P1 had been advertising it's potong thing for about a month about the broadband services.

Then last week I started to hear radio playing very similar advertisement about potong too. But it's from Streamyx. Who on the earth is so creative lah? lol..



This is just for laugh. Am not bias to any party coz I never try P1 before. Can't judge P1 connection. But Streamyx is currently not allowing me to watch PPStream (too slow until requires 30 minutes to load 1 minute of the total of 1 hour drama), that's a big minus for Streamyx from me.

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Wanna write a review on Station One Lunch Set.

Had lunch with Toh Theng last Friday at Station One Taipan. The last time I had meal at Station One was at SS15. I had their Chicken Chop Set which was just so-so. That time I told myself if wanna find good food never go Station One.

But I forgot about it last Friday and stepped into the 'trap' again. I ordered curry chicken rice set (Set 3)



The curry was tasteless. The drumstick texture was like those of chicken breast, hard and dry. The rice was hard as if it's not fully cooked. Although they're kind enough to serve a bowl of soup which I haven't drink for long time. Was quite surprised at first but the taste of the soup disappointed me. It's just salt and MSG soup with pieces of some lotus roots sitting at the bottom of the bowl. Toh Theng totally can't figure out what soup it was until she saw the lotus roots.

It tasted worse than the Chicken Chop I had last time. Gosh. Can't believe they still can open so many branches selling meals.

The beverage that came with the set was nice though. It's called 3 layer tea.


Photos courtesy from this blogger

It tasted like the brown sugar + coconut milk + concentrated milk syrup in ais kacang. I never know beverage can taste like that. Yummy! But if the aroma of the tea can be increased it will taste better I think.

So, moral of the story is. Never take meals in Station One. But if wanna go for yamcha, station one beverages are good. I personally like their honey milk which is very soft to my taste bud but at the same time can satisfy my sweet tooth. Hehe.. Their Strawberry-Apple-Orange juice is nice too!

Beware of whitening products

Have any of you tried Olay Total White cream? (This is not an advertisement la. lol..)

Total white extra fair cream (for darker complexion)

Total white spot lightening cream


I've used it few months ago and found that upon application of the cream it instantly brightened up my skin. Initially I thought maybe after washing it off my face will turned back to its original dark complexion. Out of curiosity, I washed my face after applying it the face still remain as fair!

After applying it for a week my face complexion is far too fair as compared with my neck (I was lazy to apply it on the neck sometimes. Teehee) Everyone who met me exclaimed that I became fairer and I looked nicer. So I was really in love with this product. Summore this product is dirt cheap, only RM3.90 for 20g. Without second thought I used it everyday and when it ran out I bought new ones to continue using it.

Lately it's used up again and I wanted to buy a new one to top up my stock. But when I went to Guardian I couldn't find any on the shelf! So I bought myself Olay White Radiance instead. After that I had been wondering what happened to Olay Total White? So I went to Google up for this product. Couldn't find whether it's banned or something. But found a NST news article I found from Malaysian Babes Forum about several whitening products being banned from the market due to the presence of hydroquinone and mercury in the products.

Research shows that high concentration of hydroquinone might cause cancer. Furthermore, it also can cause irritation to the skin. Mercury can cause liver and kidney damage.

The article opened my eyes on the active ingredients in these whitening products and pushed me to read more on the activities of these compounds in the melanin production pathway. There are several active ingredients used in whitening products: non-toxic ones such as arbutin, vitamin C, glycyrrhetinic acid, kojic acid, melanostat and retinol, and toxic ones such as hydroquinone and mercury.

The functions of most of the these compounds are ultimately similar, that is to inhibit the production of melanin which is responsible for the darkening of the skin. As compared to hydroquinone and mercury, the non-toxic compounds are way more expensive than the toxic compounds (Quote from the NST news "Thailand sells for about US$20 (RM70) per kilogramme of mercury-based ingredients or hydroquinone, compared with highly concentrated licorice extract, which sells for about US$20,000 per kilogramme".

This struck me really hard. If hydroquinone or mercury salts is RM70/kg, 20g of the compound is RM1.40. And the Total White is RM3.90 for 20g. Hmm.. looks like it... I better throw it away.



Note: This is just my simple guess. I can't find any proof that Total White is banned from the government.

Food in Glenmarie

Seriously I dunno what happen to my body.

Since starting of September I already started to cough. Then seen doctor for 4 times. Finally with lots of medicine consumption I managed to stop coughing. But I started to have slight stuffy nose voice. =.=" This week started to sneeze and have runny nose pula. And the stuffy nose voice gets worse. @.@"

For heaven's sake I need more rest. I had been sleeping for at least 8 hours since last week but still not enough. Maybe I have to sleep at 9am.

Finally my company moved to USJ already. It's even closer to my house. Hehe. Go work 15-20 minutes can reach already. Coming back about 30 minutes can reach. So cool right? The lab looks so much more beautiful than the previous one. Summore the new lab got new air cond which is of course cooling and refreshing! =D The only problem is that there's no Chinese economy rice stalls nearby the company. Only some Malay restaurant and a Chinese hawker shop with only noodle soups and char kuey teow. Hopefully more restaurants will open there la.

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Although Glenmarie is very crowded with cars, but I will still miss the curry mee and nasi lemak there.

I'm gonna recommend the nasi lemak here. It's located beside a curtain shop which is at the corner of a row of shoplots. Beside the shoplots is a Petronas petrol station. The nasi lemak stall is beside a row of double storey houses, extended from the first house.


The car was pointing at the entrance of the stall


Long queue during lunch time


The stall with some lauk to come with the nasi lemak

Their specialty is the fried chicken

Freshly fried sizzling chicken meat



I didn't choose any other lauk. The price is quite reasonable. The fried chicken tastes good but it's quite hard to chew. But I like the fried chicken skin. Hehe...

Another food I wanna recommend is the curry noodle at Chicken Cuisine.


It's very thick and the curry aroma is very rich!


This is the stall and the workers

This shop is located at one of the shoplots (2nd shop from the end) at the small town of Glenmarie. It's very easy to find coz the workers wear yellow colour uniforms and it's always crowded with people during lunch time. You can add yong tao fu yourself and pass them your choices. Their default side dishes are half a piece of boiled egg, some chicken meat, siham (clams) and some long beans in the curry. You can tell them which one you don't want. The price is around RM5 to RM6 depending on the side dishes of your choice.

This shop has been reviewed by some bloggers already. Give it a try. I will give it a 5/5 star! I'll definitely go there for the curry again one day.

I'm Hope

Tonight just went to Global Arts to teach the kids drawing. I was assigned to two sweet 5 years old little girls. One of them, Anthea, kept kissing me on my cheek and my hand. And she likes to grab my hand and hugged my hand like hugging at bolster, too. So cute! ^^ Another girl, Rhienne, acted a lot more matured than Anthea and is so sweet. Aww.. It's been long since I played with kids already. =)

Got one funny thing wanna share here.

Two days ago the person in charge of this Global Art branch, Ben, asked me to find an English name so that it's easier to be called by the kids. But I still think Heay sounds more familiar.

Teacher Heay. Nice right? The good thing about having name with weird spellings is that it can be used as English name. Heay Kong. Hehehe.. Sounds so special. =P Nobody would be named as Heay I guess..

But Ben suggested Teacher Hope coz my Chinese name means hope. =.="

Erm... Sounds weird lo.. Summore so hard to pronounce.

Sigh.. Teacher Hope. Goodness gracious! I didn't even know it's a name until I just checked it on Babynamesworld. =.="

Ok Zhuang, laugh all you want. I'm Hope. lol... At least it's a direct translate from my Chinese name. Nevermind lo.. I will try to accept this name lo. Haha....

But I wanna make it clear that Hope is just my name in Global Art yea. I won't entertain anyone calling me Hope outside Global Arts. I still like being called Heay. =P

My Starry Night

Yesterday was too depressed. So I decided to continue drawing the piece of Starry Night I started more than half a year ago.

I personally like Van Gogh's Starry Night because of the lines in the sky makes the sky looks like it's built from blocks of puzzles. And I like the large glow around the stars and the moon too.




I've always wanted to imitate oil painting using crayon. Finally today I finished the drawing.



Although my favourite part (the glow around the stars with white dash) could not be achieved using crayons, my tree at the front is way too big as compared with the original, and the curvy cloud in the sky is not as texturized as Van Gogh's, I still feel very satisfied with my drawing. =) Hey, I already more than 5 years never draw a proper drawing already le. This is consider very very successful.

Summore my dad was shocked when he saw this drawing. Hehe. My dad had never praised my drawing before in my whole life. This is the first time. For all my secondary school life I've been hoping dad to praise my drawings (my dad's an art tutor, so is my mum), but I've never get any from him. This time I gained it, I felt so honoured.

Tonight I might sleep smiling. =P

Nights. =)