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Lelong.my E-Commerce Fair 2011 At Mid Valley Exhibition Centre

2 weeks ago, I went to check out the Lelong.my E-Commerce Fair at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre. It’s the first and biggest e-commerce fair in Malaysia organized by Lelong.my. Basically, it’s a fair where the online shops that sell on Lelong.my brings their product to the fair and sell it there. If you don’t know Lelong,my, it’s actually Malaysia’s version of eBay and it’s the largest online shopping website in the country.

Besides shopping offline at the e-commerce fair, there were also talks on how to set up your own online stores and online business, there’s also free goodies bag too!

The fair was pretty fun because that the shops that we normally see on the internet was at there physically and we could actually get a touch on the product which we normally don’t. I also found some good stuff at there and know about new store too which I will be doing more shopping online.

One thing, there’s actually lucky draw at the fair where people can walk away with handphones and gadget, as well as a Super Bid where bidding on gadget starts at RM1. Sadly, I couldn’t able to join as I was busy with assignment. Hmm.

Well, I checked out the opening ceremony and Lelong.my said that they will be organizing similar fair in the coming years. Seems interesting!

August 22, 2011
Random Walkaround At Bukit Bintang Area

Best place in Kuala Lumpur.

After residing here for a year in Klang Valley, I realised that life outside the city – the place I am staying and studying isn’t really fun when compare to the city. Klang Valley is just another normal metropolitan city, with the downtown Kuala Lumpur is fun.

I wonder why there’s no beautiful and quality university campuses located right downtown. It would be really great if there is. Haha. Life, fun and study must blends well, with a well and healthy city life. Sunway area is pretty boring for me, all the building looks the same with no colour, it’s isn’t anywhere close to the city where beautifully designed skyscrapers are.

New Apple shop is coming to town, hidden opposite of Low Yat Plaza.

Even though the skyline of Kuala Lumpur is beautiful, when comparing to my hometown Penang, I still greatly like Penang more because of the colours, the people, and the old heritage city. That’s something Kuala Lumpur doesn’t have.

I still prefer Chatime and Gong Cha despite many awesome bubble tea out there.

Penang is colourful with the old colonial styles houses, blends with a little bit of modern shopping malls and buildings. With low skyline, you can see a colourful red tiles roof. Another thing that I fancy Penang is the close-nest to the sea, water, and greens. Kuala Lumpur is just a concrete jungle within a valley with no sea but a little but of greens. That’s the biggest dislike, the nearest sea needs about 45 minutes trip, a beautiful beach needs about 1.5 hours of drive. When in Penang, beach, sea and nature are so near.

Happy Merdeka Day Malaysia!

Anyway, home will be the best place to be after study.

August 22, 2011
Last Thursday In Taylor’s University

Thursday is both nice and not-so-nice day because Thursday is near to weekend, so it’s nice, but on the other hand, it’s a tiring day as my class started early in the morning till late evening. And all the classes are in a continuous manner with just a little break in between for lunch.

I am getting myself to suit with the parking system at Taylor’s University. Ever since Taylor’s University started collect RM3 for the parking at the basement and the one nearer to the campus, I have to park my car at the so-called “Taylor’s Rocky Parking Area” which you can see in photo above. Every time I reached school, the whole parking area is almost full and I have to park until the end of the parking area, which is about 500-700m walking distance? It’s good to walk in the morning, but imagine rain and Sunny afternoon. Why don’t they just built a sheltered walkway for students. What a noob management of the school that is being inconsiderate.

First class of the day is the CAD (Computer Aided Design) class which I am learning about AutoCAD. I love functioning and playing with the computer, but so far, nothing much powerful have been learned. The lecturer is being slow at the moment. Hmm. I need some speed up to learn something more powerful. Catching up news and Facebook are something I would do during the CAD class, I believe everyone too. =D

Later then is the boring Moral Education class, which is a compulsory subject for the Malaysian students. What’s wrong with the Ministry Of Education? We have done 11 years of moral education, and now we are doing it again in college/university. One of our project for this Moral Education is to do a total 16 hours of community service. Sounds cool. Though, I have no idea where to service in Petaling Jaya / Klang Valley, any recommendation?

Sad that this class has not many people, that’s not so fun as I couldn’t meet some new friends from other courses. I wish I have module that mix with other courses, but too bad, there’s none for me. It’s not to the point of real university style yet. My course is just like high school, where my class is still the same, my class until graduate.

Lunch was really suck as I had no appetite that noon and nothing at the Recezz food court amaze me. Everything is just so-so, even the Curry Chicken Noodle that I once like went lousy already. Sigh. Things get bored when there’s no pork, seriously. It’s so halal. However, I have a recent like that are the I Love Yoo porridge and the Yong Tau Fu with rice in my campus. =D

Drop by the library for a while to print some stuff. The school still haven’t credit me the printing money for this semester! &%$#%*(## Damn, it’d been half a month since new semester started. I need my money to print!

Had my Design Studio class at a room called the Print Room. No idea what that means by it’s my first time attending class at such nice room with an awesome view of the lake. I believe the room belongs to the Graphic Design student. No idea why were we there.

Anna, Nita and Arowa. All foreigner, one from Belarus, one from Indonesia, one from Saudi Arabia.

The class was rather OK for that day as nothing much I have done for the hotel room design. First project of the semester is designing a Royal Thai Style VIP Suite. It’s pretty challenging for me as Thai style is very complicated and I am a minimalist, modernistic person. Haha.

Instax Mini 25! Brought it to school to shoot shoot. Though, nothing much to shoot. Haha.

Class ended a little bit earlier and so, me, Wesley and Jia Hui went to the lakeside for a seat to pass time and enjoy the breeze and view. Suddenly feel that the school was so relaxing and good, too bad this is Malaysia, and it is warm and humid. Lakeside relaxing is only fun when it’s near to evening and after a rain, or perhaps a cloudy day.

The weather was nice that day and it rain later when I attended another class called the Building Construction class. Later that night, I went to watch movie and tour the night market. What a tiring Thursday. Haha.

August 21, 2011
Muda House At Muda Lane, Penang

During the Georgetown Festival that happened last month, I found a nice heritage shop houses call the Muda House, which the name derived from the street name – Muda Lane. It’s just somewhere near to the famous Kuan Yin Temple and it’s a good visit.

I was actually walking around town with Hueisean for fun in conjunction with the Georgetown Festival and accidentally found out this light blue painted colonial shop houses. With much curiosity, we went in to the Muda House check it out what it is all about. It’s actually like a mini museum, selling heritage stuff, souvenirs, coffee and antiques.

They are also a charity house which they collect funds to help stray dogs and animals. How kind are them?

You can find antiques stuff there too for your home decoration.

Check out their website for more information. A nice and relaxing place that should not be miss.

August 20, 2011
Just Bought A Fujifilm Instax Mini 25

Photography is a hobby of mine. I don’t plan to be a professional photographer, but taking photos is just something really fun to do in life as it captures the best moment of life. I wanted an instant camera for a long time as it’s a very fun camera and I can get my print right away. Unfortunate that Polaroid has discontinued releasing the Polaroid instant camera which was a really good cam.

Luckily Fujifilm still produce instant camera nowadays, with smaller print size. Recently, I bought myself a Fujifilm Instax Mini 25 camera from a lomography camera shop at Sunway here, the shop name is call Lokomotiv Checkpoint. I found the shop on Facebook and I was quite excited with the price of RM499 include 4 boxes of film.

I was wanting to buy from a seller at Kajang which is far and that seller is selling at RM415 + RM26/box of film, which are rather expensive. Since Lokomotiv Checkpoint is so near to my place, I went there to buy myself the camera and a total of 80 credit card size film.

What’s different between this Instax Mini 25 and the normal and most popular Instax 7S is that this is so much smaller, easy to carry around, auto mode becomes better and more intelligent and beautiful outlook. =D

The package include the camera itself, with 2 CR2 battery, close up lens for self-shoot and close up stuff, instruction manuals and straps.

I like it very much and have so far taken 8 shots which I will share with you guys.

August 20, 2011
August Workspace With Ikea Lightings

I love clean and organize workspace and bedroom but the clean won’t really last long as it will be back to a mess after a few days of usage. Though, I just enjoy cleaning it over and over again. Recently, I just bought some lighting from Ikea to decorate my room for a better atmosphere for all study, work, play and sleep.

To me, I feel that a room is the soul of a person and it’s represent a person personality. Being an interior design student, my room must be clean and organized, as well as well-decorated, which I don’t really get to decorate as this is just a rented room.

A good and beautiful room will boost productivity. It’s better hanging in the room at night than hanging out in the pubs, spending money. That’s my opinion for that.

Do you have/like a clean room?

August 19, 2011
#instagram I Am Back

Blogging on WordPress has caused me a few problems. It’s a good blogging platform when compare to the Blogspot Blogger engine, but I some times favor the Blogspot as it’s fast and easy to blog. I have been having problem with posting link and not auto-saving after updating my blog and finally I have found a solution.

Tomorrow is Friday and it’s no-school day. Gonna do assignment, and check out some good food at Sunway Pyramid and also write my blog! So stay tune and good night. It’s so late. I always try to tell myself to sleep early, but I fail, all the time. =D

By the way, do follow me on Instagram @nicholaschan. =) Have been addicted to this little application on the iPhone lately.

August 19, 2011
Back To School – Taylor’s University

Kevin To the Vietnamese geek.

Hello people, I am feeling very TL right now because I have typed a very long post and WordPress didn’t auto-save it and now I have to retype again, but I am going into summary mode right now. Haha.

Steve and Wesley addicted to the new game, Fruit Processing,

So I am now back to school, back to college or university, whatever term that you want to name it. So far so good, assignment is compiling now, more and more. Stress, sleepless night, many thinking and work are coming to me. It will be tired, but I don’t mind, because that’s life right? How can life be interesting when there’s nothing to do.

Nick the blogger, me.

Added more pool table and foosball table. All coin operated. WTH.

School has been good for the passed 2 weeks. I saw the Singaporean director Jack Neo who directed the movie “I Am Not Stupid” came to my campus to do some shooting for its sequel. So lame was that the film crew didn’t allow us to take any photo of the scene and process. How stupid it was.

Just spotted a few scene and didn’t bother to go check it out as there’s nothing much interesting, it only get interested when the film is out and I will see my school in it. =D

One thing I dislike about Taylor’s is now they started charging parking fee at RM3 per entry, though being a kiam siap (selfish) people, I park at the free zone far far away (as there’s still two free rocky zone) and I have to walk under the hot sun everyday. What a money face school. And one more is they also charge their shuttle bus service for commuting students to hostel and the other campus, really ridiculous.

So now is mid-Hungry Ghost Month, don’t go out so much, it’s the most scariest part of the month and I heard that people same year born as me, 1992 is advised to wear red clothing on Monday, 15 August which is to block all the bad luck. I am in, how about you? =D

August 13, 2011
Diner’s Choice Street Western Food, Mount Erskine

Street western food is another type of meal that storm the hawker and street food scene in Penang. When we mention about western food, it’s more likely chicken chop and fish n’ chips that come across our mind. There are many types of western food, ranging from fine dining style western food, or even McDonald’s is consider as western food as it’s origin from the west. But here in Penang, an Asian city, western food among the locals are these street style western food serving at hawker centre that the food are prepared ala Asian style and at a low price. Asian tweak the western dishes to suit local’s taste buds and the local surprisingly love it.

There’s quite a few famous street western foods like James Foo, Tip Top, LK, Chef Delight’s around in Penang. James Foo was once a favourite but after renovation it’s not really attracting me to there anymore due to the noisyness crowds and over crowded environment. A pro-foodhunter in Penang – Criz Lai, recently introduced a street western food corner to me, it’s the Diner’s Choice Western Food that is located at Gerbang Erskine, Mount Erskine.

It is a hidden gem in a quiet housing neighbourhood. Many people might not know about that place but not me as I was surprised that it’s just near to where my grandma lives. I was aware about this mini coffee house, but didn’t know that they do serve nice western food. After the recommendation, I quickly went to try it out as I was craving for western food so much.

They serve a wide variety of food ranging from chicken, seafood, lamb and steaks too.

We started our meal with a plate of mushroom soup (RM5). In the surprise, the mushroom soup was welly presented with nice cream art on top of the creamy brownish mushroom soup, serve with a slice of toasted garlic bread. It just created a sense of classy soup which blends with the hearty feel of the neighbourhood coffee house. The soup was in fact better than what’s at James Foo’s and there’s like tiny mushroom in it which enlighten my mouth. The garlic bread was crispy and well eaten with a little dip in the salty mushroom soup.

When asking about my favourite street western food, it’s always is the Chicken Cordon Bleu (RM8.50) which is actually stuffed chicken with ham/sausage and cheese in it. At Diner’s Choice, it’s a full loaded ham stuffed in the deep fried chicken and the creamy and waterish cheese filled the inner chicken. The presentation of the food was nice with french fries, garlic bread and vegetable salad as side dishes. It may look small in portion, but it’s just enough to fill your stomach. The gravy was their special BBQ sauce which tasted sweet. In compare to James Foo’s, I felt James Foo is somehow better, but with it’s nice presentation and price, I will go back to this again.

Oriental Chicken Chop (RM7.50) is a dish that available at all street western food locally. Despite the wide availability and simple-ness of the food, people still like eating the battered chicken with oriental sauce and fries. The battered chicken, deep fried and poured with the same sauce as the Chicken Cordon Bleu was serve with fries, bread and vegetable salad too. Unfortunately, in comparison to the one at Little Cottage Cafe, it doesn’t sports the crispiness that the one at Little Cottage Cafe has. It’s just not crispy but to give a comment about it, the sauce make it tasted good. I prefer chicken chop with a crispy crunchy feel.

Overall, this is a hidden gem that you may want to discover. It’s my new favourite street western food place as the price wise and taste are pretty good and I will surely visit this place again for some mouth watering local style Asian food.

Diner’s Choice Western Food
1, Gerbang Erskine (Erskine Grove),
Mt. Erskine,
10470 Penang.

Tel: +6016-4552082

Business Hours: 5pm-11pm (Closed Thursday)

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August 9, 2011
Nice Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee At TTDI

I am back to Subang Jaya people and I am again in search for the best Penang food available here. Sounds weird right? Being in Klang Valley looking for a food that’s not origin from here, just because I couldn’t resist the deliciousness of my hometown food and I miss them much just after a few days of living hometown.

Famous food blogger, who is also a Penangite residing in KL, KYSpeaks introduced me a few places to hunt for Penang food. Arron, a friend from Penang and I went to hunt for the Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee (known as prawn mee to the KL peeps) and we came to a place call TTDI (Taman Tun Dr Ismail). It’s somewhere between Tropicana City and Bandar Utama.

Hokkien Prawn Mee is one of the top 3 famously delicious Penang food with Asam Laksa and Char Koay Teow. If you ask me to pick one, I fancy all of them, but I like Asam Laksa even more, the world’s number 7 most delicious as rated by CNN. Nevertheless, I love them all.

In the vicinity of a Cantonese and Malay speaking city, there hides a Hokkien speaking aunty who operate the Hokkien Prawn Mee stalls in a kopitiam named Restaurant Yong Len on Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 1.

As usual, I ordered a bowl of Hokkien Prawn Mee – Bee Hoon Mee (combination of rice noodle and Chinese yellow noodle) RM4.30. The bowl of Hokkien Prawn Mee came within a few minutes and to my surprise, its outlook cheered my food sight up. The crispy fried shallots, little shrimps pieces, noodle, slices of pork meat, beansprouts and the chilli paste are just so right. Its presentation didn’t failed me and shocked me with huge shrimps. I dislike having huge shrimps swimming in a bowl of hokkien prawn mee as it’s so not authentic. It’s sort of modified by the KL locals.

Chilli paste was spicy enough which does not burn my throat or salten my taste bud. I have came across some hokkien prawn mee in KL that the chilli paste was in fact a red salted paste. Upon flooding my mouth with the soup of prawn, it feels good and like there’s a shrimp swimming down my throat. The crunchy shallots gave the soup a little tweaks to be even better.

Best part of all is that when you reach the bottom of the bowl, a scoop of the soup reveal many small little shrimp which just makes your teeth feel busy and good.

Well, this is currently my favourite Penang Hokkien Prawn Mee stall in Klang Valley, the next would be SS15 Asia Cafe and I will definitely come back to this little place.

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August 9, 2011

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