KL Motor Show 2010

THE Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show (KLIMS) has finally come to an end after 10 days of exhibition at the Putra World Trade Center. It's been a long time I never been to PWTC, since the last PC Fair held here.

On last Tuesday I went to the motor show with Karen and David who was still in KL. It was a public holiday therefore we had to pay for the usual adult ticket (RM20) instead of the student price (RM5). But we got ourselves a chance of lucky draw contest.

Previously I've been to the motor show in Singapore but not the one in KL. So let the photos speak for themselves:

The grand prize of the lucky draw contest - Toyota Prius

Inside Hall 1, we got to see the much anticipated Proton Inspira or better yet known as Malaysian version of Mitsubishi Lancer.

The Lotus Espirit, looking smart.

Fullhouse Cafe and T-Bowl Restaurant

DURING the two weeks in KL before my intern starts, I've visited two interested eating place in town, Fullhouse and the T-Bowl Resaurant.

1) Fullhouse Cafe @ nearby KLCC

I was told by my sis that this lifestyle store+cafe located at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng is not far from the KLCC area and she kept asking me to bring her there the moment I came back from UTM. So I asked Lim and Jim to tag along since they are staying nearby my house. At the same time I can show Jim around KL at night.

Welcome to Fullhouse

That's Lim and Jim saying 'Hi!'

My sis happily surfing the net. They have free wifi too

I find the menu there quite interesting:

How does this look like a menu to you?

End of Semester

IT looks like I only blog once every semester. Yes, the sem has finally come to the end! I've just submitted my studio work and the topical study report which took me two semester to complete.

Hard cover bound report. Satisfaction! =)

Basically for this topical study report we had to study and to do a research on a topic we picked related to our course. Well for me, this is the topic that I chose:

It is something like a thesis report. As for this I'm already suffer enough cuz I don't like to write reports. How la I'm gonna survive my thesis year next sem.

One copy for the lecturer and the other for my supervisor, Dr Zin

Nevertheless, I'm glad its all over!

Then we have our studio work. This semester we are in the urban unit therefore it covers a larger scale and context compare to the previous ones. My given site is in Ringlet, Cameron Highlands (where we visited there early of the semester to do our site analysis) and for the final project I'm doing a market place at the particular site.

The results/hardwork/outcome:

My market of many shops

Architectural Houses and Korean Dinner

DURING the Raya break I was back at KL with Ning. One day we've decided to tour around some area where I seldom been, some area that has beautiful houses. Ya know, those houses that goes BOOM and shout 'ME'!

Talking about nice houses, I will usually think of Damansara Height, Bukit Damansara or the Bangsar area. These areas have a higher number of bungalows and nice mansions. I suppose many Datuks or angmohs are staying around there.

So off we go!!!

Referring map for location

I came from the road Jalan Istana towards Jalan Damansara, passing by the Istana Negara, National Museum and Galleria Sri Perdana (residence of Tun Mahathir from year 1983-1999). There you'll find interesting houses and surprisingly the area is kinda secluded and there are many trees along that hilly area.

 This is Idamansara at Damansara Heights

 

 A Castle-like house

 

I call this the louver house =) 

Then we have one that looks like a...ship?

Coming out from Damansara Heights to the Pusat Bandar Damansara (PBD), we then continued to Bukit Damansara at the other side of PBD. It is another hilly area where they are many houses built along the steep, contour area.

 

 Such as this one

 

 This cantilevered house can be seen from Jalan Beringin

 

The National Science Centre which is also located nearby at Mont Kiara

There is one particular highlight for our jalan-jalan cari rumah - the YTL Residence. Previously I was searching for this HUGE mansion owned and resided by the three generation of Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay and luckily I found it. This time I wanted to brought Ning to see the house.

 

There is a security at the entrance

I didn't take much of its photo fearing that the guard will come and stop us. The only photos of the inside  I could get is from the internet. Amazing house you can find in Malaysia huh. It is just unbelievable!

 (Source) Click here for more info

 

(Source) Look at the scale between the snake-like house and its neighbouring mansions

Later on, we headed to Mont Kiara since we were nearby the area. I saw an APT hair saloon and decided to had my haircut there. RM25 for cut and wash by junior stylist. And I pretty much like it!

lalala~

 Hello, it's me. BOOM!

After the haircut, I brought Ning to Plaza Mont Kiara for a Korean meal. That was actual the plan for bringing her out for a dinner. However to my dissapointment the restaurant where I planned to bring her was under renovation (or closed down I don't know) so we changed to another location in Desa Sri Hartamas.

 

Sura - One of the restaurant the hairdresser recommended me earlier

 

Ooo..use charcoal one

 

 Hungry Ning

 

 Starving me

There was only us and another table of people in the restaurant. My guess it because it was a weekday, hence the less customer. Anyway, we ordered one set of beef and another set of pork as recommended by the waiter. So here goes:

 

 As usual, Korean meal comes with lots of side dishes

 

 Steamed egg

 

BBQ beef

Roll-up the beef filled lettuce with some sause

 

 We couldn't finished the side dishes as it was already close to full

Fruits and dessert are served after the meal

Feeling Jitty Again

AHHH… It’s been weeks (or months?) since the death of MJ and looks like my blog is dead as well. Hah, don’t worry it hasn’t. I have been keeping myself busy with….erm, FACEBOOK, in particularly the Happy Farm and Restaurant City. I have been working non-stop as a farmer as well as a restaurant manager cum waiter cum cleaner. Life is hard, isn’t it.

Anyway, today I am feeling 'jitty' so I’ve decided to write something here. Let me just post up some photos taken during the last weekend. I went back to KL cuz the National Day was on Monday. In fact, I went back home last Wednesday after the Japanese class so that I will have a longer holiday. Yup, I am taking Japanese language again and by the end of this year I will sit for the Japanese Proficiency Test Level 4 (JLPT4) together with Ning. わたしのこいびと　＾＾

Last Wednesday, Choon Wah, Ning and I headed to KL at around 7pm by Ning’s car. My car has been sent for service following a minor accident in the campus car park two weeks ago. The front part of the car was slightly crushed.

 An unfortunate day

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On Thursday, I brought Ning to the aquarium shop opposite my house and she was delighted to see so many fishes especially the guppy. There were many female guppy with nice red colour tail. Sadly we couldn’t  manage to buy some back as the shop hasn’t open on the day we wanted to return to UTM.

At night, we went to Low Yat Plaza cuz I have wanted to get an external hard disk for since a long time ago. I got the 320GB Western Digital with a 2.5” Cooler Master casing. Then I swapped the hard disk with the 120GB one in my laptop.

 

I need more storage

  

Always cool

After that we went for some doughnuts at the Times Square's Krismy Kreme. We stayed there for a while and I played Happy Fedarm surf the internet with my laptop as there is free WIFI.

 

Heavenly sweet

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On Friday, Ning and I met up with Choon Wah at KLCC before going to the Bookfest at the convention centre. This is also the reason why we wanted to go back to KL at first – to visit the largest annual bookfair in Malaysia. In KL, I could see many people wearing masks fearing that the Ahini virus might spread.

 

We went by LRT

  

Bookfest @ KLCC

I bought a book by Steven Hawking 'The Universe in a Nutshell' It talks about general relativity and quantum theory which I've always been interested since I was young. Also I got myself a chinese version of D.K. Ching reference book. Ning bought an animal encyclopedia and a comic. Choon Wah bought a VRay rendering tutorial as well as an architectural handbook. We had pizza for lunch. Only then I realised the menu of Pizza Hut in KLCC is different from the other outlets.

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On Saturday, Ning wanted to meet up with her hometown friends studying in IMU and UKM - Bibi and Ing Ing. And MidValley was the meeting spot. I was quite impressed with the Raya decoration in the mall. Everything was so Lat/comic/paper-like. *thumbs up* =)

  

See?

  

Chicky chicky

  

Ah, reminds me of the measured drawing days

  

L-R: TBK, Bibi zai, Ing Ing, Ning and me

For dinner, Bibi zai insisted going to Chili's Grill & Bar and there was a lot of people queuing up the line outside the restaurant. I put down my name and the guy told us to come back in another 1 hour. Good food always come after a long wait. Here are what we ordered that night:

  

Lamb Shoulder

  

Country-Fried Chicken Crispers

  

  

Monterey Chicken

After a satisfying meal, Ning and I said goodbye to her friends and we went to Wisma MCA for a charity concert organised the Buddhist Society. Earlier, Tiong invited us there as he will be singing on that night.

  

This will be aired on Astro AEC during the Mooncake festival

 

Rynn Lim (林宇中) was one of the guests

However it was already late when we reached there and therefore we watched for a while before leaving the hall. Didn't get the chance to watch Tiong performing on stage.

I think I shall stop for now as I'm getting a lil tired+sleepy already. To be continued soon... =)