GG 生日快乐

生日快乐 GG。

我是个长不大的孩子，

你可以问我，几岁了，还期盼什么生日？

但是，我还是一年又一年很期待过生日，

我享受美美蛋糕上的蜡烛，

我享受家人的爱护，

我享受朋友的祝福。

这一些都是上帝恩典的证据。

 

我的愿望就很简单

希望每年都有

父母买的蓝莓蛋糕

伴侣送的鲜花

朋友们的祝福

和一首生日歌

我想，这些就是最美好的生日礼物了

诚心感谢你上帝 一路来的看顾

能活着真好！

Stick a wish

 

生命中的喜悦....

"There are two things people want more than money... recognition & praise"

前天上了一个课，在结尾的时候，老师分发每人一张亮色纸帖。每个人都必须写上感谢或祝福的话，然后把它贴在朋友的身上。有些人画上笑脸，希望朋友常笑口常开，甚至有人预祝我生日快乐。贴在一起，五颜六色，非常得意，心情也亮了起来。
...
我是个非常珍惜words of appreciation的人。那远超过金钱能给于地满足。

每天多说一句赞美，欣赏的话吧，给别人带来快乐也无妨。:)

Langkawi Nature Discovery tour - 1 day tour review

Pulau Langkawi, a place that I was so embarrass to admit to my friends that..... I've never been there before in my life. Thanks to Penang cc 's invitation, I finally have this opportunity to visit the island last Saturday together with 6 other bloggers.

8:15am - We met at Swettenhan Pier Pg, and the boat departed ~8:30am. Since it's a one day trip, I thought it should be a very short traveling distance (1 hour maybe?). But NOOOOOO....... i was wrong, it took me 3 hours to reach the island by sea, and another 3 hours to come back. Thank God, we have movies on the screen to kill the 3 hours! 

Our transport to Langkawi

11:25am - Reached Langkawi. If you're traveling with begs and luggage, no worries, there are people at the jetty waiting to service you with their trolleys. But of course, I don't need that, all I need is.... just lunch. We jumped into the van provided, and headed to Charlie's place for lunch. 

Cool! lunch by the sea. We were seated at the platform on the sea for lunch, overlooking the rich men's yacht parked at the club. Nice ambience, it would be a nice place to have a cup of latte and a plate of club sandwich during the sunset. I think the place would be even nicer at night. Our lunch was slightly lower than my expectation for the tomato soup, fried rice, fish & chips. Tomato soup is wayyyy too sour, which... i hate most. I would recommend to go for a better choice - club sandwich, sate (only the sate, not rice), beef burger, I find it quite nice. 

12:30pm - After lunch, it's time to explore Langkawi. The first place for visit in our original plan should be Oriental Village - Langkawi Cable car. Unfortunately, due to some technical error they have to halt the cable car service for few hours, which... we do not have the luxury of time to wait. So we had a 10 mins window shopping in the "village"and move on to our plan B.

Oriental Village

Operating hours of the cable car

 

Plan B - Langkawi underwaterworld is a place where you definitely have to go if you're traveling with your kids. It's really a education trip for me, although the renovation of the place doesn't match my expectation... but hey, the fishes and animals inside are really amazing. 

I overheard this auntie saying this to her friend :

"Singapore underwaterworld's design is nicer, but Langkawi have more collection of fishes here". 

I'm not sure how true is this, as I have not been to S'pore underwaterworld since many years back. But let's not compare of what we have or what we do not, just open your heart to accept and admire God's creation of these creature, u might see the value of ur ticket differently. 

By the way, look for the cute penguins, spotted eagle ray & the jelly fish, these are my favorites. They're just amazing creatures!

Think these are fake ones? NO! these are real sharks, but they just looks so fake

 

Here's a clip of video I took showing the spotted eagle ray :) isn't it interesting?

Our next destination of the trip is Kilim Karst Geoforest Park. I seriously like this place a lot, it's just out of my expectation. I like the rivers, nice geological landscape surrounded by bakau trees, rocks and hills in the park.

We started off our journey on the speed boat, speeding towards "Gua Kelawai" (Bat limestone cave), yes.... visiting the bats, and also living fossils. The cave is dark and we have to walk closely following the torchlight by our tour guide. It's so interesting to see bats hanging all around the top of the cave, and the dripping water of stones.

It's a wonderful sight to see mangroves swamp habitats even when we walk out of the cave. Mangrove trees stand in mud on roots that look like stilts above water that contains a high degree of salt.

Our tour guide explained that these mangroves trees are so important that that it provides support against strong waves and tides, and this it how Langkawi survived through tsunami.

I do wish Malaysia could have do more to preserve swamps like these and of course, plant more mangroves trees!

 

We visited fish farm as well. One of our friend tried to feed the spitting fishes with bread sticking on her finger. I took a video clip about it, so check it out. Look closely to the pond, as the fish will spit water trying to shoot down the bread, so that they can eat, so smart!

One of the photo I love most. 

We met some kids on their sampan during our way back with the motor boat. Time were soooooooo little that we have to rush from one location to another, right after visiting eco park, we headed straight to the jetty. 

The tour guide were kind enough to let us hang around Eagle square ~10mins for photo shooting, before we take the boat. As so.... this is the long waiting moment of mine, a picture that testify that I've been to Langkawi! Love way they build the wings of the eagle, showed mum the pic and she's impressed of the structure. :)

 

Finally we took our boat at 5:15pm, and each of us were given a pack of KFC as our dinner. 

Thanks for the sponsor!

By the way, the boat that we took were super freezing cold, and that is totally very unpleasant ride to me. Thank God, we're able to climb up to the deck and escape from a few freezing cold moments. 

I stole a glimpse of the sunset on my right and the moon on my left, while he stands beside of me. I think that's one of the best moment I would really want to thank God for. I feel so wonderful and blessed.

生命中的神迹

生命中的神迹....

这是我的“隐形眼镜”。由于左眼有偏高的散光，所以必须穿戴特定的隐性镜片。穿戴这种镜片，有点麻烦，我必须确保那个 | N | 5 的记号永远一定得准确地 90度往下在眼珠中间。有时候镜片歪了一点，视线就模糊了，很是麻烦。

今早当大家都闭目祷告完毕之后，挣开眼睛时竟然视线模糊了，糟！镜片移位了。拼命的闭眼睛，然后转动眼球，希望这样转一转就能转回原位。可是无论我怎么尝试，还是不行，最后不管手指有没有洗，就轻轻地偷用手指转动镜片一下，却是越来越糟。我放弃了啦，我还是看不到 ....

所以当我们再次闭上眼睛祷告的时候，我说“主啊，帮帮我呀，我转不到就看不见了。是你创造我的眼球的，所以你最清楚”。然后我什么都不管了，就闭上眼睛专心的为别项事情祷告，结果一开眼，视线100% 清楚啊！我真是有点难以置信。

上帝你真是太奇妙了，即使是在微小的事上你依然眷顾我的需要。


无比感恩。

I wish

I wish for a good surprise. 

......and He answered at the end of the month. 

thanks for the extra pocket money, dear heavenly Father.

in You, I'm always sufficient.

Kek Seng coffee shop 格成咖啡店

友人曾经问我，槟城的cafe市场如何。我说，近来败多胜少，能在食业持续待久的，除了靠创意，也靠部落格推广，看你有何办法。劝你倒不如在西南区卖经济饭，生意机率胜多败少，呵呵。

格成咖啡但， 那是槟城数一数二   东方不败的咖啡店，已经有104年的历史。在槟城Komtar 未建设以前就已经存在，也就是它就是槟城少男少女当时的starbucks, McD，拍拖必然报道的地方。

我喜欢格成，不需要太多理由，像周六早上醒来，突然想吃格成的鸡饭，就马上行动。相信许多槟城人，对它有着同样的眷恋，它胜在历史悠久。看着那接近90度斜度的木椅，我回忆小时候最盼望登上去坐。虽然木板很硬，但是靠在高高的木板有种说不出的安全感。喜欢看着老夫老妻坐在木椅上面对着对方，似乎找到当初好多年前在格成拍拖恋爱的感觉。喜欢看着一家大小就挤在位置有限的木椅上，孩子不再喊要汉堡包，但只有乖乖张开大口让妈妈喂鸡饭。

格成最成功的卖点就是ABC ice kacang，加上自制的榴莲雪糕。别的Ice kacang, 雪糕只是陪衬品，但是格成的雪糕，在ice kacang中才是主角。有时候，我宁可选择单吃榴莲雪糕，绝对不会让雪糕融在ice kacang融化的冰水中。所以，我提议，就单吃榴莲雪糕，才有最高境界的享受。

除了红豆冰之外和鸡饭，格成还有道地的Assam Laksa， Lor Bak, 爪哇面，福建面，炒果条，等等。所以，说到道地，真的只需要沿着旧Komtar光大往Penang Road步行到格成找一找就行了。

Kek Seng 格成 Coffee Shop
382-384 Penang Road
Penang, 10000
营业时间: 11 am to 4.30pm

Tai Buan porridge 滷肠粥

或许是爷爷的影响，父亲对潮州白粥配滷料特别喜欢。因为这样，我也遗传了念念潮州白粥的情怀，尤其天下毛毛雨时，更是希望有碗热腾腾的白粥配滷大肠，咸鸭蛋，梅蔡，滷豆干等等，就呼呼地大喝了一两碗。

在槟城西南区的确非常难找到传统的白粥配滷料。每每傍晚想起潮州白粥就得上“新园清香粥”跑一趟（改天再告诉你）。上一回，到Jalan Muntri - Soul Kitchen 吃晚餐时，竟然让我发现对面哪一家老店铺竟然卖到八点就开始洗大锅了。

这客似云来的老店，终于，让我光顾了一趟。由于上一次经验告诉我，最好是六，七点傍晚就得报到，否则就只有望锅底捶心肝了。所以，这一次，聪明了，放工以后以最快的速度冲下Lebuh Muntri。


老板问：“要大肠吗？要三层肉吗？要咸菜吗？要豆干吗？要卤蛋吗？”.......... 要，都要！

 夹着一片片卤得好入味的大肠，配上白粥，好香，好传统的味道。我一向吃滷肠最避忌就是大肠内部不干净，粉粉的让人遐思，也有点恶心。可是这个滷大肠却是薄薄一片片，清理得干干净净的，吃下有点弹牙的感觉，很棒。也很喜欢咸菜，就是切得细细的，也煮得刚好，出奇的不会太过咸，味道就刚好，单吃咸菜不配白粥都行。接下来的滷蛋更不用说了，好吃。这一餐，我吃出了传统爷爷伯伯喜欢的味道。

看见店里的熟客都是上了年纪的老伯伯，与友人坐在店里享用一碗又一碗的白粥。因此，我也顿时想念爷爷起来，虽然爷爷在我一个月大的时候就过世了，但我对他的想念就是很自然随着这一碗白粥的味道而被点燃起来。

原来，最原始的古早味是会让人想念某人的。:)
 

Tai Buan Porridge
173 Muntri Street
Penang

营业时间 : 1.30pm – 8pm

周日休息

走出店外就看到路牌- Jalan Muntri

那高高的建筑物就是Cititel Penang，Jalan Muntri 就在Cititel 对面。照片里有灯光的店铺就是此店了。

很好吃的滷大肠和咸菜为背景

简单纯朴的一餐，就只有他和他“撑台脚”，是父子吗？不晓得。

总消费 RM14.40 - 三碗粥，一碗咸菜，一块三层猪肉，一盘滷大肠，一块滷豆干，两粒滷蛋，一杯竹蔗水，供我俩吃 :)

香港美食 - 第一篇

对于香港的美食，我只有眼见，耳闻，却没有亲自尝试。站在旺角街边档，看着这冒着烟的档口，很熟悉。对，就是连戏剧里常看到的情节。

~~ 某个差佬CID扮低调看水的时候站在街边问“老板，近排生意点啊？鱼旦一个啊，吾该” 。

~~~不然就是 “差人啊，走鬼啊” ~~~

看着一颗颗圆溜溜的鱼蛋漂在一层看似辣椒油（但却不是）的汤上，有感街边鱼旦卫生可能有点欠佳。我拉着 T 的袖子说，真的要吃啊？

“吃啦，不管了，来香港，一定要试”

看着板子上写着，10元5件。
“煎酿三宝，炸大肠，鱼肉烧卖，鱼旦，巴爪鱼，牛柏叶，海螺，芝士肠”
虽说平时勇于尝试的我，还是有点抗拒尝试炸大肠。毕竟香港的食物比较贵，倘若吃了不合胃口也觉得好可惜。所以，只点了鱼肉烧卖，鱼旦。就这样学着港人站在路边吃着热呼呼的鱼旦。老实说，吃过了之后觉得淡淡的，没我想象中弹牙的感觉，更没有鱼鲜味。有点失望，不过，当这次买个经验吃过了，感觉还好， 边吃边看着人来人往的旺角，别有一番滋味。

每转一个弯角都处处可见的鸡蛋仔，味道普普通通，不过胜在外表很得意

 

看着人来人往的旺角，此时此刻，我正希望快点吃完手中的鱼旦，然后再逛波鞋街