Bismillah,

tonight, remind me a lot of myself 3 years ago. How playful i was, and unfocused. But anyhow, it reminds me the most, of the time i was so eager to apply for scholarship, to have dream to study in Australia in material engineering. Yup, it still fresh. And the hope is still burning deep down inside. Im quite a dreamer, and also a dream chaser you know.

So, recent trip to oz really make me eager back to live in that country. Plus, conversation with old friends do lighten up some hopes. Well, i will not give up. I want it, and i will get it. That is my principal. Maybe not now, but later i will.

Im quite surprise that my dad allowed me to go to Melbourne with my best friend. It's a dream come true you know to have trips together. But the trick to actually have something you want, is to be serious and show the effort. That's all. Ive been working day and nights to collect the flight money, I've been contacting people to keep in touch, and doing some research before hand.

But i would not mention these two upcoming dreams, that ill be wishing to do it at oz. *secret* only my parents and bff knows it. hehe. shhhhhhh let it be surprise for others ;)) and my family knows how hard I'm trying to chase it now. Well, ill talk about it, when things get done.

P/s: i cannot believe how forgetful my friend to not remember our dream to study in oz together. lil sad. ill make that person regret. -.-'

kangaroo be my bff okay?

Bismillah, another travelogue write up.

Well, can u guess any country which can amazingly define the title above? Tik Tok the clock strikes one. Tik Tok and the clock strike twelve. Hehe.

The answer is,.... jeng jeng jeng. The Kiwis country. *awesome*

The saying is true, new zealand has the best view ever. If you like nature, green things and ocean, it is a must go place!

I spent my summer break in north island for awhile, and it was the best day in my life, i gotta tell you. The feeling is amazing, the adrenaline, the excitement to see sunset and sunrise is truly, enthusiastic.
Well, we took the 8 hours flight from KUL to SYD. And rush for AUCK in around 4 hours. Imagine, no showering in one day. haha. Thats why for traveller, its important to bring the toiletries around in the hand luggage. But always remember all hand carry liquid must be less than 100 ml in a transparent bag. So i arrived the auckland airport around 5 pm, through jetstar flight (aussie's budget airlines) it took about 5 hours i think. Plus the time zone is different. New Zealand is 2 hours ahead than Australia. Since my dad had already rent a car, so in no time, we were heading to Hamilton, (down to the south). But before we start the long drive, we were searching for the mosque nearby to perform our zuhr and asar prayer. And since we tried to walk around the neighbourhood near the airpot and for quite a time, we decided to just pray at the gas station because the maghrib will be coming in no time.

Pray, no matter where you are.

Alhamdulillah, luckily the gas station has a small cafe that sells halal fried chicken. We were like, finally food!!! A proper meal at last. Thus, we are fuel up for the adventure! Subhana ALLAH during the long journey, we took picture of sunrise and the nature, the she eps, the cows. Everything is beautiful masha ALLAH.

SubhanALLAH.

So here i am,

writing another post in the middle of the night, in the middle of another semester break.

Well, I'm here having foodgasm, thus trying to learn and understand more about coffee and baking desserts that i adore. So till then, expect some recipe sharing in return.

In the other hand, i would love to share some of my not-so-adventurous experience, getaway with bestfriends. Though it was just a short getaway and most of it were unplanned, i enjoyed it to the max. So it just me and my good friend traveling all the way from our beloved campus, to Pendang, Kedah for some important reasons. However, before we departed, we went to Gazebo Abg Nash at Batu Gajah to have our breakfast. The stall is just beside the road, but for me, it draws my attention because, though the stall is just "tepi jalan" stall, they have flowers on each and every table! Well, who doesn't love flowers! They just amazingly beautiful and brighten up the day. So we had what? Nasi lemak and of course the special dish, which i find it delicious is their capati with kari kambing. I tell you, this one, is uphmm! Cheap, affordable and delicious, what else can a student ask for? Try it out, before leaving utp yaww.


Then, on the way to Pendang, Kedah (well now i just learn the map of Kedah oh Kedah). Pendang is like all the way up, after Kulim, Sg Dua, Sg Petani and Gurun, but right before Alor Setar. So, expect it to be a long long long journey (around 5 hours maybe from Ipoh). So yeah, along the way, we were tested with financial problem, where money were spent more on fuel and toll. Toll! haha. And we were like, where to get money to buy food lah? So we manage to collect some from bags, here and there, and tada! Enough money to buy bread and drinks! That time, we were like, "how does it feel to be among them, who are less fortunate, and money constraint." Alhamdulillah, we are grateful for the blessings of food that we eat and the comfort that we have. Praise to Allah.


Next, when we arrived to Pendang, the view was spectacular! My oh my~ I love to see the green paddy field. Such a beautiful, breathtaking view. So we open up the window, suck in all the fresh air while we still can. Beautiful, amazing view, Masya Allah. Praise to Him. So, yup after trying the nasi talam daging, we are superbly recharged for the real adventure <food hunting>. Head down to Penang!


Since we arrived at Penang at late night, without reserving any hotel rooms, with just depending some information about new budget hotel along the Gurney Road, we took up the challenge, and round round we go. Alhamdulillah, with Will of the Almighty, we managed to find the cheap hotel (RM 105 per nite) with sea view. It is the Gurney View Inn. Tada! The service was ok and the interior design was awesome! It might not look like on the internet, but yeah, we don't really mind. But in case, if you are quite picky about space (means you prefer spacious place don't mind looking at this hotel), cause it is only suitable for those who can live in small dimension like me. So yup, as the service people said, we'll get 10% discount for the next reservation, for family and people related to us. Nice!


Next morning, we are totally excited for food hunting session. We went for breakfast along the Gurney road, there are few halal restaurants. Then, we chilling out along the seaside. Then, we went for Kapitan with our friends! Yeay! Well, to be honest I don't really fancy briyani rice or tandoori chicken, but this one is a must try!! > double important signal ;)  So yup, for the one who suggest the place to me, thanks, and congratulations! I found it damn delicious! So just google it, it is located at Keling Mosque road. Must try tau! The spices i tell you, nice so nice, that you just want to double up the portion. Then, we took a walk along the Indian Town, looking for food. But since, it was blazing hot, we don't dare to have the walk for so long. Next thing i learned that, Penang have many, not few, but many malls, like Komtar (old), Prangin Mall, Gurney Plaza, Gurney Paragon and Queensbay Mall. When i first arrived Penang, it gives me the feeling of arriving Singapore. Not totally alike, but there is some. A nice place to travel by walking. I think if, i stay for few days more, i can remember the road well, because it is not that big, i totally know how to read signboard.


We went to Straits Quay, a very nice place to have photoshoot (hikhok) perhaps wedding or fashion? To be precise, it gives you the feeling of San Francisco. Walah! Then, we went to Queensbay Mall, to try out the famous Nurul Ikan Bakar (where in Bangi, the Ana Ikan Bakar is quite famous also), so yup, im not sure whether the food is expensive, because on that day, it's people's treat! Means free food! hehe. Thank you, Tuan Rumah. So yup, me and my usual menu, tomyam, telur goreng, sotong goreng tepung, ikan bakar masak halia (la kot), maen makan je ikan. And its all about eat and eat and eat. It was heartbreaking for a moment, because supposedly, we should go back to KL on that particular night, but since we are quite exhausted, we delayed it.


The next morning, after we regain our strength and motivation, we went for the last stop near Sg Dua, tralala the famous Cendol Pak Belalang at Maklom road. Very much near from the Sg Dua exit. We ate two bowl of cendol, abc and laksa Kedah! Yeay! Mission Accomplished!! After trying the original kedahan laksa, im fully satisfied with this trip. No regret! Try it!


To make it short (since im feeling wakie and sleepie) these are the foods that i'll be trying for my next trip to Kedah or Penang : Nasi Kandar Kayu, Nasi Royale Jitra, Ais Krim Gulung, Mee Udang Sg Dua and (comment below to add some more). Let it be a pleasent food hunting memory! Till then, Meow!

You can't buy Happiness, but You can buy Ice Cream, which is kinda same thing!

Bismillah,

So yup last december I spent my holiday in Korea >,< my forever and always dreamland. Though i don't really have holiday during my almost study week~ But i decided to take my own holiday while my course mates having fun on their petroleum refinery trip~ Anyway, since few of my course mates decided to go Korea for our semester break, I would like to share some tips (fancy word for helping) since of course we all don't want to miss anything cool when we get there, i suppose~

So here you go, I wrote a journal ^^ yeah! dream comes true~ *well not a big prob*

By the time, I arrived Incheon Airport it was morning, so we were hungry +.+ breakfast please. So they have dunlin donut and McD there.. <familiar brand> anyway, we decided to go McD and ordered Pancake, just pancake since we didn't want to take risk having "dwaeji" there.. urmm ba-alif-ba-ya... So yupp, and as time passed by, we arrived at Kukdo Hotel (Best Western) franchise.. A famous hotel company of US i supposed. So the trip from airport took us about 1 hour and more to arrive, so quite a long journey to take a public transport if you have a big luggage la.

Fortunately, our hotel is very strategic! like yeah.. Dongdaemun, Myeongdong, City Hall, Lotte Department, Changyecheon stream +.+ gosh! everything so near!! During our trip, most of the time we use the subway "jihacheol"--if you lost, you can ask the citizens "eodi jihacheol?"--*cincai saja korean ku, asal faham*.. Since i have my friends studying there, they recommended me to buy this T-money card at convenient store (such as GC, 7eleven etc).. it costs you 2k won as i remembered and pls go to the nearest subway station, they gonna have this topup machine.. me, spend about 20k each person to top up for our 5 days trip.

After finished performing our zohor solar at the hotel, we went to Nandaemun (blue line) can't remember which exit , we found market~ *like downtown or uptown-i dunno the diff* ok, so guys, exit tu penting tau, they have 6 sometimes 9.. sebab its easy, u dun have to cross the road lah.. something like dat. At the market, the souvenir quite good price la. Pandai2 cari good deal. There, you can find, a halal kebab shop *agak susah that area to find halal kogi=meat*. Just small, no table for you to eat, just take away. Easy to spot, coz they have very big halal logo. So, yup one kebab costs you around 4.5k won~ If you just walk to the direction of City Hall from the market, you gonna find Shinsagae Mall, its a Pavilion KL like mall. Branded ppl je shops.

                                          


The next day, we went Gyeongbokgung Palace yeah! Its easy to go there. Just hop on to line 5 and exit at the Gyeongbokgung station. Keluar2 je, dh palace entrance. The palace area is so huge.. i didn't have time to tour all of it.. Anyway by the time i arrived there, it was sunday, and they have the guard show.. like the marching part, with the traditional clothes, queen, stuff in winter +.+ wow! must be cold. Its cool to go around the palace when its snowing.. cause you end up playing snowball just like us~ lolz.

                                        


Then we decided to go to the Traditional Village (aka Bukchon Hanok Village) so yup, you can read on the net that, that its very historic, the house is made up from clay, wood stone and ondol floor. So do hop on the line and go to Anguk station and use exit 2. So just walk straight until you find traditional village. They have a Tour House for that. Just one house you can get in for free to look around, others,, you have to book to stay there <no look3>, at the bukchon cultural centre you can have traditional photoshoot, wearing the traditional clothes (also available for men also) costs around 8k won ^^ i made it. Its very fascinating i can say about Bukchon, not only they having this traditional houses, but also because the shops are very +.+ nice, cute and cozy. There are abundant of cafes, just name it haegan dazs, coffee bean, starbucks, even swarovski, along the road.. Just walk along the road to Samcheong (i went there to go to Hello Kitty cafe +.+ desperately but the cafe just closed :( ) A lots, a lots, a lots of interesting things here, many museum of art, culture centre, etc and my favourite thing >,< shopping, the shop is sooooooo nice, boots, anything girls and classic things~ loike it very much... you can find antiques shop here, western meal. Many. <ala2 damansara gitu> sebab shop die mostly de valet parking, and yang parking tu bukan hyundai, but beetle vw, bmw, audi, ferrari semua.