Seremban BBQ Crab

My new job needs me to travel frequently... so, in my first week in the company, my colleague, my superior and I went to JB for centre inspection. On the way back to KL, we stopped by Seremban, (we have another centre in Seremban as well) and of course, we had our dinner there.
Talking about Seremban, what's crossing your mind? Siu Bao? All of us wanted BBQ crab! So, my superior introduced this place to us, San Yat Xing, she said this is the original restaurant.

When we finally finished our stuff, it's already about 9pm something. So, we only order a few dishes... just enough to fill our stomach.

Sea Coconut & Longan dessert
To cool down my angry stomach...

Fu-yu chili
I never heard of this before, and I didn't try, because I personally doesn't like the taste of Fu-yu.

Chicken with Chinese herbs
Nothing surprising...

Fish head noodle
I love fish head noodle, no matter how good or bad it is... love the taste of milk in the soup.

Here's come the crab - marmite crab
YUM... not the YUMest, but good enough to satisfy seafood-maniac - me

Yes, we were real hungry and this picture proved the destructive power of ours

青花瓷

词: 方文山 曲: 周杰伦

素胚勾勒出青花笔锋浓转淡
瓶身描绘的牡丹一如你初妆
冉冉檀香透过窗心事我了然
宣纸上 走笔至此搁一半

釉色渲染仕女图韵味被私藏
而你嫣然的一笑如含苞待放
你的美一缕飘散
去到我去不了的地方

天青色等烟雨 而我在等你
炊烟袅袅升起 隔江千万里
在瓶底书汉隶仿前朝的飘逸
就当我为遇见你伏笔

天青色等烟雨 而我在等你
月色被打捞起 昏开了结局
如传世的青花瓷自顾自美丽
你眼带笑意

色白花青的锦鲤跃然于碗底
临摹宋体落款时却惦挂着你
你隐藏在窑烧里千年的秘密
极细腻 犹如绣花针落地

帘外芭蕉惹骤雨门环惹铜绿
而我路过江南小镇 惹了你
在泼墨山水画里
你从墨色深处被隐去

天青色等烟雨 而我在等你
炊烟袅袅升起 隔江千万里
在瓶底书汉隶仿前朝的飘逸
就当我为遇见你伏笔

天青色等烟雨 而我在等你
月色被打捞起 昏开了结局
如传世的青花瓷自顾自美丽
你眼带笑意

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我好爱这篇歌词

这里的天虽然不是青色，我还是在等你...

Bangkok Trip (1-3 Jul)

If you still remember my "Met the Thief" story, it was happened a day before my Bangkok trip... so, of course I will share a little bit of my traveling dairy here. Why there's only a little bit? Because I was still very "pening" (dizzy) after the punch! Furthermore, it's only a 3D2N trip, merely a shopping trip, how much can I say about shopping? (Shopping is not my favorite activity).

1st Day
Woke up very early, first thing that I did was looking at the mirror if my face has swollen or bruise. Ok, my face still fine, head a bit heavy and my skin a bit tight (I think my face swollen a bit but not noticeable).
Once on board, I slept through the whole journey to Bangkok from KL.

New Bangkok Airport - Suvarnabhumi Airport
Very sophisticated and modern airport
(But I still prefer our KLIA airport)

A lot of huge traditional statues "guarded" the airport

Usually I will be very excited but this time, I left most of things to my friends. Our trip was a free and easy trip, we didn't arrange transportation from airport to hotel, so, instead of hiring cab to hotel, we engaged a half day city tour with a local tour agent which also include transportation to hotel.

There were 6 of us, separated into 2 groups in different cars. We told the driver we stayed in First House Hotel, without further asking or map pointing, he started the engine and drove us to our "hotel". I got a question here, is there any speed limit on the road? He was driving so fast until all of us kept finding if there's any speed limit sign.

When we reached, bell boy helped us to carry luggage to the hotel, and we told him we need to wait for another group of people. Manatau, waited for about half an hour (I went toilet, friend bought bread and we ate some, taking photos of their swimming pool and I felt asleep on the sofa in lobby...), my friends started to worry, so she went to the counter to check, OMG, that's First Hotel, not First House (FH) Hotel. The FH hotel was 2 streets further down the road. So, 3 of us were like mad girl, pulling our big luggage to find FH hotel.

Swimming pool of The First Hotel
(no house ya)

When we reached there, 3 of the other girls and the tour guide were waiting for us. We quickly throw our luggage to our rooms and without any minute delay, we started our journey by... lunch la, of course!

The 6 girls
From left: me, Eunice, W.Han, S.Fun, T.Min & Ester

The local mineral water, the container is a glass and the cap is made of aluminum
(similar to what we saw in Bali)

~Food pictures were at the bottom~

After our lunch, the tour guide brought us to a tailor shop which custom made suit or shirt or gown for tourist... ermm, quite pricey, so non of us get anything there

After that, he brought us to a jewelry shop...
(oh no, we were real tourists = water fishes)

Visit to their mini jewelry factory
The guy was making a ring

So cute!!!
Little golden piglets welcoming us at the entrance to the jewelry shop
I think these are part of their feng shui

Of course, some of us bought something... but me, still empty handed... head still dizzy, no mood to look into each of the item.

Then he brought us to see some of palaces (passed by only)

I have no idea which palace is this... Sanaranom?

You can't say you have been to Thailand without visiting a temple (wat)...
So, the itinerary followed by:
Wat, Wat & Wat

Wat Po
Wanna know more information, click on the link
I was amazed by the art of the building

This temple is believed to be older than the city...
I wonder, how the ancient people did this kind of art?

This is funny
Usually Chinese has "Mun Shen" (God of Door, guarding our house), in Wat Po, we saw this, served the same purpose but the God wear western suit and hat. Did you notice his bow tie? hehe

Piggy statues in the Wat

Guess what is this?
It's head of the reclining Buddha from the back
The Buddha is really really huge and it's gold. The Buddha is so big until his foot is almost equivalent to 2x3 of my size.

Then we went to Wat Traimit - Temple of the Golden Buddha
Because we wanted to go to China Town, so, the tour guide ended our half day tour there

The prayer was sticking the gold paper on the Buddha body

One of my favorite - water lily

Floating water lily

Opposite the temple, we saw a lady was feeding cats... a lot of cats... and most of the cats are very beautiful... I think she is a kind lady, feeding those poor abundant cats in the temple with her own money

~ Cats pictures at the bottom~

We asked the driver dropped us at China Town, we planned to have our dinner there and go back to hotel on our own

The old flats in China Town

Eunice was eating pineapple while waiting for our Pork Rice with Satay Sauce
(picture at the bottom)

BBQ-ing satay by the main road
Question: where's satay originally from?

One of the main road in China Town

Frankly speaking, while we were in China Town, I was really exhausted and my head became heavier and heavier...
Hence, I didn't border to take pictures of our dinner and so on.

After dinner, my friends were continue shopping till late night at Suan Lum Night Market. And I took a shower and slept dead on my bed.

2nd Day
On the 2nd day, I can describe our trip with one word - SHOPPING!!!
Platinum Shopping Mall was right opposite from where we stayed. What else a normal girl will do? Shopping lo... Day to night.
But, there are some tips for you to shop in such a big shopping mall:
1. Have to buy at least 3 pieces then only the owner will give you wholesales price.
2. Can't try-fit at all, but you can bring buy it and bring back to hotel to try, they normally allow you to change size or color.
3. If you see something you like, buy it straight away, don't wait or tell yourself you can go compare the other and come back later, NO, you might not find back the same place. And most of their stock are different.
4. Do not separate with your friends, or you might waste a lot of time looking for them.
5. Plan before you shop, or you will end up buying a lot of "non-sense" because everything seems nice.
What else? I'm not a professional shopper, that's just a bit of my shopping tips to shop in Platinum la.

Bangkok famous for their hectic traffic
Well, it's a well deserved "reputation"

3rd Day
Busy to do our last minute shopping and changing the clothes or things that we bought on 2nd day.
And in the morning I received a bad news regarding my friend's father passed away. So, beside than tired, I wasn't in mood for any. Just wish that I can reached home on time and go to see him as soon as possible.

Although I'm not a professional shopper nor a big fans of shopping, but look at what I've bought! And I'm the one spending the least! Can you imagine how many clothes that my friends bought?

My biggest satisfaction is the shoes that I bought, I bought 3 pairs, they are adorable right?

Tu, the cats

The food

If you ask me if I will go back to Bangkok again? Yes, but I think next time I really need to shop wisely. I actually want to get more working attire, but end up a lot of t-shirts. If there were no "punching" and "friend's dad passed away" kind of bad things happen, the trip will be happier lo.

Bumbu Bali

I MISS MY BLOG!!!!

I really miss writing my blog... but... I just changed my job, I need to pick up most of the thing as fast as I can, at least faster than other new comer because I'm actually not new to the company.

I joined back Totalife, yes, it's the first company I joined after graduation. Last time I was a senior nutritionist, head of division to Product Management under Sales & Marketing department, now, I joined back as Deputy Franchise Manager. See, give me such a big title, even though company might not expecting high at start but I myself wants to learn as much as I can and take up my responsibility as soon as possible. So, in these 2 weeks, I was trying very hard to focus on everything related to my job, e.g. how to set up new business centre, how to conduct training to centre operators, and next week will be going to learn how to conduct audit and inspection to the centre.

I draft this post (should say I only upload the pictures) on 5th July, but today I beh tahan and came home earlier to finish this post.

I heard about Bumbu Bali in TV long time ago, and I always passed by this restaurant every week, but I have nobody to eat with me in there. 2 days before leaving Wyeth, I was doing hand over to my colleague, so, we had our lunch there.

This post has dragged too long, I already forgot most of the names of the food.
If I'm not mistaken, it was grill chicken with mashed potato and salad
A Balinese & Western fusion dish

This is the only vegetarian dish in the restaurant
Spaghetti with lots of vege and mushroom
Lately, if possible, I was trying to take vegetarian food in the day

Balinese eat Nasi Lemak too?
Yup, another Balinese & Local fusion food

Unfortunately, I only has limited time there for lunch, actually Bumbu Bali is a very nice place, you can spend some time, sitting there, appreciating the very authentic deco there, listen to those authentic music too...
I didn't know how true is this, but my colleague told me that the owner (or the owner's wife) is a Balinese... so, the food that they served is very original Balinese cuisine.
If you have time, give it a try! I strongly recommend this to you!

Bumbu Bali
18 & 18-1,
Jalan Persiaran Puteri 1,
Bandar Puteri,
47100 Puchong.
03-8061 8099, 03-8062 6698

p/s: I went to Bali before and I love Bali... this maybe another reason why I recommend this to you :)

I met a thief

Dear friends, some of you might already know this, but still I need to share my story to the rest, and hopefully this can prevent you from experiencing the same bad incident.

The day before I went bangkok (30th June), I was going to overnight at SF's friend house at PJ section 5, so that we can share cab to LCCT the next day morning. She came back from work at about 10.45pm, she called me and told me that she has already reached home, then I told her I'm on the way, will reached her house at 11pm. (Oh, I drove my car there and parked in her house)

When I was there, I saw her house was full with their family cars, so I park outside, not very far, but not near also. Was also my mistake for getting down the car without got her open the door for me. When I was at the gate, I called her a few times on her handphone, she didn't pick up my call, then I called SF to get her house phone number, I didn't ring her door bell because her house was dark, I didn't want to wake all of his family members up late night.

When I was walking to her house, I already saw a Malay guy walking passed me, so, I thought he was going back home, after a few calls, I turned back, I saw him was walking near me. Then he spoke a long Malay sentence which I thought he was asking for direction, (you should know how good is my Malay now). Then I didn't say anything, just looked at him, then he repeated his sentence again, he wanted my handphone and my backpack or he will punch me. I was stunted, I didn't know what should I do. Then he repeated the sentence the 3rd time. I had no choice but turned my head and shouted SF's friend name loud. Then he repeated his sentence the 4th time, I shouted her name again.

When I turned back my head facing him, he punched me on my face... I have no idea which part of my face he punch, but my gum bleed, and my nose got a scratch and bleed a little, and my mouth also got ulcers. After the punch, I saw stars (yes, like the cartoon, saw stars when we feel dizzy) and then I blacked out. Then what I can remember was, he pulled my hair and I shouted out loud.

After that, SF's friend's mom and brother came out... The stupid Malay thief got frighten and ran away without taking anything from me. I fell down on the road, all I can remember now is I walked in the house on my own, then half way I fell again... head still spinning, sit down in her living hall and they told me I was bleeding... After a long lecture from her mom and she led me to her room, I lied down on her bed and I started calling my best friend, then only I started crying.

I told SF and her friend, if the next day my face bengkak (swollen) or turned blue-black (bruise) or I become very ugly, I didn't want to go Bangkok. But luckily the next day, I still can't feel much pain, and my face was ok... So I went to Bangkok. But first day in Bangkok I wasn't really feeling very good, at night when they all went out shopping I needed to rest in my room.

Don't worry, I'm much OK now, except the ulcers are still there. And I must also thank God that the thief didn't has knife or manage to take anything from me (my wallet, I/C, driving license, passport and money all in my backpack).

So, the morals of the story are, when you visit a friend,
1. Do not make assumption that somebody will open the door for you.
2. Wait until you get the person to open the door then only get down from your car.

Ok, that's my sharing...

The world has gone mad... everywhere we go, we must take extra caution.