Found a Malaysian restaurant, as opposed to “Malaysian style”, so my co-worker and I took a long lunch.

Now, my standard disclaimer. I’ve not been to Malaysia, altho I would like to go one day, so I am completely ignorant as to the authenticity of the food, other than the names (and those I only know from talking with people in HKO).

For starters, roti canai:

And an order of beef satay:

And for the meal, I got nasi lemak:

Keep the vigil.

Such pure awesomeness should not exist.

I have no idea why there is about three minutes of nothing at the end.

But just when I thought it could not get better, in the related videos is this. It’s pretty short, but the kicker is ~0:48. If you laughed as hard as I did, We Rock!

So this weekend, after seeing TSO, we stopped off at a Korean restaurant.

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Getting excited. This weekend, I’m going to see The Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO). If you’ve never heard of them, they’re “neo-classical with a touch of metal” (my description). I saw the about three years ago. But they only tour during the Christmas season, and this year, they have a new CD.

Here is a playlist from the TSO website. I think some people may recognize the re-interpretation of some of these songs.

An interesting bit of trivia is that TSO is the brainchild (brainchildren?) of members of an old-skool metal band named Savatage.

I was watching my new Hello Kitty & Friends DVDs, when a Badtz episode queued up. As soon as I saw this, I thought of iheartbadtz, so I grabbed a screenie.

It’s from an episode called “March of the Badtz-Marus” (word play on “march of the penguins”), and here Badtz is in the middle of a song about how he’ll be king of the penguins.

Should have posted this a while ago, but I’ve been distracted by something else. Not entirely HKO.

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I recently posted complaining that my cell phone was getting old. So what do you think happens? That very same day,I got this post card from Verizon, offering an early upgrade. Isn’t life ironic that way?

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This weekend, I went to visit a friend, and we went to a computer fair. The actual fair kind of turned into a bust. Either I wasn’t in the spending mood, or I just didn’t see anything that I wanted. So we walked around for a couple of hours, and left.

But, she adopted a “new” cat! Well, it’s 7 years old, but adopted it from a family where the wife “suddenly” developed an allergic reaction to the cat, right after adopting a new puppy. Interesting.

I had a hard time getting him to sit still to take this picture, so this is the best I could do. Such an adorable cat.

But later, when we decided to get something to eat, I wanted something “different”. See, my mother has pretty much no variety in her cooking, and the few times I’ve tried to cook myself, she basically didn’t like it. Her variety is to have potatoes and meat, instead of meat and potatoes. When I confront her about this, she says “I’ve tried everything”, which is her way of saying “I don’t want to try it”.

So we found a Malaysian/Thai style restaurant.  When out waitress took our orders, we basically just asked for “something Malaysian style”. I got a beef dish, and CJ got a chicken dish. I have no idea how authentic any of this is. What I do know is that my dish had this wonderful and subtle underlying flavor that I couldn’t get enough of. Even now, just thinking about it makes me want to go back.

There was also rice, but we all know what that looks like, right? So I didn’t get a shot of that.

And unfortunately, my cellphone died, so I did not get any shots of the computer fair. Which is pretty annoying, because I just charged the phone the night prior, and didn’t really use it too much. In the middle December, I’m eligible to upgrade my phone, and I’m really keen on getting one of those new Moto Driod phones that Verizon just released. I tried to upgrade early, but they gave me a hard time. Oh well.

Have you ever heard of My Milk Toof? It’s kind of hard to explain, sort of an episodic comic, but the artist uses sculpted teeth as the main characters. It’s becoming very popular lately. I think I myself found about it via Cute Overload, but it’s been posted to many other “cute” blogs, and stuff.

It is beyond adorable, easily can make anyone’s heart melt. The artist just released a smallish book, so I had to buy one. For support to the artist, and to have something tangible as well.

And a nice surprise is some sort of “post card” or something. They almost look like stills that the artist was using, but that’s probably just me making supposition. They’re sealed in plastic, and I don’t want to open it.

The book is currently sold out, but I really recommend you subscribe to the RSS feed so you can get the latest news as soon as possible.

So, how close to real-life is this? Starr is on the phone, Ghost is asleep on the bed, and I’m glued to the TV.

Got one. What else can I say?