Celebrating My Birthday at Berjaya Resort in Tioman Island

Last weekend was my birthday, my husband and I spent a little time together the whole weekend at Tioman Island. Sometimes it's nice to forget all commitment and left the hectic life in the city behind. Just eat, sleep, swimming and snorkelling.. 

Berjaya Air.. The only aviation company that's fly to Tioman Island

Tioman Airport reminds me of Pacific Island Airport

The lobby

Gift Shop behind the lobby

Beads

Pearls

Wooden craft in front of the lobby

I can see a cruise from the lobby. Some people say, this cruise belongs to Tan Seri Vincent Tan, The owner of Berjaya Resort

Tired and sleepy? This is so inviting

In fact..We slept the whole afternoon hahaha

After evening tea, my husband and I spent the evening at the beach

Two little boys playing at the beach

The walkway along the beach

I think this is a navy vessel patrolling the island

The coconut tree looks so beautiful at sunset

My hubby with our ride

The sunset

2nd day - the snorkelling trip. My hubby and En.Sham at the jetty

Me at the beach ready to snorkel

1st spot - Coral Island

Clear water and beautiful beach                                    

Beautiful scenery on the way to Sanglang Village for lunch - popular spot for kayaking

Abandoned resort at Sanglang Village

Lunch at Sanglang Village

Nice ice blended

The menu

2nd snorkelling spot - The Marine Park

fish.. fish..fish.. and  a lot of fish...

The golf course

The sea and the mountain

Tioman square

My first incubated chicks

Sleepy, tired and exhausted, that's how I describe myself now. I have been travelling to my farm two times this week to monitor the progress of my cabin construction and to send someone there. Who is the person I will tell you later. By the way, on the 8^th of October, my first incubated chicks have hatched. Among 25 eggs that I incubated only five hatched. I don’t know what the reason behind the failure is. Anyway thanks to En. Zali from Zali Agrofarm who help me a lot during the hatching process.

Chick emerges from the shells

Dry and fluffy

One of the chicks has a deformed leg

The chick can't stand properly so she/he sit when she/he eat

sleepy chick

I am so busy that I forgot to do some prepartion for the hatching, we don't have chicks food so my daughter pound some corn flake for the chicks

The chicks live on corn flake for several days until my husband bring some chick food from the farm

They are happy inside the brooder with 15 watt red bulb

Construction of The Log Cabin : 11th weeks / day 2

Last night my husband just came back from our farm. He looks sleepy and tired. He took two days leave to help technicians from Gumi Asli Electrikal Sdn Bhd (gumiasli.com) who install solar system in our cabin. Gumi Asli is one of Malaysia leading company in the design, installing, supply, delivery and testing solar stand alone and hybrid system in Malaysia. It's so nice to know that we are using something that do not pollute our world but just wait for the bills. Can't wait to see what the damage is like. ( I forgot to mention that my “treasury” nearly dry.. )

We also collected rain water for domestic consumption. I think we are going to have a green house..

Some of the solar panel, marked in the red colour were the toasted corns haha

Huhu look at the ceiling fan, my hubby choice, I want to change it

Two of the technicians

climbing up

This is for flowering vines, hopes I can plant one very soon

The fence nearly completed, I plan to put garden benches or rustic outdoor furniture here

we have two tanks that collected rain water, and more to come

Construction of the Log Cabin : 10th Weeks

My husband and I spent a night at our cabin last weekend. It’s freezing up there with fog and mist but surely its peaceful environment for us. Praise is to God who has given us sustenance, as it builds this cabin. With the completion of this cabin, hopes we will be more productive and can give more to those in needed.

I hope I can start gardening in front of the cabin very soon

Side view, 

A little bit wooden work inside the cabin

I need a lot of curtains here, Thanks god, my nephew's fiancee, Wati, will help me in this regard. 

Construction of The Log Cabin : 8th and 9th weeks

I am happy with the development of the log cabin for the past two weeks. Floor tiles have been installed as well as the toilets. The table top looks smooth even though it's not smoothen yet. Well.. I have nothing much to say, just can't wait to see how it looks when it's completed.

8th weeks : living room

9th weeks : living room

8th weeks : Guest house

9th : Guest house

8th weeks : Pantry @ table top

9th weeks : Pantry @ table top

8th weeks : wooden works

9th : wooden works

Still in very big mess

First Harvest: Tapioca

This is the tapioca that we harvest last weekend. So smooth, tender and yummy. My mother loves to eat tapioca tubers with salted fish and sambal belacan (prawn paste gravy). Same goes to my  nephew, Alif, he said "Tapioca + salted fish + black coffee = heaven". hehehe.. So last weekend everybody was happy to have some boiled tapioca tuber with salted fish for breakfast, and tapioca shoots in coconut milk with rice for lunch. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture on tapioca shoots. Just take a look what we have..

Young tapioca tuber, in fact too young to harvest

Wak Nan and Alif pulled it from the ground

Young, tender and smooth, some people call it cassava

Salted fish that my husband brought from Sabah

My maid's sambal belacan, It's hot!!!

According to my nephew judgement these combination can bring him to heaven hahaha

Visitor From Borneo

The last two weeks have been very busy days for me and my husband. My mother came to Kuala Lumpur to do some medical check-up so we have to attend her. But last weekend she has an opportunity to visit our farm and our under construction cabin. As a farmer she is very happy because I follow her footsteps. I can feel her true farmer blood when she insisted to plant a few tapioca and corns to mark her visit to our farm, despite her poor health. Her next visit would be in November and she is looking forward to plant more tapiocas. 

The Tapioca Lady

She started doing farm job since she was 20 years old, now she owns a few hectares of palm oil farm

My mother with my maid and my best friend Cik Bee

Surprised to see so many The mangosteen

Very often to see Mangosteen in my home town

Cik Bee under the lime tree

Posing with the gerobak (wheelbarrow)

Behind the cabin