The five blind mouses.

A trip to Historical Land, Malacca again during Raya with family. This time is a three days two night trip. Usually mom will just spent a day in Malacca doing shopping and some walking near the Red House but this time she wanted a longer holiday with us. Sweet thought and well planned. She called my elder sis to book the hotel rooms since half a year ago as she worried all hotels in Malacca would be fully book by Raya. What's more is grandma and aunt will be coming along with us!

First stop, the Malacca Zoo!

Aunt wanted to bring her precious daughter and son for a zoo visit.


The welcoming parrot. Never change since my first visit which like 20years ago?


Dad love this miniature horse. He was so excited bout them and kept saying, "SEE THE DONKEY!" -_________- But, they are miniature horse.


Owhh, my cute cousin sis. Throwing tantrum here because her mom dont let her to walk. Omgggg, look at the chubby cheek *pinch*


Porcupines fighting for food. For the first time, I saw porcupine raised their sharp spines. It's kinda scary especially they make those uneasy sound effect.

Dad and MingMing was saying that the porcupine will release their spine towards predators. I was defending that it would not since the zoo put the porcupines so close to visitors and no warning board. So, out of curiosity, I browse the truth,

"Quills or spines are released by contact with them, or they may drop out when the porcupine shakes its body, but cannot be projected at attackers. New quills grow to replace lost ones. From ancient times, it was believed that porcupines could throw their quills at an enemy, but this has long been refuted." -Wikipedia-

Hahaha, so do not afraid of porcupines attack in zoo!


Pathetic aviary. Not much birds in there.


The bro and sis. Shayley mei mei look miserable as she was so afraid she would fall. SHE DID NOT MOVE AN INCH when we took pic. And, spot the little cute crocs on her!

Second stop, the well.

It was so famous back then. Ppl came to bath and take the well water which believe to bring good luck. But now, it became a deserted ground.



Lunch time, some cendol ♥





Next day, the ever popular spot in Malacca, Red Building.


And we climb the A famosa.


So contended that they reached!


Some souvenirs?


The musician whom make the whole A famosa more livelier.



Mom fall sick on the second day. So, we stayed in the hotel and nap nap nap. Night time, mom was unable to join us for the shopping trails =( She attempted too but she was shivering. Dad stayed with mom in hotel. And the three sisters continued the shopping.

Last day, we planned to visit the Mini Malaysia. But closed due to some improvement construction. It was really disappointing as none of us been there before. It was our hope! Crashed =(

Instead of Mini Malaysia, we went to Botanical Garden.




And, Butterfly farm.


The cute love birds in Butterfly Farm.


This outstanding bird catches our heart the most!




That's the quick summary of the family trip!

Mom comment after the trip: Never go any trip anymore!
(hahahaha, she was sick badly)

Clover love ♥

Found this clover in my dad's garden.

p/s: It's dad's garden because he is totally in charge of the arrangement of the flowers, choice of flowers, watering, fertilizing and basically, just everything. And he enjoys it very much!

Never know clover looks so cute until I accidentally saw it growing massively in my dad's garden. I was attempting to look for a four leaves clover as it believes to bring good lucks to finder. Spent long time enough but none. So, it's truth that four leaves cover is really rare. At first, I thought, there are so many there, it must be one grow abnormally with four leaves among the thousand. But it's just not my luck. Yet, very happy with this adorable pieces! Smaller size clover are cuter but the bigger size make perfect for a picture. Eagerly plucked a few and sellotape it on A4 paper with hope I could preserved a little longer as this clover withered fast. The moment I plucked, it was fresh and looking beautiful, next few minutes, it started to withered. And it looks like as if I plucked it for hours.

The next day. . .

The clover turns brown. So, I planned to pluck more and preserved it in another way like sellotape both side. Out to garden, look at the spot where the clover grow, it's GONE! ALL GONE! My dad did gardening so he plucked out all the cute clovers and sent them to garbage bin =(=(

Still able to save a few for new method of preservation. But, haihhhhhhh, my cute clovers. .

Heartbeat

Never underestimate the strength of your heart. You will never know how much you can go through till your last breath. There times when you are down, you go through it, survive and still breathing. Still able to smile, even a little. When you look back, doubt yourselves on how you did it and thought when come the second time, you can't. But you never realize you can go through it because you never realized how strong your heart is.

Trust the heart that had been with you since the day it starts to beat.

21 Guns

Do you know what's worth fighting for,
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside?
You're in ruins

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

When you're at the end of the road
And you lost all sense of control
And your thoughts have taken their toll
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Your faith walks on broken glass
And the hangover doesn't pass
Nothing's ever built to last
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

Did you try to live on your own
When you burned down the house and home?
Did you stand too close to the fire?
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

When it's time to live and let die
And you can't get another try
Something inside this heart has died
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

I still think this song has the best lyrics. Never dies off ♥

Bees in mind

It's September! And I'm in the transition mood now back to KK. A week from now, September 14 will be the day back to the not-so-sweet second home. It's a new start there. Everything will be so different now. I got a new home there, new hsemates, new environment and all by myself.

Many ppl had told me I did a wrong choice to stay with all forth year students and left myself to this state which I will have to start everything again, have a new hsemates and adapt. But what ppl failed to understand is I didn made this choice. I was left with this choice. Yes, I could stay in the hostel during first year and get to know new first year students. Pick one and stick with her all the time. But UMS hostel distribution system arent according to coursemates, it distributed randomly. And my roommates that time are all Malays and even my neighbouring roommates are Malay. They are good ppl, very friendly, I had a good time with them but I couldn stick with them for four years. They have their own close friend from KK and they have their coursemates. Morever, different living culture and habits which make a huge difference. So maybe the best choice was to close with coursemates. But considering the course I took is engineering, my coursemates are mainly boys and I'm the only Chinese girls. Not being gender bias, but I would prefer girls more than boys and I'm much more comfortable talking with a girls.

And many ppl might not get this, usually UMS students will not choose to shift out from hostel as they do not have own transport. They are 100% dependent on sch transportation for daily routine. Shifting out means getting a car or a motorbike.

So yah, I'm going back. I got so many thing need to do and still undone. Not prepared physically or mentally. It's worrying me.

Things need to do before going back;
1. Buy jump start cable. (My car couldn' start since July/ August)
2. Buy toiletries (I throw all my toiletries away)
3. Get hse key from one of the hsemate.


Things need to settle when I'm back;
1. Start my poor car.
2. Service my car. (The last time I use my car, the exhaust produce black smoke)
3. Shift things from my old hse to new hse.
4. Clean up new hse.

The car is the biggest problem. Omg, I just hope LittleKancil will be obedient and get alright soon. Or else, I dont know to manage things there without a car =(

A million words

Winnie the Pooh might be a boring cartoon but it has good quotes.










Sometimes, the smallest things take up
the most room in your heart.





If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together..
There is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is,
even if we're apart..
I'll always be with you.
♥

LittleBites : Pasta Zanmai

Last last Sunday, 14th August 2011.

Have you ever thought of putting romantic Italy with Japanese culture together? Let's imagine that you're walking along the famous Colosseum but you're in kimono and everyone are in kimonos! Or you're dining in a Japanese restaurant, sitting on tatami mat, holding chopstick but they serve you pasta! Hahahhahaa, weird picture right? That's my first thought on..

Pasta Zanmai
@ Sunway Pyramid.



The name of the restaurant represent well of the food, yes, combination of Italian cuisines with Japanese cuisines. Pasta with sashimi. The combination doesnt sounds convincing? But believe me, it taste good! =)=)

So, here are pictures of the environment.


Acceptable environment? Hahaha, you dont need to force yourselves to adapt the weird combination of Italy-Japan design yet.


And you dont need to sit on tatami mat for pasta!


The menu.


August promotion over there. You see the top left picture of sushi? That's the only sushi available there. Others are all rice and pasta. Dessert looking good too but I'd Baskin Robbin before this so I didn order any.


Nkm looking indecisive. I forced her to stop moving so I could take this pic as my humble camera couldn take proper pic if the lighting not enough. "At any condition, indoor is consider not enough lighting for my camera =.="


MY FRUIT TEA!
Ordered because it sounds nice. But when it comes, I started to doubt. I didnt expect that there will be so many fruit cubes mixing in this fruit tea. So when things come to many in mixing, the taste will usually comes out weird.


It's my reflex reaction to look like that.

Nkm was saying, "Why you look like that? Nvm la, if it taste weird, you drink my passion fruit tea." I forced her to order that passion fruit tea as back up in case my drink taste weird.


My first sip. Still doubting.



End up....





IT'S MARVELOUS! ♥
I love it and it suits my taste well!


I even love the fruit cubes! Bites of kiwi, strawberry, apple, watermelon and others are yums! ♥♥♥♥♥

On the other hand, Nkm's passion fruit tea was the one which taste weird. Hahahhahahaha! Somehow, we think that the waiter gave us the wrong one. It taste like blackcurrant more but being kind, Nkm just accepted whatever served to her.

Then, came the main course.


My salmon pasta cooked with sesame sauce!
This is good! Usually I just favour pasta cooked with red sauce but this won my heart too!


Awwwwwwwwww, good food come to mummy stomach!


HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!




Nkm's unagi rice.
She dont really like Japanese cuisine and the only thing she will order in a Japanese restaurant is unagi. Well, she enjoys rich taste food a lot.


The leftover. It's really, really niceeeee but my stomach say no anymore =( It's okay though, I didn waste food. Nkm had it all in her stomach!


Leftover fruit tea? NOOO! I slurped it all! =)