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Meeting & Movies

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Been a while since mum and I made a trip to the wet market. So it was a great chance for her to stock up on free-range chicken that are so great for soups and stocks. Had a simple breakfast of soup noodles at the OUG side lane. Simple, hot and wholesome. For lunch, KH arranged for lunch with Kenny at Delicious @ Bangsar Village II. I've not set foot in Delicious in years. Couldn't recognize the menu. Total revamp. Their branch in BVII is quite large and poorly-manned. Lethargic service, ten-cent faces... well you get the picture. Took a long look ( several looks actually ) at the menu before finally deciding on their pesto pasta with grilled chicken. Not bad la. Anyway, back to Kenny. The last I saw him was years ago during CNY. Since then his health was a bit of a roller coaster ride, but he has since recovered. Didn't take long to catch up. Walked around a bit after that, but truth be told, nothing much to shop at BV. On a whim, I decided to see Antinous to pass him th

DR = Disaster Recovery = Dah Raya?

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Late post: Memang dah raya pun! :P According to central bank requirements, banks need to perform disaster recovery exercises twice a year. For my client, the original date was on Easter Sunday, but they postponed it twice and finally it ended up on Father's Day. Crazy type of date selection. Went to the data centre at 5:00 am, but things didn't require my attention till 8:00 am due to some delays. Plenty of time to yawn, chit-chat and eat the free nasi lemak . The rest of my colleagues heboh bola while some even brought Astro-on-the-Go. Some hiccups while trying to bring up the system on the DR server but the worst was the network issues. Quite debilatating. Scrambled to get the workaround in place. My shift ended at noon, but I was still there after 2:00 pm. Ended up having the free nasi tomato for lunch. Reached home at 3:00 pm and konked out for three hours. Big Monster had a birthday bash at home. His dad invited his friends over. All young families, so plenty of kids

Vegetarian Birthday

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Apollo created a What's App group to organize QueerRanter-D's birthday gathering. Seems like the better alternative to e-mail threads these days. Much dispute about the date and time but we finally managed to arrange it on Saturday noon at U-Yen Vegetarian Restaurant . Two new faces joined the lunch-- Sam and KreamKing. I won't elaborate much on the food... cause it's vegetarian. But quite nice la. :P. Provided you don't let the fried stuff get soggy in the gravy. But I loved their passion fruit tea. Too bad they didn't have a large table to fit ten of us. Weird to have lunch with two small round tables. Awkward seating and forced to pass dishes up and down like musical chairs. Hate that. Didn't cut the birthday cake at the restaurant as the cake wasn't there yet. LOL. Apollo and gang went off in one car to pick up the cake from Foret Blanc while we went to buy 4D before going to Coffee Factory , Setiawalk. Tried their recommended Salted Caramel Latte

LRT Celebrities: Innocent Ignatius

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I just got back from a trip to Osaka and I have tonnes of photos to process and notes to elaborate. And of course I came back with spy shots of cute Japanese boys! But that will come two months later. Hahahahaha. In the mean time, here's a submission from KH while he was going home on the STAR line. So unbecoming of him to spy at twinks in my absence! Hmph. But anyway, enjoy Innocent Ignatius with his angelic face.

Medan Pasar Monday

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Monday was my replacement leave for YDPA's birthday celebration on Saturday. Woke up early and went over to my sister's place for a bakzhang breakfast. Little Monster was also up and he was super sticky to his mother. When she left for work, he threw a big tantrum and rushed out to the porch crying saying that his mum had not kissed him yet ( although in fact she did ). Once he had got it all out of his system, he was cheerful as though nothing happened. Fed him breakfast and played with him till lunch time. Went out to have lunch with KH after that. Took a walk to Central Market. Been ages since I've been to that tourist trap, but its Art Deco facade and vintage tiles still captivate. Precious Old China was our choice of venue as KH had not tried it. For some reason, the air conditioning wasn't working well that day, so it was quite a stuffy affair among all those antiques. We ordered the Devil Chicken Curry and Okra Kerabu . Unfortunately, the latter took very lon

Japanese & Korean

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Been ages since we tried out a new Japanese restaurant. So when SK sent me screenshots of an article about Kogetsu in the newspaper, I agreed to it in a heartbeat ( already very quick by my fickle Libran standards :P ). Initial guests were SK, SK's granny, mum and I. Roped in the fifth person, who else if not my boyfriend KH? But it wasn't entirely due to the fact that I let him into my pants-- with his CIMB credit card, the fifth diner eats for free. Haha. Drove to Saujana Hotel in one car. Went up to the main building only to be told that it was near the recreational club instead. Turns out that the restaurant is a low wooden building located next to a lake. Like a nice little ryokan in Subang Jaya. We were given a table with a view of the lake. Beautiful to see the rippling reflection of the sky while shoving sashimi into my mouth. LOL. FYI, the buffet at Kogetsu is ala-carte with 99 items on the menu. As with all places that attempt to do an ala-carte buffet, they usua

Do Movies & Birthdays Mix?

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Mum ajak me pergi pasar on Saturday and a neighbour tagged along. The old lady seemed thrilled for the chance to go to a little-explored wet market. Found parking easily at the multi-level car park. Life is easier when you're willing to pay. The place was a little quieter than usual during the school holidays, but not by much. Breakfast was at Restoran Sun Sea which houses the famous pork noodles ( more like the bastard child of pork noodles and seafood noodles ) of yesteryear. Their business is a far-cry from what it was more than a decade ago. No more crowds. No more queues. But then, I did not eat that. Think their soup is a bit sickly-sweet. Simply ordered from wantan noodle stall at the back and boy was it bad. Mum's choice of mee kolok was much better. Also noticed that the Penang curry laksa stall is now manned by two twinks. From their looks, definitely the sons of the owner. Not bad. Back home, I swept and mopped the floor. High time to clear the cockroach kill

A & E

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In the same week, Little Monster visited the A&E twice. Scary, right? The first time happened right after the kid visited his paediatrician for fever and cough. The kid has mild asthma, so the doctor prescribed him some chewable medication. For some reason, his mum decided to dig out some of his leftover medication from the refrigerator. The blister pack looked very familiar to me. By the time I had realised that it was actually adult flu medication, it was too late, my sister had already fed him the pill. Yikes. I consulted Antinous on the matter. He warned me to look out for breathing difficulties during sleep. That kinda freaked my sister out, so she quickly brought him to TDMC. Since it was a school night, Big Monster was already sleeping, so I went over to keep an eye on him. While waiting, I tried out my new toy, which was the Chromecast that just arrived that day. Not a very useful device, but its two primary uses was good enough for me. One was its YouTube casting functio

Yes, DuanWu Festival

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My church organized a Duanwu festival celebration after mass on Sunday. Just a small affair with presentations on how to make dumplings, dumpling wrapping competition, food, music and singing. The MC went on and on about the history of the festival but I don't think the audience was very interested. Everyone was hyped about the competition! Moi: Wah, she really can talk hor? Aunty: Sunday school teacher ma... Lunch for me was a bit of porridge and noodles from the temporary stalls. Initially, there was a lot of confusion, but the activities went smoothly after that. They set up dumpling making stations-- tables underneath a suspended ladder. On each table was glutinous rice, fatty pork, black eyed peas, dried chestnut, dried shrimp, salted egg yolks and bamboo leaves. A bunch of ham sui chou were tied on the rungs of the ladder, suspended over each table. Mum entered the contest in the individual category and she came out with third prize. Not bad at all. Judging was base

Pleasure After Business

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A major deployment was performed for my client spanning almost two days. Six am on Saturday, I went into their data centre to meet my bleary-eyed colleagues who had been there since midnight. They told me there was a problem when starting up the system. Had to do some manual intervention to make it work. I checked the logs and found that my program couldn't connect to the interface server. Koyak! . Contacted the IT PM and she quickly mobilized her network team. Settings and firewall rules had been 'settled' days before and yet we still see these problems on D-Day. As the hours went by, I saw the network and firewall team fighting with the AS/400 team on the What's App group that was created to coordinate our actions. So funny that they couldn't agree on the actual IP address to be used. Seeing that it was going no where, we went out for a nasi lemak breakfast at a nearby food court. During the whole meal, the tone was quite sombre because of the recent salary inc

LRT Celebrities: Tight Todd

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Hi guys and gals! Definitely been a long time since my last edition of LRT Celebrities. At first I was wondering whether I should give it a rest during the holy month of Ramadhan, but I don't think my Muslim readers mind ( not sure how many I have actually ). Anyway... here's Tight Todd . He's not here because he's exceptionally cute or fabulous. I just want to use him as an example to highlight many of my gay lou friends' fetish for men in tight work clothes. Just look at the chest and sleeves. Don't see much excess material at all! Slim fit shirt + wide chest = drooling in the LRT. Fantastic equation. And lets not talk about slim hips and perky ass in tight slacks. That would membasahkan . Kinda reminds me of the guy on Astro's Brands Essence of Chicken advertisement. Could pop out of his shirt at any moment. Do you have such a festish?

JJ's Birthday : Slot IV

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Swiped from Yip Choon Wai @ Flickr Been some time since mum and I went to the market. A leisurely trip with nothing much to buy. For some reason, it was less crowded than usual. Just the random rush for bak zhang leaves. A opportunity for skanking presented itself because mum had an AGM in the afternoon. Told KH about it and he arrived at my home at around 3:00 pm. Plenty of time for me to 'freshen up', make the bed and line up the lube and tissues. No rose petals, no candles, no essential oils. LOL. A sweaty affair that afternoon. Moaned my heart out with a new position. Finished up within an hour just in time to receive a call from my mum that her meeting had ended. Need more time to switch a few positions at least. Didn't even have the time to finish for KH ( sorry baby xoxo ). In the evening, we went to Paradigm Mall for Jaded Jeremy's birthday dinner. Originally, it was scheduled for two weeks ago, but was rescheduled due to KH's company trip and SK'

Red Letter Day

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Tuesday was Wesak, so SK arranged for a breakfast gathering at Coffee Factor , Setiawalk. Just as I was gonna drive out, I received a call from SK. She was having a serious nose bleed again! Jeng jeng jeng . Told her to call her doctor. Off I went to tapau breakfast for her granny and Apollo's mum. Upon arrival at her apartment, I saw her with two packs of ice on her face and a large towel over her mouth. When she removed the towel, her whole chin was dripping with blood. Whoah! Immediately rushed her to the Pantai Hospital A&E where her doctor was already waiting. SK: Doc! I wanted to go out to eat breakfast, then this happened! Doc: I wanted to go eat breakfast too, then you called! First thing he did was irrigate her nasal cavity with loads of saline solution. Sooooo much blood. Then he gave her a shot to stop the bleeding. Fearing a repeat, the doctor warded her for observation. Couldn't really think where else to go for food, so mum and I followed the original