Relaxing Sunday Afternoon

On a Sunday afternoon after church service, a few of us went over to Damai Perdana in Cheras for our lunch. Was helping a couple in planning for their wedding as an unofficial wedding planner. Including this wedding, I have planned for quite a number till I have lost count. Even if I was not planning for it, I would be roped in to assist here and there. Must start charging fees ..... hehe

The couple brought me to this cafe called Nyonya Kopitiam which serves basic nyonya dishes.

A comfortable restaurant located away from the chaotic city life. Prices are reasonable and the food taste is good.

Recommended indeed!



This is the Butter Fish Rice.
As usual, I need some chilli in my food so I ended up with the local famous delicacy, Nyonya Nasi Lemak.
Thereafter, we drove to Palace Beach & Spa Hotel (formerly known as the Mines Resort Hotel). Always liked this scenery.

Went around looking at the various spots to check on placement of various stuff for the coming wedding.
This is their 'fake' beach fronting the large lake further down the slope. Wonder where they got those beach sand from.
Surprised to see a large number of catfish at the lakeside. Must bring my fishing rod on the next trip here.
The view from the lake.
Tags: Kuala Lumpur, Damai Perdana, Cheras, Nyonya Kopitiam, Palace Beach & Spa, Mines Resort, Wedding, Wedding Planner, Catfish

Home Decorations & Renovation

On 1 May, it was a public holiday owing to the Labour Day. Heard that there was a small congregation of people protesting elsewhere in Kuala Lumpur. Forgotten the reason for their gathering. A protest?

But I drove out towards the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre for the HomeDec '08 exhibition around 9.45am. This is the exhibition where people would gather products / materials / services info so that they could renovate / re-model in time to come. One of the biggest exhibition of such.

Since I was early, I parked near the escalator entrance. Just look at the empty parking lots behind my car.










Looked for the sign heading to the entrance for the HomeDec '08.















I went into the exhibition around 10.10am and the crowd around 12 noon was shown at the left picture. Had lunch in their small cafeteria located within the exhibition hall. HomeDec '08 occupied all five exhibitions halls. Just imagine how big was the exhibition.

Was looking for an interior designer to draft something for my new house. Just by showing my floor plans, they could quote me their price. Never dealt with one before so I was not too sure how to negotiate or start to deal with them.

One asked for RM5,000 upfront before they start on any space planning or those 3D drawings.

Another said pay up RM1,000 and they would do the space planning and the 3D drawings. After reviewing their work and if I intend to appoint them, I need to pay the remaining RM9,000. Otherwise I could take the space planning and two 3D drawings of any spaces they have created and say bye-bye to them.

The worst response came from one of those interior designing firms in HomeDec '08. This lady took a look at my new house's floor plans and asked what was my budget. Told her the amount and she said that it was hard to plan for my house with my budget. Asked her what would be the recommended amount in order for her to do a good interior design for my new house and guess what - she said RM200,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And her fees would be 7% of the total amount done for my house.

Byeeeeeeeeeeee ....... did tell her that her company was charging very high.

Is this the way how the interior designers would operate right from the beginning? They don't even ask how you intend to decorate your place but quote the fees upfront to you. Really lost.

Guessed that I would be liaising with at least ten other interior designers that have been recommended by close friends. Hopefully, by virtue of my friendship with my close friend(s), these interior designers won't charge as high.

Left the exhibition around 6.15pm. Yeah, the whole day was stucked within the big four exhibition walls.

At the exit area, I could view the towering Petronas Twin Towers at the background with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in front and Maxis Tower on the right hand side of the picture.








The evening crowd witnessing the co-ordinated fountain display at the lake just right in front of the Petronas Twin Towers.
Long day in the exhibition so time for some good meals with family members. Settled at The Apartment restaurant at the Suria KLCC, which was facing the lake. This restaurant serves fusion food.






Got this Piquant Cream Grilled Chicken that comes with mashed potatoes. Fantastic taste and wonder what was the ingredient for that cream. Should be fattening.













This is the Seared Salmon Fillet with roasted tomatoes as its topping.
This is the Baked Dory Fish, with cheese topping ..... couldn't resist the temptation of getting a piece.
Chicken with Peach & Walnut, kind of sweet taste in between the chicken meat.

With drinks, our bills came to RM193 for the night. Quite filling too.






On the way back to our car, noticed this boat model put up in Suria KLCC's centre court where Shiseido was promoting their cosmetic products. What has the boat got to do with cosmetic products?

Tags: Labour Day, HomeDec '08, Home Decoration, Home Renovation, Interior Designer, Suria KLCC, The Apartment, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Petronas Twin Towers, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Shiseido

ATM Users Be Cautious

Got this piece of news via the email and wondering who else were victims of such ATMs or was it just a piece of rumour or someone wanted to cause some problems at their former workplace.
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I would like to share a real life story with all my friends and especially all my colleagues and all May****bank account holders.

This incident happened on today evening (1 April 2008). I went to the PJ State (also known as PJ New Town) May**** to withdraw RM500. Unfortunately for me, only 9 RM50 notes came out instead of 10.

What happened was, one of the RM50 notes was folded exactly in half and placed at a corner of the stack (please refer to the attached pictures showing how two RM50 notes can be counted as three).

I was so upset because I have no proof that the ATM did not give me the correct amount. After much hesitation, I finally decided to call May**** to complain about the incident knowing that I may not get back my money. But at least I can caution them of such incident. When I told of my situation to the May**** Customer Service Representative, to my surprise, I was informed that I'm not the first victim. It seems that similar cases have occurred before.

The lady explained that it is the malfunction of the ATM and the money may accidentally get folded in half. However when questioned, she was unable to explain to me why the money can be folded exactly in half and placed nicely in the corner of the stack.

I believe this is the new technique of cheating money, done by the people who are responsible of placing the money into the ATMs. In the stack of money which is to be placed into the ATM, one RM50 note is folded nicely in half, for every one note taken out of the stack of money. The folded RM50 notes are then placed at the edge of the stack and positioned in the ATM where the money would be counted. With that done, every one folded note would be counted by the machine as two notes.

I may be wrong about how and why it happened, but I would like to warn everyone about this incident. Please be careful when withdrawing money from the ATM (it may happen to other banks as well) and do count your money to be sure. If such an incident really happened to you (*touch wood*), please do call up the bank to complain about this. If everyone keeps quiet about this, the bank may be unaware of such incidents and the people responsible may just continue doing what they do without getting caught! Even if it is actually because of the ATM malfunctioning, the bank should know about this and there is also a chance of you getting your money back.
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Personally, I do count the number of notes that I have withdrawn but will it do any good once the money has came out of the ATM. What recourse do I have? Show my money to the security camera stationed near the ATM as a proof?

Please note that this blog posting was not aimed to badmouth any particular bank but main reason was to highlight the issue behind such cash withdrawals that could happen at any ATMs.
Tags: ATM, Bank, PJ State, PJ New Town

KL Local Council Issued Corruption Challenge

Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur ("DBKL") (in english - Kuala Lumpur City Hall) has issued an ultimatum challenge to the public - "prove that DBKL is corrupted".

What a challenge indeed! Want to take it up?

It's so obvious already and yet wanted people to prove it. I could be sued for blogging this statement. But it's a fact out there. Proof? Evidence?

Just sit at the nearest mamak restaurant at my place and you could see it happening. Proof? Ask anyone, as long as one DBKL officer walks into the restaurant and sits at the last table, the person-in-charge of the restaurant would entertain that officer. Both would talk talk and talk. What transpired? Your guess is as good as mine. Nobody would be bothered by it as everybody's fed up with such thingy.

Hello, people asking for proof lah, why did you keep putting the words there and didn't post any proof. Oh yeah ...........

Being the life president of the kay poh chee club (busybody), I asked "Kena lagi?" (You had it again?). The person-in-charge would say "Biasa lah, bagi minum kopi semua ok" (Usual lah, just provide some coffee drinks, everything will be ok). Coffee drinks in this sense is undertable money.

Still not a proof yet, just hearsay. What more you want? Take pictures? You want me to die with their whole gang of City Hall officers sitting in the car / van just in front of the restaurant?

In the first place, the restaurant is at all fault for not following guidelines issued by DBKL, for instance arrangement of table/chairs at the pedestrian walkway, illegal extension, cleanliness, illegal signboards, licence not renewed, licences not fully displayed or displayed wrongly, didn't apply for certain licence, etc (you just name it lah). How do I know? I asked lah, told you already that I'm the life president of the kay poh chee club.

Not only this mamak restaurant near my house but have seen it in other restaurants be it owned by indians, malays or chinese. No racial issues in DBKL, that's what I liked about them (pun intended of course). Just ask anyone who frequents open air food joints or low class restaurants.

Somemore want to issue a challenge to proof it? No pictures lah, no videos but if they were caught, the usual rhetoric would be - this is just a few black sheeps among the many white sheeps.

Yeah, maybe it was the same group of people that was going to all those food joints and caused people to have the mindset of "all of them are like that one lah".

Hmmmmmm what else to write ah ........... got plenty one but getting angry the more I blog about this ......... and they call themselves Malaysians, preying on helpless Malaysians or Malaysians who were willing to pay also lah ...... broke the rules and afraid that business might be closed down or assets being taken away, so no choice but to give 'offering'.

Related post:-
* Tackling Corruption in Malaysia
Tags: DBKL, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, City Hall, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Corruption, Local Council

So Close to the Stormy Clouds

These pictures were taken during lunch hour on 2 Apr 2008 by a friend's friend who works in the Petronas Twin Towers (now has dropped down to becoming the world's second tallest building in the world).
The dark clouds covered the whole city of Kuala Lumpur in a very short time before a heavy downpour.

It rained and drizzled all the way till almost the end of office hours. Thereafter, heavy traffic occured for sure.

So close to the cloud. How can it not be when you are in the world's former tallest building.
Such scene is surely rare to witness, what more captured in pictures.
Tags: Stormy Clouds, Storm, Petronas Twin Towers, Weather

Misadventure of Mr Big and RM2 Toilet Entry

'Stolen' the following photos from my friend's facebook. Khairul Anuar, found your comments amusing so I have to blog about it ...... LOL!

This is entrance to the premier paid toilet found in Suria KLCC, the shopping centre located at the base of the Petronas Twin Towers (world's second tallest building).

So he said, it must be crazy with a RM2 toilet entry fee.

His comments: the toiletwares should be silver plated and decorated with nice posters on the wall. As there were none, then this was just a normal toilet.

His comments: should have been gold plated la toilet seat. Why was still in white colour? I want my money back..nothing extraordinary..should gone for free piss instead.
His comments: Fuuh..beautiful, at last some class but where was the butler.
His comments: There were some Body Shop items.
His comments: This is what I call class but please put Harrods, Aigner or Davidoff toiletries la ... paid RM2 for this entry.
Tags: Toilet Entry Fee, Suria KLCC, Petronas Twin Tower, Premier Paid Toilet, Exclusive

Medical Leave Due to Thigh Injury

My left thigh injury has acute pain since yesterday night which could be due to the excessive movements during the Easter weekend.

No choice but to see doctor this morning. As the clinic was located at the shoplots area where available car park was a rare case, I had to limp all the way to the clinic.

On the way, bumped into my car mechanic and a restaurant owner where I have to explained my situation as they saw me limping.

Was prescribed two types of tablets mainly for pain relief. Doctor also identified which of my leg's muscle which was in real stress - the Sartorius muscle. This muscle is one of the longest muscle in our anatomy which stretches from the hip bone till the knee. Need to have proper rest for it this time.

Thereafter, walked over to Restaurant Jalal Yusof for my brunch and ate two roti telur with a glass of teh tarik. If the government still insist that inflation is under control, that meal of mine cost RM4.40.

Late in the afternoon, I remembered that the Streamyx Combo promotion would end by end of the month, a few days left. Since I was at home might as well do it today as they are opened for business during the weekdays only.

Quickly hopped into my car and drove to the nearby TM Point Taman Desa shop to register for it. Don't care whether they would stare at a limping man but I would be saving a lot with such package. I signed up for the RM60 per month package which has unlimited broadband access, free rental for fixed phone line and a ADSL modem router.

This package would see me having a 384kbps / 128 kbps internet speed. If not mistaken, South Korea and USA are having an internet speed of 1GBps and mine would be a joke for them.

While waiting for the lady to submit my application online, I could hear the thunderstorm and see those trees being blown from all directions. My my ....... the system faltered when I was there. The lady told me to come back again tomorrow morning. I told her that I was just an employee like her and we just can't take leave as we want. Reluntantly have to call her supervisor to get the application submitted. Waited for more than 35 minutes to get my broadband service. Can you imagine that?

Took this picture when I got back to my condo and you could see the dark clouds forming. BTW, there was no rainbow in between the two towers at the bottom right as it was my phone camera's flash.
Tags: Medical Leave, Thigh Injury, Sartorius Muscle, Restaurant Jalal Yusof, Roti Telur, Teh Tarik, Streamyx Combo, TM Point, Unlimited Broadband, Internet Speed, ADSL Modem Router, Thunderstorm

Weekend Life in Kuala Lumpur

This morning, Poslaju, a national courier company, delivered this Apacer USB flash drive to my home courtesy of Citibank Malaysia under a credit card promotion. Thanks!

Went for a late breakfast and needs to be in church to move the music equipments over to the International Youth Centre hall located at Bandar Tun Razak for my church's Easter service tomorrow morning.

Was supposed to be at church by 3pm but the heavy thunderstorm was too much. Went in my friend's car and traffic was overwhelming at the Middle Ring Road with flash floods happening on both sides of the road.

Loaded the keyboards, mic stands, percussion set, wirings only into 1 van.

Forgotten about taking photos.

After setting up the necessary equipments, it was about 5pm and the weather was still bad. I'm sure there would be some places that would be flooded by now. Went back to church to see other teams having their last practises for tomorrow's service. Two groups of dance teams and the youth team (drama) were there.

Few of us came to my housing area and dropped by at Tasty Recipe restaurant and ordered our dinner. I ordered a Curry Fish Fillet and finished it off with two places of white rice. Everybody seems to be full until someone mentioned "Why not we go for durian?"

Well, my stomach has some remaining spaces left just for the durian. We hopped over to the durian stall just over my condo's perimeter brickwall.
Our lady friend from Hong Kong just wanted to show this big durian to her friends back in Hong Kong.










The stall owner was opening the durian for us and we just dug in finishing off five durians, right after a heavy dinner. How not to grow fat?














Out of five durians, only two were nice with the other three not up to our standards.

Until today, I still wonder why westerners couldn't cope with the durian smell. Westerners considered the smell as real pong.

In Malaysia, the durian is not allowed to be brought into hotels or airports due to westerners' smell sensitivity......hehe. It's true!

Cost - a friend treated us to it. Should have eaten more if we knew it.




The nice yellow juicy durian.
Tags: Kuala Lumpur, Poslaju, Apacer, USB Flash Drive, Citibank Malaysia, International Youth Centre, Easter Service, Bandar Tun Razak, Middle Ring Road, Tasty Recipe, Durian

Another Party Theme?

On Thursday morning, I had a 3 hours sleep only due to staying up for the English Premier League match between Manchester United and Bolton. Worth staying up as Man Utd won to top the EPL, 3 points ahead of Arsenal. At 9am, went for a dim sum breakfast with my group of friends before embarking to a brainstorming session in organising the church's 20th Anniversary dinner.

Venue was at Kuchai Entrepreneur's Park. That restaurant's business was so good that even getting them to collect money as we wanted to leave took ages.













As the restaurant was not condusive for the brainstorming, we went to Amandesa condominium's poolside cafeteria (at Desa Petaling). One of the committee member stays here.
When we reached the cafeteria, we started to put four tables together as seen in the picture but the person-in-charge told us that we can't do that. HUH? Why?

He said we have to sit at different tables even though we were friends as his boss would reprimand him for allowing people to move those tables / chairs.

Really weird, isn't it? We told him that we were all friends and wanted to sit together to talk and would put all the tables / chairs back to its original positions when we are done.

Then he nodded his head and said "Oh, you all wanted to sit together but please help me put back all the tables / chairs later on".

The meeting proceeded just before 11am and went into serious discussion. With this group, however serious, ridiculous suggestions / ideas would come out from their brains. All talk only but those things would be unachievable.....haha.

Well, we like to dream and when we dream, we dream really beyond what humans could do.

As we went on, we talked about the souvenirs, ticket pricing, venue for the dinner, menu, programmes and lastly the dress code.

Just attended Nuffnang's Pajama Party on 15 March 2008 and did enjoy myself with their programmes / activities. Fresh from that, the committee wanted to have a party theme for it too. Wow, another one?

Various ideas came out:-
* Purple colour theme
* Pink colour theme (pink panther costume accepted)
* Pirates of the Caribbean theme
* Malaysian Culture theme
* The 80s theme
(at this moment, all crazy ideas went way beyond human intelligence)
* Pajama theme (my eyes rolled and nuffnangers may storm into this party)

I told them that I'm very sure that the response may not be good. The church comprise of people of all ages and those uncles / aunties (aged 60 and above) would come in their pajamas? Besides that, some could be conservative and could spoil the night by coming formally dressed for the function.

At last, we settled with this theme - Sports Theme. Immediately, the person staying in this condo went up to her apartment and came down with a shirt. She told us this shirt belongs Lin Dan from China (top badminton player).

Ok ok it would be such dress code that would be allowed.

One fella wanted to come as a chess player. We told him we would ban him from coming in.

Alternatively, a swimmer is also acceptable but you would freeze to death in the restaurant.

I thought of coming as a scuba diver but it could be boiling hot within the scuba suit.

Frontal of the shirt. Must be filled with Lin Dan's sweat too....hehe

We also decided that all committee members would have to be dressed in various sports' referee dressing. Easiest would be football as it would be all black but must come in real football socks / boots.

Referee? Which sports referee has a nice dressing? Baseball?






The meeting ended around 2.15pm and a few of us went up to our friend's house to chit chat. There goes my sleep.

What a view up from the condo where you could see the KL Tower and the Petronas Twin Towers.
On this supposedly nice day, we were supposed to enjoy the public holiday and went straight home for a rest.

As there was some rain between here and there, at one point I ran a bit say 10m - 15m distance. Do you know what? That day was the dog shit and now, the short distance slow run just to avoid the rain. I pulled my left thigh's muscles again. Oh no!

When I went for dinner, was walking as if one leg was in pain. Can't even take a full stride when I walked. My friend said "You are getting old lah". Must admit but then how could it be when I go to gym regularly. This is terrible. How am I going to participate in the dance drama this Easter Sunday?

That was my day on a public holiday. Told you that busy days are coming up again.

Related post:-
* Busy Days Coming Up Again
Tags: Dim Sum, Kuchai Entrepreneur's Park, Amandesa, Desa Petaling, Church Anniversary, Party Theme, Sports Theme, Lin Dan, Pulled Muscle, Easter Sunday

Busy Days Coming Up Again

Good Friday and Easter weekend is here again and I'm involved in the dance drama. Not headed by me this time but by lady who's quite creative with choreography owing to her passion for it only. What? Johnny is involved in a dance? You didn't know that I could at least move my butt?

On Monday, the housing developer's lawyer, for my new house, called me up about the sale and purchase agreement for the new house and he was nice in emailing the draft copy for my review first. Normally you don't get to read it but sign on the spot. I remembered when I first bought my current condominium, buyers who had selected the condo unit was required to walk to another room where lawyers from the housing developers' panel of legal firms were waiting for buyers. Was given the sale and purchase agreement to be signed on the spot. Did ask what was the rush and the lawyer said it was usual for such launching event.

You got no choice but to sign it otherwise your unit would be given to another purchaser as my all the 450 condo units were sold off on that launching date itself. Take it or leave it. So, this time was something different. Even though the sale and purchase is a standard agreement, I rather read through to have the comfort of what I would be signing later on. I'm sure many of you have the same experience.

Well, the lawyer sent me a soft copy of his invoice too. How convenient. A staggering RM9,000 bill? Oh my my. I'm gonna faintttttttttt ...............

With that almost in the bag, I have to source for a financier now. Approached UOB Bank, CIMB Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Alliance Bank, Hong Leong Bank and ING Insurance. Have to be melancholy as it involves a big amount that would tie me down for next 28 years. Thought I was smart in getting many proposals so that I could make good judgement but a bit confused now with the various interest rates offered for different years by different banks. Need to meet those bankers to overcome the dizziness.

Managed to get two of the banks to send me the quotation for legal fees just for the home loan and could come up to RM6,700. I have gotten three friends to take a look at the legal fees and wondering whether I could get further discounts from those charges imposed.

Need to settle it fast as a friend of mine who bought at the same area has told me that the developer has issued a letter requesting for the payment of the second 10%. The house is expected to be completed next March 2009. Twelve more months to go.

As at todate, I have not been to the gym for last three weeks. Reason - I pulled my left thigh's muscle. How it happened - you won't believe it. Stepped onto some dog shit in a public garden and went back to the roadside to scrape those shit off my right slipper. Left leg was holding steadfastly on the ground while right leg moved rigorously, trying my best to get those shit off my slippers. The pain the day after and lasted for three weeks now albeit much much better now. Should be jumping back into the gym by early next week.

Well, tonight was a rest day and while watching the English Premier League match between Manchester United vs. Bolton live, I typed this blog entry. Man Utd was leading 2-0 at halftime and would definitely, read the words here, top the league three points ahead of Arsenal. Man Utd's year again? Hopefully (toes are crossed now).

Match will finish by 6am and I'm supposed to meet up with few friends for breakfast at 9am later on to discuss / plan for our church's 20th anniversary come August 2008. Huh? Everything 8 8 ??? Too bad 8.8.08 is on a Friday. We haven't fix the exact date but August would be the month. Dim sum breakfast at Sri Petaling ............... yummy!

Good thing the meeting would be held at a restaurant for a some brainstorming session. If it was to be held in a meeting room, I guarantee I would go zzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Would come back to sleep after the meeting and hopefully those fellas don't plan for anything else that could tempt me.
Tags: Sale And Purchase Agreement, Home Loan, Legal Fees, Dim Sum Breakfast

Still Hunting for a House

Since the day I found out that my favourite piece of property (loved the way it was renovated, just what I wanted) in Sri Petaling was not favourable, I couldn't find a suitable one from thereon. Most of the houses that I have seen just do not have that 'feel'.

Moreover, most of it may required substantial amount of money to be pumped in for renovation purpose as the houses have built some time back. This may delay my time in moving into the house as it would involved DBKL approving my renovation plans and so forth. The other issue that has been bothering me is that the Sri Petaling residential area is under leasehold status and most of its landbanks have only 70++ years left.

When I saw that earlier piece of property, I have made arrangement to put up my current condo for sale. The best part is a couple came to view and is making arrangement to buy my condo unit. Where am I going to stay then?

One of the financial mortgage guys that I spoke to told me that I should consider every aspect in purchasing a house. I must not have the thinking that this house would be my retirement spot. He did mention "what if my family requires emergency funding and I need to dispose of my house". If that piece of property has poor resale value or unable to find buyer easily, I would have to think twice about it. Man! ........ just when you thought money could buy anything but with such things to consider, it would make think thrice actually.

I'm waiting for the last piece of development that would be launched any time now. The developer is Petaling Garden Berhad. A call to them had got my antenna springing up where the launching could be called real soon. Further digging elsewhere resulted with an information that either the double storey or the 2 1/2 storey houses would cost RM500,000 onwards. Goodness me! Really did dampen my spirit.

The other thing I heard that people that have connection with housing / property developers normally do get to buy their favourite units much in advance, leaving the crumbs for the public at large (yeah, I'm in the public category).

Apart from waiting for the latest development, during the past weekends and CNY, it was round here and there to look for those houses that have signboards hanging outside their gate - "For Sale". The newspapers' classified section on House for Sale is one of my favourite page now.

Had been calling property agents more than I called my friends lately.

Just because of hunting for a house, I developed stress. A close friend asked, "was it because you found a good buyer and that you were rushing to purchase a property for yourself". I need to be careful of that too in case I was blind towards something while rushing to buy one. Do I need to rush?

Then other friends, in good faith, recommended me to view houses at nicer spots e.g. Lake Fields, Sungai Besi and Lake Edge, Puchong (agreed that this place is too beautiful, if funds were available would surely set my feet there). Only issue - way beyond my budget with all of it above RM460,000 till almost hitting RM600,000. RM460,000 is before any simple renovations and furniture & fittings. Felt like fainting now.

What was your experience like?
Tags: Sri Petaling, Petaling Garden Berhad, Property For Sale, House For Sale, Double Storey House, 2 1/2 Storey House, Housing Developer, Property Developer, Lake Fields, Lake Edge

Looking for Landed Property

Anyone knows of anyone who wanted to sell their house? Am looking for one at the moment and hopefully it meets the following criteria:-

Land size: 22 x 80 to 22 x 100
Built up area: 2500 square feet onwards
Renovations: Kitchen and upper floor's rooms are fully extended. Best if front portion has been extended too
Location: Sri Petaling and Happy Garden area (not used to other areas lah)
Condition: Hopefully could move in with minimum renovations and the house has not been built for umpteenth years

Have to resort to this search as the last few houses that I have viewed were not up to what I wanted. Following issues that were not favourable:-
* If the built up area was there, the price was way too exhorbitant.
* The house looks good but toilets were too small.
* Price was quiet alright but the location was not suitable.
* House was alright but in order to take that house, extensive renovation has to be done.
* Price alright, house looks just nice, renovations were up to mark but the empty land in front of the house was a surau (muslim prayer hall) reserved land. Not that I'm racist but you wouldn't want that sort of traffic right in front of your house, day in day out.
* House at suitable location with low price but would require extensive renovations from bottom

Thought it was easy to buy a landed property. Some real estate agents are helping me out.
Tags: Landed Property, Real Estate, Sri Petaling, Happy Garden

Hunting Around Mid Valley

Was at Mid Valley the other day, hunting for some stuff for niece's wedding. When it comes to food, it must be sufficient. Now let's see, which one has not been frequented for long long time. American Chili's it is.

Ordered the sizzling chicken fajita that came with three pieces of tortilla. It was good and took the bottomless Milo drink. Got a cup that was filled with ice and there you are - Iced Milo (two cups of it).
As for dessert, oh wow, the Chocolate Molten cake. A warm chocolate cake with chocolate fudge and an vanilla flavoured ice-cream to top it off.
Now this is the finished work of the air-conditioned bridge connecting the Mid Valley and Gardens. Back in September 2007, this place was totally different.
After getting what I wanted, went straight home and took a peep at my letterbox. Not surprised to see that our letterboxes being spammed.
Tags: The Gardens, Mid Valley, American Chili's, Spam, Chicken Fajita, Chocolate Molten Cake