Pork, Pork, Pork

Last night, some buddies of mine decided to have a little dinner gathering at Mr Ho's Fine Foods at Mid-Valley. I think the owner of the restaurant ought to change the name to "Mr Ho's Fat Foods" because all we had was pork, pork, pork. Yup, that's what the restaurant is famous for - their pork. Damn, I've never had so much pork fat gulped down to my stomach before. I usually just scrapped it off. I was hungry though and eager to get my money's worth. We had pork meat, pork frankfurters, pork bacon, pork ribs, you name it. We had everything pork-y. The guys on my table grabbed so much pork onto their plates before I could say "Pork". Babi betul.

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Before the massacre...

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What a bloody mess

Best Chinese New Year ever

I envy those who are close to their extended family especially their cousins. I only see my cousins once a year and on my mom's side, my cousins are just way too young. That is why I always find CNY lousy and boring. But I do look forward to some little things (aside from money) like the food (I love yee sang) and lion dances. Yes, lion dances. I remember being afraid of those 'lions' when I was a kid at first. But then one fine sunny day, Dad decided to take me around town in Penang to see those 'lions' visiting shop lots. I'm telling you, Penang is just brimming with lion dances on CNY. To see those realistic cat-like movements, blinking eyes and flapping ears, the noisy clashing cymbals and the heart-thumping drum beats just interests me.

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Okay so CNY was boring for me as usual. Heck, even the annual NBA All-Star Game that I was looking forward to, suck. Why did so many stars had to be injured at the same time? Some lame excuse to gamble in Las Vegas I think. Anyway, an eventful weekend just made my CNY the best ever. I'm on cloud nine. =)

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V-Day

Beware: Desperate, lonely people on the loose tomorrow.

Preventive measures:

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1) Show the hand

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2) Show the backside. If it's not from the heart it's from the butt.

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3) Show the universal sign. Enough said.

Happy Valentine's Day

The Princess and I

Last Sunday I went to the Miss Sunway Princess beauty pageant held in Sunway Pyramid. For your info, I wasn't there to check out chicks okay. I was merely there to hang out with my pet sis and also to support her colleague who is handling the event. Yup, for real man. Last week was the talent round of the competition where the contestants had to showcase their talent. I can't remember much now but I remembered that the first one did a dance with a rather suggestive top. Sis said she was the biggest among the rest and I thought she was actually pretty slim already. Second one came out looking ridiculous dressing like an old aunty. You know that screaming landlady from Kungfu Hustle? Exactly like that. Just when I was beginning to feel embarrased for her, she did a quick backstage change and came out a belly dancer. Not bad! What a way to capture the judges' attention. The rest did pretty much the same thing - dance. Chinese fan dance, ribbon dance, hindu dance, yo-yo dance; you name it. Some chose to sang. My gosh, I felt like Simon Cowell for a second. Just when I was getting bored then came this contestant. Slim, pretty; well actually all of them are slim and pretty. She, like most of the rest, was dressed in a samfu top and did a ribbon dance. "Oh bother, another Chinese dance". And then all the sudden, a guy came out and grab her and they began doing this ballroom type of dance...I don't know what it was (tango? wango?). She did flips, turns, twists...it was fantastic! Her performance definitely stood out among the rest. To no surprise, she won.

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Sis asked if I wanted to take pictures with the contestants after the prize-giving and all that. I said I'll only take a shot with the winner. I don't want to look like some girl-crazy kinda dude. Besides, the winner was the one who caught my attention. When sis dragged me to the backstage/changing room (hehe), she was already standing there at the doorway. Then I let sis do all the talking because my mouth suddenly felt dry. Damn, I was so shy. I managed to pluck up some courage to shake her hand and muttered something that sounded like "congrats". She smiled back politely and then posed for the camera. I couldn't believe it but I was shaking. Yes, shaking! And I was blushing terribly too. Even my pimple was blushing! I couldn't even said goodbye or thank you properly. Beauty queens just have this 'presence' around them you know. I guess I was infatuated for a second there. Miss Sunway Princess final round? I'll be there!

I look like crap I know. Hey, I was nervous. Judging from this picture she looks like she's smiling nervously. Maybe she was shaking too =p

Mia Palencia

This Sabahan jazz singer-songwriter has this deep, soothing voice that just makes me go "aaahhh...". I saw some clips of her performing with Roger Wang, one of Malaysia's best fingerstyle guitarists. My former guitar teacher, William Kok claims he can only do one percent of what Roger Wang does on the guitar. Heck, I can only do one percent of what William does. Even though I'm not really into fingerstyle guitar ('cos my fingers run all over the place) but still looks pretty cool.

Anyway, back to Mia. I find that she really has this great voice and it needs to be heard in clarity in order to really appreciate it. I've watched her in two separate acoustic sessions - one in an 8tv show and another at Campus City acoustic nite. In the 8tv show, she performed a jazz number accompanied by a bassist and a saxophonist. The outcome? Awesome. The bass was groovy and the sax did some cool fill-ins. At the Campus City acoustic nite, she performed a song she wrote about remembering where you come despite where the world leads you. That was when I sighed and went "aaahhh...". I know most Malaysians do not take much notice of local artistes. Well, I'm telling you that we have some serious talent out there. By the way, you can check her out here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_n4m8j7zg Support local artistes! (only if they're good of course).

You belong to me

Alright Malaysia! Was so proud seeing the gal team from Malaysia winning the Amazing Race finale. These girls fought a nail-bitting race right to the end. They worked so well together, had brains, gritty, tough; you name it, they had it all to win. I remembered an episode where they were lagging behind in a challenge. The challenge required you to paste cow dung onto walls. Joe Jer, the fatter girl, literally punished the walls with shit! And then there was that food challenge and again Joe Jer ate everything pretty easily from what I observed while the other bimbos were struggling like hell - vomitting, crying. Sigh, pathetic. Zabrina did her part too of course. I just can't really remember much, although she was very focused if I may say. Their who-cares-bout-makeup/ looking-good-in-front-of-the-camera certainly earned them the top prize. To be honest, I thought Joe Jer and Zabrina were one of the not-so-good-looking girls in the show unlike the hotter girls like Syeon, the Filipino and Singaporean team. I guess this just shows that bimbos are just,well...bimbos. So congrats Joe Jer and Zabrina for winning the Amazing Race Asia.

For those who watches American Idol, that old man was pretty admirable wasn't he? 64 year old Sherman auditioned for AI just because he promised his wife so. And get this - his wife passed away 2 days before the audition. A silly promise I would say but I think Sherman wanted to do something extraordinary to show his wife how much he loves her after many years of marriage and despite her illness.

He actually did pretty okay in the audition and is nevertheless better than most of the idiots who think they can sing but can bloody well not. He sang "You belong to me", an old classic. For those who don't know the song, Jason Wade of Lifehouse actually did a version of it, singing it on the soundtrack of Shrek 1. Remember the scene where Shrek and Princess Fiona were eating weed rats beside the fire with the Kingdom of Duloc showing in the background. Yep, that's the one. Such a simple and sweet song. Wished I could sing it to someone. =)