Teluk Cempedak Kuantan

After last May Sekinchan trip, this would be our family weekend getaway during this pandemic time. We were planning for this trip for quite sometime as celebrate Alvin’s birthday at the same time as well.

We were out from home quite early and we headed to Kuantan straight. It was about 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. It was around 9.00am we reached Kuantan town.

We had our breakfast at Yi Soon Restaurant. Although it can’t be called authentic specialites, but there is no doubt that the taste is really good.

This bowl of pork bone and peanut porridge did not disappoint at all. The soft and dense pork bone porridge, with its natural sweetness, is very good. Moreover, it comes togehter with two side dishes marinated by the owner himself.

Issac ordered the a bowl of tomato mushroom noodles. The first taste of soup was enough to surprise me. It was so sweet and not sour at all. There are also refreshing mushrooms that are not soft, and the simple noodle soup, but it warms the stomach and heart.

We like it very much. We were sharing our portion of food with each other. Other than that we ordered some Chinese dumplings with dry mee. We were so hungry and I had forgotten to take some of the food pictures.

After our breakfast, we drove to the famous beach in Kuantan – Teluk Cempedak. It is supposed to be a pretty "happening" beach. You would see huge crowd especially during this long weekend holiday, but due to the pandamic, the beach did not feel crowded at all.

Most interesting part of the beach: A wooden bridge/walkway that connected the main beach to another smaller beach which was less crowded. It was a long walk but it was most scenic.

The walkway passed the beach side and giant-sized rocks. People actually climbed over the bridge to sit on the rocks! And there are a lot of monkeys were wondering around and trying to snatch pedestrians’ food.

It is so co-incidentally I was carrying some snacks and wet wipes and unfortunately all were snatched by the monkeys!

We had been here in the year of 2008 when Annabelle was 1 year old. We were celebrating her birthday at Kuantan. Issac was almost 2 years old at that time. Alvin got this funny idea of wants to take the photos exactly 12 years ago, we will see how it is looks like! It was so funny!

There are a lot of changes at Teluk Cempedak during this 12 years of time. There are a lot of stalls and buildings were erected to cater for the ever increase of retail space at the area.

We had a break at the Starbuck Coffee and around 12 noon we left for our nect destination – Muhibbah Seafood Restuarant. It is a very famous and recommended seafood restaurant in Kuantan. The seafood here is very fresh and sheap. You can never get this kind of price in the city or even town. Secondly, the food here is very different, as they provide dishes that you hardly find in some of the seafood restaurant, like shark meat.

This is their famous shark meat. We ordered 2 types of different flavour of shark meet – one is Kunf Pao style and the other one is curry style. It's very fresh and the sauce is very nice. Other than that, we ordered deep fried sotong, steamed egg and stir fried vegetables too.

After the lunch, we drove to check in to the hotel. We stayed a night at Kuantan before we headed to Sungai Lembing the next day.

We had our dinner at Alor Akar Seafood Restaurant. Their signature dish is the herbal chicken or Chinese said ‘Begger Chicken’. The portion is huge and is very tasty as well.

We also order the butter-fried mantis prawns and salted egg yolk squid.

And homemade tofu with minced pork and salted fish. The cooking here is very homely and portions are generous at a very resonable price.

After the dinner, we called off the day and back to hotel to take a rest. In the evening both Alvin and I were out and walked at the side of the river just next to the hotel we stayed.

There were a few guys fishing on the platform along Sungai Kuantan. May be it is due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were less people along the road and eateries at the Medan Selera which we saw along the road.

It is a great day for all of us and we had our stomach filled up with good and yummy food!

Extraordinary Daughters of God #4

I am a Mother

~ Sister Benjarin K Tan

Elder L. Tom Perry taught, “Motherhood is the noblest and greatest of all callings.”

"While not all women have the opportunity to be a mother, God does entrust all women with the divine responsibility of mothering, nurturing, and guiding his children. You are not alone in this divine role. You are partnered with Him, our all-knowing and loving Heavenly Father."

"God is not only there to hear and answer your prayers when you call upon Him for help; He is continually blessing you as you do this hard and important work. He is ready to help you become an even better, stronger woman, wife, and mother."

Sister Benjarin K. Tan or Sister Beam grows in the Church. She graduated from BYU Hawaii where she met her eternal companion, and now she stays in Malaysia.

She is an online English Tutor. She has a cute son and is expecting her 2nd child. Currently she serves as Young Single Adults Advisor, Primary teacher and Pianist in the Church.

Please do come in and listen to what she would like to share with you about her motherhood journey relying on God's strength.

Extraordinary Daughters of God #3

How You Have Been Benefited or Grow from the Church Program ~ Food Storage?

~ Sister Peggy W. Snelson

What is Food Storage?

“We encourage members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings. We ask that you be wise, and do not go to extremes. With careful planning, you can, over time, establish a home storage supply and a financial reserve.”

Sister Peggy Wong has a strong testimony of the Church teaching or Program, namely Food Storage. It has help her and her family, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic time.

Please do come in and listen to what she would like to share with you.

Alvin's New Working Toy

This is Alvin’s new working car – a Mitsubishi Triton Adventure X ^^.

Extraordinary Daughters of God #2

How Faith in Jesus Christ Help You during this Covid-19 Challenging Time?

~ Sister Jaxlyna A. Umpii

The Covid-19 pandemic, which plagues the entire world, has a huge impact on people who lose their jobs and suffer business losses.

Sister Jaxlyna has her own unique experience through it, "... It turns out that everything that happened throughout the MCO (Movement Control Order) has helped me a lot and taught me patience, values ​​family members, and more. And I'm really grateful that this happened ..."

Please do come in and listen to what she would like to share with you.

Puteri Tuhan yang Luar Biasa #2

Kesaksian Iman ke atas Yesus Kristus di sepanjang Musim Pandemic Covid-19

~ Sister Jaxlyna A. Umpii

Pandemic Covid-19 yang melanda di seluruh dunia, termasuk Malaysia, memberi kesan besar kepada orang yang kehilangan pekerjaan dan mengalami kerugian perniagaan.

Sister Jaxlyna mempunyai pengalaman yang unik, "... Ternyata semua yang berlaku di sepanjang PKP (Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan) ini telah banyak membantu saya dan mengajar saya erti kesabaran, lebih menghargai ahli keluarga, dan banyak lagi. Dan saya sangat-sangat bersyukur semua ini berlaku..."

Sila datang dan dengarkan apa yang dia ingin berkongsi bersama anda.

Simple & Delightful Birthday

Today is my birthday and it is a Friday night. We just went to Main Place Mall at USJ 21 after all of us came back from work. We had our dinner at Nando’s Chicken.

Alvin bought a Gula Melaka cake from Komugi Bakery. It is a lovely and tasty cake too! It is a simple but delightful birthday celebration with the love ones!

There is one more surprise from sister Jennifer. She made a video purposely for my birthday. It is very sweet of her that she took so much effort in doing it!

Belated Mother’s & Father’s Day Gift Packs Delivery

When I heard about the Young Women Baking Activity, suddenly it reminds me of our Relief Society during early of the year, we were planning activities and gifts for the Mothers and Fathers in the Church.

No one would know that the Covid-19 just came as a storm and would turned to a global pandemic and affect globally and have disrupt all our lives and planning. The situation might be a little better now as from last 4 May 2020, Malaysia Government has replace the Movement Control Order (MCO) with CMCO as the Covid-19 cases become lesser and it seems like it is better.

I feel as it is time for the Relief Society to do something for the sisters and brothers in the Church, especially at the time like this. We were planning to prepare healthy dried fruits and nuts for the sisters during Mothers Day and big red apples for the brethren during Fathers Day early of the year.

After some discussions with both counsellors Sister Annie and Sister E Chin, we decided to go ahead with our original plans. We would prepare for both Mothers and Fathers and hopefully able to distribute before Fathers Day.

Sister Annie was helping buying the apples, dried fruits and nuts and the beautiful wrappers as well. Together with the help from few sisters, she managed to prepare all that needed.

Combined effort with the cookies made by Young Women and Young Men yesterday, we planned out and get our lists to deliver. I am getting help from both Issac and Annabelle to deliver.

Started from Sister Saffron’s house for Sister Saffron and Bro Tan, Kelvin and Beam. Then we went to Sister Sylvia’s condo, after which is Sister Jennifer and Bro Tesh, then Sister Josie and Sister Michelle and Peter. We went to Sister Parames’s house before we went back to home.

It took departed from our house at 10.00am and we were only back around 2.30pm in the afternoon and taken our lunch at that time. We were so hungry as we did not take the breakfast.

Of coarse the last delivery destination is our home to deliver to the children daddy Alvin. We took a moment for some photo shots for remembrance. What a meaningful day!