Duck Feast ft. Farewell Dinner

Greetings readers. Very seldom that I'm in the mood of blogging in such a short gap to the previous one post that I have updated. This week was supposed to be a busy week for me but then it turned out to be so so only. It does not means all work loads had been accomplished but it means that next week would be double the workloads of this week. May God grant me strength & intelligence in handling all the challenges & obstacles. This post is basically about a so-called farewell dinner before I left to Korea. It was so funny that we called it as farewell dinner when I only left for 2 weeks. Ha-ha! Initially, they was thinking to send me off to the airport and also the idea of welcoming me back from Korea in the airport. It's very nice of them but it is really not necessary. I would feel terribly guilty that they have to purposely travel back and drive all the way to the international airport for a miserable 5 minutes hand-waving and kiss good bye moments or merely to welcome me back. It's not like I have left the country for 20 years. Ha-ha!

We had the dinner at the East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Kampar as we never dined in there before. Too bad Kathleen and her boyfriend not able to join us but sincerely thank her for the effort in helping me to do something that night while I'm enjoying my dinner. Coincidently, Mr. Gan (Cai Yie's boyfriend) also came down to Kampar to visit her beloved so we waited him to arrive only went for dinner together. Overall, that dinner - the duck feast was superb and the service provided was also very good.

Now, picture time:

That's all for now & I shall stop here. God Bless! Cheers!

P/s: I don't feel like putting captions for this post. :)

Hate to say Good Bye...

Hello readers! Finally, I'm back from Korea. I reached Kuala Lumpur International Airport last night around 11pm plus and went back to my uncle house with my parents and sister. Very early this morning, it's my turn to send my sister and my mother off to the KLIA again as they are leaving to UK. In less than 24 hours, I've been to the international airport like twice. How funny. Very special thanks to my dad that book their flight ticket on today, if not I wouldn't be able to send both my mom and sis off to UK. I hate to say good bye to people around me. In less than 24 hours, I have to say good bye to all the international students that I have spent 12 days with them and also to my love ones - mom and sis. Saying good bye isn't really that easy that are being shown on most Hong Kong drama series.

What more to one of my friend that had passed away yesterday for some reason. I do not want to say good bye to him either and I do not want to accept the fact that he is gone. I really cannot accept it. The last time I saw him was not really long ago but I do not know why he has to leave all his family and love ones behind and walk away silently by himself. I was saying and planning to meet up with all of my friend after I back from Korea and he is one of them. I was planning to get crazy with them and share every single weird thing that I encountered with them. Sigh. I pray that he will rest in peace. :(

People who know me, knows that I do not like to sleep. I spent whole day sleeping today with the good weather out there raining. I did not pack my luggage and just dump it aside and spent all of the time on the bed. I do not know what to do when I have a lot of things to do. I do not know where to start. When I was on the plane, I did draw out some points to be slot into the schedule. Out of a sudden, I'm blank for now.

Korea, a country that I have never been to, given me a lot of good memories and also a lot of inspirations that money cannot buy. It was very worthwhile for all the sacrifice of time and money to be there spent 12 days over there. The hospitality provided by the university was at the top-notch degree. I get to know people from different countries and it really widen my eye-sight and the best opportunity for knowledge enhancement. I'll speak more about my trip in the next few posts. I have massively huge amounts of photos to be arranged and to be uploaded to share with all of you.

The Brotherhood.

Taiwanese & Hong Kies with me

I will end here tonight as I'm getting a little moody. The rain outside the windows symbolizes the current emotion of mine.

Let's hope that I can update my next post very soon. Till then. Take good care.

Godspeed.

The End - July 2010

12 hours from now I would probably on the way to Kuala Lumpur International Airport. I'm currently having a mixture of feeling - anxious and excited. A very contradicting emotions running in me that I can hardly express it clearer.

I'm feeling excited that:

• I'll be traveling abroad sooner than I know.
• I'm exposing more to the outer world.
• I'm going to enlarge my social circle at a international level, finally.
• I'm going to learn to speak a new language in less than 72 hours time.
• I'm going to shop for crazy if I have the time over there!

I'm feeling anxious because:

• I'm representing my university - I can only glorify the name of my university and also the name of Malaysia.

Too many thoughts in the mind right now and yes, another sleepless night for me. Tonight no longer due to the workloads of assignments but it's for me to spend a night to pack my never-ending-packing luggage. Damn it! I hate to pack my own luggage. I wish I have the amount of money that I only need to bring my passport and cash then I'm ready to go. Well, I can get anything over there right? Fantasizing something illogical makes people happy at times.

Time to get back to reality & I gotta go back to double check I have nothing left behind.

Goodbye readers. God Bless.

Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan July 2010

A short post by me with all the food images with reduced words :)

Restoran Foh San

(It is always packed with people!)

So, the one was very good as well,that is:

Restoran Yoke Fook Moon

Taro Dumpling ( 香酥芋头角)

Fried Prawn Roll (炸虾卷)

Deep Fried Sotong Ball (炸苏东丸)

Long Xu roll (龙须卷)

Rice Noodle Roll (猪肠粉)

Yong Tau Foo (怡保酿料)

Glutinous rice chicken ~ Lo Mai Gai (糯米鸡)

Barbecue Pork Bun ~ Char Siu Baau (叉烧包)

Chinese dumpling stuffed pork ~ Siu Mai (烧卖)

Chinese dumpling stuffed with prawn ~ Har Gao (虾饺)

Chinese dumpling stuffed prawn ~ Har Mai (虾卖)

Ipoh Yong Tau Foo (怡保酿料)

Point-of-Purchase Display?

LOL (Over-exposed to Assignment Syndrome)

The Price Board

The receipt (not finalized yet)

Done!

Rating of food: 4.5/5

Rating of Service: 4/5

=)

Famous Home-Made Fried Chicken

(It's as delicious as KFC!)

The address :D

RM2 per pieces.

Value-for-money?

Even home-made Chili Sauce

********

Tapah for Seafood!

eel ~ one type of fish!

Bean Odor with prawns

"Sang Yu Tong"

Raw Fish Soup? haha

*Health-Conscious*

Hong Kong drama was uses this when they

visit the patient in hospital especially after operation!

The only vegetable that I take! :p

Another type of fish!

"Sang Yu"

:)

My Favourite Banana Leaf Rice!

(I was born & bred in an environment that mix with

different culture of people!)

It's rejoice to share their cuisines as well!

Side Dishes :)

Cheers, people!

God Bless!

=)

The Confession of June

Greetings readers. Rise & shine. Went to bed early last night due to the lacking of sleep for the past few nights. It's been a month since I last updated my blog. I've been told by my friends that I did not update my blog for so long. Yeah, life have been terribly hectic & busy for the past one month. Both good things and bad things happened and my mood also been very much affected by both things happened in my life. It's true that I have been claiming that I would like improve on how I handle my emotions. However, it's always easily to be said than done. I always feel regret after bursting out when I'm mad. I always regret when I'm overly react when good things happened as well. Is this really life? And, I should just live my life to the fullest?

Not everyday is a good day but I have always been hoping for a better tomorrow. I was once heard a very good preaching in Singapore. The main point is about never let your anger fill you until the sun set. That means you can have your day to be screwed up with all the unwanted things to happen, and yes you have the right to be super duper mad about someone, something and etc. However, when the sun is set, everything should leave behind. It teaches us do not bring the unwanted events to the next day and it gives us one whole night to get over it. The next day, when the sun rise, it's a brand new day with new hope. I have always wanted to practice this in my life but somehow or rather found it hard to be done compare to contemplate. Perhaps, I just need more willpower.

The month of June makes me realize that leadership is really wide knowledge to be learnt & apply throughout one's life. It is not merely about speaking management when comes to the real life dealing with leadership. June awakes me that I'm not a good leader! I always think I would possess the right leadership skills because I have been trained by my father since I'm very young. I have disappointed him in handling with leadership issue for the past one month. I do not have what it takes to be a good leader and ended up making something happened that I'm absolutely feeling grief over it. I have been intensively searching for good titles of books that how a good leader should be since then and also been waiting replies from my mentor for his recommendations on books that I must get & read rapidly. Knowledge from books are just part of the guidance for me to know and it takes a lifetime to apply on it. Till now, sometimes I still cannot accept that what had happened when I sit down quietly & peacefully in the room contemplate about it. Perhaps, I never knew that this could happen.

Regarding on my academic, this semester has got only 3 papers. Burden seems to be less at first, very soon realized that it was never easy for a final year student life. It is indeed true that less papers have more free time to be spent. It requires discipline to handle your life and time. Time mismanagement would make you feel regret at the moment of waiting for the results to be announced. There's no point making resolutions and do not commit in realizing it. God only help those who help themselves first, so I do not want to be one of those people who do things that I will regret later.

Alright, time for some sharing of good news that happened end for the end of June. I'm very proud to be chosen to represent my university to go Korea for a language & culture exchange for approximately 2 weeks plus. Thank God, I was being the only one selected from my campus and one more person from PJ Campus. I admit that I am not one of those Korean drama fans, and I do not listen to Korean songs and what a coincidence that I do not like to eat Korean food as well. Ha-ha! Yes, you are right. Nothing excites me much about Korea but since there was this application for undergraduates to go Korea, I was thinking why not give it a try. I downloaded the form and filled it up. There was a need for the applicants to write a not less than 200 words essay regarding why are you interested with the program. I "accidentally" wrote a little too long until 1026 words for the submission of the application. After a week or more, I was awoke by the officers that inform me that I'm being shortlisted & need to go for interview or something. I slept very late the night before, and the officer called around 9.30am. I was very blur and cannot really recalled what she had told me. I went back to bed for about 1 minute and paused for 0.005 seconds and tell myself: Hey! you're being shortlisted to interview for Korea program! Then, only I started jumping up & down and get excited. I went through the interview and to summarize everything, I'm being selected. Words cannot express the feeling of excitement of being selected. I share this good news to my parents and they came down on the weekend to visit me. Dad's advice was must behave very well and do not lose the reputation of my university & also the country. I'm gonna work my ass off for this semester to repay my dad for sponsoring me the air-ticket to Korea. Enough said.

Life is full with ups & downs. Sometimes I wish the bad things happened had never happen.

That's so much for now and I shall blog soon. Finger crossed. :)

Cheers! God Bless.