The idea of online Group Coupon has been phenomenally received. It works just like bulk purchases of products or services to cater for future needs. Anyway, this particular promo caught my eye.

XXX Signature Mix Platter which consists of fresh char-grilled tiger prawns, deep fried calamari, half shell mussels, 7” chicken sausage, 6” breaded fish and the chef’s special Yorkshire pudding served with mixed garden salad and fries

and you call this you frigging SIGNATURE DISH? So you are telling me that YOUR chef, who probably has certification or got some professional training can only design a signature dish by deep frying? You gotta be kidding me. My 3 year old niece can deep fry this for you. How is this even special? The salt? The flour? The decoration?

These people are ass. Cheap stuff, throw some fancy deco and call it SIGNATURE. Come on la, don’t make yourself look like moron la. Go watch AFC channel and steal some recipe from there.

Without the online coupon, this deal will cost you RM 120 along with other dishes. With the coupon, it values dropped to RM 60.

Good deal? I say it’s bad. First you have to drive there. That’s gonna cost you a fraction of the amount. Second, it would be better to buy the ingredients and fry it yourself. You’ll have shit loads of fries, mussels, tiger prawns, fish, chicken etc. You’ll have enough leftover until the day after tomorrow’s dinner.

These companies should take responsibility in drawing up the line between dirt cheap and reasonable value. Dirty tricks like blowing up the initial price just to have eye popping discount should be avoided at all cost, although it appears like it’s becoming like a trend.

Come on la, we’re not morons, we have brains. Respect our intelligence and we’ll respect you & your business.

Few weeks before I got married, a lot of people have warned me that I’ll gain weight once I put the ring on and… I did.

I don’t normally respond to these comments very well when they first told me. I’d just brush them off my shoulder denying such things would be true. I bet they’re lining up now to tell me, “I told you so!”

Before wedding, my weight was about 70-71kg, now hovering 74-75kg. How is that in size? Imagine a brick of butter, that’s only 250 g. So if I gained 4 kilos, that’d be like 8 bricks of fatty butter dangling on my body like packs of C4s. And that’s within a month.

There are many factors I believe contributing to these excessive fat.

1. Change of routine. I normally sleep for 6 hours, now 8. I no longer take the stairs (home) as frequent as I used to. Maybe because I’m shy, and I certainly do not want to go downstairs wearing shorts.

2. Change of diet. I don’t take breakfast, now I do. I have lunch at office like usual. I do dinner at 8-9pm, now 6-7pm. I snack a lot when in shopping malls. I still eat junk food like I normally do.

3. Exercise. I normally chase after my niece and nephews, now nothing to chase. I hit the golf driving range as often as I could, now only twice after I got married. I jogged once a week at least, now once a month.

4. Meals. This is the most sinful of all, home cook meals. The goal in my house is to finish everything, and normally it isn’t that much. But Ummi’s case, she cooks a lot and she enjoys it. So I tend to eat up as much as possible. Also because it’s delicious!

I’ve asked around for opinions, some say it’s because of sex. But I don’t think it’s true. I mean you’re burning calories, how can you gain weight at the same time? I don’t know. These are all theories, they’re not an accurate assumption.

Woman gain weight after marriage, men after divorce.

How true? Mat Salleh clearly have a different observation about weight gain. Also, husband gets the wife everything, for Malay, wife does everything even washing your feet (definitely not mine)!

I’m now watching my calories, trying hard not to exceed daily necessities. My father in law also got me a walk-o-meter to count my daily steps. Oh well, I have no one to blame other than myself. Now, let’s lose weight before my turn to change the entire garment.

We were at Wangsa Walk to find a replacement for her iMacs speakers (which was busted weeks ago) until we came about a car sales on the concourse. They were many makers there, Peugeot being one of them.

We were actually quite stunned by the price of the car, RM76k with 5 years free maintenance and another 5 years for warranty. It was a good deal for a 1.6 liter family sedan. However we’re not in the market for one as we’re moving to the country down under to pursue her ambition.

As we further inspect the car’s exterior and interior, the sales girl attended to us displaying great convictions and trying hard to close a deal. Since I pretty much am not in market, I’ll just let this slip until she offered a test drive at one of the showrooms. You know how sales people can be very pushy at times right? So I said yes to the test drive though I’m dead sure I won’t be going.

She pulled out a her note book and start writing my name. I gave her a wrong number.

At the top of my mind, I was wishing her good luck in calling the number. She would probably get someone other than myself on the line. I was already relieved with my decision although this might consider as ‘tipu-sunat’.

Just as I was about to get away with my great display of conning people, my wife stood up and said, “hey, this isn’t your number. Shouldn’t it be XXX”. Bummer. Now my lies are wide open. So we gave her the right number with me pretending to be blur. Hahaha.

I guess we weren’t on the same page that day. Or maybe I need to learn to say no.

Finally, after weeks of struggling to prepare for the wedding, we managed to settle down and escape our hectic lives to Port Dickson.

The day started with some extreme activities. Hmmm, some how I wouldn’t call it extreme because we rode it pretty slow. We had 4 laps on ATV (all-terrain vehicle), 1 lap on scrambler and a lap on the buggy. Later the day, we had 8 laps on the go-cart on the roof top of the Store PD.

The facility is quite run down, so was the equipment but we didn’t expect much as it was pretty cheap (we got the deal from Groupsmore thanks to @khairul). Since it was weekdays, we had the entire track all to ourselves. It was definitely a new experience for us. I’m not really into extremes and adventure, but Aisyah is. I guess, I had to follow her lead.

Soon afterwards, we found ourselves on the roof top of The Store riding around track. It was a slippery course, we pretty much enjoyed the sliding maneuver (actually drifting) though we were advised against it. Aisyah did pretty well for a girl. She definitely has a soft spot for G force.

We later checked in the water chalets we booked through Agoda, not cheap but we were tempted with the discounts. We found ourselves too tired to go out when we got into the tub. The heat stroke caught us by surprise.

We couldn’t really find a good place for dinner around Port Dickson. We were actually looking for a seafood place where we could choose fresh fish and crabs. Unfortunately, PD is a tourist attraction known for it’s beach not fisherman. We had dinner at some shack after almost 2 hours running around.

Deep into the night, we found ourselves walking by the beach. I must admit, I have never been this comfortable with my better half. We had deep talks and jokes enough to get tummy cramps. There and then, I knew I didn’t marry the wrong girl.

We sailed home the next day to Keramat and went to my aunt’s open house the next day.

On our way back to Shah Alam, we stopped by my office to play pool. Aisyah has been pushing me to teach her pool for a very long time. She kinda gave up after the first frame. Me being insistant, she finally found her touch on the table. She’s a natural. If she refines her technique I’m sure I’d lose to her though I play almost daily after office hours.

All in all, I felt lucky to have found Aisyah. I hope our happiness will last to the end of time. Insya Allah. Amin.

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