Monday blue

Monday blue? No. I wouldn't have any! In fact, everyday is almost the same for me except Sunday, the day when hubby is free to go out with me.

Tomorrow will be the 1st day of March, we are going to make our booking for Korea trip! Yay! I wish we could stay in log houses in Korea! lol!

Something to laugh about

During the visit to Genting Highland last Sunday, hubby and I had do something silly that may lead us embarrassing ourselves from being scolded by people.

It happened that hubby and I were exhausted after exploring the whole Genting by foot (of course by feet, can't be possible by car or by bus). We slept by 1am the previous night and woke up 5.30am preparing ourselves for Genting. That's why we are so tired!

Okay, back to the story track. We walked into the lift, no one else was in the lift with us, just two of us. Hubby pressed 22nd floor. Our room is 22902. When the door of the lift opened up, we go straight out, walked all the way while chit chatting to room 902.

One arrived at room 902, hubby pressed the door bell (to notify the "people" in the room that we were backed), around 5 times the bell rings. LOL! Then hubby slot in the room key card, first time it showed red light, second time again red light.

I was wondering why the door can't open. While we still in the mist of thinking, I look up the room tag on the door. And it showed 15902!!! Gosh, we were so shock and damn scared that the door may open from inside. We run away as fast as we can to the lift! What if that's somebody inside the room sleeping? We had pressed the door bell non-stop for many times!!!

Lesson of the day: Do look at the floor indicator before you walk out of the lift.

KL stay

I'm backed from a 3 days 2 nights Kuala Lumpur trip. My aunt and family came down from Kuantan; hubby and I went KL from Ipoh.

We stayed in One World Hotel which is nested within One Utama Shopping Centre. I've booked our room through an online travel agent with a great deal, instead of RM1,200+ for superior room only from the hotel's website, I have it at RM1,088 for deluxe room and breakfast (2 rooms 2 nights).

Upon arrived in KL around 9am, we checked in but the hotel system had been down. So we went back around 12pm, queuing up to check in again. We were lucky to have our room upgraded to executive deluxe room since deluxe rooms were not ready yet. :)

It isn't the first time we stay in this hotel, but we always feel happy to check in to One World Hotel. However, some unhappiness happened after the check in.

We were rushing time going to meet my uncle's friend. The bellboy whom helped us arranging our luggage in the trolley was busy attending to another customer, so we helped ourselves pushing the trolley to our room. Half way unloading the luggage, the bellboy came. But he wasn't helping, he just stood and see us unload our things. Once finished, the bellboy showed us "black face", teared off our room tag on the trolley with force and pushed the trolley out of the room. (May be he thought that we were suppose to pay him tips but we didn't. Hey, he never even offered help unloading the luggage, why are we paying him?)

On the other hand, while waiting for check in, hubby parked our car beside the lobby waiting for us. Once he got down from the car, the jockey told him they'll charged us RM5 for parking there for 15 minutes. Because our car not a Merz? BMW? Porche? or Ferrari???

Other than that, we enjoyed our stay there, everything were great!

My cousin playing games with his notebook!

Hubby surfing Internet with his netbook!I browsing through the spa pamphlet!
And cam-whoring!

I don't need a senior match service! LOL!

Eve of holidays

Tomorrow will be Hari Raya. Our shop will still open tomorrow, then closed on Saturday. But hubby and I will go KL, enjoy our holidays!

We are going to stay in KL for 2 nights. Yay! We will have enough time to go Ikea, The Curve, One Utama, Mid Valley, Low Yat, Sungai Wang, Lot 10 and Petaling Street. I want to visit book fest at KLCC too.

*Happy*

Matta Fair, Ipoh

Matta Fair in Ipoh starts today. Weeks before this, I saw the advertisement on the Genting website regarding the room redemption offer. It supposed to open by 10am.

Thus, I go there on 9.40am, thinking that I shall be early and could have been first few in the queue for room redemption. But I was wrong! Totally wrong!!! It's already in a long queue when I reached there.

I queued for an hour for the room redemption. It worth the wait since I only need to use 3GP to redeem 2 nights stay in First World's deluxe room during low season! I separate the stay , one in October and one in November, which means I'm going to Genting Highland once in each month for the coming two months!

Merdeka @ Genting Highland

Hubby and I, FIL and MIL went up to the hill on Merdeka day! Hubby and I stayed in Genting Highland for half day only. Why? Too boring! We lost RM50 straightly within 5 games! No luck! Thus, hubby and I went down to KL, go for Low Yat Plaza for some computer accessories. We went up to Genting again around 7pm to fetch my in-laws to Gohtong Jaya for dinner before heading home.

Before going down to KL, we had our lunch in a almost hidden restaurant which is located in Genting Casino. My in-laws brought us there. This restaurant named New Orleans. We were fortunate to have reached there in time to avoid the long queue, half an hourly later, the queue gets quite long already! LOL!

In the New Orleans, one only need to order a main course to be able to enjoy buffet salad, soup and drinks!

1 or 2 months to refund???

On the beginning of the month, our famous low cost carrier - AirAsia had launch flights to Korea.

Hubby and I was longing to go Korea for a visit, so we sit still in front of the notebook, waiting for the clock to strike 12am, to begin our booking. Well, I expect the system to get jammed up as usual, but surprisingly, it wasn't. I go smoothly through until payment. Keyed in everything, waited a while before the page showed reservation status: Pending. Since reservation status is pending, I'll have to wait till the next morning to contact AirAsia regarding the status.

Cut the story short, a final reply from AirAsia confirmed booking was unsuccessful, and we left it since there won't be any cheap ticket available after 2 days.

A few days ago, hubby received his credit card statement. The air ticket that cost RM1,470.00 which we unsuccessfully booked, had been charged to hubby's credit card!!! After a hard time calling to the center which is charging RM1.95/min, I was told that we were to fax over the statement, or emailed it and wait for refund for ONE OR TWO MONTHS!!!

What kind of policy they are having??? They charged us wrongly and we were to pay the bill and wait for one or two months for refund??? I request to speak to their supervisor for an explanation, and was told that their supervisor was meeting. The officer took my hp number, promised to get someone to call back within one or two hours, but I've never received any calls for the passed 24 hours!!!

AirAsia is nevertheless the cheapest airfare provider, but their customer service is really bad!!!

I love Hong Kong

5 days 4 nights of Hong Kong trip has come to an end. On the day we arrived in Hong Kong, it was cool; while we leave Hong Kong it was getting warmer. I love Hong Kong. Everywhere is labeled with chinese words, everyone is speaking cantonese and they are very polite (except for those sellers in Lady Street).

Hong Kong's MTR is really very well built, I must give them a thumb up. Any one of the MTR stop would simply have more than 5 exits to different streets, and most of the MTR stops are underground, which means on top of the stops are streets and shops!

Every streets in Hong Kong are busy with people walking in fast pace. Some of the escalators in MTR stops are moving fast (much faster than our pace), and we were to stand on one side as some people may use the other side to walk faster up or down the escalator.

Free and easy trip to Hong Kong is no fuss at all with all the signs and map in hand!

**Updates: click to view Hong Kong trip - Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 4 / Day 5

Foot prints on the escalator

I have bought a few things home:

#1
Invertable shoulder bag with a small matching sling bag

#2
Espirit multi-purpose bag

#3
Sweater with panda pocket and tail

#4
Sweater with rabbit ear and tail

#5
A pair of shoes

#6
Lock and key from Disneyland

#7
Trolley backpack

Last but not least, my favorite

#8
Mickey Mouse cabin size luggage

* More on our Hong Kong trip will be coming up soon in my all-in-one blog and travel blog, please stay tuned!

Off to Hong Kong

Tomorrow, my FIL, MIL, hubby and me will be off to Hong Kong!

All of us are to wake up very early in the morning to catch Yoyo bus by 7.30am to LCCT (not KLIA cause we are flying Air Asia, not MAS). We will be reaching the airport 2 hours earlier. By then only we will have our proper brunch.

My FIL was buzzing all the morning, he seems to be very very excited about this trip!

We'll be back on Tuesday night, hopefully I'm energetic to put up a post on Hong Kong.

4 pax in a HK hotel's superior room?

I have been searching throughout the Internet and going to Matta Fair for more information on Hong Kong. Yes, another DIY tour!!!

My in-laws, hubby and I are going on a free-n-easy tour on our own to Hong Kong since I manage to get cheap air ticket of RM360 per pax including seat allocation and 15kg luggage checked-in.

We are going to share our room in Hong Kong. I have book a room with 2 double bed in Mongkok, Hong Kong. I'm not worry about the bed size since I've check it out on Tripadvisor, the beds are larger than most Hong Kong hotel's single bed.

What I worry most is the fact that all the hotels only accommodate 2 person in a room, will only allow 1 more child to be in for most case. However 4 of us are going to stay in a room! I doubt the management will kept quite about it. Hubby and I planned to check-in with just 2 of us, follow by my in-laws sneaking in later.

What do you think? Have you stayed in Royal Plaza Hotel, Hong Kong? What would you say about it?

* $$ is the main reason we share a room but it is also due to my MIL fear of haunted hotel room!

Cameron Highland half-day-trip

We went up the hill by 4pm when hubby called to ask if we are interested to go up to Cameron Highland which is only one hour away from Ipoh.

Cameron Highland is always very cold at the end of the year. My aunt, cousin sis and me have been wearing our sweater since arrived, while hubby and my cousin bro didn't add-on additional clothes (may be their fatty tissues are thick enough to stand the cold! lol).

We walked around at the market, and go straight down to OK Tuck Restaurant for steamboat as our dinner. It is best to have steamboat during cold weather. We finished up everything!

After some walk at the night market in Brinchang, we went home and arrived Ipoh only by 12am.

Me, cousin bro, cousin sis & hubby

Steamboat in Cameron Highland

KL one-day-trip

This trip happened on our way back from Kuantan to Ipoh two weeks ago. I brought along my new DSLR camera to snap almost anything! lol!

1. First stop at Dragon-i, The Curve for lunch.

Me & hubby *Cheese*

Dragon-i's wet tissue

Dim sum before main dish

The "lao sha bao" that I like best. See the hot yellowish gravy?

Main dish

2. Drop by to Q Jelly for some agar-agar. They make very nice and colorful agar-agar cakes!

Colorful animals agar-agar

3. Shopping at One Utama.

Transformers show up again.

Me & my cousin *cheesing* at don't-know-where in One Utama. lol

4. Buffet dinner at Tenji. I gave bad marks for them. Jogoya is way way better than Tenji. I didn't even take photos for the food! Not much food variety. We need to knot holes for the coconuts and coconuts are selling hot, peoples are expected to grab for their own good, or else none will left for you. No more next visit from me!

Tenji Japanese Buffet
We took the offer for dinner. RM88++, for 2nd diner RM28.80++Night view from Tenji

Back from a 2-week-break

I have been "on-leave" for two weeks! I haven't been to hubby's shop for exactly two whole weeks, just to accompany my aunt and cousin.

We went for Penang-one-day-trip and CameronHighland-one-day-trip during the weeks. Hubby had been "on-leave" for few days too!

We stayed in KL for two nights during the holidays for New Year too! We have been walloping a lot of great food, thanks to my uncle's friend, a Mercedes Benz spare parts supplier - he treated us a delicious dinner with spider crabs; brought us to Klang for bak kut teh; took us to Nilai for a well-known "Fat Tiu Cheong" dinner; treated us another lunch in Restaurant Lan Je for their famous steam fish. I haven't snap any photos with those great delicacies (damn paiseh if I were to take pictures for foods that "rich people" eats everyday! lol)

Now, back to working mode, tidying my office, put on new paint for my office.

Ipoh - Kuantan - KL - Ipoh

Hubby and I are going to Kuantan to fetch my auntie and cousin back to Ipoh Again.

We will have to see how's everything going on to decide when we start our journey to Kuantan tomorrow, may be morning, may be afternoon or may be evening! And four of us will go KL early in the next morning, shopping for some household items for my auntie's new condo. We are going for Houz Depot and Ikea, follow by 1 Utama. If we have spare time, we could go Pavillion or Mid Valley too!

Before 6pm, we shall arrived at Tenji for our buffet dinner. I'm looking forward to it. We have been to Jogoya, and yet to try out at Tenji. Now Tenji has got discount RM88++ for dinner, RM28.80++ for 2nd person. We shall take the apportunity to try and see! lol

I suppose we are going home to Ipoh around 9.30pm (from KL), after the buffet walloping(buffet starts 6pm, ends 9.30pm)! We are going to fully utilized the time given! lol

Hard Rock Hotel Penang

Have you rock?

Hubby and I went to visit this new hotel last Sunday. It is very nice and glamor. There are many people like us, paying a "window visit" to the hotel. We just walking around snapping photos. LOL.

Their opening special package is only RM368++ per room per night, valid till December 18, 2009. If you are "rich" enough, go for the lagoon deluxe room, where you could just walk out to your balcony and jump into the swimming pool, cool eh? More of our picture in Hard Rock Hotel Penang, do visit my travel site.

Plumper day by day! OMG!!!

Highway traffic jam

Hubby and I went Butterworth meeting up with a friend on the past Sunday. From Ipoh to Butterworth, it supposed to take around 2 hours. But we took extra half an hour on the way, because of a lorry! The lorry happened to turn all the small rocks out accidentally (I suppose!). The rocks covered the whole road until the police had to stop all the cars to clean up the road. Thus, we are stuck inside our car for half an hour in the middle of a highway!

Came to a halt on the highway to Butterworth.

See the long queue?

A police taking care of the traffic while the tractor removing the rocks.

This is the lorry that cause the mess!