Sea of Cloud #1

These are the photos I took while I was taking a 4pm to 5:45pm flight from East to West taking a window seat.  Therefore I was looking to the South.  And since now is December, the sun is approaching the Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern tropic (That is why now southern hemisphere is having summer).  I did expected it and my thought was proven right that the sun will shine into my window.

I started taking photos when the seat belt sign was off, and closed my windows afterward when the strong sun light shone on me.  I took extra precaution not to let the sunlight go into my camera lens.  I saw my camera reflect the light of the sun onto someone face. :p

Well, let me make the stories short, and you can now start viewing the photos below.  Any comments are welcomed, and please vote for the one you like the most.  Thanks.

Sea of Cloud #2

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Sea of Cloud #7
This picture is different from the others, it is a real sea but not the sea of cloud.  Can you see the waves on the surface of the sea?

Sea of Cloud #8

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Sea of Cloud #14

Hope you enjoy.

Again, we had another flight from East to West Malaysia.  But this is the first time we have a camwhore session (taking picture of ourselves) at the airport and on the aircraft.

There was not enough space on the aircraft to straighten my hand, most of the deleted photos were our big head photos.  This one is a better photo.

We have a “take two” for this angle, which I told SiewPeng to open our eyes bigger because our eyes looked small in the previous take.

We stepped our feet on the aircraft.

Before that, it seems that we have had a long wait.  So I just took out my camera and start shooting at the departure hall.  I found that someone was taking out her camera too.  She has a DSLR.  I can feel that more and more people are using DSLR now, but not me.

When this plane was arriving, everybody stood up and started queuing.

This is a plane from JetStar.  I wish I can take other airlines instead of only the red coloured one.  Most of the time (but not all the time), the airline in red suits our journey and gave us the lowest fare.

See!!!  They use red umbrellas as well to match their theme.  We were lucky because it did not rain, but the aircraft crew has prepared some umbrellas, just in case it suddenly rained or there were someone who afraid of the sunlight.

In KIA (Kuching International Airport), sometimes when it rained we had a chance to use the bridge that can connect to the aircraft directly.  Other times, we can only walk to the aircraft parking area and climb up a big portable staircase aircraft in order to get on board.

The vehicle next to this man can only be found in airports, I think.

The staffs was busy when an airplane has just arrived.

We checked in our flight quite early and we arrived at the departure hall before the another same destination flight which departed about an hour earlier than our flight.  If we jumped into that flight, we would have arrived about an hour earlier.  We kept on waiting and waiting.  Someone start queuing, but we remain seated, until we saw the the aircraft come.

Usually, the flight number from / to Kuching and KL start with AK 52xx, but our flight number is AK 95Xx.  I guess it is either an extra flight for this peak holiday season, or it is a newly scheduled flight.

After a 1 hour and 45 minutes flight, we reached LCCT.  We did not see our flight number on the baggage belt, and suddenly a person appeared and shouted, “From Kuching, here (the second belt).”  I wonder whether he has to shout everytime the display panel is not working, or this was the only time the display failed and caused him to do that.

I have more stories to tell you after we reached the hotel.  Stay tuned!

We said goodbye to our turtles yesterday.  We handed over our little cute turtles to a turtle researcher who is currently writing a book on turtles.  We asked for her help to feed and take care of our turtles for 2 weeks, because we are going to start our year-end-traveling today.  Now she had added 2 turtles to her bigger but lonely turtle at her home.

We have these turtles about 7 weeks ago, and I have measured their size.  The darker one is 3.35 X 2.25 cm, whereas the other one is 3.25 X 2.25 cm.  Each on them has a unique pattern on their shell and underneath their stomach that touching the ground.  They must be something like fingerprints that nearly impossible to find the exactly same pattern on another turtle.

We are going to miss them, and thanks to the turtle researcher.  I think this is a better option instead of asking my mother, brother or sister to take care of them.

We have bought a small bag of skinless peanuts from a hypermarket.  Last Sunday evening, I asked my parents how to fried peanuts.  My mother said she have got a secret recipe from my grandmother, my father also said the same thing.  First, dip the peanuts in salt water for an hour or two.  And then … …

I did what my parents said and while waiting, I played a computer game - StarCraft with my brother.  After we had won the game (2-human Protoss teams vs 6-computer Terran teams)  by firing for about an hour plus, the peanut was ready to be served.  I mean it was ready to be eaten.

Do not get confused.  You cannot eat the raw peanut by only soaking it in salt water.  Can you guess what had happened?

SiewPeng and my sister-in-law (my brother’s wife) fried it while I was playing computer games.  The first part - “dipping peanut in salt water” was according to my grandmother’s recipe, but the second part is using their way of frying the peanuts.

My sister-in-law said the peanuts should not be dipped in water, so they dried the peanuts by letting the peanuts being baked in a hot pan without oil until all the water has been removed.  Then they fried the peanuts with oil using their way.  I wanted to stopped them, but I was attacked by 3 teams of Terrans in Starcraft.  After my brother and I  eliminated all the computer teams (all Terrans), it was too late because the raw peanuts had already been fried.

Luckily the outcome was still considered good.  SiewPeng said she did not wait for me because she did not want the noise, smell and the oil etc. came into the night.  It was 9pm, for me the night was still young.

At 10pm, I watched tv, read newspaper and ate some of the peanuts at the same time with drink, how enjoyable at the good timing.  SiewPeng took away the peanut and warned me not to overeat my favorite peanut.

This is the whole process how the peanut was fried.  Later it became my object to be photographed.

From my light box, using backlighting.  The peanuts got alive and showed their eyes.

This was how my light box looked like when I took the bottled peanuts.

I believe SiewPeng and Ms. M has applied some extra salt to the peanuts because I saw a spoon with salt.

The peanuts are quite shiny and oily.  Can you see some salt sticked on it?

Eating peanut with ice cold Coca-cola is one of my most enjoyable things in my life.  Yummy!!!