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Such a simple sign board but attractive

This is the first time that I know my home town got a hipster cafe that only took me 10 minutes to get there. Before we go to my personal opinion, let me rephrase the meaning of 'Hipster'. According to google translate, hipster means a person who follows the latest trends and fashions and that only applicable to a person and not to a stall or shop or a restaurant. According to several anonymous philosopher, hipster cafe means the foods and drinks that serve at a hipster cafe taste like average economical stall or worse but the price charge is too damn high which means it is not value for money but just a way to spend money relentlessly.

For menu, you need to take a look at this banner

a little bit of nostalgic here

Lets move on to the actual subject of this entry which is 'Akar Lima' or for kedahan we normally called 'Akaq Lima' using our dialect. For me, this cafe is under the hipster cafe category due to several reasons:

The decoration and items around cafe are unique and full of nostalgic view.
The dish serve can be classifies as tasty and appetizing.
The majority are western food.
Has it's own identity and signature dish

Chicken griiled, the taste was superb and perfectly marinate

Carbonara spaggeti with a branch of ulam raja or known as cosmos caudatus

Before heading towards the cafe, I have read some of the blogs that more or less elaborate about the cafe where the way they describe the cafe was too grand. Probably my expectation is too high so that is why I get a little upset after have a taste there but if you want to enjoy you dinner with village surrounding, then this is a perfect spot for you to dine but for me, I just want to be more objective in term of value for money and there is much more cafe around Kulim that have almost the same taste with more affordable price. Every cafe got its own good and bad points and it is up to you which one that you want to choose.

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black and white like yin and yang like me and you..

Last weekend was undeniably full of excitement because I went shopping for some dishware with remarkably cheap price at one of the company near my working place called Miyao Toki. I assume this main company was from Japan because I can see some of probably the managers here are mostly Japanese. Banzai!!!

Throughout the year, they usually conduct a sales promotion once for every two to three month to sell their dishware. Their main product mostly are made from ceramic and as you all know ceramic can withstand high temperature, so the dishware are microwaveable. Other than that, their product cover from small item such as dip sauce plate to a big pot with unreasonably cheap price.

Usually they held this promotion for consecutively 4 days and the for last day, all the dishware become even cheaper than other days. On the other hand, the main attraction for this promotion was their happy hour event where all the dishware are usually half or quarter compare to the usual price. Let say a mug usually cost RM 8, so for this happy hour the price is only RM 2 each. The items sold during happy hour are separate from normal sales and the number of each product are limited, so you can imagine the situation is like black friday sales done by Walmart. With so many people wanted over limited amount of items, only the best will get many items compare to others.

As for me with developed skills through countless encounter with human being wave, it is like take a candy from a baby to get what I want. For a pile of mug containing about 300 pieces, i can easily get 50 pieces from it. I can take even more than that but greedy wont take you anywhere (Malay proverbs) which means do not be greedy, or you will suffer from an after effect. My hunting of dishware for 2 consecutive days, I manage to get 20 pieces of mugs, 10 pieces of plates and 2 sets of small pots. All these items just worth RM 100 for myself. and for my aunts, I managed to get them 50 pieces of mug and 3 sets of small pots worth RM 160 only.

For promotion conducted throughout the years, my target is just to spend maximum RM 100 on every single promotion so that when I am moving out from my parents house, I already got plenty of dishware and I will not be bother about not having enough dishware.

Lastly, all my thanks towards my siblings who willingly joined my quest to bought luxurious dishware with unthinkable cheap prize.

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Unlike any other country that have 4 seasons of weather throughout the year which is Spring, Fall, Summer and Winter seasons, Malaysia also got 4 seasons that happen every year which is travel season during school break, fruits season where you can eat as many types of fruits with low price, raining season particularly on eastern side and lastly wedding season where sometimes in 1 day, you got too many invitations up to 5 wedding feast. Usually when I get too many invitation, I only go to several of them and depend on the closeness between us. If I barely know him or her, probably I'll skip it.

Back then when I am still a student, I rarely went to my friends wedding feast due to restriction of money, time and willingness. Also the venue was too far as my university like a far far away kingdom from my hometown. Next, I did not have an appropriate transport to go to the wedding feast because all I have was my mushy pushy motorcycle with 100cc engine. But after finished with my study, I am willing to go to my friends wedding even they did not invite me to their wedding or the venue was astoundingly distant.

The desire to go to the wedding feast is only for one reason and that is to have mini gathering with my friends either from my school's year or my university's year. After graduating, we seldom contact between each other as everybody else was busy with their working life or pursuing their studies. When we get to meet each other, surely my mouth can't stop laughing until my heart's content. With all the throwback memory, surely all we can do is laugh at it as the moment already pass long time ago. Other than that, we still making fun of each other and I am completely sure that no one between us is affected by the mockery.

Lastly, I am very sorry to those who I did not managed to attend their wedding feast even it was intentionally but I hope all of you will come to my wedding when the time's come and in my expectation, that moment will happen around 3 or 4 years from now. So you got plenty of time to prepare the gifts for my wedding feast.

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After the 3D art museum, we went back to homestay to replenish our energy after all those exciting moment. On the way back to homestay, we had our lunch at Ikan bakar restaurant near the place that we had our breakfast that morning. The grilled fish was superbly appetizing and the taste was freakingly fresh and delicious. That evening after some rest, we went for a shopping at Jalan Pandak Mayah where I bought an expensive perfume for the first time in my life at World of Perfume shop while my mother bought huge amount of chocolate at Haji Ismail Group's store. The prize was cheaper compare to typical store in the mainland. I also bought some chocolate for my office mate as a souvenir. That night, due to heavy downpour we just had our dinner at HIG food court and then went back to tidy ourselves before went to bed.

Actually this is female perfume, but I love light smell rather than strong smell

Last Day:

Waking up with the clear sky and a sunny day, it sure is a good day to spend all the time left at Langkawi island doing some outdoor activity and we decided to visit Kilim Geoforest Park. It only takes 30 minutes to reach the destination and as always we had our breakfast before going in. Fortunately, the owner of the stall that we had our breakfast give the contact number of her relative and we get some discount for a sight seeing around the park that took around 2 hours on a boat.

Within 2 hours, we get to tour around Gunung kelawar (Bat's Cave) but I did not managed to meet batman, Gua Buaya (Crocodile's Cave) where you can only enter the cave in the morning due to low tide, Eagle's spot where you get to see several type of eagle feed on chicken skin, Pulau Kasut (Shoe Island) where the shape of the island is similar to the shoe and also act a a border between Malaysia and Thailand and lastly photo session with Kilim Geoforest Park signboard.

Next, we went to Air Hangat to soak our feet in the natural hot spring pool. Many people said that natural hot spring are good for your health due to high minerals in it. A person who suffer paralysis usually come to cure or minimize the effect of this symptom. For the next 2 hours, we travel around the island to empty out our fuel's tank before going back to homestay to have our last lunch, After finished packing our luggage, we went straight to jetty due to time restriction. and finally we arrive at mainland around 6 pm.

Before went back to home, we had some laksa (white noodle) and it was one of the most famous laksa in Kuala Perlis. The taste was quite funny and strange for the first bite because it taste completely different from typical laksa that I had taste before but after several bites, the taste become more stunningly delicious. Lastly, we went home with a happy emotion and memory.

I hope my next vacation will be more fantastic and filled with much more joyful memory.

May Peace be Upon You

As long as I can remember my family never ever manage to completely prepare any plan or schedule if we want to go for a vacation because usually we just go when our heart says we should go. The same thing also happen to our latest vacation which is to Langkawi Island, the land that was cursed for 7 generations. I'm not sure about the curse, whether it is true or not is still a myth.

Day 1:

We board a ferry at Kuala Perlis Jetty at 6.00 pm to Kuah because my father got a meeting that ends at 4.30 pm. Luckily our relative are nearby the Jetty, so we seek their help to buy the ferry's ticket where they went to buy the tickets just after dawn due to festive season. After arriving at Kuah, we went to get our rental car which is 2 white colour Toyota Vios where 1 new model and the other one slighly older version. The new model belong to my father and I get the older car. Soon the day getting darker followed with the sound from the stomach getting louder, we went for a dinner at nearby restaurant that was suggested by our rental car dealer. The foods and drinks was amazingly delicious besides the price are also cheap. For 8 empty stomach, with only RM70.00 it can fill up all of us. Next, with joy and full stomach we went to our free accomodation that was sponsored by father's friend near the Langkawi Mall. That night, we went to sleep early because we got many things to do the next morning. and as I stare through the window to see the stars, the winds swiftly blows to my eyes and whistle my ears to let me fall into sleep.

Day 2:

We got up quite early and the preparation to go out took about 1 hour and 30 minutes because there is only one bathroom and we need to take turns to clean ourselves The gents usually only take around 7 minutes while the ladies took about 20 minutes to get ready. I am still wondering what did they do to take a long time to get ready. Nevertheless, we still manage to go to our first destination before 8 am. The reason why we need to go out early is because when I went to pay for the dinner that we had last night at the counter, the cashier told me that we need to get to the cable car counter before 9 am because many tourist will be there. We had our breakfast at a small town before arriving to the cable car places. Even though we arrived early, many tourist are already there queuing to bought the tickets to ride the longest cable car in Asia. The ticket's price are varies for foreigners and locals, also varies for each package that you choose. I bought the package to enter skycab, skydome and 6D animation ride with RM32 per adult. For those who loves nature, it is an exciting yet calm moment to be experience.

In my opinion, it is a good alternative to relieve stress from daily work apart from appreciate the miraculous creation created by our god. There is only one thing that I despised about the management here is when they trick the tourist or customer that come here by forcing them to take a picture with their duck mascot and charge them with high prices for an A4 size picture without any notice beforehand. I think this is a scheme for the management to acquire more income but the way they carry the job is inhuman and selfish.

Next when we got off from the cable car ride, we enter the 6D cinema in which for me not very interesting experience and pretty lame. First, the spectacle was too big and easily slide under the nose. Second, the movement of the chair does not synchronize with the projection. Third, the movie story line was boring and not adventurous at all. Maybe I'm a bit sarcastic but I hope the ride can be as good as shrek 6D ride in Universal Studio Singapore in term of graphic, sound and synchronize chair movement.

After that, we move on to 3D art muzium where the art was painted by about 30 persons from around the globe. The fee was RM32 per adult but if you are resident of Kedah state, you'll get a discount and the fee become RM20 per adult. For the first time I am thankful to be a resident of Kedah state of all my entire life.

The handkerchief is on the table or under the table?

This photos appears to move but actually your eyes have trick you

For those who love photography, this is one of the place that you must enter because the art was diligently painted to give 3D effect on photos taken from a camera view. I think this entry is long enough so i will continue the blabbering of Langkawi trip in the next entry

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Usually I am an open minded person but when it comes to guidelines that already prepared for us who are Muslims by our prophet Muhammad pbuh, please respect it and don't show you ignorance act publicly because someday you will regret it especially ladies because usually the girls are the one who too eager to show it to the whole world without taking any precaution that may lead to their condemnation. I hope this entry more or less give you awareness and hence you can prevent it from happen.

Let's start with the one thing that will make the girls go crazy and have wild imagination about it which is engagement day where a woman and a man will be united and thus to a married life. The engagement itself is a sacred ritual in Islam where it shall not be advertise publicly but due to current fast moving information such as instagram, twitter, and also facebook, the photos and videos of engagement event are easily spread from one to another social media. All these act is just to have 1 'like' from friends and relatives.

Have you guys ever imagine if the engagement that you shown to the whole world suddenly broke off and all that 'like' will be nothing at that moment. Not to forget, if your relative or friend ask when is your wedding day later that day, could you give them their answer? So, before you post it on social media, think of the consequence it might do to you in the future. Once it on the website, it will stays there even you try to remove it. Nobody wanted to have their engagement broke off before their wedding day but anything can happen in the last minute. So, please be remind that don't make promises when your are in happy state (probably I use wrong expression) but I hope you understand my intention. I don't want to touch other topics with this entry so that I can keep it simple. Lastly, my religious knowledge are not too deep but I hope it can help others to be a better Muslim and together we can bring peace to the world.

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My work require me to travel but not regularly unless there is a problem that really need my expertise to solve it. I think it is too arrogant to use expertise in this word because I am still a beginner for this line of work. Nevertheless, my help are still needed because I am the one who commissioning and responsible towards my client's plant at site. I've been using several types of flight company such as MAS, JAL and Silkair. I think they are more or less the same towards each others and it is undecidable to state which one is the best because each one of these company got their own advantages and disadvantages in term of service and quality.

I am still happy even it is still a voucher

What I want to talk about is my opinion based on my experience at Singapore airport or famously known as Changi Airport. First, the airport was awesome and humongous. Even the airport was quite huge where it divided into 3 terminal, it was a rare sight to notice no people even at secluded corner. The amount of tourist, staff and sellers make the place lively and cheerful surrounding. If you are transit at Changi Airport and using Silkair (Singapore airline), please don't forget to redeem a voucher from IshopChangi Collection Centres where you can get free 20 dollar Singapore voucher. All you have to show is your boarding pass, flight schedule and passport to the staff that in charge of the counter.

This card can hold for 3 month after exchange with voucher

With that amount of voucher, you can buy anything you want but not all shop are participate in that promotion. So read carefully the term and condition and list of shop that did not participate in the promotion. For me, nothing beats free foods and drinks so I decided to use it by changing the voucher into foodstreet card because the food court use card to buy stuff rather than use money. Even I was stranded at the airport for about 6 hours instead of 4 hours due to late arrival of flight, I don't feel any stress while waiting for it and the time I spent was not necessarily wasted as I went for window shopper to all the expensive boutique, using free internet connection to browse youtube while laying lazily at the couch. For me, it was the best experience because it was my first time travel alone and I can go anywhere I want without worrying of getting lost. On the other hand, only one thing that did not satisfy my satisfaction where I need to go to the counter to get the wifi password and sometimes the staff was not really friendly servicing you as a customer. All in all, it was a good to travel alone and experience new things.

For muslim, please don't worry about not getting any halal food here

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This entry will increase your knowledge regarding share investment that seldom done by our people probably due to lack of knowledge and awareness. So, for those who read my entry, please do something to save your future generation that will inherit your legacy from financial problem that may arise.

Why need to do share investment?

The purpose of share investment is just like saving your money each month but the difference is the money that you save will eventually expand or grow as time goes by. The longer the time pass, the bigger the money will grow but it is depend on the type of investment you choose. Generally there are 3 types of investment that you need to know:

Aggressive fund
Medium progress fund
Slow progress fund

For aggressive fund, the money that you put into that fund will grow really fast but the risk to lose you money also easy. This fund is suitable to those who are risk takers. While for medium progress, the money you put into that fund will grow but the rate are not as fast as the aggressive type. This fund has lower risk and suitable for those who would like to use money on a long term such as for their children education. lastly, the slow progress fund which is for me the same as saving account. The growth progress also depend on the type of fund you choose and this is your choice to be made.

Please bare in mind this is investment and not quick rich scheme, so don't ever dream to be rich in just few months. Now is my advice for those who want to do share investment.

If your age is below than 20, I suggest that you choose aggressive fund because i believe that young generation like to take risk.
If your age is higher than 30, I suggest that you choose medium progressive fund because usually folks that are above 30 starts to thinking about their family and children and start to plan their children future plan
If you just want to save like saving account, use slow progress fund.

Before i forgot to write this important note, the first investment for an amount of money into the fund, the money will be deducted for service charge, but don't worry because that losses will be cover back after several years depend on the progress of the fund that you choose. Lastly, the choice is yours and if you want to start share investment, do contact me..TEEHEE

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This trip was about 6 months ago where Japan is at the end of winter season,

so the breeze is quite cool but for me to encounter coldness for the first time,

it feels like stone cold surrounding. The most feared condition is during windy day because
no matter wherever you try to hide, you still cannot run from coolness.

It was raining for my first day at site and it went for about 5 hours before stop.
Can you imagine how cold it is with the temperature about 9 degree celcius + rain+ wind
due to the workplace is nearby the port. That night I suffered heavy fever but
still managed to go to work for the next day. Most of the time, i just keep my hand
inside the sweater and my nose keep on running like a 2 years old kid.
For about a week it take for me to adapt to this cool environment.

The picture above is the typical morning sight.

Through this trip also, I learn how to communicate in Japanese using simple words,
how to do groceries and know better about their culture.
For shopping it is quite confusing with their coins,
usually I just put all the coins i have and they will count it for you.
For me, their manner is very high and if compare with Malaysian, probably we needs
3 generations to be the same level as them.

Before going back to motherland, I have the opportunity to visit a flower park in Hitachi.
To tell you how beautiful it is the park, you can see the picture at the bottom of this post.
This scenery is the actual scenery that I take using my camera and no photoshop were used.
If you are a woman and flower lover, please don't miss out the trip to this park.
I can guarantee you the satisfaction of seeing a seabed of flowers will be indescribable.
With cheap entrance fee this park also provide amusement park with roller coaster, bumper car
and so much more but with separate fees. Even though the fee is separate,
the ticket are still affordable.

Lastly, when you have the chance to went abroad, just grab it and go travel until your heart content.

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May Peace Be Upon You

Currently I am working in a local company

near my place and the rime taken for a trip to workplace is about 15 minutes by car.

All of you will probably jealous with my job due to nearby workplace

and also for afternoon break, I ate my lunch at home..teehee

For this post, I'm gonna share about the chronology of my career as an
engineer and all the things I've been through this 1 year experience.
Even I'm still a beginner, I hope it can inspire others to love their job.
For me there is nothing to be proud of my job because all job
serve it's own purpose and they are all important.

So let's start with my unemployment period. After completing my study, I worked as
a chef assistant for about 1 month during
the holy month of Ramadhan and then
doing job hunting for about
3 months while being a full-time Dota 2 player.
During that period, I have been to several company interviews such as Dyson,
Alpha industry, Infineon and also Panasonic. The first company was Dyson, and
my interview was like a nightmare.
The feeling of nervous flush through my body and my mind went blank
the whole time I was ask by the interviewer. All this happen
due to lack of preparation and background study.

Next company was Alpha industry and Infineon which my interview
also went pretty bad but there is an improvement in my confidence.
After that, I got an interview with Panasonic which I apply through a job fair and
at the same time got offer from my friend because his sister want to further studies.
So, I went to Panasonic interview first before i went to my friend's sister interview.

For Panasonic interview, all the preparation are done completely from
introduce my self, my hobby, question to ask the interviewer and
also company background study. So, the interview went very well and the
interviewer seems to like it. The post for that job is only for 3 person, but the applicants
were about 15 people only on my session and they got about 5 session.
Can you imagine how many unemployed person need to fight
only for 3 spots, that's is how world revolve kids.

For my next interview with my friend's sister's boss.
(i don't think this sentence it correct)
For me personally, this was the easiest interview compare to other's interview.
The boss was really young probably age mid 30's and very friendly.
Through the whole interview, he was asking me are there any question?
I was like are you the interviewer or am I the interviewer.
For me it is a pleasure yet funny situation.

A week went by and I got the offer from both companies and my heart went
back and forth between these two company. So I perform Istikharah prayer for 3 consecutive
nights and lastly I decided to go to the young boss
which is also my current boss whose name Michael.

He is very passionate and ambitious person.
Other than that, very kind heart person and generous in term of knowledge
where he likes to teach me many stuff even not related to work.

My advice for those who are looking for a job is look for an open minded boss
rather than close minded boss where he can accept others opinion
rather than just do as what he said.

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May peace be upon you

acchhooo!! srettt!! arghh the dust is making me sneeze quite a lot
acah2 blog berhabuk la tu..
phew.. long time no see there buddy
where you have been to?
no where, jusr too lazy and too busy with lots of stuff

it seems that it is more than 3 years this blog had never been updated
and yet someone still reading my post even though it is from Germany
all i can say is "danke" to you although i din't know what you looking for and
also how can you understand Malay language?

So, while i got some free time and not interested in doing other works
i'll update this blog and probably treat it as my diary. Enough for the introduction so let move on
to the topic which is Die Hard Valve Gamer

I think Valve is a pretty big company because the games that was published
by them literally awesomeness without boundary..(to dramatic to say like that)

but it is what makes player love and addict to it.

My first encounter was counter strike which is a phenomenon to the online games.
i think all the cyber cafe's must have this game and if you ask anyone else who din't know what is
counter strike, sure he is a bloody nerd boy which most of the time
he spent was scramming through mountain of books.

Next is Defence of The Ancient where in short form called DOTA or in malay we call it
'Dunia Orang Takda Awek" which means 'the world of no woman'
but i dont care what people are gonna labelled it as what,
as long as i am happy and no one bothering me while i am playing
I started to play this game since 7 years ago and after that
there is Dota 2 and also the most current is
Dota 2 Reborn

Personally, i like Dota 2 more than the new one because
1. The amount of space for update is killing me
2. it makes me sick due all the bugs still enormous
3. All update is just sucks
4. Interface is just too awful
5. Chat box too confusing

Please get rid of new one and replace back the old Dota 2
I think that is enough to describe all about Reborn.
I'm pretty sure all other player agree with me on this.
So, I hope Valve fix the bugs quickly or just go back to DOTA 2.

ps: suma post lepas ni akan berbahasa inggeris (nak kutuk la tu)
typical malaysian likes to critics before think

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