Merry Christmas

taken at my place last Saturday. yule logs are THE best things ever.

Tao and Nancy

Stef and Peter

...at said Thai place. I think its called Basil.

Mom's Birthday

We went to have dinner at this Thai place in Bangsar Village to celebrate my mom's birthday.

I've seen some really nice food pictures on blogs I've visited. One reason why this blog will NEVER be a food blog is because we're all usually too hungry by the time the food arrives to take silly aesthetic artistic looking pictures of green curry.

It's horrible...you end up with pictures of empty plates or in my case, a plate of uneaten rice and some leftover gravy.

Running Buddies

The Slow and The Fast

Hola Nicola

"Muchos good luckos inos Stanfordos, amigo!"

Actorlympics

A few of us went to catch Actorlympics on Thursday night at Actors Studio Bangsar. For the uninformed, it’s like Drew Carey’s “Whose Line is it Anyway?” TV show. I was looking forward to watching Ida Nerina and the legendary Harith Iskandar but as luck would have it, she wasn’t performing that night and he wasn’t taking part this year at all. Nonetheless, we were all majorly tickled by Afdlin Shauki and Reza Zainal Abidin.

I found out from Shauki’s blog that NTV7 is to air 13 episodes of Actorlympics in the near future. This is good news for me as I don’t think I’d be able to fork out RM42 per ticket (we paid a reasonable RM22 as students this time) even for countless Siti Nurhaliza-Datuk K jokes.

The question is, how much of the show's spontaneous and politically incorrect edge will be lost given the fact that whatever the actors say this time will be recorded and broadcast to a more diverse and potentially less forgiving crowd?

Ok, whatever Stef. Anyway the bottomline is: we laughed a lot and after that we went to have supper at Pelita.

Broken Bridges -The Musical

Ten of us i.e. Team P.A.N.G.A. spent Friday night at KLPAC watching Broken Bridges. The musical's simple storyline complimented what I thought to be a rather intricate collection of songs.

The story is about Ming an Ipoh boy who wants to go to KL, where there are arguably more hot girls. However his dad wants him to stick around to take over the family-run coffee shop.

Colin Kirton put up an impressive show as Wong, the protagonist's dad. Ho Soon Yoon, who played Ming's best friend, did not only sing well and keep us amused with his comical performance, he also left a few of us craving for char siew pau after the show.

Of course for Team P.A.N.G.A. , we had eyes only for Pangasaasanii -the ex-Hartamasian who played one of the kei poh aunties and from whom I used to get really good vegetarian chicken during rehat time.

Going to Bed

Bed is a swanky New York club where the ladies from Sex and the City partied at.

Bed is also a cafe in Penang along their equivalent to Jalan Telawi which serves cuisine like cheese baked rice etc.

Thanks so much Michelle! It was fun hanging out and checking out your ultra cute childhood photos.

We Want to be Models

Good luck, guys....

We Love Fitness First

Scouts

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Originally uploaded by peachmaracuya.

Here's a picture of Tao and I in Cameron Highlands reliving our glorious scouting days.

We thought we could be heroes and not bring any jumpers.

Instead we ended up wearing clothes which belonged to my father.

Click on the Flickr button for more pictures of my sister Sa and I in oversized clothes.

I'm Back!

I'm back in KL and suffering from MAJOR jet-lag. Anyway, I've put up some graduation photos so scroll down and click on the flikr thingy.

Also, I'm proud to announce that Wen Tao has started a blog. Check it out here at www.oh-gluttony.blogspot.com

Punting in Oxford

Tao and Henry working hard.

Henry helping Tao out because we got stuck in the bushes.

It's so relaxing!

Caught in the bushes again!

OK, it's not so nice when you actually have to do the work.

A BIG Thank You to Henry for showing us around Oxford. I owe you a tour round LSE....shouldn't take more than an hour so we can go to Chinatown after that.

Adventures in France

Tao and I had lunch here. It's this place in Bordeaux which was featured on Rick Stein's TV show.

Danu, Hasnain and I. Hasnain was really excited about climbing up this 200-step tower. If I remember correctly, it was part of the Church of St Andre in Bordeaux.

Ning, Viv, Ming, Nicole and I having a cheap set menu dinner in Bordeaux (again).

Nicole, Emily and I at a really good French bistro called Polidor in Paris.
Check out the flower-shaped ice creams we had at Amorino in Paris.

Danu, Emily, Tao, Hasnain, Ning and I at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Free Food

We had our annual Petronas briefing on Saturday morning. Lunch was superb because it was a buffet and also because Fara and I sat right in front of the dessert counter. It was also quite fun seeing everyone looking all smart and preppy. Shouldn't have worn a white shirt though...some lady thought I was a waiter or something.

Hasnain won the best dressed prize in my books. He wore this really old skool tie which actually belonged to someone else's grand dad.

Henry's one of the smartest people I know. Not many people know this but he's actually a robot.

Hajar's someone I've known from high school. a superb dancer and singer. Siti Nurhaliza with an engineering degree. It's quite a blurry shot but I thought she looked quite hot so... yeah. [I really cannot describe Vivien. She's FULL of surprises.]

Nadia's my French classmate. Without her, I would have dropped out of French class a long time ago.

Dinner at Belgo's

Jason and I I think I look retarded here but since Jason NEVER visits, I thought I'd pay homage to his visit by putting up a picture of him.

Farara and Tao

Adrian, Ju Ni, Fara and one third of Tao

Hanging out at VUE

I'm playing with Picasa right now. Tock recommended it to Tao a long time ago but I just downloaded the program half an hour ago. We went to watch Lucky Number Slevin on Saturday which I also recommend. Had about an hour to kill before the movie started so we hung out at the lounge area. Check out Emily in the bottom left picture.

Dinner on Friday

Viv, Nicola and Ning
Becky, Viv and Michelle
Ming and I
We are full.

We went to the Queen's Head & Artichoke, this gastropub near Great Portland Street tube station. Dinner was pretty good: the ribeye steak and risotto that we had for our main was amazing. The tapas weren't that amazing but one of our desserts -the triple chocolate tart with strawberry ice cream hit the spot.

Later on, Viv, Nicole and I went to watch Syriana which I highly recommend especially to all Petronas people who are having their interview this weekend.