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July 17, 2004
Dish and (S)platter
The dark sky seemed rather ominous, I thought. Anxiously glancing at my watch ticking the time away, I peered down the road for the twelveth time. Suddenly, at the corner of the road, a red 'City-liner' inched into view. Ah! 63 is here after an agonising one hour wait. I hopped on board, paid RM 1.80 and took a seat beside a Bangladeshi worker. Unexpectedly, I found a familiar face out of the corner of my eye. He's Y. Teck, a bespectacled guy from Miri, currently doing Korean Program in INTEC. We clicked instantly and I found out he has a blog too. Click here to find out more about it.
While we were talking nonchalantly, suddenly the bus engine gave a loud bang followed by a groan before it stopped entirely in the middle of the road. The driver opened the bonnet and thick black smoke came bellowing out. The smell was acrid and unbearable. Now I was stucked on a bus with an overheated engine and nowhere near Mid Valley. Bad timing. Y. Teck, however, happily alighted the bus and strolled to his aunt's house nearby. I was left with other passengers, contemplating whether to wait for the driver's distress signal to be answered or take another bus. Finally, I chose the latter. 15 minutes and another RM 1.20 spent later, I was reunited with my brother.(I couldn't even remember when was the last time we hang out together.Sounds dramatic? That's exactly how I felt at that time.) Somehow he looked skinnier, but nevertheless the aura exerted from his looks and speech (and his ipod of course) indicated that he is still as tech-savvy and trendy as before. Credit for managing this blog goes to him. I'm glad that my brother made this blog possible. Merci beaucoup!(thank you very much!)
After lunch, we went for Kill Bill Vol.2 which was smashing. My first encounter with Kill Bill fanfare was with Benjamin Lo aka BenLo aka AJC Student Councillor aka the great imitator aka food gourmet aka my good friend in ASEAN. His intrinsic description of several scenes in Kill Bill Vol.1 tempted me to 'savour' them with my own eyes. And for the second time, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman delivered a complete movie packed with lots of punches. The most unforgettable part that I find was Beatrix's training under Pai Mei's tutelage. The filmatography technique (zooming in and out of Pai mei's face), Pai Mei's ancient and formidable master look, speeches in cantonese and the kung-fu fighting scenes blended so well that at times I thought I was watching a very old Hong Kong movie. It was so amusing to look at Pai Mei and antics with his long white beard were bone-tickling. There aren't much blood splattering scenes in Vol.2 compare to its predecessor, which is a little bit disappointing.(am evaluating my inclination towards violence in this case)Bottomline: If you want to learn 'Five-point-palm heart exploding' technique from Uma, don't miss it.
After my brother left(see his side of story here), I thought that I might as well have my dinner at Annalakshmi while waiting for the torrent rain to abate. In Tamil, 'Anna' means meals and 'Lakhsmi' means mother. Again, the first time I had my ears upon Annalakshmi was through Benjamin Lo aka BenLo aka AJC Student Councillor aka the great imitator aka food gourmet aka my good friend in ASEAN. The visit to S'pore's outlet with LX, Jon, axe_why, silly and whiny girl was an unforgettable one. Naan and chapati served on banana leaf, with a variety of curry and daal to choose from. And how can I forget that glass of mango lassi... thick and sweet mango juice with a tinge of yogurt and milk so perfectly mixed together. Heavenly! And the 'eat as much as you want, pay as much as you can' policy makes Annalakshmi even more tantalising! Here I come, Annalakshmi!
Posted by peixin at July 17, 2004 03:18 PM
Comments
skinnier? You mean buffed up, don't you? lol
Posted by: zx at July 17, 2004 09:17 PM
cozy is the last word in english to describe malaysian buses.. btw.. your blog's unique :) it's like reading essays!
Posted by: MunKit at July 18, 2004 09:26 AM
Certainly skinnier! Or else I'm changing my specs... Eat more, won't you? Thanx Munkit for the compliment, i'm trying out different methods to voice out my thoughts.. so i care to have opinions from you ppl out there.. do write some comments k?
Posted by: peixin at July 20, 2004 04:17 PM