bergumbira dgn kawan2...

Today seronok!

The usual suspects plus a few others went to Coliseum to celebrate (albeit belatedly) SHH's birthday. The ladies rode in NSY's car, while the guys... DBB#3 included, walked to Jalan TAR. Bila sampai sana, the restaurant was full, but MM had made reservations. So popular is the place that we still had to wait for a table untuk the 13 of us. Somehow we ended up duduk one side ladies one side guys... mainly because the ladies sampai dulu and sat first and the guys joined later. As SBA remarked... "Macam parti PAS"

It has been AGES since I last stepped foot in this restaurant. It must be at least 20 years!! Used to frequent this place masa kecik but we stopped when we discovered that they also served oink oink. They've since *cleaned up* and obtained the Halal certification.

One thing good is that their food is still macam 20 years ago. The steak is to die for... and I dare say, the best in town! The place chokia je and the waiter equally ancient (literally separa bongkok!)... but all that forgiven for the succulent, tender and juicy think slab of meat. AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

The way they take orders and serve also quite militarilistic... quite garang and no nonsense. I guess when you serve food this good, and know that your customers will keep coming back for more... we're at their mercy ;) Those things are forgiven and forgotten... And we were so into our food that we didn't get back to office until around 2:45pm ;p

Later in the afternoon, I received an sms from Mymot "Nak tgk belly dancing kat DFP?"
To which I immediately replied "Nak!"

Baru je the day before I sms-ed the chicks to ask how they were doing since dah lama sangat tak jumpa. So tonight... it was 1/2 of the detox chicks posse... moi, Skinner, Mantze & Mymot.

It wasn't actually a belly dancing show but rather a concert by Hassan Ramzy... a famous percussionist of Egyptian descendant who has made his mark in Hollywood and around the world. Specifically her played the tabla and his *band* included 2 violinists, 1 accordion player, 1 gendang-er cum main tamborine, 1 keyboardist and 1 playing an instrument yg I tak tahu namanya apa. It's a string instrument, ala ala guitar, but besar and rectangular in shape... played with the thing resting on your lap.

Hebat... sungguh hebat keupayaan Hassan Ramzy dan kawan2. Usually orang dengar music but he brought a belly dancer along so that we can *see* the music. The dancer pun sama hebat dengan lenggokkan perut and lemah gemalai tangan. It's amazing how she could twist and getar and gelek with such intensity kat part body situ je, while everything else remain still. I tengok je pun dah rasa penat!

One of the seronok things about belly dancing is the costume. And Serena (the dancer, who happens to be Hassan's wife) changed baju for each dance... and there were if I'm not mistaken 7 costume changes. The beadwork and kilat2 on the bajus add to the ke-exotic-kan belly dancing. Punya dahsyat dia gelek sampai ada *wardrobe malfunction*. If you want to know, ask me personally what had happened...

On rare days like this, I got 2 in 1!! best...