Famous Amos

I stole the content of this post from another blog relating to an email that she had received from a friend of another friend about her encounter at a Famous Amos outlet somewhere in Bangsar, KL.

Anyways, this is the content of the email:

"This is a true story My daughter and I had just finished a muffin at Famous Amos Café in Bangsar & decided to have some cookies. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the "Hawaiian Nut Cookie".

It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe and the waitress said with a small frown "I'm afraid cannot". Well I said, "Would you let me buy the recipe?"With a cute smile, she said "YES". I asked how much and she responded, "only two fifty, it's a great deal!" I said with approval, "Just add it to my bill"

Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement from Famous Amos and it was RM285.00. I looked again and remembered I had only spent RM9.95 for two muffins and about RM20.00 for a pie. As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, "cookie recipe - RM250.00".

That's outrageous!!!

I called the Famous Amos's Accounting Dept. and told them that the waitress said it was "two-fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any POSSIBLE interpretation of the phrase. Famous Amos refused to budge.. They would not refund my money, because according to them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe - we absolutely will not refund your money at this point."

I explain to her the criminal statues which govern fraud in Malaysia. I threatened to refer them to police for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you want, we don't care, and we're not refunding your money."

I waited for a moment, thinking of how I could get even, or even try to get any of my money back. I just said, "Okay, you people got my RM2-50.00 , and now I'm going to have aRM250.00 worth of fun."

I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in Malaysia with an email account has a RM250.00 cookie recipe from Famous Amos...for free... She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this"

I said, "Well you should have thought of that before you stole from me", and slammed down the phone on her.So, here it is!!!

Please, please please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid RM250.00 dollars for this...I don't want Famous Amos to ever get another cent off of this recipe.....

Recipe may be halved:

2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal & blend in blender to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
18 oz. Cadbury bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanillacream the butter and both sugars.

Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Cadbury bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.. bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 122 cookies. "

Does anybody want to make the recipe and give me some? =)

Let Me Be Me...

It is my own personal opinion that people can only be truly happy when when they have the ability to totally be themselves. It is inevitable that throughout your life, each of us will be pressured by various forces in the form of the family, relatives, friends and even the significant other to conform to something that they are not.

At many a time, it is just so much easier to bow down to the pressure and just become someone else, to appease everyone else around you. But at what cost? I have learned from personal experience that perhaps in the short term, you can live with it. But as the days go by, you start feeling more and more repressed.

From these feelings, resentment starts to grow maturing into large clouds of anger and hatred until one fine day, everything doesn't make sense anymore. You look in the mirror and don't even recognize the person staring back at you.

I envy people who have found themselves. People who know who they are. What they want in life, what makes them happy as well as what makes them miserable. I'm working towards achieving that, to one day reach that plateau of being able to be truly happy in being one's self without the need to feel guilty or fear due to non-conformance to society's expectations.

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Random thought:

I remember last year when I was in washroom at SEATAC airport in Seattle, Washington. After finishing my 'business', I observed a particularly attractive toilet roll holder which had a most blatant label of "Made In USA".

I was thinking to myself, "What kind of developer would spend so much money to import this from the United States?" Then, it struck me that I WAS in US and it was infact made locally. 'O.O Such a blond moment indeed. =)

The Marvels Of Technology

On certain occasions, even I get amazed about how far technology has progressed regardless of my exposure to technology on a daily basis.

Just the other day, I was downstairs working on my notebook and wanted to print a document. All I needed to do was to click the "Print" button, and the printer connected to the upstairs computer began spouting out my document. It seems so surreal that information could travel through thin air from my notebook downstairs to my upstairs printer at the speed of light.

Technology rocks! =)

Weee...100th Post!!!

Wow, it took me 6 months to reach 100 posts. As my thoughts are slowing to a trickle with the sudden inability to express myself through words, it will probably take another 6 months before I reach 150 posts. At any rate, I'm still doing better than 'someone' else ;)

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Life has been rather hectic recently. Too many things happening at the same time leaving me hardly any room to breathe. Too many issues to address, too many problems to solve, too many things to ponder but to me, the change seems welcome.

I remember thinking just 365 days ago, how life seemed to become meaningless. How everyday was becoming more and more mundane. More and more repetitive without any variant at all. I was becoming increasingly unhappy. With each passing day, my zest for life seemed to be decreasing. I was slowly falling into a slump. I was becoming complacent. Something that I never wanted to become, not at this age anyway.

I can only thank Him for improving the circumstances in my life. I can only thank Him for giving me new reason to live life. I can only thank Him for renewing my vigor to improve myself and increase my quality of life. Most of all, I am so grateful that He has brought her into my life. =)

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Gee, i really miss the therapeutic experience of expressing myself through my blog...