Welcome To....: It's all about the water....and more food

I seem to be updating pretty often nowadays eh? Haha. Anyway, was busy over the weekends as my parents were down at KL. My dad ordered some water filter system called Hydro One to be installed at my house. The funny thing is, I didn't know when those people were gonna come to my place. Last Saturday, I heard my door bell ringing but, thinking it could be my aunty and my grandma was downstairs with the maid, I continued sleeping...Only to be waken up abruptly within the next few minutes by my grandma. She told me there are people who are here to install the water filter unit. As I slept pretty late(probably 2am? or 3am?) on Friday, and being woken up like that... I was moving sluggishly to brush my teeth and change my clothes. Anyway, I saw the man and his son fixing the piping and stuff when I got downstairs. I didn't know my dad ordered those huge filter where you place them outside of the house.

The er...plumber? and his son

No, that is not a light saber folks. Looks cool huh?

One small cutting device to cut the copper piping.

Trying to fit both ends

Almost there? Looking pretty sweet huh?

Marking the places to drill holes for the filter stand/holders

Finally, he gets to do some work :D

The tank's holders? Uh, and yea...that is my shadow. Duh.

Get the idea now?

There we go, easy does it

Here comes the sniper wall LOL

We're almost done :)

He is working at the front section now.

The brand

And finally, completed the installation

If you noticed the time those pictures were taken, it took them about 2 and a half hours to install that filter(First picture was taken at 9.33am and last picture at 12.01pm). Just when you thought it was over, we have to install another one for the wet kitchen area.

My uncle said, we can actually drink straight from the tap with this( partly the water is filtered by the big brother outside the house :) )

The position for the filtered water

The extra outlet for the water to be channeled to the mini filter which has some membrane or whatever they call it.

See that long tube that is he rolling up? That is for the backwash

All these for about RM2.3K. And you gotta maintain it!. The front filter will auto backwash every 12 hours! The man said the amount of water for the backwash will be approximately 2 pails? WTF. Anyway, so it will backwash twice a day and you have to MANUALLY backwash the filter ONCE a month. As for the filter at the wet kitchen, I have do the backwash once a week.

Honestly, I rather not have this filter. Firstly, you gotta remember to do the backwash. Secondly, touching wood, imagine if something does wrong with the filter? Getting charged for fixing it...etc etc. Those filters on the mini filter which you saw earlier, the man said the company will call me when it is reaching the 1 year life span and will cost about RM180 to replace them.

Seriously, I rather not have it. I still drink BOILED water for God's sake!!

Pros: Clean water?
Cons: $

Next up, FOOD!!!!!!

First up, DIM SUM! We went to this restaurant near our place after Sunday mass at Church of Guadalupe .

Whatever the chinese character says

Entrance :) It's pretty decent actually.

My Grandma and mum

My sistah

Kenneth :) Her husband

Cooked upon order. So it was fresh.

The food might look delicious, but the taste was quite disappointing. The siu mai was not the usual siu mai taste you would get typically. It was just too different. It doesn't taste bad but it didn't hit the spot.

Har Kau? Same as the siu mai. Not your usual taste for your taste buds.

BUT This....

THIS IS NICE. Some mini ham tan(salted egg) pau? Are you expecting it to be salty? Surprisingly, its not salty at all. In fact, it is very tasty. Would definitely order this instead of the siu mai and har kau. The nice warm yolk oozes out as you take your first bite. Simply delicious. Sorry, no pictures for that. You gotta go there and try it out yourself :)

Phai Kuat Wong? Is that what they call it? This is okay. :D the taste is pretty standard however it's quite meaty. Not just bones like some shops.

Loh Bak Kou?White carrot cake? Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

Woo Kok? Wu Kok? They took 20minutes in order to cook this. Pffff. Gordon Ramsay would probably say "What the fuck are they doing in there?!!?!? Christ, it's just a WHO COCK! Come on."

Overall, not too disappointing.

Our last dish, glass noodles and mee hoon. RM18! And the size of this order is "small".

Enough of crap from outside. Here are some REAL good food. This was for dinner last Saturday.

Fried tofu with fried shallots

Veg! Siow Pai Chai..

LOR BAK!!!! Too bad my mum didn't add hardboiled eggs for the night as we already had eggs for breakfast. Pfff Health conscious.

Last but not least, Sai Yong Choi soup!

Too much food? Okay, here comes the messed up part. I went to order a cake for my dad's birthday last Sunday and thinking Secret Recipe's cakes are 1 of my favourite for cheese cakes. So my mum and I popped by Secret Recipe near my place and boy what a mistake.

We got there around 11.00am and there were only two staffs working. One of them was behind the counter and the other was mopping the floor. My mum and I were discussing on which cake to choose. Since the staff behind the counter was busy attending to an earlier customer, I asked the other staff who was cleaning the place if they have a fresh Espresso cheese cake. He went back to the kitchen and took out the cake for us to see. Simple enough, we took the Espresso Cheese Cake (RM70) and wrote down our message to be written on the cake.

My mum told him to wash his hands as he was cleaning the tables and floor(mop) and he stopped handling the cake and went back to clean the place. After afew minutes, the other staff asked us what message would we like to have on the cake while handing me a piece of paper. I wrote "Happy 56th Birthday Papa" and......without showing to us, he wrote and packed it into the box. Thinking it should be okay as I WROTE on a piece of paper for HIM to write on the cake.

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Only to be given this

What the fuck. My 56th father? I only want 1 dad. Which to me is the greatest dad. We love you papa!

Better lighting? WHAT THE FUCK lah you stupid $%&^%$#%#$%@

Okay let's not make those stupid fuck heads spoil our mood. We proceeded with the celebration :D
My dad couldn't stop moving! hahaha I tried taking a good shot but he kept moving. Check it out.

1st shot

2nd shot - Aiyo..papa, stop moving lah..my K800i sux

At last, a decent shot

We are family..jeng jeng
L-R: Grandma! Me, my dad, mum and sistah! Kenneth is taking this picture. Damn, I forgot to take his picture with my sister and dad. aiyo..Sorry man! I forgot.