JS's Birthday Pressie

No no no....I can't afford a plane. Maybe those lil cute remote controlled plane/copter or worse paper planes :))))). JS is one of those few men that I known who has got everything that money can buy. So as years passed it's getting more difficult to get him pressies. >.<

so Monkey got him a flying adventure :)))))))
he received his pressie through a special delivery with 3 helium balloons tied to it on his birthday morning at his office. I dunno why he was so shy that he quickly signed for the delivery and ran back to his desk with those 3 helium balloons trailing around his head.....he actually hid them and held the balloons down

*try to imagine Man Down Man Down Man Down*

that's how he held his balloons down
I guess at his age to receive flowers and balloons is something of a joke??? Oh well I have yet to arrive to the extend of sending flowers to a man. Gay men don't count ok cos I've done that to my dearie Gay friends
HAHAHAHAHAHA.


oooo helicopters!!! I've never ride in one but heard that it's scary. JS's job did required him to ride on one before to visit oil rigs out in the sea. WAH your job is so fun huh? U get to ride on all these mean machines and do defensive driving on track with a BMW.

but then again the grass is alwiz greener on the other side. According to him, helicopter ride is very scary....really really scary....


As we were walking on the tarmac to our plane....JS asked if we are flying this plane..
oh please dream on...this is a private jet....
soon a group of mak datins with birkins bigger than my ass boarded this private jets.



Darlin...this is our lil plane :))
we woke up so early for this that our eyes were just -_- one line...
typical chinese eyes....hahahaha



Soon we were shown parts of the planes by Captain M. Ho
and also to sign the indemnity forms...who to contact should anything happen and who's our next in kin...

*gulped*

sounds like we are signing for something more serious huh?
since I can put JS's name and he can't put mine...we had to think of other ppl to add.
yeah our circle of family members is really that small.


"Are u ready???"
Monkey >.<
I.M.SCARED.OF.HEIGHTS and small planes!!!!!


Wow that's too much to read and see on the dashboard....so many dials and what's wat??????
so confusing!!!!!

but Captain Ho is so farnie!!! his descriptions are precise and clear
"whatever that you do, don't touch the RED button here OK????"
well sometimes we have itchy fingers and hands, the more you said no, the more we want to try it. Oh well it's a reverse psychological thingy.

however when it comes to life and death...oh no thanks...I'll just follow wat u asked me to do.


JS has got such a cute ear piece with Zebra fluffy muffler
I WANT!!!!!!!
that reminds me of Madagascar
I like move it move it
he likes to move it move it
she likes to move it move it
you like to move it....MOVE IT!!!!

I have one too!!! and it's a weird feeling because we can't hear anything on the outside but lots of communication with control tower.

"Air Adventure 5, requesting permission to take off."
Control Tower: "Air adventure 5, cleared for take off at runway 1."

AHHH we are taking off so soon??? no waiting at all???? this is so much faster than commercial flights!!!


Poor JS was made to taxi a plane on his own..
it ain't easy because you use your feet and toes and press the pedals to maneuver the plane.

To the Captain, it was easy bcoz it's just like following the yellow line on the tarmac but for beginners like us....it's quite tough u know. Imagine driving your car with only your accelerator.

U can't go too much right or too much left.
so I guess it's all by feelings huh?




"Ok now pick up speed........we need to reach xxxx speed."
OMG we are already on the runway....this is so fast...


"Ok now pull the yoke."
JS pull the steering wheel which is called a yoke
I wouldn't have known....wat yoke??? where?????
and in nano seconds we were off the ground

I was in horror because I thought this flying adventure was only for him to play-play and he only gets to maneuver the plane after we are air bound...but no!!! Captain Ho let him take off!!!! all on his own...so u can totally imagine how fast my heart was skipping...almost outta my chest!!!!

and we were air bound!!!! phew~~~~~
destination......port klang!!!!


Look!!! he's sooooo happy but quite tense. Look at his arms and all the veins!!!!

"Don't hold too tight..just like holding a bird...too tight and u will kill it."
Captain's description was so farnie...


very slowly we picked up altitude and passed Bukit Jelutong to Shah Alam to Port Klang.
We didn't fly too high, just between 1,000 to 1,500 feet


weather was really bad on the west side of Klang Valley....this was Setia Alam.
We saw the vast future development of this area with a Toyota manufacturing plan with thousands of cars parked on the outside. Sigh, I don't really like the idea of new cars parked under the hot sun before being delivered to owners.

the tail of our air craft. It's a small Cessna 4 seaters, weighing about 600 kg only.
so it's not meant for fat ppl ok. Captain told me I can even push it on ground.

Captain: ""Okie now where do u wanna go?"
Monkey: "I wanna see my house."
so typical of Monkey....-_-


So JS dipped the plane and did a sharp turn back to East
AHHHHHHHHHHHH


"Where's our home? Where's our home???"
Heelllooooo please focus and look in front!!!!!! Eyes on the wheels please!!!!!


There!!!!!!!! right in front of the golf course
even the Captain now knows where we lived....believe me, later he learnt more about us than he originally intended to...poor Captain...sorry the 3 of us are stuck in this small plane so u gotta bear with us for the course of a few hours.


"Now where do u wanna go?"
I wanna see Subang Airport!!!
JS -_-"
ini perempuan ah.....


WAHHHH we crossed the runway at 1,000 feet!!!!
I felt like a boss :P


nearby there was a military plane flew by
it's less than 500 feet away...
wow that's close.....


Monkey wasn't so scared anymore after 30 minutes....JS was too lazy to entertain me so he decided we will head towards the KL city centre.

"Permission for entering City air space"
"Permission cleared."

WOoohoooo~~~
this is even better than the iPad flying games :P


"Hey Monkey, we are in the city centre now."
Look at his face.....so LCLY -_-"
ehhh u are not the captain ok. Don't act like one.
WAHHHHH!!!!!!

Go nearer!!!!

Go lower go lower!!!!
JS -_-"

"Okie now I wanna go to my office!!!"
Both JS and Captain "HAH??????"

Ok Monkey, for u my love....your office. here we go.

the KL Tower...
oh well my office isn't there but it's walking distance away :)))

"WAHHH my office building!!!!"

"take lar pic of the KL tower!!!!"

Ok oK ok sorry I'm too in love with my office :P
it sure looks beautiful from the air.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Ok now where to next
this time the Captain voiced out first and decided, think he beh-tahan already...."Let's head to Chow Kit Road now!!!"
and off we went....to Chow Kit...then towards Batu Caves.


After the circling the city round and round and round
as though we are doing some land and buildings and city survey, it's time to head out. Due to security reason, no planes can circulate KL city air space like this....just in case some nuts decided to crash the twin towers.


so we were off to Damansara, Mont Kiara, Kelana Jaya, PJ old town..
oh well u name it...guess we've been everywhere yesterday :))

until....
until.....JS decided another location
"I wanna see my office now."
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Captain and Monkey smacked forehead.

There your office tower!!!! Happy??????
You wanna open the window and say hi to your colleagues???
but then again it's Sunday :P nobody's at work :P

Still shaken and scared happy Monkey with a super duper happy JS.
I seldom see him smile like this -_-

"Okie folks...enuff??? time to head back to Subang Airport."
to my horror, Captain again let JS prepare for landing!!
WATTTT??????
wahhh how come u have so much faith in him?!?!?!?!?!!?

I was so so so SOOOOO surprised that JS maneuvered the plane onto the right course, at the right altitude with both wings so balanced into the runway correctly.

Have u been practicing on the iPad???
even the Captain was impressed......

Actually the landing was pretty scary as we were approaching the runway.
Couldn't snap a pic of the runway due to over-exposure of the camera.

OK now slowly....slowly....
even slower...

I shut my eyes and prayed.......how come the plane is still moving so fast????

only when I felt the wheels touched the ground softly I opened my eyes to snap a few more pics.
It was such a soft and delicate landing.....
WOW so smooth!!!!
Monkey clapped like a penguin
oing oing oing oing~~~~

OH it was an exhilarating adventure
:)))))))))

"Thank you Captain Ho for bringing us home safely!!!"
"Oh no it was all him!!!" and pointed to JS
errrrrr......definitely not. You won't let an amateur do it on his own but I was surprised that JS was given opportunity to take off and landing.

Dear JS, I hope you had a great time yesterday....as scary as it was I had an awesome time and put my life in your hands.....that required a hell lot of faith.

He answered me that it was really stressful and tense to fly a plane. Anyhow he's enrolling himself for his first flying course soon :)))))

If you would like to rent a plane, log on to:
www.airadventureflying.com

Wine dinner series @ Lai Poh Heen, Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Our lil exclusive group of wine kakis
We have this Wine Dinner series hosted by the members themselves on a weekly basis. Errr only recently it became weekly.......but Monkey is not complaining.

Victor the host asked Monkey a few weeks ago about her thoughts on Lai Poh Heen, I gave him the horror look!!! My last visit was back in 2008. And so after some discussion, we are going to give this place another chance since there's a new Executive Chef and a New menu.
*you may read about my last visit in 2008 here*

A pretty appetizer, consisted of their signature highlights:
clockwise from the top
a cube of watermelon with scallions
oven-baked scallop with butter cheese sauce
superior bamboo pith dumpling broth with dried scallop
chicken roll served with spicy garlic sauce
stir fried sliced clam with XO sauce
friend crispy crab stick with sesame

in case you are wondering, this place is pork free.


This was presented to us before they prepare it.
it's not a chicken
it's a QUACK QUACK!!!!!

u can imagine JS's face turned into a ducky duck duck....pouting.....
:-||

Preparation was done on the side....under the watchful eyes of the captain


Also OUR watchful EYES
O.O
must be so stressed huh?

Look at MW Maho and Viola's EYES
as if they disapproved :P
KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE


After much anticipation and Anxiety for some
2 pieces of carefully wrapped crepes were presented
Ta-DA!!!!
Traditional Beijing duck served with condiments


it was EXCELLENT
one of the key highlights for me that evening, apart from the wines
the meat was moist and juicy with crispy skin and bits
even the cucumber lent some crunch and texture to this dish. The sauce were not over-powering, just subtle enough.

and JS donated one of his crepe to Dr. Epicurean
hehehehehehehehe


Braised sea treasure soup with American ginseng and chinese cabbage
there was an abalone which was soo soooo soooo darn sweet and a delicate piece of fish maw in the middle...can I have 3 pieces please :)))))))))))

wines from private collection were displayed, carefully opened and served
served by the diners themselves....coz they were so So so So so SO adamant about it that it must be poured delicately for they are really old wines....to be handled like an old lady -_-"

a 1964 and a 1962
yeah...really old....definitely way before I was born


steamed cod fillet with whole abalone and wood mushroom
there were also slices of dates which made the dish so so so sweet
fish was steamed to perfection. Very Good I must say.


Dr. Epicurean and JS....
discussing about the food and wines....
yeah u don't come to just eat and enjoy yourselves...Must do your homework too....
lots of deliberation, discussion and controversies
hahahahahah but I would really love it if there's scandal added to the discussion :P

main course of braised sliced abalone with fish may, sea cucumber and broccoli..
this was quite similar to our braised sea treasure soup. Very similar profile.

a 1938 bordeaux....
WAHHH
this one everyone CONCURRED and CONFIRMED it's older than ALL of them
75 years old!!!!
surprisingly it was still fresh with some berries noes
Bordeaux wines can really age so well. So if I am buying some 2009, can definitely keep to be open during my jubilee :))))

Dinner then proceeded with crispy egg noodles with king prawn in cheese broth
don't like the cheese broth so much
it's almost like sang har meen but a fusion one.
I don't really like chinese fusion unless if it's Bo Innovation then I can really accept that.

the Men complained it's not enuff...so they needed another dish with carbs innit
most of them play golf so they needed this for next morning's workout.

Nom NOm NOm CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP

Alcoholic Anonymous ST was almost sleeping in this pic
He was longing for the comfy couch that was inside this private room..

He stared at it...the couch stared back lovingly with all its comfy red pillows
WUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Finally another fusion black sesame panna cotta with apricot sorbet
It would be nice if there's some black sesame dumplings in hot ginger soup instead :)))

The other bottles that we had...
but my favourite and wine of the nite has got to be the Chateau Rayas Blanc
it was so so so sweet and excellent nose. I need this to be inside our cellar now...

Thank you to Viola and Victor for hosting this Wine dinner series
looking forward to another non-tribes non-spare parts dinner in the near future

Lai Poh Heen Chinese Restaurant
Mandarin Oriental Hotel,
Kuala Lumpur City Centre,
50088 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 603 2179 8885
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/kualalumpur