Wait, take 3

3rd week in KL, been going around. I had to go down to Kelana Jaya last Monday to get my trumpet fixed due to a minor accident happened earlier. The mouthpiece got stuck when I unintentionally and carelessly let my trumpet slipped out of my hand and hit the carpeted floor. It took me one hour to reach the Yamaha Music there. It is quite a big building that incorporates its show room, music school and office.

This is part of the interior of the music centre.
Trumpets for sale. Their service center is situated at the rear of the building. After days of worries, my trumpet was fixed within minutes, for free yeah. They had this special equipment to unstuck the mouthpiece. It is just a simple tool used by exerting balanced pressure on the mouthpiece to pull the lead pipe out with minimal yet adequate force to minimize the side effect on the trumpet.


The most expensive grand piano in the showroom, drool @@


Can't afford the piano? Read this and DIY one.


Went to Serdang 2 days ago to get my meningitis vaccine injection. Spotted a souvenir shop selling this rubik's cube on the way - 'Broken' rubik's cube for sale. I bet the shop assistant didn't know that a 3x3 cube should have 27 fragments of cube.


Notice: Chilis in Suria KLCC is closed for renovation, spoiled my visit to suria yesterday..


Because Chilis was closed, my friend and I moved to Times Square instead to have our dinner. We went to this gas station to refill our gas tank after traveling all the way from KLCC to Times Square. +U cafe.

The front look of the restaurant. I'm not sure why is the dinosaur there. Probably paying tribute to them for their fossils which have contributed oil.


The interior look of the restaurant, very unique and Japanese-like. But, to be honest, it was a little bit hot and smelly inside there. I suspected that the smell came from the clothes used excessively to decorate the place or its carpet, wash please wash.


The restaurant offered a good variety of food and drinks with very competitive price at Times Square's standard, covering food from chinese cooking to western courses.


My black pepper butter lamb chop, came in reasonable portion and fine taste. The chips were normal, salad was given in generous portion and the lamb chop was well cooked.


Fruit smoothies with special names.

My virgin's honeymoon, orange flavored. Well, virginity tasted normal...

Ended the day with the movie Public Enemies by Michael Mann (The Insider, Collateral), starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as detective Melvin Purvis. It tells the true story of a bank robber named John Dillinger in the midwestern US during the great depression period. In his time, he was marked the nation's public enemy number 1 for the bank crimes he had committed.

The actors and scenes were great but the movie appeared somewhat boring to me. I wouldn't rate it as a great movie, maybe just interesting. The plot started with John Dillinger breaking out his inmates in the prison. After that, he robbed, fell for a girl, pursued by the federal bureau, got caught, got off every time, lived free (he could even walked in and out of the police station freely) and died out of a prostitute's betrayal. Every robbery scene looked almost the same, gun fights were boring with main characters being bullet proof all the time and small casts getting killed everytime, and love story was plain with cool looking villain dating a girl blindly in love.

Overall, the movie lacked depth. The characters in the movie just appeared out of no where as the story needed them and left when it was their time to go. It would be better if Michael Mann developed each character more, especially John Dillinger himself. For example, I'd like to know how did John Dillinger grow into such a person, the transition of him from an unemployed young man who robbed grocery store for $120 to a vicious interstate bank robber, and how did he meet and bonded with his robbing partners in the 12 years inprisoned for robbing $120.


Time is running, but everything else seems stagnant. I feel helpless for not being able to do anything but wait. But, I can choose to believe and be hopeful that everything will turn out fine. I shall do whatever I can work on for now - shop for my traveling necessities and enjoy Malaysia.