Happy Garden Lah!

Optimus Prime Mover

2009-06-26T02:34:00.002+08:00

There's an Autobot running around in Kuala Lumpur..

....in the original 80's cartoon body color too!

His Famous Juices

2009-06-25T18:41:00.003+08:00

"Edison's Juice"
Am I the only one that's thinking bout some other juices here?

Haha. You really have to give it to him for what he has done with his 'Juice'.

Lego for Adults ?

2009-05-29T14:09:00.001+08:00

By Mt.Dew Monkey on Flickr.

Friday Find

2009-05-15T12:36:00.006+08:00

Faces of Oreos.

Works of mandy.

The Malaysian Sense of Humour

2009-05-14T16:41:00.004+08:00

At a mall somewhere in town.

Look closer and you'll see funny Malaysians being helpful.

I love Malaysia.

Cool Find on A Thursday

2009-05-14T16:34:00.002+08:00

Found this on a sneakers forum.

Awesome use of SB boxes!

Poor Structure Construction = Increased Car Sales

2009-03-25T20:36:00.005+08:00

WARNING
EXTREME LAMENESS AHEAD

Q : When the London Brigde falls, what does people sell?

A :

.....London Bridge is falling down, 卖 Fairlady.

The Chronic Masturbator & Friends

2009-03-10T04:01:00.005+08:00

Lately, pictures like the one below started appearing on Facebook with almost everyone on the world wide web tagged on it.

One Sean Thomas from BannedInHollywood.com wasn't happy he was tagged as The Stylish One. And so he made a few 'amendments'.

Below is , according to Mr. Thomas, his more 'accurate' version.

I LOL-ed at the changes he made to 'The Flirt'.
Now tell me you didn't...

OWNED

2009-02-07T03:47:00.005+08:00

31st of December. 4 in the afternoon. Went to kacau Maybank's customer service bot on MSN.

Below is the screen captures of the conversation.

Owned. Me owned. By a computer. -.-

Yes, I was bored.

This Is Why..

2009-01-04T03:34:00.018+08:00

Ten months ago, I went to a park for a picnic. It was a sunny day, so I packed some fresh salad and a copy of Eating Vegetables For Dummies and settled under the shade of a coconut tree there. Bout an hour and 2 chapters later, I noticed something weird going on behind the durian tree opposite.

It was glowing! The freaking durian tree was glowing. Curious, I walked towards that weird durian tree. And right behind that tree I found a weird looking rocketship.

It was just some plain budget UFO. Not impressed, I turned my back and walked away.

Then suddenly, I heard some voice shouting ‘Irashaimasu’...

Huh? A fresh plate of my favourite Inari?!

Hmm.. good try but not today, I got my salad. I totally l-o-v-e salads. I turned and headed back to my bowl of greenies.

And then, a sexy voice said to me.

‘Hello Si Kacak..'

Eh, that sounded familiar.

I turned slightly and there she was, all 5 kilometres of her long-slender-bulu-less legs..

But hey, Maggie Q doesn’t speak Malay!

Feeling cheated, I threw my left side size 9.5 Converse Chucks at her and walked back to my coconut tree dirtying my left side sock.

Just when I was about to sit down under the cool coconut tree,

I heard a spine tingling sound…

A sound that only an Italian thoroughbred can make.

It’s the Lamborghini LP560-4!

Damn, they were good. This one totally got me.

Before I knew it I was being ‘beamed’ upwards and into the UFO.

And there I was. Abducted.

Abducted by these guys.

At the spaceship, they also made a copy of me. And sent him to replace me back home.

Two minutes later, the pirated Hon came back. And they beamed me back to Happy Garden. When I checked my G-shock, it was already 10 months here on Earth.

And that, explains why I didn’t blog for 10 months, Gwen.

Thai Insurance Ads

2008-03-04T22:20:00.005+08:00

Here's something I saw online that I'd like to share with you guys. It's a series of short films for an insurance firm's ad campaign in Thailand.

Daddy

Grandpa

Grandma

Marry Me

My Girl

I've always been a fan of those touching Petronas ads during the festive seasons. But the thing is, it's only shown during the festive seasons. These 'values' shown in the commercials are something that we should practice all the time, not just when CNY or Raya comes.

Go home and eat with your family today instead of just once a year.
Drop by your relative's place today for a cup of coffee instead of a packet of folded bank note.
Make that long overdue phone call home today.
Treasure these moments while they're still here.

Eight Random Facts Bout Me

2008-02-28T20:01:00.008+08:00

This post is a long overdue response to a tag I got awhile back. Fine, quite awhile back. Okay, 2 months back.

Fact No.1
I like cars a lot. And I like a lot of cars. I've recently discovered this term called 'Auto-Otaku'. Otaku are used to call ppl with obsessive interest. Like geeks or nerds, just that instead of overclocking PCs, online games and Gundams, I like stuff that involves cars. Everything from video games, movies, animes, comic books, adverts, toys, models, posters, everyday stuff, everything.
I remember code names, model numbers, who, where, when, what bout cars I like. I look out for the cars they use in movies, drama series, commercials, and spot that half-a-second scene where the car zooms pass. I watch and re-watch cheesy B-movies just cause they've got cool cars in em.
And I've got a permanent lump on my right thumb from too many hours spent racing on the Playstation.

I'd love something like this in my room

Fact No.2
Yup I love cars. But please don't just get me some random car models for birthdays. Everyone knows I like cars since I was like 3 feet tall. So I've receive a fair amount of car models throughout the years. Not that I don't like em. I just would have preferred something else. Something more personal instead of just picking up some scale model from the toys department. (Actually I just didn't get the models I want lah) Just kidding, to those who got me some in the past, I love em. I understand it's the thought that counts. (And not the specific car model that I would have sooooo love)

Fact No.3
I've got a thing for this Carlsberg girl. Seen her once on the cinema screen. Couldn't get her off my mind ever since. I even have the ad on Original VCD. What? The ad's great!
And..
I got this framed in my bedroom..

Fact No.4
Tattoos. I've thought of getting one years ago. Back then, a close one got one and she said she'd pay for mine. Back then I just got outta school. So a couple of hundred bucks worth of free tattoo sounds great. Too bad, up till now, I couldn't find a design that I would wanna live with for the rest of my life. So till now, my body's still ink-free.

Fact No.5
I like old school stuff. Stuff from the late 80s and early 90s. It reminds me of the times when I was a kid. Stuff like cassette tapes, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Masked Rider, the Mario Bros, Micro Genius and the first gen GameBoy. (Hint hint, birthday in the end of the year guys)

Dang. This tag thing is hard. I couldn't think of so many random facts bout myself. This is frustrating.

Fact No.6
I don't eat beef.

Fact No.7
I cheated in my exams.

Fact No.8
I don't smoke cigarettes. Everything else is fine though.

There. All done.
"Thanks" to Michelle for the tag.

Happy Birthday Yee Ling

2008-02-28T19:09:00.002+08:00

A shoutout to a friend... Happy Birthday gal!

The Mamak Anthem

2008-01-20T04:32:00.000+08:00

I first caught it on air on hitz.fm. The Morning Crew made another parody. This time it's a take on Will.i.am's 'I Got It From My Mama', aptly named 'I Got It From My Mamak'. This time they got Jin the MC to do a rap on it too.

Check out the hilarious lyrics.

Hey JJ...

Laparla...

Yeala, where you wanna go ah?

Dunno, you got kereta?

No ah... jalan lah

Here we go!

JJ, where'd you get your canai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your maggi from?
JJ, where'd you get your tosai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your curry from?

I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...

JJ, where'd you get your kopi from?
Rudy, where'd you get your nasi from?
JJ, where'd you get your sambal from?
Eh, Rudy, where'd you get your tapau from?

I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...

Mamak, looking good from his head to his toe,
Curry overload, body out of control,
Open 24, you can always go,
So happening, also got cendol,

Roti smelling good, they don't use ghee,
It's almost four, it's the place to eat, (apa khabar?)
You can tell curry's been there for a week, (wah sedap!)
Mamak made it hot, I can feel the heat!

So be veli good and thank your mamak,
He makes food just like a sauna,
Panas, panas, here it comes now, panas, panas, here it comes now,
Oooo

I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...

Aney, Aney, Tolong kira please boss!

(Mamak boss kaneke-ing)

- Okay, *patteli-nabeli-aseh*
- What?
- Ten ringgit forty cent, buuuttt for you guys - Ten ringgit.
- THANK YOU MACHA!

Eh Rudy..
Ah..
Mmm, tak rasa la. Not enough spice la...
Don't worry, I know what to do man.
Really?

(Telephone dialling)
HEY JIN!
Ow Sh*t, it's the morning crew!
Hahahahahahaha

Ho, you ain't hungry?
Well - I - am,
Take you to a place where they don't eat ham,
Speak malay or speak chinese,
A little bit of rice and some black eyed peas,
Where else can you go and eat real late?
Straight from the club and it's food on your plate,
Love Mackie Diz, but not today,
Think I'm in the mood for some cool teh,
Tell JJ, I think I found a winner,
Me and Rudy, we both missed dinner,
So you know that we're ready to eat,
No durians, now please have a seat!

Come on...
I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...

All these food right here, I got all these from my MAMAK.
All these food right here, I got all these from my MAMAK.

If the roti really fine, 9 times outta 10, its coming from my mamak,
If the kopi real sweet, 9 times outta 10, its sweeter at my mamak,
If the cat's really ugly, I bet you, it is not at my mamak,
If the girl's real fine, 9 times outta 10, she's hanging at my mamak,
If you're chilling in subang, 9 times outta 10, you're chilling at my mamak,
If you're hanging in ampang, 9 times outta 10, you're hanging at my mamak,
At my mamak!

JJ, where'd you get your canai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your maggi from?
JJ, where'd you get your tosai from?
Rudy, where'd you get your curry from?

I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it from my mamak! I got it got it got it...
Roti make some noise!
If you like kopi, make some noise!
If you like mamak, make some noise!
Make some noise, Make some noise, noise, noise...
(noi, noi, noi, noi, noi...)

Ok, ok enough of the noise, eh - macha, macha, Rudy - Stop with the tin cans la!
Are you serious?
Yeala please
Alrite
Eh, but how's your roti ah?
Ooo, dashyat man
Eh, eh whatchu got eh watchu wat's that?
Eheh, chicken, lamb, everything inside!
Got telur?
GOOOOOTTTT

Edited from ice-shaun's lyrics.

*Patteli-nabeli-aseh is just my version of ten ringgit and forty cents. It is by no means, an accurate pronounciation of the Indian language.

To download click here.
File uploaded by greenbade.

It's infectious, don't say I didn't warn ya!

Pictures from the TV

2007-12-21T20:10:00.001+08:00

Was at the living when this came on...

Mary J. Blige was on Oprah...

And... you notice the Bahasa subtitles?

That's a line from her song, 'Be Without You'.

" Anybody who's ever loved, ya know just what I feel "

The guy who did this must be bored at work or something.
I must say though, he's pretty good at it.
Better than those on DVDs you bought from your friendly-blond-caucasian-named-but-doesnt-speak-english-pasar malam-vendor.

" Call the radio if you just can't be without your baby "

It was freaking funny when I watched it but unfortunately I didn't manage to capture the funnier ones.

This reminded me of another picture I took quite some time ago...

I knew this guy reminds me of someone..

Yet I can't recall...

Ahh.. I got it.

Stewie.

Burger Madness

2007-11-02T01:46:00.000+08:00

First, McDonalds offered this..

The Double Spicy Chicken McDeluxe.

Nothing special bout the taste, you just get double of the usual chicken meat.
What's 'special' is the price..
The normal Spicy McDeluxe costs just slightly more than RM10. At almost Rm14 for a set of this, it's one of the most expensive ones on McDonald's menu ever.
But being a fan of McD, I just had to try it..

Then Carls Jr. reopened..

How much?
More than 20 bucks for a complete set!
The tax alone is more than RM2.
This is getting ridiculous.

But at least with the size of the burger and the bottomless drink, you'll get to really fill up your stomach.
And there's quite a lot stuff in there.. not just some mayo-ed cabbage on top of the meat.

Unlike the one I had over at A&W's in 1Utama...

This is how it looks like at the counter..

This is what I got..

Inside..

(They got out of stock or what?!)

Let's look at it again...

THIS IS MADNESS!!!

Alvin and the Chipmunks

2007-11-01T18:08:00.000+08:00

This is the teaser poster for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

What have they done?!

This is how they originally looked like..

No, Im just kiddin.

This is how they originally looked like..

No, I'm not kiddin.

This is really how they looked like when they first came out in 1958.

But the chipmunks we've all grown to love are the ones from the late 80s.

I hope the movie's good.

Operasi Biskut Anak Babi

2007-09-24T18:59:00.000+08:00

A couple of weeks ago, me and some friends pooled together some money to get some mooncakes and piglet biscuits for the children from the House of Joy. Yesterday, we paid the kids a visit. Although not everyone made it, I wanna take the opportunity here to thank everyone who chipped in.

In no particular order..

Mac

Catryn

Cypress a.k.a. Choon Hoe

Elle

Chew Loong

Catherina

Samuel

Michelle

Leon a.k.a. Blue

Yen Ping

Loh

Mei Yin

Jalud a.k.a. Jared a.k.a. Heng Lam

Renne

Lokuchai a.k.a. Wai Hong

Some pictures from the visit..

Thank you all..
Last but not least thanks to my family as well.

Open Sesame

2007-09-22T18:09:00.001+08:00

There's this chinese restaurant in Jaya23 called the Oriental Pavillion. A typical chinese restaurant except for this..

Behold, the 'Mystery Entrance'.

Closed.

Open.

Transformers fever?

Very cool nonetheless. Now to figure out how to get one for my room.

Bug-o-rama

2007-09-19T22:51:00.000+08:00

I was walking towards the college after I parked my car outside the other day, when I noticed something really unusual over at The Summit's parking lot. It was packed with people. There were booths, tents and a stage set up. It was like some Datuk had thrown a kenduri there. Or a mini Mawi concert.

Fortunately it wasn't..

It's the Bug-o-rama, the gathering of everything VW.

This one looks straight out of the factory in 1938.

While this one looks very 70s groovy.

Im not sure if the guy's the owner, but this VW looks special alrite...

....with it's carbon fibre vinyl-ed sides.

Very boy-racer, check out the bucket seat inside.

You know it's an enthusiast when you see tools being displayed like it's art.

Love the American drag cars looking wheels.

Signal Auto got their hands on this one?

It aint a VW gat without a Herbie present..

And it's not just bout the Beetles..

There were a lot of the VW bus too..

The iconic barn windows

Love the classic paint and wheels

Kitchen in the camper

Just found out this is called the VW Thing

Another one.

Golf GTI Mk2

With BBS wheels.

The odd one. A Corolla KE70 with a VW emblem.

Collectibles..

...and parts.

Sorry for the lousy pictures, took em with my phone.

Malaysia Transformers Manufacturing

2007-09-11T21:01:00.001+08:00

While working yesterday, I called up a company called MTM. MTM apparently stands for Malaysia Transformers Manufacturing.
Didn't know they have a factory dedicated to making these huge tukar-menukar robots.
And in Malaysia too!

Imagine all the bots talking in Bahasa.

Now imagine a Sirim sticker on Bumblebee's butt.

Phantom Visitors

2007-09-11T20:57:00.000+08:00

Before I got a blog, I told a friend bout my intentions of getting one.
After I registered happygardenlah I told another about it.
Then I didn't touch it for weeks until one day I was chatting online with a friend bout blogging, I told her bout happygardenlah.
I logged in and thats when I saw 90 visits from 50 different IPs. O.o
What the... where the hell does the other 40 plus came from?

Girlfriends. Macam Macam Ada

2007-08-27T23:47:00.000+08:00

I'm sure you guys have heard of Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend. I'm not really a fan of the song, but I like Avril coz she's.. ah.. urm.. nevermind, the thing is, there's another version of it.

Bout two months back, a remix of the original featuring a young female rapper called Lil Mama was released.

For those who have yet to hear it. Here it is.

The other day, I was driving and listening to Hitz.fm and Girlfriend came on. But this time it's different.

Here's how it sounded like.

" wo bu xi huan ni nu peng you "
" ni xu yao yi ge xin de "

WTF?!
In chinese?!

But big deal, it was on the radio, you've probably heard it weeks ago.

Ahhhh, but you might not have heard of Kenny Sia 's rendition yet. Created as a potential campaign video for a fellow blogger entering politics.

Here it is.

I hope you haven't had your dinner.

ROTFL.

Happy Garden - Lah!

2007-08-20T21:54:00.000+08:00

So Hon's got a blog. Happy Garden Lah!
I wanted happygarden.blogspot.com but someone already took it.
And boy, what a blog that is. You guys should check it out and "get some happy" there.

Apparently if you google 'Happy Garden', you'll find lots of Chinese take-out restaurants.

And so, i decided with happy garden lah. Why the 'lah' at the end?

I just think the word 'lah' makes the whole thing less 'formal' as this blog is not really meant to be taken seriously.

Plus, it's the Merdeka month. The slang '-lah' is Malaysian-mah.

A bit of patriotism from Happygardenlah.