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Viva La Vida is bet­ter tune than Vio­let Hill. The music gives you the hyper mood, def­i­nitely a great album! I’m glad it’s doesn’t sound like X&Y. can’t wait to get hold of the album.

The fresh food people

Nowa­days Kuch­ing peo­ple really got lot of new toi­let to test drive. First you got Boule­vard Kuch­ing than The Spring, now you have Cold Stor­age. There’s few more build­ing com­ing up soon this year or next. I don’t think the peo­ple here are that ready to spend their money.

Not bad la this place got lot of Ah pek Ah mah, after it’s all about foods, drinks, veg­eta­bles, imported cans prod­ucts and all other junk la. My inter­net friends and my staff some­time call me Ah Pek too for your info.

When I was in Tokyo with my col­league they bring sil­lier coke cans back to Malaysia for col­lec­tion! If you don’t mind to col­lect pop soda bot­tles from Kuch­ing, Cold Stor­age has plenty of it! Small and cute the way you like it.

I like peanut but­ter more, I don’t like jam but this one is spe­cial! Dia­betic Apple Jam?

Kopi O any one? I remem­ber my grand­mother use to ask me for my help and I would bare­foot walk to the nearby hawker store which 5 min away for the cof­fee pow­der. It use to be only 1 ring­git, the cheap­est drink to live by but we feel it very expen­sive back then. I miss my dad, grand­pas and grand­mother! I love you guys and this cof­fees pow­der is the up and down, our good time and bad time together. *cry* I wish they were alive I would be very happy

For your doggy foods, I don’t like doggy

I must say that it’s cre­ative fresh foods out­lets but bor­ing. Lim­ited park­ing space and they charge freak­ing RM2 per entry! The man­age­ment should go screw them­selves for this retarded car park charges. One thing they did right is recy­cling bins! Good job well done!

Before I pen down, here come the sexy model I thought he looks pretty good eh?

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I am the reg­u­lar cus­tomers of Impe­r­ial Inter­na­tional Hotel of Kota Kinabalu.

6 months back, I must say that I am totally impressed with their ser­vice. I like how the hotel staffs offer help and will always greet and smile to the cus­tomers. I always tip them though we don’t have to. I still remem­ber the very first time my friend and I vis­ited the hotel, it was still under ren­o­va­tion the toi­let bowl, bath tub, and the sink is still shin­ning and clean. First class with best rate!

Last week when I’m there again for my monthly visit, I real­ize there wasn’t any smile or greet­ing. Nor­mally, when I’m walk­ing head­ing to the lifts, I will keep myself espe­cially alert because I don’t want to be impo­lite for not respond­ing to the ener­getic staff with their smile and greet­ing – they always greet! I was sur­prise that the staff wasn’t greet­ing this time and in fact just look­ing down the floor and hold­ing walkie-talkie and passed by cus­tomer as if noth­ing happen.

Dur­ing my stay 11th – 16th May, (unfor­tu­nately) I have lost my Sony T100 cam­era charger. I have make a total 3 — 4 calls and per­son­ally vis­ited the hotel again last week 18th – 20th Jun while stay­ing I requested the counter per­son to help me to check. From the calls I made and per­sonal visit, the answers given to me was – “I’ll get house­keep­ing to check and will get back to you”

I haven’t heard from them since… (by the way their email on their web­site doesn’t work, make it dou­ble suck!)

From the pass 2 visit I stayed with the hotel, I have a great break­fast at the RoofTop! Cof­fee is ready as soon as cus­tomer seated and clean plate, forks & spoon is served and always ready for cus­tomer – it’s so comfortable.

Last week, cof­fee was on self ser­vice (not a big deal – most hotel do) what FREAK me out are NO cof­fee cup, and NO plate at the buf­fet table?????? The table has no com­plete forks and spoons ready…. I am force to take fork and spoon from another table. The foods are hor­ri­ble and cold. At 8.30am the foods on the table is almost empty and cus­tomers keep com­ing in. Guess what, curry left over was the bones and no one seems to care to refills. Some cus­tomer is look­ing up and down the cof­fee table hope­fully to find a cup or hope­fully the atten­tive staffs to notice the funny grumpy face.

There is this for­eigner ladies try to pour the fresh milk out of empty fresh milk dis­penser, she went back to her table than few sec­ond later come back again and repeat the funny move on the empty milk dis­penser! It’s doesn’t make sense I know, but it hap­pen.
Some old ladies cir­cle round the buf­fet table. I am one of them in the search for plates. In fact I did it 3 times and I guess morn­ing exer­cise is good for cus­tomers who weren’t that awake. The cir­cling also strength­ens ones Kiasu-ness.

Any­way, the hotel ser­vice sucks period.

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Con­tact is the sec­ond album from a band called them self as Thir­teen Senses. The album was release last year in April. I just bought it yes­ter­day

I love alter­na­tive rock band. I am influ­ence by the sounds of Smash­ing Pump­kins, Oasis, Radio­Head, Soul Asy­lum, cold­play and any band that sounds moody, love & affec­tion, melan­choly music almost new age, almost new wave, through the gui­tar and piano. Appar­ently they call it piano rock.

Contact’s album cov­ers fea­tur­ing human head light bulb remind me of how Enigma third album Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi human mechan­i­cal cover. Very mys­te­ri­ous and that’s trig­ger my curiosity.

I lis­ten to the first one min­utes of the first song than the sec­ond song than I thought they sound very much like Cold­play but softer. I lis­ten to the whole album in a car because I thought they were really good and much bet­ter than the last album of Cold­play X&Y. These guys has big influ­ence on Cold­play music by the sound of it.

Their sin­gles “Into The Fire” was fea­tured on the pop­u­lar TV’s series e.g. ER and Grey’s Anatomy. Oh? I didn’t know that!

This album has only 10 songs, too few! Read­ing through the biog­ra­phy from their offi­cial web­site they seem to have gone through a tough time cre­at­ing this album. Any­way, for RM45 this should be 12 songs or 13 songs album.

1. Con­tact — 3:40
2. All The Love In Your Hands — 3:45
3. Ani­mal — 3:59
4. Call Some­one — 3:59
5. Fol­low Me — 3:18
6. A Lot Of Silence Here — 4:13
7. Spi­rals — 4:21
8. Talk­ing To Sirens — 4:02
9. Under The Sun — 4:35
10. Spark — 4:11
11. Ones And Zeros
12. You And I — 3:52

A lot of silence Here & You and I were not in the album I bought. This is a tal­ented band and the only prob­lems are the quiet­ness of pub­lic­ity. My per­sonal opin­ion and per­cep­tion base on their songs & vocal­ist, the energy level on a con­cert may not as good as Cold­play, Keane or Oasis. They can be bet­ter than, as good as Cold­play and sing as ener­getic as Chris Martin.

Thir­teen Senses is now on my PC and in my car! Great album! I will try to get hold of the first album, The Invitation.

Thir­teen Senses are;

• Will South (vocals, piano, guitar)
• Tom Wel­ham (gui­tar, vocals)
• Adam Wil­son (bass guitar)
• Bren­don James (drums, percussion)

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