: : Misc : :
My sleeping time clock has been shot to pieces since the KL trip. Arggh! Luckily, it’s a holiday tomorrow.
Few things :
IreneQ has sent me this cute gif. 
Hahaha! Definitely appropriate. Going to use it for the post links.
Someone (sorry! Lazy to scroll through my archives to look for the comment!) once mentioned that I should crop pieces of my pic and post it online. So, here’s my hair! Haha!
Now, off to force myself to sleep.
: : 1st day of Raya : :
9:40 a.m. At Kuching Airport
Wena : Hi Dad!
Dad : Hi! Let’s go and grab some laksa for breakfast.
Wena : Okay. Where do you want to eat it?
Dad : How about Foody Goody?
So, off we went.
Foody Goody is a hawker food center in Tabuan Laru. The laksa available there is just nice. Well, for Dad and me, that is. They do not add in so much coconut milk so tasted real good. RM3 per bowl I think. Worth every penny. Definitely cheaper than the one available at Alexis, Bangsar. RM12 per bowl there! Aiyo!
After that, we went to visit two of his bosses as well as his Mum, my other granny. Then, we started to head back to my house to see the hamsters. 🙂
1:00 p.m. Along the road through the Sarawak Museum Grounds
Dad : Hmm… got any nice place to eat ais kacang (iced drinks)?
Wena : Sure, behind us at Jalan Nenas. We can go there.
Dad : Aiyo! Pass already lah!
Wena : Never mind lah. I can turn back and we go makan (eat) there. Besides, need to go to petshop to look for bigger cage for the hamsters.
Dad : Ok! We go!
Dad ordered some sotong kangkung. Sotong is squid but it was really cuttlefish with rojak and Chinese water spinach. Pop by the Pet Shop after that but they ran out of those plastic aquarium cages that I wanted. Will have to go there again. Came home, we saw the hamsters. He took some pictures on the BenQ camera he brought along. It was one of those Point and Shot cameras. He had some questions to ask me so we look through the manual. Nifty thing.
Drop Dad at the airport in the afternoon. Later on, went to another friend’s place at Santubong. Posting pics later. 🙂 Now, that visit was an interesting visit with Granny.
My Dad. 🙂
: : Ramadhan Bazaar ~ KL Version : :
Phone conversation in my cousin’s car. Time approx. 4.00 p.m.
TV : Let’s go to the Ramadhan Bazaar at Kampung Baru. You must see it.
Wena : Sure or not? Will it wet? Raining in Ampang and KLCC just now lah.
TV : Should be okay. Where do I pick you up?
Wena : Hmm.. Bangsar Shopping Complex?
TV : Okay. At 6 p.m.
So, managed to meet up with TV Smith of DuaSen parody fame. Insisted on taking me to Kampung Baru to check out the bazaar and it was pretty colorful. It was a pretty quaint area, packed with people buying food back for Buka Puasa @ Breaking Fast (not breakfast lah!). So, two people with cameras walking around taking pictures. Loads of pictures.
Same picture of the hawker taken by TV in this Photo Essay on Ramadhan. Just that it was at a different angle. His’ was a lot better than mine. The stall owner was more than happy to pose for the photoshoot. Note that there was some coloring added into the watermelon juice. Look a bit too red for me to try it out.
The last picture : the hawker was actually holding up a bunch of veggie and posing for the camera. However, I messed up the shot so when I ask him to take it again, he chickened out and got another pal to hold up the veggie. Cheh!
Now, what is a festive season without some local snacks to munch on? I’m a junk food junkie. Having said that, I hate getting my fingers dirty so will occasionally use a pair of chopsticks to eat it. :p
Me and purple stuff. Including fruits. Private joke with many friends about the color purple. The above is a shot at the mangosteen at one of the many fruit stalls.
For lack of a better word, I’m just going to call this picture a pic of lok-lok. :p The cucur looks so tempting. I’m a sucker for cucur.
Love letters! They are thin wafer biscuits that are both sweet and extremely crunchy. I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t like kuih supit @ love letters. If you that person, you do not know what you’re missing. Unless u’re allergic to the ingredients, of course. :p
This is the mold for making the ketupat. Whole bunch of leaves were being sold at this one particular stall. The Muslim Community is now working throughout the nite, cooking massive amounts of food for tomorrow. Yep, the celebrations start tomorrow. Can’t wait to try out rendang.
Dedicated to my mother : you have one ice-cream tub full waiting for you in the freezer when you get here.
Colorful Asian drinks. Didn’t realised until today that TV also took a similar picture. Tried to look for the picture again and couldn’t find it on his site. The poor guy behind the stall was so bashful. Didn’t want to face the camera and got a lot of ribbing from his friends.
Another bashful guy. He was frying some cempedek with batter. Can you imagine someone bringing back cempedek on an airplane? Aiyo. The stink. Durian is bad enough. Should put signs up to warn people not to bring cempedek anywhere near an airplane.
Left to Right : Ketupats, belachan, chilli boh and last one I have absolutely no idea. Bit lazy to go and check out what it was. Didn’t want to hear any sales pitch from the hawker.
That was the walk through the Ramadhan Bazaar in Kampung Baru. Not a lot of foodstalls compared to the one in Kuching but definitely more variety of stuff for sale. And to think I was thinking of not going.
Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to the Muslims! Am doing the round with my Dad again tomorrow morning. He’s coming in from Miri to visit a few people. I’m eyeing to eat some rendang @ dry beef curry and lemang @ glutinous rice cooked in bamboo.
: : Lost Handphone : :
Wena does a dumb blonde : forgot to take the handphone out of the airport toilet. Sigh.
Painful to lose a $$$ phone. More painful to lose all the contact numbers I used to carry. Sigh.
Niki, David, Chooki, please SMS me your handphone numbers to this number : 016 245 8500. Temporary number until I can get back to Kuching to get another SIM card for my old number. Until then, use the number above. TV, I have your no. of my email. Killuminati, Grace, can u guys pass me ur number again? Thanks.
Melvin, Joyce, Gette, Min Yen, May Lin, please SMS me your numbers as well. Melvin, please SMS me Min Yen’s one as she’s suppose to pick me up on Sunday night at Kuching Airport!!!
God, talk about a bad start.
If anyone knows the handphone to Karl Erik Chee, please ask him to call me. Lost the phone, lost his number and was supposed to meet up for makan yesterday. Sorry, Karl. Sigh. Shit happens, shit happens.
Am now temporarily at a cybercafe in KL trying to contact people. Sigh. Anyway, do SMS me your no.s . I won’t be able to check my email regularly so SMS me at the number above.
: : Trip to KL ~ Part II : :
A little note to let everyone know that I will not be updating my blog while am in KL. No PC around!
Probably will have limited pictures to bring back. We’ll see how much space is left on my camera after the family pictures are taken.
Anyway, cheerio! Until Monday, that is.
: : Hotel Grand Continental ~ Part V : :
Almost done with the pics from this buffet. Phew! Probably another posting after this and finito. So, more red stuff below.
Left is a plate of acar @ pickle salad. Done the same way Granny did it. Josh of Food Section fame also did it. Right is freshly cut kedongdong which is very sour. Must eat with rice.
Chinese style fried rice. Usual fried rice flavour. Can’t say much lah. It’s just fried rice i.e. easy to do but delicious all the same.
Now, doesn’t the fried mee look delicious? And no, it ain’t worms! :p
This is a fusion dish : pasta cooked Asian style. Basically stir-fried with green peppers, mushroom with some chilli sauce. I think.
Definitely tasted good. The fish was grilled first and the sauce poured over it. Again, I think.
Lamb chop with specially cooked chilli sauce. Goes together pretty well. And, it wasn’t tough! The meat that is.
Well, 4 out of 6 dishes were red. Not too bad this time.