So today some of the Nuffies and I decided to head to Lot 10’s food court for lunch. I was feeling a little “heaty” so I decided to have porridge. Halfway through my porridge, somebody tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around to see Kenny Sia.
I haven’t seen Kenny in a long long time. He was down in KL only for a night and he just so happened to be in Lot 10 right there and then. He didn’t yet have any dinner plans so I asked him to join Shorty and another friend tonight. I brought him to what is my favourite restaurant in KL: Nerotecca.
I love it because… well I have a thing for very small and quaint restaurants. You know, the kind of places you find in places like London, New York or even Melbourne. Small, old and quaint little restaurants that you know have been around for a long time and yet only have a few tables.
Nerotecca is one such restaurant (though it doesn’t look old or anything) and the food is amazing. I love the cold cuts.
And they have what is in my opinion, the best pasta in all of Klang Valley.
What I also really like about Nerotecca is the ambience. Just the kind of place you can go and relax with friends.
Service is great and the best part is that it’s really affordable. One bowl of pasta is like … RM28 or something. And you can tell them to customize your own pasta for you. Shorty and I love going there and we normally order stuff that aren’t on the menu.
The other thing that’s new with me lately is that I finally got myself a tablet. That’s right! I totally missed the tablet phase. While everyone was having their iPads and all… I didn’t have anything but my Kindle. Mostly because I wasn’t sure what I would use the tablet for.
Then I read more and more about how tablets are changing the world and I finally decided that since I’m in the digital industry, I gotta keep up with times. At one point I really wanted to get the Motorola Xoom and other alternative tablets like the Blackberry Playbook but got tired of waiting for them to come out in spite of all the hype they were creating.
So I recently got an iPad 2. I googled around and got it from one of those suppliers who bought it from an Apple store overseas and brought it back to sell in Malaysia for a bit of a premium.
I know it’s coming out in Singapore this month but if memory served me right last year, it was pretty much sold out everywhere for the first few months. So I thought okay, pay a little extra but just get it. I paid RM2,500 for a 32GB Wi-Fi which is pretty much the most I could ever get myself to pay for a tablet. It was the same price I paid for the first iPad I bought my mum a year ago (before it hit Malaysian shores).
The iPad 2 is supposed to be faster, has a front camera and is supposedly 33% thinner than the first iPad. Everything else though is pretty much the same to be honest. So if you have the first generation iPad, I don’t think the change in technology for the iPad 2 is a big enough leap for you to change it. It’s supposedly lighter but it’s still too heavy to hold it up and read like you do the Kindle.
What I use my iPad for so far is really reading lots of news online.
Plus I now carry it around with me instead of my laptop which makes me feel better. For the past year I’ve always gotten paranoid about carrying my laptop around or keeping it in the car trunk for fear of people breaking it open and stealing it. On the iPad though I can just carry it around like a file.
With the iPad though I think in future I might just change from my iPhone to an Android phone in future. I also do have a Blackberry for work. Got a Torch recently when my Bold 2 died. It gave me a bit of problems at first but now that I’ve fixed them, I love it!
Hope I end up loving my iPad too.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space