Gypsy dining at Saravanna

The trip to town this time is made perfect by this delicious meal of banana leaf rice at this Indian shop called Saravanna.



The papadam was so crispy! And the dal was soooooooooooooooooooooooo nice!



I think this is the Masala chicken thing. It tasted really good.



Mutton was no exception as well.




Last but not least, the Lassi, oh...it was perfect! Yum Yum!! And it was only RM11. =)




And of course, coming to town, you might as well play the whole tourist thing like visiting the red building.





And trying on silly cowboy hats!



Last but not least, don't forget to stop by Shan Shu Gong for their infamous durian cendol. This one is really good.

That's all for now to make you drool. Ta~~

Excavation

Excavation is a very painful process. At least to me. It was gross, it makes me nauseous and it makes me wants to be a vegetarian. At least for three days.

First painful process, we had to cut down our sleep, woke up and be at the hatchery by 10am because excavation is a long long process.



This explains the face...then we have to carry out the Styrofoam boxes that are going to be excavated.



We excavated more than 10 boxes that day...



First was to sort out the hatched and the unhatched eggs...



Hatched - for hatched eggs, you can see that it is torn out.



Unhatched



And count the hatched and unhatched to match the number of eggs on the label of the box



Some hatchlings did not make it out of the sand and died in the sand...





And next we threw away the hatched eggs and keep the hatched eggs...Here is where all the fun begins..





Sharpay gets to do the 'clean' job by being the recorder...






Next is to take the unhatched eggs, rinse them in the water and ...yes...OPEN it!






This is an example of the case where the turtle is formed but did not make it out of the egg



And this is the yolk...



Some of the eggs only has cells in it like this one at the top...see the black dot? That's the eye...



I have a hard time opening the eggs. That was because it was gross!



And same goes to Tasha...

Hence people, do not consume turtle eggs. It's not even nice and the turtles are critically endangered. Studies had shown that out of the 1000 hatchlings released, there might be only 1 which survived. So it you haven't sign on the pledge on the website, please do click on this.

Sleepy!

This is how I feel after sitting and doing my Internship report straight from 10.30pm until 5.30 am in the field house...




This is the result of procrastination. After 6 weeks here in WWF, I finally get started on my report. Sigh.
I know...I have weakness for procrastination.
I finally get 80% of it done. Thank gawd for that.

And now...I am going back to sleep.

Turtle Talk at SK Kem Terendak

I know I hardly blogged these days. But that is because there is no internet connection at the field house at Malacca. And if you realize, I also hardly blogged about my internship. And that is because I work at night and we can't use the camera's flash to take pictures of the turtles.

Speaking of turtles, before we get into the topic, please guys. Do me a favour. Just logged on to this website and signed on the WWF webpage (click it) for the turtle eggs pledge. For those who have did it, thank you.

Anyways, one of the thing I did during internship was the turtle conservation talk at the primary school. It was fun and inspiring to me in some ways to be able to educate kids on the importance of NOT consuming turtle eggs and ways to help save our ancient mariners = turtle.



We were there under guidance of Tracie who is in charge of all the community outreach programmes.



This school even adopt a turtle on their own. One model school to every other schools in Malacca.



The children behaved themselves by queuing up outside the hall before entering.






Those in the green WWF shirt were the ones who attended one similar talk on this past April.



Tracie is one good speaker.



And I have to say it is NOT an easy job to control the crowd especially when it comes to one big hall of kids.





The children listened intently because they knew they will be quizzed at the end of the talk and the prizes involve are shirts, cute note books and stickers.




And then it was quiz time...it was scary as hell to me.



They were pushing while raising up their hands and wait, shouting as well. Gawd...



We have one of the student to read out the pledge out loud at the front.



End of one very meaningful day to me...

One day outing in Malacca

I love Malacca for 2 reasons.
One is the good food there and second, its the Jonker Street. Jonker Street is something like a flee market with food, accessories and everything there.

The day before I started my internship, Sharpay and I decided to stay a night over at the town in a friend's house. And we really tuck ourselves in with loads of food....

1) Nyonya cendol



one Malacca specialty with gula melaka in it...very nice especially during a hot afternoon.

2) Satay celup



I went crazy over this one! It is basically something like lok lok but only that the thing we used to dip and boil to cook our food is made of the satay sauce.





basically you select the fishballs, quail eggs, vege and the rest from the fridge...







this is one of my many favourite types of fishballs and fishcakes







the stars are so cute! but they don't taste good...



our pick...



and we snapped away before tucking in!



the satay sauce dip



voila!



we do feel very happy!

3) Jonker Street



Next we proceed to Jonker Street



the friend, who is also our junior who kindly play our tour guide and host!



and we excitedly spotted the shop that famous for its pineapple products



this one is huge!



And these are fake...but they smell the same and their texture felt just the same like a bread!



We bought a little something for ourselves...






a very creative stall that sells stuffs that they drew on it...just pick either a blank shirt or handphone pouch and they will decorate it for you according to your preference...and it is only RM3 for the handphone pouch I bought



can you believe these are bags? Who would want to bring them out???

4) Tang yuan



a dessert with either red bean or peanuts filling





they are made of flour and boil it with the garlic soup



peanut fillings!



red bean filling!

5) Shells



I hate this one! They are still almost raw when I consume them. And still has blood in it! eww..gross!

6) Hainan chicken rice ball



one of my very favourite also...the rice were made into balls instead of the chicken rice we normally ate...

Gypsy's Birthday Celebration

I am back! Took four nights off from my hectic internship with WWF. Have been working 2 weeks straight without off days. Turtles don't do off days, alright?
But this entry isn't all about internship. Yet.
Come on guys, the title is a little bit obvious...So for my birthday this time, the night was spent with the PBG, Sharpay and Rachie. I always believe in good company with good laughters especially during birthdays. It's worth more than the present you got.



They decided to bring me to Tenji, a Japanese buffet. I am not a hard core fan of Jap food but I will give it a shot because I heard it was quite good and worth the promotion price.



When I got in, I was suprised that the place was quite big and I didn't even know where to start with...so I took a little of some sushi, some of the fillet fish and some other crispy thing.



Despite me not favouring oysters, I took one of it to make the price worthy. HeHe! It was mushy and slimy...I cannot believe I actually ate that thing raw with just squeezes of lemon. Okay, fine. I actually squeezed lots of lemons. =P



I even put tabasco on it!



That was Kevin putting so many lemon squeeze on his oyster.






And we dared each other to slurp down the gooey stuff!



Which I did first, of course. Coward Kevin! =P



And he just looked on...which later took him some time after he finally dare to swallow the oyster!



Then I passed the dessert section and took the chocolate dessert



and tiramisu...



This was some beef mushroom thing



They even have the herbal soup section. So damn worth it!



my cawan mushi!



chicken herbal soup



This will get your mouth watering!



part of the dessert bar



tiramisu!!!



They even provide ice-creams from Haagen Daz! Self-service, yo!



And a whole rows of cakes that later the very smart friends of mine arranged it beautifully and sang a birthday song for me! I am touched...so touched!



Zen, thank you a lot...I know you were tired but you made the effort to be there.



Thank you a lot HaHa!



les PBG



my lovely all grown up sister



Sharpay who actually went for the second time in a month just to celebrate my birthday



A1l1n, without you, this dinner may be impossible



Loony, always always the lovely bestie!



Told you right Kevin, this picture is good! Thanks for being there for me. =)



and also Rachie, thanks a lot girl! Btw, our pic in our cam was not that pretty. You semi-closed your eyes. Send me a good one!



Thanks to Loony, A1l1n, Zen and HaHa for this one! This will come in handy during my internship.



Ooo Rachie, you know me best!



This one is one very meaningful piece, Kevin. Thank you!



No wonder you want my picture so urgently! =P



And this is also something I have been looking for! Thank you sis!



Loony! Thanks for the lucky bean!

I have a good time with all of you guys indeed...Thank you.

Internship

Next week, I will be starting internship at Malacca with WWF on a turtle conservation project. While we're at this topic, dear readers, please show your support to this project by putting your signature at WWF (just click on it) official web page.

Many people has been asking me, "So, what's next?"
Frankly speaking, I do not know. The future is so blur to me right now.



Marine Science was indeed in one of my 8 choices. To be exact, the second choice. I was undeniably very happy and excited when I was accepted. One of the things I seriously want at that time was to get away from home. Away from all the complications. Another reason was because I do not like to stick my butt in the class all the time and Marine Science seems to be one of the exciting courses offered. Diving...swimming...all the beautiful marine lives.



I love it! Never regretted my choice.

Academic wise...uh-huh...I was never really the smarties. Results were always at the average zone. But I do not know why am I often surrounded by the really smart ones. But they gave me great influence to do better. I am proud to say I think I did pretty well in my Final Year Project. And I think I fare the best compare to previous students so far who were under the supervision of Prof. A. We all know how hard and demanding is she. I learn a lot about dealing with hard core supervision when it comes to her. Today, I am grateful.



Social wise, I think I have the best time of my life. I came across many wonderful friends who would go great length for me.



I came across friends who inspire me to do better.



I came across a team of friends that show that differences are possible to co-exist.



Tomorrow, I will be starting internship for a total 10 weeks. Many thoughts were running through my life. One of it was, "What is in store for me in Malacca?"
Hopefully, it is all good.
Thank you to Zen, Loony, A1l1n and Jack that wished me all the best.



Thank you Kevin for the well wishing in your special part of your entry. So touched. =)



No, I will not get dark as I am working night shift all the time. Yeah, 6pm till 6am the following day. I am becoming the nocturnal species.

Last but not least, you know you love me people! =D

p/s - Seems like Project 365 will be abandoned for some time. As to whether am I continuing it, we will see about it.