will i am's delayed diary

MeeJawaInt Originally uploaded by williamnyk . I'm really not a fan of Mee Jawa , but I made a right choice when I decided to try out Mee Jawa at Plaza Puchong ( it's not a building, just some shoplots, beats me why they call it that ). The first thing one notices about this new eatery is its signboard. Not just for it's simple and straight-forward name, but for the fact the words are senget and it has a thatched roof out front. This Chinese-owned halal food establishment has an overall Malay village feel to it with bare cement floors, bamboo and ropes used liberally in its decor, unshaved and untreated wooden doors, chicken baskets as light hoods and woven trays hung on the walls bearing the names of the local delights served. Wow, that was a mouthful. Anyway, the place has a killer "Prawn Mee" and "Assam Laksa", but the signature "Mee Jawa", "Rojak", "Mango and Squid Salad", "Char Kuey Teow" doesn't quite c...

no me ames Originally uploaded by weerat . Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's No Me Ames has struck a chord with me recently. Prompting me to be interested in all things Spanish. Spanish Fly, Spanish Inquisition, ... Anyway, my colleague LC and I have gone to the extent of memorizing some of the lyrics, much to the chagrin of my other colleagues: Me : Dime porque lloras (Why are you crying?) LC : De felicidad (Because I'm happy) Me : y porque te ahogas (Why are you so choked up?) LC : por la soledad (From loneliness) You get the idea. The cute thing is that LC does it in a nasal Parit Buntar Hokkien twang. Hehe. From the music video I saw ( you have my permission to roll your eyes ), it seems that Marc Anthony's dying and doesn't want J. Lo to love him anymore, hence No Me Ames (Don't love me). Check it out, people. PS: If it ain't Spanish, feel free to flame me. I was too lazy to check. Foreign languages aren't really my forte. Wanted to take tagalog ...

ed Originally uploaded by williamnyk . Note: SK's been bugging me to put this up because she wants to read the article. So here it is, ahead of the other posts sitting in my post cache. For the uninitiated, I'm a "banana" who can't read Chinese. I can speak pass-able Mandarin, but it has a Cantonese twang to it and stumble for the words at times. However, this didn't stop me from finding this little gem in the Chinese daily Guang Ming . I'm making an educated guess here, so please comment if I got it wrong. Apparently, the guy in the photo is holding some kind of erectile dysfunction test strip. It has some cute cartoons on it, and I'm sure it's simple enough to figure out. 1) Take the strip, afix it to your flacid penis 2) Go to sleep 3) Results in the morning If the strip broke, Hallelujah! Your equipment is in tip-top condition. If the strip just teared a little, beware... Lastly, if the strip is as it was from the night before... jeng...

leemuffler Originally uploaded by williamnyk . A short one today. Snapped the pic with my trusty camera phone while waiting at a traffic light at Jalan Puchong . It's the wall of an exhaust service center apparently owned by a Mr. Lee aka Mr. Muffler . Sounds more like an assassin to me. Heh.

GoodEveBKK Originally uploaded by williamnyk . In addition to Amarin Heavenly Thai and Bangkok Expresso , Good Evening Bangkok at One Utama is the third restaurant I have visited from the SEA Cuisine restaurant chain and it does not disappoint. I was there with a bunch of colleagues to celebrate HSW's ( bubbly girl who never fails to look 3 8 in her photos. Hehe. ) birthday. Actually, we didn't decide on Thai food initially, we wanted to get a table a Chilli's . We didn't book a table and the lousy treatment we got from the seating staff made us decide to take our business elsewhere. The staff was really brusque: I cannot guarantee you a table for 10. If got table also ar, need separate one ar. At the "Good Evening Bangkok", the service was really good. The head waitress attended to us and she was very helpful and humourous at all times. Our dinner consisted of Mien Kam (an appetizer of some kind of herbal leaf, chillies, dried shrimp and garlic which was r...

haze Originally uploaded by williamnyk . Note: A little late, but not *too* late, right? A nice hazy view from the 14th floor of a apartment block in Serdang Perdana . One can just make out the el cheapo fairy lights decor at Mine's Wonderland below. Though I spent a year in the choking smog of Jakarta, the haze still irritates me. It's different from the wafting smoke from clove ciggies and the uncontrolled emmissions from vehicles that should have been "put to sleep" years go. It's a different type of suffocation. In Jakarta, one can look forward to going home to KL for relatively fresh air, but if the problem is back home, mana lagi nak pergi ? 15 years back, when my family used to travel to KL from the east coast during school holidays ( I remember visiting Hankyu Jaya and Yaohan as a really thrilling experience ), I found the air burnt. Today, I can't really tell the difference between fresh air and city air. Still, the haze is too filthy not to notice.

SSLStage Originally uploaded by williamnyk . In just one month, I have visited Taman Titiwangsa twice. Don't get me wrong, it's no after dark, sordid cruising in the bushes, but yet another community function. This time it was an inter-faith prayer session to build a loving and caring society cum anti-crime campaign launch. The whole show was run by Buddha's Light International Chapter / Fo Guang Shan with the help from the Catholic Archdiocese, Taoist Association, Sikh Council, Hindu Sangam and 22 NGOs. Among the dignitaries were Dato' Tan Chai Ho and IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan. Overall, the whole thing was quite a flop. Obviously, spreading the seeds of love isn't exactly how most urbanites plan to spend their Sunday evenings, and the horrendous rains and flash floods just before the start of the event was an extra nail into its coffin. Anyway, after braving the rain and floods, I arrived on time to see that there was no crowd (The Star reported 3,000 atte...