Wednesday's Anchovies

To end my marvelous Seatru post, I kept the part I like the most as the ending post :P During previous post, mentioned that there is different daily activities arranged for the volunteers :) One of the activities is mini prawn spa :P I bet most of you never listen or see this before :P Fish spa is quite common lol. For us, prawn spa is just too special :P Deng deng !!! This is the prawn spa !!! :P Yes, is PRAWN on your hand, “eating” away your dead skin :P The prawn spa located around 20minutes away from our hostel, there is a mini waterfall and lots of mini prawns in the water :P 100% natural spa :P You can put your hand, your foot or even your whole body into the water lol…enjoy the itchiness those mini prawns brought to you :P My favorite activity is Turtle Rock Hiking !!! The turtle rock is believed to be a guide for the turtles to back to their natal beach, to lay eggs and let their babies to be born at the same beach as their mums :) Awesome view fro...

Woohoo~~ let’s talk about day time activity at Chagar Hutang ;P In the day time, normally we only helped out in nest excavation and also nest labeling. Those new nests being created the night before would be labeled. Besides that, all volunteers would take turn to patrol along the beach on the day time, in order to make sure the nests are free from attack of monitor lizards, crabs, ants and etc. Besides, there are different daily activities being arranged for volunteers through out the whole week.  One of the most awaiting activities is Round Island Trip !!!!! Yes, hopped onto the speedboat and had a tour around Redang Island, stopped at 4 spots for us to snorkel !!!! Yoohoo~~ cannot wait to jump into the water, although we can’t swim :P With life-jacket for sure :P   Crystal clear water, corals, fishes…what’s more you wana ask for? Haha, giant cabbage under the sea :P Oh yea~ we found Nemo’s home !! They live in purple house ! Spo...

When the sky turned dark, we started our night patrol activity along the beach.  Kept quiet and paid attention since mother turtle might land on the beach any time. Oh ya, all of us in dark clothes and with torchlight (preferred red light). It was our first night at Chagar Hutang beach, when the staff noticed some shadow on the water surface (they have super good eyesight lol), all of us are so excited waiting for the mother turtle to land on the beach !! After awhile, a mother turtle was spotted crawling up the beach!!! So excited !!! The mother turtle busy doing her body pitting, egg chamfering while we sit on the land, watching her patiently lol :P Oh ya, she is laying her eggs lol…pingpong pingpong :P When she get her job done, she enjoyed her time sand bathing and after that she would crawl back to the sea :) That peaceful night, we welcomed 3 mother turtles, watching them laid their eggs and back to the sea :) We helped out the staff reallocate the turtle eg...

Hooray !!! So let's talk about something special today..ok la, at least is special for me :P We joined the SEATRU Volunteer Programme early this year. SEATRU (Sea Turtle Research Unit) is a volunteer programme organized by Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). It is a turtle conservation programme located at Chagar Hutang Beach, Redang Island, Terengganu, Malaysia. It is an annual programme started around March until September, where each slot of volunteering duration is of one week time (from Saturday to next Saturday). Our slot is from 30th March 2013 - 6th April 2013 (Slot B). So excited as we are going to leave the hectic city, and spend a whole week on an island, with no mobile phone connectivity, not to say internet! Simple, leisure, meaningful life :) We took night bus from KL on Friday night and reached Kuala Terengganu town early Saturday's morning. Haha, still have lots of time for us to loiter around KT town and looked for some local breakfast at China...

Haha, so now let’s talk about food at Ye Olde Smokehouse. A trip to Fraser Hill is not complete without a visit to Ye Olde Smokehouse. When you are there, of course you must grab the chance to pamper yourself with a big English breakfast and also afternoon tea lol.. For breakfast:  We are given a choice of coffee or tea and also fruit juice. We chose coffee and pineapple juice :P While waiting for our big breakfast set to be ready, baked toast is served together with strawberry jam and butter. I like the strawberry jam very much :) Yoohoo !!! The breakfast is ready !!! My typical breakfast set consists of omelette, red bean, bacon, sausage, baked tomato and fried mushroom J I like the fried mushroom the most, it’s juicy :) The breakfast set is generally the same, but you can have your choice of egg like scrumble egg, fried egg and etc.. Oh yes...here is the dining place for breakfast..how romantic it is :P For lunch: Haha, the brea...

Hello everyone !!! Welcome to kanghuekia :P So here is our first ever blogpost - Ye Olde Smokehouse at Fraser Hill, what a nice place with a romantic name :) Fraser Hill located around 100km away north from KL, with estimated 2hours drive.  This is the one-way entrance of Fraser Hill, getting up from this road but getting down from the other side. Follow the signboards and finally a charming English countryside home appear in front of us :P We are here, Ye Olde Smokehouse !!!  Plant lovers would absolutely love this place :) Everything here looked so romantic !! Here is an outdoor dining place, where you can enjoy having your English style afternoon tea here, with chill breeze and flowers. We even spotted few squirrels jumping from tree to tree in front of us when having our afternoon tea :) Birdie may stop beside you too :)  A small path leads you to your room :) There are total of 14 rooms here, equipped with English furnitures and with d...