My 2011 Resolution

I've never set any resolution before. I feel that things that'll come, will eventually come. Things that'll leave, will leave anyway. That's why, I live by my motto "live today, hope for tomorrow". However in 2010, I've been through quite a big change in my life, which suddenly makes me feel that I'm not my old me any more. I've more responsibility, I've "grown up".

I gave birth to my angel daughter, now I'm a mom. I struggled for quite a long time to breastfeed my daughter, which, with determination, I've succeed. I've been through toughest challenge in my career, often work through midnights. Surprisingly I've got a promotion that I never expect. All this which makes me think that I'm ready to "grow up".

And therefore, I've set my 2011, with great hope to achieve something by year end.
"Better Health, Clearer Mind, Merrier Family, Greener Earth"

Europe Day 2 - London at Night

London at night has as much things to explore as london in the day. I guess I have to live in London to fully explore them.

"London Bridge is falling down.. falling down.. falling down... " well the actual name is tower bridge


Extremely modern office blocks, fully light up at night, with no blinds! definately not the style in KL.



Big Ben again, we pass by them every day and night :)

London Eye

Europe Day 2 - Walking in London

Woke up to a sunny morning today! perfect for our planned itenary. we are going to walk london today, whole day.


no kidding, we can see the famous London Big Ben and palace of westminister outside of the hotel :) the sky is so blue


Close up at the Big Ben - It's 9.40am :) The finishing is very fine, but why it represents London, of all the other fine architecture? according to wikipedia, it's because of the time accuracy

whole london is full of london bus. We ride on one of them too. wonder which one got david beckham on board like in beijing olympic

london underground signage is sharp and obvious


Beesuan tip me that in london, when there's sunshine, everyone will go out for sun bath. i didnt know it is up to this extend - there's bench for rent at St James park, all facing the sun :)

buckingham palace- but no guard changing ceremony :( my schedule is tight, so i can just see it from tv documentary already. luckily there's another mini guard changing ceremony at the side door, at least seen something - not really grand, and the guards move, smile, look at the tourist also.

Europe Day 1 - Touch Down in Stanstead, London

Taiwan travel blog stopped at first night, hopefully my Europe blog manage to progress further. (^.^)


Yes, airasia X we took. Seat comfortable? ya, pretty much the same like other long-haul airline's aircraft. Got entertainment? ya, pay RM30 to the stewardess :p. How many hours? 13 long hours, luckily non-stop, sometimes speeding (airasia is known to speed in the air). How about food? I pre-purchased it. RM38 one set, they serve 2 meals, one after flight took off, another 3 hours before landing.

So, how much's the ticket? ~RM 3300 for 2, inclusive tax,meal, insurance and choose seating

Wah, so cheap - what's the catch?

water - so expensive on board! advice is to buy or fill in departure hall, if available. wait until you pass bag scan counter

choose seating - Xtra leg room is tourist trap, the seats are all in front of toilets. a lot of people will be disturbing you. normal seats will do, even soowei feel ok with the seat width & length.

bags - at stanstead, they really weigh your bag, even the one that u bring on board - limit 7kg. if overweight, they forced you to check in and pay 6 pounds.

insurance - i shouldn't have purchase it, because my credit card give free travel insurance :P

First thing to do after enter room ------- throw away the bags!

Do you also have the habit of taking hotel toilet photo?

We took off at KLIA 10am, after 13 hours, we reached stanstead at 4.30pm (it's supposed to be 11.30pm already), felt dizzy & tired, yet excited.

it took us quite sometime to reach our hotel, Riverbank Park Plaza, we are too tired to explore the night, so we settled down in the room and doozed to sleep, at 11.30pm (been awake for 21 hours, zzzzz)


p/s - I automatically wake up at 3am, then convince my body to sleep again

How I Make Soya Bean with Cheap Blender

This is how soya bean looked like, kind of sphere in shape. I measure a mini bowl (size like add small rice at Tai Tung) full of it for 2 to 3 big cup of soya bean milk.


Put in a big bowl and soak with water for 6 hours or more. Don't soak more than 24 hours though.... The beans will grow..

This is how my soya bean looked like after 8 hours of water spa ^.^ It doubled in size horizontally, so it is now oval in shape. Photo above taken in the same mini bowl just for your eye's comparison, I have to use a normal sized bowl to measure and pour into my blender.

To start, I add 1 part of water to 1 part of soya bean to be blended at highest speed possible, for about... 2 min to 3 min. Too much water added at early stage will make the blending less efficient ~ cheap blender mah.. After that, add 2 more part of water into blender to let the water and milk mix well, blend for 30s or so..

The product consists of 2/3 raw soya bean milk and 1/3 of bubble. It's now ready to cook!

Cook at medium low flame. Dont go away from your pot. It'll go from this much

to this much at speed of F1 racing car!!!

Ok ok immediately turn to low flame and cook for ~1min.. with lid open. While doing so, stir occasionally and take out the pulp on top.

In the mean time, I've prepare my mug with some honey ;)

And finally, after soya beam milk is cooked enough, serve! (^.^)

Taiwan Nature Tour & Scenic Drive - Day 1

Shilin Night Market, Taipei - famous fried chicken

Alright, this should be my last trip of Y2007 - Taiwan. Kind of last minute planned (normally my flight ticket booked btw 6mths to 1 year, this is <3mths).After check-in to Huai Ning hotel , we're left with "pasar malam" to visit only. Where else if not the famous tourist spot Shilin Market?

We tried food & drink:-

-fried chicken chop (see pic) , the outside is quite crunchy :)

- big intestines wrap small intestines (大肠包小肠）, don't worry it's taiwanese sausage wrapped in Glutinous rice also in the shape of sausage , very filling. Wasabi flavour is nice.

-frog lay egg (青蛙下蛋）, it's a drink like malaysian teh tarik with little herbal jelly balls

-The yellow tower (黄色巨塔) , barbeque potato, taste like potato chips

-Love jade ice (爱玉冰), a yellowish herbal jelly drink, the taste's pretty plain

-Fried oyster, not nice.....

Went to bed at 2am... tomorrow we'll start to drive around Taiwan. Taiwan is left hand drive, heard the traffic is bad in taipei town.... well.. have to struggle our way out of Taipei liao.......

Putrajaya Fireworks 2007

Been to watch fireworks competition 2007 in Putrajaya. I really like fireworks, but quite tired of the crowd. Thanks to my photography fan neighbour and best friend Mr & Mrs O, me & soowei managed to take a lift to crowded Putrajaya for the show :)



This one looked like a couple of lover bird :). Notice the blue line? It's a moving cruise boat, how nice if i can watch from there.
This night is Italy's show, pretty impressive! I've never watch fireworks for continuous 1/2 hour, plus a little test shot in the beggining of the show, total of maybe 40 min.

We found that photos taken from our camera a bit blur....... time to change.



So colourful, you guess well that this is the final shot. After this, we were stuck in traffic for 2 hours, reach home after 3 hours (i guess).... we turn to KLIA and back... haha..