Dying corals.

Pulau Perhentian Kecil.

Photos by Anas.

Replacement pool ;(

Good lesson for not destroying provided facilities...

Pool...

Waiting for turns to use the new pool.


Sadly, the pool lasted all of 3 days. Their sharp claws and beaks made light work of tearing it apart. Should get a polycarbonate one or something.

Attack mode...

TNB 15454 - Efficient Service

Some idiot tried cutting down an old coconut tree and ended up in severing the power line instead. Called 15454, complaint noted, about half hour later TNB KT called and asked for the pole number. They came and fixed the thing about an hour after that. Fast, efficient, courteous staff. The next morning receive an sms asking me to rate their service, I gave 4 out of 5.

Cooking for one

Improvised potato salad with broccoli and hard boiled egg. The mayonnaise is perhaps the least healthy ingredient but it made up the taste.

Creamy vegetarian carrot soup - Mark Bittman's recipe - with garlic bread. The creaminess came from potato and garlic cloves, no dairy products were used.

Green sprouts replace the noodles in this mee mamak style dish, fish flakes and root vegetables replaces the other fried bits. Cili padi adds the oomph and olive oil is used instead of the usual cooking oil.

Creamy celery soup, a variation of the carrot soup. Perhaps should try mushroom next.

Bagan Seafood

First visit, next door to the Sea Lion Fishing Park in Port Klang. Free wifi and credit card accepted. These places has moved with the times. Parking is abundant albeit a bit muddy if its rainy or the tide is really high.

Mushroom with broccoli.

Mantis prawns. Battered, deep fried and lathered with the yummy sauce.

Bagan's take on the ever popular deep fried squid.

Bamboo clams cooked just right. A tad longer and it will be like chewing on a piece of rubber.

Butter prawns.

Black pepper crab. Personally, we should have asked for the chili crab.

Steamed pomfret.

The remains.

The best is yet to come. Appetisers (pickled papayas and peanuts), desserts (watermelon and pineapples), a round each of fruit juice and coffee, rice and all of the above costs us (3 pax eating for 5/6) slightly less than RM150.

Highly recommended.

Satay (sate ?)Tulang

Grilled skewered bone (with some meat on it). First encounter, quite interesting actually. Nice bbq'esque taste though I prefer my meat and fish boneless. Definitely a novelty. The restaurant itself has an interesting name "Shah Rock Khan", cool take on the famous Hindi actor.

The place is somewhere in Senawang. Interesting.

Canon S90 - Returned

Had a call from a nice lady from Canon Marketing. She asked that the S90 be returned and replaced with a new one. This is to rectify their distribution error as the one sold to me by the shop is meant as a demo unit. Since she asked nicely, I agreed.

Went back to the store I purchased it from this morning. The guy I bought it from was not there. There was a girl instead. From the moment I step in, it was off putting. No greetings or offer to assist instead she just raised her head from behind the counter in a gesture asking me "WHAT YOU WANT ?" (That's how I perceived it anyway). Told her that I am here to exchange the camera as requested by Canon Marketing. No words, she just took the package from me and start to transfer the contents of my box into a new box. I told her to replace the screen protector. Just a grunt and to my annoyance she proceeded to peel the protector off the demo unit and tried to place it on the new camera. Smudging the thing with her fingers.

Perhaps it was because I was beginning to look cross or perhaps because there was another customer walking in. Another grunt and she gave up on the used protector and got a new one from under the counter. "OK, TEST."

That was not what I expected. She made it seems as if it was my fault that they gave me a demo unit which I went out of my way to exchange. I expected a thank you for my time instead got that. If any of you Canon guys are reading this, please advise your resellers on how to treat customers.

That said perhaps it was my mistake for wanting to try a new store instead of going to my regular one.

Powershot S90

A nice little camera capturing samples of the sweet and the ugly.