Happy Birthday to ME times Twenty Two~!!!

This day at 22 years ago, my mum suffered from the greatest pain of all human being to bring me to this world... It's the war of a woman which can lead to death when anything goes wrong... And with the tough mind and spirit, she overcome everything and gave me the right to breath, to see, and to discover...

After 22 years, all the pain she going through has made me into a....

Siao Cha Bo!!!

LOL!!! Ya ya~ It's the time of the year again~ In case you don't know, it's my B-Day!!!

Nothing much for this year but I had a great time with my beloved family, and cute friendssss~!!! Thank you for all the presents and surprises and the accompany for this day! I will always plant this deep inside my heart~ <3

I spend this day at a 3-days-2-nights-so-call-luxurious-stay-by-peiyue at The Gardens Hotel!!! Will blog about the whole stay soon~ I'm too tired to blog now... Hehe... 

*It's a Grand Prize which I won from a CONTEST! I'm not that rich to spend Ks to stay at hotel for this time being T_T*

Ok lo~ I go to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ lo!!!!

Tomb-Sweeping Day 清明节 2009

Guess what... I'm with my family for the tomb-sweeping day this year... Me and Bun didn't make it back to Ipoh for that day~ Sighs~ Don't know whether his mum or dad will complaint about this or not... =="

Anyway, all of us wake up around 530am in the morning, buy stuffs at Pasar and then head to Nirvana, Semenyih quickly~ The later you're there, the jam-mer the traffic will be... It seems like the whole world is there to pray to their ancestors. Really pengsan everytime stuck in the traffic...

We reach there around 7am something... And the sky was clear... Love the sun that day!!!

Without any scruple, I bring my son with me that day. Alot of people said that this is a no-no! Because to Chinese, babies can see spirits easily... So, bringing them to place which are full of tombs and dead people are not a wise act. But you know me, I ain't going to believe all those superstitious thinking... So, I bring him along! See~ He's sooooooooooooooooo cute that day! He wear like Bruce Lee!!! Haha!!! XD

The fresh air and the smell of the green grass really makes people feel good!!! Even shy fellow come out and take some sun bath!!!

*Hey little fella, Long time no see you dy~ How are you??? You're huge aren't you??? XD*

After chit chatting with relatives a while, it's time to prepare for the praying ceremony. Tomb must be clean and swept before foods can be put on it as a offerings to our ancestors. Of course, variety of foods can be different according to different family. 

*Foods~ We haven't had our breakfast yet!!! X_X*

I remember my Ah Gong(Grandfather) used to like pork! Especially those with a bit of fat in between... To him, that's the best!!! So, every year we'll buy him roast pork. Besides that, Kopi-O Gao is a must too! Ah Gong loves to drink Kopi, and I still remember he taught me how to made a cup of Kopi-O using his own method. Ah Gong's Kopi-O is the best Kopi-O I've ever had in the world... I miss him a lot you know...

Due to our empty stomach is protesting how we treat them so bad, we decided not to look at the foods while our mother is preparing to serve as offerings, we shall turn to one of the spotlight of the day - Xuan Xuan and take his picture gao gao!!!

*Bruce Lee Style Punch!!!*

*Bruce Lee win jor he smile confidently!!! XD*

After foods are well arrange and joss sticks were litten up, it's time for the praying ceremony. According to Chinese tradition, the eldest son will be the first person lead the praying, and that'll be my 2nd uncle as my 1st uncle passed away...

*Their joss stick are different than ours, thicker and longer eh~*

*Daddy Charlie: Please 'bo bi'(bless) us kena lottery then I'll buy you whole roast pig next year as offerings!!! XD*

*remember ar~ Lottery!!! 1st place ar~!!!*

After everyone's turn, it's Xuan Xuan turn now!!!!!

*He's sooooo excited meeting his great grandfather for the first time!*

*Walau~ He even put on some 搞怪 funny expression some more!!!*

*Leng zai~ This looks like more to Gong Xi hand gesture than praying hand gesture leh~ =="*

After the praying ceremony, the next big thing we're going to do is to WAIT! Yeah~ Wait!!! If you're asking wait for what, I'll say wait for THE TIME to come... What time? THE TIME!!!

LOL~ Yeah, wait for the spirits to come over and have their meal, after they left then we can burn some offerings to them... How we know they come already??? We'll ask using some sort of coin throwing method to ask... I'm not sure how the process is but we'll just listen and follpw orders by our parents la~

While waiting... MORE PICTURES!!!!

*He changed his Bruce Lee sleepwear into some casual wear because the weather is getting more hotter than earlier... He even hug the marble ornament to cool down his body temperature... LOL!*

*Waaa~ Very hot ar......*

*The temperature is sooooo hot even spider climb on the ornament to cool down too...*

*I believe I can fly~*

*I believe I can touch the sky~*

After we get order from parents it's time to eat, we all eat the offerings we bring to our ancestors. LOL! I know, mentally it's kinda disgusting isn't? But who cares, this is one of the Chinese tradition which have been followed for thousand of decades!

After that, we clean up the place and head to my 1st uncle's tomb. (As I've said earlier, he passed  away...)

*Different family different praying style... My uncle's family put all those colorful flag on the top of the tomb.. I'm not sure what's the reason... Hmm...*

Heading back to KL was the most headache thing of that day! Everyone is rushing back to KL at noon time... Aiks~ We're jammed in the middle of the traffic for about 1 hour... And according to the staffs at Nirvana Memorial Park, it's impossible to broaden the road in front of the place because alot of Malays live there for a long time. They refuse to move to another place...

Is this consider intolerant? They're causing alot of traffic troubles to that place! There are hundreds and thousands of tombs there, and definitely hundreds and thousands of families are going to be there for praying, and of course, hundreds and thousands of cars are driving to that place, in and out for sure! Are we going to stuck in traffic jam like that for 10 years or more?

Gosh~!!! I wish they can move out from the place! I'm sure Nirvana company will compensate them for their lost... But I guess that they're too stubborn to agree... Sighs~

Anyway, we're taking the Sungai Long route back to KL... And we're discussing what to have for lunch (I thought we just had our brunch at Nirvana?)... Guess what, my dad bring us to a place that I think alot of people don't know that such place exist at KL!

He bring us to Jln Bellamy to eat Rojak Bellamy!!! Haha~ (Bellamy reminds me of former Liverpool player Craig Bellamy...)

Hoho~ As you can see at the advertisement board, this Rojak bellamy can consider as the most delicious rojak in Malaysia!!! And for your information, this rojak once served as food in the palace!!! Don't play play oh~ Not delicious how serve it to the King and Queen??? 

*All Malays eating the famous rojak~ We're the only one Chinese family there... I guess Chinese not very fancy over rojak eh?!*

Zeng Zeng Zeng Zeng~ Now I introduce you~ 

The Famous Rojak Bellamy:

The sauce were nice... Sweet and spicy... Alot of mengkuangs and tofus and kuihs... Nice but cheap~ Can consider stop by this rojak 'restaurant' if you're around Istana area...

If you not sure how to go, please use Google Map ok???

P.S: Don't go at night, they don't open at night time... Lunch is ok! ^^

The next day, me and Bun decided to go to Carrefour to buy some grocery stuffs... But the queue at the Carrefour was sooooooooooooooooooo long we decided to shop later and have our dinner first...

Seeing the 50% off promotion at Splendid, we decided to give it a try...

But you know, overall Splendid is a CLONE to Secret Recipe. They have the ALMOST same interior design, ALMOST same menu, ALMOST same cake selections and the food too... taste ALMOST the same! Pengsan~ But Splendid is a bit expensive compare to Secret Recipe...

For the 50% off items, only two options available:

Option No. 1 : Blackpepper Chicken with Rice

Option no.2: Fish and Chips

The drinks are expensive, so we order only one drink to share... Overall the food taste normal... I guess I won't step into Splendid for the next time...

Road to Penang Feb 2009 Part II

Hooray~ Give a clap for my efficiency for continue the story of the Penang trip in such a short period!!!! *applause!!!*

Okay~ Before I start, Kei told me that I didn't make a conclusion on why Jill was emo that night. Yeah~ I totally forgot to write that  because I was too rush to bed that time.... So the answer why Jill is emo is because...

She was tired. Nah~~~~~~~~ Haha... Actually, YES! She was TIRED!!! This is the main reason, and the 2nd one is because she didn't meet that somebody for 2 days???!! LOL! This only happens on those who just fall in love... 

Anyway, let's proceed to the next day of the wedding, the traditional wedding ceremony!

I was told that around 9am the bridegroom will arrive our apartment. So, everyone is up at 8am... But guess what, being late this gen is really in our Chinese blood, planted so deep in our core of gens and mind... The bridegroom arrive around 10am???! Or 1030am... I forgot the exact time since this passed for few months...

But luckily he was late, because I'm the last person who wakes up! Gosh~ And I need to bath and make up and so on... And waited for some time, the wedding car team arrived!!!

Jacques will be the door boy who opens the door for the bridegroom. We Chinese believe that this can bring the bridegroom luck for giving birth a boy? Whatever nonsense, just some superstitious traditional act by prosperity-belief-aunty uncle.

Jacque and Ceremony MC (This position was same as matchmaker at old times)

Bridegroom: Nah~ Give You ang pao~

Jacques: Thank You~ Hehe XD

And the first thing bridegrrom and his brothersss step into the house is to makan first. Where got energy to cope with those difficult missions the bride's sistersss give if no energy at all??? 

Kuih's and Yeo's Chrysanthemum Tea are a must! Why huh? I wonder if there's different combination... Maybe Coke with KFC for breakfast?

All the brotherss and sisterss are gathered together. Sisterss have to pin the flowers on the shirt pocket of brotherss... Not sure what does it means but sure thing is there's always people who feel shy about it...

Shy guy no.1 who looks like the MyFM DJ 国荣

Shy guy no.2 who pretends not to be shy...

After wearing flower brooch, the bridegroom and his fellow brotherss are ready to challenge those mission just to win the chance for the bridegroom to get into the room! This is the fun part of the wedding ceremony where you can see people do all those funny acts and stuffs...

Yeah~ We're READY!!!

Ehhh??? The sister kena challenge back instead of challenge the brothersss =="

Lipstick Guessing... Which one belongs to the bride...

Bridegroom: Jia Lat liao... I only tahu kissing leh...

After some time guessing and laughing, it's time for brotherss to use their energy of Kuih Muihsss and Chrysanthemum Tea to knock off the door to let the groom in!!!! They almost can compare with the Spartan 300!!!

Groom: Hee Hee... You see lo, I'm in the room now, are you willing to marry me???

Bride: Hee Hee.................................

Lovely Couple

The 'kissing' ceremony... Which is a MUST for every wedding ceremony! XD

But one kiss is not enough, some more on the cheek wei.....

So... there goes...

Sweet!!!

Flower wearing for the groomsmen and bridesmaid...

The ceremony ended with a Family Potrait!!!

After that, people were talking and chatting non stop with the bride and groom and I'm so boring I camwhore with Jill again. She's HOT don't cha think so????

After lunch at the apartment, everyone leave and check out process are done... And it's time to tour around!!! You know what is opposite of our apartment??? It's.....

Buppharam Thai Buddhist Temple

This temple was one of the famous temple in Penang. Lots of foreigners and its loyal believer come to visit the temple everyday...

I don't know why Mummy Joyce have to touch the statue's hand... Can touch one meh???

Four Face Buddha

Sleeping Buddha

There's alot of buddha statue for praying around... But there's one that really amazed me! Which is this...

The highest status monk's statue... In the middle of the indoor temple...

The statue looks sooooooooooooooo real as if it were the REAL PERSON sitting there...

I don't dare to take a close up picture because I think he's staring at me =="

The rules and regulations of the temple

You can see there are sooooooooooo many type of gods of Thai Buddhist, but the following one I'm showing you is the one who have extraordinary power...

No, not that 3 behind....

This ONE!!! You don't underestimate its power by its size. According to the monks and belief, this statue have the power of telling whether can or can't your wish to be true...

We spend quite some time in this small room, asking questions and hoping the statue can tell us something through its weight. The CORRECT way to ask a question is:

1) Think your question inside your heart... SINCERELY, after that, think this: IF YOU AGREE MY WISH AND IT CAN COME TRUE, PLEASE LET ME LIFT YOU UP!!!

2) Lift the statue up, the 1st time should be light and can lift up easily.

3) After placing back the statue, think AGAIN: IF YOU'RE GRANTING MY WISH, PLEASE DON'T LET ME LIFT YOU UP!

4) This time, the statue is soooooooo heavy you can't even lift it up even you're standing and use all your energy to lift it up!

You probably don't believe me, but it's true! Each and every member of my family have tried it and was overwhelm a bit by its power... But honestly, I forgot what I ask for... Lousy memory...

There's a statue of the monk which allows people to stick a GOLD FILM on it! See~!!! GOLD FILM!

Offering of 108 times which can bring you happiness and luck!!!

You can't believe how much time we spend in this temple! It's kinda fun and exotic experience for me. You can try find this temple which located at Perak Road... Just around Burma Road for your information...

How can not to take photo with such beautiful gate and sunny day???

Mummy Joyce and Daddy Charlie insist want to take photo with the temple... She say looks like they're at Thailand... LOL!

The next BIG thing you can do at Penang is to EAT!!!! Even though you're full...

We don't really know where are those delicious foods at, cos there are alots of reconstruct and movement of stalls which even Mummy Joyce who born at Penang getting confuse a bit with the road and things...

So, we're going to try NEW things!!! And this new place we're heading to is called NEW WORLD PARK.

And I was shocked when I see this!!!! :

KISSA KOYOTEI!!!!! The Malaysia 1st Maid Cafe!!! I was soooooooo excited when I saw this I felt like I'm a hentai otaku or something...

I keep on dropping hints to Bun Bun and my family on how special the cafe is... Hope that they know I'm hoping to drop by to this special cafe, but neither of them get my hints... Sighs~ T_T

So, bye bye to Kissa Koyotei... Hi to New World Park... *sobs* 

Penang food are always much more cheaper compare to KL ones but this New Workd Park food court are consider same price as KL... 

As my son is sleeping soundly at Bun's arm, I'm the one who is going to order food. Since I'm still full at that time, I might order some dessert... And the famous one will be Ais Kacang a.k.a ABC~

When I was ordering, the waiter ask me whether I want fruits or not... I was wondering: The fruit taste might not match with the taste of Ais Kacang, so I refuse to let them earn the money of the fruits I decline their offer... And it turns out to be FRUIT AIS KACANG is the FAMOUS dessert at New World Park!!!! Even Ho Chiak come and interview them before...

I was like @_@.............. Speechless!!!

My Fruit-less Ais Kacang... *sobs*

After dessert and snacks, we decide to walk around, have a look on this new 'NiuZeXui' look alike place...

Xuan Xuan woke up... And he's smiling~

We pass by a shop called 'Happy Feet' and there were promoters giving out flyers, promoting their shop. It was a promotion period for the shop and we decided to try it out... Each and everyone of us is first time doing this.... Nervous nervous~

Interior of 'Happy Feet'... So 'BALI'...

(Don't know why, everyone is travelling to BALI like right now???!!! What the heck...)

The main worker of 'Happy Feet'!!! Cute aren't they???

Yes, we have our very FIRST FISH BITING FOOT THERAPY at Happy Feet... We were persuade by the promoters and seduced by the promotion we decided to give it a try... 

We are advice to wash our legs before we dip it into the water... And our leg are examine by promoters to avoid any disease of feet such as Hong Kong Leg and etc... We were satisfied with the attitude and friendliness of people working there...

And here comes the time we have to do it...

To Put our leg into the water and let the fish nibble it...

Honestly, I totally can't resist laughing and yelling because of the ticklish feeling when the small fishes nibble and swimming around my feet... For the whole 40 minutes of process, I was trying to calm myself down... I sucks Kao Kao cos I still can't get use to the feeling while other people are enjoying it!!!

Mummy Joyce... So enjoy until LOVE come out and surrounded her.... 

Daddy Charlie very KUA ZHANG, he dip half of his leg into the pool... He say must earn back kao kao the money... LOL!

This is the expression when you first sink your feet into the pool...

This is the expression after 20 minutes sitting there doing nothing so you start to feel sleepy in the lazy afternoon...

As you see, I'm trying very hard not to laugh and calm down myself, murmuring 'It's Okay, You just have to get use to the feeling...' But I failed anyway~ The fish were big enough, I don't think they're nibbling my feet, I think they're biting/eating it...

Xuan Xuan had his first fish therapy!! He's soooo enjoying it! I ashamed of myself... T_T

Relax~

It was a laughing, fun 40 minutes, I guess each and everyone of us are enjoying it and this will be the special memories for everyone of us!!! ^^

Before we leave New World Park... There are carnivals and machine rides are there to earn kid's money!!!

As Kevin say: Hey~ Your son 卡到鸟！

As if the Kangaroo have 2 babies...

Come take a horse ride with me babe~!!!!

Yeah, we spend the whole afternoon at New World Park... And then back to my Aunt JooBee's house to fetch my bro Sheng... And guess what, I'm DOWN!!! With FEVER...

Arrggghhhh~~~~ We're heading back to the mainland of Penang, Bukit Tambun and there are some Night Carnival going on there too. There were lots of tasty foods and people singing and dancing on the stage but I didn't see any of it because I were too sick to go out from my relative's house...

The fever continue till Sunday, I become much more better when we're going back KL... Sighs~ I missed alot of good foods~!!!

Anyway, here comes to an end of my Penang trip at February this year!!! It was such a nice, funny trip except the ending of it where I was sick... But don't worry Penang...

I'LL BE BACK!!!!!!!!!

Muahahahahahahahahahaha~ XD