Musang King

My girl's dad who claimed himself the Gambling King, gave me a Musang King the day before!

According to the introduction given to me verbally by my colleague about this very special durian species a few days ago, I therefore told myself that I should really have it tried this time!

And after tasting it, only then I understood why was the species such popular among the durian lovers. The flesh was so fine and creamy, and the smell was very gentle too！

According to the news on newspaper, Macau's gambling king Stanley Ho bought a total of 88 Musang King that worth RM4800 from the Republic of Singapore back to Hong Kong in his personal jet to share with his friends. He had hence helped to increase the popularity of the durian as well as the price of it!

I am lucky enough to be able to share the Musang King from our "Gambling King" here, many thanks to him though he didn't need to bring back his Musang King in jet, ha!

Anyway, I just do not understand why didn't Stanley Ho buy the Musang King from Malaysia instead of from Singapore??

Do Not Play With Fire!

The kids were playing "masak-masak".

We used to tell the kids it is dangerous to play with fire and never play with fire.

It seems that those adults especially those politicians should be reminded so too, as whoever that plays with fire, will finally get burnt too!

And those who are trying to destroy the peacefulness of the country should never be spared! Well done, judge Komathy!

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

Weird Food

While dropping by a shopping center that sells gems during our 1st day in Cambodia, we saw 2 Cambodian ladies eating duck eggs outside of the shopping centre. And they were actually not eating the eggs but the fetus of the duck. The Cambodian ladies told us they tasted very nice and kept encouraging us to try one too. However, all of us felt really disgusting. There were tiny feathers on the fetus and they just ate like that ! YAK!

Old lady that sells duck eggs

Back from Cambodia

Back from the 5-day-trip in Cambodia.

It was a rather enjoyable trip, though the climate there was deadly hot.It's a trip that many might not like, as we had to walk under the hot sun for a consecutive of 3 days. There are so many ancient temples, and most of the temples were badly ruined and destroyed. We climbed up lots of rocky staircases which were so high, so steep, so dangerous, so scaring and so challenging!I hadn't forgotten I had just had a really bad fall from the staircase at home a month ago.Thus, I had to get rid of the bad fall history in my memory while climbing up the high, steep staircases which the steps were very narrow.

School is reopening tomorrow, got to prepare to go back to school, shall write more about the trip when free later on.