Bian Lian - Face Changing

My first time watching a young girl perform Bian Lian. Superb! This was at Main Place Mall USJ.

Goodness, I have never heard of this mall before. When I entered, I thought I had entered a mall of 20 years ago… hahaha… except for Jaya Grocer being there! 

Guess this mall is good to have around the residence area. 

 

 

New Panda Bears at Zoo Negara

My annual visit to Zoo Negara!

Usually it’s done on my birthday where I redeem a free ticket. However last year, the “old” panda bears were returned to China. So I waited. 

The new pair just debuted just last week, after a month of quarantine.  Just in time for Hubs to redeem his birthday ticket. So we visited the new set of panda bears on 13 January 2026.

We were very lucky as we visit the panda centre when it was just opened and the bears were active. Then another visit during their feeding time and got to see some cute action. After feeding, they were off to snooze land!!!

Chen Xing is a male. Fondly known as Bintang or Star.

Xiau Yue is a female. Lovingly known as Bulan or Moon.

This was my first time watching a camel eat!!! 

They were always either sleeping or just lazying around in the zoo. 

Barking deer

How do you get this deer to bark???

Look at its face!!! Beautiful.

Malayan Tigers

 

DAIDAI Cheongsam

Busybodied here!!!

Curious as to what they are selling AND my chance of stepping into Summit USJ… hahahaaaa! 

Very very Cina warehouse style lah… what also got. 

Women, men, kids, plus sizes… they catered for all.

Prices are not cheap for that mediocre quality though. 

 

Salted Chicken Rice

This is the jovial auntie that runs this “Ham Kai Fan” Salted Chicken Rice stall in Golden Jade Kopitiam, Taman Maluri Cheras. 

Her cooking is VERY YUMMY!!!

Salted whole drumsticks only and steamed

This is a typical meal most customers would order. Auntie offers Pork Offal Soup too. You can choose to eat everything with rice or porridge. 

Kampua Mee Pok from the stall behind Auntie!

 

Festival Lentera Putrajaya

1 Jan 2026

Anjung Floria Presint 4 Putrajaya

Today is already the 3rd. Days passed so fast. 

We were home on New Year’s Eve and New Year morning. Preferred peace and quiet.

However, rarely, we decided to check out this lights festival at Putrajaya on New Year evening. Was there early at 4.30PM to ensure an easy park and waited til 5PM for the gate to open.

As I had bought tickets online, it was just an easy scan to enter.

Loved to walk around and photograph the before and after sunset shots. Just so different. Magical. 

First stop was to the food section. Haha need to fill our stomachs first, just coz we were greedy!

There’s a good variety of food here, about 60 food stalls. 

Fish & Chips

Yummy cos they were freshly fried.

Eating it with gloves!

Chicken rice

I had a hilarious experience with this mobile toilet. I went into one (in the middle) to pee. Struggleda little with space. Being fat is tough at times hahahaaaa!!!

After I came out, I complained to Hubs.

 He said “Didn’t you enter the bigger toilet?”

I was like “What bigger toilet?”

He showed me. See the first 2 ones. They are bigger.

Ohhhhhh I never knew they have toilets for fat people!!!!

NOW I KNOW!!!

Lake Cabin

Tired of walking! So, sat, drank, ate until the sun set!!!

Seafood Aglio Olio