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Price comparison fail
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Thanks to the bill rounding system, Giant is now guilty of false advertising.
Calibrated for your dining pleasure
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
At A&W, we want to remind our employees to smile in the most professional sounding way possible, then our customers will see it and think we’re really cool!
p/s: Our employees are so stupid we have to put pictures to show them what smiling is.
Card Fetish – Writer
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I recently entered this name card design in a little competition by a friend.
I didn’t win. But in a strange turn of events, she decided she liked it so much she bought it off me.
I told her she can pay whatever she thinks it’s worth. Art is subjective?
Anyway, it was supposed to reflect her profession and personality as a writer/blogger/gamer/forum mod. For personal use.
So. Your comments please.
Krispy Kreme nothing to shout about
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
So Krispy Kreme opened to great hype on last week. Being another Berjaya corp franchise, it’s aptly located at the under-occupied Berjaya Times Square (where Dome used to be). Another branch is set to open at the end of May at The Gardens, Midvalley.
Surprisingly, and luckily, there wasn’t a half-hour long line at the store (unlike the haydays of the donut craze last year). The store is done up in typical fast food fashion, with bright menus, bad music, and Starbucks-esque chairs?
A large window by the queue line lets you peek into the busy kitchen and the centerpiece donut maker where pairs of dough drop into a vat of oil, dry off down the line, and bathe in a coat of sugary goodness before being sold as the signature ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ Original Glaze donuts.
The other flavours don’t receive as much publicity, and can be found waiting in trays at the back of the store. This seems to be similar to how Dunkin Donuts prepare their daily offerings – well in advance.
Drop by JCo or Big Apple and you’ll find staff shaping donuts and applying the icing hot out of the oven. It’s sold fresh too. It would seem like the young asian donut cafes are one upping the more established outlets like Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme.
The donuts are good on the whole, but a few pieces in and it feels like your teeth are going to fall out. And that’s coming from a lot of people, many of them chocoholics and sugar junkies.
Case in point is the Chocolate Iced Glazed, which is a double choc donut, WITH a sugar glaze coating thrown in for good measure. A check on the official site reveals that each serving(donut) weighs 66g (250kcal), of which 21g is sugar. That’s 1/3 of the whole donut!
The Original Glaze is nothing to shout about, in fact, texture wise it feels slightly airier than JCo. Decent ones are the Hershey’s Cookies and Cream, and Hershey’s Dark Chocolate, both topped with bits of chewy chocolate and cookies.
Cappuccino may look tempting, but the creme filling proves otherwise. Like most other flavours, its coffee creme innards tastes more like liquid sugar than it does coffee.
Price wise, they’re slightly more expensive than JCo. The Original Glaze goes for RM2.50, and other flavours RM2.80.
To wrap, Krispy Kreme was dissapointing. Partially because of the hype and heightened expectations, but mostly because it failed to top JCo, probably it’s main competitor.
It might do them some good to cut down on the sugar, and start selling fresh donuts. The first week may seem rosy, but bad reviews tend to go round pretty quickly, and this post isn’t helping.
And to think the first customer lined up over 36 hours in advance just so she could win a year’s worth of donuts.
What the hell would I do with it?
The best restaurant in town is a secret!
Monday, April 20th, 2009
QUESTION- How do you know you’re in a very good restaurant?
1. The butter is served in a swirl, placed in the center of a chic black dish.
2. The iced lemon tea comes in three parts – The tea, a vial of lemon extract, and a vial of sugar.
3. Fact – Good pizza looks like crap but tastes amazing. Bad pizza looks good but tastes like stale dough. Mediocre pizzas are somewhere in the middle.
4. Service is impeccable. With a capital ‘I’.
5. They can do various types of food well. The Unagi Kabayaki gets two thumbs up. Miso soup is more ingredients than seasoned water.
6. You get a view like this-
7. With a price range roughly equivalent to-
8. Smack in the middle of town.
9. Almost nobody knows about it. Absolute privacy.
10. The Hot Spot – 24th floor, Menara Maxis. 9am-7pm weekdays only.
11. Edit: Anyone can go in. They give passes to the 24th floor.
101/1001
Monday, April 13th, 2009
Here’s a meme worth pursuing. It’s simple, do 101 things in 1001 days.
The rule is that all the things must be listed in great detail with a target date and plans to accomplish them.
You can do it with friends and list down shared goals, like going on a holiday together. But you’ll probably won’t think of enough things to do together, so you’ll have plenty for yourself.
What I like about it is that 1001 days translates to approximately 2 years 9 months and 1 day, which is a non-rounded time period (ie. 3 years). Not too short, not too long. Enough to do a lot of fun things as well as getting down to some life changing goals.
My list includes a long list of great restaurants, weekender trips, concerts, moving to the other side of the world, and getting some idle websites up and started.
Consider yourself tagged.
For once, I thank censorship
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Thanks to the ridiculous censorship of ‘I kissed a girl’ by *coughthitz.fmcough*, I finally got Katy Perry’s album One of the Boys. Mainly out of annoyance and curiosity.
IT’S PHENOMENAL!
I would describe it as a mashup of Ashlee Simpson, Alanis Morissette, and Pink. But better.
Also, her supercool personality is addictive-
Lesson: If it’s ‘bad’ enough to be censored, it’s good enough to keep.
Rubbish computers for rubbish prices
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Just who the hell buys a laptop based on screen size and keyboard comfort?
Result: HP Pavilion dv7
And today’s JoT totally nailed it:
