Lunch @ Charlie Brown Cafe, KLCC, KL

It was a quiet Friday. No one call us for lunch appointment. I am not sure whether it is a blessing in disguise or just our hard luck. So we make our way to KLCC for our usual Friday lunch. SMY suggested we check out a new place, new to me. SMY has been a couple of times. So, we check out Charlie Brown Café.

SMY ordered coffee latte for her and I have snoopy chocolate. Then we ordered chicken sandwich and tuna quiche .The quiche slice is quite big. The lunch is full of carbohydrate and half way through lunch we were falling asleep.

                                               

My snoopy chocolate is simply reaching heaven. It is very rich and full of chocolate, no cutting corners here!

 However, The tuna quiche is not to my expectation. I did not really taste the tuna “fullness”.  So the quiche fall flat with loads of carbo instead! The chicken sandwich fare much better. But again, the chicken spread sparingly over the bread. The minimal contents of the protein in both the quiche and sandwich leave a bad taste to my first dining experience.

However, the food presentation is simply beautiful specially the cartoon caricatures. But the waiting time for the food is simply too long. If one is starving, this is not the place, though the ambiance is like in a Charlie Brown’s cartoon strip!

On my scale, I give a 5. I may return to check out other dishes offered here.

choco kisses...(18/5)

~acepaizah~

"the victims" & "sinful delights" @ Melting Pot, Concorde Hotel,K.L.

Sunday, 20^th May 2012, Melting Pot, Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur, I was with my girlfriends having hi-tea and celebrating two of the girl’s birthday which was long over due. Both were born in March. The occasion was postponed few times for want of time and other reasons. The weird thing about our birthday celebration is that the birthday girl chose the place and pays the bills. This was the arrangement since time in memorial.

As usual, I make my round around the buffet counters. The cold prawns really caught my attention. Nevertheless, I pile up plate with a spoonful of most every dish including the enticing prawn. With my first chew, I could taste the freshness of it. Its flesh is very succulent and a bit crunchy and it simply calls for more. So I make my way to the prawn tray again and again and again. MM, April’s birthday girl warned me of my allergy. Well, heaven can wait was my reply. On hind sight however, I believe I was battered and beaten as someone insisted, though I came out a winner, nevertheless. (read my earlier post).

After I had enough, (15 of the General- I called them General) I make my way to the dessert counter. I have a few of the sinful delights. It is really “reaching heaven” experience.

On my scale, I give the food (read- prawns) a “10”, service, an “8” and value for money a “9”.

a foodie adventure with the Generals!

butterfly kisses

~acepaizah~

THE VICTIMS-CLOSE ENCOUNTER

THE VICTIMS- CLOSE ENCOUNTER

(20/5/2012-sunday)

My status simply reads “the victims”. The response and comments from the masses is over whelming.

NHA: The parade must be longer……

PY:ni “…awal bismillah…”

RA: disudahi ‘alhamdulillah’

HH:the victims?you or the udangs?

PY: the udang la…

HH:ok kalau udangs takpe. Jangan u yang tumbang nanti…

PY: yeah, tak tumbang, but my nose ‘tak berapa mancung’ today…

HH: haha told you. Now tell me who is the victim again?

PY: I’m still standing, the udang is gone. So the udang is the victim.

HH: anyway you are still the winner.

PY: yes yes yes. I am the champion!

HH:battered and beaten, m imagining you in that state. Very funny and tickling my senses.

PY: I can’t see myself being all beaten out. I out do out smart and out wit the udang… hey, am I being compared to a udang…?

HH:this is the time to imagine and let it go wild….. Anyway where did u have this? Look delicious.

PY: Melting Pot, Concorde Hotel, KL

Elsewhere.... a sympathetic voice echos in the virtual world.

ZMN: kesian udang2 tu…

PY: yeah…memang kesian. But that’s life… I am just doing my part. Part of the eco cycle!

till then...
butterfly kisses

~acepaizah~

Garden of Knowledge

Greetings to my virtual buddy...
Its been more than a year... somehow this is an annual writing affairs... so much to write so many info... go figure. I am speechless... Have been for a year. Lets make a quick report. Nah... just carry on with life. I am full of laziness this year.
thats all folks...

butterfly kisses!

acepaizah

Beautiful Thoughts...

Its been 136 days of 2011. And 136 days of my lapse in posting. Its a seasonal thing I supposed. Yesterday nothing happen but for the heavy down pour which literally brought my balcony down!

2011 starts with such a melodramatic phase save for a couples of heart warming occassions. On 29th January 2011, met with friends from Sixth former days. 6 of us managed to turn up for a breakfast do in Ampang De Palma Hotel. The hotel was chosen for only one reason, Our dear friend Hazlina Abdul Aziz. It is the nearest to her abode and there were only 5 walk up steps or a very short walking distance from the lift to the coffee house. She has a heart problem. It was a great reunion after nearly 30 years, and we planned many more to come. However, for Hazlina, it was the first and the last, she passes away peacefully on wednesday morning, 4th May 2011. May your soul rest in peace my dear friend.

As usual, I spent my Chinese New Year holidays in Terengganu, an east coast state facing the South Chinese Sea. My hostess is my sis, living in Kuala Terengganu which is more of a scholar town bordering the airport. It was a great relaxing break, but i lost 1-4 in scrabble game to my little nephew. We had a beautiful tasty BBQ-ed chicken which was out of this world. My sis' chicken pie and mushroom soup were superb and I think I put on several kilos. There goes my 2011 resolutions!

~regards~

AcePaizah the beautiful thoughts believer...

Beautiful Memories

Greetings and Happy New Year... Welcome 2011, good bye 2010...

2010 breezes through with some hiccups, tears, sweat, (no blood was shed, thank God) changes and many beautiful and fond memories planned, created, documented and will be replay over and over again.

Started the year with a blast, moving office on 27th January with 2 big lorries and hundreds of boxes which we've accumulated over exactly 16 years in Wisma Cosway, KL. All went well except for my 300kg Chubb Save! What a load.

I changed my car from a sedan midnight blue to a sporty silver in May, drove less than a week and I am off to Mecca for my Um rah with my sister, bro-in law and their son.

It was a very humbling experience and am grateful that I was able to set foot into the 2 holy mosques again. We welcomed a new member to the family, my nephew's daughter, a beautiful girl who was born the day I landed in Madinah, Saudi. Encountered a tense moment passing through Saudi immigration during departure.

Celebrated my birthday in July in a low key celebration without a bang.
Enjoying Ramadhan in August and found me progressing nicely, Alhamdulillah. Celebrating Eid with a blast and organising open house on the 2nd day with all of my invitees (my clan) present, enjoying delicious Yemen chicken rice, baked macaroni, fruit cocktail puddings all courtesy of the sous chef, my beloved sister, Sam.

Then October came and November go. December was pretty hectic with all last minute activities marked here. Sis went to German, another went to Australia. In between one nephew attends his convocation at my Alta mater, Uitm, another broke his arm and my niece and nephew (the odd twins, born 21 days apart) sat for SPM examination.

Christmas came and I took my sis' family to the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial for a cultured adventure before off shooting (really, we missed the turn, and I am the navigator) to Bukit Jalil Sports Complex to buy all things Malaysia football memorabilia. The boys bought the new Harimau Malaya jersey for RM115 and I bought a cap @ RM18. That sunday, 26th Dec, Malaysia won 3-0 over Indonesia.

Went to Batu Pahat, Johore on 28th and Malaysia won on aggregate 4-2 in Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta. Go, Harimau Malaya! Shopping in Air Hitam on 29th and bought me some strings of deco fruits. The PM declared Friday, 31st a public holidays and disrupt my very year end things to do.

Need help for my kilos, and visited a doctor at last on 31st. Scale read 101kg! Bought carrot cheese cake for my sis' get together year end BBQ. BBQ-ed chicken was the tastiest I ever ate. Compliment to the boys, Kamal, Kamil, Iqmal, Aiman, Ezwan, Fazli & Ehsan. The food was great, the ambiance was inviting and the people were beautiful, hey they are my clan.

I've to say that it has been a good year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

~regards~

~AcePaizah~

Gearing up for success

Greetings fellow beings...

Feeling all gear up all fire up after a long hiatus from writing. Introducing AcePaizah's ways to AcePaizah right path. For the past 2 weeks, I've been trying out few ways and means to achieve my elusive goal of losing weight.

Since new year is fast coming, and its been a ritual every year for me resolute, and sometimes I resolute not to make any resolutions. Fat chance. In Ferbruary I make one and broke it a month later.

Now, before the year 2010 ended, I am making the following declaration of deeds to be done by AcePaizah.

1- To regularly walk and walk and walk. I am making time slot for this activity. However, now is rainning season in Kuala Lumpur, convenient excuse, as usual, nothing new.

2- Yes, yes, I've devised a special receipe for my daily dinner. Food is my best friend, overshadowing me all the time. I'm trying on having carbo dinner for 3 days and vege soup another 3 days. One day is cheat day.

3- Follow rule one and two closely and keep my deeds dairy to keep me on track.

~regards~

AcePaizah

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