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Feb 12

:: The One with Indulgence ::

I was back in Ipoh for the Chinese New Year jams celebrations. There wasn’t much to do especially with most of the shops closing for the festive season and traveling around in town was worse than KL’s daily crawls.
One of the few fine dining restaurants that was still open for business is Indulgence, now [...]

Jan 1

:: The One with Happy New Year 2008 ::

Posted in Cities, General

So here we are in 2008, the beginning of a new year and at the end of last year, 2007. Time just seems drift by ever so obliviously when we aren’t paying attention to life. Without trying to be cheesy, it just feels like January 2007 was yesterday, no? Most of us [...]

Dec 29

:: The One with the Road Trip ::

So it’s going to be the end of 2007 and Gerald, Grace and I decided to go on a little road trip to Penang for some makan-ing session. Too bad that Johnny, Hin Loong and Ivan couldn’t join us on our journey to the land of Kiasu Penangites.

During our visit to Penang, we stayed [...]

Dec 21

:: The One with Xmas Decorations ::

Posted in Cities, General

It’s a norm now that customers are treated to great Christmas decorations in shopping malls around Malaysia besides having ample choice of products on offer during the year end mega sales. Usually these decorations are set up in the mall’s centre court and I heard that they have a inter-decoration competition each year amongst [...]

Dec 13

:: The One with the Best Popiah ::

You know, those from Ipoh, including myself, never stop blabbering about how good the food is back in town. Aside from the usual famous white coffee and bean sprout chicken, Ipoh has one of the best popiah in the nation.

Not many are aware of this roadside stall run by a grumpy old fart situated [...]