Jom Mari Makan ...

This happen when I was driving back from my warehouse at Shah Alam. The Wize (Android GPS) was telling me to detour from my usual way back home and to use USJ route, and I ended up near my friend's house. Instead of getting traffic jam all the way back, I decided to give him a call...  

Ding! Ding! he was at home ... So early!? Normally, he will be in his office at that time ? But, to my surprise, he was at home early.

Later, I found out that the reason he was at home is because he bought himself a new toy loh, (I sounded so jealous), Samsung Note8. No wonder .... he was rushing home to unbox his new toy lah ...

Wait!! Why am I sounded so kapoh to write about him and his new toy?? 

Haha!! That is not the point!!

Actually, I just want to say, we must have friends around us, it is good to call them out once in a while for "yam char" ... don't lah be so lonely stay home watch T.V ....

Okay ... if you are reading this blog, please stop and go out to call your friend for a yam char session !!

Hahahaha .... Bye.

Note : 
Yam Char - It means go out for a meal / drinks
Kapor means busy body

First Dinner with Friends in New Year 2013

Wow ...

Wow ...Wow ... 

a dinner that cost everyone RM80.00 ( to be correct, need to x 5 ... hahaha)

Just five of us, we really know how to "wallop" food. Look at the amount of dishes that we have on the table plus refill a few times.... we can really eat. We are so so full after the dinner.

By serving all side dishes (it called banchan in Korean)at the same time is the Korean style of eating, it is not like the western food divides appetizer and main course clearly, or like the Chinese dishes which come out one by one ... the Korean like to send all dishes out at the same time ....

Well, no complain about the RM80 ...(although we think is expensive), but personally, I think it is well spent.

Why???

Well, the worthiness is not based on how nice the Korean food is, in fact my personal opinion think that the taste of Korean food is so so only (not used to the taste of kimchi) ... 

It is also not because we celebrating someone birthday and we buy him an NG bag as gift !!?  (kekekeke, some of you may know what I mean ...)

Or ... It is not we are enjoying a first class service in the restaurant ? 

No No No ...

Then ?

The money was well spent because we were having a good time with good company in a simple dinner. 

Just a simple reason :)

Good dinner + Good friendship = Good time = Worthiness 

Nowadays, good friends are hard to find. Especially we came across many disheartening stories how a good friendship ruined simply because one is hurting another ....

I am graceful because I have friends that share common interest and very "chin-chai" (accommodating) but caring with one another. We do enjoy each other company. We sometime gossiping about things that happen surrounding us. We sometime motivate if one having difficulty ...

That's what friends are for .... 

A true friendship is to build and not to destroy !!

Well, the dinner is awesome ....

better said that because we are paying so much ... hahahaha

I don't recall I have taken typical Korean food before, i think this was my first time eating a transitional style that many side dishes being served at the same time ....

The BBQ meats were very tasty and tender ... the meat texture was just nice and not over cooked, and very juicy too. Thanks to the experience waiter that grilled with right timing ... very good customer service too ...

All my friends there are crazy about instax camera ... so we ended up taken two photos for memory ...

ops ... 

Why is the Hokkaido Cake there? A Japanese cake in a Korean restaurant ?

Invasion of country !!? LOLs..

Hahahaha ...

Thank to Mr Yeow who bought Hokkaido Cake for everyone ... 

They are yummy :)

Okay ... time to go .... 

Emm .. before that, if you think the photo is not up to your expectation, because it was taken using my hanphone camera ... the quality of the photos are so so loh ... 

I am okay even a blur shot because I don't set my standard too high until I become pressurized by it 

or got possess by it .... 

I control photography and not photography control me ...


Hahahaha ...

Bye .... time to sleep!!


잘있어

당신을 다시 보게 ...
 

Happy Steamboat

Steamboat is the famous cooking style among Chinese. It is a way of enjoy our meal by a group of friends or family seated together on a round table, at the center of the table, a hotpot of simmering soup will be placed there. Then we will add in raw ingradinets such as sliced meat, lefty vegetables, seafood, wantan, dumplings, fish balls, mushroom, noodle and many more .... The soup usually is chicken stock but some of us love to replace with curry soup or tong yam thai soup ... Wow! hot and spicy !! That the best way of enjoying our meal!! While chatting with friends, we are cooking the food directly on the hotpot.

Yummy !!

I don't really like steamboat because of the heat, I prefer having it up in Cameron Highland where the place is cooling. Nevertheless, this steamboat I'm having is damn great and yummy. Is not the steamboat but is the people that made it great!!

I even called it a "happy" Steamboat dinner ... why!!?

Simply because I am having dinner with a group of awesome buddies, my camera buddies !! BTW, thanks to Koon Yik for buying this dinner. The reason that he is buying us dinner because the hit rates on his blog review on EP3 Olympus Camera achieved his target.

 Look yummy, isn't it

 Added onto the hot pot, surely yummy. Yeow is really happy, laughing loudly. He brings many joy to us... He always the center attraction.

This is the three fellow I used to have secret TT ... hahaha... Mun Keat, Yeow and Simon ... the three KAI SIN KUO, it means happy fruits that bring joy to many.

Ban ! ban! The fanny side of Simon.

Yong always has his won unique character ... you you .. I unfriend you !!

Wonder why is Koon Yik keep clapping his hands ... maybe he is giving himself a pat at the shoulder  ... Brovo.. , well done for hitting the hit rates in the blog review !!


Thian Jin is expert in buying cameras ... from E620, to EPL1, then E5 and now he is having EP3 ... one of the expert in photography.

Robin is my friend cum my mentor in photography, he has tough me many things about photography. BTW, Robin is very famous in Blogging, quite international standard liao, many people know about him and his review. And meow meow (Gerald) is very friendly to others. I think he has the most patience heart ... both are from East Malaysia.

CCC is the only fellow without PEN, but we still welcome him because he is a very nice person .... we all hope one day he can repent and return to PEN family ... Wakakakaka !!

In fact, I have taken many photos during that night ... however, it is impossible to attach all photos in this blog. Therefore, I decided to upload all those photos to my flickr accounts and copy the html code link to my blog so that you too, can share the happy moments with us.

The End :)

That's what friends are for ...

Ring, Ring …. “ Hello Hello …… “

“…. Okay Okay !! … Let go Yam Char …. “

The above is the conversation that someone is calling you to “Yam Char”. (It is a Cantonese word of “drinking tea” and it actually means your friend is calling you out for a social gathering)

When somebody called you to Yam Char, you are blessed because it means you have friend(s). For me, we human cannot live alone. We all need friends. Off course there are people prefer to be alone who dislike mixing around. But generally, they are considered less happy people, usually shy or introvert or maybe a bit of low self-esteem ….. or maybe outright lazy to go out… rather to be the slave of the T.V !!!! Wakakaka …

(Ops !! seeing a few rotten eggs throwing from far to meeeeeee……!!! Blusttttttt !! )

See!! If you are presently having this kind of thinking in your mind, refute my statement cum feeling to throw rotten eggs to me, you are fit into my description of the above that you are an unhappy person ……. hee hee!

(Ops … RUNnnnnn-ahhhh!! …. instead of rotten eggs … this round knifes were throwing in ………………………………….)

Friends - Everyone needs friends, especially during difficult times.

A true friendship is a relationship that survives during tribulations or crisis moments. When a friendship was established base on materialistic driven or merely enjoyment, it is not a true friendship because it can be easily disappeared or challenged during a crisis time.

For me, a true friendship exists when you can freely share your thoughts (or problem) and be comfortable with emotional safety with the other person. A true friendship is you can share your common interest with one another and had mutual respect on the uniqueness of individual characters. A true friendship is beyond hanging around for good moment, but rather it is the moment that someone willingly gives you a helping hand when you are in the worst phase of life.

Recently, a friend is in his worst phase of life due to certain reasons. But I have seen many of his friends showing support and concern to him. Words of encouragement have been flying in non-stop in fb / sms trying to encourage him. Even some called for Yam Char session to console and cheer him up.

Sometime, your friend may not able to resolve the problem you face, but lending you their listening ears would reduce some tensions, at least when you are feeling relieve, you would have a better state of mind to deal with the issue.

Even for me, I have some issues that troubling me and today, I receive some messages from my friends…  …

One says ...

“Don’t think too much …. We are behind both of you !!!”

Another one says ….

“Steady bro. We are behind you.”

Well, isn’t life become sweeter when you have friends like that?

Isn’t it like having a glass of cold water when you are under a hot sun?

Wow … that's what friends are for ….. 




Hehehehe ……

(As for the rest of my friends which are not up in the blog ... I hope you won't mind. But if you are, please call me lah, I can take your funiest face and then do a highlight of you in my Blog ... Wakakakaka [evil laugh] ......)

Yam Char De-stress Therapy-loh

I don't think anyone can live alone, beside family members, we need friends ... The best thing is to have friends that share common interest and can enjoy each other company ... has same common topic to chat about .. no obligation thingi like office colleagues ... Sometime, do things that is out of the normal or usual routine..... Can do some crazy stuffs once in a while .. hehehehe ....

Life can be simple and easily contented ... just call up a few friends and go "Yam Char". (It means "drinking" but not refering to alcohor but more like having tea / coffee with friends).

Well, after a few days of bad news bombarded. Today, I'm going to forget about it because I have called a few of my friends from "Pen Lovers" group for Yam Char ...

These are a bunch of boys (got girls juga but mostly boys lah) who love photography so much and all owned an Olympus Pen camera .... We used to have "TT (Teh-tarik Session)", a form of group photowalk outing to capture anything that catches our eyes, then we share and comment each other photos in facebook ...

.... so, who said life must be complicated and lonely.

.... If you are lonely, go and buy an Olympus Pen Camera EPL-2 and join us.

.... Emmmm...

.... Wonder would I get commission from Olympus since I so hard sell their cameras ... wakakakak.

Hahahaha ....