Bangkok again - 2015

Bangkok highlights this round:

On Lok Yun - Finally tried this old school kopitiam.  Supposedly locals favourite.

It's super ulu, so better take cab there.

All we ordered... Definitely can skip that English platter. Super oily.

The plain bread with the egg custard tasted alright.

Personally I wouldn't come back here again cause it's not worth taking cab all the way here.

We chanced upon a "bread" shop that sells kaya and different flavours of jam at Siam Paragon which tasted great as well! It's right next to the food court.

I'll get my fix over there when I'm in Bangkok next time.

Most of the time we did shopping and eating and thus, didn't take much photos... haha..

The only touristy thing we did was going to Asiatique!

And Sylvia recommended a shop that sells lots of kitchen stuff that I fell in love with too!

I will make sure I buy them in future.

A group picture! This is the only one... :p

Ok, group feet picture count? hehe

The night view in Asiatique is quite pretty with this flyer. Every country needs a flyer isit?

We ate dinner at this Happy Fish - Obviously made Yuez a happy fisher too!

Bright cheery setting. :)

Hopefully our next trip will have LINX!!!!!!

My 29th with my girls

Ah. Finally having some time to myself. August is a super busy month and with elections coming, even more busy.

Just had the worst day of the year -surgical wisdom tooth extraction and now on my bed resting and semi-awake.

 

My birthday with my all time long girls was a simple affair at Changi City Point.

Because it was a long weekend, and knowing everywhere else in town will be crowded, we decided to go Changi City Point the almost extreme end of Singapore. Weirdly, it was actually quite crowded as well... guess some of them has the same sentiment.

 

We settled for Shabu-sai, Japanese buffet.

The service isn't great, I think they are short handed. We had to top up the soup by ourselves. And the meat came slow. Order more at one shot so that no need to keep calling the waiter.

 

 

We did a super auntie activity thereafter (Aging I told'ya). We went to NTUC to do grocery shopping! Not because we have chalet ... just stocking up cause I had "free SG50 money" to spend.

Went to Starbucks for girls talk until like 11plus when it's closing already.  

 

 

 

And a group photo with so many retakes because of that candle. haha...

 

 

Thank you my dear girls for the celebration and the gift!

 

 

 

 

Full of Meh-Meh celebrations

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

How's your new year so far?

Mine was boring... but as usual boring lah.

Probably the only difference this year was accompanying my mum to guan yin temple at bugis. Could feel the atmosphere of new year.

 

February new year is always a hectic one. cause there's many celebration like our dear yuez bday who falls on one of the cny days. So have to plan for another day to celebrate in advance.

Went to hai di lao!!!

As usual, OVERATE! The soup was superb that I kept drinking it. hehe.

 

 

The waitress stopped us from ordering so much the first time round .. but end up, we ordered again 2nd time after our food was running low. haha. How glutton we are.

 

Went for a walk down to PS due to overeating... and ended up at Starbucks (our usual hangout)...

But somehow I kinda prefer hanging out at starbucks/ any other chill out places cause it's the time where we can chit chat anything under the moon. Auntie mood on.

 

 

On Valentine's Day, it was my family reunion and GGH wasn' feeling well too so we didn't go out.

He came over to deliver hamper to my dad then go orchard area to shop for my dad new year shirt.

Walked down Paragon Soup Restaurant for reunion dinner.

Ever since my brothers are married, we opted for early reunion cause they have to shuffle to in laws place for dinner as well.

Too much food that we couldn't finish lots of dishes!

 

 

 

Shortly after, GGH and I walked down the street of orchard before heading home.

 

My valentine present. Made by himself. :):):)

 

Because he thinks my chou chou is too dirty. hahaha... and smelly (but its not!)

So he made this himself.

 

Love the effort he put in. A child like picture ... chou chou can be for adults ok?! why only children can have chou chou?!

 

 

And my Line Camera plushies! I bought one Cony in the collection and decided not to get all cause too ex... This is much bigger that the rest of the collection.

 

And my TonyMoly facial mask! My only favourite right now!

 

To my unsweet boring bf, thank you for trying your best to be sweet, and putting effort in what I love and trying out my hobby. :)

 

Cameron Highlands: Lavender Garden and Big Red Strawberry Farm

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

 

This month passed TOO FAST that I cannot even catch up and have time to sit and use my lappy. That shows that I haven been regularly at home for dinners too! opps.

 

Super back log with all my photos!

 

Let me continue the last stretch of Cameron Highlands..

The last day saw us going to Lavender Garden and Big Red Strawberry Farm.

It's really difficult to get a taxi anywhere, so you will have to book a taxi if you wanna go from place to place. Standard price is RM$25 per hour.

However, we did not exactly book a taxi cause my relative drove us to the new shopping centre for lunch and thereafter we tried hitching a ride. People there are generally quite friendly so I think can try if you dare lah.

Luckily, the public bus (they only have 1) came in time! So we hopped on and reached our first destination - Lavender Garden.

 

 

 

It's really a big garden at the entrance and it's so pretty!

Don't feel like in Malaysia at least.

 

 

Dotty car!

 

 

 

Going upwards, they have flower garden too!

Here's yuez with her matchy flower with her top. hehe..

 

 

Such bright vibrant flower - what not to love :)

 

 

 

Of course, I became slightly hyper and snapping away!

I love flowers!

 

However, sad to say is that there isn't much lavender when it's called lavender garden. hahaha...

 

It took us about an hour very leisurely to finish the whole place.

After that, we managed to ask a taxi driver to call his "kaki" and pick us up to go Big Red Strawberry Farm.

There's seriously lots of strawberry farm so ... cannot decide which one is the best. So we randomly picked one that's near the night market and their main street area.

 

It was huge! It has a plot of vegetable plantation which is so fresh and delicious to eat!

Perks of highlands. Cool weather and the plants can bloom so pretty.

 

 

Of course, we were focused and went to our main objective - strawberry picking!!!

You will have to fill at least half of the box they give and it cost abit more expensive. If you head down to the night market, big boxes of strawberry are really cheap.

But that's the fun - picking the strawberries! I had fun! One time enough. hhahaha...

 

 

It turns out Sylvia and mine (we shared 1 box) had bigger strawberries inside than yuez. hahaha...

Yuez picked all small strawberries and so I tried to pick bigger ones for her. Can see obviously who picked which one. hahaha...

 

 

After all the fun, we went for steamboat dinner cause it was raining and the weather is shiok to eat steamboat! We went to this restaurant which is just opposite of the taxi terminal/ big carpark.

 

 

This is a portion for 2 pax! Huge! But has lots of vegetables.

You can order 2 pax even though we have 3 person. Don't need to go by per head.

 

The tom yum soup was really spicy and sour and super shiok!

We had a long dinner while it kept on raining..

 

 

When I got back, I had a super bad tummy ache... and I think it was because of the tom yum soup that I kept dranking. It was really bad. It has been a long time since I had gastric like symptom.

Thankfully, after taking some meds, it was much better.

 

When we left for Singapore, a terrible thing happened.... our bus broke down!!!!!

We waited for like 3 hours before we could continue our journey, so by the time we reached Singapore, it was really past midnight!!! and I still had work the next day.. -.-""

We were supposed to reach around 7/8pm so I didn't take leave.

Super suay.....

 

Cameron Highlands I felt is a very slow pace environment and not much things to do so it's a good place to unwind and chill.

However, because more and more investors are going in and building condos etc, it's disrupting the nature and thus, the climate changed as well.

Do head there before it starts to be not cold anymore.

 

==END OF CAMERON HIGHLAND TRAVELOGUE==

 

Cameron Highlands - Bee Farm, Time Tunnel Museum & The Smokehouse

Continuing our journey for Day 1 after BOH tea, we went on to the Honeybee farm which is just down the hill exiting the Boh tea plantation. It's just beside the new shopping centre called Cameron Square. Note: There isn't much to shop at this new shopping centre cause it's not ready yet as of Nov 2014. Only Old Town was open. haha.

 

So Bee farm. My most dreaded place. Ewww...

And because of this, there's only 1 photo because I refuse to upload so many. Yuez took the photos cause I didn't wanna be near to them. hehe...

 

 

There were alot of little wooden boxed up houses for them to pick and bring back "home" the honey.

 

Shortly after, we made our way to the Time Tunnel Museum.

There's quite alot of things to see as most of the stuff are very old and probably not your era, unless you are old enough.

You get to see what the older generation use without advance technology.

 

The younger Lee Kuan Yew and the son.

 

After the tour, we went on the have our high tea at The Smokehouse.

It's a english tudor style house, in colonial ambience.

It serves English high tea with traditional scones, strawberry jam and cream. That's their popular favourite.

Not only that, the whole place is filled with picture worthy moments. Everything inside is beautifully decorated.

Apparently, the garden has won some awards!

Of course then, who would not take many pictures? hehe...

Note that the price isn't very cheap (in malaysia).