Cynix’s World

It’s been a month since I’ve updated this blog, been busy working & got lazy to blog. Firstly, I would like to wish everyone Happy Chinese New Year!

Food prepared for steamboat

Steamboat & other dishes

My cousins & I

I celebrated Chinese New Year in Sungai Petani, Kedah this year because my grandparents just moved there from Merbau Pulas. On the eve of CNY, we had steamboat, same as every other CNY that I can remember. It was not bad, my favourite however is still lobak, has quite a lot. hehe… Was not terribly bored as I have bought - Harry Potter, The Order of Phoenix to read. Plus they have Astro over there, although there isn’t really any good CNY movies on TV this year.

New Guan Yin statue at Kek Lok Si temple

But that was not all, I had a one day trip to Penang as well, my relatives wanted to see the new Guan Yin statue at Kek Lok Si temple so I followed them. They had built a new goddess statue there, in order to go up to the mountain, we had took a short & packed ride up. The statue looked great, the monks there are trying to raise charity to build a roof for the huge statue by asking people to buy a tile for RM20 & write their names on it.

On the way to Thailand

Followed my uncle to Dannok, Thailand, this was my first trip there. Their main purpose was to get a massage, I just wanted to see what it was like. Everthing from food to clothes is really cheap there, but the streets are not clean. Highlighted my hair there because it was RM3 per strand of highlight, really cheap right, haha . After washing, the total was RM33, which would be 330 baht. An eye opening experience all in all.

Wisma Telekom, the white building on your right

Siebel CRM

As some of you might already know, I have been assigned to a new project after 2 weeks in KLCC. The project is in Wisma Telekom, Kerinchi. It’s nothing like Menara Telekom and I seriously do not like the office. But since it’s reachable by LRT, I’m not complaining. I had a collegue who got sent to Subang for MAS project, now that’s a headache. In any case, the project is TM Customer Relationship Management, which means by the time the project is done, we - as streamyx & phone line customers, will pretty much get to know exactly how good is it. Siebel is quite a powerful, my job however is tedious as it involves data. But since I’m just getting working experience, everything goes.

Going out to One Utama for lunch, more updates next time!

Tag: Chinese New Year

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Back Log Entry 4 - Since we’re going back to KL via LAX in Los Angeles, we decided to stay one two nights in Anaheim California which is where Disneyland is at! We arrived there at evening, had a quick dinner and went to Downtown Disney District. There are many shops there including World of Disney, it sells everything Disney from keychains to dolls to t-shirts. I bought most of the souveneirs here. Took a few photos there & decided to rest.

The next morning we went to Disneyland Park, the first adventure that we took on was Indiana Jones Adventure as it was recommended by the shuttle bus from LAX airport. The memorable scene of the huge stone ball rolling to our carts does refresh my memory of the movie. We went to Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters as well. It’s where you can collect points by shooting at the targets, quite fun. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was great as well. There’s also a 3D-show by Kodak & Haunted Mansion. Pirates of the Carribean was a relatively new ride, we tried it out and it was interesting. Space Mountain is by far the most unexpected thrill ride ever as you can’t see where you’re going, the whole room is black with twinkling stars. Since it’s winter time, they have a christmas parade as well, nice songs with all the familiar characters. We went to It’s A Small World too. Overall, it’s been a great time. We went back tired & satisfied after taking on so many rides.

On the next day, we went to Disney’s California Adventure Park. First, I went to Turtle Talk with Crush, it uses real-time animation for interactive & live conversations. Crush could address an audience by name & respond to any kid’s question. Then we went to 3D show called It’s Tough to Be a Bug, really interesting We also went to California Screamin’ which is the most thrilling ride in Disneyland, had lots of fun. Soarin’ Over California was great too, not a thrill ride but it does take you through orange county & other parts of CA. Ended the day with The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, it was a long wait but definetely worth it. It’s bring us to a lift which goes up a few floors in the Hollywood Tower, opens up the door, then drop for like 3 floors & up & down again, quite crazy. We’re all seated with seat belts of course

For photos & more, please visit my Disneyland photoset.



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Back Log Entry 3 - Went to San Jacinto Battleground to see Battleship Texas and San Jacinto Musuem. We’re lucky enough to get a free guide to show us around the battleship. In there, we’ve seen how the people lived, we see sections in the ship such as kitchen, clinic, officer’s room & dining room. The living space for the officers & the people working under are certainly very different. We get to see the weapons that were on the ship as well.

After that, we went to Aquarium Piramid in Moody Gardens. There was this large tank that has seals & sea lions in it, really huge creatures that enjoys attention. Then there’s the penguins, just hanging out or flapping their flippers to cool down temselves. There are a few attention seeking penguins that swim to our direction when they saw us. There are many other sea creatures such as star fish & crabs as well. Quite a nice place to visit.

Went to Farrago’s for one last time before leaving Houston, gotta eat White Chocolate Bread Pudding w/ Golden Raisins and Jack Daniels Creme Anglaise, possibly the best desert in the world. The white chocolate doesn’t taste too sweet & the Jack Daniels adds a perfect touch. Yummy

William’s friends decided to have dinner with all of us at Texas Land & Cattle Steak House as farewell dinner. We had yummy back ribs for dinner & pecan chocolate ice cream for dessert. We had a great time there. And there’s this interesting place called Tony Mandola’s Gulf Coast Kitchen which we had a great seafood dinner at. They have a waiter that only serves black pepper, so when your dish is served, he’ll walk to your table & asks you whether you want black pepper and that’s all he does. They have another guy for cheese as well. Talk about good service.

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Back Log Entry 2 - Have been in Houston for quite a while, suddenly had a craving for some Malaysian food. A friend suggested Cafe Malay & we went there. It’s got to be the closest thing to Malaysian restaurant in Houston! We’ve had chili crab, curry chicken, Steam chicken rice & all those food that makes Malaysia special. Had Ais Kacang for desert, how cool is that! Haha

Went to Kemah Boarwalk again for the great seafood! This time we went to Babin’s Seafood House. It was recommended by a Texan, so we give it a try & it was worth it. The crawfish bisque that we ordered for appetiser was so good. After that, we went to the Stringray Reef & feed some hungry stringrays. These guys are always hungry & they’ll come up from the water as much as they can to reach for the food

Went to Reliant Stadium, but not for Sports events or any kind of championship. It’s for Disney on Ice! Watched the Princess Classics, the usual Mickey & Minnie and their friends as well as all the princesses in Disney Animation. Quite fun, too bad there aren’t any other characters outside from princess classics.

Houston Zoo was pretty fun. They have many animal shows there including shows of birds & seals. Seen a Llama there too, looks funny. After that we went to Hermann Park & took some photos, great scenery over there. There’s a pretty Japanese Garden within, which looks really good even in winter and there’s the famous Sam Houston statue as well. We went to Hong Kong City Mall too, but it was disappointing, not worth the visit. The only special thing is we manage to find food such as IndoMie & 3 in 1 coffee there. These might be plain in Malaysia but you can’t get it anywhere else in Houston.

These are some of the photos I took during this journey and the album is available here.




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Back Log Entry 1 - I know it’s been a long time since I blogged about my small adventures in Houston, I’ve gotten lazy half way & decided to watch more TV instead, haha. So here I am blogging some old entries that I should have posted a month ago.

I’ve gone to TUTS - Theatre Under The Stars, Houston, Texas to watch Broadway Theater titled Chicago. It was really nice, for those that want to know more, you can try to download the Chicage movie, it’s just as good. Before we went to watch, we went to Artista to have a great dinner first. It’s the most expensive place I’ve ever been to, fine dining, everyone dressing up so nicely, piano music, great food. Anyway, we ordered crab for appetiser & grilled ahi tuna for dinner, yummy! Had their famous desert too

The Next day, we went to Nasa Johnson Space Center. There’s quite a lot of things to experiment, learn & experience there. They had demonstrations of how astronauts live in space, their plans of going to Mars, the science behind the shuttle, and much more. Bought a few souveniers there then we went to Joe’s Crab Shack at Kemah Boardwalk for dinner.

On Sunday, we went to The Houston Museum of Natural Science. There are dinosaurs, fossils & a lot of information about different kinds of energy & how it is generated. Quite a tiring weekend and we ended it by having Fried Alligator from Pappadeaux as appetiser for dinner!

For some photos, please visit my USA Trip photoset & leave some comments there!



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Fung’s Kitchen

Walmart @ Houston

New York Pizzeria

Last thursday, we went to a chinese restaurant to try out chinese food, the interior looks nice but the food nothing special. After that a friend dropped us off at Walmart, shopped around & bought some groceries. Ordered pizza & wings from New York Pizzeria for friday dinner.

Katy Mills

Lunch @ Lotus Express

Carvel Ice Cream

Rainforest Cafe

Our drinks

Appetizers

Our dinner

On Saturday, we went to Katy Mills outlet store for budget shopping! Went to food court for lunch, had economy rice from lotus express. After that bought Ice Cream from Carvel for dessert. After that, it’s a lot of shopping, spent most of the time in Liz Claiborne & Guess outlets. Bought a Guess shirt & jeans as well as a liz claiborne handbag. Had dinner in Rainforest Cafe later, quite a nice place with special surroundings.

Kohl’s

Hard Rock Cafe

Guess Jeans & Shirt, Liz Claiborne Handbag

Aerosoles Leather Boots

Victoria Secret set

On Sunday, we went to Kohl’s & Galleria to do more shopping. Bought a liz claiborne sun glasses for usd6 & a nine west wallet for usd8 at Kohl’s. Bought Aerosoles leather boots at Foley’s & Amber Romance gift bag from Victoria’s Secret. After that we had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. Ordered Grilled Salmon, william’s collegue ordered choc fudge brownie, tastes great.

Hooters

Our Dinner

On Monday, we went to Halal Wok for dinner, ordered a few dishes & shared, quite ok. Went to Hooters on Tuesday, the guys really enjoyed their time there, they each bought souveniers too. Went to Farrago for dinner the next day, the pastas tastes great & dessert is heavenly. On thursday, we went to Bismillah for halal food, the chicken masalla is nice but nothing compared to malaysian food.

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