STICKY is sticky :D

STICKY is awesome! Although it hurts after sucking on it real hard.



My long-lost obsession ♥

Of lanterns and mooncakes :D

A few weeks ago, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Think: lanterns, candles, mooncakes. Hmmm it was a reaaallllyyy long time ago since I played with candles and lanterns. I remember my primary school having this mid-autumn party where I would just meet up with old friends while having fun with candles.

Ahhh old memories. :')

Since my secondary school days, this year was finally one to catch up with memories :) I went to the Bandar Kinrara Chinese Methodist Church's party, and that was also where I met up with long-lost friends Michele and Breena. HOMAIGOSH especially Breena! Haven't seen her since Form 1! :')

We went parading around the shoplots with paper lanterns. It was so fun!

Then 2 days later, I had the opportunity to go out and play with lanterns again :D Sigh I'm young at heart :) Little Isaac - the boy whom I tutor who is also my neighbour - suddenly turned up at my house while I was having dinner, with lanterns and all, desperately calling me to go outside.

So off I went. Very happily :D

My mom and Isaac's kakak lighting up the lanterns in my garden. His lantern is the battery-operated type. That kind of lantern not fun at all leh seriously.



The three of us lol. The biggie sister :')



Mom trying to hang the lantern on the tree branch.. but to no avail :( It'll be nice if the lanterns can be hung up. Ahh so magical :P









Random placing of candles. I actually wanted to do a heart... or something nice. But with kids, it's hard to get your way.





After we got back, Isaac's mom was kind enough to invite us to go over for some treats :) I like the pandan mooncake!



And then Isaac brought out his Angry Bird playset. OMG that little guy is darn freaking crazy about Angry Birds, I dunno why :/ I'm tired of seeing them everywhere =.=



But I gotta admit, the catapult thing is kinda cute. It actually emits the exact bird song in the virtual game when you place a bird on it. Haha!



Out of a sudden, the adults got excited talking about a lost chicken out on the streets. They decided to let it in. (But they let it go afterwards) Oh wow it's a kampung chicken! I've never seen one before!



We were so curious, we spent the whole night (okay, exaggerating a little) watching the chicken's amusing antics. Like trying to climb on to a pail but falling into it.

Yeap, our attention were all on the chicken, instead of on the moon.

Isaac and Ah Kang, the two mischievous boys, were doing all sorts of things on the poor candles.



Like, "Oh yeah, let's burn the middle part of the candle!"

Busy at work...





They built a mini campfire...



...which was cool but then the wax was so, so thick and it became a long trail. Which was not cool.



The end result.



Now, I'm looking forward to next year's Mid-Autumn Festival - hopefully celebrating it with more friends :D

Lake Gardens - a beautiful place to exercise

Soooo after all that food from Jogoya, it is only right to go exercising the next morning :P So here we are at Lake Gardens, KL! As everyone is still in the festive mood, the city center is expectedly quiet especially so in the morning. Luckily for me, cuz I was the driver ._.



Lake Gardens, or Taman Tasik Perdana in Malay, is probably Kuala Lumpur's most popular and scenic park.



A green lung in the city center with many must-see attractions: Deer Park, Orchid Garden, Butterfly Park, Bird Park, National Planeterium, among others.







The 92 hectares of land provides facilities like children's playground, jogging tracks & exercise stations and rowing boats.



Lake Gardens has come a long way as it was started in 1888 by State Treasurer Alfred R. Venning, with the support of British Resident Frank Swettenham.



The Sungai Bras-Bras swamp was converted into a botanic garden with an ornamental lake, and the name came from Sydney Lake, wife of Swettenham.









The is the Brazilian Nut tree. It can grow up to 30-45 metres tall, with a 1-2 metres trunk diameter. It is among the largest trees in the Amazon Rainforest, and it is known to have reached an age of 1,000 years. The seeds are edible and the extracted oil has many commercial uses.


Out of the blue, a guy who was running while carrying a huge Jalur Gemilang flag with some other runners, paused and lent us his flag for us to pose with it.. lol! Very patriotic huh :P






OMG! I didn't expect to see bottle trees in Malaysia! This is way too cool XD




This is the Deer Park. A note of warning: You are able to sniff the very strong foul smell emitting from inside.. from where I'm standing. Don't ask me where that comes from lah. And still so many people went in :/


The amphitheater.














Steps leading to Oasis Garden!


And here it is...


Nothing but rocks and water. Very tranquil. *hop* *hop hop* to the other end :)


Rainbow!!!!! Sooooo pretty :')






After our morning walk in Lake Gardens, we went to town to have breakfast. Then we walked around Sungei Wang Plaza. I can't remember the last time I went there, I think I was a toddler back then (as I have been there before according to my mom). But why, now not anymore? :(

Anyway, we just browsed through the shops lah. It's a really old shopping centre; not much market value like Mid Valley or 1 Utama. So I guess that's why the clothes (and practically everything, especially electronic gadgets) selling there are so cheap. A piece can cost ONLY RM12! That, is so freaking cheap. Some of the clothes are quite nice; they're even in fashion!

I should go there again someday (:

Then, we passed by this dessert shop called Snowflake. I vaguely heard of the name before, as one of my friends mentioned it previously. Hmm..... okay we'll give it a try! It was 11.45am then, and the shop only starts serving at 12pm, so we waited for a while.

Snowflake sells wonderfully natural and authentic desserts of Taiwan (cue: OMNOMNOM). Snowflake always "guarantees the use of the finest and freshest ingredients to create unique desserts of the highest quality". All of their desserts are "handmade and freshly cooked for hours daily to ensure that the natural flavour of each ingredient can be tasted in each and every spoonful."



Whoaaaa. Just makes you wanna eat everything they have right? ;) Hahaha sorry lah, I'm a bit outdated, because apparently a few of my friends already know about Snowflake. They go to the branch in SS15 Subang, which is just opposite Taylor's College, Subang Jaya.



The menu alone is like heaven. There are so many mouth-watering choices to choose from!!!! Arghhh it's hard to control myself :P In the end we settled for Sea Amber Jelly and this month's special, Sesame Sensation.

I paid at the counter, and the cashier gave me this.


I was like wha-?? I saw the girl in front of me took it, so I took it only lah! LOL. It wasn't until I sat down at my table that I inspected the thing. It's a "Beeping UFO" and the "UFO" will light up once your order is ready. How cool is that!

Sesame Sensation contains "peanut ice", sesame balls, baby pearls and red bean. It's awesome and worth worth worth the money; it is RM6.90 per bowl (Just think of Chatime - now I feel I don't really love Chatime anymore LOL). The "peanut ice" is just soooo yummeh!!


Sea Amber Jelly is so-so. It's the same price as Sesame Sensation, but I don't feel it's worth it. It is topped with sea amber jelly (that's not bad) and pearls. Below, it's one whole bowl of ice. Can say that I'm a bit dissapointed.


Note to self: Don't ever believe the "Must try" label on menus anymore. Lol.

Oh gosh, I want to go to Snowflake again! Open more outlets lah, for example at Sunway Pyramid or IOI Boulevard, then I can go there everyday :P For now, the "nearest" outlets from my house are at SS15 and Mid Valley :(



# So sorry for the bad quality of close-up shots. I used my sister's smartphone camera that day because I didn't bring my compact :/