Rock Climbing @ Camp5

In high school, one of the favorite thing I like to do when I’m free is to scale up the side of the school, of course with the safety of a rope we dangled off the top (which we had to climb up to tie in the first place). But nevermind that as that’s not what I’m writing this about.

After high school, it’s the usual outing at the waterfalls or sides of hills and mountains until I had a bad fall at one of them and had a problem trying to climb anymore. (more…)

Shogun @ 1Utama

@imTheJessicat invited me to join her for lunch some time back at Shogun as I had a sudden craving for sushi and some form of Japanese food. So I figured, why not since I’ve not eaten there before and it’s buffet style. Should be quite ok knowing that sushi is one of the type of food that needs to be fresh when served.

In terms of choices, there’s quite a selection available at the Shogun from the sushi base to the udons and fried stuff so at first look without taking a bite on the food they sell, I’m quite delighted. Got myself a place to seat and off we go to find the dishes of our choices.

I started my meal with the cold dish, the sushi, as I saw the chef prepared them and lay them out. I supposed it’s going to be fresh and nice. Well, the fish isn’t really the freshest in the world and the rice was packed way too solid during preparation. Maybe he’s new, you know these days you can have a restaurant that serves Japanese food and the ones preparing the food is bangla or indonesians or myanmar citizens. Which surprisingly happens mostly in Malaysia. MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Then I went for the cooked stuff but I must say, maybe it’s the restaurant but the dishes are so cold that it’s solid and hard to chew. I’m not here trying to give them a hard time, I’m just stating what I ate and what I think about the food I picked.

There’s also dim sums and desserts that you can take but these are mostly manufactured and prepacked stuff instead of the made there and then to serve fresh type. You can roughly know whether they uses the same supplier as some other dim sum outlets with the bite of the dim sum.

The one dessert that didn’t go wrong was the ice cream.I guess it’ll be a great shocker if even the ice cream was bad. Really don’t know how that could happen unless they serve expired ice cream. Out of curiosity, is there really any way to find out whether an Ice Cream is bad or not?

If you ask me whether I’d go back there again to eat, I can definitely tell you that I won’t. Not when there’s so many other Japanese restaurant in 1Utama that serves better sushi or cooked dishes than them.

Shogun Japanese Buffet Restaurant
Lot.S 335A, 2nd Floor Oval,
1-Utama Shopping Centre,
No. 1, Lebuh Bandar Utama,
Bandar Utama 47800, Selangor

Ratings:
Food – 3/5
Service – 2½/5
Cleaniness/Ambience – 4/5
Value for Money – 2½/5

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Baskin’s Doggie Day Out celebrating Shalom’s Birthday

MissyBlurKit invited me to bring my family to Central Park Avenue (Located in front of the 1Utama new wing near the open air carpark) to celebrate her baby, @divashalom‘s birthday. And so on a early Sunday morning, my monsters along with the furkid (Baskin ler who else…) went with me to meet and greet the birthday girl and her family as well as the many friends that was there.

I must admit that this is the 1st time I took Baskin out with my monsters to meet and greet other dog owners and was a bit worried that Baskin would go bonkers with so many other dogs around but I must admit that he was cool as a cucumber, went around to meet and greet other dogs at the park and making some new friends. (more…)

ASIMO at 1Utama

Earlier today, I was at 1Utama for ASIMO’s opening ceremony as he will be in 1Utama for the weekend. Who would pass up an opportunity to see the one robot that could walk without any assistants, dance, run, even serve people with drinks?

No, robots from anime doesn’t count. Anyway, I’m amazed at the engineering behind ASIMO. During the introduction of ASIMO to the guests, media and contest winners, we could witness how ASIMO walk, run, talk (I think it’s all pre-recorded phrases though), lift and place items on table and even kick a ball. (more…)

Made of Honour

Just got back from 1Utama, caught the MADE OF HONOUR at TGV, thanks to Ras Angela for the tickets. There was alot of bloggers there as well.

The show started at 9pm and we got there bout 6.30pm hoping to grab some dinner before doing some quick shopping. So arriving at the venue, we headed off to Old Town Kopitiam for some dinner. These was what we had.

Old Town White Coffee Ice & Old Town White Coffee Ice “GAO”

Curry Noodle

Nissin Noodle with Chicken Ham & Egg.

As for the movies, we got ourself a bucket of caramel laced popcorn and 2 regular cokes.

The movie was good, had a good laugh at quite a few scenes. A great movie for those guys who’s planning to get married and need to think up of vows to say. Alot of good quotes! LOL.

Lastly, we also took home a pair of cute keychains… what am I going to do with them? I’ve no idea, one of them has gone to become part of a keychain.