I’m always fated with Italiannies. It’s probably the restaurant i blogged about most times in my entire archive.

Two years ago i had a lousy pasta in one of the outlets, and i wrote an entry about it.

Not long after, i received an email from the (then) kitchen manager of Itallianies to go over and give it a second chance. So i accepted the offer, and i was very impressed with the service and overall dining experienced. They even named a salad after me and Jas.

You can read the entry HERE.

From then on, Italiannies has improved tremendously and i even hosted my 23rd birthday there.

Wa last time i was so fat can. I don’t believe it.

My friends and I were the first who tried out their new menu!! On my birthday!! With Italiannies i always feel so exclusive and welcome.

So this time when they launched their new pastas, i was also invited to try out.

With the girls. Sheila, Cynthia and Cindy.

Californian Shrimp Salad

Seasoned grilled shrimps, mangoes, oranges, tomatoes and cream cheese ( :D) with baby spinach and romaine lettuce, tossed with orange vinaigrette dressing. Super love the shrimp. Very springy!

Quattro Platter

Deep-fried risotto (<3) balls, stuffed mushrooms, calamari and zucchini fritte, with marinara sauce & alfredo dressing.

The ricotta balls are dangerously cheesy!

Italiannies Lamb Shank. This one is signature dish you mustn’t miss!

Here comes the new signature pastas! There are a selection of a total of 10 pastas, and you can choose any four to be in your bowl.

Eat less, but try more!

Clock wise: Chilli Shrimp, Angel Hair Pomodoro, Chicken Lasagna, Classic Carbonara.

I would say the Chilli Shrimp is ze best! Though i didn’t try it, because it was gone in a blink while i was still talking pictures. T_T

Clockwise: Shrimp Linguine, Chicken Coronation, Fussili Pesto and Mushrooms, Chicken and Mushroom.

Here i would pick the cold Fussilli pasta. with pan-seared shiitake mushroom served over chilled fussili basil pesto pasta. For those who prefer something a tad sweeter, try out their Chicken Coronation tossed with sliced apples, raisins and mayo. It’s almost like a salad pasta. Very unique!

Left: Clams & Beef bacon, which is similar to Classic Carbonara, but dryer with a hint of seafood delight.
Right: Salmon and Lemon Aoili. Baked salmon flakes tossed with chilled lemon aoili mayo and baby spinach over shell pasta.

My fav on plate.

Lastly, we ended the meal with Italiannies Chocolate and hazenut cake, a new dessert!

Bring your loved ones there, because good things are only to be shared. 🙂

Source: BBC News

You have been a very, very naughty girl.

because the one outside my balcony is dead.

Well, half dead. What turf.

But i think it is ngam-ngam in-season. Autumn ma.

If a Christmas tree also can die, i don’t think i can keep any living thing alive in my apartment. I suspect Cheddie is a modified CJ7. Anyway! All my friends know how much i <3 Christmas! I’m not a Christian but i love Christmas more than cheese. Mom would know! Since 8 years old, I loved to walk around in Metrojaya and just be delighted at how beautiful the deco were, and dreamt about how one day i will be in this exotic land during a white Christmas playing snowball with my best buddies!

So last week, I went ikea shopping, looking at all the Christmas deco, feeling very festive, and then i thought, damn, i osowan a Christmas tree.

So i got one. O.o

First ever DIY Christmas tree. And i got my kaki KY to help me assemble and decorate it! Not only that, i got Oli from London to witness this very divine process, via webcam.

Playing with webcam effects!! Snowflakes and elf ears!

DONE

I was showing him how pretty my Christmas tree is and he showed us how beautiful London is now. 🙂

I osowan to go London. T_T

And this… is my Xmas Tree!

Switching off all the lights and this is how it looks. Super gorgeous.

And then play some Knightsbridge Choir. Damn chun.

I know la it’s a bit the early right, but i don’t care. Christmas is all year round for me.

This year’s Christmas i’m not gonna be in Malaysia!! (YAY!) I’m probably gonna have a white Christmas, judging from the crazy weather right now. So my Christmas tree is gonna sit at home alone.

But it’s okay, because it is a festive season you spend with your loved one and your very best kakis! Even they are not right next to you, you still can celebrate this beautiful season with them via webcam, emails or online portals like kakiis.com.

If you have anything to share, don’t forget that Kakiis.com is now running a contest, where you submit a video of you and your best buddies, and stand a chance to win a Macbook Air!!

1) Sign up and be a Kakiis member.
2) Record a video themed ‘A Moment with your Kakiis ’ and upload it to Kakiis (maximum filesize 10MB).
3) Share the video with your friends via the “Share This Video” function or embed it on your website or blog and get your buddies to vote for your video.
4) Members of the public can vote for their favourite videos through the online voting mechanism.

If you prefer something simpler, there’s also a Kakiis Photo contest. Snap photos of your buddies and show them on your blog! Just send your blog’s link to kakiis@nuffnang.com to be in the running to win one of 3 available Sony Skinny T Digital Cameras.

You will also get a chance to attend an exclusive by-invitation-only party, “Kakiis Nite Out” on 13th December if your video or photo is voted one of the top 50s. So faster get your own kaki to shoot a video!

This is my DIY Christmas Tree video with my Kaki KY.

You can view it HERE and vote for me too!

Have fun! 🙂

******Update:

Taken last night fresh after shower. With spanking new dryer. Super chun. Hair still full and long.

******/update

There’s this place in Hangzhou, it’s crazy. Human hair everywhere.

Multitude of shades and lengths.

All kinds of hair quality. Some thin, some coarse. But most of them better than my original hair anyway.

So we closed the deal at RMB1.80 per strand (less than RM1), i chose waist length and a shade closest to my original color, and she did the clip on thing.

Just use a lot of small thingies like these

Thread the extension together with your real hair

And clip it on.

Quite simple lo! Before i experienced first hand how it is done, i couldn’t understand how turf do you attach fake hair real hair real fake hair fake real hair extensions to your own hair.

I did one layer, about 300 strands, and the whole process took only 40 minutes. Oli: erm actually maybe 1h20m but you weren’t the one waiting.

Total is RMB540 (RM270)

DONE!

It didn’t look very natural back then because i had slightly wavy hair and theirs were super straight. But overall it felt good! Not heavy at all. Though the clips could be a little pokey.

Then we got back to Shanghai. And there’s this place in Qi Pu lu. It is even crazier. The entire ground floor full of hair extension shops.

It’s quite nightmarish come to think of it. Every shop looks the same, and they will all try to get you walk in their shop and claim they have the best hair, it is almost impossible to decide which shop you should go in.

In the end we stopped at this shop, because there’s this SUPER LONG pony tail that looks like those in ancient warrior film starring Jet Li. Of course Oli insisted on seeing what it would look like on him, which was all the excuse I needed to get into the shop! There was a super nice gay hairdresser guy in there, but even if it had been Sweeney Todd, we’d passed the point of no return…

It’s the Hair Spray place.

And the hair even cheaper!!!! It’s like longer but RMB1.50 per strand only.

So i did some again, at the bottom layer. To add some super long hair. And this time they use the weaved-in one. It’s supposed to be more long lasting than clip-on one. So i discovered i kena conned in Hang Zhou la because weaving is very time consuming so for convenience sake the lady insisted clip-on was better.

This lady is super pro with weaving!!!

The gay guy kept snapping pictures of me because he said i look like this China (actually Taiwanese but Taiwanese are all Chinese in China) pop artist. I dowan to say who later you say i perasan, anyway he said he want to paste my picture there and write “Some famous Chinese singer also do extension here” (of course some atrocious English).

DONE!!!

Nice or not?!?! In total i spent about RM300+ for everything (Hangzhou + Shanghai). And you will be surprised. Well it’s China but! Until today, it is still perfect and not a single strand came off (touch wood). It’s been a month!!

Remember, if you get it done it will hurt like a bitch the first day until you cannot sleep, but then you will get used to it after just 2 or 3 days. And whoever says hair extension is hard to maintain, obviously haven’t done it in China!!! I just wash, style and blow dry as usual.

The strange thing is it feels better than my own hair! So now my hair is half-Cheese, half-HotTibetanvirginfrombeautifulvillage (at least, that’s what the hairdresser assured me), though i try not to think about which girl’s body part i have on me now.

The last prank call i made was 10 years ago. The person became my close friend till today. And i will remember this person’s phone number forever (by the way till today this person still thinks that i genuinely dialed the wrong number).

The last time i witnessed a prank call was few months ago. We were all under the influence of Absinthe before it was emptied and being placed on the ground and spun towards Ching.

I dared her to call a random stranger and say she missed him. So she picked up my phone, select a number and used her own mobile to call. It was 1am in the morning.

“Hello?”
“Hi, Chee Minh, I. Miss. You. Bye.”
“WH–”
*hangs up*

Ok it doesn’t sound as funny as it should be. But it was! I practically ROFLed for 10 whole minutes (that time I haven’t bought a sofa yet so yea I had to roll on the floor). And I’m sorry Chee Minh.

And when i was young i used to call random strangers and talked to them until mom found out and personally explained and apologized to the person.

Then finally karma got to me. I got a prank call last year. By Rudy and JJ from Hitz.

Do YOU have any funny phone call story to share? Be it you who did it (when you are drunk, or 5 years old, give me any excuse you want!) or you who receive a weird phone call.

Share with me and you might win some superb prizes!

Allow me to explain.

018, U Mobile is Malaysia’s newest 3G service provider and it’s generous enough to sponsor Cheeserland reader’s funny story!
This fun, entertaining, cheeky and irreverent mobile network encourages you do to anything you want. It’s entirely up to you and you make the call.

You decide on the products and services that are relevant to you, you decide on a plan that is perfect for you, you decide on a mobile phone that meets your need and you decide who you want to call!

Lemmi tell you a little about how U Mobile is different.

First of all there’s no access fee. Then, video call and voice call are the same rate so now you can chat awhile while showing off your nice make-up/outfit at the same time! Furthermore, it runs by 1 second billing, meaning it is charged by the second (other networks are most by 30 second blocks). So you can now call your boyfriends and shout “Oi, call back” (if you practice often enough you can get it done under one second) and you only get charged like, what, 0.8 cent? Now you don’t need to resort to the very lowly miss call tactic.

Also, you get to call your U Mobile friends and family for free from now till 31st March 2009! U Mobile users are now able to SMS another U Mobile number at a low, low price of only 1 sen per SMS.

Also applicable if you switch and bring your existing mobile number from any other telco!

All U Mobile users can also get Unlimited Mobile Ring Back Tone downloads, and Unlimited Mobile Live TV viewing and 5 Free Game downloads. U Mobile is proud to offer you 10 FREE SMS for every RM10 you use within a 30 day period.

So much to offer! Please visit www.u.com.my for more detailed information!

Now back to the topic.
Just post a comment here about your funny phone call story (a wrong call, a prank call, whatever you think tickles our funny bone!) before 28th November, 2008, 11.59PM.

5 most hilarious stories will be selected and they will win:
1. U Mobile 018 Prepaid Starter Pack
2. U Mobile 018 Prepaid Top-up voucher worth RM50
3. U Mobile goody bag

If you do not have a story already, start calling someone now! Have fun!

with Cindy.

Sunday is good. Blog more soon!

Oli, Ibbytun and I were waiting for taxi to the park.

Then i spotted something in the display window of the shop behind.

One item is missing, why?

Because while waiting for taxi, i turned around and “OMG THATS CUTE IMMA JUST HAVE A QUICK LOOK VERY FAST ONE” and came out with a bag.

Now it’s like my fav bag. It’s RM25!!! 😀

So we went to the park.

sho karerful!

And bought bubble gun!

Ibby shooting Oytun. I dunno what Oli is doing though.

But he blew a beautiful big bubble!

*blob*

Bubbly.

We made kids very happy that day.

Kids made us very happy too!

And then, we went on a boat tour! 🙂

Oli cannot sit straight cuz legs too long. -_-

Me and new bag haha! It’s so big i could put my old bag inside it. Best.

After that we saw bunnies!!! Selling like ice-creams at the roadside!!

So i asked how much they are and YOU KNOW WHAT THE SELLER SAID?

“Shi wu kuai”.

RMB15.

7 Ringgit.

3 SGD

1 Pound. (Last time la.)

We saw bunnies when we were in Hangzhou too.

Me: I want one.
Oli: Cannot.
Me: Why, it is RM7!!!
Oli: Come on. What are you gonna do with it.
Me: But it’s like, seven, turfing, Ringgit.
Oli: No.
Me: But!!!
Oli: No. *drags Cheesie away*
Me: But i want a freaking bunny!!!
Oli: No.
Me: We can play with it then give it back to the owner.
Oli: We are not coming back all the way to Hangzhou.
Me: We can release it to the park.
Oli: It’s gonna die.
Me: We can give it to a kid.
Oli: No.
Me: But it’s RM7.

So turfing cute can die. I mean, yea, exactly. T_T

RM7. it’s like a Mc Fillet O Fish set. T_T

Babai banni.

PS: Probably gonna blog bout Hangzhou or hair extension (cuz i tired replying people who keep asking why my hair miraculously so long suddenly). Which one you wanna read first?

Rimmel London’s Malaysia debut road show: Get Your London Look Campaign at Mid Valley Megamall.

During the 4-day campaign, the girls got a make-over and photoshoot. I went there on Sat with Kim and YC.

Gonna perm my hair!

Getting my make-over

Done!! They gave me big and beautiful curls!! 😀

With YC

They gave me The London Look!

Then proceeded to do a mini photoshoot.

And collect pictures!!

Omg i love my curls in this pic. Those stylists damn pro la. T_T

And then they will paste your picture on the wall of fame.

I love the whole London theme thing. They had little red phone booth as make-over counters.

Got our goodie bags

Kim and YC

Trying out products.

Lip gloss!

Anyway, one week later, 5 finalists are shortlisted among all the participants. And now, YOU have the power of choice to choose who got the London Look. Pick your favourite and make them the winner of Rimmel London’s Malaysia Debut: Get Your London Look Campaign.

Successful winner will be taking home:
Winner: Rimmel Product worth RM 500 + Watson Voucher RM 300
2nd Runner-Up: Rimmel Products worth RM 300 + Watson Voucher RM 200
3rd Runner-Up: Rimmel Products worth RM 100 + Watson Voucher RM 100

Decided which is your favourite girl who got the London Look? Vote now at www.femmething.com/rimmellondon.

Also, Rimmel London & www.femmething.com will be giving away three sets of the Limited Edition Bag-It-All containing 3-pc Rimmel London gift set worth RM50 which can’t be purchased but only given for free with purchases of Rimmel products worth RM100 and above at the launch event.

How to get own your Limited Edition Bag-It-All?

Simple. Choose your favourite girl with the London Look, vote, and blog about it. Be creative. You can write about the girl with the London Look, or the girl without the London Look. You can write about the campaign, the products, your thoughts or even photo-post of your very own London Look. But most importantly, you must mention the Rimmel London’s Malaysia Debut: Get Your London Look Campaign Beauty Contest and link your post to www.femmething.com/rimmellondon. Once it’s done, submit your entry to info(at)femmething.com along with your name, contact details and the link to your post.

Keep your fingers crossed. You might be one of the lucky three!

I mean, what the doook.

The story took place on a little farm far far away in Zuzumbu village.

One day, Henrietta the Hunter got to know about some secret information leaked by reliable sources about Oli, the farmer keeping animal refugees on his farm.

This French lass is incredibly brainy (in spite of her hair color) and astute. She can figure out the hardest quizzes and she can pop coins outta her head (ok it has nothing to do with her profession, but that’s an extra talent to boast about on her resume).

And she decided to smell ze rats outta his cottage.

Well. Apparently. It wasn’t just ze rats. Oli’s farm is like a zoo. It’s full of animals. Like, really vicious, rebellious, criminal animals. They commit all manner of sinful crimes.

After rounds of meticulous investigation and sharp observation, Henrietta caugt a few animals red-handed.

First criminal was CJ7 ze alcoholic who indulges his 5 year old son in the same condemnable practice. He was found in a liquor cellar, blind drunk, together with his equally drunk son.

The second criminal was Suan Nai who was found nurturing a deadly virus (that will contaminate the water supply in ze entire village and kill many innocent lives) in his icebox which looks like a microwave.

Nicholas O’ize was guilty of extreme noise pollution with his Guitar Hero addiction. A few neighbours were reported deaf after several nights of constant thrashing of deafening music through ze wall.

Dinga was charged with attempted suicide and causing a scene in ze village (and tarnishing the village’s image), albeit his excuse of “i was following a mouse out the window and my tail was stuck in a hole on the ledge”, which was found baseless and untrue.

Henrietta, however, saved the confused soul from the brink of death and now Dinga is repenting in jail.

Terry was guilty of leaving anonymous comments using multiple IPs and nicknames on pink blogs. Shim has a record of stalking fellow transvestites and cross dressers.

Big Mouth is an illegal immigrant who was caught when he was traveling across the ocean in a shoe. He was also charged with smuggling of fake Merrell shoes.

Dazhu is guilty of being fat. Yes. Obesity is a crime in Zuzumbu.

So far, 7 animals have been caught. The village is a great deal more peaceful. However, there’s still an incessant, faint but audible quack around the village that is really disturbing.

Henrietta decided that it was the most notorious flock of fowl-mannered ducks, i mean, doooks who are responsible for the biggest conspired crime in the village.

There are two flocks of them. One is the Super FnF Doook and the other is the Super SMS doook.

All communication in the village has gone hairwired! !, Super FnF has been talking a lot of cock! (apparently, he enjoys super low rate of to 15 friends of ALL network??).

Furthermore, the Super SMS doook has also caused further damage with his excessive texting behaviour on his mobile!! The FBI (Farm Bureau of Investigation) has been following this case since forever and there was no lead, and to no avail.

HOWEVER.

Henrietta was smarter than the entire FBI combined together.

She caught one of the doooks dialling to his ducking partner in crime. Red handed.

What the doook!

Gotcha!

The Doook was caught. Henrietta is going to send them all to jail. Via email transportation (nowadays technology is so advanced).

And she got rewarded kao kaoly for it.

However, the rest of the Doooks are still dangerously at large. She’s gonna need YOUR help to hunt for the rest of them.

What you can do is, register yourself at WantedDuck to be a Duck Hunter.

Then, tell your friends that the Wanted Ducks are on the loose and you’ll receive the first clue in your email. You need to decipher the clue and act upon it! All the Ducks are hiding in blogs.

Once you have successfully located the Ducks, transport them via email (how convenient, don’t you just love technology?) and count the number of Ducks that are left in the farm. Then submit.

If you’re a Top Duck Hunter, the FBI (Farm Bureau of Investigation) will be in touch. So, sign up now already.

Zuzumbu Village needs you. Find the ducking Ducks.

someone who is taller than Oli. And Yao Ming.

My baby was here during the weekend. Haven’t seen her for the longest time. ^^

She loves her strawbie toy.

Just got these two pix from Cindy.

I like how we didn’t sync our expressions. 😛

Super busy week is over! Now finally have some time. Will edit my Shanghai pictures. Still got plenty of things to blog about! ^^

P/S: After using Clinique Superdefense for two weeks i can already feel my skin is softer and definitely less dry! I applied it every morning as moisturizer and sunblock after the basic 3-step of cleanser, exfoliation and moisturizer. I think it’s worth the investment! 🙂

PS2: You can redeem a free Superdefense travel size sample yourself to try it out! Check this out for more info.

This is me in his eyes.

dont worry i will put my kneepads on
walk around with you at your level
and i have LONG ARMS
so can get good ‘downward angle’

—Oliver Denton, 200cm.

Cheesie: How did you grow so tall? You eat like a hamster.
Oli: *shrug*
Cheesie: How tall are your parents?
Oli: Not tall at all. My mom’s about your height, and my dad’s slightly taller than her.
Cheesie: O.o
Oli: *whisper* Shhhh. It’s the post man.

HAHAHHAHA

His head is never in the picture.

The door has a DENT-ON (Omg i’m so punny) it due to constant cranial collisions.

He cannot go underground shopping because he… cannot pass through the malls.

But. One day, he met someone. Someone who made him feel atrociously little… puny… insignificant…
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Poor Oli.

Ok that was our  task of the day:

“Bloggers given 15mins to roam around TANGS to capture photo/video of shoppers at TANGS and blog creatively based on the theme “Fashion & Technology Entwined”

Wa. Tough.

So i thought of getting people to draw a picture for me about their version of “fashion and technology combined”.

The first caucasian lady i approached said, “you gotta be kidding me”. And ran away.

fml.

But luckily i got two decently dressed (who just finished shopping from TANGS) to layan me. (See all the painstaking hair curling works!)

I think their names are Neo and Brandon. I think la.

So i asked them the big question and got them to draw for me.

And i guess they are really very literal people. They got me a nice men suit, and a canggih laptop. ^^

AND I COMPLETED THE TASK IN 4 MINUTES!!!

So just to challenge myself, i decided to look for a second drawing.

So i found Misao. (Obviously he isn’t Japanese but more obviously he learned Japanese hence the name, so we talked in Japanese.) Who is wearing a T-shirt in Japanese kanji and carrying a netbook.

I think i found my fashion+technology guy.

So he drew for me.

HAHA he does the kawaii pose.

This dude has a better imagination!

The man in the picture is wearing a T-shirt that has a built-in laptop wtf i dunno how that’s gonna happen but i guess the designer will have to figure it out la. Anyway, he’s wearing a MOUSE as a necklace.

So yea, fashion and technology entwined for you. ^^

Now need to blog bout my last post which is a hair tutorial!!! Best for last!!!!