Heading to The Next Chapter of Life! I Am Graduated!

 

Lack of Si En, shall have family photo-shooting session again.

The end of my degree life and it was the best memories I have had with the bunch of crazy yet truthful friends. 

Friends who support you when you are in the deep troubles and sorrow. 

Friends who fight for the similar goals together and never forget to play hard together too. 

Till the day we will meet again soon!

And yea, I am officially graduated!

Next goal: Masters degree in the view :)

Kluang's Delicious Savoury Discovery (Part 2)

Warm slices of toasts would be simple yet tasty breakfast for each of us to kick-start the day. We had made our journey to one of Malaysia's institutional kopitiam to savour its famous charcoal toasted buns. Kluang Rail Coffee is located at the local railway station since year 1938. It was a pit stop for travelers arriving in Kluang and the railway canteen is one of the town's famous landmark. You would find different races having their breakfast here- truly 1 Malaysia style.

My loved ones.

Pretty Chia Pei and I

The subtle sweet iced-coffee and wholemeal roti bun 

You could see how delicious the roti bun from my friend's facial expression.

The crispy crusts with a thick slab of butter sandwiched between the toast (bun) and kaya filling satisfied our stomachs.

The cost of roti bun at (RM 1.10) each is definitely worth the pennies. The charcoal-grilled bun was layered with thick homemade kaya and thick slabs of butter. As simple as it may be, yet it was one of the tastiest traditional bun which I had eaten while another one was at Parit Raja.

The Kluang delicacies trail was continued with Botak Curry Noodles. Gerai Makan Botak was highly recommended by my course mate; Eng Ting who is a local here. We had been encouraged to visit the shop before 1pm as the curry noodles are sold faster than expected most of the time.

If you type " botak curry noodles" at Google search, you could find several results of foods reviews from other bloggers. The shop itself was full of decorations of old antiques, many liquor bottles,old teapots and etcetera.

The shop's decorative antiques, liquor bottles

The tasty and mildly spicy curry noodles which is rich of cockles, bean sprouts, roast pork (char siew) , tofu and light coconut milk.

You can opt for having pork skins as well.

If you couldn't taste spicy foods, you may choose to have dry egg noodles which tastes nice as well.

Me with my curry noodles.

Short review: The less spicy yet flavorful gravy makes the botak curry noodles unrivaled in Kluang town. It's hard to be compared to the curry noodles I had in Penang Island, but I could say that Kluang Botak Curry noodles is the best laksa I have had in Johor District. 

The Kluang's delicacies discovery was paused for shopping session at Kluang Mall. As usual, we shopped till the shopping mall almost closed. By the means of "shopping", we could be left with empty handed yet the shopping mall must be discovered or explored before we left :)

The supper that we had at 居鑾加冕河邊. It's like a row of mamak stalls and we just followed the crowds to order foods. Piang Kee was surprisingly having long queue of customers hence we decided to try the foods.

It's similar like the famous Ayer Hitam's Yong Tau Foo.

Various selection of fish balls, bean curd, eggplant, bitter gourd, bean curd sheets with handmade fish paste as the fillings.

Hmm, I would comment that the foods are just nice (not really "WOW").

Piang Kee sells 八宝冰 shaved ice too.

Rice flour rollchines 豬腸粉

Big tang yuan topped with peanuts

Not forget to mention the souvenir given from Wenny Lai as we met her at Kluang's Parade earlier.

Revisited Kedai Makan Mee Goreng for the 炒虾面。

Here's the fried shrimp noodles 炒虾面 tinged with a smoky, charred flavor called wok hei . 

The hot fried noodles was coated with salty and sweet soy sauce cooked with bean sprouts and eggs.

Simple yet delicious!

Kluang's Savory Discovery has come to the end.

It's definitely an outing that worth to be remembered.

It's not only about the local delicacies, but the people that you had be with during the savory discovery.

Chill Out at Batu Pahat- Steamboat Dinner, Childhood Game & Dessert

A fairly common variant is, "Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana." After spending almost 4 years studying in Johor, this was the first time spending entire night at Batu Pahat town. Appreciating Wan Tian being our tour guide and we had a whale of time at food tour.

After class, we drove to Yong's Steam Boat Garden and Sea Food Restaurant (泳池生锅) to have our dinner. According to the local friends, this large steamboat restaurant is very famous and highly recommended. Until today, I am still puzzled about the name of the restaurant as the locals call it as poolside steamboat. In fact, I didn't find any swimming pools nearby.

The steamboat restaurant has offered wide selection of seafood and you may order stir fry dishes here. The steamboat menu alone features many ingredients that can be boiled or grilled, including seafood, surimi seafood (fish-based food product) and vegetables.

The waiters & waitresses pushed a tray with ingredients for us to choose. We opted for layered seafood tofu, meatballs, dumplings, scallops, prawns and etcetera. The fresh fish in the aquarium look extremely attractive, however we did not order due to the subsequent eating session.

Group photo

The  foods are boiled, let's start eating!

Fried chickens - one of the signature dishes! Thumb-up!

Fried pumpkins which cooked with salted egg yolk.. Tasty! We have ordered two plates for this.

Lastly we ended the dinner with desserts which are free of charge. 

Overall, the foods here are quite nice and prices still at mid-range. Hopefully I will have chance to come over again.

As you sow, as you shall reap!

Final Year Thesis

It was the final assignment and the hardest assignment I had done so far in this 7 semesters. It made a full stop in my assignments life as well as degree studies in terms of course work.

Words are hard to be describe my feeling to see the thesis completed. I had sacrificed the semester break to visit several banks to obtain approvals for getting my questionnaires distributed. Nonetheless, I had been rejected and also had met few helpful staffs who willing to approve the questionnaire distribution. The cooperation given is highly appreciated! After all, the paperwork, SPSS Statistics and presentation to panels and etc.

Finishing this final year papers with blood, sweat and tears and finally observing the research were printed in thesis format. It may not be the best research paper but I am very glad that there are few people who read into what I wrote and shared with me their professional insights. Last but not least, I would like to take the chance to express my gratitude towards Dr Rosmaini Bin Tasmin. A good lecturer who never forget to supervise us, providing insights in enhancing our research although he was very busy with his own research and lessons. Hopefully we did not disappoint him. Apart from that, the team is great and thanks to Jyi Chong who often helped in scheduling a meeting with our supervisor.

Next, FINAL EXAM and INTERNSHIP..