Yay! Goolooloo is back with yummilicious seaFood . I know, its too tempting that we almost migrate over to KK just for the fresh and juicy seafood. We are honored to visit our friend, Alexander in KK on the opening of his new Seafood Restaurant.

As what we understand, as a tourist in KK (Kota Kinabalu), you’d probably get stuck in town if you don’t have a car. Hence, you’ll always miss the chances to taste the best seafood in town!  The 5 of us rented a car from the airport so its much more convenient for us to travel around.

From the direction from 1Borneo (we were staying at Tune Hotel, KK), its about 20minutes drive to Bundusan Square, Penampang. It’s a little bit outskirt from KK city. For the sake of seafood, its worth to pay for the Taxi Fares!

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This is really the best seafood I ever had in my life. Once again, my diet plan spoiled. Cholesterol increased!

Let’s zoom in and see what we’ve hunt!

p/s: very sorry, I just can’t recall most of the seafood’s name! :p

First of all, let me introduce you my classmate, Mr.Alexander Sim. He is the owner of East Ocean Seafood Restaurant.

Look for the big red sign of East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, you won’t miss it!

Alex has been waiting for our arrival. He had prepare a special menu for the 5 of us. At first we thought to have a simple meal, but end up its a 11 courses meal.

It started with some vege…

If not mistaken, this is the Sabah local vege, which is their local cangkuk manis.

And a special dish, Deep Fried Bittergourd which I never expect it would be so crunchy and nice!

We had vege soup with century eggs.

Here comes the big seafood platters. I think I missed out certain dish.

We had 2 types of crabs.

All the crabs are real fresh and juicy!

Prawns

Fish

东风螺 Dong Feng Luo . Its a kind of Snail.

Alex teach us the way to eat the Snail. Not only that, he taught us the fastest way to enjoy the crab meat without much hassle.

Phew.. what a heavy meal we had. Let’s have some refreshment!

Highly recommended by Alex, Vegetable Juice. It doesn’t taste awful but i taste so fresh! Its better than any fruit juices. Even camel also can finish the juice!
Alright. Done Eating. Let’s go and look around all the live seafood!

Alex show us the big live crabs.

He says this is not consider big, it could be bigger depends on season.

The place they breed the snail.

This is the prawn in the bottle.

Awesome!! Awesome!!!

The meal was really awesome !!

Thanks Alexander for the treat. We’ll be back again soon!~

Noticed that Maswings are doing promo lately. I’m talking about Maswings, subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines which take cares of Sabah and Sarawak’s inbound flight.

First they’ve monopolized the market, control all the ticket prices which is way more expensive. It may be expensive than going  oversea compare to some other airlines.

Take a very short examples for Miri to Sibu which I fly most. They used to come out something like Maswings Prepaid, which for me back then the fare is still acceptable although it is still quite expensive which is RM90 for one way. But okay, at least its less than RM200 which still not equivalent to air ticket to KL by using Air Asia. But then, they’ve stop it, and implement something new.

For now, the ticket price normally starts from RM138 onwards exclude of Taxes. For a return flight, the minimum I’ve to spend would start from RM280. If I book within a week, the ticket price would hike up to RM300 ++. Is that really reasonable for such a short distance and just flying in the ATR72?

Okay, that’s enough, I can’t say much, they’ve invest on the new ATR fleet. Since they monopolized the whole market, we, the people in Sabah and Sarawak need to pay more to fly! Fly nearer but pay more. This is totally unacceptable.

Can’t you come out something like budget airlines? Or give us more promotions?

Yes, they did actually, but its just another gimmick from them.

I saw this on Maswing’s facebook page. I’m really happy to see that Miri – Sibu are having offers for as low as RM12 one way. That’s really help me to save a lot of money and time. The truth is, the promotions are totally invalid. I’ve been clicking the whole schedule from 01Jan2010 till 30thJune2010. I didn’t see any! All started with RM138.

Okay, assumed that the above promo are not ready, or they published wrongly which I totally can’t get it from their webs. That’s fine! ….

Dear Maswings,

Can you tell me what actually happened to your Malaysia Airlines’s System?? Ada problem kah? If you are unable to give good promo, then don’t give!

Your booking systems are not as good as other airlines. MAS ground staffs are mostly not helpful. Unless you know any of them, maybe its easier. The customer careline are always busy. If you have anything urgent, you just don’t hope they could assist you, I think you might have already drive to Airport and get everything settled.

I’m very disappointed with Maswings. I really hope they could have much more improvement over their marketing skills. Not to give empty hopes only. Please reduce your fare. Those in rural areas are those who need to fly more frequent. We in Sabah and Sarawak don’t have big highways that connect us to everywhere. If we have more and better options, I will not take flights. The truth is, that’s the most convenient way.

If you really want to serve the mass market, then you should be able to make everyone can fly with not much hassle.

So please!

Please be more considerate and love us, your customers more. I’ve been flying with you for ages even before you turn into Maswings.  Don’t you have any better deals for us?

Please make sure, your pilots won’t be as the picture below. Even if Free tickets it shouldn’t be in this way!

Thank you so much!

Your’s sincerely,

Mary Ting aka Goolooloo
Your loyal passenger

Has been idle for quite sometime, its really my bad. Lot’s of friend came and asked , “Hey you stop blogging kah?” , I feel ashamed to answer that I was too busy lately. That was not really an excuse, but just nothing much that I could bring up to blog again these days.

Both of my digital camera was sent to the hospital, one declared death and one is still under investigation. Anything related to life stories hardly to bring up here without a good picture.

Anyway, the one and only big news to share now is , The knot is tied. =)

Thanks for all the blessings and wishes from family and friends. I love you all ! Muaks!

I used to be a daily blogger, little bits of things must blog, no matter big or small. I thought that was my responsibilities as a blogger to blog whatever I like. Well Said, but due to my long working hours, I do feel that blogging actually spends me quite a lot of time. I need to have “ideas”, I need to have “pictures” in order for me to blog. The most important thing is, Do you still read blog nowadays?

I gotta admit, I rarely read blog ever since I’ve addicted to Facebook. Anyway, FB is a very successful lifetime interacting tools, which is fun enough to update, or to “kaypoh”. But don’t ever take things too seriously over FB cos you’ll never know who is reading or stalking you behind the screen.

No, I don’t like Twitters. So not to have further comments on it.

Goolooloo.com was once a most popular blogs of Miri Community but not in Malaysia. Seeing the other bloggers being nominates, I could only say their hard works paid off. This could never happen on lazy bloggers like me. Anyhow, my blog will remain. I’ll still update on my travelogue as usual but have to cut down all my travel plans due to my tight budget plans.

My next travel destinations will be on Sandakan. =) Domestic travel would be fun cos you don’t have to worry about the currencies difference or the language problem. Let’s have some fun with the “Orang Utan”!

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I’ll be back!

I just got addicted to another Facebook Game recently, it is called Cafe World brought to you by zynga.

Cafe World is just like the other interactive game that makes you addicted over it and it would be the best diet plan as you would play day and night and forgetting your meal.

As usual I will share my experiences in playing FB’s games so that more of you could join me in the game.

I just started to play Cafe World yesterday after the invitation of my friend. You would need to have neighbors in order to get more benefits such as visiting them daily and receiving gifts from each other.

Cafe World would be quite similar to Restaurant City . I did some comparison to RC and found out Cafe World is easier to interact and it cut down the unnecessary steps in RC.

Talk about tricks, every game are built to use our wisdom. I noticed that in the first few level, you might be running out of time, so spare a stove for the short time recipe such as burger and salad. The other stoves can spared it for long cooking recipe. Make sure you calculate the time before you start cooking, or else it will just gone to waste as you did not serve it when its ready.

Another tricky thing I could find is the door. You might worry your customer run away when your food are not ready. If you worry that will leave a bad impression to your customers then you could sell off the door and put it back when your food are ready for business. I’m not sure how useful is that at least your Buzz Rating wont keep dropping. Don’t worry the door is “free”.

Alright, that’s all my findings so far. Would share out more after I level up. Good luck in your game and do share with me if you have better tricks.

I killed my cat, it was an accident, I ran over the cat by my car. It was a misfortune, but I do hope the cat would rest in peace.

The incident goes like this, it was before I went to work this morning. I reversed the car, and stopped a while before I accelerate ahead. Poor thing happened, when I drive forward I felt something bumpy at the bottom. I look right, I saw the a whity fur flying. I knew bad thing happened.

My cat, which is still consider a kitten, who just arrive our home for 2 months. She’s a lovely cat, but likes to play hide and seek. My mom had warned me that the cat would hide under the car, just that I did not expect it happened on my car.

I saw it bleed. I saw it struggle for the last breathe staring at me with her eyes open. Nothing much I can do for the lost of the cat but only Sorry. It happened.

Hope that she’ll be luckier next time.
May her rest in peace.

This would be a tribute for me to remember her always.

Back to the basic, back to the old school time, a series of retro during our last visit to Sarikei. Bongkersz shows us another hidden treasure in Sarikei other than big head prawn of Glory Cafe.

Walk down the old alley of Jalan Wharf, and we found Aik Seng Cafe.

From outside, Aik Seng would be the same as any other coffee shop in town.

But took an inner look, from the signboard, it shows some ages on it.
Seriously, from what I’ve overheard, they have 60years history.

The interior are mostly remain unchanged, even the tiles and tables. It is quite spacious and well maintained.

At the other corner, there’s a display glass cupboard of Liquor Collections. I’m not sure how long they’ve kept the liquor but according to Bong, it was like this since 10 years ago..

Even the can drinks are display nicely on the cupboard.

I choose to sit at the side way, I feel that is more like the old time kedai kopi “char chan teng“.

We ordered the Roti Kahwin Special, but the chef went out so we gotta wait for his return.
Everyone waiting eagerly for the Roti Special.

Our Drinks.. very old style too. I just love the feeling here. =)

Here comes the Roti Kahwin Special after 15 minutes of waiting time.

Its worth to wait

What so special about their bread/ Roti Special?

The bun is bigger, more like a hamburger bun.
And it is grilled toasted and spread with butter, peanut and Kaya.

Let’s have a bite or Roti and a sip of Milo.. My all time favorite!

Tee Hee Heee.. We had a good fun at Sarikei! Thanks to Bongkersz and Emilda for the treat! =)