Blogger’s Meet – Picnic in Morib Beach, Klang on Labour’s Day.  Anyone interested?

It’s been ages that I’ve not cook anything spicy since CNY. When I spotted Petai selling at the morning market, I thought I must buy them even tho the price is a bit pricey that morning and they doesn’t look fresh anymore. Some of the petai is already sprouting. There’s something about a women’s tastebud. Not sure about you, but i do need something savoury + spicy + sour = PMS at certain day of the month.

Ingredients that I’ve used is almost the same as for Kangkung Belacan. This time, you may need to increased the amount of dry prawn (hae bee) to half a bowl. For a lovely aroma, shread thinly 2 Kaffir leaves. Instead of using water, substitute with thick tamerind juice or you can use lime juice.

I was tempted to go to the beach to snap some foot step/prints for this week photo hunt.  I wish I have the time! *sigh…

I’m sure many of you have seen this before – Steps in Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles

As a women, why do we always have to be the one to forgive and forget?

My fair share of VisualDNA profile. After reading, don’t laugh at me, ok? 98% of the DNA result tested positive *shudder*

I was digging thru my archieve for the sake of showing someone *rolling eye* a site where you can paint the map red. Basically they show countries you’ve visited and produce a map of the world with those countries painted in red.

Last year I did one. It looks like this:

Of course I have the privillage to paint another country red. U.S.A. Here I comeeeeeeee!

Wah lau. United States so kwa cheong! Went to 2 States out of 50 States and I’ve got the whole of USA painted in red. Wakakaak…. Percentage increased by another 1% *tehehehe*

Basically these are the country/states that I’ve been too.

1. Los Angeles, United States
2. Las Vegas, United States
3. Oslo, Norway
4. Amsterdam, Netherlands
5. Paris, France
6. Brisbane, Australia
7. Perth, Australia
8. Phuket, Thailand
9. Singapore
10. Seoul, South Korea
11. MALAYSIA!!! wakakakaaaa….

The journey to Grand Canyon is about 5 hours from Las Vegas using the same Freeway again passing thru Hoover Dam. Once again, we are surrounded by dessert. We passed thru a very small town. It’s so small you can count the numbers of shops and houses they have. They look very familiar like the scene from Cars. All this while, I’m crazy head-over-heels on Route 66. I’ve got my Sony T-10 on standby. Finally, not only one but two! I’ve got the Route 66 sign captured!

I know there’s nothing great about the sign. It’s just a sign. But mind you, it’s not an ordinary sign. We are talking about the history of Route 66! And you think it’s easy to capture the sign on camera? Why don’t you try them. Imagine you are in a moving vehicle, say 110km/h and was seated wayyyyyyyy back in a 7 seater vehicle constantly looking out from the window with your head position at 75degree and your neck stretched so long it’s going to put you in the Guinness World of Record for having a neck as long as a giraffe, nose sandwiched on the window and eyes focus far. And when you spoted some sign, you position your camera at the window pane, hold your breath, eyes open up wide, finger on the shutter button and *CLICK*. It’s all over then. The sign now is behind you. If the picture doesn’t turn out right, continue looking out from the window with your head position at 75degree and your neck stretched so long and eyes focus far. And when you spoted some sign, you position your camera at the window pane, hold your breath, eyes open up wide, finger on the shutter button and *CLICK*. The sign now is behind you again. Let’s just continue your sleeping. It’s a long way out there. So now you know la. I was darn happy to snap that 2 pictures!

We stopped at no where at some petrol kiosk for gas and snacks. This is the way leading to the washroom.

So dem chun can die lidat. Washroom is on your left and on the right…..

Icy topped mountain landscape. Fuhyoh, sibeh sui hor.

Each vehicle is charged US$25 for the entrance to Grand Canyon. It is still cheaper than buying a tour which might costs you around US$230. I’ll tell you why later. Pun intended.

The first view that greeted us in Grand Canyon.

We drove to the next observation centre…

Fyi, don’t go during winter as the Canyon will be covered with snows. You see nothing but snow. But I’m sure it has the winter beauty too.

They all looks the same -_- . Lots of walking from one rim to another.

By the time you downloaded your pictures to view on a pc, you will find that the backdrop is almost the same.

Heck! Aunty also have the same pose. So boring! (psst… Aunty’s Guess shirt is only US$10)

It’s so boring can die lidat!

We can’t find the Red Indian settlement 🙁 and by the time we reached the Red Indian museum, they are closed. I feel like crying then.

Bear in mind that Arizona is 1 hour ahead of Nevada. Three hours in Grand Canyon and we see the same shit thing.

There’s nothing more to do or see. Or maybe we don’t know what else to do there. I don’t know. A very little entertainment we got there could be watching cowboy leading a harras of horses back to it’s barn.

The sun set around 5pm. Therefore, the Canyon looks very shadowy. Not pleasant for photography.

We left after that. So, it’s like another 5 hours back to Las Vegas. Gosh, we don’t even have proper breakfast and lunch. All we ate is Krispy Kreme donuts and bread.

If I have the opportunity, I may want to visit Grand Canyon again. This time, no more driving and watching Canyons from the observation centre. I’m going to take a helo and hoovers around the Canyon and cruise on the Colorado river. I want to have the feel of being IN the Canyon and not ABOVE the Canyon no matter how much it will cost me.

If you have been to Grand Canyon, mind telling me your experience?

… go back to read Day 9 with Bill Clinton’s appearance here

... proceed to read Day 11 with lots of bitching here

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Finally after months of proscratination, I’m ready to hop in the bandwagon joining the rest in Photo Hunter. In conjunction with the recent F1 racing in Sepang recently, I decided to forgo my collection of stamps, miniature perfumes, coca-cola, etc…etc…

Collection of die cast car has been a hobby or rather I’ll say addiction by Hubby and Prince. And can someone please tell me why does man had a weird hobby called “washing-car”? I’ll rather sit in front of the TeeVee watching Formula One racing. Hey, watching F1 is considered a hobby too.

Have you submit your income tax form to LHDN? The last day of doing so is on April 30, 2007. And if you thought of doing it online using the e-Filing, pssstt…. maybe you should read this.

…. the Queen spent her day on hotel hopping *sigh… It’s not fun at all. I have to be my own photographer 🙁 .

I’ll post up a few photographs to give you some ideas on Las Vegas – The City of Entertainment. I didn’t go far from my hotel. What you see is some attractions near to MGM Grand.

Day scene…

Bottom left picture – That is Hooters. You get yummilicious food plus yummilicious “view”. Hmm… I wonder how many people actually went there for their “view”, instead of food.

Night scene…

M&M World – You can find all sort of M&M merchandise here; caps, shirts for adult and children, straw, cup, surveniors, Chocolates, etc…. The only thing they don’t have in there is M&M peanut butter (instead of chocolate filling, this one is peanut butter filling). Yea, US have the peanut butter version! Anyhow, I managed to get them from petrol kiosk.

I’m not sure if photography is allow in their store so I secretly snap some pictures using my mobile phone. And talking about lazybug, the pictures is still in my mobile phone. Basically I google the last 2 pics. They have 21 flavours of M&M chocolate there. But aitelyu, to me, all of them taste the same. Cheh!

Beside M&M world, there is also The World of Coca-Cola cum museum where I pick up a miniature bottle of Coca-Cola to be add on to my collections. Darn happy about that!

Ever wonder why people associates Las Vegas with hotels and casinos? Basically, the whole stretch of street is line-up with hotels and every hotel, there is a casino. Their casino is easily access. Nothing compare to the one in Genting Highland. There’s no one checking your I.D. Just walk in, sit down and roll the dice!

Amazingly, you don’t see any kiddos sitting on the slot machines. I bet all parents is paranoid when come to underage gambling, huh. As you can see, I took the pictures during day time. That is why you don’t see any crowd. Like they say, Las Vegas is a town that never sleep. When night falls, the owl started coming out.

I’ll post again pictures around The Strip in my coming post. Currently some pictures got stuck in my other laptop when the motherboard die on me! $_$

And you must be wondering what’s about Bill Clinton?

U.S. former President Bill Clinton was invited as Autodesk keynote speaker for their 2007 OTC Conference. Nothing great about that but I’ve not seen Bill Clinton in real life before. This is how he looks like today ( I mean on March 7, 2007).

He really is on a mission to still change the world for the better. I have nothing against him so please, be nice to him 😉 .

… go back to read Day 8 in Hoover Dam here

... proceed to read Day 10 in Grand Canyon here

I have this philosophy. No matter how naughty is other people’s child, I will just tell them off for their own good and will not touch (cane) them cos that is not my child. Only the child’s parent has the right to cane their own child.

How about, if you are a teacher, would you cane your student for their own good? For example, Princess who is 7 y/o forgot to bring one of her book. She did not do it on purpose. I know that cos she packed all her books and mistakenly placed that book in another bag. Of course she get caned on her palm. Of course she cried. Of course I am so heart sake to see her cry. It’s not a normal crying. I’m her mother I know her best. She is so tramautized by that incident. She cried like I’m the one lying in the coffin! (*touch wood)

Come on! She’s only 7 y/o and this is the first time she forgot to bring her book. Can’t the teacher gave her a second chance? I wonder who gave teachers permission to cane? I consoled daughter and telling her at she’s at fault, “Take this is a lesson lor. Next time remember to bring your books. Cry also no use. Already get caned.” I know “Spare the cane, spoilt the child” but I have to stand on daughter’s side too.

If I don’t confront the teacher, they are taking the answer as “Yes! You can cane my child.” For goodness sake, it is just a book. She’s not stealing or drawing graffiti or doing something bad. The teacher could at least punish her like stand throughout lesson or something like that.

But hor, if I confront the teacher, I’m putting my dauther at risk. Some teacher have this mentality, “Ok, you don’t like how I teach your daughter then from today onwards I’m not going to care what she do.” So you tell me la. What am I going to do? Just sit there like nothing happen? Some people might say, “Cane on the palm only wert. Can die meh?” So you tell me la. Can die or not. Don’t tell me the teacher never forget things? A child is still human wat. A child cannot forget to bring books meh? Don’t tell me the teacher never forget to bring books during her younger days. The more I say, the more I want to **** the teacher.

It’s been a while since my return from US, I can’t find the time to cook a proper meal at home. My cooking rhythm is all out tho am slowly picking up bits and pieces (aiyah, laziness la!).

This is what a lazy ass would whip up in the kitchen on a lazy Sunday.

Stir Fry Kailan Stem

Ingredients:

Medium Kailan Stem
1/2 carrot
Brown bunashimeji mushroom ($$$)
3 cloves of Garlic
Oyster sauce
Tapioca starch

Method:

Use a kitchen knife to tear off the outer skin on the kailan stem. For the bunashimeji mushroom, gently separate them and rinse away dirt in running water. Leave them whole.

Heat olive oil in the wok. Brown garlic and follow by sliced carrot and kailan stem. You may want to add few slices of ginger to take away the earthly smell from the mushroom. Add a cup of water and oyster sauce. Once the stock came to a boil, add mushroom and tapioca starch.

Ingredients for Miso Soup:

Seaweed
Soya Bean Paste
Egg Tofu
3 big bowl of water

Put all the above in boiling water. Kau tim! Takes me less than 30 minutes to serve my dinner. And no. I’m not a vegetarian *ngek.