A Trip to Not-so-cold-highlands - Part II

This post is about day 2 at Cameron Highlands, Pahang. Day 1 or Part 1 is here if you haven't read it yet

[WARNING : This post contains many photos and less wordings, and also tonnes of selfies. Please prepare a bucket of water to wash your eyes when you're finished reading this post. Thank you. Don't say I didn't warn ya]

Day 2 started very early for us. Left the room at 8am I think. Went to the Sungei Palas Tea Centre which opens at 9am. Lalalalala this place is very close to Equatorial Hotel.



This signboard welcomes you to the start of the said 2 km narrow route to an isolated valley. The Boh tea plantation. If you haven't been there before, please run into a wall. TQVM. Anyways, you have to drive along a narrow and windy road before you reach the famous cafe which has an overhanging platform and the tea centre and the visitor gallery and the show factory. The road is really really narrow. And trust me, you P drivers do not want to drive up there because even middle-age drivers who have been driving for years drive slowly and carefully. At some parts, 2 cars moving at the opposite direction can pass through, and at some other parts, only ONE car can pass through. So, someone had to stop and wait while the other go first. 

We reached really early and the gates are not opened yet so we got down to take some pictures. Btw, even though we were super early, there were 2 other cars waiting for the gates to open. No kidding okay? What to do? We Asians are so kia su like that. But it was worth it okay? Our pictures have no other people in the background. *thumbs up*



At first we just sat in the car and wait... for quite so time... and we took pictures. Then only we went down to take more pictures. Hahahha

Okay, finally they opened the gates. And usually from here, if you come in the afternoon when there's gazillion people, you have to find a spot to park your car and walk up the hill to the cafe. But if you have old people, I think they will allow you to drive up even though there's no more parking space left. But since we were super duper early, we just drove up and parked there. #lazypeoplealert

I have no idea what this truck is used for. Lol

Hi. This is me early in the morning

Not that I look any different at other times of the day

Naise. 

If you've been here before, you would know how hard it is to get this shot, 

without any random people at the corner of the picture.

Jump shots because we were too excited that there's no other people there. And just because WE CAN!

MUAHAHAHA!!!

Tadahhhh!!! The amazing view from up here. Without no strangers in the background! :D

Yay! Perfect spot for family photos

Oh, and did I mention how Lucas is extremely photogenic? 
*ignore my aunt in these 4 pictures. The focus here is on the boy. Future male model. Hahaha

Front profile

Side profile 

Cool guy pose

The frowning pose. The pose made famous by Will Smith's son, Jaden Smith

I also want to model. Hahahha this is my happy pose wtf

Me and Lucas. He is going to be taller than me soon ><

Wahhh this is some serious posing weyhhh

Okay, then we went to the cafe to have some food. We ate breakfast before we came ><

This is the view at 9am. Still less people. Woot woot

Oh nom nom nom. Everything looks so delicious. I'm feeling hungry now

The view from the overhanging platform

Ladies and gentlemen, all the beautiful pictures here was brought to you by the Samsung NX100

*read it in the advertiser voice and tone please*

Another camera we used during this trip. Nikon something something

See that frown on his face? My face exactly. I find Nikon cameras really hard to use. I prefer Canon!

*insert big brown shiny watery eyes*

I think the one in the background is the Strawberry Tart while the one in the foreground is the plain scone

What should you do when you order hot chocolate? Stain your lips with foam. Yeshhh

See my focused gaze. And my ugly side profile

Then what do you do when you order Iced Peach Tea? Take a picture of yourself drinking from a straw. Kids, don't get nightmares okay? I know I look scary

See so many people at 9.30am. These people sure take photos with strangers in the background one *evil laughter*

I like how they use wood. Looks so nature-ry. Hope no trees were hurt in this process though :(

My awkward crooked smile :/

Yes, that's me. Attempting to pose. Fail case betul

I found a dead butterfly on the ground. Yeah, I picked it up, put it on my hand and camwhore with it. RIP butterfly.

A better quality picture. Taken using the Samsung NX100

When I'm old, I'm going to live up there

What trip to Cameron Highlands will be complete without a picture in the tea plantation?

Hehehehhee... imitating his famous pose

Original vs cover

After posing with the tea leaves, we went to a new place (wasn't fully opened at that time) which we passed by on the way to the Boh Tea Plantation. I think this place is called the Rose Garden? But I didn't remember seeing any roses though. Hhahahaha

View from the top

Lucas was asking for permission to eat the fresh strawberry popsicle and 

Lego was kinda grumpy because he's sick and can't eat it

Ootd? This is where you can pluck strawberries and bring them home for a fee. FEE not free ah. I know you all read it wrong. Can't really see the strawberries hor?

See the purple and yellow flowers? They planted it on the roof

See this place so nice leh? Can come here and take wedding pictures d

View from outside

The round hole-y things are wine bottles. Creative usage eh?

View from inside

Look at this place! It's a-ma-zing!!! O.O

Absolutely love the concept and I think this is going to be a restaurant 

Btw, I think we kinda broke into this place... Cause they locked the front door but the back door was left opened... so we went in to camwhore. If I don't update my blog in a few months, that means I'm probably rotting in jail for trespassing wtf

Damn nice right this place? Can come here for photoshoot d

 I'm available if you can provide me a camera and pay for my expenses. Hahahahaha

Well, since Legolas was quite bitter because he can't eat the strawberry popsicle, we went to a... a... a... um... place...? Like a stawberry or cactus place, I can't remember... to buy cactus. Because Lego wants to um... buy a cactus? OMG what the hell is wrong with me? Suddenly I don't know what words to use to describe a simple thing. Oh, and this is one of the places where you can buy souvenirs and other strawberry-themed-what-not items. But seriously? Every single shop and stalls in the market sells the same things over and over again. And at the same price too!

Hi Lego

Hmmmm seriously deliberating

Dad, I want that one.

So while he shops for cactus, I went around running with the camera taking photos. Hehehehe pure bliss for me okay?

While they bought cactus, I bought Rocky - strawberry flavour! Yum

Very long never see my face d leh

So after that we went to another beautiful place, the Lavender Garden! :D Sooooo many people I tell you. Have to pay somemore. But okay la. Very worth it because the place is just so.... so... picturesque.

This place is just by the road side from Tanah Rata to Brinchang. Or wherever. I dunno where is this place. But!!! You would be blind to miss it.

I check for you guys d. Admission fee is RM3 for kids and RM5 for adults

Oh, you can also check out this and this website for a fuller picture of this place since I didn't include pictures of every angle of this place.

Petunia beds

The view from the top

This is the office... I think. Very nice, but they have a sign there that says "DO NOT ENTER" or something like that. I can't remember

You can pluck and bring these daisies home. If I remembered clearly, it's RM10 for 3? Idk

From here also can see the Petunia bed

Tricolour lavender <3

There's 6 of these and I took pictures will all of them. Bodohnya

This guy really... winner d la

Stapppp!!! I know I have been brutal to keep feeding you pictures of my face. I will stop now. *pinky promise* You can proceed to wash your eyes now. After Lavender Garden, we went to Equatorial Hotel's lobby because the boys wanted to play the claw machine. Pictured below if you don't understand.

Fresh, sweet, red and juicy strawberries. Yummeh

Steamboat for dinner! And it was raining that night also :D Perfection

The 2 boys don't eat much veggies so I sapu all

My favourite mushrooms <3 Took a whole bowl of it

 

Lucas's half boiled egg 

The end of Day 2. If you think this is boring, Day 3 is even boring-er okay? Hahahaha

Kthanksbye

Read, read and read

Yeap. That's how I spend my raya holidays. And to think of it, it's going to be over soon!!! *runs dramatically to the corner and cry* But no, I'm not reading my teks books or notes for STPM (in November) or for the Sejarah test we have on the first day school resumes. Instead, I'm going around reading blogs which I usually do, and when I'm done (this happened really soon; my favourite bloggers, wai yu no blog everday???) I went over to Google to search for more blogs to read.

First, I keyed in Top blogs to read.
Results : Blogs on Business, Gadgets, Cars, Boringstuffs, etc etc

Then I keyed in Top blogs to read in Malaysia. Ahhhhhh. Okay. Then I saw a list of '50 most influential blogs in Malaysia'. CLICK. Scrolls through. Saw cheeserland at number 17. One familiar blog. Okay. Dive in to look at all the 50 blogs. Not all actually because I only look at those Personal and Humor categories. But still!!! It's a very long process. Letihhhh I tell you. 

Click click click. Some of them use the timeslide or magazine layout, which I'm so not familiar with and they have so many ads. I kinda can't tell which one is their post and which one is the ads. Also, one link I clicked brought me to a Japanese blog page or website. Yeah. Seriously. The entire site was in Japanese! here In which I couldn't understand at all. And then there was this blog which has only ONE post, but according to the list, it has a few hundred links from a few hundred blogs! What insanity is this???!!! 

And sooooo many of the blogs I went to hasn't updated their blogs in.... wait for it.... ye...yea....yearsssss!!! Swt right? One I remembered posted his/her last post in 2007. That's like freaking 6 years ago! Also, one blog has the latest post saying she was going to close down the blog already. Damn fml

Somemore I was thinking, why is there only Cheesie's blog? I mean, where's fourfeetnine and timothytiah's blog? How could they not mention them???!!!

So I grew kinda suspicious, thinking maybe it's an outdated list and guess what? It is indeed an outdated list. The person wrote that list in 2007. So here is the list click here if you want to see it. I have to admit that I'm a dinosaur when it comes to doing research online, so if any of you can find a list of nice blogs to read, please feel free to let me know. Thank you very much.

Oh, and ummm here is some blogs from the list (which is still active) which I find nice. To me that is. :D

http://www.smashpop.net/ 
Pardon me if this is one of your favourite blogs of all time, but I really don't know him or his blog before today

http://www.suanie.net/
This blog belongs to an aunty (not my aunt; not blood related to me in anyway) but it appeals to me... somehow. Hahhahah you can call me Aunty Loo

http://rojaks.blogspot.com/
Okay, although this blog hasn't been updated since uhhh...lemme check... yes.... um... January, but it is kinda farnehhh

Enjoy!

Selamat Hari Raya!

Selamat Hari Raya, maaf zahir dan batin! This year, Hari Raya starts on the 8th of August and our August school holidays has already started by then. We have a 2-week holiday from the 3th till the 18th. And before this, the Muslims have to puasa (fast) for a whole month. Their kind of fasting is not being able to drink and/or eat for the whole day from about 5 or 6am to about 7pm... I think... I'm not sure. I have a few non-Muslim friends who fast with our Muslim friends, but I really have no idea how they can take it. Because I can die when I'm deprived of food after 3 to 4 hours. I seriously get hungry after 3 to 4 hours after the previous meal. I can't absolutely ever miss my tea break or my recess time in school. Oh, and I don't like having brunch because it just messes up my feeding time. Yeap. I use the term feeding time because I just went to the zoo yesterday! :D Like after brunch (the meal you take between breakfast and lunch), what time do you eat next? Because brunch is around 11, and plus 4 hours would be 3pm and my dinner time is usually 5 or 6 o'clock. Gahhhhh I hate brunches! Do not ever bring me out for brunch! Or a late breakfast even!

Now back to the story! Fasting for the Muslim also means refraining from smoking and other bad things like swearing and saying hurtful things. The fasting month is not quite a bad month for us, non-Muslims aside from having to try to be a little discreet about eating and drinking in class.
a. Jadual bulan puasa (Fasting month timetable) says school ends earlier! :D 
b. Being able to cheekly say we puasa, that's why we didn't do whatever our teachers asks of us
c. The school canteen is less crowded with people
d. Pasar Ramadan!!! That means more food food fooodddddd :DDDDDD

So after fasting for a month, the Muslims celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri. I think that's the new year according to the Muslim calender. The tradition in Malaysia is having rumah terbuka or open house. Hosts will serve traditional food like rendang, ketupat and ayam masak merah and lots of other yummy cookies.

I was invited to my Malay friends' houses and the food was sooooo good! I got greedy and ate so much that I had diarrhea at 3am the next day. Wtf

This is Eng Soon with some rendang and ketupat

Clockwise from left to right : Me, Anson, Eng Soon, Edwin, Wun Yong, Wai Ming

First stop is Amirul's house. The guy in blue, posing #likeaboss

It turns out that I was the only girl because the rest couldn't make it. One went holidaying in Thailand, one was busy with church activities and another one was back in her home in Kuala Selangor.

Second stop is Zul's house. The guy in yellow

Serious pose. Who has the most serious look? I think we all failed la. Hahahah

Kami dapat duit raya! Hahahahahaha

Adik-adik sekalian, inilah rupa orang yang dapat duit raya buat kali pertama

Tengoklah makluk ini. Senyum tak habis-habis

Hi. This is me in the tradisional Malay clothings, the baju kurung. 

Cantik kan? Baju tu lah. Bukan saya

Covered my face because all the guys are looking at me. Damn shy lah. All eyes on you. Selamat Hari Raya again everyone!!!