"Aammm"...
"I luvf my porichg..."
"Oh...Yum-mie-Yum-mie"
"Mind my baby-slang yea..."
"Auntie-Faith is filming me?? Mmmm..."
"Come, Come, Come..." says Mummie.
*slurp*... licking wif my tougue
Eh...eh... *shake my head*
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Coco : The Poodle
Invitation from my Company's Managing Director to have dinner at his home. The main-course was "roasted pork" and this happened to be the second time I tasted the same chef-supplier who prepared it. And being in MD's home for the second time, I did not follow the rest to tour around his house. Instead, I was so eager to play with his poodle-pup that I took it out from it's cage and carry it around and play with it.
Jenny even remarked, "Looks like our Faith here won't be leaving the house early as planned since she is having a good time with the pup" with a chuckled. Oh yes! I lost track of the time when I had Coco (the poodle's name) in my embraced and occassionally, lazing itself at my lap.
Jenny even remarked, "Looks like our Faith here won't be leaving the house early as planned since she is having a good time with the pup" with a chuckled. Oh yes! I lost track of the time when I had Coco (the poodle's name) in my embraced and occassionally, lazing itself at my lap. Oohhh... now, I still can imagine it's smell even after my shower. I told Mr Leong that if his family going for a vacation, he can always get me to babysit the puppy for him. Hehehe...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Cameron Highlands
~*~ 31st August 2008 ~*~
Last Thursday, got an invitation from Yoong Han to join her family and herself to Cameron Highlands, Pahang for 2 days 1 night trip. OOoohhh… that’s interesting!! I agreed and was excited about it since then. I can’t recall anything much from my last trip there which is probably over 20 years.
We departed Klang at about 9am with Yoong Han’s 2-weeks old new Honda City and by 11am, we reached Simpang Pulai; supposed to be a new way up to Cameron and less winding. It’s about 90km till we reach Brinchang & Tanah Rata. While we driving upwards and passing thru some small towns, it was not as I remembered during my kiddo visit many years ago. Now, everything is very commercialized and they plant all the vegetables and flowers in nursery where you just see their roof-top-covers in white-plastic from the road. Not a beautiful sight though…
Almost reaching Brinchang, I had to request to stop to take some fresh air. I was feeling very uneasy and nausea. *phew* - the fresh air makes a lot of different. Weather upwards was simply normal. Doesn’t even feel the coolness and the sun was shining brightly. As we were heading to Tanah Rata, suddenly we came across the apartment that Yoong Han’s sister booked. Thus, we turned into the Parkland apartment, checked-in and leave our luggage & things.
Last Thursday, got an invitation from Yoong Han to join her family and herself to Cameron Highlands, Pahang for 2 days 1 night trip. OOoohhh… that’s interesting!! I agreed and was excited about it since then. I can’t recall anything much from my last trip there which is probably over 20 years.
We departed Klang at about 9am with Yoong Han’s 2-weeks old new Honda City and by 11am, we reached Simpang Pulai; supposed to be a new way up to Cameron and less winding. It’s about 90km till we reach Brinchang & Tanah Rata. While we driving upwards and passing thru some small towns, it was not as I remembered during my kiddo visit many years ago. Now, everything is very commercialized and they plant all the vegetables and flowers in nursery where you just see their roof-top-covers in white-plastic from the road. Not a beautiful sight though…
Almost reaching Brinchang, I had to request to stop to take some fresh air. I was feeling very uneasy and nausea. *phew* - the fresh air makes a lot of different. Weather upwards was simply normal. Doesn’t even feel the coolness and the sun was shining brightly. As we were heading to Tanah Rata, suddenly we came across the apartment that Yoong Han’s sister booked. Thus, we turned into the Parkland apartment, checked-in and leave our luggage & things.
As it’s almost 2pm, we are all hungry and I was warned by YH that today, they will be vegetarian due to the 1st month of the new Chinese calendar. I’m pretty fine with it but unfortunately, we looked everywhere for the vegetarian restaurant but couldn’t find any even after we had stopped to ask someone in the shop. Last option, we settled ourselves in a mamak-shop and I ordered chicken rice & milo-ice for lunch. Since, I’m so hungry, the large size serving of the rice, I managed to finish it.
Then, we head back downwards to check out the Ye Olde Smokehouse. There is a same branch in Fraser’s Hill that I did not get to savour their scones back then, thus I wanna try it here. Upon entering this place; they have beautiful gardens and unfortunately, I discovered that my camera failed me again. I no longer able to take outdoor-picture with it, I’m so sad *sobs*sobs* So, I had to depend on YH’s camera the whole trip.
After lingering around the old-cottage and the gardens, we settled in the garden chairs to order something to eat. But it started to drizzle so we decided to look for a cosy place to sit inside the cottage. For a start, YH’s sister ordered a set of their pot of tea+2 scones+1 fruit cake which cost RM33!! After trying it, it doesn’t taste good so, I decided to order a scoop of vanilla ice cream that cost RM5.50. They have their Smokehouse Ice Cream that cost RM11++ which according to the waitress, it’s sweeter than the normal which I had to shake my head to it. Why pay additional RM6 for something sweeter?!?! So not healthy…
Relaxing at a cottage is good and soothing but being in it too long makes me sleepy and I almost fall asleep. Our next destination is to check out the tea plantation. So, we head towards Ringlet. Somehow, YH’s sister got a little worried about it and decided to u-turn back and head back to Tanah Rata. Actually, my expectation of Tanah Rata are brown-huts selling vegetables, fruits, flowers and some crafts but to my much surprised, it’s a modern little bricks-town with fast-food and even Starbucks!!
We head back to the apartment to rest at about 5pm because there isn’t much can be seen and most of the markets and farms are closed for the day. Wanted to take a nap but instead decided to have my shower before we go out for dinner.
About 6.30pm, we found the Organic Steamboat restaurant which also served vegetarian-steamboat just opposite Casa dela Rosa hotel. Its’ a big crowd and we had to wait about 20 minutes for our table. I’m very amazed with the charcoal and high-chimney steamboat wok. This is really traditional way of eating steamboat. *chuckled* Also, my very first time to have vegetarian-steamboat my whole life!! Shall leave the tasty comments for individual taste buds…
Relaxing at a cottage is good and soothing but being in it too long makes me sleepy and I almost fall asleep. Our next destination is to check out the tea plantation. So, we head towards Ringlet. Somehow, YH’s sister got a little worried about it and decided to u-turn back and head back to Tanah Rata. Actually, my expectation of Tanah Rata are brown-huts selling vegetables, fruits, flowers and some crafts but to my much surprised, it’s a modern little bricks-town with fast-food and even Starbucks!!
We head back to the apartment to rest at about 5pm because there isn’t much can be seen and most of the markets and farms are closed for the day. Wanted to take a nap but instead decided to have my shower before we go out for dinner.
About 6.30pm, we found the Organic Steamboat restaurant which also served vegetarian-steamboat just opposite Casa dela Rosa hotel. Its’ a big crowd and we had to wait about 20 minutes for our table. I’m very amazed with the charcoal and high-chimney steamboat wok. This is really traditional way of eating steamboat. *chuckled* Also, my very first time to have vegetarian-steamboat my whole life!! Shall leave the tasty comments for individual taste buds…
Next, we head to the Brinchang night market. I did not get anything from here as there is nothing much that fascinated me. There is one stall selling a kind of kueh that I had never seen but the queue was so long that I did not know where the line starts. At the end, when I had the courage to ask the ‘pak cik’ who is making & selling the kueh, he informed me that his ‘batter’ is almost finish and he cannot promise me if it’s enough to sell to me. Thus, I had to dismiss my intention to try this kueh.
Headed home at about 9.30pm and continue on some of the vegetarian-steamboat that we “tapau” back because we cannot finish earlier. There is nothing much to do but to watch TV for the night and there is only 2 channels that are able to be received; TV1 and TV2. Had no other choice but to watch a boring & meaningless Chinese movie.
~*~ 1st September 2008 ~*~
Dreamland by 12am and it was very cold then because it started raining. And it rained thru the whole morning till 7am non-stopped. But when the sun decided to show it’s face, the temperature increased to warmer. After having a cup of coffee and a hard-boiled egg, we checked-out and drove downwards and visited a strawberry & cactus farm. We spend quite a long time here because YH’s mom and sis planning to get some potted plants back.
At the strawberry farm, they also served scones and other products made from strawberry. What caught my attention is the strawberry pop-corns!! And I was told it’s actually cooked with strawberry jam instead of adding honey/sugar as coating. I bought the scones here for RM4 and it tasted so much more yummie as compare to the Smokehouse. Highly recommended to eat here for the scones in future-visit.
As we heading downwards, we stopped a few places to check out the markets. Weather is pretty unexpected as it rains and stopped frequently. Along the way down, there are clouds just covering the roads. And the breeze is cool and I enjoyed the ride downwards. We even stopped by the tea plantation but we were told it’s closed on Monday thus we only took half of the journey from the main road. The road into the plantation is narrow and lots of honking and you will be happy not to meet some really kiasu-drivers who refused to give way whatsoever.
At about 12pm, I told them I had to get lunch before we reach the bottom because I don’t think I could take another winding road down with a hungry stomach like yesterday. So, we stopped at Kg. Raja for lunch. And we continue our journey back to Klang with a few stops at rest-area. Ahhh… what a trip… it’s really quite a disappointment with the farms and things are not cheap anymore. The place is not clean either and since it’s tea plantation, you can expect the Indian population to be the largest here and of course, the farmers are majority Chinese.