World in 1km

Long time never spend the whole morning to do house chores.

I planned to wake up late today to rejuvenate my energy which had been depleted last few days. I purposely didn't set the alarm so that I can sleep through the morning. But my biological clock woke me up instead. Tried to sleep again but only managed to sleep until 9am and I was awake again due to the usual back pain I suffer every morning. I didn't feel rejuvenated at all with the pain twitching at the back.

For breakfast, I gulped down two half-boiled eggs seasoned with soy sauce and pepper and a cup of milo. Seeing that I still have the whole morning to myself I did my Korean homework. Within 30 minutes the homework was done. My back felt even more painful after sitting still doing the homework.

So I thought to myself maybe I should leave the desk to relax my back muscles. So I went to arrange the dishes and wash the dish holder, did laundry, mopped the floor for the whole house, swept the floor of my room, changed bed sheet and menjemur (dunno how to write in English..lol) my blanket and pillow under the sun. And then it's almost noon time. =)

After all those house chores my back was not painful anymore and I feel rejuvenated now! Guess maybe I'm destined to be a labour for my whole life. One moment not moving my body the pain will come back. So sad la my life.


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Found a very special art gallery in Pyramid when I went there for grocery shopping on Thursday.



The theme of this art gallery is World in 1km by S. Amin Shahab. The artist's goal is to draw different places in the world in cloths and join them to a total length of 1km. His second goal is to draw 1001 faces of Malaysians.






All politicians at the top layer cloth


The crowd was building up to watch the artist drawing a portrait for a random Malaysian.





Drawing so many pictures needs a lot of pens.

This box of pens can tahan how many days?


He keeps the pens used up for drawing this mission in a transparent box to show off his hardwork. Hehe =P.




I like the drawings of the buildings. I think he's good with drawing the details in the buildings.




Zoomed in:

See the details. So neat!


See the humans and horses behind the huge horse.

Ancient buildings of different countries:













This is my favourite:

I dunno how he makes the Pharaoh look so metallic by just using a black ink pen! Brilliant! It look exactly as metallic as the real one!


Compare with this one his drawing looks the same right?! Geng..


For the Malaysian faces part:

I walked through the part where he put up all the Sultan's faces of different states but I only recognizes one:

Johor Sultan

The mouth part looks really alike. Hehe..

And these two politicians also look real in the drawing:




I got one question.

Why do all artists have to wear the painter's hat?

I wonder how my parents will look like if they wear this hat when they are drawing. Hehe... =P

Crazy robot dance

Hola! I'm back from Penang. Had 3 plates of char kuey teow as meals in a row. And had 2 bowls of asam laksa, 2 bowls of cendol and a bowl of ice kacang in the 2 days I went Penang. Oh! And we had a Chinese style daicao meal during the last night in Penang too.

We realized that the food in Penang has very few glutamic acid and less salty as compared with KL food. In terms of health it's good but in terms of the taste we think the food was pretty tasteless except the asam laksa near Kek Lok Si pasar-the only outstandingly nice food in Penang. The char kuey teow at Pulau Tikus (opposite the police station, not the corner lot... I have to recall the name from the photos we'd taken) was also nice but it's not salty enough. lol. The taste come from the chu yao zhar (pork oil??) and Chinese sausage.

Oh! And yea! Gurney Drive food is very lousy. The dried sotong was burnt. The char kuey teow stall which many people ordered serves tasteless but rather red and spicy char kuey teow, the ikan bakar was tasteless also, worse than SS15 Asia Cafe's ikan bakar. Pasembur was so-so, (not enough peanut crunch) but because all are very unsatisfying, the pasembur was the best of all the food we had in Gurney Drive. What a disappointment...

Maybe I'm too picky? Didn't know I had picky tastebud. Hehe...

I'll write the food review on my Penang trip as soon as I get the photos.

So, be patient for now. =)

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I can't dance but I like to watch people dance hip hop or robot or popping. For hip hop, I would rate according to their choreography (how well they match the dance with the beat), dancing skills, and synchronization of the team.

For robot and popping though, I like the electrical shock kinda moves they perform. It feels very inhuman. lol.

Found this contestant of 'So You Think You Can Dance 2008' whose name is Robert Muraine from YouTube.

This is the best robot dance I've seen so far. It'd even beaten the robot dance which I thought was nice 2 years ago.I was in awe of his very robotic moves. And couldn't help laughing at his entertaining performance. And his facial emotions matched his dance moves as well. Very talented =)

Off for Penang

Tomorrow I'll be going to stay overnight at Cheng Yee's house so that Friday early morning we can depart to Kampar for breakfast, then Ipoh for lunch then finally Penang. =)

Actually nothing much to blog also. Hehe. But feel like putting up a new post coz I'll be away for few days until Monday. Hope this blog won't be too empty. =P

Anyhoos, first of all, happy birthday to my ex-roomie, Choo Peng, who had shared my joy my tears and lotz of our stressful lives back in uni time. Really miss you lo. You faster fly back Malaysia la =P Then we can go shopping... or just gossiping in Aud's room will be fun too. =P

For the Penang trip, my target is to eat the cendol at the small lorong somewhere at the town I guess. Then I want to eat char kuey teow and asam laksa. I don't like prawns. So prawn mee is not one of my target. According to my housemate's mum, "lo bak" is very famous in Penang. She told me go Penang must try their "lo bak".

After many direction and description of the places she went and how delicious was the lo bak, I asked her, "What's lo bak?" =.="

I haven't seen anything called lo bak before. It should look something like this:


(Not advertising for the coffee shop, this is the only nicely taken photo of lo bak I could find online)

Actually going to historical places should also be great but since I dun have a camera I can't take any photos of the places, so no point going there actually.

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Watched this MV just now and found that Hebe is so adorable and pretty and sweet and cute and pretty. And did I just said adorable? lol. I sound like a lesbian.



Awww.. If only I can look like her. Ish.. What a big dream. lol.. Nevermind. I can start with that hairstyle first. lol.

Lunch from home =)

I haven't been cooking since June. The fridge had been empty since then.

It's mainly because I have Korean classes on Tuesday and Friday evenings. On these evenings I just settle my dinner at the Asia Cafe near the language center before the classes commence. Since I didn't cook on Tuesday night, I won't have home-cooked lunch for Wednesday.

Another very important factor is the recce which always falls on Sunday. By the time I come home I'm a dead meat already. So definitely I won't cook lunch for Monday then.

I teach Mei Chemistry during Saturday. So normally I have lunch and dinner with them.

So you must be asking how about Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evening? You must be thinking "you still can cook what". That's because sometimes I'll use these time to do some maintenance stuff like getting a haircut or looking for Adidas kampung at pasar malam or revising Korean. Since I'm so busy, recently I prefer to rest in my room whenever I have time. =P

In other words, I'm lazy. Hehe..

Rest is a bliss okay... =P

Today, because of inefficient funding (very poor la..) coz I have to save some money for my Penang trip this weekend, I decided that starting this week I should cook to reduce the cost on my meals. It actually is cheaper than my expenses from buying meals. But to what extend?

So let's calculate together yea =)

This is the list I bought today:
Whole chicken RM7.91
5 carrots RM1.99
Ladies finger (300g) RM1.59
Dry tofu 9 pcs RM1.75
Sawi (2 ikat) RM2.80
Total: RM16.04

These ingredients can last me for about 6-8 meals. Meaning one meal = RM 2.00-2.60. I didn't include the cost of rice, oil, gas and water. After adding these it should be about RM2.50-3.00 gua.

One meal I bought from those economy rice stalls (one meat and one vege) = RM4.00

So, in conclusion, I save RM1 per meal if I cook. (=.=)"

If wanna compensate the energy and time I use to walk around to buy the grocery and to prepare and cook the meals (time = 9.5 hours/week, energy = I dunno la.. but my feet damn painful after standing for too long in the kitchen), isn't it kinda not worth it? hehe.. Summore the economy rice stall got different variety of dishes which I dunno how to cook. So I can get more nutritious meals from economy rice as compared with home-cooked meals (for example I'll be eating only sawi, chicken, carrot and ladies finger for this whole week, how sad..)

But once in a while eating home-cooked food is quite bahagia also la (if mum cooks for me even more bahagia. Hehe.. ) Summore home-cooked food the amount of the dishes is a lot more as compared with the economy rice I bought outside coz if I take a lot sure it will sure be more than RM4 one. Summore having to drive out to buy economy rice during lunch time and after work wastes petrol also. And sometimes SS15 is very jam and very hard to find parking at around 6pm. So there's good and bad la.

Tomorrow I'm bringing lunch! Yeay yeay!

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Leo Ku had a nice new song duet with Shirley Kwan. At first I dun like the du~du~du part. But dunno why now I find it very cute! Hehe..

關淑怡 & 古巨基 男左女右


Didn't know the lyrics is talking about conflicts between girl and guy in a relationship until I saw this MV. The song sounds so cheerful it makes the lyrics so unmatched! lol.

Fruitless recce

I didn't enclose the past two recce events in my blog coz it's just solely recce. You'll be bored with many names of the Taman Rekreasi or some unnamed site we went only.

But today recce was different. Coz we couldn't even find a possible campsite. So the recce today was solely road trips, even worse than the first recce. lol...

We started first with breakfast in Taman Reckreasi Chongkak. We picnic by the roadside. Caught a lot of attention from the group of photographers who came to take photos in the park.


Our breakfast =)

After that we turned into every small roads we can see beside the main road hoping that it might lead to a jungle with flat ground suitable for campsite. But most of them ended up with Orang Asli village or some farms.

In the end we did nonsense things:

- A small road led us to an Orang Asli village. When driving out we saw a coconut tree with a coconut dangling low. Vincent and Dennis 'harvest' the coconut near the Orang Asli village. The way they harvest the coconut is very weird lo.

First Vincent tried to climbed the tree.



Then he tried to throw the parang upwards to try to chop the coconut off from the branch.

Afterwards both Vincent and Dennis chop off the branch which the coconut is connected to get the coconut. =.='



After that we quickly hopped into Vincent's car and mischieviously hid the coconut in the car hoping that nobody notice we stole the coconut.

- Another small road led us to a cow barn. When Vincent was making a U-turn in the farm, we took some pictures of the cows.

This cow damn big size one..

-Another road led us to another Orang Asli village called Kampung Orang Asli Paya Lebar. Me and Lu Yi borrowed their toilet there coz we can't find any other toilet along the road earlier on. lol.. Then Vincent and Dennis had a conversation with the orang asli guy there. =)

- Then we had lunch at Hutan Lipur Jeram Toi.

This is where I got my headache due to the glaring sun. I was dehydrated when sitting under the sun.


Macaroni with garlic cream sauce and some luncheon meat. Thanks Dennis for the great breakfast and lunch. =)


This is the coconut we stole. Vincent was chopping open the fruit with his parang.

After opened, we poured out the coconut juice into a messtin. It taste heavenly. Vincent was not used to it coz it has no pandan taste. lol.. Coz it's normal coconut ma.




The coconut flesh which I didn't try coz I was very full already after eating the macaroni =P

After eating, we took a 15 minutes nap lying on the ground at our picnic site.



Then we had a lot of photo session using LuYi's camera (which I'm yet to get the photos from) with Drake, our Raleigh bear.









-Then we went to play swing and see-saw in Taman Rekreasi Lenggeng.


Very demotivated already at that point. So bored with the zero results and plus my headache, I really wanted to go home and sleep.


What an unfruitful day. But now thinking back it feels like I was on a relaxing road trip. =)


Group photo of recce 23-08-09. From the left: Dennis (my team leader) Lu Yi, me and Vincent (our President)


Aww... I miss the fruitful recce at Hulu Perdik where we found a very nice waterfall which has quite little visitors (only one family with kids went there for fishing and playing water)



We were very excited with the waterfall =)

Posing with our parangs. =P


Hope we can find more camping site next recce la. =)