Dawn Rising Sun

I don't know why, but my husband has very high expectatoion on "Wan Tan Mee", he always would find unsatisfy on some "wan tan mee" taste, he said that only a stall in Bayan Lepas can satisfy his requirement, well to me their almost the same, but I prefer not to have fried dumpling. To SL, he even tastes noodle's sauce. Seeing him tasted "wan tan mee" so "professional", so I found a shop with famous noodle in Penang for him, it is Yi Garden on Macalister Road, they also famous with "fried osyter". On a weekend, we visited Yi Garden and ordered "wan tan mee" and fried oyster for us, fried osyter was RM8.50 a plate, but I didn't find it is extremely nice as there wasn't a lot of oysters in the plate but we got a lot of fried egg, well I agree their egg was well fried, just it wasn't what we expected with the good advertistment said. Next is our "wan tan mee" coming, which sold at RM4 for small ...

This evening, my husband as usual came to fetch me from office and I found that was a bunch of flower at passager's side when I opened the door, it was a big surprise because I never thought SL would buy me flower on this special day. Yes, today is our 3rd wedding anniversary, we got married on this day three years ago, this can consider as the first time we have it in Malaysia. SL was relocated to US on the first anniversary and we celebrated our second's in US, then now we both in Malaysia for the third. Due to 27th of September is on Tuesday this year, therefore we celebrated earlier at last Saturday, it was a happy day, we had movie in Gurney Plaze and great dinner at a korea restaurant in Tanjung Tokong, we also had some walks in Strait Quay, there we took a lot of pictures. Strait Quay is really a good place to walk around, environment is just like we are in Europe country, a small harbour and European style building with some sea view, I like the place very much. ...

那天，老公带我经过槟城的 Esplanade，他告诉了我一个好多年前的故事，那时我们两还有粱的弟弟到 Esplande 参与 Bon odori 的节目。 突然间，有人从他的背后，很粗鲁的推了他一把，当时我们都在很远处，所以不晓得这件事。被推了之后，粱感到愤怒而想要骂那个推他的人，只是，当他转头发现那是一群军人时，他为了自保而忍了下来。 令梁感到好奇的是，为何会有一群严肃的军人出现在 Bon odori?于是他就仔细的看，原来丁福南被包围在中间，那群军人是为这位“大人物”开路的。 听到这里，我就搞笑的对梁说：“没关系，他的军人推了你之后，丁福南就在下一届大选输了。”是的，他在308时惨败。

Tonight... Me: My legs are looking fat, I think that I need to do more exercise to get it firm and fit. My hubby: At this age, any action taken will be useless to you. Me: =.=" (#%*€£¥ Dear, can you just said something more encouraging?)

Of course, I am not a good swimmer and never took a swimming class before, but somehow I think swimming is my favourite sport, I don't mind that I swim slower than others, but I like the feeling in water and doing exercise. When swimming, you need to concentrate, right? Else you would get drown, therefore I could temporary forget my job. And, people said this is the best sport to keep our body fit, I am not sure if this is true but I like it because I won't make me sweating hardly like other sports. Well, I didn't know how to swim since young, until I tried to playing in water during my teenage and I saw everyone can swim freely in water, so I want to know how to swim. Then, I tried hard to paddle my hands and feet in water, I found that I could float and move in water after some trials, so I considered that I could "swim", though it was actually swimming with no style. However, I didn't have much opportunity to swim until I move to Penang, and I even can ...

某天，与朋友聊到槟城的食物，她就介绍了这吴发成菜馆的火锅，她说好吃，所以我们就找了个周末去品尝了。 火锅并没什么稀奇，只是吴发成的火锅是碳烧火锅，这还是我第一次在槟城看到，上一次吃碳烧火锅是在金马伦高原，觉得当时的金马伦火锅好吃但放了很多味精，并不是我想要的。这次，来试吴发成火锅，我们也是有担心这点。  当我们到了吴发成菜馆时，是将近5:30pm，店才刚刚开，所以不是很多人，初次到这店，我们不了解他的价格是怎么算的，而槟城有很多火锅店是自助型的，一口价任你吃，所以我们看到店里没有自助柜台就觉得奇怪。 问了问老板娘，她说这店是走配套的，像我们两个人，就大概RM40有个火锅，还有两盘肉。我们也不太了解她的配套是怎样的算法，既然朋友介绍应该不会差，而且火锅之家也是大约RM20一个人头，所以就叫的那RM40的配套了。 才刚刚选完了配套，店员就将我们要的一壶茶和一盘花生送上，我们想这应该是包括在配套里吧，花生虽是普通的花生，但不吃白不吃，我们就吃得津津有味。之后，火锅就来了，下面是碳，偶尔需要风扇来让火烧大，锅中间还有个高高的烟囱，是让下面的烟散开的，锅里已经有好多料了，都是菜类。试了试它的汤，还蛮甜蛮好喝的。 最后，两盘的肉类就送上来了，材料都满新鲜的，虾也很大只，只是我们原本认为的两盘肉应该是两大盘的，但是他们比想象中少，再加上锅中的菜，我们认为是填不饱我们的肚子了，所以就叫了多两碗饭，我们想饭应该是不包括在配套吧。 吴发成的火锅汤底很好喝，我一边吃还一边赞它汤的味道，我们还猜这汤是怎没调味出来的，他们应该是没有加味精，因为我们当天没有感到非常的口渴，我们就喜欢这样的食物，没有味精的好味道。 当我们吃完准备付钱时，才发现那RM40的配套只包括了火锅和那两盘得料，茶、花生和饭都是另计，我们还用了两个也不包括在配套的湿纸巾，总共用了RM46.80。以价格与其它槟城的火锅来评，吴发成的火锅算是有点的贵，但是看在它的汤好喝的份上，我们都还算付得心甘情愿，但是，如果以后没有想要喝好的火锅汤底的话，我想我们应该较低可能会再来这间火锅店了。 由于吴发成坐落在汕头街(Kimberly Street)，所以周围还有很多的档口，听说还有汕头美食四大天王，我们在饭后还到了豆水档吃了那儿的豆水和豆腐花。听说，汕头街还有好喝的杏仁水，下次应该还会再到这里来尝...

That day, I wasn't feeling for sometimes, so that I went to consult a doctor, then the doctor asked me how often did I have exercise. Well, I swam every Thursday with YY, LE and LP, and that's all I had, it was about once a week for around 30 minutes to an hour. When doctor knows this, then she said this wasn't enough, of course I know that we at least need about 20 minutes of exercise a day, but we are too lazy to do it and we even wish that our time can fully spend at work, rather than something good for our health. After seeing the doctor, I think that I might need to change my lifestyle and do more exercises. Finally, our schedule start changing during Raya holidays, we did exercise everyday that week, SL and I went to swim everyday that week. After having more exercise, I could feel my body is healthier, because I always felt quite cold when I was in office or at night, but I feel that I can fight against coldness better than before, I even didn't need to wea...

今天，看‘不述之约’时有句话牵动了我~~男人等女人是天经地义，让女人等男人却不好。 其实，我不是个不准时的人，但有时也是会迟到一点点，但也只是那么几分钟罢了，只是我的老公是个没耐性的人，每当等一下下，他都会生气，即使只那么一两分钟。 其实，我有时真的是受够他的气了，我忍，但总是有忍无可忍的一天的，时常会因为他为了短暂的等待而对我脸臭臭，最后弄得我不开心，还生气。 为什么他只看到他等我的时候？我也时常因为他迟到而等他啊，而他往往都忘了那些时候。 有时，跟他在一起会让我感到压力，很有压迫感，他总认为他所做的是最伟大的事，而我只是微不足道的那个小女人，所以我忍是应该的，而他是那个拥有主导权的那个。 只要我忍，而没把脾气发出来，所有的事就是小事而不足挂齿。当我不开心而发脾气时，他才会觉得事态严重而检讨。 然而，我真的是受够了，太多次了，我好讨厌他哦。

Past few months, I was reading a book and now I finished it, "Lost Symbol" from Dan Brown, the book from author of "Angles and Demon" and "Da Vinci Code". Well, I bought this book when it was first release at two years ago, but I didn't read it until now. If I know that I won't read it that soon, I might only buy the book now because it is cheaper after first release with softcover and I am not a fan to collect first release books. To me, "Lost Symbol" is not as good as his previous work, his "Digital Fortress" is even better than this book. Over all, the story is still nice, just I didn't like the ending which left the director of CIA's secret unclear. Also, the story wasn't that excited to me and I could guess who the madman is before the half of the story and I somehow find the story is dragging slow when author tries to write different storylines from different charactar, this makes my emotion was suddenly co...

Logo's Hope Floating Book Fair is arrived to Penang from 25 August to 25 September, I was there at the second day of its opening, it was so crowded on Saturday, we needed to line up to get a pass from port officer before on board and there were still a lot of visiters waiting for boarding. Finally, we successfully on board and pay RM1 for entrance fee, which I think it was reasonable, because this book fair is supported by a group of volanteer from different nationals, where you could find there nation from their badge. It was my first time to visit a floating book fair on a real ship, this ship is travelling to different places for public to visit, their books' price is calculated by unit, which 100 units worth for RM8. To me, their story book price are fair and seem like cheaper than other bookstore, but their cookbooks price are not much different. Due to too crowded and limited exhibition space, I found hard to walk inside the bookstore, I found a lot of people just ...

I read something interesting today about investment on property, it tells that we need to know the rental rate there before you buy the property and a good guideline for residential investment is about 6% (or more) rental returns. This mean that if you got the annual rental return with more than 6% of your property value, then that property is worth for invest. Here is the formula: Rent/month X 12 months ____________________ X 100 = 6%    Property Value Besides that, we also need to consider how long will that property be filled up, how is demand vs supply, growing rate and so and so. I think 6% calculation is quite helpful for benchmarking if that property is worh for investment or not, but I think it is hard to find a condominium in Penang for a 6% rental return now, isn't it?

说到这肉骨茶店，我们还真的是机缘巧合的来到的，当时我们本打算去吃白咖喱面的，但是才发现它只开到3pm，所以只好选别间店来解决晚餐，就选了这间靠近我们停留地点的益香肉骨茶了。 当我们抵达了这间店，就看见了间好大的一间肉骨茶店，这与传统的当口不太一样，其实第一眼见到这样规模的店，梁和我是有点的失望，就感觉像是去 Old Town 用餐一样，有规模没味道的感觉。 看了看它的菜单，又是另一种失望了，因为他每一样菜都有各自的价钱，不像普通的肉骨茶档将所有的材料都放入一个碗的，一口价，而益香的却将每一样食才分开来开价，如果真要将每样料都吃的话，还真的是不便宜呢。最后，我们就选了排骨和半肥瘦，加一道菜了。 然而，食物还没上桌还真是不能就此下定论的，益香的肉骨茶还真的是蛮不错的，它的排骨是很好的排骨，做得恰到好处，肉很容易就脱骨而出了，它的半肥瘦也是满满的一碗（虽然是小婉），味道也很不错。还有，他们的汤很浓、很好喝，很难在一般的档口找到，每一口还会感觉它沾在唇上，还会无意间的用舌头去舔自己的嘴唇，想把那浓汤的味道吞入肚里。这还是我们第一次喝肉骨茶喝到这么疑惑，喝到这么有话题。 其实，它将每样食才分开来开价也是有它的好处，向有人只喜欢某种部位，就只买那部位，而且还是精华，只是对于那些喜欢吃全部部位的人而言就有点的昂贵了，只是它的分量是可以满足一个正常人的肚子的，而且最主要是碗碗都是好料，我只能说是物有所值。 那天，我们大概花了RM34（包括饭和服务费）的晚餐费，是比一般的肉骨茶贵了些，但我们也很满意它的味道，回家途中还一直讨论着它的味道和它的概念，我们把它归类为精致的肉骨茶，小小一碗但却是精华，还真的有齿唇留香的感觉，梁还说这是他第一次有想要再回去同一间店再吃的冲动，而且还要再吃它的排骨。 相隔了一个星期，我们带梁的家人再去了益香，他们的食物虽然少了第一次的惊喜，但还是蛮好吃的，而且人多了价钱除起来也比较划算，五个人大约吃了RM68。 下次，我要试试它的绑线材料了，听说是因为他们用这绑线的方法，所以汤才会这么的香浓到位。只是，吃它们的肉骨茶时，要特别注意别让舌头烫到，因为它们用火来为汤保温，有时汤会被烧得太烫了。 地址：88, Macalister Road,        ...