12 posts tagged “vacation”

This time we stayed at Holiday Inn Resort, Batu Feringghi. OH wanted to collect points he said.. I have no idea what it's all about. something like loyalty card i suppose. Anyways... had no qualms with the place. No bad experience whatsoever. However can't review much coz most of the time we just stayed in our room and didn't exactly make full use of the facilities. Room was spacious with 2 double beds, a verandah. Has both shower and a bathtub. Somehow I feel like the loo was designed for orang utan.. can u see the distance between the loo and the toilet roll? LOL

For dinner we drove to this seafood restaurant (still trying to recall the name). We have wanted to try out this place since... forever but never got the chance. Came across quite a lot of good reviews. But....... in the end it's just another disappointment. Fresh food but the hokkien style of cooking didn't really appeal to us. The first and the last. I do love the mantis prawn in black pepper dish though. That one is really hot and juicy. Complements the fleshy bits of it rather perfectly. Checkout the lobsters.. and that's actually not the biggest one there.

tomato soup, rolls, fruit platter, fruit juice fortwo

One thing about sahur in the hotel. First, I wasn't aware that there were set meals for sahur. Second, because of all the oily and rich food we had for dinner, I can only have hot soup if I dun wanna have to see what I had for dinner again.. hehe. The room service fellow was like.. seriously? only tomato soup? iced water only? and I's like yeah.. yeah.. that's all I want.. send them at 5 a.m. and look at what they sent instead. AAAND... the whole thing on the tray.. complementary. That's a pleasant surprise...

These pictures were taken during previous melaka trip. It was one HOT day...

The second time we came to melaka as a married couple.. Afya's first of course. Also the second time we dine in Bibik Neo. I'm not really in the mood to write much suffice to say IMHO Bibik Neo is THE place to go for authentic Baba Nyonya cuisine. Location: somewhere in melaka raya i suppose. Terry will correct me if i got this wrong.

pictures from previous melaka visit

I have blacklisted Umbai. The last time I was here, I absolutely hated the cooking.. ikan tak masak and tak sedap mana pun and mahal.. totally unworth it. This time, it was simply filthy. Afya's leg was already covered with some old sambal from her baby chair even before we ordered anything *almost puked*. I was really pissed. I am never going here ever again. Unless if I have to I guess.. kalau ada party ke.. or if OH insisted ke... but I would willingly do my own grilling 10X before setting foot in umbai again. *cringe*

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as in.. afya would have sung this to me if she can already do so

Usually when a blogger put up a photo like this, they'd put together a poem or some other form of inspirational thoughts. Maybe I should put something too instead of just letting it hang there.

I'm sure if she can understand the lyrics she'd agree

I'm sticking with you
velvet underground
juno ost

I'm sticking with you
'cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

You held up a stage coach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
So you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me

I'm sticking with you
'cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too

People going to the stratosphere
Soldiers fighting with the cong?

But with you by my side I can do anything
When we swing
We hang past right or wrong

I'll do anything for you
Anything you want me too
I'll do anything for you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you

Arrived after first having a nice of Extra Hot Peri2 at Nandos in Juru. Check in was swift and we straight hit the sack.

Megablocks

The next morning after breakfast (great spread) I took Afya to play while OH went off for his seminar in BayView. Then took shuttle to Gurney Plaza and shop! OH joined us for lunch at the Loft. Then Afya n I cont. shopping. Canon was having some sort of a seminar and a fair so there were sooo many photographers around. Mostly I noticed were carrying nikon. I got to try out the 350D and luckily it didn't feel right for me. I used to have slight regret that I have chosed a100 instead of a canon dslr coz I have always been a canon b/8tch. So I have made the right choice it seems.

all hail the giant cardboard camera!

OH picked us up at about 5 and we went to little india with sme and family. Sme - the one who knows where and what to eat in Penang' took us for samosa,roti jala and chapati. It was really good. Eventhough I was really full for finishing off Afya's chips (or fries) these roti jala n chapati were just too good to resist.

Then we walked it off at padang kota and had rojak. It's fair to say, it was the best rojak I've ever had in a very very long time. Thanks sme, ila and qaseh for the really nice evening in Penang.

That saturday I walked non-stop for almost 7hrs straight. Mau patah kaki sudah and Afya already drifted to slumberland at half past 7, we cancelled our plans to dine in chilis (for mother's day la konon) so we had room service instead. Mother's day present to myself - an aromatic soak in the tub with the adventure of brin n jael ohmsford in hand.

Mother's day dinner

 

The Hotel - Evergreen Laurel, Gurney

*insert mission:impossible theme song here*

our family

Back from Cameron trip.. Min, Iz and belly joined us last minute and it's good to have them around.

Look, it's the lady who stayed up late in Cherating

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Made a bee line to the hotel breakfast. Thank God ada unsalted rice porridge. Other food in the menu.. so-so. One thing for sure.. the food doesn't suck. So far in our experience.. G Hotel has the best breakfast buffet and the worse is... umm... boulevard.. ugh

Then took a walk around the resort and let Afya have the first taste of what it's like playing in the sand. In her dress!

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Since it's too hot to do anything outdoors.. and staying indoors is totally unacceptable, we drove to kemaman first to have an early lunch at the very very (maybe also ridiculously) famous kopitiam called Hai Peng Kopitiam. The place was kinda crowded but we didn't have problems getting a table. We were told that the roti bakar is the specialty. Well... I can see why it's different. It's kinda chewy and crunchy... a bit like Focacia but much lighter. Pleasant I guess. Can I describe food as pleasant? The rest are good.. Hai Peng coffee... gud, but had better..

Then drove to Kuala Kemaman and bought keropok ikang for everyone back home. Had some boiled keropok lekor, sata n otak2. All were... just alright.. not fantastic. There were a number of stalls and we are just not good at judging which one has the best sata, keropok lekor n otak2. Maybe we were too full already from the lunch we had at that kopitiam.

Since it was still too early and still scorching HOT! We had Kuantan town checked out. We saw the new Parkson that had just opened but we don't think we wanna go shopping (this weekend we're going to penang see...). Kuantan is far... I complained a lot.. hehe.. so we just drove pass by the places that is worth seeing and head back to the hotel.



HIGHLIGHT OF THE WHOLE TRIP.. BASICALLY WHAT THE TRIP IS ALL ABOUT...

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she's soooo happy. When I look back the pictures I took of her first dip when she was 6mo it's like looking at a different baby... observe

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Then... the beach! Afya adores it. I've never seen her so amazed and so engrossed.