Guinness Anchor Berhad is the company that houses a lot of good booze brands under it. Heineken, Tiger, Guinness and Anchor to name a few. That big compound is also the brewery where they make all their beer and somewhere in that compound is “The Tavern”.

A pub for everyone who works at GAB to get free flow beer every day!

Not too long ago, Heineken invited a number of Nuffnang bloggers to the Tavern for the first time to have dinner and drinks with their staff. When I say “drinks”, I mean nothing less than the freshest beer in the country. The beer at the Tavern comes fresh out of the brewery that makes it housed in the same compound!

We learned a whole lot about beer. Let me give you an example.

Now you guys would think that a bartender’s job is easy right? I mean just get a beer mug and pour beer from the tap. Well… not really… if you want to do it right.

When you pour beer from the tap you have to pour from a 45 degree angle in the beginning and then slowly straighten your mug as it fills up. This is to make sure that the foam at the end just reaches the top by the time you’re done.

If the mug is not full or overflows after the foam settles then you’ve basically failed your bartending test.

We all took turns to try and some of us like Huai Bin here even found it hard enough to get beer into the mug. He eventually ended up filling half the mug with just foam so much that it looks more like a cappuccino than beer to me.

LOOK AT THAT!

How he developed that skill… I have no clue.

Ironically the girls there that night did a far better job pouring beer than the guys.

Cynthia did a great job. It wasn’t a “perfect pour” but it was far better than the effort of all of us guys combined.

If I poured beer for all of you whenever you ordered it, it would only be half full. We spent the rest of the night drinking free flow Heineken and ended up chatting with the Heineken team who invited us: Jasmine and Iryne. 

They showed us some cool things that Heineken was doing online like this new online multiplayer game they had on their website.

Last year Heineken had a big public screening of the UEFA Champions League in South Africa. This year’s screening though is going to be in Thailand so the online game is a massive virtual raft race from South Africa to Thailand.

You can join fleets and compete with people from all around the world and the winner will win a free trip to Thailand to watch the UEFA Champions League finals at an event there. Heineken parties are just the best, I’ve been to so many even back in KL and they never disappoint. 

You get to customize your raft too. Mine had a nice deck chair for me to chill on while I “float” away to Thailand.

Anyway we ended the night all a little high from the booze but happy. 

Heineken parties just never disappoint. The next one in KL is going to be on the 25^th of April at the Hap Seng Star Mercedes-Benz Auto Haus on Jalan Sultan Ismail. They’re bringing in an international alternative rock/hip hop group called The Bumblebeez but here’s the best part: They’re going to be setting up huge projectors to project mock Roman architecture, making the entire place look like Rome from the inside. SERIOUSLY!

If you wanna know more about some Heineken events coming up, click here.

As I lay in bed that night I kept trying to figure out what it was I found so difficult about pouring beer from a tap into my mug. Seriously!

One day… one day I shall master the art of pouring beer… 

one day…

I was at Damansara Idaman today, this new gated community near Tropicana. Living in a gated community like that is like the “Malaysian Dream”. 

One day I hope that after all my many many years of working and saving some money I may be able to afford a house in an estate like that where houses have no gates and children can cycle around the area without fear of getting kidnapped. 

That’s the kind of place I would really love to settle down with my family some day but it would also probably take me a lifetime to save enough money to live there.

A lifetime! Let me illustrate how long a lifetime is

Heck I feel like I’ve already been spending too much money lately. Just recently I splurged on my mum’s birthday present: My mum’s birthday is in the next few days and I was saving some money to buy her something nice.

So just a few days ago I went to Midvalley to shop for her present. When I reached there I got a phone call I had to take so I parked my car in the lot and then stayed in the car for like 10 minutes to finish my conversation.

While on the phone I saw a woman illegally park her Waja right by the wall in front of me. I didn’t really understand why though, since there was so much parking everywhere else but I think she was just too lazy to walk.

The woman driving the Waja trotted away and 5 minutes passed when I saw a group of guys that looked like they just came from the gym. They all got into the Honda City right next to me and started trying to reverse out. Now because the Waja was in the way, they found it extremely hard to get out of their lot and eventually… the rear of the Honda City bumped into the side of the Waja.

I don’t know if the guys didn’t realize it or not but they just sped off, probably thinking to themselves that it served that Waja right for parking there. After I finished my phone call I got out of the car and took a picture of the dent to show you guys. See how thoughtful I am ? 🙂

Moral of the story everyone, don’t park illegally. If you make it hard for someone to get out of his/her parking lot chances are your car will get hit and you’ll have no one else but yourself to blame.

Heck if you did that to me and I drove a hummer (or a tank) I would intentionally drive your car so far into the wall you would think that the wall ate cars.

Anyway my whole purpose of visiting Midvalley was to go to the Sony Store.

Now I’ve been thinking about what to buy my mum for the longest time and I decided that I was going to buy her a laptop to replace her old IBM laptop she had from years before. Credit to IBM for making laptops that last that many years but her laptop was so damn old I could’ve sworn that it was probably the same model that King Arthur used to send out e-mail meeting invites to his Round Table Knights.

To add to the story, two years ago my mum bought me my very first MacBook that I eventually used to do all the early Nuffnang work and to start off Nuffnang.

So I decided that to at least attempt to repay her, I should buy her a laptop. Not any laptop at that, but a Sony Vaio. 

Why? Because I think it’s pretty cool and it was one of those laptops that I wish I had (before I discovered the MacBook) but could never really afford.

While getting the laptop set up I started a conversation with the salesgirl there and asked her how many of these she sells a day.

She said just that day alone, she had sold 4 before mine.

I just got off the phone with my mum an hour ago and told her that I bought her this present. She scolded me. 

For that reason my mum is really one of the best mums you can find out there. I mean she always tells us never to buy her anything because she would rather we save all that money for our future to buy a home or something. 

Remember when she talked me out of buying a nice chair for my office two years ago?

I guess I should be doing more saving so that I could perhaps buy a home like one of the ones at the beginning of this entry.

But oh well, birthdays come only once a year and I think my mum deserves it.

Happy Birthday Mum!

Last week it was eyelash extensions, this week I followed Princess and waited for her to get her manicure done.

In return…. 

Ahh it’s going to be a good day tomorrow.

Slightly less than 3 years ago, I graduated from University College London. It was a time of celebration! I was done with my Economics course that had me see the most math I had ever seen before in my life.

Slightly less than 3 years ago, I graduated from University College London. It was a time of celebration! I was done with my Economics course that had me see the most math I had ever seen before in my life.

Slightly less than 3 years ago, I graduated from University College London. It was a time of celebration! I was done with my Economics course that had me see the most math I had ever seen before in my life.

I’m sorry.. I can’t help it… but I LOVE ice-cream.

Since my bid to lose weight 6 months ago though I’ve cut down significantly on my ice-cream. I even went a whole month without ice-cream once… something I almost never do!

Now that I’ve lost a lot of weight and actually built up some muscles I occasionally reward myself by eating a bit of ice-cream here and there.

But only when Princess is not around. When she’s around and I want to eat ice-cream, she pokes my stomach to remind me that it can grow again.

Last night we were at Cineleisure Damansara for a screening of Confessions of a Shopaholic. I was queuing up to buy popcorn when I saw the yummy delicious ice-cream stand right next to the drink and snacks counter.

My mouth watered… but Princess gave me a glare.

So no ice-cream for me =(

I could only watch as other people happily bought and enjoyed their ice-cream =(

So Saturday afternoon I was sitting in some shop in 1-U waiting for Princess to get her eyelash extensions. Knowing that I would be bored, I brought myself a book to read.

Plus… knowing that she’s going to be watching me play XBOX, I went out somewhere in between to buy some XBOX games. Total damage… close to RM400.

It’s true. I don’t know what it is about me. I bought a Wii that I barely touch, an XBOX that I only occasionally play and so many games that aren’t even open. 

I guess the little boy in me who never got to own these things just wanted to have something. 

On the way back from lunch today I bought myself some Hello Panda and started snacking away on the Monorail. Vernice looked at me then commented

I nodded in shame

So anyway I spent the rest of Saturday afternoon watching Princess get fake stuff put on to her eyes and reading my book.

When I occasionally looked up I would see the sole of Princess’ shoe and that was when for the first time I noticed that the price tag of her shoe was still there.

The result of Princess’ one hour and RM90 fake eye lashes.

Cute huh? 

My reward for it…..

And she sayanged. HAHAHA.

So that my dear readers is how you negotiate in a relationship! Men… be careful though. Princess told me about how she has a friend who agreed to give her bf a blowjob if he would tell her a secret about someone else she wanted to know about. The bf gave into temptation and gave up the secret but when she heard it she decided on her own that it wasn’t worth the blowjob so she went back on her word! 

The poor bf was left with nothing! No secret… no blowjob….

So men…. remember… women can change their minds.