Weird Cottage' 11

Friday, November 30, 2007

Through Your Eye



In your eye, how is the world look like?

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Water Pouring Down












These are the photos I shot using Burst Mode.










Monday, November 05, 2007

Visitors from Taiwan - Day 4 & 5

On 26th October Morning, We brought our Taiwanese friends to Genting Highlands, the only legal land based casino in Malaysia along with my cousins. My uncle and his friends followed my sister and her husband in one car went to Genting first. My youngest sister and I followed my fifth uncle with his family in other car to Genting. So our plan was met each other at Genting.


View of Genting Highlands

When reached Genting, we did not met them because the places that we wanted to go were different. So, we had our own fun and they have their own fun. My little cousins were very happy with the cold weather in the morning.

We had our breakfast at Mcdonalds' Restaurant because it was more convenient for the children. Then, my younger sister went to buy theme park tickets since we have 3 vouchers of buy 2 free 1 for all theme park ticket.

It still early after we finish our breakfast, we went outside to take a walk and waited for the theme park to open. At 9.00 AM, outdoor theme park opened. My little cousins felt very excited when we went into the theme park.

Once we get into the theme park, we started to line up and take a ride because there were not much people yet.


Outdoor Theme Park Entrance


Outdoor Theme Park

We almost had all kind of rides in the theme park except for the rides which the children could not play and some speeding rides which I could not take it. Then my elder sister called us to tell us they were leaving Genting because my uncle and his friends wanted to go last shopping at Kuala Lumpur. So, they left Genting went back to Kuala Lumpur and we continued our rides at Genting.


Spinner, Outdoor Theme Park

For lunch, we had our buffet lunch at First World Hotel's restaurant. Then, my fifth uncle and his family went to Snow World to enjoy the man-make winter. My little cousins were very happy when they saw the snow on the ground. Since my younger sister and I went in before, so we waited them outside.


Snow World

Around 5.00 PM, we went to outdoor theme park again to take a ride of monorail around Genting indoor and outdoor theme park as an end of our Genting trip. After the ride, we left Genting and headed back to Kuala Lumpur. My little cousins were very tired but they said they wanted to come again.

Around 7.30 PM, we reached Kuala Lumpur and had our dinner outside before we went back to house. That night I slept very deeply because I was too tired.

On 27th October Morning, my uncle sent his friends to KLIA to take a flight back to Taiwan. So, this was the end of their Malaysia trip.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Visitors From Taiwan - Day 3

On 25th October Morning, I bought my uncle and his friends went to eat ' Bak Kut Teh (Pork Rib Tea Soup) ', one of the famous foods in Malaysia as breakfast at ' Grandpa Bak Kut Teh Restaurant ', Taman Paramount. I also ordered ' Chinese Style Vinegar Pork Leg '. They said ' Bak Kut Teh ' was very delicious.

After breakfast, We went back to meet with my sister, then departed to Batu Caves, the sacred place for the Hindu's in Malaysia.

When we reached Batu Caves, my uncle and his friends went to climb 272 steps to the religious and magnificent Batu Caves. Because I was afraid of height, I just took some photo on the ground with my sister and waited for them to come down.


Batu Caves

During climb up to Batu Caves, there were a lots of monkeys along the staircase. As an advice, do not go near the monkeys; do not hold small purse or wallet which look like food package in hand; do not give foods to the monkeys.

When I was taking photo near the staircase, I saw an Indian lady gave half of coconut to a male monkey at the staircase. In the clip of eyes, the monkey took the lady's purse and sat on the handle of the staircase, then starting to bite the purse. The lady could not do anything, just look at the monkey biting her purse. Luckily, the guard of Batu Caves threw another coconut to that monkey so that it can threw away the purse to catch the coconut. At last, the lady got back her purse.


Monkey at Batu Caves

After took some photos, my sister and I still have some time to spend, we went to have our tea break at one of the Indian vegetarian restaurant at Batu Caves. I ordered a roti canai and teh tarik and my sister ordered Indian vegetarian rice.


Roti Canai


Teh Tarik

Later on, my uncle called me to let me know that they were done with Batu Caves. So, we went to meet with them and left Batu Caves. In the car, my uncle said want to bring them go shopping at One Utama. So, we headed towards One Utama without resting.
When we reached One Utama, we had our lunch at Jusco food court. We ordered Chicken Murtabak, Mamak Mee Goreng, Mixed Rice and ABC. Later on, we went to shops to look around.

After shopping at One Utama, we went back to house to take a rest.

Around 6.00 PM, we went to night market at Chao Yang, SS2. We ate our dinner at the night market, we brought Satay, Ban Jian Kuih etc for our Taiwanese friends to taste.

After we went around the night market, we went to KLCC by LRT to let them have a view of our beautiful KLCC in the night. We took photos at KLCC Park. Around 10.00 PM, we end our day journey by going back home to sleep.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Visitors From Taiwan - Day 1 & 2

Before 23th October, my 6th uncle told me that his Taiwanese friends want to come Malaysia to visit him for 5 days 4 nights. So, he ask me to come out some plan for them. The plans kept changing because I did not know what his friends want to see.

At last, we have finalize the schedule for them, on the day they reach (23/10, Tues), we going to Petaling Street and Central Market. On 2nd day (24/10, Wed) , we going to visit Malacca. On 3rd day (25/10, Thurs), we going to Batu Cave, Shopping and go Night Market at SS2. On 4th day (26/10, Fri), we going to Genting Highlands. On 5th day (27/10, Sat), send them to KLIA in the morning.

On 23th October, my uncle's Taiwanese friends finally reached Malaysia. My aunt cooked Curry Chicken, Fried Popiah and Fried Beehoon for them to eat. They liked the curry very much. On that night, we brought them went to Petaling Street and Central Market.

On 24th October morning, my sister and I brought them to Malacca to visit our historical city. We using NKVE to Ayeh Keroh Interchange. The first stop at Ayeh Keroh was visit Mini Malaysia and Mini Asean to let my uncle's friends take a look of our Malay traditional houses in each state.


Entrance of Mini Malaysia and Mini Asean

After visited Mini Malaysia, we headed straight for Malacca Town.

When we reached Malacca Town, we parked our car at roadside parking space which was not far from the main town and bought parking coupon for the car. Then we walked to our destination. It had been 18 years since the last time I visited Malacca. Some of the places have been newly developed. But the historical places still remain there. We visited Red house, Clock Tower, St. Paul Church and Kota A' Famosa.


Church of St. Francis Xavier


Red Houses in Malacca Town


Kota A' Famosa

Around 2.00 PM, my uncle's friends felt hungry. So, I brought them to Hoe Kee Chicken Rice to have a taste of our Malaysia Hainan Chicken Rice. Hoe Kee was one of the famous Chicken Rice shop in Malaysia.


Hoe Kee Chicken Rice

These were the foods I order in Hoe Kee - Chicken Rice Balls, Steam Chicken, vegetable and Asam Fish Head. The chicken meats were very tasty and soft. The Asam Fish Head was sour and spicy. Just like I want it to be. One of my uncle friends did not like to eat spicy foods, the other two were fine to the foods.


Chicken Rice Balls, Steam Chicken and Vegetable


Asam Fish Head

After ate our lunch, we continue our walk along Antique Road. At this road, a lots of shop selling handcrafts, antique items, and even the shops here were very old. At one of the shops here, I bought some handcrafts. Because the day we went was weekday, so there were not much visitors around, the road looked very quiet.


Antique Road

We walked to other road where Ching Yun Ting, the oldest Chinese Temple in Malacca was built. Inside the temple, it was very quiet.



Ching Yun Ting

After visited Ching Yun Ting, we headed back to our car because the time was almost 5 o'clock in the evening, the parking coupon time almost end. Near the place we parked our car has a shop which sell local foods. My uncle's friends bought some local foods to bring back to Taiwan. Then, we headed back to Kuala Lumpur.

At night, we went to Damansara Uptown's Hawker Centre to have our dinner. We ordered ABC, Cendol, Fried Tanghoon, Fried Oysters, Fried Kueytiew, Malay Fried Rice with Chicken, Kampung Style Fried Rice etc, to let our Taiwanese friends tried the taste. They liked ABC and Cendol, they said that it was different with ABC in Taiwan. Our ABC more delicious because of coconut milk. After dinner, a day trip for Wednesday came to the end.