Getaways : Cameron Highlands in 2012 & 2013

Wah wah tiba-tiba skip bab abang long kahwin terus pergi ke semangat baru nak tulis pasal getaways la pulak. Semangat, cita-cita & berangan adalah seiring sejalan bagi aku hehe.

Ini cerita lama baru. Lama sebab nak cerita pasal 2012 punya, pastu baru sebab baru bulan lepas (April 2013) pergi semula Cameron Highlands dengan kawan-kawan tersayam.

Mula-mula Razmin ajak aku pergi Cameron Highlands lepas beraya kat Taiping tahun lepas aku macam skeptikal sikit. Aku macam "err..siries bang, cameron?". Sebab dalam kepala aku adalah jalan bersimpang siur, pening dan muntah. Tapi sangkaanku meleset sama sekali. Seronok sangat pergi CH. Siap pergi dua malam tuh.

THE HIGHWAY

Dari Taiping kami ambil exit Simpang Pulai, exit yang lebih ke utara dari KL, lebih kurang sejam dari Taiping. And bila pergi dengan kawan-kawan tersayam bulan lepas, kitorang amik exit Tapah sebab dah lagi dekat kan dengan KL and hotel pula book di Ringlet.

Taiping-Simpang Pulai exit-Tanah Rata : 3 jam (Tol tak ingat berapa, maaf)

Shah Alam (dari rumah Aishah)- Tapah exit-Ringlet : 2 jam (Tol Subang-Tol Tapah : RM19.80)

Jalan ke CH melalui Simpang Pulai adalah lebih santai dan tidak memeningkan langsung. Jalan baru yang luas, sebab tu lama sikit sebab bukit adalah ditarah untuk menjadi lebih landai maka kurang mendaki, jarak jadi lebih jauh.

Jalan ke Tapah pula seperti anda sedia maklum adalah jalan Amazing Race, sebab tu Aishah dan Riyadh tidur dan pening keduanya. Aku tak pening sebab aku yang drive, Atun pun tak pening sebab dia bergosip dengan aku. Maria & Fatin kereta asing dan mereka pun tidak pening kerana bergosip sesama sendiri.

HOTEL

Razmin book 2 hotel untuk 2 malam. Untuk malam pertama stay di De La Ferns Hotel. Dari Brinchang, this hotel situated on the way to Tanah Rata, on your left. Quite new and bilik not bad. Boleh tahan besar, service was good. Breakfast, bolehlaaa. Not that bad but surely can be improved. We booked via booking.com, price from RM350+ with breakfast for 2 kalau tak silap, since time tu musim raya and they consider it peak season but it was worth the price as we enjoyed our stay, and so did Riyadh. Budak baru nak dapat kaki time tu, habis semua bunga dia nak petik and makan.

For the second night, hubby surprised me with Cameron Highlands Resort,a hotel by the YTL brand. Being YTL, they never come cheap so memanglah mak terkezut. But it was a sweet gesture by my sweet husband, so thanks sayang :) RM550+ with breakfast for 2. The best hotel ever I must say! Situated exactly opposite the golf course.You are greeted by your name, and the room is perfect, tho the bathroom kecik sikit lah. Breakfast was superb! No buffet, ala carte but what more you need when the bread is freshly baked and the jem is homemade. Gila sedap! Memang feeling orang kaya, sian aku haha, tapi takde sorang pun pandang kerek kat kitorang hehe. Highly recommended!

With my darling girlfriends, we stay at The Lakehouse. This too, one of the best hotels I've stayed. Cantik sangat! Macam zaman kolonial. We stay at the Family Suite that came with two rooms, one with queen sized bed and two super single in the other room. RM855 nett with breakfast for four. Breakfast is nice. We enjoyed our stay sampai riyadh pun memang tak tidur langsung the whole day so akhirnya dia sendiri menyerah diri untuk tidur. Oh hotel ni kat Ringlet, on your way up to Tanah Rata. Tak berapa sejuk, you need the air cond placed in your room but tengah malam boleh tutup dahh. Unlike De La Ferns & CHR, takde aircond, ada kipas. But seriously, hotel ni cantik, and perhaps because I went there with my bestfriends, semua pun jadi seronok! 

MAKAN

No problem at all. Cameron Highlands maa, bukan Hong Kong mahu pun Macau hehe. Tanah Rata banyak kedai makan. Just choose and pay. Deret gerai depan Starbucks at Tanah Rata is recommended for their nasi and lauk tomyam2 tu. Not the tomyam lah yang jadi igauan but the sayurrrrr. Fresh maaa, sedap nak mamps! Kailan ikan masin dia terangkat, rangups! And of course, the steamboat. Pergi dengan Razmin 2x makan steamboat. Maybe jadi sedap lain macam sebab kat sana sejuk so makan steamboat panas-panas feeling dia lain sikit hehe.

ACTIVITIES

Tea Plantation :

Ada dua boleh pergi. Kalau jalan dari/ke Tapah, bolehlah singgah Bharat Tea Plantation. Kalau dari/ke Simpang Pulai, bolehlah singgah di the famous Boh Tea Plantation. Ke Bharat jalan tak mencabar, betul-betul tepi jalan, but ke Boh di Sungei Palas memang Amazing Race lah but subhanallah cantik!! Not an avid tea lover, the tea all taste the same to me hehe. So not much review here. But the view in both plantations memang breathtaking, and I personally prefer Boh lagi :)

Pasar Brinchang.

I think this pasar only opens on weekend kot sebab time pergi dengan Razmin time weekday and takde pasar ni. Pergi dengan kawan-kawan tersayam on weekend so memang berbondong bondong lah borong sayur. We did not stop by at the Kea Farm sebab harga slightly mahal. Pasar Brinchang memang best. All the sayur, buah, bunga, even the foods pun sedap! Kitorang siap makan durian lagi haha. Freaking tourist :p

Strawberry Farm

And with my friends we only singgah at the Strawberry Farm to take a break from the heavy traffic on the way down to Simpang Pulai. Weekend kan. With Razmin we singgah the Avantgarde Chocolate Factory and had the most delicious strawberry-choc frap. Teringat sampai sekarang hehe.

Itu je lah kot hehe. Most of the time we just lazying around the great hotel we stayed. And I feel that good hotel mainkan peranan kat CH ni sebab nothing much you can do here, kalau pergi Genting tu amik hotel biasa pun tak apa sebab your aim is to pergi berjimba kan. Amik angin malam, sejuk2, lepak kat fireplace, amik-amik gambar sambil upload kat fesbuk and instagram hahaha. Mainstream maaa. And owh, we celebrated Atun's belated birthday at The Lakehouse :) and that was the main reason we went to CH, to celebrate the diva's birthday hehe. Hai Mak Ton :p

I will definitely pergi lagi Cameron Highlands for I love the beautiful scenery and the cold breeze but I will try my best untuk tak pergi time cuti sekolah for I heard it is super jam and hotel super mahal! And because I went there with my love ones, great memories are created :)

Akhir kata, pergilah cuti-cuti Malaysia, kerana Malaysia pun cantik. (dari saya yang tak mampu pergi London muahahaha)

B.o.s.a.n

Pagi pagi.
Pergi kerja tak tenang.
Drive menangis tak berhenti.
Tak tahu kenapa.
Tak tahu salah apa.

Sepanjang hari.
Mesti fikir kenapa.
Macam biasa.

Nothing new.
Aku bosan.

Sungguh.

Abangku kahwin.

Ini cerita kebasian tapi the scale of the story is hugeee. Very important. Event of 2012 lah kiranye. Seperti mana tajuk entry ini, itulah pengisiannya, abang sulungku kahwin dah dengan tasha, alhamdulillah, my only abang pun sebab I anak nombor dua (yes, second child syndrome haruslah ade yooo).

21.12.2012, akad nikah day.

Alhamdulillah all went well. Akad nikah di Masjid alFalah USJ 9, masjid yang sama I akad nikah. Nak jugak tuh. Why tak buat di masjid kariah tasha di Seri Kembangan? Atas sebab logistik dan untuk senangkan semua pihak, makanya dua keluarga sepakat untuk langsungkan akad nikah di USJ 9 & majlis selepas akad nikah di buat di perkarangan masjid, simple & sweet. Sangan convenient untuk semua orang. :)

Dengan 2 kali lafaz, selamat sudah abang aku menjadi seorang suami. 2 kali lafaz sebab lafaz yang first tu ayah tasha tertinggal perkataan apa ntah so abang aku tegaskan dia hanya lafaz sekali je kekeke.

Theme color is white & green. Seperti biasa adik aku si DD tiada di hari kejadian kerana exam buuuuu. Tu lah, jauh sangat belajornye hehehe.



Ini bukan baju pengantin. Ini baju adik pengantin.




Khemah untuk majlis selepas akad nikah. Padang right besides masjid.



Kakak ipar :)



Dengan pengantin baru. Pengantin lama bersama anak. Laki tiada, ada di atas kapal, harap maklum.



Riyadh. Tasha. Siblings (DD di dalam ipad). Abg long & riyadh.




Disebabkan buat tepi masjid majlisnya, makanya sepanjang panjang orang mengaji sebelum azan tu dia semayang :P



 23.12.2012 Tasha's reception

Hari ahad, reception belah tasha. Buat kat Dewan Sapura dekat dengan The Mines tu. Cantikkk. Colorful. Color2 favourite tasha, putih pink purple. Makan pun sedapss. Catering yg sama untuk reception aku. Nak jugak tuh. Catering yg sama jugak utk hari nikah jumaat tu. Memang layan makan je aku. Riyadh pulak memang tengah ngantuk, baik budi dia dok dlm stroller tidor & makan sambil muka pelik tengok ayoh jek dia bersanding. Sedih je muka die, huhu. Dia macam tau2 je ayoh jek dia nak pindah dari rumah tokwan. Favourite person katekan, memanglah dia sedih.

Okay sekian. Next episode, reception belah family aku pulak ye. Reception belah family aku lambat sikit, 19 Januari 2013 baru buat sebab tunggu DD terhegeh hegeh balik dari Jordan hehe. Sebulan gak jaraknya dari hari nikah. So lagi sebulan lah ye aku update wahahaha. Malas tak beragakkk.



Resepi

Hehe atas permintaan ramai (1 komen blog + 3 pm kat FB = 4 orang) kehkeh ramai lah sgt, here I am blogging on resepi untuk riyadh's meals seperti yang sebelum ini. Resepi adalah resepi sesuka hati ye, sebarang ketidaksedapan yang bakal berlaku saya tak akan bertanggungjawab hehehe.

Resepi untuk riyadh ni tiada garam tiada gula apatah lagi bahan perasa. Makanya kalau nak senang masak untuk sekeluarga, sebelum nak masukkan garam gula perasa tu asinglah untuk baby yang berumur bawah 2 tahun. Itu yang I buat bila masak untuk riyadh & bekal untuk lunch I.

Minyak yang I pakai untuk foods riyadh adalah minyak sunflower seed oil or unsalted butter. Before this waktu riyadh baby2 dulu pakai virgin olive oil. La ni dok masak hari2 makan kita kurangkan budget but still way better dari minyak kelapa sawit eh.

Resepi #1 - Kari Kepala Ikan

- Sesuai untuk 10 bulan ke atas sebab ada penggunaan rempah & santan. Actually 8 bulan ke atas pun boleh tapi I start bagi riyadh spices bila dia 10 bulan.

- Sesuaikan serbuk kari untuk tahap kepedasan anak

* Tumis bawang merah 2 biji, bawang putih 1 ulas & halba satu sudu besar

* Bancuh 2 sudu besar serbuk kari (I pakai Adabi) dengan air panas untuk membentuk paste

* Bila bawang dah wangi, masukkan bancuhan serbuk kari tadi

* Masukkan air sikit

* Masukkan sayur yang diingini (trick mak pemalas terlebih rajin, campur sayur dalam kari tadaaa one complete meal hehe) - I selalu letak riyadh's favourite : keledek oren, sawi & tomato.

* Agak-agak keledek dah lembut, masukkan santan segar 4-5 sudu besar

* Masak santan sekejap, then masukkan kepala ikan (I selalu pakai kepala ikan siakap sebab selalu beli seekor, potong 4. The cuts & tail I steam)

* Masak api kecil, sampai ikan masak.

* Ha siap dah lah. :p

Resepi #2 - Siakap stim

* Susun dalam pinggan siakap or any other white fish (e.g ikan merah)

* Tabur hirisan halia

* Tabur hirisan seluas bawang putih

* Tabur sayur (I used sawi, carrot & french beans)

* Stim dalam air menggelegak utk 10-15 minit

* Ha siap dah. Patut tukar nama resepi ni jadi siakap stim tabur hehe.

- Untuk rasa, I goreng hirisan tempe with garlic, pastu tabur atas ikan bila dah siap stim. Tabur lagiii.

Resepi #3 - Ikan masak lemak

* Tumis bawang merah 2 biji, bawang putih seulas & ikan bilis 1 sudu besar

* Bila dah wangi masukkan air

* Untuk warna kuning, masukkan keledek oren yg dah stim/rebus or labu

* Bila dah lembik keledek/labu tu, masukkan santan segar

* Masak sekejap, nanti kuah tukar jadi kuning labu/oren keledek

* Masuk ikan. Sedap pakai ikan sardin or kembung

* Siap yo!]

Resepi #4 - Ikan goreng / grill

* Kalau ikan goreng, I marinade with serbuk kunyit & serbuk kari

* Kalau grill (mostly salmon), I marinade with garlic & black pepper

* Cara goreng & grill tak payah cite la ye dop :p

Resepi #5 - Mashed potato ala riyadh

* Stim 5 biji kentang size sederhana dengan 3 ulas bawang putih

* Bila dah lembut, lenyekkan kentang & garlic together with satu sudu besar unsalted butter & 3 sudu besar fresh milk

* Tabur lada hitam

* Perghh!

Resepi #6 - Scrambled egg

* Haha melampau.

* I tambah grated cheese & fresh milk dlm telur yang dah dipukul. Gebuss!

Resepi #7 - Pasta in Pumpkin gravy

* Rebus any kind of pasta

* For gravy, tumis garlic 3 ulas in heated unsalted butter

* Masuk tepung jagung 1 sudu besar

* Air sikit

* Bila dah likat, masukkan fresh milk

* Masukkan labu yang dah di steam/rebus

* Lenyekkan labu

* Sprinkle lada hitam

* If nak add in protein, boleh masukkan shredded isi salmon or udang

* Masak sampai protein masak, kejap je pun

* Masukkan pasta yg dah direbus tadi

* Tabur grated cheese

* Done! Voilaaa

Resepi #8 - Nasi goreng yong chow

* Tumis bawang putih 4-5 ulas

* Masukkan tempe & french beans (kacang buncis) or mix vege or ape-ape je lah sayur

* Masukkan nasi sejuk semangkuk

* Pecahkan telur

* Ha goreng macam buat nasi goreng.

* Siap!

Itu je la kot kan seperti entry sebelum ni. Every meal riyadh akan ada fruits. I'll make sure he eats well balanced meal everyday, that is the least I boleh buat untuk dia when I am away at work kan?

Selamat mencuba, kalau tak sedap silalah jangan marah hehehe. Peace. :))

Little guy with HUGE appetite

So ngantuk today but bila pulak tak ngantuk when it comes to work and weekdays :D

Since Riyadh dah pandai makan nasi and lauk-lauk, I enjoy cooking for him everyday after work. Tho budak ni kecik haluih but he eats a lot! Banyak sangat makan and loves to eatttttt sampai dah ready nak tidur pun kat tangan akan ada biskut or roti, haih. Anak papa sangat! Or anak mama? Hehe.. And the best part is he loves nasi with lauk-lauk, memang anak orang melayu but occassionally he will tukar selera and tak nak makan nasi so I have to be creative and by being creative maksudnya kena masak western food.

And his daily foods is salt free and sugar free. Of course lah he already termakan or sengaja diberi makan or dia sendiri amik and makan 'forbidden' foods especially bila outing and kat rumah orang but takpelah kan sekali sekala and the accidents only jadi after he is 1 plus, and not that dia minum corbonated drinks or teh tarik and so I pejam mata and sedapkan hati that during weekdays he only eats what I cook for him which is totally healthy insyallah and alhamdulillah his babysitter understands my concern and ALWAYS reminding her children not to freely feed riyadh. Alhamdulillah alhamdulillah!

I want to share with you what I normally cook for riyadh on weekdays. He has his favourites and that would be siakap stim & kari kepala ikan :D kari baby version of course, tak pedas langsung hehehe.



Shrimp & fish head curry with potato & pak choy. Cut mangoes for his snack.



Scrambled egg with peas (breakfast), carrot, french beans & siakap stim + pan seared tempe (lunch), pitaya (red dragon fruit) for his snack.

Bread butter pudding (breakfast), sardin masak lemak with sweet potato (lunch) & pitaya for his snack

Yong chow fried rice (breakfast), sup sayur ABC & tenggiri goreng (lunch), and pitaya for his snack



Scrambled egg with salmon & yoplait yogurt (breakfast), pan seared tempe & sayur + siakap stim (lunch) and cut mangoes + pitaya for his snack



Bila nak jadi orang UK, grilled salmon, mashed potato & steamed veges.

Bila nak jadi Italian, scrambled egg, pasta in pumpkin gravy & white pitaya for his snack.



And THE little guy with hugeee appetite. My munchkin :D



And you may notice that he loves mangoes & pitaya kan? Yes, he lovesss the two fruits so much sometimes kena catu pun ada sebab he will eat non stop and end up poo poo-ing all day hehehe. And I only cook lauk sebab the babysitter will cook nasi for riyadh, better makan panas-panas dia cakap, macam dalam pantang lak hehe. 

Thats all about it. The lauk revolves around ni je lah, just tukar-tukar the jenis ikan and sayur. And oh, riyadh eats only fishhhhh, sebab he hates chicken (yeay) and allergic to beef. All kinds of fish is fine with him except for ikan tongkol so tak boleh makan nasi dagang leww huehue.

Semoga Allah sentiasa memberiku kesihatan tubuh badan yang baik dan kekuatan untuk terus memasak & melayan riyadh setiap hari lepas kerja & during weekend, aminnnnnnnnnnnn. Penat woh layan budak kecik ni T__T. Cepat balik bang!

High Fever

I'm at Demc at the moment. Riyadh is admitted due to high fever. He was a lil feverish yesterday morning but fed well & played like usual so I just gave him 2.5 ml pcm syrup.

But last night around 1 a.m his when i checked his temperature, it was 38 d.c & i had this uneasy feeling. I gave him another round of pcm and let him sleep, hoping that he will start sweating, the sign that the pcm works.

But no, he didnt sweat at all and at 4 a.m i checked his temperature again, and this time around, 40 freaking degrees! I jumped out of the bed, pack his baju & mine, changed his diaper, i changed & off i drove to Demc with riyadh in the car seat, at 5 a.m.

Sampai Demc, the on call doctor & nurses attended riyadh quickly, inserted the ubat 'bontot', drip air, did the blood test & the doctor told me that they need to admit in riyadh because his paed wants to see his condition & 40 d.c for an 18 months toddler is very alarming.

And so here we are. Riyadh is sleeping. I'm waiting for my parents to come. Oh i keluar rumah just like that this morning totally lupa to ask anyone to teman. I thought my brother Q was at home tapi dia kat UIA. But i guess when you are a seafarer's wife, you handle things like this like a pro because you believe that your husband always pray for your safety, and his child's and you believe that Allah adalah sebaik-baik Pelindung. amin...

Home - Key Collection :)

Alhamdulillah.. last saturday (2/2/2013) was one of the happiest days in my life. I went to collect our house keys. Tho razmin is away, he gives the green light to proceed with the collection. "Abang excited dari jauh" as he told me. Alaa kesian kan but the excitement prevailed. :)

But no, I didn't collect the keys alone. The whole house went hehe. Well except for DD and my lil brothers. The appointment was at 9am on a saturday and well yeah, awal kot for the boys. Mak, abah, abang long, tasha & riyadh tagged along. Thank you guys!

I reached IOI sales office at Bandar Puteri around 9-ish, and I thought I was late but to my surprise the project team for the developer lagi lambat! Okay, 10 minutes late but stillll. They cakap they were told that my appointment was at 10am. And yes, I was very angry. It killed the excitement instantly kottt. But when I saw the bunch of keys I relaxed a bit. Okay, relaxed a lot. I got excited again. Signed few papers and off we went to our new home. Location dirahsiakan atas sebab keselamatan. Hahaha.

Our new home is at Bandar Putera 2, Klang. 15 minutes drive from USJ. From KESAS Highway, easy peasy, just take the exit of Persimpangan Jalan Kebun. If u head straight, the neighbourhood can be seen from the highway. Okay bagitau jalan macam nak ajak datang hehe. Housewarming is not in the near future, insyallah in a year's time.

When we reached our house, the team project supervisor was there to greet us. His name is Mr.Seelan and with him an Indonesian worker named Wadi, he's macam the ketua for the Indonesian workers there, yang take note all the defects to be rectified later.

I was given the sort of honor to unlock the front door hehe semangat ni ambil gambar. My mom reminded me to recite Alfatihah, ayatul Qursi and azan before I enter the house. Adab masuk rumah baru she says. Sooo my mak. :) but thanks mak!

Inside our house, despite the fact it is a small house (double storey 20x70) I felt all kinds of feeling inside me. Excited, overwhelmed, grateful, berdebar, takut but I was a lil bit sad Razmin was not with me to the point I shed a tear. Drama. He was the one who tiba-tiba one day cakap  "sayang jom beli rumah jom!' and later on surprised me when he paid the booking deposit for an end lot with land unit when I honestly thought he was paying for an intermediate unit. Above all, thank you abang for the house. I will take care of it and clean it everyday hehe provided you do the laundry and dishes haha.

Back to the story. Once everyone was inside the house, we roamed around excitedly and of course the little guy was the the most excited person. Running around the house, main cak cak dengan ayoh Z & mama cha and trying to panjat the staircase sebelah tangan . haishh.

I totally left my abah with the supervisor to cari defects of the house hehehe. Ye lah, from my eyes everything is perfect! Plus the excitement clouded my reasonable mind hehe. But luckily abah is a contractor with 30+ years of experience so there he was cakap apa ntah with Mr.Seelan in construction language while Mr.Seelan wrote the defects in the defects list form and Wadi angguk2 while tanda the defects. Thank you abah!

The joint inspection lasted less than an hour and it was scorching hot so after a while semua nak masuk kereta nak duduk dalam aircond hehe. I checked the house one last round, making sure every window is latched properly (except for one window in the tingkat bawah bedroom), locked the kitchen door, the sliding door & the front door and all of us went to Hassan at Taipan for early lunch. It was 11.30am that time and all the lauks still fresh hehehe. That was the highlight of the day :p

Overall, I am so thankful with this rezeki. All the hassle finally paid off. I can't wait to decorate our home. 'Decorate' bunyi macam nak decorate tadika with the colorful colors and all hehehe. But I have to put in mind that it will take quite sometime for us to complete the house because of financial constraint. You don't want to scrap your savings off dalam sekelip mata kan. We have a son to think of, and holidaysss of course hehe. I think holiday still top my to do list. Got to change the list ASAP! :p

Tomorrow (6/2/2013) the grill people will come. Thanks again to abah, he will be there to discuss with the grill people.

Ok some pictures :)



Welcome to your new home :)



No.16



Grass & debris.

 

Madame (gemoks) of the house.



Stairways to Heaven

From master b/room

Inspector at work.

With Mr.Seelan

Haa jemputlah masuk yohjek, mamacha.



The happiest person.

  Later :)