My Week-Long Holiday

Mon – Tues:

For the first time we are going to leave our little home unattended for so long. It was still dark when we left our home. I felt my heart skipping away into that happy holiday mood. I love the coolness of that morning. We drove and drove and at around 9 am we reached our first destination of our Holidays; BIDOR!!!! Hometown of my darl. We were suppose to meet our college mates here who were also on a college field trip, but since we arrived earlier, Lionel drove to his aunty’s noodle shop. WAH a plate of noodles with curry sauce, with lots of liu and 2 cups of drinks only costs us less than RM 4. Cant believe!!! KL RM 4 can only fill a quart of your tummy! We strolled the small town for a while longer. A nostalgic feeling, laid back mood could be sensed throughout the town.

Then the VANS arrived. The bunch of BCM-ers finally touched down on Bidor. And they were ready to devour all the food they could. MUAhahahaha.. DUCK NOODLES was the first to be devoured. Many duck’s drumsticks were cruely chopped off to feed these mouths from KL. ……………………………………………………………………….it was a pity DELICIOUS!!

After consuming ducks, the whole bunch of us moved on to destination 2: KAMPAR! Driving along the crowded streets of people cycling, riding bikes without helmet and big old Hup Seng Buses roaring away, one of our friends spotted our next food stop. The ice kacang shop. Wahlau… at the entrance of the shop was a sign “buy 10 free 1″ back in KL even with the offer of buy 1 free 1, people will still walk away. But I am really wondering what’s with Kamparians that they can confidently put a buy 10 free 1 sign. Either the food is really good or people there love contributing to the economy even if they only get back minimal rewards. Anyway back to the ice-kacang eating frenzy… it was indeed a cold frenzy.. We ordered almost every type we can find on the menu. And we did receive the buy 10 free 1 offer.. LOL

 

Eating did not ceased after ice-kacang.. we went on snacking on anything we see sold along our way. Too much I forgot what i ate even. Look at all the hungry posers

 

Good thing we took a break from food and headed to more nature activities. Waterfall was it..! lovely refreshing and good de-stressin. The guys went crazy, the girls were kept cool. haha. Great fun time and crazy time skipping stones. Some of us could skip a good 4 times while many of the rest just sanked the stone.

    

This is the I LOVE NATURE GIRL……. and her recruits

   

The good part is at least we are not gluttons always..though we may sound like a bunch of them… Our next stop was not about food anymore..It was truly an experience for all of us and it was an interesting one. We visited a drug rehab centre known as the Vineyard Keepers. Visiting Rehab centres always sounds so uncool especially for a holiday stop over. I felt that way…. but wait a minute.. the moment we drove in the drive way of the centre.. It was like in somekind of recreational centre more than a drug rehab centre. SERIOUS.. DEAD SERIOUS… it is a beautiful place.. The rehabilated druggies literally did beautiful wall carvings on almost everywall. The most beautiful part was the chapel. It looked like a cathedral. Angels singing, playing musical instruments, bible story characters we all carved and painted carefully on the walls. The most painstaking art was carving scripture verses. Every alphabet was carved beautifully in celtic fonts ALL OVER THE WALLS.

The centre owns a massive plot of land which allow them to have a fully equipped gym with full sets of weights and sand bags. They have several courts for sports, a huge football fields a farm of cows goats and sheeps. They reared a kennel of huge K9 Dogs. Foxes, monkeys, birds fishes was all part of their animal family. Another section of their land was  alocated for a gorgeous orchard of flowers, plants, fruit trees and vegetation.

When that little excursion was done… we were all set back on FOOD.. food and more food.. It’ll make you feel blotted if I would to blog the details of the food we had.. So I better not spoil your apetite.. My advice is: Go to ipoh and experience the food yourself and BLOG bout it.

Alas we can finally take our shower and bunk in for the night. We all bunk in Emanuel Church, Ipoh like sardines in a can. We girls were shivering through the night in a small air-con room, with hardly any blanket to cover and woke up with sore backs and sore necks from sleeping on the hard floor with only our bags or stack of clothes as pillows.

Here we go gila-gila-siao-siao-pose-pose and SNAP SNAP in the main sanctuary :P

 

   

But morning breakfast was comforting to our aches and sprains. Good chee-cheong-fun with the famous mushroom souce. YOU CAN’T get this kind in KL! Look at the toast bread ….. topped with the irresistable mouth watering perfectly done half boiled eggs. Look at the yoke… imagine in seeping through your taste buds as you munch on the freshly toasted bread. YUMMY YUMMY YUM YUM.. I WANT IT NOW!!!!!

Here is a Travel Tip when visiting IPOH.. YOU MUST STOP BY THIS SHOP… (Yee Hup)

Here’s where you can get fresh from the oven Hiong Peng and other chinese homemade Biscuits. This is the shop most famous in all Ipoh. They have several branches all over Ipoh but this particular shop we went is the want where the biscuits are baked then supplied to the branches.. So you guarantee get the freshest of the freshest. After that food shopping we stop for coffee and tea at a mamak. This was our last destination with the gang at Ipoh. The gang would continue into the cave of Gua Tempurung, attempting to finished still in one clean piece. While my hun and me would continue up north to Penang.

The journey to Penang seem to me like a blink of the eye and .. BINGO we reached.. well maybe is because I slept all the way til Penang Bridge. Woke up just in time to take pictures of the Bridge. From the bridge Penang looked like a serene lively harbour city. We headed to Gelugor to USM to meet my bestfriend but the hardworking friend of my was still in lectures so she told me to shop from 12 pm to 6pm then only return to USM. She suggested me to shop at queensbay mall. Shopping.. hmm sounds good for a KL-lite. So we made our way to queensbay. Not familiar with the roads on the island we traveled almost half of Penang to get to the mall which was only like 10 mins away from where we started off. We hit one wrong road after another that’s how we ended up exploring half of the island before finally reaching the mall. The mall is HUGE-MONG-GOUS…. You’ll probably shop til you drop and faint… Dun ever attempt shopping at that mall for so many hours with your Boyfriends.. They will forever be traumatizzzzed.

Anyway, after that long hour shopping, I finally got to meet my dear Eang Bee. We talked alot as usual… it was a good thing her boyfriend was able to join us too.They were a good host. They brought us round Penang town and continue to feed our glutonny. We bunk at his apartment that night. Apparently that night at the apartment i pulled a muscle in my neck. Well many of you may not know that I have weak neck muscles since 14 years old. Due to that I was always advice not to strain my neck and to stay away from active sports. But as you know the way I play my games, no one will think my neck is not suited for any of those sports. Okay so I pulled my neck and it was really bad I could hardly move my neck. I could not even sit down. Almost any slight pressure on my neck in almost any position sent sharp pain from my lower neck to the back of my head. It was really a downer..

Thankfully my caring darl, bought yoko-yoko from a 7-11 store and I pop in a good dose of Postan, lay flat on my back and decide to just sleep off. My darl said a prayer and all i could remember after that was a good tight sleep with my darl beside me through the night.
Wed:

The traffic noice from the streets below woke us up. I sat up, turned and stretched my neck a little here and there … and…. Thank God! It was so much better. Just a little sore stil but no more sharp pains. So I applied more Yoko-yoko and off for breakfast. Eang bee and Abe brought us for Pan Mee and Nasi Lemak. ooooo The Nasi Lemak is so  so much nicer than what we get at Kanna.. LOL…

It was quite a rush breakfast because we had to beat the morning traffic and get to the Penang International Airport for our next Holiday destination.

So zoom zoom we went within minutes we were at the huge automatic glass door of Penang International Airport’s arrival entrace. We bid our dear friends bye… and off they went with our car. They would be babysitting our car for the next 3 days. What a Lovely and fun couple they were…. I wish my best friend all the best.. It’s really fun to hang out with your best friend that had been with you since primary til secondary school days. And the double joy is to be able to share our lives and fun with two added love of our life. What a journey together.

Walking through the airport we check in our single black luggage, got our tickets and chilled at Mc D with a cup of hot tea.

YOU MAY BE NOW WONDERING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR NEXT HOLIDAY DESTINATION…

GUESS WHAT…… YOU WILL SOON READ ABOUT IT MORE

IN MY NEXT POST….

……………..to be continued

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Flower Overdose?!!??!!

I dunno.. but my mom bought back some really nice flower decos recently

So as i was sitting at the dining table trying to concentrate on my GREEK exam prep…. I GOT DISTRACTED by all that flowers. Maybe it’s just tooooo much flowers!!!!

And and…. and so my distraction got me into this……………

 

FLOWER RANDOMNESS !!!

Homelife Adventure

Ok I know this post is crazy but I did it.

I’ve always been a KL and Cheras girl. Maybe my territory have extended to PJ but not Subang and Kota Kemuning.

Well Lionel and me went for Homelife on Friday. Upon reaching I realized I forgot something for one of the members and left that thing back in Lionel’s church. So since Lionel had to teach homelife I decided to try find my way back to church to grab the stuff.

Keeping the long story short, I missed alot of turns and took alot of wrong turns and got lost. Worst wrong turn was turning out back on the Kesas highway. See.. one confusing thing about Kota Kemuning is that it has so many roundabouts and the whole township look alike it can just make you go crazy if you are new and driving at night. Finally I stopped at Petronas and got a kind uncle to show me the way back to K.K.

It was rather scary………….. but what an adventure. I appear back at homelife… the lesson already started but I could see many faces were relived to see me back but they also had “?” popping up. HAHAHA

Okay.. ever since that adventure.. I know KK roads better now. I think I can get around KK by myself after that adventure.. Whoa.. An Adventure Not Wasted..

What Were My Holidays Like?

Okay…. This is how the holiday started..

The first week went by like this:~

DAY 1&2

UPHILL… Naik Bukit Genting With BCM Gals just for one night…. we ate, played, prayed, ate more, watch wayang, bump each other, and **cuddle** in one room.

 

DAY 3

Leon came back from Spore by plane..after Lionel fetch him and his female fren, Ai Min from air port, they came to my house to pick me up for a whole day of outing…. PHEW!! actually it was an outing to satisfy Leon and his singaporian friend’s food craving. Thank God I live in Msia… Yumm Yumm!

So first stop was Dim Sum.. Leon Paid.. whoo-hoo… Second was KFC @ Curve, then back to Kota Kemuning for homecook dinner… supper was with BCM fellas, Danny, Victor Lee and Girlfren, Jon Koo, Lionel, Me, Leon and Ai Min.

Day 4

Mid val with Ps. Ooi Lin’s family til lunch den headed to Leon’s dentist for his surgery, but good for him, the surgery was not done and it was postponed again. So headed off to Tesco for shopping with the whole family…. shop till you drop…..good thing none off us drop..LOL…

well.. oh ya.. that night we had a show “run fat boy run”… Aft that lionel, leon and ai min slept over at my house so that the next day we did not have to wake up so early to visit Miracle (Leon’s Kai Lui) at Sg. Long.

Day 5

Miracle House… see miracle… den Went to Klang to pick stuffs up …….

Dinner was great!!!! we went for Korean Barbeque with Painted Picture Band and then went over to one of the band member’s house to play Nintendo V.. wakakkakakaka cool… we played boxing, golf and tennis.. it was fun to see the silly expressions of everyone.

 tap-tap-tap with Leon’s IPhone

 Korean Barbecue~Look at the Meat… YUM YUM

 Virtual Boxing with Lionel on Nintendo

Then came the weekend back to church and work……

SUNDAY.. ARGHHH WOKE UP WITH A RED EYE on the right eye… sighs down with sore eye……

Week two was stressful yet the happenings in the week did bring some relief :~

Monday I tried to get enough rest for the family dinner in the evening but eyes did not really cooperate much.. it watered and watered….

Wednesday was the day we went to Cyberview Lodge to check out the place….YEAH!! finally prayer answered. He provided us an award winning garden… Truly he gives and takes away all for a better plan!! 

Thursday, shopping for dresses with the Kay Renn, Yuli, Wai Chi, and Eang Bee…..YEAH YEAH!! Double blessing cos’ now I don’t have to worry about their dresses! Another Big Relief

ooooh but Friday came and eyes hurt even more. Went to doc again for a change of medication cos’ the first medication did not seem to work very well.. sighs..

Saturday, woke up.. *gasp*GOSH. BOTH EYES were red.. the virus must have spread in the night to the left eye.

And Sunday came, swollen, extremely painful and teary. My already small eyes looked even smaller now. NO!!! Then after the service, one of my member who also had sore eyes said he dripped the eye drop every hour and it helped his eyes clear faster. So I decided to be my own doc and started dripping the drops every hour …… GUESS WHAT!!!???

I could sit up the whole afternoon and finisg my assignment without the slightest pain or teary eyes. And best of all the swelling went down, pain got tremendously lesser, and my eyes came back to its normal size..

 

How would I evaluate the holidays????!!????!!

 It was everything but DULL

Yup Thats Bout It!!

Optical Illusions

Try to read the words.. if you cant stand back one metres or two even, and try read it again!!

 

 

It will feel like you are on drugs after looking at this animation. Stare at the center for 20 seconds, then look away.

Warning in advance if you have any kind of seizures, etc. You probably shouldn’t look at this again.

 

 

 

 

FOCUS PLEASE!!!

 

A Clubbin’ Assignment

For youth culture assignment we are given the permission for a Clubbin’ Assignment

And so…

…next Mon night….

 AND  …

HERE WE COME!!!!…..

 

I’m Hooked on “Drugs”

OOOooossshhhh……

CALM Down…

I’m not a druggie literally!!

I’m Just hooked on an assignment on DRUGS… But surfing through the web to find all that drug thingy… makes me have all that twirly swirly feeling ………….

Thank God I’m halfway through it… WILL BE FINISHING SOON!!!!!!

That’s all for this post….

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So dear readers, for the next 90 minutes, Charity is sorry to informed you that she would be UNAVAILABLE for any invitations or appointments

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Great!!!

BCM camp is finally over!!!!

A GREAT CAMP

WITH GREAT COMMITEES TO WORK WITH

AND DEFINATELY AN AWESOME “HIGH TOUGH” FROM GOD!!!!

with my bunch of crazy pals, there was lots and lots of

eating

fun

shoulder rubbing

chat n chat n chat and keep chattin

craziness and dumbness

etc. etc.

ALRIGHT camp is well OVER!!!

is back to BCM, “the place that I love”

Another trimester to “enjoy”

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and now is BACK TO BCM……

oh well 2 weeks has just a passed since classes began………

so much for now…. will keep u updated!!!

 

The 100th post

.~***.. YOU ARE READING MY th POST!!! ..***~.

 

 

A Movie Celebration for the 100th Post

Will be goin to watch this movie in a few hours time…

Hope its good:)

~movie reviews are welcomed~

 

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** Happy 100th Post Day **

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The Flying Factor

Yesterday I spent an awesome time up in the cool mountains of genting highlands.

Genting Highlands, rightly called the ‘City of Entertainment’ is a commercial place but definitely worth a visit. The locals call it the Las Vegas of Malaysia, it’s does not really live up to the name, but yes, it’s the only place where gambling is legal. Perched 1800 m above sea level, Genting boasts of some awesome rides in their outdoor and indoor theme park. As we moved higher up the hill, it got really cold and misty. The road leading to Genting is scenic with lush rain forest on either side but mostly it was covered by the thick fog and mist which makes visiblity leval decline to almost only a few metres.

Okay the whole thing about this post is Mainly to describe my palm sweating, freaky and an adrenaline-pumping-to-the-max experience, i had when I made that decision to cage myself horizontally in mid-air and go plunging down, turning cockscrews, swinging round the bend in mid air-”HORIZONTALLY” in what they call it the FLYING COASTER

How did i get myself to do it???? HOW?? Well this is how. I have a boyfriend who loves thrills dumbly. Why i say dumbly because he would not rationalize before getting on the ride, NO MATTER HOW FREAKY IT IS. He would just enthusiastically, excitedly get on a thrill ride and PLUNGE. And it is after he has plunged then only his mind will go ” Oh God why did i Do this??” but as we know is too late by then.. So there he goes… screaming and shouting and yelling out of fear, shock, excitement, fun and everything you can mention. [taking deep breaths] i just find that part of my boyfriend adorable and weird. Well okay with that brief intro about that boyfriend of mine, so with him so implusive about going onto that Flying Coaster, he managed to influenced me up that ride too. I am usually not this type. I would watch people take the ride, analyze the danger, the risk, stand there watching a little longer to try get over the fear but usually end up walking away contented and happy with no regrets of not getting up the thrill rides. 

Anyway so here am I on the metal platform, the attendent ushered us hastily in to the seats made where we will be lying on our tummies with a cage covering. Within seconds, we were lifted slowly up a spiral thingy till we were many many stories above the ground. On that slow ascend up the spiral track, i told my boyfriend, “ok i really regret doing this……..” then we stopped right at the top on a platform. Oh my God. I could see myself hanging lying down in midair. I saw all the curvy tracks below me, the people below looked so small, It was really really FREAKY. I wanted to scream and shout for them to lower me back down. But before i could utter a word………………..ARHHHHHHHHHHH i was plunging down at highspeed, face first.. and okay there’s no turning back.. I was going round and plunging and tossed every degrees till i din know whether i’m upside down or upright. Every thing was so fast that i could not scream in anyway. I felt my voice got sucked into my tummy and my face was pushed to the front to face the whole terror. And guess what, my boyfriend was screaming all the way through.. not because he was afraid.. it was just that the ride thrilled him to the max. I bet he was so caught up with that thrill he would not even know if his protective cage was off. Well half way that ride, he turned to me and said “shout something baby”.. I wanted to tell him “its CRAZY….” but i was unable to explain to him what was in my mind….so i just kept silent and spinned with all his screaming going on…..

Phew Phew.. finally it was over!!!!.. The moment I stepped on solid ground. I have to say after that first time freakiness is overcomed, I actually think it was FUN!!! I would not mind going up again for round 2!!!!

Here’s some info about the FLYING COASTER:-

‘Flying Coaster’, a hang-gliding roller coaster with Swoops, twisters and zooms round turns and drops! With the Flying Coaster, you’ll ‘fly’ with a totally unobstructed view of Genting and its beautiful scenery. Although there is no time to enjoy that, it’s moving and turning around so fast. If I’m not wrong, the ride lifts the flyer to a height of 20 meters and releases the flyer to a hang gliding flying experience over 391 meters [rough guess only] of the track length, with a maximum speed of 25 mph.[a guess from my own experience]. Four people fly together side by side, so everyone is on the front seat. I didn’t know what was coming, but it was lot of fun and thrilling experience. So JUST DO IT IF YOU HAVE TO!!

Flying horizontally ! It's Crazy !!