Cafe Takahashi

If you have read my previous post, I told you guys that I'm a run to try all the restaurants at Tokyo Street, Pavilion right? If you have not, please read my post on Suki-Ya, Hokkaido Santouka Ramen and En Ginza Cafe.

Now, it's the time for Cafe Takahashi. Was in the mood to try some Japanese-Western food and just headed into the restaurant.

The place has a lot of woody interior and it's bright! It's a good thing because you can see everything including the menus.. LOL My dad always complains if the restaurants has very dim lightings and it's very difficult to read the menu. I mean it's true that you WANT to read what you are ordering.

Authentic lightings

Can you spot what's on the wall? There's sample dishes sticking on the wall and they have it in front of their restaurant. Most of their signature dishes are display in front to give you a view before you step into the restaurant.

Ordered one of their signature dishes, Unagi and Egg Spaghetti. The portion is not as big as you see, it's actually the size of the plate that is big. I think for small eaters, it will be just fine for them, as for big eaters, I don't think is enough for them to full their tummy.

Unagi & Egg Spaghetti

The taste of it is delicious, I like how the egg and Unagi combines with the Unagi sauce. It's a good dish with a good tang of Unagi sauce.

Like the interior has wooden door like sections 

Another ordered dish is the Salmon and Cheese Pizza. The portion of the pizza could be finish by 1 - 2 person. It's not huge or too small.

Salmon & Cheese Pizza

The taste is so so only, Salmon is cooked but not fresh. The only thing I like about this dish is the cream they gave generously in the pizza. They don't even have the sticky long cheese when you pull out one of the slice of the pizza.

The price for the quality of the food and the portion is a bit above average. Though the place is average with a huge variety of Japanese-Western food. If you are into new adventure for your taste-buts, this is the place to be.

Address:
Lot 6.14.1B Level 6,
Pavilion KL Shopping Center,
168 Jalan Bukit Bintang,
55100 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03-21436454

Ash Blonde Hair & Colourful Preppy Work Wear

Remember that I blog about my Beige Blonde hair? Well, it didn't worn out fast but when the roots of my hair grows out, it's very obvious. I tried to bear with it for 2 months but when the 3rd month kicks in it's an obvious horrid.

Chinese New Year was coming around so it's time to head to the salon. I wanted to do a touch up on the roots but my Beige Blonde colour had already faded. My stylist suggest me to colour dye the whole hair and not to dye a light colour as the previous colour had dried up my hair a lot. Sadly, it's as dry as hay :( I did notice the damage it cause to my hair to my previous dye. I tried using hair mask as a conditional and it only can maintain my hair instead of improving.

I knew I was going to dye my hair before Chinese New Year so a month before that I did a hair treatment at the salon to keep it in good condition before I damage it again. I was lucky to keep my hair's condition until I re-dye it again. It was still dry but is possible to dye it. Man! Speaking of being a blonde! It's hard!

Guess what colour I dyed this time? I dyed Ash Brown colour again. I do miss my previous previous Ash Brown hair. Oh ya! and I haz fringe now! Cute?

Ash Brown Fringe with glasses

Without glasses

The colour you see above is when the sunlight hits on my hair. The colour is way tone down if there's no lighting hitting on it.

I also did a Reflexer to my hair. It's hair straightening/rebonding without straightening your hair till the ends of it. As you can see, the end of 2 inches of my hair is curl inwards. It's my original curl and the rest of the hair is straighten! I ❤ it! It's soooo much more easy to maintain my hair. *grins* I don't have to blow dry my hair to have straight curl hair for the whole day. Totally save time and effort and most of all more time to rest hahaa....

After a week of dying my hair, it's feel not so dry anymore and mainly because I take extra care for my damage and re-damage hair. I use hair mask everyday and a leave-in conditional with hair serum everyday! Hard working right? You should be!

My hair colour faded after a week too. It faded back to my Beige Blonde colour with a hint of Ash Tea colour. Maybe I still have the Blonde base colour when I dye that's why it faded. I was unwillingly to let go of my Blonde hair and I missed my Ash Brown hair and now I have both! PERFECT! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm calling it Ash Blonde Hair ROFL

Tired to attempt a Colourful Preppy Work Wear look and I always do like to spice up my work wear more by wearing colours or more colours to work. Everyone else's wardrobe colour are just boring! Either black or white. It feels sad or moody too if you just see TWO colours at work. If you have yet to know, wearing colours does makes you feel better even if it's at work or not.

Prep Look #1

Red Preppy Knitted Blouse: Seed
Grey sleevesless shirt: GAP

Colourful Look #2

Black blazer: P&CO.
Green blouse: Zara TRF

Penguin tail cut behind

Not sure if you are able to see it, there's a cute penguin tail cut behind the blazer. Blazers with cuts at behind essentials your body.

So, which look is better? which hair suits me more? Ash Brown hair with Medium fringe? Beige Blonde hair with fringe? Ash Blonde hair with fringe?

Contraband

Sorry for the super duper overdue movie review post. Here you go, I'll cut everything short as most of you might have already watch it last month (Yes, watched it in January).

Thanks to Nuffnang again, I get to watched the premier of Contraband at e-Curve.

Thanks Nuffies!

I didn't really expect much from this movie and I don't really fancy Mark Wahlberg who acted Chris Farraday in the movie. I was actually there for the blonde Kate Beckinsale who acted as Chris' wife, Kate Farraday.

Kate Farraday (Kate Beckinsale)

It was quite disappointing because Kate Beckinsale didn't really appear much throughout the movie and only towards the end she had more scenes which involve her nearly dying. Well, at least she's still hot in Blonde.

The Farraday family, their son Micheal (Connor Hill)

In Contraband, Chris is a loving husband and good father of Micheal (Connor Hill) and they have a really close friend, Ben Foster (Sebastian Abney) who's a a brother to Chris.

Ben Foster (Sebastian Abney)

Sound all nice right? NOT! Kate's idiotic brother, Andy (Calab Landry Jones) was involve in a fail drug smuggling deal! Chris being the responsible and caring husband with his best friend, Ben stood up to rescue Andy.

Kate's idiotic brother Andy behind

Little did we know that Chris is actually a world class smuggler but he left the life-time crime behind him when he married Kate. Aww...sweet.

Andy's fail drug smuggling deal cause his friend's death and he needs to payback the lost of the drugs he fail to smuggle from the scary and fierce Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi).

Tim attempts his threat to scare of Chris's family

The only way to payback the amount of lost drugs is to smuggle again but Chris was keen on not to smuggle drugs and he decides to smuggle a mini cooper car size of million dollars of counterfeit bills from Panama.

Piles of counterfeit bills to be smuggle

Chris and his crew had some bad encounters during his smuggling journey and ended him up dealing with a crazy bad drug-runner, Gonzalo (Diego Luna) which involve him in a robbery.

Checking out newly printed counterfeit bills

The crazy Gonzalo

It's an happy ending where Chris get to save his family, frame some bad guys, avenge on Ben who betrayed him all this time and got himself a big fortune.

Honestly, I didn't know that being a smuggler needs to be so smart, careful and bravery to get a smuggling deal done. It's dangerous as well and does takes their own lives at stake. Not encouraging one to be a smuggler. Just very surprise that it takes so much effort for one to smuggle.

Angry B!T#h

I'm sorry for the rude induction but I have no better way of describing what I'm going to say here.

First thing first, sorry for the lack of post, please don't hate me. I've been very busy and emo lately that's why I didn't and couldn't blog much this few weeks.

It's another fresh year to start in the Lunar calender. Happy Dragon Year to everyone and wish everyone Fatt Fatt Fatt! How's yours been?

As for me, family and friends gathering are well so far. Though I'm quite in an emo wave lately. I can't really pin point on my thoughts and it's quite frustrating.

I have a few New Year's Resolution I want to keep to myself and achieve them before publishing but there's just one that is very hard to keep. That is keeping grudges.

I have been keep grudges and try not to curse and stay cool at every point but I couldn't keep them long. Though it's really a good improvement. I have been keeping it since the beginning of the year and didn't blog and tweet about negetive and cursing stuff. I guess now is the time to release some of it. I feel that it's making me feel miserable and I have no where else to release it better than here.

I have different groups of friends who comes from all walks of life. I do get along with all of them and most of them remain very close to me. Question to myself lately is why do I seem that I don't belong anywhere? Who do I really am?

I project myself differently when I'm with a different group of friends. They always believe in who I projected to them but they never see the real me. Well, just a handful of them does. I have a strong lack of belongingness to anyone and anywhere. Is this humanity? Or is it just me?

Sometimes I doubt myself that I could easily fall into depression as a lot of people tells me I'm pessimist.

Being home is always a good thing for me. I could re-charge my energy level, take a step back and look at what I've done so far, reconnect with my roots. It's like meditation.

It's the only place I feel I can stand still and be really who I am. Seems peaceful to me.

I still feel mellow-ish but I'll be getting back on my feet really soon. Sort of in deep-hibernation-thoughts right now.

So, gonna keep this short because you probably don't even understand what I'm jabbering about, even I don't LOL

Nitez peeps!

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DCiM 2011

Well well, the year 2011 has passed and a week of 2012 has already passed too. I'm such a slow poke at keeping up with the time. How has your Xmas and New Year been so far? Hope everything is just as fine and I wish everyone to have a year ahead which will be better than your last one! XD

Moving on, here's another late blog post. I visited the DCiM event last year and the year before. Last year I went with snailyin and saw there isn't much of a difference compare to 2010's DCiM. The main brands (or lesser this year) are there with all the big and nice booths featuring their latest camera models.

Big boys with big guns

They still have the Velocity Angles show going on. All the boys bring out their big guns to have a shoot at the pretty ladies on stage.

One of the Velocity Angels

Try to find a spot for shooting the stage

I only manage to get a clear shoot of the stage and the ladies while I'm tipping my toe and shooting from afar with my compact camera zooming to the max.

Some pictures and good and some are blur. I tried my best guys, sorry.

Blur pic #fail

Not clear pic #fail

I felt there are more gallery displaying photographer's work. It's a good sign that people don't just buy expensive cameras, following trend and not shoot any pictures.

There were more accessories booth than the main booths, I guess camera accessories are more demanding then new camera body with higher specifications.

Rows of accessories booths

Underwater camera case

A Canon Clinic is set there to provide after sales services for Canon owners. This is convenient, I wish that more camera clinic are there to provide after sales care services. They can get first hand feedback as well. 

Canon Service Clinic

If you are already following me on Twitter (if you are not, please follow), you already know that I bought this baby on Christmas Day!

I've been wanting to get a semi-pro camera since the launching of GF1, back then GF1 didn't really quite met my requirements and I feel I don't need a semi-pro yet. After much awaiting and patience.

Yes! Finally a semi-pro camera and it's Panasonic Lumix G3. I'll write a separate post on my review of it as I'm now leaning how to use it.
It's meant to be mine! Here's the story, I actually went to DCiM on X'mas Eve and wondering around with snailyin. Testing out some of the semi-pro camera which is on my wishlist. We went around trial testing on cameras and still ending up back to the Lumix booth.

I was already poison on the G3. Snailyin kept poisoning me to get it. I wanted more time to consider. They had the limited brown colour on sale and a white one (last piece). When I first laid my eyes on the launching of G3, I fell in love with the red colour. The SA told me, Pansonic has discontinue the red colour one. I was so devastated, so I just went home empty handed.

After I got home having much thought, I went "Hack with this consideration, just get it! Get a Xmas pressie for myself, why not?!" So, I had my Xmas breakie at Levain and head to DCiM again.

Panasonic Lumix booth

I headed back to the Lumix booth and found the SA that had attended to me the previous day. He saw me and straight away go fetch a G3 for me knowing that I will be back for it. He open up the box and all I saw is RED! A RED G3!!!! Without any doubt, I had to have it and he wrap it up for me! It's meant to be isn't it?

I asked the SA how did he found a red one, he said after listening to me wanting a red one, he went back to Panasonic HQ early morning before going to DCiM, he found the one and only red piece, he just grab it knowing that it will find it's owner! *melt* ❤❤❤

He really made me the happiest person to own my ideal semi-pro camera! I will cherish it a lot!

What did you get for Xmas present? New Year present? Done shopping for Chinese New Year yet? Hope you guys get want you wanted as well.

You can check out Snailyin DCiM entry here.

PS: I'm not shallow to buy things with colour I like, I did research and referencing before I decided to buy G3 way before I went for the fair :P