunch at this 84 years old cafe in town. "coliseum cafe & hotel" has been around since 1921 and it's located along jalan tuanku abdul rahman where it's next to the coliseum cinema. noticed that it's not just a cafe but a small budget hotel with capacity of 10 rooms which consists of both air condition and non. the hotel is located on the first floor while the cafe and bar is at the ground floor. room rates are as low as RM28 while the highest is RM45 per night.

this isn't my first time there but it's been almost well over 2 years i haven't been there. the decor still looks the same where the left section of the cafe is where the bar counter and old wooden lounge is while the right section is where people dine for food. if i'm not mistaken, it holds quite a large capacity of tables that extends the dining area till the back section of the cafe. in the menu, they have well over 200 dishes with varities of both local and western cuisines. you will be surprise when you looked at how thick the menu is and the drinks menu is fantastic where you can get almost every cocktails or mocktails that you can ever named.

as a start, we were served 2 sets of bread with butter. the best part of this is the butter that tasted a bit salty and it's just perfect when it is spread all over the bread. everytime we were there, that's the first thing we ever wanter to have. we tried looking for the butter from all over the supermarkets and the one that comes closest to it was the "SCS" butter. tried asking the captain there and he just wouldn't want to give any clues. ordering for me today is a blunder as i did not really look into the description of the dish that i have chosen. this is very unlikely to happen to me when ordering as i will take some time but today i just ordered "chicken ala king" without knowing what it is. besides that, i ordered a tom yam soup which is one of their specialties and a glass of fresh orange juice. mom had sizzling lamb with black pepper sauce while dad has his all the time favourite fish n chips. my cousin tasted their spaghetti bolognaise and my aunty tried the grilled chicken.


it didn't take long for our food to served and when mine was served, it's actually a rice casserole. it's fried rice together with roast chicken breast, prawns and button mushroom served in white sauce. although, that's not really what i expected but it tasted very nice with combinations of chinese and western cuisine. another highlight of the dishes were the sizzling lamb where it's cooked in the kitchen but it will not be served onto the sizzling hot plate until it's about to be served. so, the waiter brought the sizzling hot plate and the rest of the dishes out on a tray and then started placing the meat and veges onto the hot plate and pour the black pepper sauce over it. it then causes a huge thick smoke in the cafe and definitely this is not something that other restaurants will do due to the oil smell and discomfort to other patrons. perhaps, this have been their serving tradition since the early days.


so, people, if you want to dine there and whether or not you ordered any sizzling dishes, don't wear your favourite armani or kenneth cole shirts there otherwise be prepared to stink. the most important thing is the food quality that is maintained all the while and up till today, it still taste excellent after so many years. this is a place where it's highly recommended and the price is reasonable for whatever food is in the menu.

dad's birthday dinner

today, we celebrated dad's chinese calendar birthday while the actual day is on the 8th september. prior to tonight's dinner, we had plans of getting couple of relatives and friends for the dinner which would be held at my uncle's restaurant sri permaisuri in bandar sri permaisuri. due to a busy week for my parents, we decided not to invite anyone whilst we only have a simple family dinner as part of the celebration.

we had a late dinner earlier with only myself, sm, parents, aunty, cousin and wife. when we arrived at the restaurant, so happen that my uncle whom owns the restaurant was there having his dinner and later he joined us for chats and drinks. we ordered quite a number of dishes such as crab meat sharkfin, steam pomfret fish, chinese wine prawn, fried squid, bean curd fish paste with sprinkle of salted egg yolk, fried noodle with crab, salted egg yolk mud crab and long life noodles ("cheong sau mee"). i was too busy eating the delicious stuffs till i forgotten to take photos.


towards the end of the dinner, we were served fruits and surprisingly there was a birthday cake prepared by my uncle and his colleague without us knowing anything about it. yeah!! you can say it as a surprise for my dad. there we go, sing the happy birthday song and enjoyed the surprise cake. the most important thing is that dad enjoys the night and the companies.

house frankfurt

left the office around 630pm today and still not knowing where to go and what to have for dinner. we had a couple of options in mind and all of them is around bangsar area. the options were opus bistro, la bodega, bakerzin, basil, telawi street bistro and house frankfurt. as we drove past bsc, we finally made the decision to dine at opus bistro since i felt a bit on italian.

we were lucky to get a park right in front of opus bistro as normally it's packed. probably we were the early ones to have dinner around 7pm. the restaurant were quiet and when we entered, there were 2 waiters sitting near the bar area and expecting us to find our own seat. on the other hand, we were expecting them to get us a seat which is the normal service. however, none of the waiter served till we had to approach them. i was so pissed with their attitude and what makes it worst is that, the whole place was booked for the night. i was even more pissed after that as shouldn't you approach your customer even before they entered the restaurant. on the spot, i told sm, let's go to some other place then. even waiters in mamak stall does a better service than them.

there we go again in my car heading towards telawi area where we are lucky again to get a park by the roadside. we then walked past a couple of restaurant till we stop by at telawi st bistro, looked at the menu and found nothing interesting. right across tsb is where this german restaurant called house frankfurt is and i recalled that i've once promised to take sm there for dinner to try out their "grilled pork knuckles". so, we finally decided to dine there and there were quite a number of germans already knocking off some german beers.

the decor of the place was simple and nice where it has the bar over on the left while the dining tables and partitions was on the right. on the walls, it is well decorated with those older days german celebrities and also politicians. the light was dim and the ambience was filled with german accents. the washrooms walls were also decorated with photos and articles taken from magazines where there's 2 particular article, it was taken from a nudity magazine (playboy). at first, i wasn't too comfy with the environment because the air condition wasn't cool enough and the fan was set a low speed. it took me a while to settle down while both of us look into the menu on what to order.

               

it didn't took us long to get what we wanted as we always wanted to try the huge portion of "grilled pork knuckles" that is enough for 2 person. both myself and sm ordered a portion of the pork knuckles to start with. it comes with a choice of either mashed potatoes, baked potatoes or fries and some pickled veges and melon. as for drinks, both of us had ice water while i ordered a bottle of german's warsteiner. it took about 15mins before the food is served and the very first impression is it doesn't look huge at all and even one person will be able to finish it. we only knew that i am totally wrong with my impression when we were 3/4 in finishing it. by the end of it, we knew that we had enough and no more room for any other food or even desserts.

towards the end of the dinner, i knew that i wasn't feeling right because there's this early symptoms of flu and cold. i just couldn't stop sneezing away till we left the restaurant. it gets even worst while we were taking a short walk in bsv and i just felt weak and my body starts to give way. it was an early night for both of us and sm decided to go home so that i can rest well.

had some flu medicine after my shower a while ago and hopefully i'll get better tomorow!!!

the hospital wall

just want to share this with everyone as i find it very meaningful and one should cheerish what they have at every moment of their lives. every day is a new day and bonus to every mortal in this living planet.

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

"Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."

table story book

this morning, as usual after we park the car, me and sm had our brekky at this mamak shop called spicy kitchen in desa sri hartamas. the were a lot of crowd this morning and we got a place to sit. upon i sat down, i noticed that there's this billboard that is glued to the table surface. initially i thought it's another telco advertising material just like on the other tables.

               

then later i found out that it's actually a short story taken from a story book. the story is based on a book from the "silverfish book" store in bangsar. i find this concept very interesting as it does encourage people to build the habit of reading even though they don't hold something physical in hand. on the other hand, it provides the ability to advertise on books from different book stores.