Autumn is here....\(^O^)/

autumn officially took over summer.....

summer break ended...

autumn term started...

I am so excited about going back to classes....

seeing those Notti. friends.....

until I actually sit in the class......

from 9am-5pm

with 1 hour break ONLY.....

it's EXHAUSTING......for the very first day of my year 2.....

especially I had just finish a 12-hour promoter job on Sunday....

brain was totally not working today.....

can't process any information in class....

feel weird when holding the pen and try to write....

it's time to get serious....

erm....after enjoying week 1...... ;p

all the best to myself.....and friends.....=D

mid-autumn festival '10

there is no autumn here....
but still had lots of fun celebrating this traditional chinese festival...
HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL...=D

my mom always cooks a lot every time when it's a BIG DAY.....
vegetarian dinner.....

my all time favourite vegetarian dish...
braised vegetarian chicken feet with mushroom...

the chicken feet absorbed the gravy like tofu pok....yum yum
and the mushrooms have a wonderful meaty texture...tender and smooth....
could have 1 full bowl of rice with this dish alone....=D

after dinner....

it's time to prepare for the tea and mooncake session..=)

light up the lantern and candles...

bring out the festive food...

little yam

"moon cookies"

pomelo

MOONCAKES

and Pu-erh tea that goes very well with the sweet sweet mooncakes...


sitting at the garden...under the full moon....

happy family time.....=D


received many mooncakes from friends and relatives every year....
and I like to collect the mooncake boxes...
because the mooncake packaging design are always so creative.....
some are just more than mooncake boxes...

let's see what I've got this year....

喜月堂 (Casahana)
box of 2

海外天 (Oversea)

(The Baker's Cottage)

六福 (Six Happiness)

you can put photo on the cover....
put your accessories in the small drawer...

there's a legend of mid-autumn festival at the back.... lovely...=)

Q-Jelly

first time eating jelly mooncake...
NICE!! *both thumbs up*

pikYee's favourite Mooncake Packaging design goes to....

*drum rolllll please*


The Baker's Cottage....=)

l'examen

......last Friday.....

it's the last class

of

my French beginner course

.....tomorrow.....

22 Sept 2010

it's the day

of

my first French test

.....now.....

study study study

hope can do well tomorrow

wish me luck =)

915

15 September 2010

today is the day that my Notti. friends leaving to UK.....
most of them go for the mobility program.....some transfer to UK campus....

ME and Vishnu went KLIA earlier at midnight.......
to accompany QuWern who's already reached KLIA the day before.....around 1030pm

15 September 2010, 7:00am

having an unhealthy breakfast at Burger King with them........
Sherrie joined us after 1 hour.....

15 September 2010, 8:30am

Met Gabby and his family.......

hanging around at Burger King before departure....
Gabby looks so different.......his hairstyle.......

15 September 2010, 9:20am

gathered at the departure gate.....
taking picture with the people who was going to leave.....




didn't get to take picture with David, Jing Xin and Hui Yen.....
because Dav and JX went to the departure terminal so early.....
before even we could say our bye bye to them =="
while HY...she has left 1 week earlier than these people here.....of cause she wasn't there...

15 September 2010, 9:40am

all of them have already gone to the departure terminal...... T^T

15 September 2010, 10:15am

Plane take off......

I'm not sure if they were on this plane or not....XD
it's taken from my car.....while driving...hehe....

QuWern, David, Gabby, JingXin, Hui Yen, Rod......
gonna miss them very much.......
Year 2 will be different without these crazy people......
best wishes to everyone.....=)
will be seeing the guys again in 9 months time......=D

Sekinchan

Sekinchan.....
seafood.....paddy.....orchard.....

these are all the thngs I know about Sekinchan.....

the plan of Sekinchan family trip was on hold for few months due to a cold war.....

it's finally resume on 1st day of Hari Raya....^^

we though all people had already gone back to hometown...

and the car could fly all the way to Sekinchan.....

we're so wrong.........

it took us 3 hours to get there.....==

the FIRST thing we did when we reached there....

got ourselves stuffed with SEAFOOD!!! ^^

all seafood restaurant full with people......

mostly KL people I guess....based on the car plate...

CAUTION!!! HOT and CRISPY!!
deep fried sotong

steam fish....catch of the day....

it's attacked before I could take the photo of its complete body...

kam heong CRAB.....

myself and the table will become very messy everytime eating crab....
but still love it....=)

MY FAVOURITE of ALL dishes
steam lala.....

they're not the ordinary thin shell lala we usually eat....
this one with thick shell.......
just steam with a lot of ginger shred, some rice wine and oil
simple but delicious...=D

me and my sis ate most of the lala.....yum yum.....

we had our seafood lunch at BIG seafood restaurant with air-con.....

at the end of the meal, we were guessing how much does it cost us.....
RM160? RM180?

it turned out RM109...... 0.O

dai dou lan..... (so damn worth it) XD

had a walk to the jetty after lunch.....

to see if there is any fresh seafood to grab......
answer was NO..... =(
the fishermen would stay at the sea for 3 days......

after refill the energy with seafood....

time to do our MAIN mission there....

this was the thing........the main reason why we went Sekinchan....

they grow along the road side of paddy field....

we're plucking the fruits for rats.......

because they are building a kingdom above the ceiling....

it's POISONOUS fruit that will bring their kingdom down... hehe...
there were few old men very kind...

they riding motorbike and passing by......

they stopped and told us, "it's POISONOUS de.....for rats...you can't eat...."

thanks uncle....we know....=)

me and my sis were busy taking picture while my mom and maid were busy plucking the rat fruit....hehe....

absorbing "QI" of Earth......XD

after getting enough rat fruit.....

it's time to search for the golden fruit for human--> MANGO
drive drive drive....looking for the orchard.......

there were a lot of mangoes hanging on the trees.....

but most of them still green in colour....
the owner said they can only be harvested after 2 weeks..... T^T

we can't go home with empty hand......

went to the rice factory to buy rice...hehe....

20 kg of normal local rice.....2 kg of Pearl rice....2 kg of brown rice....

hmm....don't have to buy any rice in the coming month....hehe....

the sun was going to set........

time to go home......

rest well and start my two days of hell in the next two days.... T_T

Milwaukee Steak Corner

Mom lazy to cook dinner last Saturday.......
so we went to this Milwaukee Steak Corner, nearby Jusco Cheras Selatan...
this was the second time we eat there....
the food there didn't give me a good impression when we 3

just wanna give it another try.......since my mom think it's nice.....

4 of us ordered 4 main course.....

Grilled salmon.......

this was nice.....=)


then the lamb.......

sauce and the taste was nice......
but it's a bit too hard.......
need to chew a bit longer before swallow.....

forgot what's this.....
it's Dory fish.....better quality one (according to the waiter)
ok.....gave it a try.....
nothing could go wrong with such simple dish....

it looks cheesy.....and I love cheese......
thought it would be nice.....
haiz.....disappointing.....it's tasteless.....
ask for a slice of lemon and squeeze the juice on the fillet....
ermm....taste nicer.......=)

we ordered ostrich steak too.....
accidentally deleted the picture....
just imagine the lamb steak with darker colour.....
that's how it looks like....
same type sauce was used as the lamb.....not bad....
but you just got to exercise your jaw much longer when eating it....

the drinks of the day........
XL dragon fruit juice....^^

this not-so-satisfied dinner cost us RM160+
maybe just order fishNchip next time.....if there's a next time there.....

21st MISSION!!

Continue from previous post......

so......me and QW took the bus together and back to KL on Saturday....
reached around 330pm.......
started the journey to a further southern state after chilling a while at my home......
we were heading to Seremban.....^^
not for the siew pau or crab....
we went there for a bear.....Vishnu.....
he's a merdeka boy.....means his birthday is on 31st of August.....

MAIN MISSION: give a birthday surprise
because both of us couldn't join his 21st birthday party on Monday (30th).....
so we came up with this plan 1 month+ ago......

oh ya....this is the birthday present from us and other notti. friends....
all the way from Penang......hehe....

I never been to his house before.....
my map/GPS was QW.....who has been there before.....
had some problems finding the way.....but at the end we still managed to get there.....
appeared in front of his gate around 830pm.....

he totally has no idea that we would be there......
he's so surprise.........
and we're so happy..........

MISSION COMPLETED \(^o^)/

Stayed one night at his house....
accompanied him to Jusco to buy some stuff for his birthday party......

took some random shot while he's driving.....

the shiny red watch look nice on him......

so....this is the guy we surprised.....^^

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, little black bear....XD

Penang FOOD trip

It was a hot and sunny Wednesday....
3.20pm: got on the train at Serdang....happy that the train reached 2 minutes earlier....

3.48pm: train reached KL Central......no problem to make it to my bus at 4pm....

3.50pm: train still stayed in KL Central....some people were happy that they didn't miss the train....

3.51pm: stupid train still stopped at the same place......but it's ok...... KL station very near only.....

3.52pm: WTH......train would only start moving when some signal was given...

3.53pm: called the bus company thousands times...nobody picked up..... hoping for miracle...

3.54pm: thank god that the train finally start moving....

3.55pm: idiot train stopped again after leaving KL central station....

4.00pm: the train finally reached KL station.....but it's also the time for my bus to leave....

ME.....dash out of the train to the bus stop once the door opened....
with a red sling bag on shoulder and big fat luggage in hand....
started racing with the time......100m seems like the longest distance to me....
I wish I could just run across the railway instead of using the overhead bridge.....

at the end......I was able to make it.....phew.... lucky day (^_^)v

4:10pm....bus started moving.....there's my journey to Penang began....

8:30pm....reached Penang safely.... qw came and pick me up from bus terminal...

it's basically a food trip....didn't go for sightseeing....mostly eat eat eat.....hehe....

we went straight for dinner at Kimberly street....
my first meal of the trip....

kuey teow in drain-water-looking soup + almond soup + 四果汤

let's me tell you what's inside this super NICE but bad looking kuey teow soup
pig intestine, pig blood jelly, pork, slices of duck meat, duck blood jelly and curled thick kuey teow
this bowl is full of flavor......yum yum....
it's usually sold out by 9pm....
ME so lucky that day.....hehe....

this is "cockroach" soup..... for people who don't like it....
this soup has same fate as durian.....people either accept or think it's disgusting.....
ME....could accept it...
the first taste of soup was alright....
then slowly the bitter taste buds on my tongue became active....
the bitterness stayed in my mouth for a min.....
to reduce the bitterness-->eat with 油条

but the best way is to order another bowl of sweet soup....

四果汤 contains 4 types of nut/seed/bean....
sweet solution for the bitter almond soup

Late breakfast in the next day.....
simple toasted wholemeal berad + Philadalphia cheese + blue cheese + chef Q special vinaigrette...

Dinner: home-cooked food prepared by qw and his family

didn't take the pic of the Japanese dinner.....paiseh.....hehe...
we had tempura...soba...baked mussel....teppanyaki beef.....

Friday was public holiday.....I followed qw and his family to Butterworth.....
for lunch...we had hor fun at an old chinese shop.......
the name is.......erm..........can't remember....
it's Ipoh style...hor fun with white chicken.....
the prawn wantan was nice there too.... =D

not long after lunch....qw brought me to a famous roadside Penang laksa....
no address....no name....it's opposite Tan jetty....

Penang people are really true food lovers...
can bear with anything as long as the food is delicious....

this is the laksa ......
yum yum.....but i think there's too much chili padi....
a bit spicy to my taste....

爱玉冰

best thing to have in a hot afternoon....
jelly is soft and springy....
it's refreshing and not too sweet with the lemon in it...=)

went for a walk at the opposite Tan jetty.....
quite a peaceful place........



Dinner.....qw's family planned to eat the fried kuey teow at somewhere I dunno....
by the time we reached.....the uncle was packing his stuff already.....too bad....
so we went to Jelutong....a place like Petaling street in KL....
had tong sui...fried kuey teow...popiah...apong...
the apong was so soft and light............it's the best apong I ever had.....=D

bungkus qw back to KL on Saturday morning....lolz....
for a close course mate of mine and best friend of his.....=D

didn't do much activity other than eating during this trip......
didn't take much picture too...... anyway.....the best memory is stored in my brain....=D
I am so grateful to QuWern and his family....for the great warm hospitality...
it's a great trip despite the rushy starting.....=)

~best memories~