Life away from home

Harlow people.

Work has finally started for me and that is why I have NO TIME at all to blog.

And Ipoh will be my home for a year. Please be good to me. I know this one year will not pass quickly, or should I say it won't be an easy year for me, but I hope I am determined and strong enough to go through this year and finally be a fully registered pharmacist!! Thats my aim for now!!

Can't wait for that day to come sigh. And it has only been 2 weeks. And I just started my on calls. God, its damn tiring to reach home at 10pm at night and still must get out of bed to be at work at 8.30 the next morning k :(

Anyway, I finally settled down into my new room :) Kind of love my room. Small but cozy, and with my own attached bathroom.

My daddy is the most awesome dad in the whole world!! He came here with me and stayed on for a week, helping me to get a room and also, cleaning and scrubbing my whole entire room until it was clean while I was at work. Awwww I love him super much :)

And also darling came during the weekends. The minute he entered my room, he took a quick look around and told me, 'lets go get some furnitures for your room.' He had everything planned out for me. From whatever he 'thinks' I need, till measuring all the spaces in my room to make sure the furniture he was going to get me will fit in perfectly.

And after 2 days of hardwork, rm150 spent on a bookshelf and 2 drawers, I can finally say my room is complete :) Thanks so much Hou! For spending so much money on me =/

Now, picturesss ~

 *My queen bed, mini dressing table and set of drawers*

 *Love my bed so much. Feels so like home cause everything is brought from my own house! Bedsheets, pillows, blanket and my beloved pooh pooh! :D*

*Study area and bookshelf*

*Wardrobe, another set of drawers*

And my super duper mini toilet. I ain't complaining because its not easy to find an attached bathroom in this old town!! So yeah, as long as its for me to use ONLY, then I'm fine with it being small. 

Anyway, back to before I left for Ipoh. 

Hou and I had a super duper random one night trip to Melaka solely as a food trip!! We've been saying that we wanted to go for ages but just couldn't find the time to go so yeah before I left, we just decided to head to Melaka.

All we did was eat and eat and eat and eat. Hehe.

Hou managed to get a decent hotel room in a short period of time at a reasonable price too! 

We left KL at 7pm right after Hou was done with work and arrived at Melaka at about 8.30pm, right in time for our dinner reservation at a Nyonya Restaurant. I've read many good reviews about this place being the best restaurant that serves Nyonya food, so we definitely had to give it a try. 

And the verdict: Damn awesome. Totally DID NOT disappoint our high expectations!!

Amy's Heritage Nyonya Cuisine. Be sure to make reservations before heading there because they DO NOT serve walk in customers.

*Assam Fish*

*Sayur Lemak*

 *Ayam Pongteh*

 *Our meal for two :)*

 I personally loved their Ayam Pongteh and the Sayur Lemak!! Theres a lot of other dishes that I really wanted to try which people raved about but it was sold out by the time we were there. Sigh, definitely WILL go back to try the remaining dishes!!

 And another plus point is, the owner of the restaurant, Amy, is super friendly and nice!! We were the LAST customer and we were quite late for our reservation but she served us properly nonetheless.

After we were done with dinner, we headed to our hotel to check in. The room was just okay. I guess what you pay for is what you get. So no complains. It was clean, so I'm good with that.

Washed up a little, and 10 minutes later, we headed back out for supper.

This time, for Melaka's famous Satay Celup @ Ban Lee Siang.

Its seriously SOOO MUCH better to come late at night because then we will not need to queue up for a table. I hate queuing up for food okay!! :(

*Only this tray for the 2 of us because we were filled from dinner earlier hehe*

 Just wanted to have a try of the famous Satay Celup because no one goes to Melaka without trying this!!!

Called it a night after that, we drove around the empty town, looking at night lights and finally headed back to our hotel.

Chilled, kacau each other etc until we were tired and we dropped dead on the bed.

Next morning, we set our alarm at 7.30am because buffet breakfast was included in our room. Haha I've read online that their breakfast sucks but since we already paid for it, die also must go down bite a few stuffs right? :P

We were done with breakfast in half and hour and headed back to our room to continue our sleep :D Hou bargained for a later check out time since we checked in soooo super late the night before and so we had until 1 pm.

After checking out, the food hunt began.

 First stop, Donald & Lily.

*Nyonya Laksa*

*Ayam Pongteh*

definitely Amy's Heritage one was better

*Chendol with gula melaka*

Seriously the BEST chendol I've eaten ever!!! I now conclude that Donald & Lily's chendol are the best. The rest of the food was just meh. So if I were to come back to this place, definitely for the chendol!! 

Btw, the one at Jonker 88 sucks. Do not even try their chendol. Seriously tasted so bad we didn't even finish that one bowl that we ordered to share among us two.

Next, was Nadeje for their famous Mille Crepe.

*Rum and Raisin*

Ordered one to share and it was soooo good. Haha yeah I know PJ has an outlet already but I was just craving for it that day and we had nothing to do at that time, while waiting for the morning food to digest so we can stuff in more.

We took freaking 1 hour to locate the shop. Thanks to the 'smart' Hou, who insisted he knew where it was and ended up bringing me to walk like an hour, crossing big fields, walk round and round and he still insisted it was the right place before he finally decided to ask someone -.-

Next was one of our most missed food!! None other than pork satay @ Kedai Satay Xiang Ji.

Seriously the best best best!! Just had that ooomphh feeling with the first bite. We ordered 15 sticks at first and after finishing that, we decided that it was too good so we ordered another 10. HAHAAHA

Went jalan jalan around Jonker street and I wasn't feeling too well after that. Was down with a bad headache so we decided to head back to KL. 

But first, we stopped by to tapao the famous Klebang Coconut Shake. Hou went down to queue while I get princess treatment and waited in the car with the aircond full blast hehe. And when he finally came back with it, i took a few sips and felt really unwell that I slept the whole journey back. So sad, wasted his effort of queuing up to get me the drink. Sowieee darling :O

That was the end of our random short trip to Melaka. Less than 24 hours haha.

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The weekend before I left for Ipoh, darling took me out for my long awaited Japanese buffet @ Umaiya, Puchong. I remembered the last time I ate there, it was quite good so yeah I wanted to try it again since I've not eaten it in like 4 years!! 

It was RM58 ++ / pax and total bill came up to  RM134. Kind of expensive and honestly, I felt the food was just okay. So yeah, time to find another japanese buffet restaurant which is up to my standard!!

 *Started off with dragon maki. Because I LOVE eel super much!!*

 *Smoked duck salad, yummy too!!*

 *Chicken Teppanyaki*

*Beef Negi* 

One of my favorites that day

*Baby Octopus*

This was horrible. So so bad that I couldn't finish this small plate

*Chawan Mushi*

*Tuna Salad Sushi*

 *And finally salmon sashimi and maguro sashimi*

It was good, but not as good as the ones at Senjyu!!

Hehe we had like 18 pieces of salmon sashimi muahahahaha

*Saba Shioyaki, and Yakitori*

*Sukiyaki Beef*

Urghh after having Sukiyaki at Suki-ya, my standard of sukiyaki has gone way up and so this big bowl of sukiyaki sucks so bad. Just go over to Suki-ya for their buffet and I swear its one of the best beef and lamb slices you can ever get!!

*Age Dashi Tofu*

*Salmon Mayo Maki*

This was good too!

So there were some hits and misses, but for me, definitely not worth the price. I guess I have to start finding for another japanese buffet soon to satisfy my cravings hehe. 

Thats all for now. Will be back to update soon I promise, when I'm not on call :( 

Anyway on a random note,

I freaking LOVE my XiaoMi powerbank!!!!!

 THIS THING, has now become the most important thing that I will NOT leave my house without. Seriously, I will never ever need to worry about my hp not being charged full the night before and fear of it running out of battery by mid day. 

This powerful thing, is able to charge my hp full 5 times!! And it charges it FAST!! Like in 1.5 hours to full battery!! 

At first, I didnt know what was the craze about. I've seen many of my friends posting about this Xiao Mi powerbank thing and seeing how its so cheap, at only rm36 and how you have to be super duper fast enough to own one, because like 10000units get sold out in 1minute??! Like wtf damn crazy lor. 1 minute how to fill in all your details, address etc.

So yeah I was curious one day, and I decided to ask YK about it.

Mun: Eh what is this Xiao Mi thing everyone crazy about ah??

YK: Nah show you. Very good and cheap *He already had one for himself*

Mun: Oh really ah? So good??

As usual, me went back and did some research online and found out that its really a good powerbank. So the next day I texted YK:

Mun: Eh I wan Xiao Mi. Give me.

Just one sentence, the next day, it was delivered personally to me, straight into my hands. Awww I am one lucky girl!! Hehe.. while everyone else was fighting for it online, and unable to get it even after trying multiple times, I got it just with one sentence. 

Thanks so much YK!!! You are one awesome friend!! Haha I feel so pampered :P 

Ok thats all for now.

Bye!!

-mun-

 

Grand Lexis, PD

So, as I'd mentioned in my previous post, right after we touched down at KLIA 2 from Krabi, our next holiday began.

*Very few pictures as most of them are private and confidential ;P*

This time it was with his family. They picked us up at the airport and off we went straight to Port Dickson, for a 2 days 1 night short vacation.

The initial plan was to stop by Lukut for lunch before checking in at the resort as check in time was at 3pm. But when we were on our way into Lukut town, it started jamming (traffic jam lols) like crazy so we decided to abandon our makan plans and head straight to the resort.

Thank god they let us checked in early AND the best thing was, they gave us a free room upgrade, from the Garden Pool Villa to the Premium Pool Villa (which they claimed was their 2nd most expensive room at the resort). Yippppie happy us! :D

*My OOTD* :)

 *Our villa*

*First thing I did was obviously to check out our private pool 1st :P* 

Hehe it was awesomeeeee (but obviously cant compare to our Bali villa la)

*Super large bathroom area, with separate toilet and shower area, and the whole bathroom sliding windows can be opened up fully to the pool area so that we can just head straight to the bathroom without wetting the bedroom. Love the design*

*Mini kitchen area*

*And since our villa was above the sea, we had this glass viewing panel to look below. It was low tide, thus only brown sand*

*Our super huge bedroom, with 2 king sized bed, to fit 5 of us :)*

After resting for awhile and done exploring our villa, we headed out for makan :D

Went searching for the famous Lukut Curry Chicken Bun, and after multiple failed attempts in trying to locate the shop, we finally arrived at destination! ;D

*Lucky King Bun*

*Our super large CURRY CHICKEN BUN*

The verdict: Damn freaking good! I am the type who DOESN'T touch breads because they are fattening and in my opinion, not tasty enough for me to think that it was worth getting fat for, but this bread was the bomb! So super soft and just so fragrant that I didn't mind eating it plain, even without the curry. And the curry chicken, it was so thick and full of flavors! Definitely recommended!!

Not cheap though. That thing cost us rm40 if not mistaken. And it was soooo good that his mum ordered another 3 more to tapao back home the next day ahaha.


After eating, we just randomly drive around town, stopping at the new PD Waterfront area, just to look see look see, sat down for some coffee yamcha session then we drove back to the resort.

Cause according to his dad, (damn funny one k), our villa's price was RM2600 a night, which means its like  RM100/hour, so every minute spent away from our villa is a WASTE of money. And so we MUST spend more time in our villa and not outside. And also we cannot be sleeping in the villa because its also wasting money, so we must spend more time being awake lol. Damn funny la his parents XD

Went back to our room and all of them decided to go for a swim, while me as usual, did wat I always do best, SLEEP.  :P The sun so hot la omg how to swim??!

Ok la not really sleep straightaway. I did teman them for awhile, before returning to my ever-so-comfy bed hehe.

And I told them to wake me up when they are going for cycling in the evening after the sun wasn't so hot anymore.

Hehe it had been a long time since I last rode a bicycle so I was looking forward to it!!

*Cycling around the resort!! It was so so fun!!*

*We cycled to a lookout spot where we could catch the sunset and it was awesome :)*

*Family berbonding time lol*

Headed back to the room after that and everyone took turns to bath and get ready for dinner. 

We went back to PD Waterfront for dinner at a seafood restaurant which was recommended by his mum's friend.

I forgot the name of the place but its like a super HUGE restaurant, with their own building and the food was good plus cheap!

*The view from where we were seated at* 

Just right in front of the beach

*Our foooood*

Lol some pictures are ugly because I paiseh if want all of them to wait while I take multiple shots. So I just simply took like one of each dish. hahaa

 It was a good dinner. :)

*Spent the night talking away and looking at the moon and planes that flew by. There were lots of planes maybe cause we were near KLIA?*

Then right after dinner, the parents suggested going for dessert at Mcd. McD's ice cream and so we drove next door and the whole family sat there eating only ice cream hehe.

I was jokingly telling his mum that I will gain 10kgs from this trip cause all they do is eat and eat and eat more ahahahahaa.

Done with McD and we drove back to the resort but on the way, stopped by at 7-11 cause his parents wanted to buy snacks to munch in the room later. And they bought super alot omg wtf 0.0


Headed back to the hotel and his parents suggested going for a drink in their bar, cause 'the night was still young'. So ons right his family??! And yeap we headed to the bar, ordered cocktails, sat there, enjoy the music from their live band and just enjoy I guess? Lol. There weren't much talking because the music was tooo loud and definitely not favorable for any conversations.

I was dead tired by then because I only had like 4 hours plus sleep the night before in Krabi cause we had to get up early to head to the airport. So yeah after the bar, we went back to the room and they had their 2nd round of swimming in the pool and after that I think it was sleeping time and I totally died on the bed T.T

Me and Hou only woke up at 11am the next morning and heard screams and laughter from the pool. Haha I wonder why his family has SOOOO much energy to play the whole day and still wake up early the next morning to continue playing LOL .

Checked out and headed to Lukut in search for fooood.

*Iced Coffee to keep me awake!*

 *And their famous La Zha Mee*

The wet and dry version

 The dry one was super yummy!! Hehe after lunch it was driving back home and even after having my coffee, I slept the whole way back, and continue sleeping once I reached home.

Lol so that sums up our short vacation to Port Dickson. It was somewhat a fun trip but cause I was super tired from Krabi, most of my time was spent sleeping. Cant blame me la, their bed was DAMNNN COMFY OKAY!! Expensive hotel memang ada standard LOL.


-mun-