Story from Multiple Eyes

Lighting fixtures in our rented apartment. Beautiful, isn't it?

Our apartment corridor. Don't ask me why there was a dressing table there :P

Road to Camarillo, the shopping heaven. Top right, I was driving on their freeway on the right lane. Terkial-kial nak drive sebelah kiri~

Cantik kan view? But, their freeway was not properly maintained compared to our highway. Maybe because it is free?

The place that broke my credit card. Thanks Ella for the suggestion :)

World Famous Grill (??)

The dessert came early. 

Nachos Grande

Buffolo Wings

The cheeseburger.

Okay, I only manage to eat the beef patties and the cheese *sigh*

We bought the all day Metro pass and here we were, The Union Station.

It function like KL Sentral, but when we step in, we were transported back a hundred years because of the arrangement and architectures. Cantek!

Random failed attempt to artistically edit a picture :P

Random pictures no. 2

The famous Rodeo Drive @ Beverly Hills. You will appreciate this if you love Pretty Women :D

My next post will be about Hollywood, Disneyland & Universal City.

First of all, I am not very well prepared for this trip. No confirmed itinerary , but I have like 1000 places that I wanted to cramp into this 1 week holiday. Heheh.. Most of the day, we only decide where to go on the morning itself and Santa Monica was our first destinations.

We went to Santa Monica early on Saturday morning, 12th June 2010.

Why? I read the review about the beach and the Third Street Boulevard shopping... While we were driving along the street, I saw one of the street was closed for Farmer's Market. Eh, macam best jeee...

(Later when we were back at our rented apartment, I googled about the Farmer's Market. Rupanye it was one of the main attraction at Santa Monica. Heheh... Tengok, betapa tak ready nye aku nak berholiday?)

The Farmer's Market was great with its vibrant colours of organically grown produce from the local farm. There was flowers, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, pets.. Everything was fresh and tempting. I was told that chefs from top restaurants flocked themselves to this market early in the morning to get the best crop for their kitchen. Huhuh...

The pictures are not in timely order and there was not much picture to begin with. I was too busy sightseeing and "enjoying" the chilly breeze... hehehe :P

View of Santa Monica's beach from the rooftop of  the 7-story parking building. 

What a gloomy morning... Huhu...

This was taken in the morning. I was only clad with a tee and capri jeans when the first breeze hit me. 

Brrrrrr.... sejukkkkkkkkkk!! No, the shawl did not help at all and I was trying my best to smile while shivering in cold air... and it was a freaking summer weather.

The crowd at Farmer's Market

Random pictures

Rows of fresh strawberries. There was another stall selling berries. Blueberries, blackberries and etc.. and cherries too but I can't find the photo. Isk..

A closer look. Slurppppp........ We buy 3 boxes of this strawberries for 8 dollars and it was worth it.

Fresh mushrooms. If this mushroom was sold in our normal Pasar Tani, I will be their faithful customer.

Then... we stumbled into this stall. Aquafarm, what the heck was that?

Then, we went nearer...

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Tadaaaa...

They sell oysters!

Clean, fresh and very tasty looking oyster. It was priced at 2 dollars each. Quite pricey if it was converted to RM but we just didn't care about the exchange rate at that time. 

We buy about a dozen oysters and the stall owner cracked it open for us. Seriously, it was the best oyster I ever taste. Sampai harini boleh meleleh air liur kalau teringat. Damnnn....

The owner was preparing our oysters.

Do you see the difference between these oysters and the one that was served here? 

I was told by them that there was a sweet kind kind of oyster, which I really loved and the salty oyster that tasted like seawater.

(I am an oyster fanatic. I can wallop at least 5 oysters every time I saw them served in any buffet. Heheh...)

Artichoke. I never thought they were this big.

Fresh herbs for the garden.

It there was no 23 hours flight barrier between LAX and KLIA, I will buy them for my kitchen. I was always dreaming to have a kitchen like Jamie Oliver's. The fresh herbs are always available by the window sill.

Organically dried fruit. Free tasting, so you know how kiasu us Asians can be right? 

That was the kind stall owner who just let us taste every sun dried fruit that he sell. Haiihhh, again.. there is no pictured of the sun dried fruit. Maybe I was not my usual click-click self there :P

My mom with the juiciest strawberry. Heheh... seriously sangat sedap.

Me with the half eaten strawberries. 

This was the last pictures taken that day before we went *ehem* shopping *ehem* at Third Street Boulevard.

It was a touristy street with almost all major stores along the street offering discounted items and there was always street performance everywhere. 

They was showing the World Cup, USA vs England match that day so it was funny watching English lads camping outside their English themed pubs and at the other side the Americans cheering their team.

Random pictures: A can of coke with World Cup themed I bought when we transit at Bangkok. 4 fingers on every hand to grab the ball. Heheh

P/s: I was traveling with my mother. So, please do not expect a travel log full with  fast-paced adventures. This holiday was tailored for my mother's comfort :)

Hahaha

Yeah I was on holiday last week, so with no 'internets' (ada actually, celcom broadband but a bit slow), updating was almost impossible.

On 30th of April, I had completed my Cuti-Cuti Malaysia in all countries by visiting Negeri Di Bawah Bayu, Sabah (except for WP Labuan). A budget travel you must say but it was a good holiday indeed.

We (me and Mrs) landed on KK Airport in the middle of the night, unlucky for us, have to pay RM45 for a taxi to our budget hotel. It was expensive but seeing that there are no other alternative, we just paid. I saw nothing special...

except for a nest of 'kupu2 malam' right there in front of our hotel. LOL!

So after a night rest, day one was filled with a visit to Pasar Tamu @ Gaya Street. It was somehow a bit different from any place I've ever been to. Here, they got pets for sale (puppies, kitties, hamsters, big bunnies), 2-3 stalls of fake CROCS, Kopi Tenom stall, and lots and lots of souvenirs + pearls.




Later that afternoon, we went 'round2' around the city, having some bargain price for amplang (like fish crackers) and biskut cincin at the Philippines Market, and having dinner at the the food court.

Seafood...

Ketam cost RM8.80 per KILOGRAM...



It was heaven...

There was this big seafood food court here, with a lot of restaurant showing their goods in front. All fresh, pick and choose how to cook. Dirt cheap i tell you. We went back to the hotel after our stomach full.

Second day, we spared the whole day island touring + snorkelling. It cost around RM40 per person which I considered cheap. It was a bit amazing to think that the marine park for the island was located not far from the city itself. Nice looking beaches, clear water, lotsa friendly fishes = WIN.




Later that night, we went on a free shuttle bus to 1Borneo Shopping Complex, which was the biggest shopping mall in Sabah I think. It was situated a bit far from the city and it took us about 30mis to reach there. After that, back to the city, and we have dinner at the food stalls near Philippines Market.


Day 3, Kundasang expedition! The journey to Sabah is not complete without some Mount Kinabalu sightseeing. It was Initial-D road all the way, and like my mother in law said, Mount Kinabalu is shy, rarely we could see the summit. Yeah, the cloud was a bit thick that day. At Kundasang, we borong all those sayur, kinda like Cameron Highland's Kea Farm.





Later that night, we boarded a fight from KK to Kuching. Time flies when you're having fun. True.