Crabs for Dinner

Had a good dinner on Saturday night with my friends. After long lay off from such good & tasty food, I have to get use to it for next coming weeks as there will be more. Had this dinner at a restaurant located at Desa Industrial Park (shoplots area just next to Taman Ehsan) at Kepong.
This is a crab dish (abt 2kg) cooked with boiled egg yoke of a salted egg. The egg yoke has stucked onto the crab shells but it's tasty and the saltiness of the crabs were perfect.
The following cooking style of another succulent crab dish (abt 2kg also) was mixed with marmite sauce. The taste was real good as the sauce made the meat just nice to melt in our mouth. Besides crab, we ordered a dish of calamari diced with butter. Fattening but tasty, who cares!
Not forgetting a dish of sweet & sour pork that was crunchy initially when it's hot.
Tags: Food, Crabs, Kuala Lumpur, Kepong

War Rally in Khartoum, Sudan

More than 1,000 volunteer fighters from Sudan's Popular Defense Forces rallied in Khartoum on Saturday vowing to treat any U.N. force in Darfur as an invading army that would be in a state of war with Sudan.

The volunteers, from Sudan's official PDF militia, danced to nationalistic folk music and chanted "God is Greatest." Some wore masks over their faces, while others wore military-style fatigues.
"We consider any army that enters Sudan as an invading army, even if the order was from the
United Nations. "Any country that takes part in this invasion force will enter into a state of war with Sudan."

The rally was the latest challenge to international calls for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to accept a U.N. resolution to deploy more than 20,000 U.N. peacekeeping troops in Darfur, where political and ethnic violence has flared since 2003.
Tags: Sudan, Khartoum, Figthers, Defense Forces, UN, Peacekeeping Troops, Darfur

Relaxation

Went for a good 2 hours body massage (RM90 or US$25) on Friday afternoon and followed by a 1 hour foot massage (RM45). They had extended an offer of RM25 for the foot massage for my next visit. Don't think I'll go for that foot thingy as it's quite painful and I have to 'tahan' it throughout. Not nice as it was not comfortable. I should be relaxing and not pay someone to torture. It's not as painful actually, just that I wanted more of a relaxation type. I could almost float upon leaving the massage centre. At night time, went for a good dinner with my family members.
Tags: Journal, Life, Diary, Relax, Massage, Foot Massage

Just My Luck / End Game / Thank You For Smoking - movie review

On the way back, watched 3 movies in the airplane....so thought of sharing with you my reviews on it.
Just My Luck - starring Lindsay Lohan (another gifted beautiful lady) & Chris Pine. Lindsay plays a young & upcoming lady in a corporate world and everything is going her way. To the extent when she calls the word "taxi", 4 taxis could be stopping right in front of her at that second. On the other side of the city, a young guy is really at the bottom of the pit. Somehow, this 2 main characters' luck changes or you can say "switched" due to a kiss between the 2 of them in a masquerade party. Lindsay has to find her luck back by finding whom she kissed in that masquerade party (a party where people wear mask). And that guy, wow.........everything's going his way now. Very entertaining movie to kill boredom only.
End Game - starring Burt Reynolds, Cuba Gooding Jr & Angie Harmon. Cuba plays a personal bodyguard to the US President and was unable to prevent an unwanted assasination on the president. He just can't stomach the situation. A hardworking and nosey lady reporter found some leads and such leads were "terminated" the moment she talked to them. As she approaches Cuba, both were nearly killed too. This brought Cuba to search for clues which leads to more controversy as to who are the people behind the assasination. He can't trust many people as the Secret Service Dept was somehow involved. A suspense / thriller movie. Such scenarios could be real for the death of certain people in the political arena.

Thank You For Smoking - starring Aaron Eckhart & Maria Bello. Aaron was the lobbyist for a non-governmental organisation ("NGO") sponsored by major cigarette companies to counter negative statements or incidents that occured or linked to cigarettes. On the other side, a group of congressman was trying to label/brand cigarettes as poison. His concious/moral was tested when he was testifying on behalf of the NGO in a congressional hearing with his young son witnessing in the room too. A very good movie in view of current legislations being implemented worldwide to counter the cost of smoking.
Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Just My Luck, End Game, Thank You For Smoking, Lindsay Lohan, Cuba Gooding Jr, Aaron Eckhart

Journey Back To Malaysia

Left Sudan on 12 Sept night via Emirates Airline. Had a 3 hrs transit at Dubai International Airport.
Took some photos to show how busy was Dubai airport at around 12.30am Dubai time on 13 Sept. On the contrast, at 12.30am in Kuala Lumpur International Airport, you could even hear a mosquitoe flying nearby (not joking). Reason? At that time, most shops would have closed down leaving a few only eatery joints opening. Dubai airport has about 150 airlines stopping at its airport meanwhile there are only 45 airlines dropping by at KL airport.

Quite a tiring journey as I departed Khartoum at 7.30pm, arrived Dubai at 12.10am, departed at 3.15am and arrived at KL at 2.30pm (respective time zones). Nevertheless, I'm happy to be back. Seeing greenery at last.
Tags: Emirates Airline, Dubai International Airport, KLIA, Khartoum, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur

International Worship Music Festival

Almost 200 worship leaders, music pastors, church music directors, church musicians are coming from Florida to bring us this event.
Comprising of a full orchestra and choir, they will be ministering to
us with traditional hymns and contemporary praise and worship songs. Prior to arriving in Malaysia, they will be performing at the Sydney Opera House.

The International Worship Music Festival will be held on 29 - 30 September at the Wisma MCA, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
Tags: International Worship Music Festival, Wisma MCA, Worship, Music, Musicians, Kuala Lumpur

3 Questions

A young man who went overseas to study for quite a long time.When he returned, he asked his parents to find him a religious scholar or any expert who could answer his 3 Questions. Finally, his parents were able to find a scholar.

Young man: Who are you? Can you answer my questions?
Scholar: I am one of God willing, I will be able to answer your questions.
Young man: Are you sure? A lot of professors and experts were not able to answer my questions.
Scholar: I will try my best, with the help of God ...
Young Man: I have 3 questions: 1. Does God exist? If so, show me His shape. 2. What is fate? 3. If devil was created from the fire, why at the end he will be thrown to hell that is also created from fire. It certainly will not hurt him at all, since devil and the hell were created from fire. Did God not think of it this far?
Suddenly, the scholar slapped the young man's face very hard.
Young Man (feeling pain): Why do you get angry at me?
Scholar: I am not angry. The slap is my answer to your 3 Questions.
Young Man: I really don't understand.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: Of course, I felt the pain.
Scholar: So do you believe that pain exists?
Young Man: Yes.
Scholar: Show me the shape of the pain!
Young Man: I cannot.
Scholar: That is my first answer. All of us feel God's existence without being able to see His shape... Last night, did you dream that you will be slapped by me?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: Did you ever think that you will get a slap from me, today?
Young Man: No.
Scholar: That is fate my second answer........ My hand that I used to slap you, what is it created from?
Young Man: It is created from flesh.
Scholar: How about your face, what is it created from?
Young Man: Flesh.
Scholar: How do you feel after I slapped you?
Young Man: In pain.
Scholar: That's it... this is my third answer, even though devil and also the hell were created from the fire, if God wants, God willing , the hell will become a very painful place for devil.
Tags: Christianity, Funny, Humour, God, Scholar