Hidden Pikachu

This week's photo theme was hidden.

So I asked Pikachu to go into hiding.

Can you spot it?

Growing wild

I planted a small onion some time ago, because it was starting to grow a shoot. 

It grew all over the place, which suits last week's theme of wild.

Another photo to show how high it grew (it was probably too heavy to stand up straight?)

Cheap cordon bleu and French onion soup

We went to try Jack & Grill Western Food because they were having a promotion, with 50% off chicken cordon bleu, and also a discount on French onion soup. 

chicken cordon bleu, RM11.50 (promo price at 50% off)

The server who brought us the dish warned us to be careful because there were toothpicks inside. Turns out that they poked toothpicks in to hold the thing together, and when they cut it into pieces, some of the toothpicks were cut too! Quite dangerous, if you ask me...I don't think a warning is enough; they should have pulled out the toothpicks before cutting and serving (the ends of the toothpicks were still poking out of the sides).

There was a tiny bit of ham and cheese in the middle, but it was pretty non-existent. Not sure whether they skimped on it because of the half-price promo...

white sauce Mexican chicken chop with cheese potatoes, RM15.90

This was a recommended item. The photo showed chunks of potato in cheese, but when the dish arrived, most of the potato were melted/mashed into the cheese. Good for cheese lovers like Snorlax, but the rest of us couldn't eat much of it. The sauce on the salad is tartar sauce, which makes me confused...is that sauce meant for the salad, or for the chicken? (the chicken already had some Mexican marinade)

fish and chips, RM17.50

Very crispy batter, and nice tartar sauce.

French onion soup, RM7.90 (promo price)

I first heard of French onion soup in Three Star School Lunch, a Japanese drama that I wrote about before. I think I have seen it on the menu when I was in France, but “onion soup” doesn’t sound that appetizing to me. Then in the drama, there was one episode that featured French onion soup. I found out that it isn’t only about onion, but made of a beef/chicken stock. They even crack a whole quail egg into it at the end. This one also had an egg inside, though from the size, it was chicken egg. :P

Basically all the dishes hat we ordered were pretty good. The batter was crispy, which is the most important for dishes like these. The chicken was also quite tender.

Overcast

The photo theme for last week was overcast.

I was glad that I managed to take this photo early on, because the following days were mostly sunny. Then on Friday (right before the next theme came out), the sky was extremely dark, but I had forgotten all about taking a photo for this. :P

Incorporating a lint roller into a conversation

I just watched Chimera. It started off slow and stupid (detectives don’t even think of looking into the simplest things), but started to get pretty gripping halfway in.

In the end, I do think the plot is extremely good, but there are some details that don’t quite fit, and the characters behave really illogically sometimes… So I can’t call it extremely good!

However, they did pepper in some pretty nice scenes, and I applaud them for it.

First one: Street cop goes to rich doctor’s house for a discussion. He asks for something to munch on, but rich doctor’s house doesn’t have any food because he doesn’t eat at home. Second time street cop goes over, he is munching on a pack of chips while talking (presumably he brought the chips himself, since rich doctor is not having any), and rich doctor is holding a lint roller and walking around collecting the crumbs dropped by street cop, all during the conversation.

The lint roller is an extremely nice touch! *clap clap clap*

Second one: Street cop (the same uncultured one :P ) eats with someone from the US. The US person is treating him pasta. He says he is a jajangmyeon kind of person, unused to fancy food, and he slurps up the pasta. Hahaha…

(the first scene is the best…I probably took notice of the second one only because it came after the first one)

Spot checks

You'd better watch out
You'd better work hard
You'd better not sigh
I'm telling you why
Captain Tetra's doing spot checks…

He knows when you are working
He knows when you’re at lunch
He knows when you’ve been slacking off
So be good for goodness' sake

You'd better watch out
You'd better work hard
You'd better not sigh
I'm telling you why
Captain Tetra's doing spot checks…

Book arrangements

This week's photo theme was arranged.

Well, these books are definitely arranged, right?

I’m just lazy

I went to a new hairdresser because the usual one has been refusing to cut my hair properly short for me.

So I told her I wanted my hair short, not too thick, easy to care for. (my standard instructions)

Midway through the cut, we had this conversation:

Hairdresser: Do you blow-dry your hair?
Me: No, I don’t, unless my hair is not dry by the time I need to go to bed. I’m lazy.
H: Busy taking care of kids?
M: No, I’m just lazy. :P

Bird after a poop

Two years ago I bought a few items to keep birds away.

Even though they worked in the beginning, as mentioned in this post, later on they became less effective…the birds would stand on places without the spikes, sometimes right beside the spikes!

I still left the spikes outside…for a tiny bit of help against the birds (otherwise where would I put them?)

One of the spike boards has been right outside a small window, practically covering the whole windowsill. Today I was surprised to notice a bird standing where it was supposed to be unable to stand!

I snapped my first photo far away, so as not to scare the bird away…and gradually inched closer.

To my surprise, the bird didn’t even fly away when I tapped on the window. It just inched a bit away (I think)

So I managed to get this magnificent photo of a bird right after taking its poop.

Why do I say it was right after a poop? Because in the last photo, you can see that there is a bit of white poop on the right of the bird…and it seems to be exactly where the bird was standing in the previous photo.

So maybe it didn’t fly away because it was busy pooping. :P

It did fly away a bit after I took that last photo.

Hiding from the heatwave

The theme for last week was heatwave.

There isn't really a heatwave here in Malaysia (unless you count the perpetual one :P ), but the sun really does shine extremely brightly...

...and this tree provides a hiding place from it! (yes, it's one tree, not two)