Weekend Getaway to Sungai Lembing, Pahang

On the last week of March this year, I went to Sungai Lembing in Pahang with the Quantity Surveying Society committee members. I've always wanted to blog about this adventurous trip but the busy schedule last semester made it not happened. 

..and here I am trying to reminisce the moments and the itinerary. 

Let's go back to the last weekend of March

skipped my tutorial class on Friday. Glen picked me up from my place and met up with the rest for breakfast in SS15. Then we started our Journey and headed to Kuantan to meet up Kim. The five of us, Alice, Glen, Chee Ming, Bryan and I took two cars up to Kuantan. I was asked to follow Glen's car so I had a 3 hours talk with him from Subang all the way to Kuantan. 
after 3 hours ride, finally checked-in to a 3-storey terrace house, Kim's place. I'm in love with his house at first sight. the spacious living room, the modern interior design and his sister's pink room! It's a room of my dream.

Check out Kim's brother's room where Alice and I stayed that night. 

Alice's bed on the left and mine on the right. 
so after settling down, we headed out for lunch, dessert and then off to the first beach.

Beserah Beach 

Beserah Beach, Kuantan.
Beserah Beach
I don't think anyone would come out to the beach around one or two in the afternoon. It was bloody hot. still remembered how Bryan's slipper got flushed away by the waves and how Chee Ming got broken glass stucked in his foot and how Glen used his saliva to clean Chee Ming's wound. hah I sense some bromance there. 

after spending some times there, we left and headed to second beach.

Teluk Cempedak

The first thing when we reached Teluk Cempedak is to get a new slipper for Bryan. Haha! and outside the shop there was a monkey (thought of the boyfriend) sitting on top of a payphone. 

not sure who tried to make friend with the monkey but ended up it tryna attack us. whrahhhh.... ruuuuun! 

there there little monkey. we're nice. 

Walah.. Teluk Cempedak beach, Kuantan. 
 

That's Chee Ming (white) and Kim (black) flying a kite
We also bought frisbee from the stores. no, we bought two frisbees because I broke the first one. hahaha. Accidentally threw it to the lamp post and it broke. low quality or I'm good at it? I take the latter. hah. I kinda enjoyed the whole bonding session with the seniors with these kind of activities. plus I taught them how to play frisbee some more. insert proudface.jpg

the sunsets. street lights on. and we still refuse to leave. 

until everyone was hungry.

then we headed to this famous restaurant in Kuantan for their fried salty egg crabs. I regret for not taking pictures of it. google search about it if you don't know. it tasted so good that I am drooling now. 

so, after dinner, we headed back to Kim's place exhausted-ly. quickly took our shower, and the guys continued their night with alcohol. and for me, I slept right after I blew dry my hair. 

I had boo boo after frisbee. *cries*

and here's the end of my Day 01. 



Day 02 - Sunrise, Panorama Hill

woke up around 4am the next day and drove to Panorama Hill, Kuantan to see sunrise. Hiking is my thing, but because of the sleepless night before in Kim's house. I was not so energizes. It took me quite awhile to climb up the plunging hill and yes, I failed to catch the sunrise, neither my group of company. We still made it up there. Although we missed the sunrise, but the view from the top of Panorama Hill is breathtaking. Looking through a sea of clouds sun-drenched above the village in Sungai Lembing. One word, wonderful! 

Look at the sea of clouds behind us!

Bryan (blue), Glen (grey), Chee Ming (white), kim (with cap), Alice (red) and I



After spending sometime on top, we headed down. Be careful here, I sprained my ankle because the meandering road down was slippery. Then we headed to Sg. Lembing town to get ourselves local food, tomato mee. After breakfast, check-in to our cottage. 

The cottage is located on top of Sg. Lembing hill, the route to the Rainbow Waterfall. I like that place, very cozy, the view is breathtaking. It's a nice place to relax, away from the stressful city. I really love having myself there. 

Here's some info if you're interested.

This is their room. not bad right?

and ahem* opposite the bed

After some rest, we headed to Kim's uncle restaurant to rent their bicycle. We traveled around the village, stopped by the Museum and then it started raining. We had no where to hide so we ran into an old convenient shop leaving our bicycle outside. T'was fun. We traveled into the housing area from their old hanging bridge and back to the town from the newly-built concreted bridge. Regretted for not taking any picture, but it was not convenient to take any picture while cycling. gah.. oh well.

return our bicycle. back to our cottage. and we rested for a while.


after taking shower, I took a nap surrounded by the nature while the others were chit-chatting. fall asleep hearing the chirps of the birds. after like an hour, I woke up feeling relaxed. My mind and soul are all cleared up. ahh... I really wanted to go back.

then we paid a visit to the Sungai Lembing Mines. It was one of the attraction so might as well visit there once. Tbh, I was not interested to visit stuff like this.The mines was long and deep, special, but I didn't really enjoyed it. I thought the train was going to bring us inside but wtf it only brought us like 300 meters, and we needed to walk all the way in. Inside the mines was cold and dark, looks real but it's fake. and so I paid RM30 for walking inside a mines where water dripped on top of my head. I don't think this place worth the admission fee and the place is somehow overrated lahh.

after that, we went to take out dinner in a restaurant and then back to the cottage for some karaoke and drinking session. and this marked the end of our day 02.




Day 03 - Rainbow Waterfall

woke up before the sunrise again quickly get ourselves ready and met up with the rest at the lobby. and that day was our last day, and we're going to end it with something I love, explore the nature. 

the bumpy car, It was a 4wd, but just let me name it bumpy car, was waiting outside our cottage for us. we took a ride down the town and had our breakfast at the place we took our lunch on Day 02. After that, we started our journey into the nature. We took of from the town and head into hill by bumpy car. Around 45 minutes to 1 hour of bumpy car ride to reach the hiking point to the Rainbow Waterfall. 

Beware of slapping tree trunk on your way there. I got slapped a few times, and the bumpy car ride really hurt my butt. Once we reached the hiking point, we were asked to change into their hiking shoe. Rental fee: MYR3 per pair. The smallest size there is still big for my tiny feet, just so you know, I am size 5. 

First of, we needed to cross a small but strong river, rope is attached for you to grab while crossing. Remember I sprained my ankle in Panorama Hill? Yup, imagine me hiking w sprained ankle? Ouch. But I made it with the help of Chee Ming and Glen. Good teamwork! Haha 

Now, let the picture speaks. 

I should have took this w my GF3, It's still nice w my S3 camera




After some fun time playing with Rainbow Waterfall, we headed back to our cottage by the bumpy car, took our shower and back to Subang. 

and here is the end of my weekend getaway in Sungai Lembing, Pahang. 

Halloween'14

I've never been worrying about what to wear or what to be on Halloween, because I have never been invited to any Halloween party before. 

and I've always been watching Halloween makeup tutorial on YouTube, but never thought that I would be searching for one. This Halloween, I wanted to dress up in something sassy. becoming a Minnie Mouse had came to my mind. 

because I was told about the Halloween party last minute, I've no idea where could I find Minnie mouse costume. and fortunately, I got one from Hui Ting.  

taken with Oppo Find 7
My mom did asked if I wanna blacken my nose and draw a few whiskers on both of my cheeks. but I don't wanna go any further than that, you know, I'm currently staying in Kota Kinabalu, not Kuala Lumpur. 

Joyce x Elynn x Me

Elynn x Me

Me x Brian 

Me x Bonnie

Joyce x Me

Bar35 in KK Time Square doesn't held any Halloween nor anyone wearing costume cause all the clubbies had went to The Bed Waterfront. We didn't choose to go The Bed because we knew the place must be crowded with vampires and zombies.

Joyce x Elynn x Me
The Halloween atmosphere in Bar35 was not as fun as I thought. No one is wearing costumes and we were the only table who wore devil or bunny headbands. Oh and, I forgot to bring my Minnie headband, how annoying is that??

After partying for a few hours, I went to The Bed tagging Joyce along with me. My mom was there with my family friends, I know, I have a very sporting mom. It was my mom's first clubbing experience, haha. She went to the club merely because to support the daughter of her friend in Halloween costume competition. The place was crowded, I guess the whole citizen was gathered there. Joking. Hah.

Well, my first Halloween experience was not as fun as I thought, read about Cheesie went to Japan during Halloween and it looks so cool! maybe I would try it again in Japan.

Dream Trip to Macau

Nuffnang Contest

After watching the Korean TV programme, Running Man, I've always wanted to visit Macau for once. In the show, the scenery, landscape and even the people is so warm and friendly. and because I've already seen Macau thru TV, and I'm a wanderluster, Macau is one of my dream trip.

I'm actually saving my money for it. and coincidentally, all glory to Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) and Nuffnang, they are giving three Nuffnangers a 3D2N all expenses paid holiday (including return air tickets and two nights accommodation at a 4-star hotel) to Macau.

during CNY last year, my family and I went to Hong Kong to visit my relatives. because we bought our ticket last minutes, we didn't have time to get China visa to visit Macau.

I was only 50 miles away from dreamland. =(

Here's the Three Most Amazing Things that I wanted to visit in Macau.

1. House of the Dancing Water
source: Google image
source: Google image
The world largest water-based show that is created and directed by the world's greatest showmaker, Mr. Franco Dragone. The show has no language and the performers do acrobatic to perform the show and express their meaning. The show lasts about 1 hour 25 mins and performs weekly from Mon to sun, usually rest on Tuesday and Wednesday. They provide show time at 5pm and 8pm only. 

source: Google image
Address: Grand Hyatt Macau Level 1, city of Dreams. (Next to 'Beijing Kitchen')
Ticket pricing:
Sun - Fri
Zone VIP - MYR625±, Zone A - MYR400±, Zone B - MYR330±, Zone C - MYR250±
** Avoid going on Saturday because the price is MYR50 higher each zone.

2. Macau Tower Convention & Entertainment Tower
source: Google image

The one of the tallest tower free-standing tower in the world is the city's iconic landmark, standing 388 meters at its highest point. Sometimes a go, I've watched one of my fave Korean TV programme, Running Man went to Macau Tower for some extreme adventure.

Address: Largo da Torre de Macau, South Bay New Reclamation Area.
Ticket pricing:
Tower entry - MOP135/MYR55
Skywalk X - MOP788/MYR325 (excluding ticket price for tower entry)

3. The Venetian Macau
source: Google image
The Venetian Macau a.k.a. The Grand Canal Shoppes is like a retail therapy with luxury duty-free shops. Other than shopping, the architecture and design are very attractive too. It is located inside Venetian Macau Hotel. Can't wait to take pretty pictures there!

Besides the pretty places I wanted to visit, here's Three Most Amazing Food I wanted to eat in Macau

1. Portuguese egg tart from Lord Stow's Bakery
source: messywitchen.com
source: Google image
source: Google image
Portuguese egg tart is Macau's most famous street food, and the most popular one is from Lord Stow's Bakery. Lord Stow's Bakery has several outlet throughout Macau, so finding one wouldn't be hard.

2. Portuguese Seafood Fried Rice
source: CNN.com
Whenever I saw 'Portuguese fried rice' on the menu in any restaurant, I would definitely order one. I've tried once in my hometown, but unfortunately, that restaurant has been closed down, and eversince, I have been craving and searching for it. All I know is Macau is famous for Portuguese food, so I would definitely wanna try one there. Upon Google search, I've found that in Fernando's Restaurant, they serve Portuguese fried rice, and the restaurant was ranked the Traveller's Choice of 2014 in TripAdvisor.

3. Pork Bun from Tai Lei Loi Kei, Taipa Village
source: eatandtravelwithus.com
source: eatandtravelwithus.com
The pork bun is like a Macanese style fast food or some called it street food. I've read a lot of travel blog review about pork bun in Macau, which makes me wanna to try pork bun too!!!
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Amina's Birthday Dinner @ Awesome Canteen, Taman Paramount

In early July this year, my coursemates and I celebrated Amina's 19th birthday in Awesome Canteen located near Paramount Garden. One of my coursemate, Maureen made a booking of six there. When I first heard the name of the place, I knew it is going to be some hipster cafe, so I googled up and found lots of good food review. and therefore, I went to Awesome Canteen with high expectation.

The interior
some vintage tv as decoration. 

The waiter came and distribute the menus to each of us, but we were more likely to chit chat and snap pictures. The boyfriend was the cameraman of the night, cause I told him that I wanna enjoy my food more than taking pictures. Haha. So here's me having dilemma on which food should I order.


Awesome Canteen servers variety of foods from Asian fusion, breakfast, fast food to burger/sandwiches with western inspiration. The most food review I read was their burger, so I decided to order burger for myself.



The price range of the main course is around MYR20 to MYR40. I do not remember the name of each food I took, but I could tell what's on the plate.

Grilled chicken risotto

Grilled chicken

Mushroom soup with garlic bread
 It's been awhile since I used this cup. I was only a primary school student when I used this kind of cup to drink milo after a day from school. The garlic soup is good, not too thick, not so watery, just the way I like it.

Nachos with special dips. 
 As appetizer, I ordered some nachos for the table. The dip is their signature. It tastes so so good and it goes well with the nachos. Thumps up for this.

My beef burger
 The burger is a little big huge, I could not finish it all. I barely bite the whole burger, sauces and vege were dropping one by one. and I ended up only eaten the bun, ate the beef patty separately. The chips is nice, and if I am not mistaken, it was not potato chips, but sweet potato chips which make the whole meal slightly healthier. Haha.

Grilled beef
look at that face. 

love is in the air. look at how Thol stares with his smile. 
After our dinner, the waiter came with Amina's cake and sing her birthday song.


and we ended our night with lots of wefies.

Iuthi. Me. Amina. Maureen
Maureen. Iuthi
Amina. Me. Boyfriend.