Yummy-licious yet Authentic....... (Getting Back to my own roots)

Far away amidst of luscious high ground greenery and a glassy "Innlay" lake in a small town back in Burma, a rich culture wrapped in varieties of traditional delicacies await visitors of all walks of lives.

This small pavilion resides in the middle of "Fish Pond", as we all love to call it, surrounded by stretches of green paddy fields in the horizon has more things to offer than what we may have expected for before the actual first visit. Then what are those some of the extra special things that it can ever offer us??

An exceptionally tasty grilled local stream fish with the vegetable stuffing inside is just one of the wonders we can experience. The picture on the left shows it all!!!

(All the buddies looked tired on that day, but it was the last time we actually went there in one whole group before I left for here, so we had great fun eating and being together.)

Not to forget the mouth-watering sour and spicy raw fish salad tossed with fragrant Ku Cai (Chives) to our own traditional Shan delight. It was the best choice for us to ever order Fish Head Tom Yam soup so as to go well with those fried, broiled, grilled (you name it) fish dishes.

Despite the fact that we were all like having to squat down around the table together for a bite to eat those hearty fish dishes, we were at our full convenience since we got to savor great dishes with loved ones while some more enjoying the smell of fresh breeze just passed from the green fields across and if ever anyone of you manage to visit "my Home", I promise you a lunch out in our cozy little "Fish Pond" pavilion in the center of serene nature.

(One of our most favorite hang-outs, the "Fish Pond" pavilion.....)

Tagged by Soya!!!

Part 1:
On the Outside

Name : Tin Soe Hlaing/ Ting Yau/ Herald
Date of Birth : 18th December 1984!
Current Status : Single
Eye Colour : dark brown
Hair Colour : A slight tint of browness
Righty or Lefty : Righty...
Zodiac Sign : Sagittaraus

Part 2:
On the Inside

Your Heritage : Shan Chinese
Your Fear : Uncertainties in Life
Your Weakness :
Your Perfect Pizza : I'm one kind, I'm not a pizza person

Part 3:
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Your thoughts first waking up : I'll snooze back for another 15 minutes... lolz
Your bedtime : My bioclock has totally gone haywired
Your most missed memory : Laughter from you guyz...

Part 4:

Your PickPepsi or Coke : Coke
McDees or Burger King : I'd rather choose KFC !!!
Single or Group Dates : Both...
Adidas or Nike : All Star Converse
Lipton Tea or Nestea : Lipton Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla : Vanilla
Cappucino or Coffee : Cappucino

Part 5:
Do You

Smoke : Once in my life back 4 years i guess just to test things out...
Curse : Not that I know of

Part 6:
In the Past Month

Drank alcohol : nope... mission failed
Gone to the mall : ermmmm if i take Pyramid as a mall then yes, just came back from it...
Been on stage : Duh...
Eaten sushi : Yep, it was my dinner tonight
Dyed your hair : That will be next month's story

Part 7:
Have You Ever?

Played a stripping game : Nope and no plan in the future either
Changed who you were to fit in : Nope...

Part 8:

Age you're hoping to be married : 30 yearz old or above

Part 9:
In A Girl

Best Eye colour : Brown or Blue or Green : Brown
Hair colour : Matching color to her skin tone
Short or long hair : Moderately long

Part 10:
What Were You Doing?

1 minute ago : Fighting with soya whether or not to fill this bloody thing out
1 month ago : ooopsss that would be wednesday on the 10th Sept.... hmmm damn stressed with Front Office on that day
1year ago : that particular day, we got F&B last practical with Ms Merry some more with our new uniform... and on that same day Shaun was having food poison. I just got StreamyX connection in Mentari and I was pretty excited about Jair's Dell arrival to me as well.... wow man, I really remembered.... :P

Part 11: Finish The Sentence

I love : My parents, family, sister, brother, best friend, closest friends and myself
I feel : Young at heart
I hate : myself sometimes for acting on impulse... but i do not really mind so long my family and my best buddy can understand....
I miss : :Laughter from you guyz..... (Home)
I need : money, to be healthily fat, to study, to have a clearer vision of my future

Part 12: Tag 5 People.
1) Sophia
2) the rest 4 for whoever who happens to read this and like this then just get tagged...

My first English Conversation Class... in Air Con City @ Cherry Land

During my pre-uinversity time, I got an opportunity to build up my proficiency in English back home which is my beloved cherry land or air con city. So this is all about the class that I joined. The teacher himself (we call him "sir") was brought up in England but he came back to Burma, gratuated there as during those days back, the word "Burma" was quite a name to worth describing properly in the map of the world. And what I have to stress upon is that he is a unique person with different fusion values. He managed to teach us the good western values well mixed with the good ones of our own. His students got to know the different customs and the outcome was that instead of viewing the world stereotypically from an already framed mind, we could view the world as it actually was.

However, please do not think that the class that I was just mentioning above was a grand and glamorous one. It was just a mere car garage without a car inside but instead it was filled with an old dining table with benches side by side and an old table clock on top and beside the table was an old box full of books. No boards, no library and no nothing. But at least an old map of the world was hung on the wall so it did not look so plain though. Despite the incredible conditions of our tiny little (supposed-to-be a garage) classroom, what we got from there was awesome and invaluable. I hope I can share this with those who have been in that small classroom of big hopes and dreams....

A message for my family

dear ah nai, pa, ma and family...

this is my very first time using internet from school. i kind of submitted it last thursday but as there were three days of orientation and a weekend, i only get to use it now.....

today is my very first day at school i mean after those long orientation days and yes i'm kind of getting familiar with my own school just now because it's practically a combination of two universities in the same building which is why it gets so large and even now i'm lost at some parts of the school..... the part of area that i'm now living and studying is selangor state ( i wonder if i spell it right ) but doe ye might know that place.... it's 30 minutes drive from kuala lumpur itself and my hostel is about 30 minutes walk from school. but don't worry we have free shuttle buses to and fro 8 times a day...... so it's very convenient..... and the cafeteria on the ground floor is a combination of 5 j donuts and 2 cafe aromas back in yangon..... and the food here is so great that i sometimes am hesitate which one to eat. 5 ringits and i'm full. only now that i understand what an actual university student's life is all about.

well the first evening i set foot on the airport ground, i was a little excited because i had to wait for someone from school to get me before i passed the immigration counter but luckily after 30 minutes wait, someone named mr. hashim picked me up and everything was okay with me...... the girl that went along with me got luckier that day, even before we got to the shuttle train, she got someone from kuching already there waiting for her...... so that was her story..... for me i got to sunway at about 7.30 pm and to my surprise my very first evening abroad kind of got dark only at about 8.00 pm. aunty jenny took me to her house and introduced me with her family and they all were very warm to me... and we kind of ate out that night... she and her son ko chris and her daughter-in-law ma ei took me to a big food court where most of the students spend their night eating dinner. it was awesome.... everything, the people, the food.... it was AsiaCafe

for the next few days before i went to my hostel, aunty jenny just took me to every place and mall worth going. last monday was my very first night in the hostel and some funny things happened.... cos i was mistakenly assigned to the level where there were no boys living but girls for that entire floor and a vietnamese girl got allocated into my actual room. so as they couldn't swamp us back for that day, i had to go to another room on the 5th floor and slept for one night. there i met with one friend from indonesia and we still hang around each other.....and now, about my actual room, i'm currently staying with 2 malaysian chinese, 1 korean and 1 sri lankan... all together 5 of us....... and yes as mentioned there are three rooms and of course a kitchen and 2 bathrooms with toilets attached.... it's just that they don't provide any cooking facilities like ovens, pots, pans and gas stove...... but we have all the cupboards and a fridge. and our living room is a nice one.... some sofas and a good table and chairs to dine... my room is on the 16th level of the apartment and there are altogether 4 blocks which means block a, b, c and d and all four are 17-storied buildings and a swimming pool, a basketball court and a small playground for kids are wrapped around by those buildings........ all of my roommates are okay... they are cool and the sri lankan named 'nalinda' is taking tourism, that 16-year-old korean 'sang jun' computer science, two malaysians 'alan' and 'lac', multimedia and networking.and okay, i'm going to talk about the nearest mall from both of our hostel and school. ( actually it is kind of in the middle of the two places ), sunway pyramid.... the shopping mall is a very big one with lots of shops and restaurants and what is more there is even an ice-skating ground for people to skate at the basement and a mega theater with small cinemas ( i believe there are at least 8 of them ) inside. and beside the pyramid is the lagoon theme park and it's one of the biggest themeparks in malaysia and it even contains a fake beach inside with all that white sands and even fake waves.... those waves are so big that people even surf around..... it's so incredible.... i can just see that park from our school window..... it's that near.

for now, i'm just eating out....... cos i don't want to buy the utensils for cooking.... and besides outside food stores are also very hygienic and reasonable..... even if you don't want to drink some juice, you get so full with 3.5 ringits worth dinner or lunch.

last friday, i went to a big mosque opposite the sunway pyramid and here the juma only starts at about 2.00. i don't know why..... but anyway, it's very convenient for me to just walk there and it's just 15 minutes walk from my hostel.

okay, you all might be getting bored by my long mail. so i think i'll stop here. but at least you can feel a little bit about the insight of where i'm living. okay, it's nearly 3.30, i have to go back to my hostel with the 3.45 shuttle bus. so i'll write to you again soon.

bye for now.

tons of love,
tee

ps. pa the current exchange rate is a us dollar for 3.63 ringits.....