The hatest insect!

What you will do when you see this? 

Scream? Run? Use slipper to hit it? or just ignore it?
I bet most of the people see it also will choose to run or use thing to hit it. This is the most irritating insect that i faced. Last night i just had a war with the cockroach. End up i lose it. It is because i have no "weapon" to fight with it, and i just can run away. Due that, i decided to find out the way to kill the cockroaches. Some of the steps might not new, but yet is the most deficient.Here they are:

1. Find out if you have cockroaches. Cockroaches are generally medium- large sized insects, although in some parts of the world they can get quite large. They have spiny legs and long antennae. If you see even one roach, you've undoubtedly got a lot more. The problem is they generally hide during the day, so you may need to look for them at night with a flashlight. Even if you can't find any of the insects, check cupboards and pantries for their droppings -- tiny brown slime stains or pellets.

2. Try to figure out where they're coming from. If you see cockroaches, try to follow them to figure out where they go. This is easier said than done, however, so you might need to do a little sleuthing. Check all around the house for cracks and holes through which roaches may enter. Roaches often enter through drains or vents, so you can't seal up everything.

3. Kill the roaches. There are a variety of do-it-yourself options for killing cockroaches. Some of the more well regarded of these are listed below. Try one at a time, or try them all.

• Use an insecticide spray. Get some insecticide that is labeled for use against cockroaches, and spray wherever cockroaches may be hiding or entering the house, including along walls, in cracks, and in vents. 

• Use cockroach bait. Cockroach bait is either housed in a childproof case or applied as a gel and contains a slow-working poison mixed in with an attractive (for cockroaches) food. The roaches eat the poison and bring it back to the nest, where it eventually kills all the roaches. Place the bait in an area where you know cockroaches will encounter it.

• Use a simple solution of soap and water. This, to some, is the easiest thing to do. Just make a light solution of soap (bath soap is fine) and water. You can splash this, spray this or just throw this on the roach. Just a little water will do , even 2 or 3 drops can kill, if used effectively. Ensure that it makes contact with the roaches head and lower abdomen (its belly if you can turn the roach over). The roach will run or try to run, but will suddenly stop and die or be almost dead in one minute. This is the easiest way to do while you have no any insecticide spray, or you dare not to use thing to hit the cockroach.

KILL ALL THE COCKROACHES AS YOU CAN!!!

Love in the air

Finding a way to relax and in the same time to sepnd time with the love ones? well here i have a suggestion for you...

As the experts says going out for picnic are good for physical and mental feelings which it will bought you a warming effects.

My date and I with a couple along, we decided to visit a place where we can escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. The place we have visited is Fraser Hill, the journey take one and half hour to reach there.

Well thinking to bring your date to somewhere romantic but the need of cash hold your thought back? Fraser Hill give a fullfill yo your thoughts and needs. You can enjoy the romantic scence here at Fraser Hill!!

 

The City of Romance~~ below are the details for the place :

 

French - City of Romance

How much do we need to spend for a trip to France?

RM2,000? RM3,500?

Yes it is around that amount but the figure is only for one person trip. You are thinking to bring your date along aren't you? :) And here is the solution for you.

RM150 for couple to enjoy the romantic trip.

Can't you believe that?!!

RM150 allows us to enjoy the romantic tone of the French :D

** Please believe what you haven seen in this picture. No doubt! We really went to the city of romance - French! 

French village full of love, we can refresh our tired body and the pressure when we in the lovely village.

Really there was the moment I mistakenly thought I really live in France.



White VS Black

  

I walked to see the lovely swan 

The swan was carefree and scurrying around.

Germany - The cute place ever

German Village is my favorite actually because there is a lot of rabbit inside the Rabbit Park

You only need to pay with your love then you can have fun with a large group of rabbits.

Oh! Japan!

After the cute place I walked carefully and slowly I entered the forested area.

Listening to the insects and birds, gurgling water skiing sound really will make people mistakenly think falling in paradise.

We all in KIMONO

We put on the the Kimono that we rent from the owner and after that went to the spa area to enjoy the hot springs.

Coming from underground, generally spring water is warm, even hot.  

When water crosses the underground layers of rocks, dissolve them and come to the surface as mineral water, it's properties is different from region to region, even from spring to spring; the deeper the layer it comes from, the hotter the water.  

But the temperature is not necessarily the characteristic of these spring waters - the healing effect comes mostly, from the mineral composition of this springs and the Geothermal energy of this underground water.

Although contemporary medicine has been slow to establish the scientific basis for the benefits of submersion in mineral-rich hot springs water, a long history of use verifies its soothing beneficial effects.

It is widely recognized that a tranquil hot springs soak provides relief from the pain of stressed muscles and tired joints.

The complex effects of hot springs minerals on the skins glands and blood vessels is the likely explanation for the numerous subtle benefits that are reported by those in tune with the hot springs way of life.

Thermal spring water facilitates healing in a number of important ways:

• Bathing in hot springs gradually increases the temperature of the body, thus killing harmful germs and viruses.

• Thermal bathing increases hydrostatic pressure on the body, thus increasing blood circulation and cell oxygenation. The increase in blood flow also helps dissolve and eliminate toxins from the body.

• Hot springs bathing increases the flow of oxygen-rich blood throughout the body, bringing improved nourishment to vital organs and tissues.

• Bathing in thermal water increases body metabolism, including stimulating the secretions of the intestinal tract and the liver, aiding digestion.

• Repeated hot springs bathing (especially over three- to four-week period) can help normalize the functions of the endocrine glands as well as the functioning of the body’s autonomic nervous system.

• Trace amounts of minerals such as carbon dioxide, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and lithium are absorbed by the body and provide healing effects to various body organs and system. These healing effects can include stimulation of the immune system, leading to enhanced immunity; physical and mental relaxation; the production of endorphins; and normalized gland function.

• Mineral springs contain high amounts of negative ions, which can help promote feelings of physical and psychological well-being.

• The direct application of mineralized thermal waters (especially those containing sulfur) can have a therapeutic effect on diseases of the skin, including psoriasis, dermatitis, and fungal infections. Some mineral waters are also used to help the healing of wounds and other skin injuries.

by Emily, Liew Heng Wei @ ifunblock

10 minutes to Blossom

Mummy always enthusiastic fan of hand-craft. She loves to DIY and always learn new things from newspaper and magazine.

Here another new DIY from her, plastic flower

With very easy steps and common tools and equipments which can get easily

Tools / Equipments: Scissors and plastic bottle

[make sure the scissors is sharp enough to cut the bottle] 

Cut out the upper part of bottle 

 Then, cut the shape of flowers

You might cut the shape as you like if you are creative enough

The most common and easy flower shape

Basically, the DIY plastic flower is done

Or you may color it to more beautiful and attractive

Very easy and fast right?

This plastic flower just simply as decoration made from unused plastic bottle

You might put it on plants to achieve visual effect

And, the benefit to DIY this plastic flower not only save money to buy from market,

you can wash this flower easier than plastic flowers which made by rubberized fabric

*click on image to enlarge

by Jeffney Lim @ ifunblock

My Hot Air Balloon Day

The annually Hot Air Balloon Festival is coming!!!!

I'm so looking to it and this year I am decide to go there with friend, he promised to give me a ride.

The 4th Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Festival at Putrajaya. 

We chose to go on Friday to avoid crowd on weekend.

Depart on around 4pm and planned to see the hot air balloon "flying in sky" and then riding hot air balloon which limited 300 people per session.  

But, something goes wrong?!?!?!?!

Sun was going rest when we are on the way, a sudden rain pay visit  =[

We still taking the way to Putrajaya and praying that the rain will stop after we reach.

Yes! It's stop raining and we are here!

Unfortunately, rain comes again while we walking here

So that, we decided to take our early dinner while wait it stops

We took our dinner at a cafe which near the Millennium Monument

Weather seems not really good to us

Night getting close and close  

Stuffs told us the hot air balloon riding session is called off due to the unstable weather

Mean that, we unable to see any hot air balloon in air

What a bad luck to us!!!!!

This is my first time to visit Putrajaya

Hot air balloon plan ruined by weather so that we just walk around to this beautiful place

And the beautiful National Millennium Monument is grabbing my eyes with the light

As you walk up along the huge walkway of the Monument, you will be able to see the information that is engraved on the plates of the building. 

They provide a macro overview of the country's history of Malaysia.

The huge transparent signages that contained the information of the history of Malaysia

It brings the high-tech feel yet remain the traditional culture

 The Seri Wawasan Bridge 

Plan always can not keep up with changes.

The moment I get knew the Hot-Air-Balloon-Riding Session is cancel, I was really piss off. 

But, after visit to the National Millennium Monument and see such a nice night view in here, I placate myself to calm down.

That's is life, sometime when your plan is ruin by outside factor, that is not really bad as you think, you can choose to turn into a new point of view or keep be in sulk. Which will make you happier? 

*click on the image to enlarge

by Jeffney Lim @ ifunblock

Onn Kee Bean Sprout Chicken - Ipoh

When you once in Ipoh you MUST eat "Tau Ge" or what we usually called it as beansprout! Because it’s only at this lovely place that you will get to sink your teeth into the fattest, juiciest and crunchiest bean sprouts ever! Don't believe it? Reason is due to the ‘magical’ limestone hill water gives the plants nutrients. And... Have you heard about many pretty girls and handsome boys are cames from Ipoh? Yes, the people who stay near the caves or hills, their skin look fair and soft like baby... Hehehe **wink**

Another MUST from Ipoh will be the chicken rice. There is so many chicken rice shop in Ipoh but the really nice and tasty one were limited. So, here I got the combinations of bean sprout and chicken rice at one shop, this restaurant I would like to share to you all were located in Ipoh -

Restaurant Onn Kee Bean Sprout Chicken.

Restaurant Onn Kee



The workers just busy chopping the chicken and serving the food



Onn Kee is well known for its tender, freshness of the chicken and the noodle - Kuey Teow. I can bet you can't get any other noodle from outside like Onn Kee gives to you. It's smooth and you can feel it melts inside your mouth! The stock is flavoured by the sweet essence of chicken and just a dash of pepper to give that extra zest.

Other than the chicken and noodle, another thing is the pork / fish ball is also a delighting one and a recommended one to try on.



Kuey Teow have to choices- Soup or dry in soy sauce




A plate of poached chicken together with soy sauce and spring onions, a table filled with yummilicious food



Years ago, this restaurant operates only at night after 7p.m. to late midnight. Now, they are open at 12.30p.m. to late midnight. An asides, the restaurant is also well maintained and it is clean. Yet, here is under air conditioning environment. You can enjoy the nice food with sweat-free, especially they running their business during the noon time.

Although is 2p.m. now, it's FULL HOUSE!

Me and mummy after enjoyed the nice food ^^

As you can see from the picture, there are many photo hanging on the wall in the shop which is many HK and other countries artist was been here and grab a taste of the chicken rice/noodle.

Some artist famous like Nicholas Tze, Bobby Au Yong and so on

Around in Ipoh.. do pay the place a visit ^^

Address:

Restoran Onn Kee Bean Sprouot Chicken Rice

51, Jalan Yau Tet Sin,

30300 Ipoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia.

Tel: 05 253 1652

Business hours: 12:30p.m.-3a.m.

 

 

 

 

by Emily, Liew Heng Wei @ ifunblock

Restoran Chongqing Chicken Hot Pot @ Kuchai Lama

What is Hot Pot ?

       "As one branch of Sichuan cuisine, Chongqing cuisine is noted for its distinctive spicy and pungent flavors. Chongqing is the birth place of the hot pot in China. Once upon a time, it was a seasonal food designed to protect against the low temperatures and frigid winds of the winter. People would sit around a table, eat hot pot, and revel in the instant warmth that would flood their bodies. Hot pot has become more and more popular today, and it is widely enjoyed by people and regardless of seasons and regions"

The colorfull is good for eye catching

Chongqing Chicken Hot Pot- From it's name, I thought that here only served chicken meals, but, I was wrong, except from chicken, you can have  pork, beef  or fish in a pot and you can also select the level of spiciness – mild spicy, medium, and super spicy. The pots come in small, medium or big serving.  Me and my friends were kinda greedy and hungry. We are craving for spicy foods all the time, so, we ordered 2 small pots, which is 1 mild spicy beef hot pot "牛魔王" and another one medium spicy chicken hot pot "鸡公煲". The design on the table was cute~ There is a picture showing the intructions or steps of the processing that how customers should do, which is once you enter the restaurant until you left the restaurant.



Environment from here - getting crowded



The little cute stove

That's only few minutes time, this retaurant is full-house and being crowded. Usually, during 6p.m. until 9p.m. were they super busy business hours and you can see many people standing around to wait for the table.

My friend- Heng Yee and I (one more is missing because he is not willing to take photo =[  )



While waiting for the food come, we decided to ‘explore’ the fridge where the side dishes were stored. For sure, we wont miss out any chances to take photo to keep the good memories.There were baskets/bowls tagged from  RM1 to RM4 of vegetables, bowls of pork / fish balls, noodles, mushrooms, beancurd  and so on. We took a basket of vegetable and 2 baskets of meetball then we returned to our table.



Beef Hotpot                                     Chicken hotpot



First to arrive was the chicken hot pot , the aroma filled our nostrils, triggered a generous flow of saliva .The  flavour was a blend of sweet, sour and spicy . The every single pieces of chicken were tender and very  tasty. There were also quite a lot of vegetables in the pot : carrots, celery, garlic, onions and lotus root. It's very nice indeed, because I like vegetables ^^

Within 10minutes, beef hot pot were served, another sizzling and aromatic pot. There were slices of beef, beef balls.There were plenty of vegetables like inside the pot just like the chicken hot pot does.

When we looking into the pot, we are feeling annoying about the sauces is going to finish. The waiter came by and ask whether we need to refill the soup or not. It's same, the soup also can select the level of spiciness. Then he poured soup into the pots and then the hotpot turns to steamboat like, so, this is where the side dishes come into the picture. The soup were kinda salty but goes well with rice.

Tips: Try not to get in the way of the steam from the soup as  I found myself going all teary-eyed from this.

Address :

Restoran Chongqing Chicken Hot Pot
21, Jalan Kuchai Maju 8,
Off Jalan Kuchai Lama,
Taman Entrepreneurs Park,
58200 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 03-79806008 ( They did not provide reserve service )

by Emily, Liew Heng Wei @ ifunblock

It's a Tea-Time

In Chinese tradition, Chinese Tea plays an important role in life, you may see they drink tea many times in day, 

breakfast: dim-sum with a pot of tea

dinner: meals with a pot of tea

leisure time: chit-chatting with friends or reading book with a pot of tea

For sure, Chinese Tea came from China, with four even five thousand years history.

Chinese Tea Culture, Cha-Dao (茶道) was spread overall the world and now there are several Chinese Tea Culture which modified according to the local culture and their dietary habit.

Daddy is one of the Chinese Tea lovers, he drinks Chinese Tea, Cha (茶) every night after dinner.

Here I am to introduce our Lim's Cha-Dao

Basic equipments to make tea, in Chinese we called Pao-Cha,泡茶

And also this is important

According to the traditional Cha-Dao, the water used to Pao-Cha should be boiling in conflagration, it is helpful to extract the tea flavour.

Yet,

water which boiling too long will reproduce Carbon Dioxide in the water and makes the fragrant and taste of tea in poorer than. 

Tie Guanyin is a variety of oolong tea, is one of the common Chinese Tea in market and the price is reasonable.

This is also one of my daddy favourite tea.

First at all, daddy will blanching the tea-set  (photo of right) as it will increase the temperature of tea-set to enhance or maintain the temperature is high enough to bring out the tea aroma and taste.

We can put in the tea-leaves now in teapot A now

The hot water pour into teapot A 

The first pass is to be drained of water, tea known as the wash

People claims this wash is because to antihygienie as tea-leaves are made from complicated procedures, it may wash away the dust which might insert while the tea-leaves progressing.

The real is:-

This wash is to soak, to ensure the tea-leaves is emitting after wash and also to antihygienie in minority (as the procedures is not that unhygienic and the production process uses High Temperature Sterilization technology ensure the food is safety).

 According to professional, this wash is less than 3 seconds.   

Teapot B is purpose to filter away the tea-leaves and avoid over-steeping

Some people will chew or eat the tea-leaves, 

yea, it is healthy but scientists were proved that those tea-leaves which were steep by boiling is cancerigenic.

Over-steeping of tea-leaves makes caffeine and tannic acid, it will cause the gastrointestinal stimulation

Tea is served   =]

And normally one pot of tea-leaves can make for 3-4 times.

Do You Know?

Chinese Tea is good for healthy, it...

1.  Can enhance and strengthen your thoughts and memory.
2.  Can eliminating fatigue, promoting metabolism. 
3.  Can prevent decsyed teeth.
4.  Can inhibiting cell ageing, prolong life.
5.  Is anti-obesity. 
6.  Can prevent senile cataract.
7.  Is sunstroke prevention.
8. and so on.... 

 　

Mummy will use the tea-leaves to make tea-pillow.

It is one of the Chinese culture as well, let the used-tea-leaves dry in the sun.

Make sure the leaves in very dry condition, sewing it into cloth.

Tea-pillow possess the function of soothing the nerves, and eliminating fatigue quickly as well, thus let you sleep sweetly. 

*click on image for enlarge

by Jeffney Lim @ ifunblock