As Good As It Gets

Taking the train to Taj Mahal

2015-04-08T14:36:00.001+08:00

Most people will imagine when anyone uses the train in India, the person will have to jostle among crowd to get to the train and then ride on top of the train like those pictures showing so many people in India riding the train like that with some holding to the doors for dear life and then there were those who had to crammed inside the train with nary any room to breath. One

New Delhi vs. Old Delhi

2015-03-16T14:32:00.000+08:00

Those who have ever been to Delhi would not say they had been to New Delhi. They will only say they have been to Delhi or in the words of the locals, DEH-Lee. Here's how New Delhi is pronounced - http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/New+Delhi. How old is Delhi can be gauged by the so many ruins you can find peppered around Delhi if you take time to explore it. Without needing to

The serenity of Lodhi Garden, Delhi

2015-03-10T16:05:00.001+08:00

They say Delhi is noisy, especially the Old Delhi where there are tricycles, autorickshaws, bicycles, cars, motorbikes, buses and let's not forget the people. It cannot be denied it is noisy and if you read my previous post, you can see a glimpse of it. One other thing about Delhi, it is said to be dangerous to go out at night and there is no safe place at all. I beg to differ as although it

New Delhi : A noisy city

2015-03-02T16:47:00.002+08:00

They asked you to honk, hence the incessant honking As I was researching to go to New Delhi last month, one thing kept coming up : New Delhi is noisy. New Delhi is not the first Indian city I was going to go too as I have been to Mumbai before. When I went to Mumbai in 2012, as that was my first time in an Indian city, the supposedly Bollywood city, I was ready for anything there. The horror

India made me wanna blog again

2015-02-24T20:38:00.000+08:00

I have left blogging a long time ago. Although occasionally I do write a post or two, they were mostly afterthoughts which sometimes are left in drafts and never published. Most of the drafts are for my property and financial blog : Legal Cat-asthrophe, as I was using it to write my books or to promote my new book. Being a writer may have made me a bit of a snob. I expect to get something in

Paradigm shift

2012-10-02T13:36:00.000+08:00

We just did an unconventional thing by selling our own home without any discernible rhyme or reason except that the price that was offered was attractive enough for us to sell it. Something which started as another crazy idea became a serious paradigm shift for us. Some friends and even family member couldn't fathom why we did it. Most think moving is something they will never do in their

An ode to friendship

2012-07-18T15:01:00.002+08:00

I am not really an extrovert person. Those who know me will beg to differ. My wife just recently had this idea of me being the big bully who loves to pick on the defenseless and makes fun of them. Then there are the dirty jokes/words/inferences I like to tell. Still, even with my public persona, I actually love to just sit at home. Writing, watching television series, read a book and sometimes,

What to do in Perth, Western Australia....

2012-06-08T15:57:00.000+08:00

Although the trip at the end of April, last month, was my fourth time to Perth, Western Australia, it was the first time I really explored the biggest city in Western Australia and is said to be one of the quietest city in Australia. It doesn't have a night life except on Thursday, Friday and Saturday whilst most shops and restaurants closed at 5pm. So, how do you enjoy such a city? 1. Perth

Malaysia Social Media Chambers

2012-02-29T12:30:00.000+08:00

I was a part of a collective who organised the Malaysia Social Media Week 2012 which was held between 13th and 17th February 2012. We are known as Malaysia Social Media Chambers which is currently in the midst of being registered with the Registrar of Society. It is a collective of people who are active in social media and all are welcome. Currently we have a few like-minded people

The end of my #365 makan project

2012-01-31T14:11:00.000+08:00

In 3 days time, I will finally finish filling up the Facebook albums (3 in all) which shows what I had for lunch. This was my entry on 2nd February last year announcing the project : My #365 makan project It was supposed to be mostly what I eat in Malaysia. However, I went to Jakarta, Mumbai, and Kazakhstan in 2011. I included a few of the lunches I had there and I managed to

Adult holiday

2012-01-05T13:12:00.000+08:00

It is not really of going away with a group of friends but it was a kind of a unique holiday. All of us travel in twos or threes or with our own companion, family or friend. We arrived at the designated area. Did the one thing we have set ourselves to do, which was to celebrate the coming of the new year 2012. Did a few other stuff together, sometimes with only half of the whole group,

FlexiRoam, a convenient to call from foreign lands

2011-12-20T11:33:00.000+08:00

I have to admit, I am not sure whether I will need this service or not. However, having an option to call from foreign countries is great. I went to Kazakhstan last June and I only had the option to tweet (through Twitter) and BBM my wife for nearly 10 days as I didn't want to incur cost if I made any calls. FlexiRoam seems to be the solution for that. It is a phone call only solution

2011 : The year I learned to love rice

2011-12-15T20:44:00.000+08:00

Yep, am born and raised in Malaysia where the food is always partnered with rice. There are so many type of rice and the way it is cook that there Malaysia imported from so many countries. So, in a way, it is weird for me to just get acquainted with rice. I am so not really into rice when my wife and I eat out that she would go to her mom's when she wants to really eat rice (which she always

The Twitterjaya Wedding

2011-11-14T02:40:00.001+08:00

So, Twitterjaya had a wedding over last weekend. What's so different about it from all those announcement on Twitter is that this wedding was made in Twitter nearly in total. The courting, the drama, the proposal and then the wedding itself. The wedding was between @jud9e and @ritarita_ritz. A sailor and a personal assistant extraordinaire. They met exactly a year ago, courted and then

How to make lemang in modern times

2011-11-08T14:20:00.000+08:00

The last time I join the festivity of making lemang, it was when I was still just a wee lad. Not wanting to let a tradition dies, I just want to observe and participate which lead to the most important event : The eating part! When my wife said that her family is going to make some lemang at her kampung in Tapah Road, during the Eid ul-Adha, I just jumped into the opportunity to join them.

Three Seven and counting

2011-11-02T15:44:00.002+08:00

Celebrated my birthday last week. A small affair like every year with just me and my wife. I don't harp about my birthday and actually hate celebrating it. However, my wife made it memorable all by herself. Here were the highlights : Wife sent a balloon surprise early in the morning of my birthday Wife brought me to dinner at Prime, a posh steakhouse in Hilton KL (she really knows my

Tuan Senang Besar : Stopped in the middle of a run

2011-10-14T15:45:00.001+08:00

@TeeAssBee on Twitter or Tuan Senang Besar on Facebook was a man I get to know from social media. Yesterday, he was no more. This is an account on how he existed or what I perceived of him and it has a lot to do with how social media connects us. Kharis, his real name died on 13th of October 2011 while he was running somewhere near his house. I got to know the news through Twitter upon

ANTARA GAPI : A Greater Klang Valley Alternative

2011-10-12T11:40:00.000+08:00