Bits and Pieces

KL for 3 days and all I get is approximately 3 hours of sleep. I hate the fact that alcohol works like caffeine for me. Bloody shit was awake till almost sunrise and when I finally can sleep, I am suppose to be up.

Dang! Nevetheless, it was awesome being on Team Sober and witnessing all the fucking funny things happens.

Time to burn those beer calories... after October... :)

Tuesday would be the last day of classes EVER! If I graduate, this class would be the last time I will ever sit in the class for a lecture! Well, not including the revision classes.

4 years! Just flew pass just like that. I can't wait till I am done with exams and then p-p-p-party till I get a permanent job. Or maybe I'll just continue the party... ;)

Tang Yuans

I am currently one of the most laid back university student ever on the face of the earth! This week, I don't have a single class and instead of rotting at home, I finally finished making my sister's wedding favour bags. They have been lying there since like forever...

Then I got bored again. That only kept me occupied for one night. So I've decided to make a trial batch of Tang Yuans! It is a custom to have them the night before the wedding. The plain ones are so boring. Thus, I decided to make the colourful ones. Started with orange.

I went searching online and found out that all I needed to to was to add in sweet potato into the flour.

Therefore,


Success! :D

Tastes yummy! Started off with the plain ones but then they were too tasteless. Added in gula melaka into some. Then I ran out of gula melaka and finally stuffed the leftover sweet potatoes in the final few.

Not too bad, really! Since originally the Tang Yuans are tasteless, adding anything else into it just makes the entire thing tastes like the stuffing.

Happy with them! Shall be making green ones soon! :D

Clear waters, blue skies.

Nothing else can beat the clear blue waters of Perhentian Island. Just imagine. Waist deep water and you could still see the bottom of the seabed. It is AMAZING!

Its such a shame that I don't have the underwater casing for my camera or else I would have taken some breath taking underwater sceneries.

Our journey began on Friday morning when I had to wake up at 6.15am just to get ready. Hoping that I will wake up early so that I don't get caught in the last minute i'm-rushing-so-I-forgot-something situation. In the end I still did forget my brush and the salt water here is killing my hair!

Let us move away from the bimbotic statement that I just made. We took an early flight to Kota Baru which was supposed to be an hour but somehow it seems shorter but it was actually delayed. Get it? Anyways, we arrived at the extremely quiet Kota Baru airport, took an hour van ride to Besut where we took a speedboat to the beautiful paradise island.

It was amazing to see the colour of the water change from a murky green-brown to blue.

After approximately half an hour with wind literally smacking you in the face, we see our stop! Watercolours resort. Our first reaction was, "Omg, we can ACTUALLY see the bottom of the water!!"

Checked in and immediately got to enjoy our first snorkelling trip. Damn it is such a waste that I can't take the underwater pictures with my camera. The underwater scenery was, as I've mentioned, amazing! Visibility wasn't as great because it was cloudy but it was still soooooo pretty! Even when we were in the boat waiting to enter the waters, we could see the bottom and the fishies!!

Fucking amazing I tell you.

By the time we were done, it was already around 5-ish. Took a shower and went for an evening stroll along the beach.

There was actually nothing else to do other than wait for dinner. Dad caught up with some of his friend who were here diving. Chatted throughout the night killing time. Went to bed rather early. Well, attempted to go to bed rather early. Stupid pillow was a rock compared to the awesome feathered pillow I have at home. Yes, I AM a spoilt brat. Instead of the pillow, I ended up sleeping on my jacket instead.

Woke up early morning the very next day and gotten ready for the hiking trip that we were notified the previous night. I guess they planed it for us to kill time since there was nothing else to do there in the morning and we were only entitled to 2 snorkelling trips for the entire trip.

Proud of my 59 years old mom who does not do any physical activities! She made it to the top! Complaining the entire way. I got lobsterised. My term for being sunburnt. The huge amount of sunblock that I had applied, I guess, was washed off by the sweat. BUT, the view up there - speechless...

I found out that the island runs on solar AND wind energy! We were at the wind turbine! I love the picture I took because the sky looked pretty too!

And the view from up there...

Priceless. Worth all the hard work getting up there. There was suppose to be some stairs leading up to the turbines but the jetty collapsed. Thus, we had to take the hike.


Went back to the chalet, lunch, rest and off we are again for our 2nd snorkelling trip. Got burnt on the burn this time but damn, it was worth it. The view was splendid! Saw a baby sharks swimming.

Got back rather late in the evening. Dad and I went for a stroll again to the other beach. Of course, as expected, more photos! :D


On the way back, there was a pretty cloud that looked like a mushroom cloud and little did we know that in the last hours of that night itself, it rained like there was no tomorrow!


About half an hour after the photo was taken, it was sunset. I was hoping to get a nice picture but the sunset was sadly blocked by Pulau Kecil. I bet it was just amazing but we did get a pretty sight too! Didn't manage to get a nice picture. It was a you-have-to-be-there-to-be-amazed moment.


Purple sky to end the day...


The next morning, my dad and I took the canoe and rowed along the beach. Even without entering the water, we were able to see the beauty beneath the surface. We only explored for a short while before we went back. Dad's friends joined us for a one last stroll along the beach. Took some last minute photos.


Then we returned to pack up and check out. Chilled at the restaurant while waiting for our ride back to the mainland...


See? Aren't I the best person ever? I go on a trip taking all the pictures, enduring the sunburn and you guys get to see them too! :)

Nevertheless, the name Perhentian was perfect for the place - a place where you stop and just relax.

Coffeholic

As usual, I am bored at home and decided to blog about one of the things that I can never live without...

Yes, A good cup of coffee and some nice music.

All of a sudden I feel extremely old but who can resist a nice cup of coffee while blasting sounds from the best bands in the world on iTunes? So I'm not that old afterall... :)

The Nescafe I make is my own recipe. For some reason it tastes different each time. Noone's perfect. However, it tastes awesome every single fucking time. Even my mom who doesn't drink Nescafe thinks its good (I have great influential skills *winks*)

I can't believe that I am here bragging about the coffee I make. Huh. Pretty lifeless, no? That I can absolutely agree. See, if I had a life, I wouldn't be here writing this shit while waiting for Sims to refill energy. Fuck that addictive game on Facebook....

I am currently running on caffeine. Alone at home. Listening to White Stripes. Dancing around (more like jumping around). Worrying about absolutely nothing. Trying to sing like Jack White while hitting the air with invisible drumsticks like Meg White.

Ahhh, ain't my life the best?

21+30

This post was suppose to be for last week but SOMEONE took ages to upload the pictures for me to use.

It my sister's 30th and final birthday where she will be celebrating it being not married. We decided to fill our tummies at Bubba Gumps at The Curve.

Colin, Christine, Sis, Me, Melvin

I shall spare you all from the pictures of the food since there are people fasting but we did enjoy our food and we could hardly move after that.

My cousin got some cupcakes and flowers for my sis and I. So sweet of him. :)


Then we moved our asses to Funky Villa.

Well, started out with a couple of beers.


Till someone (i.e my brother) arrived and somehow so did these.......



Those were just welcome drinks. There were like 24 of them. No idea what happened to them.

Then the killer came. The dices. Somehow THIS happened...


According to sources I had 5 tequila shots, 3 double shots and 3 bottles of beer, all in 2 hours. I actually only remembered half the night.

But as the night went on as these weird things started to happen....


Finally Christine and my cousin, Melvin started looking up to the skies in search of UFOs and I started to worship the God of Alcohol.


Overall, I remembered puking a lot and asking my brother, "since when you drove a BMW?"

All because of these little innocent looking dices...

Change is good!

Hey! As you can see there is a new layout as well as a new name!

The name was being inspired by 30 Seconds To Mars - Search & Destroy

I really like this line! Plus, they are my current obsession. Can't seem to shake of the invasion from Mars. I don't think I want to.

:)

Being Malaysian

Admit it. We Malaysian abso-fucking-lutely LOVE our food. I think if we could get married with food most of us will.

I have the privilege of staying where there is a Bazaar Ramadan literally just round the corner. It not the "round the corner" crap you tell people when you are like the other side of town rushing to meet them. It honestly is just less than a 5 mins walk there.

I am not gonna post pictures because this stupid post will end up being posted at god knows what time of the day on Facebook and I have the consideration of not making my friends who are fasting hungry.

But then again, I'm already talking about food. I shall take some nice pictures the next time around. :)

I had one of my favourite Nasi Briyani for the first day. Price went up but still tastes as awesome as I remembered it to be. One packet ayam is enough for RM9.50 is enough to feed all three of us. We did have some Ikan Bakar and Nasi Lemak as well. All of them cost less than RM20! Damn, I love Bazaars! Cheap and yummy!

However, I can't seem to find them Cekodok this year. I love those fried banana balls! D: