My hubby and I took the new fast route, the new Desaru-Pasir Gudang highway from Ulu Tiram. The journey was cut by 30%. Originally, from Ulu Tiram to Desaru its 97km, but with the new highway its been cut to 54km. The  ride was smooth, fast and scenic. Its truly scenic as the route cuts across a few unknown large rivers and I get to see oil platforms. Hehehe.. yes I’m a bit weird but being brought up with heavy marine industry as one of my interest, I was chirping with glee when I caught sight of them.

Initially dad wanted to check out Tanjung Balau Beach. We did reach Tjg Balau.The resort looks promising and the amenities were surprisingly good. However, the beach is below my expectations. Having brought up almost with a visit to the beach almost weekly, I was dissatisfied with the man made looking beach. The waves were too choppy and only thing anyone could ever do during the Monsoon season with the red flag firmly planted to the ground is either to play sand castle or to surf (at your own risk).

However Tjg Balau has their own surfer rescue life guard, complete with the surfboard and is always ready to save any unfortunate(stubborn) souls who cross waves with the notorious sea.

After the short visit to that place, we once again headed out to our favourite place to swim, Batu Layar. It’s quiet, clean and the toilet is in much greater condition than the rest of the paid toilets found further up. It’s Mutiara Bay. Lovely friendly locals who charged a reasonable price for the usage of their facilities and parking space. It’s kept clean so visitors would never have to worry about their packed food being attacked by unwanted pests.

Since the location of the place is not that open into the South China Sea unlike to Tjg Balau and Dessaru, its a much safer place to swim. You may try your luck at fishing but the best I’ve ever gotten from there is just a baby grouper and Unga Tanda. But be wary of where you swim as some places has rocks and corals located in the waters.

Apart from it, everything is enjoyable and great.

Pardon my lost in space moment there. I just recently updated my WordPress and the latest version is almost similar to the usual old one that I have been using. My favourite easy navigator bar is missing and has been replaced with something much more..elegant and it looks neater and hmm.. simplified. I hope I did get the right word for that description.

Lately everyone is in the shopping mood as the Mid-Year sale is still on. Almost all the items are slashed at a startling price. I would have joined the fray if I had the funds for it. A few weeks ago, Casio was having a great discount and most of their funky watches were priced below SGD$100.

I am a fan of watches and would love to buy those unique watches. I was entranced by a particular bulova watch but after looking at the price, I made a beeline for the exit. Usually I would just get the cheap ones in Bugis St as they are priced below SGD$10. My mock up leather strap big funky watched I had previously bought was $5.

Previously,  BHG was having a DBS/ POSB debit/credit card member close sale and the atmosphere was very staggering. I was overwhelmed by the surge of crowd that went crazy with their shopping. People were literally ransacking the shelves.

I did take a look at the prices. They were cheaper than usual but after comparing the prices in Malaysia, I’d rather get it in Malaysia than in Singapore. Less bulk for me to carry and lesser impact on my pocket.

I bought a cupcake from Seasons. Even though I know the combination of a cupcake, I was still expecting something great since everyone I met kept droning on about cupcakes like perhaps nice stuffings. So much for nice and having a ‘wow’ sensation. It is just a plain old spongecake with cream piped onto them, not in them. A little bit of decoration to add for presentation.

I really had wanted to slap my forehead at the audacity of these small tea cakes. Previously it was donuts, now the cupcakes. What’s next? Combo Hotdogs?

I would rather add another Rm2 and get a proper cake from my Secret Recipe and savour the delicious chocolate and banana cake or even the tiramisu. Such a waste of money.

Anyway the X-mas sale is up once again. I had wanted to get a cute plushie to tag onto my backpack. The stall was right beside the contemporary furniture shop. Too bad they didn’t sell the smaller versions. I can’t have too big plushie else it will look stupid on my bag.

Too bad I can’t be part of the shoppers. After looking through all the items in my inventory, the only thing I really need right now is a few well established landed properties, a handful of profitable stocks and a vast amount of good investments. I need something that can generate a steady income without moving my bum from the computer.

After having those in my hand, I don’t need to wait for the YES to buy things, I can just buy anything from the rack at any time. So now I am currently trying my best to make more cash.

Go Go Fighting!

The family members of the dead robbers had lodged a police report and cried foul, blatantly claiming that their son is innocent and should have never been shot in the first place. They claim that the post mortem results indicate that one of the boys had a right black eye and both had multiple shot wounds.

I am so tempted to go up to the parents and knock them senseless. Can’t they see that their ‘innocent’ son is not so innocent? Can’t they realise that their so called angel might have held a weapon to a victim’s neck while his comrades-in-arms robbed the petrol stations. Can’t they open their eyes that their son had robbed hundreds from their robber heists? Can’t they realise that their heavenly sent son was in the car of the robbers, sitting with them and liasing with them?

What is the matter with the family members? Do they really think that the police would go trigger happy and shoot everyone that opposes them? Every bullet is accounted for and the paper works the poor officers will be doing is more than enough trouble to last him for a few weeks. If possible, the officers would not even want to draw their weapons.

Why is it every time a juvenile delinquent gets shot by the police for being in the wrong side of the law, the families of the dead will roar back in anger and determinedly put their foot down that their child is innocent (See Aminulrasyid case)? These families are selfish, inconsiderate and have no respect for the law. Just because their child is below the legal age, they think that their child is above the law? No one is above the law!

If their so-innocent child is as innocent as they claim to be, why in the world were their child out in such an ungodly hour, in a car and a few miles away from their home? Why are their child in the first place even liasing with people who bears weapon? Don’t tell me, the parents actually let their child out after 10pm?

Whatever happen to parents supervision? Whatever happen to know wherever your child is at every hour?

Perhaps Malaysia should take up the law of having kids below the age of 18 must be at home by 8pm unless accompanied by their parents like what Singapore did at sometime. That way, these nonsense would never come up. Police would not be blame for doing their job of upholding the law. ‘Innocent’ kids would not be ‘murdered’ in cold blood.

Furthermore if we do not trust the police with our lives, then who should we trust?

Currently what I have is considerably Ok but no harm in trying to get the best cheap stuff in town. If it can save a few dollars I’d still consider but if the service stinks, I will not hesitate to just pick up the phone and get my agent to do it. Lesser chore, same price and its delivered to my house.

Its Eidul Adha today and I didn’t do much except eat and sleep. Literally sleep from 1pm to 5pm and the weather was a perfect catalyst for a hibernation. The bruises on my body is still visible but the pain, well it is painless, most probably I’m used to falling.

At around 5.30pm or so we head out to some close relatives and had dinner at one of the houses. I love visiting time but not many seem to reciprocate the idea.

Anyway I gotta go now. Need to make hot drink for myself. Been feeling woozy again. Bye!

Visited Watson for a little window shopping. Their acne products department is sadly lacking and so is the rest of them. They do however have Simplisity make up in their inventory. I was tempted to buy her gold glitter eye shadow. It looks very nice!!

Almost all of the shops on their level two has closed down and its more of a dead town. The McD is still there. Unfortunately they do not serve my milkshake. I went there with a craving for milkshake and was disappointed that do not serve them.

I am not sure what the management or the sales of Perling Mall is doing. The place is getting more empty instead of filled up. Oh well, need to serve dinner now.

Oh yesh, that’s me at my sister’s place at 12.40am. Everyone was going nutsy, topsy and turvy. I love my cute Puss-In-Mah-Boots.

I also wanna apologise to all my friends whom I had made prior arrangements to visit you during raya. Really SOWI!!

Anyway, I am happy to say I finally managed to meet my distant relatives whom I kept hearing but never met. I am talking about my aunt Asiah ( I don’t really know her full name) Had a good reception at her place. The food was lovely and the chit chats was entertaining (smiles mischievously).

I managed to get another person to realise that idolising these celebrities are a total waste of time. Hahaha.. Anyway here are the pictures, although I did load all of them on Facebook.