The brand new 15.4″ MacBook Pro unleashed today by Apple..
along with the new 24″ LED Cinema Display..
Thinner (but not lighter), stronger (like Superman), faster (2.53GHz + nNVIDIA GeForce 9400M), greener (no krypton, no arsenic).
All glass Multi-Touch trackpad.
Keypads still illuminated.
LED backlit screen.
So wild.
So sweet.
So neat.
And so wet?
Oh yeah! Baby! Come to Me..
Faster! Fai tit!!
No Getting Over That Rainbow to write about..
No Yau Char Kwey to doodle about..
No Close Encounters of the Turd Kind to twitter about..
This is the GUI evolution of my dear, dearest, darling iPhone.
Way back from those first few fledging days over Christmas 2007, moving onto St Valentine’s Day, 2008.
And below, right after the iPhone 2.1 update..
Apps..
and Cydia & Winterboard unleashed!
Don’t cha
Don’t cha
Don’t cha wish your iPod was hot like mine
Don’t cha wish your iPod was a freak like mine
Don’t cha
Don’t cha
GRUPPLED theme on the left, DAMINO theme on the right.
Don’t cha just lurve the minimalist look?
Then there’s the Remote App, to control the desktop iTunes from the iPhone.. How cool is that? Just lie back and flip through the songs and control the volume from the couch. How soon before Movies as well?
Patiently stalking the white 32GB iPhone 3G, for a rainy day, when the moment is again right, the moons are almost aligned, and Christmas is just around the corner. Hear me! Feel me! Touch me! Love me!
No Lormaikai. No Canning Garden Chee Cheong Fun. No Assam Laksa.
No Nasi Lemak. No Roti Canai. No Chow Kwei Teow. No Goreng Pisang.
No Wantan Mee. No Siew Ngap, Siew Yoke, Siew Cheong Fan. No Lobak.
No Chee Kweok Cho. No Durian. No Lala Chong. No Ho Ho Steamboat.
Yeah, it’s no fun when all you have is pasta, no matter how good the pasta is..
Only these..
Saturday night’s Grilled Chicken thighs & drumsticks..
Wednesday’s Salmon Taglietelle pasta, with chicken nuggets, potato salad, & Date tomatoes..
Saturday’s Curry Chicken, with carrots, potato, tomato, spring onions, & sultanas..
Sunday morning’s Fresh Figs, with half dead fig leaf..
Sunday’s Tea time Little Piggies in Blankets, all wrapped up warmly, fresh from the oven..
Sunday’s Fried rice supper, with carrots, sausage, tomatoes, spring onions, & egg..
Oh, it’s so difficult. Where’s the Mooncake?!!
May 2008
July 2008
September 2008
Things are moving along eh? EH, yeah!
Soon, soon, it will be time for these:
And these:
And then some of these:
$$$$$$$$$$… moollah..
IKEA will be so lovin’ me!
So will MMLTiles, and Electrolux, and Panasonic, and TOTO, and Clipsal..
And Raleigh, and SONY, and my contractor, amongst a few others..
Seeking unconditional equal opportunities sponsorships.
Apply within, with non-returnable A3 sized photograph.
Experience with Koi not essential, but Barista skills a must.
And a natural ability to tinker with fire.
Call us now!
Once upon
a time,
I would have dutifully and gleefully continued on, head over heels, with The Essentially Prolonged Adventures of LB in Some Shimmery Faraway Place, but because these are not so normal or uncomplicated times, let’s do simple karaoke instead.
Can’t Smile Without You
You came along just like a song
You brightened my day
Who’d believe you were a part of a dream
That only seems light years away
In between all the pretty songs, the blue songs, the miss you songs. the rasa sayang songs, the ache songs, the tormented songs, there must be some kind of redemption somewhere.
We’ve Only Just Begun
We’ve only just begun to live
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we’re on our way
We’ve only just begun
One of the weirdest feeling is that phantom sensation of my iPhone buzzing against my thigh. Weird, but true. Possibly because I got used to getting a lot more SMSes and phonecalls in Malaysia than I do here? So, guys, get your phones up and running. Standing by.. but meanwhile, send me all your Lormaikais.
Touch Me When We’re Dancing
Come on and touch me
When we’re dancing
You know you’ve got that loving touch
(loving touch)
Touch me when we’re dancing
I want to feel you when I’m falling in love
I Won’t Last A Day Without You
When there’s no gettin’ over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won’t come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won’t last a day without you
Are you reading between the lines yet? EH?
Despite the anticipated Deep Depression™ settling in of being back in Italy after a good, long, sexy vacation, it hasn’t materialized. Not yet anyway. I am much surprised. Maybe I am just getting stupid. Too blurred to be bothered. Very much ado about nothing. And to think I could have stayed on for at least another extra week, getting fat. And lovin’ it.
Rainy Days and Mondays.
Funny but it seems I always wind up here with you
Nice to know somebody loves me
Funny but it seems that it’s the only thing to do
Run and find the one who loves me
Perdition is a long & winding road.. Ten months. Ok, 9 and a half months now.
Tic Toc
And so it came to pass..
Cont from The Booogie Wonderland
Okay guys, let’s rush through this quickly now!
Time is short.
Time is sand.
On the twenty third day of July..
• Bathroom tiles, MML tiles, Niro tiles, lots of tiles.
• There be dragons and loong paos at the Dragon-i.
On the twenty fourth day of July..
• Ikano, IKEA, The Curve crawl.
On the twenty fifth day of July..
• Mid Valley Mega Mall boogie.
• World famous squatting Rojak and bouncing Cendol at SS15.
On the twenty sixth day of July..
• More tiles! MML tiles are coming out of my er.. ears.
On the twenty seventh day of July..
• Bicycles! And pancakes for breakfast.
• And pies, and more cycling.
On the twenty eighth day of July..
• Something amiss this way comes. Diarrhea! Diarrhea! Diarrhea!
• Domino’s pizzas and McDonald’s cones. Never can say die!
On the twenty ninth day of July..
• Hong Leong Bank and Wendy.
On the thirtieth day of July..
• 1Utama Car Wash.
On the thirty first day of July..
• Finally mopes Riana, after weeks of procrastination.
• Jarrod & Rawlins with the Princess Angel.
• The Mummy, without Rachel Weiss, but with Jet Li.
On the first day of August..
• Dr Jonathan of Kota Kemuning Kumpulan Klinik gives me anti-biotics.
On the second day of August..
• Dr Mahathir strolls by at IKEA.
• Double dose of McDonald’s Drive-thru.
• All day Subang Parade affair.
On the third day of August..
• The Light Fantastic of Cheras!
On the fourth day of August..
• Miss Burberry arrives at Subang Airport incognito.
• Another bout of Ye English bangers at Jarrod & Rawlins.
• Super Crab Aroma Seafood & SS2 durians.
On the fifth day of August..
• Terminates Telekom Malaysia account. No more dial up!
• Bao Bao Noodles.
• Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
• Super Crab Aroma Seafood pt II.
On the sixth day of August..
• Depression strikes hard as Miss B departs, but KFC comes to the rescue. Partially.
On the seventh day of August..
• Very chee yoke breakfast at SS2.
• Bathroom Gallery: Toto? Johnson Suisse? Orin? VRH?
On the eighth day of August..
• Uptown Dimsum ~ Lormaikai #3.
• Finally, a great massage.
• Sunway, Harvey Norman’s & J.Co donuts.
• Maggi mee at The Resort.
On the ninth day of August..
• Cherating or Gentings? Gentings or Cherating? Choose..
• Midday South China Sea frolics with Mudpie & gang.
• Karaoke lounge Big Mamas strut their stuff. Very rhinoceros.
On the tenth day of August..
• An unspectacular 7:15am sunrise at Cherating beach.
• Cherating to KLCC, with a McDonald’s pit-stop.
• Manchester United wins the Charity Shield, again, on penalties.
On the eleventh day of August..
• Another great body massage.
On the twelfth day of August..
• zzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz zz zzzzz.
On the thirteenth day of August..
• Drops Maxis Post-paid like a hot potato, for Maxis Hotlink 365 Pre-paid.
On the fourteenth day of August..
• RapidKL transport to Masjid Jamek, to Maybank Tun HS Lee, to close some accounts.
• More brilliant body massages..
On the fifteenth day of August..
• Bangsar! Bangsar! Fresh new lawyer, Monte’s lunch, and Cold Storage shopping spree.
• Happiest Birthday to The Organic Samm!! A thousand XXX kisses, reserved for 2009.
• Chicken Claypot dinner, in place of scheduled Loong Foong Roast Duck! How can? Can!
On the sixteenth day of August..
• Contractor Talks to begin..
• The Resort Exclusive A-Team BBQ ~ New Zealand Lamb, Sushi, Chicken skin, pineapples..
• Only a little more than three weeks left. To go..
Cont from My True Love gave to Me.
On the fifteenth day of July..
• Exploring Kota Damansara’s wantan mee (yucks!), Starbucks (yaah! Free WiFi that works!)
• Penang Mari at TTDI; gorgeous succulent chicken and lamb satay with The Maizi.
On the sixteenth day of July..
• Rain, rain, glorious heavy rain.
• 1Utama ~ Free All-Day Wednesday Parking! Shopping spree at FOS!
• And at Guardian, at Jusco, and at Giordano. More boxers, more socks, some t-shirts.
• Checks in on Ms Burberry’s apartment ~ seems secure. No break-ins. Empty bed.
On the seventeenth day of July..
• The Princess Angel picks up for 1Utama
• Collects repaired Nikon S5 and is charged RM190.00
• Canton-i lunch of Wantan & pork knuckles, with a plate of spare ribs. So so only..
• The Big Apple ~ Duren Duren donut! Hmm?
• The Dark Knight ~ excellent, except I have an idiot sitting to my other side crunching popcorn pretending to be Jaws. Next time, I will bring a box of durians.
• The Princess Angel drives on, and we pick up the iMperial Doctor Chen, and meet up with The Cutie Pie, at MINES. 2 iPhones, 1 iPod touch, and a Nokia gathers. Dinner at some teruk kopitiam place, but coffee and kaya toast later at Uncle John’s Kopitiam is so much more delicious. No flying peanuts though.
On the eighteenth day of July..
• MAYBANK TTDI charges me a new cheque book, because the old cheques will be redundant.
• Drives off to The Resort blissfully, to an excellent plate of Konloh Wantan Char Siew Mee.
• MAYBANK Kota Kemuning makes all kinds of grumpy noises about my trying to open yet another current account. Tells them to go fly some pretty kites after wasting 45 mins of my life.
• Walks into HONG LEONG BANK next door, and walks out 20 minutes later with new ATM card, and a satisfied smile.
• Home-cooked Resort Dinner with The CP Family.
On the nineteenth day of July..
• Asiba Mamak breakfast: Again, the breakfast of Champions
• Hicom throws a Free Nyonya Buffet Lunch at their Lagoon Villa Townhouse showroom, and is invaded by the entire population of SKLs! Queue for the free noodles stretches to Subang Airport.
• Lala Chong dinner ~ So Lala! So Chong! So Yum! Queue is shorter than Hicom’s.
• Secret Recipe, and Astro’s surprise Birthday celebrations. The poor lass breaks into heartfelt tears..
On the twentieth day of July..
• Early morning commando raid on Lagoon Homes. My house still stands.
• Resort English Breakfast of sunny side ups, baked beans, chargrilled sausages, kopi, muffins.
• More Lagoon Homes inspection, with Paul. Renovation ideas run amok. I really don’t think a jacuzzi in the garden is such a great idea. Maybe a Waterfall..
• Resort home-cooked dinner for 9
On the twenty first day of July..
• Midnight movie from Uncle Ho: Brokeback Mountain. With double yoke mooncake.
• Bravely confronts the lunch hour traffic for some Roast Duck and Bakwa at SS2, & survives.
• MAYBANK calls to ask if I wrote out a cheque for RM100,000. Yeah, and it went to a competitor.
• iPhone1.1.4 becomes iPhone2.0 ~ PWNED!
On the twenty second day of July..
a Kota Kemuning lake view sunrise
On the last day of June..
• Staggers off TG945 FCO/BKK with high spirits, having survived intercontinental flight.
• Leaves a trail for the Lisaone at BKK.
• Angchai picks up at KLIA. Very humid. Lunch at Kota Kemuning.
• Marvels at Life, The Universe, Bamboo, Little Nellie, CutieCheePeePie.
• Tandoori dinner; excellent Northern Indian cuisine.. esp Lamb Curry.
• Riana Green is spotless. Cleaner than I’ve ever remembered it to be.
On the first day of July..
• Riana Green Management says Service Charge account is still in the good.
• Slow day (cannot go out because sister forgot to leave behind car alarm key).
• Commandeers sister’s brand new Toyota Rush.
• Solo raid on TTDI Jasima Nasi Goreng, plus Teh Ais.
On the second day of July..
• Kota Kemuning Lagoon home inspection. Mine is almost resembling a house.
• Pissed off. Unable to find car parking space at 1Utama. Unbelievable.
• WiFi sucks at Starbucks Centre Point. More pissed off.
On the third day of July..
• Nasi Lemak, the Breakfast of Champions, at TTDI, with MAS Steward.
• 1Utama; Horrors!! Discovers Giordano does not make the polo t-shirt in the way I am accustomed to and loves anymore. Pity purchases from Dockers, and The BodyShop instead. Luckily, Seaweed Face Wash is still readily available.
• Lan Hwa Bakuteh in Puchong with Princess Angel, and ‘Get Smart’ at Sunway TGV.
On the fourth day of July..
• PosLaju delivers shiny new Platinum card from American Express I didn’t apply for.
• The Mayor’s Birthday Dinner at Kota Kemuning. Birthday Boy receives an authentic Manchester United Champions polo t-shirt. Birthday Boy supports Liverpool, but for a few hours, he is enlightened by the Light Side.
On the fifth day of July..
• Bawang Merah brunch
• Kota Kemuning’s plant nurseries.
On the sixth day of July..
• More Asiba Roti Canai.
• Bye Bye to Fish at Lakeside.
• Hello IPOH! Love the three lane highway.
• Hollywood’s Chow Kway Teow and Yau Char Kwai.
• The cheap and clean The New Caspian Hotel, 2 nights.
• Chee Chup Chuk is as delicious as ever, even with curdled blood.
On the seventh day of July..
• Delightful Dim Sum at Foh Sun with Ah Foong Foong. First Lormaikai of 2008.
• A speedy in and out of the Lawyer’s office. SNP finally signed.
• Settles Ipoh Cukai Taksiran, and Indah Water bills. The end is nigh?
• To wash out foul taste in mouth, Old Town Kopitiam White Coffee and free WiFi.
• Wicked Roast Duck dinner at Yeong Wai, Greentown.
• And some nyonya kuih dessert at Woolley’s Court.
On the eighth day of July..
• Canning Garden Chee Cheong Fun, a most excellent dish not to be missed at all costs!
• And the second Lormaikai of 2008.
• IPOH/KL, a smooth, relaxed drive. Police roadblock waves me on.
• IKEA, at last. Look see, look see. Platinum card retains virginity by a whisker.
• Unable to resist the lure of the Variety Bucket from KFC.
On the ninth day of July..
• Annual Dental checkup ~ lives to bite again.
• Calls Estate Agent to put Riana Green up for sale.
• IKEA earns my first RM50.00 for Storage Boxes.
• 1st potential buyer, a Korean MAS stewardess, views Riana Green.
• Izakaya Ichiban, fine Japanese dining at Sri Hartamas, with Cocka Doodle, Princess Angel, Laundry Amah, Penang Nyonya, King’s Wife, Winn, Kat, and Oscar’s Mummy. Very SKL.
• Starbucks ~ more SKL, more Soh Crab..
On the tenth day of July..
• Banking business at Maybank TTDI.
• Tries to get Maxis to convert my Post Paid to Pre Paid, but learns there is not much difference. Sticks with tried and tested. Almost seduced by Maxis USB Broadband in the process.
On the eleventh day of July..
• Instead of Fotokem at 1Utama repairing old Nikon S5, bought a new Nikon S51 as well. There goes the Platinum card’s virginity.
• In despair, attempts to eat a Burger King Whopper.
• Moneychanger at 1Utama hands over bulky envelope of Ringgits in exchange for large sum of Euros.
• Deposits bulky envelope into Maybank, before any ransom demand is made.
• Packs small bag for weekend Resort trip to KKL.
On the twelfth day of July..
• Breakfast at KKL, and then Shopping (poor Platinum card, happy Oakley shop).
• Spends 33 minutes feeding fish with skin. CheePee hungga shaggas.
• Permai Golf Club Golden Dragon round table dinner.
• ‘Elizabeth’ the movie, with lavish Big Apple donuts.
On the thirteenth day of July..
• Showrooms
• Plant nurseries ~ decides raw concrete slabs will make ideal paving for new house.
• Ikan goreng, ikan masin, sotong sambal, spinach, and Kickapoo.
On the fourteenth day of July..
• Watches a sunrise.
• Opens another bank account online.
• Delays return to Riana due to reported heavy traffic jams in KL.
• Takes opportunity to blog.
To be continued..
Just when you thought everything was lost..
A last minute shopping for some cleaning fluid for the cleaner resulted in FRESH FIGS!
Yay!! I also just had freshly baked Lasagna for lunch, but forgot to take picture first before demolishing! Losing my touch, methinks.. Hwah hwah.. Hopefully the COMING SHORTLY, VERY SOON Lormaikai will not suffer such a fate.
Fingers crossed. See ya soon! Arrivederci. I gotta go wash the car and then park it in the garage.. and then leave the scooter with Stefano, after a good fishy dinner.. and then finish packing.. and then disconnect the ADSL.. and then wake up at 5:45am.. and lock everything down and switch everything off. Ciao.
Update: Finished chore!
Los Angeles.. C O N F I D E N T I A L
Most Memorable Moment: Riding around Roundabouts
Most Gourmet Moment: Slurping Longkang Laksa with the Imperial Doctor
Most Sotong Moment: Flying Peanuts at Pantai Seafood
Most Misty Moment: the IKEA bet
Most Touching Moment: KLIA just before Departure, with Ehon
Most Titanic Moment: The Red Box Karaoke Lounge
Most Endearing Moment: Pre-Playground Squatting
Most Pengsan Moment: Role playing with illegal Durians in a hotel lift
Most Sadistic Moment: Climbing up all those steps to her apartment
Most Technical Moment: Placing one finger to modem and a toe to Apple MacBook, manually
Most Sporting Moment: Olympic Platinum medal for Fencing
Most Surreal Moment: Rolling up hills, swinging from tree to tree, on Kuch Kuch Hottie Hai
Most Defining Moment: “Angel, are you a guy or a girl?”
Most Enlightened Moment: “Of course I am a girl lah!”
Most Blur Blur Moment: Looking for Bakuteh in Puchong
Most Holy Moment: Giordano, Penang, with salt
Most Sampat Moment: The LiuLiu KlangKlang Gang at Hakka Restaurant & at The Curve
Most YourStar Moment: Chupping the Ho Kwai Farn Spa & Country Resort
Most Unrelenting Moment: Searching high and low for parking space at 1 Utama for 1 hour
Most Skype Moment: Wetting the bed (her bed)
Most Intimate Moment: Kamasutra at the gHotel
Most Potong Stim Moment: The so-called Sex Shop at MidValley Mega Mall
Most Pitiful Moment: Staring at Lok Lok at Gurney Drive during a torrential downpour
Most Climatic Moment: Way high up in the dark at the no Eye see, Titiwangsa
Most Tender Moment: The steak at Jarrod & Rawlins, Sri Hartamas
Almost iPort Moment: Air Asia to Penang, and back
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y P R I N C E S S A N G E L
