Maple Boutique Hotel Melaka

Me and my sister checked in to Maple Boutique Hotel Melaka in August last year.  I did the booking via Booking.com for a big family room with 2 King size beds thinking that my daughter would be joining us for the stay. 

Maple Boutique Hotel Melaka is very near to the Melaka Sentral bus station and walking distance to both shopping centres, Aeon and Lotus. 

Our room is located on the 1st floor.  There is no lift in this hotel.  If you are having heavy luggage, it's better to stay on the ground floor room. 

Maple Boutique Hotel Melaka is quite a distance from the City Centre where Jonker street and other tourist attractions are.  Hiring of Grab transport is not a problem during none peak hours to the City Centre, however, to our experience, getting a Grab transport from the City Centre of Melaka during traffic peak hours could be a problem due to massive jam.

Reading Book Challenge

Finding time to read a book is a challenge for me while I was a full time working mum.  Though I am considered semi retired now, am trying to adjust my time to be a consistent reader.

I am challenging myself to finish reading this book which I got from the library's book exchange shelf.  With the book exchange concept,  this book is mine now as I have brought a book to exchange with it.

Aroid & Orchid Exhibition, Rafflesia & wild life of Borneo

One of the weekday after sending our girls to the Uni and school in the morning, we went to the city to check out the Art Attic shop near City Hall but the shop only opens at 10 a.m., since we are just near the City Hall and there is Aroid & Orchid Exhibition going on, I was curious what Aroid is, we went in to have a look.

     

A search from Google :

What is considered an aroid plant? Aroids are from the family Araceae and include many common houseplants like aglaonemas, monsteras, philodendrons, pothos and ZZ plants. While these plants tend to be “low light” indoor plants, they're often understory plants in the wild.

Lucky Bamboo for Chinese New Year

I had this lucky Bamboo for 2022 Chinese New Year. It didn't survive till 2023 Chinese New Year. Pretty disappointed to having them turning yellow one by one leaving only the swallow vase for me to keep. I did not buy one this Chinese New Year as it is not easy to maintain as it suppose to be. Probably will get one in the coming year when I am ready for it. Anyone managed to grow their lucky bamboo ? Mind to share some techniques ?

A visit to H Benjamin Residences, Kundasang, Sabah

We drove up to Mesilou in Kundasang from Jabez Resort to explore the happenings there. Mesilou is situated at the hill side of Mt Kinabalu where a lot of Resorts, home stays, cattle farm, strawberries farms, restaurants and golf course are located. 

We came upon a strawberry farm when we drove to Kundasang golf course, I must say the scenery from the golf course is breathtaking. Followed the direction, we arrived at Mesilou Strawberry Farm, very pity that no ripening strawberry can be seen as they have just be harvested. Well, it's still a good visit, we don't come by here often. 

On the way down from the strawberry farm, we were attracted by the bricks look building, it's H Benjamin Residences. We had our lunch here.

 

BW Bus Restaurant 小陳巴巴, Kundasang, Sabah

The buses that we rode on back in the younger years are no longer roadworthy. Instead of letting them to rot in the junk yard or send to scrap metal, some creative businessmen refurbished these buses into cafes. I have sighted several of these cafes around the towns and we finally had a meal on the bus at BW Bus Restaurant in Kundasang. It is situated right at the entrance of Jabez Resort at where we stayed a couple of weeks ago. 

Honestly, it has brought back a lot of memories when we (me & my better half) stepped on the bus. It was these buses that we rode to the town and to school for my better half. There were rolls of seats during those days and now turned into tables and seats as cafe.  

We did not expected much on the food they served but surprisingly they are good in taste and presentations.  We are satisfied with the dinner, I do not mind dine there again.

 

We are went to visit the Mesilou Strawberry Farm on 1850 ft above sea level and had lunch at H Benjamin Residences not far from the junction to the strawberry farm.  

Strawberry Farm at Mesilou, Kundasang, Sabah, at 1850 above sea level

Started off with my semi-retirement with a trip to Kundasang Ranau early this month, February, 2023. 

We had a 3 days 2 nights stay at Jabez Resort at Kundasang. Jabez is situated along Kundasang-Ranau road at 11,000 ft above seal level. 

We visited one of the strawberry farm at Kundasang, unforturnately they have just harvested their strawberries, none single strawberry for us to see, and it's also a Monday when the farm's cafe is closed, we only managed to buy their ready made bottled strawberries drink, ice cream and macaroni salad.  Check out my video  here.  

Jabez Resort at Kundasang, Sabah (3 days 2 Nights stay ) Feb 2023

This is our second time stay at Jabez Resort at Kundasang. Let's me bring you around the resort in this video.

3-D Jelly Craft

I tried my hands on 3-D Jelly Crafts few months ago.  It looks so easy to do.  To be honest, it isn't so.  Besides using the right tools, the type of colouring, the consistency and the temperature of the jelly has to be right too.  I haven't got them right so far even after watching so many tutorials and trials.  

 

I was so happy to produce this 3-D flower 

this is the best I did so far

Finally I just add the fruits into my jelly and concluded my trials of 3-D jelly crafts project for now.

Handicrafts of North Borneo

I have been keeping this set of North Borneo handicraft for many years now.  Never use them.  There are 4 handmade fans and an album made with wood and bamboo combined.  These items are still well kept in my storage box.  

The handmade bamboo fan looks like this when it is folded.

All the 4 handmade fans can be folded like this

the Album

 The workmanship are good.  Ideal as gifts and collections.  I will be selling them to clear storage space.

Crystals decorations and bracelets

Crystals are my favourite displays on my work desk.  For them to produce some positive energy around me. 

The irregular raw stone is Auralite 23 (极光23) the one next to it on the right is polished Petrified Wood Fossil Crystal (木化石).

I also wear some Crystal bracelets when I go to work and out and about. 

There is no particular piece of Crystal that I always use,  I usually mix and match with the colour of the attires I wear or sometimes just pick one or two bracelets and I am on the go.  

Home grown vegetable plant

Honestly, I do not have green fingers. Most of the plants, vegetable and flowers that I planted are not as healthy as other planters and some of them even die out. But the one vegetable plant that I am confident that I can make it grow is the spring onion or scallion or daun bawang. They grow by themselves with some water and soil.

 Spring Onion / scallion is very useful to garnish dishes and soups.  I love them.

On This Twos-day 22.02.2022

Today is indeed a very special date 22.02.2022 falls on Tuesday, it is once in a life time event and I have scheduled this post to be posted at 22:22 today.  I am sure many would have organised events and functions to celebrate this special day if it is not because of covid.

22.02.2022

The uniqueness is being Palindromic (same if read forward and from backwards) & Ambigram (same if read from upside down)

Stay Safe and Let's survive through Covid everyone!!

8-Wave Ultrasonic Pest Rat Mouse Mosquito Repeller

It's annoying and bothering us especially during night time when the rats running and partying away on our ceiling.  We even had an idea of putting our cat to the ceiling to chase them away.  Of course we didn't.

We decided to try the 8-Wave Ultrasonic Pest Rat Mouse Mosquito Repeller.  It claims to be able to chase away the rats and other insects with the sound wave within the radius of 80 to 120 square meters. The sound doesn't have effect on the dogs and our cats.  That's perfectly fine to our dog, Skit and our cat, Happy.

We bought a total of 10 units of this repeller from online.  2 units were ordered for our immediate neighbour who had the same problem with the rats.  We kept 4 repellers on alternately during day and night to cover our house areas to test its effectiveness.

We had some peaceful nights having the repellers on continuously.  The rats came visiting again after a few weeks but in lesser numbers, it was not as noisy as before.  The rats did not totally stop coming though.  

Since I am a bit worry about the long hours of having the gadgets on, they might get over heated and create problem, we do not on the repellers for many months now.  The rats still running around some times but in a tolerable level. 

First post in 2022

 Have been missing in action near 2 years.  Hope to start blogging again.  Time is always the constraint.  Will try my best.  Stay tune.