Strawberry View @ Kea Farm was recommended by PY's friend, who is a local in Cameron Highlands. Although named strawberry view, it has nothing to do with strawberries but maybe you get to see a strawberry farm in the day time.

We got ourselves a pot with chicken broth and tom yam divided equally. Tom yam came in a bowl of paste which we had to mix it up to make the soup. I am not a big fan of tom yam but my friends were crazy over it. They threw all the good stuff into the tomyam section :(

I must say the food is not bad. We even get to exchange our unwanted eggs with mushrooms.

But after all those food especially tom yam..all I wanted to do is head to the toilet..

However, I couldn't understand why is it so popular. It's just a small tool where I can post short messages (approximately 140 characters long), just like the Facebook status. I decided to try it myself and boy, it's pretty addictive! I update at least twice a day!

I installed a Twitter software on my Blackberry. It's a freeware called Tiny Twitter. I also synchronized my Twitter with my Facebook status. Now my updates on Twitter is shown on my Facebook status.

On an unrelated note, I created a button for the www.xes.cx Facebook group.

Please feel free to join!

I usually do not write about junk food in my food reviews but this product caught my attention.

This product got me so curious that I bought one pack home to try it. It's some sort of device that can turn plain milk into all sorts of flavour. The packaging didn't reveal how the thing would look like. Is it edible or not edible? How does it turn my milk into the flavour that I bought?

So after purchasing a packet and with box of milk, I ripped out the packaging immediately to find a plastic straw with loads of small beads inside. In both ends of the straw, there are two filters that stops the beads from falling out from the straw.

I chucked the straw into my milk and immediately sipped it. Wow! It tasted strawberrish! Not bad!

After finishing my milk, I find that the beads were all gone!

Initially I thought Sipahh is a local product as a local company is named as the manufacturer of the product. However, my research finds that the product was first launched in Australia in October 2005. It is now available in 44 countries across 5 continents. It's perhaps some sort of device to encourage children to drink milk.

It comes in, among others, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla flavour. I got mine at Cold Storage!

If you had read the comments in that video, you will notice that there are loads of racially sensitive comments posted there. I must say those who posted those comments are fking stupid fools. Its not about race. I personally think that all these crimes rose mainly due to the economic situation that we are going through now. If the economy had been good, we wouldn't have rampant theft and robbery going on.

It's a farm whereby members of the public are invited to visit it.

Sifat (Butt) shaped strawberry

Sitohbehli with Spora

Mutated Sitohbehli

Other than strawberries, it has also various vegetables and cactus.

Vegetables are sold at a very cheap rate. A friend of mine bought their vegetable in Cameron Highlands and had steamboat at their rented apartment at Cameron Highlands! One of the vendors offered us raw corn. Its unlike our normal corn. It was juicy and sweet!

Clean your shoes here!

Perhaps the most unique bit of this farm is that they have a shop selling everything relating to strawberry. It ranges from food to your air freshners.

Their handwash was strawberry favoured as well.

They even have Doraemon strawberry yogurt! zomggg!!

They are also promoting the event using YouTube. Not Bad.

[Taken from: Facebook: Speedzone Tour 2009] The Most Phenomenal DJ Line-Up in SpeedZone Tour Featuring Paul Oakenfold, Judge Jules, Ricky Stone, Nic Fanciulli, Tall Paul, Daniele Davoli, Alexander Technique & Two Local Talents at the Official Malaysian F1 Grand Prix Dance Festival

With a revamped layout to house two supercharged music zones, namely the Speed Arena and Red Arena, SpeedZone Tour 2009 will be presenting nine DJs in one night, including, the legendary icon and Grammy Nominee, Paul Oakenfold; BBC Radio’s #1, Judge Jules; Asia’s highest ranking and prince of deep progressive electronic tunes, Ricky Stone; 1998 “Muzik” DJ of the Year and hard-edge-house anthem maestro, Tall Paul; talented yet versatile captor of deep tech and dark melodic grooves, Nic Fanciulli; creatively mash up artist and Superstar Princess collaborator, Alexander Technique a.k.a DJs are not Rockstars; pioneer of Italian House sound, Daniele Davoli; and last but not least, our local talents Joey G, and Eugene.

With such impressive DJs line-up and great music offerings in store, one can expect SpeedZone Tour 2009 to be Kuala Lumpur’s largest outdoor Malaysian Grand Prix dance festival this season, to celebrate the race excitement with over 8,000 of SpeedZone revellers at full speed on the 4th April 09, Saturday, at Menara Kuala Lumpur (KL Tower), from 6pm onwards

The tickets are priced at RM48 (pre-sale) and RM68 (door sale), inclusive of one non-alcoholic beverage. The number of pre-sale tickets available is limited, so act fast to avoid disappointment. Log to www.axcess.com.my or visit your nearest Ticket Axcess outlet now for more information.

The party is open to partygoers 18 years old and above only, and all tickets purchases and collections are dependant on display of a valid photo ID.

More info @ http://www.speedzonetour.com

The Boh Tea plantation was first established in 1929 by a British businessman, J.A. Russell. It survived the war and Boh Tea is now a well known brand for tea.

Our intention to visit the Boh Tea Plantation @ Sungei Palas was to visit the cafe located inside the tea plantation. However, the drive to the plantation wasn't easy. We had to go through a small lane just enough to fit two cars. There was only one way in and one way out from the plantation and hence cars had to squeeze through the tight lanes. Since its a peak period for Cameron Highlands, many cars were trying to get into the plantation. There were a few times we were stuck for a long time because buses were trying to get out from the plantation. There was also once were we were diverted into another road because the roads were too congested. It resulted in two of our cars (Kiang and Eric's cars) being diverted out from the plantation. After all the hard work in waiting and squeezing through lanes, they had to return to the hotel. I was on the other hand lucky and managed to get into the plantation.

Blood Bustard!!

Finally! Cafe on top of the hill!

Apparently this dog is one of the fixtures around this place

We had to hike around 200m to get to the cafe

The Cafe..after all the bloody hard work.

We ordered loads of pastries and of course tea. Prices are reasonable, tea served by teapot is around RM3.30 while BOH "Teh Tarik" is around RM2.80.

The scones are just so-so. Perhaps dont bother getting your scones here

Boh Tea Tarik

Old skoool!

Other than the cafe, there's even a shop, a museum and even a guided tour on Boh tea!

Part of the museum :D

We left the place around 2pm and we got out from the plantation easily. I was told by Kiang and Eric that they took a long time to get out. What made it worst was that everyone's handphone didnt have signal except for mine which ran on Celcom. The poor chaps have to settle for lunch at the hotel.

Most of the stuff here are pastries and desserts. We ordered...

Strawberry Juice! Yummmyy! Reminds me of the Ice Blended Strawberry that I had in Bandung!

Strudels. Not bad

Strawberry Tiramisu. So-so only.

Crepes and Strawberry. Good!

Kena cheated..I thought they will fill up the entire bowl with strawberry. Instead, we got cherry tomatoes, marshmallows and even cucumber!

Chocoberry. Fresh strawberry dipped with chocolate :D

The shop sells, among others, preserved strawberries, strawberry jam and strawberry chocolate. Each product has a tester on the side. Some tasted great but some tasted weird.

My personal favourite would be their strawberry chocolate! The funny thing is that the tester can only be obtain through request. I think its so good that people keep finishing the tester.

Related Link
Strawberry Moment Website
~ Labyrinth ~: Strawberry Moment

Anna, Cris, Edmund, Ping and I made a long delayed trip to Batu Caves to rock climb. This time round with new comers Ken and Sam. It was Ken and Sam's first time rock climbing.

Since our last time outdoor at Nanyang Wall was quite enjoyable, we decided to head to Nanyang Wall again. However, it rained heavily last night and the place was slightly flooded. Further, many of the stalactites there were dripping water non stop hence many of the handholds and footholds were slippery.

We were the first group to arrive Nanyang Wall. There were hundreds of mosquitoes flying around attacking us. Nanyang Wall was not in good shape as one part of the wall was flooded, the second part had hundreds of mosquitoes lurking around and the last part was burning hot from the sun.

Cris was the first to test out the wall. He accidentally slipped after stepping on a slipper foothold. He got himself a blooded wrist.

and he got bird shit on his back..

The n00bs were next. It was quite difficult for them as they didn't have experience and not even indoor experience. Nevertheless, we managed to guide them and got them to do the route.

On the last occasion, someone put a little bird up on the tree. The tree is gone now. I wonder what happened to the little bird. Hope he RIP.

Few hours later, Nanyang Wall was filled with more climbers. This time with more girls that guys!

We moved to Comic Wall, which is another climbing wall next for Nanyang Wall. Comic Wall has numerous beginners routes but many of the handholds were quite sharp. It hurts like crap sometimes especially when you have a small sharp handhold and that's the only available handhold. Tunasing!!!

Comic Wall too has a fair share of mosquitoes. Thank god I had people like Anna and Ping to attract the mosquitoes. I think I didn't get any mosquito bite. wahha

The Soulizen couple, Cicak and Lai, were there as well. We managed to climb 3 routes together.

One of the unique attractions of Comic Wall is an abandoned Chinese temple. It's located inside a flooded cave. Nothing much is left in the temple except for some ruins. Bats have now claimed the place as their residence.

The temple ruins

Inside the cave..

Unwanted spectators

Ping's new found love.

We ended our climb early around 230pm, which is quite early considering that the previous occasion we climbed until late evening.

Map to Comic Wall

The event was a great success. Many thanks to eLawyer and the attendees of this conference. A special thank you to all the students who volunteered to help out in organising the event.

Some of the students that helped out :D

We started off slightly later than the scheduled time as many people were late due to the morning rain and traffic jam.

The crowd picked up quickly and swelled to probably around 200 people. Some of the participants were students, business owners and even lawyers. Fellow bloggers, Suanie, Peter Tan, Chris Tock, Zoe and Julian Hopkins were there as well. A accompanied me to the talk as well.

Me, Eddie, founder of eLawyer and Suanie

The event organiser, eLawyer is an online portal for law related industries. At eLawyer.com.my , you can post job vacancies for people with legal background e.g. lawyers, legal counsel, paralegals, secretaries, chambering students and even attachment students. You can even post legal questions for eLawyer's panel lawyers to answer.

The conference was organised to educate the general public on the laws that affects blogging in Malaysia. I was given the task of speaking about Intellectual Property and blogging. I spoke mainly about trade marks and copyright. The other speaker, namely, Nizam Bashir spoke on, among others, defamation and sedition. Both of us were given 45 minutes to speak and also a 15 minute Q and A session.

Nizam and I were speakers together with Jeff Ooi last year at the Forum on Blogging and Defamation held at the Bar Council. It was great to be speaking alongside with Nizam again.

Me and Nizam

After speaking at the rate of a speeding motor boat, the floor was opened for Q and A. Julian Hopkins came up with two questions about Creative Commons License, an item which I am not very familiar with. I managed to waffle my way through and took up other questions. I was then bombarded with numerous questions. It was kinda challenging especially when I had less than a minute to come out with an answer for each question. Fortunately, the questions were not so tough and I managed to waffle my way through again.

Julian Hopkins

Chris Tock

The Chairpersons came to the rescue when they announced that the Q and A session is over. But I wasn't satisfied as I wanted to answer more questions! I felt that I fare better in Q and As than giving a boring talk.

Nizam

Nizam came up next and spoke about many interesting local cases involving blogs on defamation and sedition. RPK's name came up numerous times. I hope there will be a reported judgement on his case to set as a precedent to many future cases.

After the talk and Nizam's Q and A session, prizes were given to the participants and winners of the eLawyer Legal Blog Writing Contest 2008. Lee Shih and Fahri Azzat were the judges for this contest and they personally presented prizes to them.

Chris Tock, Me, Suanie and Zoe

At around 12:30pm, the conference ended. I was immediately approached by the media and some participants. The Chinese media was more interested in my Chinese name rather than what I had earlier mentioned. I guess they understood my talk clearly!

Fellow participant, Vince on the left waiting for me to write my name in Chinese. It looked like I'm giving my autograph.

After the talk, I had lunch with Suanie, Peter Tan and his wife, Julian Hopkins and A. If you're a blogger or a blog reader, please head to http://www.budurl.com/myblogs2009 to complete a survey conducted by Julian. He's doing a thesis on monetisation of Malaysian blogs for his PHD. I think this is beneficial for fellow Malaysians and thus please help out.

The conference was reported on Sin Chew Newspaper, China Press, Malaysiakini and New Straits Times. My face appeared on Sin Chew and New Straits Times. My face looked pale and my eyes looked red in NST. HEHE.

I look like I'm going to launch a fireball with my hands. Ka me haaa

Some people asked me whether I was paid to give the talk. No, I was not paid to give the talk. But eLawyer was nice enough to give a small token of appreciation.

My next talk will be 12 April 2009 at New Straits Times. I don't have much details on the event but it has something to do with blogging for adults. I will be covering the legal part while some other bloggers will be covering technical aspect of blogging and even on public relation. Please come if you're free!

Related Links
The New Straits Times Online: Blog with care, say lawyers
Malaysiakini - All about intellectual property & defamation law

Despite this unpleasant image, I decided to head to Cameron Highlands on 7 March 2009. I had the company of A, Sharon Dilirius, Eric, Jeff, Kiang, Katrina and the Yam sisters. The 9 of us drove in three cars in this 3 hours journey.

Ipoh ala 'Hollywood' signboard

Cameron Highlands is a highland region located around 200km from Kuala Lumpur. It is well known for its agriculture and also cool weather which is very popular among tourist. Due to its weather, tea and strawberries, which are rarities in the places under the Equator, are substantially planted here.

Our research on the internet indicated that the fastest way to Cameron Highlands is through the Simpang Pulai toll. The other way namely through Tapah takes a long time notwithstanding the exit to Tapah comes first.

We took the Simpang Pulai way and I must say it was indeed a pleasant drive. The roads weren't too windy and we were not caught in any traffic congestion. However, there was one part before the road up to Cameron Highland was flooded. Fortunately there was a pile of uneven mud for us to drive through. Eric's car was too low and ended up scrapping mud from the path.

We booked three room at the Equitorial Hotel. One of our rooms was free due to some membership thingie with Berjaya. The other two rooms i.e. a two bed room apartment came with a good rate through a website. When we arrived, we were informed that the two bed room apartment was not available because its water supply got cut off. In return, we were given two Superior hotel rooms at the same rate as the two bed room apartment!

The meteorologist department forecast that it will be sunny in the morning and rain in the evening on our first day. It was quite accurate. It rained the whole day on the next day as well. I remember Cameron Highlands being cold at night. It didn't change much, it was still cold at night. In fact, it felt like Autumn!

Ye Olde Smokehouse

Our trip was primarily focus on eating (!!!). A set out an itinerary of the places that we should visit. Many of the places in the itinerary came from blogs. We manage to cover the usual stuff namely strawberries, tea, steamboat, sweet potato balls and sweet corn!

Speaking about strawberries, its a heavily commercialized item in Cameron Highlands. Many shops sells merchandises relating to strawberries. There were pillows, keychains, fridge magnets and umbrellas with a picture of a strawberry or in the shape of a strawberry.

Self plucking Strawberry...keke

All red!

Unfortunately, strawberries doesn't last long. My strawberries had some white foam growing on it after 3 days.Euw..

It was quite unfortunate that we spent a lot of our time on the roads. Since Monday is a public holiday, many KL-lites came up to Cameron Highlands to clog up the road. But things are much better than last time. The roads now are wider. I remember when I was still a young boy, the road up to Cameron Highland was small and tight. Some parts even had only one lane!

Bloody Bustard...

After eating non stop for a day, we headed home with a full stomach. Eric, Sharon and Jeff continued their journey to Penang and Hatyai for another food fiesta. The rest of us headed home to face reality again. I wish I had more time in Cameron Highlands!

Related Link
joyloh.com » Pahang - Cameron Highlands - Very comprehensive travel guide on Cameron Highlands. Highly recommended!

iPhone 3G is in town! Many thanks to Maxis!

The sleek 3 in 1 phone (phone, widescreen iPod and internet device ) was release some time back in the United States but took a long time to arrive on Malaysia's shores. The price is a little bit steep but that's what you pay for a good phone. It around RM4000 for the phone together with a contract. But the price should be acceptable since the RM4000 is inclusive of a phone line + data plan (highest being 3gig!). Further, you can pay by way of installment. You need to fork out RM4000 straight! Its around RM150 per month!

Although its available at the local phone shops (at around RM2.7k), it didn't come with warranty which is quite important for electronic goods. If your iPhone breaks down halfway, you have no choice but to send it to some dodgy repairman (who may download all your personal information from the phone O_O) or alternatively, throw it into the dustbin.

A friend had his iPhone thrown out from the 1st floor after it slipped off his friend's hand who was playing some virtual fishing game. If he had the warranty, he wouldn't have beaten his friend up so badly. But amazingly, the iPhone survived with couple of scratches.

To those doesn't know, iPhone is one of the most technologically advanced phones. It only has a touch screen and no keypad. Keypad can be summoned through a single click and it will appear on the touch screen. Then you can move the keypad away to do other stuff like playing games, watch videos and even take pictures. Everything is done with your fingers. You can use your fingers to scroll through your photo album and even enlarge the photos using your fingers. It's like having a small computer in your pocket!

One of the best things about iPhone is their games. You can download games from websites and then install it. I was so hooked to Parking Lot.

Parking Lot! Get your car out!

Some of iPhone's game work on the motion of the phone. For example, there's one driving game where you can move your phone left and right to control the car.

Further, with 3G, you can surf the net where ever you are - in the car, in a boring meeting or even in the toilet! There's also no need for SMS. You can install Google Talk or MSN in your iPhone and be online 24 hours!

The Maxis iPhone 3G launch will be held at 7pm on March 20 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, where customers who have pre-registered for iPhone 3G (you can register at their website) will be invited to the event to collect their phones. Walk-in customers who have not made bookings may also register for iPhone 3G and will be notified for a collection on a subsequent date.

For more information about the Maxis iPhone 3G plan, please visit www.maxis.com.my/iPhone. Maxis customers can also call 1800 821 123 for details on how to book their iPhone 3G devices and plans.

I WAN TO GET ONE TOO!!

跪妻男 Gui 7 Nan @ Dataran Petaling Jaya, Opposite AmCorp Mall, 7th March 2008 - video powered by Metacafe

Damn...if I'm his wife I would be extremely touched..Kelvin Ng I forgive you alreaddy!!

If your wife caught you cheating on her 6 times and she leaves you for it, what will you do to win her back? Will you,

(1) Kneel down in front of a shopping centre and get a spot in the local dailies so that she sees what you have done;
(2) Set up a blog telling how sorry you are;
(3) Go on national radio telling her that you are sorry and you want her back.

Malaysian Kelvin Ng had tried all the above and at print time has yet to be able to win her wife back.

Monday March 9, 2009
Desperate hubby pleading for wife to come home
By KNG ZHENG GUAN

PETALING JAYA: In a desperate attempt to win back his estranged wife, a man has continued to plead for her forgiveness in public.

Salesman Kelvin Ng, 29, made his first public attempt a week ago in SS2 here. On Saturday, the distressed husband tried again, kneeling down in front of Amcorp Mall with banners and a poster saying “I Love You Lee Sook Chin”.



Speaking to reporters as he knelt, Ng swore that if his wife returned to him, he would repent.

“I want her to be the most admired woman out there and I want her to think that this marriage was never a wrong choice.

“I am doing my best to rescue this marriage and the whole world will be my witness,” he said.

Ng said his wife had claimed that he had been caught cheating on her six times.

However, he said he only cheated on her thrice and vowed not to be “playful” anymore.

Two weeks ago, his wife left him, leaving behind their two children – a boy, aged three and a girl, aged one.

One of his friends, Alex Tang, 30, said they were also there to do all they could to help Ng, who had been depressed.

Ng, who had earlier pledged to kneel for a whole day or until he passed out, remained in his position outside the mall until 10pm.

However, it was in vain because his wife did not come back.

When contacted, his wife Crystal Lee, 24, asked to be left alone.

“I will forgive my husband anyway but I need time to think it over,” she said.

Source: The Star

This morning, Kelvin Ng was interviewed by Fly FM and pleaded his wife to come home. Listeners were invited to give their comments and my god, ladies can be quite cynical at some times.

He gave out his blog url which I immediately surfed. Initially he had pictures of his wife and children posted on the blog but it was taken down later at night. There was also a poll which stated "Do you think my wife is pretty?". The choices were "Pretty, Good, Bad and Worst". LOL. It was taken down later at night as well. Damn! I haven't vote yet!

Nevertheless, check out the video that was posted on his blog.

Can anyone Forgive and Forget?

Doraemon and his friends :D

The other side of plastic bag that came with Doraemon

Custard Filled Doraemon!

Can see his tail!