Trip Back to Teluk Intan

An impromptu trip back to the best place - for me, Teluk Intan! 

You are probably wondering where on earth is Teluk Intan, like.. is there such place in Malaysia, or in more specific - Perak?? HAHA. Well, yes. There is - and no, it's not in Ipoh. It's somewhere after Bidor (technically, you will pass by Bidor town to arrive to Teluk Intan) and before Ipoh. Maybe you've heard of the famous leaning town?!?! That's where you can find TI (teluk intan)!

I'm sure all of you would have a place like this, where it's secluded yet carries a great meaning to you.  Usually it would be your hometown, but I known some people that dislike your hometown because it's boring and all. 

For my hometown, it can count as boring if you're looking for some fascinating activities to do BUT if its food that you come for - you're in the right place. 

Let's get straight into it: Breakfast. 

Coffee at TI somehow taste better in Subang even though it's home made LOL. I strongly feel this is a biased opinion HAHA. 

Okay, so first off is glutinous rice (chi bi beng) - they serve it with some kind of sweet pork and curry prawn. Apparently the best glutinous rice owner has stop selling so this is the substitute goods. Oh well, many sad.

Next up,

Let me present to you: TI Chee Cheong Fan. If you think KL is good, you have yet to try this. 

I honestly think this is by far the best chee cheong fan, where it they wrap the chee cheong fan (i think) with filling inside and it's so good!! Uncle/Aunt/Gonggong/Popo please don't stop making this ok, or you can teach me to master this recipe if you want to retired. Don't just suddenly poof - no more, I iz will cry you a river. 

My dad's all time favourite,

Fish Ball that is good and has no fishy smell/taste like some other fish ball that I've eaten before.

FYI: I ate all of the above for BREAKFAST only. 

Late Lunch:

It took me awhile to realise what was the painting about HAHA. At first glance, i thought they simply splash paint for design. 

I think this is quite interesting.

Sometimes I am amazed with my ability to look horrifyingly dumb/ugly/goofy.

Asam Laksa. Anyone?

Char Kuey Teow! Yums.

There used to be a char kuey teow stall that opens late at night (probably the only stall that opens late at night that I am aware of) but it has closed, permanently. 

After lunch, we went around town while waiting for our mom & aunt to shop, and snap anything interesting;

This bicycle actually belongs to the customer in the restaurant next to it and he stood up to see when we took picture with his bicycle HAHA. *touristmode: on.

A cute popo selling vegetables in a wheel-barrow! How unique, and look how happy the popo is:

Then my aunt also decided to sell vegetables LOL, I sent this to my whatsapp group caption:

"Found some familiar-relative selling vegetables in TI! Please send help, we need to go Police Station file claim on missing person!" - HAHAHA

Moving on to visiting our grandma's sisters.

I just found out that this swing belongs to my grandmother - the swing we used to sit when we were young! How nostalgic. I notice that the swing designs are the same, I thought that they all bought the swing at the same time haha.

Before we knew, it's Dinner Time!

Hello there, adorable crabs which I am about to eat you. I'm sorry but you are too good. I wish we didn't have to meet like this, I really like you. This is such a sad departure. LOL #bipolar. #gurlpleasemakeupyourmind.

Pucuk Paku.

Fried Lotus Stem.

Curry Fish Something HAHA.

Fried Praying Mantis Prawn.

Crabz.

Balitong (as I am familiar with).

I'm not sure if there are other names for it. Technically, it's like a snail but a different type and it taste good hehuhehu. Although, that day's dish is not so yummy. I think it's their sauce, it's too wet and they used a lot of tomato. Usually, people fried it with chilli paste and there is some sauce just not as much as that.

There is a shop at Nan King, Taipan if you want to try! Theirs is quite good too.

And here's a friend that I meet:

My sisters were able to stuff themselves with the famous Gulam Nasi Kandar and I'm like omg I kenot do this already LOL. I'm going to bed, Good night. 

Next morning, our last breakfast before we come back: Bak Kut Teh. Just when you think breakfast can't get any fuller - it's about to go onto a whole new level LOL. 

Joking, it's actually branch because we ate quite late.

Dry Bak Kut Teh.

Beloved Squid.

Steam Big Fish Head.

Normal Bak Kut Teh.

Tau Geh.

Kai Lan (i think!).

Marmite Prawn.

and Finally,

Let's feast!

So what do you think? Let me know, xx!

Makan Days

Hello readers! Just a little update on my eating days with Adelynn that is long overdue Haha.

I finally managed to try Upstairs Cafe, like YESS! Do you know how many times I went there and it was close?? It's so depressing on so many levels especially when you're craving for pasta.

I decided to try their Vegetarian Carbonara which turns out to be quite good for RM 10! However, I had too much pasta or food in general over the weeks, now I'm just tired of food. HAHA.

Either it's the day itself or the following day, I had supper with Adelynn! 

Just plain old McDonald's, no worries. No where fancy.

The chocolate is too sweet for me though but I lovee their cornflakes or whatever the crunchy thing is!!

Next day, out again with Adelynn and both our sisters. We had lunch at Alchemist;

Carbonara Pasta (again) & Peach Tea yums!

And Pei with her seafood bolognese pasta haha.

Seflie moments!

Decided to go for desserts after that! All those selfie must have made us hungry HAHAHAHA.

Hui Lau Shan

Okay, for the final day out, I totally forgotten what did we do LOL. Anyhow, we had Delicious! for dinner because they had the buy 1 free 1 pasta promotion yeppies!

But.. it's pasta (again.) Reasons why I'm tried of food now HAHAHA.

Although, their Aglio Olio Duck Pasta was quite salty to the extend where your mouth feel like eww.

Last dessert for this post,

Yeppies! I didn't know Milk Cow opened in Pyramid hehehe. I kind of like Milk Cow because their soft ice cream is super milky and smooth and it goes well with honey.

Milk Cow!

Okay, until next time. Sorry for the impromptu-no story line post LOL, xx.

A productive week

Today's adventure are about all the productive things that I did during the whole week! Just wanted to share some of my achievements with you guys because I think I did pretty well in it hehehhe. I hope it would help you too if you're planning to do anything like mine. 

First thing that I did was reorganising my wardrobe HAHA. #girlsproblem #toomuchstuff  I made something to help with my accessories that have been lying everywhere in my cupboard. 

A ribbon notice board, but in this case, an accessories board.

I got this idea when I saw my cousin's sister's brother-in-law's room (HAHAHA now that's some long extended family line thing), he made a ribbon board just like this except, his one was definitely nicer. I thought this would be a good idea for accessories, especially if you're hanging the board in your wardrobe, normal cork boards are at risk with push-pins. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't want to get prick on push pins when looking for clothes. *yikes!

I really hope you find this picture super useful LOL, because I couldn't get any visual when I was trying to make this ribbon board! You can make this from old photo frames or window panel, which ever that looks good. Be creative! 

Besides that, my sister found something useful at Daiso and decided to give it a try since we need more space for my wardrobe. It's something that helps you to hang more stuff in one line.(technically seen as aligned) There are many tricks to this method but I didn't like how the thing look after that so I was like ew when my sister introduced it to me HAHAHAHA. Now, it's a life-saviour!

So neat and cute right?? It's so different from the other tricks like:

Daiso also have something like the last picture. 

Okay, not to offend anyone that uses this type of method, I'm pretty sure it helps a lot and also save cost but it is just not my preferences. I mean, they don't look that neat plus, it looks horrifying to me T___T I guess some of you would feel that there isn't much differences compare to mine but yeah. I mind ok.

Another hanger that my sister found for skirts are:

This is really cute & neat! You can find all your skirts and you don't have to fold them over hangers which makes your closet look so bulky and congested. I recommend this for all formal skirts owners!! Daiso sells both the brown and this hanger in pair for RM 5, now including GST RM 5.30.

The next thing is like da BOMB. When I saw it in Daiso, it got me so excited I was jumping already hahaha.

It's a NAIL THINNER. You know, when your nail polish starts to thicken and it's like full bottle or so which is a waste because if it's thicken you can't use it. FRET NOT! This magical baby is here to save the day. HEHEHHEHE. Do you love the name of it? I did. It was a miracle because I have been looking everywhere for this.

I added the white wire thing, in case you're wondering why it look ugly or what's that ugly white thing LOL. I want to make sure I wouldn't lost the squeezer so this is the best/effective way to prevent so.

How to apply it:

1. Go ransack through all your nail polish and find those that are old and thicken, bring them out for experiment!

Thick/Used to be thicken, but in this picture I had already add the thinner. (forget to take picture heheh)

2. Add sufficient amount of thinner into your nail polish and mix them thoroughly.

Sometimes, you need to add A LOT of thinner for the nail polish to return to it's original state (when you first bought it). I tried on my OPI based coat and yeap, used a lot of thinner haha.

3. Best serve when ready! hahaha

Kiss goodbye to all your worries about thick nail polish heheheh.

Next up, I decided to give a new look to my sister's jeans since she has 2 of the same kind so here you go:

I ripped it HAHA. Honestly, it's quite hard for black jeans because everything is so black it makes it harder to cut in a straight line. Overall, I made it and got a new look for the jeans. You can learn this DIY from anywhere, just google it or go youtube.

Ripped jeans works well with anything casual, and it also enhanced your look to a more street kind of look. It's worth trying if you like that kind of look. :)

During the week, I also went shopping at several places and got this white knitted sweater from Cotton On at RM30! I love it because I used to have a pink one but made a silly mistake and gave it away. Super regretting it now. T__T

Anyhow, there's 2 way you can wear this knitted sweater:

Off-shoulder, like a beggy pullover. 

OR

with a deep V neck. 

Both give different kind of look, so depends on which on you're going for. I like both it's so hard to decide OMG hahahaha.

Finally, the last & glorious achievement of mine was this top that I made FROM SCRATCH! HAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, but it's my first time really putting my 100% in DIY-ing my own top so it's really overwhelming for me when it came out as a success.

Of course, the first time I made it, there was some error which was really disappointing because it's a little tight and the material from my old t-shirt has lost it's elasticity. I asked my mum about it and we decided to go buy new cloth for my top yay!

My second time making this top. I love the colour HAHAHA. I admit it really consumes a lot of time compare to the DIY videos that we watch - like those are 15 minutes and I took probably 3 - 4 hours making this top. THIS BARE BACK TOP. Imagine if I have to make a full t-shirt or a dress. Maybe 1 whole day wouldn't be enough for me LOL.

Don't let that stop you from trying though, hehe. I am considering on making another one but without the bare back because I doubt I would find an occasion to wear it out LOL.

That's all for my productive week, I'd like to hear yours too. Let me know what you guys think of my accomplishments and feel free to share your story in comments below!

Until next time, xx.

After Black // Sunway

May I present to you, black after. LOL #coldasice joke.

So much for after black right? HAHAHA. I think if they off all lights, human will start to glow like Avatar's forest because it's so dark.

I think black is probably the new gold because lots of cafe now usually have dark or black colour as their wall colour. (Probably easier for them to clean also cause' you can't see no dirt yo!)

The environment is quite okay there, or at least it was at the time I was there.

OMG, my menu quality sucks so much I can't even comprehend. Sorry guys, the lighting was bad too because it's night. #sadz.

Anyway, they provide some amazing set meals:

which are pasta set or black rice set. Maybe there are more set meals but I only took two because we only try from those 2 set.

Some side snacks that my friend order which is quite good, but then again..

since when wedges never taste good? HAHA.

Tempura Prawn with Cheese Baked Black Rice Set // RM 18.90

Apparently, in order to achieve a charcoal black kind of colour for rice, they used the squid ink. I have no idea if it's suppose to be disgusting or disgustingly cool. You be the judge.

(Not in Set Menu) Duck Aglio Olio Pasta (if I'm not mistaken)  

I've forgotten the price for this pasta, sorry!

Rose Latte // RM 10.90

which is surprisingly good and the aroma of the rose mhmm.. it compliments well with the latte.

Garlic & Herb Roasted Chicken Whole Leg with Garlic Mint Tomato Sauce Pasta // RM 17.90

My friend couldn't finish the pasta because the chicken was big enough whoop. How does that sounds for RM17.90? 

FINALLY, for mine:

Lemon Yakult // RM 7.90

Don't judge okay, I know their coffee definitely sounds better than this but I was trying to budget. :(

Cheese Baked Mushroom & Broccoli with Aglio Olio Pasta // RM 14.90

This goes really well together, but I didn't quite like the mushroom water taste with cheese eww. Maybe next time I should transfer all my cheese baked onto my pasta. 

Overall, I think this place is quite affordable for students with a relaxing kind of environment. Plus, their set meal portion is big so you wouldn't have to worry about being hungry later!

**Tips to budget more, you can actually order a set meal and another plain pasta (RM 5.90) so both you and your friend get to enjoy the main dish along with personal pasta at a cheaper rate! #budgetlife. HAHA 

Happy saving! xx.