Flood on 21 Aug 08

21 Aug 2008, when I was at Jln Sg Besi around 6pm, I was caught in traffic jam for 1 hour. The road from 3 lanes became one lane because of terrible flood. This happened near HSL Electrical shop & Toyota Service Centre.

Freebies from Aesop

I got these samples from Aesop; Cleansing Masque, Body Balm & Eye Serum but I haven't try it. Actually i redeemed it with the newspaper cutting :D

Trip to Sungai Petani, Kedah

Last Friday, I went to Sungai Petani with HM, KV & JD for 2 days 1 night trip. The purpose for this trip was because KV participating in the mental arithmetic competition.

Before we went to Sg. Petani, I thought Sg. Petani is a small & rural town. But when I reached there, it was totally different from what I thought earlier.

Sungai Petani (abbreviated "Sg. Petani" or "SP") is a town in the state of Kedah, in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. Sungai Petani is the second largest town in Kedah after Alor Star. The name Sungai Petani has its roots from sungai meaning river and petani meaning farmer in the Malay language. Sungai Petani in full means "Farmer's River", due to the huge concentration of paddy fields and farmers in the state.

The town is clean and foods are not expensive. We stayed in Park Avenue Hotel (PAH) which is next to the Sg. Petani (South) Tol. A few hotels is near PAH within the walking distance and Giant Hypermarket is just nearby about 5 mins drive. The Store supermarket & GSC cinema is just 10-15 mins drive from PAH. Even within 5 mins walk, we can find restaurants, hawker stalls, kopitiam and mini-market, very convenience.

From KL, we stopped by Tapah Tol for a rest and had a breakfast there. The breakfast actually was bought from KL and we had it there and bought drinks from Dunkin Donuts.

We arrived Sg. Petani around 12pm. We stayed in this hotel.

The room cost RM100 nett with king size bed but w/o breakfast. We added a bed cost RM60 nett with one breakfast voucher. So the next morning we just paid RM16 nett plus the breakfast voucher, the whole family had breakfast at the coffee house... so "dai" :)

The new renovated swimming pool.

We had a dinner at the Japs restaurant - Hatsuhana 初花. The menus & price are similar to Kiku-Sakura and NipponTeh. We order one teriyaki chicken set, one teppanyaki salmon set and one agedashi-dofu. The foods were very tasty. The dinner cost RM60.00 and the appetisers, green teas & towels are FOC.
Inside the restaurant, there is a reading corner with varieties of mangas, magazines & newspapers.
On Saturday morning after breakfast, we sent KV to the competition hall. The competition was held at SJKC Sin Kwang. Her tag number was A606. A6 means Category A, age 6.The organiser did prepared a T-Shirt for each category A participant. They have to wear the T-Shirt for the competition, without the T-shirt is no allow to enter the competition hall. Other categories are allow to wear their own clothes.

KV won 4th prize in the competition, she got a tropy too. We left Sg.Petani around 12pm after the prize presentation ceremony.

Jae-Drien (柞希) in Candid Video

I took this video last night when JD climbed up & down the sofa while his aunty was watching chinese drama 胭脂雪(Starrings 范冰冰, 霍建华&刘雪华). He noticed that I was taking the video but he kept pretended.

AGM Meeting

This morning i went to attend the Selangor Dredging Bhd AGM meeting. Here are the gifts i got it from there; a marble cake & a flask.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Next month, on 14 Sep 2008 is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Everywhere selling mooncake, even Starbucks selling mooncakes too. I bought a box of Starbucks' mooncake from Ida, because her sister was bought it for staff price.

Actually I'm prefer to eat tranditional branded mooncakes likes Tai Thong, Overseas, 玉壶轩 and etc ... I bought Starbucks' mooncakes not because of the taste, it was because of the packaging and the ceramic cup :D . In the Starbucks' mooncakes gift box included of 4 pcs mooncakes - Tiramisu, Green tea chocolate, Hazelnut Latte & Berries Cheese.

Fish Head Soup with Rice Vermicelli

Today, Roy brought me & JT to Cheras for lunch. We had fish head soup with rice vermicelli and fish pastes. The soup very very tasty and yummy. Thanks to Roy for this wonderful lunch.

蕉赖四楼湖滨鱼头米粉, 浓郁淡奶汤底.