T-Bowl Restaurant

This so-called popular restaurant in Taiwan is now opened in Penang, located in Queensbay Mall. We had a chance to try out the food there yesterday. The restaurant is relatively small but with cute interior design which makes you feel that you are eating inside the toilet or bathroom. You'll be seeing toilet bowls as seats, basins for the table, showers and toilet rolls all over the restaurant.

As the restaurant is new, the services provided are very in-experienced. Worse is different waiter will give different explanation on the foods and promotions available. The foods which we can easily make at home and will taste better are overpriced. Perhaps to encourage customers in ordering their signature food that are served in mini toilet bowl. However, none of us were ordering such food due to our mindset of eating directly from the bowl itself. My colleague ordered BBQ chicken which actually is just a fried drumstick and then covered with BBQ sauce that costs RM13.70. She complained the chicken was fried for too long and is very hard to eat. Furthermore the chicken was so small that she ended up feeling hungry again later in the afternoon.

Instant noodle with disfigured fried egg and piece of chicken ham that costs RM6.50

Hot Cockroaches

Last Saturday was an extremely hot day for me in Penang. It was sooo hot even at night. The reason why I said is hot?? Well, there were about a dozen of large cockroaches roaming around our bathroom when I wanted to take some bath to cool myself down. My guess was they were trying to cool themselves down with whatever water left on the wet floor. I quickly rolled few pages of newspaper and gave them a whack of the lifetime. It was a minute too late as after i flushed all the dead cockroaches down the toilet that I realised I've forgotten to take photo of my killing spree.

Another Baby Full Moon

My husband came back from work yesterday and presented to me a very cute packaging, saying that it is a gift for me. I never thought that he can be so romantic by giving me a surprise gift without any reason, and was very happy to accept it. However my happiness was short-lived as it was actually a thank you gift from a proud parents of a newborn baby boy.

This was the first time that we have received such thank you gift, and i find it is very special indeed. Inside the packaging was a small teddy bear, a cute Pooh mini mug, some candy, cookies and the baby's photo. Obviously from the photo, most of the candy and all of the cookies are missing, thanks to my husband for finishing it before passing it to me.

Le Chevalier D'Eon

Now this anime was highly publicized by Animax recently, prompting it was one of best animation in 2007. It has 24 episodes in all, and so far i only manage to watch the 1st half of the whole series. The anime is drawn in very nice detail, especially the lighting effect on water, background layout and the internal castle structure.

As I have not completed the whole series, so i can't really comment much on the show. The characters recite alot of words in the bible though. As the story is loosely based on historical facts, i can say that the creator of the series is very creative instead. The historical character, d'Eon de Beaumont as written in Wikipedia tells about a guy working as a spy for France, was insisting that he is infact a woman, and dressed up as a woman as well during his spy missions. In the anime series, it tells that the character had a sister named Lia (non-existant in the history) who also worked for the King of France, was killed during one of her own mission. As both d'Eon and Lia are very close to each other, the spirit of the Lia ends up possessing the brother at times. Of course to make the anime more interesting, you'll see people that can cast spells and control gargoyles to attack our heroes.

There's lots of blend between actual historical events in the anime. Of course, you can't really depend in watching the show in order to score your history exam. The examiner would not know what the heck you're talking about.

Knitting Project

I came across 2-in-1 knitting kit in Toys R Us store in Queensbay mall and bought it for RM42.9, reason being the kit will guide you how to knit a fashion bag, scarf and also a teddy bear. My husband paid for me during the trip, as he bought other toys for himself as well. I will pretend to forget in paying him back :P


I have not been serious in knitting all these while. The last knit i did was when i was in secondary school when my mother taught me when i was bored to death. But nothing materialized because my hands got tired after a while. Seeing the teddy bear picture on the box really tricked me 2 whole days in knitting.


The instruction book is very confusing for a beginner. It taught you how to make a slip loop in order to start, then following by casting. It was ok upto this step, but as when i start to knit, i noticed that i will end up with a very long tail by the time i start on the 1st row and i recall that when my mother taught me, there's no such long tail. I called my mother on the phone for help, but she was busy perming her hair with a hairdresser and did not answer my call at all. I end up surfing the internet for help, and realise there are 2 method to start knitting. I followed back the style which my mother taught me last time, to save up the yarn. Here's how the teddy suppose to look like from the box:

I ended up something else when i finished:

My husband called it doggie with fat legs. He even purposely tied the arms and legs to make them look fatter :(

Bumper Sticker and etc...

Yesterday on the way to QueensBay Mall, i saw a car with bumper sticker that reads "Hows my driving, please call 1-800-EAT-SHIT". Now that is a funny tag line which also makes me scope around what other funny bumper sticker that we can find.

I recalled many years back when bumper sticker was a hit with all the youngster, especially when certain hit movies reach our Malaysian shore and thus the era of that movie logo/theme will begin. One example is the Hong Kong's Storm Rider. I can't read chinese but it is easy to recognise the word "Fung Wan" as it can be seen in almost every motorbike in Penang back then. Of course one would need to be careful on what they stick. Now if someone went and stick a Titanic word, we would imagine their car or bike will end up in disaster. The more recent rave would be the Transformer movie, where we can see some of our good old proton car being turned into either autobot or decepticon unit.

There's alot of brand wannabe as well. The most obvious were the wira owners that removed their proton logo and replaced with mitsubishi instead. And we can't forget those that like to stick some tuning house logo or racing spare parts logo as well. Of course there are some that really install genuine parts in the vehicle, thus the owner is proud enough to stick around the brand of the parts installed to make known to everyone on the road.

I also noticed that some people are placing name tags onto their car as well. Now i can't be really sure whether they named their car, or the tag is referring to the owner of the car. If it really refer to the owner of the car, then i feel that it is abit silly to do so. First, it is easier for conmen or trickster to do their work since they knows your name. Second, it makes people easier to curse you should you mess up while driving :P

Friendster, facebook. ringo, hi five, netlog & blah blah blah

Currently there's lots of such website where you can maintain contacts as well as meeting new friends thru the net. I've registered myself to some of the services as well, but now there are too many that i can't even remember whether i did have an account.

The one that I had registered recently was facebook.com, and is basically hooked due to many of the games available that we can play. I even scored a very high score in Staries game recently, and was one of the top scorer list for the week, but my happiness was short lived as it was replaced with someone else hours later.

I had not gone to my neopets account for a very long time, i guess the addiction had worn off even though there are cool games that you can play there as well. Maybe due to there's little interaction between circle of friends that we can do. But again, i will feel guilty with each login to seeing my pet dying of hunger.