Condominium Viewing...

I like to go for a viewing on newly launched condominium in Klang Valley... My friend, Mohan has invited me to together with him to view a new condominium @ Ara Damansara. He came over and picked me up @ my place. Ms, Teh, Mohan and I, we travelled through NKVE and headed to Ara Damansara near the old Subang International Airport.

The moment we walked into the sales office hall, there were already lots of people walking and looking at the model. The sales person walked over to greet us and Mohan went to the desk for a quick signed in their guess book. Then, the sale person just roughly explained to us on their latest development. We walked over to the two show units besides the Sales Gallery. To me, i was not very impressed with the design of the units... in term of space, the layout has wasted lots of space. So can you guess how much is the cheapest unit costs? 

After hanging around and finished looking at the condo show units, the sales person guided us to the resort villa. We were picked up by a 4 wheel to the actual unit @ the construction sites. The outlook of the unit looked okay but when we walked in... again the design was not impressed. In fact, we had a weird feeling... :-( Moreover, their design was not applicable too.

After we done with the Ara Hill, we popped over to the view @ Serai Saujana (refer to the picture attached) which located @ the Saujana Resort opposite Ara Damansara. The condominium is so impressed from the outlook as well as their interior design. The moment we walked into the unit, we felt good and with the natural light from the windows... the whole units become so spacious and lively... i like the unit so much. Guess What? the price was also very interesting... the cheapest unit costs about RM1.3M... oops, i don't think i could own this condo :-( Anyway, it will remain my dream home then...

Before we headed back, we visited another one called something Maya also located @ Saujana Resort. This was not so impressed especially those units that facing the main road i.e. the Subang Airport Road. The traffic in the Saturday afternoon was so busy and this means that what would that be in the normal day rush hour... ;-) So, we were not so keen to ask about pricing... The cheapest unit was about RM400K... 

Lunch with Eligible Bachelor...

Don't put me wrong, I'm not excited to have lunch with Bachelor... I'm a bachelor myself too :-p I'm excited for my buddy, Matthew (refer to the picture). He has accepted the offer to participate as one of the eligible Bachelor in the Charity Bachelor Auction organized by Soroptismist International Petaling Jaya (SIPJ) on July 20th 2008 @ Westin Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The whole lunch group was planning on how to package Matt as a hot sellable bachelor in this auction. We had discussed while having our lunch. My challenge ... how to shape Matt up in 60 days.... :-p

At this moment, i don't have further information regarding this event but i do have some idea from the past event i.e. Charity Bachelor Auction 2007. Anyway, sorry guys, this event is for ladies only, no man are allowed except the eligible bachelors for auction. 

Want to know Matt further? ... stay tune for my future entry eh!...

It's Friday again! ....

I woke up and walked over to my balcony this morning, this is what i saw from my balcony...

Although it's a gloomy Friday morning ... come on... Friday! party day and my friends will got out from work and enjoy the weekend. I will not be so bored as i could go out with them...

So what is your plan this weekend?... oh ya! this Sunday is Mother's Day... I had got mom her mothers day gift :-> Enjoy your weekend eh!... I have a lunch appointment with my ex-colleague in Cyberjaya this afternoon. :->

My Breakfast...

Breakfast is very important in our daily life... To have a fit and healthy body, breakfast is one of the meal that you should not missed. Why breakfast is important? (i extracted this article from Wikipedia)

The nutritional claims, there is concern that students who do not eat breakfast perform worse in school. Research has suggested that eating a meal before noon, consisting of standard breakfast-style foods is positively correlated with improved functioning of school-aged children. Skipping breakfast is also correlated with overweight.

The earliest record of the belief that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" was made in the book Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka in 1915: "Für den Vater war das Frühstück die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages." - "For the father, breakfast was the most important meal of the day."

There is still skepticism of this mantra however. Some people say that nutritionists are using correlation fallacy when equating breakfast with good health or good school performance. Some studies have indicated that people who go without breakfast as a diet may eat foods with higher energy concentrations (fats and sugars), which ends up being less healthy. Along the same line of thinking, it has been suggested that children who do not eat breakfast may not do so because their bodies rebel against any morning activity, including breakfast and early classes.

Another hypothesis about breakfast is that it interrupts the body's cycle between SNS activity and PSNS activity. According to this line of thought, meals are naturally taken after activity involved in either hunting, gathering, and/or preparing the food needed and deviation from this gives the bodies stresses it has not evolved to handle. The first meal of the day ends the nightly PSNS activity (which increases the burning of fat) and thus ends the intense detoxification your body goes through at night.

So i'm very particular on what i take for my breakfast. For most of the Malaysian, their favorite breakfast are Nasi Lemak (coconut rice), Noodles Soup, Dim Sum etc... I have no comment on these food for breakfast but what i eat for my breakfast are 

2 Tablespoon of GojiSplash

1 Bowl of Oat

1 Fat Free Fruit Yogurt

1 Green Apple

This food has helped me to stay out from snacking before lunch. Eating and Staying health is important as A strong Mind starts with a Fit Body. So don't skip your breakfast and eat healthy breakfast eh! :->

Is our voice heard? Is the construction safe?

The resident whom stay near to a Duta Ulu-Klang Expressway (DUKE) construction has complaint about the road crack. One of the committee member has phoned me on Monday night asking me to pay a visit and take some picture of the road cracking... at the same time, looking at the fencing which encroached half of the lane of the heavy traffic road. 

Road cracking and the fencing is encroach half of the lane

I quickly took couple of picture and noticed another prompt danger point after the pillar completed. The pillar will stands @ the edge of the road i.e. just besides the road. If you take close look at the picture below, if you notice there is a junction which allow car turning out.. Whenever the car turned out... there will be high chances that the car will hit the pillar. I recorded a quick video clip when i turned out from the junction. See how dangerous :-(

Future Pillar @ the edge of the road... further up there is a junction

Close up view on how the future pillar @ the edge of the road

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I was disappointed with the DUKE Highway concession as they are not taking care the environment even though the resident committee has raised this concern during the last meeting... Is our voice heard? 

Moreover, I was extremely pissed with the construction site working later more 50% of the week even in a good weather like these few days. Reason being, according to the last meeting with the concession, the resident committee has raised the concern and the concession has explained that they would have to work late due to rain... But given these few days, not a single drop of rain in KL... I'm so curious what would be their excuses this time for working late... "The sun is too hot" ... hahaha very fun :-( Just to give you some information about working late... before the last meeting, they have been working day and night until 11pm and when we file a complaint, they ignored all of the resident committee's complaint call... The quiet communities has been polluted by the noise from the construction site in late night. As the noise travelled upward, the resident whom stayed in the condominium even suffered on louder noise pollution. So, what do you think?

Anyway, this is a list of serious and urgently issues/items that needed attention from the concession. Hope the concession could close these item as soon as possible since the residents have raised these issues...

1. Road crack near the construction site

2. Dirt flying @ the surrounding area 

3. future pillar which will prompt to accident

4. Working late for 50% of the week in good weather

The 11th Hour @ KLPAC

Few entries back, I have blogged about i got the free ticket to KLPAC for the movie 11th hour narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio. 

Finally, the day has come... but i faced some challenges and hiccups... The sky suddenly turned dark and the rain started to pour heavily @ 2pm. Fortunately, I was staying very near to the KLPAC... just 5-10mins drive from my condo to the place. So waited for the rain to get lighter and we left for the place @ about 2:20pm.

I have invited Kimmie to go with me for the movie... she was so enthusiasm to watch the 11th hour but unfortunately when i confirmed with her on the time, she has a training @ her church... Then, i called up Pat but Pat was not free too... his girlfriend was in the town. Sorry Pat, i didn't have an extra ticket for your girlfriend. Anyway, got turned down again. So asking mom whether mom was free and interested to watch the movie with me. Finally, I got mom to watch with me.

Anyway, we reached there about 2:30pm, dropped mom @ the entrance of KLPAC and headed to the parking. Since we were early, Mom and I were walking around KLPAC to check out some up coming shows. For those who likes Sharespeare... they are giving out free ticket for Sharespeare Theater from May 11th -June 1st 2008. I'm not a fan of Sharespeare, don't mind to go with you if you invited me for the theater (Hopefully i will not fall asleep during the play :-> )... hehehe...

Let's go back to the movie... The 11th hour is an hour long documentary. Started with lots of environmentalist explaining the problem/impact of global warming, showing some data on how we as the earth resident have contributed to the global warming, what makes the global warming worst. Then they explain how we as the resident should help to clean up the mess and what could be done to save the earth. The most scary part that mentioned by the fact was that we have been using lots of resources in an extremely fast manner. This has made the mother nature imbalance and lots of extreme disaster has been triggered and who is the victim? WE! ... :-p

So, the 11th hour also shown and encouraged all the citizen of the earth, what would we need to do... definitely we need to manage and consume the resource in a smarter way. We don't need to have a bigger house and a bigger car. Just need whatever we need for living... The mindset of owning a bigger house means rich should be abandoned. The more we wanted a bigger house or car, the more we contributed to the destroy of the earth. So, there was a very important word mentioned in the movie, "Frugality". Sound vulgar eh!Tthis is a very powerful and important word if we properly applied. The whole world will be saved if everyone applied this word in action... What is Frugality? I Wikipedia the word and here you go the explanation 

Frugality is the practice of

• acquiring goods and services in a restrained manner, and
  
• resourcefully using already owned economic goods and services, to
  
• achieve a longer term goal.[1]
  

More about Frugality...

So, we need to start apply the Frugality to save our planet earth... Very sad to see how Malaysian wasted the resources... this was a good example, as you know the ticket for 11th hour was free, i belief lots of people have already signed up for getting the ticket and collected the ticket. On that day itself... they did not turn up. What the $%##$^#! There were only about 60% people turned up which what i knew from the mail sent by YTL communities, the YTL management team has agreed with the movie company to have additional 2 sessions to cater for overwhelming response. I was pissed to those who taken the ticket and did not turn up for the viewing... they had contributed the waste of the resources in the world... they should be blacklisted for any future free ticket. These people were just for the sake of getting the free things and decided not to turn up... are they really wanted to know what 11th hour is about... I doubt so! #$#%$^R...

I got even pissed when i found out lots of my friends were interested but could not get the tickets. They were just sighed and looking forward for 11th hour to be shown in Discovery Channel. Anyway, to those who wanted the ticket and not able to get it... this is a good show to watch, watch it if the Discovery Channel shown this. A good knowledge gain for us in this generation to preserve some resources for the next generation. So for those who wasted the resources... you should have regretted your selfishness action... hopefully you will change soon...

Got off from the movie @ about 5pm.

Chill Out @ The Attic - Bangsar

Last Wednesday, I went out with two of my friends Kimmie and Pat. We went to this community bar located near the housing area of Bangsar. This bar is @ third floor of a shophouse. The owner of the bar has renovated this place and turned it like an attic, i bet this is why they named this place, The Attic.

I got to know of this place from Facebook. The owner also created  a group (theAttic) and a page (Up @ Attic) that i have signed up. Finally, i decided to pay a visit to this bar and just wanna to test out the environment.

I picked up Wednesday as the day to visit the Attic reason being is that there was a live performance from Nick Davis. 

Nick Davis, 20, is a song writer, composer, singer and an actor.

I was able to listen to his music live, it was so nice and enjoyable.

Nick Solo

Nick & Friends

Nicole, Llew and Nick

We ordered drinks and just sit by the bar and enjoyed the environment. Attic is not a huge bar and the things that i like Attic is that all its patrons/customers would not smoke inside the bar as the owner has restricted the smoking group to the balcony. So the whole environment within the aircon is smoke free... we could breath smoke free air inside the bar... Nice!

Llew's Moto (Attic designated drink)

Kimmie's Long island tea & Pat's Cappucino

Three of us (TZ, Kimmie and Pat)

Pat & Kimmie

Kimmie & TZ

We didn't notice by the time Nick finished his performance it was already 12:30am... So, we decided to leave the Attic and we invite more friends to the Attic on our next trip :->

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