Sorry guys. I wil go back to my office today. However, I will be back again after dinner to do my updates. Just a small teaser first. Gues what it this...

15 Aug 2006

Nothing much to updates today. Back from work and join my apartment mates for dinner for Mee Siam. Who is the Iron Chef? Of course the Fung Kee's mee siam.

Just like to ask if everyone is doing ok back in Kuching.

Got to go back to my company PC now. Bye.

Ex Deputy Service Manager Singing!

Saturday Shopping

Remember I was telling everybody that the temperature is dropping to 15 deg C that I need a wind breaker? So I made a short trip to downtown to search of any cheap and nice jacket. Doing it alone just feeling too bored. So Sim wanted to join me.
The one that steal the show today. Aston Martin Vintage. Not just me, even those ang mo also an on lookers and keep saying Aston Martin to the person next to them. It's British sports car that complete with Ferrari.
It's so natural that every time I got something is attrated me, I just take out my camera and take a snap. Just part next to the shopping center with the roof down. In Malaysia, you can see Indon or Bangla sitting inside figuring out how to start the car already.
When we are on the street, this guy is doing some propaganda with the soviet flag. I tried to walk close to them but they just see anything I can do for them. Never mind I walked on.
New product in the market. The huge poster that enaf for everyone (inspiration from BB). Hehe. I have one sample that's now.
Wafer colors brushes. Plenty of them to choose from. I remember I was in high school, i have my savings to get a brush every once awhile from the shop next to Ting & Ting supermarket. I have almost complete set by the time I finish Form 4. Done few paintings that still hanging at my home also at my big sister Hong Kong home. Oh yea, sis, if you read this, can to take a picture of the painting of the Indian Lady with Bananas? Thanks.
It's really good that my camera can take a very clear closeup pictures. Nowadays I don't even have to buy postcard. So i find this postcard funny. If anyone interested with Yoga will know what I mean.
I went to look for jacket and Sim looking for laptop backpack for his wife back in Penang. The he was looking is Samsonite. About 45 euro (RM200)
This is my self potrait with my New Jacket. Half polyester. Cost me 59 euro. It looks like the one use for bikers. That's worth for my investment. Next time I have a bike, I can use it to work in the morning. Hehe. Cool leh? But don't look down. I am wearing my pyjamas pants below.

Making a Trip For Steamboat. We all ready to go to Sim's place to cook steamboat. On the right is Peter, the Iron Chef to today. Last week, he is "Fung Kee Bak Kut Teh".
Knock knock. Please come down to open the door for us. Never mind we all know the password. We just go up our own. This apartment is all keyless entry, even to the apartment unit.
3 of us, Peter, Siew Lang & Me, going to Sim's place for steamboat preparation.
It has big sofa for everybody. This time round still early. I am the early bird today.
This apartment the dining table close to the one I have. Just remember you guys have a wonderful fried oyster hor?
If you ever see any reality show, we are just something like that. In the land of Alien, we just stay close together. Visiting hair saloon is really can burn a hole in your wallet. So the alternative is you scratch my back I scratch yours. Chow is helping Sim to cut his hair. He bought the shaver from the store just on 45 euro.

So i am wondering around this apartment, downstairs are the bed rooms and toilet. Just take a snap of their activity in the bathroom.

Mazalina is preparing. It's good to have some female coliqs with us. When the is a cooking session, they are automatically help. For us, guys just take care the look for just arrange table stuff like that. Look that this guy just look one.. doing nothing.
This the view from the penthouse that my coliqs staying. The biggest and most comfortable. It's around 8:00 pm and the sun just going to set. You can see the old buildings just a short distance away.

Bee Hoon cum steamboat Other than steamboat, we also cook bihoon and tan hoon for back up just incase the supply is not enaf.
People starts to gather at our best place. The unit that given the penthouse status. Watching TV while having banana (I bought) and grapes (Peter bought). You see some of us still pretty macho, in short pants. But anyway, the guy you see on the left is just staying downstairs. Not like me, i have about 10 minutes from this penthouse.

Steamboat Ready Our malay coliqs brought some fried rice. Yummy.
So the steamboat is almost ready. Most of us bought 'crab' stick. I also bought some. It's not really a steamboat.. it's a rice cooker i would say.
I am on the way back to my apartment, just 10 minutes away, I saw WOW. Malaysian made 4 tyres. Imagine who on earth in the land of Technology think of buying a Malaysian Proton Wira. Erm.. must be belongs to one of us. haha. So i made a joke to Sim that his Wira is parked downstairs.

Food is almost ready. We have baked soton. Just think of any instant recipe then just hit the oven.

Dinner Going to Start This the group photo of all of us. Except Peter (who is holding my camera) & our boss, Hong Lim. So everybody is ready to start dinner. I just made another walk back to my apartment to get 2 cans of longan & Lychee plus some American DVDs. If you see the TV on the right, it's serving American Pie for movie.
So everybody 'chiong' now.

Temperature Dropping It's 18 deg C outside after I put my alarm clock for 5 minutes. After I put there for another 20 minutes the reading is now 15 deg C. Wow. I got to go to buy a wind breaker tomorrow.

Friday Shopping I went to the Asian minimarket after work today. Today it's Friday. So as i finish my work early, i joined my coliqs to "Little Saigon" These are the items that I've got from there.
Erm, Jay Chow instant noodles. I wonder how does ti take like? So i grabbed 2 packs.
Jay Chow's soup.

And this minimarket has the Thai Rice. Well, that's good, now i can think of asian rice with Sunny Side Up (Egg Pau).
Surprisingly, I can find Mi Goreng, so can't resist since just so cheap. I grabbed 2 packs as well.
Normal, when in Kuching, everybody is at home, we will have longan. I guess I just have to enjoy myself for awhile in Dresden having Thailand's longan. Really miss mum's cooking specially her cha siu noodels and fried prawns + longan water.
oh of course, not forgeting the usual soya saurce that mum used for eggs and her cooking. This can cook many things. With ginger, i can cook "kio si Pork" which i learn at home.
Not forgeting Green Tea to stay healthy. The whole pack is only euro1. I get to pay 30cents per bag in the company. I will just bring some to company and hot water is free.

Ok, that's it for this time. Hope u enjoy reading my blog.

My computer table in my room.

K-9 Factor In Dresden


Germans are dog lovers. These are few that consider having a better life then some people in Malaysia.

Ok liau, it's late, my big sis will complaint if i did do any updates haha. So ... hope you all like my publication this time. I din go anywhere interesting.. so not much to talk about.

Not like my colleages they went to Denmark to see the Mermaid waiting for the Prince by the sea. Ah it' just a story "Little Mermaid"

Example of Vietnamese Restaurant Good, I have a picture of Vietnamese restuarant. You can see all the interior are all crashed. You can see the coconut trees at the center and chinese lantern on the right. The the furniture doesn't match anything at all.

Fundamentally, I would like to you see how the Vietnamese surviving here. The are low educated and were adopted by Germany after Vietnam War. US took part of them and some they of them Europe took them specially Germany. They are here for less then 2 generations. You can't see the vietnamese kids go to school or mixing with those ang mo kia.

Not many things they can do to survive except doing Food & Beverages. They can't cook western food, coz the ang mo won't buy it. So they just have to go for something THEY THINK HOW CHINESE FOOD SHOULD BE. At the end, they serve oily rice, noodles & bihun to cheat ang mo. So more it's not cheap.

Not like in Malaysia, all of us cook whatever food as long as it taste good, customers will come. Like Teo Seafood, halal seafood, malays are coming.

To be very frankly, staying at our own country still the best way of survicving. I just don't understand some people just sell off everything they have and move to Ang Mo place to open an restaurant. Got good life in Malaysia dun want. Want to suffer. Basically, it is just so lonely where they really don't feel blended into their society. Even thinking of walk in the pub also feeling weird.

Anyway, we have a solution, just like what the Koreans did in Kuching, we gather at one apartment then cook and some bring some beer. So it becomes our pub. Simple.

The Best Dresden Chinese Restaurant China Restuarant ? Chinese Restaurant I guess. Tell, for ang mo, they dun car if we are chinese, siamese, vietnamese, Malays, Japanese & Koreans. We are all the same for them. So this one represent the real Chinese cooking.

So this guy in grey, our colleage introduced us to come this restuarant for dinner on Sunday night. The aunty seen in this picture is a Hong Kie. For the first time, we can use our Mandarin to order food.

Before that, for Vietnamese ownered restuarant, we jsut have to finger point to the menu like Bruce Lee ordering all the soups in France.

Hey, why are they using wedding chopsticks for us? We not attending any wedding dinner.
We are just here for dinner. But again the rice is not as good as Siam Rice. I still miss the hot rice back home.. with just some ikan bilis & peanuts.


German are very specific. If you buy a BMW, will give a manual as thick as a novel.
If they have trouble with chopstick, here is the instruction. Hey hey, holding chopstick is not by instruction, it's an art & skill. Haha.. somemore we can use chopstick to fight (Kung Fu). But I jsut don't want to show off that night.
For the fist time, I see in Dresden, it represent the pure chinese restaurant.
We don't really get a real Chinese Restaurant in Dresden except this one. The chef is a HongKie.
The usual Asian restaurant available here is owned by Vietnamese. Vietnamese, too bad, they dun speak English nor mandarin. So more, they cook the food that is not Chinese or Vietnamese.

I had enaf of Dresden Vietnamese oily fried noodles. It's used to cheat ang mo one.
Give you an example, they cool Tom Yam Gong with coconut milk, it just killed the taste of the soup.


This is Chow. He has the strongest American accent. If you don't look at him, you feel exactly like an ang mo talking. I was initially thinking.. wow.. ang mo hia.. the must be bo chap one lar.. suprisingly, he is not those like being soaked in the seawater kind of people even though he has been studying and work in States before he comes back to Malaysia. Penang borned, graduated top school in Penang, was a close friend of my tauke's brother's classmate.

So talking about my tauke's brother's classmate, whatever, a guy, doing extremely when in his studies and life from a butcher's family. So I was the whole night listen to them sharing about this smart guy now is cardiologist.. and still move on further his studies in Caltech University (Not sure get the name right), the best university in States (better then Harvard or MIT).

He loved chinese food that makes him sick staying in Dresden where he has face all the western food. That's how he discovers this place and bring me and my tauke for dinner.

Wind of Change The weather is changing really drastic. For the last few days, it has been raining all the time. See the clouds and dark sky? It was around 6:30 pm when I took the photo. Just finish the heavy down pour. Temperature is dropping as well. Night time I can get around 21 C in my room. If I open the window it can easily about 18 C.
I bought myself this from the so called 100 yen shop. In German I don't know what they call it. So it's the store where u find all the stuff in 1 to 2 euro. Now i am lighting with Jazz music.