Category: Travels

Charcoal factory in Kuala Sepetang.

I’m so completely lacking of blogging urges these days it’s not funny. I’m a pathetic excuse for a blogger…people should just call me booger instead.

Anyway, I went to Perak/Penang for Shutter Asia‘s 2nd Anniversary. It was a fun trip except that I was completely immobilised on the 2nd day due to menstrual cramps. Yeah, I guess you don’t have to know that but it’s my boog.

On the first day, we went to a really picturesque charcoal factory in Kuala Sepetang near Simpang. It was my first time seeing how charcoals are made, it’s pretty fascinating. I took about 80 pictures, but they mostly turned out crappy. I really need to practise -_-

Here are some of the decent ones:

#1 – Charcoal factory.
Charcoal factory.

#2 – Workers on a break.
Workers resting

#3 – Old man chilling out. He’s worked there for the past 40 years.
Chilling

#4 – Sorting out the bits.
Sorting

#5 – Personal belongings.
Personal belongings.

#6 – The river by the factory where they transport the logs.
Boat

#7 – 62 year old former fisherman.
62 year old former fisherman.

p/s: All pictures were taken with Nikon D70s / 50mm.

p/p/s: Some were not watermarked because my batch action fucked up and I was too lazy to fix it.

The Cameron Highlands Trip.

I’ve received so many emails on how to rent the bungalow we stayed in. Sorry, it is privately owned, it’s NOT for rent.

++++++++++

Yeah so we went to Cameron Highlands last weekend and had a blast. Ah Horng had an even bigger blast cause his car got clipped by a stupid van on our way up. For the record, he was driving REALLY slow and the van should not have existed. Read his story here.

Horng
Ah Horng happy he’s alive.

Happy
The rest of us happy for the blogging material.

We threw a picnic on the side of the road while waiting for the tow truck to drag itself up the old and winding road. Used our brollies as bright objects to deter oncoming cars from ploughing into our delicate flesh. I’m still blogging, so I guess it worked.

Picnic
Suan and Kura-kura during the picnic.

By the time we managed to see the tow truck chap off, it was almost dinner time. Although it was dinner time we had to wait around for a bit because KY was devouring his dessert before dinner time. And Mell kept feeding him it’s annoying. Can you all please scold them for being so inconsiderate? That said, the waiting wasn’t so bad because the bungalow we stayed in was absolutely breathtaking. We’re on top of a hill overlooking the golf course.

The mansion
The bungalow. Thanks Mell for arranging the accommodation!

We had fantastic steamboat for dinner. The vegetable were super fresh! No pics cause too busy eating. Then we went to report police with Ah Horng.

Report police.
ST, Suan and Ah Horng at police station, post-dinner.

Report tarra sah cause accident supposedly happened in Tapah, so have to report in Tapah, which is like 2 hours away from Cameron Highlands. PDRM you are zee best. But Ah Horng managed to convince the Cameron Highlands cop to put in a good word with his cronies in Tapah so he could report the day after instead of the stipulated 24 hour.

We went back to big bungalow for roast potatoes, garlic and a lot of crisps. Also played baccarat and made Ah Horng lost more $$$. No pictures cause busy eating and legality issues.

We stayed up late but woke up damn early to sight see in the Highlands. First stop, tea and scones at Cameron Valley. Btw, pictures from this point onwards are all from my D70s, unprocessed because I can.

Cameron Valley.
Cameron Valley.

Interpretations
Various interpretations of excitement over tea & scones.

Food!
FA playing superhero with her scones.

Tea plantation.
Obligatory tea plantation shot.

After that, we went to strawberry farm. It was small. The berries were also small. So, we didn’t eat a single strawberry :(

Strawberry.
My strawberry is better than yours.

Strawberry.
My strawberry is better than yours 2.

And that’s about it. Then we all came back to reality and jerebu. Hrmm no, actually we rushed back to watch The Punisher, which was a load of shit.

p/s: sorry the bungalow is privately owned, it’s NOT for rent.

BUSY

Phew! Seems like an eternity since I last blogged. Just got back from Singapore, had a fantastic time. Going down to Johor tomorrow for 3 days. Will be driving down alone, it’s gonna be an adventure. Mom if you’re reading this, pls.don’t.freak.out.

Here are some pictures from Singapore. Besides work, there was a lot of fun involved too. I played bowling for the first time in years. I guess I didn’t do too bad.

#1
Bowling shoes.
Me and my funny bowling shoes.

No pictures of me bowling cause everyone else was busy bowling too. Abothen?

I also went go-karting for the 1st time! I loveeeeeeeeee it. This goes out to my friends, who’s up for a session of go-karting? I is gonna pwn j00 a55.

#2
Go-karting.
Posing with my helmet. The loaned helmet wasn’t smelly…thank goodness.

Finally had my craving for kueh chap satisfied after 2 years!!!! We ate at Newton Circus Hawker Centre, which was pretty good. I take back all my criticism of Singaporean food, I was merely too busy and depressed to seek out good food last time :P

#3
Kueh chap
Kueh Chap @ Newton Circus Hawker Centre.

#4
Ojien
Oyster omelette was fantastic too.

#5
Space for disabled patrons.
The thing that caught my eye was how wheelchair friendly the hawker centre is. Notice I was sitting on a bench while my friend was seated on a stool in the space meant for the physically disabled. Malaysia should emulate little things like this, don’t even cost money!

#6
Pork scratchings
This is unrelated to Singapore, but I came back to a bag of these. Sinful, artery clogging pork scratchings…ahh :)

Gonna go pack now. Toodles.