On the first day of Hari Raya, a group of us went to this waterfall nearby Kuala Kubu Bahru. It is sort of a last minute plan between few of us a day or two before Friday.

Can’t really recall my last visit to any waterfall within the last 10 years.

It took us around one hour to reach the trail head. Partly due to we lost our way looking for the place.

To reach the waterfall, we trekked, crossed the stream 6 times and finally arrived at the waterfall after an hour later.

True to its’ name, IT IS CHILLING! I believe the water is less than 10’C.

It is really nice listening to the sound of water falling, stream flowing. So calm and peaceful. The fishes swam around us. The view of the waterfall is so awesome.

Totally a recommended place to get close with nature !!!

      

I’m still waiting for other pics from my friend’s camera. Will post it once I got a hand on them.

This will be the part 2 post about my recent trip to Thailand.

Opium, anyone???

 

Naah … Just kidding.

A trip to Thailand is never complete if you did not go for their local delicacies or food, whether is sold by the road side, road stall or on the road. Contrary to usual belief that road side food are not as good as those in air conditioned restaurants, the roadside food along the streets in Thailand are just the total opposite. Apart from that, they are cheap too. Damn cheap …… Sometimes I just wonder why they can keep their price so low even though their petrol price is at least double of what we have here (38.3 baht per litre, which is equivalent of RM3.80 per litre for RON95).

You’ll never get starved in Thailand because the streets are just abundantly packed with food. Note the word “abundant”. Grilled Pork, Meat Balls, Sausages, Dried Cuttlefish, Sticky Rice, Glutinous rice, Sweet deserts are just a damn small part of what you can get on a typical street.

 

What you see above are pineapples, ready to be “skinned” and eaten on the spot. Though it might look normal in the pictures but wait till you see the actual size at the pic below. It’s smaller than my palm but don’t let the look deceive you. This fruit is damn sweet and nice. And CHEAP!!!

Another one of my favorite is their sticky rice served with various kinds of toppings, notably mango, steam egg custard with coconut milk and etc. Priced at 5 baht, 2 packets of these can feed an adult.

Apart from these local delicacies, there are also various dishes that are pretty much can be found here in Malaysia. One of them is this :-

Chicken Rice …

This stall has really good business and the food taste nice also, and priced at RM2.50 per plate, with a complimentary soup.

For the dessert, this is one of the interesting ones …

Self-made Coconut flavored Ice Cream with real fruit chunks. Taste like heaven … LOL

Hungry now???

This is the Part 1 post about my recent trip to Thailand.

Some of you might know that I just went to Thailand 2 weeks ago with my family to visit the relatives on my mom’s side. I’ve received lots of messages from friends asking me to reconsider due to the political state in Thailand, but I still went on with the plan.

It’s been close to 7 years since I last went back to my mom’s hometown. It feels good and nice to be able to catch up with the relatives.

“View of the waters surrounding Thailand from above.”

“A view of the airport garden from one of the restaurants”

“In Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport”

 

During the stay, Thailand was very hot with temperatures ranging from 36 to 38 degree Celsius. Thank God that there were aircond rooms for me to stay in. LOL. That aside, this period is actually a new year period for the Thais, which is called “Songkran”. Water splashings are literally everywhere and falls in just nice with the scorching hot weather. Everywhere you go is a wet war zone where everyone just in the Rapid Water Splashing Mode.

I stayed in the car most of the time because of my wound. So can’t get wet. Otherwise I’ll definitely join the war… LOL…

For some unknown reason, it seems that my family likes to have our family outing at Genting. We were there during 2010 Countdown and then again we were there over the weekend.

 

Somehow, most of our trips there (if not, ALL) were fully sponsored by you know who. *snigger*

AND you know who also paid for our travelling expenses for our family trip to Thailand this coming April. *guffaw*

The last time I went to the Genting casino was around 5 years ago. I manage to win around RM2500 with a RM50 dollar chip on Roulette. Actually I don’t really fancy going to casino as I know myself that I don’t have that kind of luck and guts to place so much of money on the gambling table. AND I don’t like the “smokey” surrounding and the crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did play 2 games of Baccarat this time and manage to win RM150. So I spent the bounty on a treat for my brother and sister at Starbucks AND got myself a new Nike gym bag ------>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free stuff aside, these trips truly is a good time for me to spend some time with my family members since all of us live apart from each other. It’s a time that I truly cherish. Should have more trips like these heh? *wink*

Erm… this is actually a post on my trip to Penang LAST MONTH… Hehehe…

My friend and I were actually on a food trip to Penang. Will go again next time if my schedule permits. We went around hunting for food along with the local there.

List of food that we had are : - (not limit to ;-) )

- Yam Rice with salted vege soup. I like it very much.

- Blackman Rojak. The sauce was superb.

- Oyster omelets.

- Seafood… Loads of them …

 

Sidenote : I’m not at all part of the seafood. I’m just camwhoring while waiting for the food. Duh.

 

Apart from that, we also visited a few places in Bukit Mertajam and Penang Island. Particularly, St Anne’s Cathedral and za Hard Rock Hotel.

 

If you guys wanna go Penang, let me know… I wanna join .. ;-)

Last Thursday, I went to Bangkok with a group of friends. This is a trip planned since a few months back when Airasia was having some promo price. Since I haven’t been back to Thailand for a few years already so I thought this is a good chance to go back for a visit. The only difference this time is I’m not going with any of my family members, so it’s quite an adventurous trip for me although I can basically go anywhere because I can speak Thai.

We basically went shopping, food and visit some popular tourist spots. Manage to eat some of the food that I missed dearly, particularly the bamboo glutinous rice. Apart from that, I bought myself quite some stuff, mainly food, a sling bag, clothes, underwear and some medicine too.

I nearly wasted 50% of my 5 day trip to Bangkok because I was down with fever and cough. I lost appetite till the point of the food are tasteless to me. Luckily I still manage to get some medication from a pharmacy nearby the hotel.

We commute mostly using BTS as the hotel is just right beside the BTS station. BTS station is something like our own LRT systems. It’s very fast and timely. People here queue up to enter the train, staffs are helpful.

I’m looking forward to go back again……… Time to hunt for next cheap flight to Bangkok