你想要的，先要你自己给你自己

你想要的，先要你自己给你自己。

我还能给我自己什么？这么久以来，似乎我好像不是为自己自转。我只是一个地球围着一个☀太阳公转。 我想要的，要怎样给我自己。我又能怎样给我自己？

Kelantan - Tumpat One Day Trip (Part 2)

After visted to Wat Photivihan, we went to another temple. Yes, don't feel weird. There are actually a numbers of temples in Kelantan although this is an islamic state. The next temple we visited was Wat Mai Suwankiri. (龙船寺) which is located in Tumpat too.

There is a 400 years old dragon boat and a  standing Buddha. We were amazed by the huge standing Buddha from the entrance and misunderstood that it was a Standing Buddha Temple. Instead, it is the famous Dragon Boat Temple. Opps, sorry for the mixing up.

Like other temples in Kelantan, the temple was constructed more than 100 years by craftman from Thailand. The interior of the main temple is such majestic.  You will be stunned by the huge gigantic Standing Buddha at top of the building.

ANother main attraction in the Wat Mai Suwankiri, the Dragon Boat.There are 4 dragons act as "guardian", and the boat is surrounded by water.

You will notice that I don't take many photos of each temple even I found that the architectual is amusing me.  One of the reasons is that I do not know whether the action of photographing inside the temple is prohibited, and another reason is the weather on that day is terribly hot.


I believe I will revisit all this temples plus some temples which are already on my list soon. Do stay tune for more updates .

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Kelantan - Tumpat One day Trip (part 1)

Due to boringness here, we decided to go for one day trip nearby. You see, life here is like very peaceful and back to those time when our parents were young. No cinema, no shopping complex , no city entertainment here. Gonna find something to keep ourselves happy, right?

Upon some very last minutes google search before falling asleep, we came out with some lists of visit : a) Wat Photivihan (the sleeping buddha) at Tumpat. OK, at least one choice had been chosen. We believed we can go for other places of interest with the little help from GPS.

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Something happened during the trip, where we had accidentally set the wrong destination( we set the wrong wat name. U know, there are too many wat-wat here with long name where we can't really remember). No wonder why it leads us to Bachok la, luckily we believed with our instinct and we got some help from the locals. Oh, forget to mention, the locals here are friendly,which is a different norm from our west coast.

Soon, reaching our first destination -- >  Wat Machimaram at Tumpat. When you see the huge sitting buddha from the roadside, you will feel that are the hard works to find the location do worth.

Magnificent Sitting Buddha can be seen from the road side. Don't worry if you scare you can't look for the location, because the signboard of the temple is along the road when you reach Tumpat.

Wat Machimmaram contains a large statue of the Seating Buddha, that is 30 metres high and 18 metres wide. This Seating Buddha took 10 years to build by the skilled craftsmen from Thailand, and its was completed in 2000. Wat Machimmaram located in Kampung Jubakar, Tumpat and occupies over 2.4 hectares. The Thai group will conduct the religious celebration at the Wat such as Wesak Day, Kahtinna, Loy Krathong, Saibat, Songkran, and so forth. (source : http://dhammapath.blogspot.com/2010/10/wat-machimmaram-seating-buddha-tumpat.html). 

After that, we went to Free Trade  Zone  of Pengkalan Kubor. This FTZ is just located at Thai Border. To get there, we need to pass through a police checkpoint. Although it is a FTZ, I still find the items here mostly more or less same in our shopping complex. Kind of feel like being cheated. Can't even buy my lovely chocolates as they are not cheap. Mark you, you won't able to find any alcohol drinks here. Almost end up with disappointment but at last something there to cheer me up. 

 I called it rainbow ice cream because the ice cream is so coloured full, with only RM2 you can have a full cup of ice creams, with bread and glutinuous rice at bottom, topping with jellies, peanuts and corns. DOn't try to choose any flavour, the colourful of the ice cream is the trend mark.

After hanging in Pengkalan Kubor end up buying not much and under a huge hot sun, we moved to Wat Photivihan.

The temple houses a 40-metre statue of a sleeping Buddha, which is the longest of its kind inSouth East AsiaThe devotees of this temple are mainly ethnics Thais , and the temple itself is a typical Thai  Buddhist temple.（Source: wiki).

(to be continued)

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Brief introduction to Tanah Merah Food

Ok, gonna make this very short article regarding the food at Tanah Merah, Kelantan. 

There are Chinese food in the town, but honestly only some are a bit tasty.

1. Chengrai Restaurant

I assume this as Chinese mixed with Thai Style food. The food above from CHengrai Restaurant. The sotong we ordered was spicy + sour sotong. I considered it not bad becasue the sourness of the dish is appetising and the sotong were fresh. The upper right dish was curb ribs (南乳排骨）. Good recommendation from me. And the last one was salted fish fried with kai lan. Not a bad dish, but I can't really taste any salted fish there. Overall, the first meal over there was not a bad impression to me.

Ask the local chinese, they will able to guide you to the restaurant. Or you can try to look for the signboard of the Chengrai Restaurant beside the road. If you come from Tanah Merah town, the signboard should be at your right just a few kilometers away from town.

2. Roti Tempayan Belimbing

This was once my dinner. Roti tempayan and ayam tandoori. Trust me, nice dish. The roti tempayan is somehow like the roti canai we ate, but  it is thicker than the roti canai. Whereas the ayam tandoori is abit similar taste with "Cha Xiew". Don't look down upon the onion, try it. The onion was marinated and you can feel sourness from the sauce and sweetness from the onion itself.

3. Satay Kajang in the town

You can imagine how excited we were when we discovered there is Satay Kajang in the town. Sorry but I have to say, there is actually nothing much in this small little town. You can feel it when You see I am excited over that there is even waffle selling in the town or seeing that there is gym in the town.

 Tried it. I feel the taste of the satay is not bad. But I am not satisfied with the sauce they provided. I don't feel like there was any taste in the sauce. There are also other foods selling in this restaurant, somekind of mamak restaurant. The satay is not cheap, RM 0.80 per stick. But the drinks here is good. We had tried carrot milk  and singa beng. Wonder what is singa beng? It is actually air limau kasturi. Just cost RM 2.00 and Rm 1.00 each. Cheap drinks right??

Search for the big signboard of "satay kajang" left side of the road from tanah Merah town area.


You can find all the signboards or restaurant above driving along the main road of Tanah Merah Town to Kampung Belimbing area.

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Road Trip to Kelantan

The moment that I thought for days had finally arrived. That's the moment I gonna leave my hometown for another stage of life. Not to count what I had scarified  I am still reluctant to leave my lovely home, yet the decision had made. LIFE GOES ON.

Before I started my journey, some people had told me that the road to the EAST is quite tricky and steep. But now I would like to clarify that although it is not a road like North-South highway, the condition of the road to East is acceptable.

My journey is Ipoh-Kuala Kangsar-Gerik-Jeli-Tanah Merah. The picture above shows the journey from Kuala Kangsar to Gerik.

We stopped at Gerik Town for lunch. Please make sure you pump full petrol to your car if you wish to continue your journey to Kelantan. This is because there will be no petrol station after Gerik town for around 100+ km/ 1.5++ hours (depending on your speed). The nearest petrol station from Gerik will be in Jeli, Kelantan. BUt don't worry about rest house, there will still be some rest house along the journey in case you wish to rest or go for washrooms.

Actually after Gerik will be hill road. So beware. The scenery after Gerik. You will feel like you have entered into jungle or kampung area. Indeed, yes you are. Look for the "beware of Elephants" sign board. There will be  elephants appearing and crossing the left and right of the jungle of the roads. 

Ready to pass by Tasik Temenggung. The scenery here is quite beautiful. However, it was a raining day and I can't capture photos from my window.

The only best picture without any water mark on my window. Tasik Temenggung.

Journey after Tasik Temenggung. I have kind of feeling that I was going to Cameron Highlands.

Breathtaking scenery at top of Banjaran Titiwangsa.

From my rough calculation, the journey from Ipoh to Tanah Merah, Kelantan is actually consuming around 5+ hours excluding the rest time at Gerik. As I said, it still depending on your speed. We drove slowly along the journey as our car is small. 

First dinner at Kelantan which denotes my new life here??? 

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诉

再一次站在人生的十字路口， 徘徊着，不会走 看不到前后左右的路口 该责备命运的无情 还是自己的懦弱 缘起缘去 何去何从 软弱 无助 我的情感又有谁懂 原来要牺牲也不是那么容易的一件事 是要我直诉您的无情 是要我痛彻您的不平 为什么？为什么？ 许了的愿 为什么不让它实现？ 接受了的事实 为什么又一而再的有变数？ 您无情 您残忍 您不公平！ 我只求安安稳稳 都不可以？

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Lost

For the first time, I look at the map of a place that I never been for such a long time...
For the first time, I pledge for the appearance of miracle...
For the first time, I seek for Your guidance, lead me to a correct path...

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Vegetarian Spaghetti + ham roll

Decided to become the chef of the lunch out of a sudden. After a few hours of thinking, I decided to go for spaghetti, which I haven't consume it quite a long time.

 Basically, this is what you need for spaghetti cooking. 

Ingredients : 
Spaghetti (quantity based on your consumption)
mushroom ( you can put the amount you like, as for me, I put in half can for 3 servings)
spaghetti sauce ( I prefer PREGO spaghetti traditional sauce, I like the sourness of the sauce very much XD)
1 Onion
1 green bell pepper
Ham

 The "Agnesi" brand spaghetti is a brand that I tried first time. I bought it because .... *wink* ( it is with extra 33% of spaghetti compared the other brand with same price. Huh...I know I am quite aunty  abit.)

Started my preparation work by cutting the onion which had caused tears ran out of my eyes for few minutes. 

Vege Spaghetti Cooking Steps:

1. Boil a huge amount of water and add in a small amount of salt. Add in spaghetti to the boiled water and let them cooked for around 10 minutes.

2. Cut the onion and green pepper into cubes. Slice the mushroom as well.

3. Heat the saucepan with some olive oil. Fried the onion, green peppers and also mushroom for several minutes. You can smell the aroma of the vege now. :))

4. Add in PREGO spaghetti sauce. ( You gotta adjust the amount accordingly. As for my 3 servings, I put in at least half jar of the sauce.) (mine is the biggest size of the PREGO jar)

5. Flavour the sauce with salt/oregano and mix it with the vege. You can add in some cheese or milk into the sauce depends on your flavour. 

6. Drain the cooked spaghetti and mix the spaghetti with the sauce before serving. 

See, the spaghetti cooking is as easy as abc right? And it takes less time in preparation and cooking compare to other food and it suits lazy fello like me.  (Instant mee is not count in)

At the same time, I had prepared an appetizer for my lunch. The dish is somehow inspired by some other famous dish. Somehow I only can prepare the appetizer with the ingredients available. I named them -- > ham roll. (ok, i know the name is sucks LOL) 

Like the above idea?

It is just a simple and nice dish.
Ingredients:
2 pieces of ham (cut into 3 slices each)
2 french beans
carrot (slices into rectangular sizes )
6 slices mushrooms
mayonnaise
tomato sauce


Steps :
1. Divide the frenc beans into 3 pieces each.
2. Grill.fry the ham. Serve the hams on plate to let them cold. Then fry the french beans, carrots, and slice mushrooms for about 3 minutes. Add some salt and pepper to taste.
3. Lay some mayonnaise on the ham. Put a french bean, carrots and a sliced mushroom at the end of the ham. Then roll it up. Use toothpick to stable the roll.
4. Repeat step no.3  with the remaining. Served.

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