J.Co Donuts

In the midst of doing this boring BMR (batch manufacturing record) for simvastatin, suddenly I remembered my J.Co donuts. The chocolatey-taste-melt-in-my-mouth felt make me can’t wait to go home. This craze of J.Co is ridiculous. This is the second weeks in row we had J.Co donuts. Last week I was in KL area, I bought ½ dozen. Yesterday, after doing some errands in KL, I managed to stop by Pavilion just to get a dozen of J.Co. Managed to get 4 pieces of that Choco Loco. Seriously sedaaappp… memang buat you jadik loco la.

We (me & Zainal) had our first taste of this diet-spoiler thing in Bandung since our attempted to buy at Malaysia failed as we wouldn’t want to queue that long just to get.. well… donuts. At first I think it was ok la. It softer than Dunkin Donuts and I’m not a big fan of donuts. I am happy with the traditional donut, the one that sprinkle with refined sugar. So in Bandung I wasn’t quite sure what the hype of this J.Co thing. Oh yes, in Bandung, you don’t even have to queue up. There’s no line at all… The supir tu pun malas nak layan kitorg dgn aksi jakun kitorg… haha…

But then, last week I bought all this chocolatey donuts and realized, oh my God…… sungguh sedap la…. (apparently the flavour I bought at Bandung not so nice la)

Ok, typing this make me want that donuts more…. Nyum nyum…

(hope zainal didn’t finish up the donuts yet…. Oh yes, dia suka makan 1 new flavour donut sampai abis & baru cakap sedap. Ces…. Lepas ni, nampak je dia makan, terus je minta rase…haha)

Album part 1

Obviously I have no idea what to write.... therefore I keep posting the album pictures...hehe

Album part 0

Finally.... my album preview.... lame kena tunggu.... biasanye, hidup kena bersabar kan....

Fireworks

I love fireworks... I don't mind going to KLCC with thousands of non-Malaysian for Malaysia National Day at midnight just to watch the fireworks. I admire the pyrotechnics technology that they manage to show every year.

But since I rent at Kajang, fireworks suddenly become something that you never has to trouble yourself or wait twice a year. Fireworks seem like normal here. For every festival say Deepavali, Gong Xi Fa Chai, New Year, you name it, they have it. This is not mercun that just give you that loud bang sound but this is the full beautiful fireworks that you see at the KLCC or somewhere equivalent. Seriuosly, where the hell that this people gets all this supply. I want it too. I thought I want to have it during my wedding. Haha...

As I'm typing this, the fireworks have been exploding almost (if not more) an hour already. It's normal to watch 2 different places of firework at the same time. If you are lucky, you get to watch 3 places. I used to enjoy watching it from my 13th floor balcony but as people always said, too much of something is not good. I have lost the excitement of watching fireworks nowadays. Even the sound of it has become immune to my ears.

I'll post the picture that I took few minutes ago during typing this after I can find the card reader.

Honeymoon Trip to Bandung

A lot of people asked why we chose Bandung instead of Bali for honeymoon. Even the Bandung man himself. Well, Bali is so commercialized and next time I go to oceans, I want to dive. So we booked the package even before our solemnization date was confirmed.

We stayed at Arion Swiss Bel-hotel which is so wonderful. The staff are all very friendly and the room was okay and I think it was a wise choice. They even send us a fruit basket as our honeymoon gift. Even me forgot that I've mention that we are on honeymoon when I was booking.

In front of our boutique hotel

Lucky we have a supir (driver) who was good. He was very reliable and can be understood well. He knew where to go and suggested a beautiful restaurant which has the hillside overlooking Bandung city. He took us before sunset to experience the moment. Unfortunately we missed it as the day was cloudy. Anyway, the view was fantastic and the food was not bad. It was so cool and it was perfect setting for couple on honeymoon. 10 points for Irfan.

The so romantic restaurant -Sierra Cafe at Dago Paka

The shopping at Bandung is very bad for shopaholic coz it will make you go mad with shopping. There's a lot of factory outlet and there are all very very cheap. According to people all the items are original but maybe it has some defect that the factory send to the outlets. Can you imagine Louis Vuitton handbag at around RM200 only! I was going to buy it but at the end I bought LeSportSac instead coz I wanted it for so long. The LeSportSac that I saw in Malaysia was about RM200 but there I got it for RM70 only. I don't know what's the defect coz in my rough eyes, I can't find it. And I bought a lot of clothes. My regret was not buying more office shirts. I bought one only. Boleh tak. Irfan has brought us to very good FOs like Happening, Neutral. I also prefer Cascade and Heritage. Contrast to popular advices, Rumah Mode is happening but I didn't find anything I like there.

The happening Rumah Mode. Oh, that's not shopping bag from Rumah Mode.

The next day we went to Mount Tangkuban Perahu. We love the place but hate the people there. We were cheated big time. We spend almost RM300 at that place only after being cheated by these so called pity-us-we-are-just-farmers-trying-selling-something-to-support-our-family things. Irfan has warned us not to follow them but instead they were following us like vultures.

Anyway, at this place, this was the closest I've been to volcano crates. The smell was unbearable as it was smell of sulfur from the volcano. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1969 which was not long enough in my opinion. Takut jugak tetiba hari tu dier nak buat hal.

At Kawah Ratu. The biggest crate. Bahawa betul berdiri kat tepi tu...

On the way downhill of the Mount Tangkuban Perahu. Jauh okay...

Behind us is the 130C water from ground. Panas dan bau busuk plak tu..

We covered with mud that supposed to be good with the vultures being supergood to us before start selling overpriced items to us. The water at that area was around 20-30C only. Okay la... boleh celup kaki & tangan.

Oh, 1 thing in Bandung was that it has many J.Co outlet. Strangely that was the first time we ate J.Co donuts after the 1st attempt to eat it at Sunway Pyramid was failed after seeing long queues. There, it has not even has a queues. And I just found out that J.Co is an Indonesia product. No wonder Irfan was not impressed when we jakunly told him about J.Co.

The food at Bandung was quite cheap and not hard to find as it's population is majority Islam. Mosque is everywhere. You have to choose what to eat: Padang or Sundanese.

Of yes, there's another place that you should go, Pasar Baru. It's where you want to buy the traditional things in bandung - telekung, kebaya and lace. It's so cheap. I can imagine if I went with my mom. But this time I'm with a man, so the situation was different la. Oh, we were looking for cheap invitation cards for our reception when Irfan volunteer that he has a friend that do the printing job. He even gave us samples of cards to take home to choose from. It's beautiful and quite cheap. anybody interested, please call me. =)

The conclusion: the trip was great. It would be better if we can come back at later flight instead of morning flight on the 3rd day. Tak puas la... Next time I want to go again (especially when I want to change the whole wardrobe)

Superchef Part 1

Road to be superchef is in the smooth lane . 2 dishes managed to be done wonderfully.

He gave me satisfying nodded upon tasting it.

Not bad for someone who never cook before.

Haha...

So people out there, don't lose hope.