Thursday 12 December 2013

Day 11 - I'm So Weak!

I know I'm weak, but I don't know I'm THIS weak.

Day 11 consists of 25 push ups and 75 tricep dips. My arm can only support my weight for less than 5 push ups. To prevent myself from giving up, and also due to time constrain, I choose to convert the balance 20 into something easier: push ups from my knees.

However, the actual nightmare comes after the pushups. The tricep dips are much harder than I have imagined. My tricep just not strong enough to support my own weight for 75 times of full dips. I ended up splitting this into 15-10-10-10-10-20. Can you imagine? I almost cried when doing this. Can't believe I have let my body performance deviated until this level.

Must work harder!


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Tuesday 10 December 2013

Day 10 - It's All About Strategy

I almost wanted to cry when I see 200 crunches last night. Yes, Day 10 means 200 crunches and 50 squat jumps. While squat jumps is something new to learn today, thinking of the 200 crunches still makes me wanted to cry.
I know I cannot do 200 crunches at current fitness level, so I decided to split into 100 crunches, 50 squat jumps and 100 crunches again.
When I tried to execute this, still too ambitious. I can survive until 70 crunches. That's it! So I have to do 50 squat jumps first, then only come back to the balance 130.
I changed my strategy. I used a few songs with different tempo so that I can complete my 130 crunches with fast-slow-fast pace and I survived the balance 130 in one go!! :)
It's all about strategy I guess :)


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Monday 9 December 2013

Day 9 - My Mum is Always Right

My mum told me that the ache on my shoulder was not muscle pain. Now I confirm she is right.

I had fever started yesterday evening. I guess my body must have worked very hard to fight all the toxic in the system. Around midnight, I recovered from fever and started to have diarrhea, flushing out the toxic I think.

This morning, I woke up at 6am. Still doing my stretching, still continue the 30 Days Beach Body Challenge. Day 9 is easy. 25 squats and 100 skaters. I made it 50 skaters, 25 squats, and 50 skaters with dumbbells. Everything is easier than I thought until after I finished my workout. The shoulder angel and shoulder devil were debating again, should I or should I not, to get an mc and rest at home. (Well, you know the outcome of this debate since I'm now resting in the garden, writing this blog post.)

 I went to Taman Mutiara after shower. I thought there are 24-hours clinics but apparently most of them open at 8am. I was early. I had 30 minutes to kill. Luckily I'm smart enough to bring my new novel along :)
I have forgotten how quiet is Taman Mutiara in the morning. Most shops are closed. The only 2 coffee shops that are operating also have only about half of the food stalls open. I ordered a bowl of porridge and happily reading my novel. About 20 minutes later, that area started to come alive. More and more stalls owners arrived and start to get prepared. More and more customers walk in, some with uniform, some don't.

I walked back to the clinic after my breakfast and I'm the doctor's first customer of the day. Everything went so smooth that I completed the whole process in about 10 minutes :)

And here I am, resting in the garden, writing this blog, while my body continue to release gasses from my mouth and you-know-where.

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Sunday 8 December 2013

Day 8 - Muscle Pain or Lymph Node Inflamation?

As I said earlier, this program is well design. When I thought I cannot move my legs anymore, after the squatting and jumping jacks, surprisingly, I can still do well in the 50 donkey kicks. I kind of love the donkey kicks. However, I think I need a mirror to check if my posture is correct.

After 100 bicycles, I noticed obvious ache on my shoulder. I think I strained my muscles but my mum said I must have lymph node inflammation. I hope this won't affect my squats and skaters tomorrow.


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Saturday 7 December 2013

Birth Month Concluded

OK, I'm crazy. I admit. But I think I am"experienced" enough to have the privilege to celebrate birth-month instead of birth-day.

First of all, Wei Wei and En En came back on the first weekend of November. So we had a very nice dinner at Miraku.

The next day, we had a very simple afternoon tea in the garden. Second aunt and my cousins were here too. It was a rainy day. We enjoyed the cool breeze, had great chat and great fun and great nap in the garden.

Wei and I went to Haagan Dazs to collect my free scoop of ice-cream. We met a sort-of-OCD worker there. We ordered "ice-cream-on-brownie". He said "ON brownie? Not at the side?" We said yes, on brownie. The photo on the right shows how it was served. Brownie on one side, the scoop of ice-cream at the other side, and all the cream / peanuts are separated too. I guessed he must have hate people mixing everything together :) 
Anyway, after the short break, I bought home 3 pints of Haagen-Dazs so that we can share with everyone. Mum always loves the fruity flavor and dad always loves Belgium Chocolate. 



The day before my birthday, I received a extremely thoughtful gift from a lovely friend. I was so touched! Really can't thank her enough. This gift also started to make me think of getting a craft class in year 2014. I haven't learn a new skill for too long already!

The night before my birthday, I had a very simple dinner at Patio with a group of energetic youth. I'm charged :)

When I reached my office on my birthday, there's a lovely note on my table. I love this small little surprise. The even more surprise fact: that ribbon is an origami! Hand made! By that little girl herself!
I love it :)











Though everyone was super busy, we managed to have a very simple and sweet birthday celebration at one of our favorite lunch spot. I enjoyed that to the max.
Too bad that we have to leave BH eating alone as all of us have to rushed back to factory before the gate is closed. 

The night of my birthday, I be the best daughter in town, having the simplest meal with my dad and mum at home :) After the dinner, I sat in front of my computer writing thank you notes to everyone that sent their wishes.







The next morning, another lovely gift on my desk. That Gerbera really made my day! It has this vibrant orange that says "cheer up and be happy"



The week after that, we had our usual "selves-birthday-celebration" but this round the guys have more important things to do so two of us had a ladies night out at Abbey Road instead. Lots of catch up to do.


The next night, meet up with another 2 girl friends for catch up too. Most of our friends are already married with kids, so it is always easier to make the appointment happened if it is only 3 of us...... Sign of getting older....

En came back again for bridge run. I forced him to buy me dinner again. Haha! Though the credit card bill will be settled by me later but it is really fun to let your brother start practicing to buy you dinner.

After we sent En to airport, finally I can have mother-daughter date. Mum is an expert shopper. We shopped for hours until even her cannot stand anymore so she called home, asked papa to settle his own dinner, while we had some simple food at Canton-i. So, finally the real 母难日celebration.

Of course, Christmas is just one month away. How can I not set up the Christmas Tree in the office? (Why is this my birth month celebration too you may ask? Well, THIS is something that never fail to make me happy too)

Then, on the last week of my birth-month (ei, my birthday falls on 7th of November so of course 1st of December is still the last week!), I suddenly decided to give myself some challenges. I picked 30 Day Beach Body Challenge because it is more challenging than anything else (at least for me la~). I have been a lazy bum for years and it is sure hard to break the inertia (My physic teacher said 动者恒动、静着恒静）. I'm glad that I have progress well so far :)

To conclude my birth-month, I decided to buy myself a birthday present.

I have a lot of excuses to ease my guilt in buying this: it is my birthday present, this thing is much cheaper than it used to be, this is a delayed gratification, i don't want to get sick in a backpack trip so i need to properly keep warm but all my current winter jackets are too bulky......









So, this is how I concluded my birth-month celebration. I'd like to thank everyone of you, everyone in my life, for giving me such a wonderful, blissful, meaningful life.
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Day 7 - Another Victory

Day 7 is probably the hardest. It's Saturday. I have been waking up early for the last 6 days and this is Saturday! My shoulder angel and the shoulder devil had almost 30 minutes of debate before I finally determine that I MUST DO THIS. To have the discipline to do what you want to do is the real freedom afterall. I see this as a personal small victory, beating the stepping bugs :)

Day 7 = 200 jumping jacks + 3 60 seconds plank

So I started a simple warmup (have you noticed my procrastination causing I skipped my normal stretching routine?) and went straight to jumping jacks. I thought I will suffer for this routine as my tight muscles are still crying in pain after Day 6 50 squats. Apparently they designed this challenge well. Each day you are forced to use different sets of muscles. I can still easily make it to 100 without problem. (Most probably because this exercise brings back a lot of memory. I bet every Malaysians does this in their primary school days)

I stopped at 100th and started the 60 seconds plank. I thought this should be easier than it was since I have had planks on the first 2 days. Well, I'm just being naive. These planks still kill me as always.

How I did it on Day 7: 100 jumping jacks --> 60s plank --> 100 jumping jacks --> 60s plank --> dumbbell lifting (to rest my abdomen muscles) --> 30 planks --> (rest again) --> 30 planks


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Friday 6 December 2013

Day 6 - Oh My Back!

I'm not sure which has more truth: Day 4 onwards the exercises are easier, or because my body is fitter compare to few days ago so I don't feel as much pain during the process as before?

Day 6 consiste of 50 supermans and 50 squats. I warmed up with 20 high kicks, then started with the 50 supermans. Though now I can carry on the full set exercise without breaks in the middle, still, while I'm sitting here writing this blog, I still can feel the pain in my back! I seldom use the muscles over thee so now I have to pay the price.

For the squats, instead of following exactly the 30 days challenge, I modified it to the 3-1-2 squatting so I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone :)


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Thursday 5 December 2013

柳暗花明又一村

昨天我因有要事在身得到Burma Road走一趟，却因为找不到泊车位而阴差阳错地来到Lengkok Burma。

有别于Burma Road的繁忙喧哗，这里朴素幽静。我喜欢这个环境，也不介意得走得比较远，就在这儿泊车。

在我的泊车位不远处、在一片绿荫当中，有个小小的小贩中心。我来得迟，大多数都已经收档了。（安娣说过了三点就没有办公族来吃饭，所以大家都在三点左右就收档）

我们点了一碗面线羹和一碟Roti Babi。

在树荫下、沙地上，摆着一张张高低不平的桌子，我们就坐在那儿闲聊，看安娣从容不迫地为我们准备食物。

小贩中心周围全是“走地鸡”，鸡啼声此起彼落，啼着啼着就把童年回忆给提住来了。鸽子们也来凑热闹，咕咕声为幽静的环境添上浓浓乡趣。

与我同行的小妹妹毕竟年纪小，面线羹和Roti Babi都不是这个年代普及的食物，对她而言倒是新奇。而我，虽然这称不上槟城数一数二的美味，但我爱煞在繁华都市当中难得的原始绿肺，所以我也很享受这简单的美味。

由于我们的时间有点儿紧迫，倒没有作太长的逗留。匆匆离去时还在马路边看见母鸡生蛋，我的车子旁还有一颗仍然热乎乎的鸡蛋躺在那儿呢！

下次吧，下次我带上相机再到这儿探索探索。




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Day 5 - Relatively Easy

Day 5 consist of 100 high kicks and 75 Russian twists. Though the names sound intimadating, to my surprise, these are relatively easy.
High kicks are good warming up exercise. Though not as challenging, but you will start to feel your whole body getting warm after around 20 of these. I think I'll use these for my warm up in the future.
Russian twist is more challenging. To me, the balancing act of "sitting-on-the-ground-with-your-knees-bent-and-your-heels-about-two-feet-from-your-bum-and-lean-back-without-rounding-your-spine" is harder than the twist itself. So I actually took some time to practise the balancing act first before I start the twisting with dumbbells. Though not as challenging, I still have to do these 75 in 20-20-15-15 four sessions.
Overall, because of relatively easier, I did enjoy my session today :)


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Day 4 - Start to Fall in Love with This

Ok, maybe not REALLY fall in love, but at least I enjoyed today session.
Day 4 is 200 crunches (ouch!) and 100 skaters. Crunches are killing me as usual, but skaters are fun! You can just imagine yourself as a Winter Olympic speed skating athlete, trying your best pursuing the gold medal. It's so cool that I didn't even notice that I have done much more than the Challenge required.
Even during my usual dumbbell session, I unintentionally ended up doing the skaters with dumbbells.  I guess after this 30 Days Beach Body Challenge, I'm going to put skaters into my daily routine :)


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Tuesday 3 December 2013

Day 3 - Don't Ever Over Estimate Your Capability

OK, so staying in my bed for the visualization may not be a good idea. I accidentally fell asleep when I was half way to the future. When I gained my consciousness again, it was already 6:20am!! (I better change my "Get Grateful and Visualize" session from lying comfortably on the bed, to a sitting position on the floor.) I have to skip the normal stretching exercise. Instead, I immediately started the burpees after warm up.

I watched the burpees video last night, and I thought it must be more fun to do it a bit faster, maybe do it with some upbeat music. So today, I started at a very fast pace. It's fun at the very beginning, but I almost had heart attack at my #15th burpee. Apparently I have over estimated my physical capability.

So instead of continue and finish the 50 burpees, I rested in a lying position, and continued with kickdowns instead. My stomach muscles were already in pain due to the first 2 days crunches, planks and bicycles, so it was actually quite hard to complete the 50 kickdowns in a row too.

So this was how I completed my Day 3: 15 burpees --> 20 kickdowns --> 15 burpees --> 15 kickdowns --> 10 burpees --> 15 kickdowns --> 10 burpees


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Monday 2 December 2013

Day 2 - Hour of Power

I felt that something was missing from my Day 1 of 30 Days Beach Body Challenge. So, last night I searched my feelings, and 'ting', a light bulb!
It was the first CD of "Get the Edge" program that fired up my desire to change. Naturally, I missed the "Hour of Power" so I made some modification to my routine.

I woke up at 5:50am this morning. Still lying on my bed, I started the 1:4:2 breathing exercise (inhale for 1 count, hold for 4 counts, exhale for 2 counts), while I visualize about everything that I'm grateful for. I visualize everything I want in my life as if I had already achieved.  (I always love this part!)

After the breathing and visualization exercise, I started my stretching exercise on my bench. 15 minutes on each leg.
I normally don't time myself so I get Chinese Traditional Music 流水and平沙落雁 (these 2 pieces add up to around 15 minutes) as my stretching music so that I know when to switch side. Besides, these pieces are calm and peaceful, good for meditation while stretching.

After stretching and warm up, I finally came to the actual "30 Day Beach Body Challenge". Day 2 is 100 bicycles and two 30s planks.

To make sure it's not too boring, I break the planks into 2 different sessions. I started the workout with 30s plank (much easier than yesterday) and followed by the bicycle then 30s plank again.

The bicycles part was easy, but the bicycles crunch part was killing me. So instead of doing 100 bicycle crunches, I did 20 bicycles, 20 bicycle crunches and alternate doing this for 140 times.

After the Day 2 of "30 Day Beach Body Challenge", I had some fun with dumbbell session, dancing to the Faye Wong's 浮躁 before I went to shower and off to work.


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Sunday 1 December 2013

Day 1 - Accidental Healthy Start (relatively)

I woke up at 6:30am as I promised. (trust me, this is super hard for me, almost never happened on Sundays!) Instead of start my day with warm ups and stretching on my bench, I headed to toilet for "colon cleansing". I guess I had too much oily food the day before, and the 大肠经 really working effectively during this hour.
7am, I started my stretching routine for 30 minutes. Then, I start to follow the 30 Day Beach Body Challenge. The first 60s plank was easy. The 50 crunches were not terribly hard too. It was the second 60s plank that killed me. I couldn't hold. Arms muscles not strong enough, stomach muscles not strong enough, even my back pain! To ensure I won't give up easily, also base on the advice online, I broke this 60s plank into two 30s sessions with a brief 30s rest in between, and I finally made it.
To end my early Sunday workout session, I had some simple dumbbell dance to 蓝莲花(no joke!)
After the workout, I'm super hungry. Mum still sleeping so I ended up with relatively healthy breakfast (山药薏米芡实莲子drink, Jacob's Hi Cal biscuit with tuna, some guavas and a cup of coffee), not what I intended to but there's all I can find with no cooking involve :)


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Saturday 30 November 2013

Challenge Accepted!

I used to wake up at 5am every morning to workout before I go to office. That felt like centuries ago......
I know I am not as healthy as I wish to be, and I have been wanted to restart this habit, but I have been procrastinating. (When it comes to procrastinating, I'm a PRO.)

Somehow, TODAY, out of sudden, I decided that I want my old self back! I searched the web for some fitness programs. Instead of "get fit in x weeks" programs, I have decided to challenge the "30 Day Beach Body Challenge". I just want to tone the muscle so there are no diet plans involve here.

To make sure that I keep this promise to myself, and to prove that I can achieve anything if I wish to, I decide that I MUST announce my plan here. I'll monitor my progress and this blog is my journal. I'll start to workout again, start from 1st Dec 2013.

Tomorrow, I'll wake up at 6:45am for my usual stretching, and I'll continue with 60 second planks, 50 crunches, and 60 second planks again.




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Sunday 24 November 2013

A Little Bit of Curiosity Never Killed Me

I'm currently reading "In the Plex", and I couldn't help but amazed by Google.

(Well, I am always a fan. It's not a secret. I always love to tell the younger generations how painful it was to search for information online during the "pre-Google-era". The "physically finding information in library" way of research is almost unspeakable.)

When I read about the stories behind AdSense, I decided to add an AdSense to my blog too. Not for making money, since I never plan to draw any audience to this half-diary, but more for better understanding. I'm not those genius geeks so I don't really plan to understand the algorithm behind. However, I'd love to test it out, to randomly check what are the advertisements showed. I haven't really completed the appropriate setting so Google crawler now unable to access my page to determine its contest and display relevant ads. I shall monitor for at least a month before I allow the crawler to access. 



So excited to see the results :)
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Thursday 24 October 2013

在KK山水之间：四天三夜（三）

我其实已经很懒惰提起几个月前的旅程了，但承诺了就必须实践。

话说，在KK的最后一天，大伙儿都懒了，只决定无所事事。我们浩浩荡荡到附近吃早餐，可是同行有个小妹妹病倒了，早餐后我负责给她买药，其他人则购物去了。

我俩在公寓内呆了不久就开始觉得对不起自己，小妹妹坚持得买手信，又嚷着到了KK不买海产有些说不过去，于是我顺她意，就真的带她到Handicraft Market物色珍珠项链去了。

我相中一位看起来非常忠厚老实的马来妇女，然后非常认真地和她讨价还价。最后我们俩以少过半价成交了几对耳环、手链等。基于她的随和与诚恳，我们答应她一定会到自己的部落格给她打打广告的：
铺名：Sana Kraft
那位和蔼可亲忠厚老实的售货员：Aishah (019-8804676)
老板：Noriman binri Sirad (019-8520821)
Cawangan Pusat Kraftangan Sinsuran
Jalan Tum Stephen
88000 Kota Kinabalu
之后，我们因朋友‘指点’，顶着烈日千里迢迢（其实也不是很远啦~）走到KK邮政局附近的大街找海产店。兜了几圈，问了几个路人，终于让我们找到了“海城海产”。我们俩平时虽不走巴杀，但原来在亚庇买海产容易之极。你只要告诉店员你想找些什么、几个人吃的分量，他们就会一一给你介绍，你付钱后他们会问你还有几个小时才能抵达自家门，并以此预测帮你做保温包装让你无忧无虑带回家。
Ocean Seafood
Lot 9, Block F, Segama Complex,
88000 Kota Kinabalu
Tel: 088257824
Email: oceanseafood_kk@yahoo.com

到了机场，才发觉原来不需要千里迢迢去寻找。Departure hall也有一家海产店，虽然选择较少，但方便得多了，价钱也和外头不相上下。反正亚航业只允许handcarry海产，即买即带就是了。


请你也读：
在KK山水之间：四天三夜（一）
在KK山水之间：四天三夜（二）

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Monday 14 October 2013

Work Happily

I've said this a million times, and I still want to repeat this: I'm a Disney baby. I grew up believing you can just whistle while you work; you can get all the animals sing along "we can do it, we can do it"; you can think of the happiest things and it's the same as having wings......

"In every job that must be done there is an element of fun" is what my pseudo-nanny, Mary Poppins taught me.

So, in my work area, I focus in cultivate a team that laugh in the face of challenges and difficulties. We do great in physiology. Sometimes, just like the rest, we do feel down, but we always try hard to uplift each others' spirit. We passionately discuss about works, about life, about dreams and about everything else.

So if you choose to stress yourselves at work, if you envious of our happiness, I am sorry for you. If my happiness affect your moral and make you depressed, I am sorry for you. I am sorry that you can't understand how this team works. I am sorry that we have different perspective of "professionalism".

All of us spend more than 1/3 of our daily life at work. Please learn to be happy. Please learn to enjoy. Please learn to find all the fun elements at work. Even if you are not depressed but only emotionless, that is still sad.

I am sorry. I just can't go to the dark side......
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Thursday 19 September 2013

在KK山水之间：四天三夜（二）

九月一日（Gaya Street; Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park; Waterfront; 宿Marina Vacation Condo @ Marina Court Resort Condominium ）

这一天，我们一早就起床到Gaya Street Sunday Market逛。或许是我太久没有逛街市，我总觉得这儿挺好、特别的，五花八门、琳琅满目。而且那些小狗呀，鱼儿呀，特别可爱。不过，由于我们并没有什么特别想买的，也就走马看花地绕了一圈，然后往Jesselton Point Ferry Terminal走去，和不愿早醒的另一群汇合。一路上，我们尝试靠海岸走，发觉KK虽然是首都城市，但海水基本上还非常干净，在码头往下看仍然可以看见海底和小鱼，KK居民真叫人羡慕。

我们在Jesselton Point五号柜台要了往Sapi Island和Manukan Island的两岛配套，每人二十五元，外加RM7.50的税收，以及RM3的入门票，我个人觉得非常便宜。从KK往这些海岛只不过二十分钟左右的船程，方便而简易，再加上这儿椰风树影水清沙幼，真的值得一游。


当然，你要是期待像Sipadan岛那种顶级潜水地点那么迷人，你毕竟还是得恶补地理常识，并调整expectation。可是，要是你以平常心来这儿游玩，这儿必定不会让人失望。

Gaya Street牌坊


我们乘下午两点半的船回KK。累了的乘的士回去休息，精力充沛的则选择步行回去，以便可以好好的看看这个美丽的城市。可是，或许适逢星期天，大多数商店并没有营业。

我们在朋友大力推荐下，在Gaya Street的怡丰咖啡店喝了非常香浓的双层拉茶，是非常好喝香滑，但是要RM2.50一杯哦！我们又观察到这家咖啡店的客人多点“辣沙”（咖喱面），我才想起做功课时曾经看过这家店以辣沙闻名，于是又点了一碗尝尝。咖喱是挺香的，不过这样的咖喱面并不合我口味。这么一碗要马币五元！亚庇食物真正贵！








傍晚，我们到Waterfront等待日落。这一次运气好，我们看着那“咸蛋黄”缓缓地跨过水平线，跌入地球的另一端……
日落完毕，我们经过一番周折才来到著名的大茄来吃晚餐。原来虽然说是在Star City，但毕竟隐蔽，是得绕到建筑物后头才看得到这家店面。我们十六人两桌共点了下图这一些食物。每桌食物包括招牌豆腐、两道青菜、甘香螃蟹1kg、咸蛋螃蟹1kg、七星斑800g、东风螺1kg以及生蚝（每只马币七元）。
这一顿丰盛海鲜餐正适合作为一天的句号。











 （Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park入门费每人共RM35.50，浮潜用具一套RM10；Sapi Island上的快熟面午餐一碗RM３；Waterfront饮料一杯RM6；大茄来海鲜晚餐RM509)
请你也读：
在KK山水之间：四天三夜（一）

在KK山水之间：四天三夜（三）
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Tuesday 17 September 2013

在KK山水之间：四天三夜（一）

今年四月订下亚航槟城直飞亚庇的机票后，还以为这次必定要攀爬中国寡妇山了！谁知道原来国庆日假期是超级旺日，上神山的固打早就满了，真是“明年请早”！征服寡妇山的计划取消，我们只好把焦点转至KK的锦绣山水之间。

一如往常，先容我略谈行程及费用（除非特别声明，否则费用皆以十六人计），改天再细说各处印象。

八月三十日（宿J. Residence）
Excitedly waiting for our flight at Penang Airport
到达KK机场，已经是中午一点多了，再加上十三人互等的，拖拖拉拉直至我们离开机场已经是两点多的事了。我们原本的行程是随便买了一些食物在车上解决直奔京那巴鲁国家公园，但团内孕妇喊饿，我们也就乖乖的在市中心解决午餐。我们的司机Penny姐说沙巴人普遍上较西马人早吃午餐，中午两点过后其实已经难找吃了，只好草草把我们放在小贩中心解决（我们就这样子错过了著名的生肉面）

首尝Buah Tarap
午餐后直奔J. Residence。一路上风景不错，卖水果、蔬菜的摊子比比皆是。我们听说上山前那个小镇的黄梨特好吃，又听说这儿的玉蜀黍比金马伦的美味上百倍，所以我们总是走走停停的。司机极力推荐buah tarap，我们孤陋寡闻，第一次看见这貌似nangka　/　cempedak混合体的水果，也就乖乖掏腰包以马币三元买了一粒尝尝。我不爱重口味的水果，对这实在没什么兴趣，尝过就算。




一路上山路蜿蜒，偶尔一阵冷风，我们立刻堕入白茫茫的云雾中。要不是有经验的司机，这条路还挺危险的。

到了J. Residence，大家都懒惰了，哪儿都不想去，就呆在大自然中休息。晚餐到附近的“仙园”吃火锅，又贵又不好吃，服务态度又差， 我们的大厨忍无可忍，回到J. Residence立刻大展身手，为我们准备了非常美味的“满汉全席之蘑菇篇”作夜宵。


（J. Residence三人间RM99,Villa(三间双人房）RM480；包两辆van两天一夜RM1,700;仙园十三人火锅晚餐RM218.90）


八月三十一日（Desa Dairy Farm+Poring Hot Spring+Rafflesia Flower Viewing+Mari Mari Cultural Village;宿Marina Vacation Condo @ Marina Court Resort Condominium ）

我们早上起床看日出，然后享受了几个小时的树林中的静谧。早餐后check out往Desa Dairy Farm出发。
途中停车和害羞的寡妇山拍照


大家都说这可媲美纽西兰的农场，我没到过纽西兰，没法做比较，但这农场倒真是值得一游。

广阔蓝空下绿油油一片，叫人心广神怡。在这儿大伙儿最卖命摆‘匍士’拍照，团体照也拍了不少，很有八十年代游神州的旅游照片的感觉，那种大地任我游的豪迈感觉。而给小羊儿喂食也很有趣呢！羊儿吃草吃厌了还会攻击背包、衣服，热情过度。



大家拍了照片、买了奶制品就继续往Poring Hot Spring 出发。

泡温泉也用得着这个？
或许因为假日，人潮汹涌，看起来像公共泳池甚于温泉。

幸好我对马来西亚的温泉从来不抱任何期望，所以也没什么好失望的。

最叫人跌眼镜的是那久仰大名的Canopy walk。我们读了这么多部落格，个个猛赞，又说山路有多难行，结果我做了周全准备（还特地穿长裤怕雨林地上的草丛），没想到轻轻松松就走完了，canopy也不算太长，真的没有传说中这么震撼咯~


非常青绿的入口

在Canopy Walk听参天古树细说当年……


在开往Poring的路上，司机Penny姐一直盆算着我们遇见臭名远播的莱佛士花的几率（花只盛放七天左右，而且通常在深山里头要步行好久），把我们搞得心痒痒的。所以从Canopy下来，一听说每人马币二十元有得看离山路不远的莱佛士花我们就决定机不可失（真的，反正可能一生人就只看一回），立刻要了！不过，我们想象的是可以蹲在花旁细看，可以嗅一嗅这大花的尸臭，当然也包括了把头贴近花儿拍照然后在脸书上炫耀。谁知道进到林里，才发觉得隔着木篱远观，一朵枯萎了，另一朵已近生命尾声尽了传宗接代的使命所以不再发出尸臭味。十六人共给了马币三百二，大家心痛，只好轮流和莱佛士花拍张远远的合照弥补钱包的大洞。


从林间走出来，我们到邻近的Round Inn吃午餐。套餐分量相当大，味道普通，在这样子的旅游区我们倒不太在意食物品质，免得自己懊恼。

吃了午餐我们就从Poring赶往Mari Mari Cultural Village。

一路上Penny姐讲着许多天马行空的故事，大家却渐渐睡得昏昏沉沉，只有我非常尽责地entertain Penny姐，因而有幸认真地看了这片土地。车窗外蓊绿高山延绵不绝，在蔚蓝天空下显得特别辽阔，于我一种云山堆里看青山的淡然。


大伙儿总是在停车购物时苏醒，对这一排开阔的水果、蔬菜摊子特别感兴趣。蔬菜水果都卖得非常便宜，而且新鲜好吃。
我们因为一早听说这儿的奶油果（avocado）非常香甜，一路上总是很认真地找着，最后找着了，一斤才五元，Penny姐却说还未熟透叫我们别买，我们按捺不住好奇心，只好以三盒五元的价钱买了切便的来尝尝，真的很好吃哦！据说奶油果汁更是一等一的上品，可惜我们就是没喝着。下次吧！

到了Mari Mari Cultural Village，时间还早，我们就在“村”里到处走走逛逛拍照。这“文化村”比我想象中大，沙巴五大族都在这儿，而且到每一族的“屋子”都有许多互动，比任何一个我所曾去过的文化村都好玩。（下次再仔细报告）。整个行程从傍晚六点开始，节目结束后还有自助晚餐，我们离开时已经近九点了。

我们预定Mari Mari Cultural Village时，还可以预定不含来回亚庇交通的门票，每人RM80。（我们一行十六人还获得折扣，十五人送一人的门票。）可是在写部落格时我再查看价钱表，他们已经统一票价，含交通马来西亚公民每人百四哦！



Marina Vacation Condos的老板见我们久久不出现，还打了电话来关心一下。我们到达时还有员工在apartment楼下迎接我们，把我们带到我们租下的单位，服务真的挺不错的。


（Marina Vacation Condos六房penthouse 每夜RM850；Round Inn午餐套餐一人RM18（不过我们十六人仅点了十人份）；Poring入门票一人RM3;Poring Canopy Walk另收费一人RM3、相机每架RM5；莱佛士花一人RM20; Mari Mari Cultural Village RM1,200)

 请你也读：
在KK山水之间：四天三夜（二）
在KK山水之间：四天三夜（三）
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