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As you all know that last night was the end of the year 2008. My friend and I went to bing! Coffee, Premier 101 branch to celebrate the coming brand New Year 2009. 

In fact, this is the first time I stepped in this cafe. Usually I went to the pandungan branch (bing! Coffee). This branch is more or less the same as the main branch. I’ve ordered one glass of ice-blended tiramisu, with one tiny piece of biscuit ontop. It tastes great. 

** To be frank, my blog has been quite slacking recently. My life has been busy awhile and I have this little weird disease, AKA laziness. Hopefully I would recover from this awful disease. 2008 is a good year for me, joyful indeed. Here’s my story, I have traveled to Kuala Lumpur in early of December (after my examination). Joyful moment is indeed shorter than I’ve expected. After the trip, I am back to face the reality world. 

Back to the present, it is quite packed at bing! coffee. We have a funniest moment, while playing with my funniest iPod touch. As usual, the dark sky is enlighten with beautiful sparking fireworks. 

** Sadly, I have a big spend on the year of 2008. But still, it is definitely worth for every penny that I’ve spent. Is it just luck or what? Lately I have managed to grab few good opportunity in ‘working’ world, such as designing some brochures and web designing. So, I hoping to spend less and earn more in this brand new year of 2009. 

Hope I’m not too late, HAPPY NEW YEAR OF 2009!!! 

Yesterday (22th November), I just went to our Kuching, first ICT Mall, or second (previously it is located at Saberkas). OneTJ is a mini-Low Yat Plaza (LY is popular in KL city) which is located at the Heights Drive commercial centre and first opening at 22th November 2008. The compound is rather small, but still bigger than Green Heights Mall according to Wiki (oneTJ is 6,270 m²,whereas GHM is 4,000 m²).

The above picture is taken before the soft-opening. Sadly the opening day was not that ‘great’ comparing to the other malls such as tHe Spring, Boulevard & GHM. According to one of my friends, he mentions that it is pretty crowded during the morning section.

There is lucky draw event at the ground floor and you-know-who is the organizer, DIGI.

As you all know, this is ICT mall. So, not much to tell here. There are still tons of empty outlets for rent. Besides that, there are some non-ICT outlets, such as kitchen appliance outlet, hair salon, and etc.

I’m very impressed with the food court. The food court, SAMBA ZONE, is located at the most upper top floor. It gives a very classy and modernism environment. In my point of view, I think it is the best comparing to tHe spring’s food court. Samba equips with three luxuriously LCD TV, just like atmosfera cafe. Food wise, I have no comment on this because I have not try any of the food.

The whole mall is covered with deConneXion WIFI, which is free until 31 Dec 2008 according to the deConneXion site. Sadly, I have a pretty bad experience with this service. Oh well, it is still great because you still can be able to get ‘connected’ as long as you are inside the mall. And I end up buying one item, iPod charger for my Touch, which only costs 20buck. 

Last night, I was invited to a farewell dinner in this new cafe, Planet Amore Diner which located at 3rd miles roundabout there. That night was the grand opening of this cafe. And this is Italian cafe. Amore means ‘love‘ in English word. The environment of the cafe is pretty classy and Italian ‘feel’.

There have two types of section, one is indoor and another is outdoor. The indoor environment is rather romantic in a sense that the lighting is pretty cozy and ‘reddish‘ candle light atmosphere. In addition, it also creates the Italian style/atmosphere with some unique furniture, such as the lamp post.

The farewell dinner is at the outdoor section. The outdoor environment is considered good as well. Again, it is in Italian atmosphere. Each of the tables will have a real rose to spice up this planet of ‘love‘.

That dinner we didn’t order drinks but we drank ’skyjuice’ with lemon. Haha. After experiencing the classy atmosphere, I had a pretty bad feeling about the ‘price’. Yeah, it is indeed no cheap food.

Majority of the dishes are Italian food. We had ordered a couple of dishes, such as lamb chop, fillet, beef steak, Italian pasta and etc. Each of the dishes served in a huge and heavy plate. They all tasted pretty delicious and worth for the price.

I had a great dinner at there. Thanks to my old classmate, Ee How, who will be going to UK (University of Nottingham) in this coming Monday (15th September).

Wish you all the best!!!

Yesterday I had just been to this Cats Exhibition @ tHe Spring, Kuching. This event started from 6th Sept until 7th Sept, which is today, from roughly 11am until 8pm according to the schedule. It will be on the ‘North Court‘ @ tHe Spring.

It is rather a short event, but it is quite interesting. There are ton of different type of cats, such as exotic type and also wildcats, such as Persian. They are all kept inside a small little cage, what a pity. Ton of people taking pictures of the cute exotic cats. Not only that, you are allowed to carry those cats with a price (of course).

The activity not just for ‘showing off‘ those cats to the public but to bring public awareness that caring for the animals, not only for cats alone. There are some group of people giving some speech regarding how to care cats and etc. Sadly I only manage to take one shot of the wildcat. The wildcats are usually huge, can be said similar size like baby tiger (cub). This wildcat is called, Maine Coon, not Moon Maine. [Thanks to the commentor, HORATIO for the correcting the name]

Speaking about moon, moon cake festival or formally, ‘Mid-Autumn Festival‘ is just around the corner. There are few stall sell moon cake @ tHe Spring, on the center of it. By the way, they selling durian favor as well, the smell is darn strong.

Lastly, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL EVERYONE.

This afternoon, I just went to this so called Toy Fair, or in long, ‘Toy & Anime Convention‘ at tHe Spring. Toy Fair starts at today (21st August 2008) until 24th August (finale day for Kuching Festival 2008 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games). This event is organised by Wonder Toys. There will have some rare and limited edition toys or figures display. Sadly, I didn’t spot any cosplay around. Probably this Saturday will have cosplay, such as Naruto.

This is a small happening event in tHe Spring. There is also a section which sells ton of soft toys. Be sure to bring your girlfriends around. And as for the guys, remember to bring more bucks. 

Some imported toys are selling as well, such as Mattel and Bandai products, big toy companies. Toy lovers must not miss it. 

There is a section that displaying some limited edition of figures such as Star Wars, and Storm Trooper .

Lastly, don’t forget about the popular Bandai Gundam(s) exhibition. It is located at the main entrance of tHe Spring. 

This Gundam figure is the most attractive (my opinion). Z.A.F.T GUNDAM (adapted from Gundam Seed anime).