Busy July

Time flies, half a year passed!

Had dinner with xinyee the day before, and she couldn't get to tell me lots of stories as she used to be this time. Anyway, hope that everything is doing really fine for her in her degree course. We hadn't met since she last visited me with the others during Chinese New Year. Glad that her mum is recovering and will be able to resume her job some days later.

Failed to meet jookim who has come back for holidays from Poland because we couldn't get to arrange a time that suit each other. Anyway, she will be staying here for a couple of months, so, we shall definitely be able to meet each other some days later. Jookim used to have a meal with me and tell me stories about her life in Poland whenever she was back to Malaysia.

Life was rather busy during the first half of July, as there isn't any public holiday throughout the month, that makes the month seems taking so long to be passed, ha!

Champion!

At last, we had won the 1st prize in the "Shop for Your School" contest participated!

We would like to express our most heartfelt thanks to all our most passionate teachers, students, parents, ex-students, and fans of the school. Not forget too Mdm Lim Yok Lang, our school PTA and the board of directors, we appreciate their support really much!

Let's keep up our good effort and spirit in many other activities held in the school and participated by the school!

Well done, CHP!

Palm Sugar

palm fruit, mild and juicy

On the way leaving Angkor Wat during the 4th day in Cambodia, we stopped at one of the farm houses along the roadside to buy their local product--palm sugar.

Most families along the roadside produced and sold palm sugar in front of their houses during the dry season when the paddy field was too dry for planting. As soon as we reached a simple stall of a family, a girl immediately cut open a palm fruit to let us enjoy the mild and cooling palm juice as well as the soft and jelly-liked flesh of the fruit! And it tasted so..................nice!

Cambodian kids with palm fruits, male and female flower of the plant

pot used to boil the palm sugar

According to our tour guide Sothik, the juice used to produce the palm fruit is actually from the female blossom of the plant. Almost every farm houses there has a big pot on a stone fireplace which is used to boil and crystalize the palm juice to make into palm sugar. The palm sugar is then packed beautifully into the dried palm leaves for sale, and the palm sugar tastes really awesome, it's a true nature product and it has the taste of the nature too!

palm sugar packed in dried palm leaves

palm sugar