it’s been a month long….sigh!

well, well, well….it’s been a month long since i last blogged about the japanese food i had in sunway pyramid. time really flies…

hmm, let me see…. after the japanese food treat in pyramid, i was so tied up with my project schedule. Besides that, I have also signed up a course in the end of June 2008 to further make my schedule more hectic!!! hahahah!!!! Crazy me!

And then, i am off to brunei in mid of july to visit my sis and my beloved niece, justene. ^_^ Right after that, here i am… stuck in the office again with tons of workload. sigh!!!

oh yeah, not forgetting too… early next mth, my sis-in-law, Kathy will give birth to a baby boy. By that time, i will ‘naik pangkat’ and become ‘ah kor’ (auntie) already. So we’ll have a new family member in the Yap’s family. ^_^ My bro has decided to name his son, Dylan Yap. I am so excited and can’t wait for that moment to come as i can see Kathy too is very excited about it!

This excitement too has traveled as far as to KB & to Brunei. hehehe!!! My mum has even bought a new Doraemon wardrobe for Dylan as Kathy will be going back to KB for her confinement. :) My sis in brunei too has bought many clothes and also those baby stuff for Dylan. So now u see, i went to brunei apart from visiting my sis & justene, i am also the so-called ‘Santarina’ to bring Dylan’s stuff back to KL.  T_T  hahaha!!!!

Anyway, i enjoyed myself during the weekend break in Brunei eventhough it was such a short trip. It seems that flying to brunei has been my annual affair as last year i also went to visit my sis about this time. It has been 2 years in a row. :) Hope this will be the annual trip for the many years to come. :)

Ok, time to do my revision… will update again in future. Till i blog again…good nite & take care everyone!!!

 

Zaro Izakaya in Sunway Pyramid

Last friday we went to this japanese restaurant called Zaro Izakaya in Sunway Pyramid for dinner. It was a birthday treat for our lovely friend, WW.

We arrived there late coz we had spent approximately 30 mins just to find a carpark space. IV and AN has arrived much earlier and they managed to get a table for us.

This restaurant is located at the Orange Boulevard, behind the Haagen Daaz outlet. Facing the highway leading to NPE.

First, i realised the food is kinda pricey! A small bowl of potato salad costs RM10!!! and second, the decor of the restaurant sucks! They had this green neon lightings which do not go with the magenta + maroon decor lights. Sigh! And also, the music is TOO loud!!!!

Do u know that we had to repeat the orders a few times because the waiter is not able to listen to us clearly coz of the loudness of the music???!! and worst still, he had placed wrong orders to us and charged us wrongly!!!

Frankly speaking, i will never go there again for dining the next time. Food so-so only, price too expensive & decor sucks!!!

Oh, and take a look at this picture which i took from the restaurant that nite. Realise something is weird about this photo?

the water meter is located so high up. Almost touching the ceiling of the restaurant. funny rite?! i wonder how the SYABAS ppl who do meter reading going to take the reading. Must use ladder to climb up and read? or use binoculars. hahahah!!!!

anyway, here are some of the food we had on that nite.

seafood salad                                          hot sake

baby octopus soft shell crab

sashimi

tako

handroll: soft shell crab, salmon cheese and california temaki

chicken katsu udon                                  beef udon

many types of sushi

As usual, after the dinner is the photo session with the birthday girl, WW. ^_^

group photo

crazy pose…showing only the heads. hahaha!!!

Anyway, we had lotsa fun that nite coz after the dinner, we went clubbing in CoCo Banana (formerly known as Q-Bar). It was an all-girls nite out & we partied till the wee hours! :)

***Photos of clubbing is not available coz camera out of battery after camwhoring too much in the restaurant. :P

For more photos, pls go to http://picasaweb.google.com/eanmei

 

guess what?…i am flying again…hahaha!

Yes, u read it right! i am flying again…. ^_^ do u know that Air Asia now is having mega sale?! all fares to many destinations are going very cheap. I just loved this!

i just bought a return ticket to Brunei. Yay!!! Tot of giving my sis a surprise visit but then decided to inform her earlier. Worried later no one come & pick me up in the brunei airport. hahaha!

I will be away from 11th July to 13th July. Yeah, just a short weekend trip. I miss my sis and also my beloved niece, Justene. Normally my sis will only be back during the CNY to our hometown.

Sigh! everyone’s busy…everyone has their own commitment…well, that’s life. Anyway, now at least i can look forward to july. My last trip was in May 2008 and now i am dreading for another holiday. hahaha!

ok then, bedtime now…tomorrow gotta work again… haih!!!

good nite!

 

cute gift from a friend…

 

Cute or not? this is a gift from a friend… the actual giraffe in the manual book does not have the ribbon and the necklace one. This is a ‘modified’ version already. hehe…

Anyway, thanks to SL for making me this giraffe and many thanks to MS for your guidance to SL and making this giraffe a reality. :P I really appreciate it a lot! ^_^

what?!!! petrol up by 78 cents!!!

Today when i received the news from the 2 sms-es from my friends, i was shocked! a tremendous increase of 78 cents to RM2.70 per litre of pump petrol starting 5th june 2008. It is ridiculous!!! soon u will see more price hike in other things, example rice, cooking oil, flour, sugar and etc.

 

It is sad to know that things will start to increase price but our wages will still remain…. i don’t understand how the low income earners going to cope with this? They are the most affected ones and we, the middle income earners, also felt the pinch.

 

In tonite’s Buletin Utama news just now, the PM stated that our petrol price shall be revised every month, depending on the market price. I wonder la, if the market price of the petrol really go down, then will our PM revised the petrol tariff to a lower rate? or just leave it as it is the previous month? Can anyone give me some comments on that? T_T

sigh! i think i better go to sleep now. The more we think of it, we also can’t change the fact….then, go to bed now!!!

good nite…

time really flies...

When i was reading thru emails today, i just realised that 1 month ago i was in Beijing, China. Enjoying the beautiful sceneries of China. And today, i am now in Malaysia...back to my habitat...T_T


Hmm, well, jz a little 2 weeks ago...i am actually not in Malaysia again. hehehe.... well, i just love to travel. Sometimes it is like i am addicted to traveling. :P I must control this habit if i were to be able to save up money for my ultimate trip, which is going to Europe for 1.5 to 2 month (backpacking style). I have calculated the sum. I need roughly about RM15 to RM20k for my survival in Europe for 2 months which includes my airfares, accomodation, food, entrance fees, etc etc...

Ok, well...actually i was in Indonesia from 15th to 19th May 2008. Went with 4 of my other friends. We actually departed to Surabaya on 15th May and flew bck to Malaysia from Solo on 19th May. Adventurous leh? Well, this is one of the cheap way to travel to 3 places in such a short time. We reached Surabaya at noon time and decided to take an evening train to Yogyakarta (that's where the Borobudur temple is). Spent the rest of the days in Yogyakarta until our very last day when we checked out from our yogya hostel & headed to Solo airport (which is abt 2 hrs drive from yogya town centre).

Surabaya...hmm, wat can i say.... didnt really travel to the places of interest becoz we were out of time. Y? coz we took the wrong public transport & headed to the wrong destination. Wasted some time there actually. Lastly, we ended up in a food court in a shopping mall, had our late lunch there before headed to the train station to get the train tickets to Yogyakarta. Timing was just right that we finally boarded the train at 4pm local time.

We arrived Yogyakarta at almost 11pm local time. Went to look for a few hotels but room all fully booked. gosh! we had a hard time looking for rooms until there was this indonesian guy helped us. Thank goodness we met him. I cannot imagine where we would end up that night if it wasn't him. hehehe....

Anyway, the next few days in yogyakarta was filled with sight seeing to the borobudur temple, mendut temple, volcanoe merapi, prambanan temple, dieng plateu and etc. Well, i guess u all can go and take a look for yourself for those beautiful pictures i took from there.

go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/eanmei

ok then, got some errands to run. till i blog again in future...take care everyone!!! muaks!

Memorable trip to Beijing, China

hellloooo everyone..... i am back from Beijing!!!! It was a very enjoyable trip. Not forgetting, it was a very memorable one. Why i said so? Ok, let me tell you....

Firstly, this is the 1st ever trip i made with my parents to one of the 7 wonders of the world (Great Wall of China). It was my first time to China as well. :) Previously, we made trips to Melbourne in year 2002 for my sis convocation and the last was to Brunei in 2004 when my sis got married. I can see that both my mum & dad really enjoyed themselves during this china trip though it was quite tiring. Our itenary was full for the 8 days tour...

We left Malaysia on 26th April 2008 midnite flight to Beijing. Spent a nite in the air & arrived Beijing on 26th April early morning 6:35am. That morning the temperature in Beijing was 6 degree celcius. Very chilling... Met up with our tour guide, ZJ and he brought all of us to restaurant for breakfast. Food wise...wat else...porridge with some 'char kuey' and some steam buns and some pastries. That morning, food is so-so only. Though i dun fancy porridge, but wat to do...no choice...must take some also. If not, i would be hungry b4 lunch time. :P

After breakfast, we headed to the famous TianAnMen Square and the Forbidden City. My gosh!!! U can see humans everywhere!!!! the place was so packed with humans... Drivers in china also drive like nobody's business. They don't follow the traffic rules at all!!! even at the traffic light when the green man sign appears, the drivers will also not stop for the pedestrians to walk past. Crazy rite???!!!

Then we wanted to go to the MaoTzeDong Maoseleum but when looking at the queue which was as far as 5km, we decided to cancel that from our itenary. After lunch, we went to the Temple of Heaven. At there, same scenario...humans everywhere!!! Took some shots before we head to watch our first show, The Shaolin KungFu show. Interesting story line with superb kungfu actions!!! :) reminds me of jackie chan & jet li!!!

On the second day, 27th April, first place we visited was the Great Wall of China. Wow, magnificient view! I kept wondering to myself, how the ancient ppl managed to build this structure when they don't have those huge machineries & technologies to help them with the construction. Awesome right? Anyway, i am so proud of myself coz i managed to climb the Great Wall (up to 2 fort - *malay called KUBU*) It's kinda tiring coz as you go higher the air goes thinner. As usual, took many many photos too!!! After Great Wall, we had lunch and after lunch we went to Ming Tomb to take a look at one of the 16th emperor tomb. Didn't take much pics there. In the evening, we headed to the Hot Spring. It was some sort of a private club. Had many huge hot spring pools with different water temperature. And, ladies in china are so brave!!! They were bare naked in the ladies changing room and walked around. My gosh!!! This was my 1st time looking at sooo many naked ladies walking here & there. heheheh!!! Anyway, as for us malaysian, it is not a norm for us to do like that. I went to the toilet to get changed. :P After the hotspring, ZJ brought us to watch a dancing show at the club itself. Nothing special abt the show...jz some girls showing their nice bodies & their dancing skills... later after that, we headed back to hotel.

Beijing Olympic bird nest stadium

The next day, we went to a few places like the Summer Palace, BeiHai Park, drove past the Olympic bird nest stadium and Yue Xiu Market before headed to Chengde by 5pm. Arrived chengde almost 11pm. We were then greeted by another lady tour guide, Liu. She was the one in charged of our trip in Chengde. After had our extremely late dinner, we reached our hotel and everyone went to bed straight. It was a very tiring bus trip to chengde.

Imperial Summer Villa

Little Potala Temple

Next morning, 29th april 2008, we headed to the Imperial Summer Villa in the morning. Then in the afternoon, Liu brought us to the Little Potala Temple. In Tibet, this temple is double the size of this one in Chengde. I cannot imagine how huge it is coz this one in chengde already so huge!!! The trip in chengde not so tiring coz only visited 2 places. We had early dinner at 7pm then head back to hotel. Had a good rest before heading to Beijing the next morning after breakfast.

On 30th april 2008, everyone woke up fresh! probably last nite had a good rest. :) After breakfast, we immediately start our bus journey back to Beijing. Arrive beijing just nice for lunch. That day, we had roast peking duck for lunch. :) And also, another interesting thing happened on that day lunch time too! My fellow friends (SC,SL,YC,WW) had secretly organised a surprised birthday party for me!!! They actually informed our guide, ZJ my birthday date and asked him to help out with the ordering of cake. You know wat???!!! I was so touched with the surprised party. They planned it so well that i didn't even realised it. :) This is the 2nd memorable moment coz i celebrated my 30th birthday with my parents around by my side and my fellow friends.

***Thank you so much for all the effort and i really, really appreciate it. I will always remember my this birthday celebration...you all really made my day!***

After lunch, we headed to have a tricycle tour in Hutongs and tour the night bar street before going to the Wang Fu Jing street (famous for all funny funny types of food)-like pasar malam but only sell food. After that, we went for a drive along the ChangAn street, DongHuaMen street. It's a street as long as 10km with nice buildings at both sides of the road.

On 1st May 2008, after breakfast we then went to the World Park. At there, we saw many famous landmarks from all over the world (at a much smaller scale), eg the Eiffel Tower, Colorado Falls, Golden Gate, Coliseum, Stone Hedge, etc..etc... itz fun! In 2 hours, we managed to 'travel' to so many parts of the world and took photos with their famous landmarks. hehehe.... After world park, we headed for the Imperial Cruise which leads us to the Beijing Panda Zoo. Well, not many panda we saw. Only 3 pandas. All were so small and lazy. Maybe they just had their meals...so they jz laze around... :( Only managed to get some shots of them. Not nice shots... After lunch, we went to the Underground City and ZhenYang Ancient Wall. Took some pics there too before we went to watch another show, acrobatic show. This one was interesting! Much better than the one at the hotspring there. But i personally still prefers the Shaolin Kungfu show. :) After dinner, we headed back to hotel & start packing our luggages. The next day we are heading bck to KL.

On our last day in beijing, we still have 1 more itenary to go and plus 2 factories to visit. After breakfast, we went to JingShan Park. Nice scenery with lots of flowers. Tulips!!!! you can climbed to the top of the JingShan and view downwards where u can see the Forbidden City from afar. Nice view!!! After that we went to the Tea & Jewellery shop before had lunch and head to airport. The driver took us a drive around tour along the Olympic village area jz before driving us to airport. I managed to take photos of The Cube (aquatic centre) and the Olympic Village residence for the sportsmen.

Time passed so fast when we were enjoying ourselves so much. Not realising it, it was time to depart.... ZJ sent us to the departure gate before waving goodbye to all of us. It was an enjoyable trip and memorable ones for me...i am sure for everyone who participate in this trip as well.

I hope the next time we could arrange another family trip like this in future......what do u think, gals? Any suggestions, anyone????

For my china trip photo album, kindly go to http://picasaweb.google.com/eanmei to view more photos.

Enjoy!!!

all set to go...

ahhh...finally...almost done with my packing. Major things like t-shirts, pants & jacket already in this backpack. See, i have confidence to fit all my 9 pcs of clothing into my this little backpack. NEVER underestimate wat my backpack can do. hehehe...


so, here is the photo of my clothing while i am packing it last nite. I purposely rolled it into small roll so that i can fit them in the bag. I arranged it 3 rolls in 1 row. So, there are total of 3 rows in my backpack now. And, surprisingly...i still have some more place to put my undergarments in. hehehe.

the clothes all getting ready to be arranged in my tiny little backpack. :)

this is how my backpack looks like after i have arranged all my clothes in. A bit bulky though...

another thing i am not quite happy is my right toe. Earlier i have written about my swollen toe, and guess wat, it has not fully recovered yet. :( now i am so sad coz each time i walk, i could still feel the pain. Medicine finished already, but still not fully cured. sigh!

if you notice the pic below here, u can still see some blue black color at the other toes area. Now each time i walk, i could feel the 'sting' feeling especially if i walk too fast. It's really an unlucky time for me to go travel this time.

First was my swollen toe, and the second... was my site. sigh! there was a raid this morning by the health department ppl and they found some aedes algae (malay called jejentik) around the workers cabin area. sigh!!!! really really bad luck la today. Also, got some scolding from boss because of that aedes thing. damn!!!

Anyway, tomorrow i will be flying off to beijing. I will try my best to settle whatever outstanding matter and delegate my job to my assistant. I will be away for 8 days and i do not want my ppl at the site left unattended. At least, let me have an enjoyable trip lahhh....

ok then, i better go get my bath now. Later going to airport to fetch my parents. They will be going to beijing as well. yayyy!!!

gotta go now. Till i blog again after i come back from my trip.

beijing, here we come!!!

can't wait...very excited!!!

i am so excited!!! can't wait for my beijing trip this friday... another 4 more days of working & pooff! off to beijing for 8 days. hehehe...

finally my boss has approved my leave...earlier was so worried that he might not approve it. hehehe... thanks boss!

this coming thursday nite, my parents will be coming down to KL... therefore i have to settle my packing by wednesday nite. :(

there will be 13 of us in the group. Our own group...not mixing with other ppl from the agency. woohoo!!! private tour... :) even my friends too are all excited about this trip. They are now busy doing their checklist. :)

ok then, will update again before the trip...this time i guess with some photos of my belongings just before the trip. :P

my swollen toe...

This is the photo of my swollen right toe on last thursday, 17th April 2008 at 5:15pm in office... see the color...purple-ish black...scary eh? I even had an X-ray done on the toe. Worried if there are any bone fractured. Thank goodness, nothing serious. Only that i could not walk properly & can't wear shoes... :(



Below here is the latest photo taken on 19th April 2008 at 11:30pm. See the color of the toe...much better right? Not so swollen anymore. And i could wear my shoes and walk properly already. Only that must be careful, not to knock on the toe...oucchhh!

Do u wanna know how i injured my tiny toe? Well, i kicked my own bed frame on Wednesday nite coz i was running to get my hp which was charging near my bed at that time. wtf!!!

The next thing i knew, my toe started to swell and i could not walk properly. Can't even touch it coz it was sooooo painful...till i shiver....

Anyway, i am so careless and injured myself. I have learnt my lesson to be more careful next time... itz a really painful lesson to be learnt. :(

Hmm, time to take medicine and sleep now. Tomorrow can't wait to go for ktv session...yayyy!!!

Good nite........ZZzzz....

MORE funny photos....

i was on my way to midvalley the other day when i saw the rainbow. Then i saw the expression of the model...it just fits so well... hahaha!!!


and, below here are the two photos which i find it funny too with my added new scripts.... hehehe.

***to both of my friends, don't be mad at me ya?*** Just for laughs...since my blog is so boring without pictures in it. :P