Commuting to Work in Sungai Way Free Trade Industrial Zone (2)

I have been using public transport to work in Sungai Way Free Trade Industrial Zone for few months. And I found another way to reach the FTIZ. I couldn't believe that I actually ignore the Sunway BRT for so long. After taking public transport, I tried to leave company before 7pm, however, there's one day that I got caught with an issue and by the time I reached the Setia Jaya bus stop and I checked Rapid Pulse, the next 772 bus is like 45 minutes away. And it's getting late, actually I did considered booking Grab. 

Then, I saw the BRT, it's been there all these times. And I checked it do reach USJ7 LRT Station from Kelana Jaya line and it's covered by MY50. So, instead of waiting for the bus, I decided to take BRT. 

BRT Sunway Setia Jaya Station

I have very good impression on BRT. I think I rode this type of bus in Taiwan before, sadly, I heard it's stopped in Taiwan already. This type of bus will not be stuck in jammed road, so the bus schedule will be more reliable. However, for me, my aim is to reach Glenmarie Station. So,  I was actually going farer than Glenmarie and then detour back. From Setia Jaya BRT Station, I have to go to USJ 7 BRT Station, then transit to USJ7 LRT Station, ride to Glenmarie Station, then transit to Glenmarie2 LRT Station. The time taken will be longer but more easy to estimate. For the bus, it's much more unreliable, but the route is shorter, but even with Rapid Pulse, sometimes I didn't know when it will reach the bus stop. 

Sunway BRT line is still reliable, but lately Kelana Jaya line is not. There were multiple times in my short commuting experiences that the coaches had issues and the commuters had to leave the coach and waited for next train. Last Thursday 24th September around 7pm, the train towards Putra Height had issue, and the commuters had to leave the coach and waited for next train. And I was waiting for train towards Gombak, two trains passed us without stopping, I guess it had issues and had to be sent for repair.   

USJ7 LRT Station towards Putra Height

USJ7 LRT towards Putra Height

Anyway, I hope Kelana Jaya line fast fast settle the train maintenance issues and all commuters including me can have a more seamless commuting experience. Dear all, we can reach Sungai Way Free Trade Industrial Zone from BRT Setia Alam Station, just need to cross the road.

Silver Jewelries

Well well, I love gold, I love silver, I love beautiful items. Hahaha! However, gold is too expensive nowadays. So instead of gold, I got myself silver jewelry, and some questionable rings from Lazada China based shop. I only stopped like recently, because I am not wearing it, and I couldn't justify buying to keep. I should invest my money in shares, maybe? 

silver rings with cubic zirconia from KC Jewelry

Anyway, looking at all these beautiful stuffs occasionally makes my day. 

side view of the rings

the ring comes with a thick plastic pouch

Other than rings, I bought also bracelets. However, it's still slightly bigger for me, although I did measure the diameter of my hand before placing order. I did try to buy silver bangle in jewelry shops before, however, they did not carry silver, only gold. Maybe need to try in shopping mall instead. But I am a bit afraid of going into a jewelry shop in shopping mall, the sales personals were so 'passionate', I felt bad if I didn't buy anything. Hahaha!

bangle from Jewellry Shop JY

silver bangle

Next, I bought from a slightly bigger brand, Wah Chan. It's beautiful too and came with certificate with the weight of the silver stated. The bracelet is rhodium plated silver based. I am not sure, but I felt that the rhodium plating makes it feel like stainless steel. Still, shiny and I think worth it. 

bracelet package from Wah Chan

WAH CHAN S925 ITALIAN Silver Bracelet

Finally, my first silver jewelleries from Tomei. It's much more heavier. Hahaha. I started to buy from 2024, silver was not that expensive then. I just checked in Lazada, two out of three items are not available anymore, and the two not available now are still my favourites. 

the price for the bracelet and necklace

Below is still my favourite bracelet, it is around 13.52g, and it's around RM196 then, I think it would cost much more nowadays. The silver price is increasing due to the AI boom. In the invoice, only mention silver bracelet, but checking back the Lazada history, it has a beautiful name to match this beauty, "Sonata bracelet". Although it's already like 2 years old, I didn't wear this though, only left in the box in a drawer, even the white box already became yellowish, the bracelet is still so shiny, so beautiful. 

Sonata Bracelet

Another no more available item is below "Frosty Faith Laser Balls (All) Wave Necklace", Hahaha, also never wear this. Still it is still as beautiful as when I got this. 

Frosty Faith Laser Balls (All) Wave Necklace

Another necklace that I bought is normal, simple necklace. I paired it with a charm that I got online too. It's from a China brand, I am not sure it's true silver or not, it might be true silver because it's not that cheap. 

Tomei Frosty Faith Unisex Box Chain + BAMOER Heart Petals Clover Dangle Charm

Actually I got a Habib silver bracelet too, however, I forgot where I stored it, it's still somewhere in my house. Also beautiful. 

Finally, very cheap fashion jewellery that I thought I would wear. LOL. I didn't. The one on my ring finger is the most expensive, around RM20, the others on my index and middle ringer are less than RM10. For the one on my index finger, the material description for the rings was brass, but I feel it's more like stainless steel I think. Brass should be copperish in colour. The one on my ring finger is silver on the description, but it's less than RM10, well I can accept that it's stainless steel. The ring on my middle finger, I like the least. It's too bulky, also made of brass according to the description, well, I cannot imagine how brass is turned into this colour. 

confirmed not sterling silver rings, I think

After summarizing the items I bought, and I did the math, ouch! I could have got a gold item around 2.5g in today price. Still, it's beautiful and it smooth my mind. Maybe will continue buying.......

Prepping Carrot for Later Use

Ok, I was not thinking properly when I bought a packet of 5 carrots. I only regretted a bit when I reached home. Obviously I couldn't eat a carrot a meal. And I read and watched on some prepping videos. I decided to prep the carrot for freezing for use later. 

First, I cut the five carrots into pieces. 

clean and cut into pieces

Then, I put all the carrot pieces into a pot and poured boiled water into the pot. Set timer for 2 minutes. I read that it's called blanching. 

pour all the carrot pieces into a pot

boiled water

blanching

After blanching, have to put into the ice bath to stop the cooking. In metallurgy, similar activity, it's called quenching. LOL, finally something from what I learnt in Uni. I didn't have ice cubes. But I did have ice block that I kept inside a ice cream container. Well, I did that because I thought doing this could save electricity. However, there are other opinions that mentioned that in order to make it into ice, more electricity are being wasted, it's easier to make the air cooler again. Well, whatever!

ice

I removed the carrot after 2 minutes or slightly longer from the pot and put it into the plastic container with the ice block. Then I left it and ate my dinner. 

ice bath

Well, after that, I arranged the carrot pieces in a plate, bowl and container lid. and put that inside the freezer. I read that this is to prevent it to clump together, if it's frozen first, it will be individual piece. Anyway, I don't have the space and tools, so I use whatever I have. 

frozen in individual pieces first

After around 3 or 4 hours, well I had work to do, I slept on 3am that day I think, I put all the carrot pieces into the ice cream container and called it a day.

frozen carrot

Well, I think I didn't blanch it correctly. Although from appearances, it's still ok. But it's quick soft, not crunchy after cook. Nevermind, can try next time, at least I didn't wait until it's dried up before I do anything.

in freezer section after 2 days

Below shows cooking with fresh carrot. It's still sweet and crunchy.

dried mee with fresh carrot

dried mee with fresh carrot

Below is cooking with the frozen carrot, it's quite mushy.

frozen carrot and frozen edamame

cooked with frozen carrot

Cooking involved so much knowledge, I am learning and trying to become better everyday!

Tea Garden Paradigm Mall PJ

A good friend and colleague resigned from the company after 20ish years. That's very brave of her, the time I resigned from my first job, I have been there for more than 10 years, that took a lot of courage to resign. Hahaha! I am hoping she will fly and soar in her new job.

Anyway, since she has been in the company for so long, she had almost daily farewell lunches with many colleagues from multiple departments. And finally, it's our turn, this farewell lunch didn't include our bosses. Normally for our farewell, welcome lunch, we would gather in Paradigm mall or Subang Parade to avoid the parking issue. At least, confirm can get parking. We couldn't waste time finding parking, still have to rush back to work. Many of us had meeting on 1.30pm or 2pm. Well, I had meeting on 1.30pm, and I told my boss I will be late. 

The place that was being chose was Tea Garden in Paradigm Mall. My colleague had chosen all kinds of Kopitiam for her farewell meal. She mentioned that the variety of foods and the affordability are the main reason. Previously, sometimes we would choose Chili's or Serai. It's a bit more expensive than Tea Garden. 

Well, since she was in the company for more than 20 years. So many people wanted to join the farewell lunch. Finally, since she was resigning, she left for Paradigm Mall first and got the QR code for us to start ordering. The rest of us left for Paradigm Mall after the designated lunch time. Me and my other few colleagues decided to just take Grab to the mall. Don't need to waste time even to find parking. Hahaha. So before most of us actually reached Tea Garden, the dishes already started to show up on the table. We took 4 tables in Tea Garden, but one table was quite far away, we didn't reach early enough to secure all neighbouring tables. 

Quite beautiful to look at

Another angle

porridge set

chicken rice

fried yee mee (i think!)

radish cake

It's a joyful and sad farewell lunch. We ordered a lot, and ok, it's not even more than RM1k. I think Tea Garden will be the place to go for future lunches for the time being. 

the bill

Washing Machine Oxygen Blasting Powder 洗衣机爆氧粉 To Clean Washing Machine

I kept reading that oxygen based cleaner is good at cleaning washing machine. So when I saw one small tub is being sold at RM1.20, I bought two. However, the one I got is not powdery,  it's cakey. I think it's being exposed to atmosphere. 

Washing Machine Oxygen Blasting Powder 洗衣机爆氧粉

Anyway, I used it on my own Beko Washing Machine and my mom's Samsung Washing machine. The dirt that came out from both machines were different. A bit weird. The reason I used it on my Beko was I found that the filter have something like green algae, not big, small pieces after using the washing machine. After cleaning with the oxygen powder, there's a huge big piece of greenish, greyish dirt on the filter, it's quite disgusting to look at. 

filter for Beko Washing Machine after cleaning

filter for Beko Washing Machine after cleaning

For my mom's washing machine, after cleaning with the oxygen powder, there're dirts on the filter, but it's just small piece of black things. The thing was not being flushed completely. For subsequent use, there's small black thingy on the laundry. However, we just removed it, didn't do the laundry again. Lazy!

putting an used towel using tub cleaning

small black foreign matter after tub cleaning

Well, this washing machine oxygen blasting poweder is good for washing machine cleaning. At least the gooey stuffs are being forced out. Need to take care of the washing machine and avoid mold!