Trekking day 4

As usual, woke up a few times during the night. Slept without brushing my teeth cos I Ter slept. Even left the light on.

Morning bfast, eggs + potatoes + Tibetan bread.

Started to trek downwards. Reached a stop. With a mini ferris wheel at 11am.

Stopped at 1150am for lunchhh. Having curry chicken, mixed fried rice and tomato soup. The owner worked in Malaysia before, and wanted to match make CHC and me with Nepalese.

We reached chhomrong around 3+pm. Not bad I think today.

All showered, washed clothes and waiting for dinner. And it's only 3:42pm

We learned how to play an Indian card game.

Dinner we ordered curry chicken, two dhal baat for sharing. Spoke to a few Nepalese in Malay.

Read a few chapters before I sleep.

Pokhara Day 3

Ultralight,  woke up early in the morning around 515am. Waited outside for the car since 530am, the driver reached only around 6+am. Met another Malaysia group from PG. We talked, exchanged contact.
I was supposed to go first, got into the vehicle, but left after idling for 10-15m. The airport was closed so we could not fly. After that the PG ppl went first. I had to wait for 30mins extra.

The Ultralight was definitely an experience, flying without a wall/border between you and the air..  The view, can see the mountains, flying above the cloud, diving into the clouds, just fun. Not very exciting but enjoyable!

After that, I dropped postcards for Jen and gloria, walked back to hostel, rested a bit and head back to shop for more books.

Bought Stephen hacking, Dale Carnegie, zero to one and option B. Later will buy rework and one more book.

Lunch we had Tibetan food, with tungba (millet drink, taste bad at the beginning but gets better). We had Tibetan pie, which I think is the best of all. The rest were soup momo and rice noodle soup.

After lunch we walked, we shopped for books before heading to Kfc to meet Santu.

After that we walked along the lakeside, then had dinner at a Korean shop.

Came back, and then packed for the trip to bhaktapur. Met a chilean and a Chinese. 

Trekking day 3

Woke up at 405am. In between I woke up at 12, 2 and 3am.

Ate nestum and dressed up for hiking. The hike was bearable but perhaps due to the altitude, we need to catch a lot of oxygen. I can walk faster but decided to slow down so I won't faint or feel exhausted.

Once we were at the top,  the view is amazing. You can see the snow mountains! As it was a special occasion, we were served free drink and biscuit, with a t shirt as well.

Now waiting for Bfast. 

Bfast was awesome! Got Tibet bread, egg and potato. After makan, start hiking. Halfway, can see the mountains. Beautiful view.

We started 9+, reached lunch area around 1pm. Today's hike. Was much easier compared to yesterday. Downhill. Most of the time. But having said that, downhill is bad for knee. So I tried to walk backwards,sideways, crouching...

I ordered Tibetan bread with omelette tomato. The bread doesn't taste as good as the morning one. Anyway I think we rested for an hour here. I even napped.

After that we begin our second leg of the day. We reached the guest house at Tadapani before 4pm. As we about to reach, the rain started pouring on us. Lol

I have a room to myself again. But this time it is a single bedroom. Took a cold shower. Tonight is going to be colder than yesterday. Maybe cos it rained.

Dinner we had dhal baat. Watched anaconda 2, at least there was kind of entertainment. Wonder who is the girl.

Tomorrow will head to chomrrong

Trekking day 2

Tikkedhunga. This is the place of the first night we slept in. In the morning we had egg, grilled potatoes, onions and tomatoes with toast bread. Simple and tasty.

Packed up, and head to ulleri. We trek for about 2hrs, rest 10mins or so before trekking again for another 1hr. In between we managed to catch the sight of a snow mountain. White and beautiful.

For lunch, I took momo, simple and filling enough. There were many groups who rested here including a Japanese female group that is suspect is probably a softball team. I bought an orange hoping it was juicy but it was dry.  :(

We commence our journey again. Another 3hrs. At one point I finally bought a coke for Npr200 which is about RM9. Tasty!!

We finally reached ghorepani about 4pm . took some photos at the entrance. Krishna pointed out where we need to go tomorrow morning. For the sunrise. Looks daunting. Anyway, the room is cozy! I showered, did some washing and now waiting for dinner.

Updated:
Dinner was awesome. Sizzling chicken, fries and vege. Hung my washed clothes next to the heater to dry.

Pokhara day 2

Bfast was banana pancake. Spoke to some of the hostel mates.

Booked myself for ultra flight for USD99 for 15mins

Took a boat to world peace pagoda. Had to help the boatmen row.

Was one hour hike up, met some old Chinese ladies and chatted with them for a bit.

Stupa was built in relation to a goal by a  Japanese Buddhist who wants to spread Japanese Buddhist back to India.

Shared a taxi back to lakeside with 2 other girls. Npr200 per pax.

Sent postcards, now having lunch at sharmila restaurant. Decent price. Not bad the food. Had thukpa, dhal baat and pokada

Tried local everest beer. Not bad. 650ml for 300, ie rm12.

Stumbled into this book shop. Sells really reasonable books. Finally Bought my sapiens book.

Walked a bit more, stumbled onto kfc. Met the sg and my ladies eating at a rooftop Nepalese restaurant.

We had Italian pizza and spaghetti for dinner. Didn't feel well after. Probably lack of water. Dehydrated. Drank Gorkha for dinner too. I prefer everest.

Walked back. New roommate from Israel. Showered and spoke to Dutch lady, shared my experience on trekking before I sleep

Trekking day 9

Woke up. Supposed to have corn bread but chc mistaken my corn bread for Tibetan bread. :l tried both, no diff.

Started to walk down before 8, met the other guys (Americans and Malaysians) halfway down the  road. Chatted with penny towards the end.

At the end, we took a Jeep from siwai to pokhara. Had lunch with Krishna, had pokada again.

Changed money and went back to hostel.  Rested a bit and head out again

Dinner took us 1hr to decide. Finally set on Korean dinner but the place looks odd and there were many customers whom have yet been served their food so we left. We ended up having  Chinese for dinner. So so.

Read another few chapters before sleeping.

Trekking day 1

We arrived at pokhara yesterday after about 2hours flight delay. The plane fits about 20pax and you can see the cockpit from your seat. There is only one seat on each side of the plane. The flight took about 30mins.

Upon arriving,  we met with Krishna at the arrival hall, which is just like a small hall. We dropped our bag which we do not want to carry for our hike, and head up. The car ride was at least an hour long. Along the way we saw various type of goats/yaks. People were buying them for their upcoming celebration.

We reached some hut, repacked our bags and started walking for 30mins.by this time, it is already around 330pm. We took our lunch, which is fried rice and started to trek. Took us about  2.5hrs to reach our hostel. The trek is not difficult but I was carrying my own bag,  which is quite heavy (9kg).  There were three dogs that we met along the way and they followed us for at least 30mins long.

I got my own room because there's only two beds per room. Had dhal baat for dinner, which is rice, soup, papadom, vege and vege. Taste better than the dhal baat we had near the boudanath temple.

After that I showered, brush my teeth (I forgot my toothbrush, bought one here for NPR25, which is about RM1+), wash my clothes and then slept.

Woke up middle of the night a few times. Too cold. First time I wore jacket and long pants. Second time I wore another layer of long pants AND gloves. Morning weather now feels fine.

There are two Nepalese here whom have worked in KL before. One in the container Depot and another idk where but around KL/SHAH Alam.

Kathmandu day2

Arrived yesterday late night with marlina and CHC. The airport is small. Funny thing was we had to go through security after immigration, before collecting our luggage, so basically they were checking our carry in luggages. I just wonder why because it is likely the departing airport would have done some checks on it already...

Anyway dil picked us up. The hotel is small but the room is spacious. Toilet is uncomfortable. Small and don't feel it is clean. We showered and rest for the night.

Morning we got up, changed money and head for Bfast. Had big breakfast. Cost USD3.5 ish.
After that we settle some admin stuff before heading to our local sightseeing. We decided to take a local driver to ease our travel. Visited monkey temple. The temples here all got a pillar in the middle with eyes drawn on each sides of the pillar.  According to CHC, not sure how true, it is basically the sign the God is watching out for the people, at all directions. I bought a singing bowl here.

Next is the durbar square. We didn't go in because 1) we were given only 30mins 2) it cost us 1000 rupees per pax. Head back to the car.

Then head to pasupati temple. It is a Hindu temple. At the side there is a river where they burn the dead. Then the ashes will be thrown into the river, which flows to India. We got a student guide here, which was expecting us to tip him 1k but we stuck with our 500rp. There are different places for diff classes. Normal ppl burn at one area where as rich another. Kings have their own, which is the closest to the temple.

There are yogi/hermit staying near the temple where they will take photo with your for a donation. They also will share teachings of the Hindu for those who seek them.

After temple, we head for lunch. Tried local staple food (which is quite similar to Indian food) and momo (dumpling). I m happy to order momo again but not the local food.

Visited bhadaunath Temple. There is some ceremony going on as the monks were chanting and there is a monk's picture in the center with tables full of offerings of food and drinks.

Head home. Count money, realised may not have enough money for the journey. Head out for dinner.  Had kebab. Head home.

Lack of postings

14/9
Spent the whole day (till 3pm+) shopping for gears for trekking. I ended up spending RM505 on a backpack, cap, water drinker, fodable bag, battery and long pants.

Had leftover fried rice for lunch.

Went and see doc, he gave me prescription to make my stuffed ear "flow out".

Chatted with Gloria for abit.

Cut my hair and contemplated to shave. Had sushi for dinner. Bought rations for the trip too.

Need to organise my time to:
1) do the report for DBKL
2) review the documents from Azlan

13/9
Watched Joey Yap's QMDJ videos (they are for free). He even provide you free chart http://qmatools.masteryacademy.com/Account/Login.aspx

Just register an account! It's free too. If you don't know how to read, feel free to ask me :D

Stayed up playing FM and watching the QMDJ until the game starts. Watched the first two goals, then fell asleep till post-game. Liverpool drew at home to Sevilla 2-2. Same story. Leaky defence. Klopp needs to work harder on it.

Suppose to run with Tse Yee but tak jadi. Dinner at Ding Tai Fung with kaufu, jj, hs
Finished playing Tomb Raider :)

Started doing some wrist exercise to strengthen it and quicken the recovery

12/9
Went to KL Jalan Alor with Bun Wai taking the MRT.

11/9
see doctor for my ear. he clean the sht out of it. But still stuffy

Took Bun Wai to sign the SPA, view the condo showroom and makan Goon Wah. Dinner we had order dishes at ss2 with Eng Seng and Eng Wah + Nicole.


10/9
Bought a wrist support band. pick up Bun Wai from airport. Had supper ming tien

9/9
HL's bachelor. Sprained my wrist playing dodgeball. Think the guys enjoyed playing the blindtest challenge. We had fries, bubble tea, beer, cheese tart, korean fried chicken, fried chicken and earphones.

Weeekeend activities

Saturday
Hiking with Jolene at Saga. Good stuff. Used my shoes again. It is good but reminder to self to try it with long socks next time around.

Lunch/brunch @ Huckleberry. Suppose to have b1f1 but according to cashier today is counted as PH also. wweird but I asked twice so thats how it is so nvm le. tried the vegetable burger. no next time for me. tried the croissant. okla only.

after dropping Jolene, head home, download my iZombie season 3 and binge watch it the whole day. Had McDs for dinner. :D


Sunday
Garden with Nick + friend. Managed to cut the fruit waste before dumping it onto the compost site. The compost that CS and KF did is working (can feel the heat). I did some bricks moving, weeding and plowing.

Badminton. First time playing with Su Ann in months! Nice to see her again after so long.

Lunch @ Tmn Megah/Mayang - siu yuk noodles. yummy!!

Came back and chill for a bit, before heading to Ah leng jiejie's for second round badminton. This time Ashley and Avril joined us as well. Time flies. I left around 6pm. We agreed to makan dinner at Centre point with kaufu at gerai.

Elise very cute. haha. not sure if i get what this means when i re read it next time. Hint: swimming pool + embarrassing moment when she gets older. Even Ah Mei + Ah Leng jiejie knows. I am surprised at how direct and forward she can be with it. hahaha

Gerai - ordered hainanese curry rice + chicken chop. I realised I dont really like their chicken. lol. I think it was enjoyable to have the company of cousins to dine together, since no one else is around. After that we had baskin robbins ( i didnt but the kids did) for dessert. Left earlier to meet up with Cady.

We went for KOPI to yumcha. Initially supposed to go for drinks but i changed my mind.

Came back home, showered then KO with the lights on.

now is 3am and I am wide awake lol.

Weeks

Tried omurice

Play genitals sticks

Merdeka day, Hari raya hol

Tried mango cheesecake ice cream cake

Playing badminton this weekend! Awesome!

Monday is a PH

Met up with MJ at Owls Cafe. Not bad the food there. Chat for. 2hrs.

Been binging iZombie

Played bowling. Lost to HL. GRRR

going hiking tmr with Jolene

Friday @ ccw

So today I went and clean up the compost bay I made yesterday. There were termites so I need to remove the pallet.

After that I head home to rest. I bought back nasi lemak with beef. Yums!

In the afternoon, I just slacked on my phone, watching videos online. I tested my study desk and it is not bad at all. Works just as I hoped. However, the chair is small for my liking. So I decided to head to Ikea to try on some cheaper chairs (not markus).

Parked at Ikea, shopped at Daiso and Tesco first. Bought a pot and pair of gloves. Then makan hot dog and curry puff. Wanted to get chatime but the Q is too long so I meh it.

Walk around the Ikea showrooms, sat on some chairs. Found one that I potentially may buy. Gonna sleep over it first.

Bought 4 plants, another two white hanging containers. Happy with my purchase as I think all are air purifying plants.

Came home and set them up. Two are at my study table, the rest are in my room. I need to get the tube hanging towel thing for the bathroom soon so I can hang shit there.

Ended the night playing games at Ccw. Played NBA playground and jack box. Tried Tricia's earl grey cake. YUUUUUM!very soft and can clearly taste the early greyness! We also tried the snacks and SA white wine. I like the taro chips. The others just normal nia.

Nasi Lemak burger, insurance and upgrade to room

Upgraded my room with a table, for writing, reading and planning my shit. I think it will be more effective than me doing some "work" like these at the study table.

Watched inconvenient truth 2 yesterday. Perhaps I can do more with my effort at the garden ++ ?

I tried Nasi Lemak burger just now. Seriously taste as good as nasi lemak. :D Love it but for the price, I will recommend you to try once and that's it.

I am also switching my insurance from Prudential to GE. :)

Badminton + movies

Played badminton yday.

Watched movie, the Quiet American. Not bad the movie. Finally made myself to watch it.

Started to watch star wars rebels again. Yay! Downloaded all the remaining episodes for season 3.

Been following my goal list. So far so good! Must continue working on it!

Day 6 & 7

Day 6
Morning - the original plan was to head to the Shiziwan area + Cijin, but the hot weather made me feel like heading to Carrefour and Ikea. I wanted to check out Ikea morning breakfast but by the time I reached I think their breakfast was over as they closed the counter (i assumed to transition to standard meals).

I window shopped at carrefour's shops/outlets. Nike, Adidas, Puma, - nothing really super cheap to buy. Nike actually have some clearance items but they were long sleeves and jackets, which I don't need.

Went into carrefour looking to buy some snacks for friends

After that, under Gloria's recommendation, I head to Dandan Hamburg, which is a fast food chain restaurant. She asked me to try their mee sua, which I did, and I liked it. Though I have to say, I still dislike using spoon to scoop noodles. 

On the way to green bean dessert, I stopped by at the flea market for plants, bought two packets of seeds for TWD100.

I had Green bean dessert (cold). It was cooling, considering the weather (around 12-1pm hot sun). Gloria suggested to pay a visit to their new public library, which I did, and sort of regret going because:

1) mostly chinese books

2) highlight of the library is their rooftop garden (Super hot)

3) nothing much besides that

4) had to walk there under the hot sun

Anyway, I stopped by at a second hand book store (Mollie's), saw some english books but the reviews weren't good so I did not buy.

Decided to walk to Sanduo station and head back to hostel to rest for abit.

Head to Yanchengpu. First thing: Buy Milk tea from Hua Da Nai Tea. I ordered Pu-er bubble milk tea, not sweet at all, can only taste milk, so not as nice as my first cup from them.

Walked around Pier 2's other side. Luckily for me, there's a flea market (maybe every Sunday they have one?),  walk around a bit, took some photos.

HIGHLIGHTS:

1) Postcard with tea inside the postcard. Very interesting, should have bought one. :( Initially I wanted to buy after walking around but I forgot about it :(

2) Taiwan 18 Days Beer. That is the name of the beer, at first, I thought it was some kind of limited edition beer. But actually its a normal standard beer, just that you have to consume it within 18 days (for its freshness). I have to say it taste really good :D

3) Chair Dome - interesting structure/art piece they have at the park

I walked past hamasen railway cultural park, which was beautiful. You do not usually see this as there usually have more trees in today's park. Think of an open wide spacious park which are covered in grass, but no trees. Like a big padang. 

Anyway, took the ferry to Cijin. It was too late. Lighthouse sudah tutup. I rushed to the fort side to see the sunset. I recorded it using time lapse (best way i think to take the sunset/sunrise). Wanted to fly my drone but I couldnt connect it (later I realised this was due to a manual setting I made to save data). :l

I walked back towards the old street/ main part of the city, tried their tomato with sauce (ginger, plum and soy sauce). this was  the bomb! I can have this as snack any time!

Bought a prawn cracker back cos it looks famous. That whole shop only sell crackers leh! 

Took ferry back, had snowflake and ice cream before calling it a night!

SooChing wanted me to buy tea but I couldnt find it.

Day 7
Woke up, dressed up, checked out, left my luggage. Returned to the hostel TWICE to take present and receipts for gloria.

Had egg pancake before heading to ecological district station. Was early so I waited for 30mins for her.. She reached in her scooter, and decided to take me around in her bike.

We went off to see the dragon and tiger pagoda and the lotus pond for a bit, before heading for tea.

Then she dropped me at a station and I went back to grab my luggage and head to the airport. Passed me a gift in a shape of a cup with my name and a bump on the bottom.

Bought some souvenirs, not sure I want it or give it as presents to others. Bought a wine which I sort of regret buying . not cheap leh!

Sat next to a big size guy whose arm overlapped to my space.

Day 3

Woke up around 430am the next day to get ready to go up the mountain to see the sunrise. It was chilly.

Uncle provide briefing. He was kinda funny. We got try some local plums. Each of us were given a plate so we can view the sun more clearly later.

The view was beautiful with the plate. Otherwise, without it, you will just see a lot of glares.

After 2-3mins, everyone started to disperse. We head to view the 2nd oldest tree (probably in Taiwan) and then head for Breakfast. I had some Porridge with egg, 2 cups of soy milk and 2 mantau.

Gloria decided to sleep in as she couldn't sleep last night. I went for a walk around the area. Walked,  crossed a bridge to chaoping Park. I think it is covered with cherry blossom trees but as this is not the season, there's nothing to see.

Wrote postcards to my sisters and dropped them off at the post office.

Back to hotel, check out. We dropped our luggage inside the car and head out for a walk (second round for me)

Train to chaoping. walk walk sister pond, various trees, shouzhen temple, sacred tree, chuyin temple, back to hotel area. the trees were big and old. It is cypress tree. We actually sat down for a bit at shouzen temple and snack on our yesterday's fruits (mango and guava).

It was raining when we were about to leave. Had 7-11's onigiri and yogurt. Gloria had instant noodle. It was kinda chilly due to the rain.

Alishan trip back. 4hrs to ks. Stopped by at dongshan town, bought soy sauce marinated chicken parts. Quite nice, the heart and intestines. Egg just so so. Helped gloria to drive for like 20mins I think.

Dropped me at zuoying, bought speed train to taipei for 1445twd. I just missed the 6:55 train so I have to wait for 7:55, which will reach taipei faster than 7:25 train. Reached taipei at 9:30.

Ate mos burger (soso nia green curry chicken). Slept most of the time in the train. It was dark so I could not enjoy the view. Reached taipei around 930, head out to my hostel. It was about 10mins walk. Space Inn. Checked in, quite cosy. Sharing dorm with two Hispanic ladies and one Jap or Korean guy.

Showered. Play with snapseed. slept

Day 4 taipei

First morning in taipei.

Ran from peace park to Tai power building mrt. Bought bubble milk tea from 50 blue and some local bread from local shop.

Showered and rest for bit, plan the day. Decided to meet Ruby then head to tourist center.

Met with Ruby, had beef noodle. I followed her order. It's the mix three types, fat, beef slices and tendon? Tripes?. Anyway, the fat was surprisingly good that I don't mind it.

Anyway, good catch up. Can't believe she is planning to leave to us to secure her PR /citizenship. Is good for her. Hehe

After that, I head to yu chocolatier. Tried the chocolate tart. OK nia. Normal. I couldn't really taste the bitterness as was told to me by the employee. The chocolate was not overly sweet and I enjoyed using their cutleries. Great service too!

Decided to climb Xiangshan, Yolo with my slippers. Was all sweaty N at the top after 25mins or so. The view was great! Worth coming definitely. Though pls be prepared ie shoes, attire. You will GET  sweaty!

Head back, rest bit before heading to ximenting. Stopped at snow King to eat funky ice cream. I only end up trying sticky rice and basil. They have more exotic ones like curry, beer, taro, chili.

Was thinking of buying hot star fried chicken at shimenting but didn't in the end. Thank God.

After sightseeing at xmt, head to ningxia. Ningxia was written as no frills, just food. I enjoyed my rice bowl.. Should have looked out for the lao sa bao. Saw a lenglui enjoying herself playing the games at the market. You can fish for prawns, throw hoops, shoot the balloon, sit down N play with machine. They even have the Mahjong tiles where I guess you play it like bingo. Not sure.

After ningxia I decided to visit shilin too. Saw the long queue for fried chicken. Had a sausage.

Day 5

Taipei.

Woke up. Packed. Checked out.

Had braised pork rice and another rice bowl (rice wrap) for Bfast. Head to shihfen using Google.

Reached. Hot. Crowded. Took some photos. Saw that this is the area where they light up the lanterns and fly it to the sky. Is that all? That was my thought at that time.

Was heading to shihfen waterfall when the lady in front of me asked a guy who was walking back from the waterfall for direction. The guy added that the view was....  disappointing. He shared his photos and it was OK. The waterfall looks normal, but perhaps it was not in season, whereby the water gushes down. I walked a bit more and decide to turn back too.

Took the next train back to taipei. Reached around 2pm. Met up with gloria for like 30mins,before I left to get my MI powerbank, tried the bubble tea Jojo recommended, I find it OK nia, the one in ks is better.

Talked to gloria about my silly trip to shihfen with no plans of getting a lantern. She asked me to go visit a temple near the station, which is meant for single people. Lol.

After bubble tea, went to buy kammos biscuits and collect luggage, head to hsr. Wanted to take hsr to see the view along the way, but was disappointed because it was overcrowded. Not only I couldn't see anything, I have no seat either. Thank God it was only a 1.5hr ride.

Tried some baked bun, taste like siew pao. Next, checked in, Showered, head off to. Ruifeng night market.  Tried angel fried chicken (super crispy), some jelly, taro milk + watermelon.

Head back to. Hostel..now waiting to charge phone and blog while waiting.

Day 2 ks & alishan

Kaohsiung morning, ate Porridge at hostel.  Waited for gloria but she ended up only able to meet at 12 so I Googled for places to sight see and ended up at Pier 2. I bought an umbrella and adlay and brown rice milk along the way to formosa station.

The art is OK, but freaking hot weather makes it unbearable. I was only there for like 30mins or so, with umbrella and a Chinese fan, yet when I was leaving I was soaking wet!

Anyway, gloria picked me up at zuoying station, we headed to Alishan. It was a big Ford car... We stopped at dong Shan resting area. Got Starbucks and I got a pork sausage.

The road up to Alishan is like genting or Cameron. Curvy and foggy. Quite dangerous.

We stopped by at fenchihu. It was a some village, main attraction is the train to chiayi and alishan. But they no longer operate the train to the mountains. We walked here for a bit. Saw the Wasabi plant, tried a chewy persevered​ egg. Tried a tree tomato juice and bought pink Guava and aiyu seed.

Managed to reached around 5/6pm.

We unpacked and left for dinner. Had hot pot.

After that we stopped at 7-11, bought a local Taiwan sweet beer, drank outdoor and chitchat.
Went back, shower, rest, sleep.

Oh,  apparently most of Taiwan were out of power.

Day 1 KS, Tw

Highlights

Rode on a motorbike. It was awkward I was the passenger. It's been more than 10yrs since the last time I was on a bike, so I felt kinda nervous and thrilling, like anything can happen ie accidents.

Street food. 10 wantan for NTD40. Apple juice + watermelon juice for NTD90. Cheap Cheap.

Had the most delicious milk tea and chewy bobas ever! At a mrt station. According to gloria it originated from her uni campus. It is local kaohsiung brand.

The hostel I am staying in has a hot spring. But I didn't go in. Too tired.

Weekend, Liverpool and family

Saturday morning went hiking at Gasing. Tried a new route but turned back because it was less traveled and many mosquitoes.

Had rajus after that.

Went to the garden, place the cardboards from Ccw house.

At night watched Liverpool came back from a goal down to lead against Watford, but end up giving a late late goal to Watford. 3-3.

Sunday, packed for Taiwan, exercised when I woke up for the first time in some time. Had popiah and laksa.

Dinner with cousins at go noodle, followed by Fluffed!

Dream

I dreamt about Alicia about a week ago. I was in Sydney for a visit and without thinking, I texted her to ask if she is free to meet up. Right after texting, I thought about all the consequences and how awkward it could be. :l

This is the first dream about her for a long time.

Hong Kong and Xiamen highlights of my trip

Travelled to HK with Brandon and sister on 1/8

Reached airport,  met with dad, parted ways with Brandon as he follow dad to kuma whilst sis and I check in.

The airbnb is OK, good location. We put our luggage, I changed my shirt cos too hot. Then we headed to kuma's.

First night dinner was with hin pek and ah chi's family.

Second day we went straight to kuma's house, and went off to dim sum lunch with bun wai. He brought us to his house after, which is a very isolated area. Helped him with his laptop and booked dad flight back to Aus.

Dinner with Vivian! Long time no c. She's pregnant already! Happy for her. :D we had Shanghai food.

Third day,  went to the peak, tried Yat lok duck (nothing great to shout about), ate Tai Cheong egg tart (Yums, but then again,  most of their egg tart s are Yums). Then headed to the Golden bauhuvia square,  the one with the golden flower, before taking the ferry back to Kowloon side.

Dinner we had Steamboat with bun wai,  hin pek and bun hor's family

Last day,  dad's not feeling well. Hin pek and wife came over, had chap fan downstairs for lunch and dinner.  Lol.  Bought Porridge for dad.  Visited Tsim sa Tsui N Kowloon Park. Visited kuma at the hospital. Bought a citizen watch for HKD2k. Ate local food ie tofu fa and bubble milk tea.

August 5-7 xiamen
Landed at Xiamen about 11am. Watched chips on the plane. Simple and funny movie. No expectation from these type of movie makes it easier to watch.

Checked in but could get into the room until 1.5+ hrs later.  Rested at the hotel while we wait for dad. Dad reached about 4+. Head to big uncle house right after. Ate Xiamen popiah and Porridge. That's our dinner and lunch. Went to gym with ah chi after that

Next day, tour around Xiamen on a hot morning. We had local breakfast, guided by aunty to the nearby shops. After tour, we went for a grand lunch. Included were Xiamen salted fried rice, oyster egg and sea worm.

On the way back to the hotel,  our Cousin's wife's brother took us to this place where the road looks uphill but it is actually downhill.

I believe the cause was the sea worm jelly. Had stomach ache the whole night till today as well.  :( but of course now is way better d.

Came back on 7/8,  picked up by Nizam
Called UMobile to request to reverse the charges. The customer service person is not able to do that and asked me to email, which i did. I some to another customer service person the best day and war tools they could not reverse the amount, even though I threaten to leave UMobile.

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Sekinchan

Trip to sekinchan last week.

Picked up SC and head to Cady's house. Went to Chong Kok kopitiam. The queue for the nasi lemak was crazy long. We didn't order that, just took the packet one. In fact, I didn't order anything except milo ice. The girls, they ordered eggs, buns and nasi.

After breakfast we bertolak to sekinchan. 1.5hrs. We stopped at this nameless shop for rice. They serve rice with stingray and Prawn curry with egg. Super good!  Very tasty kuah/curry.

Then, we drove to the beach, managed to try out my drone! It was great but the freaking hot weather made me not want to be under the sun for too long. Cady and SC also thrw the coin with red ribbon of good wishes onto the wishing tree.

After that, we went to yumcha at n16, the bus. We didn't eat cos still full so we ordered drinks + cake. No view of pretty paddy cos it is not in season.

Then beli nasi from the paddy factory, before adjourning to a seafood restaurant. The food at the restaurant OK nia.

Head back to klang after that., damn tired driving! But the girls decided to go for cafe so we went to Bkt tinggi. Tried daily press cafe. It's quite fun cos they have Bg there for you to play too!

End up with shopping at mix convenience store before heading home. E

One week

Friday
Meetup with jasentha and Jolene as intermediary person.

Went to watch baby driver

Been crazy playing Xcom.

Sister came back. Played with my drone. The chips ahoy + Reeses cookies are so sinful!

Went for a CPA event. Advised uni students on their projects. Got free nasi lemak to  dinner.

Played badminton.

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dream vlog

we were at ccw's fictional house. got picnic bench area like a cafe and the toilet is like a long room with damn a long of deco art stuff

hmm i was shopping at a supermarket, bought some stuff, then when i wanted to send it to my car, i lost the trolley. i searched all around the "carpark", which became like a food court area. i asked hl to help and we went back to the supermarket to lodge a report. when we went back to the food court and search again, we found the bags were shelved. i cross checked the items against  my receipt. (i think this was funny part because i was actually counting the number of nuts i bought , one by one)

after that i think we are attending a class of some sort. someone is arranging the seating (one of the girls complained some of the seats are old. you see, they are cushions and you can see the colors faded). i was helping the event team to set up the queue barriers. dunno why :l maybe the girl quite pretty lol

anyway when it was time to get my seat, i didnt chose first and everyone went into their respective group. there was this pretty girl who whispered something but i  couldnt catch it. anyway i looked around and see where ks etc were seating. hl came into the room and got into his seat (the seats are on the sit and along the rows in the middle). and i woke up lol

Updates yawn!

It's been almost two weeks since I am back.

Updates!

Played badminton three times, once with Cindy etc

Met with siuching and Cady. Cady is leaving to Indon. :(

Participated in a CPA networking event. Was interesting that the speaker is a PhD grad + comedian. Caught up with some. Ypn members. The tapioca kuih damn nice!

Went for touch n go event. Caught up with Amanda. Chairman received sponsor from TnG worth 15k.for the garden. Awesome work!

Had a dinner with some ypn peeps. Met and talked to Kristy for the first time, lay see's friend. Expensive though at oriental Pavillion. Sharmans wines were tasty!

Met with Cindy suyong Karen and munlee for badminton and dinner.

Started reading world war z. Enjoyed playing hard west. My fm Liverpool knocked out of group stage UCL in a group consist of ajax, Salzburg, n lyon. Shame !

Ran today for the first time in weeks!

Gained 4kg since back from Africa, now left 2kg to lose.

Day 1 bck

Life feels usual.

Didn't eat much except chips, rice and soup and nestum

Played FM draft with Calvin hl and chew. Won Calvin 3-2, lost to hl 3-0 in finals.

Continue reading my burning wire.

Plane

Watched

Nocturnal animals
Good story. About a writer who sent a manuscript to his ex.

Sky one (hk)
Meh starring Daniel wu

My ex and whys (Philippines)
Young couple love story. Relatable type.

Elle (French)
I guess it shows us how the culture of French could be like? Hmmm

Earlier Cape town

Yesterday

Breakfast. Ate less than the day before. More on the cold fiber food nia.

Cape point and hope. The journey took about 1hr 20mins.  The point is to see the crossover of the Indian and Atlantic Ocean. The difference are Indian are less rough,  warmer and darker than Atlantic. You can see the color difference..

Cape hope is where the rough sea is and used to be called the Cape of storms due to the many shipwrecks encountered at the location.

We went for Penguin sightseeing. Africa penguins. Looks damn grumpy. Many of them.

Bought some aloe products for friends' wives.

Rare stone shop.  Bought some smaller pieces for souvenirs. Damn cheap. Rand 1-2.

Diamond. Didn't buy anything  but it was interesting to see the two couples hustle and bargain for the best price. Lol.

Vietnam dinner. So so nia.

Went to gym for 30mins run.

Day before yesterday

Went up to Table Mountain,  super windy. The wind actually push me to one side. That's how strong it was. Spent about 1hr walking here and there. Took some nice photos. A guy's cap almost flew off. Lol. When we were leaving, the alarm actually rang because it was too windy.

Signal Hill. Shorter and lower hill but the hill have a good view of table mountain.

Malay quarter. Last time the Dutch bring the Malay back here and they have a designated quarter. As they are mostly illiterate, for posting services, they color their houses with different bright colors and will inform the postman to mail it to ie "the green house next to the blue house".

Seal cruise. So so nia

Shopping. A lot of clothing to buy but I think the pricing is about the same as Malaysia.

African dinner. This is very interesting. Range of different African countries' dishes. They have tapioca cheese bread, Dahl dipping, chicken, lamb stew, salad-ish vegetables (cold veges), fried fish and soup. Dessert was ice cream lol.

Cape town

Last day jor. Let's do a review from the back.

Today 1/7
Kanonkop vineyard. Did wine tasting. The local Cape Town wine is pinotage. I find it more on the blend side, not as flavorful as I like. One of the tour group fella bought the black label (costing about rm500+) to try. Tbh I find that OK nia. I like the Paul Sauer. It is quite fragrant and tasty too. I ended up buying a rose and pinotage, just to let the guys try.try. My personal favorite is the Paul Sauer and cabernet sauvignon.

After the wine tasting, we head to brandy tasting. The tasting comes with chocolate pairing. Brandy is not my poison so I didn't really enjoy it. We end up buying two moscato here for rand48 each.

Head for dinner after. Expensive dinner with beautiful scenery of the mountains and vineyard.   The appetiser is fish with chilli wanton followed by slow cooked pork belly.  Dessert is chocolate mousse. We ordered oyster too which is damn fresh! About rm16 each

Then we head to cheetah sanctuary. I didn't go in so I took photos from outside nia. Saw a three legged jackal. Like it a lot. Saw two big shepherd dogs.

Now we are heading for dinner.

Zimbabwe

The next morning we went for Morning game drive. Prior to that we took a croissant and coffee/tea. Croissant was awesome!

During the drive, we manage to see 🦁s, impalas, elephants, giraffes, vulture, bald Eagle, a jackal hunting birds eggs while being harassed by the birds. We also saw from far hyenas and vultures feeding on a dead animal.

Also we saw how the impalas were staring at the lions' direction (even though the lions were far away). According to the guide, the bats sound to alert others about the lions' presence.

After game drive, we head back for breakfast, breakfast pancake = good. Bacon and pork sausage = good. English muffin = good.

Checked out and head to Crossing border to zimbabwe.

We rest for a bit before heading to the wet, wet Victoria falls. Wet cos the splash from waterfall flies up and turns into rain. We were all soaked.

Boma dinner. Local dinner.. Tried their mopani worm.  Crunchy like Ikan bilis.

Stars. Can see beautiful stars. Many bright stars. No cloud.

Day2

Game drive again. This time colder. Maybe cos of the wind and lack of hot drinks in the morning.

Saw giraffe, rhino and elephants up close. Saw zebra and baboons too.

Breakfast in the safari. Food was simple. But excellent.. (big breakfast)

Now waiting for heli ride. Will take us around Victoria falls and safari

Updated. The helicopter ride was awesome.! Get to see the gorge of the river and the waterfall again!

After helicopter ride we were taken to the market (didn't buy anything cos no small change)  before we head for lunch, which is fish n' chips in a hotel across kfc.. We stopped by at the town for a bit but nothing too special. Most of the gift shops were selling what they already have at the market earlier.

We went back and rest at the hotel, before heading for a river cruise. The boat was three tier and they serve unlimited alcohol. I had two beers (prefer zimbezi over castle light) and two red wines (cabsav better than merlot). Didn't see anything too wow at the river. Saw elephants and hippos.

Dinner at the hotel. Received surprise birthday cake. Too big too finish so shared with every one,  including the staff.

Crashed on bed until 12am. Lol.

Second day

So yesterday night, before heading to sleep, I visited the gym for a bit. Did some weights, rowing, followed by Pacific rim exercise. Was going for 24 mins run but stopped after 5 mins. Rest and balik

Morning started with awesome breakfast. Fruits, cereal, then big breakfast! Bacon and pork sausage were soooo good! The French toast was disappointing.

Head back to room to pack up and empty my body lol. Bus for 40mins or so. Now at airport waiting to fly to Kasane. Was considering to buy the Sapiens book but decided against it after checking with qmdj.

We reached the airport. Small immigration area. Then we took Jeep to the resort before we hop on river cruise.

Managed to sight see elephants, giraffe, water Buffalo, crocodiles, hippo, lizards, fowls, impalas, antelopes. 

Room to mosquito netting, but the toilet lock doesn't work and the balcony lamp is broken too. Good thing about botswana and zimbabwe is that they use the same power plug as Malaysia.

Weekly updates

Sunday 18/6
Lunch @kuriya with family

Tuesday 20/6
Badminton. Felt good with own performance. More in the 'zone'. Was late cos obsessed playing rotk11

Wed 21/6
Gathering with cousins for dinner. Ah boi koko, Sam, Joanne, ah leng and ah Mei jie2,  ah theng jie2,  Hs Jo and me.

Sam bought me a perfume.

We ate at red kettle. Quite good actually the food there. I ordered sausage pasta. Love the pork sausage and pasta, even though it was slightly too spicy.  After red kettle we went to Koi Kafe. Ordered bingsu. The ice shavings are very fine but milk based. Mochi nice also!

Thursday 22/6
Shopping. Ate at vege chap fan then visited atria and ecurve. At atria, bought running pants (to be used for swimming too), a skuff and hiking socks. I also bought travelling liquid containers and a box for storage (dead of winter,  pr or agricola). At ecurve, bought two Columbia shirt. Quite cheap I think if the quality is what it says. (breathable, wicking, waterproof wo.)

Friday.
Garden Meeting at Cher seng house
Lunch with tseyee and ks at Kenny Hill bistro. Not bad also the food there. Coffee was good and the strudel too!

I am in afrika

Flew from. KL to Sg on Friday night.  Prior to that chilled at the lounge. Had some tid bits but the food is just so so. Drank malbec (red wine). In the plane they served sandwich.

Landed at sg and waited for an hour before headed into lounge because was waiting for free  coupon.

At lounge, had red wine shiraz, champagne and soup. Tried their cheese platter too! 😍 hot chocolate was yummy. Must be cos they put a lot of sugar.

Flew from. Sg to Johannesburg at 2am. On board services damn nice (business class, what else to expect). Had sandwich and dim sum. Didn't order other food in between.  Tried both their red wines. Cannot decide which one I like more. I think Italian was lighter and u can taste the sweetness of cacao.

I watched 2night (Italian),  alibi (French)  and tiramisu (italian). Enjoyable movies with I doubt I can find  the online at piratebay. 2night I'd about this girl picked up a guy at a bar and their journey throughout the night of finding a car park so they can go up to her house to make out. Alibi is about how this guy helps others create valid alibi to allow others provide them a. Getaway or meet their mistress. Last one is about a salesman so consumed in work and using his wife's tiramisu to influence his sales.

In Africa, visited three places already.

Football stadium. I

Sowento, Nelson Mandela's home and Héctor pieces on museum. Peterson is about a guy who got shot at the age of 12 by the police during the apartheid era.

After that, we went for lunch @ butcher Shop. The size of the meal is x2 for Asians. They served beef sausage and bread as Appetiser, followed with Greek salad platter.  The beef was okay (not bad) but too much.  The pap is like ketupat, tasteless, white colored starch.

After lunch we were delayed by 30mins due do some missing party members. Anyway after that we head to the cradle of human kind. We were rushing from here onwards so we didn't really enjoy as much as we could. Interesting moments: water in the cave covered with dusk on the water surface, teeth of the real fossil on display at maropeng, see the size of the foot of the ancient people.

We head to montecasino (our hotel /casino). Hotel is comfy, ate at lai-lai Garden (Chinese food). Food was okay but big portion. Couldn't finish. The other family that sat on our table, the daughter is only 20(looks older), studying finance. Lol

Head home after, did some steam updating.  Collected some stickers and badges.

Friday night

Makan with yp, mj and xin Rey? With hl.at ahhwa hokkien mee.

Inside scoop with tsuro with cm. Ccw hl nick dee and Tricia.

Afternoon met up with Jolene to discuss accounting stuff. Convinced her to outsource instead.

First run in weeks

Felt good!.  Ran to park then to Haji openg and back to park for one lap,  before heading home

Gonna do some. Packing later

Finish season 2fm. Bought donnaruma, chiellini, lemina. Sold studge, Lallana, mignolet, karius, matip, wijnaldum.

Yday spend the night with Cady dinner and dessert, pinjam her 3 books war of art, seasons in life and power of less.

Morning yesterday ma gotong royong lo. Then lunch with ks n sy. Owe him rm14

Friday night Mahjongg session with hl n nick. Loss rm11

Did two Forecasting!

Gave two forecasting, primarily job related. Still not sure when to use envoy instead of open. Guess this takes practice.

Had dinner with the garden ppl yesterday, was good. Ran a bit long cos Margaret was sharing her experiences dealing with the dbkl and police.

Collected 1.7k from GEC for the garden. Yay!

Arranged today dinner with MJ and YP.

Will be meeting Jolene later for discussion about the accounting. Makes sense what Cindy said that they should spend their time on business instead of admin stuff.

Booked rooms for Xiamen trip. All done!

Tmr gotong royong and Sunday hiking.

Updates!

Thursday
Ordered dominos finally! Saved the balance for tmr lunch

Friday.
Suppose to go out with mj but she ffk. So end up at chews earlier to play DC. Played agricola. Lost both games. Not that easy game to play. Need to think and plan a lot on advance.

Saturday
Gotong royong and kitmuns wedding. Yes. Even kitty is off the market. Her wedding area quite nice,  at the glasshouse. However, the audio system was bad. Couldn't hear much from our side of the table. They served rose for cocktail. Must be $.  Funny also how the girls were commenting in whatsapp abt the girl sitting next to me.

Sunday
Hiking with efe, Esther, Hy and Wei.
zombie 15' in the evening and then some card games at chews. Played DC and saboteur 2

Monday
Went for qmdj talk with Jesslyn. Managed to learn new things. Easier way to forecast problems.

In the afternoon had farewell lunch with Carolyn,  her bf,  Nick Catherine and Terry at Tavern 13. She's going to be away for 9 months.  Didn't buy gopro but got Mavic instead.

Tuesday
Play badminton. Garden in the morning. Dug a hole.

Wednesday been playing with fm whole morning. Lost first games of the 2nd season. Not good. Sold can, got keita. Need a better gk.

Thought about it again

Thought of ordering dominos again. Rm30 for two pizzas. I could have some for lunch and keep some tomorrow. Thank God I managed to resist it.

Updates!

Monday delivered letters to the restaurants in TTDI
Tuesday meeting with dbkl la 21
Wednesday going to watch the mummy with hl

Bowling and reading challenge down!

Played bowling last Thursday with CPA peeps.  Even chew and diyana joined!

Was fun but not good at it. Haha.. Consolation thoughts are that I am not the worst and I did manage to strike twice.

Would love to play it more frequent.

Tried agricola

Tiring but I think should be interesting as we get familiar with it.

Options are vast on how you want to accomplish your goals.

Keeping / maintaining a relationship

Whether it is friends, families or work mates, it takes effort and time from both sides to maintain an ongoing relationship. 

I am at the stage where as I grow older, my willingness or keen to put in an effort and spare a time to do this gets lesser and lesser....

R&k playing at Tesco!

=) 

Slacking! 18/5-26/5

19-23/5 attended my course. Met back with Ted and Jacqueline. Made two new friends. Freshen up on the knowledge. This time the course is at puchong four points. Farr. Tried this Vietnamese restaurant which is quite OK. Felt it was authentic Viet. Not sure.. Tried it with Ted and we talked about investment and stuff. Was good catch up with him. He will.be in Kl today till Monday for another course.

We were also told to be non negotiable with the 'client'  and don't do it for free in order for us to get started. I find this very true.

23/5 played badminton and broke my racquet. It's been more than 7 yrs I believe. 25/5 bought a new racquet at Kd shop. It is a nanoray 70dx for rm280.  Had chilli pan mee with chew after that. (he was going to watch diyana play futsal at sports Planet).

21/5 ran half marathon. My best timing thus far, 2:22 for 21 but because scklm distance is longer,  my actual timing is 2:34. I felt good. Can't say the same for hl. Lol

19/5 had dinner with MJ at Sri. Petaling organic shop

21/5 dinner at ruyi and Lynn with family for kammo and Kaufu's 40th anniversary. Nice funky food, worth trying at least once but didn't really like some of the dishes ie the lychee ball. Chicken was good.

21/5 after class before dinner, dropped by at Tesco to buy fabric freshener for the car seat (sweat etc) and milk! Got offer! 3 for rm15!

24/5 Bg with the guys. Tried Concordia. Love it!

24/5 met with Margaret to discuss on the plans for the garden, in approaching the partners. Collected pots from Suzie. 25/5 went to garden in the morning to discuss with mr Heng. Did some weeding and tile placing.

While waiting

I am now waiting for Bun wai to arrive at one Utama. Got time to write and crap. Finished sipping my milk tea

First, attended a coaching workshop yesterday with Cindy. Take away is to learn to apply that in any other relationship; be open, make the other party feel safe, make yourself trustworthy, active listening, success= awareness and action (make the party aware and take action)

After that went shopping at Tesco.  Finally restocked my cereal and milk. Bought ice cream too :D.

This morning I went to garden, met with Sathis. After discussion, he is willing to fund some of the materials for the rainwater harvesting. #awesome.  Now I need to find the pricing  for two more items before I submit it to him.

Looking to secure some new bgs this weekend.

Got scklm this weekend.

Got Bazi workshop.

On Monday attended CPA meeting, had mamam (mom mom like eating).  Not bad (had their mango chicken rice).  Siu Ching asked me to sign off her CPA (which I did) and introed me boxgreen. Decided to try one month and see how.

Nick's treat!

Group pic from Lucky Bo. Nick bought us an expensive dinner (20 pax?) last Saturday. We had wagyu steak, one medium and another medium rare.

I fine the medium rare relative raw, like sashimi, which made it much more delicious to eat, texture wise. The medium one is more chewy, so not that great. But did I enjoy it? I think it was an experience for me, as it was my first time tasting a steak close to the texture of a sashimi. However, later I realise what was missing for me was that it could have been juicier. The texture was good but no juice (maybe cos it is that raw that it does not work that way).

Anyway it was fun! Shame no after-dinner gaming session though. :( was looking for some party games/ spyfall.

Weekend

Jogging with hl and diyana. Did abt 40mins

Friday night yumcha at qbistro. No keys and nobody home so had to use side door to leave the house.

Spend the day chatting with mj

Sunday got two session of badminton. One with friends another with  family. Got popiah to eat in between. Lol

9/5

Helped out at the garden. Set up another raised bed, started the next one.

Did some composting, pour coffee grounds onto the beds, collected the limau purut and go at dung from eunice for kammo.

Rested for like 2hrs.

Then chat on phone, played computer,

At night played badminton for three hours before went for mamak alone. Rm3.50 for roti canai and milo ais. Tai!

Wow

Havent been blogging for more than  a week!

Quick updates :

Caught up with Joanne and kitmun (both were giving away their wedding cards)

Played badminton last Monday with ah Mei jie2 N ah leng jie2.

Watched guardians of the galaxy 2 sneak preview (wed mid night). Movie was funny!l for a superhero movi

Met with Jesslyn and Mindy also for a yumcha session. Jesslyn drives a BMW. O.o

Started reading jo nesbo's redeemer

Started germinating some seeds. So far the spinach is doing well!

Now am waiting to run with hl and diyana

Jjptr / money game

Boom! LOST RM1,410. Just entered last week then this weekend went bust!

Weekend with relatives

Thursday
Picked up them from airport
Drove to OU, had Mak Chee for lunch. Mak Chee belong to Po Ling jiejie's friend from HK
Drop Dad back home, drove them to Wah koko's house
went for CPA meeting


Friday
Lunch @ Ah Wah koko's house - chicken rice and some vege
Day time travel to Putrajaya for sightseeing
Fatty crab dinner at Ah Wah ko ko's house

Saturday
Gardening in the morning, managed to build 2.5 raised beds. do up three compost wire mesh area, used up the soil
Day time chill at home, drove to Yut Kee but it was not open. Had cendol for lunch
Dinner @ Grand Kingdom with Kaufu and Kuma etc
- salad lou sang with soft shell crab and fruits
- soup
- fish
- vege
- dessert
Cyber with guys - CS and Call of Duty
Sleepover at Wah's house

Sunday
Day trip to MLK
I drove there, back and the whole trip! Was slightly sleepy/ tired otw back. Thank god for prawn crackers
Ate chicken rice balls
Chill at hardrock cafe
Went to Tan Kim Hock (NOT TAN CHENG LOCK lolol)
Drove back, went to Klang for bubur goreng (NO MANTIS PRAWN, sobss)
Balik rumah
Yumcha with Sherry

emotions

so.

this afternoon, for a moment, after receiving a text from a X, I felt this utter sadness within me, that I do not want to do anything today. I just want to blank out and just not think. For this 10-30 seconds, it felt horrible. At least it was to me.

And of course, as adults, you come to term with reality and all. It is not the end of the world (duh), and at no point in life anyone should make you feel that way, and you should not let anyone do either.

Feelings and emotions, are complicated matters. And as you get older how you get into a relationship and fall in love changes. You put in more thought into commitment, the longer run and how viable is the relationship, even before it starts. You do not just rush into one and let the flow take you away. nooo.....

So.

What should i do about it? I decided to try to think and worry less about what other people think or feel about me (which to some extent it is not right as you might ruin a friendship) and be more forward about things (not to say I am not already).

I know what is the problem. Problem is the person I am slightly interested in does not have much in common with me. :(

CPA YPN

yumcha after meeting with Sharman, Sherry, Zen, Ee Feng, Esther and Shannon
was good :)

so prior to that
we discussed about the few activities.
had McD.

managed to jio Sherry to join me for Tuesday badminton session

Zen was talking about GoCar - RM15 per hour. We thought of taking it to Genting but finally realised that the free petrol is only for the first 15km. :(

bazi ref

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ba_Zi/Hsia_Calendar

Tired

I am so tired today. I don't know what I want to do later. I wish that I am more energetic at the moment, maybe this is because I am didn't eat my lunch.

My trip to hometown. I drove back with my dad on Friday we took turns to drive. I started off driving after lunch and I stopped around Rawang. Then my Dad drove for an hour before I took back the wheels. We reached around 6 and went straight for dinner. I met ah Chee for the second time (last was when he was still single,  about 15yrs ago). This time he came to PG with his wife and kids. Wife is Carmen and kids ar Wai Oi and Wai Sun. We ate seafood/dishes.

After dinner we went to my cousin's Hotel in. Batu ferringhi. They stayed in hard Rock. We stayed for about, 30-45mins chatting before we head back. We stayed at kuma's house in lipsin

Second day we waited at home for hin pek they all to come over. I wanted to eat Bihun mee but ate Porridge instead because dad bought a big pack for kuma.

We chatted for a bit while dad went to hiking with his friends from Australia. We then drove out for dinner at this famous place in Lebuh presgrave, famous for its Prawn noodle.

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on the third day I took my dad to the cemetery,  we visited ah ma,  ah Kong and mom.after that we went to air itam to visit kaima and 2 yee. Dad ate laksa. After that we went to. Batu lanchang for ais kacang and green fish.

I went out to meet thing thing and Vaine. Had four spoons. Not bad place in pg. Had Waffles for dinner. Went outside to watch football too.

Stayed at helens house.

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Fourth day took ah kaima, uncle, 2yee and dad to visit ah kim jie jie. Then brought them. Back to visit kuma. Stayed for awhile then drove them back.  Had my milk.and nasi lemak.

- last day, took them to visit doctor before I drove back home.

lunch with shirlik

makan with shirlik at tonkatsu, tried out the entertainer app. 2 pax for RM39. not bad!
went yum tealive.

dortmund played their game 24hrs after the bombing of their bus. i was wow when i found out they are playing.

prepping for interview tmr skype call.

later celebrate ah leng jie2's bday

met up with jesslyn yesterday too. good chat! :D exchange background stories. she's eldest. food science local grad. quite friendly person. :)

Garden

Last week transfer the plants away from the garden. Saturday moved tubs into Ecoknights. Monday moved bricks and wood.
Direction unclear now.

Weekend

Friday tried Shugatori with Tricia, Catherine, Terry Nick Ccw and Deanna. Pan cake and waffle is meh. Didn't try the toast. After that yumcha at mamak. Ordered chapati to share. Not bad. Will try it again.

Went hiking on Saturday with eefeng. Did saga. Initially she struggled but she got better and better. Happy that she managed to get to the top in the end.

Ate two tuna tarts, one siew bao and one bowl of noodles! The noodles' Sui kao quite good.

At night celebrated Cindy's bday at iam80scafe. We talked abt money game which Karen is already in. We over ordered but the food is not bad.

Sunday evening went for a short run before playing rummy with Catherine Terry, Nick and chew dee. Chew won 60+mstly due to diyana. I lost all!

Kl

Badminton at new vision,  not as fun as in champions. Nick left without even playing, not sure the exact reason why but Calvin did his thing to him and Nick left.

Spend a lot of time at the garden and ended up the work is wasted cos on Friday we decided to redo with the help of dbkl.

Applied to think city

Sold some shares, jcy, esceram and rgb

Transfer shares from Rhb to cimb

Going hiking later with eefeng

Tried Shugatori,  cookie Nation this week. Both so so

Liverpool drew. How predictable.

Day 4

Time flies. Going back tomorrow. Went to qing ming this morning. To mount Eskrine there for grandma (dad side)  then to batu gantung (near the horse racecourse). After that back to mum's place.

Had lunch at Chong nam (where we usually go for hawker at night with kaima).  Ordered mee mamak.

After that visited Yong and Mr Chan home with po ling jie2 and her husband. It was interesting to know that his son is sustaining his life through air bnb (three properties) and that he actually invested in solar panels and broke even already.

We then head to queensbay mall for like 30mins. I wanted to buy the seasoning kaima asked for but aeon don't have stock (odd). Anyway I dropped po ling jie2 home afterwards, before picking kammo up. We visited kumar for a bit, then she gave kaima and her some keichi (wolf berry).  Kammo then led me to sunshine farlim, where I managed to buy the seasoning.

Back to air Itam, kammo told me she will have dinner with her relatives. So, I head out to the market for nestum milk and nasi lemak. Total is 4.50. Drank vitagen and ate pandan cake after that.

Did more update on my resume before driving out to pass the plants to BP..

Now waiting nia,  by the sea side

Day 3

Woke up,  exercised,  drove to kumar's place. Ate economic Bihun mee.  Rm1.5!
And yummy!

Met with kumar, po Ling jie2, her husband and aunty Helen.  Drove them to tanjung tokong temple. The story about the place is that during the Japanese war time, they dropped loads of bomb. The local ppl will hide under the big rock.

After that visited kuanyin temple near little India. Then we eat lunch at this restaurant near Komtar.  So so only the food.

We dropped po Ling jie2 and husband at Armenian St area for them to walk walk and sightsee the murals. Head to kumar house, stayed for awhile  and chatted with ah what koko and Nicole before going back home to kaima house.

Updated a bit more of my resume, took a rest, showered before heading out again for dinner at Perut.

After dinner,  po Ling jie2, husband and I headed to Paragon for drinks.  I ordered English breakfast.

I kcus at this

Sien. Just Sien on how I feel negative about it when the reaction is not what I hoped.

I need to have a stronger mental toughness.  :l

Penang day 2 and dream

I gathered some bricks and materials and decided to contribute it to the community. A bunch of us started to construct some tools for fitness. Later Joey yap said that they going to sponsor it. Upon hearing that, I dismantled the thing

There were also like gossiping among the cousins

Someone took extra rm50 so we need to return it.  I dunno why.  But I took a rm50 and exchange it for another rm50 which is from kendy suen xoxo.  When I was taking hers, I saw they stocked a lot of gadgets inside the ceiling of the hall.

During the break the guys talked to me complaining how they wish the tools were with them and their dislike that I dismantled them.

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Morning did some exercise.
Went to market. Buy bang Chang kueh. Ate a bit of jawa mee and bought economic noodles. Not nice.
Chit chat for one hour or so before heading to pray pray.
Collected a plant from the temple before returning to the hotel. Learnt a new route back to home in air itam.

Kammo they all left around 12+. I went back,  chat with kaima a bit more before taking a rest. Slept. Did a bit more exercise.  Showered, head to pick up Vaine.

Waited for Vaine for 30mins +, delayed cos of her facial.  Met with ttt at hideout Cafe. Not bad the cake and Waffles. Talked about work,  money game, travelling.

Dropped Vaine before meeting up with KS.  Supposed to find kuma but aunty Helen said it's flooding there so tmr morning lo

KS and sy were with sy friends. Stayed till about 11+ cos of the rain. Reached home updated a bit of my resume before reading Jefferey Deaver and tido.

Penang

Drove to penang at 830. Reached batu lanchang market at 1245. Got a overturned lorry on the highway after crossing the bridge.

Had ais kacang and popiah. Waited for Kaufu for an hour.

Drove to kaima house chill. Teman 2yee to buy things to burn for the dead.

Followed to great grandparents cemetery. Met some uncles and aunty I never met before. And a cousin named Tom. They met my mom before. Both cemetery were in poor condition and had to get people to clean up the overgrown weeds..

Dinner with the uncles and ah leng jie2, ah theng jie2 and ah boikoko with Joanne jie2. We sat with Alicia and Tom.
Dinner was filling! After dinner we rested for a bit and decided to go for tea (didn't manage to meet up with bp).  We head to Moody Cow at 1120. Sat and chill for awhile (we ordered nutella cake which was so so  only)

After Moody we travelled around for a bit to look for asam laksa. No luck.
Balikrumah

Hope I didn't disturb my kaima and uncle with my washing up.

Cover letter

I thought my application is okay until I discussed it with hl. I think I want it to be natural but ultimately in the end it is about selling you and no one wants an OK product. They want to see the potential.

Need to work on it and brush up on both resume and cover letter. 

Going pg tmr

What happened???

Just a quick update (as much as I remember)

Wednesday 29/3
- sold JKGland (amazingly). profit RM150 gross.
- bought myself OnePlus 3T. :D
- sent my car for washing for the first time in months
- bought a plant as a present
- planted some mints today, hopefully it will grow
- kammo complaint today about small boi on the toilet. i will try to talk to him.
- ate alot of junks (chocolates, pocky sticks, nuts, bread)

Tuesday
- badminton! 9-11pm. was good. CM taught me the proper moves. hopefully can remember it and be better next time around.
- ate KGB :D truffle swiss
- helped out at the garden in the morning
- did some note cleaning on my bazi notes
- call Inside Scoop regarding our proposal for a corporate visit

Monday
- ate fried chicken (one piece) and rice
- donated blood
- ate curry puff and salad from Jaya Grocer
- discussed with Anne on the refugee's garden plot and Viva Starfish

Sunday
- badminton in the morning!
- ate at Qbistro, followed by cendol
- visited EPIC's project by Wei Ee at millennium park in Subang. Saw Hannah Yeoh. Thought I saw someone that looks like Amy. Met Johnson (founder of EPIC)
- slept in the evening, tired
- tried the new Wall's sandwich icecream. soso

Saturday
went to garden in the evening and stayed in most of the day
went out with Cady to Pyramid. Tried Impressoul. not bad the food with live band, for the price i think is okay.

Fridayy

watched Night Watchmen with Joanne, Jo Jo, Nick and HL. fun movie. zombpires.? vampbies?

went to KLCC to do that. ate nasi lemak and a burrito :l

after that went to cheras to yumcha with KS SY HL and Joanne. talked about bazi. haha i think my time to really push myself to practice it.

earlier met with irene, spent 3hrs with her. she talked to me about her water and rainsoul (the black cumin supplement). interesting la. now have to find out how good kaufu's model is.

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dream

had this weird, long dream. at last i am suppose to take exam. english/maths paper. the exam questions were given through a speaker/video. I only answered some of the questions as it came out as the other questions I was thinking they will give the hardcopy then i can go through myself. turns out they do not plan to! then i was like shieeet. i told the teacher that it was unfair they do it like that. she said she cannot do anything. i was quite calm and ask her if i complain to her can it help, and she replied no and suggested that I complain to the teacher across the class (which i did). then hu-ha hu-ha still no progress that day, i was worried. somehow i ended up walking around the place to find the question and answers (while i wait to see if my complaint was accepted and deemed valid).

omw back to the classroom, i saw Rachel and she was having a conference call. I kept my stationery and left for classroom. Someone when I am inside, someone took over where i was sitting when i was taking the exam (as it is no longer exam period, i guess that made sense because that's not my usual seat). my usual seat was seated by one of the guys.  so i sat next to pei fern (after standing behind the class for awhile looking for an empty seat).

Nick was seating next to CM and CM left the classroom twice because of tricia. once was because she had some depression. i spoke to nick about the exam and of course he finished it one time right. only me and some other students were having the problem.

i thought to myself i guess it is not fair if they didnt tell us earlier on that this is the format.but at the same time i accept that i should have been paying more attention (had i known)
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woke up in the 4s, now online.

Update!

Watched power rangers. It sucks! The transforming to big robot, they didn't even show it! Wtf right!!

And the bot fight scene like 5mins. And the bot is ugly!

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Met up with Lcy and lkh on Thursday at gerai .  Nice to see them again. Hehe we managed to convince Lcy to open her trading acc.

Talked abt investment lo

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Meeting week! Met with Jerryson and Edna from viva starfish project at puchong.  They have an interesting story behind what they do. I admire the guy.

If you are using bottled water at your office, do consider buying bottled water from viva starfish instead. The proceeds goes to help the poor and needy.

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Collected compost from. Maeko. But the way Dr Chewy suggested to test it is a bit difficult.  I thought it  be some lab test instead.

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Went to garden and planted Brasilian spinach and eggplants.  It's getting together now! (I hope)

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Attended free jy class over the weekend! So tiring. 3 days! 

Had dinner with ah Yong and family on Saturday, drinking session with Nancy on Friday at oasis and met up with Cady at Setia mall on Sunday.

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Tuesday badminton was okay.  Chew injured his ankle and two person ffk.

I. Managed to ask Tsv to join our Sunday session hehe.

Robynn & Kendy 月湖

http://www.chineselyrics4u.com/2014/12/yuet-woo-robynn-and-kendy-robynn-and.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvoRsaNQ7A8

nap and dreamt

took about 3hrs worth of nap today. dreamt that we are on vacation, in new york. we as in the family
asked jo jo if she wants to catch waitress broadway show.
i called them but today all full :(

walked back and saw some luxurious fine dining restaurants.


-- napped so long - must be cos yday slept late and used lots of energy over the weekend listening to the course.

its 4pm now, just did a calendar for the gardening

writing

i should try to write more here, but about what?

any one got any suggestions?

Bazi, life, share trading, other rants?

garden progress

happy to say that finally we have a more consistent group to work on the garden.

met with LA21 and co last Tuesday and it was a fruitful meeting. we can proceed with our work so long as there is no complain about it. we are invited to attend a course provided by UPM as well.

aside frm that, ihope that Miriam and Eunice are able to guide us, become some sort of advisors

Na Xie Nian (You Are the Apple of My Eye)

I am late in watching this movie, but better late than never. It is a 2011* movie which I just watched this movie. The story is about how a boy who really like the girl so much but did not have the courage to ask her. In the end, they parted ways/stopped talking due to an argument (which in my opinion, was so small it did not warrant them to react as such).

I did not encounter such a scenario before, that much feeling, but yet I feel so much for the movie and the song. I pity how they ended (it is a movie based on a true story). The guy could have gotten the girl if he were to apologise or call her back. I am thinking he did not do that because he felt inferior to her and that she was trying to push him away. He did not clarify it with her, which is one of the point of the story. The girl was ready to accept him, if only he ask her.

It is a very sad ending whereby the guy attend the girl's wedding with another man. There was a point prior to that he called her out of concern that she might be hurt during an earthquake in Taipei. It was at this time that he has grown, to accept that it can no longer be and treat her as his friend, looking back at their happy loving memories dating.

I know it is unavoidable that there isn't always a happy ending but I felt really sad. Sad on how they ended (during the raining night after the fight, when the girl was scolding him childish) and when towards the ending (the guy and girl think back, what could have been, how happy it would be, and how easy it was, to say sorry (instead, they parted and cried).

the feels....

I felt the need to blog this. It is a very good movie. I love it.

*edited/updated



http://top10pinyinlyrics.blogspot.my/2011/09/translation-of-hu-xia-na-xie-nian.html

movies

just watched You are the Apple of My Eye. touching like sht. :(  dont like the ending *sobsss


Some of the good tw movies i watched. :l

Soul of Bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8etv5GQAKw
You are the apple of my eye - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYOvbFAoEQ
The Stolen Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0RlKQno-8

Quickie

Ran on sat, Mon (gym with chew)  and today (short run).  Badmintoned on Tuesday 9-11.  Will continue next week too

Class is tmr at Dorsett. Need refresher.

Sold vs, half of jcy,  some ysp and Priva.

Good good.  Clearing

tuesday badminton is on!

we are starting a tuesday badminton this week!

also ran 5k on saturday and 4.3k today. :) KEEP IT UP

sold VS and IRIS today. bought UCHI, Latitude and Esceram.


Food tasting with Robynn and Kendy
http://umwebzine.com/en/article/998
http://umwebzine.com/en/article/1437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXS3tchGEw
http://umwebzine.com/en/article/859
http://umwebzine.com/en/article/609

:D :D

Kendy ig live

Watched Kendy ig live.  Was nice! Hope to see more of her.

First time seeing ig live and is kendy

Sang two songs. One Chinese, one English (Coldplay ever glow?)  then talk talk....  She miss bak kut teh.

Looking forward to see them in Malaysia

reference

https://thinkcity.com.my/careers/work-with-us/

People i met

Workers at Frisky Goat who provided weekly coffee grounds to me:
Ghey
Diana

Two chinese I met at Munich during a trip (I think it was to the Neuschwanstein Castle. They are a couple.
Tse tsuang
I sh

The Finnish ladies I met in Rome with Nimesha, whom were hanging out with a Malaysian called Vicky. Too bad we separated hurriedly, didn't get their contact. :l She stays in Selangor summo.
Ilva
Methe

8&9/3

On the 8/3, met with the garden group at Betty's house.  I think it was a productive meeting. We are more aligned on our action plans and will continue  to push forward.

Collected my new sports glasses. Not very comfortable cos the lens are smaller.

Played xcom lol.

Read Kathryn dance till I fell asleep on the corner or my room next to the window.

9/3
Going to watch Kong with Jo

Reading power of less. Asked to wake up earlier.  Challenge accepted. Changed Mr alarm to 630.lets see how.

Excited for the grow rich with bazi next week.  Get to see Mindy...

Badminton full group this week! Yess

6&7/3

6th
Went to dbkl with Margaret and Mr jeya. Met with Pn Norazmin. Think she's good. Arranged a what's app group ASAP and coordinated to meet next week Tuesday 3pm...excited!

After that Yumcha with Margaret while we wait for Mr Jeya to sort some work. After that had roti at bangsar and visited free tree society.

Came home did a Google spreadsheet on the garden.  Ate chicken rice....

Gym for an hour with chew.  Dinner with Cady at Wong kok.

7/3...
Went to the garden to do some work.  Did about an hours worth.  Made raised beds out of the wooden planks we have..

Shares went up. Particularly vs n Hovid. Awesome!

Registered for Jy free course grow rich with bazi

silence

good stuff. I like how the movie explores something which you don't see often. Christianity in Japan back in the 16th century.

i really like how the director did not overpump certain scenes with CGI or background sound effect and let it be, quiet and empty. I can relate much more to that, and it feels like you are inside the Padre's mind.

I also like how logical and smart the japanese were portrayed in dealing with Christianity.

definitely worth watching!

In progress

Weeknd

3/3
Stayed at home in the end. Finished reading Chris carter I am death. Realised it is #7 in the series

4/3
Morning went hiking with yingling and Jolene at gasing.  Took about 1:15. Had rajus after. Followed by popiah at home.  Just stone around the whole day.

Watched logan at night.  Good stuff.
Watched silence halfway too.

Washed my headphones.

Watched Liverpool's first goal then fell asleep at the living  room. Couldn't keep my eyes open for the game. We won 3-1

3/3

Went Futsal on Wednesday, which  was  not too bad.  Ran  a lot. Assisted kf once.

Tiring though  because  I ran back and forth.

Went to garden  I think three times  already. I think it is taking shape.  But need more carton boxes to prevent weeds.

Thursday got gym with hl n chew. Followed by Mcd. I managed to catch  rnk Fb live  for the first time. Hee

Had a&w on Wed after replacing my missing license. Dinner was q bistro with chew.