~* mY rEmiNiScEncES *~

Fresh and cheap seafood, scenic paddy field, succulent fruits, dozens of bird nest, Sekinchan is a place that you seafood cravers, photographer, nature and beauty lovers must visit!
It's a trip with Taylor's University Symphony Orchestra members: Joanne, JJie, Roy, XSheng, KHan and we're lucky to get our Photographer committee: KShen to be tour guide!
It was a 2 days 1 night trip on 27 - 28 Dec 2011.
The journey took around 2 hours from our campus to get there.

The first thing when we reached there was to feed our growling stomach!
Unfortunately, the 2 restaurants that KShen used to go were closed. (Quite a number of restaurants closed on that day, I guess they still haven't back from holiday?)
So, we went to 阿娇 Restaurant to have our lunch.



We were actually quite shocked when the bill came.
It was only RM11+ each person after divided by 7 of us!

After that, we settled down at Harbour View Hotel before continuing our plan to eel-fishing!



Monopoly that I just bought on the day before was one of the entertainment to kill the time while waiting for the sunset.
The weather was so hot and the sun was still scorching after few hours of time but we don't care and started our fishing session!





It wasn't my first time eel-fishing and I've never thought of doing this again after my first try during homestay at Sg. Haji Dorani in my 5th form secondary year :)
We spent quite a long time on searching the holes made by the eels since most of the paddy fields were harvested and the presence of eels in that area is relatively low.
I must say that it was my lucky day because I got to fish an eel after placing my hook for not more than 2 minutes time!


Seriously, it was not as light as I thought especially when it struggled upon being hooked up!
Anyway, we decided to let it go and not to cook it for our dinner.
Haha...
 
Next station: Tanjung Karang!
No, it was not a white sandy beach but full with shells and rocks.
Our plan to watch the sundown was failed.
Anyhow, the view was nice and we managed to take a few nice shots regardless of cloudy sky.



Hunger, was our, especially my frequent reaction. lol
Hence, we went to KShen uncle's cafe: Wong Corner for our dinner.


We planned to have BBQ initially yet rain fell so KShen cook for us instead!
Thinking back, it was better to have uncle cook for us as BBQ not only will take up a lot of time and most importantly, it's kinda risky since we can't guarantee all the food will be edible!!
Guess what, his uncle's cooking skills was self-learn and yet his cooking is ichiban I must say!






We managed to visit KShen's grandmother before returning to the hotel.
The night view along the street of the hotel was just like another i-City!
Yes, there were LED trees along the street, just that particular street.


We actually played a few lame games before resting which I really don't get it till now. /.\

On the next day, we were too tired and got up late.
Consequence? Missed the golden hour for photo-shooting :( and my dimsum.......
Nevertheless, we had nice panmee for our breakfast!


And, KShen's uncle joined us to bring us explore the attractions of Sekinchan after that.
We were slightly late when we went to the orchards as the fruits were sent out from the town on the day before.......



Still, we got to see turkey in real!
Hehe...


Later on, we went to look for golden paddy field which has yet to be harvested.
Of course, it was a photography session! ^^







Next station: Salak Tinggi Dam
It was locked and instead, we were busy capturing the photos of flowers, bees and butterflies around there.
Haha.



Last station: Getting local fresh fruits, prawn crackers, drinks and bird nest!
There was a rice distributor right in front of the stall and look, there are mountains of rice!




Our Sekinchan journey ended when we reach campus at around 4pm.
Glad that there was no major traffic congestion throughout the way and thanks a lot to "TchaikovskyS" of the trip: XSheng & KHan! :)  ♥

 ♥ is Sweet!
It's the wedding theme of KC & Jazzmine!


 
My KLPac friends: HTian, Abert, KFong and I were invited to play for our friend, Jazzmine during her wedding.
We actually met up and discussed quite early, somewhere in May I guess about the performance.
It's my first wedding gig honestly though have had experience in competition and other kinds of performance.
Well, we played some medley and a full version of some selected songs by Jazzmine:
Close to You
Top of The World
Fly Me To The Moon
Moon River
Rhythm of The Rain
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Over The Rainbow


Almost all of the songs were arranged by Albert!
Guess what, he has a cool music workstation..!


Besides music performance by us, there was a violinist, the bridegroom's violin teacher who played for the opening!
His name was Jon and guess what, he's my friend's bandmate!
The world is small, I'd say..
Especially in music field!



All in all, thank you Jazzmine for the invitation and giving me the chance to play with strong saxophonists HTian, KFong & bassist Albert!

Another reason is, I think it's a day where we have to appreciate our parents especially mother for giving birth and nurturing us to what we are today.
Hence, there's no tradition in my family where we must throw a birthday party.
Yet, I was grateful to have a pre-birthday celebration by my food partner: JKie for a dinner buffet at Suki-ya, Pavillion KL.


On my birthday, my classmates and sisters had a surprise for me during the interval of our class.
I was so touched because it was really a busy week for us meeting the assignments' deadlines & presentation...

Thank you Natasha, Vita, Ju-Lian, Wei Wei, Jerrico, Fiona, Arnold, Ali, Devindran & Aizat! ^^


Also, a self-decorated cake by my cousie: Nigel!
Took me 3 days to finish it.. haha

And and, special thanks to EYi for coming all the way and send me the birthday present to my doorstep..!
Aiks... Can't get to see you after so long even though you came due to my absence at home that time...



Oh yes, thanks a lot to my orchestra mates for have a post-celebration after the orchestra practice!
The multi-language and repeated birthday song led by XSheng was indeed, amusing... xD



Last but not least, thanks mum for the lovely present

White Vengeance/ Hong Men Yan is a Chinese historic film directed by Daniel Lee, starring Liu YiFei, Feng ShaoFeng, Leon Lai, Zhang HanYu, Jordan Chan, Anthony Wong etc.

It's a decent movie albeit the aberrations that can't escape from the keen eyes of audience or history fanatics.
Undeniably with the interesting plot & actors + actresses that don't disappoint, I like this movie!
It's my 1st movie after my last movie that I had in July, yeah, few months ago.
In fact, I've watched this twice!
Both cantonese & mandarin version. Haha...
It's a 2 hours 17 minutes movie.
Well, you might get a bit bored at the beginning but trust me it's getting more exciting & thought-provoking as the story goes on.
The malay audience sitting at the front row even clapped when the movie ends!
I watched it at the first time with my friends and we find it amusing when Yu Ji & Xiang Yu get together at such short moment.
Yeah, on the same day they just got to know each other and the next thing is, they promised to be with each other forever.
Our first reaction at the cinema was "what? so fast?!"
Haha...

The loyalty between Liu Bang & Fan Kuai as well as the love between Xiang Yu & Yu Ji was very touching.
Jordan Chan did a good job on interpreting the Fan Kuai character I must say.
And, the way Zhang Liang aided Liu Bang in circumventing Xiang Yu was interesting.


However, the ending was rather saddening, quite similar with the ending of Curse of The Golden Flower.
Honestly, though it's a historic film, I'd prefer if there's a happy ending.
LOL
I dislike story with sad ending :(

It's 3 months + of semester break after my finals!
I was watching Storm Warriors 2 (yeah, I know I'm out-dated but this is the latest version of Storm Raider atm!).

I've missed a lot of movies these days T_T
Uh...


And, received an unexpected call from my sis & bro to ask me out and yamcha..
Haha.. In fact, I just came back from there and now blogging...
It was such an excited one I must admit..

Teehee...
4 - 1 so there was only 3 of us...
Nope, this wasn't taken just now :P


We miss our leader cum bro, OMH!!!

Can't wait for our next outing...!
Till then...


XOXO ♥