Wine @ Nine, TTDI Plaza - Pool time with La Sallians

Event: La Salle Klang 91 get-together
Venue: Wine @ Nine

Add: C-19, Plaza TTDI, Jalan Wan Kadir 3, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, KL
Tel: +6012 286 1688
Opening Hours: 4pm - 2am (Mon-Thurs), 4pm - 3am (Fri-Sat), 4pm - 1am(Sun).


The main man ... KYS. The lad's good!

Mr G!

Hmmmm, you resident blogger in action. Poor technique, but loves the game!

A mini La Salle get-together :-)

Besides the REALLY good pool tables here, and friendly staff, the Guinness on tap is rather good too!

Tamron SP90 - Newsprint macro shot

Here's me trying out my Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 on manual-focus, for the very first time!

Coco seen through the eyes of a Tamron SP90

Some portrait shots of our Cocodog :-)


Camera set-up ... Nikon D80 , Tamron SP 90 1:1 Macro and SB-600 Speedlight.


Apple-time! Coco loves fruits ...

Overseas Imbi - Tamron SP90 Macro

Another opportunity to use my new macro lens for some food "still-lifes"!
Camera body: Nikon D80
Lens: Tamron SP90mm
Review of my new macro lens
EXIF (For majority of shots below): F/4.5 , 1/80s , No flash

Add: Restoran Oversea (Imbi) @ 84-88, Jalan Imbi, KL
Tel: +603 2144 9911
As you can see, I have reviewed and enjoyed the food here a "couple of times"!
Thanks for the treat :-) at Overseas, on the occassion of Baby S's christening.

Char siew - Possibly the best in KL!


Very interesting chicken dish, with "floss-like" ginger shavings over the top of steamed kampung-chicken.


Signature dish... Lovely "Ham Yue Fah Lam Poh", aka chinese bacon with salted-fish.


Roast piggy , oink oink! I prefer the even more unhealthy loh-mai variety aka served on a bed of glutionous rice.


A couple of vege dishes ...



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Ipoh Road Yong Tau Foo, Sentul

Location: Ipoh Road, Sentul

Sui Kao and Yong Tau Foo ... delicious :-)


Bowls of soup which came with the meal, nice veges ...


Decent rojak too!

Petrol price ... RM$2.30

Petrol is a more bearable ... RM$2.30 per litre, these days!

Tamron SP90 shoots some home cooked food

Here's a close-up look at what Yanna prepared for dinner one evening at home ... Photos as seen through my new Tamron SP90 Macro lens and trusty Nikon D80.

Yong Tau Foo with black bean sauce, and a really appetising and perfectly fried curry-powder marinated fish.


Hmm, how close can I get to this omelette ... rather close!

Amazing Race Asia 3 - Episode 6 (Hong Kong)

Originally screened on AXN, last Thursday 16th October 2008, at 9:00pm Malaysia time.

This is the 5th episode of TARA3 (The Amazing Race Asia 3) ... The first challenge was at the Kowloon King's Park Sports Ground, where teams had to get through a rugby field full of Standard Chartered handsome / tough / big / strong rugby players, who would stop them from getting the clue box at the far end of the field! Ida and Tania seemed especially enamoured by them, haha...


Here's the lovely Tisha Silang doing the Detour, Get Lucky. Wikipedia ... Teams had to head to one of the designated tables at Mee Lun St. and bite into hundreds of fortune cookies in a marked jar and only when they find the one cookie which contains a fortune regarding their next clue can they proceed.


Our gals took a lot longer at the fortune cookie challenge, sigh!


Bernie and Henry chose the other Detour ... Get Fishy. As described in Wikipedia, teams had to scale and gut 12 fishes to the satisfaction of a fishmonger, before they would receive their next clue.


The next challenge was a Roadblock at Kowloon's Tung Choi Street aka the Ladies' Market , where the teams had to look for an identical handbag on a "moving target" aka random-shopper! Not easy... Anyway, all the teams completed the challenge eventually.

Hmm, a lovely lady welcomed the teams to the junk at Blake Pier, Stanley, which was the pitstop for this leg.


Well done, the Hong Kong lads!


Uh ... Bernie kept the handbag from the challenge, haha! Not bad guys, our Malaysian superteam came in SECOND in this leg.


Our other team, Ida and Tania, came in LAST. But were relieved when Alan let them know that this was a pre-determined NON elimination leg. They gave up their monies, and they are on their way to next week's episode ... Phew!

Audi A4 B7 2.0 Turbo - Caractere kit

Possibly one of the most handsome saloons on the road, this is the B4 Audi A4 2.0 Turbo. Even hotter with the original Caractere kit :-) Wow!


Gorgeous badging ... RS4 Caractere.


Impeccable build quality, and check out the Bose sound system which comes as standard.




CVT gearbox allows seamless gear changes as well as incredible fuel economy. My friend informed me for a full tank of RM$120-130 (At current fuel prices, which means the tank is similar in size to a Toyota Camry's), the range is 600-650km! Pretty good for a 200bhp engine eh, which also means that you even get a road tax rebate!


Check out the pedal shift!!


Comfort/economy mode - Cruising at 140km/h and the revs are well under 3,000rpm!


Sport mode - At nearly 180km/h, the revs are barely even 3,500rpm!


Wikiedia
The B7 - Audi introduced a heavily revised A4 in late 2004, with the internal designation of B7. However, this new range A4 still utilised the existing Volkswagen B6 (PL46) platform, a chassis derived from the outgoing B6, but enjoyed heavily revised steering settings, suspension geometry, new engine ranges, navigation systems and chassis electronics (a new advanced Bosch 8.0 ESP system). Audi's internal platform nomenclature uses PL46 (longitudinal passenger car platform, size 4, generation 6) for both B6 and B7 chassis. The Typ 8E and 8H internal designations are also unchanged from the B6 A4.

Engine 2.0T FSI
Power output 197 hp/147 kW
0-100km/h in 7.3 seconds