It's a Road Trip!! Hatyai

Yes, straight after am back from Paris, i flew back to KL to start my long awaited leave to go on this road trip with my family!! We drove to Hatyai, a city of Thailand which lies between the border of Thailand and Malaysia. My family used to do this road trip when i was a tiny weeny kid, and my dad loves driving so much, he enjoys the pleasure of holding the wheels and bringing us around Malaysia. Eversince we grew up, leave school holidays always clash and such, it's been a long long time that i have been on a vacation with my family, i totally anticipated this trip!!

 

 

Blue sky | Sunny day | Me | enjoying the ride | with favourite music

The distance of KL - Hatyai is about 500 km, it took us abt 7 hours plus to reach there, with some detours of lunch and tea breaks along the way, and yah, i was like sleeping most of the time... :P

Our first nite dinner, they sell good and fresh seafood!!

Ok... what shall we eat??

Seafood fried rice...

The crab dumpling...

Such a big fresh fish

Mummy happily tucking in...

Daddy is so hungry tooo

WHile the 2 sister cam whoring...

Our all time favourite, mango with sticky rice... * bliss*

And we were there in conjunction of the Don Bosco day, and the children doing parade to commemorate him....

 In conclusion, Hatyai is all about relax, eat, shop and massage, and the massage is so cheap, two hours only cost like SGD30 or so for whole body. Food is good, the roadside stalls are overwhelming with all the local delicacies, like birdnest, traditional kuihs, chestnuts and fresh fruit... I was really busy eating and buying and eating, n ended with very little photos again... hmmmzzz....

Eating & Eating & Eating in Paris

It's an unexpected flight, i swapped with someone on last minute basis, and seriously, when you dont expect anything out from the flight, like you just wana spend some time alone and do your stuffs, there it goes - Great Companies!!! and trust me, it doesnt come easy these days... and as far as good companies concern, i would very much go all the way enjoying myself with them, that's what make being in the foreign land a memorable and fun one...

I am born to eat, at least this is what i believe so, i pamper and enjoy myself with good food, nice wine and great friends, and where else is better to wine and dine than Paris? Je' taime Paris. If you think australia's oysters are nice, then you have never tried the french oysters. French oyster is much more flavourful than the australian ones, and have a very heavy taste of the sea water, much more on the heavy palate side, u know, the very sea watery and seafoody taste, which made me fall in love with it few years back when i first tried them in Paris.

Can wait to put all of them in my tummy...

How can you not love them???

 

The wonderful combi of burgundy snails and some beef tenderloin....yum yum....



 We end the night with a few bottle of wines and some nice chats... i miss you all guys leh....

The next day, instead of a simple brunch, we ended up walking in the drizzle for 15 minutes to champs elysee, for one of the most worth it brunch i ever had in Paris. It's an italian restaurant just opposite the LV boutique of Champs Elysee, and seriously i cant recall it's name anymore... argh! They serve some very nice and thinly slice, fresh and nicely chilled - Caparcio; both in beef and salmon, and it's so freaking yummilicious!!!

Free flow of beef.....

or salmon caparcio at one flat rate... eat all you can... isnt this heavenly??!!!

Besides having unlimited carparcio, they have some really good set menu from 13-30 euros, ranging from 2 courses; either starter & maincourse or maincourse & dessert, or all 3 courses together. So Andy ordered the unlimited carparcio and we all try to dig into his share, while Joyce, Kim & I ordered some other dishes from the set menu, it's all so worthwhile and delicious, seriously worth the walk in the cold and wet.

The starters

Chicken Caeser

Assorted cold cuts

Prawn and Spinach Salad

The Main Course

My pasta with Foie Gras... *love*

Kim's Pasta with Escalope of Pork

Joyce's Grilled Seafood

And as usual, we ended with something sweet and heartwarming....

 It's one of the very memorable flight of the year, though it's getting real cold in Paris in November, it's like 5 or 7 degrees in the day, and 0 at nite... yet I have totally indulge myself with the wine and dine experience, and great new friends in Paris. Jet' aime Paris, i will be back soon... xoxo...

Joyce, Kim, Andy & Ernest, thank you so much, for making this Paris a fun one! Lurve you guys!

Sorry to leave my blog unattended...

I am really sorry that i have left this blog unattended for like half a month?! I was so busy and still very busy now with my ever-tight schedule and new school terms and family and frens and year end festive seasons and bla bla bla.... Now, i shall upload those pics and blogs that i have wanted to do them earlier... sorry...

Jetting off to reality

I'm at subbing airport now, ending my 1 week of leave in KL Penang & Hatyai. It's so nice to be home spending time with my folks, having home cook, going on roadtrips... No where are better than home... And now, m jetting off to the island of reality... Busy schedule, schools, assignments awaits me...

So looking forward to get back to work, cos I've been so slack, I need to get my engine starting... But at the same time, I wish I can juz slack my life and time away, enjoying the pleasure of doing nothing... Contradicting rite? Yes... Tats me... I m a typical piscean...

Having Starbucks alone... Boarding in 30 minutes... Ok... Goodbye vacation... Goodbye home... I m officially back to reality!


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Christmas Shopping in London with my 2 sweeties...

It's a gloomy sunday, with light and moderate drizzle through out the whole day, the sky looked so grey and sad... it didn't seem like the weather want us to do our shopping. Haiz. Nonetheless, that did not dampen the mood of my 2 little princesses, they were all so happy and chirpy to come to downtown London to see Christmas lights in the cold...

The afternoon started off with some sumptuos lunch at Pizza Express... My little Caitlyn was a little upset with the cough that she's caught from school, and look a little tired because she's been stuck in the traffic to town for quite a while...

whole table full of pizzas and pastas....

Caitlyn didn't seem to be impressed by the pasta...

but super duper cherry when she saw the ice-cream...

Look at the happy face...

Enjoying her ice-cream...

Little Cheryl got a taste of the hot chocolate...

After lunch, we walked towards oxford street in the hunt of Lena's Chanel bag, haiz, always out of stock... and the 2 princess were enjoy the walk in the cold because of the fascinating X'mas lights...

Carnaby Street

Caitlyn & I

Oxford circus

Everyone is out on a Sunday to shop for X'mas...

There's an old man playing harp there... so nice...

Lilian, Caitlyn & me...

Lilian & I...

The beautiful X'mas lights on Oxford Street...

We went to Selfridges, to look for the Chanel bag, still not able to get one, so we went to the X'mas store in Selfridges, i was so fascinated by the X'mas deco in store... so pretty and delicately made... and very expensive too... The little ones were so happy to see so many christmas trees, bubbles, santa...

Dun worry Caitlyn, i have mailed Santa and tell him that you've been a very good girl... haha

full of X'mas trees of different themes

ok... baby Cheryl trying to grab the light...

Cheryl's happy face...

the little sisters sharing their discoveries...

how could we forget santa??

We dropped by Uniqlo and shopped some clothings to keep us warm in this cold cold winter. Can't believe it, it's only mid November and the temperature has gone down to 10 and below... it's getting so cold so fast...

Posing with Caitlyn in my newly purchased bubble jacker... and she's been such a good girl, helping me to hold my shopping...

I went back to Oxford street again today to finish some unfinished business... hahaha... more christmas shopping of cos... it's time to stock up some new winter clothing for the coming fast winter... It's still as crowded as usual eventhough it's a Monday... *sweat*... have to squeeze and queue and wait for changing room, cashier and everything... and the taking off my layers of clothes to try on the new clothes was so irritating... that's why i really detest trying clothes in the winter... *roll eyes* nevertheless, i have hands full of shopping bags back to the hotel.. :P

Next stop, Paris... i need to buy my long awaited Longchamp bags... and it's the cheapest in Paris... yesh!!