Showing posts with label Travel and Living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel and Living. Show all posts

Dungun & Kuala Terengganu 31st May - 1st June, 08

Jun 2, 2008

It was drizzling when we were driving to meet the rest of the friends at Gombak Toll. I never been to Batu Cave & the huge golden color statue attracted me. It took us 4 hours to reach Dungun. So we arrived at Liang Hock's parents house about 630pm. Their house is nice. They have a Nitendo Wii room. We fell in love with Wii. Hehe... His mum prepared a scrumptious dinner for us. We were served with crabs, squibs, prawns, fish, pork, vegetables, etc. After a few round of the Wii games, I decided to have an early night. BB & his buddies enjoyed gambling & drinking at the garden.

Before we left to Pulau Tenggol, we had another delicious meal from Liang Hock's mum. She cooked their local specialty, Nasi Minyak for our breakfast. We even packed it for our lunch.
We rent a speed boat to Pulau Tenggol. Hubby & I had an exciting 30 minutes journey there. Why? Because we were sitting at the front seat of the boat. No choice lor. The rest are with their kids, so we gotta sacrifice ourselves. However, it was really fun. Since I can't swim, I have stayed at the beach with Chew's daughter & wife & Siew Fen too. However, I did go for a not so far 'snorkeling' with BB too. The gals are enjoying themselves.

I had a mild argument with BB. When the boat man rode us to the a 15ft deep sea, I managed to dip into the sea by holding the bar. Hey I could see the sea world. Actually I was quite proud of myself as this was my first step to take such a big courage to do so. I thought BB will give me some word of encouragement. Who knows he kept on teasing me "kiasi" (coward)! I felt so irritated & I totally shut myself off from him. Due to self-esteem problem, I decided not to hold him while on our way back with the boatman. It was rather scary as the boat was quite bumpy. Anyway, I made it throughout the journey. ;-P

Everyone slept early during the night! Poor Hubby & Chew were not able to drink that night.

The next morning, we departed to Kuala Terengganu. It was about 1.5 hours journey. We had a short visit to Crystal Mosque as the weather was super hot. Nothing fancy but we think it should look much more beautiful at night.
Then we went to this Perkampungan Keropok Lekor at Lesong (Fish Sausages Village). It a village where you could see many stalls selling this Fish Sausage. Surprisingly, all the stalls are full with customers. Liang Hock told us that the local Chinese named it as "Kao Sai" (dog shit). Er....... actually it looks quite like it. :-) We bought a frozen pack home to try.
Then we went to their local market. They eat turtle eggs. Isn't it cruel?
This is the boiled one.And this is the raw one. Oh disgusting! I better leave the stall!

We went to a local restaurant for lunch. Liang Hock's cousin ordered so much food for us. As it is the squib season now, we definitely can't resist this grilled squib!Their Rojak Ayam. Something special & it tastes good.
He got stung by the sea mites while snorkeling. I had few on my legs but it weren't a serious one.

Overall, the trip was a good one. We both had a mild sunburn.

The Keukenhof Garden

Apr 5, 2008

My so-called sister, Liza Loh just came from her Western Europe trip. She showed me her lovely photos & I immediately fall in love with the flowers in The Keukenhof Garden. The flowers, especially the tulips are beautiful. Believe it or not, just scroll through the pictures & you will fall in love as well.

Apart from the beautiful pictures, she has bought me a lovely present for my wedding. Yes, it is a a Swarovski pendant. The picture taken was not very cleared. I will take a better shot soon. Anyway, thanks for this lovely pressie from a lovely woman. I will definitely love to travel to this lovely garden one fine day. :-)

Valentine's Day

Feb 15, 2008

Since we didn't celebrate Valentine's Day due to the prayer, we have postponed it to today. So how was our celebration? Though it was a normal celebration, we enjoyed it.

We went to Green World Cafe for our brunch. As usual, we ordered the 2 thumbs up Dry Mien Fen Kao. It is extremely delicious. Then we headed for shopping. Actually the aim is to pick the wedding band for Hubby B. Too bad, we couldn't get the design that we want.
After a tiring day, we pampered ourselves with Thai Foot Reflexology & Traditional Thai Herbal Massage at Scents & Senses at Melaka Raya. Again, we had spent an enjoyable & relaxing 2 hours there.
What have I gotten from Hubby B? One piece each of Nike & Adidas T-shirt. I fell in love the first time I saw this Nike T @ their concept store. However, I gave it up due to the price. Who knows my lovely pig has surprised me with this gift. Thanks BB.
Happy Valentine's Day!

Shanghai 17-18 Jan, 08

Feb 5, 2008

We arrived at Shanghai Train Station at 3:20pm.

We decided to check in to the same hotel with the other group of my colleagues. It is a budget hotel (RMB 150 per night) but it is definitely clean. Again, 3 of us bumped into a room.

Before leaving to Chen Huang Miao, we had a mug of mee first. I have addicted to it during my entire trip in China.We waited quite long for the other colleagues as we took 2 taxi to the destination. While waiting for them, we went into McD to enjoy a cup of hot Grapefruit tea. Then my the other colleagues reached & guess what? They jogged from the hotel to Chen Huang Miao. There weren't any taxi after we left. How could it be possible? The weather was so cold.

Chen Huang Miao looks much beautiful at night. But the sad thing is the shops close at 9pm. :(
We had our Xiao Long Pao at this famous restaurant. This restaurant is divided into 3 floors. The highest floor is selling the best dumplings with the prawn fillings. Too bad that we didn't have the chance to try it as all dumplings are finished for the day.
You gotta purchase the coupon first before the food is served. We went to the 2nd floor which the dumplings are with crab meat fillings. Wanna have a bite of the dumpling? It is very juicy.Our so called 'Papa' also ordered a bowl of egg soup for us.

We then proceeded to the Tang Yuan shop. I had it during our tour here & I wanna eat it again because it is super delicious.
Can't resist it, right? Haha...

Besides as a tourist shopping area, Cheng Huang Miao is actually a temple. This is the temple outlook.
We thought the distance from Cheng Huang Miao is near to The Bund, so we decided to walk there. We lost our way & it took us about 40 minutes to reached there. We were unlucky. The counter has closed. So we ended up following the local taking a RMB 1 ferry to tour The Bund. It was fun. Overall, this trip was pretty fun. I spent about RM 1800 for the whole trip. I don't really like Shanghai as it is too commercialized already. The traffic was terrible as well. If given a chance, I would prefer to travel back to Suzhou.