China House

The highlight of my Saturday visits to Penang, apart from my first experience of giving lecture to 15 Mass Comm students was the activity I had after that with the bunch of funny-entertaining Mass Comm students.

I was picked by two of these super generous-funny-interesting third year students at the airport and they also were the responsible ones to send me back to the airport along with driving my lecturer and I to Penang town for lunch. Yus and Kamal were very nice and helpful and I must say, their hospitality memang tip-top.

I don't even spend a single cent on this trip as everything was covered by my lecturer - from the breakfast upon my arrival to lunch and the coffee session we had after that. Minyak pon di tanggung beb! Rasa bersalah sungguh but anyway, syukur atas pemberianNya.

I had the best breakfast at Sardon having nescafe panas and roti jala. Memang dah lama mengidam and I finally got the chance to visit this very happening place for breakfast during my short visit to Penang. Takda gambar sebab malu lah depan students kan but yea, it was fun!

After the class, we headed to town for lunch - to the original Kapitan restaurant located at the centre of Penang road, which I had their best served Nasi Beriyani Ayam. Gambar tak ada to justify but oh my, I've finally fulfilled my craving.

Penang's Little India

After lunch, we headed straight to this super nice-cozy coffee house which I fall in-love the moment I step my foot at the place.

This is the main entrance of China House

This cafe is located at Victoria Street near the Port Weld entrance. It was build on a old Chinese building, own by a Mat Salleh lady. 

The wall of the cafe

The open-air concept for customers to have their servings right at the middle of the cafe

The walk-away. A cool concept. I love so much!

And what I love so much about this place was the desserts that they served. My goodness. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to taste the cakes as I just had a large bowl of Nasi Beriyani Ayam but I will definitely go back to this cafe and taste all of their cakes again someday.

Table full of cakes 1

Table full of cakes 2

And of course, the taste of their caffe latte was superbly delicious. The coffee taste perfectly good, oh my!!

My Caffe latte

All cakes are between RM10 - RM12 per slice and they serve quite a big slice for the cake. They serve variety of cakes, my goodness, my sliver is literally on the table as I type this and they are all baked freshly by the chef.

This is a must place to visit if you are in Penang. It has the perfect ambience, the perfect servings, a good coffee and they have a Wine room for their customers to enjoy their drinks at the most comfortable way.

I will visit this place again, Insya Allah.

Throwback Thursday, eh Friday

Ohh how I miss blogging. I have not being actively blogging for the past 1 month (since the day Semester 3 started actually.) My life has been rolling up and down like a roller coaster rushing for work and assignments. No fun at all. I think I'm loosing myself bit by bit.

Anyway, I am supposed to be on MC today. Wisdom tooth problem. Whatever that means. But, here I am taking this opportunity to write on my precious blog. Chewah!

Very random image appeared in my head yesterday night while driving back from work. The images of my beloved bestfriends and the fun we had during our short weekend gateway to Penang. This was on 2009 and our main objective of the gateway was to attend a friend's wedding.

It was one of the happiest weekend I have had so far. There were only us and us only.

Since we just started our working life, we stayed at Vistana Hotel as Zarina is under the category of Government Servant hence we were entitled for a discounted room price. We jalan-jalan around Penang, had the best time of our life experiencing Penang on our own. Not on our own actually, I stayed in Penang for 7 years remember?! So basically, I was the tour person then.

My point is, I miss being fun and free. Being able to have this short gateway really meant a lot to me. By this, does not mean that having a family of my own does not permit me to still being fun and free. Just that it does not feel the same anymore. 

The fun and free being an adult means being able to coop with the responsibility - being able to feed your children, to give them the love that they need, to be able to make them smile and being able to be the best for your family.

I am not complaining. In fact, I am very much thankful for what I have now. A family to be called my own. I am thankful to have the opportunity to spend it with my friends as well. I'm thankful and lucky to have them in my life. 

Reminiscing the good ol' days reminding me that I shouldn't complain much about life. I am fortunate for being able to experience being fun and free with my family and friends - those who matter the most to me. This is the good life that I should embrace and stop asking for more (ooppsss!).

We are human and we are the greedy type of human. We tend to ask things that we already have. Being ungrateful, that's the word! And I should stop being a greedy person.

Take a step backwards my friend and start reminiscing your good ol' days. And you'll know how good it feels.

Have a nice weekend friends and remember to be thankful all the time.