Spinning Wheels: November 2009

If you recognize her in above, then you had been in the 1990s (and should be really quite old now.. haha). Yes, she is Cindy Crawford, iconic supermodel of that decade. I was in my teens and early 20s in the 90s and I was absolutely crazy about her breas.. no, I mean breathtaking beauty.

Now if you recognize and had actually fiddled with this electronic gadget before (and don't even pretend you don't old hag!), well it's confirmed you are eligible for the nineties club. My Gen-Y cousin happened to notice my Gen-X stuff when I was clearing my junks one day. He was surprised to see my old stuff, old and sentimental to me, antique and uncool to him.

And so I thought I should blog about these old stuff for those who might not know these things existed before Facebook & Twitter. Yeah, we had a life in the nineties mind you little young rascals. For those who knew these stuff already, well take a trip down memory lane.

Those days I used to buy my favourite songs on cassette. That was the only storage media for audio with the exception of records of course. We either record the desired songs ourselves which require highly exquisite skills or head to a music shop and order by just providing a list of songs which would takes a few days.

Nobody heard of ripping songs back then. Now we have CD-R, DVD-R, MP3 etc to store or download our songs on different media. Thank God for i-Pod while you're in a train or in the gym because we had to lug chunky walkman and discman while on the go.

New Kids On The Block

Take That

The Spice Girls Sensation

Most homes have LCD TV or Plasma TV nowadays, not to mention dozen of satellite channels to surf. I remembered my family had our first black and white TV set when I was just 6 years old. After that we got a big box colored TV. Big and fat was the rage then. We only had 3 channels throughout our teens until Astro was born. Forget about live EPL matches :(

Ah... the hit series our time, Beverly Hills 90210 and Friends.

That's it. We had only 2 choice.

Friends

Beverly Hills 90210

We take e-mail, MSN, skype, twitter, sms and video calls for granted today as if it's a god-given birth rights. I wonder whether the younger guys ever wrote letters in all their youthful lives. Writing letters was our only cheapest mode of communication in the early 1990s. Of course we had telephone and jurassic mobile phones but not many can afford the rates.

I used to always search for the pen pals column in newsp[apers and magazines. Hey do you know what is pen pals?! No, I'd better ask have you seen that red box below, young ass?!

Youngsters think we don't play electronic games before Playstation was invented. Actually we did. We had the earliest console gaming like Nintendo and Sega. Although the graphic and audio is nowhere near PS2 or PS3, it was high end electronic equipment and cost a bomb then. My favourite is still the Super Mario!!

One of favourite digital revolution is digital camera or D-SLR. Gone were the days when I had to send the film roll for processing. I could only take a maximum of about 35 to 40 shots before the roll ends and the sound of the film roll rewinding is irritating. And there is no deleting screwed up shots. There is no softcopy for back up or storage. But the upside is that we can take as many as we would like without fearing for battery life (as the battery is only for flash). And we would more likely to process every shot and keep them in albums. Now it's always in the portable hard drive.

One weekend, I was looking for a good bite with a friend at Pavillion after a movie and stumbled on Pancake House International.

Being foodie conscious-challenged and feeling adventurous, we decided to take a gamble gastronomically.

Of course we obviously felt we must try their pancakes. We ordered a Classic Country Medley which consists of two pieces of classic pancakes, country sausages and hot coffee. Next we had Hot Roast Chicken Special Set which comes with Taco, Macaroni Salad, Hot Roast Chicken and iced tea.

Wow! Much to my amazement their pancakes were really soft, light and fluffy and melted in my mouth with honey syrup. Surprisingly, the Macaroni Salad was absolutely delicious and their Taco is a real winner. It's crispy and filled with spicy meat and vegetable.

It was only later I found out Pancake House International hails from the Philippines and there is another branch at Sunway Pyramid which is the first branch in Malaysia. They serve a variety of pancakes as well as waffles, sandwiches, salads, main dishes such as steak, pasta, roast chicken and a list of Filipino desserts.

The restaurant is kinda small but neatly kept. The food is great and the bill came up to less than

RM30 which I think it's very reasonable.

Feeling hungry already? Pancake House is located at Level 1 Pavillion and Lower Ground Sunway Pyramid.