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It was nice feeling to step into Singapore again . It is neither new place for me. Felt very nostalgic when I traced back the path that I used to work, the buildings and YES the country has developed so much and almost every year I could see a high rising building. This time we planned to take cab to the city instead driving. I didn;t had chance to apply for Auto-Pass Plus the Saturday Jamn will shoot me down. We planned to go to temple since it was 1st Puratasi Saturday, headed towards Srinivasa Perumal temple. I was impressed with a group of chinese association that offered fresh soya-bean milk and cincau to the devotees. The temple was pack and very well organized. Well done ! We manage to grab few items from the Tekka Market and headed to Woodlands.. our shopping paradise. We didn’t buy much though. Btw I have planned to go again in November to get some fresh wet items for Deepavali and for our new house.

Main Gopuram

Signage

With always beloved mother and sister

The Chinese association that gives free Soya Milk and Jelly beans

I just came back to office yesterday after long-long training that we had, I will come back to that later. I still have a lot of pending items to be completed gradually. Hitting hard at my laptop to complete em before Monday. Suddenly my googletalk popped out from PRamod , my collegue also a good friend of mine. It is time for him to go back to India for good, Well I know he is leaving but didn’t expect it to be early. So quickly I contacted, fb,suresh & my sister to check on their availability.. Thank God everyone could attend. Pramod is not a non-veg lover however he does eat but very limited. So I decided to go to Anjapper @ Bangsar. Me and my sis was early, we got a strategic location to park the car and we roamed around Jalan maarof while waiting for the guys to appear.. It was pretty busy though.. Ramadhan Bazaar was setup along the roads thus made the place even livelier as ever..We just sat on one of the rocks and lepakking and talking about all the issues under the sun..Fb comes and we continued talking . Later we decided to get into Anjapper as the cloud getting darker signalling heavy drops to come soon. Suresh came in also.. after getting the car fixed. We talked many things while waiting for our guest of honor Pramod.. He came a while later. We chatted and ordered very few simple dishes such as roomali roti, Chettinad fish and garlic chicken. We intially wanted to go Thai Food @ Ayutthaya at Damansara, I don;t like the choices there plus it could dig a big hole in my pocket. Furthermore Suresh being a vege it would be difficult to get a decent meal at Ayutthaya. Again money is never the issue it is just that non of us had a mood of eating that night, especially me. After attending the training for past 3 days, my inner feeling is saying something to me which made me guilty as charged and as ever. I just can’t divert my concerntration into anything else other than implementing what is being taught. Basically putting everything into action…

We snapped photo’s away, we discussed alot on Spirituality especially with Suresh around, one can go on listening. I was very mesmerised when he summarised my whole training that i had within 5 min. As simple as that. He is very knowledgeable person and have always shared his knowledge truthfully and dynamically. Fb also felt the same away, the SMS that i received from fb was also a struck to me. We learned many things.

We wished Pramod a happy continuing his wonderful married life again with his best beloved wife BiBinu. Thanks for the Saree !! I appreciate it very much. He knows the pain of separation , living thousands of stones away ..Good Luck Man !!

Suresh is guiding us how to drink tea in typical indian style , teh tarik ,

Posing outside Anjapper ..

While waiting for our food to arrive…

I took some of our global collegues out for dinner , it was very nice to be out from the office . We spoke many things and it was really great to share some of the experiences they had. Well since it is a private one, my sis and fabian joined as well. They left the difficult part to me - ordering food. When I checked out the net , the signature dish was Crab. So i ordered crab, prawn, steamed fish , vege , beancurd and appetiser. Among all the appertiser and crab was the tastiest. The fish was very cold when we ate..Lime juice washed the cholestrol down our throat.

Gotcha..Some Photos

Battered Buttered prawn with oats , Roxanne somehow liked it

Signature dish - Crab Spicy and Sour

Can you see the fish mouth, I wonder it had got to say ????

With Fabian and Ton

With Jaap and Roxanne.

Singa took us for a treat to Bagan Lalang, need to say that he planned very well. His wife and son joined us, we had fun. However we missed the road to bagan lalang He ordered quite a number of seafood which added gastronomy. Singa thanks for your treat !! We shall go again !!

Yesterday after our monthly meeting, I decided to take my staffs for a lunch treat at Manhattan Fish , Alamanda Putrajaya. There was only few people in the restaurant , so we placed our order for foods and drinks and chit chatting all the way long. I had 2 new joiners joining the team.. so we had so many thing to talk.. after 30min our drinks arrived., I was getting a bit impatient because I have a meeting scheduled after 2pm, after much follows up and stares 2 of my collegues food arrived, that is after 45 min , We was amazed as the fish and prawns are burned not only that even the calamari is also burned.. I wonder whether those guys have just started to learn cooking . More people started to come and all of their foods was served and not mine .. After 1hour 40min of waiting.. my food arrived.. as usual the food is cold although it was flamed, the calamari was hard and i just lost mood to eat…appetite gone.

When i went to settle the bill, another surprise was waiting for me.. i was charged for something that was not delivered, i even demanded to remove the service charge for their pooooooooooooor service. I was already fuming and flaming.. he better give me a discount.. Well he did .  I did ask him why the service was slow, it seems 2 people have resigned just before we stepped in.., We was unlucky then..

What they should have done :-

1. Before taking the order’s please alarm the customer how long they need to wait, come on it is office hours so most of us need to get back to work on timely !!

2. Don’t burn the food.. you just screwed spoil the image of Manhattan.

3. Deliver what you promise, if you say you will check how long the food will take to be served , please revert to the customer.. don’t make them to wait..

4. Don’t charge for something that you didn’t deliver.

Moral of the story : I will never go back to the restaurant again !!! They have just lost 5 customers..

I was very glad to receive dinner invitation from my buddies Vijay & Pramod. Pramod is from Kerala and has promised to teach me to make Kerala Fish Curry ( Yummy.Yummy) where else Vijay is Maharastrian and well known for Chapati. We had fun time with Vijay & his wife, Pramod and vikas.

Some of the food item prepared are Carrot Halwa, Chapati with Channa Dhall, Kerala Fish Curry and Pilao Rice with vege. I need to say that the food invokes gastronomical and very aromatic as the spices are freshly home made. Although it was slightly spicy but very tasty, thanks to Vijay for hosting bunch of us. Some of the snaps are as below :-

Last week I promised to cook for my mom. So once at JB, we went to Tesco to shop for the ingridients. Well I never know it is gonna to be costly but it is ok. The hardest spice to get is called "Kalpasi" black stone flower. It is important ingriedients for Chettinad food that gives the aroma and taste. I cut the chicken pieces accordingly &  cooked the chicken following the receipe shared by Mullai . The outcome was good..excellent. My mom gave me A++++++++++++ for the cooking. She was indeed surprised and started asking for the method… It is not easy to get a such a certification from a great cook like my mom. She is very particular when it comes to cooking, i remember those days of getting scolding from her

Next week, I’m planning for Butter Chicken/Mughlai and will take snap of it. 

Last week, both myself and sis took our parents to seafood, well not exactly us. We received the voucher from our Housing developer Adda Heights in a way to thanks the buyers. We was very astonished with our developer to be such a wonderful and people minded guys.. ..

We reserved before going to Marina..the serenity was very conducive, not crowded but quite a number of people, could be because of CNY. We waited 20 min to get our Menu card, fine.. we ordered 6 dishes. Not difficult to cook dishes but quite easier to done with. Later after 10 min our drinks was served just chinese tea and with peanuts……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ……….. ……………. the food took 1Hour and 45 min to be served, Shit !! My sister went and blasted the waitress and even walked straight to the counter but their response was very bad nevertheless the waitress will respond , "wait a sec let me check " but they never come back. Those people came after us are served with food and they are almost finishing.

Finally our food came but not all the items we ordered was served.. can you imagine that. I would recommend no one to come ever to this restaurant useless and never in people business. Not courteous and they don;t know the meaning of efficient. They are simply useless and ineffective.. not even apologetic. Flush them in the toilet.

Yesterday we had dinner in of the UluKlang Chinese restaurant. Steam fish was served and as usual Keshav had something to say . He wanted to try eating fish eye.. after much coaxed.. he ate them with some funny gestures.. hahaha.

We had Chicken + ginger , Steam Talapia, Kang-kong belachan, Yam, Hot Plate Beancurd with Chinese tea to quench our thirst. The food was tasty and came about 100++ for 9 of us which I consider is reasonable. Can’t exactly remember the name of the restaurant but it is opposite UluKlang Seafood Village ( we plan to go here next time). There was ample of space for parking. Parking was never a issue…

5th December was my dad’s bday, he turned 60 years old. We took him for fav seafood. We ordered Fried Rice (Specialities) , Petai with Udang (Specialities), Grilled fish , bbq clams, Squid bbq & mix vege. The food came with home made Thai Chilly sauce with peanuts gravy. Although i didn;t touch the gravy but according to my cousin Keshav (See in my blog.. Keshav into Kumari)  it is very tasty and spicy.

This is seafood restaurant ala Hawker style located at Taman Cahaya by the side of the main road. Parking is little difficult because the road is always busy. The food came to RM76 which i would say cheap because of the portion and the prawns are quite big ! Good Food.. my dad enjoyed.