DREAMS AND MEMORIES

 

CSS FAMILY DAY 2009!!!

 

 

The weather was simply wonderful for a day of games and songs in the sun. We had so much fun playing, mixing around and singing. Guess one can tell from all the big grins and smiles captured in the photos. ^_^  This is going to be something I’ll miss after leaving UTP. Job well done to the excos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The name of this place came about from the direct translation of it’s name from Cantonese to English. It’s only my second time to this place but still the experience is absolutely fulfilling. Especially because there is porridge served at this place – my all time favorite

**getting all starry eyed just at the memory**

 

Anyway, this place in Ipoh is an absolutely wonderful place for breakfast and lunch. They’ve got a variety of noodles and things of that sort as well. The highlight among all would of course be the fried ‘Yong To Fu’ like dishes.

You can get the directions to this place simply by clicking here.

Went to this hawkers center near the Stadium Indera Putera after dropping by the Ipoh PC fair for 40 minutes. practically starving when we reached the hawkers center. Since only Cres and Bart were with me, it was only natural that I speak Sabahan bahasa with them (something that I’ve picked up throughout my years at University) asking them what noodles they wanted to eat.

 

Proceeding to the lady boss of the fried kuey teow stall to place my order, I started to make my orders in fluent cantonese. This is what happened after I finished placing my order.

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(2 second pause before she could stop staring and start talking )

[Conversation translated from Cantonese]

Lady Boss 

ARE YOU CHINESE????!!!

 

Audrey

(Puzzled) Yes. I am Chinese.

 

Lady Boss

Owhh.. They why were you speaking Malay Language with your friends then?

 

Audrey

Owh, they’re from Sabah, not Chinese and normally speak Bahasa or English only. (Sorry here Bart, easier to explain to the lady by saying you’re not chinese instead of explaining to her that you’re half chinese and the whole long story and we’ll end up not getting our dinner)

 

Lady Boss

I see. So what’s your order again? And urmmm… can they take pork?

 

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Settling back at our table, I noticed that some neighboring table people were staring at the bunch of us in total shock. :-P

Probably surprised that a bunch of non chinese looking people speaking Bahasa, suddenly order food in Cantonese, and asked for ‘lap cheong’ in the noodles as well.

 

Back once more to my university to continue with final semester after one week of forced holiday. Was seriously reluctant to come back after spending a relaxing week back home in KL. but i guess my room isn’t so bad after all. Definitely miss my roomie even though we seem to be operating in different time zones.

Its the usual drill when back from a leave from university. Sweeping, wiping, mopping and laundry. So now I have my room back in perfect order. Nice and cozy.

The philosophy for this semester is to finish as much work as possible OUT of the room. And have total relaxation when back in the room. (^_^) [Except in unforeseen circumstances of course which hopefully wouldn’t be often.] A good example of what to do in the room would be to lounge in my bed like my doggie. 

 

Been trying out several new themes for my blog for the past few days. There were so many that I couldn’t decide which one to go with. So there was a lot of searching, downloading and not to forget, lots of codes to tweak here and there. [Unpleasant reminder of why I don’t enjoy doing programming]. And there was seemingly endless lines of codes for each and every theme I was considering. Nearly got crossed eyed from all those codes.

 

Finally made my decision last night and started to do my own customization to the template. Hope that it’s not too wordy at the sidebars. Would appreciate any comments, feedback or suggestions to further improve. (^_^)