boon's log 3307.03: Transformers, 200k, Dopey, a "packed-KL-trip", booze, Movies and a rubik's cube

Last update was almost almost 3 weeks ago. Here's an account / highlights what's happened in the past 3 weeks.

IL and I went to Toy's "R" Us to get Emma a gift for her upcoming birthday. The adorable darling's turning 1 (One) this coming August. Can you imagine - her very first birthday! After shopping for a while, we've finally decided to get her a toddler in-car "wireless" activity toy... (cannot find the picture in the web)

then when we went to pay up, I bump into this cool mask:

Optimus Prime: "Hello! Lu jiak pa ah boui?"

It actually has a mike linked to the front of your mouth and with the press of a button, it translates your voice into a machine-type voice. And it also has all the famous lines by Optimus Prime. I nearly got it, but saw the tag was RM169 - I thought better not. There are better ways to depart with my RM 169 than paying for this. Ever heard Optimus Prime speak Hokkien before? Well, here's your chance - just drop by the nearest Toy's "R" Us and look for the mask.


It was also about time that I celebrated my 1st car's 8th year in service. She's been serving my family faithfully. And coincidentally, when I check, the car's reaching her big 200k mark. The car that has traveled all the way down to Singapore and back. 8 years and 200,000km of sights, sounds and accidents. Excellent car... Here's a tribute to my Sentra...


The big 200

And here's Dopey to celebratemy car's 200k km mark...


Captain Dopey

The car's still going on strong, I believe she can go for another 200k easy. We're planning to keep her until she cannot run anymore, 'cause it's no point (and value) to sell it now and not gain enough to get a new(er) one.

Then we headed down to KL for my uncle's 70th Birthday Bash. Yup, the big Seven-Zero. It's a lot of hard work to actually reach where he is right now and Salute to the Captain... Captain Morgan. The daughters and I (small part) organized a surprise party for him at EQ KL. The party was cool, but the hotel kinda below expectations - regarding food, hotel outlook, and carpark. They have SO LIMITED car park spaces! And they even forced me to park on the exit ramp of the carpark and charged me 8 freaking bucks for it! Real lousy. Anyone who suggests to go there in the future, I will warn them - go somewhere else, do not go to EQ. And with Ab coming along and with my parents, we had a packed car... really packed car - mostly Ab's stuffs. It's almost like shifting her entire room down to KL.


Packed to the brim

As usual, we crashed at Times Square and paid RM150 for the Brooklyn 2-bedroom Suite - which is not a very bad deal at all, though some of the light bulbs were not working and Dad complained about no hot water on the first day (but we believe he forgot to switch on the heater). We even got a good view of the city as well... (but too bad it was hazy...)


Hazy view of the Petronas Twin Towers from the 33rd floor of Berjaya Times Square


Of course, what's a birthday bash without some booze... ;)

Overall, the trip was not as hectic and tiring as I feared and thought. The dinner was great and everything went on quite as I expected - the late nights poured into the "Down memory lane" PowwerPoint prez was very well received. As for the trip, I expected ourselves to be dead beat when we got back to Penang on Sunday. But the night we arrived back from KL (with a short dinner break in Ipoh), we even had enough energy to catch Pursuit of Happyness - which by the way was a pretty good movie - we did not fall asleep. ;)


Pursuit of Happyness

We also took Monday off just to recuperate (which, we discovered, was not really necessary). So we took our time to have some good breakie at a old coffee house along Carnarvon Street (excellent Loh Mee and Loh Bak).


Old coffee shop along Carnarvon Street, Penang

We ended up in Toy's "R" Us again after that because I was "inspired" but Will Smith from Pursuit of Happyness to go get myself a Rubik's Cube. Yeah, it's been a while and it feels good to bond with the cube again. I cannot remember when was the last time I laid my hands on one of those. And I got re-aquainted and hooked, almost immediately. They even have a website: www.rubiks.com.


Rubik's Cube

And finally, we walloped another 2 movies the rest of the day: 300 and Blades of Glory...whereby both were just so-so.


So-so movies...

We'd prefer Pursuit of Happyness over these 2 anytime. The previews for the latter 2 looked interesting, but when you get down to it, it's really not that good...

... and then before we know it... it was back to work...

boon out...