35 Dinner With The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin

Last month was lunch with the Minister of International Trades, Dato Seri Mustapa Mohamed. This time was dinner with our Deputy Prime Minister who is also the Minister of Education.

Stop blessing me God, I don't deserve it.

The event that was celebrated that night was the Tan Sri Muhyiddin's Charity Golf (TSMCG) which was successfully held in Sydney for the first time.

For those who didn't know, TSMCG came around in 2003 as a non-profit, non-governmental organisation to raise funds for charity through golf. This time they hit a new record of most golfers participating in the event - 51 in total.

The dinner and prize giving ceremony took place at the grand ballroom of Shangri-la Hotel and the attendees consists of Tan Sri Muhyiddin and his organizing committee, Dato and Datin golfers, UMNO youths ...

basically all the rich and influential people...

and then there's the performers and the selected few students from universities around Sydney...

and of course the hungry blogger and his 1Malaysia housemates :)

After listening attentively to the half an hour speech, not checking out girls around but being inspired by our handsome (and apparently good in singing too) deputy prime minister, it was time to get what I came for...

FOOD!

The dinner consists of a three course meal - appetisers, mains and desserts - with two different choices given for appetisers and main course.

The picture above of the delicious looking cream cheese salad is one of the appetisers.

The other is the one that I was given - Fried Squid with bean Sprouts and Coriander. Much better than that vegan delight.

The first choice of main is Fish, Broccoli and Rice with some kind of coconut milk based gravy. I guessed it's either green curry or lemak style. Either way it was very Asian, and really satisfying to the taste buds.

The other main, Aussie beef steak, was simply my favourite! As they say, a barbarian loves a good thick slab of meat.

Plus it was cooked just the way I like it - medium rare. Some of my really Malaysian friends don't like the blood and texture. Too bad for them, it's their loss.

The best part of all is that I had an EXTRA plate when one of the Dato did not eat his. Seriously, stop blessing me God, I didn't pray for so long.

Then finally the desserts came. Yummy but the jellies tasted like cordials - too sweet!

Because desserts was too diabetically hazardous, some of the Datos and Datins passed theirs to us. More chocolate cakes for me then!

After eating, everyone could use a light exercise. And so, the guests were invited to do the 'poco-poco' dance! Our Malaysian government just loooovvvvveeess this dance so much.

They even invited Australian aboriginals (made in Malaysia) to entertain us.

Continuing my buay-paisehness (thick-facedness) by asking for the minister's autograph lol.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin's autograph on my invitation card and on top of it is my number for the lucky draw that they had during the event. Fast buy Magnum 4d!

These are the 8 crazy awesome prizes to be won:

- x3 apple IPad 16G, 32G and 64G !!!!! - worth AUD700-1000

- x5 Return Flight Tickets (Sydney-KL-Sydney) for any airline of your choice!!!! worth too much to be mentioned.

only 8 winners and one of my friends actually won the return flight tickets!!

Arrgghhh I hate you Noli Taher, you cute penguin thingy!!! Hope they don't allow pets in the airplane. Pfftt.