Lunas Famous Roasted Duck

I went to Kulim yesterday for a health talk event on the topic "The Ear - Hearing Organ & Balance at HOYA @ Kulim Hi-Tech Park. Since the talk finished at lunch time, so we decided to have lunch nearby. My audiologist is a Kulim girl (Thank God for that), so she knows well about the area. Seriously, I never been there before, even if I did, I must be very young back then. I have totally no idea about the area. Anyway, she suggested that we head on for Lunas Roasted Duck rice, which is kinda famous. But she mentioned as her opinion, there is another stall which is better but not famous. But she decided to bring us to the famous one, thinking that at least we managed to try the famous stall. Hence, we were at this shop, Restaurant Tan Kee, trying out the famous crispy roasted duck rice.

Crispy Roast Duck Rice

Looks Delicious

Chai Boey

Lor Nui /Braised Egg

Hmm... after consuming this, the result was not very satisfying. According to some friends, the quality has dropped once it got really famous. Sigh, why cant they maintain their standard??
We should have try another stall which is not so famous then. Nevermind, we will always have another chance. =)

Facial Session - A Woman Must Have

For a woman, having a slim body and pretty face is her dream. Don't you think so? Haha. Well, I haven't manage to slim down after so much of food w/o exercise, I still have to take care of my face as well. I'm not as pretty as some other girls would be, but I think I'm not that ugly either. =P Afterall, age is catching up, I would love to hear people say that I'm still in my early twenties. LOL. Bottom line is, facial is IMPORTANT for a woman, even if you are married, or engaged or even in a relationship! You will always want to look good in front of your man (in a way to capture his heart). So, ladies, let's go for FACIAL!You can choose to go the Beauty Centre out there for your facial. But sometimes you can do a simple one at home. =)

For me, I prefer it to do it at home as it's more economical, save some money!
These are my products of choice for my facial session....

Me Having Mask

Meanwhile, if you Ladies out there would like to have a facial session at Beauty Centre, I do have 2 vouchers of Spa Facial including eye mask using Thalgo products only. The voucher entitled you for a  facial at RM 68 only. The centre is at Pulau Tikus, Penang. If you are interested, please drop me a message! The expiry date is 15 Nov 2010, so hurry up!

Japanese Sushi

Haven't consume Sushi for such a long time. The last time was months ago. Not sure why it hasn't been in our dinner list for quite some time. Anyway, we were suppose to go for Japanese Steamboat Buffet last weekend @ Yuan Izakaya Restaurant at New World Park. Due to it was still in the promotion period at that time, so the restaurant was fully booked!No luck for us to enjoy it (at the discounted price). Anyway, the feeling or temptation for Japanese food is still there, never fade, never vanished. So we headed on to Sushi King this weekend ( a cheaper version of Japanese Food). It's still yummy, and enough to satisfy the craving.....LOL

These are some of our favourites:~

Unagi - Nigiri Sushi

Ebikko - Gunkan Sushi

Salmon Roll

Nihotate - Nigiri Sushi

Spider Temaki

Baby went Exercise with Me

Recently, I've put on a lot of weight. So, I've decided to go on diet and to start exercise. This week is my 2nd week. I've fix every tuesday and thursday will be my exercise day, and I will bring along my little fluffy pom pom, Baby, to go along with me for 2 rounds at the park. Then I will bring her home so that I can continue my exercise. You know, she is such a small size dog, after 2 rounds, she will be exhausted.

As usual, today I brought her along for my exercise. She was so excited when I pick up her collar and leash. Jumping up and down, wagging her tail.

Look @ her "Couldnt Wait"expression

This was when I asked her to sit

Enjoying her walk ~ First Round

"Kepo-ing"around ~ First Round

As I've said earlier, we normally will take 2 rounds, but she will be a little bit tired when we are in the 2nd round. Anyway, she usually managed to finish 2 rounds so far. However, she was too lazy today!  
This was how she reacted when we finished the first round, and going through the 2nd round.

She doesnt want to move further

She was just finding ways for not walking, by ignoring me

....and eager to head home

A Day @ the Spa

After so much of hard work and stress, we definitely need a BREAK. A short one will relax our mind and soul ~ Soul Balance. In our annual dinner last month, company gave us a complimentary voucher for a choice of essential care facial or an energy body massage. Obviously, we need a massage more than anything else (^_^)v. We made phone calls to get to know more about the complimentary massage. The complimentary one is for only 30 minutes massage (You can choose which part of body that you preferred) but if you want to add on another 30 minutes (in total 1 hour), you just have to add on RM 25 only and you can enjoy a full body massage. (The whole thing worth RM98) So, why not?

Complimentary Voucher

I went yesterday with my colleague, Nora. Both who needed a massage so badly.. LOL

Nora with her cup of tea

Me with...erm Pillow?

The tea they served

Having foot bath for relaxation

Thalgo Products only

A view of the area

The spa area is not very big with downstairs are mainly for massage and upstairs are mainly for facial session. Apologized for not a clear picture taken, as the area was a bit dark (romantic they called)

A Pair of Shoes Followed Me Home...

Finally, I got myself a new pair of working shoes (flat). I know it's about time for me to spend some $$$ for a new pair, but I just couldnt believe that it's so near. The current one I'm having are so worn out, they even got holes at the bottom. I didnt realise the severe condition of my shoes until last tuesday. It was a wet day, whole day was raining from morning till evening. I was out for lunch and realised that my feet were wet!!! Oh my, that was embarrassing! At that very moment, I knew that the time has come!! = ) (A good reason to buy new shoes) 

My New Shoes

The Side View

Yummy Good Food

Uncle & Aunt from Pangkor (Ta Jiu & Dua Kim) came to Penang on Friday to visit us and another uncle (Siao Jiu). As usual, we will go for dinner everytime when they come over. Siao Jiu will always be the one that fight to pay for the dinner. So this time, mom and Da Jiu "pakat" to pay for the dinner. They even warned Siao Jiu, "If you insist to pay, then we dont want to go dinner then". As a result, Siao Jiu got no choice, but to obey. So, off we went for dinner yesterday to this restaurant called Da Ban Chinese Restaurant (中国风味馆) at Jalan Zainal Abidin, Penang. It's a kinda nice restaurant with Chinese decorated ambience. The food is good too with reasonable price. The only thing that is pricey will be fresh seafood (live). Those were calculated per kg. We had an excellent meal by bringing an empty stomach each and brought back home a rounded tummy. (^_^)/

Appertizers (spicy fried anchovies & spicy chicken liver)

Yau Mak with Preserved Beancurd Sauce

Brinjal with Spicy Fish Sauce

Pork Tripe Soup

Japanese Beancurd with Preserved Meat Sauce

Garoupa Fish Cook with Dried Chilli and Spices

The dinner cost us a total of RM214.70, including rice and drinks. As I've said, the most expensive was the fish because the whole garoupa weighted 1.3kg, and the price per kg is RM90. LOL.
Afterall, the food was fantastic. It's a place you should try!

Boring Working Sat

Sigh.. that's the part I hate the most on this current job, which is working sat (-_-). Perhaps it's time to look for new. Hahaha. A boring sat morning, nothing much to do in office, and can't get into Facebook due to company blocked the page using WatchGuard HTTP proxy, which is also a lousy system. LOL. Well, thank God that they never block www.blogspot.com. Phew, at least still have a place for me to say my SIGH. Hehehe.
Here's a peek on my working station:~

My Work Station

This is when it is messy

Happy Bear Family

Nora's Work Station (My neighbour)

Snails

I just found out that there are lots of species or creatures out there which I never seen before, and not knowing that they existed. Just take an example on Snails on Aquarium. Gosh, there are just lots of them, and some of these snails are not like any other parasites, and amazingly they are really useful to the tanks. That's weird right? Have you heard of a small snail can be eaten up by another type of bigger snail? For fish, maybe yes. But snails?? Hardly. Let me show you these wonderful creatures can be..

 This type of snail is the biggest living fresh water snails. 

Golden Apple Snail (The Size can grow up to 15cm long)

Assasin Snail (Helps Clearing Pest Snails in Tanks)

See, the name also sound a bit violent but yet very useful

Orange Rabbit Snail (Very Unique Snails from Sulawesi - Size about 5cm)

 I like this a lot... Its look, just marvellous! 

Zebra Thorn Nerites (Algae Eaters)

 Small & Cute, yet like a vacuum cleaner, clean all those algae

White Ramshorn Snail (Eat leftover Food in Breeding Tank)

 Another vacuum cleaner ... LOL

Nerites (Wonderful Algae Eater as well)

Munch all the way!!!!

Fuih! An interesting subject I've learned today. Í thank God for all those lovely creatures! =)

His Hobby

Recently, a friend of His, introduced him a new hobby of aqua scaping, and since then, he is so into it, spending lots of time on his new "pet", and of course spending quite a lot of $$$ as well. Anyway, think of it, it's kinda good hobby that he has for a man, rather than, spending those time and money on clubbing or drinking or partying. =D Extra point for that. His interests on this had influenced me as well and now I have my own aquarium, but I'm not into aqua plants. Unlike him, my aquarium is mainly fishes and rocks, and some moss. (I'll post about mine next time)
This is what he has been spending time and money to.

Crystal Red Shrimps

Overview of his Aquarium