Damansara Village Steamboat Restaurant

Today we celebrated MIL’s birthday…her birthday is not actually today, but on 1st October. Since that day would be a working day, and according to Chinese (with so many nenek’s pantang), it’s better to celebrate a birthday earlier.

This birthday cake was bought from King’s Kepong Baru outlet…they were having 40% discount, so hubby cepat cepat go beli.. Boston Cheese Cake.
Dinner was at Damansara Village Pulau Ketam Steamboat Restaurant. In most steamboat dinners, the seafood are frozen stuff.

At this restaurant, the seafood are ultra-fresh..they have live crabs, prawns, mantis prawns, giant clams fish and lobsters, all kept swimming and jumping in tanks until they are ready to be served.

We decided to have their signature Drunken Herbal Pot as the steamboat soup. For this soup base, they will add-in wine, kei ji, dong kwai, cilantro, ginger and black fungus. For this, it's an addition of RM20/=.

They offer different menus and we ordered the one for 8-10 paxes, which was at (i tink) $$179/set..( I dunno how much since i was not the one to pay the bill)

Side dish of

Hoong Jau La-la (Cantonese for red wine la-la)
Red Wine Steamed La-la.......

a subtle blend of Chinese red wine, herbs and ginger marinate a mix of giant Sar Pak (giant clams) and local la-la.

To keep the kids occupied while the soup is boiling, they have a little 'fishing pool' with guppy fishes to keep the little ones entertained.

There are also some cages with bunnies, iguanas & chickens to amuse the junior customers.

And btw, this restaurant is operated by Patrick Teoh's daughter & son-in-law, you know the Patrick Teoh - the man we listened on redifussion while growing up!

Kuala Kubu Bahru Trip

21st September 2009 -

It's was the Hari Raya long weekend holidays.

My kawans from line dance group, took this opportunity to visit Kuala Kubu Bahru. The purpose of this trip was to makan-makan and main-main.

Left our residential area before 10am and had a smooth drive along the old Rawang/KKB trunk road. After a short drive of less than an hour, we reached Kuala Kubu Dam. This dam was built to replace the one damaged in 1883.

below is an excerpt from wikipedia :-

Previously, there was a town called Kuala Kubu nearby. In February 1883 the Kuala Kubu town was destroyed by a great flood caused by a broken dam near the town. Many of civillians were drowned and lost their home. Among others included a district officer of Kuala Kubu during British era, Cecil Ranking. However, the old town was severely flooded and most of the old town's facilities were damaged beyond repair. A Buddhist temple and a mosque survived the flood. The old town has since been known as Ampang Pecah, or Broken Dam in the Malay language. The tragedy was probably known as Tragedi Kuala Kubu by local civilians.After the tragedy, the British government decided to build a new town near the old town. The new town was named Kuala Kubu Bahru, with Bahru meaning "new" in the Malay language. Residential houses have been developed since the 1980's in the previously abandoned old town, or Ampang Pecah. Most inhibitants are from the nearby new town of Kuala Kubu Bahru. The redevelopment of Ampang Pecah, the site of the old town, was a natural progression on the organic growth of the new township of Kuala Kubu Bahru. A monument was built here to commemorate the Kuala Kubu tragedy.There is now a new dam, Sungai Selangor Dam, north of KKB which has created a huge new reservoir and taken away about 9km of the old KKB to Fraser's Hill road.

Now I know why the little village is called Ampang Pecah ;-)

The feel of kampung on Hari Raya

y jalan jalan 2 weeks ago brought me to Mid Valley. They were just setting up the Hari Raya decoration.

The celebration is themed “The Rah Rah is back in Hari Raya” and has kampung scenes of the 50s around the large mall.

The houses and stalls, drawn in caricature-style, like a page from Lat’s comics, with kampung houses, roosters and hens, coconut trees and wooden fences.

Over at 1Utama - new wing, the deco depicted the scene of the coastal kampung, complete with sampans, fishing nets etc.

life size sampan, doubling up as kiosks

(like this best, it's like treasure chest from the ocean)

It's Done

And we thought that we need weeks to finish the 1,000pieces jigsaw puzzle..



managed to complete it in 3 days ...

definitely the case of 4 brains are better than 1

everyone having fun trying to find that missing piece (s)

ta la la ...it's finished..

we can go hunting for our next puzzle...target set

@ 1,500pcs

Alternative Passport @ RM100/=

Yahooooo...this is good news for us whom loves to travel but not as frequently as we want too!

Quoting the interesting part :-

If you seldom travel abroad, you can now save on your passpart and pay RM100 instead of RM300 for the Alternative International Malaysian Passport.

From Oct 1, Malaysians can apply for the alternative passport which is valid for two years, announced Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

Currently, a 32-page passport costs RM300 and a 64-page document RM600. Both are valid for five years.

-Unquote-

Now, for the previous price of one, I can pay for 3 passports!!

Ok wuah girls, let's start planning our overseas holidays ...have passport will travel

??? vs Por Toh

I am smiling to myself as I write this post..

hehehehe..me think the surau is having a competition with the Por Toh function nearby.

The neighbourhood is having their annual Yee Lan or Por Toh celebration since yesterday. It will last till Tuesday and the dinner will be on Wednesday (16/9). For these 3 nites, there will be puppet shows, karaoke sessions and dance performances. The sound level of these activities is barely audible from our houses.

Tonite, on the way back from my LD class, noticed that the surau was having a small congregration, which was quite often since puasa month started. Normally, the surau does not have the external speaker on when they are having their sermons. (But it's fully blasted for the 5x prayers!). However, tonight the speakers were on (with bearable volume).

Well, maybe it's only me, but it seems like the surau does not want to be outdone by the Por Toh!

** the distance between Por Toh and surau is about 100m.

AMAZING BRIDGES OF THE WORLD

Tripadvisor's list of amazing bridges of the world

France

Millau Viaduct, Millau

USA

Royal Gorge Bridge, Canon City, Colorado

England
Tower Bridge, London






Czech Republic
Charles Bridge, Prague




Canada
British Columbia, North Vancouver
Capilano Suspension Bridge





I am so proud that our very own Langkawi Sky Bridge is in the list too!

Malaysia
Langkawi Sky Bridge

MPV - MESTI PENUH VAN

MY TOYOTA UNSER MPV

Emperor Lim truly gave a new meaning to MPV – my car on the day we loaded up for the Good Time Line Dance at Atria ..he fully utilised & maximised the space !!!

Luckily my princesss is skinny..

Fixing the Pieces

Phew...at last the exam is over...1 down, 1 more to go!!

Now that UPSR is over, my doter will have 15 weeks (that's 105days) before it's back to some serious studying in 2010.

To keep herself occupied (by not watching tv, playing PC games & other nonsenses), she requested for a jigsaw puzzle.

My younger doter next project : to complete the below puzzle !




all 1,000 tiny winnie pieces of them

as soon as possible

Yesterday evening, she completed the main border..that's how we always start our jigsawing project.

by late evening, we managed to get 80% of Princess Ariel's face (Little Mermaid)..

it is still a long journey to the final piece...long long way to go!!

15Malaysia - Slovak Sling

This video is 'darn' funny ....

Synopsis
A comedic re-enactment of how one politician tries to entice another to switch party allegiance as DVD pirates look on.

what i did today

It's an extended weekend again...yippeeee...thanks to Nuzul Quran, we (those working in Selangor) has an additional day off.


But an additional day off does not mean I get to relax at home...


Driving to/from the wet market was a breeze today...not too many cars and not too much traffic....


Did some house cleaning and lots of laundry.....


Took my girls to buy their kueh mueh at the Ramandan bazaar near our house....


My younger daughter wanted to eat mummy's home made butter cake..baked one so that she can bring a few slices to school tomorrow ....


Went for line-dancing class...had to cramp two songs into the already weary and tired brain (and limbs) ..luckily they were quite simple dances.. (Imelda's Man -64steps / It Hurts -32steps) ...so it was still okay loh...


Tomorrow is only 1hour and 30minutes away, so I better get some beautiful sleep to face a new working week tomorrow....

UPSR -2009

Tomorrow -8th Sept 2009 , my younger girl will be sitting for her UPSR exam, together thousands of 12 years old nationwide.

My only worry is her Bahasa Malaysia as she dislikes this subject and never make much effort to catch up with the syllabus. Cannot blame her as I personally feel, the syllabus is a bit too tough, for a 12 year old. Or maybe she has my genes, as I am no good in this subject too..

Well, que sera sera, what ever her result it will be, will be..

Ghost Talk

This is the Ghost month under the Lunar calendar, happy reading.



Two ghosts met and both chat about how they died.

1st ghost : How u died?
2nd ghost : I died of cold.

1st ghost : How does it feel when you're dying in cold?
2nd ghost : Actually, I was imprisoned in the refrigerator. Initially, I was shivering, then my whole body started to freeze, later I felt the whole world was dark and I died. Fortunately, I died with not much suffering.

1st ghost : You're so pityful....
2nd ghost : How about you? How did u die?

1st ghost : I died from heart attack.
2nd ghost : I see, why did u have a heart attack?

1st ghost : Actually, I found out that my wife is having an affair with another man. One day, when I came back from work, saw a pair of man shoes outside my house. Then, I realized that the guy was in my house with my wife. When I rushed into the bedroom, my wife was alone. I must find where that bastard is hiding. So I searched the toilet, I ran downstairs, looked in the storeroom, but the bastard was not there. So, I ran upstairs and searched the wardrobe, but I found nothing. Because I was too tired of all that running,I got a heart attack and died.

2nd ghost : Why didn't you look for the bastard in the fridge? If you did, both of us would still be alive now!!