53 years thoughts blended with 6 years blog.
One month dream holiday to Mediterranean ....... this is my second planned trip, last year trip to Canary Islands was cancelled due to husband's health condition. I was very excited about this trip but on the other hand I have phobia too after cancelling my whole paid trip last year which includes a cruise on Norwegian Jade to the beautiful Canary Islands, Luckily all went well and we left Kuching…
This year is indeed a super unlucky year for my career. First, one stupid fool by the name of Solomon wrote via email to Kementerian Pendidikan saying that i always getuk- mengetuk another colleague who always go out for official duty outside. Why on earth should I care who went out for duty???. That Kementerian also very funny , the person who wrote the poison letter was not investigated but the…
Monday organic breakfast prepared by my beloved sister, Wendy. Fresh organic beans: Paku collected from the wild by Hiroyuki's mum Sweet radish planted ans specially sent for our consumption by Hiroyuki's mum: Nice spaghetti cooked by Wendy: Delicious muachi bought by Hiroyuki for us to try: In japan all the red bean paste are made with real beans where you can really see the red beans inside:…
Another super organic breakfast from Wendy to start off our beautiful Sunday at Fussa, Japan. Super soft buns from Costco: Organic spinach : Yummy and healthy salad: Soft and delicious scones: Freshly ground and organic home grown padi: chicken nuggets: The magic kitchen of Wendy, the cook in black here: After breakfast, we walked to church which is just a short distance away from Wendy's house.…
On our itinerary we planned to have this 2 days of our stay to spend with the Iwamoto's family since these were the only 2 days everyone was off from work. My sister's ,Wendy Iwamoto, has a beautiful family with a super nice husband,Hiroyuki Iwamoto and 2 wonderful kids,Joshua and Airin. This is indeed a real good example of God's family and a very blessed and happy family. We woke up to a…
We woke up very early at 4 am to chase after Mount Fuji . We were very lucky indeed to see the beautiful Mount Fuji near Kawguchiko Lake early in the morning before the clouds cover it up. View from Family Mart near Lake Kawaguchiko @ 6 am : Since Japan is the founder of quick mee so we make it our breakfast at Lake Kawaguchiko . We bought 4 packets at 198 yen each ( RM 8 each). The japanese…
After another super heavy , organic and nutritious breakfast provided by my super best sister Wendy. We began our long journey all on our own ( through internet research and Hyperdia) from Ushihama to Kawaguchiko. Hyperdia says to go to Mount Fuji from Ushihama we need to take a JR train from Ushihama to Tachikawa and from Tachiwaka , we had to use Azusa train to Otsuki and from Otsuki we need to…
After a tiring day at Disney Sea yesterday we planned to do something lighter today - just to visit Imperial Palace and Asakusa. Moreover , my friend , Josephine wished to met up with her nephew in who is studying in Keio university. We decided to met each other at Tokyo Station which is within walking distance to the Imperial Palace. As usual and always , zillion thanks to Wendy Iwamoto for her…
Our destination today is Disney Sea which is the only one in Asia. Disney Sea and Disneyland is just next to each other in Tokyo, but we chose Disney Sea since I had been to Disneyland in Hong Kong. Our journey starts from Ushihama Station to Tokyo station by JR Chuo/Ome rapid service line ( RM 36) and from Tokyo Station we got on the JR Keiyo Line to Maihama. The one way train ticket costs 890…
Wake up after a good rest to find wonderful food spread on the table prepared by my super capable sister, Wendy Iwamoto. After Wendy sent off her 2 children, Joshua and Airin and hubby to Yokota Air Base for the kid's school field trip to Disneyland, Wendy drove us around Fussa area and to then to Ishikawa Brewery to watch how 手造りの酒 「多満自慢」sake is made.Ishikawa brewery has been around for 120 years…
We left Kuching by the earliest flight to Kuala Lumpur , then by the 2.30 pm flight to Haneda Tokyo Airport reaching at 10.30 and after the immigration clearance we miss the second last bus leaving for Haijima station which cost 1600 yen ( RM 64). As the airport Immigration officers took quite a while to take our pointer fingerprints for both hands, as well as our photos by those super serious…
Japan ....here we come. Heard so much about Japan so here I come to experience it first hand.
Nowadays knowledge are really at our fingertips and internet is a very powerful tool to find answers to our questions. Last 2 days I received a missed call from one number , not wanting to waste my money to call them - I google searched the number and find that it is from one of the bank telemarketing, hence I can just ignore that call since it is promoting some of their new products to me. Thus,…
My friend is moving to her new house soon and she invites me along to see and survey for her home address plague. I loved to shop and survey for address plague. Personally whenever I went round the neighborhood, I always like to look at others' address plagues. By looking at the address plague you can tell how artistic the owners of the houses are. These are some of my neighbours' address plague…
Morning call 6 am. Breakfast 6.30 am and leaving hotel at 7.20 am for FoKuangShan 佛光山 which is one of Taiwan largest temple complexes and the island centre for Buddhist scholars. Inside the temple I was so worried that my camera will fail me again since the last time when my Sony camera failed me was when i took the monk statue photos in Phuket. Luckily it didn't this time. we managed to walk all…
As usual breakfast 6.20 am , check out hotel at 7.20 am. Today we went to the biggest lake in Taiwan - The Sun Moon lake . There is an island right in the middle of the island called Guang Hua island where an old woman lives and makes tea eggs for a living. Since it was neither sunrise nor sunset so the lake looks so so to me only! Wen Wu Temple is just nearby the lake , a shrine dedicated to…
First stop: Taoyuen Railway station. We checked out from the hotel at 7.20 am after a nice breakfast of western and oriental breakfast. We had bought the high speed railway train to Taipei @ TWD 150 each where we would have a whole coach to ourselves. But because of the fly over construction on our way we reached 5 minutes late, luckily the ticket can still be used but we have to mix with the…
Day 1 : Left Kuching on 29/11 bound for Kota Kinabalu by 10.50 pm flight. The flight timing is damn lousy traveling at night and reaching KK at midnight, hungry and cold. What a way to start a vacation!! check into Mega Aru hotel at 1 am and caught 2 hours or so of sleep since we need to go back to KK airport to check in for our flight to Taoyuen @ 4.30 am !!This is the problem with Air Asia…
Day 1: Fly to KK via 10.50 pm flight using Air Asia to KK. Reach KK Mega Aru hotel at around 1.30 am. Feeling tired and super hungry. Luckily i brought along 4 packets of Munchy Oat krunch or else so hungry how to sleep for that precious 2 hours at the hotel cos we are checking out at 4 am for checking in to our flight at 4. 30 am to Taipei at 6.30 am. Damn lousy flight time for Air Asia - Kuching…
How do you feel if you accidentally deleted all your holiday photos? sad/ disappointed/ lost/ angry? I was quite down last two days because when I deleted one of the photos on my camera I wrongly deleted all the photos on my holiday in Taiwan since before deleting I put all the photos in one folder so when I deleted one, I deleted all...moreover all those photos are taken by my husband...scary hor…
Last week or so I saw Michael, one of my students carrying such a heavy school bag which made his young and tender backbone bent. I was thinking to myself, oh my God, if he carry on to carry that heavy bag till Fifth form then what will happen to his posture? Usually for the academically better classes, the students will bring all the necessary books of the day to school as compared to the weaker…
Just 3 more years to retirement, it is time for me to plan for my retirement. Home tuition is good income but we will be very tied down with our life and our holidays trips too...meaning that we cannot get those cheaper off season holidays but instead need to join the crowds during the school holidays since only during school holidays there will be no more home tuition. Hence we are planning maybe…
Happy mood cos I have just - finished marking all my end of year test papers - finished keying in all the marks in the SMS ( school marks system ) - finished keying those same marks all over again in the another system - SAP system and which we know very well nobody will ever look at it...just because somebody want that system and we poor teachers have to key in the marks there -finish typing all…