The Ideal House

Last Tuesday, after having lunch with my parents at Jusco.. my dad told us that he saw a bungalow in Bandar Botanic and this place other than famous for its mass murdering serial killings at one point of a time where it is common for murderers to pick on victims as they come out for their morning jog because the houses in this place is expensive making it less occupied and quiet making it a very suitable area for carrying out crime. The house is very nice and so he wanted us to have a look at it too and so he took us there and my goodness, it was almost majestic.

This is the frontal view of the bungalow, do ignore the people in this picture because i cannot get a clear shot. I like the very fact that it is designed and build in the fashion that the house is actually segmented to 3 areas, with the side 2 bulging out like huge pillars with the middle one sitting in comfortably. The walkway towards the house is very long making it look generous. I don’t know the exact measurement of the house but it’s something x about a hundred in square feet.

This is the actual length of the walkway from the gate to the front door, there’s more to it actually because the front door is located on the side hence more path but i’m only concern with this particular walkway as it makes it look like a mansion. On the both sides of the walkway, you can see a very clear visible miniature pebbles walkway but don’t get it wrong. It’s not supposed to be anywhere close for walking on, the stones will be excavated and then it will become a man made ‘river‘, yeap.. those where it will be filled with every lasting running water with fishes swimming inside. The river will wrap around the walkway either you’re coming home or going out.

Once again, ignore all the humans in the picture. This is the main entrance of the bungalow and the same thing here, the white “stoney” texture located next to the pieces leading up to the door is meant to be excavated and made into the ‘river‘ i mentioned earlier giving the impression that you must walk through a bridge in order to enter the house, like a castle =OOO what kind of house has bridges leading to the main entrance T_____T. Actually, the water in the ‘river‘ that surrounds the long walkway from the main gate flows from here T______T or alternatively it can have beautiful grasses planted on it.

This bungalow is located directly opposite a man made lake with fountains in them which will operate during night time for the time being so i’m expecting that once the area is fully populated, it will run 24-7. This however doesn’t mean that when you purchased the house, the lakes and everything comes together as a package. You merely gain access to those facilities around you because you are required to pay a maintenance fee of RM300.00 every month for the upkeep for the whole area or more specifically, your neighbourhood but nonetheless, i think if you have the cash it is a a valuable buy. The RM300.00 if of course not only for the upkeep of the neighbourhood, Bandar Botanic is based on a concept like a club house.. only members of this area is permitted entrance and the developer has provided security guards with 2 cameras aiming at the driver and the car right before you enter each area. The place is very well gated up and should be sufficient to prevent ‘unwanted’ guests from entering but sadly there is no electric fence which jolts up to a shocking 100,000.00 kilowatts… that would be amazing =’)

There isn’t much houses on this stretch so i’m guessing that these are one of the ‘elite‘ type of houses where super rich people stays in. One thing that must be noted is that every design of the house in this stretch of the road is different and unique meaning no one house is of the same, each with its own distinct feature, the ones with an extra top on the house has shorter frontage and mind you the end of this road is a DEAD END =O meaning there’s only one entrance and one exit. Well, you can swim out through the lake but who would want to do that if you’re carrying a 42″ Plasma TV with you?

The one we’re seeing is a corner lot meaning it has more grounds to cover and which also justifies the initial price the owner asks for, RM2.1 million o_O now that’s a lot of money but my dad managed to somehow through the help of the agent managed to reduce the price to RM1.8 million, a hefty RM300,000.00 in reduction but still, it’s a lot of money -_____-

To be honest, the insides aren’t as big as what the outside looks like to be but of course it definite has more space than the current house that i’m staying in because mine is a double storey terrace house and if a bungalow is in nowhere significantly different then the developer should actually get himself killed in a very obvious car accident. The ground floor is furnish with average quality marble tiles and nothing special to it except that everything is expanded to maybe 2 times the size of an average terrace house and one thing that i like is that the dry kitchen is actually facing the main gate and that would enable people to actually see in the event people came by because most of the visitors are more often than not ignored because the occupants are in the kitchen, cooking =D

The second floor which is the bedroom floor has parquet floorings and that’s is expensive material. I think it has 5 rooms in total where each and everyone has a good more than enough space in them to move around even after putting in a Queen sized bed and other necessaries. I did not visited the master bedroom because i’m assuming that it will look the same but only a larger version of the other rooms. The stairs leading up the floor has a very huge window overlooking the only road that leads to this stretches of house.

Overall, this is a great house to own. My dad planned to purchased this house and made it into the “Ah Kong’s House“, literally translated in “My Grandfather’s House“. The purpose is to have something like a MAIN HOUSE so that any of my siblings will have equal shares in using it and is supposed to be the house for my parents to stay in in the event all 3 of us got married because they truly and fully understand the importance of private space because the initial plan for the current 3 house that we had now is for that very purpose although the car pouch is connected and all of us have access to each other’s house -.-

But still RM1.8 million is ALOT of money, RM1.8 million… do you have any idea how many BMWs i can buy with that money or to hypothetically inflate the significance of it, try to imagine the amounts of Ramly Burgers you can buy with RM1.8 million. ZOMG~~

The Disastrous Barbeque

As i’ve said earlier, the barbeque dinner that my girlfriend and i both planned to have during our holidays in Awana Genting deserved an individual entry to itself. You will know why as you read on. Ok, it’s no strange news that both of us like to cook and this has sometimes became an issue of conflict for us but nothing serious. We decided that we should actually bring our own food up to Awana since we’re not staying at FIrst World or in any of the resort hotels in Genting hence that would mean we would be far beyond reach of food supplies because most of the restaurants are located in Genting itself. Well, not to say Awana doesn’t have a restaurant but we all know how hotel foods tastes like, don’t we =/

We wanted something special, something unique and something that we can enjoy and barbeque would seem to be the best option taking into account the lower temperature there and so we went and bought the foodstuffs the day before and it costs me RM89.90, i know this is repetition but money is always an issue so it won’t hurt mentioning it twice.

Basically, these are all the type of foods that we bought for RM89.00 but the portion that’s in this picture is roughly 4/5 of the total quantity, we kept the rest in the refrigerator provided in the suite and i don’t think i need to describe one by one what are there, the picture is quite self-explanatory. As soon as we unload our stuffs in the suite, my girlfriend told me to let’s go and get a dip in the swimming pool because she was very excited with the fact that there was one in Awana and she has been dying to swim in one since don’t know when, i, of course the person who doesn’t know how to swim didn’t have a choice but to follow suit because i already promised her that i would. Besides, i can’t be letting her wearing bikini and swim in the pool all alone right? She changed into the bikini while i, armed with only a short pants because i didn’t want to waste money into buying a swimming trunk which would costs me maybe around RM60 – RM70?

We spent a decent amount of time in the swimming pool before i noticed that the sky is about to rain and just that time the ‘watcher‘ who was supposed to be making sure people enters the pool with proper attire was caught by my girlfriend looking at her in her bikini and there’s nothing i could do because

• i’m not in Klang
• i’m obviously outnumbered
• my parents doesn’t know i’m in Genting

That idiot somehow spotted me with my pants and gave me a soft notice telling me that what i’m wearing is not allow but it’s ok since we’re already done anyway, we both climbed and what in the world, i felt like i’m 10000 times heavier T____T but actually it’s just gravity that’s playing a fool >=( After wiping ourselves dry we walked back to our suit feeling hungry half way through, we reheat what was left during morning’s ‘mobile-breakfast‘ and it wasn’t enough =O and so we agreed to start dinner early and this is where all the excitement begins -_-

My girlfriend said she will do the preparing of the foodstuffs while i go start the fire, very obvious isn’t it? So i went over and took out the barbeque stove which my girlfriend borrowed from her house and put it outside of the balcony and started arranging the charcoals that i bought from a stupid Indian grocery shop for RM4.00 near my house. It was drizzling when i first went out and i thought “wow.. great weather” but soon after, it got heavier and heavier and that’s when i sweat faced myself -_-! Trying to recall back few months back on how i started the barbeque fire at my house, i tried to applied it there. I took our the fire starter and did everything in proper order. I failed for a first few attempts because

1. i fanned the fire too early even before the charcoal heats up, my bad.
2. i fanned the charcoal too strong, the fire went off and smokes resulted.

But on the 3rd attempt, i’m am dead sure i got everything right and hence, FIRE!!!!!! 3rd time is a charm eh?

Everything was going really smoothly and my girlfriend has just finished preparing all the foodstuffs and placed it on an oblong table just behind the glass sliding window which led to the balcony that i closed earlier to prevent smoke from engulfing the whole room. Although the fire was up and burning big, i had a very insecure feeling about everything because if i remembered correctly, smokes aren’t supposed to appear in a very visible manner and the fire we had was mainly dominated with smokes.. but then i thought to myself maybe i’m just paranoid. Minutes later, i saw the fire going off and i knew something bad is going to happen, i immediately fanned the charcoal very hard and fast and i felt relieved as soon as i saw fire burning up again. We put our very first batch of foods to be barbequed including the long awaited legendary lamb shoulder. The same thing happened again not much later, the fire was not seen lighting and so i took out the fan and fanned it again and this time, shi- happened, as soon as i fanned the stove, smokes begin to rise up and it’s not in little quantity, it’s exactly that type of smoke that people want if they want to asphyxiate themselves and right at that moment i know the fire is dead and err… we as well XP but thankfully, the lamb shoulder was barbequed to perfection and we were able to savour the victory T____T

My optimistic girlfriend convinced me that the fire is still burning despite there was no sign of anything and so we both continue putting foods on the stove and pretend that it’s being barbequed, it didn’t take long until my girlfriend had second thoughts on the ‘imaginary-fire‘ and told me that maybe it’s because it’s daytime and we cannot see the fire but i was more than convinced and certained that there was no fire, it was only smoke and we were literally ‘smoking‘ our foods -__- Spending hours in believing that there was still hope, my girlfriend finally got frustrated and asked me where is the fire starter and i pointed to the direction beside the television is placed, she took out one and then light it up and putting it under the stove and as soon as the fire starter lights up fully, she placed the food right on top of it -____________- There were a few fire starters that didn’t got burned fully and so the ending parts of it actually scattered around the stove when i fanned it a few times earlier and so when my girlfriend actually light up a new fire starter, the fire actually spreads on to them hence causing a very big fire. We believed or we would LIKE to believed that the charcoal is working but actually it is NOT! we are barbequeing our foods solely on fire starters =’(

The funniest part is that whenever we saw a part which has a big fire rising up from the stove, both of us acted like cave mans who discovered fire, moving all of our foods to that area. We were literally shouting to each other like hooligans; “WOAH, fire… fire… faster..faster…” and our eyes were lit up with tears of joy and hope but it didn’t last long because the fire died off soon after =( This process repeated itself for a long time until there were only 4 fire starters left in a box which is almost full. Because of the fire wasn’t generated from the charcoal but the fire starter instead, the fire created was kinda uncontrollable and was so big that it burnt most of our foods, burnt not as in causing black crispy bitter parts on our food but lighting up our food with fire, yes, FIRE! The buttered baguette in the picture shown was engulfed in flames T___T it was a beautiful scene. We did managed to barbeque our marshmellow which my girlfriend recommended heavily and it really tasted good =) only that when barbequeing it, it too was caught in flames ._.

As you can see from the picture, that is me on the very edge of pissing off and i’m this close |-| into throwing the stove over the balcony located very near to me >=( and if you see clearly, i’m actually putting the barbeque stick UNDER the steel thingy instead of ON top of it. Agitated, we both went over to the kitchen area and start up the electric cooker hood and decide to pan fry the foods we are really hungry and we all know what makes a man when he is very hungry.

My girlfriend suggested to me that we should bring cooking oil even before we bought the foodstuffs because that is what her aunt told her but me being the stubborn one didn’t want to because i was sure that the barbeque is going to be a success. Now that it didn’t, we wanted to pan fry the sausages and we have no oil and so my girlfriend asked me to use the margarine and i did. We successfully fried the sausages but because we used margarine as a substitute of oil and due to the cool weather Awana has, the oil coagulated very quickly and it is very very scary and oily but we have no choice, it’s either that or we will starve to death T______T and if you are wondering what we used to fry the sausages, it is a lemon grass or serai in Bahasa Melayu T____T

My girlfriend is still hungry after consuming the sausages and because we only managed to barbequed one Lamb Shoulder and she wanted to eat the other one as well and so she resorted to the microwave again, she puts the margarine on top of the lamb shoulder and then throw it into the microwave to cook, i warned her to not do it and even if she does it i told her to not eat it because it’s going to be risky because it is meat and if cooked improperly might result in something serious but given her stubborn nature as well, she ignored and proceeded with her idea and this is what she got.

It was very scary, really… what you seen in the picture is what you get. I didn’t photoshop it to make it extra horrible =O but my girlfriend somehow managed to finished it T______T she has no idea how dead worried i was for the first few hours after she consumed that piece of meat. I didn’t know what words should i used to describe the feelings we had right after all those nonsense that took place but i know my girlfriend was angry because she said this in an rather discontented face “I don’t care, today anyhow also i want to go up to Genting” hahaha, i on the other hand is just feeling pure disappointment.

I don’t know what happened but i think we deserved a better day T______T by right everything should turned out to be as beautiful as this

…..but destiny gave us this instead

At the end of the day, both of us despite the hourly long shower we still smell like charcoal smoke and the ironic part is that none of the food that we ate was a product of it. We realized that actually the problem why we failed is because the charcoal that we purchased was of a very bad quality which explains the price. It is very hard to absorb heat which explains the difficulties in building up the fire and once it heats up, it turns grey very quickly meaning it is used up fast. I came back and asked my dad about it and he told me that this is what they referred to as “Arang Kayu Kembang“, it looks like your ordinary charcoal only that the insides are empty. It is filled with air more than anything.

Although the barbeque dinner turned out to be a disaster but nonetheless, we had a lot of fun because we were laughing our way through =D The suite is supposed to smell good and fresh because i can still remember how it smelled right as soon as we stepped into it but right after we did that barbeque stunt, it has dwelled into an undesirable place because it just smell like charcoal smoke. I hope it won’t bother the next occupants =/

I am speechless.

On The Hunt

I promised my girlfriend that i would put a notice online and perhaps to the ‘world’ in order to find a bag which appeals to her very much and me as well and i’m here to keep my promise

She named this bag, “Baby Bag” on the basis that i think it was named after her because i refer to her as “baby” and by naming this bag “Baby Bag” it simply means this bag belongs to her hahah, isn’t she cute? We came across this bag 2 days before we went to Genting while my girlfriend was shopping for her bikinis for the swimming pool in Awana and then we subsequently wandered in Factory.Outlet.Store (FOS) and it seems like FOS has been one of her favourite store to shop for clothes because the clothes there are quite nice and the quality is above average, only applied to some and if they are having a sale, it will be the best place to shop. I don’t know whether they still have this offer on but it’s 2 t-shirt for the price of RM30.00 as opposed to the normal RM30.00 for one and these discount shirts are not of poor quality, mind you but i have to say the designs are quite dull and limited but hey, give and take!

It’s quite a sad story how my girlfriend encountered this bag. We were at AEON Bukit Tinggi’s FOS store and we were actually looking for sweaters because my girlfriend is about to start her university semester course this 14th of July and i wanted to get her one so that she could put it on when she feels cold which is no strange occurrence, she feels cold most of the time in air-conditioned rooms and given the fact that her university is newly bought building, i’m expecting that the administration is going to give the whole building a FULL repair and service and that would include the air-conditioners. As we were browsing through the sweaters, none appealed to us and so my girlfriend was distracted and switched her focus to clothes and bags instead and that’s when she came across this heart breaking bag T____T she immediately picked up the bag from the shelve where it was hanging and without giving proper examination, she said she loves it and i can tell because i like it too because the color combinations are nice. She was having second thoughts because her parents gave her RM300.00 to spent on her holiday but she already used up RM200.00 for her bikini which means she is now left with roughly RM100.00 and since i couldn’t buy her a sweater, i thought to myself “hey, why not i get you this bag?” it’s not like on everyday basis i buy you something and she agrees and it’s not always she agrees so swiftly everytime i offer to buy her something but this time she never hesitated because she really loves this bag and didn’t want to let go of this opportunity. So she took it and went into the dressing room happily along together with a couple of shirts to try on.

It didn’t take long for us to realize that the bag was actually damaged and not trivial damage but serious damage =/ the zipper is out of line hence it cannot be zipped and so i told her that let’s forget about it because RM33.00 for a damaged bag this bad is really not worth the trade and at first i can see the reluctancy because she has really put on the hope that she’ll be having that bag home for the holidays and now, she has to part with it. It was really heart breaking seeing her like that and so i said “let’s just cut off the zipper part and then we will have one good bag in the end, right =D” but she insisted that the bag is not going to be pretty without the zipper and decided once and for all not to buy that bag but she did asked the sales attendant on whether they still have a second stock for this and was given a negative reply, they can’t even trace back who supplied them because the bags in FOS are on consignment basis. Despite the fact that my girlfriend asked me to bring her the other bags for her to try on, at the end of the day she still picks up the Baby Bag from the floor and tells me “nice right this bag, it’s the perfect match for everything” -.- they gave us a discount of 10% since it was damaged but still my girlfriend thinks it’s not worth it.

So now, i’m on the hunt for this bag.

Back to the Wanted Posters and i’m dead serious about it, i mean to whoever provides me with information regarding this bag’s whereabouts as in where did you saw it or anything that would lead to its successful purchase by me, I will reward that person with RM100.00 and this is no joke.

Here’s the colored photograph of the bag to give a clearer and better details about the bag. It has images of little puppies printed all around it, dark and light blue <3 Please guys, if you see it please let me know because i really want to make my girlfriend happy =(

Happy Hunting

OFFER REVOKED [2nd July 2008]