Cynix’s World

As you can see from the previous entry, I went to Disneyland on November, that can be considered as my Birthday celebration as well. Had fun! I came back towards the end of November & attended 2 interviews at a company in KLCC Petronas Twin Towers. Got the programmer job for a normal pay, starting 3rd January. So I still have December to enjoy life somemore.

I haven been watching quite a lot of american tv shows such as desperate housewives, lost, grey’s anatomy & all 3 CSI’s. One of tv shows that I’ve started to watch is Bones from fox tv, new show, pretty neat so do check it out. I also noticed a famous game show in Australia started airing in USA, it’s called Deal or No Deal. The aus version started quite some time ago, but the american version just premiered this week. I’m guessing the rules are pretty much the same but one thing is different for sure, the women holding the number boxes in the 2 countries had distinctive styles. Australians enjoy it very much, watch em everyday, duno about americans tho.

Then they are some movies as well, we’ll start with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I enjoyed it just fine, though I find the part where the bush “attacked” Fleur and the part where Harry & Cedric fought over the cup, kinda ridiculous. And as expected, that was not how it was potrayed in the book. Among the more popular complaints from people who actually read the book (I didn’t) include: Dumbledore is too mean in the movie, Kristin Kreuk should have been Cho Chang & too much hormones going on. Next up is Chronicles of Narnia, considering that the book was actually written about kids & for kids, the movie is fine. Can’t expect much from a kids & animals conversation now can we? It started out kinda slow, but the war part which is max 2 pages in the book took up a lot of time in the movie. It’s to make the movie more interesting I suppose or to prevent a riot by the angry adults in the cinema.

My working shirts, full picture here

My Guess wallet & bag, full picture here

Well since I’ll be working next month, it’s time to shop for working clothes. Bought quite a few Shirts from Seed Work, one from Padini, one skirt from Elle & one pants from G2000. I guess that pretty much covered buying clothes during celebrative season for x’mas, new year & chinese new year. They’re on sale anyway Bought a nice blouse from Blook as well, not a bad shop if you’re looking for something fancy. I’ve forgotten to upload a picture of the Guess bag & wallet I bought from Guess Outlet in Katy Mills so here they are, they are quite cheap in USA.

Going beyond expectations? More like not within expectations

On a side note, just read the news about MAS “expenditure”. I remember not long ago that MAS was suffering from a loss & is increasing their air fare and the PM asked people to inform MAS’s CEO of their overspending. Putting all this aside, I still don’t see how those art pieces can improve their corporate image or maintain the stature of the place. If there’s one thing in Malaysia that needs a better image (by spending huge amounts of the hard earned tax payers money), it should be the country, not it’s airline. Let’s start with making sure that the spots that had signs that says “You’ll be fined RM500 for littering” are not the dirtiest spot you’ve ever seen. Or making sure that the stores under the sign “Selling of pirated products is prohibited” are not actually selling pirated products. That’ll do good to whatever image we’re trying to set.

Squat Incident

I also remember just when I came back to Malaysia, I heard about the ear squat incident. Lotsa hoohaa over the “fact” that she’s a Chinese National, ended up she’s a malay after all. Funny I never read any news about the woman suing the (pants off or) bejesus out of the police or the person who took the picture or anyone involved in it, for the emotional damage & traumatic experience. Never mind the tourist turn-off, defamation & humiliation, everyone in the world who has a slight interest in Malaysia, Chinese or (most probably) non clothed woman, had saw her in her b’day suit. I mean we do live in the world where privacy is important & those that intrude it will have to pay an unimaginable huge sum of money for compensation right?

Wait, what am I talking about. This is Malaysia.

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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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