Restaurant @ Tree

I was planned to have my dinner for a steak or western food today. I drove around the area near where I stay, PJ.

It was a good experience, for me. The restaurant is built above the tree. The decoration & environment as in thai style & romantic feel.

Okay. The environment looks good, for my 1st impression, although we were the only customers there. Once we have settled down, customers came slowly.

There are 6-7 waiters, excluding the cashier & the cook.

The waiter passed us the menu for order. Well, we ordered 2 set chicken chop & 1 beer.

Here, the story begin. Slowly, we found that the table we sat, lots of mosquitos. Even we were surrounded by 3 mosquito nets, but still can feel the mosquitos 'playing' with us.

Fine. The table was chosen by us. No complaint.

Then, after 15 minutes, the chicken chop served. Only one chicken chop was served. We thought they need a bit more time to serve the other. 10 minutes later, my chicken looks like haven't get to be chopped yet, or may be the chicken haven't grown yet.

We then asked the waiter for the 2nd set of chicken chop. The waiter came slowly and told us that they were only made 1 set order only. Now, wait another 10 more minutes. (Waiters!! Please!! Please repeat the order if you are not clear!!)

While serving us the 2nd chicken chop, I request for a chili sauce. There are 6-7 waiters. Yes, there are so many waiters and only 3 tables of customers!! Our table is just 10 second walking distance to the kitchen, but it takes the waiter 5 minutes to get back to us. (Good service!! With that 5 minutes, I ate half of my chicken chop already. May be their service are fast, it is my fault that my eating speed is faster than theirs.)

Good food worth to wait. But it is only 4 star food!! (Out of 10 star)

Finally, we finished our 4 star food and asked for bill. Guest what, we raised our hand for 1 minute, but no one noticed us. (There are 6-7 waiters walking around with 3 tables customers!!)

Get the bill, lastly. The charges higher than we expected & calculated. We looked at the bill, it charges us for 2 set chicken chop and 2 beer with 5% GST. OMG!!! We ordered 1 beer, but charging us for two; we ordered 2 set chicken chop but served us only one.

I straight away called the waiter again and asked for refund. The waiter appologize and say 'sorry'. But really 'sorry', I already don't want to hear anything other than treat me free. (Haha) After deducted the beer charge, I asked for the refund of 5% GST charge on the beer as well.

Really feel sorry lol. No second chance for this restaurant anymore. Poor service & 'error' charging. But, please understand that, I never stop anyone to visit that restaurant. If you are planning to having your meal there, please ensure that:

1. You have extra time to wait
2. You enjoy calling waiter
3. Your voice loud enough to order the meal.
4. You have bring your spectacles to double check for the bill.
5. Most importantly, your EQ need to high and you are in good mood that day.

Broadband

Everyday we access to the world wide web for information, entertainment, games & data sharing. Either study, working or online shopping, internet is part of our daily activities; even, part of our life.

History, future talk, common info, weird & horror story and video clip, we can get it as easy as a click.

As far we know, and some of us even understand and face it everyday - access speed damn slow.

May be this is our fault. We are not subscribed for the 2M package. May be we stay at the wrong place, it is too rural and limited residents area. Hence, nobody willing to open their network for us to use. May be, there are too many people like to have their own copper wires - without need to pay a single cent.

But, it sounds funny when we really analyse the situation as well as the condition.

First, we always talk about we are developed into advance technology country. Advance? Technolgy? In what area? Advance in breaking into a house? Technology use in criminal case? May be I defined it wrongly; we are fully used of what we can have. This is the advance technology.

Is our technology as good as other countries? Question mark! If we are not good enough, why don't we learn from others? Another question mark!! We have a lots of talents, every year government sponsor straight A's students to overseas to further their studies & why they are not back to service the country? Another question mark again!!!

Rural areas, not much exposure to world wide web as well as internet. May be, they are not high educated enough to handle a machine that we called computer. We accept & forgive that. But, how's the cities and urban areas?

Most of the cities residents are high educated & know how to use the machine that named computer. Yes, we have broadband internet access for that. Is that sufficient and efficient?

2 Megabytes. Please! I have subscribed the broadband for more than 5.5 years, and I never experience that I can access the internet with the full speed I subscribed. 2 Megabytes subscribed, maximum speed only 800Kilobytes. I am staying in urban area, but what I paid is damn expensive and what I get is damn stupid low speed.

I have checked with the officers at broadband service provider center, they told me that "Oh, your area too many people using broadband, it will share your broadband speed; we can't do anything for that..."

World wide web & internet has unlimited information, but we only have limited accessing speed. As we all keep discussed, the future is globalisation. Guess what, we are still limited by the low broadband speed.

Countires like Japan, US, Taiwan, Hong Kong & etc, FREE high speed broadband service & some only charge you a minimum monthly fee. Look at our internet TV or streaming video like youtube, foreign countries users are streaming & watch; we are streaming, wait, streaming, wait, streaming, suddenly hang and unable to load - time to refresh the page, then we start again streaming & wait before we can watch a complete 5 minutes video.

Others can provide FREE high speed broadband access; we need to pay much more extra to get the minimum access speed.

Is there any choice for us to use the broadband service? Yes, either use it or don't use it. Choose to use it, then enjoy suffering for it.

May 13

39 years back, 13 May 1969 - unforgetable day for Malaysian.

2 races fight & the land full with blood..."Tanah tumpahnya darahku..." - Detail can be read online. I'm not dare to comment much on the incident as I don't want to get sue. XD

39 years later, today, 13 May 2008 - an unforgetable incident happen, for me.

It is my colleague's last day in the company. Still remember, one year ago, when the first time we met, the way we talk.....so serious!! Haha... We even speak English to each other..(Show our standard & class ma...)

As time went past, we eat together, shopping together, create funny story together...a lots of memories played in the mind.

Now, every little single matter happen in our daily life, we share it. Just like the song "I won't forget the 'things' you 'forget'" because it is damn funny...

The laugh, jokes, sad, pressure, sampling & many more will not stop playing, it is just like our friendship. Please remember the promise that we have made - paint ball game in June. It is very important event for us to gather together as I wanna shoot you quite a long time ago & I couldn't wait too long again...XD

Yes. This is the way we communicate and I hope, it will be continue as long as it can be.

Take care for yourself and we shall meet again somewhere.

Dawn Yang

A hottest Singapore blogger, in a simple way, she is a pretty girl.

Source: Photos taken from Internet & copyright by Dawn Yang

I knew her is from a friend. The first time I saw her name & picture is in the friend's facebook. It is very lucky to meet her and talk to her face to face. Sadly, I haven't have the chance yet.

Her blog is mainly her activities reports, or similar to diary...the main different from our diary is, her diary always has 'redbull' and other branded products.

As I search through the internet, I read a lots of her negative news. Some people complaint about her angel, fairy face; lots & lots of ugly, bad words that put her down. People keep saying she went thru the plastic surgery, but please - why you care about that?

First, she is not your mum, your wife nor your gf, why you want to put her or even yourself down? Your action can cause for defamation.

Second, if she is not the hottest blogger, and she is just an ordinary people, will you care about her has went thru plastic surgery? Come on, there are a lot of people around us, especillay when we walk in a shopping complex have went thru plastic surgery. It is just because they are ordinary people and we have no interest to publicise it.

Although she is now become famous and as a celebrity, she still have the right for her own lifestyle.

Yes. She is damn pretty. But it doesn't give you the rights to jealous and insult her. If you think everybody go thru plastic surgery will become fairy pretty, why don't you do it?

I'm a result-driven people. Pretty means pretty. Who cares about the process? As long as your attitude is good, treating your friends truely & you are the friend I wanna meet up.

Honestly, I wish I have a chance to meet her up and become one of her friends. Please, nobody have a right to insult anyone, as it will reflects your character & attitude that will not be respect by anyone.

You may visit Dawn Yang blog @ http://www.dawnyang.com/

Hot Movies in Town

First & foremost, is a hottest movie in town; every screen time, cinema is fully sitted, nothing else but - Iron Man.

'Waoo'... is my first impression, not the movie but the people who line-up there. Full, no, is extremely over loaded with people. Everybody is crazy for this movie just like a free movie give away.

I queued for 30 mins to get 2 tickets. Sigh....

But, it is worth!! Iron Man is a damn good movie that nobody wants to miss it. And, it must be watched in cinema; if you buy DVD - please ensure your living room equiped with HiFi & complete surround system and a 60 inch big TV.

Iron Man - hopefully it is our future, i mean the technology not the weapon. 3D modelling & humanize computer. I was so excited at the scene Tony Stark designing the new Iron Man armor. It is better than the previous movie I watched - Paycheck. The technology is so advance and it is a dream for all the illustrator as well as architect & designer.

Fighting scene & sound effect, of course it is the best. Even the past movies, iRobot & Fantastic 4 can't compared to. Transformer, well, it is good; I rated it as 1st class lower. Iron Man is a 1st class upper movie.

Once again, Marvel & Paramount did a great job to produce this movie. Thanks; even you all earn the money from my pocket, it is worth, anyway.


Another hot movie in town, is 2J movie. Jet Li & Jackie Chan. "The Forbidden Kingdom".

Story, just forget about the original 'Journey to the West'. This Monkey King is not that Monkey King although it is similar.

The USP (Unique Selling Proposition) for this movie is - the fighting scene of 2J. A bit disappointed where 2J only fight for few minutes. But, it is a good start & reason for 2J to produce another movie.

Visual effect for this also makes me excited where they seem like real fighting. Humour, a bit. Even my friend told me, this movie doesn't belong to Jackie Chan or Jet Li. JC's movies - humour, fighting & heroic. JL's movies - serious, fighting & justicial. Their common point is also the main selling point in this movie - fighting.

Two movies using different approach but share a same common feeling - the feel of you never want to miss it.