Otak-Otak Place

Happened to pass by a restaurant on the 1st floor and my Mom was attracted by its name: Otak-Otak. Yes, you heard that right. Otak-Otak. It's actually a fish cake and called Otak-Otak because it, according to Wikipedia, "resembles brains, being on the soft and squishy side."



One set of 5 fried otak-otak dumplings



One set of 3 steamed otak-otak buns.

(A special thanks to the lady manager for allowing us to take both pictures as we had already finished ours when my Mom thought of taking pictures. She was the one who asked me to blog about it. =D )

Well, yes, the dishes all revolve around Otak-Otak. If you're interested to try, this is the address:-

Otak-Otak Place
L1-58, First Floor,
Tropicana City Mall

Disappearance until further notice

Though my social life is slowly getting better, my academic life is in a mess now. I still feel like something's missing. You know, like a missing puzzle piece.

I know I'm on my way to the right path, but there are so many hurdles that I will lose my sanity if I don't do anything about it.

It's time; an indefinite break is necessary. I'm putting this blog - The Tempremental - on a hiatus. An open hiatus. But I'll still be online to check my mail, among other things.

I will return as soon as I can get my academic life back on track and accustom myself to it again. Don't keep your hopes too high as I can't guarantee the duration of the hiatus.

P.S. I'll still blog if I can't bear with certain things.

I'd like to give chores a miss today

I'm feeling sleepy, but I can't have an afternoon nap. If I do, I won't be able to sleep tonight and it'll be back to square one.

Sleep late + wake up early = lethargy with dark eye rings

As much as I hate it, I must finish my chores and revision. I'd love to do it tomorrow, but I don't know whether I'll have the energy.

I'm unhappy... pretty unhappy with things and events. A bit angry as well, though the anger has tampered off over the years. You could say I am melancholic. That's true, but I'm not going to bawl over it. It'll make me miserable.

Might as well project a happy face than tell the truth. Might as well leave them in the dark than tell the truth....

Might as well cry in the dark.

Personally, I don't really care if any lost contact is or isn't re-established. Like Alicia said, "there's no point in getting worked up over it."

Now, why don't I go and finish my chores and .... just do something to while the time away?

I don't like the fact that my plans are always disrupted by something else. Was forced to postpone the trip the other two times. I hate apologizing to people for the delay and me unable to come. It eventually gets tiring for both parties. Giving a late notice would work for me, but since I don't like people giving a late notice, why should I even do it?

Well, it is now confirmed that religion doesn't really play a role in certain professions. What the people are doing is actually against the doctrine, you know. Maybe they thought God isn't watching and listening to their every move.

I also don't know why, but I'm starting to find that people are weird. Terribly weird. They can be nice one minute and snappy at the next minute.

Eh, hello, just because you're a lawyer doesn't mean that you can be rude and simply scold others without any valid reason! At least we have better mannerism than you, miss. You're plain lucky that they weren't interested in scrubbing and lecturing you. Otherwise, you'll get two red cheeks.

If you had a bad day, go play squash or badminton or at least vent your anger at the wall. People will feel stung by your words, you know.

Maybe you were never taught the meaning of respecting others.

....by Inoue Yosui

Atarashii Rabusody



Syonen Jidai



P.S. Inoue Yosui is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter. I was introduced to his songs by Tanaka san.

Poor dog, not taken good care by the owner(s)

If you can't take good care of the dog, then don't have any. If your family member wants it, tell her/him to bear sole responsibility of the dog even though that person is a minor or an adult.

Look at the poor dog. Because you didn't want to take care of it properly, she looks like she's a 10-year-old when she's only less than a year old.

The poor dog's shedding hair, having oily skin, sweaty and smelly paw paw hair, teary and smelly eyes and never been showered before. It just doesn't make sense. The dog's suffering outside while you and your family are enjoying the ac inside. =.="

Use your logic. Dogs are living things and part of the family as well. Seriously, I don't care if you are rich or just average. Weekly shower and daily grooming are necessary. I'm sure you can't survive without daily shower and grooming, right? It's the same with dogs. Which is why they scratch and that's one of the reasons for their shedding.

It's such a pity that I don't want to hurt your feelings. Otherwise, I'll pinch you about it. I seriously want you to get offended. At least that way, you'll have a twinge of the dog's feelings.

I can guarantee that you don't love the dog - a single bit. If you did, the dog wouldn't say "Thank You" to a complete stranger who showered her with tremendous love.

The love that she can never receive from her owner and you wouldn't have the heart to leave her outside 24/7.

Don't lie that the dog is inside at times. For your information, I'm not blind nor am I dumb. I can see it from the body language and the dog's condition.

How do you like it if I were to chain you to the fence outside? If you don't like it, then don't do it to the dog as well.

Crooked Ways

Such a pathetic morning. Thought that by sending the car for service first thing in the morning would guarantee a completion at 11am. Turns out it wouldn't happen, but it'll so bring us hell.

We only learnt that there was no stock for the rear left pump at 10 am, after an hour of waiting for updates. Okay, when I thought that everything was finished and we can go hour, some guy comes up and says that the "shock absorber cover's broken". And to add salt to the wound, it was nearing lunch hour. Another one hour of useless waiting. >=(

Bloody fool; why didn't you guys send the car for test-driving before opening it up?! Why must you tell that it's broken at the end? We're already sick of waiting and here, we have to wait longer? You should've just told us about the leakage and crack in one breath. At one shot.

It's either the manager was ignorant or he pretended not to know. Talking about him just drives me insane. As the head of the place, he should offer his apologies to the customer for the delay. He did not so and, instead, drove a Livina into the service center and bolted. My mom wanted to complain about his lackadaisical attitude, but I told her not to. There's no point of doing so as I had a strong feeling that he's not the type who will listen to a customer's criticism and work on it. Otherwise, he would have come over and profusely apologize for it.

I just hate it. It's lunch hour yet I see someone working on a Frontier. Can someone tell me why companies and offices have a manager? I don't see the logic here. I'm very sure that the problems don't end here.

People have been saying that the one in Glenmarie is and will never be efficient as the one in PJ. Time is the factor here. If we were to send it to PJ, it'll take us at least 3/4 day, but Glenmarie is sometimes faster. Well, you know what, I think I might just throw out the time factor and send it there. I had enough of this lackadaisical attitude!

Every time we go, some part will "magically" break or leak on that day and time and we have to wait longer for it to be done.

Car service centers in Western countries strive on efficiency and comfort. FYI, they are friendlier towards the customers. If there's any delay, they'll profusely apologize about it and try to soothe the customer's fury. Furthermore, it takes less than half a day to complete even a major job! They'll test the car before sending it to the center. Not the other way round.

You know, we waited for 5 hours there. Can you imagine waiting for another two hours with an exploding bomb and growling mind? Plus an additional hour for the stock to arrive!

We were supposed to meet up with Tanaka san today, but because of all this unnecessary mess, I had to phone at the eleventh hour to postpone our meeting. Thank God he was okay with it. Otherwise, who's going to pay for his anger? =(

If it weren't for that Good Samaritian, we'll definitely eat them up and die there. Yeah, I'm still waiting, but in the comfort of my home!

You mean to say that you will ignore the customer in his fury and let him/her cool on his own? What kind of PR is that? We'll never return again to change the cover. You must be out of your mind to even suggest that! If the sand enters the shock absorber, who's going to pay to change the whole shock absorber + the cover? You?

The Good Samaritian even commented that your planning is way off base. At least he was more sympathetic than you guys because he has experienced it before.

Maybe you'll feel it when you are in our shoes and experience it yourself!

(Please) remind me not to buy any more Nissan or Proton cars (yeah, the last car had a huge engine and trottle body problem though we took good care of it) here. I had enough of this bloody and inconvenient mess.