Bird Park

My first time in the KL Bird Park despite being here for so many years. A real cooling & green environment. A pure escapade from the hustle & bustle of city life. Being a weekday, it was relatively quiet & not many visitors. Another chance to test out the Sigma 70-300mm zoom lens.

Colourful mandarin duck

Bluish duck having a nice swim in the stream

Heron

Pretty flamingos

Another dumb ass tourist.....sigh!

Hello Polly!

Peacock kept her full dress closed....pity

Deeparaya at Geot Auto

Geot Auto are the guys formerly from MBf Peugeot, Sec 13 Petaling Jaya i.e. Mohd Sultan & Chandran who teamed up to run this workshop for Peugeot cars. More of a management buyout exercise since the new owners of MBf Peugeot were not keen to carry on the workshop business anymore. A Deeparaya celebration was held last Saturday at the premises in Jalan 223 Petaling Jaya. Thiaga, my colleague who drives a 405 (upgrading to a 407 soon!) was there too. Also caught up with CK Wong whom I had previously met on the Peugeot forum in Autoworld. He's still actively involved with the Peugeot Club of Malaysia. A great gathering of customers & Peugeot owners. Appreciate the gesture from Geot Auto. (weird name actually!)

L-R Abu, Thiaga, Lye Hock, Sultan, Chandran

Daimon

Daimon is a smallish Japanese outlet in Ikano Power Centre located opposite Uncle Lim's Cafe. Was there last weekend for an afternoon snack just before joining the PM guys for a TT session at Starbucks.

Kyoza - japanese pot stickers or "wor tip". A bit burnt on the skin but otherwise tasty. Could have been better to dip it in ginger strips soaked in vinegar.

Kimchi fried rice - more of a Korean dish. Nothing to shout about. Rice was soggy but taste acceptable. Kimchi was just added on top of the rice.

Okonomiyaki - some panfried savoury pancake. Normally they put noodles inside but the lady suggested this without. Lighter version since it was tea time. Quite good with crunchy shallots. Served with some brown slightly sweetish sauce.

Taiping Coffee

My old schoolmate, Cheng Kiat, has started a blog called Taiping Coffee. Looks like he's a coffee connoisseur too! And there is a posting on the rich heritage of Taiping, the land of eternal peace. Have a look!

Congratulations on your newborn!

The stork brought happiness to a few friends & colleagues recently. First off, congratulations to Andy & Jessie whose son Anthony was born on 26 October. Pictures of Anthony & the happy family has been posted on Jessie's blog.

Next, a little girl Nur Juanne was safely brought into this world to Juneeta on 31 October, just in time for a neat Hari Raya gift.

And congratulations to Jo-anna & Nick who were blessed with a son, Isaac on 10 November.