Appaz's Place: Mundane & rant I try to keep: 2019

Today's mundane

October, 28th 2019, I didn't realize I was on Twitter for 7 years now. Wala!!!

And I had this this morning. Iced coffee. Kopi peng. It tasted so good.

I had maggi goreng too. Although it wasn't my forte, still I tried to finish it up.

Then I took panadol actifast again today. Headache since yesterday. I took two also yesterday before went to sleep. And ended up I woke up late this morning and almost late to swipe in for work.

2 minutes before 8.00 am. And I read the email from the course leader and tried to settle everything with my students. And that added more to my headache.

😫😫😫😫

Bye. Need to use the loo right now.

Tuk Tuk Thai Boat Noodle, Plaza Merdeka, Kuching

Last weekend we went to Plaza Merdeka. My cousin called me asking whether I had any plans on the evening. I was watching VIP 2 (VELAIILLA PATTADHARI) when she called. So I told her no, but if you want to go out, maybe around 5.30 pm. I wanted to finish the part 2 since I missed out the part 1 the day before. So later that evening, me, my cousins and my auntie went there.

Went to Borneo Time to fix our wrist watches. Gosh, I had this wrist watch for the past years ( I couldn't remember how many years), only to start wearing the watch since last Saturday (noted that today is Wednesday, October 30th 2019). Oh gosh, I just noticed that the watch is the Men's Edition. Hahahaha. WTH. But then it was a gift. So I just wear it. It looks nice on my wrist tho...

The design doesn't look manly since the color suits the lady more.

Oh back to the makan-makan thing. We were looking for a place to eat and decided to try Tuk Tuk Thai Boat Noodle, since there were not many people there during the hours we were there (it located at an open space, the same level with the food court). Not quite sure what to expect, of course we were like will they taste as good as the one we had at D'Airiz Cafe or even Mango Tree.

These were the food that we ordered.

Mango Salad

Steamed Fish Lemon Soup and Tomyam Mixed Seafood

Kangkong Thai Style

Thai Chicken Wing

And we had white rice. I ordered iced coffee for myself, my cousins Coca-Cola and orange juice while my auntie ordered iced lemon tea. And the food, boleh tahan. I like the steamed fish lemon soup because the fish didn't have any smells at all and it didn't taste sandy? They used tilapia fish. And you know this fish, if the fish was the one that they breed in the man made fish pool, it would smell and taste sandy. But this one so far, it didn't smell. Just like the eco fish set by Sugar Bun.

The rest of the food, they were ok. Everything tasted sour. Hahahaha. The base of Thai cooking of course you just could not leave out the lime and lemon. That's the strength of their foods. Lime and lemon give that kind of fragrance in the food. That good and fresh smell.

Oh ya, and also peanuts add on to almost every vegetables. The crunchiness of the peanuts add more action to every bites. Hahahaha. Nice tho.

Done? Done!

Officially 33

Am putting this up since this is one of my latest photo I have on my phone.

How much I have change since last year. I feel like am losing weight but I still look fat at the face area.

Mehhhh

Happy birthday, Moon! Try to live well and enjoy your life as much as you can.

Heip! Thought to post something yesterday but instead of updating any, I choose to sleep. And ended up nothing was posted.

Yeay! after the hiep. Hahahaha.

Congratulation to myself for making way into 33 years old. Happy 33rd Birthday! Have a blast year!

I have no ideas on how much I have progress within a year since my last year's birthday. Many things happened and some still on-going.

Career wise seems ok.

Personal development is a little bit slow. Still trying to figure it out whether or not to pursue my study.

Relationship is ok and a bit slower. I guess as the age increases, the feeling of going out for socializing is getting decrease. I tend to spend my time at home rather than outside without any specific purposes. Feeling comfortable just by staying at home.

Still trying to figure it out too whether or not to go travel all by myself. I need to plan ahead. Japan is still on my list. I really want to go to Prague too.

I guess that's all for the updates. Nothing much, isn't it. I try to interact moderately with my friends since it's a little bit hard to spend times with them due to distant, time and also location. And also I feel like am spending more time with family other than the rest.

Last Monday my auntie's family celebrated my birthday. In advance. Cousin's wife booked a pretty nice cake. Even added on BTS to it. 😂😂😂😂😂

Mom also called to wish me. Hahaha. I knew it. The call made me happy. I went to see her the day before yesterday and had dinner at home.

Surprisingly my sister also Whatsapp me to wish me. I felt good.

Foster family, cousins, friends, office colleagues, thank you for all the wishes. I just hope that I will still breathing next year to celebrate another year.

Only got these photos from yesterday.

From cousin's wife

She told me she wanted to get the BTS themed cake but she was unsure on the design. Last resort, just got that BTS written down on the cake.

Hahaha

By the way, the cake was great.

She ordered from this bakery: https://www.facebook.com/dohmawaddah/

Do check out their Facebook page and instagram.

From colleague Sylvia

Done?

Done.

Nope. Updated photos. The day after my birthday, on the 18th October was my uncle's birthday. My mom's youngest brother.
So he called me and asked whether I was able to come for dinner.
I said yes.
So we when to a seafood restaurant to have dinner and celebrated his birthday.
And mine too.
Again.
Hahahaha

Few of the dishes we ordered. Cucumber soup (not in the picture), salted veges soup, stir fried kailan with oyster sauce, prawn omelette, deep fried prawn tempura, chicken butter, stir fried mixed veges with oyster sauce, sweet sour deep fried grouper fish (not in the picture). And white rice for everyone of us. We had dinner first then blew off the candles after that.

Thank you, cousins and wives, and mom, and uncle and auntie, and also nephews for the night.

Done?

I guess so. Done!

Bukit Mata Seafood TopSpot

We went to have dinner here last night. On the way to the restaurant, I was like am gonna take photos later on so that I have something to post on my blog. That was what I told my cousin. And ended up I didn't take any photos of the foods and even our photos also I didn't take. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I only managed to take these photos before I totally forgot everything. I guess the food last night were more powerful than anything else.

The evening view from inside of the car

Favorite restaurant. No.25, Bukit Mata Seafood TopSpot.

Lemon chicken last night tasted yummy. And so the gravy butter salted egg yolk for the crab. I only aimed for the gravy, not the crab. Hahahaha

Huh this one was taken from Saturday night.

The moment I reached the city from my hometown I directly went to the laundry.

It was around 10pm that night.

I sent this to the Discussion group on The Tablo Podcast Discord.

Owh owh, I sent the photo of the restaurant too there.

Hahahaha

The Tablo Podcast is a must-listen-to podcast.

Search for him on Spotify. I normally listen to him on that platform.

Like seriously guys.

The voice

Am crying on Sunday

Half half

Am still have this thinking of deleting this blog.
Tapi sayang...
It's uncountable on how many times I changed the link and the title of this blog.
😃😃😃😃

How come I don't have that ketetapan hati...

Nahhh, nothing special. It just that I need to reset everything and start out fresh again. Saja jerrr. But then, am keeping the content the same. I saved everything before deleted the previous links, and uploaded back the content into the new page. Banyak kerja. Suka-suka.

I have work to do but couldn't find motivation to complete everything. Feeling tired. As of tomorrow, I'll be meeting final semester/final year students. I really need to prepare my brain and soul.
Reading, listening, working out the brain to guide them in doing their final thesis would require a lot of energy.

Spotify?
Owh ya. I started listening to The Table Podcast since the first episode. It's very entertaining. And not to mention, the ideas of whatever Tablo speaks on his podcast make everything seems daebak.

Is that the latest thing I've been doing? I guess so.

Group research for this year is still on-going.
Am still in the midst of finalizing our group research article from previous year for local newspaper publication. And am still in the midst of finalizing my diploma students carry marks.
One more week to go before their final exam paper.
And next week will start lectures with my Bachelor students.

Workloads seem ok, and not so ok. It's just so-so. So, ya... It's work tho...

Want to find something for lunch but the same old problem. Don't know what to have. Seems like I've tried every foods in this area.

Thank you

Thank you, cousin's wife, for the dinner.

Finally I ate proper meal for the first time after many weeks missing due to work and time.

From left to right

Fried ikan terubuk, tempoyak goreng, petai goreng sambal, sambal kicap pedas.

Am too lazy to translate. So, use Google to translate if you need it.

Lock Ann Cafe, Kuching

Went to fetch my auntie's friend at the airport. Then we went to Lock Ann Cafe. Seriously. Am afraid to try meehoon belacan at any eateries. I only eat the one that my auntie's cooked. Meehoon belacan doesn't taste good when you eat at the eateries since people tend to reduce the ingredients or they just don't know how to make a proper one.

But different case with Lock Ann Cafe. I approved their meehoon belacan. It was like sedappppppppppppppppppp!!!!! Oh my gosh. Why do I feel so overwhelmed typing this... I can still taste the taste in my mouth. Definitely the best I could found outside from home. And definitely would come to have this again next time when am craving for it.

Hope they will maintain the taste and everything. I don't mind paying money on good food.

ABC a.k.a Ais Batu Campo

Shave ice with whatever toppings they put in there. They had jellies in it, sweet corn, red beans, milk/coconut milk, gula apong, cendol (the green thing)...

So nice

Meehoon belacan

How to translate into English?

Meehoon with shrimp paste gravy?

The gravy is made from shrimp paste. Here's the trick. If you have good quality of shrimp paste, the gravy will turn out great. If you use whatever shrimp paste without considering the quality, the gravy can smell fishy and the taste would be bitter.

The gravy is made of shrimp paste, grind dried chili, dried shrimp, gula apong. Blend all together.

Then, meehoon (vermicelli), shredded cucumber, chili paste, lime, squid, century egg.

Ok. Done.

Holiday

I went back to my kampung during my leave last two weeks. Not much to do, just spent times with my cousins and relatives. We had blessing prayer for our grandpa who had just discharged from the hospital. From a healthy old man, he is now bedridden. So here are the photos that I managed to snap.

My cousin asked me, do you want to drink coconut water? And I said yes. So she did this for me. Hehehe

Thank you, cuzzy! Saranghae!

And the next thing I did was throwing few bananas into the wood fire. Is that what we called wood fire or fire wood? Or none of these makes any sense at all?

Hahahaha. Damnit my English. This is my favorite dessert all time.

The outcome. Hot burnt banana. There are many ways of eating this. I love eating it with sugar. If I manage to open up my own coffee shop one day, this would definitely stated on the menu.

With different toppings that you can choose from, of course.

See this. The sugar melt.. Very nice!

And photo time!

And we had our mini cousins' evening gathering at the front yard. Hahahaha.

My nephew and his milk bottle

And the night after the prayer.

My nephews.

Ok. That's all.

Oh, by the way, am back to work now.

Duhhhh

Gula apong milkshake

This was my second try of having this milkshake. taste good. They have smoothies too. For this second time, I ended up having the same drink I had on my first time buying from this kiosk.

Located at Food Haven, The Hills, Kuching.

Find the kiosk station named THIRST.