HI! My name is HoYan.
Was a blogger since 2009 & used to own a number of blogs. And this hoyans-online-diary.blogspot.com is the latest created & obviously will be recorded with my daily life every moment. I'm a lazy person who prefer to write my diary online instead of having a physical diary book. It is so sorry that I don't not update it often but I promise will try to bring new posts frequently.

I'm a full time student yet I have an another identity, which is traveler. I love travelling so so much. My parents always bring me to explore the world, perhaps at least twice a year regardless to local or overseas. I love beach, I love snorkeling even more.

#5 Fourth semester is officially over!

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Hi guys! I'm back, after four months, like finally☺

these four months (entire fourth semester) are nothing more than busy

everyday deals with lots of homework, project and assignment, don't even have enough of time to rest

 so glad I've done with fourth semester successfully

and yeah, just like my this post title, fourth semester is officially over! *happygirl ✌

7th August 2015:

Went to Ikea Restaurant for a brunch yesterday with my college-mates after final

miss the food there a lot

here just half of the food on the table haha *yumms

with the best college-buddy.

thanks her a lot for tolerating me throughout every semester.

ps: still have two more semesters to go haha ♥

 

with the gang\\

here are some photos taken yesterday

the girls

 behind the screen lol.

 

I shall go for dinner now. might be back with a travel post.

stay tuned ;）

BY HOYAN
7:24 PM

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#4 Thrity8 restaurant & lounge

Friday, April 3, 2015

Hello, I've back from Taiwan couple days ago!

the trip was awesome and will definitely blog about it as soon as possible!

and guess what? My family and I have taken total 2k+ pictures from Taiwan

it is absolutely crazy! haha

that's also why I need some time to do da pictures only blog ☺

So, for today, I've brought another topic to share with you guys

This post will be all related to Thrity8 Restaurant & Lounge, which I've been with my girls on 13th March 2015

 Our main idea to go there is solely for their awesome dessert!

we arrived Grand Hyatt Hotel at 2pm something
and while waiting for dessert time to start, we walked around the hotel and took pictures

*ps: dessert time on weekdays is started from 3pm

☝  Grand Hyatt hotel building captured on poolside second floor

☝ muscular man was posing there! Aha

 

mirror everywhere

When almost dessert time, we headed back to 38th floor to fulfill our stomach

.

THIRTY8 signature cake ♥

 It first served in a glass food dome and the cake and ice cream were covered by dry ice which was fogging up

and then the waiter will remove the glass food dome and pour caramel on the top of the cake☺

special arranged a belated blow cake session for Suki since her birthday was coincidentally fallen on final exam day

and this arrangement was almost failed since she nearly knew the surprise : > haha

Straight from the oven chocolate cake, raspberry sorbet, vanilla anglaise

such a long name of this dessert haha

also for this dessert, the waiter will pour vanilla anglaise on top of the cake

and when you first bite of the chocolate cake, the chocolate lava inside the cake flowing out can really melt your heart Aww. ♥_♥

Berries & cream

It served with strawberry soda which is containing in little glass there, chantilly cream and raspberry gel

I personally don't really like this dessert as I'm not a strawberry or raspberry lover

 This is cheese cake ♥

It came with mascarpone semifreddo, coffee granita, vanilla cheesecake, and chocolate vol-au-vent

the vanilla cheesecake is very 'jeng'! :D

polariod ♥

By ending this post, here is a video of that day :)



goodnight guys! xx

BY HOYAN
8:16 PM

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#3 Macau Trip: Ruins of St. Paul's

Thursday, March 19, 2015

大三巴牌坊 Da San Ba Pai Fang aka Ruins of St. Paul's ♥

Macau

What is the first thing comes to your mind when you heard about Macau?

Ruins of St. Paul's? Macau Tower Bungy Jump? Portuguese Egg Tarts? Macau Pork Chop Bun? or GAMBLE?

Except the tower bungy jump, the rest I've been to and tried during my Macau trip on 23rd January 2015

Please don't misunderstand my word 'gamble'

I don't gamble but I saw people gamble inside the casino of Macau Venetian Hotel :P

(will blog about it soon, please stay tuned!)

Well, my fate with Macau during my last China trip has only FOUR hours time.

yeap, I didn't say wrong, you didn't read wrong, my Macau trip was just four hours duration

Why so less? perhaps you are wondering

It is actually due to the trip was organized mainly focused on visiting places in China instead of HK and Macau 

Since the day we went to Macau was already day 3 of the trip, we had to rush for other itinerary

and the rental duration of travel bus in Macau can only be divided into 4-hours, 8-hours, and full day

so the tour guide had arranged us to have only 4 hours visit at Macau :(

*just in case if you don't know, my grandparents are the ones who brought me and my sis to join this trip with Ipoh travel agency

Come back to the topic!

Ruins of St. Paul's was our first stop at Macau ☺

☝ pic is the behind of Ruins of St. Paul's

The special design building at the back is Grand Lisboa, the most famous casino in Macau

Also you can see that, mountain people mountain sea at stairs of Ruins of St. Paul's

but too bad, my sis and I didn't get to go down the stairs to have a look down there due to insufficient time :(

As you can see that, it is difficult to capture a prefect pic without the people around there

Out of the blue, however, I saw a stage nearby and there was NO ONE UP THERE! :P

it was extremely a good time for us to take the best picture with Ruins of St. Paul's above the stage haha

and then me and sis immediately climbed up the stage to catch our limited time 

*pic on the stage

tbh, the stage is quite high for us to reach

we had to step on the stairs edge only can climb up

There was also a young man kept staring on us like how we two naughty girls climb up the stage hahaha

and at the same time he was the one who helped us to take the most satisfied photo ♥.♥

This is our so called the most wonderful picture in Macau with Ruins of St. Paul's ^__^

ONLY ME AND MY SIS IN THE PICTURE. WITHOUT ANYBODY ELSE

The time period stayed at Ruins of St. Paul's was the way too short

I keep complaining this with my parents after I back from the trip

and who knows, they promised to bring me and my siblings to Macau again after my completion of diploma programme!!

BEST PARENTS EVER, am I right? ♥ :*

Macau trip to be continued ;)

C I A O

BY HOYAN
10:50 PM

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#2 Hatyai Trip: Food

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Helloooooooo again! :D

The post for today will be all about the food I've hunted with my family during my trip to Hatyai

It was happened last year December 12-14th 

I am glad my mom has arranged me this short getaway after my final exam of semester two

It is my second time to Hatyai.

the first and second time to Hatyai experiences are absolutely different 

as the first time is more to tough yet second is relax

*Just in case if you are curious why I described my first Hatyai trip is tough:

1st: travelling with travel agency is tough enough. Although they provided us a VIP bus making the journey to Hatyai comfortable a lil bit but the bus driver was very irresponsible, drove very fast making us felt uncomfortable due to the bus was super not stable.

2nd: for me, I don't like to visit temple(S). Yeap, I emphasize the S behind the 'temple' word. Visiting a temple is okay, but due to wanted to attract more people to join this trip, the travel agency has made this trip itinerary full of visiting 'a lot of places'. A lot of places are actually all the temples. Why I don't like this is because all the temples are similar. There is nothing special to visit so many time, I meant like four and even five times in a day. Plus, there is no entrance fee required to visit those temples, so I feel unfair for us as the consumers because the travel agency can generate a lot revenue.

3rd: participating trip with travel agency is necessary to follow their schedule activities even there is some unstated places in the itinerary provided. Just like my this first Hatyai trip. I have no idea why they suddenly arranged us to visit a shop that selling honey in Hatyai and a ‘don't know what place' that selling honey as well when on the way back from Hatyai. There is no agreement between consumers us and the travel agency. 

sigh ☹

It is okay if you skip the☝ part :p

Back to the topic! haha

below are the food we had eaten during the second Hatyai trip last year!

Top from left to right: Deep fried fish & Fried oyster egg

Bottom from left to right: 'Qing Sun' vege & Seafood fried rice

I have no idea what is the name of the fried fish but let me tell you, the dish is very delicious! 

The fish are very crispy and sweet ^___^

The fried oyster egg is so good too! the amount and the size of oyster is a lot and big! 

it is totally different with KL's fried oyster egg I've eaten.

For the vege on bottom left, I think the name of the vege is called 'Qing Sun' 青笋 in mandarin

Is one of my favourite vege :)

And the seafood fried rice is tasty as well! The amount they served us was for four or five person a dish.

Top from left to right: Seafood Tomyam & Petai vege

Bottom from left to right: Braised pork trotter & Fried fish

How can we at Thailand not to have tomyam? 

The tomyam served was not that spicy and was good for me who can't eat too spicy hehe :p

I don't eat petai too but I ate the quite big fresh prawns cooked with petai haha

And the braised pork trotter is a must to have in Thailand, I think? since I saw many tables there had ordered this and it was not bad

For the fried fish, I'm not sure the name of the fish again >_<

It is better to eat the fish with rice because it will be quite salty if you only eat the fish

Summarize of above food, if you want to have some proper lunch or dinner like this, Kan Eng Restaurant is recommended :)

It is located at 50/3 Kimpradit Road, opposite a Chinese temple if I not mistaken.

Next, I love to have dimsum as breakfast at Thailand☺

I am super mad love the bacon with golden needle mushroom!! 

For me, that is the best dimsum I've eaten among other

and having dimsum in Thailand is not expensive which is strongly recommended as well! hehe

I had Betagen at Hatyai 7 Eleven too! It tastes like yakult actually. Not bad yeaa ;)

And also I like to eat 7 Eleven burger at Thailand, especially the pork! omggg craving it now

Mango sticky rice! yumms ♥

The coconut ice cream at Thailand is big love!

I had it at Hatyai floating market

but sadly due to the day I went was Friday at around 2pm, most of the stalls were not opened yet.

The business hour of Hatyai floating market is from Friday to Sunday at 3pm to 9pm.

Last but not least, my family's favourite beef/pork kuey teow/mee hoon at Hatyai

Since our second Haytai trip is without travel agency, we are free and easy to explore the local food

And we found this Chern Loong Noodle Restaurant with best sell pork/beef mee hoon/kuey teow

its taste is extremely good without doubt!

It is worth that we've walked on foot so long from the hotel we stayed to this restaurant! :D 

For more pictures :

The name card of the restaurant

Alright that's all for today

hope you guys have a great day ahead, tada! ;)

♥

BY HOYAN
5:20 PM

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