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Di antara tempat menarik yg dikunjungi utk menjamu selera semasa berpergian hari tu antaranya adalah Ikea..
Makan curry puff besar and ice cream berdiri is a new experience. Nak masuk ke ruang tempat duduk malam itu, ada function.

Sambil nikmati angin lewat petang, di esplanade Kuantan icecream durian jadi santapan.

Berjamu di Lilawadi jadi satu kemestian bila keKuantan. Nasi bersama beef shanks jadi santapan. Minuman berpandan sejuk ditelan..

Di Loteng ,makanan enak,service cepat menarik untuk datang lagi. Cikli kata bihun tomyam dia pun enak sekali. Thank you olin belanja kami.

Namun masakan di rumah sendiri, jadi sebutan walau dah balik negeri. Nasi minyak, jelatah dan ayam masak cili menambat hati. Pandai juga masak anak ku ini...puji ayah senang hati.

Dan paling terkesan, layanan baik tuan rumah di Sg Karang. Hebat masakannya. Nasi dan lauk pauk, ketupat goreng dan rendang enak dimakan. Juga nasi briayani yg ditapaukan. Kenyang auntie makan. Terimakasih Alin kawan Olin. Semua tu jadi ingatan.

Tidak ketinggalan,masakan anak bongsu,ibu dua anak ku. Pandai masak rupanya walau paling bongsu. Bihun sup sedaap ,kata aku. Makanan yg didelivery pun menambat hati. Thank you aten, safuan dan cucu cucu.

Satay Taman Melati pemberian bisan sedap dimakan. Begitu juga patin masak tempoyak yg ditapaukan. Cucuq cempedak pun kami makan sampai tak dak kesan...TQ tak terkira pada besan suami isteri .

bersama cucu kesayangan selepas makan

ayam goreng berempah masakan ciklin

ayam masak cili masakan ibu

jelatah 

Nasi minyak resepi alin dimasak olin

sambil menunggu boleh conteng2
Chicken chop se pinggan 14 hinggit dan beberapa puloh sen.
Loteng or LOFT masakannya memuaskan kata cikli

Di sebalik dinding ,curry puff dan icecream
Thats all folks. Bye.

8 hari di jalanan...

Hi guys,
Its been an absence of 7 days from this platform. Been on a jalan jalan lawat anak cucu time. Tried feeding post from my i phone but to no avail. Once or twice I typed on the phone and tried posting from KL and Pahang...hihi tak memuaskan hati langsung. So since I am back at my own sanctuary, here I am once again.

Ewah macamlah ada orang terasa kehilangan kita...syok sendiri otn.

Oh well..here are some of our on the road time.Ingat dah tak berpeluang jalan jalan dgn keadaan kesihatan yg tak menentu. Alhamdulillah dipermudahkan.

The journey started with a wedding invitation from cikli's uncle. Since its the last wedding of the family, we felt its an obligation to attend. Lagi2 bila kenangkan jasa pak saudara cikli dulu.Tak terbalas rasanya,

On the ets we boarded last Thursday morning. In coach C the window seat that I got was riddled with broken fragments. Gerun tgk 2 tingkap pecah begitu.

my tingkap.

Luckily,no untowards incident and we arrived at KL Central that afternoon safely. Hope KTMB dah rectified the broken window glasses. Tak terbayang wei  kalau dia berderai. Bahaya.

That Friday we spent our time at Zeta Homes. Homes to the boys.Fahim and Fateh. So much entertainment with the two boys around. And I got a new nickname... tok hotdot..haha.

Saturday afternoon saw us attending the wedding

After the wedding to MM as Fahim called it. Konon nak cari baju or tudung. But nothing caught my eyes.

Lupa pula bila ke Ikea Damansara...well on one of those evening. Beli selimut utk perjalanan balik kerana tiket pukul 11.30 malam Saturday night the next week. Anticipated a very cold ride .

all in red..tokwan and fohim

Sunday saw us travelling across the LPT1 to Kuantan. Stayed a night at Cathayana..

view from the hotel window

the hotel... oklah..

The next day Fahim and family returned to KL while we stayed on in Gambang. Raya Haji bersama anakanda until the next Friday... quite a long while.

haha... lihatlah sini kami

And returning to KL,we took the last ets at 11.30 pm on a Saturday and reached home exhausted but contented. Its a time worth spending .

Thats all folks.Bye.

Di jalanan

12 jam lalu,cikson sibuk di jalanan. Banyak perkembangan dlm dan luar negara cikson tak ketahuan.
Ehh waah.

At 6.00 pm ,we boarded the north bound ETS at KL Central. From Batu Muda's condo,ciklin sent us there at 4 before she herself continued her journey across the Banjaran.
Having had time to spare, to KFC for a takeaway. And by 6 we were heralded by a placard bearing our train code and time.
So off we went down the escalator together with the crowd. My bil who went ahead of us was there to assist us with the bags. Thanks olin and ciklan. Marching with the crowd was no challenge for us. And I dreaded the crowded and moving stairs as I had witnessed an unfortunate incident on our way here.
A little girl said to be on the same coach was heard wailing among the din of the evening. An unsteady nyonya had fallen on her while ascending the stairs. If not for the quick hand of the officer in charge, I dont know what will happen to the poor child. Mujuq lagi.

By 12 .pakya our trusted taxi operator was there to take us home. This is also a mujuq lagi because there was not a single taxi to serve us if we had not done so. Calling for pakya ,I mean. Thanks pakya.

the lush green scenery captured 

Ehh..buat apa cikson ke KL weekend tu?

My youngest sis hold her open house raya at her nook in Bukit Mahkota. I was torn between going or not. So until the last date,only the decision was made. Dengan keadaan cikli and my yo yo all kepala,its only by chances we could make it there.

Food aplenty,good hospitality was my late mum style of welcoming guests to her house. So  did cik bibah and family. Treated to a home cooked gulai ikan that night and a spread of delicious food on the day itself. Berjumpa sanak saudara is a treat in itself. What more with the presence of my two little cucus. Have a really good time there despite me being a bit under the weather.

Thanks bib,hubby and children for being such a welcoming host.

The night spent at one condo in Batu Muda was enjoyable as well. Fohim's antics and rants were a joy to this old heart of mine.
But its a pity that little Fateh was unwell that night . Hope he is better by now.

Hhaha... sapa baca ngok ngek cikson sampai habis must be a very penyabar person. High five for you. Dia pi jalan pun boleh jadi bahan tulisan.

Ok.. Fahim's favourite word. Got to sign off now. Have a nice working week dears.

Tasik Merah ,another eye piece.

the two adorable brothers captured our hearts with their antics . Fohim is
beyond his years. 

Till we meet agin. Adios.

What's up in Perlis?... anything of interest?

Its been a long long time since the household of RBL could travel as they wish and like.
Ingat lagi dulu dulu.. cuti sekolah,hujung bulan ,hujung minggu ciksoncikli would be up and around places.
Kulim where cikson family originated was a monthly place to visit as tokmad and tokton were staying there until they moved out to Lunas. It was here that the children of RBL were able to frolick in tokwan's small garden. Here they watched as tokmat concocted his minyak urut. Rugi tak belajar ramuan ramuan yang dia guna berserta ayat ayat quran yang di baca. Berkesan ubatnya.

Later,the Lunas house was abandoned after tokmat's demise. Tokton moved to her daughter's house in Sg. Petani which was to be her last resting place. And we called Sg petani our most frequented place until tokton was called to rest. And it was also the end of our monthly visitation to Sg Petani.

Now the visit is far in between as cikli was taken ill since last year. No more going places at the spur of the moment or hopping in the car for a visit to KL and Pahang.

Our RBL is our nook.
Even Padang Besar and Alor Setar seem distant. And I was oblivious to the development of Perlis herself.

haha...panjangnya mukadimah. Ni baru nak masuk cerita sebenarnya.

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So one day,ciklin wanted to shop around in Padang. Leaving behind cikli at home,mum and daughter shoot off to the border town.
Nothing much along the way. It was the same as we had seen the last time. The Timah Tasoh Dam was still there. The hills and vegetation were much the same except for a few spots of development near Sungai Cucuh.

As we neared Padang Besar, we notice buntings about a new place recently opened. PADANG WAREMART is here ,folks. We sauntered into the warehouse like shopping mall ,only to be greeted by a few already operating shops whereas many are still shuttered.
Mai bulan November semua kedai bukak la kak..said one shop assistant when we asked why many are not operating as yet.

new place to burn RM in Padang comes November. Now macam tak dak apa apa la sangat

antara yg dah beroperasi

barang begini pun ada 

gambar dari fb. 

So what's up Perlis? Beside the fast development in and around Kangar town, Padang Mart in Padang Besar is a new atrraction for those who are easy with their money.
Well....we did buy  a few tudungs at RM 15 each. Quality wise its better at the morning market though.

The weather was extremely hot these few days. Sometimes the sky was as bogel as it could be . Sometimes there's nay a cloud in the sombre sky.
As an admirer of nature ,I didnt let the clouds in the sky go unrecorded.

awan di taman lama..no 7

awan di KPJ yg akan mula beroperasi tak lama lagi

awan disini... macam dok sembunyi

kemudian berbentuk begini...

Thats all folks,cerita dari utara. Nak cerita ttg yg lain ,kita tak kemana mana.Jadi penunggu gua saja.Have a nice Sunday everybody. Love you all.Bye.

Jalan2 naik ETS ,mcm2 ada...masin dan manis segalanya.

Semalam,jam 5 petang kami kembali di bumi Perlis...bumi harumanis.
Pergi balik naik ETS untuk warga terlebih dewasa menguntungkan kerana tiket 50 peratus lebih murah. Pergi balik hanya 180plus plus saja. Untungkan.

Perjalanan pergi tepat waktunya. Tak tertangguh dimana mana. Tapi masa balik pula yang banyak cerita. First time mengalaminya.

Seawal 6.30 pagi ,bertolak ke KL Central . Perjalanan smooth dan jam 7 dah sampai ke stesen k,api. Disini kami menunggu dan menunggu kerana tiket jam 9.44 pagi. Lama tu. Tapi aku suka begitu kerana rasa selamat dari terperangkap dalam kesesakan jalan lepas jam 7.

Sebelum 9.44 kami ala ala tourists di pandu arah oleh pemandu arah berombongan ke platform 3. Ambik kau 2 eskalator kena kami turun dengan luggage yg boleh tahan beratnya. Mau tersembam...naya!

Bila k.api dari Seremban sampai kami pun masuk ke dalam gerabak. Letak beg dan cari tempat duduk. 2A.2B seat kami.
Di seat depan berlaku sedikit kekeliruan. 3 penumpang 2 seat.Bagaimana bisa begitu ya? Alahai,rupanya kakak didepan tersilap haribulan. Tiket untuk 27/6 kawan kawan. Kesiannya dia terpaksa turun dan lebih menyayat hati dia pula rabun... sorang2 pula tu. Semoga kakak dipermudahkan urusan lepas tu.

Semua penumpang ditempat masing masing kerana tren akan berlepas sebentar nanti. Namun itu tidak terjadi kerana masaalah tiada electricity. Bergelap pula kami. Hampir lebih sejam kami baru kami dapat menarik nafas lega bila perjalanan disambung semula.

Jam 4 lebih baru kami sampai di Arau berbanding jam 2 seperti tertera ditiket..
Seperti datang, sepanjang perjalanan ,sedih mendengar rintihan tren yang berkriuk sakan seakan menahan beban. Macam nak luruh badan .Bunyi ayan ,bunyi jamban dipam,bunyi rel dan bermacam bunyi mengiringi perjalanan....Sejuk pun boleh tahan.

Syukur Alhamdulilah....selamat sampai rumah.

bergelap dalam koc keretapi

Menunggu dari pagi safie
kenapa ya kerusi kerusi berdaki..

meninggalkan KL yg hiruk pikuk

kenapa air berwarna teh susu
Selalu warnanya hijau 

Tanda hampir sampai tempat kami
Sawah terbentang indah

Mesin basuh pun dah berbunyi. Sekian sampai sini.
Selamat berpuasa yangs yang dikasihi. Minggu depan kita jumpa lagi.

KL here I come

Bersiaran dari Kl east dan menaip diatas iphone bukan kerja mudah.
Sudah 3 hari meninggalkan rumah .
Dari tingkat 8 PV yg indah. Berkumandang deruan enjin dari subuh tak sudah sudah.

Menaiki ets memberi satu rasa yg baru dan berbeza dari yg dulu dulunya . Kali ini gegaran k.api cukup terasa . Bergoyang2  penumpang semua . Shreeeet shreeeeeat gerabak k.api menjadi halua telinga. Berbeza dari masa ets mula beroperasi.

Tu la beli lagi barang made in china. Inilah hasilnya. Rungut penumpang sebelah. Tak sampai setahun dah longgar sana sini.

Sampai kl central around 7 dan terus ke restoran berbuka puasa di nu central

Besoknya ke sebuah restoran thai di melawati pula. Harga yg jauh beza kalau di bandingkan di perlis.

Tgh hari tadi anak2 bawa pula ke jakel mall di tgh kl. Adoi banyaknya orang. Hampir sesak nafas dibuatnya.

Catatan ini dibuat menggunakan iphone dan disudahkan menggunakan lappytoppy lap top. Pagi ni aku tekan Publish button.

Blogging here I come.

Jalan jalan mai perrrrghlih... jom lawat kebun harumanih.

Semalam petang, tiga beranak kami berkesempatan berkunjung ke kebun harumanis. Tak jauh pun dari umah. Ada kot 10 km
Petang yang redup tu ,ciklin memandu iriz meredah suasana kampung Perlis yang permai. Dikiri kanan jalan sawah hijau terbentang. Bukit bukit batukapur menjulang .
Cantik pemandangan Perlis,kata banyak kawan rakan yang pernah bertandang mari. Dan cikson akui. Memang benar.
Dimana negeri yang sekecil Perlis dapat mejamu mata dengan laut, sungai,sawah juga hijau hutan. Lalu jalan Padang Besar, Timah Tasoh membasuh mata. Lau jalan Chuping dulu boleh lihat pemandangan bagai hacienda di Eropah sana. Namun sayang,semua itu kian tiada kerana tanaman tebu dah hampir pupus adanya.

sekerim harumanih yo

Coming back to our story yesterday.

It was an awesome journey that took us to places that we had not gone for a lng time. Passing by the Sg Batu Pahat and the snake sanctuary brought nostalgia to us. Kat sisni kami sekeluarga berendam masa anak 2 masih kecil.

By and by we reached our destination. Bukit Chabang . Venturing into its compound we soon found ourselves indulging into the famed pulut harumanis and ice cream harumanis as well. Memang pun manis. Juga terjual buahnya. Tapi harga RM 30 untuk sekilo...buah gred B. So kami pun tak beli..hihi.

Lepas makan,jalan jalan masuk kebun. Rasa macam pi luar negara la pula...

puluit harumanih .. RM 7

cafe 

buah buah bergayutan di dahan

tanda kami ke sini...

Thats all folks...bye.

Sawadeekap... jalan jalan sambil memasak.

I posted the article, then I did something on my Asus Iphone. Lo n behold,the said article was gone! Blimey.

Not wanting it to be gone forever,I struck the keypad of my trusted laptop,trying to recall the things I posted.

Oh well...here goes.
Do you know that we could go places and learn something beneficial from it. Like going to Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand for example.
I came across websites that cater fro travellers who like to cook,bake,arrange flowers and hundreds of other hobbies and knowledge.

In my earnest to find info,I stumbled upon this..

In the tropical haven of Bali ,there's this cooking class for the interested.

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In Thailand there's load of places you can learn from the basic of Thai authentic cooking to advanced classes.

Such an example is Silom. You could learn these during the preliminary course..

Got to go..bye.

Jalan jalan padang besaq,jumpa buah staq, anak menakan tolong bayaq... rapuhnya krap krap...hehe

Sedapnya makan buah setar or staq as in local dialect. Krap krap. Buah pula datangnya dari Padang Besaq dan anak menakan pula tolong bayaq. Syukur Alhamdulilah.Thanks Apiz .

Fresh fresh buah buah ni
Manis,krup krup rasa bila di makan

Tak cukup syarat kalau balik Perlis, tak kunjung Padang Besar dan makan ikan bakar di Kuala Perlis. Yang lain tak buat tak apa,tapi kalau miss salah satu dari dua dua ni tentu rasa sedikit kecewa dan tak kena.

Nak jadi cerita, selepas majlis akad nikad petang Jumaat tu, kami terus ke Padang Besar. Was was juga rasanya kalau kalau kedai kedai dah tutup memandangkan jam dah hampir 5.Rupanya meleset sangkaan kami kerana kedai kedai masih meriah walau jam dah hampir enam.

Tak banyak dibeli tetapi aksi Fahim menarik hati. Lalu saja kedai toys, bising mulutnya minta mainan yg menarik hatinya. Akhirnya seekor monyet terpaut dilehernya dan sebiji bola terselit dibawah bajunya. Baru diam mulut dia.

Cikson tak beli apa apa. Cuma menemani anak dan menantu hinggalah mata terpandangkan longgokan buah buahan untuk jualan. Menanya harga buah setar buat cikson terdiam seketika. Mahalnya harga. RM 20 sekilo..Rupanya anak saudara cikson yang memerhati,terus mengeluarkan duit membayar harga buah utk mak saudaranya. Berkali kali cikson menolak. Kesiankan dia.
Takpa makngah, la ni biar kami tolong bayar. Makngah dah pencen..katanya.

Buag ni ada 2 jenis
Satu manis satu masam

Silap tak beli sekilo...bisik hati bila buah yang dimakan manis dan rapuh krap krap.
Apa lagi ya rugi kalau tak beli di Padang Besar
Toto , asam jawa, ikan bilis, sos tomyam kalau kena kedainya lebih murah dari ibukota. Tapi diseberang sana lagilah murah dari Pdg Besar sebelah kita. Tapi kami was was nak melangkah sempadan. Takut jadi apa apa tak ketahuan.

Ke sana juga selalu kami pekena pulut ayam . Kena juga betul kedainya kalau nak pulut ayam yang marbelos.

pulut ayam kegemaran

Antara barangan yang dapat dibeli disana..

Jajan kegemaran cikli
yang manis manis la yg digemari

Periuk belangan,mangkuk ayan
Kegemaran org perempuan

beg anyanman begini pun banyak terjual

Gambar gambar bukan dari handphone sendiri. Google saja .

Put the books away....its cuti time.

The normally busy road fronting JPL is now less busy. Fewer cars ply the road early in the morning as usual.
 Hoohoo...its cuti time no wonder, said I to cikli who was watering the plants in the courtyard. But more tour busses could be seen zooming by. Going to Kuala , no doubt.

As a pensioner and with children grown up and living their own lives,what else could we do than stay at home. Travelling on our own,driving our own car was a thing of the past. Cikli isnt too fit for long strenous journey nowadays. Thus going to KL have to be overlooked . What with the coming nephew's wedding coming to Perlis very soon.

Actually I was anticipating Fahim's return. But as luck would have it, he was down with fever and sore eyes. So travelling the distance of 4-5 hundred kms would be a strain on him. Never mind darling, just keep getting better. Do come only when you have fully recovered. Tell mummy that .OK.

The Matta Fair at Sunway Putra if I am not mistaken is in its final day. My girls had thronged the booths of the fair and I had not known if they have made a bargain. The two sisters were cooking some plan to travel this year. All the best girls.

sapa kata ekonomi teruk,
tgk tu ramainya nak pi jalan jalan.

Yet another of my nieces have gone Backpacking . She's an avid traveller and China was her fav. place. As of present ,she's in Yunnan China hiking the mountains and gorges of the place. Her travelouge could be read here
SINI

dari fb

dari fb

Going to town the other day,I could see tuition classes being opened and children being heralded by their parents into the classes. Come to think of it... Its only March... UPSR is quite a distance away. Kesian budak budak tu. Ewah... I too did the mistakes of sending my children to tuition come school holidays..Parents, if you have the capacity to go for holidays ,do so when your children are still with you. Once they have flown away from your nest,its difficult to go holidaying with the full family anymore.

There were countless times,when a child would be missing from the fun because of work constraint. Like our trip to PD, kaklong cant make it as she had to attend to courses. Poor luck.

Going through the album , I came across smiling faces when were holidaying across Malaysia. The children were still young kids at that time... Kalaulah ada blog or fb masa tu.. tentu penuh cerita suka duka kami berkelana sini sana.

Thats all folks. Bye.

Go Head Go Stan.... Tajikistan thru Travelogue

Just finished viewing a documentary on the Astro Channel. Travelogue caught my attention when I was playing with the remote control. Changing channels like nobody's business as cikli was slumped on the sofa for his afternoon siesta.

teringat cerita P. Ramlee
semua Stans
Yang tak ada...go head gostan

The documentary was a travel document of a British Chinese gungho traveller travelling through the country side. It was peach blossom and the country side was heavily covered with peach flowers. A breathtaking sight indeed.

One thing peculiar...
The writings on the signpost was in Mandarin.
The school children proficient in Mandarin
They greet each other with assalamualaikum.
But their facial feautures were dominantly of the mat sallehs.

I did a little googling about Tajiks and the Stans..

beauty...

lots of nuts

staple diet

To children who are in the midst of planning a holiday as backpackers to Europe, this country seems likeable.

Tapi tak pastilah bab keselamatan dia. Kena galilah lagi tentang negara negara ini. 

What about Bosnia ? 

Turkey macam dok tengah kelam kabut saja..

Still remembered those school days of learning Geography. The syllabus of those in the 60's was far flung from now,if I am not wrong. At SPM level ,you could be quite versed with the geography of Europe, America, China and the lots.
You know the lakes of Canada,the climate of the tundra and the vegetations of the savannah. I got A2 for Geog. .. by the way. And it was in those classes that I developed a love for travelling. If I could travel the world,I would be the luckiest girl. Luck has it when I was chosen as a student teacher in Moray House, Scotland. And I would be not be an ordinary English teacher had I grabbed the opportunity that came along. I was chosen to study nursing in London tau... hehe. La ni entah entah tak balik Malaysia.

Come April,my sisters would be travelling to Japan...seronoknya depa.
Issshh... kalaulah dapat pergi tengok tengok negara orang,tentu seronok.