Ficelle Boulangerie & Patisserie

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Have you heard of Ficelle Boulangerie & Patisserie before?

No not Levain Boulangerie & Patisserie, Ficelle.

They're like a sister branch of each other.

Levain is located in the heart of KL while Ficelle is located in somewhat a quiet secluded area in Taman Danau Desa.

I found out about Ficelle through a friend who happened to be in the area and word started to spread and soon me and my friends were all about wanting to go to Ficelle and we finally did.

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 The inside is quiet similar to Levain just without the stone oven but the feeling is warm and homey.

And the breads are all not your typical sugar donuts and sausage buns.

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 My friends and i went there around 7pm so by then the breads weren't so fresh anymore but that's just the outer part. The inside of the buns and pastries were still yummy to eat. And although it was late people still pack the bakery to buy Ficelle's bread.

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Places like this normally make their own mushroom soup and boy do they know how to make their customers happy. The texture was thick and creamy and full of chunky mushrooms inside. It was made just nice and wouldn't be too rich to down it. This mushroom soup just topped Samosa's creamy mushroom soup.

A salad? Nope~ This is where you're wrong. 

It a Chicken Lasagna hidden under this forest of vegetables. I guess they knew i haven't been eating my veges lately so they had to make me make up for it. But once you reach the lasagna below, you wouldn't mind downing another forest of vegetables because it's totally worth it.

Spaghetti Aglio Olio with Mushrooms.

I'm sorry i don't know what to say about it because it was soooo delicious !

I'm a mushroom fan~ what can i say~

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Ficelle's pizza is unlike our Pizza Huts or Dominos. The crust is really crusty and the fillings are like an explosion of deliciousness in your mouth. This is a Cheesy Pizza and when i took a bite of the filling, all i could taste was cheese and not the dough. It was delicious as hell but too rich for me. If you're into cheesy food then you should try this when you visit Ficelle.

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 Everyone loves dessert.

I don't know anyone who doesn't like dessert because if you don't like sweet, there's always bitter or sour desserts~

Visit Ficelle's Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ficelle-Boulangerie-Patisserie/151544318246033?sk=wall

Business Hour:

8.00AM - 9.00PM

Address:

Lot 11-01-12, Jalan 3/109F, Danau Business Centre, Taman Danau Desa, 58100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2PM is in Malaysia

Do you know what's sad about my title?

I didn't go because i had no money to buy their concert tickets...

Devastating as a melted ice-cream cone.

 

People said the concert was so f-ing HIGH

2PM even STRIPED their T-shirts on stage !!!

Even Gikwang from B2ST didn't lift his shirt up when B2ST was here on July !!

You wanna know who i really wanna see?

 Among all the BigBang members, TaeYang is the coolest.

Sorry GD, TOP, Seungri and Daesung.

 They might sound weird at first but the more i listen the more i liked them.

And i didn't know The Wanted came to Malaysia early this year !

The youngest member, Nathen Sykes, he may be 18 or 19 but his voice is OMG

JYJ, previously part of TVXQ, is like the gods of K-pop.

I can't wait to see them in person especially Junsu !

 The last time Avril Lavigne was here was back in 2008.

It's time for you to come back to Malaysia Avril !!

 Bruno Bruno Bruno...

He doesn't have the most perfect face but damn he's hot

He just performed in Malaysia in March but come back soon BRUNO !!

And lastly, YTF

For those that don't know them, they're all YOUTUBE celebrities.

From left:

Victor King (victorvictorkim)

Andrew Garcia (andrewgarcia)

Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval (theDOMINICshow)

Kevin Wu (kevjumba)

Chester See (chestersee)

JR Aquino (JRAquinomusic)

Ryan Higa (nigahiga)

2nd Korean Festival in Ampang, Malaysia

It was a warm Saturday evening on the 5th of November in Ampang, Malaysia and it was all by chance that my friends and I drove pass the Korean Town in Ampang Avenue to find that it was unusually crowded than before.

 

 Koreans filled the streets of Ampang Avenue like you've never seen before. 

K-pop music were being blasted on stage. Korean children running along with their toys and snacks in hand, Korean teenagers dressed up stylishly to be with their friends, and Korean uncles and aunties chatting away at a table filled with beer and soju. The atmosphere there made us feel like we were actually in Korea itself.

As you can see, the ajumas' are all working tirelessly to prepare their country's delicacies so that we Malaysians could have a taste of what's the fuss about Korean food.

Here we have an ajuma in orange t-shirt pounding the rice cake dough on a wooden board with a really big pounder. An ajuma in her traditional hanbuk cooking up some dukbokki for her hungry customers. An ajuma stretching across the sizzling hot grill to place skewers of spicy chicken meat on it. And then an ajuma in a cute yellow apron frying a sweet bun with sweet fillings inside on her hot pan. Our last ajuma with a cap is found also cooking up Korea's traditional snack food, dukbokki.

 You can never find better Korean food other than here. With all that's said, nothing was free at the Korean Festival and the food price wasn't anything like what our chee cheong fun cost. I'm talking RM5 for a stick of spicy chicken meat, I'm talking RM10 for a small cup of dukbokki, and I'm talking about RM6 for a bowl of Pat Bing Soo (shaved ice desert), its something like our ABC/ ais kacang here.

So if you're willing to spend for food then Ampang Avenue is the place you should visit for a pigout at their variety of BBQ restaurants. I highly recommend Han WooRi if you're looking for a upscale Korean BBQ restaurant with a nice environment.

Just My Luck

A string of bad luck has been happening to me and my friends ever since this month started.

1. Friend A's car got 'kissed' by another car from behind while it was raining like hell.
2. Friend B's car's passenger side window got smashed by robbers on a motorcycle.
3. Friend C got robbed by the robbers on the motorcycle while sitting in Friend B's car.
4. Friend D's car couldn't start in the morning for work and while driving home one of the tyre got flatten.
5. On the same day Friend C got robbed, two more friends of Friend C also got robbed  and they were hurt.

And as for me, the week before i started my internship my right knee suddenly started having this very excruciating sharp pain. Couldn't fully bend or straighten without the feeling of a 1000 needles stabbing my knee. I still have the pain but not that bad anymore. And then the day before i started my internship, i sprained my neck muscle and couldn't turn or even nod my head. And then i lost my house keys when i went out with my friends. Next i was driving my dad's newly brought 2nd hand Toyota Unser and the front left tyre just popped while i was driving on the highway - Again. My latest unlucky event was a few ago i lost my parking ticket in Leisure Mall and i had to fork out RM20 just to get my car out. I have never lost my parking ticket before and so coincidentally it got lost while all this other bad luck was happening.

I never believed in karma. 

Do good things and good things shall happen to you,

Do bad things and bad things shall happen to you.

I'm very sure i didn't kill, rob, frame, betray, torture anyone or had a black cat walk pass behind me !!! But i do swear/curse sometimes. You don't think all my cursing and swearing accumulated and had a mega explosion of bad luck do you??

My friend said it's probably because it's the end of the year and all of our bad luck just pours out to make space for some good luck for the new year. 

But seriously, I-HAVE-NEVER-BEEN-SO-UNLUCKY-IN-MY-ENTIRE-LIFE !!!!

Lady of Luck please rid me of my misfortune and grant me a little sunshine of luck for now during this course of two month internship.

Greyson Chance In Malaysia

Malaysia has recently acquire plenty and i mean plenty of international celebrities. 

The most hottest one now is the legendary Sir Elton John. Candles in the wind or candles in the window...i can't remember but i love that song.

Anyways I'm not here to talk about Sir Elton John. I'm here to talk about young Greyson Chance who found fame in - you guessed it - Youtube in 2010 by the anchor lady of The Ellen Degeneres Show, Ellen Degeneres herself.

His video of himself playing the piano and singing Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi' blew viewers away and caught the attention of Miss Degeneres and she became Greyson's golden ticket into the fast lanes as this (now) 14 years old lad now strips across the seven seas to perform for his beloved fans that fell in love with his voice on Youtube.

It seems that nowadays anyone can become famous as long they have access to the internet. I seriously wonder what would happen if one day the whole world's internet connection were to be cut off (temporarily).

Come on. How many K.I.D.S became famous because of Youtube?

I can accept Justin Bieber because i like his music.

I guess i can only think of one for now... have you heard Bieber's 'Mistletoe' yet?

Rebeeeecca...WHO-THE-FUCK-DISCOVERED-HER...Black

Seriously, Youtube has many potential singers but they just had to choose...

R.E.B.E.C.C.A-O.M.G-S.O-A.N.N.O.Y.I.N.G-B.L.A.C.K.

If producers wanna make better money...please stop investing your money in people who sings like HER ! Find someone long term !!!

As for young Greyson Chance, I hope i win free tickets to his appearance at KL Live on the 11th of November 2011 which is like what 3 days? 

I'll support Greyson Chance over anyone who sings ridiculous annoying songs. Unless he turns out to be a stuck up, arrogant, asshole of a diva~ You can't predict how they will change in the future~

At least Justin Bieber still hasn't fallen into drinking, drugs, DUIs, fights, clubbing and all that yet. Who knows what will happen after he turns 18.

UPDATES from "Is Malaysia Seriously One of the Most Safest Country? Doubtly"

Apparently the incident about my friends whose car window got smashed in last night, the suspect was actually already near my housing area.

My friends dropped me home and wanted to go fill their gas tank so they went to the Shell Station just maybe a couple km from my place.
 
The road to this station is very isolated and dark and narrow and full of trees all around. Imagine that. After that creepy road the road opens up and then you'll see the Shell Station and newly developed road.

So ok driver friend left the car to go fill up the gas. Passenger friend stayed inside.

Then passenger friend noticed a motorcyclist dude was looking at her from a distance on his motorcycle.

Driver friend came back and passenger friend told her about the motorcyclist dude.

Became cautious and drove off.

Passenger friend looked into the mirror to see if the motorcycle dude was following - No. Good.

Stopped at the t-junction traffic light directly outside of the Alam Damai Police Station.

Passenger friend was facing driver friend talking and then suddenly "BAMMMM" !!!!!

Glass were everywhere and a hand came in and grabbed passenger friend's handbag and her Samsung Ace hp in her hand.

I was told it happened to fast but my friend recognized the motorcyclist dude to be a Malay.

All of her belongings were stolen in a split second but luckily neither of them were hurt.


This is what you should do in case any of these items get stolen:

1. House Keys = Change all locks at home immediately and tell your security guard (if you have one) to be more alert.
2. Car Keys = Errrr... hide your car and disable the remote lock mechanism until you get the locks change
3. Handphones = Call your mobile service and have terminated or cancel or whatever and SPREAD THE WORD on Facebook and Twiter
4. Pictures of friends and family = Tell them to be extra careful when they go out
5. Credit Cards = Call your banks as early as you can and report it stolen and have it terminate
6. Bank Account Info = Terminate the accounts immediately
7. Identification Card = Duhh... make a report at the police station A.S.AP

Don't wait and see until the next day because those bastards might have already emptied your bank account or located where you or your friends live by then.

If you see a suspicious motorcyclist following you drive along side with other cars and keep an eye for the bastard. Try to get behind the motorcyclist and if he tries anything slam your honk to attract attention. Or simply knock him over his motorbike with your car.

Is Malaysia Seriously One of the Most Safest Country? Doubtly

Do you know what rank Malaysia is in the world's safest country list?

19th !! According to NST paper as of July 22nd 2011

Did you know that the world's more safest country is New Zealand?

I kinda knew that because when i picture New Zealand i picture high mountains, i picture acres of green fields across the land with brown picket fences separating them, farmers sitting on their big red truck carrying hay behind them and black, white and brown cows on the other side of the fence eating their super greenie healthy grass before getting butchered for steaks~

Yes New Zealand is the ideal country to live in without the fear of getting your car window smashed in to rob you while waiting for the traffic light. You don't have to fear people robbing you with a machete (parang) when you reach home to open you house gate. You don't have to fear getting your face splashed with acid by crazy people on their motorcycle when you're just minding your own damn business walking on the sidewalk !!!

IS NEWS STRAITS TIME SERIOUS ABOUT MALAYSIA BEING RANKED 19TH AS THE WORLD'S SAFEST COUNTRY???

THEY SERIOUSLY THINK WE'VE IMPROVED ???

I say this because i think Malaysia has gotten worse at being the one of the safest country in this screwed up freaking world. We have robbers wielding machete knifes at people and they actually attack by trying to chop or slash the victims. It was caught a the shop's CCTV camera and the shop owner's children was there.

Robbers also on motorcycles waiting outside people's homes waiting for them to open their house gates to park their cars. They jam open the gate and rob you on the spot. Cut your bag of its leash or handle and ride off.

We also have the Acid Man who rides on his nice motorcycle while holding his plastic bottle filled with acid. Previously he used to target pretty beautiful handsome people (SERIOUSLY !) and then suddenly it became random targets. People's faces were literally melted by the acid.

Do i seriously need to emphasize on how "SAFE" i feel about this?
I used to feel safe coming home alone even when it's late at night. But after my neighbor got robbed in her car OUTSIDE her house by machete wielding guys, GUYS, on a motorbike, I was shaken. And then on Facebook more and more videos were being uploaded of these robbers around ares near where i live, it's absolutely not soothing to watch !!!

I get cautious and i get paranoid and i always look around my car through my windows with my car lights on high beam. I recently adopted two puppies which are now 8 months old but i think they have a strange liking towards strangers............

I was watching these robbery videos a couple of days ago in Facebook and then ironically it happened someone i know today. I was so afraid it would happen to me whenever i come home alone at night but then it happened to my friends instead. They smashed the passenger window and grabbed one of my friend's bag while they were waiting at the traffic light...

IN FRONT OF THE POLICE STATION !!! 

I heard my mum talking on the phone with my aunt saying that these robbers are challenging the police force. Well i'm assuming challenge should be accepted since they said we're ranked 19th in the world...

But i seriously have very low expectations for our police force. They have more belly than muscle. They have the government's support. They are slow because of all the teh tarik and mee goreng. They conduct police brutality (Youtube has videos). They are bullies in uniform !! The Acid man incidents have been going on for months and i'm pretty sure he's still FREE just waiting for things to cool down before he starts splashing again.

And most of all screw the Anti-Bribery campaign. My dad's business got bullied by some officers into paying them money more than once. My dad brought his work home and was fixing stuffs outside the house and suddenly this car stopped outside and tah-dah one skinny and one fatty guys in uniforms came knocking and they were the ones who asked for money first. If the government wants to make something work like this stupid ridiculous anti-bribery campaign. IT HAS TO WORK BOTH WAYS !!! What if we civilians don't wanna pay the bribe but the officer insist or he's gonna make some scene out of it? I know there are some good police here but with the way most of these bad policemen are acting, no way we're gonna have confidence in them.


I wish for everyone, whoever you might be unless if you're one of those machete robbers on motorbikes, you can get splashed by acid and suffer to death for all i care, but for everyone else, i hope for your safety and wellness. Take up self-defense classes so you can beat the fucking crap out of these assholes before handing them in.

But seriously if they wanna rob you just let go of your stupid bag and run dumbass. What's a bag full of make-up when you're stabbed to death?