upekka @ sec17/8

another place for ppl in pj to dine in this little humble restaurant at sec17. as we know sec17 is a peaceful and quiet neighborhood, preferred by any university students to stay there. i had stayed there for almost 3 decade for now. u can actually find your way in and out for food easily. no hassle. but for this case "upekka".

here's the sign board

kam heong rice

spaghetti with tuna

fried rice, not sure what kind of style

mee hon goreng

fried loh shi fun

mainly there are quite a number of local dishes. but for a change you also get spaghetti and western delights. haven't tasted their western yet but i forsee it would be nice but nothing to shout about. pricing is quite reasonable as their customer mostly are from uni or college student. this is a place that you or your partner can sit down and relax. no rush hour timing, just enjoy the food and the chit chats.. :D

ipoh fellowship ride 2008

started off to the nkve highway around 1130hrs from damansara tol. traffic was ok and some parts of the highway are upgrading to 3 lanes road either ya coming down from south or heading north. exited through tapah and headed to kampar for some makan time! anyway, it's been raining since i got to ipoh with heavy downpour along the highway until i exited at ipoh selatan tol. gosh, this going be a fun ride for tommorow! check in the hotel and headed to jusco a couple of hours later to makan dinner. the place my wife and i went called "bamboo" something. couldn't remember the name but it is at the 1st floor heading towards the GSC cinema area.

this is the place

prawn with mayonnaise and dragon fruit

ohh...the juice is superbly done!

sinchuan style noodle

next morning at 0430hrs, woke up and get prepare for the ride. rendezvous at nasi kandar nasmir just beside the tesco ipoh there. 0600hrs head off to mk land office for the registration. got my number # 071. :D can't hardly wait to flag off the ride!

well, flagoff around 0800hrs i think...riders are getting excited and eager to sprint out like they had never been ridden for years. the crowds was echoing with noises luckily we are way out of radius within the neighborhood. alas! we had a lift off...my riding mates sprinted fast ahead of me where i need to catch up upon them. it wasn't easy as i used to start slow and steady, sprinting ahead of others zooming past other riders was my very first time. adrenaline rush was all time high on that period of time.

there were hills after hills at stage 1, which i never anticipated during this ride. with the fitness level i am having those hills never been easy at all. by the time i was about to reach the first checkpoint i think i had drained out. should had save some of the adrenaline... :( pushing my bike uphill was a torturing event. but what goes up must come down! downhill was awesome and the snake like trail was totally mind blowing. that was the most enjoyable moment i ever had. by the time i had reached to the 2nd checkpoint, i was totally worn out. to add some salt on the wound, the 3rd checkpoint was entirely uphill for about 7km! ok, thats it for me! i'm done! took the chicken loop to the 4th checkpoint which some mild uphill and flats all the way back to the finish/start line. that took me around 1hr 45mins for some 15km. i know it's a long time but to tell you the truth, i was actually struggling back to the finish line. each of my every muscles in the body was calling out pain, exhaustion, dehydration (forgot to drink water) and my brain cells are not actually working properly.

looking back the trails and suffering i went thru this fellowship ride, it was all well worth it. or else it won't be called mountain biking for no reason..haha..organizer and the sponsors of this event did a wonderful job and did not let down anyone who participated this event. two thumbs up for the ipoh fellowship ride 2008! :D

old skool pic..

well, was resting and having some coconuts at sg.buloh lepar town after an hour of riding.

oh yeah! did a 2.3km run at ttdi taman. look all the cars park there, was full pack with ppl.

testing with my phoneblog...my new SE K770i... :D

bowling is fun! but.....

working boringly at the office on friday...was thinking of shooting some balls later (bowling) alone while waiting for my wifey to get off work (she's in IBM). started off with some inaccurate shoots n cleaning the longkang alot, been lay off a while on bowling. i know my trusty arm will find my shoots back remembering the glory days a decade ago. it did when i was at the 5th game. the score board was like this:

9/ | X | 8/ | 9/ | X | 8- | 7/ | 81 | 7/ | 9--

ohh yeah! who's ur daddy! very climax already..i don't get this chance all the time..better quick take my phone n snapshot of the score sheet. blady hell! where's my phone? is not in my pocket either at the seat. sat there for 5 mins thinking where's my W660i phone? ok it struck me that my phone sudah kena hijackeD! arrggghhh...i was dumbfounded at that time. i left my phone at the seat covering it with the bowling ball handler. :0 . well, it's also partly my fault that i put it at the seat...but but it's covered! arrggh..the guy whole stole it must had been stalking me i guess...sweat!...well that's an expensive lesson to learn..anyway, i got 1 more game to finish off..what the hell, just continue my last game and the scores comes out like this:

-3 | 7- | -1 | -- | [8]- | 34 | 5- | 14 | 16 | -7-

what an anti-climax...aih....

my house part 2

what ya think about the house? much more cleaner! hahaha..yeap! 75% completed, some paint job and some electrical connections will do it. just take a look at a few pic taken frm my camera phone. a bit blur la.