Langkawi Trip: Day 2 (cont.)

2nd stop: Beach activities & games

We went back to our chalet for some rest after visiting our penguin friends in Underwater World. After we were all energized, we went for beach games and activities at Pantai Cenang which was just across the road from our chalet.


Different sights of Pantai Cenang

Introducing the beach players

Beach sport players (Seng Chee missing from pic)

First, we played beach football; using slippers to form the goal post.
I was a really bad football player cos I never get the right way to kick a ball... hehe.


Beach football in action

After football, we decided to hop on the Banana boat ride. It was really fun.
We fell into the water twice. I had a hard time climbing up the banana boat during the first fall.
I think I need to lose those pounds d... haha


Banana Boat ride

We then played the monkey game in the water.
I think I might have drank a little bit of salt water during the game =p


Playing water monkey

Spent our day on the beach till sunset. It was a beautiful sight.
It was an enjoyable evening.


At night, the guys played Twister.
It has spinner that would point to a combination of (left foot, right foot, left hand or right hand) with a color (red, green, yellow or blue).
Players have to move the matching hand or foot to the dot of the correct color.
I took some pictures of them in funny positions... it was hilarious.


TWISTER game!

Light out!
Day 3 coming up.

Langkawi Trip: Day 1 & 2

Went to Langkawi last month from 11-14 July'08 with my collegues.
There's altogether 11 of us; me, Agnes, CK, Seng Chee, Yee Lin, Yung Yung, Michael (YY's bf), Tan (our tai lou), Uwan (housefly), Heng (so-called Torres), & Fion (Langkawi people).

Half of us went over to Langkawi on Friday to join the beach run on Saturday morning.
The other half of us(me included) went to spend a night in Agnes' place @ Alor Setar before going over to Langkawi on Saturday morning's ferry.
It was about 1.5 hours drive to Alor Setar from Penang.

Went for dinner at a Thai restaurant (which I can't recall its' name) somewhere at Alor Setar.
They have the most delicious Coconut Jelly that I've ever tasted!
The taste is sooooo heavenly.... I wish I could have a second helping but I was too full d.
Must ask Agnes to bring us there for dinner again... hehe.
Maybe we can export over to Penang and sell ;) (haha.... nice idea leh =D)

Yummy dinner!

The next morning, we took ferry over to Langkawi from Kuala Kedah jetty.
It was quite a smooth ride I would say.
We rented a van to travel about in Langkawi... the van is able to accomodate 12 people.
CK was the 1st person to test-drive the van.
Luckily nothing happen... cos he's only able to make the van reach 80km/h max! HAHA ^^


Refer to Langkawi map before we get lost!

Due to early arrival, we went to town to survey on chocolate & liquor prices.
Here I would like to show off my liquor picture collection ^^(muahahaha...)


Absolut Vodka, Martell Cordon Blue, Hennesey, Chivas Regal.... ^^

We went over to Pantai Cenang to fetch the other 5 who participated in the Beach Run.
Our tai lou's feet was all sore from the Beach Run. (tak boleh jalan properly d)
After that, we went to Malibest Resort where we'll be staying there for the next 3 days.

1st Stop: Underwater World


Me & my penguin friend welcomes you to Underwater World!

We went to Underwater World after having our lunch.
I had a great time there and took a lot of photos. But sadly, I don't wanna over-spam my blog with too many photos so I just selected out a few to post here.


Turtle swimming... behind it was a shark.


The biggest stingray I've every seen...

I saw a really huge stingray... was amazed by the size of it. I think it is at least 1.5m long.
Now I know what killed the Crocodile Hunter.


Beautiful sea creatures... beautiful sight!


Lovelace from "Happy Feet"

The penguins were my favourite!
I saw Lovelace in the flesh... hahaha.


Went to the North Pole
[Left to right] Heng, Uwan, CK, Fion, Agnes, Yee Lin [Bottom] Seng Chee, (me) Eli


Check out the tallest penguin... ME!! ^^

There was also a short 3D movie showing during our visit there.
It was my 1st time watching movie in 3D... cool. Evertyhing has its' 1st time. =p
Maybe I'll go for IMAX 3D movies in the future... haha.

OK. I will stop here for now.
Will continue on my 2nd stop in the next post.

Blog Vacation

Have not been bloggin' nor visited my blog for almost a month now.
My blog looks super outdated.

Anyways, went to Chef & Brew @ Crystal Point today for PK birthday lunch.
Had set lunch - Fish & Chips set.
The portion is really huge... I think 1 plate is enough to feed 2 person.
It comes with mushroom soup, ice-cream (i love it) and drink (coffee/ tea).
The price comes up to about RM18.60 per set (service charge included).



Have been having bad sore throat and occasion runny-nose for 1 whole week now.
It started after I ate a slice of Swiss Thin chocolate I bought from Langkawi trip.
My nose was bleeding just now... a bad sign of extreme heatiness.
Got to go pay Doc a visit tomorrow.

Can't Smile Without You

CHORUS:

You know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you're sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you

You came along just like a song
And brightened my day
Who would have believed that you were part of a dream
Now it all seems light years away

And now you know I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you're sad
I feel glad when you're glad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile

Now some people say happiness takes so very long to find
Well, I'm finding it hard leaving your love behind me

And you see I can't smile without you
I can't smile without you
I can't laugh and I can't sing
I'm finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel glad when you're glad
I feel sad when you're sad
If you only knew what I'm going through
I just can't smile without you

"Langkawi Penguin"

The biggest penguin species is the "Langkawi Penguin"

Sunset @ Batu Feringghi beach

The beautiful sights


...on a beautiful day


There was him... and there was her.


Memories were created to live on.


sampat-ness on the beach


Sunset on the horizon...


caught the sun at last...


self-designed postcard? =p

Hancock + Made of Honor

It's been quite awhile since I last updated my blog.
Feels like there's so many things that I've left out.
Now I'm gonna have to fly back to the first weekend on July '08.. haha.

My dear was up in Penang the previous weekend.
We manage to watch 2 movies that weekend.
Hancock @ Sunway Carnival and Made of Honor @ Gurney Plaza.
Tickets for Hancock was cheaper than Made of Honor.
Just because it was at different location.
Can't believe I had to pay more for an older movie compare to the new one.
So ridiculous.

My small talk on both movies:

Hancock

• Cool movie starring Will Smith & Charlize Theron
• This superhero is very human. I like that =D
• Great power comes great responsibility (... quote from Spiderman? =p)
• Reminds me of other "superhero" movies... how come the citizens do not complain about the mess the "superheroes" made? (except for "The Incredibles"... the one that I know of)
• Not everybody is so fortunate to be together with the ones they love... even if they were meant for each other. In the end, you still need to face reality. (let me reflect on this...)
• Love can make you strong and weak at the same time. (not only happens to Hancock..)
  

Made of Honor

• Starring Patrick Dempsey (I love his eyes) & Michelle Monaghan (she's gorgeous)
• Reminds me of "My Best Friend's Wedding"... just it was the other way around.
• Sometimes you do not realize you're in love with the person until you realize you were about to lose him/her.
• Romantic comedy's are fun

Ice Ice Baby @ AutoCity, Juru

Wanted (2008)

Finally I was able to watch "Wanted" on my 2nd attempt... lol.
Great Jolie movie I would say... cannot imagine having bullet-bending talent on me.. haha.
Reminds me of playing tennis when they bend the bullet.. so cool.
Overall rating: 4 stars

Posing with foood... (Ice Ice Baby @ AutoCity)

Went to Ice Ice Baby @AutoCity, Juru with Sze Ni and Lee May on last Wednesday night after accomplishing my mission of watching "Wanted". We had a nice long chat until ppl wan tutup kedai only cabut. Girls, we have to do this more often... haha.


My pals... peace out~


Beautiful lightings... nice environment to juz chill out and talk


The fooood we ordered.....

Fried Cheese Chicken : can taste that it's definately "fried" bcos it's crispy
Fried Tofu : I prefered this dish compared to the others
BBQ Pizza : You know, nothing beats the pizza from Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut still the best =p
Cheese Brocolli : Menu picture look like big portion but the real thing is actually not that convincing. Do not quite fancy the way-too-cheesy taste of it.


Desserts... yummm..... love the Mixed Fruit Snowy Mountain :9
However I don't fancy Mango... everybody, plz take note... hahaha (perasan-ness)

love the desserts [full-stop]
love the environment [full-stop]

Looking forward for another round of Ice Ice Baby
(for the desserts, at least =D )

Silly Songs

Instructions:
a. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on shuffle.
b. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
c. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN, NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
d. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.e. Put this on your blog.

1. If someone says, "Is this okay?"
So Close (Enchanted OST) - Jon McLaughlin
(haha..so close to OK but not entirely OK =p)

2. How would you describe yourself?
Feels Like Tonight - Chris Daughtry

(I'm a night person)

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
Umbrella - Rihanna

(huh?)

4. How do you feel today?
Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
(huh??)

5. What is your life's purpose?
Teardrops on my guitar - Taylor Swift

(gosh... I must be a real emo my whole life)

6. What is your motto?
Realize - Colbie Caillat
(I need to find out what haven't I realize?)

7. What do your friends think of you?
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

(yes... I'm your friend.)

8. What do you think of your parents?
Sexy Can I - Ray J
(OMG!! =.=)

9. What do you think about very often?
Tatoo - Jordin Sparks
(no, I don't)

10. What is 2+2?
Is it you - Cassie
(So are you 4?)

11. What do you think of your best friends?
How to save a life - Fray

(Come save me!)

12. What do you think of the person you like?
Think of Me - David Archuleta
(ask them to think of me more often... haha =p)

13. What is your life?
Handle Me - Robyn
(Spend my whole life trying to handle myself?)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Amazing Grace - Chris Tomlin
(huh?)

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
No Air - Jordin Sparks (ft. Chris Brown)

(cannot breathe... haha)

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Always Be My Baby - David Cook
(WOW!! Definately ^^)

17. What will they play at your funeral?
Echo - Trapt

(wah... still can hear my echo from spirit land? haha)

18. What is your hobby/interest?
Love Song - Sara Bareilles
(hmm... maybe singing love song?)

19. What is your biggest fear?
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
(NO FEAR!! muahahaha)

20. What is your biggest secret?
Let It Be - Brooke White
(wah lau... so dangerous!)

21. What do you think of your friends?
Clumsy - Fergie
(hahahaha... oops... I didn't mean that =p)

22. What will you post this as?
No One - Alicia Keys
(hmm....)

23. What song would you play during your first time having sex?
Bubbly - Colbie Caillat

(adui... not romantic la)

Leisure Friday

New Starbitez Pizza advert!

Went for Starbitez Pizza @ Pizza Hut last Friday for lunch with KK.
Took Super Supreme flavour for the pizza. Yummm...
The pizza has "fingers" which are actually mini hot-dogs.
It was sliced into "heart shape"... and I find that rather amusing... haha
Or maybe I'm just easily amused =p


Heart-shape pizza

Went for Tepanyaki dinner @ Yaki Teppan in Sg. Nibong with collegues and meeting up with Lay Ching.
It was a pleasant dinner and I had my tummy filled up to the max as the portion was huge.
Had combination of chicken, fish and prawn tepanyaki.
It was a set dinner and it comes with garlic rice, salad, miso soup, fried wanton, jelly (for dessert) and juice.




After dinner some of us went for movie.
Supposed to be watching "Wanted" by Angelina Jolie but.......

The ticket bought online was for Thursday's movie!

Hahaha...

(Tan was feeling very TL... definately not his day... ~.~
maybe he woke up from the wrong side of the bed... hehe)

But I guess when we began to look back on this incident in the future, we'll have a good laugh at it =D
No worries.


So finally we did not manage to watch "Wanted" but we went for "The Happening" instead.
It started out grusome. And the grusome-ness continues.... *lol*
"The Happening" tells of a certain pollen or chemical which is released from plants.
These pollen firstly cripples the human/animal brain which causes the malfunction of action and speech.
It then triggers the brain to pursue suicide!

Can you imagine everyone around you suddenly dies by commiting suicide?
Can you imagine the odour of dead bodies lying around everywhere?
This really makes me sick to the stomach.

But this story makes me think...
This is how humans have been treating nature and the environment all these while.
We should all put some effort to save our nature and environment.
What if one day nature comes back for its' revenge? *evil*

Durian Rice

Durian Rice recipe =p

Had Durian Rice for dinner last nite
(did not have actual photos of it cos I finished my meal before I remember to snap the photo... it was too delicious =p)
It taste sooooooo darn good! *thumbs-up*
So easy to prepare and taste so great!
All you need is the skill to open durians and, of course, the durian season!!! *lol*

How to prepare:
1. Prepare some salt water and cook some white rice.
2. Chill up some durians in your fridge. (well, I like it chilled!)
3. Next, ready to be served!

How to serve and eat:
1. Serve rice (with salt water) and the chilled durians.
2. Next, make sure your hands are super clean!
3. Finally, you are ready to dig into your Durian Rice with your HANDS (yup.. that's the way to eat it *winks*)


Well, at least that is how I eat it.
I've heard of different ways of eating Durian Rice.
Some had coconut milk mixed in, others have milk mixed in.
Some uses glutinous rice (sticky rice) instead of plain white rice.
There are sooooo many ways to eat it, just try it out!

Durian lovers paradise~

(NOTE: gotta watch out the burps and farts! It may be nasty... hahahaha)

Mature VS Realistic

I have always been mixed-up how people describe a person as mature or realistic.
Curious about the different meanings of Mature and Realistic, I looked up Merriam-Webster Dictionary online and found these:

Mature
based on slow careful consideration <mature judgment>

Realistic (Realism)
concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary

In my own words I guess realistic means you're able to differentiate between reality/fact and fantasy/dream.
Words that I think would associate with it is solid, tangible, high-possibility, safe.
(this is disasterous for children book-writers =p)

Mature is based on your consideration or judgements.
Whether how well one is able to think critically before deciding.
(does this mean fast decision-making means immature? =p as long as it careful enough?)

One can be realistic and yet immature.
But can one be mature and yet un-realistic?
Realistic is part of the sub-set for mature-thinking?
hmm... (am I learning anything here? haha... maybe I need to get an English tutor =p)
Interesting, isn't it?
Think about it.

Just another wild pondering of my brain.

Look at the stuff I have for you to ponder:

The older we get, the more mature and realistic we'll become.
TRUE or FALSE?

How do you describe an older person?
a. Mature? or just simply Realistic?
b. Their constant contact with reality makes them more
mature? or more realistic?

Paradise Cafe

Happy Belated Father's Day to all fathers out there!
(...and to my dad of course; whom I have greeted first-hand yesterday =p)

Was too lazy to blog these few days...
Just wanna chill and have some space for myself to........... SLEEP of course! =p
It was a sleep of all major sleepsss.... haha (crappin')
What a tiring weekend... went out on FRI after work for dinner and straight to sing k until 4am.
I don't think I can keep on doing this, man. Gosh... it was tiring =.=

Well, anyway, we had dinner at Paradise Cafe which is opposite Queensbay Mall.
The environment was nice and they have live music after 9pm.
It is a great place to hangout, chill and have a drink with your pals.
However, I do admit that I'm rather disappointed with the food there.
Maybe the main reason was because it was a cafe where you were more expected to go there for a drink instead? haha... I don't know; but can you imagine eating sweet and sour chicken rice with 3 slices of chicken? =.=

Think of me

Think of me, think of me fondly
when we’ve said goodbye
Remember me once in a while
please promise me you’ll try
When you find that, once again, you long
to take your heart back and be free
if you ever find a moment
spare a thought for me

We never said our love was evergreen
or as unchanging as the sea
but if you can still remember
stop and think of me

Think of all the things
we’ve shared and seen
don’t think about the things
which might have been

Think of me, think of me waking,
silent and resigned.
Imagine me, trying too hard
to put you from my mind.
Recall those days
look back on all those times,
think of the things we’ll never do
there will never be a day,
when I won’t think of you

Weekend Trip

Went to KL last Friday by bus. Got the bus ticket last minute so KL bus were sold out for Friday.
Had to get the B'worth-Klang bus which cost me RM35!
After the petrol price increase, B'worth-KL bus raised from RM24 to RM30 (increase RM6)
If I had bought the ticket earlier, I could have still been paying RM24 for the ticket =.=

I had a great time during the weekend.
Went to Genting on Saturday; a surprise plan from bear. =)
The place was crowded with people as it was a public holiday (Agong's Birthday)
Wanted to go for the Outdoor Park but it was raining that day and outside is all cold and misty.

Everyone crowd for the indoor rides and activities.
Can't imagine the queue you have to go through to get a ride.
Instead of going for rides, we opt for some arcade games in the end.
Seems like a lot of people is crazy 'bout the basketball hoop game.



Ferris Wheel ride at First World indoor park


Turned into a 5-year-old kid!!

Spent most of the time just strolling through Genting.
The cooling weather was great even though I wished it wasn't raining.
Came down from Genting about 6pm and went back to Wangsa Maju for dinner.
Despite the exhaution of walking whole day in Genting, we went to KLCC... lol.
My leg was killing me then but we manage to get a great photoshot of KLCC Petronas Twin tower.

On Sunday, we went to Timesquare & Sg. Wang for movie & window shopping (a lot of energy, rite? *lol*)
Sg. Wang was crowded as usual.
There was Ultraman Showcase going on in Sg. Wang... haha.
Reminds me of my childhood days....


Ultraman appearence in Sg. Wang


Went for Kungfu Panda in GSC Timesquare.
The movie is really funny and I enjoyed it a lot.
Voices by actors like Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jacky Chan & Angelina Jolie. The Panda's (named Po) voice is by none other than Jack Black, the funny fat guy from "School of Rock" and band "Tenacious D".

My rating for this movie: 4.5 stars!

Lastly and the most important part of my wonderful weekend is my baby =D
I wouldn't had the wonderful weekend without him. *muakz*
Thank you for the cute bears ^.^
Escpecially for all the sweet memories~


Cute ar?

Just came back from KL yesterday.
Exhausted but contented =)



Took Transnasional bus back to B'worth.
And guess what?
One day before, Transnasional bus had an accident; leaving 2 dead and 19 injured. Scary~~~
Can't imagine that it could've been me @@

Welcome to KL

KLCC night view - K810i

Petrol Price increase to RM2.70

Arggghhhh..... This is so sick !@#$%^



Malaysia petrol price increase RM0.78.
From RM1.92 to RM2.70... that's a wooping 40% increase!
Sigh... petrol price increase, food price increase, everything also increase!!!!
....but salary never increase!! *cry*

Maybe I should find a job in Seberang Prai/ B'worth/ B. Mertajam liao...
No point of renting out here in Penang island.
Any recommendation for IT work in Penang mainland?
Please leave me a comment. Thanks =)

Petrol to cost RM2.70 from midnight

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Wednesday announced the new price for petrol is RM2.70 a litre, effective midnight tonight.

He announced that the price of petrol would be increased by 78sen and diesel by RM1.

The 40% increase in petrol price is part of the new fuel subsidy plan the Prime Minister announced at 5pm Wednesday.

The price of diesel goes up to RM2.58 from RM1.58.


- quote from TheStar.com.my

Ready. Get set. *SNAP*

My 1st photo taken with my K810i.

Couldn't get my hands off my 'new toy'... hehe.
Have been testing out the camera features and games on my new phone.
The camera performance is really cool and satisfactory indeed.
There are 4 camera shoot modes altogether.

1) Normal - This is the default mode. Used for usual photo taking.

2) BestPic™ - This feature have 9 pictures to be taken automatically one after another within that 1 second when you snap the photo. It then allows you to choose the best picture within the 9 pictures. So in case you were to blink your eye during de photo shoot, you may still have a chance to get the one where your eyes were open. =)

3) Panorama - This is a really cool feature. I used to be so thrilled by how people can get a panorama photo cos the photo is just sooo wide! I have no single idea how it is done. Now, I can capture panorama photo straight from my K810i. Is this cool or what!?


Example of a panorama

4) Frame - Like most camera phones, they have funny frames you can use to snap a photo. It gives me the power to transform any normal people into bunnies!! *lol*


Easter bunny?