My friend Oyster... :-)

Well,...he's not really an oyster, of course... Gave him that nickname when I first met him over 16 years ago in London.... Waaaaa TIME FLIES!!! Well, his name was very much like Lee Kam Kee - the famous oyster sauce brand. Used to sing the jingle for the sauce "Leeeee Kam Kee hou yau, chan chan hou mei...." whenever I see him..kekeke..

Both of us were very "wai sik" then and we were the only ones amongst the Malaysian students that lived away from the uni and thus have a travelcard, so both of us used to go makan-makan in Chinatown. It was there that both of us saw Princess Diana. (The famous person question ?!?!) She actually waved at both of us, but somewhat nobody believed us leh....

Anyway, he came over to Country X yesterday and we met for drinks and dinner. Drinks first because I met him in his hotel, then went over to pick H from Planet Hollywood, then went to this place called Lara Djonggrang for dinner. Food is not great, but the ambience is very nice lah. Take my guests there because of the ambience and can savour the local cuisine. Well, of course talk talk talk lor.. He's still single, eligible bachelor.... Quite funny what he said about women... Women who are below 30, very difficult to "york" to go out, once they cross the 30 threshold, waaaa like sooooo easy to "york". He's quite choosy lor...I think. One piece of shocking news is that the top student in our uni years is a bum wor... (KL - I'm sure you remember him... A.Buxton???) Apparently, his sponsors stopped his phD funding when he sort of went directionless and is now a tour guide and only works during the winter.... How things change leh...





This Lara Djonggrang place is named after this mythical princess. She was very very beautiful. The guy who killed her father was soooo besotted by her beauty that he wanted to marry her. But she tried to avoid it by demanding 1000 temples be built by dawn first, thinking that he would fail. Well, 999 temples were already built and dawn was still faraway... so she went to disturb the roosters which then crowed like crazy. The guy thought that it was dawn already and that he had failed to win her hand in marriage. But later, he found out that she had tricked him. He was soooooo angry that he turned her into a stone. Well, in the restaurant, there is a supposedly stone statue of Lara Djonggrang.....