Celebrate Christmas at Singapore...

First trip to our neighbour country and it was Christmas!
Last trip of 2009.

Christmas trees and lighting decors all around S'pore

Tour members

Eating here and there

Post-graduation (IV) 之 Taiping - Kampar Trip

20/8 - 22/8/2009

A bunch of 14 fresh graduates drove hundreds of kilometres, around 4 hours from KL to Taiping for a little break away, hehe~

Although there're not many attractions in Taiping, but anywhere's the same... the most important aspect is the companions you have. Agree?

I guess the pictures below will summarize the whole trip ^_^

@ Taman Tasik Taiping

from here, we walked walked walked, passed by a few more gardens until to the ZOO!

(Awwww~~ I'm the shortest!!! How could this happened??!!)

Dive into...??? =p

(Below was just the lower level ground only, haha~)

Deep in thoughts...

Overlooking at the water lilies pond a.k.a 'Pregnancy Pond'. There's a legend about this pond, once there was a lady who's desperate to have a child of her own, drank the water from this pond and SHE GOT PREGNANT AFTER THAT!

Believe it or not? Up to you lor..

So, you think the fellas above were thinking what?? =p

Final destination point of our walking session:

Zoo Taiping & Night Safari

(We just posed at the sign board only, didn't enter the zoo, oo-hohohoho~)


Next destination: Bukit Merah Laketown Waterpark

Wet Bubble, claimed to be the 1st in Asia... or South East Asia?? (forgot)


The lifeguard who took our pic insisted us to pose in front of the wet bubble -.-lll


Yummy-licious roasted duck and sesame marinated pork (char siew)!!


Taiping local biscuits

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NEXT DESTINATION: KAMPAR

As my coursemates were driving back to KL, so they dropped me at Kampar, hehehe~ Then since reached Kampar lor, of course went to eat Kampar famous Chicken Bread!!!

Curry chicken flavor chicken bread

Herb flavor chicken bread

You can see how excited they were!

Hand as fast as lightning!

Dessert: Freshly baked (still steaming when served) egg tarts

Immediate drowsiness effect after stomach fully treated, haha~

Kampar Chicken Bread @ dot dot dot Restaurant

Huggies to trip members for giving me another memorable trip experiences!

PS: My house hasn't been 'BOMBED' by so many visitors for so long ady, hahaha~ My dad and brother were a bit frightened by the numbers that packed up the living room, =p

Post-graduation (II) 之 Genting Trip

Genting Trip <17/8-18/8/2009>

At first this trip was supposed to be a family trip after my graduation. However, it ended up with just my sis, younger bro and me going. The reason was my dad didn't want to take leave off work for so many days (my sis only managed to book First World hotel room for Monday night). My dad has to take 3 days leave in order to go and my youngest bro need to skip 2 days classes and my cousin has to skip 2 days school... MAH FAN-nya! SOOOO, in the end, we tiga orang pergi lor...

3 PERSONS, 2 ROOMS!!! ^_^ oh-hohohoho~

Black pepper drumstick set from Cold Storage.

We waited at the hotel lobby from 2 something to 6pm only could checked in, about 300 numbers!!! Too hungry during the wait, beh tahan stomach growling so ate at the lobby, haha~ The aunties and uncles around us STARED & LAUGHED at us, so PAISEH nia!

Moved to Starbucks to wait for checking in.

CHEEZELS TIME~~!

K-dinner at BE A STAR

Post-breakfast: Mister Potato & 'wooi fan shu' (my sis's favourite, hoho~)

Before leaving, caterpillar monorail ride. Bro nearly got stucked at the window rail and while trying to climb over to another compartment! hahahaha~

Chilling out in sunny days

Since May, people around me, people I know had been flying to Bali for vacation. And thanks so much to Mr.Chew that I had the opportunity to chill out at this famous spot of vacation last month. It was a short but wonderful one.

Where I went / What I did:

Day 1

Kuta/ Legian street - There are lots of stuffs up for grab from crafts to clothes to sandals to surfing's accessories. Not to forget a whole variety of restaurants and bars, serving western food, chinese food, japanese food and of course balinese food to choose when your stomach cries for hunger. Exploration began after a short rest upon checking into out hotel, Vilarisi Hotel.

walk walk walk ~ shop shop shop ~ walk walk walk ~ shop shop shop (hehehe)

We had our first dinner at a restaurant named 'B couple Bar & Grill'. The food was nice but the portion was so big than we couldn't finish up our food. Sorry for wasting (guilty).

Day 2 (arranged by 1-day tour guide)

~ Barong & Kris Dance (the dance's choreographed based on a story)

~ Nusa Dua beach, famous spot for water sport activities such as diving, parasailing, flying fish, jet ski, banana boat etc. We went for glass bottom boat ride, turtle island and flying fish.

~ Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park

~ Uluwatu Temple (built hundreds of metres above the cliff). Beware of monkeys loitering around, eyeing on the tourists' food, glasses and hats!

~ Jimbaran beach for sunset view and romantic dinner

Day 3

Joined Happy Bike Cycling Tour for a ~2.5hours cyling expedition around Ubud. Along the way, we stopped to visit:

~ Breakfast at a restaurant overlooking the active volcano, Mount Batur (It was such a breathtaking view!)

~ Coffee plantation (Specialty: Luwak coffee which costs Ru600k for 100g coffee beans!)

~ Short walk at paddy field

~ Balinese village temple

~ Traditional Balinese home (where we had a Balinese lunch)

Along the cycling, children came running out to say 'Hello' or stretching out their hands- 'Give me 5!' They were so lovely and friendly.

At night, continued walking and shopping around Kuta/ Legian street. We got to visit the Bomb Memorial of 2002 bombing incident.

Day 4

An extremely early morning stroll at Kuta beach, enjoying the ocean view, waves splashing onto the shore, watching people jogging and surfing.

Back to hotel and packed up.

Bye-bye Bali!

There are still alot of places I didn't managed to visit. I will be back! ^_^

Vacation at Taiwan (Day 6 & 7)

Day 6

Another wonderful meal after the Five-dime meal the night before at King Ping Tea Restaurant.

'Xiao Loong Bao' and other dim sum we had

Sour-spicy soup (yuM-Yum)

'Mei Ling Song Gao'

The 'Princess House'

The King of Mao shaking hand with our Tun Dr. Mahathir

Products by the aboriginals - Royal Jelly

阿兵哥 demonstrating marching skills

People serious at the back, we main-main at the front, lols

Wondering if he knew I was behind~

National Palace Museum

(It has so many pieces of antiques and artifacts that they are to be displayed according to seasons)

Taipei 101

We walked 2 streets away from the Taipei 101 to get to this place just for the photo-shooting

Snacks & food found at Shih Lin Night Market

大饼包小饼

七里香 (guess what is it?)

Taiwan's original pearl milk tea

(There's only one taste, not like those in M'sia - peppermint, apple, jasmine etc.)

Ah Zong Mee Suah since 1975

All the people just stood by the stall and eat the mee~

The last night after all the Shih Lin Night Market food, of course it was the chance to SHOP! We spent our money to the last dollar in Xi Men Ding and Wu Fen Pu, hehe~

Day 7

We woke up at 4 something as our flight back to KL was scheduled in early morning. We had our breakfast in the bus on the way to airport, listened to the final words from our Taiwan guide, Judy. She's such a great tour guide!

After all the checking-in procedures, a brief farewell to Judy, off we went to check-in, waiting for our flight to take off. Bye-bye Taiwan!

出国走走，

把钱花光,

为国争光

(Judy, 2009)

Shots throughout the trip

The magnificent colourful ceiling found at one of the MRT station~

Betel nuts shops were found almost everywhere in Taiwan

(Of course there're stories about the betel nuts girls~)

The eight of us with our tour guides, Judy and Cindy (those 2 beside me)

The only group photo~ The uncles and aunties were very nice!

Salted-egg superman! Haha~

Chocolates given by one of the kind uncle ^_^