Peaceful Weekend @ Jangsem Ling, Triang, Pahang.

Where to? hmmm... this is everyone wanna to know after i blog about leaving KL again. I was invited by Anton to spend a peaceful weekend in a retreat center called Jangsem Ling.

Jangsem Ling daytime

Sunset @ Jangsem Ling

Prayer hall @ Jangsem Ling

We left about 10:30am from KL on Saturday morning... the journey took us about 2 hours plus.. we drove through the Karak town and couples of small towns... finally we reached a town called Triang. This town situated near the famous Bera Lake in Pahang. Anyway, from the town to Jangsem Ling. We need to pass through the palm oil and rubber plantation... yup! the retreat center is situated in the mid of the plantation.

Town of Triang, Pahang

We were greeted by Venerable Sonam, Chief Sangha when we arrived the retreat center. We walked around after leaving our bags in the room. The building is not very big but according to Anton, the whole area which belongs to this retreat center covers 17 Acres of land. Wow! such a big piece of land and it was donated to this retreat center by a big corporation. The place is very quiet and a nice place for retreat. Lots of "Qi"... :p

Anton became the cook after the sun down... He cooked nice dishes and good food too. After the dinner we chat and it was a long tired day... Hit the bed after a nice an hot shower.

There was an event on the following day related to Guan Yin... We had 1.5 hours plus of prayer with the Great Compassion Mantra.

I'm not sure how many repetitions that we had read but i bet we had read so soooo many times... I felt so nice after the prayer session. I felt more released... After the prayer, there was a session on releasing all blessed birdie and fishie...

Prayer session

Venerable Sonam, Chief Sangha

Birdie got blessed

Releasing the birdie

Once everything were completed it's time for our lunch... I managed to taste the homemade marinated salted vegetable and yummy vegetable soup made by the people of Triang... I never tasted such a nice vegetable soup... Hmmm... just don't ask me what is the ingredient... Need to ask from the aunties @ Triang if you would like to know. :) hmmm.... Maybe Anton has the recipe and he could make us the soup... hehehe :p

Homemade vegetable soup - yummy!

Homemade Salted Vegetable - Yum Yum!!!

Since the place was so quiet and nice... we decided to stay for another night instead of driving back late evening... Venerable Sonam was so worry that i was bored ... honestly speaking, i never felt bored as i was so relax and took lots of pictures.

We left Jangsem Ling early morning after saying goodbye to Venerable Sonam the next day... Back to the polluted KL city again... Sigh~

Anton, thanks for inviting me to this nice and quiet place :)

Hangover~

I was supposed to pay a visit to my hairstylist yesterday evening... when i reached Jaya One. I noticed the CLOSED sign @ my hairstylist place was up... hmmm... no hairdo for me. So I walked towards Brussel Beer Cafe to look for my hairstylist. 

To my surprise it was Brussel Beer Cafe 1st year anniversary. I was invited by my hairstylist to join the celebration party as you were entitled to the nice buffet and lots of Belgium beer free flow... errrrr.... I drank with my hairstylist and friends there until i was off my limit coz i din had any food before the drinking session. :(

I managed to drive back but i was throwing out straight after i arrived home. It was a very bad drinking session. TZ could not drink too much beer... errrr... don't ask me how many bottles i had drank... I would say plenty... blek!

I woke up hangover this morning until now... It was not a pleasant moment and would not drink beer for at least months :p

Leaving KL,,,

I just got back to Kuala Lumpur late evening yesterday... guess what? I'm going to leave Kuala Lumpur for a short 2D1N stay in one of the small town in Pahang. The journey will take about 2.5 hours...

There is a retreat center which according to my friend it's a nice place to relax your mind. I need that as i need to plan my following months ... what am i going to do? I need to retake my exam (most probably)... and etc...

Anyway, i gotta go now to get myself prepared as my friends are on their way to my place :p

Ciao and have a nice weekend eh!...

The state with PADI fields...

Since Penang has not much things to see and eat... I decided to drive up north to visit Alor Setar. This has been decided on the spot during a branch in downtown Penang without any plan. Not a good weather to walk around downtown Alor Setar as we needed to play hide and seek with the rain... but anyway, managed to take lots of pictures. :)

What a tiring day! ....

Planning ...

I'm construct a To Do list in Penang... Any suggestion?

Food?
Place to visit?
Place to Stay?
Things to do?
Meeting who?

What I could do in Penang...

Short Break....

After 5 + 2 weeks of torturing with my training and exam... I think i deserve a short break. This round i'm going to an island which has so many variety of nice food... An island that claimed to have Malaysia's best food...


Yup! you r rite? It's Penang Island. I'm going to take a good rest at the same time get my resume ready for my job searching :p

I Din Make It...

I think my readers were eager wanna know whether i make it for my long prepared examination... Errrr... the news for all was I din make it for my exam ... yes, i din make it ... I lacked of one mark i.e 1 question to hit the pass ... i was shocked and sad after i got the unofficial result.... :(

Anyway, this is an unofficial marks ... waiting for the official marks. Hopefully something happen and i pass the exam... otherwise i will have to re-take.

Thanks for all of your support, luck and wishes.... 

TERIMA KASIH