Las Carretas

Friday. Went to McD’s Taipan with Andy after college since I had a certain fast food craving and there were tons of useless free coupons gimmick where the company of evil golden arches decided to plant them all over TheSun newspaper. The promotion was free 6 pieces of Spicy Chicken McNuggets that were supposed to cost RM5.50 - oh but you have to buy the large set of any Foldover meal.

Most of you might have known that I have a tendency to break out in huge globs of sweat because I couldn’t stand spicy food. So somehow I mis-ordered the rather pathetic Spicy Beef Foldover which was more vege than beef, and spicy nuggets weren’t anything special. The spiciness was exceptionally sharp.

Stayed there a while till 3pm plus while Andy was SMSing away on his PDA. I bought this RM3 Sonic the Hedgehog toy from the Happy Meal set for my youngest bro where you control Sonic to dodge spikes and collect rings in this extremely simple game. I finished the entire game - 5 levels in all - in like 10 minutes. rofl.

Left house at about 5.45pm for swimming, picked up Heng and Andy, then Daniel and Kai Tzin at USJ 1. I was nevertheless unhappy that my plans to swim early and mahjong more later was ruined by the fact that thousands of cars decided to throng Giant and most likely the newly-opened MyDin. It took like 30-40 minutes to crawl in and out of the mindfucking jam in good ol’ USJ 1 which was quite a ridiculous experience considering the fact it was only a neighbourhood.

But hell no it wasn’t a friendly neighbourhood in any way. Maybe the township would like to expand roads, build more of them tarred ones, or remove obscene MyDin clogging up roads. It was so riveting and excitingly frustrating but at the end of this war-battered journey I learnt of a nifty shortcut in USJ 1 from Kai Tzin (no you may not know what that is, lest a million other like-minded people follow suit).

Swimming was excellent. Was wearing my new trunks which was quite short and had the unenviable result of feeling quite naked; takes some time to get used to. New swimming goggles had this anti-fog feature which worked as perfect as it was advertised - no longer do I have to manually wipe off the fog accumulated on the goggles after doing a lap of swim, and water didn’t enter my goggles at all unlike the ones I’ve used. :D

Daniel left after a while to follow Jun Man to Pyramid. I tried entering the sauna with Heng and Kai Tzin and it felt like some torture chamber of some sort, and reminded me of a particular gory scene of two girls burnt to death in Final Destination 3, while getting an artificial tan. Apart from inhaling humid, hot air and throwing a towel around your face to prevent them entering your system the wrong way, sauna had the effect of making you sweat like a pig which seems rather pointless in my opinion. If I want to sweat a lot I’d rather have sex exercise.

Ate at Ming Tein; delicious curry mee as usual. Went to Shawn’s place at about 10.30pm where we had our mahjong session with Yen, with Andy playing for a while replacing Heng.

Andy used my car to fetch both Kai Tzin and Daniel home at 2am, while we stopped our mahjong at 3. Learnt a new strategy from Yen as well. After discussing rapidly about early morning bak kut teh plan with Andy, finally went back at 3.30am.

Saturday. HMC group discussion at 12pm, so I left home at 11.45am to pick up Andy who had just reached home after hanging out with Ding and Kai Tzin - Andy presumed I needed a much-wanted sleep in the end instead of waking up with only 3 hours of sleep for a bak kut teh and he was right. Because our college decided to cut off electric supply to the fans in the concourse, Andy, Kent, and I went to SS15’s Old Town Kopitiam to discuss.. we picked up Jo Vie on the way to go there.

Yeah we were discussing alright. Yep.

Not too much space around for everyone to be able to see my laptop.

Stress-induced euphoria.

The tomyam meehoon I ordered for RM4.80 was too spicy for my tastes, so I didn’t actually finish it all save for the meehoon. One more food to include into my list of bewares.

Went back at like 5pm-ish. Had a small incident in college when my car got locked in and I couldn’t get it out because of a persistently naggish guard, until we continued his line of small talk and apologised and whatnot.

Took a nap when I got home, until Shawn woke me up to go to Las Carretas, Taipan to have dinner with his two sisters. The Koh siblings’ godparents were there, so yeah, pretty much at the end they treated us to the rather pricey dinner. >_>

I love their Mexican-themed decor.

This was Yen’s fajitas or sommat.

Pam’s dish, something to do with fish.

And my burito! Heck, I didn’t know how it would be beforehand so I asked the waiter wtf that was. He replied, very nonchalantly that it was hilarious, “Itu macam murtabaklah” while Shawn’s dish was explained in Malaysianised terms that it was “nasi dengan kari lembu”. lol.

Pam and godfather.

Aftermath.

Shawn and Yen.

My burito was about RM22 so I’ll leave it up to you to figure out whether it was worth it or not. It has a very familiar taste I didn’t get to recall what that was, but for its price I could probably fit in a couple of meals. Would’ve also described the food in further details but as far as food and sports jargon are concerned, I suck in both.

Yen also ordered homemade brownies and fried ice-creams for desserts in the end which I tasted a bit. Not too bad, but again I wouldn’t pay the price it charged us in total for desserts - RM20ish, which was almost the same as the main course itself.

After heading to banks and dropped by at Shawn’s house for a bit, I reached home at 10pm plus.

We collectively agreed that Chilis is much better than Las Carretas. Yay for bottomless drinks and tortilla chips.