#LINExmas

This Christmas, Line Malaysia is having a Line Pop-up Store @ Pavilion KL, Level 6. So we went on last Saturday <3 I'm so in love with Line months ago after using Line Apps. So if you're a Line user too, Line Characters - Brown, Cony, Moon & James are no strangers to you. 

The pop-up store located right in front of Tokyo Street which can be easily spotted. Line characters figurine as backdrop.

The wide range of products from stationary, accessories, plush toys, shopping bags, mugs, greeting cards, etc. The price range from RM 5 to (unknown) :P I remember the highest price is RM 100 for the plush toys but I'm not sure if the HUGE cushion on top of the racks are for sale, cause that one they did not label any pricing on that. So, it's unknown... 

Viewing all the merchandises I just feel like buying everything. Too bad I can't! And I think the stuffs there are perfect for Christmas gifts too. 

With every purchase (regardless of amount), you'll be given a scratchcard with serial code to download #LINExmas stickers. If you notice, there are a Line Christmas Tree at the middle of the area. Check out the ornaments... I wanna have the same one in my house!

Along the walkway there are some display boards for photo opportunity. We took photos with e.v.e.r.y characters' board... Too cute cannot resist!

So at the same floor if you walk towards the center court, you will see 3 huge Line dolls standing straight waiting for you to walk over. 

Wait! Where's the world largest #SantaMoon? We've heard he's around town too! Haha, he's welcoming the guest at the entrance. I personally love our selfie although Moon's head got cut-off, there were so crowded that we almost gave up to take a close photo with #SantaMoon. 

The pop-up store will only be available until 2nd Jan 2014. So please don't miss out if you're a Line fans too!

Merry #LINExmas!!

Mission Trip back Home

It's been a while since I last blogged, and it is now the most beautiful season in the year - Christmas! I still remember how I spent my last Christmas, everything seems to just happen yesterday. In less than a month, we will be welcoming the year of twenty-fourteen. Time to review my 2013 resolutions *scratching-head*

This year Christmas falls on Wednesday, in the midst of a working week, see no chance of a getaway too :( How I miss the random roadtrip and weekend getaway... But I'm happy that I went back to my hometown just 2 days ago. Me and my bro took the bus and we had a 3 hours chat inside the bus + mid-night (sinful) Nasi-Lemak. 1st time experience!! This reminds me that when I was younger, my aunt's family brought me and my bro to Penang, while on the way back, we chit chat the whole journey while my cousins all K.O-ed. I remembered how my uncle told the son to learn from me and my bro. *wuah* Those were the times... hahaha

The mission of this trip is to get a food processor a.k.a Christmas gift for mommy. This amazing food processor was discovered by my brother, he described this thing like can create wonders like that. Hahaha... It maybe a little bit kua-cheong, but it turns out to be a super kitchen-helper for my mum. Save time and the manual efforts!

In case you're wondering what so special about this food processor, it looks like this. I didn't take any photo of our purchase, here's the photo from Philips Malaysia site, you can read more about this product here.

HR 7620 Food Processor 
Photos from Philips Malaysia Official Site

So a happy mum cook us many many happy meals...

It's always so good to be back.

Next time home should be Chinese New Year!

Counting down...

Happy Mother's Day

Hey ya! It's May <3 The month to celebrate Mother's Day and my mum's birthday falls on this month too. So every year we will just combine the two dates with 1 celebration. I still remember when we were young, our kindergarten or primary school teacher will teach us to do various types of cards to wish our mother - Happy Mother's Day! My mum still have them all well-kept in a metal box. Awww...

Now that we have grown up, we no longer use greeting cards to express our loves. Plus we both are away from home, too often a phone call + a SMS can easily replace our old-time greeting cards. I think we had such long time didn't celebrate her birthday with a birthday cake. :'(

So this year, thank God for General Election #13 cause both me + the love and my brother can go back at the same time on the first week of May. So me and my brother were planning to surprise her with a birthday cake. Initially we plan for a dinner night out in some restaurant but my mum insist to cook, so we had a slight change on the plan and celebrate it after my night-out with the love. She wanted to sleep early and I told her that I bought food so that she had to wait for us :P  

Ta-daaa .... Smile and take photo *chiak*

Flipping through the photo album and I'm glad that we had few family short trip when mum visited us in KL last year. 

MidValley

i-City @ Shah Alam 

i-City @ Shah Alam 

Zoo Negara

Cameron Highland

Cameron Highland

Next year, we are bringing her to Shanghai, China. 

Can't wait for the 1st family overseas trip <3

Happy Mother's Day + Happy Birthday, Mum!

A leap of Faith

It’s been a month since I came back from Taiwan. Some of you might know that I’ve quit my job in March. Many people ask me why since I seem like quite enjoying what I am doing right now. No doubts that I truly enjoy my work as well as my awesome colleagues. I can’t be thankful enough and I am truly blessed by having them around. Though there is some (so called) evil one, but they taught me lots of lessons. I do get angry at times, but it is all over now.

Throughout my serving in the company, I've seen many people walked in and out. I still remember when my dear buddy Husna left (read here), I have hard time in accepting the fact. That's when I realized "people come, and go". I enjoyed working with her, and I should wish her all the best of luck in her future. Which she's doing great right now on her Cookies Wagon. Like her on facebook page and catch the wagon on the move.

To make a decision to leave my comfort zone and allow myself to explore more... A bit of dilemma … just because I’m afraid. Well, friends around me are super supportive and encourage me to move on and here I am today. Happily living and excited on what’s coming ahead. Change is necessary for growth, everyone knows about it but sometimes we just do not have the courage to C H A N G E. 

Me either. Hence, this a truly a leap of faith. Not knowing what the future gonna be, but I know it is definitely be better.

Spend your 7 minutes to watch this video - It is All About What you Believe In. Change your mindset and let's fly to the Magic Zone (not blackout okay?).

Do you dare to dream?

Day 3 : Sun Moon Lake 日月潭

So fast it's already day 3 in Taiwan. Today we will be visiting Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) and Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村). We had our early breakfast in Star Villa and we gotta depart to Sun Moon Lake at 9.00am by the shared transportation service.

Luckily we had a valid SIM card to make calls because we almost got left out by the driver. Thank God it is all good and we head on to Sun Moon Lake and reach there in around one and a half hour. Carrying our luggage to travel from one place to another has made easy by this shared transportation service. Even though public transport is quite convenient here, yet by paying a little bit more to ease your burden, why not? By the way, it is only TWD 300 per person.

This is the love with his luggage upon our arrival.

There are altogether three jetty in Sun Moon Lake which are Shueishe (水社), Syuanguang (玄光寺) and Yidashao (伊达邵). So we are staying at Shueishe tonight at MeiJen House (美真馆). MeiJen is very helpful and you can contact her through WhatsApp if you have any queries. She helped us a lot in solving our transportation queries. We were a bit lost when we reach the Tourist Centre, and then we started to look for our "home", and then here we are <3

Note: We took the room photo after we check-in in the evening.

It is too early to check-in (their check-in time is 3.00pm) and MeiJen was asking about our itinerary. She gave us a few suggestions. There are two ways to reach to the cable car station, either by ferry or by bus. Due to time limitation, we choose to go by bus and have our lake tour tomorrow by ferry. We waited for the bus for around 15mins and the journey took another 15mins to reach the cable car station. The bus will alert you the next station and the driver will also inform you when that is the cable car station. 

Formosan Village tickets includes free cable car service. So if you have bought the entrance ticket to Formosan Village, you are not required to purchase another tickets for cable car. Luckily it is not very crowded so we got one cable car for 2 person only :) Doesn't need to mix with others <3 

I forgotten how long the journey takes because we were busying "whoah" on the scenery. Hahaha... The last cable car to go back is on 4.30pm which is kinda rush for us. So we had decided to take bus after we finish our visit which MeiJen has already told us where and when. Good service :)

This is the main entrance after you come down from the cable car. The friendly staff will remind you that their last fetch is at 4.30pm. We were a bit lost and don't know where to go because we saw another cable car station @.@ We thought it is the same but in fact it is not. This area is the village, sort of museum type.  

So this cable car actually leads you to here...

Hahaha... we got bit excited even though we are not familiar with this series :P The love immediately bought one souvenir from the shop. Upon purchasing, the cashier gave us a little pamphlet. We are required to collect the character stamps from different station, collect 7 stamps and above to get a mystery gift. We managed to get 6 only :( Just one more to grab the mystery gift :( 

This blog post will be flooded with many many photos because it is kinda hard not to take photo here :P You will definitely go crazy if you're a One-Piece fans. Just the weather is not so good because it was raining and we have to carry the umbrella all the way :(

So we went to watch this 3D animation, saw a lot of people queuing and we just join the crowd. There are only selected time to watch the animation and they can take up to 300 audience for one show. 

After the show, following the map and we enter this thing call One Piece Memorial Log. I'm not quite sure what is the theme like but there are a lot of One Piece character inside which you can take photo non-stop @.@ We are glad that the crowd was not the bad and we still can easily squeeze ourselves in for photo opportunity.

The below photo was taken at Straw Hat Crew, Play Play Play (草帽海贼团). This is more of an interactive museum with a lot of props for you to take photo. You can see all the props are in tip-top condition despite their huge crowd over the days. Look at the photo on the bottom right corner, can you see the big hand?  

You definitely don't want to miss this before you leave. These are located at the Europe Garden (欧洲花园). By the time we visited the garden the rain has stopped. Perfect weather to marvel at this wonderful scenery. 

It is a beautiful garden. It is HUGE and filled with Lavender. Lovely!!!

Two ways to go back to Sun Moon Lake Tourist Centre:-
(1) Nantou Bus (南投客运) -> Sun Moon Lake (日月潭)
     The last Nantou Bus to Sun Moon Lake Tourist Centre is at 5.30pm. So make sure you're at the bus stop on time because if you missed this, your only choice is Taxi. It is only TWD 26 per person. Do make sure you have enough small change before boarding.

(2) Taxi
     There will be taxi driver who approach you offering you TWD 400 to the Tourist Centre. Since we're not rushing so we choose to wait for the bus. There are plenty of them so no worries if you want to stay a bit latter. The price are all stated on the carving board on top of the bus stop.

This ends our beautiful day at this beautiful place. Tomorrow we need to wake up early to catch a boat to visit the spots around the lake and we gonna depart to Taipei!

Stay tuned~

Where to stay in Sun Moon Lake?
(1) MeiJen House 日月潭美真馆
     Website: http://www.mayzen.com.tw 
      Address: 南投县鱼池乡日月潭中山路125号
     Contact: 0922 203 830 (Can Whatsapp / LINE)
     Email: am11262000@yahoo.com.tw

Where to visit?
(1) Sun Moon Lake 日月潭
     Website: http://www.sunmoonlake.gov.tw

(2) Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村)
     Website: http://www.nine.com.tw 

     Address: 55544 南投县鱼池乡大林村金天巷45号

      Contact: 049 289 5361
     Operation Hours:
     Normal Day: 9.00am - 5.00pm
     Holiday: 9.00am - 5.30pm