I was up early on Tuesday morning. Have the fresh air being sucked into my lungs, for I'm staying just next to a mountain. So, I decided to freshen up myself with brushing my teeth and washed my face.

Because the apartment that I'm staying was a corner lot, there are extra windows just near to where we freshen up every morning and where I hung out my laundries to dry. It was so coincidencely I was looking out the window to see my car (where I parked, I can see through that window), to my horrified, I saw a lady just landed on the ground and bounced out to the road side. Either she commited suicide or accidently fell, only god knows. I was stunned for 5 minutes before I started looking for my phone to call 999.

Dailing.....

Operator : 999, talian kecemasan, boleh saya membantu?

Me : Ya, saya nak buat laporan tentang ada orang jatuh dari blok bangunan saya

Operator : Encik tinggal dekat mana? Klang Valley atau Selangor?

Me : Penang

Operator : Georgetown ke?

Me : Ya

Operator : Apa alamat encik?

Me : Blok xx-xx-x, xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxx, ayer itam.

Operator : Encik tinggal ayer itam ke georgetown?

Me : ??? ayer itam (what the f@#k)

Operator : Jadi, sekarang encik nak panggil polis atau ambulan?

Me : oO.... ??????? bukan ker kedua-dua patut datang? (what type of stupid question is he

asking). Hantar jelah kedua-dua.

Operator : Tunggu sebentar, saya sambungkan ke talian polis.

Me : Terima kasih (dan jangan tanya soalan bodoh lagi)

I doubted the lady that just landed on the ground survived. I think that she died instantly because something (some sort of fluid) flew out from her head and after a few minutes, blood oozing out from her mouth.

It was a very sad day although she does not related to me. Why does human being wanted to end their life just like that? You are not achieving anything by committing suicide. Say that you will be on the front page of the newspaper for one day and next day the whole world forgets about you except your family members and friends. Why do you commit suicide for this world that cares least about you? Instead live for the people who love you. You owe your life to your family, friends and well wishers.

BAN ON RIHANNA CONCERT???

Wow... Rihanna will be holding a concert in Malaysia on Feb 13. Although I'm not a big fan of hers, but this will be the first time everyone will have the chance to see her live, up close and personal.

But one thing that saddend me was some party wants her concert to be banned. The party said that inviting the Barbados-born siging sensation to Malaysia was akin to insulting eastern culture, belittling to local artises, intentionally causing loses to the country's economy and supporting Israel's war policy, which is supported by America.

To my opinion, our own artises does hold their own concert. Most of us do support our very own artises. Some even go hysteria over it.

How will it cause loses to our country's economy? Whoever artist performed in our country, you can see that most of our neighbouring country will fly over for the concert. And that means their currency will inflow to our country.

Regardless the taxes that she has paid, contributed to the war in Gaza, that one we wouldn't know.

The Grammy award winner has agreed to follow our regulations that won't offended our multi culture, what more can we ask for??

Yes, I agreed that we should show our displeasure against US in supporting Israel on the continues bombardment on Palestin. But, banning on her concert won't solve any problems. The Israeli will still continue attacking on Palestinian. If we really insist on banning America's product, so why are we still supporting all the fast food outlet and products that has been established in Malaysia for so many years? Does this make sense?

CHINESE NEW YEAR PROMOTION

Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Every F&B outlets in Malaysia will be doing Chinese New Year promotion. Swensen's Cafe & Restaurant are not losing out either. They are doing a 5 course dinner at RM168.00 ++ for 4 pax, from 19/01 till 10/02.

The first course is SEASONS TREASURE. It's like Chinese 4 hot & cold combination but this one is 1 cold and 3 hot. It consists of Stuffed Squid with Minced Chicken, Deep Fried Breaded Mussel, Pan Fried Chicken Frank Sausages and Kerabu Chicken.

The second course is GONG XI FATT CHAI. It's mushroom soup with oyster, fatt choi, crabmeat stick, soft beancurd and off course black mushroom. This soup is something like shark fin's soup, only without the shark fin. Hehehehe.....

The third and fourth course is TWIN HAPPINESS & PROSPERITY NOODLE. Twin Happiness is breaded chicken and bbq chicken combo and it comes with pineapple kerabu on top of breaded chicken. While the prosperity noodle, off course, a noodle. It's stir fried seafood udon with black pepper oyster sauce.

Last but not least, RICH & SWEET. Swensen's famouse ice cream. A single scoop of ice cream of the day with toppings and mandarin orange.

SEASONS TREASURE

GONG XI FATT CHAI

PROSPERITY NOODLES

TWIN HAPPINESS

RICH & SWEET

Lastly, I would like to wish everyone A PROSPEROUS & HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR in this year of Ox. GONG XI FATT CHAI

Its been a while since I updated my blog. Now, I've been working at a new place. Its a francise restaurant actually. Located at Gurney Plaza and its a new outlet that opened by this franchisee.

I know, I know (don't remind me). In my previous blog, I've written something bad about this restaurant. But hey, I got bills to pay leh. Beggars can't be chooses.

Lets cut the crap. I've been working at this outlet for more than a month now. I have nothing to complaint about but only the kitchen are tremendous small. My staffs, outlet manager, supervisor and all the service crews are fun to work with but off course there is always a spoilt apple in the group. A lady supervisor (duhhhhhh).

The business? The first two weeks was like extremely busy. Customers are so aggresive, coming in and out non stop. It was like everyone working their butts out. After two weeks, business was like share market. Sometime goes up but most of the time goes down. Maybe because its like a new toilet bowl (san see hang) and everyone wants to try it (hahaha....)

Let me introduce the staff:

Ezzudin (Outlet Manager)

Daniel (my assistant)

Dexter (my reliable guy)

Wen Jun (the joker)

Ooi (the shopper)

Reuben (the kiddy)

Errr.. I think this one must be sesat

To those I never mentioned, guys and gals, you are the best. Thanks for giving me the co-operation although sometimes I'm a bit harsh on you guys. Uhuk... uhuk... uhuk....

Feng Wei Chinese Restaurant

Steamed White Promphet Teow Chew Style

Stir Fried Asparagus with Prawns

Yuk Lan Fei Kai

Thai Pork Trotter with Man Tau

My girlfriend made a reservation for 7 people at Feng Wei Restaurant, located at Hutton Lane, opposite of The Ship Restaurant, to celebrate my birthday. Please don't remind me of my age ok. It was on Saturday and let me tell you this. The restaurant was a full house. Imagine if you don't make any reservation especially on weekends, you don't have the chance to savour the taste of food from this restaurant.

We ordered 5 dishes. The first was "Steamed White Promphet Teow Chew Style". The fish was fresh and tasty with black chinese mushroom, salted vegetable, red chilies, ginger and coriander leaves.

The second dish was "Stir Fried Asparagus with Prawns". Obviously, I'm not a prawn fan myself but i can tell you that this is a very fresh prawn. The asparagus was nothing to shout about because it is Thai, a very common type of asparagus.

The third one was "Yuk Lan Fei Kai". Its steamed chicken with kai lan on the side. This is special because it was poured with superior gravy. I ordered this dish because its been a while I have not eat this dish.

The forth one was "Thai Pork Trotter with Man Tau". The pork trotter was roasted to perfection (like how the roasted pork was done, I guessed). It was tender and served alongside with mini man tau and Thai chilli sauce.

Last but not least was "Clay Pot Tauhu with Minced Meat" (photo was unavailable because was hungry and can't wait).

We did really enjoy our meal that day and the amount was around RM 200 plus (I guessed). It was afforadable.

Thank you love for the nice dinner.

MotherFucking House

Today is already 20/10/2008, where the fuck is my incentive payment? There is nobody informing me when is my incentive coming out. I need to fucking asked? Where is the fucking communication within you guys. Are you scared of telling me, huh? I'm just keeping quite and doen't mean i have no feeling. Please don't let me start asking because once I start, I'll make sure that the house will go upside down.
What the fuck is wrong with you guys? Grow up please. If can't pay, at least let me know. Don't fucking let me hanging and fucking guessing.
And that fucking old bitch, do not let me put my fucking boot on your face. If you are so fucking clever, come and take over me. Go fuck yourself

Interview

I know it's been 3 months I said that I will post up a blog on my new house. I will definately do it in my next blog (if I'm not lazy).
This is a story I wanted to share. On Monday, 13 October 2008, I went for an interview at one of the chain restaurant in Queensbay Mall for the position of Outlet Chef. They are expanding their outlets in Times Square and Gurney Plaza. Currently they had another one in Auto City.
So, when I arrived at the outlet, the operation manager gave me a job application form to fill up. I went to one corner and sat there quitely filling up the form with all my particulars. After 10 minutes later, the operation manager came over and started interviewing me. Asking me all sort of quaestions like I'm applying for a position of general manager. For goodness sake, it's just an outlet chef lah. Carry on, after all the questioning, he was happy with my answer and I'm satisfied with the answer that i gave him.
So, the operation manager started telling me the history of the restaurant and that I can't do much with the menu because it's all been standardize from another country. I understand that because it's a chain restaurant mah. And he continued saying that I still can come out with a lot of special menus for valentine's day, x'mas day and so on. I'm happy to hear that. I have the confident that I'm getting the job. On the spot, the operation manager told me that I'm shortlisted.
Here comes the best part. Now, we are negotiating about the salary. He look at my application form, the salary corner and got a shock when I asked for that much of money. He told me that he can't pay me that much. I asked him how much can he pay me? RM2000 he said. Hahahaha.... WTF... For that salary, how am I going to survive? I told him no, it's too low. He looked at me for a second and said, ok RM2100. That RM100 i can finish it off in 1 bloody week. What's good with the additional of RM100. Then he asked me am I married. What is the pay got to do with married or not? I told him yes sarcasticly, I'm married to my car for almost 3 years now. Does that count? He started to tell me his granfather story, "young man, don't look at the money. Look at your future. Do you know that when I'm in the states I'm getting USD5000 and when i come back to Malaysia and getting only RM5000?" Is it my F@#*ING problem you are getting that much. Why come back to Malaysia than? Who don't look at money? So, i told him that, if you can't pay, then forget about it.
The next day, the operation manager rang me up asking me if I'm still interested in the job. I told him no unless you pay what I'm asking for. So, he started to make the last negotiation saying that he fought for me to the management. I was happy to hear that and i thought that I can get what I'm asking for. When he said that he can pay me RM2400, I put down the phone without saying anything.
Moral of the story. Stand firm on what you do and what you wanting to do. If you think that you are worth that much, don't be afraid to demand. If they can't give, forget about it.