Back to school...

It's monday... the holidays is officially over. Even though there was no class for us MM students today, my group had other things in mind...


We went to One Utama's Starbucks Branch to have a social drink... Right. No such luck. People rarely call on me to go out. It's just how things are. [shrugs] Went there for official business...


The man of the hour. Busy toggling the work.


Don't they look like a good group? I was the photographer for the day... Felt detached from the group & it wasn't a bad thing either. Odd isn't it?


A group that is together, thinks together. Makes troubleshooting easier & they motivate each other. About 2 hours after lounging at Starbucks...


We came to have lunch here. ^__^ Jonz wanted to have sandwiches & since we neither have any other preference nor anything against sandwiches... Good recommendation Jonz~! Hehe..


I shared a "today's special" with Pui Yee which consisted of my can of soft-drink, a triple-deckered chicken turkey sandwich using wheat bread, chips


Which we quickly devoured since it was so delicious... Pui Yee had a pot of Earl Grey (English Tea)


Plus the soup of the day~! We had to actually remind them several times about the tea and soup... They forgot. (minus a few marks under service)


So after a morning where I was practically being useless, Pui Yee and I left for the KL library, which I found closed on both occasions I went during the 1 week holiday... At least this time we were absolutely sure it was open.

I enjoy going to the library. I grew up going to the Shah Alam library. I used to hang around the children section then. I still enjoy going there... even though I'm allowed to go to the grown-ups section. XD


After sending Pui Yee home, I drove past this building again. Only this time, it was brightly lit~! Took this shot while driving.. slowly. Hehehe~! Til next time, Cheers~!

Dinner at Shogun

I just came home, rolling back into my room. I'm so stuffed even the Thanksgiving Turkey would burst if it was as stuffed as I am. ~whew~! Oh ya, I almost forgot to mention. Our family now welcome a new addition to the camera family. Mum bought herself another digital camera~! [evil grin] Now the house has 3 digital cameras... That aside, I naturally decided to test out the new fellow.


This cat is my fat house cat. Yes, aside from the 2 dogs, I have a cat too. The name's Bincoa. She's really old now... I got her from a friend when I was in primary school. I think when I was in standard 6... You do the math~!


This here's my house bougavilla (sp?) plant. Since my house is a corner house, we got quite a bit of garden space. My mum loves to do gardening and my maid have green thumbs. I even have a papaya tree at home... Now it so tall... Hard to harvest it now.


Today we made our way to One Utama for dinner. Whenever we travel in the car and have such a lovely sunset, normally my sisters and I will be taking turns to use the camera.

Today we left quite late so not much colour changes to take but I think it's still very pretty... What do you think?

Just so you know, my dad was driving so I can take photo like this... This being is I will still take photos of sunset even though I'm driving. Hehehe...

So ya, we arrived at One Utama

Tada~! Our family had a buffet dinner at Shogun~! It's a fancy Japanese restaurant that is normally super full. But i think, because a lot of peoople are still on their way back from kampung so... Yay~! More food for us

I would take photos of all the food they have there but no photography allowed. Nevertheless, we still took some discreet shots.

Like this one... Note this shot was taken because the cup was pretty. Shiny... @_@

There was some many things to choose from. Tempura, Sashimi, Sushi, Cawamushi, Teriyaki... We all eat until we super duper wooper stuffed~! X_x The bill came up to RM331/= Well seeing how there were 6 of us. Hehe~! Normally our dinner at home one~! Today we go out to eat to celebrate my younger sister's birthday. Her birthday on the 3rd Nov. Early a bit because dad will be overseas about that time.

So ya, these two are my sisters. For those who are not familiar with them, the one on the left is my elder sis, Jessica & the one with the "angpow fan" is my younger sis, Juliet. I want money also $_$ Maybe I should consider to go rob a bank...

Ok, I've put up quite a number of long long blogs. I very the long-winded one [Chiong Hei] Hope you enjoy reading as I enjoy typing. Cheers~!

No more 7 days~!

This week had seemed to disappear without a trace. I couldn't get a 24-hour house stay until today… let's retrace what I did...

Library? (21/10 Sat) - Wanted to go to the KL library but it was closed… I checked the website but then later I realised I checked the wrong website... Hahaha~! Silly me! [Grumbles... stupid library]

Malacca trip (22/10 Sun) - This trip was something my younger sis refers as one of those randomness that keeps happening frequently these days..

Meeting (23/10 Mon) - had new media meeting with my group members... Frankly speaking I'm a little worried about being the leader in this project. I don't make a good leader… Had meeting at starbucks~! Tried their new hot chocolate… Bye bye money.

Ikea (24/10 Tues) - Had to go back to college to take some pictures for internship project. Went around Sunway & USJ… Another hot & sunny day… After that, went to Summit Mydin to buy stationary & henna. Then to Ikea...

It was freaking jammed packed with people & was my first time there. They have such lovely things there… but why is it so expensive to buy things from there… Had to rush back to eat my first (on the last day of the puasa season) "buka puasa" (break fast) dinner at holiday villa in subang jaya. It was superb~! Plus we got 50% off... Yippee~!

KLCC & Steamboat (25/10 Wed) - Wanted to get reference books for the longest time now. Went to Kinokuniya’s Page one and I got two~! Muahaha.. Courtesy of my dad, that is. Total = RM235. $___$ Why do good books have to be so expensive??

Had lunch at Nam Heong, a famous chicken rice store, Petaling Street. They had renovated and man, it looked so different. The food's still good. So that’s a good thing.

However, because it was the festive season, there were a lot of people hanging around the KL area.

Later we had steamboat dinner at home and it was fun~!

That is until the extension cord that I bought from Mydin died.. And I just bought it one day ago.

Library Hoax (26/10 Thurs) - Wanted to go to the library again but it was closed… Still closed... Gah~! I forgot to check the library website this time... [sigh] It was a beautiful day though.. Not hazy at all~! This time I dragged along Pui Yee pulak. Oops… Anyway we went to have lunch at Colosseum (sp?) instead. It's a wicked old style restaurant that offers a lot of goodies... For a price.. XD Took the set lunch there. Two persons = RM68 $__$ Bye Bye more money. Walked around Sogo after that.. I tell you if I had a digital camera with me, I'd take all the cool, funky & bizarre things there. It's a lovely place to buy pretty things to put into a nice house.. Sogo had 8 floors and ya, we walked the 8 floors. Took the KTM home from the Bandaraya station.

Committee Meeting (27/10 Fri) - I didn't fancy going to the meeting... having to decide stuff like vision, mission, objective, direction wasn't fun… I'm having my doubts of achieving of the target of RM100k. Which reminds me, I haven't done the minutes yet. Ack~! I bought some fried prawns from pyramid that tasted so good that before I could go home and share it, Valerie & I finished 2/3 of it [evil grin].

Notice that none of the days above involved doing college work except for the new media meeting… I'm so dead & I brought it upon myself. Wonderful... sorry for the freakishly long entry.

Malacca Trip (22/10)

Our family decided to take a family trip to Malacca for no apparent reason. XD Per usual I was the assistant driver to my dad.. Not that I mind, by the way. Of all the places that we got to first was Nilai 3. No folks, it's not in Malacca but it's on the way there. Hahaha~! Directions to this bazaar like place is simple with gigantic sign like this.

Anyway, along the highway we came across some unusual things. Of those taken, was this signboard. Ok, ok. so it's not like some freakish signboard but it's not common to my eyes.. hehe.. Maybe I should travel more to give knowlegde to these eyes. [pokes eye] Ow~!

Curious, can the wind actually blow a vehicle off the road? There has to be a reason behind this signboard, it's yellow & diamond shaped. For you guys who don't know what that implies, it means it's a warning sign; As in dangerous if you didn't obey this rule.. Well, that's what i know anyway.. I could be wrong Xp

Another interesting sight on the road was this overhead KFC. It's not common here but apparently according to my parents, it's quite common in Europe. XD Since I was driving at the time, my dad took this shot for me. If he didn't, I'd still take it even though I'm driving. muahahah~!

It was the deepa-raya break & I assumed that not so much people would be heading to Malacca (Melaka). I certainly didn't expect this jam~! Sheesh, don't you guys have any other place to go? Hehe... [sigh] Being in a jam is a normal occurence here. So i guess there's no escaping it...

We safely reached Malacca by lunch time. Even after snacking in the car, we were still hungry. Haha! Anyway, apparently in Malacca, there's this famous Chicken Rice Balls. My parents saw this in this local show called "Hao Chiack" (Translation to English that'll be Good Eat)

Since it was such a hot and sunny day, I decided to order a cool, refreshing coconut drink. Lucky for me, the coconut I got was not some super old coconut. Hehe, my dad got one old coconut. For those who don't know, the older the coconut the thicker the "meat" but the harder it'll be to scrape off. Best is to get something in between...

When we arrived, there was a few tables for us. In just moments, there was a full house. Interesting... However, when the food arrived, frankly speaking.. it's just chicken rice. Nothing fancy. When the rice balls arrived, my younger sis commented she expected it to be bigger.. Like an onigiri (Japanese rice "balls") It's about the size of fishballs.

Anyway, the calculation is eating five riceballs equals to eating a bowl of rice. My dad said that the best chicken rice is still Ipoh Chicken rice. But then again, this place we dined at is not the same place as the one introduced in the show. So, maybe that place has better chicken rice. [Eager to try]

The moment of truth.. [drum roll] [anxiety in the air] The total for lunch was RM77/= Not too bad. Lunch for six, RM12.83 each. Then again, if I recalculate...

Chicken + CharSiew rice in Ming Tien = RM4.50
(let's round that up to RM5)
Coconut drink = RM2?
That gives us a total of RM7. Right...

After the expensive lunch, we came to this interesting shop. It has freaky huge mockup dodol boxes outside the shop~!

We stepped into the shop and holy cows, there were numerous towers of goodies~! [jumps around in glee] If you must know, I grew with with dodols, coconut cookies, coconut candy... the works~! So ya, they've got all my favourite goodies and more.

Some of the towers were really high.. Some reached to the ceiling~! Some were dangerously in balance. Lucky to note, there was no accidents while I was there. I'm clumsy after all... I had to be extra careful here.

If you were in the shop with me, you'd think I was nuts, going around taking pictures of all this things. You must know that the camera I was using then was some big chunky SLR camera. [super grin] Anyway, we spent quite a bit here and there was not a lot of space in the backspace of an Avanza.

The most interesting thing that we found in this shop was this jam. Durian jam~! Ya, they were selling this bottle for RM9.90. I wonder if it's as good as the real deal.. Durian is king of the fruits here. You either love it or hate it~! [sigh] I wonder when the durian season will come along for me to eat them. ^___^

Leaving the haven of goodies, we made our way to the Red Building. Malacca is really the historical city. It's so chock full of history, it attracts foreigners & local alike there. I wonder... If historians made a mistake & the history we know is actually all wrong, what would happen..? Mass reproduction of history text books? Or would they continue to deceive the public?

That thoughts aside, Malacca is a picturesque place. Many old buildings here stand with modern day buildings.

Then again, it's made this beautiful for tourist... Would that be considered tampering with the actual history piece or preserving it? [walking on thin ice here] [deliberate change in subject] All the tourist attractions here are more or less walking distance from each other. So ya, this day trip involved a lot of walking.

I like this shot quite a bit.. I take photo like there's no tomorrow. I have myself a trigger happy finger and having this SLR that allows me to save up to 2000++ photos helps it along. [grin] You can't have too much of a good photo, right? [strayed off topic]

There were a lot of beca (trishaw) around here. A lot of heavily decorated trishaws. Some even have mounted radio into their trishaw. I suppose it’s really competitive business. One could walk or take the trishaw to the tourist attractions around here.

There was this interesting water fountain. It only sprays water after a particular time. I didn’t stay too long to be able to find out exactly how long. From the looks of it, it was really old.

The famous red house. Built by the Dutch (Orang Belanda) when they came to conquer Malacca. That’s after the Portuguese reign. When & how long each power reigned.. That I don’t really remember.

From the red building, we climbed up a hill to an abandoned church… Well, it looked nothing like a church because the building was in pieces.

Mostly there were Chinese & foreigners around. There were a lot of tombstones around there also. I’d hate to imagine being there last at night. [shudders]

After walking for a long, long time, the idea of riding the trishaw seemed tempting. If only it wasn’t so expensive… If I’m not mistaken, it was RM40 per hour. It’s sad to have such poor memory…

Right, later I found out that the original purpose of coming to Malacca was to take photo of the night life at Jonker Street. We drove from the red building area to Jonker Street. I bumped into a college mate there. It’s surprising since he was the one who spotted me and I only know him since he was my classmate’s boyfriend. Small world

Anyway, there were a lot of temple & Chinese associations at Jonker Street. I took a lot of photos of the magnificent cravings. This two are the best shots.

Being in the heat of the sun does get to you. So when my dad spotted a shop selling cendol at RM1 per bowl & it stated ‘You won’t want to miss it’, we pranced on in. Let me tell you, once you savour its taste, you’d want some more which we did. It consisted of freshly shaved ice, with red beans, coconut milk (santan) & cendol in it. The best part is the thick Malacca syrup (Gula Melaka). Simply delicious~!

After our cendol treat, the ridiculously hot day turned to become a rainy evening. So the umbrellas which we initially used to shelter from the sun were used to keep us dry in the rain. Such an interesting coincidence. But because of the rain, we left Malacca without taking photos of the Night Jonker Street. Pity~! Maybe next time? Hehe.. We’ll see.