Marry Brown

After reading MIM's blog entry recommending Marry Brown, seconded by King Kong, so I gave it a try today. Not that we (me and my colleagues) went there on purpose, but just so happened that we were at a place with Marry Brown nearby.

The setting for this particular Marry Brown outlet was interesting. They provide seesaws as their dining chairs. As soon as my colleagues (ladies) saw the seesaws, they immediately stick their butts on one of it. Biasa lah, burung kakak tua mana ler yang tak suka seesaw (kat ofis Josh ada dua ekor burung kakak tua yang suuuuuker berkicauan non-stop)


I ordered Marry Brown chicken rice, vegetarian pandan chicken (yes, vegetarian) and a soft drink.


The burungs were on diet. They settled with just porridge and drinks.

I like the seesaw concept, but not so suitable for dining. Kita kena tonggengkan punggung masa makan sebab seesaw tu sentiasa bergerak ke belakang bila tunduk depan untuk makan.

MIM and King Kong, memang ayam Marry Brown sedap!

Note: Sorry for mistakenly named the equipment as seesaw. It's swing, not seesaw, as corrected by Fiebie. Thanks Cikgu Fiebie.

Busy, busy

I'd been extremely busy these few days. My blood pressure had shot up, reading 138 and 98. Scary. To avoid people from disturbing me in my office, i pasted this notice on my door.

To release the tension and the stress, i planned to swim every evening after work. But weather like this refrained me from doing so. Sigh.....


I even bring some paperwork home to be settled at night. My wife had been worried about this, and i felt so sorry for being unable to spend more time with her. I'll make myself free tonight to spend quality time with her. More administrative coming in by next week.

Lidah Jin Flowers - Close Up.

I'd planted the lidah jin along my fence. Since it's flowering now, my garden had became 'the garden with fragrant'. It's very refreshing, with a light mixture of vanila and rose, i think.



The photos are all taken with my Sony Cybershot digital compact camera. Just to show that even compact camera can produce nice pictures, if you know how to use them.

Sunday Afternoon -- Rainy

Sunday afternoon. Raining. Wife just came back from oversea. She bought lots and lots of stuff, Including almost RM700 of DVDs. No, not the movies or what so ever, but documentaries like National Geographics, Discovery, etc. She bought them because I like them. Sayang dia.

I'd been working on my paperwork too long until i got a bit heavy headed. To relax my eyes from the computer screen, I turned to my green garden, equipped with my camera. These are what I can offer.





Taking photos while raining is a difficult task. It's not bright enough to used small aperture and high shutter speed, thus unable to capture the rain droplets falling. Saya akan berusaha lagi lain kali, trying out new things.

Gifts from Cambodia

A bunch of fellow bloggers and also my new found friends, i.e Beruang Madu, Dr. Shah, Hairie & Arel went to Cambodia recently. They brought back some gifts.

These are the gifts I got: T-shirt of Angkor Wat, table linen, Angkor Wat engraved nail cutter cum bottle opener, fragrant candles and some traditional sweets (or sugar).




These sugar tasted like the gula atap (or gula apong) found in Sarawak, but the light-taste version. Nice.

My heartiest thanks to them for the wonderful gifts.

Dining at Bombay Palace Restaurant -- Me

Tak habis-habis dengan dining kat Bombay Palace Restaurant. Ye la, tempat dia menarik, pastu banyak gambar cantik-cantik yang kita nak share. Yang penting, ada lah dua, tiga mamat tu kata Josh hensem sangat malam tu, so harus lah Josh kongsi gambar-gambar Josh yang hensem tu... (perasan giler-giler). Kalo dah portrait Josh, mesti ler bukan Josh yang amik gambar tu kan.





I think i look flirtatious lah kat gambar #2 tu. Apa-apa pun, dari gambar-gambar pun dah tau Josh happy malam tu.

Oh ya, i got some gifts from Cambodia. Thanks to Abg Bear, Shah and Hairie. Terima kasih daun keladi.

Dining at Bombay Palace Restaurant -- The People

Six of us dining together. We went in two separate cars. Pics of only 5 peoples are shown here. I didn't know why the pic of the other one cannot appear in any of the blog until I read Beruang Madu's blog. Kesian dia... tu ler pasal, siapa suruh buka baju.. ish ish....

Arel & Dr. Hamdi. Arel is the quieter one while Dr. Hamdi is an avid photographer.

Dr. Shah & Yazeed a.k.a Beruang Madu. Dr. Shah is an avid photographer too, while Yazeed, Dr. Shah's housemate, love to be photographed (betul ke bang?) Finally Yazeed agreed to take photos showing his teeth while smiling. I think he look great bila amik gambar nampak gigi. Anyone agree with me?

Yazeed (see, ada lagi muka dia) & me. They said I'm the malu-malu one. Ye ke?. They refers me as "budak Cina muka Melayu yang cakap macam Melayu" ... ini muka Malaysia maaa...

Arel & the Anonymous concentrate on their food and watched the three photographers playing with their DSLRs.


Finally, the three DSLR photographers. Hopefully Yazeed will join the club one day.



They're a bunch of fun loving people. I enjoyed their company as much as I enjoyed the dinner.

Dining at Bombay Palace Restaurant -- The Food

If you like curry and spice-rich food, the Bombay Palace Restaurant is the place to dine. I love curry. I love the spice's after-taste in my mouth that mingles for a while. No kissing immediately after having these food. hehe

This restaurant serves a wide range of Southern Indian food, ranging from appertizers, to vegie curry, seafood curry, chicken, meat, mutton, all the way to spiced desserts. We ordered at least one from each category. I'm abit set back by the name of the dishes. All in indian, and we had to read the descriptions of the dishes one by one before we can decide what to have.

To start with, the mutton. A blunt, maybe it's dry without gravy.

The season mixed vegie stir fried with spices. Not really the kind of mixed vegie we used to have in our local restaurant. But taste good. A bit oily though.

I love the naan bread. We ordered 4 types. We had garlic naan, chicken naan (they named it palace naan), mixed raisin naan and plain naan.

This is my favourite, the boneless fish cubes cook with curry riched creamy gravy.

Most of us ordered mango lassie, but Abg Bear and Arel ordered this soda lime.

I like the way they serve the dessert, but I personally think that the portion is too small, and not cheap. That small portion (small enough to clean them in two gulps) is easily costlier then a large set of Big Mc. We ordered the spiced ice-cream, and fruit salad with spiced yogurt.


All in all, it was a good but costly experience dining in this restaurant. Another restaurant worth going is the D'Tandoor, with several branches in the Klang Valley.

Bombay Palace Restaurant

I had dinner with a bunch of bloggers at the heart of KL city this evening. It was an invitation by Abg Bear and Dr. Shah. More photos and other details can be found in their blog. Just pay them a visit.


The restaurant was very cosy, and elegant too. I would say it's an exclusive dining place that anyone who enjoy Southern Indian cuisines in an extravagant environment should give it a try.


No photos of food nor any preview in the entry. I'll blog about them in my next entry. This entry is about the restaurant. They have the name of the restaurant printed on many of their cutlery, including their salt shaker, pepper shaker and even their vase.


Each table is decorated with a stalk of fresh carnation. Nice.

Other plus points: Air-conditioned (very comfy) and ample parking space.

The only draw back that I notice is their price of the food. It's not a cheap place to dine, and definitely not a place to be frequented.

Wallpapers

I just love these two photos. It's the flower of the spider plant. Very small, approximately 1 cm in diameter. It took me more then half an hour and more then 20 frames just to get these two acceptable ones. I love the colour, I love the shade of light, I love the position of the flowers and I love the great contrast of the whole photo. So I thought I should share them with my blog readers.


Just click the photo to enlarge and save them as wallpapers. If u want higher resolution, just give me your email address.