Because you love me

I am going around making a few splash of ink…yet the colour just fade away. I stop adding the blending liquid but dry splash of paint hoping to bring out the contrast of life.

Still, everything is pastel as this is always the way I am. Yet, the feeling is extreme. You can surely find it in between of the light and shadow.

I am who I am because you love me…

Thinking of the most expensive poop!

I love traveling, but I haven’t been doing it for a while. To me, working trip and leisure traveling is totally different story all over. The experience and and expectation is different. So, my Hong Kong cum China trip last year, and Germany cum London trip early this year is merely a biz trip. If you work with me before, or know the way I work, I am usually very objective oriented person. I will focus on what I want to achieved rather than where I must go and what I must do during my biz trip.

So now, I am going for a real trip to Bali. It is a valentine gift from JP. He know my desire for freedom and personal sophisticated preference. So, I basically get to make the call of what or where I would go. The disadvantage is, I have to do the homework.  Urgh…

Bali is a beautiful island with nice beaches, nice architecture building (usually palace & temple) with very own Bali flavor and many concept hotel given different sensation based on different choice. To me, there is something I really really want to do… on top of the beautiful beaches, shopping and spa and….it is to discover the taste of the infamous Kopi Luwak (civet coffee). It can be found in an Orchid Garden in Denpasar. The unusual Indonesian bean sells for as much as $1,200 a kilogram in the United States, making it the world’s most expensive coffee.

The coffee, branded as among he rarest in the world, is naturally fermented through a civet cat’s digestive tract. Luwak- a cat-like mammal that lives in coffee plantations in Sulawesi, Java and Sumatra. Luwak exists entirely only the choicest, most perfectly matured beans which it then excretes, collected, clean it up, roast it and finally brewing these beans produces an unusual drink. The beans are hard to come by, which makes it exclusive and therefore, to some…very high class.

I am very tempted to try the coffee for years, yet after several days of research and reading…I am considering to drop the idea. Based on one of the feedback I found, the Kopi Luwak doesn’t taste as fantastic as it sounds. The idea of drinking the “poo” wasn’t a great sight to begin with, on top of that, I am not confident with the cleaning and brewing process prior to serving. Lastly, it would cost me RM120 for 2, the most expensive coffee I ever had in my life.

I am not sure if I am trying to convince you, or myself that I am not going for it…but anyway, do let me know if you tried it before or if I should go and give it a try.

Cheers! ^_~

A Serenity Experience

I am in Frankfurt for the Christmas Fair 2009. It is my first time to Frankfurt…yet I didn’t get more time to go around, not even get a chance to drink the famous Germany beer…urgh! Actually, I started vomit the moment I touch down in the airport and I have not idea why. It doesn’t get better even after I settle down. Having the jet lag all over me, I am too very regular to the washroom.

So, the only one thing I do is some hot chocolate (the only food/drink my body allowed) and a walk at the park.

It is 8am in the morning…a breath of fresh air and the internal serenity experienced before beautiful scenery.

Morning walk at the park near my hotel

I can see the droplet of water on its head…

I don’t think this is eatable…

I simply love the colors and the lines…

Red Belongs to Winter

Truly, is freezing cold here…but I am fine. God given auto-body heater in me is in its tip top condition. So, most of the time…snow or rain, I feel good.

2 February 2009 (Monday) – the whole London stood still due to the heaviest snow storm in the past 18 years. Most were worried about me (thanks for praying for me)…but actually…I travel from Frankfurt to London when the condition is slightly better. However, I still got stuck in the airport for 5 hours and inside the plane for another 2 hours. Most of the time, we just sit and wait for someone to tell us when our aircraft is ready for boarding, when runway is ready for landing, and last…when is our turn to leave the aircraft and go into the terminal. It is truly exhausting experience.

However, in the other hand, I felt blessed. I never see or touches the real “snow” before (the one I had in the ski resort are man made). So, despite of the exhausting wait, I look forward for the snow…to see it fall from the sky, and land on my face.

Anyway, I am not going to write anymore…I just  love London.

In London, red belongs to winter. Enjoy!

£3 Billion cost of shambles in the snow

Spring Fair – This is an animated Gorilla (suitable for Halloween ^_~)

Squirrel are very much a shy animal…but not this two.

Making snowman with bare hand…my hands turned red

My first love…and I left him

Hyre Park – resting

This is London…more beautiful than what I imagine. Would you agree with me?

My CNY 2009 Away

First of all, Happy Chinese New Year to ALL Chinese who celebrate Chinese New Year.

It was an extraordinary year for me. I have a good time visiting east Malaysia and celebrating Chinese New Year away from my own parent for the first time. I come to realize (although I should have known) that every family celebrate their Chinese New Year differently. All family do have the same new year eve dinner, the AngPao and the mandarine orange…yet it was different. Specially, the food we eat.

The food and the cooking style is very much different from my own family. Overall…they like it sweet. The new year dishes and the cookies are sweeter than average I had from my home. More meat dishes compares with vegetable and seafood.

I came from a farmer’s family, my grandfather is a farmer. I am very used to having more than 2 type of vege serving on the table among all the other meat and seafood. I always thought this is a common practise for all the others. Yet, I am wrong. I found out that my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law family, including my own in-law family are very much a meat eater. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law never had that much of vege untill they come to our family, which they take some time to get used to.

Beside, it is not common for others to eat Steamboat during CNY, but it is a must have in my parent’s house. ^_~ You have no idea how much I miss the steamboat and vegetables.

Yet, spending Chinese New Year with my in-law is very nice. It is always good to spend time together as a family. Having a 8 months old baby(JP’s niece) among us surely brighten up the long travelling from one place to another.

I had a good new year, how about you?