Lavendar Farm, Oregon

Yes, yes. Flowers again. This was one of my must have stop for the visit. I were so excited when we passed by a house with this lavendar farm. A small area, just in front of the house. I insisted to stop and at least to take couple of photos, as so worry we may not be able to find anymore on the way.

The next stop, the actual lavendar farm. Quite a huge area.

This was my surprise. I never really heard anyone mentioned about bees with lavendar. There are thousands of bees flying around the flowers area. You can't really enjoy looking at the flowers except trying to be very cautious not to get sting. The flowers really smell nice anyway.

Standing in between the flowers, taking risk with the bees. That's how photo should look like. :) 

Pear trees beside the lavendar farm. First time to see them and touching them on trees. 

Swan Island Dahlias, Oregon

17 August 2012
I'm a fully great fan of flowers. I'll get very excited to see blooming, colourful flowers. So glad that I have a partner to visit this place together. I'm so so so happy when I reached the farm..so amazing.. so colourful and so so beautiful...wordless...

I should have wear a red shirt to blend in 

The flower is as big as my head..awesome.. 

Our tech world.. it's the smallest one.. 

For your first kiss.. 

If you wanna cool down, this will be good :)

Pretty pretty...

Muar River Cruise

9 Sept  2012
After so long, finally we managed to get into the cruise. It was almost 30 minutes rides cruising from one end of Muar to the other end of Muar, as the local folks will say from old bridge to new bridge. RM10/adult and Rm5/child. Luckily, Didi is in FOC group. The boat will only sail with ~10 peoples boarded. We waited for around 15 minutes as there were only 4 of us. Luckily, later came a group of family joining us.

The boat, which you can board from Tanjung Emas 

Muar Floating Mosque 

Sultan Johor's residence 

My 3 handsome boys.

Finally, monkey watching before we left...

Colourful Bengaluru

There was a lot of things to get in BA, if only you can master the skill of negotiating. Best is almost all of them can speak in English. It makes communication easy.

Shops @Commercial street.

Check out the moon. It was so near and round. Yes, it was Chap Goh Meh and I were in India. The shopping streets are packed with people at night. There were streets and streets of shops - vertical, horizontal. We were always rushing for time as the cab was waiting for us - 4hrs. We never really finish the shopping lists cause there were so much to see. 

Jewelry 

Key chains - got this for my boys 

Earring and ladies stuff by the road. 

Fridge magnet. 

Elephant 

and elephant..

The collection that I got - some for sis and some for bbsister. 

Punjabi shirt for sis.

The bag collection - Koko and didi shook their heads.

My room. 

View from my room. 

Exterior of the hotel.

The hotel is with the name 'palace'. Yes, it is a palace, when you enter the hotel compound, you have found yourself in another different side of the world. It has a multi-storey carpark - auto. Security scanning before you can enter. Luxurious room. And most importantly, free of dust.

Pak guard at the entrance. 

Lastly, Princes of Leela. (my conclusion :))

Food in Bengaluru

As been expected, most of the food is with a lot of spices and chilly. I am quite a fan of spicy food, so it didn't bother me a lot. 

Salmon fillet and fruit punch @ Zen, Leela Palace Hotel. 

This was my first dinner. Japanese food in India. We thought of going for some Asian non-spicy food for a try. The most expensive salmon I ever had before. 

Chicken, Capati, Biryani Rice@Jamavar, Leela Palace Hotel.

Minced lamb, Chicken and Naan. @Jamavar, Leela Palace Hotel.

The after meal dessert.

For the next 2 nights, we decided India should go back for Indian food. This is a luxurious hotel. All the cutlery are coated in gold colour. You can't really notice it under the dim light. The spices on the above was something very special that we can't find in Msia. It's their after meal 'dessert'. Raw spices - yellow - taste of mint, black- kind of 'beetle' smell, white - soap taste. 

BB free from Intel BA.

We were so lucky. First day in office, we have managed to be served with BB ice-cream. This was the first time this event was held on the site. 3 scoops.. wow.. 

Lunch @ Intel SRR Cafe

Lunch was served as buffet. Eat all you can. Capati, rice, a lot of different type of curry and nuts. Beetroot (red colour)- another food that you seldom see cook in Malaysia. 

My favorite - Breakfast @ Citrus Leela Palace Hotel.

Breakfast will never ever miss them - onion chutney (this is the best), coconut chutney(just a little bit for me) and coriander chutney. They go very well with the vade. 

KFC - check out the size.