About 1-2 weeks ago, the Twittersphere was buzzing with people talking about free beer being given out at Asia Cafe in Subang. At first I heard that a lot of people thought it was a prank or a hoax but then as more and more people talked about it and an actual date,time and venue was confirmed…. I guess people kinda decided it was worth while checking it out. I was one of them.
So I went to Asia Cafe and by the time I got there… man there was a long queue of people waiting to get their hands on Tiger.
Each person was given like 6 cans of Tiger beer and the queue stretched from one end of Asia Cafe to the other. At the front of the queue though was this booth set up with a huge stockpile of Tiger beer!
I saw all sorts of people queueing up for it. Even Asia Cafe staff. The funniest though was this guy I saw dressed like he was ready to go jogging. He was probably jogging past when he noticed the queue and decided “Bah forget calories.. beer for me!”.
And here’s a pic of some of the Nuffnangers there that day: Dustyhawk, Simon Seow, Suresh, Jess, Bryan and WenPink.
Look at all the free beer they collected.
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Last weekend I was down in Malacca for Pierre’s baby’s full moon.
Ming and some other friends also made their way down from Singapore to attend it so we decided to all stay a night.
And you know what happens when you go to Malacca for a weekend. It’s the kind of trip where you have 6 meals in a day…. or one in other words.. one loonng endless meal that starts in the morning and ends only late at night. The last time I was down in Malacca, we had chicken rice ball, satay, mille crepe, nonya food, cendol and satay celup all in a day.
This time though we took it a bit easier and paced our eating.
I still made it a point to go for chicken rice ball though… even if it meant having to queue in the hot sun for 15 minutes. It was worth it!
I love chicken rice ball… how do you not love it? It’s the kind of thing right next to Mille Crepe that makes me wonder why nobody has brought it to KL. I’m sure whoever did would make a lot of money. Why bother starting all sorts of other businesses? Just bring chicken rice ball over!!! And yeah I know that there’s a shop in PJ that sells Mille Crepe but I’ve only bought it once and never again since because it just wasn’t even close to being as good as the Malacca one.
I always wondered how it must’ve been like to grow up in Malacca or even towns like Ipoh though. Like growing up in a town like that. When I grew up in Penang, I never realized how big the outside world was. I always thought that Penang was the world and that it was a really really big place. Sure I’ve heard of KL and all but I just never thought that KL was so much more bigger than Penang.
Penang is a small place though. So you kinda know or sort of know of everyone your age who grew up with you. Plus if you do something wrong, then everyone will hear about it. Heck back in those early days of the internet, I remember there was a site called Kaypo Corner that was popular among the young in Penang where people would all post up silly gossip. That site is still up today, but nobody uses it now and it’s covered in spam.
Life in Penang was really simple though. When I was a kid, I hardly remembered any traffic jams. The weather never seemed as hot as it is today and life was going to school, then to tuition and on weekends going out to KOMTAR with parents for lunch at this Taiwanese noodle place called 600cc. Ahh I miss that place.
Yes… last time I used to go to Komtar every weekend! It was the IN place man!
When I look at my life now… it’s sure grown a lot more sophisticated with more things to do, more malls to go to and all.. but it’s also gotten more complicated. I sometimes wonder if it still feels the same, living in a nice small town. KL today though reminds me of New York. When I was in New York, lots of the people I talked to there were from all over the world… and the locals there were from all over the USA. KL feels a bit like that too. Like you meet lots of people from Seremban, Ipoh, Malacca, JB… who have all settled down here in KL. Kitteh told me that during our parent’s generation it was even more obvious. Like everyone who lived in KL, isn’t from KL but from all over Malaysia. Today more and more people are born in KL though.
Speaking of the next generation KL-Lite… yesterday Kitteh and I paid a visit to Joanne’s baby!
Such a cuteeeeeee boy! Kitteh said that looking at him made her want to have a baby of her own quick. *hyperventilates*
Ahh the life when we were all babies. Not complicated or anything. Just simple… eat, sleep and be happy!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space