Road trip to Sekinchan

Made a detour through the coastal roads on the way back from hometown to drop by at Sekinchan for a half day trip. The weather was perfect, blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Very sunny, indeed.

Sekinchan was made popular to tourists and city folks after the local Chinese drama 'The Seeds of Life'. The large green 'field', sometimes golden brown when it is near harvesting and blue sky are perfect for photography.

the grains

the big yellow machine - harvesting machine

yellow machine in a distant

the tractor and the harvesting machine 

aqueduct in the paddy field

 9 Emperor God temple which appear in the drama

From the main road, after the signboard of Sekinchan, you can make a left turn (coming from the North), or if you're coming from KL then it's right turn after seeing Site B, or Jalan Tali Air 5. You'll come into these paddy fields and can drive next to it.

If you like to visit the paddy processing plants or buy some pearl rice, go ahead on Jalan Tali Air 5 to a paddy processing factory, PLS Marketing. It's hard to miss with the tour buses which frequents the place.

I stopped by for lunch at Restoran Guan Seng Long at Bagan Sekinchan. Bagan Sekinchan is on the other side of the road, opposite the place where you turn in for paddy fields. Look out for signboard for Jalan Bagan Sekinchan. There are a lot of eateries down the road of Jalan Bagan Sekinchan.

sotong with curry powder (RM11)

 

shark meat soup (RM12)

 mantis shrimp with salted egg yolk (RM11)

Vegetables (RM6)

All these with drinks and rice for only RM47.60. I don't think I can get any dishes like this in KL for that price. Yummy and cheap!

After lunch, we drove down Jalan Bagan Sekinchan to the fishing villages.

fishing village at Sekinchan

fishing boats of the men

calm village after the busy hours

The next attraction at Sekinchan is the Redang beach. Went there at about 4-5pm, and it was low-tide, so no pretty beach for me. I'll be back next time to see the beautiful sunset.

Drive along the way and pass through the fishing villages and a chinese temple, the left turn to Redang beach is before a Malay eatery, and you'll see a sign which says Pantai Redang.

tree houses at the beach

low tide beach

sunset view at Redang beach (source from www.sekinchan.org)

Sekinchan make a good day trip for city folks like us, to just leave behind the hustle bustle of the city. :)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all daddies out there :)

I love you papa.. :)

Weekend Premiere of London, The Summer Musical at Sunway Lagoon

I had the opportunity to attend the weekend premiere of the London, Summer Musical show at Sunway Lagoon's amphitheater. It's an event for Sunway Property pals and tickets are courtesy of Sunway Property.

I managed to capture some photos with my iphone, so here they are. :)

the stage and set up of the 'little London'

The Savoy Hotel, London

opening of the show

ending performance

Sunway Lagoon had been hosting a few musicals from West End Production which include the Magical Musicals and Peter Pan the Musical last year. They are all amazing!

The choreography for this year's Summer Musical is so energetic and the dancers are really talented, with very good vocal too.

The London Musical starts off by with three chirpy stewardesses who have 48 hours in London before flying off again. They gave up their dreams of singing to do travelling and through finding love and romance in London, they rediscover their passion for singing and performing. 

You'll be entertained with hit songs from the 70s including tracks from Mamma Mia, Glee, The Lion King, James Bond movies and many more. I lost track of how many songs were featured in this musical, but they were all good. :)

Some funny moments are included in the show with short appearances of The Phantom of Opera, Harry Potter and ET. Go watch it and be amazed :)

The show has two session with 10minutes break in between and lasted for about 2 hours. 

A great show to catch if you're a fan of musicals, dance and songs!

London, The Summer Musical by West End Production will be playing at Sunway Lagoon from 1st June - 8th July 2012.

Daily shows (except Tuesdays) at 8pm, and tickets are from RM80.

Thanks Sunway PALS!~

For more information and ticketing: 

http://www.sunwaylagoon.com/whatsnew_Ltsm.asp

Updated: From now until 1st July 2012, if you happen to be shopping in Sunway Pyramid (the Mega Sales just started last Friday, if you are not aware yet :P), there are free London, The Summer Musical tickets up for grab if you spend RM500 in 3 accumulated receipts*.

Check it out here.

* T&C applies.

Supporting WWF at Sunway Pyramid booth

Have you heard of WWF? I'm sure you have heard of it.

Recently they've been setting up booths in GSC cinemas, seeking for signatures, and the latest I saw is at Sunway Pyramid, and they're selling Panda t-shirts! For the school holidays, Sunway Pyramid and WWF came up with some environmental awareness activities for the kids which are the Turtle Talk and Dance with Panda workshop.
As for me, I've decided to support them and got myself a T-shirt and a car sticker.

It's a pretty cute T-shirt, the back of it has the back of a panda :) And since I've bought a few pastel-coloured jeans and shorts, this white-beige t-shirt matches the colour well.

Below, I'm wearing my Zara shorts in peach-pink! :) The ladies baby tee are selling at RM39.90!~

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It's time to create awareness in saving the animals and the environment for a better future. This is a great activity to be introduced during the school holidays so that we can instill the love for animals into the minds of younger generations!~

Loving the cute pandas!~

P/S: They are having cute turtles T-shirt on sale next week :)

The B.I.G. Weekend for yummy food at Publika

Publika at Solaris Dutamas is the new buzz for yummy eateries, with its arty and creative spaces. Apart from that, they also have the first B.I.G. (Ben's Independent Grocers), a place you can find almost everything for your everyday essentials, with local and a variety of imported goodies.

The BIG Group had an exciting barn-style, food stalls and games for the weekend (26-27th May).

I attended the BIG BBQ on Sunday afternoon at The Square, Publika's outdoor auditorium. We have to purchased coupons to buy food within the stalls, coupons are at nomination of RM5 and RM10. The food and beverage prices ranges from RM5-RM15, pretty affordable.

Publika's The Square

grilled lamb and chicken wings

grilled sausages 

the drinks @ RM5 and RM10 each

beef burger patties

beef burger @ RM10

hot dog @ RM10

The beef patty is nicely done, juicy and tender, it was flavorful although I did not add on any sauces. 

The hot dog bun comes with a juicy sausage and the minced chili beef compliments it well. Best of it, both are reasonably priced. Nom nom!

Wagyu beef brisket @ RM15

Assorted sausages @ RM10

Desserts! Chocolate brownie and chocolate/cinnamon Churros @ RM 5 each

complimentary coupons with RM50 coupon stack

:)

chocolate brownie

churros

Yummy chocolate brownie and churros. So chocolatey, although the brownie would be perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

It's been a while since I went to any of this food-festival thing, I remember we used to have a lot of this during secondary school days - canteen days and food fest. It's so fun to buy food with coupons and you get to eat in the outdoor area. Lucky today wasn't too hot and it's pretty windy, perfect weather for an outdoor food FEAST. :)

BIG Group has come out with very creative eateries - I'm also loving Plan B breakfast :) :) And in Publika there is Journal by Plan B which I have yet to try. 

Do drop by Publika if you can't think of what to eat, coz they have a LOT to offer. 

Publika

Solaris Dutamas,

Jalan Dutamas 1,

50480 Kuala Lumpur.

Heart-shaped red light :)

Saw a few of these in Sunway. Heart shaped red light~

Anyone noticed it? If you have not, it probably means that you're not stopping when the traffic light turned red :P

Is this enough to create awareness for road users to stop when it's red? Something for us to ponder.

Long hiatus

Hello readers!

Sorry for MIA for a while. I've been pretty busy with research in school, catching up with friends during the weekend, and completing a little project for a friend, well two actually. :)

Here's a teaser :

will you go to dinner with me? :P

I'll probably only reveal the real design once it's all sent out. so stay tune u guys :)