A'roma Ristorante @ Damai

Monday, April 30, 2012

I went to Coffee Bean at Damai  yesterday to have a drink with my boyfriend there but unfortunately they run out of ice, so no ice blended available.  The weather is really hot and i really need something cold like milkshake. :/
So baby told me to go somewhere else. We went to this Italian restaurant called A'roma Ristorante, which is located one row with Tong Hing Supermarket and next to some stationery shop. Previously the shop is actually a Bakery shop, but now it became an Italian restaurant.
I think they merged with Southern Bakery or partnership or something like that.
But good news everyone, the price is slightly cheaper than other Italian restaurants like Little Italy & Bella Italiana in KK. I spotted another branch of A'roma Ristorante at Lido area, the row of shops opposite some furniture shops.
I wanted to tried out their bolognese and lasagna cause it look so delish but i already ate at home. Maybe i'll consider to have dinner here for my coming birthday at this restaurant :)
Now everyone can enjoy a good italian meal without paying more.
But since we only go there for a drink, we didn't try out different meal except for the pizza.



 Set pizza: Margherita RM9.90 with Ice Lemon Tea/Lime
Thin crust pizza and crispy. It was delish!
from 10am - 3 pm only.
 Strawberry milkshake and Vanilla milkshake 
RM5.90 each

 You know what? i'll definitely come back for more :)
 Total paid is RM21.70 for two person.


Overall rating;

Food and drinks : 4/5
Services : 4/5, waitress very helpful but a lil bit slow.
Price : Reasonable & it's a budget Italian food, trust me :)

Location :
A'roma Ristorante
Block A, Lot 6 & Lot 7
Damai Plaza Luyang
88100 Kota Kinabalu

Operation hours

Monday - Friday / Public Holidays ( 12PM - 10PM
Saturday - Sunday ( 1PM - 10PM)


The month of May :)

First of all, Happy Labour Day everyone!
I wish you all have a good day at home or whatever it is since it's a public holiday.
Did you check you calender today?
What did you see anyway?
I saw this :)

Today is the first day of May and i'm so welcoming the month of may!
Wanna know why? Because it's my birthday month!  and i'm pretty sure its my luckiest month! :)
 Yeap, 9 more days to go starting from today.
I'm not sure how i want to celebrate my birthday this year. But for sure i'm going out for dinner with my boyfriend and my family! :) I just haven't decide where to eat. But my sister is coming back this weekend, so i think we go out to celebrate earlier i guess:)
Maybe i'll celebrate with my friends too if they're not so busy.
Maybe i just celebrate earlier with them. But frankly, im not sure why i'm not so excited about my birthday this year, most probably because of PMS is around the corner. #screwyoupmsbitch :(
So yeah, 9 more days to go, i haven't find my birthday dress and some stuffs for myself. I know i just come back from KL shopping but i haven't got what i want.
Oh well. whatever it is, i knw this would be my lucky month this year:)
Many public holidays falls on the month of May.  Now don't you just love the month of May?:)
Last but not least, i wish you to ...

I even found a song called Month of May by Arcade Fire!!! :)


Tam Nak Thai Restaurant @ Api Api

Sawadee Ca~
Saa bai dee mai? :)
oh crap..haha
Today's post is about Thai cuisine! 
Do you love hot and spicy food with strong usage of herbs?
If you're into Thai Cuisine, i would like to recommend you to try out Tam Nak Thai Restaurant.
Tam Nak Thai is located at Api- Api next to Digi Centre.
But i'm seriously not good in giving direction so yeah, good luck finding the shop.
But incase if you can't find it, try use your phone GPS or foursquare ask around, it should help.
There's only two famous Thai restaurant i've tried out before, another best Thai Restaurant  in KK is called Mango Thai which is located at Asia City Complex, but sadly the shop has been closed down about 2 years ago. But there's another Thai shop in Damai, but i never been there before. Maybe next time.
I've been To Tam Nak Thai Restaurant for several times. But usually i only ordered Pineapple Rice, Phat Thai ( kueytiau a like) & the rice with beef on top ( forgot what's the name) .
Overall, the food quality is good but some dishes is served in small quantity. So i would say that some food is quite pricey here due to its quantity.



 If you don't to waste your money of juice/soft drinks/alcohol, order some chinese tea/ water 50cents per glass. But they will refill it for free. :)

 Pineapple Rice RM12
 FYI, the pineapple rice served in big portion, so if you don't have a big appetite, it should be enough for two-three person :)
 Some spicy thai beef or mutton? i forgot, but it's not spicy at all.

Tom Yam soup! RM13
The soup was way too spicy for me, but it was delish! :)
The soup is definitely made up from lots of spices & herbs. I can smell lemongrass, coriander, mint and Thai basils, if i'm not wrong.
 Tom yam soup with potatoes, mushroom, ginger & beef.
 Special prawns served with mango/apple salad. RM18
Mango/apply salad was delish! but the 6 little fried prawns, way to pricey for RM18 .

  Thai dessert ~ Ta ko RM5
It tastes normal. It just some coconut pudding decorated with some corn on top.

Total paid for dinner is RM100.10.

Overall rating;
Food and drinks : 3/5
Services : 2/5 ( way to slow)
Price : From RM5 onwards

The Avengers CRAZE!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Hell yeah baby!
The Avengers 2012 is OUT!

Have you seen the movie yet? :)
The movie premiere is released on the 27th April 2012 here in Malaysia, too bad it's on midnight and baby have to go to class the next day ( he got test every friday)
so we didn't bought any tickets for the premiere.
I woke up quite early yesterday around 10 ++ and received a text from baby saying that he finished his early and let's go watch movie! i was so happy! so i quickly get ready to go out with him.  I asked baby whether he want to watch the movie at GSC or Growball, so he said maybe go growball cause there's only 4 shows at GSC suria. The night before i saw some of my friends retweet a public announcement from GSC Cinema saying that if you're watching The Avengers, make sure you stay till the end of the credit. So i told him about it, and baby changed his mind to watch at GSC suria,yayy! :)
We purchased the first show of Avengers yesterday @ 1230PM! :)
While waiting, we went to Kuo Man restaurant @ Suria Food Court to grab some lunch. Before entering the movie hall, I bought some set popcorn and beef hotdog to eat during the cinema and they give out free gift:) FYI the movie is approximately 2hours and 20 minutes :)
At first i didn't bother about the thing the girl put into my plastic cause i'm afraid we're late for the movie. Guess what they gave me?
Tada! a keychain of THOR! why Thor?=(
i'm into Captain America! So after the movie i went back to the food station and asked if i can changed it to Captain America, however the girl told me they only have Thor right now, have to wait until 3rd May to get Captain America keychain! yay i definitely will come back! :)
the guy in light blue shirt is mine!! :) *in my dreams*
So The Avengers was really AWESOME!
Frankly, before this, i'm not into these super heroes from comics books but ever since i dated my boyfriend, i watch lots of movies from lame to awesome movies such as Iron Man 2, Kick Ass, The Chronicle, Thor, Captain America and too many to mention!
Maybe it's because i never read Marvel comic books before ( all i know is Doraemon) haha
The Avengers is where all the superheroes combined as a team. am i right?

So here's the staring : Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye and Mark Ruffalo as Hulk. am i missing anyone?
So who's your favourite? :)
I like CAPTAIN AMERICA ( Chris Evans), Iron Man ( Robert Downey Jr) & The Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo). But i like CAPTAIN AMERICA the most, i guess the caps explains everything? :)
Scarlett Jo is so hot! She's really tough & strong in this movie, good choice to let her act in this movie instead of Angelina Jolie :)
I don't really remember the Hulk story but i'm gonna download and rewatch it later.
I don't want to spoil your excitement to watch the movie so i wont write much here.
Overall, the storyline was good especially the unpredictable ending.
The actions is a must watch movie! My baby was expecting more actions from start til end of the movie. haha
Overall, my favourite scene is the fight between Hulk and Loki!
Loki said something like you are dumb creature and i'm a god , then Hulk turns him upside down! Loki was so shocked man and you should look at his expression! haha that was hilarious and very very funny! I give a rating of 9/10!
Okay enough, i can't reveal too much, i hope you guys have fun watching The Avengers! :)

My baby said there's a rumor that there will be The Avengers 2 sooner? :)
i hope soo! Can't wait for Iron Man 3!
After the movie, i keep thinking where to get a Captain America tshirt? anyone know? I don't really wear tshirt but i do want something like dat :)
Captain America aka Chris Evans is so hot!
Check out his picture~


I googled about Chris Evans and i came across this picture of him and some unknown girl ( okay fine, her name is Evan Rachel Wood) for fragrance, Gucci Guilty.
Chris Evans :)

 I'm gonna buy this fucking perfume soon :)

Watch the Gucci Guilty trailer:)
Director's cut.

=( Chris Evans

Weekend Getaway Part 4 : Last day in KL =(

Friday, April 27, 2012

Day 4 ( 23/04/2012)

Yep, it's day 4 which means we have to go back KK already =(
We woke up quite late that morning because of last night, we slept around 2AM i think after packed our luggage & stuffs.
We grab our free breakfast at Old Town before checking out.

Add-on :  Roti Kahwin Old Town!
 Both of us having the same meal for breakfast cause baby don't like the noodles.
 After breakfast we went to to Hotel room to finalize everything. Just wanna make sure we didn't left anything cause we're gonna check out early to shop more.
 Packing done! waiting for baby to carry out all the luggage.hahaha :)
 my finger hurts :(
We check out around 1130am, then we left the luggage at the lobby, please make sure you tell them & get a receipt from the counter people. Then we went back to Times Square to shop until 2pm..Th mall seems so empty, why? because its already Monday :)
I bought some handbags for me and my mum, scarf, some clothes then baby bought himself 2 belts & another pants :) I was looking for a perfect dress to wear on my birthday, but sadly didn't find anything that i like. Baby noticed that so he said " tepa laba bie, later di kk saja you buy k?"
I know someone is hungry again, so we went back to Jalan Alor to eat before we take a Taxi to KL Sentral. The Taxi costs us RM15 from BB to KL Sentral, well better than RM20 right? Besalah tu mo charge extra sama tourists. From KL sentral, we took a bus to LCCT. Its already 3PM when we reached KL Sentral, our flight is at 6.05PM..so we have to be at the airport early to avoid traffic jam as we don't even know the traffic condition there.
After drop in luggage and all ( thank god our luggages is not overweight!) hahaha, we went to McD to grab something to eat before boarding.
Baby bought double cheese burger for himself and Spicy McChicken for me. thanks baby! :)
One more thing, the weather is so damn HOT! panas2 KK, ndalah panas like KL oo.. i miss KK.
Anyway, the stupid Airasia delayed our flight to 6.30pm ( that's the original flight time but they changed it to 6.05pm and now they delayed it again back to 6.30pm) haihh..but what ever it is..as long as we finally reached KL and safely arrived at BKI at 9PM!
I turned on my phone when we reached KK and suddenly i received a text from Mitch asked me to take care! How sweet! hahaha i don't know why, but i feel like I've known her for a long time eventhough i just met her 2 days ago!
I guess blogging was fun and it's a great place to meet awesome people! but please becareful, don't trust people easily, palis2 kena kidnap ka apa.
Sooo , that's the end of our Weekend Getaway stories.
I had so much fun with my boyfriend and experienced a lot of new stuffs with him like, the luggage thing, the casino event,the extreme shopping!!, I-city and others!
Although we don't have much time to do some food testing cause our schedule is packed with my shopping time, but its okay, we'll do it next time :)
Thanks for a great trip baby! more trips to come kan? you promiseeee :)
p/s i love you so much!
So yeap, that's the end of our story : )
Thanks for reading:D

**something bad happened to my laptop the day i just got back home=( thank god everything is ok right now. =)

Weekend Getaway Part 3 : Shopping + Colouful Forest, I-city & Snow Walk

Day 3 ( 22/4/2012)

Its day 3 already! which means we have to go back to KK the next following day =(
FYI, day 3 post is very long...so if you're lazy to read you can scroll down and check out the pictures.
We woke up around 8am and freshen up a bit before going  down to the lobby to take our breakfast coupons.
FYI, Seasons View Hotel provide breakfast at Old Town Cafe as a complimentary for staying there. Not bad huh?
Anyway, choices for the complimentary breakfast is limited.
You only can choose the set meal from "MyBreakfast" Menu with Coffea or Tea. Other than that or for add-on, you need to pay.


After breakfast we went back to our room and get some rest before going out to shopping again.
Around 11am, we went to Low Yat Plaza, just incase my baby want to buy some gadgets there =)
Then we went to Sungei Wang Plaza  & BB Plaza to do some shopping. Before that, we drop by at this restaurant called Subway cause someone is hungry again :)
Total paid for this is RM16++. The burger tastes normal, they use fresh ingredients and you can actually pick your own ingredients too.
However, the wrap meat is very little and should i say skinny?haha anyway, this is my first time to try out subway burger. but frankly, i prefer Mcd spicy chicken :D Then we continue to shop, I bought baby a sneaker ( cause i know he would rather buy for me stuffs than getting something for himself.) I also bought a lot of perfumes ( 3 for him, 3 for me), a new wallet for us and some other things that i cant really recall.
p/s Baby, I told you, shopping with me was fun-ner right! *jaga you if you salah jawab* :)
Anyway, its almost 130PM, we have to go back Hotel to freshen up first cause we have to take the KTM at KL Sentral to Shah Alam as we promise to meet up Mitch & her fiance at KTM Shah Alam. We dropped by at some random shop at Jalan Alor to eat Lunch.
Then Mitch text me and asked whether i'm bringing my handbag or not to I-city.
I told her i asked my boyfriend to bring his sling bag cause i malas want to carry my handbag around I-city plus later susah want to take pictures. hehe
We went back to hotel to change clothes and then we took the Monorail to KL Sentral and from there we took a KTM to Shah Alam which costs us RM5 for two pax.
When we reached the train station, the train heading up to Pelabuhan Klang is already FULL and packed with people.
Lots of people standing already..my boyfriend ask me if i want to take the train or not? I said i follow him only...then he made up his mind to take another train.
So we have to wait for another train at 350PM.
I text Mitch to let her know about that, and she told me that the train she took just depart from KL Sentral! ( the same train we saw but my boyfriend don't me to berkepit macam sardin with strangers so we waited for another train. how sweet :)) haha
FYI, if you took KTM from KL Sentral, it takes around 20-30minutes to arrived Shah Alam. We reached Shah Alam at 430pm, turun saja from the train i bought some water for my boyfriend and i saw Mitch and her fiance sitting there already :).
By the way, the weather is so freaking hot there! If not because of Snow Walk, i will not wear my legging with thick clothes at all. haihh.
Then, the four of us wait for a taxi to sent us to I-City.
Luckily we don't have to wait so long there. But guess what? The taxi driver drives very fast because he want to pick up someone ( because i heard his conversation on the phone) haha
good news about that, we reached I-City By 5pm.
Bad News: He simply dropped us at the main entrance and we have to walk quite far to go inside.
We paid RM15 for the taxi fee.

 while waiting for our special photographer aka rafael:D
Oh by the way, i did mentioned that my boyfriend's friend, Rafael @ Raf is joining us right?
We waited for him before purchase the Snow Walk ticket.
Sekali he sampai, smart memang smart he pakai, tapi pakai slipper!
haha my boyfriend said " sudah sa whatsapp ko pakai smart sikit! napa ko pakai selipar?" haha raf thought my bf was just joking about the slipper thing so he called his friend to send him his sneakers. Sempat lagi raf asked his friend " ko tidak cakap x bleh pakai selipar!" haha so while waiting for his friend, Mitch and her fiance bought the tickets first.
FYI, if you're Malaysian you need to show your Identification Card to them cause its cheaper for locals.
So if you bought the tickets before 6pm, it costs you RM25 only, from 6 onwards its costs you RM35.
Now, let the pictures do the talking! :)

Snow Walk @ I -City

Was taken before entering the Snow Walk :) 
The jacket is so damn smelly!! eww :(

OMG! it's freaking cold here! seriously, i'm not sure what's the temperature inside here but im pretty sure it's a negative temperature! - 5 degree Celsius perhaps? Remember, make you you wear sneakers or whatever shoes that is not slippery cause it's very SLIPPERY inside here. Let me repeat that, VERY SLIPPERY okay.

The boys :) Raf tried to imitate me ba dat..haha
Me and Mitch :)





Look at raf, he never failed to make me laugh at his pose...haha




 Too tall, too big..
 Raf kept touching the snowman's nose and then he came up with his idea and dare my baby to "BJ" the nose!HAHAHA! silly right?

Cant really see our face.

Taken by Mitch! p/s look at the guy on my right. bangga ni muka dia.haha


 They purposely took off their jackets and asked me to take picture to whatsapp their friends..haha poor my baby :(
 Okay, lets play the Hollywood Game : Who Wore it Best? Left or Right ? hahaha
I was busy taking pictures here and there and suddenly i saw them put their hands on the ice. Baby said " wait ah bie, we tengah lawan sepa tahan lama on ice"
Guess who won the game? :D

Taken using baby's phone.
The five of us :) 
 I help baby to sent picture through whatsapp..
We tried this sliding game before we went out. Mitch and her fiance tried out the game first so we follow them cause bukan selalu juga ma cause YOLO * You Only Live Once*:)
It was a game fun haha plus with my "epic landing"!
I think you can finish walking the whole area within 30 minutes.
But please becareful, it's too slippery and too cold inside! But hey, its a good place to chill with your friends and family here in Malaysia:)
I think we went out after 30-45 minutes staying inside.
I love Mammoth!
 It's only 7pm there, the sky is not dark yet..so the three of us ( Me, Baby and Raf) went to Old Town for a drink while Mitch & the fiance wants to walk around first before joining us. I think my baby is hungry but raf kept on teasing him so last last tidak jadi makan.
But i think he don't feel like eating Old Town food anyway.
We waited til 8pm, while waiting i took some picture with Mitch babe:)

As soon as the sky getting darker, you can the whole place is surrounded by neon lights! :)
I bought a pink mickey hairband which cost me RM5 and some toys for my nephew.
But my advise, you should walk around and ask the price before you buy it cause one of the Mak Cik ( aunty) there sell the hairband at RM5 where i can actually get it at RM2! :( THIS IS BULLSHIT! but oh well, i'm not the one who pay for it :)
Next, we went to Colourful Forest @ I-City!





it's so pretty! it's like a colourful forest right? don't you think so? i love colourful stuffs maybe that explains why i like this place :)



Mitch and her fiance wearing the same Tee~ hahaa
Raf tidak buli pose bagus2 oh.


 The mermaid statue reminds me of Juliet's story.
I told them there's a legend that if you touch juliet's right breast ( the statue in Verona, Italy), it will bring you luck in love! believe it or not, its up to you. try google it yourself! But see what they did! hahah my baby don't dare to touch in front of me i think but checkout what raf  is doing!hahaha :)


 They actually feel bad for this tree cause no one take picture here :D

 I forced raf to pose for the picture where he became a pemburu ( hunter) while my baby is a...err panda??sorry raf, its just for fun :)
Around 830pm, we're done with our I-City tour. It was freaking hot outside!
The only trees they have there is the Neon Trees or whatever you want to call it.
No real trees = HOT!
We have walk outside to get a taxi to go to the nearest KTM station.
I was really tired of walking the whole day plus i'm hungry already=(
i bet the rest of them hungry too.
It's quite hard to get a taxi in that area, so you better plan properly if you're using the public transportation like us. We waited like almost 20 minutes then Raf told us to change to another bus station, the one which is much closer to the main road.
Mitchell and her fiance pun kepenatan sudah this.hehe 
We waited for another 5-10 minutes i think...luckily there's a taxi stop by and agreed sent us to the KTM station. Thank god! I need to go back to hotel to shower and eat asap!
But guess what happened? Suddenly Raf called my boyfriend cause he realize his IC is not with him. Nasib he alert oh. I seriously forgot i help him to keep his IC in my purse after we purchase the entrance ticket.
So Dave asked the taxi driver to stopped by and tell Raf to cross the road to wait for us..
haha Raf said " mesti si mion punya idea ni" haha that wasn't my fault, bagus sudah i help him to keep his IC..haha
We reached Padang Jawa KTM station around 10pm++. 
Luckily we still manage to the train on time.
Thanks to Mitchell and the fiance cause they sponsor the ticket to go back to KL sentral :)
Exhausted faces.
While waiting for the KTM and inside the train, Suddenly the two boys started to talk.
Lama lagi tu they cerita..Baby told me Mitch's fiance satu kampung with his Cousin, Calvin. hehe since the boys busy cerita, me and Mitch pun cerita la pasal girls stuffs.
We reached KL sentral nearly 11pm i think...Then we say goodbye to each other cause we have to go back Hotel and they have to go back their house.
Overall, we had a great weekend and outing with Mitchell and the fiance! :)
If only we no need to worry & rush back because of the public transportation, im sure we will have more pleasure time there. 
I'm really glad that they join us to I-City and i'm so happy that i finally meet Mitchell.
To be frank, she's the first person that I've met face to face from blogging arena :) hehe we shall meet again next time! :)
It was raining when we reached KL Sentral, yet we have no choice but to walk back to monorail station asap. I'm glad my boyfriend had fun too and he got a chance to hangout with his friend,Raf even though its only for few hours but dont be sad baby, he's coming back to kk soon :)
As soon as we reached Jalan Alor, we quickly grab a seat and ordered some food to eat. We ordered BKT, Char Siew Kai Fan & Oyster Omelet. The Ba Kut Teh was weird, but i still manage to finished it cause i was damn hungry.
I bought some chestnut for my parents before going back to Hotel. After shower and all, i started to pack our luggage so tomorrow we don't have to rush and still have time to shop at Times Square:)
See how lucky you are baby, i help to pack your luggage oh. haha
So that's the end of our day 3 story.
Click here for part 4 =)
Thanks for reading! :)