Previously in OCKL, I did mentioned about the video that am gonna post and here you go! Apologized for the delay of this compilation! Back on that weekend, I didn't shoot much and the intention was clear though, just for holidays. Obviously, this OCKL I had less photos taken than previous ones but one thing for certain, that I enjoyed a lot (with the food, the thrills), and same goes to The SFWs! Can't wait for next future Operation Chiong somewhere~ hahaha!

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OCKL – Operation Chiong Kuala Lumpur~

25.06.10 – right here, right now! This would be my second holiday (which was planned further back in february) after OCPG2 which was commenced about a week ago. Lol. All this while, the gangs (who's gonna participate in OCKL) keep in touch with one another through facebook and skype. I just can't believe this had been going on since February and the day finally came.

The traffic on the road was slow but luckily I got to check-in an hour before boarding. I was kinda worried that I might miss the flight for good and forfeited the ticket. Unlike airasia, Jetstar does not have any online check-in system so there goes the inconveniency.

Reached KL @ 9pm and head straight downtown via ERL, bought an instant cheese burger from MacD to fill up my stomach a bit before taking another train to Mid Valley (Cititel) and meet up with the gangs. Adrian & SGab was still stuck @ penang due to aircraft delays (Fireflyz) so I had another supper, which was KFC to double fill my stomach. Man, chicken rice had never taste that good with Colonel's recipe. lol… Malaysia's KFC are way better than Singapore's, i was self-indulged, really.

Mike was still working and was a bit late to come and meet with the gangs. It was 11pm, all of us were on the chirit chirit bang bang wheels to go and pick up Ad & Gab, now this time the 2 had landed to complete all 8 of us. I suggested that we have an early breakfast somewhere and Mike brought us to paparich, which would be our first gathering of the trip. An hour of chit chat were confabulated, which was kinda fun and everyone enjoyed. We dismissed at 1am and what everyone needs was a good sleep!

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That drink taste really good.. Soya bean  + red bean + chendol!

( Bryan's Ice-Cream Bun )

( EJ purposely did that on his plate )

 

I didn't sleep much, 2 hours that was. Bryan was worse, he was awaken the entire night maybe It was my snort after all but I couldn't be sure as he explained that it was the cool air from outside. The next morning, I was awaken by melodic tunes and it seemed preety hard to drag yourself off the bed, the head's hefty. Same goes to the rest. I think Mike's worse, he hardly had enough sleep for the entire week as he was our volunteered driver for the entire trip since he is already half KL-gites and knew the roads well :p Appreciate that pal!

26.06.2010 – A beautiful saturday indeed. First thing was heading gombak MRT to check out the bus ticket to Genting. Unfortunately all morning bus ticket was sold out and what's left was afternoon depart. We were in a dilemma but here comes a few touts offering private escort service to genting. instead of paying RM8, wepaid RM70 for 4. There were 8 of us, so it's RM140. I was rather exacerbated with their attitudes and wheedle continuously. I found it offending but also understand they were making a living. We had no choice but to accept their offer since everyone was so keen to go up there, oh well. The irresponsible driver drove like a speed racer which almost got us into cardiac arrest. But he's fast, we reached the cable car platform within 15 mins which usually took 30 mins of average driving.

First things first – buying descent bus ticket @ RM4 each. That's cheap! We had our maggie mee breakfast that costed RM4 abd no meat? Over priced food up there! Well, whatsoever things sold up there are either double or tripled the price of the ordinary. I wonder how ordinary people gotta afford what they couldn't afford. You need to spend at least RM100 min. up there, and for me – I think I roughly spent about RM150 inc. theme park rides. Yeah I did gambled in the casino but won RM25 overall… Lol…. i did won RM200 but I was greedy… You know that, greed is good but greeder could ripped u off no matter how, unless you have some talisman with you to counter those evil precense around; you know what am saying…

( Inside the Cable Car )

We also had those fun rides, from flying coaster, and some other coaster rides, still alright with the thrill. There's a go Kart queue tat we wasted an hour there just for the queues and gave up eventually. Ya, an hour of queue just to acquire a shower cap. Crap! I simply think it's a waste of time, I rather pay extras for express instead.

( Rides in forward angle )

( Rides in other angle )

( Hello Gabby )

( Hello Jamie )

( Hello SW & Mike )
( We have more whacko shots @ EJ's camera. Tune in to Facebook for tags )

( Now this is one heck of the crazy rides that we had @ RM10 – it's flying coaster! The thrills are just fine with me… )

( Ya you have to lie flat and Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee )

Yes, we also tried out puriku. I had never tried thus maniac and gay-like machine and that was my first time with the gangs. So much to do with your desire pose, whichever you like. It costed me RM35 for a 4R photo, as for the fun….. Priceless. We had taken a total of 6 photos from this booth with a lime green background to create fancy visual images behind us. See below…

We need to catch up our bus @ 4.45pm and reached the cable car station just in time, it took us 15 mins or so to descent, lucky enough we're able to catch up with that bus. Phew! Eceryone was exhausted and slept soundly in the bus and we head back home for showers before continue on with the night session.

Dinner @ mid valley, Pasta Zanmai and we had a surprise for Adrian, yeap… It's his belated birthday. He didn't expect that I think. The moose cake taste really good though, everyone likes it. There gies Day 2!

( Dinner @ Pasta Zanmai )

( The SFWs, now with couples LOL!! 10 years later with kids…. )

Sifudo Ramen

Unagi Rice Set

Hotate pizza (behind), and Shifudo pizza!

Here's my Teriyaki Carbonara 

Sponge + Moose Cake with bread crumbs

27.06.2010 – Day 3! Time for mass! Now everyone had a good sleep I recalled as they seemed vigor! We were very late for mass and ended sitting on the second floor facing the wall while listening to the preach. Lol… aduh. The mass ended at 10am and Mike brought everyone for brunch and that would be Seremban's char sew (pork) delight! The honey roasted char sew taste heavenly and feels like having more of it. Later, we had a stroll around Jaya One and Times Square (had Subway for lunch) before departing off Singapore. Flight was delayed half an hour till 7pm, again I was lucky to reach the airport on time to be the last to check-in! Why it has to be like that every time -.-;

The best in Seremban! Honey Roasted Pork!

The sweetness and firmness of the meat will blow you away!

Ordered a bowl of hand made noodle that taste so similar like Sarawak's Kolo mee.. Superb!!! Heard the owner is a master degree holder. Salute his recipe!

Stay tune for our video session @ next post!

 

 

It was my Birthday (29.05.2010)! I was down to Penang for a short holiday but never knew The SFW would threw me such surprise. This is Operation Chiong Penang II (OCPGII).

It's the World Cup Fever so I decided to throw Shakira's – Waka Waka (This time for Africa) into the video and whalla, it went well with the loops, of all the video compilations and bloopers that we've made.

There's the full footage of my birthday surprise and as well, I was being forced (by Mike) to do an MTV for myself which I've picked The Carey Brothers' – Ride into this vid (just for fun). I laugh vehemently when I edited the videos hahahaa!

Follow my blog for the photos taken and stories told and catch up for what you've missed @ the following…

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Thanks for viewing…

Regards,
Joe.

Previously, on Operation Chiong Penang (P1 , 2009)….
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It was 6.30AM in the morning and first thing I saw was this yolk, didn't pondered much…

Just wanna shot this wonderful Sun Rise @ Penang although is a bit hazy!

29.05.2010 – It's my birthday! It was 6.30am, I woke up and the rest were still asleep soundly. Beautiful saturday dawn I recalled, as the yolk rise from mist of haze. This thought came straight to me – open burning again! C.Y. called and surprised that he knew the way to Sg. Ara. Haha. Not bad for a Terengganese who stayed in Penang for more than 15 years. We went to Greenland earlier in the morning which later I found out the place happened to be somewhere around Cathedral of The Holy Spirit that I visited last year, how coincidence. Yeap, I've tried almost every food there last year and not too bad to try again on that particular morning.

We ordered a number of dishes, range from Nasi Lemak to Curry Noodle to Hor Fun and Hokkien Noodle. Gee, what a morning breakfast! It seemed heavy for consecutive days with C.Y haha. We had a little yab before heading back to my place and start off The SFW chiong operation.

C.Y scooped out a portion of it and making it incomplete. Hehe… but the portion is scanty thou.

As for the Hor Fun… this is definitely delicious. The starchy feel gives you a sensational taste of Asia!

Made by local chinese, I simply thought there's something missing in this dish! The belacan chili paste that is! The curry is lovely…

Famous in Penang but compared with the one I tried @ Sunshine Market which are very much alike our Sarawak's Laksa (see this), this one still  … the taste of it thats what I meant.

I was full and do you think I can finish this? Neh… we shared hahhaha! The ingredients include cucumber, fried tofu, fried prawn clot., some bean sprout and sesame for garnishing… taste ODD!

What's heap with The SFW Operation Chiong Penang? Yeap, first thing is to have breakfast (Argh, secound round!!) with the gangs. Okay, I had Pasembur (Penang's Indian Rojak) which didn't turn out to be savouring, a few bites was enough and I was full. Ugh… I bloated hard!

Alright, the morning activities would be Butterfly Farm & Batu Ferringhi. From southern part of the island to the nothern part took approximately 40 mins. The ticketing booth doesn't seemed organize after all, some people just cut queues; okay? Perhaps am stuck with the rules of The Lion Isle that doesn't made me feel pleased of what I've seen.

I groped through the farm and humidity seemed high as I noticed water sprinkler were active all while. Butterflies were everywhere flapping it's wings in the air and pollinated flowers around. Besides butterflies, there's also some insect exhibit and artifacts on sale which seemed too exotic to be sold there.

At Butterfly Farm

Pretty unique to have a white spot at the center of the wings…

Earth Worms!!!! It's huge!

This stripe butterfly is pretty common but look at the details of it's wings… isn't it lovely?

The scorpions are poisonous creature. A stung from the tail will get you numb and paralyzed. Scorpion meat? hehehehe!

Pollination in progress

Now they need something sweet. That's banana (Dried out)

Reminds me of someone!

This piece is is one of my favorite and lucky shot that was.

Another type of common butterfly seen. I did try to capture it with my bare hands.. it's easy actually… What I don't like are those powdery substance…

Landing safe on the leaf..

Okay… time for some reviews!!! What do you think of this huge bug?

Setting up camera on the sandy shores ain't easy!

You just have to do this again… LOL! After some apple photo booth prank!

Emo again! LOL!

Here comes the drill…. Chinese Ducking Photographer!

ahahahaha! Sheet am wearing shoes…

Bikini Inspector on duty! Beach was almost deserted on that day!

Oh yeah!

Stomach kena bump! "Ugh! Sakit!"

Crazy siao kiaz @ Mantis Fist

Some photoshop here

Okay.. here's the proper one for the couples!

I hate crows but their father looks smooth!

After the butterfly farm, we check out Batu Ferringhi Beach, just in front of Hard Rock Hotel. Okay, we had a whimsical footage here which am yet to compile but will be, pretty soon. We hang out at the place for an hour before heading back to the condo, had KFC (finger lickin' good – oh yeah), clean up ourself and head for weekend mass at Cathedral of The Holy Spirit (at Greenland). Weird, we encountered some lady who likes to bump on people randomly, and she wore a dashing silky dress to mass, oh dear! After mass, we head to Queensbay Mall for dinner – TGI Fridays. okay here's the funny part….

The day was almost over, and the gangs were behaving rather escentric, not that am not aware of, all 3 of them had forgotten something which in my heart was hinting an emptiness or the sort; something was missing – yes, that word : Happy Birthday. They seemed to squint their eyes randomly, some sort of message passing by that am not aware of, some sort of secret that is unknown to me; in other words, I don't know what are they up to. So, we're at the restaurant and being placed somewhere not so conspicious to the crowd (which is good for me) where Mike hinted, and complaint about the seating placement. I almost burst out with laughters! I thought somethings up in this restaurant pretty soon. We ordered our dish n' platters and The Jack Daniel's Salmon I ordered taste really good no doubt about that. We yab and took photos and later, finished up our dishes.  Again, they have this odd expressions on their faces. Suddenly I heard 'Happy Birthday' song sung far away from our table. TGIF crew was dramatically singing and clapping for other birthday celebrants. Gab said, "Wow, so many birthdays today…" I was pretenuous that nothing ever happened and never heard of what I've just heard LOL….

Adrian & Mike decided to go to the washroom together which left me & Gab there on the seats. I thought they're up to something… possibly they might have gone to remind the crews or something. See? Predictions made right! That's my secret reviewed today! Kekkeeke!!!!! They came back so I stood up and yearn for a relief after such heavy meal and decided to ask for the bill. They stopped me immediately and told me to stay for a while!! Okay… I knew somethings up. Possibly it's gonna be my turn. LOL!

In fact, the crew approached me, 6 of them if I recalled correctly. They called me to stand on my seat and shouted out loud

"Kumar, today is my Birthday"…

My mind was like… kNN… So embarassing!!! Okay, that was a surprise! haha! I didn't dare to shout out loud as it'll attract audiences but what could I do to end such joke? I still have to shout out indeliberately! Okay, I took it as a fun filled ones, no oblique! I made a wish and the cake suddenly moved far away off me which the staff claimed am supposed to blow that cake 3 feet away from my mouth (obviously it's another SFW request). I blew hard and whalla…. Candle blown but waiter's hand was full of my saliva. hahahahahahahahaaha! He was "mad" but I appologized.. he accepted hahaha.

See? Iphone Geek! Android Geek!

Celakaz Mike!

Taste fine for me but fried Mozzarella? hmmmm!!!! 

Like any other chicken wing you can find around

Fridays Three For all… that Loaded Potato Skin taste heavenly! Comes along with tartar sauce and cream

Adrian had this Key West Grouper as main course!

Mike had Southwest Mac & Cheese

Gab had Chicken & Shrimp Diablo! Wah not bad huh!

I had this Jack Daniel's Salmon… gone wild with the sauce!

My Birthday cake LOL!!!

Thanks Mike… he bought this in Melaka!

Thanks guys for the treat and celebrations! Can't be more juvenile than this heh? I thought it was cake smacking or something hahah. Sort of like a daydreamer! Well, memorable 27th birthday that was. Up next would be Adrian's @ OCKL, we're gonna accertain that!!!!!!! I was supposed to being the gang for Hagaan Daaz treat but too bad it closed earlier so maybr OCKL then ^_^"

 (The End of OCPG )