While driving back from Jusco, a flying stone hit my windscreen and here’s the damage! My new ride is barely 3 months old!!! Guess that’s part and parcel of city driving, dents and cracks on your car cannot be avoided. Sigh…

View from outside

View from inside

Looks like I have to call up Dr. Windscreen next week to fix my ride. Someone told me it cost around RM70 to repair the crack (about 2cm long), do you have any experience with them?

A 3D2N trip to my hometown located in the nothern region of Malaysia – Taiping. This trip was planned to happen early December, however due to my busy travel schedule, it got pushed towards the end of the year. Finally, thanks to dad for helping on hotel booking, we make it between 27th ~ 29th Dec 2009. A family of 5 going on my new ride “again” up north…

As the name of this post says, we are really going for food around Taiping as well as some shopping on leisure. Without spending more time explaining where we go and what we eat, let’s jump straight to the photos…

No! She's not the driver!	Dad is enjoying his favourite laksa...
The curry laksa...bit blur	Pokok Assam Pasar Pagi
大千 wan tan mee	Soup Noodle opposite King Edward VII school

After some research on Internet, we decided to drive up to Kuala Sepetang (十八丁) to hunt for seafood. It’s a coastal town feature the first railway in Malaysia (since 1885) between Port Weld (now knows as Kuala Sepetang) and Taiping. The drive took us approximately 30mins and here we go…

A closer shot of Kuala Sepetang	Kuala Sepetang + Blue Blue Sky
辣子蟹 - Sweet and Sour Crab	刺螺 - Murex (Spikey Shell)
濑尿虾 - Giant Mantis Prawn	玻璃虾 - Deep Fried Shrimp
Fisherman's life...	It's called Restoran Tepi Sungai
Newspaper cutting about the restaurant	The entrance - look for this when you drive pass...

There is one place that we kind of going every time we are back in Taiping. Personally, I like this place very much simply because they serve my favourite – Lok Lok. We were here almost right after the lunch in Kuala Sepetang. Everyone arrive with a “pretty” full stomach, hence, we didn’t eat a lot…

Raex!	红豆搅 - Red Bean Mix
Fruit Rojak	The Lok Lok! Only RM0.50 per stick!
球宝雪糕 - Ais Kacang with Ice-cream	Assam Laksa soup and the uncle...

Finally, before we go home…

Some T-shirts for myself...	Look at my car boot! Thanks to mama, she is a real Shopaholic!
The hotel

Recently found out about TMnet Streamyx 4mbps upgrade cost RM140/mth for first 4 months then RM150/mth subsequently. Since I’m paying RM110/mth now for 1mbps, it’s really a small jump in cost but huge jump in speed! After 4 weeks waiting (simply because I was travelling and didn’t chase the installer), finally I’m now happily enjoying the “so-called” fastest broadband in town…

To complete my north-south-east-west travel tale, I finally started (I would say) the last travel before Christmas 2009. This time around I have to be out on the road for approximately 3 weeks, it’s quite tough for me given my wife is halfway thru her pregnancy and I should really by her side whenever possible. Just a few shots so far – Taiwan, Netherland and United Kingdom…

Thanks to the nice weather, I manage to get quite a good walk around London. But, travelling alone wasn’t that great, wish to have my family here with me. Can’t wait to go home…