Oslo, NORWAY! If converted to RM, is a TOO MUCH RM140!
That's insane because that isn't a price from a high class restaurant but average from middle-class restaurant. How could a normal office worker afford it!
So that's the value of a lunch of a city ranked No 2 of World's Most Expensive Cities, and the most expensive lunch among all the cities.
Top of the list is Tokyo but the lunch is slightly cheaper. Their over-priced grocery made them on top of the list. While going through the list, measured with cost of living, I was quite surprised that Norway cities took 2 places in the list, Switzerland (Genava & Zurich both are familiar to me, always see them in newspaper and Zurich Bank! Bern and Basel which I never heard ranked 11th and 12th.) took 2 too, and Japan, fuh, FOUR (Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama and Kobe....beef! ).
But I seldom heard poverty problems from the Nihonjins so I guess the nations are quite wealthy over there. Earn enough to cover their high expenses. I tear on Japan's past, Google on how bitterly unmerciful they were on treating their hostage, ironically I smile on their recent 20 years Ghibli's, Detective Conan, Departures, Chibi Maruko Chan, music, sushi and their culture.
My parents don't encourage me to travel to Japan no matter how awesome this country are.
City where produced CNBlue, 2AM, RAIN, SNSD gee gee gee oh oh oh run run run (kpop fans will get this), 2NE1, BEG, BIG BANG and the whole kpop, Seoul is No 20. Not bad, even higher than Big Apple New York which ranked at No 29 !
KL is somewhere in the middle of the list. We can still feel pleased for that but I guess it'll leap next year as the government starts to cuts subsidies here and there. Cost of living will rise to a level that chokes us.
Reason of cutting is to lower the budget of government. Hilarious right?! If the greedy phyton politicians stop the corruption, the government is now a rich one instead of the current one. Sarcatiscally, I heard from the news that the gov is facing deficits every year.
Can someone tell me what's the name of the report where some fair non-politician analyze the government's financial?
Then they always found out there's shocking huge amount to money missing, to somewhere unknown. And also over budgeted projects by different departments.
They made these ugly cases known to the public, then media starts to accuse and question, the news will last for few days on the cover, few more days in a section of inner pages and you'll see commentors writing forums for newspaper about this topic, then some big people explain their explanation. In the end we still don't know where all the money gone.
Victim of the missing figures? The people who worked hard, pay all the taxes and losing their subsidies.
Okay, writting this because I am thinking how much I shall earn to cover all the expenses and live well because I'll be working in about 3 years time. Better let me strike a first prize TOTO before that.
Stop here! I was already distracted by sponge cake recipe!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
$43 for a lunch at a restaurant in ..
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Their visit to Kuantan
Coursemates' visit to Kuantan was a memorable and awesome sauce.
Although this is just a short 3 days visit, but what happened in these days will be remembered forever. Their visit had undeniably marked a wonderful moment in my degree life.
6 girls 4 guys, a total of 10 of them.
Catherine, Jasmine, Teresa, Xiao Xiao, Phik Tee, Arkarri, ET, Jimmy, Sean and Leong Yee.
We all attended the same lecture except Arkarri.
And for those who can't make it to this trip, just want to let you know that this trip will be even more interesting with your existence!
As ET said, the company is what made things great. Indeed, 3 days filled with laughters, giggles, cackling every minutes, burst with laughters, entertaining each other, making fun, teasing without feeling angry and most importantly how well we bonded together. The chemistry of 11 people, all come from different town, magically worked.
It has been one week since their visits. But we never stop contacting each other. Every night my facebook's notification is spammed with their comments and photo tags. Reading those funny comments made me smile in silly in front of the computer and warmth my heart. It's always the same people but it is still sparkling.
Although I barely sleep for 3 days, and after I counted, I only sleep for 4 hours in 3 days! How crazy! But you know what, sacrificing my sleeping time in exchange of spending time with you guys definitely worth it all.
Hereby I want to thank you harnwei for accompanying me to welcome them at the first day. And for the next two days you're tied to the job of preparing the catalogue and gladly you completed before your Tioman trip! I know you can do it and you will do a great job =) That's the harnwei I know.
As of the I'm not going to go detail of where we've visited or what we've talked. We'll keep everything preciously to ourselves. Riiiight?
Even though we might be facing some difficulties towards certain people. But I believe that we all will overcome it and everything will eventually turns out right.
Hey friends, I just want you to know how grateful I am to meet you all. By going into degree first year all alone, grouping up with you guys, and starting to feel less-stranged to this city and the college.
Thank you for being so friendly and welcome to me.
Thank you for tolerating me all the time.
Thank you for helping me in assignments and personal things.
Thank you for accompanying for breakfast, lunch, dinner, movies, and supper.
Thank you for accepting me as who I am.
Thank you for listening to me and laughed at my jokes.
Thank you for letting me to act like who I want in front of you.
Thank you for supporting me all the time.
Thank you for your trust and telling me your secrets.
Thank you for spamming my facebook notification (because of you guys, I checked my facebook time to time to make sure that I'm not outdated!)
Thank you for coming to Kuantan.
and Thank you for enjoying this trip.
Because of you guys, my first year degree had been a superb great one. Second year is coming and we'll going be in different majors. But still, I know that our heart is tightly tied together as friends. =)
With different backgrounds, we're shaped into different personalities. But that's what make everyone of us unique and pulled us into a group.
Not that we're isolating ourselves from other people. Is don't know why we happened to be hanging out together all the time.
Everyone I know from HELP are great mate. (adding mate because it rhymes! =D )
In a conclusion, you guys are awesome.
One more conclusion, I'm a blessed kid.
Facebook photo albums
some might not able to view due to privacy settings!
Xiao Xiao E's part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
Catherine's (taken with Phik Tee's camera by few photographers, editted by Catherine)
ET's
Jasmine's
and mine
Blogs ::
Phik Tee
Xiao Xiao E
ET
Randomly picked and post some photos here in case you can't view them. These are only few percent.






































and lastly Jimmy's summary of this 3 days trip, since everyone is quoting his summary in their blogs.
第1天 ...到度假屋 拍照 分锁匙 拍照 抢房间 拍照 去吃红豆冰 拍照 去海边 拍照 去公园 拍照 回家 拍照 冲凉 拍照 休息 拍照 晚上去吃好料 拍照 再去海边 拍照 看星星 去mcd 回家 开台 拍照 最后没人玩了 睡觉 拍照
第2天 6点多起来 去海边 拍照 看日出 看不到 放风筝 拍照 玩水 很冷 拍照 吃laksa喝茶 再去海边玩水 回家 冲凉 去shopping mall买bbq的东东 去庙走走看看 拍照 去ee loe家bbq 拍照 回家 冲凉 玩牌 拍照 休息 抢pillow 抢来抢去 最后一粒pillow都没有 3点多才睡
第3天 4点要起来去爬山 起不来 睡到9点多 爬山回来的全部在睡觉 跟cat去mcd吃 去海边走 回家 跟大家去吃午餐 之后买杯奶茶 离开了关丹 晚上7.30++到宿舍 哈哈哈 还是很开心
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Happy Birthday Daddy
亲爱的爸爸,50岁生日快乐!Happy Birthday daddy!!!
对不起,在你50岁生日的那一天,也刚好是父亲节,我不能在你身边陪你吃生日晚餐。我答应了要表演,就不能临时反悔说不去. Thank you for being so understanding and supportive.
爸爸,在你生日这一天,我要祝你永远都是那么的健康快乐。健康,快乐是我最想要你给你自己,和给我们的。
50岁了,我也在你生命中出现了21年了。
谢谢你,让我那么大了仍然衣食无忧。
谢谢你,让我一向以来都是那么的快乐的成长。
谢谢你,在我被朋友欺负的时候开导我。
谢谢你,让我在这么舒服的环境下成长。
谢谢你,总是没有拒绝过我的要求。
谢谢你,很爱灌输我道德观念,让我知书识理。
谢谢你,在我小时候坚决不让我吃甜食,让我有一口漂亮的牙齿。
谢谢你,常常逼我及鼓励我要常做运动,才让我的身材不会走样。
谢谢你,对我的保护,虽然有时有一点不可理喻,但我明白那全都是为了我好。
谢谢你,永远都会逗我笑,让我常常把笑容挂在嘴边,整个傻大姐酱。
谢谢你,把妈妈娶回家,让我拥有那么好的妈妈。
谢谢你,给了我那么幸福美满的家庭。
谢谢你,教导我什么是孝顺,身体力行做一个好榜样。
谢谢你,从小带我四处游走,不会让我成为一个出乡阿牛。
谢谢你,从来都不会要打扰我,也不会介意我打扰你。
谢谢你,容忍我很多很多的坏习惯,小毛病。
谢谢你,不会煮饭都努力煮一碟罐头鱼出来。
谢谢你,帮我换灯泡。
谢谢你,没有把我的兔子煮掉。
谢谢你,没有把Ponyo丢掉。
谢谢你,帮我杀了很多lizard。Although killing an innocent creature is very cruel.
谢谢你,在我睡觉时拿水给我喝,还要是温的。
谢谢你,不会生气我发起床气,死也不起身,对你乱喊乱叫,还拿闹钟丢你,你只是对我撒娇而以,还继续努力吵我起身。
谢谢你,无论我蛋糕多难吃,你也会吃一口,就算真的很难吃,你也说只是苦了点。
谢谢你,从来都不会发脾气,不轻易把负面情绪发泄在我们身上。
谢谢你,从来不大声骂我们,只是不停的唠叨,碎碎念 (然后我发现你一开始念起来会很恐怖!!)
谢谢你,无论多忙都会帮忙家务。
谢谢你,努力做工赚钱养家。
还有很多很多,谢不完。。。
我很不孝,忘记十二点过了,还要你自己打电话来提醒我。。。
我很不孝,两个月的假期,起身陪你喝早茶的次数一只手就数的完。
我非常感谢你,所以我尽我所能不给你烦恼,也尽量不跟你拿钱。因为我很怕你一烦恼,就会有白头发,然后皱眉头,就会看起来很老,最重要的是,你会不快乐。
我很庆幸我目前为止都没有给你惹什么大麻烦。
Thank you dad. One day I will make you proud. You're the best dad in the world. Love you. 希望我能永远陪伴你。
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Friday, June 18, 2010
short visit to kL with besties
A 4 days trip to KL with harn wei and x-er!
harnwei trip is to visit around, shopping, and to meet up with her ex classmates. as for x-er is of course to accompany her darling =)
I dropped by HELP to support FrequenC's biweekly performance ! Good job everyone!
harnwei followed me to college and watched the performance too! I hope she likes it =)
After that we left and we're about to meet up with x-er and shen yee. But before that, I brought her to one of my favourite spot, Wondermilk!!

Our shit-like cupcakes =)
Harn wei took wonderful pictures there
Not forget to snap an instant for her !
Their tray mat's design is so delecate, I took it back home, just can't resist of not owning one.
And now it's on my bed side !
We then took a Rapid KL bus to OneU. Okay, I have limited experience with RapidKL so I didn't know which one to take. So we just randomly got up to a bus which will lead us to The Curve, Damansara area. It shouldn't be passing by or stop by OneU. But then harn wei used her innocent touristy eyes to beg the driver to drop us there. Thank god he did! So we got down safely at One Utama!
So, what can 2 girls do in OneU? That is shopping!!!! We walked in Forever21 and spent hours in there. And each of us spent almost RM400 on shopping. Totally out of our budget but nevermind! We were happy and enjoyed!!
Okay I admit that night we both felt guilty.
While waiting for x-er and her darling to meet up with us, I suggested to go Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf to try out their new yogurt dessert.
It was yummmmmmmy.
Hamyuzai came to joined us and we all had our dinner at Sushi Zanmai.
A little lalat drama happened in Sushi Zanmai where there's dead lalat in harnwei's steamboat. She's so cute. The first word came out from her mouth is "FUCK!" when she saw there's a dead lalat in the pot. And she already ate half of it.
In the end, the manager solved the problem by giving her a one new set, didn't charge her for that and dessert for everyone! =) well, the manager did the exactly right thing - solve the problem on the spot and over 90% this customer will come back again!
Harn Wei and I put our second night at hamyuzai aka shen yee's house. We stayed at her brother's room and totally fancied by his personal computer - the TETRABYTE DATABASE of movies. woah. we then spent our night viewing all the movies, discussing the movies, and pillow talk until.........5am. It was nice pillow talking with you harn wei =)
Didn't want to go to much on the details for these few days. Only highlight some events here =)
On the third day, we meet up with miss qiao yi and went RedBox, The Garden for K session!
Qiao Yi, glad to hear that you're happy with your life now. Enjoy and appreaciate it!
you know whatever happens, we'll always by your side.
X-er brought us to a Thai Restaurant for dinner and the food there was superb, not to mention the ambience =) I still miss the sauce of our appetizer!
We were really exhausted at the third night. But still I spent some time with shen yee, went through her interesting pictures taken in Australia and New Zealand, listened to her exciting stories and I can tell she had great fun and these memories are lifetime, she'll remember it forever. She gave me two beautiful postcard she collected from her trip. And she has an Ukulele in her room! It totally reminds me of Zee Avi!
Well, I hope I'll have the same fun as her too. Except bungee jump and sky diving, I dare not to do it, unless one day i wake up with this courage and decide to do something adventurous.
ONE MORE THING ::
I'll be performing with FrequenC at 12.45pm, 20th June 2010 (Sunday) at The Curve in Feta de la Musique ! This time, I'm performing as a vocalist. Yes, I'll sing.
This great event is organized by HELP University College and it'll be from 10am to 10pm.
20th June 2010 is Father's Day and also my dear daddy's 50th Birthday.
But I won't be there to celebrate for him. Uggggh, but I've promised to perform so I can't break it and call it off. I struggled a lot of to go to this performance or to cancel it. But at last I decided to go because dad asked me to. But I know he actually wants me to be with him during his birthday. Im so sorry dad..... I promised to perform because I thought you're able to come to KL. I didn't expect brother have to deal with school St. John and blew off the plan. Sorry dad.
Please, feel free to come and support us! There's also other great band performing that day as well. Most probably I'll be there for the whole day.
Feta de la Musique KL click on the link to find out more details and the program time table!
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