Sunday, April 19, 2009

movie and chocolate and everything nice

evie went back to sydney during our mid-sem break and she didn't come back empty handed...she gave me a bar of one of the nicest chocolate ever - the swiss-produced lindt pistache (thank you so much evie!much love here!)...evie is a europhile (is there such a word?) and one of the greatest thing coming out of her love of europe is love of good quality chocolate...who am i complaining?i enjoy the fruit of her love, the lindt pistache...is a pistachio filled chocolate bar and what can i say?it blew me away!as for meghna, i hardly see her this week T_T...she is currently enjoying her holiday (her holiday starts a week later than ours so yeah, i'm turning green in envy) in the bosom of her family...


speaking of family, i missed talking to my family...mama with her funny litany of complaints and caring, baba with his resigned tone, jaja with her quirky humour, gegel with her crazy responses, alin with her cute cute (she is so the baby girl of the family!) voice and aboy with his awkward and weird questions and requests...i also miss nenek maridah so much!i love my family so much i don't know what other way i can describe this love (and i'm no poet, thank goodness, i won't bother u with my weird poetry)...i bought 66 dollars worth of calling time yesterday...n i'm going to splurge on calling my dearest!


that's alin when she was a baby...isn't she just adorable!the other pic is alin-the-camwhore, taken last year by surprise, surprise, herself...hehehe...the only reason i don't put pix of mama, baba, jaja, gel and aboy is that i try to prevent slow and brutal death...i'm pretty sure jaja and the rest of the mob will at least give a threat of dismemberment of various body parts if i put up their baby pix or latest pix...as for alin, she's a camwhore, what can i say?



anyway, last night fazan and i cooked nasi lemak (the sambal turned out fine, not the disaster i predicted)...we ate while watching this movie fazan insisted me to watch a movie called the reader...the main actress is kate winslet (hanna schimtz) and the main guys are a young famous actor from germany, david kross and ralph fiennes who play young and adult michael berg...what can i say (again)?i love this movie!it got a lot of what-ifs scenes and the young love is ever lasting...i cried towards the end when hannah left her legacy to micheal (enough said, watch it!)...alas, this movie is not for the young...containing lots of nudity and 18-above-only scenes, i know this movies will not be released in a lot of conservative and muslim countries, malaysia included...but still, i love the movie...not because of the x-rated scenes, but the storyline itself is amazing...there are a lot of touching scenes and yup i'm a sucker for touching scenes...go n watch this movie...highly recommended...


yesterday is also my another let's-splurge-and-be-merry-and-then-be-dirt-poor-for-the-rest-of-the-month day!i ate lunch at imax downtown with dora, yaya, rini and redzy, whom i haven't seen in ages..we ate at this new arabic foodstall which serves really nice array of arab food and i (as usual, there are a lot of lamb meals, which i don't eat, which left me only 3 choices, chicken or fish, err and vegetarian) ordered chicken briyani (thank god for modern-day invention of credit card)...it is served with this youghurt sauce and it was very scrumptious...it's very different from the briyani in malaysia but nice nonetheless...


then we went to another newly opened stall next door to 'lepak' (wasting time in the form of talking hahaha)...surprise surprise (not really, dora told me beforehand but i like the element of oh-i-don't-know-this squeal!), it's a malaysian and singaporean themed kopitiam, aptly named kaya and toast!not that it has a wide range of local drinks (like white coffee n such), but it's a fine attempt for an overseas stall...i didn't order anything as i was really full (and trying to save money after spending copiously)...i did tasted yaya's kaya toast and for a kaya-hater, i love it!i also like the fact that the kopitiam decor has the old-school familiar kopitiam ambiance...it brings back memories of lepak time with family and friends back home...it's bright and welcoming...the owner also put an array of local comics by lat and yup, that's major plus point for him!it definitely help bringing the local kopitiam to auckland!double thumbs-up to the owner!the downside of the kopitiam is that the service is kind of slow (only one person made the drinks and toasts and he took his own sweet time, he even made a leisure call on his mobile while doing it...talk about major distraction)...and i also hadn't tasted the other food choices and drinks so i can't say much about the taste...








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