Hiatus Mode Again!

Sady to declare that I need to set my blog for another hiatus mode again (on hiatus more before this) for a week in order to prepare myself for another war, I means for my external accounting paper. Initially I plan to do this earlier, at least early of this month but seems like blogging has dominating my current daily life.

So, please forgive me if you can't see me doing any blogwalking and even leave comment on your blog due to the limited time given for my revision. Exam will ends on next week Monday, 18th June 2012 and my blog will resume as usual after that. Can't wait to be free as a bird and so many things on the list wish to be done after exam, especially on planning for my upcoming trips. Seriously can't wait for another trips and vacation again. 

More of these in Travel & Living Journal of DT once the active mode is back:

Try to finish my Seoul & Jeju Island trips as soon as possible

 DT's 2011 Trip around Singapore and Indonesia (Jakarta & Bandung)

DT's 2012 Trips (Phuket, Philippines, Vietnam & Brunei)

And more to come...

Foodie Friday: Equatorial Restaurant, Tanjung Aru Plaza

NOTE: Non-Halal Food Post

I seldom have my meals at this fine dining Chinese cuisine restaurant cause most of the meals ordered are too heavy and I was on a diet plan. But because both of my uncle and aunty and also including my cousin came from Brunei, so I have no other choices but to join them. 

Most of people especially KKians recommended this restaurant if you are looking for nice and delicious Chinese foods serving in KK town. So when everytime if there any relatives or my dad's friends came by KK for visit, this is one of the place that my dad won't hesitate to bring them for dinner. 

Since there are 8 of us, my dad has ordered 7 different dishes including their signature dishes.

Fried Mango Roll (RM13.00)

Basically it is fried crab meat together with mango. My first attempt to try this special dish but surprisingly it taste good, crunchy and delicious.

Yong Chow Fried Rice (RM12.00)

It's my family favourite fried rice and my dad sure will order it when everytime visit this restaurant.

Sweet and sour chicken with marinated jellyfish (RM33.00)

Love the combination of the sauce together with the chicken but I dislike eating the jellyfish.

Scallop with mix veggie (RM100.00)

Beancurd with oyster sauce

 

One of their signature dishes - Crispy Pork Leg (RM40.00)

This is highly recommended by their chef and I can see that almost all table ordered this.

Fried Big Prawn (RM105.00)

You may think Equatorial may seems to serve ordinary Chinese dishes but they do serve a real great fresh and big prawn.

Besides the above dishes that my dad ordered, Equaotorial is popular for cooking crocodile meat. Frankly speaking, none of my family have the guts to try this unusual meat and we worry we might not use to the taste of the crocodile meat. But you can check out MeiTzeu's blog where she and family did tried that - Equatorial Restaurant（贵都海鲜楼）, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

Overall, this is one and recommended Chinese cuisine restaurant if you are looking for in KK town with a friendly service too. Even their food serving time consider to be quite fast and efficient.

Equatorial Restaurant KK
Lot C-G8, C-G7, C-G6,
Ground Floor, Block C,
Plaza Tanjung Aru, Jalan Mat Saleh,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Everland Resort - 4th Theme Area: American Adventure

Continue again with the 4th theme area of Everland Resort.

• 1st Theme Area: Global Fair
• 2nd Theme Area: Zoo-Topia
• 3rd Theme Area: European Adventure

The shortcut ride of Skyway took us from European Adventure theme area to another portion of the park, the American Adventure.

The themes of this area are most basically presented based on American history. The building, the restaurant, the streets, the songs and even the ride are all in the oldies of American style.

Somebody wanna pump gasoline?

Drive-In Restaurant

Besides the prominent T-Express ride in the European Adventure area, here could be consider the most favourite place for those who love to challenge themselves in the thrill ride of "scream machine". There are more than 5 extreme rides which can been seen in this park area.

Let's twist and turn

 

Since we were reluctant to join for the ride of T-Express ride, finally some of us decided to join her for another ride after being persuaded by her for few times. She did also mentioned that it is quite waste if we didn't try any ride since we were here in Everland Resort.

So here we are embrace ourself to this exhilarating thrills.

See! It's up side down ride! I was screaming like hell and my friend who sat next to me keep shouting "When will this ride end?", "Please don't spin, please don't spin!". Although it was damn scary but I was laughing at the same time cause of my friend stupidly reaction. 

Double Rock Sping - A powerful spinning and rhythm ride. Loves to try this too but cause we were too tired of screaming, hence we decided to watch only.

Billboards during the oldies time.

Columbus Adventures - A dizzying viking ship. My friend said this ride is not suitable for those who has big tummy.

Ipoh for Formal Function

For those who follow my twitter, you might know that I was away to Ipoh for 5 days to participate in a very formal function which has been almost 10 years I had never attended since ever I received the highest award in the non-governmental organisation when I was in secondary school. 

And this time around, I was being assigned to join as the newly appointed Girl Guides Sabah State Honoury Treasurer to participate in this National Conference and Annual General Meeting for the very first time with all over 300 representatives from all states including Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya.

This year host for the event was Perak Branch and so coincidentally, 2012 is the year to visit Perak. 

The national event was held in this newly opened hotel which operated less than 6 months and it's located in the city centre. 

Comfort and spacious hotel room was given to us. We enjoyed the stay but the time we spent in our room is so limited.

Lots of activities were being held during these 4 days national event including visiting and plant a tree in mangrove sea forest of Taiping, singing competition with our special host, Datuk AC Mizan and more.

Proudly to say that Sabah beats the other 16 representation and won the singing competition. Our tagline "Buli Bah Kalau Kau"; I guess all Sabahan should know this.

One of the most prominent event was this National Conference and Annual General Meeting was officially launched by Seri Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah.

 
I did tweet that there was an honoury speech given by our Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Paduka Rosmah and someone requested for the photo. So hereby I proudly present you the photo I took of Malaysia "First Lady".

So, that's summarised my 5 days visit to Ipoh and I will blog in more details in future post. By the way, this is my third visit to the city of Ipoh but I never got the chance to fully explored of this historical beautiful city. Hopefully someday. *cross fingers*

Snapshot Sunday: Cardiff Bay, Wales

Cardiff Bay, capital city of Wales is a home to a large freshwater lake for sailing and water sports. It is not just an ordinary bay, it does offer few notable buildings that rich with their own kind of history and culture such Wales Millenium Centre, Norwegian Church, Pierhead Building, The Seneed and more.

For more, check out my old travel post: Cardiff Bay and It's Attractions

Everland Resort - 3rd Theme Area: European Adventure

Once we done with the Safari ride from the Zoo-Topia theme area, we reached upon another third theme area of European Adventure. At here, we got to experience all the architecture of the building imitates various of European styles. For this theme area I will blog in 2 different posts. Like I mentioned before, wanna do an absolute coverage of Everland Resort. 

This is one funny photo of me and my friend. I was wondering what was I looking at actually?

Creepy and spooky Halloween festivals around Everland Resort

This is one of my friend's favourite ride and she keeps asking us to join, but four of us were too scared for this ride. At the end, she went enjoyed the ride all by herself. She is too daring. 

If you are wondering why we refused to join her? Take a look at the next photo.

This ride is known as T-Express and it is the steepest wooden roller coaster in the world with 77 degrees. It is South Korea's first wooden coasted and has become the most highest, fastest, longest and steepest roller coaster of South Korea. Now who dare to take a ride on this T-Express? 

While waiting for my friend, Nicole to enjoy her most adrenaline rush ride, we have a soft ice-cream. Gosh! It's quite hot during the early season of autumn in Seoul.

The grand stage where the parade will be performed.

Here is the parade of Everland Resort. It is so lively, happening and vibrant celebration in the Land of Festivals! There are like 2-3 parade will be held a day and we got to watch it twice.

The one amazing thing was we watched the parade while having our ride on the Skyway, another kind of ski lift where it served as a shortcut from one theme area to another theme area.

My next few post would be sharing of another two type of Everland's theme area and the second part of European Adventure theme area. 

Everland Resort - 2nd Theme Area: Zoo-Topia

In case you missed out the first theme area that I covered before in my previous post, The Global Fair, you can refer to this link.

Seriously, Everland Resort is not like any others normal theme park which I experienced before. It is not only just a home that offers over 40 heart-pounding of thrill rides and various adventures, Everland also includes a wild world of animals under the Zoo-Topia theme area. Like I did mentioned before in one of my previous post that "Watching Moving Creatures It's Fun Sometimes", so when a theme park combines together with an animal lifepark, it's totally another plus points for me to make a visit.

There's a "Human Sky" ride which looks alike a ski lift from Global Fair theme area where it could take us directly to the Zoo-Topia area but we decided to stroll down by ourself in order witness more different kind of animals.

Different kind of attractions can be found in Zoo-Topia. Absolutely an unforgettable trip with family.

One of the latest attractions but because we have to wait so long for the next show, therefore we skipped this.

This is Everland's mini zoo. Even though small in size, but we got to see lions, sea lions, penguins and more. But the most importantly ....

Oh my! Oh my! First time I saw a real polar bear right in front of my own eyes.

Exclusively site for monkeys with 12 kinds of apes and a total of 145 monkeys. 

Guess how many monkeys are there? 

There even has this "Animal Wonder World" where can see rare Amazon animals and also a variety of adorable animals such as...

Who say you have to go all the way to Australia to see kangaroo? I've seen kangaroo twice but now in Australia itself. The first time I saw was in United Kingdom and second time in here, Seoul.

This is one of the attractions that shouldn't miss out in Zoo-Topia theme area, where we took a ride in a bus and watch few of Safari animals roaming in a contained habitat. 

The safari bus which could accommodate up to 20 person per ride. But unfortunately for foreign tourists like us, we barely understood what the driver was trying to tell us cause he was speaking in Korean. Hence, what we can do is enjoy watching the animals.

It's amazing ride cause we got to watch so close towards all these animals especially the lions. There even give visitors a chance to feed the giraffe but might incur extra charge for that. How I wish this ride would be more exciting and adventurous if the lion jump on the top of the bus? I guess if the lion do so, all the Korean inside the bus will shout like hell. 

Who said Everland is just another fairytale theme park? It's also another Wild World of Animals!


[Credit To: Official Korea Tourism Organisastion, Everland Homepage, Wikipedia]