Family Gym @ Jalan Rasah

Ever since UAV Gym mysteriously wind up business and close shop without prior notice early this month, I've been going to this "Family Gym" along the main road of Jalan Rasah. No choice lah, got to maintain muscle mass and prevent fat build-up mah. Once I stop weight training for 3 months, my body would revert back to a "fei chai" body.

The gym is located above Public Bank. The gym signage is old and faded and is easy to miss. In the photo below, the red arrows point to the gym at 2nd floor, while blue arrow points at the gym entry.The gym must have been operating for quite some years now as the equipments are either rusty or squeky or malfunction. As you can see from the following photos, the weight machines are from the yesteryears.The PVC that wraps around the cushions on the machines are cracked and some have huge holes exposing the hardened sponge underneath. While new gyms provide more ergonomic machines which movements when executed targets specific muscles, the machines here at Family Gym causes premature osteoarthritis.Weight machines are scanty; the gym doesn't have enough machines for specific muscle group workouts. Weights are rusty and dirty. The handles on the weight bars are rusty too - that shows the usage frequency and the number of gym members.Notice there aren't any gym freaks in each photos? It's been like this during my past few visits. There was only one or two members everytime I left the gym around 6pm.The lack of business is understandable, as the gym equipments are old and rusty, and seriously lacking in variety. Those machines are so basic! And old (did I just mention old again?). Old! Period.Not only old and rusty, some machines are labelled "Out Of Order" the first time I stepped into the gym, and till now it's still not being fixed. I was struggling to refrain from adding the words "... Forever and Ever" to that piece of note.And the biggest fault the gym owner committed is making the membership fee so bloody high as though Family Gym is equivalent to California Fitness. I mean, come on lah, set the fees so high but let members carry rusty steel. Where got attraction right?I've been here a few times before, asking for the membership fees and checking the place out before I joined UAV. They just refuse to lower the fees despite me hinting on their lack of equipments and their stuff appearing aged. Their student rate is for secondary school students. Yeah right, as if secondary school students would frequent their gym. The students would be more than happy to take KTM down to California Fitness at Mid Valley and ogle at ang moh chicks!One thing that make this gym better than California Fitness is the provision of lockers with actual locks and keys so that members won't need to buy small padlocks (heh heh I know this is lame).I enter the gym by per-entry basis - RM68.00 for eight bloody entries. That worked out to RM8.50 per entry. Sibeh expensive right? If you don't buy this 8-entry coupon, you'll need to pay RM12 for one entry! 5-entry coupon is RM48.00.I'm starting to wonder why don't they switch name to Los Angeles Fitness or Hawaiian Fitness or something similar. At least when people complain about the fees being high, the owner can brag about being classy and all. "Aiya, where got ex?!! We are Los Angeles Fitness maaahh!""8 Sessions of Body Shaping and Toning"?? Sounds blardy sissy aye?...

Penang Bridge Marathon 2007

I'M IN!

Chili's @ Mid Valley

It's absolutely tiring today! Slept late last nite, and woke up quite early to drive to KLIA this morning. Compounded by yesterday's moderately intense gym workout. Decided to nap in Seremban after KLIA, and...

...headed to Chili's @ Mid Valley for dinner. Cannot eat crabs all the time mah rite?

We decided to go healthy for beverages. Two glasses of iced-water, zero calories, very good for health.

For starters, we ordered their Wings Over Buffalo. These are grilled chicken drummets topped with slightly spicy Buffalo wing sauce and served with cool bleu cheese dressing and a few batangs of crunchy celery. RM14.95.

Rachel had the BBQ Ranch Burger. It's a thick fat slab of meat with smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, BBQ sauce, ranch dressing, shredded lettuce, tomato, pickle, and fries. RM17.95.

I was famished, so I ordered something with rice - Citrus Fire Chicken and Shrimp. Citrus Margarita Grilled Chicken topped with spicy garlic and lime shrimp and pico de gallo, served with rice and chimichurri sauce. RM32.95.

Did I mention we were famished? All the dishes were sparkling clean!

This post is not to popularise the already popular Chili's chain of Grill & Bar franchise, so no comments on the food. Go try it out, coz when you're hungry, everything taste good in these kind of restaurants. Service here at the Mid Valley branch is outright unpleasant. My food has rice in it and they expect me to have the rice with fork and knife! I had to hold my arms upright so long that my armpit was air-dried, and yet nobody saw my sexy arm. I grunted a displeased "EXCUSE ME" to a nearby Bangla worker but he headed straight to catch a broom to sweep the nearby floor . Why they hire these kind of sick-fucks who fetishes on floor-sweeping rather than serving hungry customers?

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@ KLIA

Buggeratto! De elevators in KLIA are freakin high and long and scary! Ok maybe it's juz me being heightophobia. Sendin Rachel's mum off to Philippines.
1005hrs @ KLIA via W880i.

Papaya Sex!

People, especially the Chinese, associate food that resemble the genitalia as sex-enhancers and libido-boosters, i.e. the aphrodisiacs. Oysters, sea cucumbers, rhinocerous' horns, as well as penises and bollocks of tigers, oxes, etc. are well-known local aphrodisiacs. Ever thought of classifying papaya into the aphrodisiac category?

This is an organic papaya. Look at its curvatures. It looks sexy from any angle. Are you aroused yet?

Notice most of the other claimed aphrodisiacs are either seafood or animal organs, which are very high in cholesterol and thus causes atherosclerosis (deposition of fat on blood vessel wall) which ultimately predisposes to erectile dysfunction (inability to make erect the male genital organ)?!

Why can't papayas be aphrodisiac as well? For starters, it's healthy! Papayas contain known anti-inflammatory nutrients including Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate, Selenium and Beta Carotene. It is also a good source of dietary fiber and potassium.

Besides the packful of nutrients, papayas are good for cleansing the bowel system so that you won't pass out rotten-smelling farts (flatus) while in action on bed (caution: do not attempt any bed action within 2 hours after consuming papayas).

It's also claimed to be one of the world's healthiest food, and something that can "kick start or push yourself off that plateau you have been sitting on in your weight loss goals". Read the article here.

It's also heterogenous in aphrodisiacal appearance - when uncut and whole it looks like the male genitalia (refer to photos above). And when you're done with it, with some skillful allignment, the papaya skin can be made to look like the female labia too:

I say make organic papayas Malaysia's national aphrodisiac! Visit Malaysia 2007 and go tropical sex! PAPAYA BOLEH!

It's Mother's Day Today!

May 13 - it's Mother's Day! Had to wake up at an ungodly 4.00am to send our maid to LCCT. Mum crept into my room at 3.58am and touched my backside to wake me up, and my whole body jolted into the air in shock. Mum was shocked wide awake by my reaction too. Haha!

So the first few hours of Mother's Day was spent with mum chatting in the car to and fro LCCT. We then had dim sum for breakfast on the way back at this famous dim sum place in Taman Connaught (this shop is situated along the famous Connaught Pasar Malam stretch, also dubbed the longest pasar malam in Malaysia!). More chatting and talking with mummy dearest. It was a light breakfast as we intended to continue sleeping upon reaching home.

And sleep I did! Right till 3.00pm, when my stomach howled for food and I decided to crawl out of bed to find something to munch. And I saw mum getting ready to leave the house. Gonna do her hair she said. I need a haircut too! Let's go do hair together, I suggested... how sissy! Spending time together doing hair is supposed to be a mom-and-daughter activity. And it takes forever for a woman to have her hair done! My haircut and wash took less than 30mins. Mum's entire hair procedure totalled 3hrs! Lucky me we were in Mid Valley!

For dinner, we headed to grampa's favourite restaurant in the heart of Ampang old town - Restoran On Pong. An old skool restaurant serving old skool, nostalgic Chinese cuisine (the way my grampa puts it). Reservation was placed last week, and we still had to wait for 30 mins before the first dish was served. Business was obviously good - it's a full house!

The first dish is a combination of fried, steamed, barbequed, and stir-fried dishes (direct translation from the dish's bombastic Chinese name) consisting of pork, stuffed roll with salted egg yolk, veggies, tofu, etc.

And a huge serving of Superior Shark's Fin soup, a must for any Chinese-themed feasts. This dish alone costs a bomb! (I am sure they didn't use REAL shark's fin so wildlife conservationists can look elsewhere if you wanna pick a fight!).

A closer look of what's inside... got some fin-ny stuff aye? Hmmm wonder how many sharks fishes they kill for that bowl of soup.

Then it's the Steamed Kampong Chicken.

Next up - Steamed Ikan Bawal.

Mixed veggie - inside got mushrooms, abalone slices, tofu slices, broccoli, and ginkgo.

And lastly, Butter Prawns. Huge succulent prawns with loads of fragrant fried butter + egg strips!

Mum, sis, and I.

Mum, sis, grampa, Aunt Angie, and I. There were 9 of us, the rest camera shy, scared I put their pics in blog. Heh heh heh...
That concluded this years Mother's Day. And mom, I love you since your very first touch 24 years ago! Thanks for everything you did for us, your neverending care and love!

@ LCCT

Sending our maid of 2 years home. She's so happy, going back to Yogharta to see her children on Mother's Day... after two years! Nana, we gonna miss you! Woke up at 0400hrs, it's a nice drive. Took the Nilai exit to KLIA. Felt the Nilai route is nearer compared to following the road signs, plus cheaper toll too. Correct me if I'm wrong. So many Indon ppl at LCCT today! Yawn...
0545hrs @ LCCT, Sepang via W880i.

Baked Crab @ Choy Kee

Daniel was depressed today due to his "fantastic" End of Paediatric posting results (the result graph can be viewed in IMU's Semester 9 notice board). He demanded crabs for dinner for symptomatic relief of depression, and Choy Kee Food Stall we went! I heard Felix did "better" than Daniel by obtaining a "F", and having won the bet, Daniel paid for his A&W lunch. So we left him out. Moreover, it's a Friday, he'd already be by mummy's side.

First dish, Stuffed Tofu Steamed with Soy Sauce (the name I simply kelentong one la, the waitress blabber something-something tofu in Chinese and asked whether we would like to try, and everyone nodded). Tasted like tofu. Nothing to shout about. RM8.00.

Next is Thai Style Chicken. Deep fried chicken with plenty of fattening chicken skin coated in breadcrumbs batter topped with onions and doused with tasty Thai sauce. RM12.00.

Veggie, and again those China-educated friends of mine preferred to keep mum when the waitress repeatedly asked what veggie we wanted. And what did I order? Yes, always a Fu Yue Yao Mak (lettuce with pickled tofu and garlic) for me! This is RM8.00.

We had the above three "side-dishes" with rice. Those three dishes are considered appetisers, and by the time we finished everything, the main course came. Our all-time favourite Salted-Egg Crab.

And Choy Kee's all-time popular Baked Crab. They are super-delicious. Second to none. The dark caramel sauce is so fragrant, Daniel ended up licking the crab shell clean.

So it's a tie between Choy Kee's Salted-Egg Crab and Baked Crab! If thick buttery salted-egg taste is no good to you, go ahead and try their Baked Crab. To me, I luuurrrvee both crab preparations. The crabs totalled 2.3kg, and costs us RM92.00. What a meal to start the weekend! Wonder what I'm gonna have for the coming Mother's Day banquet. Heh heh, crabs did I just hear you calling?!

Related Crap Crab posts:
• Seremban Seafood Village
• Choy Kee Food Stall
• Daniel's post on "Crab Feast at Choy Kee"

Intensive Care Unit

A panoramic view of Hospital Tuanku Jaafar's ICU. This week sees my first time stepping into an ICU. Full of mechanical gadgetry and sick people. Am posted there again tomorrow. Yawn!

Saman Ordeal

For those who thinks that settling your summonses online is convinient and saves time, reconsider your options. I just settled four summonses last week - 3 for speeding and 1 for traffic obstruction, totalling RM520. Went to the PDRM booth in Terminal 1, Seremban. To cut the long story short, the police officer reduced the compounds to a total of RM340 after much acting, and asked for RM20 "duit kopi". All in all I saved RM160, enough to pay for another speeding ticket and one more traffic obstruction compound!