Lunch @ Hotel Sama Sama

Aci tak kalau tepek gambar aje tak yah cerita merepek panjang panjang...ha ha ha...mood malas sudah mariii. Aiyooo tengok picture punya la banyak...malas sungguh nak resize bagai. Tu yang bercinta nak buat posting. Ha ha ha.

Kawan Fid rajin share dengan kami kalau ada promotion groupon ke, living social ke...bab bab buffet hi-tea. So far kami dah pergi Istana Hotel, Dorsett and terbaru ni la...Hotel Sama-Sama yang terletak sebelah KLIA.

Aku ajak kengkawan beli sama sama coupon ni pastu boleh lepak Bagan Lalang ke...Gold Coast Sepang ke...tapi semua reluctant sebab jauh. For us...ok je sebab balik PD memang selalu lalu sepang...so ok je kalau nak singgah makan kat hotel ni...yang dulunya I was told di kenali as Pan Pac.

Sampai sampai aje...posing dulu.

Hotel ni very quiet. Masa lalu kat sini cuma kami and another family lain....jalan from Parking to the lift kat hujung tu untuk naik ke Restoran area.

Layan je la photo sampai muntah...GGG

Zahra ikut mood kekadang dia yang sibuk suruh snap photo dia...kekadang dia buat dek aje kalau suruh posing.

Kalau ikut tac tic EJ nak adik dia posing...dia cakap Abang Hafiy nak tengok...most of the times it works...terus Zahra posing posing.

Macam yang ni pun dia yang lari datang peluk mommy dia.

Hotel ni bangunan dia macam empat segi. Ok la...not bad.

Banyak bunya orkid kat hotel ni.

Ok...time untuk makan...aku terus g cari apa makanan yang sesuai for Zahra...ada pasta section terus order white sauce...Fid pulak ambik mi goreng sementara tunggu pasta tu ready...sekali Zahra makan mi goreng aje....dia tak nak pasta tu. Apo nak di kato...dia kan tekak melayu...opposite kakak dia.

Ada japanese food section...not bad ada banyak sushi...ada teppanyaki...ramen dan macam macam lagi...aku ambik 3 ketul tu je la..buat syarat...kalau ambik 4 ketul...sah sah keluar balik semua. Tak minat sushi...tapi saje je snap photo cam ia ia je peminat sushi...padahal nak menjeleskan kawan Fid aje...yang memang hardcore fan of Sushi.

Layannn.

Zahra dah kenyang...dok main main dengan mashmallow. Pastu Ej rajin turunkan dari baby chair dia pastu bawak dia ke dessert area...dia suka la tengok fruits...cakes tapi dia tak makan. Dia suka kueh secokok ikan bilis. Mana nak ada kan.

Masa ni dia nyanyi la...mengomel la...kami biarkan aje...asalkan tak kacau Daddy dan Mommy nak makan.

Ni masa dia dah mula bosan. Orang tengah syok layan dessert...dia jerit nak tido nak tido. Orang tak habis lagi nak makan dia dah sibuk nak balik. Ej masa ni malas layan dia sebab dok sibuk dengan handphone aku fesbuking.

Masa ni dah boring sangat la tu. Aku masa ni sibuk layan Bread butter puding...kira penamat la untuk aku. Lepas dah makan makan dan makan...tengok dia dah jerit nak tido banyak kali...kami pun gerak keluar dari restoran. Not bad la makan kat sini...Rasa macam kat London...sebab majority yang makan adalah foreigners.

Lepak lepak kat lounge posing posing sebelum balik.

Zahra yang konon kata nak tido kan main active lagi ke sana sini panjat bangku...main kat tangga. Propa betul...sib baik kami dah kenyang masa dia jerit nak tido tu.

Ej jarang ada gambar sebab dia suka ambik gambar duckface pastu tepek kat istagram dia...bile bergambar ramai ramai macam ni dia selalu volunteer jadi photographer.

Jom layan gambar food yang sedap sedap dan berbaloi baloi...sebab guna voucher kan 50% lebih kurang harga...tu yang kata berbaloi baloi. Kalau bayar full rasa tak berbaloi bukan pasal food tapi sebab aku kan tak makan banyak. Diet...katanya.

Lamb grill dengan mint sauce. Aku layan seketul aje.

Dessert area

Japanese food section.

Cer tengok plate aku...berhemah tak aku makan. Ej belasah banyak udang tu. Ada mussel tapi aku tak ambik.

Dessert best best.

Kueh puteri ayu ni aku suka sebab ada kelapa...tanpa kelapa rasa macam keh pau kosong je.

Aku tak ambik pun kueh ni...saje snap photo untuk Ejin.

Macam macam ada.

Ini la penutup untuk aku....Bread butter puddig and vanilla sauce...aku saje letak ice cream pastu kidnaped strawberry dan peach dari deco deco kat dessert lain. Lepas dah kenyang terus balik PD. Harap harap ada la promotion voucher macam ni lagi untuk hotel ni ...boleh beli lagi pastu datang makan sini lagi. Dah ngantuk ni...nak tido dulu. kalau rajin nanti buat posting lain lak.

Jalan-jalan Wellington: Parliament House

alooooo ...

posting tertangguh nie ...sebab busy ...who would have thought that doing a phd is so busy sampai takde masa jejalan kan??? (well duuuhhh, i am being sarcastic here!) well, kalau nak jejalan, kena curi masa sebenar nya ...I am in a zone now ...my dad's advice terngiang2 kat fikiran ...he said, all you have to do is study smart ...study hard may get you what you want, but you wont have much time to enjoy yourself, but if you study smart, you will get whatever needs to be done and at the same time enjoying life ...dia bagi contoh when he did his training, how he and his friends did their fieldwork ...org lain betul bendul and work their ass of to get things done, while my dad and his friends get the data done at half the time org lain buat, and the other half was spent lepking .....so, here i am ..finding time to blog! selepas yesterday and today melepak with friends ... so tomorrow till fri, am gonna work..but weekend i will rest and find inner peace lol

back to the posting on hand...last month, masa tijot and kiky visited me here..i took them ronda2 Welly ...one of the places that we visited is the Parliament House ...also known as the Bee Hive coz of its shape

it is actually one of the tourist attraction kat Welly ...walaupun Welly is so much smaller than Auckland or Christchurch, but it is the power seat i.e. where the power that governs NZ sits ...it is the capital city ..so administrative centre kat sini lah ...they are so proud to call this place..the coolest little capital in the world ...mahu tak nya, mana ada capital city yang you boleh ronda2 jalan kaki ajer??? but that;s the fact ...

nie nak tunjuk hamparan bunga ajer :-)

actually, walaupun dah masuk 7 bulan kat sini, that was the first time aku gi area BeeHive nie secara dekat ...biasa aku lalu masa naik bus nak balik Kelburn ajer hahaha ...selalu tengok dari jauh ajer ...so that day, ngan aku aku sekali jadi tourist 

Nampak tak scaffolding area yang warna biru kat gamar kat atas nie? Well, masa earthquake in July (yang masa tu aku tengah cuti sebulan di Mysia), part of the BeeHive was damaged ...so tu le kesan earthquake tu (July 2013) ..masih dalam proses membaiki when we were there ...

before nak masuk ke kawasan park depan Bee Hive, we went for a stroll round the area ...and one of the places yang orng singgah is this monument ...posing posing kan harus ..hehehe tourist le kata kan ...such monument actually reminded me of UK and Europe ....sebab ada muka singa!!!!

From singa nie, we all beransur masuk kawasan open spaces depan parliament ...photo opportunity memang banyak ....banyak tempt utk posing ....

 that building is also part of the parliament complex ..sebenarnya Parliament complex tu comprises of 3 bahagian ...and beehive and that building are parts of it ...

masa nie sejuk sangat ...we didnt spent a lot of time here ...posing2 ala kadar and balik ..coz kalau ada masa, we could have gone to the other side of those flag poles and took pic from angle tu kan ..but we didnt ..plus ada org nak carik toilet sesangat masa tu hehehehe

last pic before gi redah Pipetia campus in search for toilet hehehehe

so, if you are visiting Welly and takde masa ak gi jalan2 jauh kan ...make a point to visit this place ...look see look see ...posing sana posing sini and chow le hehehe sekurang2 nya ada gambar Beehive maaaaa ...it is located at the end of Lambton Quay, so balik from situ boleh le shopping along Lambton Quay ;-) nearby ada Railway Station ...ada Turnball House etc ...so banyak atraction within walking distance ;-) plus, kalau yang berminat nak tau lebih lanjut about the parliament nie kan, dorang ada tour if i am not mistaken ...tapi kalau yang mcm kami nie...just look see and pose ajer kat situ ..and moving on to next destination

Cronut Craze

ever heard of cronut? kalau tak pernah, read here (click on link) cronut nie merupakan pastry type yang combinekan the texture of croissant ngan shape of a doughnut ..hence the name, cronut ....aku dengar about this cronut craze in New York early this year ke very late last year ..kata nya queue awal pagi sampai 4-5 jam sebab nak beli cronut ..and kedai tu by 10 ajer dah abis stock cronut ..aku nak le kan tau camne rasa cronut tu ....and a couple of months (or was it masa aku balik from Mysia) yang aku ada baca cronut dah sampai Welly ...but tak ingat nama tempat ..till last weekend ...kan aku gi brunch with the girls kat Brooklyn Cafe coz someone ngidam cheese scone ...and kuar cafe tu baru aku noticed ada sign kata they sell cronut!!!!! so cecepat tell the girls we have to try it ...and semua kaki makan kan ..so we decided to have another brunch there this weekend ...sepatutnya today, tapi diawalkan ke semalam (saturday)

and tengok rupa memang cam donut ...sekali pandang cam ..takde lah yang special nya kannnnnn

masa gi tu da dua flavour ...this cream ones and one choc topped ....aku choose cream nie, maybe next time try yang chocolate tu pulak

hahaha harus ada muka aku ...pencarian cronut telah berakhir hehehehe ....ignore the sembab face ...bangun tido kol 10, by 10.30 dah kena kuar rumah ...tu kira combo muka teruja and muka lapar :-)

close up: texture pastry tu mmg macam croissant ....berlapis2 ..with cream di celah2 lapisan ..

my verdict: akak sangat suka!!!! menyesal tak tapau semalam ....sebab selain makan cronut, aku order mediterranean omelette ....so kira kekenyangan yang amat ...pstu bila teringat balik, baru menyesal tak tapau ....and a friend of anita bagitau, selain Brooklyn Cafe nie, Bordeux minivan or food cart of whatever it is called ...ada gak jual cronut ...masa sunday market (kat belakang Te Papa) ....ooo and that reminds me, aku belum try lagi Chimney Cake!!! watch this space for chimney cake folks!