A Story of CShotz's adventure

Own Made Poster : << Drunk >>

2008-09-23T18:30:00.005+08:00

Never thought of creating my own poster before. Well, when i browsing my photos, the idea of this photo just came out from nowhere. I named it "DRUNK" because these are the colour you'll see when you are really really REALLY drunk .... LOL. Enjoy!

Explore Taiwan Taroko, Hua Lien (太魯閣-花蓮)

2008-08-19T17:48:00.011+08:00

When i firstly come across with this country-Taiwan, i was told that "Taroko is a MUST go place when you are in Taiwan, no matter how...". Because of that, i starting to gather information about this mystery place. I'm so excited (at least it last for few minutes) before i knew that it is almost impossible for me to travel there from HsinChu after consider the distances, transportation, companion and my work in Taiwan. (Additional notes: The most convinient period to explore HuaLien and Taroko is 3-Days-2-Nights, at least.)

Well, well, well, i think god heart my request. I finally have a oppurtunity to plan for this trip, travel with my colleagues and her husband. Wow! Thanks god! Even though it is considered a last minute planning ... but everything is in place and the process is quite smooth.

Waiting patiently for the sunrise in Hua Lien Town at 5am

First sun beam rising from the east of Taiwan

Alright, let me briefly introduce this place to you: Hua Lien (花蓮) is located at the east-coast of Taiwan. One of the famous side-seeing in Hua Lien is the Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園) which is special significance for the environmental protection movement in Taiwan. Most places in Taroko are result from the earthquake couple of centuries ago.

Transportation:
Take Komalan Express(葛瑪蘭客運)_Taipei to YiLan (宜蘭) - 1.5 hours
Take Express Train(自強號台鐵) from YiLan (宜蘭) to Hua Lien - 1.25 hours
(Additional notes: There is direct train to Hua Lien called Taroko Express Train (Approx 2 hours), but you have to booked the seats 1 month before because it was a hot sales tickets.....always full)

Accommodation :
Bo Ya Home-Stay (柏雅民宿) - Contact: 836-1292

My Taroko Tour Guide - A-Ming, with his white Nissan

To save time, we hired a local free-lancer tour guide called A-Ming (ㄚ銘). He is a young and nice tour guy (at least no generation gap) and keep *Pump-in* Taroko's information to us. He is quite flexible with the site-seeing. If you need to visit a place, do let him know and he will arrange for you. Well, I'm a lazy person, i decide to go with his plan for our One Day trip in Taroko. Same with other tour group, he stopped us in the entrance gate to Taroko and East-West Highway (東西橫貫大路).

Photo taken in front of Gate to Taroko & East-West Highway (東西橫貫大路)

Clear sky, Bridge that connected to Taroko and Water flowing down to the sea

After passing the bridge and tunnel, Shakadang Trail (砂卡礑步道) is the first place I visit. Lots of Lion Sculpture can be see along Shakadang bridge. What surprise me is each Lion have unique and different emotion. Shakadang Trail, is a man-made trail along the river and the cliff. This place is more likely suitable for family outing and picnic activity. My heart told me to jump into water because the river is so clear and green in colour. My godness, there is no where you can find in M'sia. :)

Entrance to Shakadang Trail (Left); Lion Sculpture (R-Top); Trail (R-Bottom)

Can't wait to join that guy .... like a nature swimming pool

After a long walked in Shakadang Trail, my tour guide A-Ming took us to a local restaurant owned by aborigine. There are a few creative wood sculpture placed in front of the entrance which impressed me. Check below picture and you'll know why.

One of the famous local dishes are Grilled Pork Meat (山豬肉) and Marinated "skin-less" chilli (剝皮辣椒). And, i'm sure these 2 dishes are included in my lunch bento. Wahaha ... I found the Grilled Pork isn't that nice, too rough, but the chilli taste really good and a bit spicy. According to tour guide, different season of chilli will affect it's spicy level, and September-October will produce the most spicy chillies. Yummy yummy! Other than that, the restaurant also served us with rice wine, quite high % of alcohol. Ooo ..... I'm drunk!

Restaurant with Wood sculpture in front of the shop

Inside Restaurant (Left); Nice wine cup (top); salad (bottom)

My Lunch bento with "Skin-less" Chilli and Grilled Pork Meat

Next, i'm heading to Swallow Grotto (燕子口), a place that impressed and convinced me that it is worth to come here after spent 5 hours travel times. This place is quite windy and i was told that different kind of swallow will gathered here during certain period, i think is breed season. The road in Swallow Grotto is crossing in and out the cliff, like a snake crossing the mountain. Along the road, i noticed there are a lot hole-shape on the cliff wall on the other side of the river. These are where the swallow nest is located.

Magnificient view of Swallow Grotto

Pedestrian path crossing the cliff

View from the tunnel ... Hole-shape on the cliff

This place won't be friendly when it raining season ...

Red-Indian-Face(Left); at the back of the cliff, Monkey-Face(Right)

Road crossing in-and-out the mountain ... good experience

My 3rd destination is JiuCyuDong or Tunnel of Nine Turns (九曲洞). When i arriving here, the sky if getting dark, seems like the storm is coming soon. When sunny day, Taroko can be a close friend to you; but when raining day, it could kill you because rock might fall from no where. So, keep that in mind always. Basically, JiuCyuDong is also another tunnel side by side the river. But, if you pay enough attention, you will discover something which others won't notice. Check out the picture below :

Look up to the sky, Taiwan map shall appear!

Some description on the way Taroko was formed

Imagine this place used to be a mountain, and now ... huh :O

Watch out for the falling rock ... the size can go up to a size of half of Kancil

King Kong in Taiwan???

ChangChun Shrine (禪光寺)

Although this is only One-Day-Trip for me, but it did satisfice my hunger and desire to explore Taroko. No matter how, i promise i shall returned this place to further explore the mystery of Taroko. Some say this place is "haunted" but...i say it is Peace. If LV or Gucci bag will make you happy, then Taroko will make you crazy. Listen to the sound of water, feel the wind, breathe the fresh air produce by trees ... Uuh ... that's what i call comfortable. Thanks, Taroko!!

July 2008 New Companion

2008-07-27T22:33:00.009+08:00

Shoe, is an important "tools" to everybody anytime and anywhere.
When you are in outdoor activities, you need them.
When you are in indoor activities, you need them.
When you are working, you need them.
When you are doing exercise/sports, you need them.
Even, when you are shopping, you need them, also.

Looking at my current shoes, there are aging.
It means, it's time for another round of shopping. Yeah!
It had been a while since my last shoe shopping with Xx in Malaysia. Huh.....
Well, i decided to get myself a couple of shoe to satisfice my shopping desperation in Taiwan.

My 1st baby: Nike Air Running shoe (TWD1260)
My companion to Run, Jog, travel and also, sometimes for work.

My 2nd Baby: Adidas leisure shoe-Mosswood series (TWD1720)

Just bought it today. Never try out this kind of shoe before.

Hope it will be a good companion of mine for work and shopping.

I'm searching around shoe shops and found that most of leisure shoe (Nike, adidas, new balance, etc) are much too colourful to me. Perhaps that the fashion for new generation teenager, or to be fair to all, i think i'm getting older. Wahahahha! Am i?

P.s. picture above are taken by my lovely sony ericsson phone camera. Not too bad huh!! :)

夏綠地 - Italian Restaurant @ Hsinchu

2008-01-24T01:32:00.000+08:00

One Sunday afternoon, I decided to try out a small restaurant - 夏綠地 which I heard they served good Italian food. Although it located in a small street & off mainroad, but, this restaurat was crowded with customers, full house.

Environment in 夏綠地

Ok, there are plenty of food and beverages in the menu. And I can't wait to try all of them. I spent more than 15 minutes to order yummy lunch to fulfill my stomach. Goo...loo.....goo...loo... Oh no, stomach alarm sounded. "ello, can you served me main course before my appertizer?"

I believed this restaurant give a good deal ... Most of the main course is come in set - inclusive soup of the day (with 2 bread), hot/cold drinks, a piece of cake and sky juice (with lime touch).

The beauty of glasses - with sky juice & lime

Soup of the day (Pumpkin soup) with soft Bread

Chicken rice with gravy - 普羅旺斯嫩雞飯

Penne with spicy shrimp (辣味鮮蝦麵)

Spaghetti served with Clam & Wine (白酒蛤蜊麵)

I ordered this dish, Mushroom Cheese Rice ... It's delicious!!

A slice of Blueberry sponge cake

A cup of Americano Coffee has completed my lunch ...

Finally, the most famous question voiced out .... "How much?"
Here you go, check it out. It's TWD 1480 for 5 set lunch and 1 extra soup.
You tell me ... is it price considered cheap? (Around RM 18 per person)
Who's care?? As long as it is delicious, there will be people appreciate chef's masterpiece.

2008-01-23T02:25:00.000+08:00

It's lunch time! Today i don't feel like to order any lunch box due to LOO Decease - "Lunch Order Overdose Decease". Wahaha! Here you go, this is a the triangle shape Rice Roll i bought from 7-eleven nearby office.

Although it small, but, trust me ... it's really filling. And 2 triangle rice roll (Pork Mince and Egg Mayonese) and a cup of latte the lunch i decided to take today. Yeah! I'm so happy ...

Pork Minced Triangle Rice Roll = TWD 23
Pork Minced Triangle Rice Roll = TWD 15
A cup of Latte (Large) = TWD 50

Front view of Triangle of Pork Mince Rice Roll

Different angle

This picture makes me hungry again ... Wah!!

Delicious by Ms Read (One Utama)

2008-01-20T23:38:00.000+08:00

Well, to celebrate my friend - Shin Tean's 2* th birthday, we decided to have a simple dinner in the restaurant which served good food and nice cake - Ms. Read's Delicious Cafe. Smart Xx come out with this idea to Delicious after our last visit a couple of years ago (i think so ...). For me, this is my 2nd visit, quite impress with their restaurant design.

One thing i don't like is the behaviour of staff in this restaurant. While they are taking order, they will showed unhappy and frowned face. I wonder is this because of their low paid salary?? Hahaha ....

Ms Read Delicious Glass with coaster

Delicious Table Design - heard that this design won themselves some awards

Environment in Delicious is cool, comfort. Xx personally love the big comfort pillow a lot.

My dear, Xx - Angel fallen from sky

My favourite - Dual Layer Ice Latte with fructose

Yummy Beef minced Spaghetti & Brinjal Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

Forgot about the name... Fried Chicken with Green sauce served with Patatoes

I ordered Beef minced Spaghetti and here is the result ... Sign of my satisfaction

Different type of Pie ... yummy!

Braised Lambshank Pie? Wow ... must try it out someday

Cake, Cakes and more cakes... Will try them out some other days and share with you guys

Friends gathering ...

Xx favourite - Carrot Cake. I will come back for it here again ... because it was D*mn nice!

Delicious by Ms Read Cafe
One Utama Phase II
G316 Bandar Utama,
60000 Kuala Lumpur

CShotz --<<@>>-- 30 Dec 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Taiwan working House (生活工廠)

2007-12-14T01:58:00.000+08:00

It's shopping time again in Taiwan!! I went to a shop called working House (生活工廠) nearby in HsinChu. I was attracted by some of the items sold here. It was cute, cheap and the most important thing is ... hardly to get in M'sia. Hehe! :) These stuff are really nice and finely made. And, these items going to beautify my new house ...

- Full Loaded mini Shopping cart (TWD299) -
I'm still yet to know where to place in my coming new home. he!

- Water plantation glass with Stand steel holder (TWD120) -

- Another type of glasses for Water plant (TWD200) -

CShotz --<<@>>-- 12 Dec 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Taiwan SCB 2007 Family Day at 北埔

2007-11-06T01:20:00.000+08:00

I had attended Taiwan SCB 2007 Family day in BeiPu (北埔) where all SCB staff from north to south, east to west will be gathered over here. This year Family day was held in "Green World" (綠的世界).

I believe there are more than 1800 staff crowded over here and this is my ever first experience from the first day i join this company. And, frankly speaking, Malaysia will never ever have such big event. Here are some photos to share with you ...

CShotz --<<@>>-- 3 Nov 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Bossini sales ...

2007-11-05T01:05:00.000+08:00

Well well well ... November is autumn-Winter sales in Taiwan, and i don't want to miss it. Wahaha ... Just want to share what i got for myself and also Xx from Bossini. :) Don't be jealous.

I got myself a jacket which can be used during autumn and winter. I'm actually looking for a jacket which can keep me warm, and, can be use in Malaysia at the same time. Quite hard huh ... But I got this finally. I bought this silver 2-layer detachable jacket with only TWD1100 after 50% discount. There are also other colour such as dirty-green, black, grey and sky-blue.

Ps. Yo! Do I look like a model for Bossini? =D Hehe! What you think?

Inner Layer (Thick warm cloth)

Outer Layer (wind-breaker)

Closer look. Muaks ... Love it!

Gift for Xx ...

Cloth that my colleague bought. Wonder Xx like this turtle neck or not?

CShotz --<<@>>-- 4 Nov 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Taiwan DS Hospital Restaurant

2007-10-30T22:54:00.000+08:00

On the first day of my fifth business trip to Taiwan, I discovered this new concept restaurant located in the North of HsinChu, called DS Hospital Restaurant. This restaurant only operated from 6pm - midnight. Wilson and I decided to give it a try on it and experience the feeling served by "Nurse" because all of the waiter/waitress here are wearing nurse uniform. Wow!

DS Hospital Restaurant
"Registration" counter

Inside the restaurant, there is one sweet and cute nurse waiting for us for registration, called Xiao Mi. After confirmed with our reservation, we were guided to our mini table by another nurse. Anything special? Trust me, what ever thing you can see from hospital, they got it here.

I was shocked when i got their menu, especially in the beverage section. There are a lot of cute medicine (beverage) to drink, for example Panadol, Vitamin A,B,C, RU-486, etc. Beside, some tables design is a operation bed. Yes, customer is actually eating, drinking on top of a operation bed. This shop is partitioned into a few portion with named intensive care room, pharmacy and ... guess what, they named the toilet as emergency room !! :D

Environment of the shop with lights on

Environment of the shop with lights off

Pay attention on the wall decoration. You might need it after your meal!

Special treatment room

Signboard

Beverages ... Oh my god, i'm drinking medicine

My smiling face while "donating" my blood (craberries juice)

Oh no, he is serving my "blood"

Dinner - Fried prawn, Chicken with Orange sauce and vegetable

Tools that served you better ...

Injection ... That's what i scared with ... No No No ...

Eye tester board? Trolly to carry operation tools? Wheel chair?

Performances by part-time singer ... not a good singer :(

Special treat by the restaurant ... What do you think it looks like? (Peach ice)

CShotz --<<@>>-- 30 Oct 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Penang Spice Garden

2007-10-29T23:38:00.000+08:00

Penang Spice Garden is privately-funded agro-tourism project endorsed by the Penang state government which is located some where in between Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang. Xx and I decided to spend 2-3 hours in this garden due to it high recommendation on this garden.

Tropical Spice Garden
Main Entrance
Path to the adventure ...
Watch out your step !!

Some spicies, plants that I never get in touch before ...

More flowers ...

I managed to get a closer picture using my 50mm on this grasshopper. How lucky!

Beside flowers and spice plants, there are also some facilities built in this garden eg. Hammock, chairs, etc. Xx is the first person who discovered the hammock while I'm still busy taking flowers picture. She can't hold her feeling and "jump" into it ... I know she loved Hammock a lot and plan to install one in her house in future.

Wait! That's not the only thing she discovered. There's more! There is a giant swing in this garden. It makes you feel like flying in the sky when you sit on it. Don't worry, there will be a gigantic net holding you at the bottom if you felt from the swing chair.

Some abstract picture i took ...

Mayan Hammock ... Xx sleep and enjoyed it behind

Giant Swing Chair

Tsunami Memorial - a giant trunk floated and stayed in front of spice garden after tsunami

Pretty girl, Xx potraits ...

There are another special place deep inside the Spice Garden which is specially built for wedding event. You can booked this place for your wedding if you want because it was surrounded by nature and man-made pond. Trust me! It's really a good place for wedding ... check out my picture below.

Xx and I in the wedding ceremony garden located inside Spice Garden

There was wedding ceremony held here and roses petal were spread around the fields...

CShotz --<<@>>-- 29 Oct 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

I had been to heaven ...

2007-10-28T18:03:00.001+08:00

Heaven? Yes, heaven. I was drowned in the heaven of food - Ipoh and Penang.
Gosh....I miss the food so much. As planned, I went to Penang (my last visit was 2 years ago) and will dropped by Ipoh for some treat with Xx.

Ipoh? Sure i will eat dim sum la. Normally, i will go to Fushan Restaurant. But, this time, I went to Ming Court which was fully recommended by all my Ipoh-ian friends. Thanks for my friend with his simple but useful simple guidance to Ming Court.

Do me a favour ... Pay it for me! :D

Variety of Dim Sum ... Enjoy! and watch out your saliva

This one is my favourite ... Char Siew Pao

How can i hold when all these dim sum in front of me?

Fried Har Kuen - some kind of Shrimp roll

Penang is famous with "Asam Laksa", like the picture show below. I personally love the way they made in Penang. The soup and fish meat mixed evenly and taste good with mint leaves. Wow! I feel like to eat it again right now. :D

"Ambra" Juice with Plum

Penang "LoBak"

CShotz --<<@>>-- 28 Oct 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Jiu Fen, Taipei ( 台灣九份之游 )

2007-09-27T00:34:00.000+08:00

Jiu Fen is a nice, wet and cold place. There was a famous street called 九份老街, full with local snacks and souvenir. Houses were built on the hill and formed a beautiful scenery, especially during sunset. This place is famous with "Yu Ni"(芋圓 ) - local dessert which served in hot or cold.

View from the top of Jiu Fen

My friends - Sy Jinn, Nicole and I went to the very first tea house in Jiu Fen called 九份茶坊. According to the waitress, the owner of this tea house is an artist. We ordered a kind of flower tea which cost TWD1000. Wow! I know it was quite cosy, but the environment is so comfortable. It's a good place for reading and chatting with friends. If you are a good looking guy, you can even get to know some pretty Japanese girls over here! :D

Corner in Tea house

Enjoyed with the tea ...

Tea pot set

Pot used to boil water

Environment in Tea House

Tea Leaves container

Perhaps a glass of beer over here?

Japanese style table design with Tea set

Sy Jinn, Nicole and .... who else! ;-)

Street in Jiu Fen

Recognize the mask on the most left? It was a character in anime - 千與千尋

My favourite dishes in Ju Rong - place near Jiu Fen, called 鼎邊挫

CShotz --<<@>>-- 26 Sept 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Cute Shiseido Lips Gloss

2007-09-18T23:00:00.000+08:00

This is a set of cute Shiseido Lips Stick - Gift I bought from Taiwan for my lovely Xx.

"XiaoQ"

Pretty Xx

Father & Mother

Set of Shiseido Lips Stick

CShotz --<<@>>-- 18 Sept 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Collection from Doll Catcher Machine

2007-09-17T00:36:00.000+08:00

Here is some of my collection i got from the Doll Catcher Machine from the shop nearby in Taiwan. Not bad, not too bad ... I spent only TWD 60 for all of these.

Pinky - the Piggy

Brownie - the sea lion

Naughties - The twin brothers dinasour

Happy Family

Ps. It cost TWD10 per game.

CShotz --<<@>>-- 17 Sept 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Sunset in HsinChu, Taiwan

2007-09-17T00:23:00.000+08:00

I was lonely in the room. Feel lazy to go out. Suddenly, i feel the sky is turning dark and i wonder what i can see from my window. I can't believe the sunset is so beautiful, just like a shy egg yolk, hiding himself from the sky ...

CShotz --<<@>>-- 16 Sept 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Backpacking to Cambodia_Part II - Place of Interest

2007-09-16T02:00:00.000+08:00

Mission this time: Cambodia (25th - 31st July 2007)
Phnom Penh - Seam Reap - Sihanoukville (South of Cambodia)

- Phnom Penh -
Chris, Shuh Min and I had arrived Phnom Penh International Airport slightly earlier. I'm glad that AirAsia doing great job this time. Here, you don't really need to worry on the safety issue. It's quite safe. And, the only thing required in here is ... US Dollar. I guess this place also known as "liquor heaven". Beer, wine, cigarette, ... are very cheap over here. Can you imagine a can of Asahi cost only USD0.45. Wow!! Happy :D

US Dollar ... Can you guess the total amount of this stack of cash?

It's no longer in the market between Coke or Pepsi here. It's all about Beer ...

I personally don't really enjoy the life in Phnom Penh compare with Seam Reap & Sihanoukville because this place is too crowded and it's full of busy night life. Due to tight schedule, i only manage to overnight 1 day before travelled north to Seam Reap.

PP Independent Monument located right in the middle of the city

Phnom Penh Independent Monument

- Seam Reap, Tonle Sap Lake -
Tonle Sap Lake is the largest Fresh water lake in South East Asia. After 4.5 hours bus travelling to Seam Reap, we managed to get ourself tour guide which can speak fluent in Chinese with quite reasonable rate. After discussed with the guide on our planned itinerary, my friends and I decided to visit Tonle Sap Lake for our very first Sunset in Cambodia. This place is very special. You can see Cambodians' floating house are sitting on the left side of the lake; and, Vietnamese are on the right.

Floating house in Tonle Sap Lake

Place to buy souvenir, coconut drink and also enjoy sunset on Tonle Sap Lake

On our way back after sunset - picture of Chris and Tour guide

Sunset in Tonle Sap Lake

- Angkor Wat Temple, Seam Reap -
Whiu ... Finally, I arrived Angkor Wat - one of the world heritage of 2007 World 7 Wonders.
The view in Angkor Wat temple was magnificient. Can't believe i spent almost 2.5 hours in this building. It was so HUGE! Enjoy the photo below i took with my babe. :D

Angkor Wat Temple Reflection from the lake

Carving on the wall is so deep and clear.

Corridor that full of Wall Carving, it's magnificient!

Stone Carving on the window

I wonder how much time they spent for this carving? It's so details

Chris, Shuh Min and me on the top floor of Angkor Wat Temple

Cambodian praying moment in Angkor Wat Temple

- Ta Promh Temple, Seam Reap -
This is another famous temple after Angkor Wat. One of the scene for movie "Tomb Raider: The cradle of life" was took also taken from Ta Promh Temple. Ta Promh is an unforgettable temple due to its massive tree spread around the temple. Some of it was growth on top on the building itself.

I still looks very short even i step on the root of this tree ... It's really Massive!

The beauty between man-made and mother of nature's creation.

Young lady, Old tree and Beautiful ruins in Ta Promh.

The tree of life - Tomb Raider

Part of stone carving in the ruins.

- Bayon temple, Seam Reap -
Bayon temple is located inside Angkor Thom - a mighty Khmer empire City dated back to the 12th century. Bayon is very unique due to the design and layout of the temple. No wall surrounded the terrain, and the style is more to buddhist. There will be 4 face sitted on top of every tower in Bayon. I loved Bayon so much!

Local little Cambodian boy resting in Bayon.

Face carved in Bayon temple.

Bayon Temple

Buddha statue sitted in front of Bayon Temple main entrance.

"Same same, but different", this slogan is very popular in Cambodia. Wherever you go, you will hear it, especially when you are bargain price with local Cambodian. Haha! I asked them on the meaning of this sentence and the source of this slogan. But, no one knows about it. Well, who cares?? Same same, but different, right? Hahah ...

Backpacking in Cambodia is very adventurous because you won't know when you wil step on a mine. Well, afterall, I'm back alive. LOL! :D

CShotz --<<@>>-- 16 Sept 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Backpacking to Cambodia_Part I - Local Cuisine

2007-09-12T12:37:00.000+08:00

Wow, I just can't wait to share with you on some of nice, but weird, Cambodia Cuisine. Majority of their food is good, fantastic and yummy, but some times you will shout "Eeee......".

1. French Bread with Minced Port cooked with coconut sauce & Vietnam Coffee
Comment: Oh gosh...Just can't wait to take another bit. So far, this is the best breakfast i ever had.

2. BBQ Snake ...
Comment: Eee.... Taste salty and Snakey. I only manage to take a bit. That's it!

3. Pork Noodle with Vietnam Coffee
Comment: Almost similar taste with MY style Pork noodle ... Not bad.

4. Amok Fish (Coconut curry with fish meat)
Comment: Amok is a famous local cuisine in Cambodia. They cooked it with coconut, peanut, some local spice, ... It served with pork meat also. But i prefer fish since i have "Luc-Lac" already.

5. Fish Omelet, Cold vegetable, Luc-Lac, Steamed Shrimp
Comment: I love the fresh cold vegetable (green crunchy tomatoes & cucumber) which served together with the Omelet. There was fish meat inside the omelete. Can't you imagine, my friend and I finished the whole plate of shrimp. Hehe! :D

6. Luc-Lac (Local style Fried Beef)
Comment: Besides Amok, this is another dish recommended by Xx. I think this is a must try dish because she seldom giving good comment on Beef related dish. "This one ... Ho Jiak" I shouted to my friends. The waitress teached us to eat it with the spicy salt (2nd small plate in front of the rice). It tastes even fantastic!

I personally really impressed with their cooking style, they can make a simple thing into an unpredictable, unexpected taste ... :D I heard that I can get nicer food in Vietnam. I'm looking forward on my next trip to Vietnam...

CShotz --<<@>>-- 12 Sep 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Poor Doggie ...

2007-09-12T00:21:00.000+08:00

Recently i heard that there was a weird competition in some country called "Stray Dog Catching contest", which organized by government department. The only condition stated is for them to bring the dog back alive. But it doesn't say in what condition. Let's put it in another word, they are indirectly encourage would-be dog cathers to physically harm the dogs prior to taking them to the council. That's INHUMAN!!

I'm a dog lover, and i understand that dog has feeling, just like what we had. Picture below shows everything!! Sop...sop... poor doggie.

Please love your dog, and do not torture them ...
Some times, Understand their feeling, care for them ...
They know you are treating them good,
They know you are the one who bath them always,
They know you are the one they need to protect,
They do know ...

CShotz --<<@>>-- 12 Sep 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

My story continued ...

2007-09-11T22:24:00.000+08:00

It has been a while i didn't make any posting here since last day of December 2006. Some times, i'm quite lazy to write, i prefer to share photo instead of write. In the first half of 2007, there's plenty of new thing i experienced. Wow!!

>> Mar07 : Bought New DSLR Camera - Canon 400D
>> Apr07 : My 1st Business trip to Taiwan
>> May07 : Climb up Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah (4000m+)
>> Jun07 : Business trip to Taiwan again
>> Jul07 : Backpacking to Seam Reap, Cambodia for 10 days
>> Aug07 : ..Biggest achievement in my life with Xx
>> Sept07: Yeah, Xx and I travel to Taiwan!!

I'm glad with what i had achieve so far. Guess what, my camera has become a part of my life. Soon, i will post some nice photos i snapped during my travel. Wherever i go, i will bring it and show you what i saw....what i feel. =D

CShotz --<<@>>-- 11 Sep 07 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Movie to share in the end of 2006 .. Sinking of Japan

2006-12-31T02:03:00.000+08:00

Sinking Of Japan " Nippon Chinbotsu "

I get a chance to watch this movie before it was officially shown in cinema. Actually i should say, "read" the movie instead of using "watch" as i don't understand Japanese language much. Anyhow, i still enjoy it. At first, i don't expecting much on this movie. Well, i was wrong.

This movie's storyline is getting from a famous novel by Sakyo Komatsu in year 1973. I was impressed with his imagination. He imagined that Japan will be literally sinked result from the collision of 2 tectonic plates causes the one supporting archipelago pulling down to earth. Due to that, Japan will face Volcano, Earthquake, Tsunami (Tidal Wave), Landslide, and other disaster.

I'm glad and happy with the quality of the movie. It gave me a totally different feel compare with Hollywood's movie. US produced disaster movie - more on emphasizing hero / heroin, love story, stunt and action. On the other hand, this movie - more on the caused of disaster and lesser love story.

The best thing about this movie is, i get a step closer to know about Japan's geography e.g. Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya and Hokkaido. And, this is the first time i watched Japanese Movie and my girl friend didn't fall asleep. Haha...

I learned that you will never know what will happenned to you and yours tomorrow. Until it arrive, it will be too late for you to do what you have not done. So, just do what you wished to do now, or share your happiness to others once you have a chance to do so. It will make your life better and you will not regret if the day is arrived.

Last but not least, i think this is the best movie in this last month and last day of year 2006. Hope you will enjoy this movie very much like me too.

CShotz --<<@>>-- 31 Dec 06 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Back to Jungle ... Serendah

2006-11-16T12:15:00.000+08:00

Sekeping Serendah Retreat ... A place to free yourself from the rapid lifestyle in city and to clear your mind. I'm doubt that you will ask "Anything special there?". Can you imagine that you are shower in open-air style toilet, surrounded by trees, insects, closer to the natural environment? This is the place i'm looking for and i would like to thanks to my girl friend for introducing this wonderful place to me.

Due to "Deeparaya" celebration in Malaysia, it took me almost 3 hours to reach here due to traffic in north-south highway terribily jam. In fact, if travel from Kuala Lumpur, i think it can be shorten to 30-40 minutes. To reach here, i would need to passby Malay residencial area and it will lead you to 2 Orang Asli villages then Voala....i'm here!

^ Path to my sheds & pool...

^ Shed that surrounded by tree

^ Mud Shed ... smaller room which can fit up to 4 person

^ Glass Shed

There are 2 types of sheds : Glass Shed & Mud Shed. I chose Glass Shed as it looks a lot more nicer and highly recommended if you are going in group. The first and only reaction i reached the shed is "wow...Wow...WOW..." What a great design !! I didn't know that there are such wonderful & beautiful open-air shed. It looks like a transperant container within a jungle and you can see almost everything outside the shed, on the other word, there is nothing can be hide. The trees is watching you...always.

^ Place to BBQ

^ Kitchen ... Place to do show your cooking skill

^ It's bed time ..............................

^ Nothing can be hide, including bathroom

Another attraction in Sekeping is the swimming pool. This is a Chlorine-Free pool where the water was directed from waterfall and it was flow into this pool after filtered by the basic pool filtering mechanism. I just can't wait to jump into this pool again. I tried it early in the morning, the water isn't cool and it was very clean and green. I can even heard the nature ochestra played by insects with their very special "instrument". Perhaps, this can be describe as the pool of heaven.

Although There are not much activities around this area but i still enjoy here. And i think this is a good place for me to slow down my step and pay more attention with the things surrounded. I can even notice the tiny ant under my feet. Wow...what a good observation i have !!

^ Path to heaven ............................

^ Yeah, Chlorine-free swimming pool

^ Clean, cold waterfall nearby

Ding, ding, ding ... It's dinner time!! Start the fire, prepare all raw foods and let's burn. Well, my friends and i had brought satay chicken, lamb, marinated chicken wings, marinated prawn, frankfurther (hotdog), Fishball, Prawn ball, sweet patatoes, garlic bread, sweet corns, Otak-Otak ...

^ Food, Food, FOOD ..........

^ Hungry? Grab one.

I'm very much enjoy this trip as it make me feel very peaceful. This is a place where I will come again eventhough it is not that cheap. Hope, in near future, i have another chance to come back to this heaven again.

CShotz --<<@>>-- 21 Oct 06 --<<@>>-- CShotz

Middle Eastern Cruisine : Al-Diafah Restoran

2006-10-26T23:36:00.000+08:00

Never thought that I can find such six star and unique middle eastern restoran in Sri Petaling, named - Al-Diafah Restoran.

This place is enormous. At the entrance, you can find a lot of huge mirrors on the wall and imported pot & cups in the cabinet along the ladder while walked up to the 1st floor. It was a raining days out there but the restoran itself is quite warm. May be i'm too hungry ... It's time to hunt for some food.

As we sat down, the waiters are getting busy to serve us with weird taste Arabic coffee. It taste like water mixed with minyak angin cap kapak plus a bit bitter. They serve it with sweet dates too. Well, never try never know.

Al Diafah's menu is very user friendly as there are a lot of sample photos of each item in menu i.e. Mendy Chicken Al Diafah Rice, Mendy Lamb Al Diafah Rice, Mandy Chicken Mendy Rice, Al Diafah Salad, Falafel, Tomato cuttle fish soup, etc. I'd ordered BBQ Chicken Al Diafah Rice together with my favourite Tomato cuttle fish soup.

Basically, there are 2 kind of rice served with lamb or chicken : Mendy Rice and Al-Diafah Rice. Al-Diafah rice is kind of yellowish oil rice which is cooked with carrot and raisin and fried onion as topping. Mendy rice, on the other hand, is taste like smoke rice and the colour is whiter. Hah!

But i would say the Falafel is a very special dish which i still don't know the proper way to enjoy this cruisine. This dish is serves with 3 bread (like Roti Nan), french fries, brown cookie-looks-a-like dish and with it's sauce. A bit weird huh ... cookies and bread together. hahah!!

Wonder any special dessert there? No worries. Danny, friend of mine, ordered cream of caramel with 4 slices of green apple as topping. The taste of the caramel is sweet and smooth texture together with sour crispy green apple's slice. Taste funny !! But that's make it special.

I wonder why they didn't serve the lamb and chicken rice with vegetables. Due to the dish itself is very dry, i would suggest them to serve the rice with some vegetables to balance it up. Haha ... may be that's the way how middle east people served.

Hmm .... Overall, I think this is the best arabic restoran around PJ area (may be KL) as u can't find any better middle eastern restoran with these special dish ... especially the lamb.

Adios.

CShotz --<<@>>-- 26 Oct 06 --<<@>>-- CShotz

No longer Virgin ...

2006-08-04T01:03:00.001+08:00

Today (4th-Aug-06) is a great day to begin my first ever blog here. There are so many thing happen today. Why? Because ... Happy Birthday, CShotz! Secondly, this going to be another memorial moment in my life .... I had lost my blog's VIRGINity.

CShotz_Adventure is going to be a place for me to tell you an adventure story of mine, sadness and happily moment to share with all the readers (if there is any).

Mumbling ... Rambling ... will keep showing in this post. Sometime i feel down, speechless ... Sometime, i feel happy and post non-sense blog. But please do forgive me as this will keep coming in. Those is what i feel and i would like to share with you. I wish this is going to be another happenning place for you.

Salamat & Maligayang Kaarawan, CShotz!!

P/S : Salamat = thank you in Takalog (Philipine language)