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So yeah as I mentioned I've been having a generally bad week last week.....my chair broke - which buggers up a lot of things (lot's of pictures to process, blog posts to write, We Ate This needs updating and so on).

Then I mashed up my car bumper in Plaza Damas looking for somewhere to validate my freaking parking ticket.

THEN my computer starting playing up and randomly displaying a bunch of nonsense on the screen rendering it useless...I suspected it might be the power supply. Will try the new one out tonight, I think I'll have time.

New chair arrived this afternoon though, which is good - can get back on top of things finally.

So anyway lot's of things to do this weekend...but I decided I need some beer, what better than some cold Guinness Draught on a hot day!

I headed down to Blackhole in Hartamas as they are having some promotions and they are completely decked out with a Xmas/Guinness Draught theme, which is really neat.

Buy 3 pints of Guinness Draught (RM23.80 per pint) and get 1 free Guinness Draught gym towel.

The Guinness Draught was good and fresh, nice and cold and poured well.

Nothing like a big glass of cold Guinness Draught on a warm relaxing Sunday.

Have a smooth and Joyous Christmas with Guinness Draught!

Cheers from me!

Guinness Draught itself is also doing some give-aways - more at http://www.guinness.com.my

So a while back I went to Bed to take some pics for a photo contest, it turns out that I won a prize!

I didn't know which place, I was just asked to head along to Loft in Heritage Row (Just opposite Bed funnily enough) to collect my prize last Friday night at 10pm. You can see all the entrants and the three winners pictures here: Star Celeb Photo Contest.

I should of noted the time and perhaps gone at 11.30pm, as it started around 11.45pm in actual fact.

The place was pretty empty when we got there, it got warmed up later on though. The last 10 Star Celeb finalists were there (final 8 and two wildcards), with Kim Ong doing her thing of course.

Then a little later it was my turn to collect my prize, Shutter Asians collected 3rd and 1st prizes! With Siew snatching first.

I won RM300, yay!

Loft got pretty packed by midnight or so, I bumped into quite a few people (vad3r, jack and wussy).

Quite a decent place with some good music, real mix of people too. Not so much youngsters, more mid twenties all the way up to fifties, lot's of not-so-slim-folks too.

Went for some Teochew porridge after that at Jalan Pudu, yummy. Wasn't in the mood to drink that night at all, so strangely sober.

Oh well, here's to winning more contests Perhaps I should start entering some..

I love me some Smirnoff black, neat, straight from the freezer - shame mine is almost finished.

It's one of the smoothest drinks around - I always keep a bottle in my freezer. It's always ready to pop me a shot and get me going before I head out for a wild night.

S for Smirnoff

I don't mix this Vodka, that would be sacrilege, I've been drinking this stuff since 1999 back in London. Smirnoff blue and red are reserved for mixing, preferably with red bull - if not then orange juice or tonic water.

Sadly this bottle is getting a bit low, time to pick up another one I think.

I'm not big into flavoured Vodka (you can call me a purist), but good news for those that are...Smirnoff is launching a new flavour of Vodka at the Santuary on 25th Jul 2007.

This post is in conjunction with the launch of its SMIRNOFF® line of new flavoured vodkas @ Sanctuary, The Curve on 25th July 2007. For more information about SMIRNOFF® products, please visit the website, http://www.smirnoff.com/

So one of Pats' friends came back from Sabah I think, or somewhere over that side of East Malaysia, and brought is a bottle of Tapai, or local Rice Wine (Tuak is from Sarawak right?).

You can buy it for a small fortune in some posh bars in Bangsar, which will give you a headache..but this is the real deal, served in a reused Tiger Beer bottle with a plastic cap!

It's from Kadazan culture I'm led to believe.

Kadazan culture is heavily influenced by the farming of rice, culminating in various delicacies and alcoholic drinks prepared through differing home-brewed fermentation processes. Tapai and lihing are the main rice wine variants served and consumed in Kadazan populated areas, and are a staple of Kadazan social gatherings and ceremonies.

Pat dishing out the goods, the dirty liquor pimp.

Had trouble remembering the name because of the creative labelling.

Lot's of glasses, yay!

It's pretty smooth stuff, it doesn't taste very strong, but kinda gently knocks your head off and leaves you feeling nicely warm and fuzzy.

It's got a tangy aftertaste, I guess it's like a much stronger version of Toddy.

I'd recommend it to anyone 'Hic'.

So last night...it was Monday night and I was at the opening of the Laundry Bar at The Curve in Mutiara Damansara, just next to Fitness first, it was a dual opening Italianies and a retro urban bar called "Laundry".

Which is indeed an odd name, as many people walking past proclaimed "Why this Dobi so big one?"

So basically it was loads of booze provided by Laundry and loads of food provided by Italianies? A sure winner indeed.

Got there around 9.30pm starving to death hoping there was some food, bumped into TV Smith and Midnite Lily, also the writer of Kaki Cucuk Langit a very good blog (Yeah go read it now, now now) and another fella who's birthday is the same day as KinkyBlueFairy, muteaudio.

Also apparently I saw KinkyPugKevin and he saw me...but er well we didn't talk.

It's a nice looking place, I label it retro urban, unfaced cement walls, shiny aluminiumish things hanging around and a nice wooden/plush seating area at the back.

It was of course very packed, with the free beer and food, Malaysians all come out the woodwork!

The bar staff did a commendable job of keeping everyones thirst quenched.

The beer did just keep coming...and coming and coming!

Unfortunately the first few rounds of food were provided with no cutlery...so we kind of had to make do..

And as you can see, it isn't really your typical finger food.

This creamy cheesy tomatoey chicken thing was REALLY FREAKING GOOD, sinful, but good.

Yes food, more food and more food, there was some awesome meatball things in a creamy sauce with some tomatoe garnish and a big slice of mushroom in the middle, those were nice.

Here we have some prawn pasta, lasagna and the creamy cheesy chicken thing. All good apart from the Lasagna, which was too salty..a little slip on the seasoning there.

The Tiramisu was really good, definately the best one I've had in Malaysia so far, it actually tasted like Tiramisu should and had the requisite alchohol in it

Then as we were about to burst...along came the most enourmous peice of strawberry cheescake, which was also fantastic.

Yeah they just kept bringing more food after that, with some kind of caesar salad with calamari on top.

Me eating and Kimberlycun pouting.

I did appreciate the effort they put into the decor, gave the place a nice feel.

I've got purple shiny disco balls!

There was a really cool live band playing some old skool retro ragga/reggae kind of tunes, nice music, great singers.

After that, to my absolute surprise the DJ busted open the set with some hardcore drum and bass, I was like ZOMG WTF LOLPLS I LOVE DnB.

After that came some Funky House and some UK represented 2 step Garage.

Laundry bar, it was teh fun.

I shall go again (especially because it's like 5 minutes from my place and they should give me a lifetime of free booze for writing such nice things).

Laundry Bar does have a rarely updated blog here.