My 1st Malaysian Wedding

i reused this image

Been going to weddings recently. Looking at my calender, i see weddings and more weddings down the road. Well, guess this is the age for marrying!

Singapore weddings, i been to a few, thus kinda get used to the wedding culture. Malaysian wedding? My 1st!

Journey to the wedding location in PT took around 40 mins, well Malaysia is big! and it seems that whether a wedding or an event is happening around the area, the locals around the state will know about it.

We kinda get lost at the PT and will need specific directions to the wedding location. We flag down a passer by and ask for directions. We just ask "where is the location to a school around PT" and she enquired "wedding?" as though she knew where we wanted to go and promptly gave us the directions.

Local events and news spread like fire in a small and close community in Malaysia. Unlike SG where doors are closed and shut. Probably due to culture difference. SG people tends to keep more towards themselves and do not really socialise much after work. Or maybe that just me and my other friends (=

The Malaysian dishes and wedding dinner course are similar to SG wedding dishes.

For the non-asian people reading this, basic asian chinese wedding dishes consist of the following

- cold dish, assortments of appetizers to boost appetite

- shark fin, a dish that can never be left out.

- duck/ Chicken meat

- Crispy pork skin, really crispy!

- noodles or something filling like buns with pork (3 layer pork consist of fats, lean meat and skin 三层肉). More info regarding this 3 layer pork, refer here (translate the page into English)

- vegetables with mushrooms

- fish

- desserts

A combination or more of the above if the wedding dinner has 9 or more courses.

For our malaysian wedding, we had double servings of dessert which consist of sweet (it is SWEET) yam paste and ice cream.

No noodles was served, but the 3 layer pork meat was served.

For beverages, 7up, coke, chivas, red wine, tea, plain water, orange juice and beer was available. Since red wine was offered to me, i just took it. And they are served in jugs, not bottles. Explaination from the waitress was that, their red wine was drafted, thus the red wine in a big jug

And being auspicious, the dinner end promptly at 9:45 in chinese means 9点9个字

And 9 for the chinese means 久 which means longevity.

End the day with LY's bf, CK and CY dropping her home, before sending me to the bus terminal to take bus back to SG。

Nice people, they even called me after i reach SG to check if i am in SG (=

I wish happiness to the wedding couple, XF and HB (= and for them to 早生贵子

Liver Donation - A courageous woman

A courageous woman that donates part of her liver to someone who had no relationship with her, some one who is just her father's friend child.

On top of knowing that she had only 1 kidney, yes only one since birth, she still carry on the liver donation. Liver and kidneys are essential organs that remove the toxic from the body. And if i know that i have only 1 kidney and 3/4 of a liver left, i might not perform the op for someone that i do not know.

(i read somewhere that an average weight of the liver is 2kg, thus to donate 500g leaves 1.5kg of liver, which is 3/4)

Certainly a courageous woman to go ahead with the liver donation.

More info on her blog

http://hoongling.blogspot.com

The posts on her liver donation (below)

http://hoongling.blogspot.com/search/label/Mission:%20Life%20Saving

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Shopping Trip - Day 2 n 3

Day 2 is literally and non-stop adrenaline pumping action of shopping by all members of the group. especially for footwears.

taken by me

Balalaca, (nice to call?) a footwear store in Times Square was a hit with the females in our group with its unique design of slippers.

taken by me again

And amazingly, we bought mostly footwear or rather slippers.

The price is just jaw-dropping at RM$10 for a pair of slippers. and RM10 for slippers is commonly found in Kuala Lumpur Time Square! Especially on the 5th floor.

Proceed to next stop at Sungei Wang, which leads to even more shopping, this time window shopping before heading to a shop in another sector to purchase tidbits.

Either singapore have limited population or sungei wang is freaking popular, the wide walkways were jam packed on a saturday afternoon. Having to squeeze our way thru to navigate in the crowd, only then we could manage to reach the exits.

Been a long moment since i saw such crowds, If singapore stops building new shopping centres, maybe we will be able to see such crowds again. From what i can see, Malaysians or tourists in malaysia are more willingly to shop and spend more than Singaporeans or tourists in singapore

Afterwhich, head to the hotel to rest the exhaustive legs before heading to a Japanese buffet at Tenji @ Mount Kiara, which none of the 2 cabs know the way.

taken by my gf, posh estate, compared to the rest of KL

Our cab driver even had to call and check with Tenji for directions. For every non-open end question asked by the driver, the response is always a hilarious "YaYaYa"

According to the driver and my friends in Kuala Lumpur, Tenji Japanese restaurant is the hottest japanese buffet in the area. It certainly is. With the queues at dinner time and supper time (while we are leaving), it validates their statement.

Maybe Tenji started off as a Japanese buffet restaurant, however, the food displayed there are international, though 60% is Japanese.

The display of their shashimi was impressive. Pieces of raw fish on ice which gives off visible icy gas. Very much japanese style. However, the taste still kinda fail! Though it looks fresh

I had verify one general rule. Japanese food in Kuala Lumpur is not as good tasting in Singapore. Or taiwan. Their shashimi will always have a weird taste, which i cannot properly describe. Maybe its their culture to cook Japanese food in this way, not really my taste. Even with its impressive exterior, Tenji Japanese Restaurant fails too.

For other food at Tenji, they are pretty delicious to eat and make up for the short coming of its japanese food.

Not sure if any other diners noticed. During when my gf was taking a teapot to make tea, she noticed that the teapot was infested with small red ants which camouflage with the color of the pot.

Checking with other pots yield similar results, thus we gave up the idea of using teapot.

Other diners taking the teapot overheard our conversation, yet, they continue with the tea filling, oblivious or not caring about the ants.

Maybe they are used to eating ants, which i am not (=

Tempting?

After a sumptuous buffet dinner and a sinful dessert which ended with Hagen Daz ice cream and tiramisu, we part ways with my relatives and they retreat to their hotel, while i met up with my friends in Kuala Lumpur.

We met for some drinks and simple gathering since it was years since i saw them. Ate ikan bilis which was amazingly nice to eat. 1st taste, it was cripsy. After swallowing, the hot sensation came. (it was coated with chilli). It was hot, yet mild and gentle on the tongue. Marvellous chef!

Ended the session at 1+ and called it a night.

Day 3 was simple affair of even more shopping to buy the things we missed before checking out and a trip to the airport to fly back to SG

Go to Kuala Lumpur Shopping trip - Day 1

Mas Selamat arrested in Malaysia

Finally Mas Selamat is captured after 15months. who is he anyways that demand so much attention from singapore?

Mas Selamat was the head of Singapore JI branch, a worldwide terrorist group, that escape from a Singapore detention center from Feb 08 while on the way to the toilet.

For his escape, several senior paid the price and was demoted and charged.

How was he caught in the 1st place? Mas Selamat was deported to singapore by Indonesian Police while using faked identity card in 2006 and had since make Whitlet Road Detention center his home til the day he escaped.

An islandwide manhunt was contacted to locate him, his picture was sent via MMS to almost all Singaporean, however efforts where futile. He had then fled to Malaysia to expand JI's network.

Mas Selamat was believed to be caught by the Malaysian Police since Apr 09, and had been held for interrogation.

And yes again, he will be sent to Whitley Road Detention Center, which had since bucked up on its secuity since he escaped.

I certainly hope not another issue of him escaping whitley road detention center again. i believe that the singapore guards were too complacement with its security and thus the previous escape.

Hopely, lessons were learnt from the previous whitley road detention escape!