Day Trip to Tanjung Tualang, Perak

The very last week of Year 2009......

We took a whole week leave from work and planned a backpack travelling together with my mum...

We planned a day trip to try out the seafood in Tanjung Tualang, Perak, recommanded by Axian previously... it is so called one of the best seafood nearby....

With our GPS ready, we drove down from Penang......

Reached Tanjung Tualang finally, just right for a big deal of seafood lunch!!!

This is the seafood restaurant Axian talked about in his TV programme --> "新美芳".. :)

We went inside quickly, after seeing a speedy increasing customers finding their tables..

Quite cooling with the air-con room space addition with ceiling fans... quite comfortable...

The photos of popular VVIPs and pop stars that visited this seafood restaurant...

Looks like their seafood must be super delicious..!!

So we quickly ordered the 'chef recommanded' seafood here, the 'big head prawns' or so called '大头虾'; 2 types, fresh steamed style and fried with spices and dried chilies.. And we also ordered soy steamed 'Pak Sok Kong'..

Chinese tea came first and after ~25mins, our long waited prawns came with freshly cooked rice.... yum yummm......

This is our steamed big head prawns... very beautiful and fresh looking, with very pleasant smell...

A closerrr look at the steamed prawns.... added with aromatic Chinese Rice Wine...

Ohhh... I can finish one bowl of rice with just this... :p

This is the fried prawns with spices and dried chilies... The meat inside already absorbed the spices fully... scrumptious & lip-smacking!!!!!

Steamed 'Pak Sok Kong' truly fresh, the meat is super tender and smooth...

We finished the whole fish in no time.... simply finger licking good!!!!

An awfully satisfied big seafood lunch indeed :D

We then continue our journey to Cameron Highlands with a happy stomach full of seafood.....yeah!!

冬至快乐！！！

Today is the Lunar calendar '冬至', layman term..today is Chinese un-official New Year :)

So I decided to make myself the '汤圆' (Tang Yuan), which is a Chinese delicacy that is a must to eat today...

When I am little that time, grandma said you can eat the Tang Yuan amount to your age, so if you are 10 years old, you eat 10 Tang Yuan...and after you finish your Tang Yuan, you will grow up one year wiser and the adults will be older by one year...

Miss those good times dearly.....

So... this is the Tang Yuan I made and cook myself... already boiling and about to be ready to eat :)

This is with Honey Lemon flavour..

This is my 2nd bowl, cooks with red dates :) yumm yummm....

Tadahhh!!!!! My homemade Tang Yuan 2009 with chocolate inside the Tang Yuan!!! Hehehee.... becoz I love chocolate so much....

I also saved some Tang Yuan in the fridge for my mum going to visit me in 2 days time... :p

Please Respect Your Food!

You know.... we are one group of very blessed people in Malaysia.. although myself included, there are many policies and rules here that we are very not satisfied about, that we complaint so much... but I have to say that we are as well despite those negative stuffs, too blessed to have a proper job, to have enough money to spend every month, to have a decent house to live in, to have some entertainments and some high class people to travel round the world each year....

Malaysia also has abundant of foods for its citizens.... although not as much varieties as US... we have more than enough food to supply for our own people, at reasonable price.. for instance, with Rm15 we can have a good meal at KFC with 3 pieces of chicken meat, mash potatoes and Coke, some kopitiams economy rice is just Rm5, 1 bottle of milk is RM4-5 etc....

However, I find that middle class and above Malaysians mostly don't appreciate what we have and they are very, very wasteful, especially on foods. I don't know why.. maybe our foods are too cheap? or they are in so huge a portion that they really cannot finish it that have to leave a portion behind to be thrown?! Why not take away?

Many of them, love to go for buffets and all-you-can-eat restaurants where they take damn alot of foods that most likely most of them can't finish at all!! Just becoz it is all-you-can-eat doesn't mean that you can take too much and just leave behind to be thrown away by the waitress??!!

Damn lucky am I that I have good parents that teach me since I am little to value our food and not allowed to waste our foods... even I can't finish my food outside, I 'tabao' back home and make sure I finish it later....but I find that nowadays, children are more and more wasteful as many parents don't teach their kids to appreciate food (becoz they themselves are wasteful sluts!!!!)... Shameful!!!!

This is really disgraceful for not respecting our food and be thankful for what we have every meal!!!

Pls think twice before you waste your food again becoz there are so many people out there that starved to death becoz they can't get any food!!!

If you are in the blessed group with food, do respect your food or if you believe in Karma, your next life might just end up somewhere with no food that you need to starve!!!

If you have too much delicious food everyday waiting to feed you that you forgot what is the meaning of food, pls just take a moment to watch the below video on what is now happening live in the Phillipines... And pls start to respect your food and be grateful.

View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

Always, always remind ourselves to be thankful, and don't be wasteful anymore....

Christmas Decor 2008 @Austin, Texas vs 2009 @Orchard Road, Singapore

Yah...Christmas is just around the corner...

Opss... time really flies.... is Year End again.........!!!!

2008 Christmas and Year End in the States is still so vivid in my mind, just like yesterday...but it just striked me that is already one year ago.........

Christmas in the States is really beautiful, really amazing..

Let me share some photos here from US Christmas 2008....

Christmas Shinning Stars.... they make you smile :)

Baby Jesus Christ born at the holy stable...with Virgin Mary and Father Joseph..

Me @Trails of Light at Zilker Park in Austin... for Christmas...

Remarkable, isn't it?

I posted a letter to Santa at North Pole...telling him my secret wish.....and that I am a good girl..hope for my wish to come true...

When South Park meets Snow White & the seven dwarfs.......

Sweet sweet candy houses... :)

Wowww.... so many lights... so, so wonderful.... This is the Christmas spirits...full of Christmas air, Christmas environment, Christmas laughters, Christmas Lights, Christmas Wishes......

Winnie the Pooh is coming along to celebrate Christmas together in the chilling winter night......

A very, very memorable Christmas 2008 that I missed so much... :)

Christmas 2009, it nearly slipped my mind...... -___-'''

Not to mention working round the clock... is so rare seeing even a decent christmas tree here in Malaysia... not a Christmas song, no Christmas decor (only some old bells that you won't even think of Christmas), din't see a Santa...... never realize Christmas is just so close...

That weekend, we went to Singapore for a short trip....As far I know, Singapore has one of the best Christmas Decor in South East Asia region..

Getting into Orchard Road is already beautifully decorated..

This is Orchard Road.... ohhh... I finally got some 'feel' of Christmas...

Wowww.... no wonder Orchard Road is sucha popular place for Christmas...

Hey..! Rudolph!!!

~ Rudolph the red nose reindeer, Has a very shinning nose....~

Everyone carrying bags full of presents for Christmas @Luis Vuitton shops...

Enchanting Christmas Lights.....with Christmas songs in the air... Wonder why we don't have this spirit in Malaysia though....

Nicely decorated tree... Like it so much..

Ohhh.... At last I see a very decent Christmas Tree.... beautifully decorated with angel wings...sending messages of Hope.....

This is the Christmas feel that I try to find... lacking in Malaysia...

Gorgeously decorated at Takashimaya Orchard Road..

Chocolate Golden Luxurios Christmas Tree...Truly amazing.... I fall in love with it..!!!

OOhhhhh... Old Chang Kee!!! My favourite everytime I visit Singapore...never fail to satisfy my taste bud :)

So, What is your wish this Festive Season 2009?

Merry Christmas in advance, and A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

Shamu,The Killer Whale @The Sea World, San Antonio

Actually I wanna blog about this for quite some time already... for some reasons I haven't fully do a blog post for this...

We went to The Sea World in San Antonio, and Shamu is 'The Star of The Sea World'..
Who is Shamu? You might ask..... Shamu is the extremely precious Killer Whale originate from the deep blue sea...

Shamu has a story, a deeply touching story to urge the world to keep the environment green, to save the sea.....to save the beautiful whales from extinction...

"Hello... I am Shamu.. Welcome to The Sea World!!! :) "

Killer Whale is very rare nowadays, directly or indirectly due to pollution coz by us, human being... sad to say so...

The Sea World trainer is pampering Shamu and kissing her before their performances... :)



Shamu heading the trainer steadily dancing to the music..


The trainer holding onto Shamu while Shamu is circling on the water with the music ...


Woww!!!! Shamu can fly!!!!!!

Steadily Shamu is tipping the trainer standing on her lips.. !! They did it!!!

We can see the close relationship between Shamu and her trainer as they hug each other adorably.... feel so touch...especially when you see how close human beings and animals can actually be... just so pure...so caring...so loving..

Trainer: 'Shamu, wait... I'll get you your favourite fish yaaa... '

Trainer: 'Shamu, come..open up your mouth... this is your fish.. :) nice? '

Shamu and friend going to perform together ...

Two Killer Whales swiftfully bring their trainers round the big pool, while their trainers hold on to them and perform beautiful acrobatic moves..

The trainer is riding on Shamu's body while Shamu rapidly swims in big circle, not forgetting to splash some water onto us!!!

Shamu landed, holding up her tail and opening her mouth, greeting all the audiences, welcoming them to The Sea World..

Shamu waving with her tail happily after her fish snacks...

A last goodbye from Shamu... I love you, Shamu!!! Hope to see you again someday....!

Shamu is really adorable...so sweet, so beautiful, so precious, yet their habitats and lifes are greatly endangered by us, human being for civilization and development..

I think each and everyone of us owe Shamu a sincere apology for hurting them deeply because of our own selfishness, and we owe Shamu the responsibility to save them from extinction..

Through Shamu, she sends a us a friendly reminder that the world is shared and belonged to all the livings; we need to remind ourselves that we don't own the world, and we have no rights at all to destroy other livings' habitats and to take for granted on what is given to us by mother earth......

Mom vs Dad...

Watched this from YouTube ... So Funny...yet so true...
And a proof that Moms from all over the world as the same.... :D:D



Of course... after we have Mom's version, we have Dad's version too ^_^

Enjoy.....




It is what it is...... ;p

Size does matter!!!

So what are you thinking about?!

I am talking about food okay...... ;p

For the same money we are paying for the food in US vs Malaysia... the meal size is a huge gap!

I am talking about 1 to 1 currency conversion...for example, you are earning RM3k in Malaysia and you spend RM10 for meal vs you are earning USD3k in US and spend USD10 for the same meal.....the plate you will get in Malaysia might be big, but the food portion is small, just some pieces of chicken meat maybe... but for US meal, the food portion you are getting is damn huge, so generous that it is more than enough for 2 persons' dinner...

See this... Popcorns!!!!

Most youngsters love popcorns... and popcorns are a must for couples going for a movie...

But back in Malaysia, I seldom buy popcorns...

Why? 1st, it doesn't taste really good and not crispy enough, toooooo expensive for sucha small box costing around 15bucks or more...

Nahhhhh!!!! See this???!!!! This is US popcorns!!! For few bucks, this is what you get...eat till you drop!!!! This popcorn size is 5 times the size you get in Malaysia.....

Not only that..... look carefully at the popcorn.... each and every popcorn is a full whole rounded big kernel; very crispy, juicy, buttery sweet and you will get addicted!!!

US popcorn is definitely the best I have tried... !!!

Nahh.... look closerrrr.......

Frankly I haven't seen Malaysia selling big perfect rounded juicy crispy popcorn before...
Even if there is... I doubt it would be in a reasonable price range and would not be in a generous portion...

Malaysia popcorn industry really has to improve their food quality and we need to improve our value to money...

About other food......

Even Chinatown in US, the Chinese restaurants are offering very generous food size...

This is a plate of combo for 2 persons for 10bucks in the States....

Back in Malaysia... this is probably the food size for 6-8 persons... and definitely be >30bucks...

See the big and thick pieces of pork meat...

Malaysia style... you will just a paper thin piece of small pork meat which cost you the same bucks.. That pice of meat you see in the pic, Malaysia hawkers and butchers can slice it into 4 thin pieces and sell them as 4 pieces.... -___-'''

Let's talk about appetizers...

It is very common in the States that their salad appertizers are free flow... eat all you can.. not to mention the huge portion of fresh salad that they serve.....

hey.. if you can finish this salad appetizer, you can ask for replenishment... and I can assure you, the salad is really good!!

I did also took this pic of a special appetizer @Pappadeaux... fried alligator's meat...

You can just see the portion of just appetizer, so generously big..

Malaysia's appetizer? Nahh.. not even interested to order any...

This is Bone Daddy's, typical ever famousTexas BBQ Steak Bar..

Alot of customers... Alot of happy and satisfied customers.... Why??

Not to mention that all the food are super delicious and you will crave for it, the portion is gigantic... I ordered roasted chicken... and I got this... *___*

The whole chicken....

Guess what you get in Malaysia for the same order.... ??
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One drumstick...