book@fest..

Here are the 9 books I got from the book fest..

There is a book fest in KL Convention Centre from 24/5/08 till 2/6/08 and this is the 3rd year of the event.. I have missed the previous two, so definitely must go this time.. Heard from my colleagues the discount given for certain books are quite good, can even get 50% - 70% off for selected items.. so can't wait to go there for book shopping..

I was there yesterday after work.. luckily not so many people.. I have wrote down the books that I wanna get from the catalogue.. firstly I go to find those books that already in my list, so happy and I manage to find all of them.. YEAH!! there are so many books with good offers, so the 'kia-su' me shop around to find more books.. at last.. I paid RM207 for 9 books, so average it is RM23 for one book.. so good price ha..!! all 9 are chinese books...

The English books section is not so big and I was a bit disappointed with the discount given, only 15% - 20% off.. not attractive at all... beside books, there are CD, DVD, thumb drive, memory card, stationary and some office equipments in the book fest..

The book fest is over on this sunday, so if you are looking for some books then I am sure you can safe quite a lot with the good offers..

another famous 'fish head noodle' in town..

Fish head noodle again ha...!! haha!! I heard of this fish head noodle in Kuchai Lama from friends but have no chance to try because the shop is close on saturday and sunday.. funny ha, usually those eating places are open on saturday and sunday because weekend sure got lot of people hunting for foods and can make big money on weekend as well, but this shop seems like not really care for the business over the weekend.. I bet the boss already got more then enough profits made over the weekdays..

I was off on last Monday.. so first thing in my mind is to go try the fish head noodle that I been heard for so long.. friend do ask me to try the clay pot 'lou she fan'.. We manage to find the place and as what we have expected, the place is pack and it is lunch time as well.. We are damn lucky because no need to wait for the table.. we ordered fish head noodle and clay pot 'lou she fan', as we seen most of the other tables also having these two dishes, so definitely its a 'must try'..!! In fact we wish to order more but just two of us, don't think we could finish..

Surprisingly the foods server very fast, within 5 minutes although lot of people there.. both dish also nice but I would prefer the clay pot 'lou she fan' because it is spicy and not oily.. definitely we will find a day to visit the place again.. and of coz we will go in a bigger group to try more foods..

the HEALTH CONSULTANT in my office..

This lady I bet is in her late 40s or maybe early 50s.. she is my colleague from another department.. basically her jobs are not so busy, her main role is to download and prepare some market rates to the risk management people.. so basically she is quite free in office..

So when she is free she would like to share her health knowledge with others, especially to those Malay clarks who willing to listen to her.. but most of the Chinese colleagues included me usually don't really entertain her, so she also not interested to share with us anymore.. haha!! so bad ha.. chinese colleagues.. wakaka..!! that day I was nearby her partition to do some works and I heard that that she is telling other she only eat one particular type of salt and only take few type of fishes.. OMG!! even salt also have to be selected.. what human is she..??

Another funny fact is even my GM also known she is the only person in our office who don't heat foods in microwave.. haha!! I noticed that she brings her own prepared breakfast and lunch everyday.. of coz she needs to because outside foods don't cook with that particular salt that she eat..

I know that we have to watch what are we eating for our health, especially person like me who eat outside often.. but not till so extreme like her.. where got fun in our life if we only eat our own cook foods.. right??

She has been awarded the title of 'health consultant' in my office by most of us.. congratulation!!

Good to hear : Myanmar to allow all aid workers

In this photo released by UNICEF, Myanmar children are shown near cyclone Nargis storm damage Sunday, May 18, 2008, near Dedaye township in the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar.

It is so good to see this news in The Star Online juz now.. Finally Myanmar allowed all the aid workers to enter the country to help those cyclone survivors.. Hopefully they would able to help those survivors with sufficient of medicines and foods, and of cause a 'home'..

This is the news : -

NAYPYITAW Myanmar - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Myanmar's junta has agreed to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors.

Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting Friday with the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe.

When asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Ban told reporters, "I think so."
Myanmar's junta has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign aid and experts to reach survivors of the May 2-3 Cyclone Nargis.
At least 78,000 people were killed and another 56,000 are unaccounted for.

nasi lemak.. yummy!!

Nasi Lemak is one of the most popular breakfast for Malaysian.. definitely I will see someone in my office having that for breakfast and also the long queue at the nasi lemak stall..

My friend brought me to this nasi lemak place on last weekend in Damansara Uptown area.. he said this is one of the popular nasi lemak in PJ.. I saw the long queue and the crowd when we arrived, first thing go get a table to sit then join the queue for the nasi lemak.. there are lot of different type of curry and rendang, chicken, beef, lamb and also sea foods like fish, sotong, 'si ham' and so on.. I am so confused and don't know what to choose.. friend highly recommended me to tyr the fried chicken.. so I order myself a nasi lemak with fried chicken (very big piece..), 'si ham' and fried egg.. the sambal is so spicy but I like it because I am a spice boy, hahaha..!!

The nasi lemak is really yumy yummy.. especially the chicken and the sambal.. I was so damn fulled because the friend chicken is so big.. friend offered me his toast but I really have no space for that in my stomach.. haha!! for sure I will bring friends to visit the nasi lemak again soon.. nice food should be shared right..

The Kite Runner - "For you, a thousand times over.."

'The Kite Runner' - one of the masterpiece of the year.. touching story with great actors..

Hassan and Amir.. both of them working so hard to win the kite competition, and finally they won..!!

Amir teaches his nephew to play kite, after he been brought back to US to start a new life with his wife..

The Kite Runner is one of the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini.. and this 2007 Academy Award nominated movie is based on the novel and it is directed by Marc Forster (one of my favorite movie - 'Finding Wonderland' is directed by him..) ..

The plot of the movie follows that of the novel. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.

Both the child actors are native speaker and their performance in the movie is brilliant.. particularly I like Hassan as a brave boy who will fight to protect his master Amir.. Another impressive role is Amir's father, baba.. the serious looking father who got disappointed to the son because he wants the son to be a doctor but Amir is more interested become a story writer..

We can also see the situation in Kabul during the period ruled by Taliban.. women have been treated badly like an animal especially in one scene where the Taliban officer threw a big stone to the woman head and cause her died then the rest keep on throwing stones to her dead body, so inhuman.. this is something that happened there but we just couldn't imagine how worst is the situation by the news on tv or newspaper.. in fact this movie really shown us a bit of that..

The highlight of the story is when Amir (when the time he is an adult) is asked to return to Pakistan to meet his father's best friend and he been told that Hassan and his wife are killed by Taliban and Hassan is his brother from different mother.. OMG!! so sad.. so Amir have to risk his life to go back to Kabul to rescue his nephew (Hassan's son) who have been caught by the Taliban officer as a dance boy.. this part is really touching.. and I can't control my emotion, my tears rolled out.. the actor who as adult Amir is doing a nice job here, I really can see his sadness, his upset, his shock and his fear, all the complex emotions in his face..

I love this movie so much..!! the story is touching, the actors are all brilliant, everything is just so fine for me.. I have added it in my favorite movies list.. I like the ending of the movie where Amir brought his nephew back to US and start a new life together with his wife... and the story ended with Amir chase the falling kite for his nephew and said to him "For you, a thousand times over..." when they are kids, Hassan will said this to Amir every time when he chase the falling kite for Amir.. so touching..!!

A Mighty Heart

A true story that will touch your heart.. you can feel the sadness of a pregnant wife expecting the return of his husband, but he is not...

Another movie that I wanted to watch but I have no chance because I am not sure whether this movie is show in cinema here.. anyway I got the dvd on the weekend.. yeah!!

'A Mighty Heart' is a detailed account of the search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi by supporters of Omar Sheikh, who claimed responsibility (and was later captured and convicted but is appealing the ruling) for kidnapping and beheading Pearl in 2002. The movie also covers efforts by Department of Justice and Diplomatic Security Service to track the kidnappers and bring them to justice. to find out more about Daniel Pearl, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl


The main actor Dan Futterman as Daniel Pearl only appeared at the beginning part of the movie then he been kidnapped and the rest of the movie are focus on his wife Mariane Pearl played by Angelina Jolie and the research term, particularly I quite like the role of the captain (the local police officer), his acting is really real, especially when he questioning the suspects, wow.. I can really feel the 'power' of a police officer..

Talking about Angelina Jolie.. she is pregnant while making this movie (as her role also a pregnant wife looking for missing husband..).. no doubt she really put lot of efforts in this role, and I have read an article that Mariane Pearl personally chose Angelina Jolie to play the lead in A Mighty Heart because she said "I have heard some criticism about her casting, but it is not about the color of your skin. It is about who you are. I asked her to play the role--even though she is way more beautiful than I am--because I felt a real kinship to her. She put her whole heart into it, and I think she understood why we should do this movie. We had something to say that we knew we should say together."

Overall, it is another serious movie to me.. I can see those journalists really risk their life while doing their jobs in some dangerous places in order to report the news to the world..