Healthy eating

Not so healthy lah when you just had salted egg.

Can't wait to be back to Msia.

Had to suppress myself from binge eating in Yangon, cos I have longggg list of food to be eaten in Malaysia.

Jalan-jalan Inle Lake (Nyaungshwe) -1

Alang-alang dah duduk Myanmar, rugi lah kan kalau tak jalan-jalan Myanmar.

Myanmar, negaranya besar, bersempadanan dengan banyak Negara-negara lain.  Maka, budayanya pasti berbeza.  This is one of the reasons why one must come and explore Myanmar.

Memandangkan jarak dari satu Bandar ke satu Bandar amatlah jauh, dan kalau mengambil bas sebagai transportasi, perjalanan biasanya mengambil lebih kurang 10-12 jam.  Pilihan yang lebih cepat dan menjimatkan masa ada, iaitu kapal terbang. Tapi, mahal la weh! Contohnya, Yangon ke Heho (lapangan terbang untuk ke Inle), tiket pergi balik berharga USD300.  Kalau naik bas, tiket pergi balik ialah USD40.  Makanya, bagi menyahut seruan berjimat-cermat, relakanlah diri untuk menaiki overnight bas. Kalau tak tersepit dengan kekangan waktu, why not kan?

Inle (Nyaungshwe) adalah Bandar ketiga on my ‘scratchmapMyanmar’. Yang dah dilawati ialah Yangon (of course!) dan Taungoo.

So berbalik pada cerita Inle.

An impromptu trip, since we observe a long weekend here, due to full moon holiday.

My initial plan was either to go to Vietnam (Vietjet offers a reasonable price), Bangkok (Nok Air too) or Bagan.  Balik Malaysia pun ade dalam plan, tapi tiketnye mahal la plak kan.  Inle was not part of my research  until I feel Bagan should be keep for another trip (adalah sebabnya).

Internet sangat membantu and from my quick research, I was able to plan the impromptu trip.

Return tickets were bought via JJ Express FB Page (bayar bila ambil tiket dekat Aung Mingalar Highway Bus Station) : USD20/way

Hotel (Inle Star Motel) was book via Agoda. Bab hotel ni haru skit.  I’ve been eyeing few recommended hotels (cheap one!) via Agoda, TripAdvisor and booking.com, until 2-3 days before the trip, I noticed that the shortlisted hotels are either sold out or hiked up.  Then, the next thing I do was to just book the hotel, though it received some negative reviews. Hotel rate : USD32/night.  You can get cheaper than this, actually.

Bab naik bas, aktiviti di Inle akan disambung kemudian.

Couch potato Saturday

Friday - you start making plans for the weekend

Saturday AM - decide to go window shopping

Saturday noon - switch d tv on, and saw Shah Rukh Khan. Look outside, very sunny.

Conclusion - decide to be a couch potato for the day 👶👶👶

Rindu

Kadang-kadang ada perasaan rindu yang undefined.

Macam rindu pada orang yang dah tiada. Tapi kita tahu, beliau berada di tempat yang lebih baik.

Al-fatihah buat adinda tersayang, Muhammad Anas.

Your wittiness, slumber and charm will always be remembered.


Picture of Papa cleaning Anas' grave, taken by Mama.

Makan-makan

Made a wrong decision to go out today.

It is Deepavali here in Myanmar, and on the first thought, I just wanna spend my day at home.

Then I remember that we are going to have potluck dinner this Thursday. And I think I don't have enough materials to cook any decent food (dessert).

Called the driver and 5 minutes later we are stuck in jam. Usually I can reach the shop in 5 minutes. Then I realized, people are thronging to NLD HQ.

Decided to u-turn and go to another shop. And for the first time I feel it's hard to find baking stuffs here. Ok, may be a little bit exaggerating.

But, in my mind, I was thinking to prepare either pengat pisang (bananas are plenty here!) or kek batik or brownies kedut (the in thing in Malaysia now!). Options are limited since I only have small oven, so likely the dessert will be something from the stove or fridge.

After few times of circling the aisle, I can't find gula melaka, cooking chocolate, choc chip. Then obviously the dessert will be kek batik, cos Milo and Ovaltine are plenty! Oh, before that, I Googled whether I can make gula melaka from caramelized sugar. Heee

Note to self : I have to make a 'things to buy from Malaysia list' and bring them here..this include Maggi that the drivers like.

Election

Everybody here is really excited with the election tomorrow.

Hope everything will be safe and good.

Pokok keputusan

So we have a bunch of new people coming in last few days.

And I was a lil bit annoyed when sometimes they think they know better than us on the things that we have decide earlier.

Sometimes good thing is when you consult the person working on the stuff first cos you won't know how much time had been spend and what had the person think/consider before making that crucial call.

Yeah, you may have previous experience, but when u come in a new team, learn the rules.