Leisure trip on Seberang

This was my very first personal outing with VTSMers. We have been talking about going round Butterworth for food hunt but nothing happened until last Sunday.

FF, SY, SL and YC met up with me at McD Juru Autocity at 8.30am. Our first destination was 7 Village Noodle House. This was one of my frequent breakfast shop. I love the kuey teow theng very much especially the semi dry one. Their ramen was good too. Though a little pricy, it was still recommended and a well worth dish. The ramen was RM5.70 which came in a huge protion with generous topping...a half boiled egg, 3 sliced of pork and minced pork. The kuey teow theng was RM2.70 each with rich and clear soup base with minced pork. There were other side dishes available. Personally I favoured their fish nugget and lo bak. Their tong shui was good as well...with the correct sweatness and generous portion of ginko and longan.
Then we continued our trip to Jeti Batu Musang, Batu Kawan to board our boat over to Pulau Aman. The boat ride was RM6 per person for 2 ways and the boat was very frequent. We arrived at Pulau Aman at about 10.15am. We were blessed for it turned sunny after a short while of cloudy day. The breeze was cooling.

Jeti Batu Musang, Batu Kawan...the only jetty to get boat to Pulau Aman

4 VTSM gals and me...set to Pulau Aman

From the old jetty, we walked towards the new jetty passingby the Restoran Terapung. Then heading back and round the island on the other side. There were more occupants on the right of the island. We walked passed the very 'kampung' feel fishing village to Telaga Emas. It has been years since I last stepped into a real Kampung...no traffic, no chaos and no pollution.

natural born model...

the bread winning tools

After going around, we headed back to the Restoran Terapung for our Mee Udang. It was already packed up with customers and we managed to get the 2nd last table available. We were thristy but to our dissapointment, the coconut drinks were sold out...having no other choice, we have to get do with can drinks.

The restaurant received more and more customers. There were many who have to wait for their tables. While we waited long for our Mee Udang. The mee udang was good. RM6 per plate with 3 medium size udang. It taste good...the noodle was soft and flavoured with the soup base. You will definitely like this if you favour '鲜味'.

Until we were about to finish our meal and when i was about o get another can drink, the coconut drink finally arrived...yes the Thailand fragrant coconut was here. I could not resist the chill coconut. Finished it within few sips.

We saw more and more customer walking in and many with bags of prawn mantis. So I went to the jetty to check out. Many were waiting for the fishmen to dock, bringing their harvest. However baskets of harvest were sold off within minutes. 2 families bought all the harvests. We would have to wait for the next sampan if we wished to feast on the prawn mantis and crab.

So we went back to the shore empty handed. YC left early while we continued to Seberang Jaya food court for Yoyo drinks. Everyone love the peanut blend very much...RM1.50 drink that surely satisfy everyone at all time :D

It was still alive when we arrived on the other shore...fresh

Then we went to the Sunway Carnival Mall for a karaoke session in the Amp Square Center. This was my first visit since it was open years back. The system was much better than Reb Box in Gurney Plaza and at a slightly cheaper price too...yeah...found a good spot to kill some time during holiday. This was also a great activity after hours of eating non stop.

Finally for dinner, I brought them to Wai Sek Kai in Chai Leng Park and we patroned the Sim Corner Lok Lok Restaurant. I have not been to this shop but have heard a lot about it's great variety of sauces.

The sauces were delicious. I love the red chile sauce, the thai sauce and sweet garlic sauce best. The sambal udang was very good too. It has a lot of dried prawns...yummy!

SY discovered a stall selling Leng Chee Kang ...Hello Kitty Leng Chee Kang. It has a lot variety of ingredient...definitely worth the RM2.50. The stall also sells a bowl of leng chee kang with extra ingredient at RM4...This was surely way much better that the 'Leng Lui Tong Shui' at Jelutong Market.

the whole bowl was filled with the yummy ingredients

Our trip ended at close to 9pm...great day with great food and people!

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CBW...after close to a decade

This was my 2nd official visit to my alma matter CBW. My first visit was 2 years back for guiding movement while this time, I was there representing Intel in our Intel Involved Program, Marine Conservation Awareness Campaign.

The school got a major face lift at the hall, the co-curiculum corner(at the old bicycle shed) and it's gate(the short 100m field track right beside staff room was no longer there and so was the long jump ground) . Other than these, it remained pretty the same as a decade ago.

Back on my our activities there, I signed up for a volunteer program and expecting to share with a small group of students but turned up to be surprised to have the all its students listening to us. As the materials prepared by the OC were limited and goodies being less atractive, we had a little difficult to win the girls attention especially with such a huge crowd and the unclear slide from far back...Imagined our situation on that day...6 volunteers vs ~400 students.

Anyway, we managed to improvise the initial given game and involved the whole school community in our game...We also have the attentions of more than half of our crowd. They were responsive. I was glad that one of the girls actually listen to us at all time and managed to detect the wrong info that I delivered...I will remember the differences between manatees and dugongs for the rest of my life :D

Apart from the talk that we have, I managed to catch up with some of my old teachers...Pn Chew, Ms Pamela, Pn Hasanah, Pn Lee, Pn Lim, Mr Goh and few other. Glad that many still remember me. ;P

Thanks Gan, Nick, Asma, Acu and Jack for making this program a success! KF and Along too.

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Best present for MUM

My mum's birthday is coming next week. So my siblings and I bought her these presents.

RMVB player and Seagate 320GB external HDD.






Now with all these gadgets, my mum can watch her favourite show as she likes.

My 1st DSLR

Finally after long craving for one, I got myself a DSLR....my Canon EOS 1000D with 18 - 55 mm kit len.

So my first photographing event was on last Saturday. Got a few shots from Yeap Yau's house warming and hundreds from Bon Odori 2009 at Esplanade.

Please enjoy my productions from Bon Odori.

I think they are Malaysians....I love their summer kimonos...
she is our best model...many diff face expression and not much movement...good for me to train my portrait shooting skill

she has to face more than 20 cameramen at a time and for quite some time

the central stage

sis and a beautiful girl

paper doll for sale

Japanese hand painted vase and jars

Japanese dolls up for sale

colourful water balloon up for 'fished'

the most crowded stalls...fishing the baloon and fish up the gold fish '捞金鱼'

this little boy tried his luck for few rounds...finally managed to get 2

mummy hepling the model daughterat the fishing water balloons stall

金鱼佬 at the 金鱼挡

trying her luck...she managed to fish 5 to 6 with 1 paper net

these were the young drummers of the night

Dr Lim G E graced the festival

one of the many food stalls around...roasted chicken by xxx hotel...can't recall which hotel was that from

my sis enjoying the takoyaki

the takoyaki...octopus balls

the japanese pan cake...taste so so

the takoyaki...can get better ones at Jusco QB

pan fried

performers from Perlis and Kedah

they can really dance very well

this was their 3 continous dance...yet they could still be so lively

from the MJA and PJLC...demostrating the BonOdori dance

The rasa sayang moves were very beautiful...very graceful

Malaysians too could look very beautiful in Kimono

one of the best performance I managed to catch on the day

I like this girl very much....very lively move

with the ghost like mask

with the mask

the trainer...she was very lively...very energetic

great performers and great performance

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