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8 minutes past 12….Christmas is over! And I have just spent the whole of yesterday revamping my website. So soon?!? Well, after several days, I began to feel that the colours were a teeny bit jarring to the eyes. I was surfing the net when I came across blogger.com. I thought…why not just sign up and try blogging? Yeah right. I took a look at how much changes I had to make via HTML to customize the pages…hmm…just made me realize how much I love FrontPage!! But they did have some pretty nice templates….so I choose one to semi-replicate back on this site. At the same time, I also signed up for Flickr! I’ve just managed to include the Flickr Zeitigeist into this page after playing around with the HTML code and integrating it with the code they provided….pretty cool!

Anyways…Friday was fun. There wasn’t alot of people in the office and we got off work at 3pm! Eric and I headed straight for 1 Utama right after work. Surprisingly, there wasn’t alot of people…I mean, you do see the odd guy or two doing some last minute Christmas shopping…hahah….but it wasn’t as packed as I expected it to be.

I saw an advert for this new restaurant in the old wing of 1 Utama called Hakkakaya in Thursday’s newspaper…so we headed over there for dinner. The restaurant wasn’t full (it was halfway between tea and dinner time…), and we grabbed a seat right at the end. Surprisingly, they had quite alot of food on the menu. I was only expecting something along the lines of toast bread with kaya (coconut jam), half boiled eggs, coffee and perhaps a nasi lemak. Anyways, I went for the half boiled egg, porridge with peanuts, chicken and dried oysters, kaya toast while hubby ordered a Nasi Lemak and Mak Chok (a barley dessert). And so…the review: half boiled egg was fine, if a little lukewarm. Honestly, it would be pretty scary if a restaurant screws up cooking a half boiled egg! Porridge…also luke-warm. One wonders if it was left at the counter too long or…? However, the porridge didn’t have much dried oysters in it, and the chicken was abit rubbery…pity.

Hubby’s Nasi Lemak looked good, though. I tried a bit of the rice…it had the right texture of being abit sticky and the taste of the coconut was just enough. Plus point, it had the small ikan bilis that I love. The Mak Chok was good too….not overly sweet. Only complaint? Lukewarm!!!. The kaya toast came right at the end….and that, in my opinion, was the biggest letdown of all (especially for a place called ‘Hakkakaya’). Maybe this is really the authentic hakka style of toasting bread…but it really wasn’t what I liked. The bread was brown bread and it was toasted till it tasted as dry as sawdust. Furthermore, the kaya and butter spread was not what one would call generous. It was so skimpy that it left gaps when I spread it over the bread! Kaya toast should be dripping with kaya and butter. Sigh. Still, it’s worth a trip back for the nasi lemak and also to try the rest of the dishes….=)

Unfortunately, by the time we left, a traffic jam had already built up along the main roads…so it took us quite a long while to get home. There’s really no escaping traffic jams in kl!!

Woke up this morning to the sound of…nothing! Looks like the construction stops for Christmas! The joy!!!! Had such a good sleep till mid-morning….bliss! A late lunch at Chatterbox @ Bangsar Village, bought some mini-cakes (my fav is the mini blackforest. Two bites of heaven!) from Cafe 1920 for later and chocolate ice-cream from Lecka-Lecka for immediate consumption. And then it was back home to work on this site. Dinner was a quick Ipoh hor fun at a small shop called ‘Fei Fei something’ @ Midvalley. Gosh…memory’s really going fast! They do a pretty good ‘leng chee kang’ too…not too cold, plenty of stuff to chew and not too sweet as well. Yummy.