Weekend Snapshot # 16 ...Shangri-La-Kuala Lumpur..

A pose by the grand fountain in the lobby...........

During our recent trip to the big city, we stayed the night at Shangri-La, KL located at the heart of the city centre. It is a beautiful hotel which I heard was newly makeover. Would love to share some pics over here....

Checking in at the counter..........

The lounge by the lobby with comfy chairs and music from the grand piano................

The exotic entrance to the lifts..................

Comfy beddings....................

Night view of the Kuala Lumpur Tower from our room.....

Daylight view of the twin tower from another room.......

Weekend Snapshot # 15...Dinner @ Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant

Last Saturday after checking into Shangri-la Kuala Lumpur, my family and I walk over to Concorde Hotel on the other side of the road to have a great feast with other relatives in Xin Cuisine Restaurant to celebrate the wedding of my sis-in-law's son Liam's marriage with his bride, Aur from Bangkok. It is the best chinese dinner I ever had in ages.

Lobster salad with fresh fruit and two varieties of appetizer...yummy!

My portion of very delicious braised shark fin soup with plenty of crabmeat and crab roe.....

Fragrant crispy duck Sze Chuan style....even taste better than the usual Szechuan crispy chicken....

The smooth and tender flesh of steamed pomfret with Imperial soya sauce.....


Braised mixed vege in beancurd skin.......the veges were sweet and the beancurd skin were nicely braised til soft....


Huge crispy prawn fritters tossed in Togarashi sauce.....

Braised Sea Cucumber with black mushroom, fish maw, and brocolli...

Double-boiled gingko nut, white fungus in Coconut.....a very refreshing and warm dessert with the sweet and fragrant taste of coconut....



The two variety bun with lotus and red bean paste fillings....

I miss a shot of the wok fried rice with scallop and crabmeat that was served before the dessert which makes it a ten course dinner feast making me a few hundred grams heavier and yet craving for more of the nice dessert and fruity red wine........

Weekend Snapshot # 13...My Merdeka Night.

Merdeka or Independence day used to be a fun day where you get to have holidays from work and get together with friends and family to celebrate. This year or rather these few years the moods and spirit of this special day seems to loose its vigour due to hardtimes and economic downturn and political issues in this multi racial country of ours. Anyway life is too short to dwelt on our shortcomings. I had my share of going out to celebrate in my own way not just for my country's Independence but my own.....here are some shots I took of my night out on the eve of Merdeka......

8.30 pm - A treat to dinner at Dragon-i Queensbay by Janet.....


Yummy fried rice........

My plate of fried vegetarian La Mian (noddles)


Kung Po or Stir-fried chicken in dried chillies and cashew nuts........

Sweet steamed buns with egg yolk fillings....(busy eating and forgot to shoot the oozing melt in the mouth egg yolk inside)

9.30 pm - treated to a nice movie (see my older post) by son H. Having a good time for 126 mins inside the cinema of QB's GSC, oblivious to the shouts of Merdeka somewhere in my homeland.......

A bad shot of the lit up Penang Bridge from my 7th storey car park....

The few fireworks going up to mark Independence Day at Queensbay after midnight........


Another better shot from inside my car..............

The heavy traffic kept us crawling on the road for a full one hour....

Weekend Snapshot # 11..Petronas Twin Tower.

Its been ages since I posted up a weekend snapshot. You can say a lot of things has been piling up for me to do and there seems to be short of time to complete all the task on hand or am I still in my holiday mood.
Here is something to give it a shot....our towering landmark in the big city of Kuala Lumpur which I manage to get a few takes with my humble digital camera while waiting in the car for son R to get his precious toy from KLCC lately...

Weekend Snapshot # 10..Bobby the Pug.

My niece, Lena of Beautiful Life came to Penang yesterday and she brought along her cute Pug named Bobby. We had a good time playing with him........

Oh....I miss my papa.........where r u ???????


I'm so bored.................

Hold me tight so I can get a good sleep..........

Hmmn.. stick tongue out for a taste of Penang's fresh air......

(In sister Nancy's house..............)

Hi, friend.......come and play with me.............

Hello, nice to meet you, my friend..............