First 20km run

Yesterday was my first time completing 20km run.
Route: 1st loop lake garden-double hill-3 lake garden loops.
Timing is not good though at 2 hours 31min but satisfied on completing the run.

Feeling? Never better.
Time to get ready for Putrajaya Nite Run 21km in Feb, my maiden half marathon.

“Start strong, end strong, and most importantly run with a strong mind”

Ipoh Food Hunt One Day Trip

This was an impromptu decision made. I forgo my regular running on Saturday morning and went to Ipoh for 1 day trip fun hunt with my two dear sisters.

We reach Ipoh around 11am and asked the locals on good dim sum. Initially we wanted to go for Ming Court Dim Sum, but the locals recommended Restaurant Yoke Fook Moon. So we headed to this restaurant instead. It is situated on the same row with Foh San (the famous dim sum restaurant for visitors but not for the locals in Ipoh).

Restaurant Yoke Fook Moon


Restaurant Foh San, same row with Yoke Fook Moon


Ming Court Dim Sun which we inteded to go at first. It is oppposite Foh San


Char Siu Bao from Yoke Fook Mun. Taste nice but a bit salty

Fried Prawn Roll, super nice!

Porridge, taste ok but we preferred more "diluted" porridge

Don't know what is this, made from fish

This is something like Hong Kong "Char Leong", outside wrap with Chee Cheong fun, inside is fried roll with prawn. Cost only RM4 per plate, cheap and nice.

We also tried the siu mai (nice!), and altogther only cost us RM28.90 for 3 person.

Next, we went around for shopping before heading to our 2nd round of eating, we shared a plate of chee cheong fun at Kafe Ipoh Central kopitiam.

It costs RM3.00 per plate, with chicken mushroom gravy and chili sauce with plenty of green chilies. Taste ok with smooth chee cheong fun.

Then came to our 3rd session at Kedai Kopi Kong Heng. Kedai Kopi "Tin Jun" is next to it. We went into Kong Heng and started to order our food.

We bought the steam egg ("den dan") from Kedai Kopi Tin Jun, RM2.10.

Pork satay...vey nice and tender. RM0.60 per piece

Chee Cheong Fun from kedai Kopi Tin Jun, this tastes better then our earlier chee cheong fun. Cost: RM3.00

Popiah from Kedai Kopi Kong Heng, delicious!

There is a Ipoh Chicken Hor Fun in Kedai Kopi Tin Jun operated by a very old owner. However we didn't order from him but ordered from the Chicken Hor Fun stall in Kedai Kopi Kong Heng instead. Taste superb with smooth hor fun in rich chicken broth.

Yummy Yummy!

We wanted to try the old uncle chicken hor fun from Kedai Kopi Tin Jun too but we were too full already. There was a lot of newspaper clipping in front of his stall, too bad we were too full to eat!

This is the table settings in Kedai Kopi Kong Heng.


Thereafter, we bought an egg tart from a small shop opposite Kedai Kopi Kong Heng.

Cost: RM1.10 per pc
Nice taste but egg tart from Tong Kei tastes better

Ipoh folks are truly friendly. We wanted to go to Aun Kheng Lim to buy salted chicken. They gave direction to us with warm and smiley faces. There are many salted chicken shops but the recommended one is Aun Kheng Lim. One chicken costs RM16.00.

Thereafter we proceeded to buy some Ipoh biscuits and found a tau foo fah shop next to it. The tau foo fah texture is so smooth, nice!

Cost: RM1.20 for big bowl


The tau foo fah shop

Our last stop was to try Ipoh white coffee in the old town. We headed to both Nam Heong and Sin Yoon Loong.


Nan Heong and Sin Yoon Loong are just opposite each other


This coffee was ordered at Sin Yoon Loong. Very rich indeed.
Cost: RM1.30
Thereafter, we also "ta pow" one coffee from Nam Heong. I personally prefer Nam Heong coffee as it is not as rich as Sin Yoon Loong.


After that, we headed back to KL and straight away drove to Lebuh Ampang for our porridge at Low You Kei. This is my favourite porridge shop in KL, it is situated somewhere near HSBC Lebuh Ampang. Currently, they have move to in front of Soong Kee Beef Meat Ball and we can sit inside Soong Kee to enjoy the porridge

Nice smooth texture porridge


Raw fish. It was immediately cook when we put these inside our hot porridge
Cost: RM4.00 with porridge


Fried pig intestine
Cost: RM2.00 per plate


Our superb dinner!


What a "full" day for us!

Running In The Rain

Have you tried running in the rain before?

I did for the first time last Sunday. The weather was moody with dark clouds covering the morning sky. After 10 minutes of running, rain began to pour. Since I'd already started running on the usual route, I just had to continue till the end.

Halfway through the run, the rain was getting heavier and there were still regular runners continuing running and occasionally they greeted me with "Morning" or "Hi" or just waving. What an inspiring moment.

I was completely drenched from head to toes, my soaked shoes started to feel heavy and hurting the toes. I guess life is like that, we never know what it will come when we least expected it. Just like I had expected a good running weather, it just rained cats and dogs, we just need to face it and move on.

The feeling was just incredible. Rain splashed on the face, melting with the sweat. Never thought it felt so good running in the rain. What a good and peaceful feeling! And, I started to fall in love running in the rain....

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

A friend wished me Merry Belated Christmas on the 5th day after Christmas. I replied to him, it's not belated yet because Christmas is celebrated for 12 days. Is it true? I am not sure as I heard this from the song of "Twelve days of Christmas".

And then I searched from internet, here's from the wikipedia:
"The Twelve Days of Christmas are the festive days beginning on Christmas Day (25 December). This period is also known as Christmastide. The Twelfth Day of Christmas is 5 January - the day before the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January.

Over the centuries, differing churches and sects of Christianity have changed the actual traditions, time frame and their interpretations. St. Stephen's Day (or Boxing Day), for example, is 26 December in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Boxing Day, the first weekday after Christmas, is observed as a legal holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and was traditionally marked by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers (such as postal workers and trades people) in the United Kingdom; 28 December is Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents. Currently, the 12 days and nights are celebrated in widely varying ways around the world. For example, some give gifts only on Christmas Night, some only on Twelfth Night and some each of the 12 nights."

So, Christmas is still celebrated for 12 days in some places and I am not to late to wish "Merry Christmas"!
Have a blessed Christmas and New Year my friends.

Some people celebrate Christmas & New Year Eve by partying till dawn, some will prefer peaceful & quiet Christmas/ New Year, some will just sleep thru the nights. This year no partying (I don't party haha) nor admiring fireworks for me. It was already blessed to spend Christmas with family & love ones. I did, and thanks to my sis, Felicia for the 3-day stay in her lovely home spending Christmas and Boxing Day.

New Year Eve, what an eventful day for Year 2009. I was on the way driving to friend's house for gathering and suddenly got a call from my brother. His car broke down in Federal Highway and I need to go for the rescue. After much ding dong-ing calling tow trucks and car work shops on new year eve, finally managed to tow the car safely to a workshop (most of the workshop owners already happily celebrating New Year Eve, some even in Genting haha). Altogether took about 3 hours from numerous phone calls to sending my brother home safely. It was almost 11pm reaching my friend's house. Still had time to count down though...but I was just too busy with my dinner.

New Year resolution? I don't usually make any resolutions. Nevertheless, I hope I will continue to run and yes, run with passion. I will have my first 21km run coming this February, no time target, my mission is just to complete it. Hopefully, I can do it. Training? A bit slack, started with just first 5km run today. Too much holidaying and wine I think :)

To all my friends, Happy New Year! Hope you will be blessed with good health & peacefulness at all times.

To my running mates, keep running, rest when you need to....and then run again!