Perpetual Tockism

How can you resist such a cute little name, akin to our favourite comic hero of the century, our one and only Shin Chan? Leaving nothing else but hunger in our stomach we proceeded through those pretty doors into a classy, well-illuminated Ramen restaurant.

As we entered there was this decoration thingie that sort of mesmerizes its viewers located to our right. Coupled with its overall presentation made of white stones and green leaves, the huge boulder spouted water running incessantly down its horizontal layers giving the alluring zen of peace.

The Japanese waiter greeted us with an unmistakenable hospitality and seated us in one of these classy settings, the usual necessary condiments such as chilli oil, vinegar, salt and pepper already provided. Then the hot paper towel came to our refreshing delight.

On one end of the wall there were these red tiles and a peculiar hemisphere inside it, with what I think to be whimsical jottings in Japanese. Anyone care to translate?

Everywhere else was made in mirrors, so as to make it look like a huge area, expandable into infinite. It provides a great sense of space, contributing to the beautiful aura of this restaurant. I really loved the ambiance, and I hoped the pictures gave enough an impression for you too!

Anyhow, let’s move on to the food stuff, shall we?

There was a promotion for their specialty Ramen dishes, and so we chose a miso ramen set that didn’t cost as much as the restaurant makes it to be . Also thanks to a friend of mine, I’ve got this craving for what we call “Superfoods” whom she claims will help in having a healthy life, and so we ordered Edamame as well. Promotional: buy one free one, I loike!

The set came, and we were nevertheless astounded with  the amount of food that came with it. The price tag of RM30 suddenly felt all worth it. Here we have:

• a bowl of miso-based ramen with minced pork and vege
• a bowl of salad in japanese dressing
• a bowl of clean tofu
• pickled vegetable
• Japanese rice
• tori kara age in sweet & sour sauce
• a couple of watermelon

The Tori Kara Age in sweet sour sauce, more commonly known as Sweet & Sour Pork (lolol) was awesome! Pieces of fried succelent pork went so well with the usual vegetables (onion, carrots, corn and bamboo shoots) and smothered in a very well-made thick sweet and sour sauce that I really, really like!

Suffice to say I downed the whole thing with the slightly sweet and sticky Japanese rice…

The tofu was ever so delicate, looking so pristine in that white bowl. I’ve never failed to take notice of the way food are presented and so I was very impressed with the selection of bowl and condiments to meld the whole dish together. Such a pure and simple dish to clean one’s palate. I know I’m describing it weirdly but that’s how it was!

Loved the salad. What else can I say? Crisp shredded lettuce, cucumber and tomato. Drizzled in tangy salad dressing. Can’t possibly go wrong, eh? I really like it though!

After swarming the set, we didn’t expect anything else because we were so full. A fortunate surprise came though, with the waiter informing us that we will have our dessert now, and out came a dainty looking green tea ice-cream. (On a side note, I think green tea ice-cream is overrated. lol)

I am now trying to eat healthily so I thought I could mix some Superfoods into the ice cream, hoping it would work. This was what I came up with, unfortunately it wasn’t something many will accept as “food” lol. Why la. Be creative! Taste and mix all kind of things, you’ll never know when you suddenly come up with a striking recipe that will take the world by storm!

Heh

Okay la, maybe this time i failed a bit. HAHA. I call it “Edamame Extract in Green Tea Frosting“. Looks yummy what, no meh? =P

「Chris Tock Approved: 4/5」

Hey, I think I forgot something veeerryy important, which I will address today… 2 days ago on the 16th of September was…

MALAYSIA DAY! Happy 51th Birthday Malaysia
(It’s the official day when the Borneo Island consisting of Sabah & Sarawak was brought together with Malaya to form Malaysia as we know today!)

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Anyway now we can go to the goodness of Charcoal Bread. What is it ah?

Liddis lo. Really, there’s nothing else to it. Just Pure. Black. Bread.

What does it taste like? GARDENIA! Yes, it’s sweet, fluffy and, well, black
No really, it does taste like normal bread. Adding butter to it is equivalent to adding butter on a piece of Gardenia white bread, except it looks like a highly toxic yellow vomit ontop a burnt piece of charcoal. lol.

See? Those ingredient sounds fine right? Go try and make it, see whether can make or not lol. I don’t know how “bamboo” comes into the picture, but when you do find out lemme know aight?

I used to be a poet when I was young.

A sushi a day in a faraway land,
With bright red salmon topped with a tan,
With rice below, oh ever so mellow,
A guy can fly his fiver or ten.

Oh why does it make me smile,
A simple gesture, a simple style,
It’s flesh glittering, it’s rice oh so shining,
It suggests that I buy a big pile!

Does anyone know why I wrote this poem,
In a day where there’s not much sodium?
I shouldn’t do this, nor should I take a piss,
Cause I think there’s something wrong with my cranium.
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Ahhhh, the reminiscence of the past never fails to make me smile. Okla guys I’ll start updating more again after today!

is the ONLY way every one of us will be allowed to make unbiased and decisive choice in what we want our country to be. Do away with the government. Do away with the opposition. I could not care less as politicians become all high strung trying to either save their own asses or show like they are heroes come to sweep you off your feet, stringing panic against panic to win favours of all kind.

I’ve had enough. I was lucky to be educated overseas and to start movements after movements to spread the awareness of knowing exactly what I want my beloved country to be. I want NATION BUILDING, not POLITICKING. I love Malaysia, and it hurts me as more and more of my fellow citizens complain and talk about leaving Malaysia with her many problems threatening to invertly consume itself.

It really does. hurt. a lot.

So here I am to call upon all of you out there. Malaysia is where we grew up. Embrace our fond memories and experience that none other than Malaysia can offer with our unique multicultural celebrations, spreading the amazing feeling of muhibahness between friends of all races. The hint of pride in me will never waiver, if not grow to a level that will shame those who claim they love Malaysia but claim nothing can be done about this and resort to migration.

This is because you can. Yes you can actually DO something. Anything. Hope! Pray! Never think it’s the end! Do not be afraid of failures after failures because with every failure comes a tiny breakthrough!

Failure is when you get nothing done. Failure is when you give up before even starting. TRYING. Failure will be the downfall of anything. And everything. Failure will be the death of hope, ideas, joy, wishes, dreams. Failure is doom.

Let’s not fail Malaysia. Let not our beloved country be held ransom by political situations that has been ravaging our landscape. Let us decide what we, the rakyat, want. Do that, by clicking on the link below and provide your name and IC number. There will be no voice in anonymity, however, there is nothing but pure strength in numbers of identified unity within our brothers and sisters of the nation!

–>   http://benar.org/ <–

“At the end of the day, the best defender of non-Malay rights is a Malay, and the best defender of Malay rights is a non-Malay.“ – Nathaniel Tan (Malaysiakini source – as to how we, the rakyat, should be pro-active in dealing with Ahmad’s latest racial provoking without just leaving it in the hands of politicians)

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Incidently, one of the most amazing browsers has come to google earth, in the form of a mix between Open Source’s Mozilla Firefox and Apple Webkit  to give you:

Google Chrome! (in itself an open source browser too!)

Okay, so what makes it more special compared to the top two (Firefox, Opera, and pls no IE pls) out there?

One major reason: individual tabs are now separate processes but they exist within the same window.

What does that mean? Simply, say you have about 16 tabs running on your browser (normal la) and the one where you were waiting for your youtube to load suddenly crashed. What happens then? That’s right… the browser as a whole crashes along with it, forcing you to alt-F4 everything into oblivion! And THEN you have to wait as it fully loads all your tabs again after it does its recovery thingie, and any information you were halfway typing is all gone into our little black hole in webspace.

Now with the feature abovementioned, you just have to worry about one tab crashing, and THAT’s the only tab  that’s going to go, not affecting the others!

Apart from that, in general it’s pretty smooth sailing and seamless integration makes it all the more cooler. In fact you’ll have a hard time at first getting used to the sheer screen size it offers, a far cry from even Opera. You have to use it to understand what I mean lol. Take a look at the comic that Google made here.

So what are you waiting for, download it here and give it a spin!

 
Update: ok reading this piece of news I might also give the latest Internet Explorer Beta 8 a try, after all, we can’t always be anti-Microsoft, can we? It’s the same with everything: if we don’t like it, we change it, but we must at least give it a chance if it’s good. People power counts for a lot in this time and age *winks*