The definition of Ah Beng:
Ability to speak hokkien, and especially fluent in cursing with the language. Likes to eat bakut teh and hokkien mee. Other than that, ah beng also must have short, spiky hair inspite of thinning hair line.

A: Klang Chow Ah Beng Galvin Tan Kar Leng
This guy stays in the definitive Ah Beng area that is Klang, loves to eat pork, and likes to say “kanneh” alot. He also loves to terrorize coin-operated cars.

B: Subang Chow Ah Beng Terence Goh
This dude loves to eat curry mee with lotsa pork blood, and was a drunk and chimney, recently quit both in fear of getting his ears pulled by the significant other. He also have a weird sense of taste in car modification

C: Penang Chow Ah Beng Choo Heng Horng @ Choo Heng Horny
The latter name given by a particular hotel in Johor that miss-spelled his G to Y. I’ve known this guy for over 20 years and he’s currently my pond co-builder. Of course the Klang and Subang Chow Ah Bengs helped, too. Dude also occasionally gives the middle finger.

Aren’t they cute? I have weird friends, heh.

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According to a famous Chinese provobe “Know the origin of that water you drinking, NOOB!”, or in mandarin “ying sui shi yen”. The idea is that you shall remember how your food came about.

Now I’m sure most of you have either eaten, or at least know what a caesar salad is, but how many of you know the origin of caesar salad? According to this page in culinaryarts site, it’s from the name of the creater, Caesar Cardini. Some might even say it was to the great Caesar in ancient Rome.

Those are lies! I shall reveal the long kept secret that is the origin of caesar salad to the world here.

Once upon a time there was a lady on diet who went to a restaurant late night to have a fix. It was 5 minutes to closing. She ordered a salad, any salad.

The waiter then took the order to the kitchen that was already closing. The chef, chef Ahbeng, gave a sour face and then look at what he’s got left that hasn’t been put away and locked yet.. and what he found was these..

a loaf of french bread, romaine lettuce, olive oil, parmesan cheese, garlic, and a pair of scissors.

He’s already kept the knifes in the safe, and was too lazy to unlock, he wasn’t in the best of mood that night anyway.

So he use the scissor to cut up the ingredients, put them in a plate, added olive oil and some Worcestershire sauce too. Shoved it to the waiter and called it the scissor salad.

It was served to the customer, she liked it, alot. In fact, she was a writer for a famous culinary magazine. She wrote about it, and thought that it was actually called ceasar salad. The rest of the world followed.

There you go, know your food!

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Galvin has been blogging about his diet, and fooling around modifying other’s appearance by using his photoshop magic to effortlessly add or reduce weight. He’s made me put on a bit of mass and a new hairstyle here, made faggot fat and also buff, and of course, sotong could be slimmer. These are all in his “What if” mini series.

Ever heard of discussion over mamak session that sounds something like this?

“Yeah you put on weight because you never eat regulary, eat at normal meal hours and you won’t be piling up all the fat gut and manboobs at 80kg”… to someone like Galvin, for example.

And then there’s this:

“Dude, you can’t be putting on any weight if you don’t eat at regular intervals. You gonna just stay at 48 - 49 kg. It’s of no use even if you eat alot but no at meal time!” … to someone like Faggot, for instance.

Now wtf is this anyway? You eat regulary to gain weight, and doing the same to lose weight, too? Stop believing in this bullshit and concentrate on the amount of food you take on the average day.

Well I’m about 17% heavier than Fag but 30% lighter than Galvin. Do your calculation, whoever guesses right gets to help work on my pond.

Anyway, the lack of updates are mostly due to being busy at office (2 days training + 2 full day of meeting,) and working on building a pond.

I’ll post some pictures of the progress thus far, and a new POND section shall begin soon. Cheers.

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women = time x money
We all know that “time is money” so:
women = money^2
Additionally, we all know that money is the root of evil:
money = sqrt(evil), or:
money^2 = evil
so:
women = money^2 = evil
women = evil

credit: slashdot

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Recently I paid my third visit to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) for the 3rd time, as the destination is not exactly a hot tourist spot, I decided to introduce the place to you.The skinny:

• Vietnam is the 13th largest nation in the world with some 83 million people
• HCMC is the largest city in Vietnam
• Way too many motorcycles
• Traffic is at a constant state of controlled chaos
• Chicks are cute
• Food is excellent
• People are friendly
• Things are generally cheap

Currency is Vietnamese Dong but USD is often preffered. US$1 is currently about at 15800 Dong.

The following photos will give you a better sense of what HCMC has to offer.

Traffic:
The traffic is generally very chaotic to foreigner, honking sound can be heard every 5 seconds. However, it seemed relatively safe at the lower speed of flow and people aren’t so full of rage like them road bullies you find in Malaysia.

lotsa motorcycles, and helmet is an option, not a must

Viet chicks on bike, you see that alot

more bikes, with valet service too

Food:
Being in South East Asia, the flavor of food does not vary too much from Malaysia or Thailand, and best described as a mixture of both with a hint of Chinese. There are very few fastfood restaurants around, and their beef noodles (Pho).. yumm.. ooooo yummm..

pho, comes with basil, bean sproud, and jalopeno pepper on the side, excellent

kerang bakar (grilled clam) is served here too

steamboat fish in slightly spicey soup base, plenty of vege on the side

mixed rice buffet style, similar dishes to Malaysian food

Cool Restaurants:
Despite being a relatively poor country, there still plenty of people with decent spending power, hence, fancy eat-outs. These places, however, are relatively cheap compared to Malaysian restaurants. For example, a decent meal for 4 fetches US$20

one of the cafes, better decorated than Starbucks, which they don’t have btw

another restaurant with nice rain forest theme

my favorite pho shop, a meal costs less than US$2

War History Museum:
The war history museum is a must-go place to get the perspective of Vietnamese side on the war that killed so many.

plenty of photos taken during the war

recreation of POW cells, and how Faggot will look like if he’s ever incacerated

more war remnants

Shopping:
What is a city without places to shop? They’ll just instantly lose 50% of visitors. You know which gender I’m talking about anyway. HCMC has all that covered, there are plenty of places selling everything from handbags to wooden decorative boats.

pottery and more

scaled wooden boats, these are from less than US$10 and up

MAS has 2 daily flights to HCMC. If you plan to go to Bangkok for the 2nd time or more, I suggest you might want to give HCMC a try.

Tags:  hcmc,  saigon,  Travel,  Vietnam

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