Locked In A Tower

My Chinese New Year hasn't been enjoyable so far but I hope everyone else had a blast collecting angpow, stuffing yourselves with food and gambling your hard earned angpows away =D. I had to bring my ass to Ipoh this CNY since I've been avoiding all Ipoh trips with my family the whole of last year. See, ever since my grandma passed away, mum has been having loads of problems with my grandpa. The house ain't very big so the rest of us could feel the tension during the whole trip. Turns out this trip is as stressful as what I experienced during my last trip. We'd be sitting at the dinner table and not a word is said.... but let me not bore you with my family problems.

Once I touched KL soil, I immediately told my parents I had to work and escaped to office for the last few days of the holiday. Anything is better than being around my mum!

I took lots of photos of my trip but they were mostly pictures of dogs and cats I chased after =P

Meals at Ipoh were too luxurious for my taste.....I live a simple life when it comes to food so things like deer meat and pig intestines don't appeal to me =( I ate a lot less compared to what I usually eat. Instead of gaining a few pounds, I think I lost a bit, which is good I guess hehe.

Pot of meat that was served during the second day of CNY. I only ate the prawns...

Lou sang is a must for last 2 weeks XD I had 3 so far. 1 with grandparents, 1 with parents friends and 1 with office~

Taken with office colleagues at Eastin Hotel~ The buffet was excellent!

I was looking forward to the angpow designs this year since it's the Year of the Dragon. Was hoping to keep some but most of the designs were terrible T3T. The only angpow I'm keeping this year.... is an Angry Bird angpow *facepalms*

Souvenirs were mostly stuffs for my cosplay~

Japan Fanta! The ones in KL were all in Thai.

Had the chance to watch fireworks upclose! Was the first for me and I really enjoyed it~ XD

Thanks Josh~

Ipoh: Onsen & Food

Selamat Hari Raya peopleeee~!!!! >w< It is kinda late from me and I'm sorry T3T. While everyone is busy visiting their relatives and friends, I've been celebrating Raya like CNY by feasting on more Chinese food OTL. I just realized today that I've yet to eat any Lemang with Rendang =( On the first day of Raya, we went on a one day trip to Ipoh mainly to go play in the Tambun Hot Springs.

Found out that the hot springs is open all day but if we want to go to the hot springs only then we can only enter from 6pm to 10pm. To enter in the day time, we have to purchase the the full theme park tickets =_=;; which includes the wet park and hot springs but it's an extra RM30 per person. Decided it was not worth going to the wet park so we went sight seeing around Ipoh first.

First stop, Kek Lok Tong!

Where we met a cave dog!

I spent most of the time there, stalking the dog trying to get a good picture x_X Not very friendly but it doesn't bite either =)

We covered monkeys

Birds.... lucky shot this one...

More greenery and teh tarik waters

More monkeys, this one manage to get into the cave while the rest of the group was outside.

Last shot before we head to lunch

We decided on bean sprouts and chicken for lunch since it might be too late to head to the city by the time we're done with the hot springs. Funny thing about Ipoh is that the same shops will be in the same row. All the Taugeh Ayam shops are along one street. Same thing for funeral parlors too 8D;; There can be 7-8 funeral parlors in one street XD;; That was where we ended up parking since the Taugeh Ayam Street was packed to the brim.

Peopleeeeeee >A<

Looks like everyone had the same thought.... Lou Wong and Onn Kee are the top 2 Taugeh Ayam stores. We decided to go to Onn Kee instead as it's slightly less packed compared to Lou Wong. It took us about 20 minutes to get seated @_@ because each table was 'guarded' by the next group and another hour before our food came because they messed up our orders =(.

Chicken that I can never appreciate and uber crispy bean sprouts~ XD I'm missing them right now >w<

By the time we were done, it was almost 4pm!!! So we took a quick detour to find a clean toilet before heading back to Tambun.

The entrance to Tambun~!

Bridge leading to the entrance

And it's still packed!!!!!

Changing in the toilets was another nightmare since it was wet and crowded with people but thankfully I've learnt to change using only a towel *o*~ oh and an oversized shirt too XD;; Locker rentals were at cut throat prices so we piled all our valuables and change of clothes into the locker and brought our bags around. It was RM10 per locker!!! and it was small! D; Sunway I hate you so >_>. After 7, there's less people. Got some nice shots at night with the pretty lights~ The hot spring has a few pools with temperatures ranging from 37C to 45C.

Main pool that everyone crowds over, temperature is at 37C

The Crystal Pool which is 40C. This pool has the lion sprouting water from its mouth. Very nice to sit under it and let the water massage your head XD

The foot spa with pebbles that you see on those reflexology paths on the surface of the pond. Very painful to walk T_T

Lastly, the hottest and the smallest pool know as the jacuzzi. Waters are about 43C but we all think it's a lie because it was much hotter and feels almost scalding hot when we dipped our feet in. The orange lights in the pool made it look like we're dipping in lava *_*

Best shot at the hot springs, a geyser sprouting out right above the steam room *_* It comes every hour so we had to keep in check with the guard on the time so that I can get the shot XD

After we're satisfied with our lobster dips, we went for dinner at Kam Wan Food Court, also known as Tung Ku Teng. I love this food court and I used to visit the place for supper. It's quite lively at night like 118 or Ming Tien XD;;

I started with dessert first and it ruined my appetite OTL. The caramel was burnt so it was bitter sweet ._.

Audrey's rojak

Super delicious deep fried prawn paste!! ;_;

Fried eggs with oysters~ Eggs were fluffy <3

Dried curry mee which was oh-so-good as well but the dessert ruined my appetite so Jared had to help me finish it. I'm sorry sayang!!! ;A;

My only souvenir from Ipoh, instant Green Tea Latte rofl XD;;

Lesson from our trip, we'll need to be careful with who we invite next time OTL. 

Deals and 48 Hours of Flu

Wow... almost 10 days of not blogging. Once I stop, it's really hard to go back to frequently updating my blog. I normally arrange to not have more than one post a day but ended up by the time comes, I don't have the mood to blog any longer.... hence the hiatus in between my posts XD;;

This time, not only I didn't have the mood to blog, I had to go back to Ipoh as well during the weekend so that was 3-4 days of no posts. Now I'm back with a life update before I put up 2 reviews and a Nerf experience.

Aishop had a Facebook promo last week for their fans. The promo is based on the amount of likes they can gather within a certain period. If they reached their targeted likes, the product will be discounted according to the target =D Guess what was the product?!?!?!?! It was the famed Zamian: Gold Cacao Pack Mask!!!and I manage to grab the promo price of RM39.90 since the page reached over 100 likes~! XD A real lucky shot since if the page gathers over 200 likes, the product will drop to RM19.90! I'm guessing everyone was waiting for the product to get more likes XD;; Sadly it didn't, so the lowest price was RM39.90! hur hur~

The mask in the flesh!

I got the 2 pieces of handmade soap for free too :3 One is cacao and the other is camelia. The stuff arrived carefully bubble wrapped in the parcel. Sad that the soaps don't have individual packing so I have to keep it in the bubble wrap.

Train station in Ipoh.

Ipoh as usual wasn't a very pleasant trip. My parents decided to go by KTM this time and the train stopped at every. bloody. station. The frequent change in speed makes it very difficult for my to sleep =( As I was about to really doze off, the train comes to a stop at a station =A=. That's not the end of my nasty trip to Ipoh... the whole time I was there, I suffered from a runny nose since the air cond is too cold and the place is full of dust. 20 years of collected dust in the house ain't gonna vanish in just months *sighs*

Sure as hell missed the Chee Cheong Fun there

Dropped by the lawyer's office and she has 2 dogs!

Soooo fluffy like a plush toy~

The second dog~

Very pretty coat~ I can't get a good picture cuz it keeps moving!

Pusheen arriving in mid May~ I'm super excited >w<~

Ipoh Mali Mali~

In a nutshell.... it was a total disaster cuz the traveling ruined my mood a lot =A=. Parents used the trunk road to save money so the driver went thru the super winding one way lane making me feel so uberly car sick during the journey. Reached Pusing for lunch. The spread:-

A lot of stuff in there @@;;

Fish~~~

Then we dropped by one of the cake stores with an AMAZING portfolio HAHAHAHAHA. The pictures will explain *sniggers*

Omg this is so liek Jared's ideal cake ahahahaa

The tiramisu cake we ordered~ very very nice but not worth carting it home from Ipoh. All those photos are taken from their photo album portfolio which they show to the customers ahahah

I didn't get pics from dinner cuz the food looked so yellow in the photos thanks to the lights, bill came up to RM200+ o_o. There was some Taichi club anniversary at the same time but it looked like some memorial service cuz the deco looked so gloomy ~_~

BREAKFAST THE NEXT DAY~

Nice to start the day with coffee~ (or tea in my case lol)

and Chee Cheong Fun~ *drools*

Right after that, it was lunch at Tasek wtf. The lace is famous for their roast duck and 'siew yoke'.

So hard to take the pic cuz the sauce was reflecting the light =A=;;

The char siew was good =D

Dinner at Rawang at some random roadside stall.

Har penggggg!!!!! and fried dumpling! XD I miss this crap!!! <3

More stuff we ordered

All this for 5 people including 15pcs of dumpling and prawn stuff, the total was only RM36 *_* dirt cheap~

Body's feeling totally stiff after last night, another reason why I hated the trip this time.