My last few days in Sunway

4 days ago, I just realised that I'm leaving Sunway in a week's time. This coming wednesday, I'm going to move all my things back to my hometown. I myself can't accept this fact. For 5 years I stay in Sunway, I had of course got used to the environment, and what's more the lifestyle here.

I had been going for gatherings for farewell purpose, with different gangs of frens. Very memorable, and I know I'm gonna miss them all. Especially my bestest best frens, CP and Audrey. Just came back from Audrey's room after I came back from a farewell gathering with my charity frens (Charlieans). A sudden surge of feelings overwhelmed me when I see her packing her stuff in the room. She's leaving tomorrow. =( I wonder when I can see her again after tomorrow. So, we chatted in her room for about 1 and half hours, until three of us started yawning.

The gathering started off with a steamboat party in Hin Kian's house and it took us whole day.

Shopping for ingredients for steamboat party

From the left Shi Yun, Audrey and Woan Yng

Choosing which to buy

Guess how much this cost?

I look very retarded in the pic... =(

CP cutting chicken

HK and SY cutting honeydew

Many food on table

Starting to steam the food
From the left: me, CP, Aud, Woan Yng, Get Pei, Shi Yun (the guy in yellow is Hin Kian)

The next day I was so exhausted I slept until noon. I woke up and I thought to myself that I'm going to eat some lunch and continue sleep the whole afternoon. Instead, I went shopping and watch movie in pyramid with CP.

After that, came back, showered, and went out for dinner with Charlieans at Taman Megah Williams. Initially, me and Yumin round the Lim Kok Weng old campus n times, but cant find the stall Elaine described to us. Then, when Elaine reached and led us there, only we know the old small stall by the roadside we kept passing by n times is the famous Williams. We ordered Spaghetti carbonara, nasi goreng ketam, cheese nan (cheesy dough served with concentrated milk and 2 types of curry kuah), triple H (3 layers of bread sandwiched with chicken or beef served with thousand island sauce), another spaghetti dunno wat it's called. All are nice! I ordered mango ice blended too. Gosh. Din know there's a great food stall with big portions of food here. I knew this stall too late. How sad... If I got the chance to go again. I deifinitely will.

From the left: Pui Li, Ke Xin, Yu Min, Elaine

From the left: Yu Min, Elaine, Adam

See the food? And the bottle Elaine holding was chocolate blended

Me and Pui Li

Me and Elaine. Elaine was leaving for temple, so she took pic with me earlier. The rest took with me later, but the pics are in Ke Xin's camera. Will get from Kexin when she uploaded to her com.

Can see the stall behind me?

ps: Elaine, thanks for the present. I like them very much. =)

Today feel very down. Dun feel like doing anything. Maybe because of the flu. Maybe the coughing syrup not only make me feel drowsy but also make me feel miserable. Just can't cheer myself up. Never feel so miserable before... So weird one...

Cont. from previous entry

Where was I?

Ok, after finish eating cendol we went for lunch. And, I passed by a taxi stand which I've never seen in the city (though I had spent parts of my childhood in Kampar before, I din notice it)

Then on the way to have our lunch, we've passed by old residential areas.

And some new houses....

Finally we reached UTAR area for lunch. The place was very nicely built and they have a Grand Hotel there too.

UTAR students normally walk to this area to have their meals. There are laundry shops, cybercafe, steakhouse, asian cuisine restaurant, comic shop and many more. How I wish Sunway can have these shops. Sigh...

After lunch, we went Ipoh. On the way, I passed by Gopeng.

Looks like the town got abandoned and dead

Took some pics of the mountains too (Perak is a state with many mountains)

A temple in the cave of the hill

Why is there a hole at the middle? Tanah Runtuh?

That's all for my Perak trip photos. After that we went to the grave. Then, only I know what the colourful beans are for. We threw them on the grave. I din ask y. I guess it's to ensure my grandparents' peace.

A day trip to Perak

Yea. Finally the most colourful blog entry is here. haha... Sorry wey yiing I made you wait.

I went to Kampar (an Ipoh) on Tuesday to visit my grandparents who had passed away. So, early in the morning about 7am my parents came to fetch me and we go straight to Kampar. Me and my mum was playing with the camera in the car.

Then half way to Perak, it was very misty. It's like we were in Genting. I guess it's because the sun is rising by then and the dew was evaporating, hence the cloudiness.

The sun had finally arisen and all of us desperately needed toilet!!!! especially my dad... lol. I wonder why ALL the rest places along the highway from selangor to perak were closed. Closed as in the roads to the toilets were blocked. If I'm not mistaken with the name, it was the Tapah rest station which was open. All of us rushed to the toilet and went to the food court to have some drinks and rest for a while. So, I continue my photo taking. =P

My bro hugging my mum (my bro handsome right?)

Then the professional photographer (My bro) take our pic

When we reached my aunt's house at Kamparm, it was around 11am. I followed them to go lawyer firm and then my aunt car was almost burning (engine too hot) and she was worry that her car cannot make it to Ipoh. So, we looked for foreman.

But no one is inside.

My aunt called the foreman and wait for him to come back. So, I walked around the shoplots to take some pics. The buildings are like those in Malacca and Penang old towns. They are about hundred years old and very historical.

This is the Kampar main road

Never seen this kind of wood door eh? And see the corridor arch, ancient roundish one.

An old building showing its age

Old shop lots...some of them got painted

See the difference in the building design?

When I went back to the shop, the foreman was checking my aunt's car. He say its the water in radiator which had run out and the water in the water tank was low. So, the water in water tank was not sufficient to flow to radiator. That's y the car engine temperature was increasing fast.

After filling in water, we waited for the two guys to meet us and discuss on our plan. The guys looks like aunties after grocery shopping, holding plastic bags..

So, I followed my mum to look for colourful beans, I was wondering why. Then I saw the longkang (the drain). The water running in the longkang was so clear I told myself I must take a pic.

As clear as the stream water I saw in jungles
(see my shadow? hehehe)

My mum was told that colourful beans are available in the mini market. So, we proceeded to the mini market. We walked to the minimarket and I joined my dad and bro because they were going to eat cendol. Hehe... My fav!!!

On the way to the cendol stall

Reaching the destination

Looks nice!!

Satisfied... NOT.
(firstly, too sweet, because too much syrup;
second, the greenish cendol taste not strong enough)

Note for anyone who dunno what cendol is:

Cendol is a kind of desert which is normally served in a small bowl full of shaved ice and rice coconut milk (of coz with plenty of cendol strips--the green ones made from pandan leaves). It is sweetened with thick brown coloured syrup made from palm sugar (gula Enau/ gula Melaka). Apart from this serving combination, cendol can be also served with glutinous rice or red beans.

In Malaysia, you can easily find cendol sold in small stalls along roadside and in some restaurants. Different people have different expectation for cendol. I personally like those with less brown sugar and more coconut milk and cendol strips ones. I like it when the pandan and coconut taste can blend well. But, my friends like those with more brown sugar.

Alkaline water helps to improve the texture by making the cendol smooth and bouncy.

Cited from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chendol http://jodelibakery.netfirms.com/SAE/cendol/cendol.htm

Your past mistakes have taught you well. You will easily avoid big dramas today.

Every single choice -- and every single mistake -- that you've made in your past has helped deliver you to where you are right now in your life. Your past might be behind you, but it will always be a part of you. Today you'll get to use some things that long-ago trials and tribulations taught you -- but those distant dramas will now seem terrifically amusing. Time heals all wounds, and it evens adds an aspect of humor to the bad times.

This is today's horoscope I get from friendster. Sounds very familiar to my situation. But it's one day late. But I can still feel the sadness. Sigh...