Its been a while since the launch of I Love Miri Forum.

There’s a lot of people come to me and ask, what is this forum for? I would simply ask them, do you love Miri? If so, then get yourself active in the forum to show your love of Miri City.

At least that’s a little contribution to Miri that we could do.

ILM is just a few months old baby, in order to make it better, we need to give more exposure on it. The stickers are just done, let’s take a look how the stickers work.

We have 2 types of stickers.

1. The stick on type.

It can be sticked on the car surface.

Or can be on your laptop.

Or on the window glass.

2. We have road tax sticker type.

This can only stick on glass window but its hassle free, you can put it on and take it off anytime.

The stickers are for sale at RM2 and RM5 respectively.
Forum members may claim for FREE by exchanging their coins from the forum. Isn’t it fun?

In fact, we have start distributing our stickers at some public places. If you happen to spot one, do let us know. Who knows you’ll get rewarded?

Please login to ILM for more information. Have Fun! I Love Miri!!!

Food food food.
Penang is the Unesco World Heritage Site, but it should be classified as World’s food heaven.

Like I mentioned earlier, our mission is to EAT only. Thanks to Chanlilian, the famous Penang blogger, she introduced us to wander around our hotel, as there are lots of good foods somewhere around.

Noted.

After we check-in Tune Hotel, take a rest, and we are off to Jalan Selamat. Hmm, watch out for the tune hotel review.

At first we thought to have our lunch at Old Town Cafe, but it would be a waste if I did not try the local foods. From my research, I understand that Jalan Selamat is just somewhere nearby our hotel. I must get the famous CKT for my dear, he heart CKT so much.

Passing through Jalan Selamat, a row of old shops, mostly are not operating.

There’s also some other eatery shops and medical centre.

Kafe Heng Huat – The most famous Char Kuay Teow in Penang.

Our luck is pretty good. The good smell lead us to the roadside stall along Jalan Selamat. Although there was just about 10 stalls operating, but we found this!! The very famous Char Kuay Teow aunty, with her very stylish head and wearing a crocs sandals frying her very expensive Char Kuay Teow.

The stalls are just located by the road side.

This is the CKT aunty. The only conversation I heard is , Ai Heam or Mai Heam. Its pronounced to be spicy or not spicy.

The Char Koay Teow come in 3 sizes. Prices vary from the portions and numbers of prawns.

Kafe Heng Huat is actually just a normal coffee shop, but the main attraction mainly come from this CKT stall.

The aunty is assist with a girl for taking orders and a few aunty who will deliver the CKT to the customers.

Big Fire, Big Wok.

The truth that makes the CKT nice is due to the Charcoal Fire burning underneath.

The Charcoal was ignite by a fan.
Caution, Its HOT~!!!

Did you notice that her Crocs’s sandal was burnt by the Charcoal too?
Don’t play play, she’s wearing  a genuine Crocs la!

Ok, at the mean time lets take a look at the shop. See, it was Monday evening, but everyone seems so free, rushed here just to eat the CKT~!!!!

Regardless of Age, people are coming in and going out.

Its too delicious, and heartwarming, to see the mom is actually feeding her daughter a mouthful of CKT. Sweet.

30 minutes over.
I was so worry that the Aunty has forgotten our order. No… She’s not, she even remember that we ordered 2 BIG plates of CKT.

RM8.50 , spicy CKT with big PRAWNS.
It is really delicious…i was nicely fried, strong fire burnt smell~!

Anyway, this is a hot weather, do served with a glass of Fresh Ice Longan.

Other than the CKT, we can actually have the side orders from the road side. Hence I asked Alex to check out what else is edible. Ahem~

This is yet another PoPiah stall nearby.

My popiah in preparation progress.
RM 2.60 for 2 pieces. (min. order)

It’s actually a little but watery from the ingredient. Alex is not a fans for Popiah, he said Popiah is tasteless. But I’m the opposite, I love popiah so muchie!

Not to be missed, the Penang Asam Laksa.

Indulging?
I never know Sardin can be so tasty with Asam Laksa….

Yum yum, its spicy, its soury…

Although I hate the celery smell, but never mind, i can still ignore it and continue the yummilicious Asam Laksa.

Thumbs up for all the food from Jalan Selamat!

Another CKT stall, but not as popular as the Heng Huat.

Sorry boss, I’ll come back to you next time..

This complete the Jalan Selamat food hunt. Coming up next, New World Park , Penang.

Alex and I were away for a short vacation again last week. We only have 5days 4 night, hence we opt for a short trip to Penang.

I’ve been to Penang roughly about 5 years ago, that was when I had my graduation trip with a bunch of friend. So this is my second visit to Penang, definitely our mission is only aiming on FOOD.

Alex got the bus ticket earlier from LCCT. We took TRANSNASIONAL express bus from Pudu (KL) to Penang the next morning.

Bus fare: Rm35 – business coach, with 3 seats per row.

The 5 hours journey is not so long as compared to the journey from Miri to Sibu or Sibu to Kuching. This is much more comfortable, as we have so many gadget on the go. It so easy to kill the time.

We have internet 3g on the go, can update facebook. Ipod for music, and my spider web-Nokia 5800 fitted nicely on the seat, just for us to watch Fast and Furious 4.

YAY, this is the first time Alex cross the Penang bridge, must capture it down.

We reached Sg. Nibong bus terminal, Penang around 1.30pm. As a backpacker, we prefer to wait for a local bus that connect us to TUNE hotel downtown Penang. The truth is, we can save the taxi fares and allowed us to eat more local delicacies.

We went to ask one of a Rapid bus driver on where to get the T304 bus to our hotel. From his kind advice, we were asked to go to the opposite way, and the bus will pass by there.

After an hour of waiting for the Rapid bus T304, we start to frown!!

Why? Why? Why don’t we get a taxi and direct reach hotel? Why should we trust that driver??? Why don’t we just wait at the bus terminal?? Why do we want to wait by the roadside?

Thanks so much to the shed.

I don’t care, I trust with my research, its impossible that we will missed the bus.

Buses and buses pass by but there’s still no avail.

We almost gone crazy…and finally.. the bus is here.

Rapid bus:  T304
Destination: Jalan Burma (Tune Hotel)
Fare: RM1.50

To be honest, the bus driver are very helpful and friendly towards the tourist. We reached our hotel safely without any hassle. Tune Hotel Downtown penang has a great location that is easy to reach.

I heart tune hotel!!

Coming up next. Are you ready to join us for food hunt????

More info on Penang.

I just started to play Farm Town not long ago, like what I’ve written in previous post, Farm Town seems more interesting for me. I gotta admit, at least i sleep better when playing farm town, i don’t need to bother all the thief aiming my crops. All the people in farm town are hardworking, because they work for money.

So basically I have friends who says, I really don’t know how this game works. So I’m going to write down a simple guide here that I think it might helps you.

1. Initially, you do not have much credit, and most of the seeds are lock. Plant as much “GRAPES” as you can. The grapes will take 4 hours to harvest, and then go to the “Market Place” and hire someone to harvest for you.
* Don’t harvest your own, as you get to pay more if  you “hire” someone to harvest for you.

2. You can send gift to your friend daily, so at the same time you friend might send back some gift to you too. The gift will not deduct your coins and you can use it in your farm.

3. PLOW your field by your own, in that way you will add up your experience faster especially you are in the early stage.

4. When you have free time, do go to MARKET PLACE to get some job. This is really depend on luck and time. Sometime if you stand there whole day you wont get a single cent also.

5. Add more friend to your neighborhood. Add more than 10. Preferable add friends that are active in Farm Town, so that you can co-operate and trade your crops. This will also helps if you want to hire friends to plow for you.

6. When you have level up, then you can expand your field at level 15. Realtor Office. You can expand your field there.  But make sure you have enough points.

7. The Inn. If you are tired, go and have a drink and chit chat over there. If you are lucky, you might get a new friend there.

8.Among all, raspberries and grapes are the less hour crops. But the least hour it harvest, lesser the coins you get.Raspberries only available after level 10 if not mistaken.

9.If the seeds can harvest at 4 hours, meaning that you need to harvest them within 4 hours time. Else it will gone to waste, and all your effort is gone. Plan your time wisely.

10. Decorate your farm as you like. That’s the fun of the game.

I haven’t level up until the animals. I’ll come back more guides when I’m there.

farm town level 13

Hope you enjoy the game, and do share with us too if you have more guides.

Enough!! Stop setting alarm, and disturbing my daily routine!!!

Imagine, I need to set alarm on my phone just to make sure I remember to harvest on time. I need to calculate what is the harvest time, just in case I sleep late in the morning. That is really killing me.

Its time to stop my craziness over Barn Buddy.

I’ve receive several invitations to start playing at Farm Town. They told me Farm Town is more interesting, which I just choose to ignore firstly when I was so addicted to Barn Buddy. As I took a day off yesterday, I try to explore out and it does amazed me.

BARN BUDDY vs FARM TOWN

1. NO STEALING
Basically this is the best part of Farm Town, but end up it also lead to less aggressiveness towards the game. In Barn Buddy, even you have a guard dog with you, your crops can still be stolen. Wasted all the efforts after waiting for days to get your crops harvested and stolen by all your “friends”. Hey , thats the game. Take it or Leave it.

2. Plenty of seeds, animals, trees, flowers and tools.
In Farm Town, you wont get bored. Maybe in the early stage like me, I might be experiencing the poor graphic layout, and thinking that why so stupid to plant a few things only. Its actually go by level up, and you will get more chances to get more functions over the game. Not like what I have in Barn Buddy, other than weed, water or remove bugs, I got nothing much to do. Oh ya, just one thing, they teach kids to do stealing! What a good moral education here.

3. Interactive
You can chat with your friend while you are on the game, and even can join the market place to get interactive with people who are not under your same network.

4. Earn coins easily
The best part of the game, you have chance to get hire in the market place to work at their farm and you earn some coins! You don’t have to steal, but its really through your hard work. From time to time, there will be notifications on your farm asking you to help out your friend’s farm. You earn coins too!

5. Creativity
In Barn Buddy, the graphic and the sound seems very good. But even up to high level, your capabilities is only up to there. Things are different here in Farm Town. When you get to higher level, you can buy more things and that can really amaze yourself with your own creativities. I found one of this amazing farm. You see it , you’ll understand it.

So now, which one would you prefer?

Decision is on your hand. I’m going to my farm now. Come, Join me!

Facebook is really a kind of Virus. I got infected, i think this is worst than H1N1.

I’ve start to ignore my barn buddy, maybe because it took me so long to harverst. And once I did not aware of my crops, it was all stolen by my friends. So I think I’ve gotta switch my concentration to something new.

I found out a new interesting game called, “Typing Maniac”.

Seriously, it is just a challenge for the typing fanatic like me.

I’m now at Rank 2, come and challenge me la!

After a few weeks addicted to Barn Buddy,  so far I’ve finalized out some tricks to get level up and increase your coins in a short time. This is not cheating, but tricks.

I was still in Level 3 yesterday, but after all my hard work, I got level up to Level 5 and also I’ve expand another field.

You wanna know how it works? Let’s see what I did.

1. Firstly, you gotta work in partner. At least 2 person. For me, of course I’m co-operating with Alex.  This is will take a few hour each days.

2. Keep weeding and add bugs to his plant, vice versa. At the other side I will keep spraying my weed and bugs. By doing this, you get to increase your experient points very fast.
*Note: Barn Buddy only allow 1000 experience point per day. * I estimated*

3. Visit all your friend’s farm, at least once per day, to check out their farm’s happening.

• Remind them to crop their harvest. You gain 1 point.
• Steal their harvest, but you can only steal once for each harvest. *watch out the time to harvest*
  *Note:  A lot of friends have activated their farm but leave it there, so you might take this chance to earn points and steal crops. But this only works once, if they did not continue to play with their farm.

4. Expanding a new field, you need to be in Level 5, and 35000 coins.  Now its time to sell all the crops you have stolen from your friend’s farm. You’ll be surprise with the amount. The more you steal the more you get. Don’t be so silly to send gift to your friend.

Enough of my simple guide, it’s not cheating right? You earn it using your hard work! Hahaha, now, beware of me, cos I will steal all your crops anytime. Haha. I want to level up!!! I need lots of coins!!!!

P/s: This cannot work if you have a dog, cos your dog would not allow people to weed or bug your plants.

Warning: If you are on diet, don’t read this post. I myself also out of control, but to blog this out!

Kuching, people name it as Cat City, but I prefer to name it as Food Heaven. I spent my Gawai Holiday in Kuching and went for food hunt almost everyday. That is what we always say , “Jiak Bui Bui“.

My brother-in-law, who is born in Kuching, but live in Miri bring us around based on his 10 years ago memory. Although the city is growing up rapidly, but the good food in Kuching will never fade away.

There’s too much to eat, too many places to cover, so I’ll just summarize out what I’ve hunt over the days in Kuching.

1. Kuching SioBee

Location: Open Air

Location: Green Hill coffee shop

2. ABC

Location: Open Air

3. Beef Noodle

Location: Green Hill coffee shop

4. Kuching Laksa

Location: Green Hill coffee shop

Location: Golden Arch

5. Sambal Bihun

Location: Cemetery

6. Seafood

Prawn (3rasa)

Oyster Pancake

Location: Top Spot

7. Popiah

Location: Golden Arch

8. Kolok Mee

Location: Open Air

Wuwuwu, Food Hunt was over…
I want some more, Can I???
Ok I know the answer, I’m fat, gotta control the food intake.