Mission Impossible - The Making

Our Dept Manager, Mr Boobalan is originally from India. He has been working with KNM for nearly 8 years and I think it's time for him to take one step higher from what he had now. He will not be promoted neither resigning out from KNM. As a matter of fact, he is actually will be leaving us, to more accurate our department but still with KNM to go back to his hometown and start another KNM branch there. This is one of his sales target to expand KNM project more wildely. He already tendered his allocation to India and his last day supposed to be by end of this week (31/01/2010).

So thats all how it started. Remember my post on the "Mission Impossible" project, as ussual ZT as a volunteer organizer setted up an idea to have a pot luck farewell party and assigned us with the food that we have to bring on that day. Below are our assignments :




Since sorang2 dh ade tugasan one day before the party, Fizah and I went to Tesco Cheras to buy our stuffs. Ye la mana ade experience nak masak dlm scale yg besar mcm nie kan. Nervous suma ade. Macam reality TV program lak, last week tugasan conduct aerobic, this week masak plak. I think I should done my own reality TV, mesti gempak. Huhuhu perasan lak. So after work, we straighted to Tesco to buy chickens first, 1 chicken for each of us to cut 16 pieces. Then br rencah2 nya like serbuk kari for Fizah, kentang, tomato and etc. Sampai2 je umah around 9.30pm, first thing that I'd done was to wash the chicken first. Then I prepared all the cooking equipments sebab kejap lagi nak berperang di dapur. So after this klas memasak bersama SAILORMOON akan bermula, we take a break first, I went to take a bath and rileks dulu. Around 11pm br program akan bermula.

.................................................Chicken Masak Merah...............................................

i) Bahan2nya ayam yg di beli di tesco extra.


ii) Cuci bersih2 masuk dlm bekas


iii) My cooking tools. (Cili Boh, bawang2 yg siap ditumbuk, sos cili, tomato)


iv) Ha mula2 kasi make up ayam skit ngan bedak kunyit dan segala rempah2 ratus yg ade.


v) Saya tengah memasak, di mulai dgn menggoreng ayam. Then baru buat kuah masak merah so takkan masak nak amik gambo kan. Concentrate la beb...
-NO PREVIEW-

vi) Dan hasilnya.....



vii) Sengaja asingkan dulu kuah ngan ayam. Esok baru mix supaya x bersepah nanti.


viii) Dapur kasi kemas. Finish cooking around 1.30am. Mission impossible accomplished. Br dapat tido lena.

.............................................................ZZZZZZ.................................................................

Mission Impossible??

Pot Luck at office dis Tuesday and I have to prepare Ayam Masak Merah for my dept. Menyesal lak gatal mulut ckp sanggup. But it's better then kena masak curry or rendangkan. Huh, just wait & see jer la... MOMMY HELP!!!

Last Day @ Penang

Finally, the day has come. Our last day at Penang, we took photo at our room before checked out.




Wore a beach dress I brought from Batu Feringgi Bazaar last night




We checked out from our homestay around 10am and straight to Georgetown.




NASI KANDAR LINE CLEAR LUNCH TREAT

Since it's already 12noon, we decided to go for lunch first. Perut masing2 dah berkeroncong, so our first spot of course the famous Nasi Kandar Line Clear. So far from my observation, Georgetown traffic was not as bad as Gurney Drive yesterday. Maybe because it was Sunday however compare to KL or some major city in Malaysia, the traffics are always live & never sleep no matter on weekend or weekdays. Back to Georgetown, despite of the non-congested traffic we on the contrary found it very hard to find a parking. All the car parks were full so we just pusing2 kuar masuk lorong and finally parked at the back of the shop lots. From there we walked to the kedai makan.



My first tought about Nasi Kandar Line Clear ni it was a very big mamak restaurant, and some more because it is so famous mesti kedai dia agak mewah, air conditioned ke, ade hiasan ayat2 Quran yg mahal2 ke (lbh kurang mcm Pelita Nasi Kandar or nasi briani at Restoran Yusoff ke some sort like that la..). However when I reached there,I was totaly amazed. It was just....erm can I say a ..STALL. Yup that's it.




But dun get me wrong, I'm not complaining neither down-graded it, as a matter of fact I'm giving my full respect and compliment to this restaurant. Well it has proved that quality and taste are important rather than appearance. And it is well-deserved with the popularity received because the foods were really scrumptious plus the staffs that super-duper friendly.



We managed to take a few photos here regardless of few peoples who were watching us like we were from outside Malaysia. (Tourist la kununnya, sbnarnya jakun).






Wall of fame... See mmg fames tau Nasi Kandar nie.



Xnak amik gambar kami ke letak kat wall nie? Well kami sedar diri kami x femes pun. Kuikuikui...



Check out the history..




Stomach refilled, we just wandered around Georgetown. From one shop to another and stopped at any famous/interesting building to take photos.



Asked for direction...?? Can't really remember the reason we went here.



Demi sesuap nasi. Touching tgk gamba nie..



Jalan yg pada mulanya sunyi sepi... hening...




Tiba meriah dengan aksi2 model terkenal tanahair... Ceeweah!



Masing2 start me"model"kan diri tanpa perasaan malu asalkan gambar yg diambil outstanding from another person (konsep rival pun bermula).




Antara tempat2 yg sempat kami singgah ialah :

i) Masjid Kapitan Keling at Jln Buckingham (pergh nama jln cam kat UK lak).




Front view..



Tower also from front view



Me, solo pose



Because of our in-appropriate attire, we didn't go inside the mosque. Memadai dgn bergambar di luar but with more descent pose. Tu yg jadi konsep ari raya nie.. :D



Another pose..




Continued our tour.. Calm kan this town??




Passed by this temple. The building looks old so we skipped this one and continued our walk.




Lalu gak kat another famous Nasi Kandar restaurant, Nasi Kandar Beratur. Nasib baik dah kenyang, so amik gambar je la. Gambar sengal lagi...





ii) We stopped at Han Jiang Ancestral Temple of Penang, only a few walk from Masjid Kapitan Keling. This is one of tourist's attraction and open for public.




Nice decoration...




The temple..




Tired... took a rest with BFF...




iii) Next we went to Penang Little India. At Little India....once again, scene lost and found happened. Tgh2 jlan tu suddenly Miss Yatie asked, "Eh, mana tripod?" OMG... jgn jadik lagi. Dah la tripod kepunyaan Mass and I was the one who been given the task to carry the tripod. There was no doubt that I had left it at the temple because I remembered that I put it behind the temple's door when we had a photoshoot there. Padah posing x ingat dunia. Quickly, I volunteered to run to the temple (with Lina following from the back) and alhamdullilah nasib baik elok je tripod tu terletak kat tmpat dimana mula2 ianya ditinggalkan. Nasib baik tinggal kat temple kan (ala2 kat masjid la) org x berani kot nak curik lgpun x ramai sgt visitor kat situ. Kalu x naya kena ganti beb. Mass awal2 dah surrender siap ckp xpela.... Dia & miss Yatie tunggu kitaorg kat kdai Little India tu. Fuhh mmg lega sgt2 sampai sempat pekena air soya bean odw ke Little India balik, penat memecut. Mmg nasib baik jumpa kalau x mesti mood bertukar. Syukur alhamdullilah....... And now I just noticed, even we did'nt plan anything it was so coincident that even the places we visited had meet the 1 Malaysia concept. The Masjid = Malay, Temple = Chinese and Little India = India. Need I say more??? Huh x habis2 1 Malaysiakan. Hehehe...........

Erm... story about 1 Malaysia, I got some funny experience that can put a smile on me until now if I recalled it. It happened after penat menjamu2 mata kat Little India tu, our next plan was to Bazaar Chowrasta at Penang Road. We could reach there merely just by walking, however we were so exhausted sampai nak jalan pun dh x larat. With the extremely hot weather, we decided to take a cab. After asking a few fellows there, we went out from the shop lots to the main road headed to the jetty opposite us where the taxi and bus station located.
Suddenly out from no where.... while waited for the traffic light to cross the road, tetibe ada satu apek ni naik moto tegur lina (who was in lead time tu, biasala org paling rendah kan...)

"Are you Japanese?", and spontanious without hesitate Lina answered "No! We are Malaysian! 1 Malaysia!!! Yeghhhh!!!!!!!" I really dun know what had possed her that time. Soo enthusiast.. Siap angkat dua2 tangan tunjuk jari telunjuk tanda 1 MALAYSIA.. sampai kitaorg pun tersampuk semangat 1 malaysia gak. Mmg dah gelak2 gile time tu. Apek tu pun rasanya menyesal tanya, mesti dia ingat budak2 mental mana terlepas dr Tg Rambutan... sian.


Georgetown Waterfront / Penang Jetty

At Jetty, tghari buta smpai bole jd buta pun we still kemaruk nak bergambar. Each of us who previously flatted suddenly excited once the camera started flashing. The spirit of photoshoot was never die smpai x sedar kulit masing2 dh terbakar hangus... mmg tanned sekor2. Then hajat hati nak amik taxi, tp sbb taxi jual mahal n bg tambang mahal so kami opted to take the bus je la. Lg murah n puas hati. Long time x naik bas, saje amik tmpat duduk belakang2 ala2 zman skolah dulu.


Chowrasta Bazaar, Penang Road

The bus brought us until it's final stop at bus terminal, Komtar. From there we walked once again to our final destination, Chowrasta Bazaar. Kat situ mmg shopping habis2an dr jeruk-meruk hinggala ke kuah rojak. Habis masing2 menjijit 2-3 beg plastik yg maha berat, mana nak jalan lg ke carpark. X larat berenti jap lepak pekena cendol (mmg sedap gile cendol smpai x cukup 1 gelas) then kami tahan la teksi Miss Yatie baik hati nk belanja, nape ek??... Sbb dia yg beli plg byk barang n x larat nak jalan.

Another funny incident (well, this trip was full of it ek).... we were not sure on the exact location of our car park. After had tour the whole town, obviously we lost our bearing. We only knew the direction if we back to the Nasi Kandar Line Clear since we started from there. To find back the Nasi Kandar restaurant tu dah satu hal dlm keadaan panas terik and kaki dh melecet2 nie, mmg x leh pikir ape dah.
We instructed the taxi driver to bring us to kedai Nasi Kandar tu, then we directed him to our car park. Alhamdullilah, it was a piece of cake. We found our car cuma yg kelakarnya the distance from where we took the taxi with our carpark was damn short. It was like two shop rows behind. Patutla pakcik tu mcm blur nape kitaorg nak naik teksi and bergembira charged kitaorg RM5 dgn hanya kuar masuk lorong. Ye la sbb sblm tu dh pusing2 merayap merata hala, mmg dah lost la x tau jln balik. Ok la kalau jln kaki setengah jam lom tentu jumpa carpark kan.. (hahaha menyedapkan hati sendiri yg kemaluan). Tp mmg lawakla. Another walk to remember.


So that was it, from Georgetown we straight to the bridge exited from Penang back to KL. We reached KL around 11pm, dropped Mass first to Subang, then Miss Yatie and finally me at my house.

So far this vacation was totally amazing, fun, and lots of unexpected scenes so dramatic that cannot be forgotten forever. Looking forward for more holiday with the same troop in future together. Dgr2 next plan will be to REDANG. Ok kita nantikan....

With Regards,
LOVELEEN

Penang Gurney Drive - Night Day 1

We went out for dinner at Gurney Drive. Gurney Drive, otherwise known as Persiaran Gurney, is perhaps one of the most well-known places in Penang. Often referred to as ‘The New Esplanade’ (to differentiate it from the original Esplanade in Georgetown), Gurney Drive is a deluge of hawker delights and exciting restaurants that come alive at nighttime, giving the unique experience of dining by the sea.




The traffic was a bit congested that night. We toured the area twice but all the car parks were full.



Finally we settled down at Gurney Plaza.



One of the popular and convenient eating places in Gurney Drive is at the Gurney Drive Hawker Center beside the roundabout. This place mostly patronized by tourist and also by the locals offers variety of Penang hawker food.

Initially, we didn't see the Malay stalls. There were only Chinese hawkers available so we kindda upset and back to the Gurney Plaza as we thought no muslim foods there. Somemore, we all already starved luckily we met one lady and she advised us to went deeper into the centre of that area. And guess what, rupanya malay stall terperosok dalam skit dr chinese stall tu. Walla... dgn gembiranya we started to survey all the stall.

Char-koew-Tiow and Rojak/Pasembor is a must try when u come here! Heaven of foods... That is Penang!!




Faces... visitors and local!



This area was so happening. Price is OK, and the food was great!! See.... good foods had put on the smile back on our faces!





Next after dinner,we went to walk along the seafront. Seeing people hang-outs with family while enjoying the night sea breeze as well.

Street hawkers



Toys!!



Normal scenario not only in Penang, but in whole Malaysia!!



The arch of waves and doves at the roundabout...



This is how Penangites spent their weekend night...




We also been entertained by a dancing performance here (of course with some donation). Frankly I think I can do much better than her... She just waving the scarf and did some turning while her partner played the violin :D However I still salute them for their effort and creativity to earn some living.. Well, takkan nak suruh minah tu buat somersault pulak kan... :P



Enjoy the breeze of Malacca Straits, hangout with girlfrens, the best memory ever!!



On the way back to our car. Miss yatie tu dah buat muka penat. Kikikiki....




Me at Gurney Plaza. The Chinese New Year was around the corner that time



Wanna try? Xde bakat kot. Hehheehhee....




Bazaar Batu Feringgi (Night Market)

The nightlife in Batu Feringghi is centered on its 'Bazaar' or night market. Open from dusk until late, often past midnight, the night market is a sidewalk bazaar of makeshift stalls operated by local traders, selling an assortment of goods ranging from souvenirs to fake goods. Next after jalan2 at Gurney Drive, we headed there.



Lina looks lost with lots and lots of thing to buy.



From clothes to souvenirs, foods, electrical devices, all accessories are among the items that were sold here. Look at this. So colourfull...




Macam2 ado!!!




I shopped quite a lots here especially souvenirs for family and friends. It's already pass midnight so most of the stall started to wrap and closed. Once finished with our shopping, we went back to our homestay.

At Baan Talay, last thing I did was made a drink before went to bed!




Finally, good night! Saya tutup pintu dulu yer and to be continued of course....