Ahdo merdeka celebration!!!

Merry Merdeka! Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan! GuoQingJie KuaiLe!

As promised,

Top to bottom: 1.The last draw of breath before the plunge; 2.Weee!!!!; 3."Merdeka!!HAPPY MERDEKA!!!MERDEKA!!!"(from a VERY enthusiastic fellow countryman a unit above); 4.Bom!!!ChiBaBom!!!; 5. Bom!!!PlakPlakBom!!!; 6. Bom ala VforVendetta finale (albeit shorter one); 7. Habis, HaiKomSeen.

It was much shorter than usual (the fireworks lah). But the significance of the Day should not be measured by the length of the act of igniting gunpowder nor should it be measured by the number of flags raised. Because without the people, a symbol is meaningless. Because without understanding the meaning of the Day, the flare and glare of a firework display is no more than the flame that comes out from a cigarette lighter.

Perhaps on this 31st of August, the 50th anniversary of the birth of the nation, we should take some time to ponder - how would we be without Malaysia? Then, perhaps the sense of euphoria for today, would come from the love and appreciation for this country and not anything else.


For the love of the country,
Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan ke-50.

Ahdo reasons for not updating this blog...

*This is not a regular transmission of AHDOE.......*

Haven't been updating much for almost a week due to various reasons. Regular transmission should've been resumed today but....

Allow me to explain:

Reason #1: Lab report

Reason #2: Assignment

Reason #3: boom!boom!boom!boom!booom!booom!boooom!boooom!booooom! booooom (with *boom* techno *boom* somemore!!!!!)

Have to admit that the first two were kinda due to slackworm-infection seasoned with a sprinkle of pungent procrastination...(sorry, after-effect of Ratatouille)

BUT the last one is ....... arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh@)(#@&$*%@!

Truth is, tomorrow is the 50th Merdeka.
And tonight, the eve of THE day, some crazy @sses are partying in the Lagoon as if they havent been partying for 50 years.

I tell you,
the eyepopping-eargrinding-brainmushing-ballscrewing-(p'haps i should not go further than this)-noice is creating vibration enough to create mini-earthquake to shake my keyboard even as I am typing right now. And did i mention the "godzilla ripple effect" on my bottle of water on my desk?

Alright. Should stop before this irregular transmission become some bad-word ranting session. Next(proper) post should contain some photos on the impending fireworks at the turn of the night (provided my camphone does not fall out my hand and drop 20-odd feet from the explosion).

[Edit] The time is 2:04am, the Merdeka countdown has since apparently and conveniently been transformed into a mega clubbing event. Have pity on my already-throbbing ears *sob*. Where's the car-park-flooding rain when I need one? Dammit, I wanna SLEEP!!!

Disclaimer:
No. no. The writer does love his country. Happy Merdeka!

Ahdo pragmatic patriotism?

Witnessed this when I was out eating in mamak just now.......

I know the video is kinda blur, so let me explain a bit.

While I was enjoying my beehoon-goreng-kurang-pedas over a football match (Sunderland vs Liv), me and my fellow patrons were distracted by wails of siren from bike-riding policemen.

What followed was a parade that consisted of:
1. a team of rumbling heavy bikers with the national flag(s) attached to the choppers
2. vans with national flags sticking out like porcupines
3. trucks with national flags sticking out like porcupines
4. cars with national flags sticking out like porcupines (slightly exaggerated but.....you'd get the point)

One of the cars that passed by looked familiar but i couldnt recalled where i've seen it at the spot due to the influences of hungry stomach+football+puffs of cigarette smoke from neighbouring tables.

Then, after leaving the pseudo-heaven created by the increasingly thicker puffs of smoke from Gandalf-wannabe's, i realised that i've seen it here.

..........

I dunno.

Seems like we have a new way of pre-celebrating Merdeka in town - vehicles parading at night.

But why can't we just do it in a more environmental friendly way (walking parade ala Mardi Gras lah!!!) and leave the police personnel to do their much-needed patrolling?

Tiu.


Disclaimer:
The porcupined car could be different from what the writer saw due to the *cough cough* fogging *cough* effect of *cough cough* cigarettes *cough*

Ahdo mooncakes.....

I don't know who was the first guy who came up with the idea of baking salty egg yolk with sweet lotus paste or the dude who was the first to mix prawn paste with fresh fruits BUT bless them, bless them hard.

Just in case you're still wondering - these seemingly awful combinations (well, in words at least) have resulted in the heavenly delicacies of mooncakes and rojaks.

In conjunction with the upcoming Mooncake/Mid-Autumn Festival (ya I know its pretty long to go yet, but I seem to be infected by a SLIGHT hint of constant-hungriness by the ongoing HungryYOUKNOWWHO festival), I shall concentrate on the salty yolk-lotus paste combo.

After eating over 20 rounds of mooncakes (Note: one round per year), I thought I have tasted every types of mooncakes any wicked minds can come up with. At the back of my head, I had came to the conclusion that only a mooncake that is essentially a lotus paste wrapped in egg-yolk would truly satisfy my appetite.

Then came a fateful day last week when I tried the Starbucks mooncakes, courtesy of SYeen (Oops, sorry eric). Before this, I did know that Starbucks have their own mooncakes (in Msia at least) but I had always dismissed it (aiya, guailo know how to make mooncakes 1meh? No good one lah....).

How wrong was I...
- It was bloody good (Note: Still dont think guailo know how to make mooncakes, must be some local sifu's).

Achtung!!! Hazards ahead might result in saliva-drenched keyboard!!!

For less than 40bucks, you have a nice box plus 4 mooncakes4 mooncakes plus a nice box

Clockwise from top-left: Quarter-Gone Hazelnut Latte, Half-Eaten Tiramitsu, Berry Cheese and GreenTea

Three simple reasons why I like these guailou mooncakes:
1. New and interesting flavours (greentea isnt new but still good)
2. After a few pieces, you wont go 'WHERE's-MY-FREAKING-CUP-OF-TEA' due to the moderate sweetness

3. Good for writing reports, assignments or gaming in the midnight (infused with coffee mah....except for berrycheese & Greentea though)

True to the 1st post, the mooncakes taken in the shots were incomplete. Sori, but the rich coffee aroma that exploded in my nostril upon undressing the mooncakes stimulated my basic instinct to *ahem* them first before taking the all important shots above (showing how vulnerable they were for subsequent *ahem's*, ROAR!!!)

Surprisingly, the cheese "yolk" proved to be quite a cheecky subsitute to the original sinful salty egg yolk. The coffee aroma shouldnt let any starbuck regulars down and the Greentea though wasnt anything new was still a delight due to its [edit]heavely-paired partner of red bean paste redbean-tasting choc. Last but certainly not least was the 'refreshing' berrycheese that contained real berries in it!

Allright, I shall leave the photos to drool yourselves to dehydration :P.


Disclaimer:
1. No. no. The writer was not paid by Starbucks or anyone to post the above, though the writer do confess that he wont mind receiving more of those mooncakes.
2. No. no. No mooncakes were made to suffer unnecessarily long before being *ahem-ed*.

Fore*ahem*play

~~MGM playing in the background~~
!!!TOK chiang TOK chiang!!!

Welcome
FunyenFunyen

Welcome to the first transmission of AHDOE
Funyen taica sowtie dieyatchab ge MatDouLou

Let me 1st introduce the conception of AHDOE
Southseen, pay ngo kaisiu MDL ge yunloi

ADHOE was initially intended as a food blog
Kaysat, MDL punloi hai zenhai guanyu sekmat


but since when i have food in front of me
Cidanhai dong yao sekmat hai ngo minqin

the brain that resides in my head
Ngo tow yup pin ge nou

would bypass "think" to "eat first!!!"
Jiao wui lam dou ngm lam jiao "sek sin!!!"

So, when the head is clear
Soryi, dong ge nou ceng seng ge xi how

the food has already been grossly mutilated
Ge sekmat yikeng lat tow lat kuat zo la


Hence,
SoryiWa,

I've decided to un-restrict myself
Ngo kuet teng kaifong jikei

- to serve a healthy dose of everything!
- MatDouLou!




*BLUE SCREEN*
*ZouMehShiLamLamGe?*


Disclaimer:
No. no. Subsequent postings won't always be in dual-language form.
No. no. The writer isn't suffering from sqizo...schizo...split personality.