Food ! Glorious Food !

This blog has gone from mountain biking stuffs... to Photography... there was even a blog on a bomb scare, now... Gonna put up a blog on FOOD ! Why food ? Probably today was quite a mood swing day for me. One of those day that no matter how hard you try to concentrate on work, but then nothing is going your way, and nothing really gets done ! Something when things go so wrong, you can always take comfort in food. Just have something nice.. indulge in something sinful, I'm still talking about food here. How about this for a sinful indulgence...

So what do you think ? Isn't just sinful ? Dah lar ice cream, got melted chocolate dipping some more. Of course there are other side items to go with it ler. Checkout the fruits on the side of the platter.. Give me this over sex, for sure it'll cheer up a ANY bad day...

Today I was supposed to be together with my Tammy... But I guess was a tad too late to make my decision. Or rather I shouldn't have waited. Since I've decided to go for this Saturday nite's event (Malaysia Blogger's Day ! @ Friendster Cafe), wanted to get my Tammy and bring her along. in fact I've been emailing shashinki.com for Tammy's availability since yesterday morning. This morning called Key Color Mid Valley, said that Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens was still available. Thought wanna wait for CS confirmation with KC Subang Parade 1st, mana tau ke.. can get slightly cheaper price. But alas... decided to get from KC MV, called them to book the unit, only to received bad news of it (just) being SOLD !
Took it as a sign... It is not our time to be together yet. Tammy would have to wait.. I'm sure she'll understand...

Today was supposed to pass my whole bike + all the other upgrade parts to Armijn, Project Maheez. Was thinking of lugging the bike into my car boot, but then since Keat said he can help me drop it in the afternoon. Then ok lor, at least I don't have to rush after work. But sadly, Keat went there around 2ish pm.. The LBS was closed. Sigh.. wasted trip.. Though the time was predetermined before, I guess Armijn might have been caught up with his day job (?)..
GOD knows WHEN WILL MY BIKE WILL EVER BE READY FOR RIDE again ?! From previous phone conversation, the Tank Lights hubs were supposed to be in by today. Anyhow, my RED Mavic 317 is there, so he can start building the rear wheel 1st. He did say that Tank Fobia would be ride-ready by Saturday night.. Another day goes by, might just be another weekend without ride...

Think enough about today liow... Decided to leave office on time, since whole day also not very productive. Hopefully boss don't read this.. It is just 1 of those days ya boss..

Oh Oh !! Yesterday night, finally went to watch Transformers ! But before that, 3 of us had dinner @ SOHO 1Utama.. The food there is good, to me it tastes rather authentic. But who am I to judge, I'm Chinese but can't speak Mandarin well. Anyhow despite the bill came to close RM100nett. The food was GOOD.. Especially the Aromatic Crispy Duck..
There is actually half a duck there.. Doesn't quite look like it rite, but it came served intact. The waiter ripped it and shredded the meat for us. Even the bones were good and crispy.. Worth a try and also for the ambiance...
Oh... now back to the TRANSFORMER movie... It was really really really good and worth all the wait. The action in the movie was superb ! The whole movie, you'll be like left breathless. I was really on the edge of my seat, anticipating what the next scene is gonna be like. If only I don't have to blink throughout the movie.. But nothing is perfect, IMHO they have overdid with the ROBOTS, too much damn details. Seeing the screws and nuts or bolts.. Kind of takes away the originality of the actual character / robots. Would be nice if they used back the cartoon's theme song.. And more of the phrases used... Oh well... Not possible to please everyone mar...

Autobots... Transformer... And roll out !

~::NK the wOOfer::~

I'm back!!

It was a long long long time i haven't post anything here since i injured my backbone few months back. Now i'm back but yet ready to get back on my bike yet. When will it be? Not sure. Hopefully soon.

From Mountain Biking, HT'er had a slightly changes. These days, you can just NK posting some non-bike related topic. After all, this is a blog for HT'ers. Nothing specified!! We will try to include as many things as possible but try to make it majority bike related.

Here my return to the blog. A shot that i feel is one of my best one.

Enjoy!! Feel free to comment me in Flickr!! See you around!! And i will participate in MTB with a different manner!!


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Malaysia's Blogger's Day ; 14 July 2007

Hello all...

Look at what I found...

For more info... please visit this link ; http://miccobayb.blogspot.com/2007/06/kl-bloggers-night-out.html

Looks interesting... Sure gonna be a jam packed event ! The Friendster cafe, is actually very near to Project Maheez.

~::NK the wOOfer::~

All I wanna do is just... RIDE...

Another weekend has just passed... And it was another weekend of NO RIDE for me. I really thought that this weekend, I'll be able to fit in a ride. But sadly, my rear wheel was not ready... Project Maheez was sent with the wrong hubs, 36 holes - instead of 32 holes. But it was good that Armijn loaned me a spare rear wheel. Which SADLY, didn't quite aligned to my bike.. It was seriously out of alignment, the disc is touching the pad, even the tire is rubbing against the frame. How to ride rite ???

What to do... wait for another week lor. I hope that by middle of next week, I'll be able to get my wheel ready. I think at the same time, I'll bring all my new parts to be installed. Quite a list of new parts... Then from there, once everything is ON. Hopefully the bike will NOT give me further problems.

Probably then I should consider a new frame.. No No NO ! A full new bike ! I wonder then, would it be a full sus mountain bike ? Or I'll probably switch to a Road Bike... We'll see what happens then. Hopefully and I pray that nothing will go wrong liow...

~::NK the wOOfer::~

RAGE !!!

IBE 2007, originally uploaded by nkeongprofile.

Sigh... This is what I should be feeling now.. Till now, saya punye Tank Fobia belum lagi masuk ICU. Itu Doctor macam tak la senang mau layan gua.. Sigh...

Anyhow also... Even if I get my bike repaired, the following few weekends, I'll be held up with Taekwondo classes. Can't neglect my kids as well, since they have got their grading coming up in August.

I think I better set a deadline for me to get the bike repaired. If not it will continue to sit in the store room and collect dust. Got the new parts also haven't fixed yet... Macam orang Cina cakap, boleh tengok, tak boleh makan..

:: NK the wOOfer ::

Bored at Starbucks SS15 SJ - 13.06.07

Bored at Starbucks SS15 SJ - 13.06.07, originally uploaded by nkeongprofile.

This happened on 1 of those nights, that you just refused to stay at home.. No matter how tired you are or what not.. Something is just telling you to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE !

Well that was what happened that night... From office already I knew, I wanted to be out that night. Just didn't feel like staying at home.. Probably cause been in the office all day, sitting down trapped within the 4 walls. Needed to BREAK FREE type of feeling...

Called CS... Ajak him along, wanted to have coffee anyhow and a place to do work. At least in a more open area, nice cold blended coffee AND free to smoke... Decided to bring our DSLR along...

Well... I managed to get some work done, as well as a few shots. Sadly, there weren't much people for us to snap candid. No interesting subject...

OUT

~::NK the wOOfer::~

Funding for a COVERT ops...

Really... It has been a long while since there has been any ride posting on this blog. Mainly since we haven't been riding, at all.. Major is down with back bone injury, myself - Tank Fobia is in coma, in the process of getting it fixed. Tweeter pulak have been busy over the weekends, photo shoots and what not. So just left Red Dragon to ride lor.. And he have been riding, Kiara mostly..

So finally, last Saturday evening, finally I made my way to Project Maheez. Went there after a short shooting session with CS in 1Utama, but that is another story.. It was nice going to Project Maheez, when we reached it was just Armijn there alone. He was working on removing the front wheel of his (soon-to-be-sold) Ironhorse Sunday. Cause the RS BOXXER was sold to a guy from Penang, didn't get his name. It was the usual talk cog, or more like gossiping session to me.

I have asked for my hubs.. It was between a RED anodized Ringle hubs or go back to Tank Lights, which I have no problem with both. But there is a price different of about RM200, which is gonna be worth it - for the RED coloured hubs. Of course it would depends on whether Armijn can source for it or not. Thankfully he can get Tank Lights hubs, from Penang, and fast delivery also - 1 day delivery. But the LX crank might be more difficult to get, as now, the supplier / distributor don't sell Shimano grouppo seperately. Hopefully Armijn can use his contacts over in Singapore...

Was suppose to drop my bike to Project Maheez yesterday evening. But then I was down with fever and bad sore throat. Forced me to be in bed the whole day, slept most of the day and night. So just sms Armijn, told him to go ahead with the order of them parts - LX crank & Tank Lights hubs (rear only if possible). Keep the RED anodized Ringle hubs for (maybe) the new Transition COVERT...

Oh yes... It is true... I'm thinking of going full sus ! Don't know why... Initially wanted to get the DirtBag, but then the 4-bar linkage looks bit too complicated. Major did warned me about the linkage bearing, have to take good care of it. Which is 1 setback of using full sus...

Now back to the COVERT operation.. Don't know why but I would really wanna give full sus a try, then again.. To sell off my Tank Fobia, bit the sayang also. Sigh... COVERT frame + DHX coil would cost me somewhere around RM4000++, not including the other parts yet. Or was that the price for a full bike ? Can't really recall.. Still the figures are scary !

This project, or operation would really need detailed and long term planning... Not really easy forking out that much cash. And hor, got other things on my Wishlist as well leh. Don't forget, I've got the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens that I've been eyeing for so long. Even if I'm getting the COVERT, it would be at the beginning of next year.. After bonus is out. OR unless I can convince Tweeter to sell off the Montana, then I pass the Tank over to him. Using whatever cash, I top up the balance for a COVERT, which at the end of it still gotto fork out a large sum of cash. Oh well... like I said, it requires detailed and long term planning.. Seems like after (almost) fully upgrade the Tank, I'm selling it off...

Guess the next posting from me... Might just be about a new frame, OR another ride's blog...

~::NK the wOOfer::~