Tjg Sepat - Morib - Jenjarom

We drove another 40 mins to Morib from Tjg. Sepat. Hubby asked me, “What is so special about Morib and what can we do over there?” “Em….. Catch baby crab, I think” with eyes rolling thinking what else can we do. We stopped there for almost half an hour only. Shannen was sleeping half way in our drive, so I just brought Audrey down to have some sightseeing while hubby stayed back in the car. After snapped few photos, we walked back to the car with a :( sign on my face. Hubby showed me his victory smile as he did told me it’s “nothing” in Morib and refused to drop by at first. But I told him since we were closed to the place already, why not just pay a visit.

Hubby bought a beautiful kite for Audrey. He was shocked when I told him I have never play kite before :P.

Hubby told me a joke when he came back into the car. After he explanined to Audrey on how to fly a kite, he told Audrey to hold the string/thread holder and stood opposite him and when he counted to 3, she must start running. Probably hubby didn't explain in full detail, guess how my little gal react after she heard her dad counted to 3? She threw the string holder on the floor and run away as fast as she could...... waa ha ha, can you imagine the scene? When I was laughing inside the car, Audrey's face turned red.

We moved on to our next stop, Dong Chan Shi (Buddhist Temple) at Jenjarom after that. I’ve been hoping all this while to visit this famous temple but again hubby said it’s quite far to just visit there from KL…..huh! So this time, I’ll never let go this golden opportunity to go there on our way back to KL.

The place is big. We spent about an hour there. I was told the temple looks gorgeous at night time with tang lung (lantern) & lighting decoration during Chinese New Year. So dear, are we coming again at that time?

Half Day Trip - Tanjung Sepat

We went to Tanjung Sepat last 2 weeks. Hubby had appointment with friend for a short meeting. So we planned a day trip there. I’ve visited there once but never have chance to taste their local food as well as sightseeing. I was down with diarrhea at that time, so do nothing but searching high and low for their clinic…. :(

I told husband we must make it a fruitful trip this round. First, must go to the recommended restaurant (by most blogger out there) for lunch then seek his friend's advice for places to go around there. After 1 ½ hour of drive, we reached Tjg Sepat and after meeting up with his friend, we headed to the restaurant that many used to go, Ocen Restaurant. Foods were not bad. I wish to highlight one of their signature dish - fried oyster, which is slightly different from ours in town, not the cooking style but the main ingredient "oyster". Their oysters are small, I think its like baby oysters and you could see they put a lot in the serving. Unlike those selling here, no doubt the oyster is big but the amount of oyster they put just within 5 fingers of counting. Flour + egg become the main ingredient in most of the stall in town ….. :P. Sorry for not showing picture as I was too shy to shoot any in front of them.

After filling up our stomach, we went for a walk to the jetty next to it. It’s half cement and half wooden jetty. The weather on that day was extremely fine, no hot sun but windy. It was just perfect day for any outing.

Later on, we went to mushroom farm which is just 5 minutes drive from Ocen Restaurant (recommended by hubby's friend). This is the place where you could see how the mushroom being planted. As usual, there is a shop in it selling all kind of product made by mushroom.

They also provide homestay to those outstation tourist.

From right : All kind of mushroom on the poster. Planting until harvesting process.



From right : Black jelly fungus and Lingzhi mushroom.

Form right : Oyster mushroom (pink) & Monkey head mushroom (like monkey head meh?)

From right : Oyster mushroom (grey & white type)

Of course we will not leave the place with empty hand. Bought some oyster mushroom (RM10 for 3 pack) + dried mushroom tidbits.

Then, we moved on to another attraction, Morib.

Yahoo! Grabbed 4 free tickets!

I knew the internet connection to Air Asia website will be hundred time slower or even stay tuned once the news of free one million air ticket being released 2 days ago. But I was still lured to join the crowd as I wish to get some sponsor for my dream destination, Bangkok.

I've being trying to search for date to Bangkok ever since yesterday morning (working while surfing or the other way round... :P), but don't even got chance to go further after choosing the destination. A bit disappointed. So after reached home, I immediately sat in front of hubby's computer to try my luck again.

With my patience, finally I managed to grabbed 4 free air tickets to Bangkok next year. We paid total RM572 for 4 tickets and the cost includes airport tax, charges for luggage up to 15kg, goinsure premium and something call 'convenience fee' which is new to me. Air Asia is introducing new cost to the customer in order to compensate the admin fee and fuel charges they had waived some months back???

Ok, back to this 'convenience fee', what does it mean actually? If not mistaken, it was explained that it is the fee incurred due to the conveniences that you get when you book and pay air ticket online. But I still don't understand nor agree why we need to pay for "conveniences".

However, the total cost is still very much lower. We could save up to nearly RM700 if compare to normal low fare tickets. Yahooooo! :)

Ops, let me tell you, all these 4 tickets are not going to fly 4 of us for a holidays next year. They are for my parents, my sister and myself. Ha ha..... we are going to explore Bangkok with two old folks. Hubby doesn't like to go Bangkok. He is still thinking that Bangkok is a place for "shopping kaki" only. I'm gonna prove him wrong after my trip there. He he!

My Dream Garden

This is the place I’m dreaming to hop on one day….. Keukenhof Tulips Garden at Amsterdam, Netherlands. Keukenhof in Dutch means ‘kitchen garden’. It is the world’s largest flower garden. There are million of blooming flower bulbs being plant in the park and you could find majority are tulips flower (my favorite).

This garden only open for public from the 4th week of March to Mid May (check the exact date here). However the best timing to view tulips is around mid Apr, weather around that time will be in range of 5-15 degree Celsius. Em…very cooling. Not sure I could stand for it, hopefully I’ll not freeze.

When the day comes, I wish I could bring along a super duper camera to capture all the beautiful and fantastic flowers in the park. I’ve checked the air ticket from KLIA to Amsterdam, flying by KLM will cost around RM4200 (2 ways) per person. Wah… if the whole family are going, it will cost us a bomb. I’m just talking the air tickets alone, how about accommodation and food? Pengsan liaw……. No wonder hubby said if we plan to go Netherlands, might as well travel around other Europe countries to safe the air tickets cost. It's true also. So got to start saving big big money for my dream.