i am ready for a winter vacation

wowo...the market is dropping and all the currencies are too. aussie dollar is soooo low. i checked euro and pound sterling too...dropped. too bad not against usd. hmmh...what was i thinking? what is the effect now? to me? i dun think i will be that affected. only, i will be busier scouring for online shopping sites accepting euro, aussie dollar and pound. crazy shopaholic. but i am still more prone to american brands... so it might only be slightly cheaper. and it is so easy to access those US retail outlets websites...there are just so many of them. however, whether they will accept our credit card or not is another obstacle.

enuf of that. now to my ipoh trip in midweek. schedule for the meeting was packed...so it was sitting in the cold cold room of the ballroom paying attention. went to ipoh for lunch. then the meeting started at 2.30p.m. with dinner break and then till 10.30p.m. bed time. on wednesday, it ended at noon. so only went to kinta city to shop shop. (yes, all hands full) did not catch mama mia...how sad. the person i car-pooled with had watched it. so i dun feel good leaving her in the mall while i was in the cinema.


this is the residential part of heritage hotel. the dining area u see at the bottom is the second floor. i was given room on the 7th floor. my room faced ipoh's turf club so we saw some horses being dragged out from their stables from our room. the first pic on the right is of the stables, and the second with is the racetrack (circled). food in the hotel was so so lah. nothing special.
this was what i had for lunch before i checked in at the hotel. yummy ah. at a place called beacon point (near tesco area). i dunno how to look for this place lah. my friend who is from ipoh drove me here. i ordered the frenzy chicken set lunch while she had the lemak laksa which is very popular here. cukup lemak i tell you. my mouth is watery now. the chicken was a bit burnt but it was good. the mashed potato too...and ooh, the mushroom soup. as for the tiny piece of cake i had for desert...er...i dunno. i dun like the look of it...butter cake gua. my friend also din want it. so i returned it. better not waste. the cup of coffee that came with my set was also good. the bill came up to about rm32. the co-owner cooked for miss jodie foster when she was filming anna and the king in ipoh and even the sultan seek him for his dietary advice. go to their website and flip through their story, you will see this. so not a bad choice lah.
and on wednesday...before i headed back to bidor, had this meal in kinta city. instant noodles (nissin) with vege, ham, hotdog and fried egg, plus milk and choc toast (with peanut butter). fattening ah. i shared the toast lah.

oh, one more food i have to share since we are talking about ipoh. gunung rapat's yeehup hiong piah!!! they are to die for. you usually associate hiong piah with old ppl right? i do lah...but this one...i will fight for the last piece ah. click on the link above for the pic. it is charbroiled and more expensive than other brands. but one you bite into the hiong piah, the biscuit crust will just break loosely and the caramel will flow into your mouth. even granma can't resist from having another one although she just had one a few hours earlier. she said, just seeing the packaging is enuf to tempt her. hahahaha.

ok shopping time. the car (myvi) was filled with plastic bags on the way home. it is not a big car in the first place, add a few more big plastic bags and 2 pillows, all space was filled. these are what i got:

a beanie, bracelet (sale), necklace(sale), nescafe 3-in-1, akemi pillow(sale), air freshener and a cardi. i thought the pillow was soft enuf and flat enuf for me, well, i was wrong. so i have brought it home now...planning to exchange with wei. he slept on the goose feather pillow i bought last year (which was too high then) but now it is the right level for me. haha...so i will let him sleep on the new pillow and use it when it is 'flat' enuf.

and the BIG purchases come now. nike (clearance items) again. this will prepare me for any winter vacation i plan to go. before this, winter is no-no because i dun have suitable clothes, now, bring it on! not that i have any in mind, but yeah, winter vacation is not a prob now.

the first item: pink fleece. planning to get one anyway because the jacket that i have is quite thin. so i need a thicker one for colder weather. this is really comfy. and...just when i was deciding to get this, the sales told me that this fleece could be attached onto a winter jacket that happened to be in stock clearance section too. i had tried the winter jacket earlier...from their acg range. my fleece is from that range too. how can i resist? after all, i have no more winter jacket here. the last one was given to siew.
so here...is the winter jacket. rm350 was taken off the normal retail price.
now let us go through a step-by-step guide on how to attach the fleece to the jacket to get a warmer winter jacket ;P
ok, here is what u see once u have unzipped the jacket. all pink. haha....there is a vest attached.
so now i have taken out the vest. just unzip it from the internal zipper. there are more zips on the internal lining of the jacket for more 'secret' pockets.
then get ready to zip up the fleece onto the jacket. the right side is already zipped. u have to hook it to a button at the neck area too.

voila! the fleece is attached already and i also have another vest to wear. so it is like a three-piece thing that i buy for the price of 2.

so so so so...any winter holiday invite? who wanna go?? but not china. no intention to go to china at the moment. europe? or middle east? come lah.