Mid-Autumn Festival

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival/ Mooncake Festival/ Lantern Festival :D!

My family is rather modern, they don't usually celebrate this festival, at most, we will just get to eat alot of mooncakes my parents bought :).

When I was young, I had the imagination of Mooncake Festival to be a family affair, sitting under the brightness of the moonbeam, admiring the fullmoon, sipping on hot chinese tea, devouring mooncake while catching up with each other. This year, much thanks to a spirited friend of mine, Wei Hoong, it happened with slight modification :).

Together with Wei Hoong and Xin Wei we drove around Kampar to hunt for mooncakes literally ahaha. Under the rain but it was memorable ;).

Ah, beautiful, bright full moon :).

Meet the Papa and Mama of 1925 - Horyi and Wei Hoong :).

Papa Diong frying french fries weeee.

This is Xin Wei setting up the song playlist for the night while we observe and gave opinion. We put the player on shuffle and it coincidently played Teresa Teng's "Yue Liang Tai Biao Wo Di Xin" (The Moon Represents My Heart) more than the others. The player do know how to shuffle the songs for the occasion ;)

Simple meal, but gratifying :).

Formal family shot? Mama papa and 3 sons. haha.

& a cheeky one :).

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The mini snow skin mooncakes we got after a really long mooncake hunt :p.

*thumbs up, I'm enjoying myself :D.

Dining outside while chatting and sharing stories :). Haha look at Wei Hoong being so engrossed in the chit chat session :D.

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After finishing our meal, next agenda - lantern!

Wei Hoong carving wooden sticks to be used to carry the lantern around while emphasizing the fact that.. "I got A for Kemahiran Hidup ok!" haha

Smiley Horyi with lantern :).

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Light up the lanterns!

:D

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My favourite picture of the night :).

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After that we decided to walk around the residential area with our lanterns and wished people "中秋节快乐" as a form of friendly neighbourhood gesture :)

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Later on, I do not know why we started to emulate being cock-eyed. It started with;

Horyi

Myself. Damn fail :\

But the best cock-eye attempt has to be Mr. Diong LOL.

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Lastly, we had hot chinese tea which was just boiled. Tasted so smooth, unlike the other teas I drank anywhere else.

Tarik the chinese tea haha.

Cheers!

Thank you Wei Hoong, Horyi, Xin Wei and Edmund for the wonderful night!
Simple, enjoyable and most definitely memorable. :)

Sungkai Hotspring

It's been really long since I last blogged! Ever since I started blogging at 2005, I would at least write 2 blog posts every month without fail. August 2010 was the only month I do not even have a single post. Damn, consistency streak ended!


For the moment I'm gonna blog about the Sungkai Hotspring trip I had with Wei Hoong, Xin Wei and Jolynn on the 22nd August. It's quite a distance from Kampar, 45minutes drive? I would recommend to travel using the coastal road from Kampar which will be a journey passing these towns - Tapah, Bidor and finally reaching Sungkai.


Picture credits : Xin Wei


After a couple of kilometers drive into the palm oil estate, we reached :).
Entrance fee. Hmm this place is rather big, many pools available and well-kept. RM10 per entry is rather reasonable.

Excited tourist Diong welcome himself with open hands :D.

They have this board walk that takes you through the scenic floral around the place.

Haha this time, with introduction from tourist-cum-tourguide Diong x).

Walking towards the pool!

Meanwhile, tourist Diong was admiring the beautiful trees and plants around him haha.


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They have a series of pools here, do refer to the local map to know where you want to head to. Firstly, we went to the place where you can boil egg with the natural hot water.

Egg boiling in the process. Eggs are sold there at 40 cents each if I'm not mistaken. Mind you, they have steam coming out from this spot which means it's really really hot there!

Haha tourist Diong found the big pool that has slides! Unfortunately, the water there is rather dirty and murky :\.

Heading to the pool :D.

This is Wei Hoong strutting his stuff for 2011 Playgirl Calendar. Hahaha.

This is Xin Wei and Wei Hoong displaying brotherly love. I was the cameraman and I kinda felt like a porn director, telling them to more poses. Kidding :).

Soaking the manly legs into hot water. Hmmm.

Upon discovering therapeutic park. It's just hot water with stones to walk on.

Myself, Wei Hoong and Xin Wei. Damn, I look too damn thin here. Depressing.

Buddies yoo.

Meet the 3 stooges. hahaha.

Wei Hoong, Jolynn and myself posing on the rock in the middle of the pool :).


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Later on was Wei Hoong with a short SS (syiok sendiri) moment ahah ;

Haha success in capturing Wei Hoong and the water droplets :P.


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That's about it for now, next post would be on Mid-Autumn festival which is also known as Mooncake Festival :).