Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Gold Coast Travel 25 Nov - 2 Dec 2015 (2nd)

Nie second entry untuk percutian di Gold Coast.

Day3
Mengikut plan aku hari ni patut pergi Koala Lone Pine, tapi setelah browse internet dan meninjau pendapat orang ramai, better pergi theme park hari weekdays, sebab weekend selalunya ramai orang, dan kena bersesak-sesak. Jadi sebab itu aku tukar plan, hari ni jumaat, so kami pergi ke MovieWorld. Pagi-pagi lagi aku dah masak, senang makan siap-siap dari apartment. Nanti kat sana tak lapar sangat dan cuma beli snack untuk alas perut. Makanan di luar, pastinya tak di benarkan masuk.. mana-mana theme park memang macam tu lah regulationnyer.
Perjalanan mengambil masa lebih kurang 30 minit dari Apartment. Kami sampai dalam pukul 11 pagi. Taman tema ini di buka dari pukul 10 pagi hingga 5 petang. Taman tema ini bersebelahan dengan Wet'nWild Water theme park. Combo tiket yang aku beli memang include SeaWorld, MovieWorld dan Wer'nWild Water theme park. Tapi aku tak berminat sangat nak pergi main air kat sini, kat Mesia pun berlambak taman tema air, tambahan pula panas2 nie. Tiket tak payah beli dah, tunjuk saja tiket printout yang di buat masa kat SeaWorld tu.
Bergambar di pintu masuk.

Sampai2, cuaca terik terus cari topi untuk Luffy. Semalam dah beli topi untuk Eirian. Panas dia berlainan dari Malaysia, ini merupakan kali pertama aku merasa summer di oversea, memang panas dan terik. Beli topi Batman kat Luffy, harga standard AUD$15, semalam kat Seaworld pun sama. Show yang pertama di tengok adalah Looney Tunes 4D, cerita pasal Coyote dan Road Runner. Dulu kecil2 selalu tengok kartun ni kat TV sekarang dah takder dah. Lepas tu ada show Looney tunes Dance Party, Hollywood Stunt Driver dan All Star Parade. Memang fun..
Lepas tu pusing-pusing sekitar tempat tu. Kasi budak2 naik a few rides, aku pun sempat jugak naik rides, menumpang sama anak. Sini aku letakkan gambar-gambar yang di ambil.

 Bergambar dengan bug bunny

Naik Ride Yosemite Sam RailRoad

Hollywood Stunt Rider Show

Luffy dengan Batman

Luffy banyak ambil gambar dengan karakter. Tapi ada satu cerita lawak, masa dia nak ambil gambar dengan The Joker, dia lupa dia pakai topi Batman. Sekali Joker marah,"Boy, who is on your hat?" dengan cekak pingang, terus Luffy takut tak berani ambil gambar.. hahaha.. Makanan memang agak susah di dalam Movie World. Aku beli Kurtos Spirall untuk alas perut budak-budak tu. Mak aku agak susah sikit nak makan di restaurant walaupun kami order seafood. Kalau restorant tu ada serve benda haram tu, memang dia tak mau masuk punya. Selepas habis All Star Parade, kami balik.

Ikut plan, lepas nie pergi Harbour town shopping complex yang terletak kira-kira 20 minit jarak memandu dari apartment kami. Sepatutnya ada Nandos Halal kat shoppin complex nie, tapi dah tutup. Ada di gantikan dengan kedai ala-ala Nandos dan mujurlah halal. Kami pun singgah makan dulu. Aku memang tak pandai order, punyalah banyak ayam yang aku order, last-last pack bawak blk. Ok jugak esok tak payah risau nak masak apa, ayam sudah ada. Kedai-kedai kat sini tutup awal, masa aku sampai pukul 5, dah siap2 nak tutup. Tak sempat aku nak tengok-tengok untuk shopping. Kat sini ramai Asian suka datang sebab ada pasaraya untuk Asian grocery, so nak cari benda2 Asian memang banyak di jual di sini. Pasaraya Woolsworth pun ada, so kami singgah sekejap, beli barang-barang keperluan. Kat sini pun ada satu pasar yang jual sayur dan buah-buaan murah. Cherry dia 1 kilo cuma AUD$6 jer, kalau convert RM18.. murah sungguh. Dan sayur-sayuran dia sangat fresh dan murah... Best sungguh kalau kualiti sayur tempat kita macam ini.

yummy cherry

Day4
Kalau pergi Australia, kewajipan mesti nak tengok Koala dan Kangaroo. Ada 3 parks boleh tengok binatang-binatang nie; Currumbin Wildlife Santuary, Paradise Country dan Lone Pine Koala Santuary. Refer kat trip advisor, semua orang kasi good comment tentang Koala Lone Pine Santuary compared to Currumbin Sanctuary, so aku buat pilihan untuk pergi ke sini. Perjalanan mengambil masa 1 jam 15 minit, dan jalan nya ada tol. Nak bayar tol lebuhraya kat sini agak susah sikit sebab dia tak ada tol booth. Kita kena register kereta dan isikan maklumat kredit card number dan dia akan charge direct ke kredit card. Kalau takder credit card, boleh bayar di 7/11 shop mcm tu, tapi within 3 days kena settle. Lagi satu masalah si Eirian yang tak mahu duduk dalam baby car seat. Sepanjang perjalanan lah di breastfeeding, memang stressful betul aku. Ikut plan nak pergi Brisbane, tapi sebabkan susah sangat dengan si kecik nie, terpaksa batalkan niat. Nie lah gambar-gambar yang di ambil semasa di  Lone Pine Koala Santuary.







Mula-mula ingat nak ambil gambar dengan Koala juga, tapi aku tak tahan bau dia, tersangatlah busuknya. Aku pun tak paham ada orang ambil gambar peluk Koala, memang comel, tapi busuk daa...

Day5
Hari ke-5 nie kami bersiar-siar di sekita Surfers Paradise. Kami cuma berjalan kaki saja hari nie memandangkan Apartment kami memang berdekatan dengan Tourist Attraction spot. Ikut plan, kami sepatutnya pergi Sky Observation Deck..tapi kami tak jumpa jalan masuk. Actually dekat saja tapi dah penat pusing-pusing kami tak pergi pun. Kami berjalan kaki, menikmati sausana bandar Surfer Paradise, tengok orang main laut, surfing.. bestnya. Rugi plak rasa tak join. 






Lepas tu kami pergi ke Ripley's Believe it or not gallery. Aku dapat tiket separuh harga, sebab beli melalu groupon. Banyak benda-benda menarik dan pelik di dalam, tapi mak dan Luffy macam tak selesa di dalam, jadi kami duduk dalam tu tak lama. Apa tak nyer, sedang kami leka melihat artifak-artifak, aku sedang berdiri di sebelah statue manusia yang paling tinggi di dunia. Tiba-tiba statue tu berdiri, terkejut badak mak aku dan Luffy. Terus diaorg ada perasaan gemuruh. Dan selain daripada itu banyak artifak-artifak lain yang boleh bergerak kalau di trigger, so memang kena berhati-hati kalau tak nak terkejut. Kalau ibu mengandung tu di nasihatkan tak payah masuklah.

Nie statue the tallest man, tadi duduk, tiba2 berdiri. 

Tempat nie terletak berdekatan the Shopping Complex The Cavill, memang besar shopping Mall nie. Datang kat Gold Coast kena try Kebab. Memang banyak kedai-kedai Kebab kat sini yang di buka oleh pak-pak Arab, tulen halal atau tidak, aku tak pasti. Ramai suggest try Theo Kebab, so kat The Cavill nie memang ada satu berdekatan dengan Ripley's Believe it Or Not. Satu Kebab harga macam Malaysia gak, $AUD9.8, bile convert satu RM30 tu.. aku beli 3 Kebab, harga RM90.. jangan convert. Kami singgah di Souvenier Shop untuk beli barang-barang buah tangan untuk di bawa balik ke Malaysia. Agak mahal juga, kesian dekat mak aku, ramai kaum kerabat, tak beli nanti takut orang terasa. Lepas tu kami pergi jalan-jalan di Night Market depan The Cavill tu. Night Market mereka berlainan dari Night Market kita. Kalau kita kebanyakannya jual makanan, tapi mereka menjual produk kraftangan.


Selepas habis tu, Luffy nak balik naik keretapi. Dia nie memang peminat public transport; bus, keretapi, kapal dan kapalterbang. Walhalnya satu stesen jer pun. Tapi orang kata nak merasa, naik jugak lah.



Tapi yang bagus ya keretapi nie, takder check dah bayar ke atau tidak, it's all based on trust. Tapi dont get caught!! Kalau penduduk sana memang ada card, so lepas guna just scan the card masa nak keluar. Macam kami ni cuma beli tiket dan naik. Kalau kami tak beli pun takder orang check.

Malam tu kami peri Pacific Fair Shopping Mall, tapi malangnya jam pukul 8 malam, semua dah tutup. Mall disitu, hari Sabtu Ahad, jam 8 malam dah tutup. 

Ok, sambung lagi Entry3# ya..





   

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Chicken curry with noxxa cooker

This cooker is very famous among housewives. It claimed it can speed up cooking process and very helpful for the working mum like me. My ex-schoolmate group has been talking a lot of this cooker and they managed to influence me to buy it. My husband never agree, he claimed the cooker will have same fate as my breadmaker, which has been idling sitting inside the box for quite some time. Secretly I bought that, through installment plan though. I dont want to make it so obvious so, after 3 month I would get that cooker after our disagreement. That should be fine, I guess 😆. So the three months has passed, and I got the 'noxxa pressure cooker'now. Actually I received that 2 weeks ago, I wasn't have opportunity to try. So this saturday, I am quite free and it perfect time to try this new cooker.

So I would cook curry chicken. First and foremost, I have to do some procedure before using the cooker. I share the procedure in the picture below. I was a bit worried when there was quite loud sound and lots of steam came out. Luckily no explosion, fire and everything turn out well. Just want to share the chicken curry recipe. It taste good, look at the picture. This recipe shall be good for 4 ppl serving.

Ingridients
(Stir fry)
5 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cloves chopped small onion
2 pc chopped garlic
3 cm chopped ginger
Curry leaves
10 cm cinnamon stick
2 star anise (bunga lawang)
4 cardamom (buah pelaga)
1 pack curry powder ( I use Babas
(High pressure)
1 cup of chicken broth
1/2 kg chicken
2 chopped potato
1 cup of Coconut milk (santan)
2 tsp coconut paste (kerisik)
Asam keping (not sure what they called in English)

Procedure
1) Set to stir-fry and put the oil. Wait 1 minute before put the onion, garlic, ginger, curry leaves and all the herbs. Stir and wait you can smell the curry aroma
2) Put the curry paste. I normally will prepare the curry paste with water. Wait until you can see the curry paste and the ingridient well blend.
3) Insert the chicken broth, potato and chicken. Stir fo a while
4) Insert the coconut milk ,coconut paste and asam keping. Put some salt for the taste.
5) Off the stir-fry function. Change to high pressure for 10 minutes. Dont forget to turn the setting to pressure. After the beep sound, change to steam mode.

That's all..

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Gold Coast Travel 25 Nov - 2 Dec 2015 (1st)

Alhamdullilah, aku dan keluarga dah selamat pergi dan pulang dari percutian kami ke Gold Coast, Australia. Ini merupakan kali pertama percutian luar negara untuk Eirian. Sebelum aku terlupa, lebih baik aku cepat2 buat blog entry pasal trip ke sana. Takut kalau-kalau terlupa macam percutian-percutian aku yang lepas-lepas.

Day1 Trip
Kami mengambil earliest flight from Penang to KL iaitu pada pukul 7.10 pagi. Alhamdullilah, flight tak delay dan sampai on time. Tapi masalah nya, aku beli tiket yang bukan connecting, gara2 tak mahu tidur kat airport, so memang rushing nak kena tunggu beg dan check in balik. Dah lah KLIA2 besar, dan kami sesat mula2 tu. Tuhan saja yang tahu bagaimana rushing nya kami. So lesson learn, kalau ada connecting flight at least 4 hours. (I never learned, experience this before during my trip to Clarks, Philiphines before). Baggage drop counter tutup 1 hour before departure, so just cukup2 on time saja sebelum gate closed, kalau tak bye-bye.. pergilah ke gold coast dengan tak berbaju. Dah selesai dengan drop luggage, rushing pulak ke balai berlepas untuk international flight. Eirian pulak tak nak di pegang dan nak jalan sendiri. Lepas tu suka-suka singgah kat mana-mana location.. memang stress sungguh, kesian nye dekat mak aku. Baju aku basah sebab berpeluh-peluh kepenatan. Berjaya jugak sampai ke Gate berlepas, dan tak lama kemudian, kami berlepas on-time.

Dah ready for boarding


Perjalanan mengambil masa 8 jam, dan beza masa antara Malaysia dan Australia masa tu adalah 2 jam awal. Aku buat tempahan pre-booked meal untuk 2X. Diaorg served meal lambat disebabkan nak lepas turbulance, lepas 2 jam terbang, baru served meal. Dan punyalah lambat.. aku rasa dah masuk 3 jam, baru dapat meal kami. Luffy memang bising lapar, lapar.. 2nd Meal tu dia served tak lama lepas tu, 2 hours before arrival. Tapi masa tu kami masih kenyang, so kami decide nak simpan meal tu untuk dinner nanti. So tak payahlah susah cari makan dah sampai nanti. Tapi nak buat cerita, immigration Australia sangat ketat, jadi makanan yang di bawa kena declare. Diaorg tak benarkan any meat, milk, telur di bawa masuk ke sana. So semua barang2 tu kena buang. Kalau tau, kami akan makan sebelum tiba. Barang2 kering macam maggi, sambal2 pack dibenarkan. Apabila dah lepas custom check, kami mencari kereta sewa. Aku dah buat online booking kat redspot, so pergi saja kaunter dia untuk ambil kereta. Sewa kereta dia tak mahal, tapi sebab kami beli insurance terasa sangatlah mahalnyer. Iyerlah, kalau ada scratch bigger than 20cent coins akan kena charge about USD$3K, tak takut ke? last-last beli jugak lah insurance. So car rental + Baby Car Seat + insurance = AUD$ 504.32 ~ RM1500..
Inilah kenderaan kami semasa di GoldCoast.


Dah sampai kereta, mesti nak kena tau, camner jalan nak ke Hotel. Itu pun kitaorang sangkut. Kami beli Sim Card Optus dari 1 kedai dalam airport. Menurut sales lady tu senang ajer, masukkan sim card dalam phone dan boleh guna terus. Sim Card tu berharga AUS$40, dan ada data plan 4G. Tapi malangnyer, tak dapat guna. Aku rasa kena ada network untuk aktifkan plan tu dulu, so camner nak cari wifi untuk aktivate SimCard tu. Stress juga mula-mula tu. Mujurlah aku ada print google map, macamana nak pergi dari Airport nak ke Hotel. Berpandukan map tu, kami dapat sampai ke Warringa Surf, BroadBeach, Surfers Paradise. Alhamdullilah, hari pertama berjaya dilalui. Kami sampai jam pukul 10.30 malam. Mujur aku ada bawa Maggi, jadi malam tu makan Maggi saja kami. Sedih mengenangkan makanan yang kena buang di Airport tadi.

 Sinilah kami stay.


Day2 Trip
Kami bangun tidur awal di GoldCoast. Apa tidaknyer, pukul 6 pagi dah terang benderang, macam pukul 10 pagi di sini. Matahari terik dan panas. Husband dari pagi cuba aktifkan, Alhamdullilah dia dapat call operator yang bertugas dan dengan bantuan operator tu husband berjaya mengaktifkan data plan. Yahoo, dapatlah kami bergerak kesana-kemari. Mengikut plan aku, hari ni kami patut pergi SeaWorld. Seaworld terletak tidak jauh dari Broadbeach, dalam 15 minit menaiki kereta. Aku dah beli online tiket sebelum datang dan harganyer AUD$84 per/person untuk 3 theme park di Myfun,com ; Seaworld, MovieWorld and Wet& Wild. For kids below 3 years old are free. So pergi kaunter, tunjuk  printout, dia akan kasi tiket masuk dan dia akan ambil gambar kita dan print atas tiket tu.


Cuaca agak panas semasa kami di Seaworld. Mula2 show yang kami pergi tengok adalah Dolphin Show. Aku memang excited nak tengok Dolphin show. Sebelum nak pergi ke Dolphin show tu lalu dekat Dolphin village di mana, mereka melatih dan menjaga Dolphin di situ. MasyaAllah, comel-comelnya Dolphin tu. Terleka sebentar di kawasan itu. Kemudia bergerak ker Dolphin show arena. Tempat dan cuaca sangat baik. tapi.. persembahan nya not as what I expected. Mak aku memang kagum, sebab first time tengok. Rasa aku, show yang kat OceanPark tu lagi best, lagi canggih.


Jalan-jalan tengok binatang laut, jerung dia mmg besar dan menakutkan.. tapi rasa mcm takderlah besar sgt... nak tngk lagi besar, :D. Dan yang paling best dapat tengok polar bear. First time dapat tengok, memang best, tengok di berenang, main bola.. rupa2nya kat Singapore Zoo pun ada, cuma hari tu aku tak sempat masuk. Nie yang rasa nak pergi Singapore lagi sekali.

Comel sungguh :D

Kami lunch di dalam Seaworld. Sebelum nie aku google, memang ada halal restaurant di dalam nie. Lepas tu cari-cari tak jumpa. Aku pun tanya, one of the staff kat situ, menurut diaorg, dulu memang ada, tapi sekarang dah tutup. Maybe business tak bagus, so no choice, makan jerlah apa yang ada kat situ. Aku order Sotong Calimary dan fish fillet + potato chips, gambar seperti di bawah. Harga AUD$38, jangan di convertkan.. memanglah mahal. Mak tak lalu makan, kesian dia.. mujurlah kat situ ada orang Melayu, so dia pun jamah jugak lah fries tu.

 Masa tengah makan tu, ada show jetski show kat lake depan tu, so tengok jer. Show mmg menarik competition between Australia team dan US team. Pada masa  yg sama ada school trip from US. So mmg hebat jugak show tu.
Banyak.juga rides kat seaworld tu, tapi kami tak.masuk maklumlah dengan budak kecil memang leceh sikit. Pukul 3.30 mcm kami keluar.
Ikut plan aku, kami kena beli barang basah untuk memasak hari nie. So next destination Continential Halal Meat, location around 12 minutes drive from apartment yang aku stay tu. Tapi kedai ni di buka 7 pagi sampai 5 ptg jer dan ahad tutup. Ada 2x aku dtg dia tutup. So beli ayam, daging dan sosej untuk keperluan di sana. Jangan jadi.macam.aku.salah budget, end up berkali-kali kesana... tapi 2x kedai tutup. Mujurlah tak jauh sangat, boleh di maafkan.

Inilah kedainya, kecil jer pun

Kat kedai tu tak banyak choice untuk grocery item, so next destination adalah Via Roman shopping Mall. Beli beras, garam, gula, minyak masak, bawang dan sayur-sayuran. Harga macam kat Mesia juga, cuma dlm aud$. So kalau convertkan terasa jugak... 
Sampai apartment kami masak. Mujurlah bawa paste makanan Brahim..memudahkan kerja memasak dan confirm sedap. Malam cuma rehat di apartment menikmati udara pantai yang sangat segar...

Sambung cerita dalam next entry.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Preparation for Gold Coast trip


I was so busy last week and I don.t have time to prepare for my trip to Gold coast which will be a week from now. Luckily I have prepared some of the things earlier. There are a lot of blog entry on the Gold Coast Entry, so most of the preparation was referred to the blog. In this entry, I just list down what are the things that need to prepare before the trip.

1) Air ticket, I manage to get cheap ticket for me and my family. However I paid more for my mum ticket due to last minute purchased. So altogether the air ticket from PEN-KL-Gold Coast, including meals, seat number, insurance, baggage about 6k for 3 Adults + 2 kids. Eirian is still below 2 years old, so he got infant price.

2) Apply leave. I just started work with new company about 5 months. So not many days leave available for me. But I just applied 1 month ahead. Not sure whether the company will consider this as unpaid leave or advance leave, but I don't have choice in this case. I would not fortified this air ticket due to not able to get leave.

3) Valid Passport. In order for you to travel, the trip should be 6 months before the expiry date of the passport. For this trip, I have to renew Luffy and my mum's passport and do Eirian passport. This is the first time Eirian travel oversea.

4) ETA visa. You can do online at this address
 http://malaysia.highcommission.gov.au/klpr/lodgement.html.
 It cost you $AUD20 if you do yourselves. I choose to do via travel agent, it cost me RM25 only. Way cheaper.. all you have to do is look for the travel agent.

 5) Travel insurance. I have never prepare this during my overseas trip before until my last visit to Medan with my friend. I found this is necessities when you go traveling. Just be insured, cause you never know what is going to happened. I bought the travel insurance online, just a few type and click, you are done. I bought the standard package, and it cost me RM126 for the family package.
https://www.aig.my/personal/travel/travel-insurance

6) Accommodation./ place to stay. There are a lot of affordable apartment in Surfers Paradise, just google and read the review of the apartment. Tips that I got, the price would be cheaper if you book early. For me I will stay at Waringga Surf. I will give my review after my stay there. When you do the booking, if you mentioned you have a baby, they will asked you to book for baby coat.. I have some hu-ha over this issue with Waringga Surf.

7) Transportation. You can either choose public transport or car rental. There are buses and train to get around. For families it is recommended to rent a car. There are a lot of website for car rental. I did the booking at this website, which I think I get the cheapest deal. I am still thinking should I buy the car insurance or not. Not forgotten, if you have kids below 7 years, you need extra gear; child seat/ booster seat. It is mandatory in Aussie to have you kids sit properly in the car. (Not sure how I can manage this with Eirian, he normally can get away when I put him in the car seat here). The charges  are varies with cars. You can rent GPS as well. But I think I would get cellular data and use google maps for the direction.
 https://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au/

8) List for food and medicine. Its good to prepare a list of food and medicine that you carry along to Aussie. From what I heard, they are quite strict on this issue. You can get fine of $AUD400 for the offence, so better be prepared than broke..hahaha. I'm travelling with my mum, and she is very particular about food. So I guess, I will bring some per-processed food for her convenient. 

9) Suitable clothing. Check what is the weather like in Gold Coast, so that you can prepare you clothing. I'm traveling during srping to summer season, and the forecast said the temperature should be ranging about 17'C to 26'C. Not too cold or too hot. and hoping the weather would be pleasant during my stay there.

10) Online Purchase theme park ticket. It will be cheaper if you buy the ticket via online rather than buy at counter. I bought the combo theme park ticket at this website
http://myfun.com.au

11) Itinerary holiday. Read a lot and start planning


That's all on the preparation. I hope everything turns well next week. InsyaAllah.. 


Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Medan-Lake Toba Trip 13-18 Sept 2012

I got a cheap ticket for this trip. This was my second trip to Indonesia. I went to Jakarta and Bandung on my first trip. I hope I will be able to post in the blog about my trip to Jakarta and Bandung before. This time I went with my colleague from the same company that I worked. We took flight from Penang International Airport and about 15 minutes we reached Medan International Airport. This was the old airport and now the AirAsia will stop at Kualanamu International Airport.
Tak panas bontot pun sudah sampai :D

My friend and I took photos after we disembarked from the plane, however when we queued at the immigration counter, there were few guys were questioned because of taking photo around the airport. So please be aware, no photos around the airport. We just keep quiet and luckily they didn't catched us. Out from the immigration, we went out to look for transportation to the hotel. Since we reached Medan in the evening, its is recommended to stay overnight in Medan before departed to Lake Toba. We stayed in Hotel Polonia and the hotel provide free transport from the airport to hotel. The hotel was good but not so quiet since the location is along the busy street. We went to the near shopping complex to have our dinner. I found out that there is not so much variety on food in Medan compared to Bandung or maybe I do not know the place well. Luckily the hotel comes with the free breakfast buffet. I stuffed myself with lots of food before the start the journey to Lake Toba. I know the journey will take about 4-5 hours and its not going to be smooth journey. I met few people who just came back from their trip to Lake Toba. All of them give bad review, some said its like 4 hours riding on the horse..Can you imagine that? some even suggested me to cancel the trip. 

After the checkout from the hotel, we looked for our transportation to get us to Lake Toba. They have this private taxi using MPV like Innova (they call Kijal there), use mostly by local to get to lake Toba. After asked around we managed to get the seat. We mixed with local people in the Kijal and the fare is cheap. I cant remember how much was that but I think it was about RM20 or so. 

Inilah Kijal yang kami naiki

Ni lah rupa jalan yang dilalui, zig-zag all the way

We departed around 12 o'clock from Medan and about 4 o'clock we reached Parapat town. The last boat to Lake Toba was 6 o'clock, so if you reach later than that you will have to stay overnight in Parapat town. It took us about 1 hour and 30 minutes from the Perapat jetty to our chalet. On the way, we observed the beautiful scenery of Lake Toba and praise Allah the Almighty of his powerful event that created this beautiful lake. Its very huge and serene. 

 
At Parapat Jetty, all aboard now

Me on the boat, cruising over the Lake Toba

Beautiful Scenery

The boat will stopped at a few places around the Samosir Island. The Samosir island is the biggest island inside the Lake Toba.  Majority of the people who lived here are from Batak ethnic. There are a lot of Batak house around the island and you can tell then from their distinctive roof shape. The boat will stop right in front of the chalet that you stayed. We boat stopped directly in front of the Samosir cottage where we stayed.

Rumah biar buruk, tapi ada astro tau.
 
   I found out it is quite hard to find halal food here. There are few restaurants near the cottage but they serve pork and beer as well. For the dinner we tried this Popi' Original Batak Sauce Grill Fish. 
This restaurant is just a walking distance from the hotel that we stayed. We order the Grilled fish only, and we really need to wait to hours to get our fish. Oh my goodness! We enjoyed the evening view, sunset and after that we were accompanied by the mosquitoes and cat.



the 2 hours grilled fish.. pengsan

We take a rest that night before heading for our tomorrow's adventure. Since there are only me and my friend, we decided to rent a motobike only to get us around. If you have move company it is recommended to hire a car. You can go to many places with cars. And its good if you travels with guys too, to be safe. We don't dare to travel very far sue to worry about our safety.  

Our first destination was Stone Chair of King Sialagan. Before we reach this place I stopped at one of their village. The rear pig at the bottom of their house. Their wooden house is made of 2 layer. The top one is for them to stay and the bottom one where they rear animal. I can see piglets running around the house. I quickly move, scared the piglet might come to me.

Not in Malaysia

Traditional Batak house

Tempat untuk di pasung

Tempat di mana hukuman di beri dan di jalankan

I went to several places, but I can't remember the name of those place. Since I am running out of time, I just share the photos here and highlight anything from it. After visiting Lake Toba, we went to Berastagi for 1 day. We went to the fruit market and sightseeing only.

Merempit

Pergi sini

Beautiful view

Shopping for Souvenier

Shopping fruits in Berastagi

In overall, it was nice experience. It is recommended for people who love nature, but not suitable for the kids. Halal food is scarce. And I don't like cigarette smoke which you can inhale abundantly here. Ok, been to Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Lake Toba and Berastagi.. Next destination maybe Bali?? :D

Aku masa kecil

It has been a few years I involve in blogging. My entry is not specific, it covers all the things that revolve around me. As long as I feel like writing, then I'll include in. I even make post on something that I dissatisfied (and remove it after I feel doesn't do me good, but I still keep that in my draft copy). I talked with my husband over my blog thingy. I said, it is like my personal diary, but I got it share over the net (but hoping I don't make it too personal though). The good things is that it refresh me on the thing that I have done before, which are some good and some are not. I do not know who still write on the diary these days? And who still can remember the thing that has passed few years before? I told my husband, when I read my blog it flashed back all the things that happened in the past, do you have something like that? Then this morning my husband trigger me on that. He said, he just realize, he got none... Well enough nagging, so I'll continue with my blog. My relatives share some of my childhood photo over the whatsapp. I decided to post it here.. Who knows 10 years from now, I lost those photo, so should keep it in the blog.


 Not sure how old I was, but definitely during primary school. My grandma was still alive. I think I were following my grandma to somewhere, Kedah I thnik.
This was at my uncle's house in Batu 17, Ayer Tawar
 

This was at Uda house in Kampung. I have resemblance of Luffy here. He got his handsome look from me. Definitely :)
 
 
I were in Alor Setar, Kedah attending my cousin's wedding.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Pegaga - Petua Awet Muda

Kalau nak cakap pasal masalah jerawat kat muka aku nie, memanglah tak sudah2. Aku pun macam dah jelak bila orang tanya dan bagi suggestion. Sebabnya dah macam-macam cara aku sudah cuba, tapi hasilnya sama jer. Sekarang nie dah hampir 6 bulan aku mengunakan skincare product Clinique untuk anti-blemish solution. Aku pakai satu set cleansing foam, cleansing gel, cleasing soap, toner, moisturizer, clearing gel dan mask specifically for acne skin. Duit aku habis tapi masalah jerawat aku yang tak habis. So sebab kan sayang, aku pakai juga, sebab tak tau produk apa nak pakai dah. Tapi untuk aku clearing gel dari clinique tu memang tak sesuai langsung untuk kulit aku. Jerawat aku makin bertambah dengannya, so aku tak pakai yang itu saja sekarang nie.

Kali ni aku nak cuba cara tradiosional saja. Hari tu pergi lawat restaurant adik aku kat Taiping, so sembang-sembang dengan tukang masak dia. Muka dia dan anak dia bersih tulus dan mulus. Clear skin, aku pun sembang2 dengan dia tentang masalah aku. Malu pun ada, kakak tu kerja tukang masak, hari-hari bertarung dengan asap tapi muka maintain jer. Aku ni yang kerja dalam aircond, tak ada panas, muka tak payah ceritalah. Kakak tu gunakan produk Thailand jer, takder jual kat sini.. tapi dia suruh aku amalkan buat masker telur ayam + lemon. Perahkan lemon dengan putih telur ayam dan sapu kat muka. Aku pun sedang amalkan sekarang nie. Masa nak apply tu macam air saja, takde bau telur. Tapi bila dah kering, muka jadi tegang dan berbau telur ayam di muka nie. hehehe..rasa best saja.. aku baru amalkan dari minggu lepas. So kena amalkan selalu baru boleh tengok hasilnya.

Lagi satu petua yang di kongsikan oleh seorang kakak di surau tempat aku bekerja. Aku selalu sembang2 dengan kakak tu. Pada tekaan aku, kakak tu baya-baya aku juga, tapi dia bahasakan diri dia akak.. so aku hormat lah kat dia. Satu hari tu dia tanya pasal jerawat kat muka aku nie. Masa sembang-sembang tu, aku baru tau umur kakak tu dah 50 tahun, dan dah ada anak dara umur 28 tahun pun. Kakak tu memang nampak muda, dan dia tak pakai makeup apa pun. Tak macam aku, lepas sembahyang, jenuh tepek bedak nak tutup jerawat nie. Kalau tak hodoh sungguh muka aku sampai aku pun tak lalu nak tengok. Kata kakak tu rahsia awet muda dia, dia minum jus pegaga. Aku bersemangat nak cuba. Lepas tu aku saja google dalam internet pasal pegaga, ada lagi satu cerita, makcik tu umur dah 70 tahun tapi muka dia nampak berseri-seri dan cantik mengamalkan jus pegaga dari muda. Lagi lah aku bersemangat. Pagi selasa baru nie, sebelum masuk ofis sempat aku singgah pasar cari pegaga. Fikir punya fikir, pegaga ni pahit lalu ke aku nak minum dia aja? So aku ada idea, aku beli epal hijau dan blend sama. Rasa Ok lah... Aku ni taknak lah selfish sorang2 jer awet muda.. aku buat dua gelas satu kasi encik suami dan satu untuk aku. Selain dari awet muda banyak khasiat pegaga nie. InsyaAllah harap aku dan suami mendapat manfaat darinya.
Dapat pun cari pegaga
Ni lah rupa jus pegaga + epal hijau.