My 1-Carat Diamond Story
Category: Specials
Sharing some memorable moments.
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I’ll just let the photo do the talking. Stay tuned for more update about it hehehe… I’m SO HAPPY!!
I will update about it very very soon. Isn’t that a very huge ring? Guess how many carat is that diamond? *smiling from ear to ear*
For those of you that knew what was going on, SHHHHH… Don’t say anything! ;p Let me tell them myself.
Penang Day 2 – Part 5: Dinner and a Birthday Party
We went back early to have a rest and dinner before heading to a birthday party. After freshened up, played some simple boardgames, had a nap, off we went out to hunt for dinner.
The night view of part of Batu Feringghi. Lots of eateries there. There’s also night market along the whole stretch of road.
We reached Long Beach, recommended by our friend. Also asked us to looked out for the grilled buttered prawn.
We ordered grape ice blended, orange ice blended, pineapple ice blended, and watermelon juice. The ice blended in only RM4, and the juice is RM2.50(if not mistaken).The fruit juice is extremely cheap!
Left: A type of popiah, quite nice. No idea how much ;p I heard it’s Hainan Popiah but not sure.
Right: Mushroom soup. No idea how it tasted but I heard it’s so-so hahaha…
Left: Garlic Chicken Chop, very tasty! I’m the kind that don’t really like garlic but this is really tasty!
Right: O jien aka oyster omelette. Lots of oysters, very generous portion of oyster. You definitely can’t get this portion in Kuching with such price. I have no idea how much but it’s so much cheaper than what you can get in Kuching. Still, I prefer dry type ;p which I didn’t see any in Penang.
Left: Cha kueh tiaw, the only cha kueh tiaw we had during our stay there ;p
Right: The grilled buttered prawn that our friend recommended, I don’t remember how much but this kind of prawn won’t be cheap in Kuching. The price there is so much more cheaper than Kuching but I have no idea how much ;p It’s very salty but not bad.
After our dinner, we went back to our place and it rained! WAH! Lucky us! Else we’ll be WET as our car parked so far. It rained so heavily the whole night. Off we went to Minny‘s birthday party. This is the only blogger I met in Penang hehehe…
We reached there and there were so many people. Hung out and had some junk food. When the clock hitted 12, everyone sang birthday song and series of camwhoring started hehehe… She is TALL! She had to kneel down a bit to have photo with me. I’m so short… ;p At around 12.30am, we left as we need to wake up early the next day for our day 3 “adventure”.
Didn’t manage to meet other bloggers because of time constraint and worst still no contact number given to me! π
Finally end of day 2 hehehe… Don’t worry, you will get more parts in day 3(I think… ;p)
1st Time Attending Relative’s Wedding
Surprise or not? *LOL* This is the first one, attending the dinner banquet.
Our family is pretty different, even if there’s someone got married, there’s no such big hu-ha about it. No tea ceremony, no banquet, no inivitation etc. Just a simple announcement by mouth that pass from one to another. So far, only two of my cousins got married in almost 10 years and there’s no such tradition at all. My parents always told us to keep things as simple as possible as they are not fond of all these hu-ha also. I know many people will open their eyes wide wide now hahaha… As we believe the most important thing is to get married legally and to maintain a marriage. Others are not important, no matter how grand your wedding is, if you don’t know how to maintain your marriage, there is no use also.
This one, caught me by surprise. It’s not a very close relative of mine. Just happened that my uncle(my dad’s bro) is the bride’s God father else we won’t be invited. The bride is actually my cousin’s cousin. It’s pretty distant hahaha… My bro and I weren’t invited but instead we went as representatives of my aunt and uncle in Singapore.
Since the bride’s father is a businessman who manufacturers one of the famous keropok in Kuching, there’s definitely keropok served on the tables.
Too bad, we were seated at the very very very corner, couldn’t really see the stage or anything. I had to zoom in until using my digital zoom. It didn’t help much also with so many people in front of us and the drink station was located just behind me where the waiters and waitresses would be blocking my view with their butts! Then the uncle from another table kept blocking my view by always going to the other table to talk, all I saw was his butt! Lots of heads too. Sigh…
That’s how it was. So I can only share food photos with you. Even the food photos turned out blurred coz I just simply snapped.
Left: Very salty peanuts.
Right: First time see this kind of combination dish. Baby octopus with kimchi under it, Hiyashi Wakame with jellysih under it and etc. According to the menu, this is called Prawn Salad Combination.
Left: Shark’s Fin Soup with Dried Seafood. Quite salty and as if something was missing. Hmm…
Right: “Dong Po” Pork, as usual, this is what you always got in Chinese banquet be it for wedding, birthday or association gathering. The pork was SO FATTY! *sweat*
Left: “Teo-Chew” Steamed Golden Promfret. Huge fish!
Right: Stewed Duck with Sea Cucumber. Kinda salty. Was full already…
Left: Prawn Ball with Fresh Scallops and Vegetables. Ate a bit only, full…
Right: “Tangui” Chicken, drank the soup only, everyone was full!
Left: Longan Cocktail. Something cooling for the hot weather.
Right: Something for the guest to bring back.
So that’s all π
Kafe Bunda, Ayam Penyet Session
Last night during our class break, our Muslim classmates asked us to join them for breaking fast. Supposed to be half an hour break but we extended it till 1 hour. They asked the whole class including the lecturer to go since our class was at night and clashed with dinner and breaking fast time but they didn’t want to. However, almost the whole class went.
Initial plan was to go to the stalls just next to the ex-state mosque but they changed plan because it’s not opened and the food is limited since majority that would be going are Chinese and they were afraid that we didn’t know how to eat those *LOL* Off we went, Dayang and Jazemine drove us there.
Kafe Bunda is located at the shop lot next to AmBank at Jalan Haji Taha near Satok. It’s at the road side and it’s easy to locate.
According to Jazemine, this is one of the places she patrons for food. They ordered something we all had never seen before! It was a gastronomy experience really… Living in Kuching for my whole 26 years and I don’t even know such food exist!
It’s called Ayam Penyet. The sambal(chili) is really SYIOK! YUMMILICIOUS! The chicken is tender and juicy. Those greens are either blanched or raw, in other word we called it “ulam”. It’s really tasty. We didn’t eat much as we had our dinner already, we just got some from them to try and accompanied them and we gossiped! Girls… What to do? *LOL*
This is my first time breaking fast with my Muslim friends even though I had many Muslim friends back then in secondary school, we never done anything like this. This is also my first time see and taste Ayam Penyet! Not only that, it’s also my first time hang out with all girls with no guys, I usually hang out with many guys in a group or I’m the only girl ;p How can we not take photos right? We don’t get to do this everyday.
Hmm… Don’t think they will mind to have their faces shown here hehehe… Any familiar face(s)? So who went that night? (In no particular order) Hui Siew, Nicole, Anastasia, Esther, Dayang, Jazemine, Irene(this is another Irene, yea… I have a classmate with the same name as me) and I. This number of poeple is almost the whole class already.
Our class is very naughty and we always got a lot of junk food supplies during class or break. Food would be passed from one to another during class, busy munching on our junk food and our poor lecturer would be in front teaching. Everyone eats from the same packaging regardless of races, this is the spirit that we all Malaysians should have.
While people was busy with 9/16, we we were busy having Ayam Penyet session.