Two People Eat Together.

After Koay told me about the invitation to Eastin Hotel for a food review next week, I spent some time last night thinking about how far we've come. How WhatTwoEatHere has grown and how we have gotten to know each other better along that road. 

It felt like it was just yesterday that we had our meal at Kampar Fish Jelly when this idea was birthed. 

I knew I wanted to do mainly because it was going to be the two of us. I like the idea of getting to go eat anywhere with him alongside. 

I mean if I were to be a solo food-blogger, it wouldn't be fun because I would be invited ALONE, but for us, all invitations are always addressed to Adrian and Sarah. I love that idea of seeing our name together in the invitation emails/letters. Even when friends invite for a wedding dinner although it doesn't happen as often as I would like it to be. Usually not enough seats so only one can go. Hah. 

Anyways, I don't really see it as me being the clingy type of girlfriend. Thank God he doesn't see me that way too. When it comes to our food-blog, we are on the same page. Other things, not so much but always workable.

Will WhatTwoEatHere earns enough money one day that I don't even have to work in office anymore? WHO KNOWS. 

That is definitely NOT our purpose at all when we decided to start this journey. 

WhatTwoEatHere is only our first beginning. I have no idea what else is in front of us for the future but we know for sure the Big Man is in control and any doors He open, we enter. 

Beach With Koay.

We didn't have anything specific planned for the Public Holiday (Nuzul Al-Quran) yesterday Tuesday and at first, it was driving me crazy because I just need to know what's going on and stuff. Of course I switched that off and just decided to do something totally not planned and spontaneous or not do anything at all.

I had to send a set of documents to a client at Bayan Lepas area so I decided to drive and picked Koay up on the way. After sending the documents, we headed towards the airport to pick up my luggage. 

But before that, we stopped at the famous toast & egg coffee-shop on the road leading to the airport and have ourselves some light breakfast. I think we've tasted better ones and this one quite expensive. Just bread and half boiled eggs and a glass of iced coffee, it's about RM10.

Then, to the airport to pick the blue baby. So happy to see four wheels and no cracked areas. Things you buy with own money, you sure jaga elok-elok eh. Heh. Time to plan for the next holiday. Or maybe the next big one will be in December to Harvard?

We didn't want to go home straight and since we were already at that part of the island, I thought why not we go see the beach that we're going to be picnic-ing in less than two weeks' time. I don't exactly remember how to go but from few snapshots of my memories, we arrived! 

It was such a sight okay. Feels so good to be smelling the sea-sand smell. We walked around and I showed Koay of the place I used to come very often with my family. I showed him every area. Showing him a side of my childhood times. It was fun. 

If we brought along change of clothes, we would have both jumped into the waters. I CAN'T WAIT FOR RAYA TO COME! QUICKLY!

Then, he wanted to show me where he used to go with his friends for fishing. I tell you, this boy is the biggest fan of fishing. Okay maybe not the biggest but definitely a big one. 

We drove to the end of the road where there is no more road. He pointed at a lorong and so chun two bikes drove in and he got all excited and said, "There! There! SEE! SEE! That's how we went in. Then after that must hike for 10 minutes sumore. The place is very secluded ehh!"

He was super excited.

We drove back slowly while exchanging more childhood stories. I got to know my boyfriend a little more that day. It was nice. 

Although Gertak Sanggul is very far but I think it became one of our favorite beach. Knowing us, we probably won't visit it as often as we would like it to be. Petrol very expensive nowadays. Hah.

Dear Brain.

You need to stop.

You need to rest.

No more planning ahead.

Live in the current.

No need to plan what to eat next.

Just go with the flow.

Please go rest.

Please.

Stupid Ants.

THE ANTS ON MY WORK TABLE AND IN MY KEYBOARD IS DRIVING ME INSANE!

I just wiped and cleaned my table and the keyboard. 

Now they are here again!

WHERE DO THEY EVEN COME FROM!

*pulls hair*

BE GONE!!!

Random Again.

What a lazy afternoon it has been. We just came back from teatime snack at Johor Road with Sha Lynn. 

Less than seven days to another quick getaway. It's going to be Thailand again. Wheeee.

Whether it's truly the lemon water or not, my shorts seems to have gotten bigger.

My goldii charges really fast I hope it's not just because it's still new. Please be like this forever!

I need to clean my room. Re-organize everything. 

My luggage is still stranded in the airport.

Koay prefers to eat western food at Mizi than Japanese wagyu beef at Miraku Restaurant for his birthday. 

There are ants on my table and in my keyboard. I don't even eat in my room. No one is allowed to. What are they even here for? 

I just ordered online for a slim casing of Snow White holding the apple. It looks so good in image I hope in real life even better.

Just realized how empty my bed is. I only have a blanket, a pillow and a smaller pillow to hug.

My passport is going to expire in March 2015. Next time I renew, it's going to be for 5 years straight.

I've been replaying 'Close' by Hillsongs Young and Free for like 10 million times.

From Japan With Love.

If you ask me whether things in Japan (in general) are expensive? 

My answer is yes.

Everything is expensive, IF convert into RM.

Wait, actually not all things. Cosmetics (men and women) are a lot cheaper compared to Malaysia. 

Here are some of the things that I bought (mostly food stuff) that I would like to blog about. 

You may already know that one of the things that I wanted to get is as many different flavors of Kit Kat as I can find. That means most of my money will be basically for that purpose only. 

This Japan trip was a fully paid one so I only had to bring my own pocket money. I decided to bring 16,000 Yen (about RM500 plus minus) and U$100. I didn't want to bring a lot because I know I sure won't bring home the extra money. I did really spend all my yen and saved most of my US dollars. Such achievement for self control I tell you. 

It may seem like RM500 is very little but then, i bought back quite a lot of things wor. So, I was glad that I only brought RM500. Other than all the items below, I also bought two dresses for mom and her firstborn, clothes for Kelly and Sha Lynn, notto miss out the the bro-in law and boyfriend, two K-Palette Eyeliner and errr I can't remember already. 

Two K-Palette Eyeliner because it's so cheap in Japan! It only costs about RM30 there. In Malaysia, you can find them in Sasa and they cost about RM60 each! I only wanted to try this brand after watching the Clicknetwork TV: Tried and Tested and it looks like this brand really can tahan oil, water and very long-lasting. So, since so cheap, buy two and keep. Hah. Girls..

Moving on.

So yeah, shopping has been a lot of fun in Japan. 

Oh oh! If you want to get branded bags/purse, get it in Japan! It's so affordable here okay but too bad I didn't get any! When they got sales, seriously mad la okay. Don't compare to U.S. lah because that one like you have to travel so far. This one is good enough. 

Sidetrack a bit since we're in this branded bags topic. My colleague's brother came back from U.S. and got her a Michael Kors handbag and it only costs about RM800. Here for the same bag, it's RM1,800!

Crazy right?

Okay, so the goodies from Japan. Prices are plus minus you get it. Here we go :)

Elmo Cookies from Universal Studio Japan (3,150 yen = RM100)

Ninja Shuriken Cookies (a gift from the shop owner)

Packed Dorayaki (a gift from the shop owner)

Green tea snack-kind-of-biscuit (500 yen = RM15)

Japanese-style Pecan White Chocolate ((a gift from Hotel Rosa Blanca)

Hardest-cookies-in-the-world with a mini hammer inside (a gift from the shop owner)

Wasabi snack (dad's favorite)

700 yen = RM21

Strawberry Shortcake Crunch (can't remember)

Mini-different-flavors-cookies (65 yen = RM2 each)

Dars (100 yen = RM3)

 Mini Green Tea Kit Kat and Dark Chocolate Kit Kat

2 packets for only 500 yen = RM15

Red Bean Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Strawberry Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Vanilla Kit Kat (can't remember)

Raspberry Kit Kat (can't remember)

Sakura Matcha Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Quite proud of the total collection of Kit Kat that I managed to grab this time in Japan. I was really looking for the chilli flavored but couldn't find it anywhere. These are good enough. So happy lahh.

I saw these two pair of shoes and I immediately know both my dad and Vanessa would love it. True enough :)

A satisfied traveller I was. 

Thank You Jesus for all the blessings that has always been beyond all measures.

5D4N Osaka, Japan: Day V.

Update: You can now find the other days here: Day I, Day II, Day III, Day IV and first ONSEN experience!

We stayed at Kansai Airport Washington Hotel on our last night here. Reason being the nearest hotel to Kansai Airport. Also, if not mistaken most if not all cabin crew and pilots stay there whenever they have a flight to this land. So yeah. Early morning can see all the pretty ladies and handsome pilots. I don't understand why all pilots that I see are really good looking. Seriously. Not all cabin crews are pretty right? Heh.

Anyways, we had a simple breakfast at the hotel. Oh did I mention all the rooms in this hotel is a smoking room. As in ALL ROOMS! Minus point for that lah seriously. We walked in and immediately can smell already. They provide spray-on air freshener but I think it's just water. No difference eh.

Back to breakfast. After breakfast, I saw a small convenience store and quickly made my way there to see if I can last minute find anymore unique flavors of Kit Kat. One of my main focus this trip was to look for as many different types of Kit Kat I can find. Quite happy with what I got. 

It took about 10 minutes to the airport, and guess who greeted us at the check-in counter? 

Mr Muragishi, the Deputy General Manager of Kansai Foundation that funded us this whole trip. What an honor, really. He walked us in until to the gate where he can't go in. If he could, he would walked us all the way to the airplane I kid you not. God bless this man. He followed us throughout the whole week and he came to bid us farewell. His service seriously one of the best already. The only sad thing was he couldn't really communicate in English. Yeah. Thanks Mr Muragishi! :)

We went for one last shopping inside before heading to our waiting area to be flew back. As usual, being me I don't really like to bring back extra foreign money back so I managed to spend every yen at the airport which is not that much really. 

Selina and I purposely checked in together so we could sit next to each other again and we did! At the emergency area sumore. Massive leg room yay! 

They served us lunch and it was pretty yummy. Who agrees with me that MAS serves the best hot bun ever? Not that I've tried some other airplanes but seriously. BEST GILERR. For teatime, they gave us muffin and green tea ice cream which was super yummy. 

I waited for a few hours at KLIA before flying back to Penang. Upon collecting my luggage, I noticed that it has been mishandled :( It's quite new okay. So heartbroken. It was only when I wasnted to load it in the car that I realized the big crack and went back into the MAS counter to get it fixed. 

I went back home and realized that one of the four wheels were missing too. Just few days ago, I sent it to them to get it done up and now, they already called up to say it's done. Quite fast not bad.

That's pretty much all about my Japan experience. I shall be posting up about what I got from there and how much it costs (if I can still remember!) soon. 

Ahh, I miss Japan already.