Bagan Lalang Beach @ Sepang Goldcoast

It was a long weekend due to the Hari Raya holiday. Danny and I decided to go to the Bagan Lalang beach to escape from the concrete jungle. It was less than an hour drive from Puchong and we reached our destination about 3pm. It was pouring in the morning, thus it's not too hot and just perfect for a kickabout on the beach.

Bagan Lalang beach is more known as Sepang Goldcoast to public which is the name of the development of the luxury villa that line the beach. The development is still under construction and that makes the beach YET TO BE commercialized and polluted. It is indeed a nice and clean beach.

That's the Sepang Goldcoast water chalet in sight

The beach was crowded on this day. It was during the ebb tide and most of the people were playing kites on the beach instead of swimming. Apart from that, some were having picnic and BBQ, and even parachute! After a long walk on the beach, me and Danny bought Ramli burgers and enjoy it under the colourful-kite-filled sky. It's just so relaxing, and nom nom nom nom....

Kites kites everywhere


and parachute a bigger kite :P

On cloud nine

"The sea was at low tide, just keep walking."

The white sandy beach

After that, we drove to another side of the beach which having some floating atap houses designated for the fishing-goers; and it was another distinguished scene; rather than merry and with loads of laughter, this side of the beach is tranquil and serene. We sat there and doing nothing except watching the tide rising. Aaahhh~~ I felt so great spending a quality time as such. bliss~~

peaceful~

sssshhhhh~~~

The tide was rising pretty fast

^^

There we laze away the days on the beach until our stomach call for the food. Since we have no idea where to go for dinner, we just follow the GPS to a seafood restaurant which is about 10+ km away and located in Lukut. Along the way, we saw a lot of dragon fruit orchards. The dragon fruit plant is so strange looking just like the fruit itself, we bought some and it's really sweet, even Goppy loves it. :)

The infant dragon fruit

After driving on some real narrow road lined by palm oil tree and nothing else, we finally reached that seafood restaurant which is out of no where, however, despites its remote location, there are lots of cars parking outside the restaurant, apparently it is quite a famous restaurant. Again, the GPS did a good deed for us.

What can I say more, the seafood dinner was superb, best served with chilled booze. I miss the bamboo clam which sized like a big fat finger, and the fried sotong which is so crispy and juicy, then the prawn so fresh and nicely cook, and the fried oyster too which we can't finish and gotta pack home for breakfast the next day. :D... We reached home about 9pm and Goppy welcome us with his mad tail wagging, that completes my day :D

Bye Bye 蠟筆小新

从Xavier那里得知蠟筆小新的作者臼井儀人日前墮崖身亡了，这简直是晴天霹雳。。 我还记得，中学时的我总喜欢买蠟筆小新的漫画来看，那时候的我，零用钱不多，买一本漫画对我而言简直是一种奢侈，所以我也不常买，同一本也会看上好几遍。。。那时的我很羡慕我表哥总是经常买上最新一期的蠟筆小新，因此凡是我到访他的家，我就会翻出他的收藏来看。。。后来出来社会工作了，反而没有了那股买一本蠟筆小新的童真。。

唉，臼井儀人去世了，从此也没有新的蠟筆小新出版了，感觉好像被剥夺了一颗赤子之心。。小叮当已离开我们甚久，现在蠟筆小新也已逝去，顿然倍感一股空虚。。

安息吧，臼井儀人。。 感谢你曾为我的童年带来欢乐。。

Taman Pertanian cycling trip ended up in Pulau Ketam with seafood

7 of us planned to go for cycling at Bukit Cahaya on Saturday morning. Ken has asked me many times before whether the Bukit Cahaya will open on Saturday since it is a Hari Raya eve, but I told him there is no celebration for Muslim on Hari Raya eve as we do. Anyway, I was wrong, it was closed. :p

So we went for Bak Kut Teh in Klang as an alternative plan. While having our breakfast, we came out the impromptu idea to go to Pulau Ketam since the jetty is just a stone's throw away. Here we go! The ferry took about one hour to reach Pulau Ketam. In fact, we were on the scam boat which took longer time to reach the destination due to the bad condition of the boat, there is another boat at the same price which is air conditioned and faster speed; worse thing is we bought the return ticket which cost at RM15. -__-, anyway we decided to get another ticket to come back with the other boat since we can't bear with the noisy engine and turtle speed of it.

Actually there is nothing much in Pulau Ketam except it's tranquility and sefood perhaps, but the sefood is nothing special too, so just forget about it. However, I had lots of fun too, it's the company that matter the most and it's something really different to do on an ordinary weekend.

We were on board the scam boat

So many crabs, here comes the name of this island.

Aikido.. NOT

Danny always keen to continue his Aikido class since he has stopped the training for months, and he tag me along for the first trial class today.

Honestly, I'm impressed. It's amazing that a martial art can be so gentle yet powerful. Anyway, I reckon I'm not an Aikido person and I'm chickening out, hahahahaha, sorry la, I really scared la.. I was terrified when they twist, throw, push or whatever you want to call it; and it really makes me stoned and dunno what to do next to defend myself, all I want to do is scream or run away; this is probably the first time ever I realize myself can be feminine too.... Well, perhaps I just do my part to ADMIRE this martial art.. ganbate Danny!!

w00t

It's been a long while I didn't do any exercise since I come back from the Mount Kinabalu; except the weekly badminton session with my colleagues which is always a long queue to wait for my turn to play. I guess that's enough of "recovering" from my KK trip(I know, that's a lame excuse) and time to kick start my momentum again. Another reason being is I am so guilty with my diet lately; as instance, I had Korean BBQ, Pork Knuckles with bacon and ham (slurp~), then Kenny Rogers and Salted Herbal Chicken for my dinner 4 days in a row!!! I seriously gotta move my ass to shed away all those extra gained fat. So, to put my word into action, I tag along KTV and went to tennis and squash at my place today!! w00t !! Keep it up Tammy!

Now I got the claustrophobia

It was 1am and I'm home alone; chatting and watching TV with Goppy's companion. I heard the thunderstorm coming and the wind is getting so strong, thus I went into my laundry room to close the window.. who knows the wind were so strong that it bang the door of my laundry room and eventually I WAS BEING LOCKED IN THERE!!!!!!!! Gosh...

That laundry room is sort of a small balcony facing the corridor with lift but with 1 or 2 feet gap in between. There is no way I can get out from there unless I climb out of the window into the corridor, but I'm not a spiderman, definitely I won't risk my life for that. I was hoping for someone to pass by so that I can ask him/her to call Danny home, but heck, it was 1am++!! apparently it was a slim chance...

God know how long I stood there waiting for passerby, at the mean time I can hear Goppy was crying inside the house and stare at me behind the window which is next to the damn door who locked me outside. Goppy were trying to jump up the window too, although I don't know why he wanna do that, but he gave up after few failed attempts and he just sleep in front of the door.. Aww, I felt warm with his companion, at least it makes me feel less lonely.

It was cold and dark, and the strong wind was making the spooky sound; I felt nervous perhaps due to a little bit of claustrophobia? I don't know, but I used to scared of taking a lift alone when I was a kid, and I was scared of being alone in a room with the door closed; I felt really uneasy being locked in such a small space, it's suffocated. I tried to bang the door to make my alarm sound, but sooner I realize the alarm is not activated; and the last thing I will do is break the window next to the door, coz I will end up injure my hand and leave a hole in my wallet. Nah. Well, I opted for waiting Danny home. Thank god I'm not staying alone.

However I really find it hard to keep myself calm in such situation, I know I gotta get something to do to kill my time and distract myself; so I tidy up the room and used the water dispense from the washing machine to wash my face and wipe my body; at least I get rid of the stickiness which due to the sweat, and I felt more comfortable.. Luckily I still left my washed clothes hanging there, so I put the towel on the floor and turn my clothes into pillow, then I lie down and force myself to sleep. Suprisingly I am able dozed off and finally woke up by the sound when Danny came home. I saw Danny with the halo when he open the door for me.. It was 4am.

Photo Frame

After procrastinate for almost a year, I finally developed some precious photos of mine, and frame it in this photo frame which I bought since the day 1 I shifted in.

It's not an easy job to filter the photos out of my tonnes of photos collection. Apparently, this space isn't enough. I gotta go shop for more photo frames!!

Ahhh~~~ Love it~~