For once in my life

This weekend, I've been down with sickness. Flu, sore throat, cough, and some fever and headache. I don't know why, must've been the heaty good food I've been consuming in the past week. Recently, it has been reported that an epidermic disease is spreading around the TTDI park. The disease is being carried by aedes mosquitos and have been spreading it to the monkeys around the area. A place for bicyclist enthusiast, it has been reported that a few of them have already caught the sickness, which causes joint pains, severe fever and headaches and vomitting. My last 3 days of holidays, I have spent alot of my mornings visiting the park since the gym was closed, for some intense outdoor workout. I must admit that I'm very fortunate that my sickness wasn't due to that.

Anyway, 5 days of holiday didn't seem that long to me, as well as anyone else, I believe!

Last Thursday, we went to this shop in Dang Wangi called Yut Kee. Its a true blue Hainanese Restaurant, that's always full house. The reason I wanted to go there was because my colleague talked to me about it and that my parents are up, so I think its good that we could all try the food there. We wanted to have the Roti Babi, but I think we're slightly late. Nevertheless, the chicken chop, belacan fried rice and steamd bread are really good. The shop is kinda small, and we actually have to share tables with strangers so they could accomodate more patrons at one time.

The roti babi that we did not get to try.

I then brought my parents to Pavilion as they've never been there before (me too). I'll have to say its a heaven for me and my dad, as we're both luxury watch enthusiasts, but I guess we'll never have the chance to own those kinda watches. Coming from a family who started a timepiece business, we can't help but to be amazed by all these nice watches. You know, while we were window shopping, I was pondering to myself, looking at the prices of the clothes and stuff they sell there, when can I tell my mom "hey look, they've got a 50% discount and its just RM430 for this blouse! let's buy it for you!" Well if you get what I mean

That night, we went for a feast at Fatty Crab at the expense of my sister! Somehow, after eating the crabs there, you do not that get that usual seafood smell on your fingers. Hmmm, wonders why? But the fried rice and chicken wings are definitely good picks! Nothing beats Melakan satay though...

Its kind of an mid anti climax as we all had to go back to work on Friday, but good thing its kinda quiet and everybody's quite laid back too. That night, I had my second road trip adventure, this time to Cameron Highlands! Not as fun driving up to Genting, Cameron's kinda far, and even up to 2 1/2 hours, we didn't really reach the top, and travelling at 11pm, we only got to reach there at about 1.30am where everyone's fast asleep up there, not even a single cafe at mid point (Just FYI, we only made it until the bee farm). Well, I was a little tired and sick, I slept most of the time on the journey back, felt a little bad... :P It was really fun, its something new and really spontaneous for me. But the company's great and I'm loving all these road trips and the conversations! Oh yeah, we only reached home at 5am, so I was supposed to go for this outdoor workout but I totally missed it...

I've already had my weekend planned out, so on Sat after our not so usual band practice which spawned out a few new songs for our band (I think we can work on jingles for adverts :P), we went for dinner, this time Victor recommended The Ampang Lookout Point, where we had Middle Eastern food. I have to say, its really really good scenery, but the food is quite bland. There are two other restaurants nearby, one serving chinese/western and another malay food. Its a really good place if you're bringing a girl there.

I'd give it a 4/5 rating for "girl-tipuability"

Really cool look out spot.

We have actually planned out Saturday for drinking session, and so after dinner we headed to Alexis @ Ampang. It was really great, as I did not expect to see one of Malaysia's best singers, Sharizan performing there.

Just a brief history of Sharizan: The first time I noticed him, was during his participation in Asia Bagus and came up champion. He was famous for his hit song "Impian" which garnered awards and frequent air play on radio and TV back then. Later on, he became active in the hosting scene, and now he's the DJ for Light FM's Swing Time every Sunday from 9pm - 12am. He's also famous for his live performances singing jazz and swing numbers.

He is truly a performer belting old and new jazz songs and some with his very creative and witty versions, like turning Quando Quando Quando into Condom Condom Condom, his very way to educate the masses about safe sex, as well as introducing malaysian delicacies to his foreign listeners, by changing the lyrics of the Spiderman song into Ham Chi Peng. He surely knows how to entertain his crowd with his honest and sarcastic jokes, and his ability to imitate voices and his voiceover talent.

We have been very fortunate to have caught his performance as he's only there every 3-4 months once. Next week, any of you if you're interested, they have Lewis Pasagam's band performing, but with a cover charge of RM25 per entry. Its a really nice place to go if you're a jazz fan. We don't get alot of jazz crooners here in Malaysia, so its a really good chance for you jazz fans.