C'est LA viE

Indeed a family day today, and somehow it should be also a exciting yet terrifying day for me.

Why? Because I had registered myself for a swimming class! Yes, in the end, I made it.....yet to...because the pool was too crowded and I really not feeling comfortable to take this course in such a crowdy pool with kids and parents shouting around, throwing balls, having fun....that's really freak me out!

I nearly quit and asked for refund, but I was convinced and decided instead of quit then finding a new swimming class, i will switch to the Tuesday swimming class. 

The only thing maybe I need to sacrifice is my Tuesday badminton session, which is actually made me hesitate. 

Well, but my swimming class is only 4-sessions per month, and is actually not a contract-tied class so I actually can just go for one month and see how it goes.

Of course I can drive to the badminton court after my swimming class, but it would be very late and perhaps I only can play for half an hour with my wet hair on.

So, i will forget badminton class for this first month then, and see how the swimming class goes, unless the badminton session can change to other days. 

But I dont think they will, so I will see how it goes. The good thing is swimming in Tuesday also can save my petrol and toll fees, because I dont need to do extra driving on Sunday, plus the aquatic centre was closed to my company (in the same town). 

I sincerely hope there will be quiet on Tuesday, otherwise, that would be another factor for me to switch to another swimming class. 

Later in the noon after lunch, I went to Empire Subang with my family for the travel fair. 

Apparently I got "extra" annual leaves from my probation period last year. Since I was confirmed, I also eligible for these 3 and half days.

For sure i will redeem my leaves, and I was requested to use all of them by June. So, I asked my retired mum if she plan to go for a trip and we've been looking for chiang Mai, Thailand.

However, I was tired to find for accommodation, flight ticket, itineraries etc for such a short time, so going via travel agency group tour will be the most efficient and time-saving solution.

I proved it right because we had booked for the trip today, it would be 5D4N during raya period, but need to be final confirmed in the next few days. 

So means before my korea trip, i am likely to travel Chiang Mai first lol. I think i need to really cut down my temptation for cafe hopping and avoiding unnecessary expenses. 

Then, we also gone to Jaya Grocer for grocerries, coincidentally, there is a NZ fair too!

How I missed NZ? VERY MUCH!!! When i see all the products, my eyes were blinking, there were all so familiar, yet some new variety and flavor also released!

We spent more than RM100 here, but it was worth because I know NZ products are great!

Even the whittakers also have new range! 

Dad also bought the Kapiti ice cream, I picked the vanilla bean one, because i remember i tried it once and it was good! 

Still good! Not that sweet and ordinary like other vanilla ice cream, this is more a real vanilla bean ice cream! You can spots the vanilla bean bits in the scoop. 

RM5 is not expensive actually, it is cheaper than Inside Scoop! And you dont need to pay extra to choose the waffle cup~

Another good thing i discovered is this porto bello mushroom! I thought this species only grown in NZ/Aussie, but surprisingly Malaysia also grow these!

So I decided to do a quick research on this mushroom and shocked to find out both portobello mushroom and button mushroom is actually the same!

According to wikipedia: 

Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Europe and North America. It has two color states while immature—white and brown—both of which have various names. When mature, it is known as portobello mushroom, often shortened to just portobello.

When immature and white, this mushroom may be known as common mushroom, button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, and champignon mushroom

Wow! this is impressive and amazing! I thought they were both different species! 

However, there was also some saids that though they were belong to the same species but actually they were under the same species but different strains. This species originally have brown cape and would sooner mature into the portobello mushroom. Then, a farmer discovered a cluster of naturally mutant white cape mushroom in his mushroom bed, and the current white button mushrooms were descended from that cluster~

So meaning white button mushroom do not grow into portobello mushroom, but is the same species while different strain of mushroom (with brown cape) grow into that. 

Happy to find out this, and wikipedia is not always right =) 

After shopping, I suggested to have vietnamese meal because dad and mum seldom have chances to dine at Subang area, plus their last experience at a vietnamese restaurant near home was bad.

So since i had experience dining at Pho Vietz at Empire Subang, why not let them to try out.

Mum chose the spring roll & lemongrass chicken vermicelli, which is always the menu i picked everytime have vietnamese meal. 

But we were too full, because it was just close to 5pm when we dining, mainly because we dont want loose the chance to have meal here =) 

Therefore we only ordered 3 mains, beside the vermicelli is banh mi and traditional beef stew with rice.

I initially planned to order pho with beef, but dad was interested to have this traditional beef stew =) 

Actually the taste was not bad, just i find the beef brisket was too chewy and hard. 

For the Banh Mi, it was good as last time, yummy!! 

Glad that all my family like it a lot! Highly recommended, better than subway a lot no matter in price or taste!

So that's all for today, love how we bond together and laugh around casually, chit chat about good food and all those random little things in life. 

That's what i cherish and grateful for. What a good day =)