1Qtr - Long over-due Post

So ...

Jan 13 - Penang

Feb 13 - Batam

and it did not stopped there. hee hee ... 

Mar 13 - Tioman & Melacca

Tioman was great. rindu air terjun, iced jagung and sea turtles.

Melacca was a family trip. It was a holiday and traffic jam left, right, front & back. Some of the photos taken with LCA+.  Quite dark as we reached there almost evening.

Apr 13 - KL aku datang!!!

 I can go KL every month and I won't get tired of it.  I just LOVE KL! .... LOVE ok.

This time round we stayed at Premiera Hotel walking distance to Majid India.  All in all ... I had a good 1st Qtr if the yr heehee ...

next .... Insya-Allah end-Aug.

ZOOM Penang!

Finally!! we got out of Singapore ... Nov ... Dec ... was hectic for us.  Weddings after weddings after weddings ... don't get me wrong I love weddings!!! ... but its too tiring cos almost every week we had at least 1 wedding or max 8 weddings O_O ... Thou its not an excuse to fly lah ... hee hee.

OK Jom ... Zoom Penang!!! oklah feeling feeling Suria gitu.

First stop ... Hard Rock.  Since we did not manage to get a room there we decided to take a cab there for dinner.  And dinner was AWESOME!! 

 From L to R: Popiah, BBQ Beef Ribs, Perchik Burger & Potato Munchkins

and after dinner went back to hotel to buat taik mata as usual.  As we get older we prefer to sleep more.

Here are some of the places we visited while in Penang.

Peranakan Mansion: Beautiful decors and antiques.  This sweet and friendly Bibik Annie will be there to greet you at the entrance.  If you are lucky, you will get her warm hug and blessing.

 From L to R: Bibik Annie & Le Hubby

Fort Cornwallis:  This is one of the must see places cos its one of the history topic I learnt in school

 Fort Cornwallis

Clan Jetties: Back in the days, chinese immigrants came together (in there clan) and settled down along the waterfront.  We managed to visit Chew Jetty. It was cool.  I understand that they also provides home-stay.  It would be a good experience kan to stay in of these houses?! ... 

 Chew Jetty

Rumah P. Ramlee:  I am truly honored to be there. I'm like wahhh ... ouuuh ... yeke?! moment ... Charming sungguh ... no wonder the princess also fell for him.

Rumah P. Ramlee

Food Hunting: Nasi Kandar Line Clear

Portion: HUGE!!! no kidding ... Ladies don't kaykiang ... as much as you think you are hungry ... NO you cannot finish it alone ... 1 plate share 2 pax ok.  Since I'm the greedy pig I did not want to share and ........................ I did not finish it ... shame on me waste food :(

Nasi Kandar: Rice, Fried Chicken, Fried Fish & Gravy

Toy Museum: Feeling young at heart?  We sure do! Sadly they do not have Hot Wheels Collection.

Ghost Buster: One of the toys I own back then aside from my Hot Wheels collection, TMNT & Jurassic Park

Gurney Drive: More Piggin'

Pasembur: It's the typical Indian Rojak with Gravy (Cucur Udang is the main star)

L to R: Penang Asam Laksa & Char Kway Teow (Basah)

Chendul: Light coconut milk and some gula melaka ... not too sweet just nice the lemak manis-ness

The 1st Mosque in Penang

Kapitan Kling Mosque

Ayu Mee Udang: Generous portion. 7 HUGE prawns.... HUGEEE!

Mee Udang Special

So ... thats a kick start to 2013 and more traveling to come .... *hint**hint* a short getaway in feb... hee hee

Once a Upon a Lomo

I'm turning 1 soon ... in the lomo world ... LOL!

How it started?


23 Jan 2011: I followed hubby, Hakimbo &Izad for a lomo-shoot ... havin no clue what this lomo thing was all about.  All the 3 boys were armed with their film cameras. Esa did not own a film camera so he loaned one from Hakimbo, a yellow Blackbird Fly toy camera.

BBF: The Blackbird, Fly, Twin Lens Reflex 35mm Plastic Camera.


We started from Kampung Buangkok went to Bukit Timah Saddle Club and ended at Keppel Bay Marina. I was awed ... I didn't think Esa would ever bring me to such places ... It was an eye opener for me.


Kampung Buangkok:
Kampong Buangkok is the last surviving kampong in mainland Singapore. The land was acquired in 1956 from Mr Huang Yu Tu and evolved into a kampong. It was initially a swampy piece of land with only 5-6 homes. By the 1960's, it housed about 40 families. The land area used to be 21460m². The land area has shrunken in size to 12248.1m². ~ Wikipedia 


Bukit Timah Saddle Club
It was my first time looking at real life horses ... and they were huge I tell you ... My favourite was 'Murphy'.  It looked majestic with black and white patches (like a cow) and long furry legs?

 Marina @ Keppel Bay
It's where rich people spend their leisure time with friends and family and hosted exclusive events.  We were there to look at the yachts and took lots of pix ... The best part of it was there no crowd ... The surrounding was peaceful.


and so the boys start snapping away ... I took photos too ... nice photos with my trusty iphone ... hee hee ... Looking at them shooting from different angles, I followed. 


So I thought thats the end of my 'lomo' shoots with the boys.  I enjoyed myself but I don't think film is my thing. I was looking back at all the photos I took.  Why I decided to use film? When I decided that I enjoy using film than digital? Why the switch?


I used to take self-portrait (I'm guilty) Lol! ... not happy, delete, take again ... till I'm satisfied with it. hmmm ... not fun leh ... 


Anyway ... week passed by ... then months ... We didn't talk about taking pictures much. and Izad brought up this question ... eh you all wanna join Peek! Scavenger Hunt? hmmm ... Hubby was supper excited and I tagged along. Click here to view photos.


I loaned a film camera from Fad, Franka AF 300 and used Kodak 400 TMAX BW. It was super fun lor.  Because of the time duration given, we had to run around abit and since it started to rain when we were doing our hunt, we got wet heeh! Not everyday you get play in the rain ... took photo with strangers ... danced in back alley ... posed next to a RED car that was not yours ... It was crazy ... hilarious ... fun ... exciting like crazy ... I said crazy twice hahaha ... So I snapped away ... They did not tell me that they will be using my roll ... first of all I am not 1isted as a participant 2nd that was my first time using a film camera, half of the time I ask for help ... why cannot crank ... why cannot press to realise that I did not open lens cover.  and they want to submit my film!!!!! that's CRAZY i tell you. I freaked out a little ... they had to use my film cos one of the member had not finished snapping. I was so worried it they lose then they have me to blamed.  Anyway after submitting the film I bought my 1st film toy camera, Superheadz Olive San Wide Lens. The day came where the photos were back ... I was surprised.  The photos were not bad.  I was happy its kinda stupid and over-reacting lah...


and my journey begin with films cameras ... 

I am so sad ... only to realize that all my food photos are gone.  Nope I did not upload photos to picasa therefore its all gone now.  My last update was about 2 months back.  Since I did not update my blog frequently, I did not notice that all the photos are gone until recently ... haiz ... 

So ... from now on I will try to update often ... meaning cook more often heeh ... 

Eid Mubarak

Dear All,

I would like to wish you all a Blessed Eid Mubarak, Maaf Zahir and Batin.

13 Ramadan 1431

I won't be posting any food photos today cos we had leftovers hee hee... still yummy ... abit of asam pedas ikan pari from SIL, abit of yesterday murtabak kraker, a whole lot of otah left by yana and fad and a few wings.

I've been blog hopping the pass few days and I salute some of the ladies who have passion in their cooking ... baking ... online business or anything lar. I would like to pay my tribute to some wonderful ladies that I've been following their blogs the pass few months... weeks ... and maybe days.

1. Kak Rima an awesome lady, shared her recipes and also there to answer some of my idiotic questions.  With a 2yr old pwincess she manages to bake almost everyday, fantastic.  Thou I'm a klutz in baking but I really want to perfect myself.

2. http://ieatishootipost.sg/2008/07/ieatishootipost-to-appear-on-sundays.html this doctor brings his camera everywhere for his food hunting and I like that, cos at times it feels awkward to shoot every time the food arrived hee hee.

3. Nurul introduced to me this blog http://www.hanieliza.blogspot.com/ last week. I was like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah kakak nie ade buku lar ... I tried her pudding caramel lapis coklat didn't turn out too well hahah i think i must stay away from cake mixer and steamer ar.

4. I like this blog too http://rozzan.blogspot.com/. When I  don't have any idea what to cook, I can always browse rozzan's page sure got sometime nice to try.

To: Kak Rima, Kak Hanie and Rozzan ... All of you are AWESOME!!!