ABC Post-Celebration Dinner

Note: next posting will be delayed. I will be at Sepang F1 Circuit on Saturday and Sunday watching the Super GT car racing.

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“I am at the restaurant already”, I read Dr. Hamdan’s sms at 6:30 p.m., Saturday 14 June. Wow! That was early as we were supposed to meet from 7 to 7:30 p.m. After sending out sms to the rest of the ABC trekking team members to confirm the dinner, immediately, I drove to LaLa Chong Seafood Restaurant, Subang – the venue for our post-celebration dinner.
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Beautiful sunset opposite the LaLa Chong Seafood Restaurant

Menu for the Evening

The ABC-trained trekkers could really eat (applicable to guys). Here are the selection that we ordered:

1. LaLa in soup (the signature dish of LaLa Chong)
2. Big crabs fried with salted eggs (hmm… this dish tastes superb!)
3. Big fish steamed in plain source
4. Big prawns in thick, sweet and spicy source
5. Big Kampong chicken (half bird)
6. Paku vegetable with belachan
7. Vegetable.

On top of that, we ordered a plate of rice each. Before that, we have satay for starter, and we ended the dinner with fruits for dessert.
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PK Chan made a long-distant phone call to Cheban, the Trek and Tour Agent in Nepal, while we were still savouring the delicious food. Due to bad signal, the line was cut. A few minutes later, Cheban called back from Nepal. And PK Chan’s handphone was passed round one by one. Among other things, I told Cheban that “I wish you were here with us for the sumptuous dinner.”
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Front (L-R): Cynthia, Lili, Dr. Hamdan, Lok, Chiew Hong
Back (L-R): Yee Choi, PK Chan, Lim KH, KC, Weng.
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Wine All Round

Other than good food, good company, good conversation, we have good wine too. LimKH brought a bottle of wine while PK Chan brought three bottles, and Chiew Hong brought the Nepalese Rum.

Lili commented that one can get drunk easily when we mixed different types of wine. Well! The ABC-trained trekkers were good! Despite the thin air (in ABC) and the potent mixture, we could still walk straight. No problem.
.Lili - The attractive, hardworking and kind-hearted team member. She devoted much of her time to charitable work. Keep up the good work! BRAVO!

Sitting there the whole evening, I could observe that most tables were empty (still early at 7pm); then they were occupied (during prime time) and later were emptied (most customers had left). However, we were still there conversing!! And finally, at 11 p.m., we decided to leave.

It was a great dinner amidst great company.

Written By KC

Note from PK Chan:
Yes, that was one of my most enjoyable dinners amidst great fellowship and team spirit which continue to flourish since the trekking at ABC. It's always memorable that I received the largest Ang Pow from KC; I think Lily had also made similar comment :-))

Thanks again to Lok and others who had taken the trouble to organise the get-to-together and hope many more to come whilst gearing towards our next venture!

Note from Dr. Hamdan:
Thank you all for making it to the dinner, that was excellent !!

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Super GT Race programme, Sepang F1 Circuit

Saturday 21 June 2008

8:00 am - Formula V6 Asia Qualifying
8:40 am - Aston Martin Cup Qualifying
9:20 am - Asian Formula Renault Challenge Race 1
10:00 am - Asia Supercar Challenge Race 1
11:00 am - Super GT Qualifying 1
12:10 pm - Aston Martin Cup Race 1
1:00 pm - Pit Walk
2:00 pm - Formula V6 Race 1
2:50 pm - Asian Formula Renault Challenge Race 1
4:00 pm - Super GT Qualifying 2

Sunday 22 June 2008

9:50 am - Asian Formula Renault Challenge Race 2
11:00 am - Super GT warm up
11:30 am - Circuit Safari
11:55 am - Asia Supercar Challenge Race 2
12:40 pm - Pit Walk
1:25 pm - Aston Martin Cup Race 2
2:15 pm - Formula V6 Asia Race 2
4:00 pm - Super GT Race (54 laps)