Trip to Cameron Highlands

We went for a 2D1N trip to Cameron Highlands last week. It was quite last minute as Hubby didn't know that last Monday was a holiday (National Day), until his colleague told him. Luckily we manage to book a hotel 2 days before the trip. We searched online for some information about places of interest and "must-eat" food in Cameron before we went. The most important is to get the map downloaded to Hubby's GPS. We left home on Saturday 6:30am in the morning. Samuel was still sleeping when I put him into the car. He woke up around 9am, but he still look sleepy...

The winding road to Cameron really made me sick. I felt like throwing out but there was nothing for me to throw out, as we didn't have breakfast. We reached Brinchang Town around 10am. We went to the hotel first to check in, but we could not check in until 1pm. So we went for breakfast at KFC. haha... cos we thought that was the fastest as we were starving. Samuel was really excited when we put him onto the baby chair at KFC... he was staring out to the window and making all kind of sound.

We stayed in Bala's Holiday Chalet, as it's super peak season, the room rate is RM300 per night. The room was ok, but we had to climb up lots of stair case in order to come to the room, it was really tiring... However we like the environment, quiet and peaceful. When I first went into the room, I found no air-con and the room was quite stuffy at first. We didn't want to open the window as there's no mosquito net. I was scared that bugs would fly into our room at night. But we did open the window and sleep that night, no bug came in and it was super cold!

We went to the local market on the first day. The vegetables, strawberry and flowers were so cheap over there. We just bought some strawberry on the first day (2 big packet for RM10 and get 1 small packet for free). We came back here again the next day to get some vegetables and roses before went home. I bought more than 13 packs of vege (11 types) for RM20 and Hubby bought some roses for me, I didn't count how many of them, but I heard the florist colling our," 100 for RM20".... Hubby said he didn't want to get 100 for me as there was no more place in the car... what a lousy excuse!

We visited the Boh Tea Plantation on the second day. The view was really magnificent. We sat at the tea house, had a cup of tea and an apple pie. Hubby had a cup of Jasmine Boh Tea and I had the Passion Fruit Orange flavoured Boh tea. Looking at the green green scenery, with a cup of warm tea in your hands and feeling the cold breeze at the same time... oooo.... it was so relaxing...

Before we went for dinner, we went to this cafe, Strawberry Moment for some strawberry treat. The cafe was highly recommended by Hubby's colleague. We simply ordered a few to try and there were all very delicious!! The strawberries were really fresh and sweet!

 We had steam boat for dinner! RM16 per person, including drinks, quite cheap. It was really cold when we were having our dinner as it was raining. So it was quite comforting having steamboat when the weather is cold... :)

We checked out around 9am the next morning. We went to the market to get some vege, went for breakfast, then we headed back home around 12 noon and reached home around 5:30pm. We had "char kueh teaw" for dinner. We were tired, so did Samuel... but it was sure a great weekend... :)

Draron-i Restaurant

Restaurant Name: Dragon-i , 笼的传人

Serving: Ramen (拉面) and other great Chinese food

Location: Quessnbay Mall, Penang

Date: 16 Aug 2009

People: Hubby, Samuel, Christabel and me

Remark: The food that we ordered was REAAAAAAAALY GOOOOOOOOD! Plan to go there again this coming weekend... Still a lot of different types of ramen that we haven't try... :)

Nice weekend with my youngest sister

My youngest sister, Christabel accompanied me back to Kedah after my 1 month vacation back home in Kuching. I was so grateful to her, as she helped a lot during the flight back... washing the milk bottle for me, carried Samuel for me when I wanted to go to the toilet, carried the diaper bag for me...
She only stayed for 3 days and went back on 17 Aug. We brought her to Sakae Teppanyaki for lunch...

 and also went shopping at Jusco.

Christabel looked tired and her face was quite pale when we reached home that day. I measured her temperature, she had mild fever. Hubby then brought her to see doctor without delay. Luckily it's only normal flu. Maybe she got not enough sleep and rest. She had sore throut too. My poor little sister got sick... So, on the second day, we stayed at home in the morning as we wanted her to get more sleep, but this was what she did for the whole morning...Yea! Playing PS3 with her mask on... (-_-)"

When she got better in the evening and she said she wanted to eat at the Toilet Bowl Restaurant that we went last time. So, we brought her there for dinner.

"Yao, get well soon. Sis is looking forward for your next visit. Miss you..."

Cousins

Little Samuel (7 months old) and his little cousin, Joshua (4 months old)...

Me and my sister... with our little ones... :)
Do we look alike?

Back in Kulim

After 1 month of holiday back home in Kuching, Samuel and I came back to Kulim last night. I brought my younger sister, Christabel along, as I had too many stuff to bring over, she could help me carry some... :)

Samuel and I went back to Kuching last month on 11th as Hubby was suppose to go to China for business trip last month, but his trip was cancelled last minute. Since we already bought the air ticket, we had no choice but leaving Hubby behind in Kulim.

I had fun back home, but also had sad thing happen. The fun part was I got to meet up with my ex-colleagues last time in 1st Silicon and had lunch with them. I was so happy to see them and enjoy chatting with them. And I got to celebrate my mom's birthday for her. It had been ages since I last celebrated her birthday together with her. The sad part was, Samuel fell sick when we were back home. The weather in Kuching was super hot! No rain for more than 1 month! A lot of people got sick. Samuel had fever (up to 38.9 celsius), due to flu. After 3 days, he got no more fever, but got diarrhea, it's due to the antibiotics. After 2 days, no more diarrhea, he got coughing! *sign*... My poor little Samuel lost quite a lot of weight in that week, as he lost his appetite when he was sick.

Luckily he is all fine now. I pray that my little Samuel will grow up fast fast, to be stronger and cuter... :)

Dinning at Toilet Bowl Restaurant

We had our dinner at Queensbay Mall, Penang last Sunday. We noticed this cute little retaurant quite some time ago but didn't manage to try out until that day, it's called Toilet Bowl. It's a concept restaurant (主题餐厅).

Little Samuel was happy and excited sitting on the baby chair.

Suddenly I saw this expression on Samuel's face and I heard,"eerrr... errr..."

haha... You're right! Samuel got poo poo la.... And he always make his mouth like that when he is "pushing out" the poo poo... so funny. I left Hubby at the restaurant and brought Samuel to the baby room to clean him up. When we returned, all the food was out already!

Lastly, we had banan split in bath tub for dessert.

Oooo... it was a great weekend!

Durian durian, I love you!

We went to Balik Pulau for durian again last Sunday. This time, Ang, Hubby's colleague brought us to his another class mate's house for durian, not the durian orchard that we went last time. As we reached the house, there was already a group of people in the living room, having durian... Before we went to have the yummy durian, Ang brought us to the back of the house, to walk walk around the house, for some sight seeing.

After the adventurous walk behind the house, we went back to the kitchen. There we saw an aunty was cooking durian cake. To make the durian cake, they need durian flesh and a little bit of sugar. Then cook it on low heat, for 6 long hours, and must stir it so that it will not burn. This is how the durian cake look like after 4 hours of cooking. The color will turn even more brownish once cooked.

We also saw this pot of myristica fragrans (豆蔻) cooking. We had a glass of this, with ice and it was really nice and refreshing.

Finally, it's time to have the durian. Unfortunately, ang heh was out of stock. I could see that Hubby was a bit sad. But we had some other kind of durians and they were good too.

Besides eating there, we also bought 3 durians back and finished them the next day. haha... They're really nice!! Now I am worry about my weight. It's time to work out after all these yummy durians!