Sunday Brunch: Annie 1, Damansara Uptown

Woke up late on the lazy Sunday morning. Decided to eat at Annie1, Damansara Uptown after cramping my brain on what to eat on that day. Even tweeted about it to ask what’s the best place to eat. My guy picked me up from my house and drive around Uptown to look for food. We just randomly decided that any food will do, then Annie1 it is!

One of the chosen dish is the Wantan Mee Soup. The texture of the noodles are very smooth and delicious too. It’s not the typical boric-acid loaded plastic taste kind of noodles that I always get from the low quality noodles. Soup, the taste is very sweet and tasty too. It’s not MSG loaded either. You can taste the difference. Wantan, is so-so only. Nothing special about it. Char Siew that added also contribute the tasty flavor in the noodles soup too. Worth to try it again next time if I come here again.

Price: RM5.90

I ordered Char Siew Rice for myself. The sauce is very smooth and sweet. Tasty. I love it! The Char Siew is very fatty but I’m not complaining about it. Not too dry and it’s chewy too. The meat is quite tender and it’s served hot as well. That’s another thumb up. Unfortunately, the rice is too dry and hard if you are looking for a perfect combination. Well, meat is good, rice need more improvement. Perhaps, better water measurement next time.

Price: RM5.90

Both of us are so hungry that we decided to order this Curry Laksa Supreme. Well, that’s what it says in the menu. Supreme – means it’s curry added with Char Siew, Wantan & Pork Balls, etc. Why Supreme? Reason being most tables on that day have this bowl on their table. I’m curious whether this is the popular dish from Annie1 or everyone just have the cravings for curry laksa.

Though my big pimple exploded I’m still not going to “pantang makan” and just go ahead with spicy food! The soup is very tasty and it’s rich with the ingredients. The rest. GOOD! What more can I say. The soup itself makes me can’t stop eating the whole bowl. Lick till it’s clean!

Price: RM8.50

Verdict:

Food   4.5/5

Service   4/5

The system is easy. Just write down what you wanted to order on the order sheet. Then press ‘CALL’ on the small device on your table and the waiter will collect the order sheet from you within minutes. Straight forward way of order taking. No mistake. No delay.

Ambience    2.5/5

Nothing special. A simple design of the place. But it’s clean and not that stuffy inside as it’s well ventilated place.

Location:

Photo Taken from http://www.j2kfm.com/

18-20, Jalan SS21/58,
Damansara Utama,
47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Business hours : Mon-Fri – 7.30am – 9.30pm, Sat-Sun, PH – 8.30am – 3.30pm

GPS Coordinates  :3.137292,101.622545

Will I come again next time? Sure!

*Photo Taken using iPhone

Movies: MIB3

Friday night, thought it will be another quiet night for me. I’m glad that I’m still managed to slot a last minute plan to watch a movie before the weekends. Awesome. 2-hour movies for midnight show at Twin Seats with mu guy. We bought tons of food as if we are going to have a great feast at the back seat during movies. The scene started so wrong. A woman with big boobs plus a wobbly organic pink cake that ended up a freaky gross make out scene in between! Gosh!

The story line is smooth as the flow is not that predictable after all. A touching twist towards the end of show that explained everything why and how this story between James and K started. Not going to spoil anything here. I could only say it’s a worth watching movies that might have a tie with The Avengers that started showing last month.

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/EDPYq4BFHBI?version=3&hl=en_US

Movie is obviously a PG-13 kind of stuff and it’s a action adventure comedy fantasy genre. This time MIB 3 is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld with the usual starring actors Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones. This time the big ass villain is Josh Brolin. The story is about changing history and in the process there are surprises in between that I would thought of it’s going to happen.

Verdict:

Quite entertaining with quite few punchline in between. Not a great one though yet it’s still funny and worth to laugh about.

3.5/5

Duration: 1 hour 45 mins

Crazy a little. Before the weekends, for fun!

I’m just wanted to unwind myself. Make myself a little bit happier than yesterday. I’ve been doing the same thing every day. Today, I shall do something different. Let’s start with the way how I dress up? Crazy!

Happy Weekends everyone!

BNI: Weekly Meeting Networking to Grow Your Business

It’s my weekly routine to go for my BNI meeting every Wednesday. Wake up early in the morning and get myself ready for the day. From 6.30am-8.30am, it’s a usual meeting that I’ve been attending since 2 years ago. What is this all about? It’s a Networking Meeting called BNI and chapter members attended the meeting while exchanging referrals to grow our business together. It’s a close knit meeting as visitors have to be invited by the members to attend this meeting. It’s tight structure meeting with a systematic effective agenda that allows members and visitors to add value and gain benefits by attending this meeting.

After the Open Networking, the next agenda is the sitting part of the meeting. Each members also given 60-sec to present their business and to let members know who are they looking for to help them in their business.  Every week, each members on rotation basis will be given 10 minutes to present their business showcase for more in depth knowledge about their business.  Hence, other members are clear with the specific ideal referrals to refer to their fellow members after that.

Networking is a never end process as after the meeting, members and visitors still could interact with each other even during breakfast. This creates a business relationship and eventually enhanced better rapport among BNI members and visitors. During the meeting, referrals are passed to each other via referral slips. This is ensure all referrals are well recorded and it’s effective for members to follow up the referrals.

Interested to know more about BNI?

Email me at shereendulau@yahoo.com.my or visit our chapter website HERE  for information.

New Interest – Drama Show

I still find spending time at home a better option for me. At least I could sit down and relax with my family without blowing off my purse. That’s why I choose to buy DVDs and watch drama shows either alone or with my loved ones. Criminal Minds. That’s my target right now. Bought the 1st season and borrowed from others for the rest of the seasons. I know it’s a bit late to catch up all these episodes as now ASTRO is showing the latest 7th season. I choose to enjoy the slow ride and watch it from the 1st Season 1 episode.

Who’s my favorite character so far? At the moment Dr. Reid and JJ. Dr. Reid is so brilliant and JJ is freaking efficient and smart too. Hotch is very cool and serious man. The typical lawyer with no-nonsense attitude and a loving family man. Gracia is frantically smart with her tech gadget and Morgan is quite good in what he’s doing. Gideon, I think the meltdown he experienced before still can’t be camouflage with his brilliant talent in profiling psycho criminals.

Till then, right after work I shall aim 2 episodes per day. At least leave other time for things to do and don’t want to spend too much time with the DVDs or I’ll ended up sleepless night and left nothing to watch during the weekends.

Education. Never ending. No Full Stop

Finished high school at 18, completed my Diploma at 22 and obtained my Bachelor Degree at the age of 25. Finally managed to earn my Executive Diploma in Sales & Marketing last year, at the age of 30. I took my first Diploma back in year 2001 bit later as I went to Singapore to gain working experience & extra money straight after my A-Level. I stayed in Singapore for almost a year before head back to my country to continue my Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting). What’s next? I’m thinking MBA in International Business. DBA after that? Why not?

“Shereen, are you nuts?” “Who need a high qualification? Looked at Bill Gates, he’s school dropout” “Getting higher education cost money” “Cost time too” “Nah, you don’t need this. Being street smart is more important, earning money is so much important now”. I got this kind response from negative people sometimes. Personally, education do get you somewhere, somewhere further.

Education increases the maturity of your critical thinking and it creates credibility the moment you managed to get that qualification. It does make a difference. However, the perfect combination of a well educated person are education & positive ATTITUDE! Sad to know, younger generations lack of that X-Factor. Highly educated people that I met sometimes tends to be cocky and look down at other less educated people. Personally I think, a highly educated person should lead and guide the less fortunate people who don’t have the opportunity to be educated in the first place. I always believe education should be given free to everybody. Unfortunately, in the real world the system don’t work that way.

It’s good to go back to school even you are in your 40′s. Socializing with the young generations enrich your thoughts and perspective. This is the best time to update yourself and to avoid yourself to be too contented with your own beliefs. Education opened up my mind and new ideas kept pouring in if you are able to utilize the skill of critical thinking.I always believe that it’s important to do your very best in every education course that you decided to enroll. By getting a PASS is not enough. To be credible and good in what you are doing, always aim for DISTINCTION. What ever you do, be a good one – that’s from Abraham Lincoln.

So why stop after secondary school? Why stop after completed your 1st degree? Why stop when you can still continue to pursue to the next level? Education is perpetual. It’s powerful if you know how to use it and it’s the only thing that you have where other people can never take it away from you. Knowledge is power. Power is knowledge. Not Fist. Not Money and not dirty politics.

Enough said. You do the thinking. Am I right?

Fantasy Craze and Reality Check

I think I’m in love with THOR! I’m not crazy, am I? Trust me. I’m not the only one. I read comics about Thor back in, say 20 years ago. The drawing then were too bad and Loki looked like crap. I am fascinated with THOR’s hammer that able to whack anybody and helped him to fly. How cool is that? I’m not so crazy about Thor back then until the day I saw Chris Hemsworth’s ripped body acting as THOR! That changed my perception about Thor, period! I know that this is just a infatuation only exist in fantasy and it’s not even a real thing. Stay grounded and always stick to the reality. Keep it real. Stay focus.

The reality hurts sometimes and people tends to refuse to stay grounded to the reality. Sad to know that the real world isn’t a really nice place to be sometimes. Bad things happened all the time around us each day. I choose not to let that overwhelming myself which could lead me to unnecessary stress. There’s always a choice. I choose to make my life each day a better day with added value by being grateful with what I have now and stop comparing with others.

Reality telling me what’s my gap between my goals and my current state. When I first assessed that I felt like a loser who haven’t accomplished anything in my life. I’m touching 30′s. unmarried and childless. I’m not earning a good high income that could sustain the lifestyle I dream to have. My car so small and my house so small. Endless list in there. This what happened when I’m comparing myself with others too much and sulking for no apparent reason. Minimize the gap. That’s what I’m doing right now. I’m sure people who figured it out will do the same thing too. What’s the point sulking and depressed with no action taken to make things. Make sense?

Enough with my yaa-daa moment. I think I’m gonna end this post with “ah-ha” moment. Are you with me? AH-HA!!!