Can’t believe that it’s new year already! My gooodness! I’ve barely made proper and enough preparation for this CNY. In fact I decorated the whole house on Saturday and went marketing for reunion dinner on Saturday night! What a last minute person I am! Haha!

Speaking about reunion dinner, this year I cooked lesser dishes due to the fact that we’ve booked a pot of poon choy from Dragon-i. It’s not like I’m lazy or what – I’ve actually googled all 8 dishes’ recipes and totally looking forward to cook them! But then we’ve bought the voucher and the voucher valid up to 22nd January, by 2pm! Oh well, will be saving those recipes for next year reunion dinner then!

Yesterday we went up to granny’s place to pay respect to our ancestors. Right after the prayer we had to rush to Queensbays to get the poon choy. By the time we reached home, it was already 3pm and immediately we started the last minute house cleaning. Hung all the last minute decos, bathed Miilo and blew dry him, and mopped the floor, then off to the kitchen to work on the prawns and cutting the vegetables.

Seriously can go mad! I went into the kitchen late, and all ingredients were needed to be washed, cleaned, deveined – therefore with only 1.5 hours to dinner, I felt the pressure in delivering our dinner on time! @_@ Luckily Satkuru came earlier and helped me with cutting, stirring, frying. Phew!

By 8pm, the poon choy was taken out of the fridge and heated. Because it was in frozen state, it took some time for the broth to melt. I took the opportunity to bath and wash my hair. For the past years, I’ve always showered after dinner because we will eat immediately after cooking. So glad that this year I can have dinner in clean and fresh state.

So these are our reunion dinner! All these accompanied by a bottle of raspberry flavoured Zinfandel, yums!

This pot feeds 10 pax, believe me! We couldn’t finish this and had to eat this the next day. Super lavish and satisfying!

Nestum prawn! Totally loveeee the smell coming out from the pan when I deep fried the prawns. So fragrant!

Abalone and sea cucumber with broccoli and mushroom. Everyone’s favourite dish. The secret lies in the sauce. Wahaha!

Happyyyyyy Chinese New Year! May the year of dragon brings lots of wealth, prosperity and great health to all!

Huaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ah!

Convocation was one of the milestones in my life. I anticipated THE DAY so much – thinking of what shoes I should wear, what shirt I should wear, deliberating on to either wear a knee-length skirt or black slack, et cetera.

The eve of the convocation day, Satkuru even reminded me to double check all the stuffs I supposed to bring/need for the convocation but I told him I’ve placed them in my bag. He even asked me to double read the convocation letters from university, just in case I missed out any. Like usual, I told him not to worry as I’ve read them (but actually I just skimmed thru, rofl). He also asked me if I’ve wore the robe, just to get the hang of it – but I told him I’ve tried, so should be okay.

Obviously I got a nice music for being so cool-headed. He told me, “You only get to convo once in your lifetime. Or maybe another if you take master. But still, treasure it. Make sure you get everything right.”

I replied ok.

So, my parents and I flew to KL on the morning of THE DAY and reach KL at 9 in the morning. We were picked up by my sister where we were driven to Seri Kembangan for a brunch. After brunch, we immediately went to University of Malaya.

But the journey took slightly longer because my sister’s bf took the wrong turning. I was so anxious, but told myself to calm down and be patience.

Finally, we reach at about 11am. I quickly wore my robe and the mortar and took few photos outside the hall, with dad as my photographer of course. My mum was wondering why did my shawl always dropped sideway while other ppl’s was in placed and tidy. I told mum I didn’t know why, maybe my size is bigger - I told her. Haha!

Gosh, I shouldn’t cut my hair that length. Doesn’t look nice on me. And that shoes! Why I chose to wear that? T_______T

It was then time to get to the Dewan Peperiksaan to be checked on our attendance before entering.

The first person I saw was Lillian! She asked me why my shawl so untidy. I told her I have no idea as I already adjusted. Then she asked me if I’ve pinned my shawl correctly.

I asked her, “What pin?”

It drawn on me that the shawl supposed to be PINNED! *sweat case* No wonder mine kept dropping!

The second question Lillian asked me was if I’ve bring my matrix card and pink paper slip along as I need to pass the slip to the people at the side of the stage for them to call my name.

I looked at her in horror. I told her that slip was in my car!

Panicking, I quickly called up my sister and asked her to bring me that paper slip. But she told me she had left UM to get my convocation flower!

The scene of not able to graduate suddenly flashed in my mind.

I almost had a heart attack moment. I told her to return to UM now as I need that pink paper slip to graduate. She said ok, and told me she’ll reach as soon as possible.

I could only pray.

As for my untidy shawl, I immediately asked around if anyone had extra pins after ending the phone call. Luckily someone brought a lot. Phew. Lillian then quickly helped me to pin my shawl. Until now, I’m thankful for knowing her, for being my close friend. If it wasn’t for her, I would have gone up the stage with dropping shawl. Eh wait, maybe couldn’t have graduated that year because of the pink paper slip. –”

After pinning my shawl, the person in charge of taking our attendance then asked us to queue in lines according to our number. Then I looked around, I saw my friends. I was so happy to see them as I didn’t see them in ages. At the same time, I couldn’t relax myself and enjoy the moment as I was still worried if my sister could make it in time as she told me the jam in UM was terrible.
T______T

That time, I remembered the advice that Satkuru gave me the night before. I regretted not checking it again. Boy, I hate admitting that he’s right. Grr.

While waiting, I looked at the people around me. Most of them were different. They styled their hair, they put makeup so that they looked prettier that day. At that time, I was thinking to myself – why did I put foundation and lip gloss only? Looking back at my graduation photos, I looked so pale without any colour on my face. Darn, I wish I could turn back the time. Grr.

Also, I was thinking why didn’t I bring in my camera? I saw people brought in camera and they took photos in the waiting hall. I ‘kicked’ myself for being so obedient (as stated in the letter). Grr.

Then it was time to move to Dewan Tunku Cansellor for the convocation ceremony. My sister suddenly called. She said she’s arrived. I thanked God for that. I asked her to stand on the left side at the end of the stairs, as I’ll be coming down the stairs. She acknowledged.

When I went down the stairs, I was so happy to see her face. I almost hugged her, but obviously I didn’t as we need to cross the road quickly. She passed me the slip and I said, Thank You. So glad for having a sister by my side too. Else, I couldn’t have graduated.

After that I started to feel calmer. We queued at the side of the dewan awhile, before entering. It’s been awhile since I entered the dewan. I was glad to be back, in fact I was proud to be undergraduate of University Malaya.

I proudly sang the University Malaya song as it might be the last time I sang it. After few speeches, names were being called up and friends walked up the stage to receive scroll. Applause after applause were heard. I too clapped and cheered for my friends.

The ceremony was so formal, full of protocol but felt very glorious. As my surname is Tan, so I had to wait quite some time before being called up.

Finally, it was time for our row to stand up and quietly stand at the side. One by one friends in front of me were called. Soon, I found myself to be standing at the bottom of the stage, just two people shy from receiving the scroll.

My heart began to pound quickly. I passed the pink paper slip and my matrix card to the person-in-charge. He then instructed me to stand at the two ‘X’ marks on the floor, first at the end of the stage and second at the middle of the stage, in front of the pro-chancellor. He also reminded me to say thank and bow after receiving the scroll.

I nodded. At the back of my mind, I prayed that I didn’t trip, else it would be disastrous!

The girl in front of me was called. She then walked to receive her scroll while I went up the stairs and stood on the first X. I took a glimpse of the audience, then focused at the girl in front of me.

The moment I’ve been waiting for came. I heard my name was announced over the speaker and I assumed the front of my matrix card was shown on the big projector screen, so automatically I walked towards the pro-chancellor with a BIG grin on my face. I heard loud applause coming from the ground. My heart beat so fast that I think could have reach 150-160 bpm, lol!

I went to the pro-chancellor, extended both hands out while she placed a scroll on my palms. I said Terima Kasih YABerbahagia and bowed before walking to the other end of the stage.

If given a choice, I would have jumped up in joy and screamed YES! But then since it was full of formality and such act wouldn’t be condoned, I just walked with my head held high.

Even up to now, I could feel the feeling that I had in the dewan two years ago. It was really achievement of self-satisfaction, that I would like to feel it again. Maybe it’s time to go for Master. Haha!

After everyone received their scrolls, the MC announced the end leaving of the pro-chancellors, vice-chancellors, deans and professors. We rised and watched them leave. Then our MC congratulated us on our graduation and all of us cheered loudly!

Most went out of the hall almost immediately, leaving few in hall. The few including me of course. I went to take photo with Lillian, but realising that we have no camera! Luckily my parents were still in the hall and dad helped to take photo of us.

The lights in the hall then went off, ‘forced’ us to leave the hall. I went out and my goodness, it was chaotic! The amount of people there, best be described by the Chinese proverb – human sea, human mountain.

Among the human flood, I saw my bee with a bouquet of pink roses in his arm. I was so happy to see him, almost threw a hug to him but didn’t (in fear of PDA!). He shyly passed me the bouquet and wished me Congrats. Shy cow, he is!

He was my unofficially appointed photographer, so he had to follow me wherever I went. Wahaha! Poor daddy and mummy had to tag along as I went here and there taking photos with my friends. Luckily sister and Jason were there to keep them company. Heehee.

I took photos with my coursemates who graduated the same time as me.

Most of my coursemates who had graduated the year earlier purposely came back to take photos with us.

If you’re wondering why some graduated first and I graduated later, that’s because I didn’t plan my subject well in my first year of study, therefore purposely extended another semester to finish my course in more relaxing manner. Else I would have to take 5-6 subjects (and sometimes 7) per semester to graduate in 3 years time.

Then the sky turned dark and began to drizzle. We left for KL Sentral just before the rain poured down heavily. At KL Sentral, we had a quick dinner at one of the cafe there as we were hungry. We only had brunch at 10 in the morning and nothing after that.

After dinner, we sent parents off at the KLIA Express terminal. They took KLIA Express LRT to KLIA for night flight back to Penang via MAS while I stayed a night in KL before leaving home the next day.

My sister and Jason went back to Seri Kembangan of course, while Satkuru and I headed to Midvalley for a gathering with the KL gang.

Obviously we didn’t, lol!

So we bear the discomfort and prayed that the traffic would be clearer when we got out of the congested area. Luckily it did got clearer.

Still by the time we reached Straits Quay, it was already 8pm. Satkuru was already there, so I called him to meet us at the centre atrium. Then we directly headed to Blue Reef for al fresco style dinner.

We quickly ordered our food and while ordering, my bro and I struggled on checking onto Blue Reef on Foursquare due to bad 3G connection there.

For your information, you’ll get free soft drink upon checking in Blue Reef on Foursquare and show the crew the ‘special’. So, do remember to check in! However this special only valid on weekdays!

In the end, only my sister, Satkuru and I managed to check-in and hence claimed 3 free drinks there! Wahaha.

Since we were so hungry, we decided to blow candle and cut cake first. After all the cake was melting and couldn’t ‘wait’ any longer.

This year I decided to book a special cake for dad. So, I went for mille crepes!

We quickly lighted up the candles and immediately sang birthday song. Dad made wishes that and then blew the lights off the candles. Then he cut the crepes.

Too bad the crepes was too soft that it couldn’t stand beautifully after cutting them in slices. It would be beautiful, if only it came out directly from fridge.

My, my.. the crepes taste so delicious even tho it was soft. I couldn’t imagine how tasty it would be if eat it right after receiving the cake!

Soon our food came in one by one. We have grilled garoupa with mash potatoes and broccoli and carrot stripes for my sister;

.. grilled salmon with mash potatoes, broccoli and carrot stripes for mum;

.. and different fishes of fish and chips – the Threadfin fish and chip for dad;

… the Halibut fish and chip for bro;

… the Spanish Mackerel fish and chip for bro’s gf;

… and the Garoupa Fish and Chip for me!

Satkuru ordered deep fried prawn and calamari since he tried fish and chip before in our previous visit the earlier weekend.

The food didn’t exactly wow my family but I’m glad that they left the restaurant with full and happy tummies.

Maybe it was the mille crepes that made the tummies happy! Haha!

2 hours later, we arrived at the new Straits Quay, admiring the big arch bearing the name at the entrance.

Located in Seri Tanjung Pinang, Straits Quay is one of the project under the E&O Development. There’s a quay, wharf, lighthouse, luxury suites, gym, boutiques, eateries, and errr… fountain in the middle! Rofl.

We walked in and my goodness, the building totally wowed us. The architectural design of the British colonial era totally made us feel like we were in European country. Totally mesmerising!

Feeling hungry, we walked from one end of the building to the other looking for food… and we decided on Weissbrau German Bistro & Bar. Which means the table must have… BEER!

and German crispy pork knuckles! Mm~ Heavenly~*

Not forgetting sausages! *slurps*

Don’t know why we ordered Mushroom pizza too. But, I totally enjoy the pizza. The crust is crispy. Thumb up!

The food is great, but we prefer Ingolf’s Kneipe’s.

After dinner, we lingered the area, checking out the shops there.

However, we left not long after that since the place is still new and there aren’t much to see as the most shops aren’t opened yet. Only ‘candies’ can be found there. Heehee!

Purposely cut all the needed ingredients so that I wouldn’t have to start cooking that early. Little did I know when I took nap at 2.30pm due to terrible headache, mum woke up me an hour later asking me to start cooking!

Of course, I snoozed the ‘alarm’ until 4pm, lol!

I thought I would have enough time to kaotim everything myself, but I’m so wrong again. Again, help was needed in the kitchen. Mum, sis and even dad crowded the kitchen, helped stirring, frying and washing the plates.

By 7.30pm, dinner was served.

Baked scallop and bacon with honey mustard sauce; Garlic beer prawn; Thai style steamed fish.

Omelette wrapped minced meat; Stir fry lotus root, peas and assorted mushrooms; Almond Chicken Strips.

Braised Abalone With Mushrooms and Garden Greens; Watermelon cube soya jelly.

Ahh~ I was so full after dinner… but now, don’t know why I’m hungry d. T_____T

Happy Lunar New Year!

Since it was a sunny afternoon, we didn’t object at all, lol.

Like usual, the waiter came.. ordered, bla bla bla… and then the drink/desserts came.

Ice Ice Baby has varieties of drinks, desserts, finger food and courses to choose from. Therefore we always order different ‘stuff’ each visit.

Their courses (baked cheese, fried rice) tasted so-so to me, their stupid ball (I kid you not, that’s really the name of that dish) was seasoned well and I totally love their crepe. Pardon me for forgetting the filing (I didn’t jot down somewhere -.-”) but I remembered the skin was so crispy! Nice!

Price wise, they’re not crazily expensive. In fact, they’re affordable. The youngsters love to gather here, lovebirds would share their desserts here, and not forgetting the factory workers too as it is comparatively cheaper than other place.

As I blog now, I realise it’s been a while since I visit Ice Ice Baby. Maybe it’s time to try other desserts there.

*cue music from Vanilla Ice*

This trip is so last minute, so unplanned with me doing all the bookings few days before flying. About to lose my mind for this, but I’m glad that I managed to pull this through. It was a well-deserving trip for me and my family.

Phi-Phi shall be my little escapade in future. Definitely will be. Awesomest island. <3

Stay tune for the posts.

Seeing the amount of clothes in my wardrobe, I decided to reduce them by taking out the clothes that I could not longer fit in and the ones that I won’t wear anymore. Took out few jeans, old and small size shirts and old dresses and put them aside…

..and that’s when my mum walked in.

Mum: What’s with that stack of clothes?

Me: Oh, I cannot wear these clothes d. And these I can’t fit anymore, so planning to give them away.

Mum: *gasp in horror* Whyyyyy? They look new and still wearable!

Me: I can’t wear them mum, they’re small and I’ve grown fatter. Sure, I’ll sure look ugly in this.

Mum: Keep until you got thinner only wear them back laaa.

Me: Cannot ler mum.

Mum: Then why you buy them at the first place if you’re not planning to wear them often.

Me: They’re only RM25 mahhhh. Some super cheap, that’s why I buy.

Mum: Cheap also money what. You went to those Dharma class, don’t they teach you not to simply spend money?

I looked at my mum with disbelief. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry at her statement. In the back of my head, I wanted to tell her so many reasoning.

I want to tell her that I bought them like many years ago as I figured out with RM100, I could get myself 3-4 pieces of tops/dresses. Also, back then it was more like impulsive buying, hence the enormous pile of clothes in my wardrobe. And how now I only buy when I need it and not simply spend money on clothes like what she said.

In the end, I  just told my mum that I’m gonna donate them, and she reluctantly accepts my decision. Lol.

One fine day, many, many months ago – my parents and I visited to have dinner at Dome outlet in Gurney Plaza. Though Dome is popular for very fragrance and delicious coffee, they offer variety of dishes too!

Like usual – we walked in, took seat at the comfy sofa and were given menus. We ordered shortly after browsing through the menu and then waited patiently for our order to come.

MY MUST ORDER : a cup of mocha which came with 2 pieces of my favourite cookie, biscotti!

You can dip a biscotto into the drink and then eat or you can eat it alone without dipping! Both ways are yums! ♥

Mum’s chicken pie came first.

The pastry is so crispy! And the ingredient below is heavenly! Though it’s taste similar to their mushroom soup, the texture is thicker and more delicious! Yums!

I opted for lighter meal, hence this meal.

I’ve actually tried chicken avocado sandwich in Delicious before. The presentation of the meal is obviously different, and so does the ingredient and taste. The bread wasn’t as hard as the one in Delicious – probably because of the different bread. The chicken meat wasn’t hard also. And the salsa sauce – it’s very appetizing! Mm~*

Lastly, my dad’s seafood rice. Can’t recall the real name so I create my own. Kakaka!

Though it’s just a simple dish – rice with dory and prawns topped with cream sauce; but it’s quite filling! I dislike cream sauce (therefore disliking carbonara), but this cream wasn’t too much! So thumbs up for this dish.

Too bad we could only try 3 dishes in the menu. Would definitely go back for more!

Food & Environment : 4 out of 5.

Besides being forced to take leave, sister came back home and bro was in school holiday, mum and dad received email to book room for only 1GP.

So much of coincidence propelled us to make this sudden trip to a fun city above the clouds, Genting Highlands. That’s the Genting tagline by the way.

Come 9^th of September, a day before Raya where everyone woke up way too early in the morning and departed from our home at 5.30am. Well, my bro proposed us to start journey at 4, but everyone was reluctant to leave the bed. Lol!

The highway was packed with car even at 5 in the morning as PLUS offered additional 10% to the existing 10% discount on class 1 vehicles during off peak hours every day. Do bear in mind, the off peak hour is from 12 midnight till 7 in the morning.

Well, we missed it by 15 minutes! We got off the highway at Ipoh for breakfast and mum nonchalantly said the promotion was valid whole day for that weekend when I insisted it wasn’t. So dad drove slowly and we even took our own sweet time at the R&R.

We dropped by a corner lot kopitiam somewhere in Taman Ipoh for breakfast. If not mistaken, the kopitiam is called Restaurant Ria Sentosa. Ordered their wantan mee and it is not bad.

After filling our stomachs, we continued our journey all the way to Genting Highlands. In between, I received sms from Sat asking my whereabout. When we were somewhere around Batang Kali, Sat told me that he’s already at the Genting Cable Car station. Dad asked if he wanted a lift, but Sat politely declined since we were still about 25-30 minutes away from the station.

I doubt taking cable car would be faster than driving up. True enough by the time we passed by the station, Sat was still in mid-air. Didn’t know where exactly was he when I called him as I couldn’t get him through. It was very misty and not to mention, cold too! Quickly I wound down my window and let the cool breeze woke my sleepy face. It totally reminded me of my childhood as my parents frequently brought us to Genting Highlands when my siblings and I were younger and my sis and I would wind down window and stick our heads out to feel the cool breeze; which was of course followed by mum’s scolding of being so advengerous – a word of adventurous and dangerous combined, lol!).

Finally reached the peak; parked at the First World Hotel’s parking bays and went to the lobby for check-in procedure. However, the machine was offline and we had to go through the old check-in system. Bleh!

And then Sat arrived! XD

We went for lunch at Jia, a food court near the stage at First World Plaza Level 2A. I remembered someone telling me about the must-try bak kut teh meal there so I recommended my parents that. Manatau, the bak kut teh for 3 pax with 5 oily white rice costs RM80++. @_@

And the bak kut teh is not even nice.

Sat’s lunch even worst – his economic rice costs him RM20++. So blardy expensive.

Mum commented that we should have our lunch at casino where the food there is cheaper and more delicious. But my bro is still underage! So we teased my bro by saying we’ll be going to have dinner at casino tonight and asked him to look for his dinner himself. Lol!

Before lunch, I had bought All Park tickets (RM59) for me and my siblings and Outdoor Park ticket (RM44) for Sat; which I regretted for I should have get Outdoor Park tickets for all. I guess my mentality at that time was that my sis and bro are still young and wanted to sit those Indoor Park rides at night.

Immediately after lunch, my sis, bro, Sat and I bid my parents goodluck and goodbye and went down the escalators to the Outdoor Theme Park. We managed to cover 7 rides – the Rolling Thunder Mine Train, Spinner, Cyclone, Grand Prix Fun Kart, Pirate Ship, Boating and Mini Train. Not bad considering it was the eve of Raya. Hehe!

We wanted to try more, like the Flying Dragon but it has super long queue. Then we wanted to go for Corkscrew but my baby bro felt scared looking at it while Sat and my bro ran off when my sis and I pointed Space Shot at him. I tried persuading them to Dinosaurland but all totally dispersed when I said that. As for Sungai Rejang Flume Ride, all four of us agreed not to get ourselves wet. Lol!

Soon, all of us felt hungry and decided to have early dinner at KFC. After dinner, I asked Sat to enter the casino for a game or two since he’s been talking about visiting Uncle Lim. So he went while we queued for Venice Gondola. Just before we got into our gondola, he came out and I thrust my DSLR to him, asking him to take pictures of us. And the pictures came out beautifully. ^^

After the gondola ride, Sat suggested us to play arcade games. So off we went to the arcade in Genting Hotel there. Seriously, I don’t know if the arcade is exactly in Genting Hotel, but I’m assuming it is since the Genting Casino is just above. Lol!

Bought 2 Ezycard reloaded with RM50 each and were given a free gift per card.

The boys starting showing off their skills at the basketball machine. I played like twice, teaming with Sat while my bro and sis teamed up. And sis commented me on using two hands when throwing the ball which I claimed I was so used to the netball style!

Don’t play play, I played netball during my schooling time okay.

We went around, aiming for games that will generate lots tickets. In the end, my bro concluded that the basketball spewed more tickets than the rest, so my sis and bro worked hard shooting the balls into the net while Sat and I went around looking at the ridiculous and hard to score non-machine games, like hitting the milk tin pyramid with super light hollow rubber ball.

Or throwing the very bounce-able rubber balls into the box of small holes angled at 45 degree! -.-“

Those non-machine games are harder to score than the one we played at the fun fair carnival beside Queensbay Mall. Though the prizes there are a little low standard, but at least the joy of scoring/hitting the target is there.

I pulled Sat away and asked him to stop wasting his energy and money on such game and go for the machines one instead. So we went back throwing balls at the machines.

Sat and I then got bored of throwing balls, then we went around looking for other type of games. That’s when we spotted a guy stood at this driller machine with tickets kept coming out from it. We were wowed and Sat immediately tried his luck but seemed like his estimation was a little bit high.

In the end, we got bored and tired. Sat had to leave for another vigorous function involving some kicking and running, so he bid us goodbye and left while my bro, sis and I were choosing the gifts exchanged for the amount of tickets we got which we didn’t do so at the end since it can be redeemable the next day.

Together, three of us we went to the casino to look for our parents at the casino but since bro couldn’t enter, we asked him to wait for us outside.

Little did we know the Genting casino is so big! That was the first time I entered Genting casino as I always went to the one in First World Plaza. My sis and I got hard time looking for our parents; we went row to row, front to the back, scanning through the mountainous people at the tables. Getting frustrated, I decided to give my parents a call asking their whereabout.

Only then we knew they were at the Monte Carlo.

We walked towards Monte Carlo and I was at awed at the decorations, the games, and the amount of people in the casino. And of course I choked at the smell of the cigarettes too. Totally hate the smell. Luckily there’s one part of the casino where gamblers aren’t allow to smoke. I was totally relief when walking there. Lol!

We finally found my dad standing in front of us from a distance. We got our room keys and mum asked us to quickly do Genting card. I got one, but was to expire by the end of September 2010, so I renew it.

After that we went out to look for our bro and quickly walked towards First World Plaza for Indoor Park rides. You see, why I said that I regretted on buying All Park ticket is because the Outdoors Park rides are open and working at night. They are only open during school holiday, eve and on public holiday. So it’s quite wasted loh, since I could bring my sis and bro outdoor for another round of fun. Moreover, the Indoor rides cater mostly for family with young kids, so it’s doesn’t work in our favour anymore.

Especially the Reindeer Cruiser – which obviously is designed for family with young kids as the cruise wouldn’t even fit all 3 of us and I had to take another ride alone while all the other mums eyes staring at me. I did feel like not taking the ride but hell ya, I paid for my ticket and I don’t care about the stares anymore. Lol! -.-“

We then went to queue for the 4D Motion Master Ride. Never in our mind that we would need to queue for more than an hour there! So totally not worth the wait at all as they were showing Haunted House, the same movie that I saw long time ago! I thought they’re playing Turtle Vision, but I just found out that they’re showing Turtle Vision in the day and the Haunted House at night.

We ended the night with a bowl of hot chicken porridge from Marry Brown Restaurant. Then we went back to our room where my bro went to sleep in the same room as my parents, leaving my sis and I in another room.

I can’t sleep well that night, while my sis dozed off almost immediately. So I talked to Sat and listened to songs until I dozed off too. Still, I woke up few times in the middle of the night. At 7 in the morning, I decided to wake up and shower. I woke my sis after I were done. Sensing that my parents might still be asleep since I called them and nobody picked up, I went over to my parents’ room and true enough, they were still sleeping!

My sister and I ended up watching cartoons shown on TV channels while waiting for my parents and bro to get ready. Then we went down to meet up with Sat for breakfast. Yes, Sat purposely went up Genting Highlands again just to see me. Bleks.

Mum asked us to go for the complimentary hotel breakfast since she doesn’t like the breakfast there. Then mum and dad went for breakfast at the casino while four of us went up to the First World Café with coupons in our hands. The staffs were in traditional Malay clothing today as it was the first day of Raya! The lady took my coupon and chopped it but stopped my sis and bro from entering as according to her, their coupon didn’t entitle complimentary breakfasts. I looked at the two coupons; they were similar and I don’t see any difference in them. I asked her to show me, but she kept pointing at a sentence which the other coupon has too.

Sensing there were other patrons looking at us, Sat thanked her, asked my sis and bro to enter the café first and walked out to settle the other coupon. I followed him. He then asked me to call up my dad for clarification, which my dad didn’t know if we were given complimentary breakfast or not. Dad asked us to wait as he went to the counter to ask about it. Meanwhile, Sat showed our coupons to the ladies at the cashier counter and they helped in verifying our coupon.

A little talk over the walkie talkie and the ladies allowed us in. But she did say that our room package doesn’t includes breakfast; but since two already went in, they sort of close one eye.

How nice they are. We were grateful and quickly went into the café. I called up dad telling him that everything is fine and asked him not to be worry.

After breakfast, Sat, bro and I went to the arcade for basketball shots while my sis entered the casino with my parents. Sat and bro tried their luck at the drilling machine again. Luck was on Sat’s side when he managed to get it through the hole and we got 200 tickets. Thinking that Sat’s lucky today, we went to try our luck at the roulette, leaving my bro at the arcade since he said he’s okay on his own.

Done gambling, we went to find my bro at the arcade where the boys had rounds of basketball and drilling and shooting. Then we redeemed prizes for 2800++ points. I realised we spent RM200 solely on arcade game. Super expensive! *pengsan*

Then it was the time to go. All of us went downhill and headed to the Genting Strawberry Park near the Gohtong Jaya Hotel. I passed my DSLR to Sat and to our horror, my camera lens got foggy! Kantoi case! T_T

The entrance is free, so we just walked by the turnstile into the strawberry farm. There’s a strawberry stall at the middle of the farm and mum bought two packets to try. One can pick their own strawberries for RM3 but we weren’t interested in doing the ‘harvesting’. Lol!

Then we walked along towards the exit. Little did we know that the exit route is super far! We had to walk passed the bee/honey farm, gift shops, orchid farm, vegetables farm, mushroom farm, more shops, Thai open-restaurant, and more stalls in order to get out. It reminded me and Sat of the same ordeal we went through in Yogyakarta. Haha!

I had fun snapping around the floras at the vegetable farm. There are plenty of flowers that I seldom seen so I quickly captured them down. Then Sat challenged me saying that he could do better, so he took my DSLR and snapped them too, in another angle – which of course, I refuted!

Oh ya, we ate our strawberry at the strawberry restaurant. Spotted their strawberry popsicles and my bro and I bought one to try, and I was disappointed. Totally cannot fight the one I had in Cameron Highlands as the people there make strawberry popsicles using strawberries puree, not the syrup.

After spending an hour at the strawberry park, we dropped Sat at the cable car station and headed home. Stopped by Tapah for KFC as dinner and reached Juru toll few minutes after midnight, just in time for the 20% discount promotion! Haha!

Now, where to next for family trip… ^^