Ryan and I boarded our Gulf Air flight from KL to Bahrain and then Bahrain to London yesterday. First flight was 7 hours and 30 minutes then 7 hour and 10 minutes for the next leg. The selection of movies were not half bad, and they did serve and food even though it was the fasting month. If you want to fly Gulf Air, it does serve wine and spirits for non-muslims Anyhoo, very tired. More when I explore

Last saturday before I left for the UK, Sara and I had a full day. We had many errands to runs and not forgeting to mention our pre-marital counselling class (will blog more about this later). Where did we have lunch? At this gem of a place called PappaRich. Its a modern coffee shop type place with nice decor.

We ordered Pappa Toast Kaya Butter Bun (RM3.80), which was very good. A soft with crispy skin bun, using a good chunk of quality butter and home made kaya. The french fries(RM3.90) where also home made, and fried to perfection. I drank an interesting concoction called Soya Milk Cincau Gula Melaka (RM4.80) which had home made soya bean milk and tasted yummy. Not too sweet and rather refreshing. Sara had a can of coke (RM3.20). There was a 5% service charge and the bill came up to RM16.50. So cheap. Cheaper than drinking and eating at Starbucks!! My only issue was the staff didn’t chase away smokers who smoked inside the air condition area while there was plenty of seats outside.

Nick’s Rating :- 8.2 /10.0
PappaRIch,
Unit C-21-01,3 Two Square,
No.2 Jln 19/1,
46300 PJ, Selangor,
Tel : 03-7957 2323
Fax : 03-7955 6232
www.papparich.com.my

After trying thier amazing Tiramisu in Part 1, Sara and I decided we MUST try the Aglio E Olio as it came highly recomended by our cell member. The owner told us it was a little too small a portion for the both of us, and thus we ordered another Roasted Salmon. I took an Ice tea while Sara had a glass of red wine. It was not long before she realized that two other ladies drinking Red wine as well, seem to have a little more in thier glass then her, but I said, perhaps they ordered a double? The dishes came quite promptly and we dug in. The skin of the salmon was very crisp and well done, the fish very fresh, quite good actually. The pasta was firm, the authentic Italian way, unlike a few places here that tend to overcook the pasta instead of serving it “Aldente or Cooked enough to be firm but not soft”. It tasted a little bland though, and not the best I ever had. We then proceeded to desert, and of course it was Tiramisu

Break down of cost.
The Pasta        RM23
Fresh Salmon  RM45
Tiramisu         RM15
Tea                 RM6.5
Wine (glass)   RM20
Service Charge (10%)  RM10.95
Governtment Tax (5%)  RM5.48   <- I don’t really think she is allowed to charge this.

Grand Total RM125.93

Conclution : I know we gave this place a good rating based on the tiramisu only, but for dinner somehow I felt alittle dissapointed.

Nick’s Rating :- 7.4 / 10.0
Sara’s Rating :- 7.0 / 10.0

Address : F-0-6/F-1-6 Plaza Damas, No 60 Jalan Sri Hartamas 1, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.
Contact : 03 6203 5832

Whats a ManWich? Its a Sanwich made for a Man! And even then, he may or may not be able to finish it. We had an office lunch at Tony Romas at the Gardens, Mid Valley, MegaMall and we are all stuffed! The food was good and comes in big big portions. Yum.

Ahmad: Why should I apologise?
By ANDREA FILMER [Source]

GEORGE TOWN: Bukit Bendera Umno division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail has refused to apologise over his racist remark calling the Chinese community “immigrants who do not deserve equal rights”.

“Why should I apologise? I didn’t do anything wrong. Those who do wrong should apologise but I haven’t done anything,” Ahmad said when The Star met him outside his Bayan Baru office yesterday.

He, however, refused to comment on whether the press misquoted him.

Sounding calm and collected on the phone, he said a full statement on what transpired would be released after a Penang Umno liaison meeting tomorrow.
Man in the news: Ahmad gesturing as he replies to a question in Bayan Baru yesterday. He said he had been leading a sepak takraw team to a tournament in Bangkok.

He added that he would not say much at present, but wanted to clear up the issue of reporting to the police.

Police are currently investigating five reports lodged against Ahmad under the Sedition Act 1948 for uttering the remarks at a ceramah on the eve of the Permatang Pauh by-election.

He said there were reports of his going to the Bukit Mertajam police station on Wednesday night (to make a statement).

“I want to make it clear that I never told anyone or informed anyone that I would be there. It was their assumption,” he said.

Ahmad recorded a statement at the police contingent headquarters in Penang Road at about 10pm the same night while pressmen from television, online and print media were waiting for him on the mainland.

Asked where he had been over the last few days, Ahmad confirmed that he had been leading a sepak takraw team to a tournament in Bangkok.

“My phone has been on and off, but a lot of my anak buah (supporters) have been calling me, so maybe that’s why it has been hard to get through,” he said.

On the alleged misappropriation of funds involving now-defunct company Popular Profile Sdn Bhd (PPSB), Ahmad said he had resigned before any action was taken on the company.

“This issue has nothing to do with me. Action is taken on a company, not on a personal capacity. Moreover, I resigned from the company on Sept 1, 1998. What happened after that, I don’t know.

“The Chief Minister (Lim Guan Eng) shouldn’t be using his political muscle and power to attack me,” he said, adding that he would not say more on the land deal until he had checked the details.

Lim had recently attacked Ahmad on a 1997 land deal involving PPSB, in which Ahmad had been a director. Lim alleged that the company had cheated the state of RM500,000 in a deal involving 4.2ha of industrial land in Bukit Minyak.

Looks like somebody has been lying again. Is it me or do they really think we are immigrants and will never truly be treated as citizens? I read somebodies blog that said ,”Yes, they are really immagrants. Pay bus fair still called passenger what?“.  Are you really supprised he didn’t think it was wrong to say that?  So many generations of Chinese and Indians who have known no other country but Malaysia, paid years of taxes, poured out blood, sweat and tears in this nation to build it as it is and some people still call us imigrants? If this racist policy is truly not the UMNO policy then our PM should be a little more MAN and prove it. Or is he affraid that all those who hold this racist beleive will rebel against UMNO? And I am totally ashamed of the other BN component parties, who have traded the birth right of all us Malaysians of other races just to earn dollars in thier pockets. When will you truly represent your people! Malaysia does not belong to just one race of people. It belongs to every citizen. You don’t own the Bus. Jus soli (Latin for “right of the soil” or, somewhat figuratively, “right of the territory”), or birthright citizenship, is a right by which nationality or citizenship can be recognised to any individual born in the territory of the related state. Look it up.