Pulau Ketam Trip

Although my hometown is Klang, most of my childhood years was spent in Ipoh. Thus I never been to Pulau Ketam though it's just a short hourney from Klang.
Unbelievable but true/

Somehow, Wai & his family decided to make a trip to Pulau Ketam this weekend.
Hotel room was booked, and we're ready to go.

Due to some error, our supposedly morning trip was delayed till afternoon trip, and later became an evening trip.
By the time all of us gathered at the Port Klang Jeti to Pulau Ketam, we're up for the last boat ride: 6.45pm.
The ride cost us RM7/pax.
We can see the sky turning purplish on the way to Pulau Ketam.

• As we reached the Pulau Ketam Jetty, our first destination was to locate our rooms at a less than 5-minutes walk from the jetty - Pulau Ketam Inn.Our room for 6 pax is RM128, reasonable. They have Wi-fi as well. Cool~

•  Dinner time. We thought of going to the main restaurant by the jetty as it was supposedly the most obvious (& probably the most famous?) restaurant. Anyhow, we've decided to ask the receptionist. Instead, she recommended us a "Restaurant Ah Peng"（达旺海鲜餐厅）located on Jalan Dua. It was a small restaurant but the tables were filled as well. We waited for quite some time upon ordering BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT~ The crab is JUICY & SWEET! *But later the boss said sorry the crabs today were not the best but they were out of stock.*

Back to the hotel rooms to bath & change, then we took a quick walk browsing around the streets. There's a temple, we shall see tomorrow. Seems like the main shops are all located on Jalan Besar & Jalan Dua. Sweet~ Hope tomorrow's gonna be a satisfying tour. :)

Night all~

Broga Hill –coming down-

When I was up on the first peak & was happily trying my friend's DSLR, somebody walked up & said "HI~"... I was so totally surprise to see an old friend from Ipoh, Wiliam~! Haha, he came with his uni mates from Kajang. Wow... All the youth days we spent in church, memory flash backs & it's such a joy to see old friends unexpectedly! Of course, a photo is a must!After lingering around until about 8pm, we needed to head back as some of them are in a rush. Thus we took a group pic & headed down...

But then again, EVERYONE is heading down so it's yet another round of traffic~

Thus me & a few friends waited while enjoying the breeze...

And as we slowly make our way down, we came upon this tree with a swing that we saw on our way up... *it was still very dark then thus not advisable to take photos at that hour =P*

Now that it's bright daylight, we actually saw a few pairs of shoes hanging on the branches of the tree..? Takkan it's a "wishing tree"?

As we continued our journey down, we reached the part where it actually kinda scary (to me) to see clearly that the small path you're walking on is just beside this "gaung"... When you're going UP in the dark, you won't notice it THAT clearly!

And we're so glad we actually reached the ground! A photo of the start of the trail to end it all...

I must say it's a joy to be up there but it's not going through the process... *but then again, maybe it's just me =P*

Broga Hill -going up-

Since I saw smashpop's photoshots of Broga Hill, I've been amazed that the beautiful & but being a lazy person whom don't like exercise, not to mention wanting me to go HIKING!!

This month, our cg suggested we go Broga outing 'cos last month other friends went & their photos were awesome thus Broga it is! Was kinda reluctant at first due to laziness (again) & Semenyih is quite a distance, what's more the suggested time to depart is… 4AM?! Yes, they wanna go for the sunrise. Anyway, this time due i was in charge of this outing thing, how reluctant my body yells, I still have to join, right? *Psyching myself: Just this once, take the nice hotos & no next time*

Everything went pretty well that morning (though from the status of fb the night before, it's rather obvious most people couldn't get their sleep) & we reached the starting trail of Broga Hill by 5:15AM. The surrounding was completely dark at that hour, without torchlight you practically can't see your way up.

According to web search & feedback from most friends, it's rather EASY to hike that you may reach the top within like... 30minutes ? But what they didn't mention is for people woth VERY POOR stamina like me, though it's a rather "short" distance, the steepness of the hill practically want my life hiking up! *thus I kinda rested along the way while the rest continued on aiming for the sunrise*

This was my view at the point of sunrise...

And slowly, I finally reached the FIRST Peak~ and this is the path continuing on to 2nd-4th Peak, which I didn't take...  =P

The contented me just stayed remaining Peak 1 to take pictures of the lalangs...

and I found this lalang that looked like a caterpillar...

Then as I was taking pic, David was done with his phototaking & I get to try out his DSLR~ *whee.. Seriously my first time trying a DSLR!*  Then I tried trying out with the sky, then landscape (see how far it can zoom), and some potrait...

and then back with the lalang again *grin*...

I wanted to try taking a very nice lalang photo (like one of those I see on web), I tried with a very nice light, but the lalang a bit messy... Then a very nice, clear lalang by its own, but the light a bit pinkish... Hmm... Anyway, I'm satisfied with the result just for now :)

Oops... Somebody caught me on film playing with the DSLR... Looked kinda horrid though =P

小瓜上云顶

好久没到云顶了，今天阿姨要带两个小瓜到云顶来住一两晚… 老实说，心里挣扎了好一下下，因为两个小瓜真的很烦，两个人唯一安静的一刻就是睡觉时！

不过基于很久没去云顶了，我还是决定去走走啦~ 来到Awana，儿时回忆又回来了… 哎，怎么觉得最近似乎都在回忆起小时候呢？ 突然觉得而是真的太幸福了，有机会到处玩，所以现在到处都是记忆的片段。

check-in后，外面的天空又下起绵绵细雨，所以我们就等了一会儿，到了近晚餐时间才搭缆车上云顶（反正有免费缆车票啦~）

到了云顶meet 了姨丈，我们到了好友记解决晚餐… 大致上还不错，而且好喜欢后来点的甜点：

 芒果布丁、 龙眼杏仁豆腐脑~ love it~

之后，就“理所当然”到了儿童玩乐时间，也是我觉得自己“老了”的时候… 要应付两个不同年龄阶段的小瓜，真的觉得这一趟来有点像保姆。话说“大”小瓜今年二年级，身高>120cm；而“小”小瓜仅4岁，身高<90cm。就因为这样，所以凡是有身高限制的儿童游戏，两兄弟就不能一起玩了。例如：碰碰车，两兄弟都想玩，可是哥哥的身高不被允许进入儿童碰碰车，而弟弟的身高只能进儿童碰碰车，而弟弟却又坚持要哥哥一同玩游戏… *头痛* 所以说手足间的年龄也别相差太多，很烦。

 

到最后，结果这碰碰车就是我、我阿姨跟小瓜哥哥三人一起玩，然后小瓜弟弟就在他爸爸的陪伴下“看”我们玩… 哎，可怜的小瓜… 

 

之后，由于时间关系，加上身高问题，结果就只好让他们玩那一些没有身高限制的like merry-go-round之类的…

由于要赶搭末班缆车下去，所以就只玩了一下下，然后到恭和堂吃了一点龟苓膏。

上到缆车，突然发现：咦，我们上来的时候坐的是23号缆车，结果下的时候，竟然也是23号~ 这也太巧了！

回到房间，用磁卡开门的时候，明明显示绿灯可以开了，可是门把却转不开… 试了两次，仍然开不了。

这时候，阿姨敲了一敲门说：「对不起，打扰了~」 然后再试一次打开门… Guess what? 门还真的可以打开了耶！ omg… 这也太诡异了！！ *当下鸡皮疙瘩*

KL Nightview

己丑年正月初五
昨天“郊游”了一天，今早决定在家里洗洗衣服，休息一下...

之前看过Smashpop.net提过到KL的Look-out Point可以看到全吉隆坡的夜景，之后陆陆续续又看到了好多人的blog都有美美的夜景照片，就一直很想去看看的。

前些天问了一下表弟说他会去，所以今天我、弟弟和女友、妹妹和表弟表妹6个人就一起上去吃个晚餐看夜景咯~

由于表弟一向来是从college出发，所以instead of going straight from KESAS Highway, 我们绕了一个圈才到。开始嫌这地方太远的弟弟在看到夜景后，也觉得还ok啦，至少真的还不错...
而妹妹则说下次要叫男友带她去...

这里有两三家餐馆，表弟recommend说Look-Out Point这一间还不错，我们就进去了。
很幸运的我们被安排到的位置刚好就最边缘，可以把KL夜景看得挺清楚... *可惜就是有一点小雾*
从这里望下去，可以清楚看见有人在放烟火，可是那烟火从这角度看下去的渺小使之无震撼感。

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*我的相机遗憾不是单反相机，拍夜景的效果有限，无法减少光害*

网评对这里的食物有褒有贬，而我觉得其实还ok啦...

这是表弟点的LARGE carrot milk... 我原本也差点点这么一大杯，不过幸好没有~(@^_^@)~ 要不然我可撑死了...



表妹orderのkiwi juice真的没很好喝，就是concentrated冲出来的... 我点了右边这一杯Mint "LOP" shake.. LOP是什么？经店员解释，LOP=ice-cream + ice blended，所以我就点了这么一个我喜欢的薄荷口味，冰得爽的咧~！~\(≧▽≦)/~
"busy cowboy"又是什么呢？顾名思义就是“牛仔很忙”，妹妹说看到menu上说是强力推荐就order了...味道？hmm...很甜...*而且外表看起来跟弟弟那杯mocha很像*

主食我点了rib-eye牛排，side dish的分量少了点，不过味道还行...
吃完后，大家就上Menara Tinjau看一看更全面的夜景（真正的look-out point就是这个塔，不是餐厅）。黑蒙蒙的，仍很多人在这儿在最佳photograph spot轮流拍照...

嗯，总体来说，这是一个不错的地点啦... *大伙gathering或小两口拍拖的好去处，不过真的有点远，去过一次就满足*

♨ Bukit Tinggi BBQ Village

己丑年正月初四
今天到二表舅的家拜年... 表舅的家在云顶山脚下，被深山包围着... 有山有水...
自家有个泳池，还有个私人有机农场，完全就真的是隐居人士的生活，健康、悠闲...

到了那里我们小游了一下，表舅带我们去吃午餐...
今天我们来到了一个叫Bukit Tinggi BBQ Village的店吃饭。This restaurant is just located beside the highway, I wonder how many people noticed it though...

这个餐厅的环境还不错，沿墙的架子上都摆满了各式各样的酒瓶，天花板上倒挂着好多雨伞... 邋遢之中带有点休闲，还不错。

Since we're having BBQ, of course the first thing is to order a fresh COCONUT drink to cool down... :)


The first dish we had was none other than BBQ Fish, i think it's Tilaphia fish... It taste very GOOD...

Then we had a whole BBQ Chicken, which taste absolutely nice~ *no pics available due to proper table manners. I can't leep my grandma, uncles & aunties waiting for too long, can't i?*
Then we had a BBQ Salmon.... then some veges, taufu, etc... (heard that the vege were provided by my uncle's organic farm? Hmm...)

Then... as my uncle's an old customer of the restaurant, the taukeh prepared a SPECIAL for us... BBQ Lamb~! OMG it simply tasted SO NICE!!! The meat is so tender & juicy~ ♥ *Heard that it's not on regular menu*


It's a wonderful meal & a wonderful trip actually but too bad the camera has some problem & ended up the pictures were flawed... Aww...