Cameron + Ipoh trip

Just came back from Cameron trip with the girls.

We stopped by Ipoh and had the famous taugeh at Kong Heng Coffee shop. The shop was so fullt seated that we had to stand beside the table to watch (and give pressure to) the customers so that they could leave their table and let us sit down.


Popiah. Nice but got har mai which I dun eat. hehe..


Taugeh. Nice!


Satay. So so la.


Hard boiled egg in tea


Beef noodle. Delicious! Even better than the one in my hometown. I like the radish!!

Then at Cameron we visited the strawberry sanctuary opposite Equatorial Hotel. Have to climb a little tar road slope to get to the shop.




Maybe we overrated strawberries in Cameron. It's actually not really sweet. It was very sour!



We also went to the pasar near the Equatorial Hotel.


I bought a strawberry dip chocolate stick. The strawberry was soggy and the chocolate was artificial. Not nice.

Then we had steamboat dinner with organic vegetables. The tomyam soup was good. Maybe it's the weather.



Then we visited the pasar malam. Had very tasty strawberry ice stick. Bought yellow colour cherry tomatoes (which is surprisingly tasty just like those red ones) and a cactus for Alia (my colleague).


Spot me!


I'm still biting on the strawberry ice stick

We stayed at a very very nice holiday home, called Arabella Holiday Home. The outside looks like a very European style bangalow.






I love love love the compound area!!


I found this picture from Google. It's not the room we stayed. I guess this room is first floor one. But the room we stayed looks something like this la.. But the room we stayed has 2 queen size beds and space enough to put 5 more tilams. And the bedsheet, pillow, floor were very clean! The bedsheet and comforter smelled like home. Got very clean detergent smell. Hehe. The floor was shiny and clean. Thumbs up for this holiday home. Next time if I come Cameron I wanna stay here again.


Then the next day went Boh tea plantation and its factory. Took lots of pictures with the tea plants there. Had a sip at the Boh tea cafe.

Then visited the boring Big Red Strawberry Farm where we were not allowed to touch the plants. The strawberry ice stick was not as nice as the one sold in the pasar malam. And the vege sold there looks expensive to buy.

So we didn't manage to pluck strawberries in the farm but I'm satisfied having to touch the tea plants. =) And climbed a little to the top of the tea plantation which was like about 170m only. Keke. But it did killed my "hiking withdrawal symptom" a bit. lol... And the fog and cooling morning weather was refreshing. I love that trek.

Summore I met a Korean family at the top. Their kids walked very slow in front of us. So they keep asking their kids to walk faster down the hill. Then I told them "kwenchanayo" (means it's ok). Then the young couple was very surprised and looked at me. Then the guy asked me "are you Korean or Chinese?" in English. At that moment I was so excited. So I tried to answer in Korean but my mind was suddenly blank! So I wanted to reply him in English. But I suddenly dun even know how to reply him in English. I was like "Korean.. errr.. err... no.. not Korean" =.= I'm really useless. But luckily I managed to squeeze in the sentence hankukeoreul baewoyo. Seriously I need to practice more on my Korean speaking.

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Erm by the way, I just sat for my Korean exam just now. I got 94% this time! It's way better than I thought. I thought I can only get 70+. Teacher was being generous coz got a few questions I answered wrongly because of misinterpret the meaning of the questions, but she didn't minus mark from there.

Since I told myself I'm gonna treat myself a good meal if I get 90% and above for the exam, I'm gonna look for nice food tomorrow after work. Muahahaha..

p/s: More photos to come =). Photo taken by Audrey (for the Cameron part) and me (for the Ipoh part).
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Heard this song on Audrey's car during the trip. Very cute song very 林宇中 called 幸福马戏团. I like the chorus part! =)

Grandma XOXO

Heard from mum that grandma fell down and hurt her front tooth yesterday. And recently she had been telling my mum and dad where she puts her important stuff, sounds like last words.. Makes me worried about her soo much.



Today I woke up in the morning and memories of me and grandma flashed through my mind, and god knows when the tears welled up my eyes.

Her holding my tiny hand to cross the road when I was 7.
Her washing my hair, scratched until the skin of my head felt so painful, when I was 5.
Her suggesting to eat Mc Donald's sundae cone (her favourite) and me and bro sprinted towards the counter delightfully, when I was 10.
Her teaching me how to make a bakzhang when I was 23.
Her eating breakfast with me, mum and dad and how she scooped away the bubbles on top of the milo.
Her smiling sheepishly when was caught by dad that she climbed up the roof to mend the TV satellite when she was 70 years old.
Her when she finally reluctantly let my mum holds her hands when she walks (coz she doesn't want to be dependent)
Her insisting to buy me a dress when she saw my eyes lay on that pretty dress
Her being so optimistic after grandpa passed away. Never had I seen her cried although she showed a tinge of sorrow and loneliness for a period of time. She lived strong and independently.
Her telling me how nice her new top is and babbling about where she bought it, how much was it, how come she likes it and most important of all asked me how she looks in the dress, cheerful like a kid.
Her exclaiming a cute kid "奇怪" instead of "可爱" due to poor Chinese vocabulary. She speaks Cantonese.
Her attending my graduation and was excited about the opening ceremony.

Grandma lives her life optimistically despite some people around giving her heartaches. I always see her laughing and talking and babbling as if it's another normal day even though she's facing problems which I think its pretty tricky.

I hope she will live longer, long enough to see me get married. Long enough to hold my children. Sigh. Take care, my grandma... So worried..

New curtain

Just got myself a Christmas present last night - a new curtain. I picked yellow colour one. It's my favourite colour!!



The whole room is glowing in yellow-orangish colour. Makes me feel so warm and harmony. =)

I bought myself a bedsheet too, also yellow-orange colour. Hehe...

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Gonna format my PC to Window 9. =) Hope it works!

But before that I have to write the report regarding recce which Dennis keeps bugging me to write. Hehe..

Guess I won't be updating the blog in a few days time.

So,

Merry Christmas folks!

Christmas ticking closer =)

Tonight I have art tuition. I worked until 7.30pm then went to a Malay restaurant nearby my company to have dinner and went straight to Global Arts. When I reached the centre it was 8pm sharp.

When I was there, Teacher Celine said she's going home if there's only few students coming. She would pass the whole class to me. And she did, coz only 7 students turned up. When Teacher Celine left, the class went upside down. Gosh! I couldn't control the boys running around playing with balloons. =.= They were not even scared of me, even when I asked them to sit down in a stern voice. Sigh.. Not garang enough la. Maybe I should try shouting at them next time.

After the class I had to wipe the desk and sweep the floor all by myself. I did it so slow until Teacher Caron had to wait for me outside the centre, ready to close the main door of the centre. Gosh! I should learn to speed up in the future. Actually I should ask the kids to keep their things 5 minutes before the class ends, then I would have more time to clean the room. Hmm..

By the way, I got my first Christmas present from Teacher Caron!

My all time favourite: Chocolate!!!


Yummy!!

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Heard this song on radio. It's a Chinese Christmas song. My previous zero Christmas mood is finally turned on because of this song. I'm all ready for Christmas now!! =)



I think this is from one of the Christmas songs, something with "tick tock tick tock" one. I dun remember the name of the song but it's a cute song. And this Chinese song reminds me of this Christmas song.

I love the part "Di da di da" part. So cute! And Lee Sheng Jie looks nice here. Keke.. I always think he looks like an uncle. But in this MV he looks younger.

Check if you're pretty =P

Ladies always want themselves to look pretty. And every lady believes that she is pretty (unless that lady has very low self esteem). Today I saw a news article about scientists found a new golden ratio for female facial beauty.

It's:

36% = distance between mid iris of the eyes and mid of the mouth/face length x 100 [Vertical]

46% = distance between iris of the eyes/face width x 100 [horizontal]

So theoretically one who has these ratios would be a perfectly pretty chick. Hehe.. But don't be so sad first... According to the research, if one want to be closer to the perfect ratio, one can use different hairstyle to achieve it (e.g. using fringe to cover some part of the forehead). Jessica Alba, Liz Hurley and Shania Twain are found to have these golden ratios.


Jessica Alba


Liz Hurley


Shania Twain

Being one of the girl species who has too much self esteem on her own look. Keke dun puke la. I admit that I'm highly satisfied with my face sometimes. Oops.. I mean most of the time. Although sometimes I would think I look like a guy.

So, being one of those confident girls, I measured my face and calculated the ratios.



For the vertical ratio I measured from my hairline to my chin instead of from below my fringe though.

I found that my ratios are:

Vertical ratio = 34.39%
Horizontal ratio = 45.71%

Hey my horizontal ratio is not bad!

But the vertical is a bit off. It means my face is slightly longer or the distance between my eyes and the mouth is slightly shorter. I can't change the distance between the eyes and the mouth. So, I calculated backwards to see how long my face should be to get the 36% ratio. In the end I found that my hairline should be 1 cm lower.

But, when I cover that 1 cm length from my hairline with my hand my face didn't look better though. lol.. Maybe it's the distance between the eyes and the mouth then. Hmm.. So I can't change my hairstyle or remove the fringe to make myself look 'perfect' then.

Nah.. It's just 1.6% difference. Nevermind. I still look awesome. Kaka.. I told you I'm confident with my face. =P

IW Dec 09

Just came back from IYC (International Youth Centre). Helped up with the ice breaking game and was supposed to go to Gombak to collect food and deliver it to IYC but was lost in Taman Connaught. So I went to IYC instead and due to time constrain coz ice breaking game will be starting in an hour time. Vincent went to get the food instead.

There are 32 participants this time and the surprising thing is that the ratio of guy and girls are 1:1! For the past IW normally girls are more than guys one. This one look so healthy and balanced! And I saw good signs: participants get along with each other well pretty fast. We gave them the chance to get to know each other at the lobby while we getting ourselves prepared. Then when they came to the registration desk they were all chatty and laughing already. There are only few who are quiet but I think I dun see any aggressive ones. Maybe it's still too early to judge. But I like the atmosphere when they started playing the ice breaking game. They got so excited when they were playing Dwarf Wizard and Giant (I see full anticipations from them) and I think they had fun!

Weird enough I thought Monster game was fun but when they played that game they looked impatient and tired. Maybe they had too much running in the previous game and it's hot and stuffy there. Summore the food had reached when the game started. Maybe they just felt like eating dinner.

All in all I guess I lifted the spirit gua. That's the main point of the ice breaking game. And the other points of the ice breaking game are: to get them know each other (at least the names), to get sweaty and hence more open and high (aka lift their spirit), to remove the awkwardness of having body contact with their new friends (coz IW will need lots of body contacts and trust)

Then I met Maexi! Someone whom I haven't met since last IW, or was it last last IW? I missed her soo much! Often think of her whenever I go for Raleigh activities. All these while I thought she went over to Aus for studies. Coz saw her FB during June or July saying she's in Aus. Then just now she told me she had been here working, in the same company tim... =.= Such a huge misunderstanding. lol...

Got to talk to the Raleighians and laugh with them, most of the time laughed at BJ (hehe). Met some who goes "Ah.. I've seen you but may I know what's your name?".

I got so nostalgic when I was there. Made me miss the June IW 08 and 09. Today is like a family reunion!

But many didn't turn up la. I didn't see Lali (in UK now), Jia Yaw (not free on this weekend), Adrian, Alan, Li, Kelvin. And Shih Chung and Xin Tong are definitely not here. Miss them lo. If all of them turn up I think there will be more fun!

Sunday I'm gonna see them again. I'm gonna go Gombak without getting myself lost to get the food and send it to IYC again. And I have to bring Poh Ee's projector and laptop there too. Hope they have fun in the jungle and a safe one. =)

Jingle Bell with Indian Santa?

Found this very funny video on FB.

Bollywood version of Jingle Bell. I couldn't stop laughing when listening to this! lol.



Have fun! And Merry Christmas!

Desperate or not

Recently I have very weird emotions. Sometimes I feel very desperate to have a boyfriend. But sometimes I think all these desperateness is just because I need a soul mate.

This sudden desperate emotion might be due to few ex-classmates getting or gotten married. I felt that I'm unwanted and even worse, unseen. Am I that bad ah? Maybe nobody notice me gua, this is how I console myself most of the time. Some friend said it's because I stay at home most of the time or just hang out with cousins, so I didn't get to know more people.

But actually no loh. Every week I go to Korean class (but the class are almost all girls la). I teach drawing (I'm teaching kids though). I might had reduce the frequency of hiking but I will go as soon as the monsoon is over. Seriously I don't see any reason nobody noticing my presence. lol. Desperate-nya. I myself cannot tahan my desperateness also. =P But sometimes that's what crossed my mind loh. Don't you single ladies out there same age with me think the same too?

And it's worse when you have this feeling towards this guy and this guy don't even treat you like a girl. How hilarious right? Haha. It's all the same since my first crush. Nobody have the same feeling towards me like I did. There's one exception only though, where we really started out but ended down in drain due to some hilarious reasons from the other party.

My romance history had been such a joke.



Since I have such a pathetic romance history.I might as well stop looking around but looking back at myself. I realize I haven't been treating myself good enough in terms of emotions. Might as well using the time to treat myself better than wasting time on nonsense feelings which will give no return.

This is my first 2010 new year resolution.



Just ignore me. I'm just talking to myself. =P

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

I've been a good girl all these while. So could you please drop by my place and have a look at the stocking? I've already pasted the wanted list on the stocking. Thank you sooo much!




This is the zoom-in image of wanted list just in case you can't see the list in the dark when you come to my place:


(I've even estimated the budget for you. See how nice I am. =P)


Love,
Heay



Ok.. Finish dreaming. Back to real world. Haha..

Jingle Bell with Rain

Found this cute video on one of my friend's FB link:

A bakery advertisement by Rain and Goo Hye Sun which is full of Christmas feel =)



His body language when the girl hugs the bear second time is very typical Korean style. lol.. Always see this in Korean drama one. =) I like his face expression when the third time the girl hugs the bear. Din know Rain can be this good in acting one.

Pichas!

My phone has a nickname. It's called "The abandoned store for photos"

Why? Because when I checked the folder in my phone it's so full of long forgotten photos which I took with the initial purpose of putting in this blog. No wonder my blog is so lack of pictures nowadays! lol..

Can I add some photos for the recent activities?

1. Popular Bookfair @ Summit




And I found the Story of 3 Kingdom book!!! Hooray! I wanted to buy this set at RM99 in Popular last time but it was too expensive, so I gave up. Guess how much it is now?


RM19 for this whole set!!

Holy S***!! To tell the truth I actually felt ecstasy when I saw the 80% tag behind.

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2. Hanging out with Zhuang @ Pavilion 27 Nov 09


Our lunch at Little Wok @ Food court


The famous Santa's sleigh


Grand curtain. Very very elegant.


Me and Zhuang =) My childhood playmate.


Nice deco =)

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3. Sky Trek and visit around Taman Pertanian with Yenny and Toh Theng


Many youngsters cycled there


But we took the bus instead of cycling. Coz we only have little time.


The bus got no window. I like!!


Nice Malay building


If I wear a baju kebaya.. will this photo looks different? =P


Cute colleagues (and ex-colleague, coz Yenny just left us this month)


I told you there's a LOT of people cycling


Watched fish going round and round


Or throw food to them and let them splash the water


Or just put some food on the hand and sacrificed my fingers (they bit really hard on my fingers)


Watch people getting ready for paintball


Testing the gun


I'm still wondering whether this tree is real or not. Coz there's lots of fake durian, papaya and other fruits hanging on the branch. Is it only the fruits which are fake or the whole thing? Hmm...


And before the trip to Taman Pertanian. Yenny recommended us to this famous Bak Kut Teh place at Klang. 直落玻璃瓦褒肉骨茶. The soup is rich of herbal taste. I feel healthy eating this Bak Kut Teh. Not very salty. It's just nice. So it made me feel I can eat few bowls.


My life is actually quite enjoyable. Minus the empty pocket from the fun I get. It's actually fulfilling =)

Love and Freedom

Yesterday I heard this song over radio.

Love and Freedom by Danny Wan



After heard a part of the lyrics my eyes started to feel some moisture. The lyrics is so close to my stubbornness. Sorry mum if I've ever let you down. Dedicate this song to you, mum.

This is the part which caught my attention:

你地每次 日夜系度顶撞父母
话要追寻理想强调自由 set me free
讲一次 顶一次 唔会理解成件事
其实你地嘛咁霸道 咁自私
无错有时 父母真系好鬼过份猜疑
捻一捻 其实你地嘛系咁鬼无知
若然距地要放弃 早就已经放弃
唔史等到你地顶心顶肺 系度担心你
知唔知 其实做父母 不易做
为佐你好先至系度调整你前途
吾通得闲无嘢做 生你出来拿来吵
讲真你心里有数 边个为你好

Translate in broken English: (Find it so hard to translate canto into English... lol)

Every time you argue with your parents day and night
You want to fight for your freedom, see me free
Argue back every advice from them
You talk back every single word they said
You won't understand their whole point...
Aren't you selfish too?

Yes, indeed sometimes parents are over-suspicious
But think about it, aren't you being ignorant too?
If they want to give up on you they would have done it so much earlier
They won't wait till you've grown up till so rebellious and worry about you
Do you know it's hard being a parent
They plan for your future just for your own good
Abuthen they got nothing to do bring you to this world just to quarrel with you meh?
Actually you know it deep down who treat you well...


P/S: Can't help laughing at the translated purple line. That's the best I can do.. lol..

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Can't wait for the long weekend. It's Thursday tomorrow! Yoohoo!! Although work will be triple tomorrow but it's the last day of the week. =D Can't wait to rest!

A day trip with a good friend is always refreshing

Went to the Tian Hou Kong temple with Keen just to buy the Buddha bracelet to replace the one I lost in sky trek last Sunday. Keen wanted to qiu qian, but there were too many people in the temple queueing up for it, so he gave up.

Upon his request we took some pictures at the rooftop. Actually didn't want to take picture anymore coz last time already taken before ma.

Then after that went to The Gardens to have our lunch.

I wanted to try something new. Since Keen said Nyonya Colors always have lots of people lining up to order food, I thought "let's give it a try!"

Looks like this restaurant is never short of long queue.


The interior of the restaurant is very nice. But a bit crowded lo...




I ordered Yellow Laksa

It really looks yellow! The soup taste very very nice! Taste like a combination of curry and kunyit. The white cubes are white radish I think. The white radish absorbs the soup hence making it tastes so much nicer than plain white radish. The chicken was tender. This dish is only RM8.90!! Consider cheap for the nice food and nice environment (air cond in Gardens) and nice decoration, minus the crowded seats.

Keen ordered Nasi kunyit + curry chicken which is also RM8.90.

The nasi kunyit was too hard. Maybe the prepared it early morning and placed there for hours already. I tried two sips of the curry. The curry broth was brilliant! It's rich with the taste of coconut milk and curry.

Both these dishes are not very spicy. So those who likes spicy might not find it tasty. But for me, I judge curry-based food by their intensity of the taste and smell of the spices they put in. So I think these are brilliant! No wonder so many people queue up for the food la.

Then, ice kacang (ABC) I ordered

Not very satisfying. It's not sweet. Not enough syrup I guess. The ice kacang tasted too plain for me.

Keen ordered cendol. I tried one sip. It's not the type of Indian cendol I fancy. It's Melaka type with very rich gula melaka taste. Keen loves it until he ordered two bowls of that. If I have to comment rationally despite my bias over Indian style cendol, I would say this cendol tastes better than those I tried in Melaka. The gula melaka taste was even thicker than the one sold at Jonker street.

Next time I'm gonna go there and try their other food if I go shopping in The Gardens again.