Trips Home

This year, the U.S. economic meltdown has cut into this festive holiday odyssey as fewer immigrants can afford to make the long trip.

Had a nice weekend. Amazingly, the roads were completely fine on the drive home - no snow or ice……I'll listen to it on the drive to work tomorrow.I'm ready to stay put for awhile. I made three trips home in the month of October - that's roughly 1800 miles I put on my car!Now, though,…

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." --Mark Twain The……insurance, a generous retirement plan for life, 32 fully reimbursed road trips home a year, and travel to foreign lands. Then there are the…

I'm in the Chi! This is weird, I don't do too many trips home, ya know? My dad still seems to be in the dark about me coming to his retirement party tonight, so I can't wait to see how excited he is to see me and my sister!So, in my absence, my mother has went from a woman who could get tipsy off…

In what can only be described as a miracle of the ages, my parents have managed to peacefully coexist for 35 years despite belonging to two diametrically opposed species – my mom being a near herbivore, my dad a ravenous carnivore.This makes trips home difficult to orchestrate, when it comes…

Chang Keong Dim Sum (N4°35.839' E101°05.149') is located along Jalan Raja Ekram. It's not far away from the junction of Jalan Leong Sin Nam & Jalan Raja Ekram where you can see the Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant.Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant (Opposite)We selected this restaurant because of too many…

Sunshine Kopitiam (N1°35.358' E103°48.451')This is the new outlet which located the last shop at Jalan Beladau 14 of Taman Putri Wangsa. The old shop still operating at Ulu Tiram town.Everytime I come over here, I need to wait at least 5 minutes! The shop is pack with peoples anytime (even…

It was a Heavy Downpour for more than an hour around Johor Bahru area (4pm - 10th Apr 2009). The common flood area at Rosmerah area of Taman Johor Jaya was full of water! It's was about 1-1.5 meter deep! The actual location is along Jalan Rosmerah Utama towards Seroja area, just under the Pasir…

Bentayan Hawker Center (N2°02.955' E102°34.391') is located at the end of Jalan Bentayan where it's connected to main road. My last visit is about more than a years ago, this time I found the hawker center was renovated to a better environment.Bentayan Hawker Center, Muar.I believe some of the…

This shop is situated at Jalan Solok, another few shops after the famous Kuang Fei Beef noodle of Tangkak. (N2°15.957' E102°32.378'). They also selling many types of local cookies & biscuits.Hua Bee Biscuit ShopWe were just happen to be here drop by to see anything interesting. One thing…

I had been heard about this BOTAK Curry Mee (N2°01.736' E103°19.263') almost ten years ago, and I even miss it since my last visit to Kluang. So I definitely wanna try it this time!The stall located at Jalan Panggung of Kluang Town. It's actually a very old hawker center along the road. It's…

Sin Keong Kee Restaurant (N1°39.095' E103°36.623') is located at Jalan Susur Kulai 2, same roll with Public Bank Kulai. It's just beside the main road of Kulai.This is my favorite Roasted duck within the Johor area. I couldn't find any roasted duck come close to it! Of course, I call it the…

What was 2007 to me? How did I fair in terms of achievements, aims & goals? Here's a recap of what happened in 2007. Top 10 happenings that made……& enjoy spending our days together3. Managed to squeeze in 3 trips home to KK4. Purchased our dear BaBy VioS ahead of our intial schedul

Oh I got the pictures we took on the last week of college from Belle. From facebook. I've bugged her on msn for the uncompressed ones. Still……here and there). Hence, I thank Mary-Anne for all the countless trips home. :) Oh, and for brightening up my day every time I see you too!

Bye bye to Fire Station, we continue our walking to Kluang Bus Terminal (N2°02.165' E103°19.351'). We passed through many shops along the street and seems like most of them are selling shoes. It's looks like a Shoe street to me....The street named 'Jalan Dato Tan Seng Leong'.Ops! (Kluang Bus…