I need more good movies!

Just came back from Penang and Taiping and fell sick... Looks like I have no choice but to admit I'm old liao... Sigh...
Anywayz, before the trip's post, here's some film reviews...

Killers
I of course expected nothing but plain useless comedy on this one.
Killers opened with the two main characters played by Ashton Kutcher (Spencer) and Katherine Heigl (Jennifer) met and quickly fell in love and got married. Three years later Spencer's ex-boss who had hired him as a killer found him and he got into trouble and that is when Jen found out she married a killer and so the action goes on...
I actually love the twist at the end of the movie, it makes it looks like a smart movie. But the entire movie basically has no climax. The action part isn't good. Plus, it is definitely not funny enough to make it a comedy. It's just totally forgettable.
I wonder when is Katherine Heigl going to get into serious acting. She should be more wiser in picking the right movie to be in lar. But I do think Ashton Kutcher should stay put in being a comedian. My favourite would be Catherine O'Hara, who played Jen's mum. She is totally cute and funny, in a natural way, in this movie!
You can skip this movie if you want to.

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要不是某人有免费戏票，我想大家都不会想看这部电影吧？
没有带着很大的期望去看这部电影，所以看完了有点惊喜哦！电影的确有点“废”，但是故事还蛮新鲜的，尤其到后面陈小春和郑伊健的计划的部分还蛮有梗的。不过电影前面部分略嫌太长、太闷了。而且我感觉选角有点马虎。
演技部分没有什么特别可聊的，但我特别喜欢余安安的演出。她的角色很夸张，但是她却驾驭得很好，而且每次看到她就要笑出来.......
好的，没什么好说了。不是很好的一部电影，只是比想像中好了。


I actually think there aren't any good movies I want to watch very badly recently...*so boring~*Let's hope that I get to catch some of the movies at the upcoming Japanese Film Festival from June 17~June 21 in GSC KL and June 25~June 27 in Penang.

Dim Sum @ Restoran Ful Lai, Kuchai Lama

I think it's now becoming a trend in Malaysia that Dim Sum isn't necessarily can only be consumed in the morning. Friends around me can simply tell me a full list of restaurants either in KL or in Penang that sells dim sum at night too!Ful Lai Restaurant is located at Kuchai Lama's famous makan area, it is a corner shop right opposite Papa Rich. It is open all day long, but I'm not too sure what day are they close. You will have to figure that out yourself. I've been there a few times and am now officially introducing you guys to this kopitiam-styled Dim Sum place.
Since there were only two of us that night, we didn't order too much of food, yet it was a satisfying dinner.First round...
Recommended #1: Lo Mai Gai.
Recommended #2: Century egg and chicken porridge.
Recommended #3: Har Gao
Most of their Dim Sum are nice Their Har Gao and Siu Mai are both really yummy. I especially love them because their prawns are fresh enough. And the Har Gao's skin is just thin and just nice! I love their Lo Mai Gai a lot too although I wish they have Lap Cheong (Chinese sausages) in it. And their porridge is not too bad too. I reckon they actually add rice wine into it. Thumb-up from Shirlexia!!!
Never to be missed: Deep Fried Prawn Rolls. At the back is Wu Kok. Nice one too!
But my favourite of all is this Deep Fried Prawn Roll or something I'm not sure about the name. It's crispy, the prawns inside are fresh. Trust me, everyone of you should try that out!
One thing I wouldn't recommend is their Cheong Fun, the Fun is just too thick it is just not nice at all.
Their steamed Dim Sum are RM3.20 per dish while the deep fried ones ranges from RM2.60~RM7.00. I wouldn't say very cheap for Kopitiam-styled Dim Sum but based on the quality of the food, I bet you wouldn't mind, right?

My greasy Saturday

Just realized I've just broke my personal record of the most blog posts in a month last month! 22 posts! Should I say bravo??? :p
I might have updated my blog too frequent, but that doesn't mean I'm freaking free. In fact I'm actually pretty busy that is why I have so much to blog about! And mind you, there are already a list of stuff lining up for me~!

This Friday: Probably a catch-up lunch with my batch of Malay ex-colleagues in RTM. (Can't wait to see them again~!)
Saturday, Sunday: Following deardo and his car club friends up North to Penang, and then spend a night in Taiping. Will be back in KL on Sunday.
Next Tuesday or Wednesday: Catching-up with Ah Soo, who had just came back from NZ not long ago, together with Karen. (Let's see how many kgs Ah Soo had put on in NZ... *rub hands~*)
Next Friday: Korean Elementary 2 final exam is on. So have to prepare for it beforehand too!

Phew~ I'm a busy woman!
Well I prefer to be busy than bored till death staying at home actually.
Anywayz, back to the title of the post, let's go back to last Saturday...

Breakfast @ La Bodega, Bangsar
I think it was months ago, deardo went breakfast at La Bodega with his family and I told him he must bring me there one day! You know me, for a breakfast person to miss breakfast at some fancy places like this is just unforgivable! So... I forgave my deardo as he kept his promise and brought be there for breakfast last Saturday~! Oooohhhh yeahhhh~~~!!!Nicey nicey sitting outside the cafe... It would be better if we are not in KL, so freaking HOT!
We both chose the Big Breakfast, only difference was, he had his egg like an omelet while I had mine scramble. My Big Breakfast with scramble egg... See, got mushrooms! My favourite!!!
His with the omelet...
The breakfast itself is RM22, but as you top up another RM10, you'll get a glass of fruit juice and a cup of hot drink. I was very amazed when the waiter told us you can choose from a choices of fruit juices, and they are all freshly squeeze! And even for coffee you can choose from a variety of them like Latte, Cappuccino, Espresso, etc. And tea too! English tea, Breakfast tea, Earl Grey, etc. Look, normally a set meal always just come with black coffee or black tea, isn't that boring?So I had English Tea to wash away the oil while he had the Cappuccino.
So yea, I'm basically quite happy with the breakfast. Everything on the plate are yummy, except for one thing, I hope the bread can be softer one. But it cost us around RM73 for that freaking breakfast we thought it would be better if we have the breakfast buffet at Pyramid Tower, which is only RM30 per person.
Oh well, it's ok to try out new things! Yummy food, especially! :DShirlexia looking ever excited about the breakfast! Haha...

And then... We paid a short visit to Super Ah Ma at 1U. She looks healthier now. I supposed she already gained back some weight too, which is a good thing!
Ah Ma, gambate neh~! :)Super Ah Ma was actually enjoying her curry noodles that day!
That's Uncle Mike, 4e, Siti (Ah Ma's maid), Ah Ma and me!

The breaky made us really full that we had to skip lunch. After some homemade Chicken and French Bean Rice for dinner at home, we went out for another round of greasy food... :S

Supper(?) a.k.a Belated Birthday Party @ A&W, Asia Jaya
Deardo's car club (which is basically made up of he and his few friends who are car lovers) members were celebrating deardo and PC's birthdays with a baked cheese cake Kevin made. I have no idea why they had to choose A&W because every time I go there I feel like I put on at least 1 kg because of my favourite root beer float and onion rings! Ish ish ish...
Anywayz, pictures please~!!! Root beer float is always a must for me whenever I'm at A&W!
PC & Mary enjoying their food as it was still May. They had a month of food festival to celebrate PC's birthday... It sounds so :S to me...
Couldn't help, I still want some onion ring although it was already 10 something at night! Ohyea, and that's deardo! (Almost forgot to talk about him, only remember my onion ring!)
The other people that night... Ivan, David and Ket Weng.
Kevin, deardo's bro-in-law, the cake maker, the photographer.
What do you see on the cake? I first thought it was 'Hi!' or something... Well it was a Honda logo lar... Bloody cars lovers...
Yeap, this is exactly the same cake as the one above, just that this one... The Honda logo is gone~!
Their birthdays are just one day difference... But you can see a big difference when they take pics!
I always say my deardo looks really cute when he smile like this! (Skipping PC's part... :p)
And they have known each other since they were 13 years old! Wah... Time flies man, they are now 2x years old already! Hahahaha...

Ok, since this is not a food review, I'm done for this post.
Till then, see ya~!

Say my name say my name...

As I took my membership card from the gym's towel counter today, I thought about writing this post, all about my name, SHIRLEXIA TAN.
There are people who know the story behind the name, but I'm going to tell the world about it just one more time. You know we aren't born with an English or so called Christian name, so when we were in school, we started to search for the coolest Christian name possible for ourselves. So I started out as Shirley but I think it was 1997 or 1998 I decided to change it to Shirlexia.
I thought Shirley is too ordinary and old school, I wanted a glamorous and unique name. I added Alex (my favourite sportsman back then was Alex Lim)to it and that makes it Shirlex. I don't remember how the 'ia' came (I think probably because I used to like a Chinese badminton player called Xia Xun Ze?), so never mind, I'm Shirlexia since then.Yes this is Alex Lim, the guy who plays a part in my name! LOL!
Till now, if you Google search 'Shirlexia' you can only find me, Shirlexia Tan... *proud~ehm~ehm~*
But because of the uniqueness, majority of people find it hard to pronounce, spell or even remember... Sad case...
Look at my credit card and gym membership card...Shelexia Tan... Is that my long lost sister???
This one more jialat... Shirlexta Tan! Like Shirlexstar Tan man, so ngam with the star on the card! Oh, did they do it on purpose?
I just don't understand! S-H-I-R-L-E-X-I-A! Isn't that easy? They can even make mistake copying my name! Ish...
Best of all, when I asked to replace the cards with the correct name on it, both of them said it's ok lar, wouldn't hurt one, can just use this card... ==|||
And over the years, people keep calling me different names, but definitely not Shirlexia. College time my batch of Malay friends love to call me simply 'Shelex', in Perth Rev and Lina, even their parents call me 'Shirley'.
So here's a quick tutorial to pronounce my name properly...
'Shir' is simply pronounced as the same as the 'Shir' in 'Shirley'(bloody hell, what am I talking about?). 'Lex' is simply pronounced as the same as 'lex' in 'Alex'. And then 'ia' is just like how you read out the 'ia' in 'Malaysia'!

Let's try this together.
Now,

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SHIR~LEX~IA~

Good~Well done! *clap~*

Catching up with XT @ Pasta de Gohan, Sunway Pyramid

One of my best mates, Xiao Ting was in town last week and we managed to have a little lunch catch-up despite her tight schedule. That was also the first time I met her new boyfriend, Kelvin.
Since we were all in Sunway Pyramid, I suggested that we try Pasta de Gohan.
Something like Pasta Zanmai, Pasta de Gohan served pasta cooked with Japanese recipe. The price is about the same. But I reckon Pasta de Gohan has more variety of flavours to choose from as compared to Pasta Zanmai. They have like dry ones, soup ones, white ones, red ones, green ones... So many it's hard for me to just choose one out of them! But of course Pasta Zanmai has more variety of nice side dishes to choose from.
So in the end, these are the food we had...XT's Cream Chicken & Mushroom Soup Spaghetti.
Kelvin's Doria Scallop & Chicken.
Shirlexia's(that's me!) Cream Prawn & Basil & York Spaghetti.
My deardo's Half & Half set where you can have two choices of pasta each in half a portion with soup and salad.
I actually picked this one... Cream Bacon & Spinach Soup Pasta.
Tom Cream Bacon & Cabbage.
And then we got a tiny little pizza of the day (Kimchi & Bacon) for RM2.
I must say my Cream Prawn & Basil & York Spaghetti is very nice. The gravy is nice while the prawns are fresh. I tried deardo's Half & Half Set's, the Tom Cream Bacon & Cabbage actually tastes really yummy! It's pretty unique with some sourish taste, but the Cream Bacon & Spinach Soup Pasta isn't good. I also don't fancy the Cream Corn Soup. I don't know about XT and Kelvin's ones, but what I would conclude is that you should opt for the dry or those with gravy only, the soup ones aren't worth a try. XT & Kelvin... Fresh from a new hair-cut! Same hairstylist as mine!
Shirlexia also fresh from a new hair-cut, but deardo... :p
After 15% discount (we just decided to sign up their membership card for RM10 and we are entitled to 15% discount on the total bill), the bill came up to RM121.80. Not too bad a price still. I would strongly recommend you to try this one, although I've heard people saying they still prefer Pasta Zanmai than Pasta de Gohan, but you should try before making the judgment. Don't ask me, I have no idea why we were being so serious in our pictures that day... We normally take funny and ugly pics!
By the way, great catch-up with Xiao Ting! I hope everything goes on smoothly with her and Kelvin and I can't wait to get your red bomb! :p

Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)

I finally watched this movie out of curiousity as a fashion lover.
So as you know, it's a movie based on the life of Coco Chanel, the very famous French fashion designer. As I was expecting loads of beautiful scenes of Coco Chanel's designs, the movie turned to be concentrated to her life more to parading her designs. It talks about her growing up as an orphan, then as a singer and hat designer, and how she fell in love with an English businessman and how he died in a car accident... With probably only about 5 minutes in the end showing her making dresses and the movie finally closed with a fashion show showcasing her designs.
At first I was a bit disappointed, but then I thought hey maybe it's just true that she only started to work harder as a fashion designer as her man died? And I must say the entire film, despite being almost two hours long, isn't really boring. Perhaps it's because Coco Chanel's life is actually quite interesting, perhaps Coco Chanel's cool character is really nice to watch(well at least I think so), perhaps looking at her self-made clothes that are so different compared to the others in that era in the movie just overjoyed me, or perhaps Audrey Tautou just impressed me once again! I really adore her man!
And what I really like about the movie is that it didn't try too hard to make Coco Chanel looks overly great! It's something like watching Ip Man and you'll wonder... Wah~Hai Mai Ah? Yao Mou Gam Wai Dai Ah?(wah, is this true? Is he so perfect or great?). In stead, they just show you her real character and life, like she is not perfect, she slept with different guys, she wished to stick to the rich society, etc... Only this point is enough for me to give a thumb-up for this beautifully made French film!

**Yve Vonn, trust me, you wouldn't want to miss this too!

Right before the long weekend...

I've been pretty occupied with loads of activities the past few days and will be busy for the next few days, despite having no job at the moment. While I'm hoping to find a job VERY SOON, let's just say I'm pretty much enjoying the break browsing the internet, having fun at the gym, swimming and have makan sessions with the bf, family and friends. :)
Here are some of the makan sessions...

My first REAL visit @ Chili's, KLCC
Okay, another big WHAT????????
Yeap, I went to Chili's once in Mid Valley only for a short catch-up with Yve Vonn and Bob back then when Bob was getting married. And we only had some snacks, so this time around it's a REAL visit for a late dinner.
It wasn't for any special occasions lar, it was just deardo has wanted to bring me there for a while since Chili's is like his favourite restaurant and we happened to be in KLCC the other night. So yea...
He had the Beef Bacon Burger and I had a Southwestern Cobb Salad. Look at the THICK patty!
Ordered a salad since it was already quite late, but it really filled my stomach up!
I'm not a real big fan of Western food you see. But I must say the burger patty is pretty yummy. And I'm very happy with my salad too! The whole loads of veges and cheese satisfied me a lot. While the crispy chicken is nicely done, it's chicken breast... :( Well, put it in another way, it's healthier! :p And the plate of salad is really filling! Camwhoring...
Taking a pic because it was Shirlexia's first real dining experience at Chili's!
Hope to come back another time to try some other stuff in their menu soon, especially when they are now opened in Empire Subang! Hooray~~~!!!

Thursday's dinner @New Restaurant Ipoh Chicken Rice, Jalan GasingI've tried this restaurant years ago with Uncle Yip, but this time around we got to order more stuff since there were 4 of us(yeap, that's good thing about going out in a gang)!
The Ayam Kampung was already sold out so we had no choice but to order the normal steamed chicken. We also had some other sides to go with our Hor Fun Soup...Thai Glass Chicken Feet. RM5.
Xiu Yok and Char Siu. RM20.
Pork Balls, RM8.
Bean Sprout for four, RM8.
Half Steamed Chicken, they called it 'half bird'... RM18.
We all had Hor Fun in stead of rice. RM1.80.
I really love their roasted pork (Siu Yok), as the skin is superbly crispy. It's sooooooo definitely a MUST TRY! And their bean sprout are nicely cooked too, as in not too cooked and just crispy enough! Love them! The guys... From left, Ricko, KH and no other than my deardo.
Well, I think the funniest part of the pic are the two staff at the back... :p
I'm absolutely loving my new hairstyle! What do you think???
Overall, very satisfying dinner!
Together with a pot of tea, the bill came up to RM75.80, which is quite reasonable! :)

Thursday night out @ The Talk, Jalan Telawi, Bangsar
Oh yeah! Since it was a holiday on Friday, we continue with a second round!The Talk in Jalan Telawi is quite a unique place to have a sip of something. It's a Bar and Bistro serving liquor and Japanese food! I don't know about you, but I thought it was pretty funny to look at those Mat Sallehs sipping Hoegaarden while enjoying sushi with a pair of chopsticks!
Anywayz... Pictures for your pleasure... The bf was having an Orgasm... Like a real one???*cough~*
KH opted for Pina Colada.
Ricko tried out the Grasshopper!
Shirlexia had something she couldn't remember... Eh I wasn't drunk! That was without liquor!
Edamame as snacks, just like how Crayon Shinchan's parent love to do go with their beer!
Serious punya faces...
Gila punya faces...
We were all doing something else but KH is doing... Vibrated punya faces! LOL!
Eh, money! When are you returning our money???
I'm not normally a drinking kaki but once in a while some hang-outs at places like this feels really good! KH said the place is normally pretty cozy and quiet with some soft music on but we had a noisy night with some soft rock music on... So yea, didn't enjoy that so much. But I must say the atmosphere isn't too bad. And I love the fact that they serve Japanese food! :p

More to come, so stay tuned!