"Taken"

Assalamualaikum dear readers, hope everyone is happy as ever InshaAllah. Watch a movie on TV last night titled "Taken". It is a story about a couple of young teenage girls, 18 spesifically travelling abroad (America to France) for holiday. Befriended a "handsome" guy at the airport and consecutively shared a cab with him for the excuse of expensive cab prices. His intentions was to know where they live. He even invited them for a party that night. 

After saying goodbyes to the girls promising to pick them up that night, he made a call to someone giving them the girls address. A few minutes later 4-6 guys came to picked (by force) the girls up for human trafficking.

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What is human trafficking? It is kidnapping people  (girls,women, men, kids) either by tricks, pretext, luring or what ever schemes they have found effective for the purpose of selling them as slaves, prostitutes (most common) and children are sold to childless families or worst they are phisically mutilated and forced to beg. In Malaysia now common cases are people are lured with expensive pay to work overseas and they are provided with all the travelling necessities and "asked" to carry "items" with them, normally drugs (drug mule) and these people if get caught are arrested and in most country would send them to a long prison sentences. 

Certain countries would hang them to death depending on the amount of drug they are trafficking. I hope and pray that all of our children would always be protected by Allah and that they are always guided to do the right thing and not duped into all kinds of tragedies......InshaAllah.

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Oh the movie ended up with one of the girls father (he was an ex CIA agent) fighting to save her and as always he manage to save her at the very last minute. Unfortunately her friend was found to be dead, probably due to overdosage of drugs. In real life ( not everyone's father is a CIA agent or ex),  it might not be possible to save anyone, childrens have been reported missing here in Malaysia and  they are not normally found or if found they are already dead. Look out for your kids, know their whereabouts, get phone numbers of friends or addresses where they are going, just be extra cautious so that you would not regret later.

The Teapot Deli

Assalamualaikum to my dear Muslim readers and Peace to my dearest Non-Muslim readers. Thank you so much for your frequent visits. Yesterday I  took my son for his Orthodontic appointment  at Subang Orthondontic & Dental Specialist Centre in Shah Alam.

Why "Subang" but in Shah Alam? The clinic was initially located in Subang in 2009 when I first went there. They moved out in late 2010 and we also moved out of Subang about the same time. Follow up since then is an hours drive to Shah Alam.

Appointments here are like hot cakes, if there is a vacant slot it would be taken up in a snap. If you want to make an appointment, be prepared to wait for a week the earliest or more, unless there is a cancellation.

My son's teeth before wearing braces in August 2009. The red lines indicating the centre of the teeth, as you can see, none are in the proper alignment and in upper right jaw, there is an extra tooth squeezed inwards into the mouth. Some tooth did not grow vertically, instead horizontally and pushing the tooth in front it, blocking toothbrushes from reaching that area, thus developing dental carries. In Islam, wearing of braces are allowed only if it is not meant only to look beautiful. My son suffers from frequent mouth ulcers, making it difficult for him to eat.

How it looks now.

Ok enough of Orthondontic lessons. It was raining really heavy yesterday and in order to avoid the after work traffic jams, I decided to drive on to SACC Mall for Asar prayer and tea. We went to The Teapot Deli. A very cosy home ambience cafe located on the 1st floor of SACC Mall in Shah Alam, near the PKNS Complex.

Lots of different shapes of teapot displayed here.

Sardine Rolls, Curry Puff and Mushroom Quiche.

Red Velvet Cake, Hot and Cold Tea.

Mini Chicken Pie, served with Fries, Veges and Black Pepper Sauce.

It was a superb and satisfying tea, hope to visit here again during my son's next Orthodontic appointment.

Kuching Sarawak Family Trip - Day 3

Finally the last day of our trip...After a delicious breakfast at the hotel we stayed The Pullman, Kuching., we head on to Semenggoh Orang Utan Sanctuary which is about 30-45 minutes drive. Our guide informed us that it is now fruit season in the jungle so we might not be able to catch any glimpse of the Orang utan as they have food aplenty. Here we could see the natural habitat of the Orang Utan, their nest and could also watch feeding time if we're lucky.

Fellow tourist.

Unfortunately...the guide was right, after a few walks into the jungle, the Orang Utans refused to come out even though the rangers called them out enticing them with food...but there are enough food in the jungle...nope they are not coming out. Even though clear signage had been put up to "Keep Silence" some fellow tourist just could not help themselves from making noise...sigh....read more about Semenggoh Wildlife, Kuching. here.

Nepenthes Gracilis or Periuk Kera (Local Name)

There are a lot of species and these are just some of them, these plants are carnivorous, they consume insects that comes near them.

Next, we were taken to a privately owned Crocodile Farm called Jong's Crocodile farm. Here crocodiles are bred for export. There are other animals in this farm too, it is like a mini zoo.

The remains of Bujang Senang, the crocodile that had killed lots of villagers in Sarawak.

Feeding Time.

After lunch we were taken around city tour of Kuching.

Still a popular mode of transport across the River.

The Cat Statue.

Sarawak River..view from Hotel.

Sarawak Library.

 Sarawak Museum.

Sarawak Parliament Building.

Fort Magherita

After sightseeing, by evening it has started to drizzle. We wrapped up the day's tour with visit to the Dayang Salhah Layered Cake Factory. Sorry....really sorry...we were so taken by the spread of layer cakes...as well as generous sampling...we all forgot to take any photoshots....(don't know whether they allowed photoshots). We packed quite lot for families at home. Visit Dayang Salhah official website here.

Day 4 was actually packing day....we have to check out and our guide took us out for lunch before sending us to the airport. I tried out the famous MeeKolok (Sarawak Laksa), it was delicious, as all food, it all depends on the cook, so get your guide to bring you to the restaurants that is  famous for its deliciousness.

Thank you for reading, hope you all enjoyed it.....Next trip Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.....will post soon. InshaAllah....