You know, sometimes people has got weird cravings for food for example sour, sweet, spicy, yada, yada… but the weird me has got cravings for picnic! To add in the weird stuff, I wanted a picnic specifically in TTDI park and starts calling up SIL (they stay nearby) for a picnic but too bad, they has already got plan over the weekend. Well, since Monday is a public holiday, maybe I should bring the children to Pulau Ketam (Crab Island) since I’ve been wanting to go there for ages. Now my last victim would be my neighbour aka younger Sister.

Since the green light is on, excitedly the next morning after breakkie, it took us only 10 minutes to reach the jetty in Port Klang.

This is how the jetty looks like from the departing area.

Tickets are sold at RM7.00 per way for adult and RM4.00 for children but we conveniently forgot to buy the children’s ticket. *ngek, ngek, ngek* Ini Sitiawan mali punya style.

The boat is definitely much lower than the one in Pangkor Island. I am feeling like I am sitting in a submarine and almost submerging.

Well, it does really looks like a submarine as what Eldest Princess reckon. They are air-conditioned too. But if you opt for something cheaper and more adventurous, you can try the old-fashioned boat.

Great for photographers that doesn’t mind to get wet. Well, if luck is by your side, you may spot a school of dolphin swimming alongside the boat. I.am.not.kidding.you! All this while, I thought the journey to Pulau Ketam is similar to Pangkor Island, cruising through the wide sea but hey, this is something new to me. We are actually cruising through mangrove.

Jetty in Pulau Ketam

The journey by boat to Pulau Ketam is about 45minutes ride. Not bad since it is an air-conditioned boat. Upon reaching, my children thought we are in Pangkor Island visiting their Great Grandma. hehe…. guess all fisherman’s village looks the same.

But you can tell, Pulau Ketam is much smaller, more quiet, very relaxing lifestyle and not a single car can be seen. Bicycles are all over the place. I think I’m going to love this place.

We started photographing the moment we step foot on land.

I have issue with my hair that day so you won’t be seeing my photographs. I’ll leave the story for other time. Hmm… on second thought…. this one is still quite acceptable.

Suddenly, we are lost of plan. What are we supposed to do in such a quiet  Island? Nothing! There’s nothing you can do except loitering around their village. You can rent a bicycle at RM5 for the whole day. That should be fun. I’ll come back for that other time.

It is sure a very hot day and no, I did not buy that umbrella hat for the kids. A relative bought that for them. Looks fugly but cute on them. lol

No prize for guessing correctly what they are doing there. Just observing some baby crabs crawling on the mud.

You better think twice the next time you eat crab and pregnant lady too.

We started our loitering. Just some look-see, look-see stuff. We should have rented the bicycles plus the hot sun is not helping at all.

Walking is very safe. All you need to do is watch out for the bicycles. There are not a single car in the island. And so we walk and walk and walk. No kidding! Just keep on walking! Bah.

When you think the umbrella hat is cute, watch this.

Thanks to Kimmy the photographer who caught the picture just in time. The wind blew Prince’s hat away. Hmm… wonder what is their face express like. Let me zoom further in ah.

Look at the shock on their face. Poor boy.

See, now he is so sad. What a day. Nah, who wants to help him retrieve the hat?

Reward will be given tho.

Ok la. No more hat. We continue walking and walking and walking and reach a sundry shop. The first thing we do is buy drinks with lots of ice!

It has been such a long long time since the last time I drank from a plastic bag. It does bring back some childhood memories.

So what we did again? Nothing! Just walking! And snapping and more walking!

You can tell that this is a very old signboard or rather the kindergarten has been in existence for a decade now.

One of the owner dried 4 sea horse outside their house. This can fetch a good price at the chinese medical hall.

Once upon a time, my Grandma’s house has wooden door like this. I’m talking about the brown one.

We keep on walking and walking and came to a restaurant. We sat down even thought we are not hungry yet. But I think all of us was so bored and so hot and some relative was grumbling, “You never tell me the place is so hot!”

There are more food on the table. I just choose two of the best to post them. So we just ate and call it a day. But, but that was something like one hour ago when we just set foot in this island! No wonder people has been saying something like “go there makan then come back.” We bought some hae bee (dry prawns) and tiny anchovies. I love those on fried rice.

Then i spotted something nostalgia again.

During our time, it used to be a pacifier. Now they replace it with some dodgy cartoon character.

Err… I make it look so obscene hor. Come, come, cuci mata sikit. Come look at the pretty flower.

*ngek, ngek, ngek*

… story continue from Part 1 here

We was kinda disappointed to found out that the Strawberry season has just over. Our hope of letting the kids hand pick the Strawberries was dashed, not to mentioned the hand pick of cherry tomatoes and also the carrot. I think November/December is the best month to go. We proceed to the hydroponic vegetable plantation.

My Mom never encourage us to eat hydroponic veges. You should try to understand how a hydroponic works. All the chemical in the water and such. I rather consume veges that grows on natural mineral from the ground minus the pesticide la, of course.

The farm is really a beautiful sight with all the greens.

Each time I asked Prince to take a snapshot, he keeps on stretching out his arm. Either he is mimicking me or the scarecrow. I will have to ask him to stop or else all the photographs here will have him looking like a scarecrow.

I love this family shot, minus me *sigh…

Don’t ask me how it happens. Out of the blue, no. 1 lifted no. 3 tight and then no. 2 follow suit by lifting up no. 3 foot. The slipper sure spoil the picture but look at them, they are so crazy, so happy, so silly, so full of me .

Want to know something? If not because Prince wanted to get a bite, we would have miss this vegetable farm cos it is situated somewhere up on the hill. Even though it is not that high up, we (the adults!) was pretty tired chasing after kids in the strawberries farm. Yea, laziness is such a disgrace sometimes. Shame on me.

Passing thru the vegetable farm, we are at their cafe. Lots of food stuff made from strawberry or rather have strawberries in them. For example the strawberry shake, waffle, fried strawberry ice-cream, salad bar, icicles, you just name it they have everything there.

Deep fried strawberry flavoured ice-cream

It sure looks very appetizing to see her drool like this. Priceless!

pssst…. off season strawberries are sour. Very sour indeed!

After the quick bite, we headed downhill again. On the way down, we took more photographs.

I can’t recalled the name of this farm. It is quite big though. Most of the picture you saw here is shot mainly here.

I did some shopping here after observing their prices. The strawberry jam - cheapest price I saw RM6. Cherry tomatoes 5pkt for RM10. Pearl sweet corn 5 pcs for RM10. Even in Klang pasar malam, they are selling at 3 pcs for RM10. I think it is a very good buy. Not much choices for fresh strawberry since I hardly saw any. I just simply grab one big box at RM10 for the sake of buying. You know, going to CH isn’t complete without buying the strawberries. So yea, even though the sizes is quite petite I just bought one box. My initial plan is to buy about 6 boxes for my fondue party. Looks like the fondue party will have to wait.

Driving back to Tanah Rata, part of the sky turn orangy.

My first attempt shot of the sky in a moving vehicle. Not bad yea?

Our steamboat dinner:

See that? Charcoal! We ordered food for 3 person at the price of RM45. They have prawns, octopus, jelly fish, tofu, beancurd sheets, meat balls, fish balls, chicken, pork, noodles, vermicelli and lots of greens! That’s all about it. A bit over priced but at least we enjoy the meal in the cool climate.

Well, something surprised me tho. While I was half way saying grace, Prince intercepted and he said something very touching. I tried to recalled what was that but sorry yea, my memory failed me again. Teheehee…

Something like… “thank you Daddy for bring us to Cameron Highland. We are very happy….”

We headed back to the hotel at 8.00pm. The kids have a roll in the bath tub, busy spitting custard apple’s seed (we bought that from home not from CH), munching Twisties and watched three quarter of Terminator before all of us peacefully drifted to dreamland at 10.30pm.

The next morning we check out from the hotel before catching our breakfast. We tried to look for the carrot farm where you can hand pick them. Lo and behold…. I think I’ll have to drag along my eldest sister in December. At the meantime, no carrot pic though.

We stopped by Smokehouse to take some photographs. Err… they all turned out quite crappy.

Something or someone is always not right. For example Baby Princess. She kept on running away from the camera. Or either that, she refused to smile.

… sometimes showing us the ‘half-dead’ face.

… sometimes the dSLR makes me look so fat.

But with Eldest Princess, everything is just a breeze.

Crappy pic again. The shadow is not supposed to appear on her face. Ah, well…

Last stop would be the tea plantation before we headed home. We stopped by Bharat again. The kids is sure happy to run around the tea tree. Lets leave the pic to do the justice.

No. 1 & No. 2 was seen running down hill. I’m waiting with capture no. 3.

Did you see anything wrong in this picture? Where is her slipper???!!! I think she can’t catch up with the 2 eldest and decided to abandoned her slipper. Don’t ask me why she is on slipper. She just loves slipper!

And then, they was singing some big aeroplane and small aeroplane song in Mandarin and was seen going round and round.

errr… crappy right? This is just a tea plantation not some playground or anything! I can’t imagine why they enjoy themselves so much here.

“Ok, time to go home!”

And she slip her foot into the slipper and pick up another side of her slipper. She decided to walk all the way to the car in that manner! Gosh, she always did something crazy to make me faint!

All in, we had a great time in CH even though it is just a short trip. And we ask Prince if he wanted to visit CH again. His answer is………………. NO! Why? Because this little boy has carsickness on the way up and down CH. Coming down was bad for him cos he threw up twice. Daddy say we should go back CH in December. I ask, “How about next year December?”

We made a short trip up to Cameron Highlands on a weekends just to chilled a bit. It was raining by the time we reached the Boh tea plantation in Bharat. Instead of stopping for tea and scones, we continue driving up to Tanah Rata where our hotel is. Well, it is stated on my reservation paper that check-in time will be at 3pm. But you know, some hotel never really bother about the time. Once the guest is there, they will allocate a room for them. But Heritage Hotel is different. 3pm means 3pm. Not negotiable at all. Well, since we have 2 hours to kill and our tummy is grumbling, we have to brave through rain and storm for some chicken rice. The chicken was left in the cold weather and has turned dried but when someone is hungry, everything seems so delicious.

Good thing the rain has stopped by the time we finished our lunch and we headed down to Bharat again to the tea plantation which was about 10 minutes drive only.

Blessed our Lord. Without him bringing the rain, I won’t have a nicer picture without the mist. While waiting for our tea and scones to be served, we camwhore a bit. And I mean not only a bit. A lot tho! Ahem, so Ladies and Gentleman…. you know my style la. This post is again being spammed by me with lots of photographs.

My son turned out to be my back-up photographer this time. Hey, he has got potential you know. I think I will teach him the SLR skills instead of pointing blankly with the PNS. And I wonder how he does this. The image is very clear but the background is totally over exposed.

Seeing that shots, Daddy is quite jeles and trying to out beat the Prince.

Scones are over priced at RM12 for this 2 miserable scones.

Well…the taste? I didn’t want to say that it is very very nice. Well, it is nice but anything that you eat while it is still hot is always delicious. I’m saying this cos the scones is already overrated by patronage so I’m trying to keep it a balance here. Tehehee…

After the camwhoring and tea break session in the Tea Plantation, we check-in to our hotel and started our touring. My main purpose going up to CH is to let the kids explore the nature and did a little education as how veges, fruits and flowers are grown.

Basically, we stop at every plantation we saw hoping to find something different each time. Unlike Genting Highlands, kids was let loose and run wild at the Theme Park. In CH, the kids did what the other tourist does.

Eldest Princess is now the new owner of my old Sony T-10.

I have no choice as Prince wanted to be part of us. He is seen here using his Daddy’s Sony Ericcsson camera phone and occasionally took over my dSLR when Daddy is hiding somewhere no where to be seen.

Blame it on Global Warming, the weather is quite warm actually. CH used to be cooler than GH but now, it is the other way round. I still remember the last time we was in GH, we was freezing!

CH has turned too commercialized.

Home made icicles like this was sold everywhere at RM1. You know what? My city kids doesn’t know how to eat icicles! They keep on munching the ice from the top opening instead of pushing the ice from the bottom. Aiyah, where has their common sense go to? Baby Princess is even worst. She took the whole icicle out from the plastic! I almost fainted.

You should see Prince pretending eating the tomatoes. His mouth is so small, so sissy, I decided not to show you guys the pic. hehe…

Some of you might not be aware that Strawberry has season too. Best time to go CH is during Nov/Dec. This is what you get in May.

Unripe strawberries! But hey, this is my favourite shots of all!

Not only you see unripe strawberries, there is hardly any strawberry sold at the plantation. My chances of buying dried strawberries is dashed too.

Camwhoring time!!!

Son played photographer again and I told him to mimic my action.

See! Told you! His mouth is so small. Hehe… maybe he is not that vain like the Mummy. I think girls make a better camwhore than boys.

Baby Princess (read: Koala bear) wants to stick with Mummy again. *sigh…

This is not shot by me. I think must be Prince. So yea, this is his masterpiece again. I love the composition.

The dirty mug has turned out to be something beautiful.

… to be continue in Part 2 where we visited the hydroponic vegetable farm.

Every year without miss, majority of schools in Klang area will declare a day off during 8th day of CNY that is the Pai Tee Kong (prayer to the Heaven/Hell God). Since I have to take a day off from work to look after the kids, instead of staying home, we spent the holiday up in Genting while most school children around Malaysia is schooling. Woohoo! Which means no crowd and no room. NO ROOM? Yea, you hear me there. No rooms available cos it is also Valentine’s Day. Duhh!!!! Good thing Genting is only about an hour drive. So we make it a day trip. Save my $$$ too.

As usual, pictures started from Millennium Square (the entrance) at the Outdoor Theme Park. Eldest Princess was rushing to queue at The Spinner, the only rides that everybody hate

Other than spinning, The Spinner would occasionally oscillates and tilts that create a height rising up to 8 feet. It’s a whirlwind adventures that will take your breathtaking new heights of excitement! I just watch that crazy stuff spinning. *yawn*

Not wanting to waste my time standing there yawning while waiting for her, I go round Millennium Square admiring all the CNY flowers.

Isn’t God’s creation amazing?

Wait, I have more!

Such beautiful flowers. Of course I need to camwhore a bit.

Another rides that the kids will not want to miss out is the Rodeo Ride.

Prince is just accelerating. Those kiddie rides to him are nothing. Yet, he would just scream or making any accelerate action. *lol*

Eldest Princess was so sad that she had grew taller and is not allowed to go on the rides. Daddy distracted her by praising how brave she is going on The Spinners alone and that she is now a grown up girl. Her reply really got us by surprise, “Well, they minus my points too.”

“Why so?”

“Yea, now I cannot go on Rodeo Rides .”

Awww…. that is something so sad to hear.

The next best item other than flowers to buy for your darling on V-day.

Isn’t that ’sweet’ ?

Moving on, this is Baby Princess with her antic again. I’ll just let the pictures do the talking.

Well, to pacify her….

Tada! Kau tim!

I know I shouldn’t offer candy to kids as that will make them more hyperactive. So, I have my evil plan. Instead of buying sweet candy, I bought peppermint candy! Of course the little girl can’t tolerate it and spit them out after that. *insert evil laugh*

This is one of the attraction that I have not blog about. The Dinosaur Land.

As we were passing by the Go-Kart on the way to Dinosaur Land, Prince always stop here to watch the tortoise racers drivers.

“Boy, it will take many many years before you are allowed to sit on the four wheels.”

While waiting to board the boat to Dinosaur Land, we camwhore again. Basically I just want to give Daddy an opportunity to feel the dSLR.

In Dinosaur Land, there is a Hanging Bridge. I heard Prince yelling at Daddy, “This bridge is moving!”

He is such a scaddy cat! Tough on the outside, soft on the inside. *ngek, ngek, ngek* Daddy have to carry him across. After seeing his Sister running about on the bridge, he decided to walk another half of the bridge to the other end by himself.

Only to be caught on film hanging on to his dear life. *snigger, snigger*

We went back to future. 2006 is not too long ago. Other than her facial appearance, the only changes is her long flowing hair.

Oh, and while editing the picture, I can see they removed the old dinosaur and replaced with a new one. That took me awhile to play spot-the-difference. *lol*

What is new this time in Genting?

The antique car is definitely an old rides.

Spot this!

A brand new antique car (pun intended) - New paint, new tyres, new pvc seat! Except I think the engine is still the old ones. So we was like taking the rides twice just because I failed to capture a better shot of the water fall.

This time, Son called his car a Falali. Wah lau! Ok la, an antique Ferrari.

I’ll just finish up the post with few more plants from the garden.

The kids love Genting and so do I, just because Cameron Highlands is further.

How to get to FGS Dong Zhen? If you are coming from Kesas Highway, turn in to Banting interchange which is on your left. Just keep on driving (preferably on the fast lane). There will be a sign board directing you to turn right at a traffic light junction towards FGS Dong Zhen. Now, this town is called Jenjarum which is before Banting town. You won’t miss the temple as the traffic and the crowd is horrendous!

We almost did not make it to the temple this year as we are too lazy to move our butt. *lol* But the kiasu’ism in me did not want to miss out anything. Well, going there for 2 consecutive years is like a record to me. See, told you I’m kiasu!

Fyi, the temple put up decorations based on different theme/attraction every year. In 2006, their main attraction is the artificial cherry blossom. Last year, they have this tall man-made pagoda. This year, I doubt it must be the giant rotating lantern.

Like I said earlier, we need someone to shove our heavy butt and by the time we finally make up our mind to go, I know we won’t have much time to catch the daylight. It took us about 30 minutes from Klang to Jenjarum. So it was 7pm when we reach there.

By coincidence, there is a dinner reception going on too. We managed to witness the thousands of helium balloons flying up in the air.

Once you are around the temple vicinity, you should start clicking away as the crowd keep on coming and leaving. You don’t really have a choice as where the photographer should stand or how your kids should pose. The crowd just don’t give a damn even if you are in their way of taking a photographs. You know how when you are about to press the shutter and they just walk pass right in front of your camera? Call it rude or what but it seems like everyone is doing that COS THE CROWD IS REALLY HORRENDOUS! Thank you. Did I get my message across now? Teheehee…

I remember when they first open the temple in 2006, the crowd is still bearable. We have plenty of time to pose and such.

Probably it is because we reach there at peak hour. So bear in mind. Reach there by 6pm and leave by 8pm. I think that is the safest especially if you have restless kids.

Looking back at the photographs I took in 2006, Baby Princess is now a toddler! Well, as usual Prince was running away from the camera. We have to coax him by asking him to show off a few kungfu movement. Gah!

Therefore, I set my cam on multiple shots and later, all the funny looking ones goes into the trash bin .

I would say the flowers they had this year is much more better than last year. Flowers is my weekness too *blush*

If you like photography or just a stroll, this is the place that you must not miss. My pictures here is probably 30% of what they had there. Really! I kinda wanna turn back half way since I don’t like crowded places and it is almost dinner hour and the crowds is really unbearable.

The wishing tree.

… and a red ones…

Prices of Vegetarian food and drinks are sold at double. Well, if you intend to do a bit of charity, why not? Anyway, they are not charging the public any admission fee. This is like give and take even though we are not Buddhist ourself. Another reason why we ended spending for food. It is simply because we just love vegetarian food! Oh, and the kids are thirsty.

City kids doesn’t know how to ring a bell. Or at least I know my kids doesn’t!

They tend to just shake the rope instead of pulling it hard. So this Mummy went over and show them. Low and behold, I accidentally pull it quite hard and the sound is so loud it gave me a fright too! That is quite hillarious when passerby gave me a stare. *lol*

I didn’t notice I’ve shot a blurred picture as above. Or either that, there are always someone standing behind us while we camwhore. So sad.

Well, I really wish to take more pictures but the CROWD IS REALLY 100x HORRENDOUS!

Hopefully this weekend the crowd will be lesser cos last weekend when I was there, it is the last weekend of CNY. We do expect some crowd then. If I’m not mistaken, the decorations will be there till end of this month. Anyway, if you can’t make it this month, you can always go there other time but of course, they will took down some decorations and the flowers will wilt.

During the 4 days of Hari Raya break, we was invited for a open house makan-makan in Malacca. We decided to make it a day trip since my parents bunk at my place to visit my other sister who recently gave birth to a baby boy.
The only fun and interesting place a child could visit is the Zoo. It was indeed quite a rush trip in the zoo as we try not to tired ourself as Hubby need to drive back to Klang again. All I can say is…. I’ve seen what I want to see. I need something more spactacular.
I mean the ANIMALS! lol

It was a wet and humid day. Each of us has a total of 4 ice-creams to cool ourselves and quenched our thirst. This marked our latest record of most ice-creams consumed in 2 hours. lol. It’s a holiday afterall. The kids get to eat whatever they like

… continue from Day 3 - Loots of Siem Reap and Apsaras Dance Show

We have 2 hours to kill before catching our flight at 11am. Since my sister wanted to get more bracelet as souvenir for her colleagues we have to head back to Old Market again.

We spotted this cart and know for sure that this is our breakfast!

The one we had on Day One is with roast pork filling. This time, they have ham. They was so good I almost tapau one home for hubby to try. You can rest assured with me when I say it is good, it could meant HEAVENLY DELICIOUS. When I say the stall is clean, it could also meant SQUEAKY TOP NOTCH HYGIENE.

Tell me, comparing to the above photo and the one below, who will you buy the french loaf from?

Just imagine, if one of the loaf drop to the floor, will she throw them away or pick them up, give it a blow, clean them on her sleeve and put it back on the tray? Thanks but no thank you!

In the Old Market at the wet section, there is a stall selling flowers.

This is the local lotus which has been weaved. Or rather I would say, FOLDED. The actual lotus has very large petals.

We headed back to the hotel and have one last drink in the hotel’s cafe to quench our thirst. Or rather I would say, I will miss you thisssssssssssssssssssssss much *sob sob*

aitelyu, the Coconut shake is so good! Basically, they blend the young coconut flesh and juice together into smoothies. Another drinks that you must try in Siem Reap. Sugar cane! They are not some plain sugar cane that we drink in KL. Their sugar cane is mixed with local orange juice (green skin). We had this 2 drinks almost everyday especially sugar cane cos it is widely sold everywhere.

Those are my bitter and sweet memories in Siem Reap. Rewriting it down on my blog does bring back lots of fond memories. I’ve penned it down in details to benefit any of you that are going there for holiday or future reference. TOO MUCH DETAILS sometimes it does scare my readers away *rolling eye*

We paid US$3 for a ride in Tuk-tuk to the airport and US$25 for taxes (kanasai so $$$)!

While waiting to board the flight, I donated my last piece of US$10 to their tourist fund. *sarcasm* *slap self*

I think I am attracted to the pouch rather than the massage oil. rofl… Anyway, I love eucalyptus. They are very soothing especially if you have a block nose or migraine. Have I use them? Not yet. Busy and lazy. I want to be massaged and not a massager *rolling eye*.

… continue from Day 2 - Ta Prohm & Silk Farm

We decided to have breakfast in the hotel’s cafe as their price is quite affordable and the main reason, IT IS CLEANER than outside.

We had cheese & ham omelette for US$1.50 and free flow of tea/coffee. Tell me, is that A.F.F.O.R.D.A.B.L.E or what? We learn to eat the french loaf the European way by mimicking some tourist sitting at the next table.

Firstly,

Using a fork, dig out the inner soft bread by forming a drain on the centre of your french loaf. The other half should be left in it’s original form.

Secondly,

Filled the drain with cheese & ham omelette. Covered them with another half of your french loaf. Tada! This way, no more omelette dropping out of your sandwich. Ah… looks like you learn a new lesson from jessielingdotcom today

After breakfast, we intend to explore the shops alongside the road and also get a foot massage. In a nick of time, we ended in a place that look like old market. After asking around, it is indeed the new market. We continue our shopping there. New market is cleaner than old market because they don’t have a wet market in there. Of course the air smells better too.

I was spoilt for choices with their large variety of silk table runner.

Table runner are sold at US$2 each. In Giant, they are sold at RM59! And that brown curled up thing is a hammock sold at US$2. We (the kids and me) love it so much. However, they are of poor safety quality. I can fix that tho. No worries.

A better quality fridge magnet are sold at US$1 for 2 pieces. However, you can get a lower quality (without varnish) ones at US$1 for 4 pieces.

Siem Reap is my latest addition to my fridge magnet collection *wink*

We had what we wanted and decided to leave New Market. We have to move on as we need to hijack other loots. Before that, care for a dip in the pool?

Pool? What pool?

It’s FLOODING!

While we was doing our shopping in New market, we know outside is raining but didn’t know that the street has flooded. Now we are stranded in the New market. There is no way we can cross the street without getting wet from knee down.

The only idea I have is hop on a tuk-tuk. Now, this is another chapter of my life get conned. Read on….

This tuk-tuk offered us US$2 for a ride. I asked if he can bring us anywhere for shopping. Just anywhere be it a shopping mall or anything except for old market. He said ok and we hop on.

After about 5 minutes of ride, he stopped outside a post office and told us it is a post office. Duhh! And he go like this in broken english…

“You know, post office, you write letter and send to your family?”

“We are going home tomorrow. No need post letter anymore.”

“You want to go floating village?”

“No. We just want shopping. You know shopping? Big big wan?”

“I don’t know. But my friend know. Wait, I ask him. How about Angkor Wat, bla bla…..”

“All also we go already. Aiyah, faster la. Move on. We want shopping.”

“Ok.ok”

We ended up in Old Market again. Duhh! Since the street in old market is free from flood, we just get down from there. US$1 for the tuk-tuk for 5 minutes of ride. I just need to say, “Kanasai! Kena con again! Don’t know say don’t know la.”

We have so much time to kill so we conquered Old Market again. More of snapping pictures instead of getting more loots. We finally get a foot reflexology at US$5 for 1 hour. That is a bargain compare to RM38 in KL.

Did I tell you I love my curl? *cough*

Lot’s of antique bells. Some come in odd shapes.

See no evil, hear no evil, talk no evil.

I find Cambodia benefit Buddhist tourist. You can find lots of Buddha statue everywhere.

Cambodian wax sausages

I would not go to this part of the market if not for the sake of blogging taking photographs. Shall let your imagination run wild a bit

Salted fish drying under the sun.

While I was admiring the lady arranging the fish on the bamboo tray, I spotted 3 policeman waiting for a bunch of noisy China tourists buying lots of pickle and fermented produce. I can only thought that they are escorts for the tourists till I almost had my jaw drop till the ground when I saw the 3 policeman was actually paid to carry good for the tourists. Oh Man!

For dinner, we went to this place called The Temple. They are right opposit Red Piano for free Apsaras show provided you had a meal or drinks there. Pricing wise… affordable. lol.

Prices compared to else where are double but the dances…. I would say, highly recommended!

Show started at 7.30 to 9.30pm. The first dance is called “The Blessing”. Can you see some flying blurry flower petals? Ah, we has been blessed. Or either they are blessing their show and business. *shrug*

The face expression on them is so real and I love their choreography.

After the show, we walk along the night street. Nothing much. Small town, boring stuff.

… to be continue Day 4 - Farewell Siem Reap

… continue from Day 2 (Part 4/5) - I heart Preah Khan

We told Mr Tuk-Tuk that we are really tired and can no longer walk. So we shall skip small temples. Anyway, all the temples has the same…. ole… thing…..sss……..

We have too many photographs and can’t recalled some of the temple’s name or where it was shots.

For example this…

But I can remember very well that he is the first person that asked me for Candy. I was very surprised that he says that in English.

And again, the doorway.lol.

This one again don’t know which temple.

It could be taken from Angkor Wat and maybe not. At the time of the incident, we was quite bored with all the stone, slabs, bas-relief, apsaras dancer and etc, we went and morrest (spelling mistake on purpose!) the apsaras dancer. Sheesh…. don’t tell anyone, ok? And look where is my hand rested? *slap self* Duhh!

Ok, ok! Back to my trip. So we was tired and Mr Tuk-Tuk can sensed it too. He thinks we should just head straight to Ta Prohm if that is the case. I’m all excited for Ta Prohm cos that is where the filming of Tom Raider took placed.

This pic could be taken from Ta Prohm or Preah Khan. My memory starts to failed on me.

Woohoo! Finally, this is the last temple. But wait. Where is the little door with lots of roots crawling on it?

“Oh, that one is in Ta Som.”

OMG! I need to slap myself. How can I overlook it. It’s my own fault. There is no way we could turn back to Ta Som if you were to look at the map. If you want to know what is so nice about Ta Som, Google it. iBet, you will drool over the roots.

We started out at 5am and took 7 hours to visit all these temples. Can you imagine how tired we are by now? No more temple hopping for us. That is for sure! But the days is still early (12pm). Since we already book the tuk-tuk (US$15) for the whole day, might as well we took our own sweet time now.

Off we went for lunch. Mr Tuk-Tuk recommended restaurant outside Angkor Wat as he claimed that the food is nice. Our priority now is cleanliness and secondary is the price.

That is some Khmer Traditional cooking of fish & wild pepper leaves (daun kaduk) in coconut milk. On the bottom right is Vietnamese spring roll. Good news is, I’ve bought some of the spring roll skin. Will definitely make them one day. Is a matter of time now. Our lunch cost us US$10 (inclusive of steam rice & drinks). Ok lar. A bit pricey in Siem Reap but I can afford to pay them. *ngek ngek ngek

So, what are we going to now? It is only 1pm. Think! Think!

Negotiation came. We will visit the Silk Farm by paying Mr Tuk-Tuk extra US$2. What a catch! We don’t even need to bargain with him.

Exiting Angkor Wat, we adjourned to Silk Farm. It’s a long way to go. Really, really very far from the town.

This is the only flower that catches my eye.

That’s all for Day 2. Mr Tuk-Tuk dropped us at our hotel again.

US$17 for him. At least he did not con us, ok! Remember his number ya, 4167! Or if you stay in Temple Golden Villa, you can always get his phone number from the hotel reception.

… to be continue: Day 3: Loots from Siem Reap & Apsaras Dance Show

… continue from Day 2 (Part 3) - Baphuon & Elephant Terrace

Exiting the North Gate of Angkor Thom to Preah Khan, lining up is another row of soldiers pulling the naga. But the soldier is all headless. All thanks to thieves!

From far, I saw a child who is barely 2 years old sitting on the ground. He was looking blankly, day dreaming. I took a picture of him.

Picking up pace, I stop and look back at him one more time. He’s not moving. Not even a bit. Still sitting there like a statue. My heart just fell. He look so pityfull. I went to him again and whisper in his ear, “Boy, go home.”

He melt my heart just like how Baby Princess melted my heart.

… with his One Million Dollar smile! He gave me another “peace” sign. I couldn’t capture them in time. He is so adorable. Can you imagine their parents just let their kids wonder out without supervision? And, and that hygiene? OMG! (I was kidding on the conversation part with the boy. Hahaha!)

East Gopura

Two picturesque kapoc trees have become partially integrated into the structure. There’s more in the temple.

Preah Khan is a very old temple. Most of it’s structure has collapsed long time ago.

Restoration to save the tree or structure? One will have to choose.

On the way out, we spotted some kids playing.

What is she holding? Probably her pet. Looks like one of the wild jungle cat. You know, these kids are probably no longer stranger to tourist. I just get my camera out and they automatically start posing for me. She starked me with this, “Do you have candy?”

I almost pop my eyes out. SHE CAN SPEAK ENGLISH!

“I’m sorry Baby. I don’t have candy.”

Somehow, I had an instinct. I told my sis, “At the exit, we run as fast as we can. OK?”

My instinct is so accurate. The Khmer kids is up to their antic again. My sis and me decided to break up so that we won’t get caught at the same time.

*&^%$ punya budak. By the time I look up, she is standing next to the tuk-tuk drive, laughing at me.

By the time I managed to freed from the kids, I started to smell like them. Seriously! Now I can understand why Angelina Jolie choose to adopt a child from Cambodia. That little brat is sure a lucky lot.

Note in the above photo, there are a row of upright boundary stones line the entrance causeway. Their pillars carry carvings of a chimera with the head of a lion, the body of a man, and the legs and feet of a garuda. The niches originally held images of the Buddha (the religion of Jayavarman VII), but most of these were chiseled out in a fit of Hindu icon.

… to be continue- Day 2 (Part 5/5) - Ta Prohm & Silk Farm