January 2009

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• Beef Tripe Noodle

  01.26.09 | Permalink |Food, Travel| Comments Off on Beef Tripe Noodle

  I miss this! If you are in Hong Kong, you must try the Beef Tripe Noodle. It is very tasty and the noodle is superb. It is very different from the Vietnamese style. The soup is made tasty with boiling the beef tripe or brisket in it. It is almost like a beef stew.

  One thing that is missing is that the shop does not provide a good chili sauce to go with it. It will be absolutely perfect with chili sauce. I wonder when I can have it again.

  
  
  

• Shopping Frustration

  01.22.09 | Permalink |Shopping| Comments Off on Shopping Frustration

  I went into Guardian Pharmacy during lunch and was looking for some vitamins for my children. Look!

  
  
  

  They expect us to see through boxes. Sigh, I would say a shop who does not want to sell their vitamins. It makes no sense. This is not the first time I am encountering this and I find this in a lot of Malaysian shops. I often find that stocks are all over the place, sometimes when I am walking into an aisle and I will find boxes right in the middle of the aisle. If you are not looking, you can trip over it. It can be very hazardous.

  Besides that, you find people pushing boxes of stock in and out especially when it is crowded with shoppers.

  Next, I hate shopping for vitamins because you get promoters coming to you and never leave you along until you walk away from the vitamins section. I really have phobia with promoters.

  Maybe I should start an online vitamins store for people who are like me. My friend just got 25 bottles of vitamins from the states. Yeah it is really cheap in the States. Those vitamins are FDA approved too. However he got tax by the custom. No escape for him.

• Miss This

  01.19.09 | Permalink |Food| 2 Comments

  I missed the KL “G Cheong Fun”. The way Penang does they “G Cheong Fun” is so different. It took me a long time to get used to the dark prawn paste with the “G Cheong Fun”. The KL style is very different with fish ball, lady finger, brinjal and fried bean curd. Yummy!!!

  I ate that for breakfast almost every week in school. I remember that the store owner always give me extra fish ball. She is a very kind lady. I remembered once I forgot to bring money, she told me to pay her tomorrow. After finishing the “G Cheong Fun”, with the left over sauce, she puts soup on the plate for me. I love sipping the soup. Simply delicious!!!

  
  
  

• Not My Day

  01.15.09 | Permalink |Myself, Technology| Comments Off on Not My Day

  
  
  

  Two days ago, someone called me up to say there is a big problem with his PC. He told me that all his web applications cannot run. He was blaming the network, he has to blame something right. It wasn’t the network as I tried accessing some URL and it was successful.

  Next, he told me it was the application problem. It cannot be because 3 web applications cannot run. After I did some troubleshooting, I found out the scripting doesn’t work on the browser. Conclusion, the browser was the culprit. I checked the setting to ensure scripting is enabled and even set the lowest security. The browser still remains problematic.

  After a few hours of troubleshooting and running out of workable idea, I asked him to install firefox. With firefox, all his web applications work.

  However, he still needs the IE to be fixed. Today basically I asked him to reformat the PC because the IE is corrupted big time. He even installed IE7 and still all his applications didn’t work. Funny thing is that there is no version, product id and info showing in the IE about box.

  Oh well, I didn’t give up and thought maybe reapplying XP Service Pack 2, it may get it to work. After applying the XP Service Pack 2, it restarted the PC. Now it is still in processing mode and never got to the login screen, after an hour. Bumma, now he really has to reformat the PC. It is just not my day with fixing things.

  I am still keeping my finger cross, that it will complete processing and go to the login screen. Tomorrow will be a new day!

• Parking Woes

  01.04.09 | Permalink |Experience| 3 Comments

  I really have very inconsiderate neighbors and I am not sure where they learn their parking manners. Maybe it is just inconsiderate batch of people. When do they ever learn that it is not okay to do such things at ALL times!

  
  
  

  My neighbor’s visitors love to park in front of our gate. A few times when we come home, my gate is blocked by the visitor’s or relative’s car. He loves to say sorry but never sincere because he still park in front of our gate! I got really frustrated when one of my friends parked her car at the parking next to their house, she got scolded for it. First of all, she didn’t block anyone and it is a parking spot. My neighbor thinks that the parking next to their house belongs to them although it is a public road. Yet, many times, their visitors blocked my gate.

  
  
  

  Next we have other neighbors who park and take up half the road. I just wonder where they learned how to park like that. Or they think it is their grandfather’s road.

  It is a sad neighborhood when they only think of themselves or their own convenient. *shake head*

  I admired how Hong Kong or other countries enforce the law, such parking manners will be fined big time. They don’t allowed double park and create virtual parking spots. Don’t you hate it when you see motorbikes parking on a car parking spot? The police will fine every hour and the driver can get more than 1 ticket if he parks illegally for a long time. I just hope we have more traffic or security police going around our neighborhood. Crime is at a rise too!

• LCCT Improvement Required

  01.01.09 | Permalink |Service, Travel| Comments Off on LCCT Improvement Required

  I am surprised that there are so many flights going into LCCT but there is no expansion being made to cater for the increase. There are only 3 conveyer belts for incoming flights. 2 incoming flights shared one station.

  I had to wait an hour to pick up my baggage. It takes longer than my flight from Penang to KL. Not to mention, another hour to travel to KL from LCCT. In total, 3.5 hours from Penang to KL. That is the same amount of time if I drive and cheaper too.

  Lots of people were complaining about the late arrival of their bags. Penang airport did a very good job as my bags came out within 5 minutes of wait.

  Another thing I found it is very stuffy and air condition does not cater for the amount of people in there.

  If you have a connecting flight, you better plan hours in between for delay, baggage claims and travel from LCCT to KLIA.