Banana Smoothie in 3 minutes!

Since I've been at home for a few weeks and I have nothing better to do, I've been finding and reading up tons of recipes for me to try out (: Plus I'm now on a almost-healthy-diet, still trying my best to make sure I eat healthy and clean everyday or else my workout effort will be such a waste. One of the important things in eating healthy is that you eat your breakfast everyday and since I'm rarely a morning person (unless I get to eat out for breakfast, I'm choosy like that :P) thus I don't usually have breakfast and due to that, it has now become a habit that I don't eat breakfast even before going to class. I normally have brunch but fret not, I've found a solution :D

Since I don't have Greek yogurt or any drive-thru near me and I hate oats fyi, the only option would be smoothie (as stated at the bottom right of this photo)!  — Source: Tumblr  

Smoothies are so refreshing and super easy to make. You don't really need lots of ingredients or any special technique, let the blender do its thang! Since Mum bought this huge comb of bananas last week and banana is one of the top ranking healthy food, well don't let me start with the #banana-nutrition-facts blab. Click on the link yourself to find out more, maybe this link as well!

Alright, back to the banana smoothie. Healthy low fat, low calories alternative to milkshakes, cheap, and with no added sugar yet it tastes ten times better. It's really quick and requires few ingredients and one of them is ice - how simple is that!

The ingredients: 

• 150 ml Low Fat milk (It's even better if you have skim milk but I can't get any here)
• 2 tbsp of plain yogurt (You can a few more tablespoon if you want it to taste more sour)
• 1 frozen banana, sliced (I would recommend you to peel it before you put it into the freezer the night before, I had a hard time peeling it the next day -_-)
• A few ice cubes 
• Optional: 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 1 tsp of cinnamon powder, 1 tbsp honey, other fruits like frozen strawberries, berries, peaches etc 

P/S: If you don't like milk, you can just substitute it with a cup of plain yogurt instead but I think it tastes better with milk (: 

Toss everything inside the blender and let it blend till its smooth and thick. 

And voila! Super easy and quick banana smoothie is done after two minutes. See, I purposely sliced a banana and decorate the smoothie you know! :3 Attempted to put a few in the middle of the smoothie, but it drowned in mere seconds before I even had the chance to snap it #facepalm

The ingredients that I've mentioned is enough for 2-3 glass of smoothie, so you can have it with your loved ones to kick start your awesome day (:

If you're a fan of smoothie or you feel like trying it out too, you might be interested with these links;
Healthy Diet Shakes
6 healthy fruit smoothie recipe

Now you can enjoy your banana smoothie while tweet/instagram/fb-ing about the smoothie mustache you can haz in the remaining one minute! ;D

Too bad I don't have a blender or a fridge back in my hostel, or else I can have this every single morning. Besides smoothie, you can make so much other snacks with banana like peanut butter with banana slices, nutella fudge pops with banana and even banana ice creams. It seems like I'm so into banana LOL which sort of reminds me of THIS! *points down*

I know most of you have seen this, but yeah still wanna post it up! （＾ω＾）

Happy smooching eh I mean smoothie-ing! :P

xx

Pantai Batu Buruk @ Kuala Terengganu

Pantai Batu Buruk which is also known as Ugly Stone Beach (on direct translation HAHA) or Batu Buruk Beach is one of the popular stretch of beach in Kuala Terengganu where locals go to during the weekends and in the evening. It is located just 1km away from the city of Kuala Terengganu and just behind the general hospital, Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah. We've been wanting to have a look at the beach since day one but we only managed to visit this beach on our last day of clinical posting. Spamming this post with photos again! #failedblogger

I've never seen such a long stretch of beach before, prolly a few kilometers long. That is the other end on my left. 

And this is on my right, I kid you not. 

I'm quite surprised that the beach is pretty clean (: Perhaps the cleanest and widest beach in KT! 

The waves here are always strong due to the fact that it faced the open South China Sea, thus swimming are not recommended as it can be quite dangerous.

A daring guy surfing in the middle of the sea, it's pretty entertaining seeing him fall, get back up again and surf. 

Happy faces enjoying the evening breeze ( ^ ∀ ^ )

This stretch of scenic beach is sandy in nature with casuarina trees grow abundantly along the beach.

I still prefer the smooth fine sand at Puala Kapas. 

There were tons of seashells on the beach, picked up a couple nice ones and brought back home (: 

She sells seashells on the seashore ( ´ ▽ ` )

Saw the island at the background? Yeappp, that's Pulau Kapas! :D 

Look, an eagle soaring high up in the sky! NAH It's a kite :P

During windy days, playing kite on the beach is a good idea. No worries if you don't have one, you will be spoiled with a variety of kites on sale which are mostly angry birds kites, IKR -__-

There is motorised activities as well, RM15 for a few minutes if I'm not mistaken. 

There's a white horse and a carriage too, reminds me of Cinderella :P

 Horse riding for a fee is also a common sight here, as you can see most of the rider are kids and youth. 

I like this paparazzi shot. It feel like they are in one of those cowboys film minus the fact that they are neither in a cowboy suit nor wear a cowboy hat, no? LOLOL :P

Hi there, horsie (:

One last shot of the beach before we left for dinner. 

Next post will be about the seafood dinner we had :D 

Pantai Batu Buruk is an ideal place for taking a stroll along the wide stretch of the sandy beach and feeling the cool breeze of the South China Sea. You can easily spot the locals and the tourists filled every corner of the beach especially during evening time , spending quality time with their family and loved ones, picnicking or just hanging out with friends. Pantai Batu Buruk is definitely a place to chill out during the weekends since there is not much place to hang out in KT anyway. Plus there are also many food stalls nearby the area and even night market every Friday from 3pm and 7pm. You can try fried ice cream (Ais Krim Goreng), Nasi Dagang, Terengganu traditional rice, fried sea foods, steamed sweet potato and sweet corn and the weird thing is you can't find cendol here. There's A&W and KFC nearby as well and if you continue walking down the street, you will see a row of seafood restaurant as shown in the last photo of this post (: Besides that, the City council will also held a culture show of pencak silat (a type of Malay Martial Art), top spinning, kite flying, sepak raga and other traditional performances at The Batu Buruk Culture Centre every Fridays from 5pm to 7pm.

P/S: I know you're getting bored on my posts about on Terengannu but no worries it's coming to an end soon, do bear with me! ヽ( ^ 。^ )丿

xx

Mother's Day Celebration

It was Mother's Day last Sunday so how did you guys celebrate it with your Mum? :D

After 3 years of studying in KL, I finally get to celebrate Mother's Day with the family this time round. Daddykins treated Mum and us dinner on Saturday night! Thinking that it would be crowded everywhere on the actual Mother's Day night so we decided to celebrate it a night early but still most of the Chinese restaurants are fully occupied so in the end we settled in Marco Polo Restaurant, waited for almost 45 minutes for our dishes to be served. 

Clockwise: Black Pepper Lamb, Sea cucumber soup, Butter Prawn, Yam Basket and Pineapple Chicken.
The food was real great and worth the price as well (: 

Megan and I made this card with limited supplies of art crafts and time, I know the front cover looks crappy but hey it's the hear that matters plus can't you see it's so full of love ;D 

We even bought cakes for Mummy! :D but both of us ended up eating the most MUAHAHA
White Choc Macadamia and White Dark Choc Cheese from Secret Recipe. 

We had the-once-in-a-blue-moon photo session since we hardly take photos together, so here goes (≧∇≦)/

If your eyes weren't sharp enough, actually the three of us are wearing polka dotted printed dresses and tops! （＾_＾）

Mummmmmy ♥（ﾉ´∀`） 

Mummy: Mother's Day need to light up candle one meh? 

Me: Special ma :P 

♥ My life, my pillars of support, my everything ♥  too bad the elder sister is not around T_T 
Took using self timer! Not bad huh?

Self timer shot #2: My face looks super weird here but I still put this photo up, cause the smiles painted on their face are just priceless #Ilovemyfamily

Awwwwwwwww, daddy insisted to have this photo taken. Megan was giggling behind :P 

Of course Mother's Day shouldn't be just the only day we're doing something special to our Mums to show them that we love them. It should be an everyday thing (: Love, cherish and appreciate them while we still have them. Without our mums, we won't even exist. There is no way we can ever repay for all the things they has done for us, carrying us around in their tummies for 9 months, going through the pain and suffering to deliver us into this world, and most importantly raising us up. You know what's even better? They never expect us to repay them with expensive gifts and money, but all they ever wanted is us being healthy, happy and be good to them. To the most wonderful and my one and only superMom, I know I may have done things that makes you mad/unhappy/worried/ in the past but I thank you for being there for me all the time, providing me with the best you could and your wise words. I love you (:

Ending this post with a photo of the fatty bum bum; who is also a professional poser. Look at her!

xx

Have you heard of Friendly Fashion?

Been wanting to get rid of clothes that you no longer wear but still in good condition? Been dying to clear your full wardrobe? No place to store or make good use of your old clothes? Well fret not cause Friendly Fashion is here to the rescue! Introducing you Friendly Fashion; Malaysia's first online preloved community closet, bringing online shopping to a brand new level. This e-closet allows you to sell, swap, or give away your preloved clothes, shoes, accessories and even cosmetics(!) which means you can earn and spend at the same time without forking out extra money or being broke, win win situation for everyone (Y) Furthermore, you get to make new friends at the same time :D

Loving their new logo! 

This is basically how the homepage looks like, sleek and clean. The best thing about it that it's user friendly, with a few simple tabs only. You know how annoying one can feel with a confusing website.

First, you'll have to sign up to be a member. Being member is definitely a bonus, allowing you to involve in the community and you can start selling, swaping or give away your preloved stuff in no time! Even if you're not a member yet, you can still look around and see if there is any stuff that you're interested in.

My profile (: 

They have this real organized directory that makes the whole searching process for the clothes you want even easier! You can sort them out according to the size and price. Brilliant isn't it? Friendly Fashion is not just for women shopper, but also men and even children! If you try hard enough, you can still find clothes that are brand news even with tags on. This website is not just for preloved stuff alone (;

These are the fews of my fave item that I had my eyes on already :P So hard to decide! So this is how it works: I can just browse through any member's collection, click on the clothes I want and favourite it by clicking a star beside the I WANT IT button, automatically it will appear in my favourite items box, how efficient! I no longer need to bookmark the whole page one and one and plus I can keep track on the items at the same time. 

Measurement, material and condition of the clothes will be stated, with photos attached as well. You can always drop a comment or question and the member will get back to you asap (: 

Besides, the members of Friendly Fashion can always share their thoughts and opinions about anything or even come out with a new topic to be discussed. There's also a Friendly Fashion newbie zone that helps you as a newbie to get familiarize with things around in Friendly Fashion. It's the place for members to get to know each other and interact with one another as well, cool huh? Besides that, the founder of Friendly Fashion also blogs about fashion, their travel experiences, DIY stuff, videos and many more. Guess what, you can get the chance to be the guest blogger as well!

What are you waiting for? Visit them at their website: http://www.friendlyfashion.my/
Official FB page: http://www.facebook.com/friendlyfashion.my
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/myfriendlyfash
Or you could email them at hello@friendlyfashion.my!

Like the famous Chinese sayings say "Out with the old, in with the new", only made possible with Friendly Fashion! Happy browsing or should I say shopping \(￣︶￣)/

P/S: Can't wait to receive those items and share it with you guys. Plus I'll be updating my e-closet once I'm back in KL cause most of my clothes are there so do stay tuned. Cheers!

xx

Lomorgasm: Through My Lens

Before going to Terengganu, I got myself an underwater lomo cam cause just in case if I'm going for a trip to the island. I've always wanted to take photo underwater cause I think it's uber cool, plus my baby G12 has an underwater mode but too bad underwater casing for it would cost me a fortune(!) so I'll just have to get something that's more affordable. Underwater casing, Y U NO cheap? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

In case you're wondering, this is how my camera looks like :D I chose hot chili red out of many other colours cause I saw most people having the white and pink one alrdy. I got it for RM29.90 from S&J gift shop.

Aqua pix 35mm underwater lomo cam *Source: Google*

These are the photos from the underwater lomo cam that I've promised to post earlier （＾▽＾）The film I used was Kodak Ultramax 400ISO. I've seen tons of awesome photos taken using the same camera in the internet but I have no idea why mine seem crappy ~ like most of them are blurred and there's an obvious line at the right hand side of every photo. I guess it can due to the film not being put properly, shaky hands and the objects were too far so yeah. Any lomo sifu mind to enlighten me? (:

Hello fishy! 

Dead corals in the sea. 

That's a giant clam if you can see properly, maybe try squinting your eyes? >.<

Sea cucumber! :D

Pardon us for being so jakun, it was our first time seeing such big sea cucumber! :P 

Lost in the middle of the big blue sea, in search of Captain Jack Sparrow LOL

Hot angmoh hunks walking pass us *whistles*

Greetings from the sea! (^ _ ^)/ 

Joeann and I *do ignore my distorted looking arm*

A sexy body and a fish *peeping mode* HEHE

WOOHOOO I'm obviously running out of caption -__-

Not sure what is Joeann taking in this photo, I see only stones. 

Joeann and Aleen (:

Joeann riding solo ~ 

Fave shot! If only it's clearer HMMM
I believe I can swim fly, spread my finswings and swim fly away. 

The only clear photo of a fish FML

HEHEHE  :3

Before the Pulau Kapas trip, we officiated the camera earlier after buying the film and took a few test shots at Pasar Payang and Chinatown (:

The unintended 2 in 1 shot :OOO

I think it's pretty cool, no? 8)

Old building at Chinatown. 

Us <3

On a side note,

The 10 "Rules" of Lomography 

Lomographers are encouraged to take a lighthearted approach to their photography, and use techniques such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure and blurring. The 10 Golden Rules - they're the very essence of our “Don't Think, Just Shoot” motto! After all, Lomography is all about having fun while taking good pictures, so memorise them by heart or break all the rules; either way, be ready to throw your photography inhibitions away! The following 10 "rules" may give you some hints to make some "happy accidents" in your snapshots:

1. Bring LOMO camera everywhere with you;
2. Use it any time, be it day or night;
3. Make LOMO part of your life;
4. Try the shot from the hip;
5. Close up! Be as close to your object as possible;
6. Don't think (William Firebrace);
7. Be fast;
8. You don't need to know entirely what you are capturing;
9. Afterwards either;
10. Don't worry about any rules!  — Source

I find this link pretty useful as well; cool tips for lomo user or should I say lomo noobies like me (≧∇≦)/ Feel free to check it out!

Happy weekends guys! ☮
xx