It's a love hate relationship

As most of you would have known by now... i have this love hate thing going on with my Streamyx connection...sometimes i love it but most of the times sadly...i have problems with the connectivity.

Things got worst the past 2 months and the worst of the worst being the month of november where i was totally unable to connect! I think i must be the world's biggest dunce for not doing anything...yes i did called up the support center but their technician only came when no one was at home and to tell the truth, i dont really have faith in them...

so i decided to cut off my streamyx and to sign up for the celcom broadband...and my procrastinating got the better of me and i delayed the unsubscribing part up till now....i decided once and for all....I M GOING TO DISCONNECT MY STREAMYX CONNECTION TOMORROW MORNING!!!

very determined already!

so i reached home just now...

turned on my pc...

and just by chance glanced at my modem for a while....

and lo and behold...the DSL light which has been blinking non stop like the lights on my christmas tree for the past 1 month is now STABLE!

WTF....i turned on my browser...and I see the Google page staring straight back at me...and so here i am blogging! How like that??? it's like my internet connection is begging me not to disconnect it 'x' or i could be going crazy...HELP!!!!

Update :

Look at the speed!!! omg...i really dont know what to say...i think i will give streamyx another chance 'x'

Sisters Day Out

One fine Friday, 3 of us decided to take leave on the same day for a secret rendezvous...

Secret as in not letting any other people in the family know we are not workign la...but at the end, it wasnt much of a secret anyway *shrugs*

To start the day off, we went for a dim sum breakfast at Xin Tsui Siang in the Petanak area (next to Frydays Chicken)

i quite like the place and its dim sum bcos of the affordable price (mostly RM3.80,except for the noodle) and the environment's nice also with free wifi =)

here's what we ordered...Shredded Duck Meat Noodles...

Portuguese egg tarts...

Har kau

Phoenix claws aka Chicken feet

We were quite full after the breakfast and all hyped up to do....some Shopping!

In one morning we went to around 4 or 5 boutiques along the row of shops where Optimax is situated...not sure the name of the road la....but i really like the boutiques there for its affordable price and nice sales assitants =) now i know where i can shop for cny clothes!

after that its off to The Spring...

MAC is open in Kuching!! woohooo

Couldnt decide where to have lunch so we ended up at ...

2 hours after that , we had tea break at Secret Recipe

Seems more like a eating day than a shopping day ho? *burp*

My Sushi King Adventure

I know this is a very very outdated post but better late than never...

Still remember the Sushi King RM2 bonanza from the 20th Oct till 23rd Oct? I practically went for 3 days before we manage to get inside :(

On the first day, we thought we would get a competitive advantage if we go straight from work at 6pm...but look at what greeted us there?

So we decided to have dinner at Manhattan Fish Market instead

Total damage : RM65

On the 2nd day, i still didnt wanto give up...so off we went again...earlier this time, at around 5.45

to no avail =(

and this time we went to Food & Tea for dinner (total damage : RM25)

On the 3rd day! i die die also must eat! so we rushed there and die die also must queue up in the long long queue...hehehe

30 mins later...

I was never that happy to enter Sushi King...sobs, i almost kissed the ground 'x'

but then, the sushi were all prepared hurriedly and therefore its not that nice lor, the rice was still not that cooked cos it was a lil hard :(

but its ok ... cos i feel a sense of accomplishment! wahahaha

and the ironic thing was..we went there 3 days in a row just to eat RM2 sushi mah...but at the end we spent RM65 on the first day, RM25 on the 2nd day only to get to the RM2 sushi...

so i think nxt time we better go during non-offer period lah

Egg Tarts & Cream Puffs

I successfully made a batch of egg tarts 2 weeks ago! yay!! successfully as in EDIBLE and 'can see the light' egg tarts 'x'

It took me two times to get the the right egg tart with 3 recipes =_=

At the end, the egg tart recipe at kuali.com is what got me thru =)

and last week, i made cream puffs

initially wanted to make durian cream puffs but dono why sudnly cannot find durian by the roadside anymore....

so just made cream puffs loh...

not trying to blow my own trumpet or wat, but cream puffs are surprisingly, relatively easy to make

i made the puff twice on saturday and sunday and the 2nd time round, it only took me 1 hour to prepare the batter and pop it in the oven

ok nxt time can make this for housewarming party...lol

Here are the recipes if you are interested (obtained from Kuali.com)

Egg Tarts (http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=2578)

Ingredients

Pastry
210g plain flour
1 tsp milk powder
30g icing sugar
1/2 egg yolk
130g cold butter, cubed

Filling
120g castor sugar
250ml hot water
1¾ tbsp milk powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs

Method
Beat butter, icing sugar and egg yolk until creamy. Sift in flour and milk powder to mix into a pliable dough. Cover with a piece of tea towel and leave aside for 20–30 minutes.

Roll out pastry in between two sheets of plastic. Stamp out 9–10cm circles of pastry with a pastry cutter. Line egg tart patty tins with pastry circles (note: i have omitted this step, instead i mix the pastry with more flour so that it is firmer and then just press the pastry flat into the egg tart mould).

Trim off excess pastry dough and prick the base with a fork. Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for 10–12 minutes. Remove and cool slightly.

To prepare filling, dissolve sugar in hot water and stir in milk powder and salt. Leave aside to cool, then add vanilla essence. Break eggs into a clean bowl. Stir lightly with a fork, but do not beat. Pour the cooled milk mixture into the eggs. Stir to mix, then strain into a measuring cup. Leave aside.Pour custard mixture till almost full into pre-baked pastry cases and bake at 180°C for about 15–20 minutes or until filling is set.

Cream Puffs

For the puff (http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=1265):

Ingredients
125ml water
60g butter
2 eggsCombine:
75g flour
Pinch of salt

Method

Line a baking sheet with non-stick parchment paper. Preheat oven to 200 ºC.Place water and butter in a deep saucepan. Heat gently until butter melts. (Butter must melt before the water boils.) When butter has melted, increase the heat and bring water to a boil.

Remove saucepan from heat and add all the flour and salt. Return to the heat and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until mixture forms a smooth, sticky mass.Remove from heat and leave to cool for about four to five minutes.

Mix in eggs one at a time and beat with a wooden spoon until dough is mooth. (Avoid overmixing, and stop mixing as soon as the pastry is smooth.)To make choux puffs, drop teaspoonfuls of the mixture on the baking parchment. To make eclairs, pipe mixture out in long shapes.Bake immediately in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 180 ºC and continue to bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Turn off oven heat and leave choux puffs to dry in the oven for 45 to 50 minutes.

For the Cream:

Ingredients
250ml milk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 egg yolks
50g sugar
25g corn flour

Method
Bring milk to a low boil in a deep, heavy saucepan. Add vanilla essence after it has boiled.

Combine egg yolks and sugar in a mixing bowl and whisk thoroughly for three to four minutes. Add in corn flour and blend well.Pour hot milk gradually into the egg mixture and beat well with a hand whisk. Bring the mixture over a medium low heat and cook, stirring constantly, until it turns into a thick consistency.

Remove custard away from the heat and whisk for a few seconds until it is smooth. Leave aside to cool, then cover with cling film wrap and refrigerate.

Everyday Minerals

Recently i got hooked onto Everyday Minerals

You can get free sample kits if you pay for the postage which is around USD4++ which is still cheap after convertion since mineral makeup are usually costly

Each sample kit enables u to choose 3 types of foundation, 1 blusher and 1 concealer

I just love to see the small little plastic casing of minerals with different colors! hehe

Last week, my baby kabuki and eye kabuki brushes arrived

I rather like the brushes because it is so soft and it really does helps in even application...

i so love my Everyday Minerals! ^_^

My Ampoules

Few days ago i bought a set of ampoules from lowyat.net

For rm75, i get 3 boxes of ampoules (10 ampoules in each box) + free 2 vials + 2 masks and the seller even threw in another ampoule for me =)

if you are wondering what are ampoules they are little glass vials with concentrated serum or enzyme for your face

and the tricky thing about using em is...

breaking the glass vials to get to the liquid i find unnerving...

so i put the vial carefully in a plastic bag and break it inside

the first time was quite difficult but whn u get the hang of it, it could be quite easy

but i wasnt so lucky the first time :(

since there's no cap or cover for the glass vials, once it is broken i jsut used a piece of tissue to stuff the opening 'x'

but an opened vial should only be used for another 3 days cos it would get oxidized/contaminated after that...

ive tried the hydrating ampoule and i really like the feeling after using it lor...cos your face feels smooth and cool just like the after-feelings of a facial =)

we'll see whether its worth its money ok??

Not Money Ka??

This is yet another no-pictures post cos im still blogging from the office...

need to post something quick before i go back to work...hehehe

just now during lunch break we went to a nearby supermarket to buy some snacks for 8-5, so i took out 3 RM1 notes which i've gotten from the chicken rice stall tauke in change when i paid for my lunch earlier on...

and i didnt notice that one of the RM1 note was slightly bluish in color ...and the cashier made a face at my RM1 and asked her colleague...INI ADA HIJAU BOLEH KA?

The colleague made another face and said TIDAK BOLEH...

and she returned it to me saying SORRY ...

i was about to retort with something smart but nothing came out of my mouth...actually what i wanted to say was... THIS IS NOT MONEY???

i really dont understand what is wrong with accepting a note that is slightly discolored! if the chicken rice tauke can pay me with it, it means it can still be used lah! so who will compensate me for the discolored notes?? no one!

and this is not the first time those good for nothing,sour faced cashiers at supermarkets have rejected my money...if i use it to pay to the kolo mee apek he also accept wat!

Friday

It is now 4.04pm on a Friday afternoon and for the past 2 hours or so, all network lines in the company was DOWN...

everything down EXCEPT for the internet!

isnt that an irony? hehehe...i think the company is trying to tell us to surf more =x

being a software developer, without any network connections it is quite impossible for us to work as we cant connect to the server and hence we cannot do any testing or any running...honest! :P

in fact, i was surfing too much for the past one hour i was feelng a little bored of surfing already...hehehehe...

so here's wishing u a wonderful weekend till i get my internet connection back again...

yeah u guessed rite...i m stil internet-less (at home lah i mean)

Lazy Week

The longer i m deprived from the internet, the more i realized there's a lot more things to do apart from going online...hah!

Maybe i dont need an internet connection after all...LOL

Maybe its all part of the bigger scheme of things...the gahmen wants to stop youngsters from spending most of their time online and therefore they are introducing this crappy broadband service called Streamyx which will disconnect every once a while up to a point where the pissed off customers will stop using it altogether and hey! you dont need internet to live!


yeah rite

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To Hell with Streamyx!

Finally i am able to go online again and to post something in my blog with no thanks to our "efficient" Internet Service provider ... Streamyx!

It has been almost 2 weeks since my last confesssion connection and even before that, my line was erratic with on and off connection and slow speed!

I called up Streamyx service center and i must say they tried to be helpful but there is nothing they can do to help me as i m still unable to connect to the internet. Their so called 'technicians' did come to my house without any prior appointment and left a note saying there was no one at home...

What??? you expect me to be at home in the morning on a working day just to wait for u to come ah??? I think the phone has not yet been invented from where they come from

So after the long and abusive relationship with streamyx i m deciding to subscribe to celcom broadband ... i was a little hesitant to switch as celcom broadband has a lower speed than streamyx so i tried it out with the one day subscription which only costs me RM6 and look what the speedtest gave me...

not bad huh??? I could run p2p programs, stream videos and download games all at once and it seems to be quite reasonable...in fact, it seems to be faster than my streamyx

so what can i say??? lets bring streamyx down!!!