la radiolina

Manu Chao’s album from last year, ‘La Radiolina’, courtesy of the boys at pasar malam (RM10 for 3, buy 10 free 1) became the soundtrack for my trip home, especially when driving around the city. I was a little apprehensive as to how he would follow up on ‘Esperanza’, and had read a couple of less than enthousiastic revews.

Am happy to report that I found this album even better than the last, less ‘Bongo’, more varied, taking in cowboy guitars, some flamenco, some mariachi and lots of rock. The language remains uniquely his own, and more political than before. Love it!

falcon crest

This post was my first ever when toying with the idea of blogging. I wanted to see how it all worked, and if it would be something I would enjoy. To tidy up, I’m moving this post here and closing my ‘test’ blog. The story is a little old, but still valid. It’s a long one, beware!

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I have been toying with the idea of building myself a home on the net since moving to Oslo but just never seemed to have anything fascinating or earth-shattering enough to share with you all. The photos in a couple of web albums did a much better job of describing my new stomping ground than I felt I could with words. That is, until a remarkable dining experience last week at Falcon Crest (no giggling in the back there)… more on which in a bit.

As an aside, Mr. Snow informed me yesterday that the ‘real’ Falcon Crest was NRK’s soap of choice in the 80’s, as they could not afford Dallas. Thank goodness all those oil dollars have come flooding in since! Lorenzo Lamas was certainly in the background while I was growing up a hemisphere away, but somehow the desperately tragic Hong Kong soaps (invariably involving orphaned children and evil stepmothers, and a sprinkling of triad heavies) were always top viewing in our household.

Coming back to the point, the Oslo restaurant scene just never seemed as tempting as while Oslo Foodie was writing her mouth watering posts, now sadly disappeared from the net. (The fact that we share a love of a certain cuisine is purely coincidental, although the words fried sotong, roti canai and mamak make my heart sing!) And surely the best part about moving to a new city is having a whole city full of restaurants to discover!

These two events combined finally induced me to put fingertips to keyboard. I don’t know how often inspiration will strike but in the meantime, hello world and happy eating!

So, down to business. Our Thursday evening meal started out very promisingly, considering there would be more than 20 of us dining together

time out kl

Seems like any city worth its salt these days has a TimeOut to its name. This month KL joins the ranks, with the inaugral issue out.

There’s an article listing the Top 12 reasons why KL is so cool. These include eating 24 hours a day, the SMART tunnel and a foot-eating fish spa (though apparently the fish had to be downsized as the original ones were scaring some people away).

Agree or disagree? Discuss!