Unboxing KEEN Pompeian Red Stripe Newport H2

Assalamualaikum!!!!

KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!

I finally bought Keen shoes!! It's for the white water rafting session that I'll be going this Saturday with my other 3 mates~

It's the newly released Newport H2!!!

Bought at World of Outdoors at e@Curve after work with my Mum. I actually wanted to buy Teva Omnium so prior to going to the shop itself, I called up World of Sports/Outdoors outlets (e@Curve & Subang Parade) to enquire whether they're selling this brand or not. Glad that I called up first. Save time & car park fee. #shopping #tips

They told me they do have plenty of Teva but for that particular brand, they don't have. Now here come the best part. They said they got Keen, which is a much better brand! I was smiling from ear to ear. I've always wanted a Keen but to my knowledge, it wasn't available in Malaysia after much surveying the net. The news alone brought out the inner shopalistic (ie shopaholics + aninmalistic = kebuasan membazirkan duit????) in me.

Pompeian Red Stripe

Budget = RM200-300

Real cost = *pengsan jap* ~RM400

Original price is RM400+++ but I signed up for their WoS membership after much persuasion from the SAs. The membership fee was about RM50 if I'm not mistaken. So once you signed up, you immediately entitled to 15% discount. Got nothing to lose there. Save about RM15. Besides, I am known for being a KIASU anyway. Maybe I wanna buy their hiking bag or camping set or hiking tools or windbreakers in the future. I call this WORTHY OF AN INVESTMENT #trueshopaholics

Why is it worthy of an investment? See below:

1. Not just for this white water rafting session, insyaAllah I'm planning to wear this for any water sports activities in the future. There'll probably be more in the future (water abseilling!!!! ATV riding!!!). I don't want any blister feet from wearing hiking shoes when crossing rivers etc.
2. I also wear this to office sometimes :-D Ade aku kesah???!
3. It's very comfy, breathable & at the same time stylish~

WORLD OF OUTDOOR E@Curve

Lot No 1-36.1-36A, 1-37, 1-38, 1-39,&1-39A

Jalan PJU 7/3, Mutiara Damansara

47810 Petaling Jaya,

Selangor

Tel: +603 7727 8212

Paradigm Mall, Kelana Jaya

Asssalamualaikum!

Last Friday was a replacement public holiday for my company. Sila jeles :-P and thank you Agong because your birthday made this possible! So I went on a date..... with my mate (kenape perlu dot dot itu??) at Paradigm Mall; the newly opened chic mall in Kelana Jaya.

The mall is literally 5-10 minutes drive from my company's carpark (WITHOUT traffic congestion la). Basically mean nothing to me pon because I rarely eat outside anyway. Cost saving OK. Kate nak....... (lagik dot dot itu). 

I like it loads because it got Sephora. Now I no need to go to KLCC just to buy my PeterThomas Roth cleanser.

Steep escalator

Escalator lagik! Because I can!

BIG mall calls for BIG surau as well. Alhamdulillah the place is aplenty :-D Hopefully we did not forget to perform our duty as a loyal servant to Allah in the midst of shopping insyaAllah :)

The surau is quite spacious

Then we ate at The Loaf. I've been wanting to try out The Loaf since ages ago. These were what we ate but I can't remember their names. LOL. The taste wasn't so bad but then again, it's not like top of the world or anything.. It's quite pricey too. For what I ate, it costed me about RM20++.

Love the Uhuhu cheese cake. It's so cute~~

Hers

Mine

Uhuhu & Hot Tea

Sungai Chilling, Kuala Kubu Bharu

Assalamualaikum!

Last Sat, I went for a team building activity at Sungai Chilling organised by my company and it was awesome! We had a very hilarious & bubbly host and other facilitators to guide us through this team building activities. I would definitely go there again!!

We had plenty of fun games & out of all these games, I enjoyed the tug of war games in the stream! I scraped my toes because of the friction with the hard sand under the water when struggling to tug to the blanket (yes we used 2 blankets tied together instead of a rope lol). We won in the first round but lost in the 2nd round and had to settle as the 1st runner up. The loser got water thrown at them by the winner and I was soaking wet from head to toe because of this!

The beautiful stream where we played tug of war

By the way, my friend told me that there were fishes in that stream (pic above) but I didn't get the chance to play around with them or snapped a few photos of them. Time constraint here which was a shame.

So we started hiking towards the famous waterfall. I believe it's famous because it's beautiful, got a lot of fishes, a reserved area and did I say beautiful? For a nature lover like me, this is an amazing experience.

Anyway, the hiking roughly took about 45 minutes or so? I can't really remember haha. We crossed about 5-6 rivers? I can't really remember because my mind was obviously too occupied with the majestic surrounding. 

The deepest of the river can go as high as my waist (I'm 160 cm tall). It was quite slippery and there were a lot of rocks so one needs to be extremely careful especially since the current can be quite strong at times. 

In addition, I strongly recommend you to wear rubber shoes - crocs for example. I was stubborn plus stingy (not a good combo I tell ya) thus I wore whatever shoes available, which was my hiking shoes. Although it provided a powerful traction particularly when crossing the river, but the EVIL SANDS happily got into my shoes. I still didn't mind at that time but when we reached our destination which was the waterfall, I washed my shoes but didn't feel like putting on my socks back when we were about to leave as they were wet. So returning back to our starting point was quite hellish because the sands got into my shoes and the friction between the sand and my bare feet got me blisters :-( Plus I scrapped my toes earlier and that had gotten worse & swollen! Anyway, the trails along the way were wet and muddy so yeah it's best to wear rubber shoes.

Subhanallah the view~

Our destination. Pencemaran mata di situ if you look carefully. LMFAO.

 I guess I want to give out a few tips when you go to this place:

1. Wear comfortable clothes. Typical me, I'd wear something black/dark especially when you know that you'll get wet. I hate it if my bra lines were showing etc. For Muslim women, it's probably best if you wear hijab that covers your chest. So unless if you don't care about all these things, skip to the next tips.
2. Wear rubber shoes. Crocs for examples because along the way it's very muddy & wet. Not very advisable to wear normal shoes.
3. Bring a change of clothings. You can change in the toilet which consists of 3 cubicles. There's no mirror by the way. Therefore, bring your own if you're particular about your look.
4. There's a surau but it's unisex. LOL. So maybe you want to play osom or onetwojus (ie rock-paper-scissors) between boys and girls on who got to pray first?
5. Don't litter please! The place is conserved. Even the toilets, lamp posts etc were operated by solar systems solar energy systems!
6. Bring your own snacks. There was a solitary stall selling some snacks but according to my friends, it was quite expensive. I'm guessing because they monopolise the business giving them the liberty to step-up the price. You can leave them in your car although there is some distance between the parking area (which is at the side of the road btw) and the real entrance (maybe about 10 mins walk). 
7. Beware of monkeys!! Therefore you can't just leave your stuffs at the compound while you happily go hiking.

We are #ohsem engineers!!!!