My Very Own Dot Com Finally

This is the day to call off my blogger blog rite here and officiate my very own dot com weee~~~


actually steveillusion has gone public since Nov 1st 09 but its in the process of renovating n touching-up here n there so i don't wish to make a buzz about under-con site..

Well although i'm still searching around for my ideal Logo but most of the things are functioning well and good to go. So here it is~ the continue of my voyage goes here:


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steveillusion.com

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Level Up Fitness

Finally a proper fitness centre that i have been dreaming about has started at my hometown here in Kuching.

Went for the preview last Sunday for some photo shoot as well.

Just as i expect Proper environment (clean, tidy, air-conditioned, elegance, young...)

Proper equipment are all line up properly on 2 floor with the weight machines n free weight area at ground floor and cardio machines at 1st floor *i missplace my photo for the weight machines... huhu* They provide proper locker for storage and towel can be collected upon entry. Shower facility are also attached to the bathroom.

Most importantly GroupX ! They'r the first fitness centre to offer LesMills Programme in Kuching. But i do hope they bring in more programme from what they have now is only BodyCombat and BodyPump*1 of my fav*



They do also have Pilates classes, aerobic classes, Step-classes(using step-board), belly dancing and Yoga. Best part is u can access to all of these classes F.O.C. if you're their member of Level Up!

All classes will be held at this decent studio



Oh for all Kuching Kia who had been waiting for such fitness centre to emerge do check it out within this 2 days to get their promotion of RM99/month (promotion ends 31st Oct)

Velocity NEW GAMES!

I'm sure most people have heard of Velocity Indoor Go-Kart and probably had driven some laps there.

Previously i was so tempted to go for a race when Velocity commence their business for few month but didn't make it cuz there aren't enough kaki to tag along...

When i finally found enough kaki.. the number of their drivable Kart  decreased top only 1 or 2... such a tragic for me...

So i waited and it didn't let me down! some weeks ago i heard that there are actually new Karts flown in from France and there are all together more than 6 of em ready to tear the circuit!

According to Calvin these highpowered 6.5HP Honda engines can actually push the kart to near 90km/h on open road!

Of course it's being tuned down to suit the track but hey! it still feels beefy in terms of acceleration compared to the kart that i played in Genting some years ago..

Apart from new Kart new track have been redesign to fullfill the hunger of these little runner

So we've tested the new track and Kart and guess what! i'm 4 sec faster than my previous run along with my bro on the same track! I bet Calvin has done something to the Karts... But whatever you've done WELL DONE!

Here comes the best part.. Many people thought that Karting itself is quite expensive when they 1st open, so New packages n daily promotion are being made up in respond to customers feedback.

Not only that, you'll notice these Black "box-like" barrier or partition or whatever it is on the left side where broken kart use to be stored..

When you walk into the maze of boxes, you'll notice there are a roll of buckets filled with water...

My 1st impression is that are there any animal around to be fed with all these water or is there creatures in these waters...



Guess wud.....

Its the ALL NEW WATER TAG!!!

It might look wierd wearing rain coats indoor but trust me.. When you're sweating after the Kart or even straight from hot sunny day.. this game's a heavenly fun.

Cost for the Game: RM6/session (How cool is that?!) Finally Something that you can play without burning a hole in your pocket!

I'd say i wud definately go back for more especially for the Kart!

Sarikei - Sibu - Sarikei (Day 2/3) Morning

Wakie wakie~ Early morning~we went to the local wet market to find out wuds cool over there.


Things that surprise me is that comparing with Kuching, Sarikei's so much smaller in terms of geo coverage, population n much more.. But just look how clean, dry, tidy n organized this place is... its not really a "wet" market as there's not much water on the floor...

i notice that each and every of the seller has their on NAME TAG! Does your local seller at wet market wears NAME TAG??? I don't see any in Kuching though! they look so pro hahaha

Okay so what's really cool over there?
I'm sure most of chinese have heard of 纸包鸡 (Chicken wraped in paper n boiled) rite? Sarikei have a very different kind of 纸包鸡---> check this out!
Yup! Chicken Being wrapped in newspaper ALIVE!!! these poor chicken's waiting for buyer to bring them home and end their life in human's tummy... poor chicken

Anyone have ever notice what brand of handbag wild vege's seller use?
Well look what did Sarikei's midin seller use---> Spotted Yet?? Doesn't it look like Roxy??
Oh here goes another poor animal... 水鱼 (a type of turtle i think) also waiting to be brought hum n.... well u noe wud's gonna happen...

Okay Enuf for these poor little creatures... Moving on and we came across fresh Basil Longan.. Actually i almost had opportunity to try out these fresh juisy n sweet longan back in kch but then missed the opportunity.. but hey! i tried! and its quite nice with a bit more buttery taste..



Its quite a small market so after 1 round at the market we make our walk to nearby coffee shop which dear's Aunt use to have her morning tea there. 21 CAFE
I had KOPI-O as usual to start my day and it taste so much "Kao" n the fragrance instantly find its way to ignite me once it reaches our table...

Aunt Hua ordered Toasted butter n Kaya Bun for us to share.


Well it looks like ordinary seaseme seed bun toasted with kaya n butter.. well technically yes it is something like that but when u sink your teeth into it, *the BEST part comes* crunchiness of the outer layer and the softness inside with the kaya and butter wusses out into your mouth.... MMmmmm~~ u HAVE to try it for your own to believe what i say...

After the delicious and satisfying breakfast we walk across the street *yup almost everywhere's wihtin walking distance here* to the Gong Pia Making Bakery (a kind of foochow traditional bun)

And this is how they make it: Neat>Press>sesame sprinkle>stick it on the inner wall of the "barrel" like oven> wait for a while> and its done



After that We walk just few steps over to the dry market to get some of our child time junkfood

Dear with her "long-time-no-see" Cigerate candy LOL

Bubble gum maker which dear'd used to make me duckies * but i think duckie's dead*Coming up next: Sarikei - Sibu - Sarikei (day 2/3) Afternoon @ Sibu

锋馆 - Feng Guan @ Premier 101

Jz went dinner with dear @ 锋馆 (Feng Guan) located next door from Choice Daily at Premier 101

Initially i tot we had dinner tonight but it was postphoned and i didn't know that but then i'd told my mom to count me out so then after picking dear we went to this restaurant which we planed to come just few days ago.

What draws me n dear to this restaurant is this:

梅菜扣肉！！！ Its Braised pork in preserved vege (well... i kind of vege... which i had no idea wud's it call in Eng..) and look they serve WILD BORE MEAT!!! you can hardly get this these days!! we didn't order it cuz it'll be too heavy for us BUT definitely will try it up soon!

Well 1st impression: Clean, Neat, pretty much Chinese style design

After settling down we place our order and i notice the music they play are actually pretty sentimental... after a day of hustle and bustle with this music surely is soothing especially when these arrive:
My honey lemon (gd for my throat) and dear's 3 sour drink

Our mains:

菜香豆腐- Fragrance vege tofu?? Ya i noe picha looks a bit like termites.. but its not! ITS YUMMIE!!

We like this the most as the marinated radish and chinese mushroom goes perfect with the tofu YUMMM!!!

梅菜扣肉- Braised pork in preserved vege...

Well this dish taste rather salty.. texture of the meat's nice but if they put more "mei cai" (梅菜) instead of salt then it'll be perfect too..

dear say that the rice is a bit hard, but for me the main dishes overpowers the hardness of the rice so i tot its ok haha..

I'd luv to go back for their wild bore meat and also the "Steam chicken in herb??" i tot sud be Paper wraped chicken??

Anyway i'd say its a reasonable priced and comfy little restarant to dine in. Suitable for Single, double and group!

You've Got Mail!

Have you ever came across situation where u misplace something important at places during your vacation and only realize that when you're back to home country?

Well i have... *head growing big and shaping like prawn*

its the phuket trip that me and dear went like about a months ago.. haha [yea.. haven had the time to update the rest of the trip.. but soon it'll come out]

so back to the story.. there wus this photo taken by force with their 'mysterious camera man' hiding at the side of the elephant trek on our elephant ride back at phuket [there's a lot of these mysterious photographer at tourist spot in Thailand. We both tot the pic look quite nice so we bought it as our sweet memories *tahahaha sponge bob laugh* but somehow the photo dropped out of our sight when we checked out of Thantip villa... we only realize it when we got back kch that its not with us..
so we called up Thanthip Villa and checked if the photos's there.. the reception asked me to call back day after as they have to wait for the guess occupiying the room to checkout then only they can help us search the room again. So i called back day after after work and guess wud! they had it.. the housekeeping lady didn't throw it away!! it wus actually dropped between the side desk and the wall... and the housekeeping lady kept it well. i wus so happy the moment they say they had it .. so i emailed them my address and waited for the mail to arrive..

1 week pass.... 2 week pass... untill yesterday i had a flash of this incident over my mind wondering where's the mail.. did they really mail it to me?? did the postman misplace it?? Where did the mail went to???AND TODAY!!! after returning home from work justnow, my mom told me that You've got mail from Thailand!!! I've got mail~Guess Wud's inside!!
our photos!!! hahahaha so i quickly took pics of it and posted it up.



Million thanks to the team at Thanthip Villa for helping us.. it might be nothing for them but the photo means a lot for me and my dear for our 1st cross country trip.. thanks to the manager [who commision the post of the photo using registered mail], the reception [who keep in touch with us untill the photo was found], the house keeping lady [who cleaned our room, making 'flower' out of our randomly put cloths during stay time and most importantly not throwing away the photo] and other ppl involve in search of our photo at Thanthip Villa. Not only you have one of the best environment in town, the most important is your superb service to customer did not stop at the door step. Thankyou.






To be frank, Thanthip Villa is a very nice hotel located very near to the Patong beach at Phuket but slighthly apart from hussle and bussle of Patong which makes the surrounding peace and quiet. I would say its very suitable for groups of friends or family and especially couples. The ambience, standard, cleanliness of the hotel is exceptional, i like the warm hospitality that makes u feel like VIP regardless that we're staying at standard room. My stay at Thanthip Villa was an unforgettable one. I would recon this hotel if anyone wants to stay at Patong beach in Phuket island. *this is not an official ads but i'm just reviewing a little to express my gratitude.*

KL Transsit Prior Phuket

Early this month me n my dear had our 1st trip to PHUKET~

We stop over at KL for the 1st night cuz we have to catch an early flight to Phuket the next day.

Lucky enuf there's AC Neilson's 'BOSS' haha to take a half day leave to pick me n dear up then bring us to the Pork porridge that i've always wanted to go back and have a bowl and also to show my dear the great food i use to have when i wus in kl. and Bcuz of this his poor SLK kena saman..*Thanx boss u'r da man haha!*
Okay movin on with the food..
mmMMMmmm drwolin already seeing these fine poridge with crunchy intestines and chewwy meat.... not to mention the smooth and silky 'nga choi gai' [牙菜鸡 in cantonese] {mayb the chicken really ate beansproud to grow.. haha} anyway i don't know is it the same person or same recipe that i use to have few years ago.. cuz the taste is a bit different... seems less sweet compare to last time.. but its still yummyly delicious la~


At nite meet up with my foundation class gang at k3k


subang really change much compare to few years ago when i wus in my foundation year 1 n 2..

one thing that din have enuf this stop over is time and energy... i wud have meet up with bunch of energetic and fun ppl.. my ff gang... nvm la guys nex time we have crab at kampung subang then darusalem for sum teh-o-ice, nasilemak with pehe and mee goreng double +telur mata ya! haha *drowling...*


Okay batt almost flat liao.. stay tune for Phuket trip~

Mc Value Lunch

there wus this Mc Value Lunch going on recently at Mc D. SOUNDS GREAT! so we give it a go couple of days ago

so wud's all this is about is that price cut for 4 different set meals :Mc Chicken, Double Cheese, Mc Nugget, Fillet-o-fish which all comes with regular soft drink and my favourite fries~ so me n dear choose for the double cheese and fillet-o-fish set which normally u can only get it at near RM10!!

But the catch is u gotta have to time and patient to wait for ur turn in the LONG~ 'Q' and also those food (burgers) that are meant to be hot has turn cold and those best serve chilled drinks are not as chill as it is after being pumped out earlier ... other than that the fries are still HOT!! Burgers' sizes is still the same!!

mister bean

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ITS lunch time!!!

sat noon i'v got sumthin to do after lunch ard city so gave lai a call and he sugested MISTER BEAN a restaurant located right opposite 东馆西馆 [will be updating precise address and logo after my next visit] the restaurant has a fare variety of signature mix drinks and also local delicacies

add any sets of mains with RM 2 you'll get this:3 items!!!! with choices!!! how gud is that!! so i opp for fresh soya milk for my 1st item; beancurd pudding for my 2nd option and with a complimentary sponge cake which is reeeeaaaally fluffy~for the mains i had Nasi Lemak + curry for only RM4 !!! ITS CHEAP!!! i cant even get this deal at 7th mile !!! overall the taste and portion its just nice and reasonably tasty.. if not for presentation sack i wud suggest a bigger plate for the ease of dining... when i tried to mix sambal enchovies and peanuts with the rice [ i always hav nasi lemak this way haha] the mixture needs slow motion if not everything will be splash on the table... plates a bit too smal for me haha.. but if u don hav nasi lemak like my style~ sud be no problemo~



as for the drink our fren [taoke neo] compliments me with 变天: its blue soda water with some red-ish jam below.. haha ya i noe.. it kind of look like those drink which taste like anti-biotic.. but this 1 doesnt. after a few hard stir the drink changes its colour into purple~~ and that explains the name of the drink


Overall the food that i had is quite delicious and wallet friendly. The specialty bean curd puding is my favourite.. really smooth texture which is so fine that u can "push the puding through the hole in between your teeth[part of the fun while eating puding hehe]

so i'll recomend MISTER BEAN to any1 who LUV~ bean curd pudding and fancy drinks

亚答街 Fish ball

亚大街 [atap street] situated at heart of KUCHING CITY, entrance beside the gud old POST OFFICE. Few of the local delicacies resides along the perimeter of the streets. I've been hearing loads of nice food around here but not untill recently that i got the chance to feast on these legendary food stalls...

and today~ the chosen stall is the <<fish ball tang hoon>> and the <<cha kueh>> which is just 100 meters away from the entrance.

this is my All-in-Special fishball tang hoon

actually the "Special" doesn't really look much different from the normal but large 1 though... its just additional few more fishballs and meatballs... hhahaa this is pretty nice bowl of meal when u feel like having a light meal especially a nite of hang out at the bar

this is also one of the nice SATAY from the same stall. The meat is thinly cut so when u sink ur teeth into it... ohhh... silky smooth yet full flavoured... i think they did great job at marinating the satays though!! 2 thumbs up!!


and finally but not least the most delicious <<CHA KUEH>> i've ever had... well compared to kenyalang's 1 i mean.. haha
its kind of pricey if compared to those sold in Kenyalang park's market, 1 pack cost RM2...
but somehow the mixture of garlic, turnip, and also the main ingredient carrot cake mixed up so well together with the gula melaka or locally known as "atap sugar" the outcome = marvelous ~~
------------>>> see how small the RM2 cha kueh is.... gee i gotta learn how to fried these things... so profitable... haha anyway 2 thumbs up for this cha kueh apart from the price hehe... RECOMEMDED!!!

上海人家

there's a word came by my mind justnow having chicken rice for dinner with my parents behind hock lee... shall i change my blog tittle to a mouse life??? cuz when i look back into my previous post its mainly about food hahahah.... cuz I LIKE FOOD!!! ESPECIALLY NICE ONES!!! FOOD ROCKS!!! YEAH!!!

anyway~ here's another post of food again [yes kenneth, again food.. hahaha]

Location: just oposite from the 2 banana situated 2 more shops to the left. Its visible from 2 banana
Time: Lunch ard 1pm
diners: me, lai, jack, fab n ken

it was a typical chinese meals with sort of hongkong style dim sum..

from left drunken chicken, dumpling, 豆沙饼







as for the above right my favorite 小笼包with the soup inside, so u actually got to "juut" the soup out 1st b4 u eat the bun... haha kind of fun and delicious..

and on the left is my main course of the lunch, their specialty of the day, tofu rice. Well it turns out pretty tasty just like wud the boss recomended though.. its more like 糯米饭but not as full as it. so overall its kind of nice 2 thunbs up for this too

anyway looking forward to try its peanut and red bean paste bun.. deep fried to perfection... looks kind of attractive..