Second Trip For This Sem Break

On Thursday (20th May) my kayah proposed to go to Thailand and asked me to ask Guat Shan along. I then sent Guat Shan an sms asking if she fancy joining my mom, kayah and me to Thailand out of random. And to out of random, she said "Boleh jugak". Next day, we went to the immigration office to have her passport made and following day, we were off to Thailand. How random can we be? Lol.

While we were in Hattyai, we visited places I've been many times before but maybe because this time i went to Guat Shan, it was like a whole new experience to me.. like I've never been to Hattyai XD

So, anyway, we went to the floating market where the main focus in this place is food.  There were boats selling different and variety of food floating (obviously. Takkan they sink, right?) on a wide river. And there were mats on the ground where we can sit and enjoy our food picnic style! But if you didn't like to sit on the ground, there were long benches with narrow tables prepared like how it is in bars.. only thing is that the benches and tables are made of wood.

We also went to Achan Cave and the Stainless Steel Temple, where the entire temple is made out of stainless steel.

We also went to lots of 'pasar malam' type of market where we bought lots and lots of stuff like they were given away free!! Lol.

Of course, we love to eat. We tried lots of different or some even similar to our local food.

I think the most daredevil thing I did while I was in Thailand was that I tried this...

You guess it. They are fried maggots!! 

Lol. I wouldn't really say it's a daredevil act since, well, I just pop it into my mouth XD They tasted like plastic, by the way. Nothing special, nothing disgusting.

Oh, another thing that made this trip different from other previous trips is that I actually drove (from Tapah to Alor Star) from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. instead of just dozing off on the back seat.

What Hattyai is known for.. messy wiring.

2 weeks sem break and I went to 2 different places. Not bad :D

It's already Wednesday today and I'll be going back to Kampar on Saturday, probably. What a short, yet long sem break for me.

Penang... This Time Mainland.

So for the third consecutive sem, I headed to Penang for our sem break trip, only this time, our focus was on mainland Penang rather than the island. This was a very budget trip as we had free accommodation (we stayed in friends' place). Guat Shan and I stayed over in Hua's house and we're very proud of it because according to him, this was the first time ever that he brought a friend (or rather, two friends) to his house, Eric and Beh stayed over in Rep's place and finally Sardin and J stayed over in Jing Wei's house, which was located in the island. However, the latter 2 shifted to Rep's place on Sunday night since Jing Wei had to work on Monday.

Rep, Hua and Jing Wei.. In that order from left.

It was a short 3 days 2 nights trip from the 15th to 17th. I came back home from Kampar on Tuesday and then I took the Saturday 1pm train back to Kampar to meet up with Guat Shan and the rest. I was back home earlier because my paper ended earlier. So, when I arrived at 3.30pm, Guat Shan took Sardin's car and picked me up at the Kampar station and we went for tea time before Dan Dan and Hua came and picked us up over at Sardin's place. In Dan Dan's car, Guat Shan and I made a lot of noise, as usual. Lol. I hope he wasn't distracted because of it.

We arrived at Hua's place in Kepala Batas approximately 2.5 hours later. His mom cooked us dinner! Thanks, auntie! :D The herbal soup was delicious! I also heard that Rep's mom cooked them spaghetti with mushroom soup. Must be as tasty!

After dinner, about 8.30pm, we were supposed to meet up with Rep, Beh and Eric in Rep's place but apparently, Rep took them to Sunway Carnival. We then met up in Auto City to have a little drink in Boston and watch FA Cup finals. BUT!! Guess what? I think it's a special case in Penang whereby they have ESPN but not Star Sports. So, we went to Pelita mamak stall to watch football. After football, we for a light stroll in Auto City and well, things happened and we went back after that. Lol. We were supposed to drop by Rep's place but since it was already late, we headed back home and decided to only visit Rep's place the next day. As usual, when there's Guat Shan and there's Eliza, we chatted till 3.30am before we forced ourselves to shut up and sleep.

Early next morning, we woke up at 8 am. Hua's mom bought breakfast (French toast-like bread with char siew pau fillings) for us. We ate then followed Hua's mom to morning market called Apollow. It was a long stretch of food, clothes, shoes, bags and everything and I managed to get myself a pair of Hawaii-looking shorts :D We then had our breakfast (again!).

We bathed, went to Rep's place to fetch the 3 of them and headed to Queensbay Mall to meet up with the other 3 in the island. Over there, we had our lunch in T-bowl and caught a movie, The Kidnapper. And oh my god! It was not my type of movie!

After Queensbay, the next destination was Ait Itam for their famous asam laksa. We ate in sweat and oh~ syok~! Well, to be truthful, I've never tried asam laksa, even in Klang (because I can't take spicy food) so I couldn't compare and comment when Rep asked me if it was nice. 

After the sweaty meal, we went to Batu Ferringhi, where Eric felt paradise :D

3 hours and a lot of playful bickering between Johor and Klang (Lol! It was Eric and I debating about our own 'territory'), we took the ferry back to mainland, had our dinner and lepak-ed in Rep's place till it's time to go home. What we did? Well, what else? Cards!! XD

Day 3, the day we were supposed to head home. Woke up at 8.30 am and Hua took us for breakfast nearby his house. We then meet up with Bryan and Yuet Fen to give Edwin a surprise birthday celebration. We crashed Edwin's place for a good 1 hour before we went to Jusco Bukit Mertajam for a less-than-an-hour walk and then, to a place called 'Vietnam', I think, for lunch. 

Headed back to Rep's place to buy some time. We planned to leave at 2.30pm or 3pm so that we would arrive in Kampar at 6pm, just nice for our train. While in Rep's place, they played cards again while Bryan and I had a good nice but short chat. At 2.30 pm, we left Penang.

Our lovely Sardin took the wrong turn and we headed towards Perlis instead of Perak. Lol. U-turned, obviously and arrived at Taiping to drop Beh and lepak-ed in his house for half an hour before resuming our journey back to Kampar. We arrived at Kampar close to 6 pm and Eric managed to get the train same time as Guat Shan's and mine. 2.5 hours to KL and we parted with Eric. At 10 pm, Guat Shan and I arrived in Klang, we makan-ed and went back home.

Well, this is the brief details on the trip. Of course, no matter how long I write, I can never describe exactly what we did. Though it was a short trip, we did endless stuff. It was good to be able to meet Edwin, Bryan and Yuet Fen and once again, it was proven (to me and Guat Shan, at least) that destination does not matter when going out with a group of friends. Thank you Dan Dan for fetching us, Hua for letting us crash your place for 3 days, Rep for bringing us around and everyone for making this trip memorable!

I'm on my 2 weeks sem break now :)

Oh Sports~

As usual, I had my badminton session today from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. but we went early and extended our time till 4.45 p.m.. Somehow, maybe it was because of the weather being hot or maybe it was because I'm in the mood and all, I was more active than usual. I played non-stop!

Round 1 : Warm up rally with Sito

Round 2 : Warm up rally with Eric

Round 3 : Doubles with J vs. Jing Wei-Sito

Round 4 : Singles with Gs

Round 5 : Doubles with Jing Wei vs. Gs-Sito

Round 6 : Doubles with Eric vs. Orange-Gs

Round 7 : Singles with Gs

Round 8 : Doubles with J vs. Eric-Sito

After a short rest, while in the car, Guat Shan said it would be nice to go for cycling since the weather was really (like really) good. It wasn't very sunny and it was a little chilly. But instead of cycling, the five of us my car- Guat Shan, Sito, Orange, Eric and myself (others went back in a separate car) went to get a basketball from Ah Beh and then went to search for a court. Luckily, there was an empty court in Harvard. We then asked Ah Rep along for some light shootings. Ah Rep was good! But Eric amazed me! While we shoot, Orange and Guat Shan just sat on the swing and enjoy the nice weather.

After an hour plus, we went back but Guat Shan went cycling with Orange. 

It was indeed a sporty day for us. We played non-stop and dried out sweat glands. It has been a while since I played basketball and I'm sure as hell my limbs are going to break off tomorrow but I guess it was worth? It was so fun and refreshing! :D

P/s : Jing Wei, sorry that I accidentally aimed at you. (But it made me laughed so hard!! XD)

Short Trip To Bukit Merah And Taiping

Early Saturday morning, Orange walked to my house to wait for J to come pick us up. He passed me a recycle paper with Digital scribbles. On the other side, it was a rough schedule for our Bukit Merah + Taiping trip written in Ah Beh's handwriting.

Saturday, 17 April 2010.

10.00 : Reach Taiping. Meet in Changkat Jering. Breakfast.
11.30 - 12.00 : Go Bukit Merah
12.00 - 5.00 : Main (as in play)
5.00 - 6.00 : Back to apartment and rest.
7.00 : Dinner
8.00 - 10.00 : Football

Then it was written but after 10 p.m., but he verbally told us that we were supposed to have our free and easy time around the Lake Garden.

 Sunday, 18 April 2010.

10.00 : Breakfast- wan tan mee without wan tan
11.30 - 2.00 : Zoo
2.00 - 2.30 : Cendol
2.30 : Lake Garden
3.30 : Sepetang (for lunch)
4.30 : Mangrove forest

Well, everything went smoothly according to plan. On Saturday night, our free and easy time was watching 'Being Human' in Taiping Central and of course, like all other trips, there would be gambling sessions at night before bed. Lol.

Next day, we were 30 minutes behind schedule because some of us overslept but nonetheless, we managed to race against time and got back on schedule.

Again, we sailed through the planned schedule except that we did not went to the Lake Garden because it was drizzling. Instead, we went straight for our curry mee and laksa lunch in Sepetang and then to the Mangrove forest/swamp before dropping by Ah Beh's place for a short while and heading back to Kampar at about 6 p.m..

A total of about 800 pictures which weighs 4G aren't enough to describe the tonnes of joy and fun the 14 of us had.

Thanks a mil to Ah Beh, Orange and Guat Shan who I think put the most effort in this~!

P/s : Mummy, daddy and kayah, if you want to see more pictures, see them here: My Facebook Album 

New Cubes!

Guess??

It's our new phones! Ours, as in Guat Shan and mine :D

Life Is Beautiful, Live It.

Just when I felt life is totally bullying me, I received motivation and insipration.

I went to uni early this morning to settle some stuff and some things went wrong somewhere and when small parts of problems come together at once, call me weak or impatient or whatever, but I felt it suck!

When I reached home, Prince sms-ed me informing me that he's expecting a parcel today and asked me to sign for him when it arrives. Not long after that, the postman came but not with a PosLaju parcel but it a normal A4 sized enveloped and it is addressed to 'Eliza Loo'.

I carefully opened the envelope to reveal a letter with a poster that totally cheer up my current situation.

"Whatever comes to you in life, just accept it, and you'll see happiness in almost everything." -Yang, April 8, 2010.

As if he knew I was down and all, he cheered me up. Thanks so much, Y! :D

From this, I learnt that it might not be your main intention but words spoken or action taken at a particular moment might mean an entirely different thing to another person.

Another Saman?!

I kena Toto again. This time, second prize, RM 100.

My money!! TT

According to this summon, I 'tidak mematuhi isyarat (papantanda trafik) lalulintas.'.

Location : Jalan Kolej, which is along KTAR or Loong Fong Kok area

Date and Time : 9.03.2010, 11.50 a.m., which fell on a Tuesday on week 8.

On a typical Tuesday, I would wait for Guat Shan's class to end at 10 a.m. then we would go for our brunch before I attend my lab at 12.30 p.m.. I remember once I illegally parked (not only me, but everyone else did) and then the police came but I successfully shifted my car on time! And I checked, that incident was not on week 8. It was before the 5th of March.

Papantanda trafik means road sign, correct? So, are there any road signs near that area? Like maybe no entry or one way street etc.? 

People in Kampar, or people who are familiar with Kampar, help me to brainstorm, please? ><

This is not the best April Fool's joke. Ever.