At SOULed OUT

Project 365 #97: Friday, 22nd May 2009

Yumcha at night with Jess, Wai Hong, Heng, Shawn, and Andy. Most of the pics of the night weren’t snapped by me.

Jess playing with my newly purchased wireless remote for my camera – I bought it from DealExtreme for only USD$3.97! Unbelievably, it provides free shipping worldwide even if the item I purchased would probably cost much less than the actual shipping itself wtf.

Heng and me.

Shawn with one of his crazy antics as usual.

Heng and Jess.

At our usual hangout – there was also, for some reason, a sudden influx of people that saw the place incredibly packed.

Project 365 #98: Saturday, 23rd May 2009

Shawn was supposed to work today, but after finding out that his work clothes were dumped into the washing machine instead, his mum asked him to take the day off and he did. We were also supposed to play badminton at 9pm, but Shawn requested to push it forward to 8pm instead – and these details are important for what that followed later that night.

We had a pretty good workout from playing badminton non-stop for an entire hour at the USJ 1 badminton court – we being me, Heng, Shawn, and Wai Hong – and we had originally planned to play at USJ 23, but the courts were all unavailable till 1am instead.

We left the badminton centre at about 9.10pm+, then went off to pick Ding up for dinner – at the roundabout, Shawn inadvertently missed the turning to the left, and so we used a long, round-about way instead. At a turning near Kai’s house, Shawn made a turn, saw something fell off from his car and immediately got down and found his cellphone – his wallet was nowhere in sight.

Turns out that while changing his clothes earlier, he placed his wallet and his cellphone on the roof of the car, forgot all about it, and drove off. Wtf. >__>

Suffice to say we backtracked – Wai Hong and I even walked together along the extremely dark, shoddily-lit streets – but his wallet was nowhere to be found. The sole RM1 in his wallet wasn’t cause for concern, but the general troublesomeness involved when re-applying for his IC, driving license, student card, etc – on top of it all, being fined a substantial amount for this mistake too. :/

This was where we went next when all hope is lost (although Shawn was extremely convinced that an angel – in the form of a gorgeous Indian lady – would chance upon it and return his wallet to him).

Waiting in the new police station.

Shawn’s tulan face.

The constables on duty.

We were all discussing the possibilities then, that his wallet wouldn’t be lost if we played badminton at our original time at 9pm, or if he hadn’t skipped his work today.. the list goes on – if you’ve watched Benjamin Button, you’d imagine that taxi scene in your head all over again.

After filing a report, we picked up Ding, went to the mamak next to Joe’s car wash shop and ate an extremely late dinner/supper, before finally heading back home.

Project 365 #99: Sunday, 24th May 2009

Dressed up to the nines and ready to sparkle in the presence of The Bartender, Heng, Jess and I went to Decanter Too only to find it… closed.

The funny thing was, I had that feeling that it may be closed and told Heng about it when he dropped by my house earlier in the afternoon, but when I tried going on to Decanter’s website to search more information about the operating hours (as well as Facebook), the website just wouldn’t load.

Not our luck I suppose. After a while Jon arrived right behind my parked car with Ee Leen, and we went to the nearby SOULed OUT instead.

Seeing that Sri Hartamas is an expat/rich man’s turf, it’s no surprise to see two different Ferraris outside this restaurant/bar, as well as dozens of angmohs around.

The menu.

Heng and I ordered a jug of Heineken to be shared between the two of us – and I was sufficiently perky enough to not be able to drive later.

Even though this pic’s blur, I thought it was cute enough that it should be posted – Jon was trying out my camera’s wireless remote.

Heng’s and my 11” Sake San for RM32 – thin-crust pizza (no cheese!) with salmon slivers, fish roe, Japanese mayonnaise, lolorosso, with small servings of wasabi. Exceedingly delicious, the pizza and the salmon complimented each other very well, and I thought that the hints of the wasabi all-in-all completes the entire experience – it’s just a bit too bad that it wasn’t filling enough for two hungry males.

Jess looking at something.

The environment of SOULed OUT.

Jess’ face looks hilarious here lol.

Ms. Loi.

Jon and Ee Leen.

We left at around 9.30pm-ish. Jon and Ee Leen went back home, while we (Heng was driving my car then) picked up Suet from Barry’s place at SS18, then we returned to Jess’ place where I.. slept. wtf. Despite Suet’s pleads we only left at 15 minutes to midnight after the first half of a football match between MU and an indistinct team.

Project 365 #100: Monday, 25th May 2009

Went to Fairmay at SS14 to adjust my spectacles in the morning, but they weren’t open yet so I had to wait for a while the lady boss arrived at 15 minutes after 11am (boy, was the weather rather hot), and I was asked to stay for a while to see if it’d be too tight again.

But I had to leave at like 11.50am as my mum needed to use the car to pick my bro and some kids up, so I went back.. and discovered that my glasses were actually too loose instead wtf.

Returned again at 2 something when my mum dropped me off there before she went to fetch my bro to attend some class at some church – I passed my time by doing my French homework and reading a bit of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

My entire French class tonight consisted of merely completing a trial test of sorts for the DELF A1 by answering 60 questions in like 90 minutes. Would’ve returned home with nary a hitch if not for some construction workers closing off the road I usually used in PJ, and I ended up detouring till the opposite side of the Federal Highway – I didn’t even realise this was the case, I was just following the car in front of me, and when I saw Midvalley, speeding cars well above the speed limit, and other traces of KL, I knew that this wasn’t going to be a pleasant night.

I finally reached home sans using my GPS as it wouldn’t receive any satellite signals, but I managed. I reached home, wanting to play a bit of Okami on Wii, but my TV remote was out of commission and I didn’t know how to change the channels without it FML.

I went online and chatted with Haensly instead. :) We’ve been exchanging videos ala MTV Cribs to get a glimpse of the life halfway across the world, and it’s refreshing as it is exceedingly cool.

Also, HS is progressing to a new database system – thanks to the master of the craft behind it: Jon. I am excited at this new development.