Monday, March 5, 2012

Incredible India: Goa, a little peace of Heaven

Just a short post on Goa before going to the next day because I want to show you all how beautiful this place is.

Maurina and I make a pair of awesome travel partners! We split our jobs, transportation on her, accommodation on me. So, she planned the destination and I’ll look for hotels. Fair and square.

So she choose Palolem beach, a beach less popular compare to other beaches in Goa because there’s not much of a “night life” there. But it didn’t matter to us since ermm… we’re not party animals. We’re more of stalkers, observing people and laughing at our own silly jokes speaking in Malay so no one understands when we mengumpat.


The beach huts.

It’s very basic. A bed, mosquito net (because there’s no a/c, it can get quite chilly at night anyway), no television, no refrigerator, bathroom but with WIFI!


The bathroom.
It has to be designed like that I guess because it’s a beach hut, our feet got really sandy everyday! Like there’s no way you can get clean feet at all.


Our bed for 3 nights. Macam honeymoon banarrrrrrrrrrr


Lo and behold….. we have HAMMOCK!


Our orange hut #13


Sunset… ~~~~~~~I can just sit there and look at the sky for hours!


Cuba Bungalows

I know when most people heard the word “India”, all they can think of is Taj Mahal, crowded trains, unhygienic streets, child beggars… and, coming to Goa add in new words for me, beautiful sunset, beaches, friendly people!


That’s the restaurant by the way, restaurants of Cuba. We ate there all the time because they served really nice food, free wifi and friendly staffs!

 

 
Unwinding at the beach after a long day travelling on plane and car.


Cough cough.

 


Ordered beer for myself just to blend in… *eksennnn* and purposely get a “King’s” just because. Hehehhehehe.

 


Even the dogs there also sibeh relax~
(We didn’t see a lot of dog poops though)

 


Wuuu.. gonna get some tonight?


Y GOT HAKKA NOODLES IN INDIA ONE!


See that bunch of guys on the left of the above pic, that’s the staffs/chefs setting up the seafood BBQ!


Our dinner. Curry prawn for me and … I forgot what Mau ordered.
With a lot of rice! (But I finished them all…. *fat*)


电视连续剧捞饭,我最喜欢!


We ordered some BBQ seafood as well and there’s no point of return!
WE HAD BBQ SEAFOOD EVERYDAY WHEN WE’RE IN GOA AND THE PORTION GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER! I MISS THE FISH THERE!


and a lot of Israeli music….

 
And that’s me… with oily hair, sticky face waiting to get a nice hot shower for the next day.

YOGA!!!!!!!

Friday, February 24, 2012

Nur Wanita, Kuala Belait

Just when everyone (okay lah, only KB/Seria people lah…) thought that Kompleks Harapan is going to die… (as in no one will be going there anymore apart from paying installments in Baiduri, AIA Insurance’s office and.. what else again ah?), Supa Save Panaga is taking a major rebuilding project and an outlet is set up in Kompleks Harapan.

And last week when we went there to check out the Supa Save outlet and was surprised that a Thai restaurant and a dessert shop are going to open in that area! Woohooo!!!!!

So people, stop saying Belait boring okay.
(Next we’ll be having Coffee Bean and also Charcoal in Seaview there… The only thing missing is McD saja)

 

Anyways, we (my colleagues and I) went to check out Nur Wanita for lunch~

(All photos taken by a phone, again…..)

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First impression, that place is BEAUTIFUL!
The renovation my goodness… the small details, the tiles, the walls, the settings.
It’s so pretty!

 

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3/6 of my lunch partners today.

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Really nice decors.

 

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It’s a good thing that Vicky made a reservation for us the previous night so no disappointment caused.
For you peeps out there, Nur Wanita’s KB Branch telephone number is 334-7789 ya.

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The perfect place to experience northen Thai food? We’ll see about that~

 

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The staff brought us this “stool” thingie for us ladies to put our bags!
One bonus point to Nur Wanita!

We ordered:

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Papaya Salad – $7.50
(…. in a really small dish)

To be honest, the portion in Nur Wanita is pretty small for the price we paid…

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Yum Pak Boong Krob – $8.00
(Crispy Kangkung, this one must order! NYAMANNNNNNNN!!!! Thumbs up)

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Tom Yum Num Sai (Seafood) – $11.00

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Thai Green Curry (Chicken) – $9.00

I love this one too! Probably because it’s not really spicy but Sheepy said she had better elsewhere.
You know, taste is purely subjective.

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Tum Tim Grob – $4.00

Ummm… huge disappointment on this.
The tapioca flour coating on the chestnuts are too thick for my liking.
And the coconut milk/cream is not thick enough.
Didn’t even bother to finish this (I don’t waste food one okay)

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Mango sticky rice – $6.50

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Banoffee – $4.50

This one yummy also! (A teeny weeny bit too sweet only)

 

 

 

 

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Washroom – Gotta love the quote

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Awesome fuchsia pink door or the ladies room~

 

 

 

 

However, I have two tiny complains about this restaurant…..

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#1 – A wet bowl was served to us for the tom yum soup…..

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#2 – Umm……. The fork wasn’t clean properly before placed on the table.

I’m usually a very careless/ignorant person but these mistakes are too big to ignore I guess?

But overall, the dining experience was great and I’ll be going back there to try out other menu. I’m particularly curious about this “Fried Spaghetti with Salted Fish” actually… Wait till I got enough courage then try ah.

Open-mouthed smile

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Picnic on National Day

Happy Birthday Brunei!

I love love love you and will continue to be a law-abiding citizen!

Anyways. 23rd of February also happens to be one of my buddies Eng’s birthday. And instead of having dinner like we always do, she opted for an irregular choice, PICNIC!

And when we all read her messages in Whatsapp, we’re all like… Thinking smile….
But boh-pien, birthday girl win.
Then you know what time we all start our picnic?

12.00 pm!

Sibeh limpeh hot okay!

Nah, some photos (stolen from Vanny) for you peeps..
(Because I’m feeling rajin today)

And… no one brought camera so these photos were all taken by ipong.

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Sibeh cute lah!

 

We had satay, seaweed bread rolls, braised eggs, fried noodles and popia (all vegetarian), chit-chat, played ice and water and “eagle catch chicks”…. (sounds kinky I know, no where near your imagination okay). It was one fun afternoon. Will be better if there were less Indians sitting near us and staring at us every 5 seconds and grinned cheekily.

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All huts taken so we just took a random spot under the tree and sat on flattened boxes.

 

One last “bonus” photo for you all…..

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Macam crime scene…

Bah, wanna go take a shower now.
Till we meet again! As in, till I blog again!

(I don’t have camera with me so certainly… there will be nothing new coming up Smile with tongue out)