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In Ipoh for the weekend!

I’m back for the weekend!! I took off on Friday and just chilled out at home.. Mum and Dad’s around, then Alice, Annie and Ashley came back on Friday night too!
It’s very nice to just stay at home. Take a break off everything…

Some of the things I really like to do at home and in Ipoh..

- Laze on the bed 
- Do Nothing
- Occasionally walk around the house aimlessly
- Eat & Sleep
- Eat Mom’s Cooking (need a special slot for this)

And lastly,
- Drive around Ipoh looting off cheap groceries/electronics/food

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A pretty good weekend afterall

Turns out, my Good Friday weekend was quite good after all.

My supposed weekend is to spend Friday chillin out at Hougang home, Saturday to a Nuffnang Symposium event and Sunday more chillin’ out.

But it ended up like this:
On Friday, Rented a car to drive to KL, meeting some people with Shaun and Yi Wang.

On Saturday, spent the day with my family. Annie’s birthday celebration in the afternoon where we ate at home. And I slept like nobody business despite the 20 kids shouting, playing and running around the house. For dinner, had Mexican food with Rosemary and Alice with their families.

And on Sunday, it’s gonna a trip back to SG island.

This alternate weekend ended up quite well by spending time back in kl, seeing my sisters and all. Only sad thing is, can’t get to see my parents. Probably will go back Ipoh somewhere in May.

Oh, and am writing this post on my iPhone, that’s why a bit modular. At least, I get to online using wifi.

CNY 2010 – Day 5 (Cameron Highlands)

It was Cameron Highlands Day! With the super warm and humid whether in the low-lands of Ipoh (actually, it’s the whole of Peninsular Malaysia), my family decided to head to Cameron’s for a dose of fresh air, tea/coffee in a cold environment! We were lucky, as it wasn’t very sunny at Cameron’s. Felt like it was going to rain, the weather was cool and nice..

We went up in 2 cars where the 2nd car consists of me and my bro. My brother drove up the hill while I slept. And I drove the rest of the Cameron’s trip. Our first stop was to buy ‘real pearl corns’. The corns there are really sweet and the corns itself has a mixture of white and yellow corn bits. We also went to Rose Gardens to look at beautiful roses and other flowers.

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Some flowers are very nice.. May varieties of rose in different colours. There’s the pink rose at the top, there’s yellow rose, red rose..

yellow rose  red rose

There’s even the black rose!

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The black rose is actually from a red rose where it turns black when it grows older.

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Like from the picture above, the back of the red rose begins to turn black.. Or at least, that’s what my father told me..

There are also many nice flowers, like the giant hibiscus..

giant hibiscus The white rose (aka milk girl)

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Even the bees are enjoying themselves collecting nectar from the flowers. The flowers are really sweet smelling, by the way..

 bee flower Okay.. Enough with the flowers… We took some pictures around – my dad wanted to take a picture with this mermaid statue. The story is that the mermaid is a being longing for her lost love, awaiting for his return..

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We went to the “ye olde smokehouse” for some scones, tea and coffee.. My brother took me posing at the grand piano.. haha

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The ‘adults’ are drinking tea while the kids were also having their own fun time..

children-tea We then ate lunch at Cafe Downtown at Tanah Rata. It was a 4pm lunch… Imagine.. haha.. The food there is very nice. Their chicken chop and char koay teow is very nice!

cafe downtown Right after that, we headed to the tea plantation for a cup of tea and cheese cake!

 

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We came here before 2 years ago… And look how the kids have grown!

nieces Did I mention that my nieces are posers??

Marielle actually posed for the pictures! And she’s only like 2 yrs old.

marielle-1 marielle-2 Oh well.. maybe it runs in the family. My brother and my dad also same case…

 

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Me? I only take with my niece…

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After that, we went to the Laban Rata Waterfall! It’s on the way down from Cameron’s towards Tapah.

waterfall The waterfall there is quite nice. Very refreshing… Had quite a long pit stop here for the kids to play… Too bad I didn’t bring any change of clothes… Otherwise, I’ll just dip right into the pool. What I did was just take a good walk around the waterfall.. hahah

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For the Cameron Trip, had to thank my sis’s bf.. She wanted to bring him around and end up going to a lot of places. He paid for all our meals at Cameron’s.. How nice of him… =)

alice-gu

When we reached Ipoh, it’s already almost 9pm. We went straight for dinner at old town.

Then at 10pm, I met up with Jason Ling, Yee Weng and Kean Fatt at the Ramly Burger Stall. They had seats there and it’s not crowded at all over there. I was supposed to meet euwen also but in the end, he was out with his sam tet friends… Anyway, the 4 of us just sat there, and just chatted… Good to meet up with old school mates… =)

CNY 2010 – Day 2

On the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, I woke up just in time for lunch where my eldest sister would then return to Ipoh from Penang.

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And my brother also returned from Penang after picking up her girlfriend from Penang. I stayed at home during the daytime to spend time with my family and also to just laze around in my room…

The main ‘event’ for Chor 2 is the family dinner where we booked two tables at Sun Lee How Fook Restaurant. Too bad this year, grace and rosemary couldn’t join us. Grace is not around while Rosemary is still in ‘confinement’ mode.

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There were also some new faces. Like my brother’s soon-to-be (hopefully) in laws.

brother-with-inlaws And some hopeful in-laws.. =)

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It wasn’t as ‘fun’ as previous years though.. but at least the food is quite good.. haha

Right after dinner, I headed towards Chee Lim’s house party. She normally organizes one whenever she’s in Ipoh for CNY. It has been there since form 4/5 already… I think she invited the whole Ipoh village there. The house eventually packs up with people, mainly her schoolmates and some of her non-schoolmates.

girls1 There are only the above people when I first arrived at around 10 smtg… Then it slowly growed and growed…

group-pic I think it’s the picture have most of her guests inside. Apart from some that left early..

There’s the smaller group of people outside

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Versus the many people inside… It’s quite fun actually to see so many people at once. Like meeting alot of people at one spot at the same time. No need to have so many separate sessions to meet up.. Hahah

inside-group Nah.. Just kidding. Meeting up is fun. Knowing what’s happening about the people that we used to know.. Like those who didn’t used to study well end up to be very successful people. Some that were very notorious in school has one of the better professions. Like some becoming pastors and lecturers.. Amazing how people change, especially those for the better.

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CNY 2010 – Day 1

This year’s ‘chor 1’ is a day where my dad did not need to remind us to be ready to travel to his hometown, Tapah because.. well, we were not allowed to go there. Haha.. And the reason for that was because my 3rd sister just gave birth to her 2nd son and she (and her family) is considered dirty and not allowed to go around visiting, believing that it will bring bad luck to others…

I never really understand such tradition/culture but that’s the believe and we just obliged. Better to be safe than sorry when something bad really happens and they blame it on my family. Hence, the first day of CNY was a very relaxing day. Of course, we did the usual ‘rituals’ to visit neighbours, bring gifts and exchange ang paus. And of course, the main event of the day – The tea ceremony and the family portrait taking.

IMG_0909 Each of us to pour tea to our parents in return to receive ang paus. Starting from youngest to oldest. And lastly, the exchange of angpaus between my parents. =)

IMG_0925 Then, the family portraiture taking… This year’, we’re short of Grace as she’s in UK for her studies and she just came back for Christmas.

IMG_0948Then, with the younger children – My nieces

IMG_0953 The three fat-mans (to resemble the Laughing Buddha) for the year.. We have a new champion this year..

IMG_0961The two brothers

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The kungfu-duo

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And the people who started it all…

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And it never fails to end with a loud entrance to the start of the new Lunar New Year by burning some firecrackers!

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For lunch, we just ate a simple lunch at Mar Poh and didn’t do much later in the afternoon. Haha.. Just relaxed and enjoy the atmosphere at home with the kids playing and siblings chatting around.

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At night, I met up with Jason Lee, Omega, Delicia and Chin Zwen… We wanted to try out this new place called Papa Rich but it was super crowded. Even the cafe next to it, Taste of Soup, was full house.

facebook_016 We ended up going to Delicia’s house. Chin Zwen left to go to her other friend’s place.

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