Am I being too harsh?

Last Sunday, I sent in a feedback to Sushi Zanmai online. Told them what I encountered with my friends in their restaurant, hoped they are able to study from the reflection of a customer. Obviously, I wouldn't expect much of a respond coz feedbacks here are very commonly being ignored.

2 days later, they replied, thanked me for the piece of information and promised to study the situation.

2 days after the first reply, the person in charge of the restaurant sent an email to apologise upon the incident, also mentioned action has been carried out. Inviting my family and I to dine in there with their complimentary voucher offered. He assured every customer will be served with better service. If I would to choose to make reservation in future, he will accept.

What I want to say is that, of course I'm glad that they replied to apologise and realised the incident.

However, I would still choose not to step into the restaurant anymore in future. I always believe that the first impression make a big impact, be it good or bad. The 40 minutes plus experience seriously tested my patience with customer service. I am not a customer that crave solely on food alone, when I leave the place with the 'That's it!' unsatisfaction, that is really it.

I really do appreciate they make the effort trying to improve their services from now.

I sincerely wish you all the best in the future, Sushi Zanmai in Sunway Pyramid.

"Am I being too harsh?" The answer is 'No'.

Sushi Zanmai in Sunway Pyramid

If anyone planning to visit Sushi Zanmai in Sunway Pyramid, I highly recommend you NOT to go and waste you time and money! Perhaps you can try the one in 1 Utama or The Gardens, just dont go to the one in Sunway!

A very terrible rude customer service!!

I have never seen such rude attitudes with absolutely no smile from the beginning till the end at all. The atmosphere was so uncomfortable.

There were 3 particular waiters and one waitress serving the customers in their restaurant with a very rude and unprofessional attitude. Just in case they are trying to act 'cool' with no mirror reflecting their attitudes, let me tell you how did you look like "RUDE!!"

Please!! If this is a so called 'restaurant', live up your name, if you dont mind! McDonald's serve every customer with a smile even during busy lunch hour, alright? How incomparable!

What a meal spoilt just because of the terrible customer service! Buck up, Sushi Zanmai in Sunway Pyramid!

Phohoa in Tropicana City Mall

The following and coming food reviews that I'll be updating might be a little outdated. I apologize for ignoring this blog for almost 2 months. Hopefully the coming schedule allow me to have enough daily rest, am really looking forward =)

*I am a little too anxious at this late hour due to the Friday Persuasive Speech, can hardly sleep.*

I went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Tropicana City Mall near Section 17 with church friends last month - Phohoa.

A friendly and gentle environment with the delicate Vietnamese decoration, Vietnamese paintings are hanging all over. In fact, I think the paintings are pretty interesting. Check it out when you are there.

I ordered a Vermicelli Bowl of Bun Tom Ga Nuong. (no idea how to pronunce, sorry)

A friend told me that Vietnam is very famous with their coffee and bali drinks. Maybe you can try it when you have a chance to pay a visit there. =)

This is my dish! Absolutely delicious and most suitable for diners who are looking for a healthy diet dinner. Filling enough and able to satisfiy tummy that hunger for fresh crunchy nutrient-balanced meal.

For more information, check out here: www.phohoa.com

Overall: 7/10

Devotion

Have you done your devotion today?

The message preached by Pastor Dr Wayne Cordeiro on Encountering God's Tranforming Word Daily was really awesome! Thank God for the message!

A few things he mentioned was simply inspiring.
1. Learning other's mistake not only save a lot of our time for not repeating the same mistake, also to gain wisdom. You will never know till you experience it. Learning other's mistake could save up your 10 years time for committing it.

There's one book to look up to... where else? B-I-B-L-E!!! There are more than enough examples for us to learn and be prepared when the time is here!

Reading Bible doesnt use our time, instead SAVE us time!

2. Musicians practice their scales everyday.
If a musician did not practice for one day, during the performance/concert, he will know.
If he/she did not practice for 2 days, the conductor will know.
If he/she did not practice for 3 days, the world will know.

What about us as Christians? Are we practicing our 'scales' daily?

3. Develop our devotion time a habit. Do it at our best time. He deserves our best!

4. Now then, bring 5 things with you for devotion time.
Bible, pen, reading plan, journal and SOAP!
[Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer]

HUNGRY for God's Words? Feed yourself!

Master of juggling

Taken from artofgarth.com/category/illustration/

Perhaps there are times
when we simply cannot avoid being busy

No big deal
don't run away with fear

JUGGLE it
yes
I mean it
let's learn to juggle with JOY

Cheers

Nothing is too difficult when we have the Almighty God with us

=) Smile

New Year 2009

Happy New Year 2009!!

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Thank God for the wonderful retreat at Taman Pertanian on the 2nd day. It was awesome!

I dare not to have any expectation at all for the toilet, as were told it is a kinda 'ulu' area. And... it turned out to be it's-fine-without-the-glasses, haha...

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Love

the interesting sharings everyone contributed,

the brain-juice-squeezing plannings everyone participated,

the discussions everyone brought up,

the meaningful 'ungame' and the exciting 'hunter & bear' game,

the super duper tiring cycling moment up & down the hills,

the many makan-ing sessions with the flies,

the refreshing water bathing moments ,

and the 'zzz...' hours accompanied by the mosquitoes...

with all of you... =)

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Really appreciate all of you who were willing to come from far and near for the retreat!

Dear brothers and sisters, all of you means a lot to me.

Let's keep shining for Him and serve Him with all our might! It will be tough, but we are never and will never be alone in the battle!

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'Sharing Love, Impacting Lives'

Summary

Before the year 2008 ends

and this blog start growing fungus

*nah*

a Summary (hehe!)

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Carolling practices

Skit & choir practices

'ahmad'

Carollings

Performance

Family trip

NS friends gathering

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Full stop

Still Feeling Extremely Happy

The past post I mentioned regarding I'm feeling super duper happy until now shall be revealed here and now!

Make a wild guess...

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Gave up?

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"I've moved out!"

*HUGE GRIN*

Yes. I am officially moved out. Again. Haha...
First year- once... Second year- again... Third year- I dont know..

Well, I really like the place where I'm currently staying. It's so much like HOME!! Awesome!!

After the breakfast early in the morning, we started cleaning. We managed to clean basically everything that we can touch on. It gave me a feeling as if we were cleaning for the sake of a festival, says Chinese New Year? haha...

Lunch was our only break and rest in between. Immediately resumed to moving our stuff over right after the short break.

I didnt pack anything at all. Not even putting anything into boxes or what-so-ever. To be honest, I left all my belongings where it has been all the while the same spot, not an inch was moved.

*HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!*

Are you wondering why now?

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That's because...

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"I'm moving to the opposite unit!"

o,0" 'zha dao?' haha...

All I have to do: Carry - move - arrange...

In and out of the apartment like nobody's business. At least more than 20 times.

The 13 hours of cleaning and moving was extremely exhausting. We were completely worn out. I didnt even have the appetite or bother to have dinner at all. All I wanted was a nice shower and also a good night rest. I think this can even beat the 20km marathon. I dont think I would ever wanna move again... but that's what I told myself last year June, and here I am contradicting myself, haha...

The new 'Home' is now so much organised and clean! I love this place!

Credit must be given to all my beloved house mates who were so 'semangat' to make this place so happening and an extremely wonderful new beginning for next year! Great job, everyone! I love you all! *HUGS*

And lastly,... I'm still very happy... hehe!!

Let's dance!!

Just this morning, the moment I heard my super LOUD alarm clock went off, I woke up instantly without a second delayed. I was worrying sick that I couldn't get up for my morning exam paper since the night before. Well, you know... *ahem* I was waking up at late hours since a few days before, haha... Whatever~ =P

I was having a dreadful feeling that the poem 'Tembusu' will be in the paper the moment I woke up this morning. So, I went through the poem again before I set off to uni. I just can hardly believe that the poem that I dread of IS IN THE PAPER!!! AARRGHHH....!!! I can clearly recall the last time I dreamt about exam question was just the night before an exam, some years back when I was in secondary school. Can you imagine that the exact question I dreamt of actually came out? I know it sounds crazy, it's true! It happened again this morning! o,0"

Basically, I think I did my best to crap a lot in the explanations. *aiks* I hope it sounds logic enough, haha... I was joking with Shan before entering the examination hall that we shall do our best to CRAP, and I think we can manage to do so after the intensive-crap-training we had in these 2 years, haha... We had enough practice, I suppose!

Just wanna update a little about the paper I had today- Malaysian Literature.
There were altogther 4 sections in the paper: A. Short Story B. Novel C. Poem D. Drama

As I was doing Section C- Poem, the all-time-killer-section for me. Only 2 words to describe the moment when I was tortured to finish it up--> 绝望!!! (hopeless/ end of the world/ Argh!!) Really hope it turned up well, coz I did what I can to 'juice-out' my brain. Was kinda 'scolding' the poets as I was doing revision yesterday, "Why do you write so many miserable poems? You are simply torturing my life, do you realise that? Go sleep la, so free!"

Well well well, it's all OVER now!!! In a mood to SING OUT LOUD!!!
*I can only mute my voice with my mouth open wide singing out loud at the moment, pathetic right? Why? My housemates are still in exam fever, they will kill me if I ever S-O-L!! Haha... Anyway, I'm a good housemate I am, hehe.. perasan gila, haha!!*

jump... jump... jump... JUMP... JUMP!!!

Jump with me!!!

Did I just found out what my name means?

Found this website and it 'interpreted' the meaning of my name...

How true? You tell me... I couldn't stop laughing till I finished.

You Are Hyper and Spirited

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.

You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.

You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something.

You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense.

You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.

You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.

At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.

You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.

You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily.

You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind.

A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.

Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.

Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.

You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.

You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.

Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.

You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.

Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Just a thought: Is it true that a person's personality can be interpreted through just name?

Or did I just live out my name? Haha...

Lightning strike

so CLOSE. so LOUD. so BRIGHT

As I lifted up my head

A bright white light striked

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Just as the light fades away

Pieces of solid fell

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It was just this close

Just meters away

so close. So Close. So CLOSE. SO CLOSE

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There was one evening, the rain was pouring very hard, thunders and lightning were working extremely unusually hard. The lightning striked at my neighbour's house right in front of me.

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Totally amazing brightness and LOUD!

Dear Bernice

Dear Bernice,

You have brought me happiness, joy and laughter during my stay in Johor. Thank you so much! You are such a sunshine to everyone! I love you always! *HUGS*

From your aunt

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This wonderful chubby little girl has brought so much joy in everyone's heart. She is not the only chubby little fellow there when I was in Johor. I miss Benben, Amos, Celine, Lele, Daniel, Eric, Asher... SO MUCH!!!

Below is a conversation between Bernice and me in Mandarin.
[I have tried my best to remember everything we said]
I: Hey Bernice!
B: (looking at me shyly) *Ran off one round, came back and sit there again*
I: Where have you been?
B: 'Gai gai'. (Eng: walk walk) *Ran off one round, came back and sit there again*
I: Where were you?
B: I went to work in Kuala Lumpur! *Ran off one round, came back and sit there again*
I: Aren't you tired, running up and down? Haha...
B: Noo...hehe! Also I brought Benben (her brother) along to Kuala Lumpur.
(the conversation continued)

What a kid!
First round- 2 words.
2nd round- 1 sentence.
3rd round- 2 sentences.
4th round- Tak habis-habis "blah blah blah..." Haha!

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After the first round of warming up on the first day, she's my good friend already, muahaha!

She would tell me how she'll cook fishes the whole night, asking me what kind of flavour do i want it, yet she will definately put chillies everytime when she literally 'give' me the fish by hand, haha... Benben would imitate everything his sister does. And we repeated every single same procedure again and again...

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During the tea ceremony at another day, Bernice kept sticking to my bro, holding his hand everywhere he went. Goodness! You really should have see how a kid can be such a 'sticky kid'!

The worst thing is that when my sister introduced her the idea of trading brothers. Without even thinking more than a seconds, she agreed to trade Benben with my bro. Haha... See!! This kid is so adorable!! Her mom told her "How can you trade your one and only brother without my permission?" Haha... She doesnt seem to bother much though... o,0

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I am so glad I managed to make it to my cousin sister's wedding in Johor. So much laughter and joy during the family reunion. I miss everyone so much!! Thank God for everything!!

I had a terrific weekend! Yes I did!