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A Day at Cherating, Pahang

2013-03-09T05:33:00.001-08:00

This is the first weekend at Kemaman, Terengganu. People at here didnt work on Friday & Saturday. Same goes to Kelantan. So It could be a very boring weekend If you don't have anything to do at here.

Here I go, get the car key & start the journey and today's destination is....

The Turtle Sanctuary, Cherating.

The Journey tooks around 15mins to 20mins from Kemaman. If you are from Kemaman to Kuantan, you will found the Sanctuary Park is somewhere at your Left Side. And the Asia's First Clud Med Cherating, Pahang is located just beside there.

Establish in 1972 as a Turtle protecting center in an effort to protect the endanger species the particular Leatherback Turtle, It was then opened to the public in 1998 as a centre to educate the public about turtles and the need to protect them.

My initial plan was to spend a night at Cherating, so that could observe the Turtle nesting activities. However, was quite disappointed me when the officer told me that turtles will land here to lay eggs between April to August only...Which mean I'm not in the right time to see that..Sien-ness.

The center is not as big as I thought. In fact, you can finish the visit less than 30mins.

Turtle hatchlings will be kept at here until they are old enough to be released into the sea during night time.

Besides that, you will be able to see many exotic and nice seashells

as well as others underwater species, such as Dugong

are displayed at the main exhibition hall.

The center visiting hours:

Daytime Visiting Hours

Tuesdays to Sundays : 9am to 1pm, 2pm to 5:30pm

(The lunch break is from 1pm to 2pm. The centre is closed on Mondays.)
(The centre is closed from 12pm to 3pm for Friday prayer)

Fridays: 9am to 12:00pm, 3pm to 5:30pm

Night Visiting Hours

Mondays to Sundays : 7:30pm to 7:30am

The programme during the night include turtle watching, releasing the hatchlings to the sea and the turtle hatching programme.

Visiting the centre is Free of Charge.

For more information, you can call the centre at +6 09 581 9087

So next, I'm heading to

The Holiday Villa Beach Resort & Spa, Cherating =)..What a wonderful weekend.

Well, what I can say is, It looks just 70% or less like what you can see from it website..

Next week, will heading to Rantau Abang...So, stay tunned!

Hai Peng Kopitiam, Kemaman

2013-03-09T00:10:00.001-08:00

Surf around the blogs and I found this is one of the Must Go Places at Kemaman =)

Has read from few others blogs and found that most of them were this Kopitiam was normally full during weekend. So to avoid the crowd, I've woke up damn so early today...But, due to my laziness, only manage to get my butt up from the bed and out to breakfast at 9am..=)

The route to Hai Peng Kopitiam is much more easier for me. Reason is because yesterday, during my way to hunt for Stuffed Crab, I have lost and keeps on round and round and R O U N Dssss at this area for at least 3 times, wtf!

So, here It is...

Kedai Kopi Hai Peng. It's a well know breakfast spot for the locals here and also a Pit Stop for travelers.

This Kopitiam is famous with itVietnamese-style strong coffee.

By the time I have reached here, the Kopitiam was fulled already.

Luckily, managed to find a seat for myself.

As what I read from most of the bloggers, the Must Eat Foods at here are Curry toast, Ice Blended Coffee Breeze, Toasted Buns with kaya, Kopi Panas, or Kopi-O, Half-boiled Eggs,Nasi Lemak bungkus, Nasi Dagang and bla bla bla...

But If you are still undecidable, then just order any menu that ended with " Hai Peng"'s name =)

So, I ordered Nasi Dagang. Tried this for the first time..Not bad though. Its boiled fish with rice wrapped with banana leaf and you need to add the Kuah on top of it.

Ordered Kaya Butter Toast as well. Taste abit too sweet for me.

Tapai or the Fermented Glutinous Rice. I has been an age I didn't eat this dessert.

But, I thought this is a Non- Halal food. How come It can be found at here while most of the customers are Malay as well..(Not sure if they are Muslim or not la...) Weird eh..Hmmm. Anyway, It taste nice *Thumbs Up*

Boiled Egg.

And of course, The Kopi C Peng...

Well, perhaps I'm not a coffee expert, so I don't found it's very much special if compare with other brands of coffee.

Overall, It was not bad. But seems like a bit overrated by the others. Some claims the price at here is a bit expensive but for me, I think It's more or less like at Miri. So, I have spent RM8.50 for what you can see as below. So it is expensive or not? You to rate it.

Besides that, They also sell some local Kuih- Muih

And as a " Souvenier" from this breakfast, I got the Parking Summon from the District Council for Parking illegally at payable space. Wtf..Didn;t notice there is a Parking Meter at there. No wonder not much cars were parked at there..Shit

The New Journey Begin

2013-03-08T21:50:00.000-08:00

After working for 3years and 6months for my previous employer, finally, I have make a move and pursuit my career in another brand new field.

On 3rd March, I have fly all along the way from Miri to Kemaman, Terengganu to attend a 1 Month Training under the HQ.

Well, training could be fun..I mean If I'm still with my previous company. Because 1 thing for sure, the venue & accommodation will never disappointed me. Just Imagine, staying at 5Stars hotel, conference at 5 Stars hotel, wake up in the morning and enjoying the 5stars international breakfast...And after training meeting or conferencing or whatever-Ing, soak myself in a bathtub (Well, sometimes no bath tub available), changing clothes and go out for shopping around the hotel.

B U T, If you were assigned to be undergo the training or course or project at here, then please forget about all the 3, 4, or 5 Stars hotel. Most of the people who were here for short term will be arranged to either stay at their company hostel or Homestay. Well, my admin staff was told that I have been given a " Semi D" and i will be staying alone there..Semi D, sound good for me..But when I'm almost fainted to see the so called Semi D..Holy Shit!!! I was a very old kampung house with no fencing at all and hmm...it's looks a little bit dirty for me..(Doesn't mean to be fussy, when I'm staying away from home, I'm very particulars for the washroom condition of the place where I will stay. I don't mind if I'm just here just for 1 or 2 days..but come on, I'm here for 30days or 1 Month!! But I should be thanks to God, at least I got an air con in my room and I'm not been arranged to stay at the oil storage store as claimed by a blogger than has came here for Industrial training before.

This isn't bad enough during the first day I'm here. I've reached Kemaman around 9pm. As I haven't took my dinner, they offered to bring me to the nearby kopitiam. I'm appreciated for their courtesy,but since tomorrow is PH and they are rushing back to home, so I told them, It's find..I can just dapao and eat at hostel later. So, ordered food, pay for it and checked, no plastic spoon provided. Wtf!!! How to eat Mee Goreng Basah with hand? My gosh..so went to the 7-Eleven next door, asked if they did sell any spoon, and sadly, the Cashier said NO..wtf...But to not make my colleagues feel guilty, I tell them It's ok. I will try to use hand to eat but actually I'm starving that night =( Luckily I still have a pcs of Cake that took from the flight just now.

Form the 1st morning I woke up, I cant stop to count down for the days to get back to my home. Keeps blaming why I was placed at here, Why did I make myself suffering by choosing this job? Keeps testing the sweetheart, telling him I can't wait to go back and I don;t think I'll be survived at here. I was cultural shocked!

But minutes after that, I became more calm and I told myself. I should be grateful. We need to have a little bit sacrifices in order to achieve something bigger. This is a test for me, to growth stronger. Perhaps, things is not that bad actually. Most of the time I will be spending at office and working, so perhaps should not care too much about the room condition. After all, God is loves me. He knew I cant survive without aircon and here I go, a Kampung style master room with Aircon at least..haha. And I have a lot of friendly new colleagues at here =). For my conveniences, the boss even give me a car to ride around. So see, things isn't that worse right?

Anyway, counting down..25days to Go!

"You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices."-Robert Kiyosaki

I'm In the Middle Of a Crossroad Again

2013-01-12T02:59:00.000-08:00

Damn, I don't know if I have made a good decision to leave but I hope I AM!

The road might be very tough for me, but I have no choice to turning back.

I have to be brave not matter what

I have to be strong and fearless

I have to depend on myself

Keep telling myself that this is one of the progress that I have to go through before I could be succeed

Keep telling myself it's time for me to growth and make my life more meaningful

Keep telling myself that no matter what I must NOT to regret and NOT to give up

I need a strength and that's something that only me can convince myself to be stronger

I know I CAN,even I'm actually not,

I MUST to make it CAN!

我，受伤了

2012-12-29T04:17:00.001-08:00

想哭，可是哭不出来。。
是伤的不够？
还是，
我早已习惯了这种痛？

曾经，你的出现，让我的生活变得更有冲刺
你教会了我如何规划我的前途
也教会我如何迈向我的"钱途”
你让我习惯了有你牵着我面对我的每一天
你答应我会陪我度过我们一起规划的新开始

這一路每一步都走得太辛苦

如今，你离开了
我，也失去了方向感
我，要如何面对我们一起计划的每一天？
要如何在没有你牵着我的每一天度过我即将面对的新环境？

你，
选择离开我，也许是对我负责任的一种吧、

我不再强求你回来
也不会哭闹纠缠了
我答应你，我会放手
好讓你覺得我沒那麼在乎

但，
说好不哭，我却做不到

我承认，
我受伤了
我放不下

你，真的伤的我很痛，很痛。。。

一个人的旅行

2012-12-17T23:43:00.002-08:00

也许会很不错...

就这样，

打了一个人的来回机票...

一个人出发...

一个人到达了目的地...

一个人寻找最美丽的圣诞树...

一个人寻找最酷的雪人..

一个人欣赏圣诞布置

一个人的早餐...

一个人的下午茶...

一个人的晚餐...

一个人等巴士

一个人的路上

一个人听音乐...

一个人休闲...

一个人看日落

就这样，一个人的完成了这一个"个人之旅"

这旅途，每一步都走得很辛苦

说好不哭，眼泪却止不住

黎明的到来，也意味着这个旅途已来到终点...

该回到现实生活, 对自己的前途做个决定

擦干泪水，重新出发，告诉自己，

我一定会...

更坚强，

更幸福，

更成功.

一定会.

因为我-Love Life❤

2012-05-21T06:15:00.002-07:00

如果有一天，医生告诉你说，你只剩下______时间。你，会以怎么样的态度去面对那_____的时间呢？

这世界上的每一分钟里，
有许多很热爱生命的人，却因为抗癌失败而被迫离开了这个世界。

有许多很热爱生命的人，渴望自己能再多呼吸一秒鐘，堅強活下去，去完成自己一一许下的心愿...

去实现自己梦寐以求的愿望....

去好好的站起来，重新认识这个世界...

去翩一支舞自己专属的生活舞步...

也为了爱他们的每一个人，一直努力的活下去

相反的，在世界的另一个角落，却有一些人经常因为一些琐碎的事情而寻找短路。

与其放弃生命，不如把"它"让给有需要的人交换吧...

如果生命可以交换的话，你，愿意跟他们换吗？

如果有一天，医生告诉你说，你只剩下______时间。

你是否也和他们一样，会勇敢的走下去...

不求太多，只希望多呼吸一秒钟...

每一天都很盼望可以见到重传外射精来的阳光，

好好的珍惜和身边每一个爱你们的人相处的时间，

表弟，你在天堂一定过得很不错吧！放心，你已离开了一切一切的痛苦，不要再为我们难过了，我们也不会再为你掉眼泪了。因为，我们知道，将来有一天，我们还会再天父的家里相逢。

珍惜生命，好好的过着每一天.

我珍惜我的生命，因为我-Love Life❤

How are your Brother?

2012-04-26T22:42:00.000-07:00

26th April last year, a sms has been delivered to his hp. Unfortunately, it can't reach him. He has gone forever to a better place than anyone of us have ever been without open and read the very last sms from me.

I often wonder what it would be like if he is still survived. He might has entering the University and study in the field that he likes.

My memory of our childhood were quite limited. But there are certain things that I will never forget about us. I remember, when he was still a little kid, we often asked him what he wanted to be when he grow up someday and his reply will always be the same-that he wants to be a Pilot =). He always become our follower whenever we went back to the kampung, when we are kids, we often having our meals together by sitting on the floor, sleep in a roll in the huge living room, teasing him with the girls that same age with him, play together at the Sungai (river) behind of their long house during evening time, celebrating Gawai together, hide behind him whenever there are the people who were drunk walked into their room (Although I'm elder than him, but his body are tall enough to cover the whole part of me.), he fried the chicken wings and sausage for us, granted my promise to him by treated him to KFC if he promised to stay healthier and come to visit us at Miri =) and bla bla bla... I miss those moment very much.

Brother, how are you up there? Can you see and hear us from there? Do you have an internet access to check your emails and read our messages & wall posts? Although you were physically away , but I hope you will know that You’re always in our heart. We Miss you, always.

Believe it or NOT?

2012-01-19T23:17:00.000-08:00

Do you believe the existing of ghost? Well, I never have this kind of "SPECIAL" experience before ,and never requested to have once too anyway. But I often heard from the people around me. I have heard it from my sis, who has experienced it twice and whenever she saw it, there is a bad luck happened on she. I have heard it from my colleagues, saying that there is "a lot" at our plants and also at worker's hostel. We even making fun with our Superior by telling him a lot of ghost stories that happened at our office, show room and in the toilet which make him not dare to go to the toilet alone anymore! haha.. Don't you feel it is ridiculous that a tough guy which is also a body builder is damn so afraid of this thingy?! wtf =) Well, I also heard it from many of my others friend during my Uni time. It is not to say that I didn't believe the existing of it, it's just that I'm quite curious, how do they know that's a ghost? Isn't that all of "them"are just looks similar with a scary face, wearing neither white or red clothes, have a very long long hair, no leg and just floating on the air? No? Oh well, until that night....

It is the night, while we are on the way home after sending 2 of my friends went home from the club after the Annual Dinner. After sending them home, we decided to take a shortcut to go back to the main road by passing Chinese cemetery. Well, It was always a NO-NO for me to passby that kind of places especially during night time but thanks God. Nothing happened and we have arrived at the main road safely.

The clock was 30mins pass 1 in the morning. Both of us were very sleepy but I try to making stupid jokes with my friend who drove the car to avoid him fall asleep. The road was quite bright and there is no more other cars expect us. While we talking to each other, suddenly, I saw 2 guys squatting by the road side. One is wearing black shirt and another 1 is wearing black shirt. They looks quite thin and young.

Without thinking too much about those "Can & Cannot Do" at night,

I asked my friend, "Hey, Looks! What's that 2 guys doing by the roadside in the middle of the night ar? Don't scared meh?".

Then my friend ans, " Where got?"

and I keeps on saying yes,yes, yes! But my friend keeps on saying No, No, No!

" No la! I did't saw anyone lah!", my friend said but I'm pretty sure that I'm not hallucinated!

Trying to prove that I'm right, I looked through the side mirror and found that there's really NO one at there!!Damn! How could that be?!

Then, I told my friend, " Wei...Really no one la...hmmmm" and my friend looked at me for a while and said

" Hmm...don't talk liao! Don't talk liao!" as both of us know what's happened right there.

We keep quiet and never dare to look back anymore.

That night, all of us have arrived home safely. But I can't stop on thinking about that 2 guys. As I remember, one of the guy have looked at us for a while. But another 1 didn't turn his face. Well, I think I should be glad that he didn't yea...Otherwise....EEe....haha. But what a coincidence, both me and the driver were sick after that day, with the same sickness some more... wtf...(Chinese believe, If you met those "dirty thing", you will get sick after that.)

Hmmm...Believe it or not? It's depand on you. But I swear, It's not my imagination.

It's a Busy Bee Day!

2012-01-13T21:15:00.000-08:00

OMG!!! Everything was in a rush today!

Morning-As usual la...Working lo..what else.~ But today got another 2 colleagues coming from west Malaysia to join us for the Company Annual Dinner tonight. So, my job were damn Simple & Easy today..I just need to bring them over to go makan-makan, Huu Haaa Huuu Haa and factory tour and then, wait for12pm SHARP, balik rumah.

Noon- Have an appointment with someone on 3pm later. Before that, have to do some online research first. After the appointment, will rush to the Salon for Hair Dressing..Jeng Jeng~~All girls were talking about this annual dinner since the past few weeks ago. So I can't wait and see, which gorgeous lady is gonna crowned as a Queen tonight tonight! Stay Tunned for update!haha. and I hope the Hair DO will be done by 4pm so I will have time to make up before My colleague come and fetch me up at 5pm...

Well, that's all for now.. Will update those "Happy Fancy Funky Happening moments of the night" soon! See ya!

It's 2012 WOaoOHa!

2012-01-01T23:47:00.000-08:00

Yaya..I know im kinda "lagging" to post for New Year To DO List or Happy 2012's topic or some sort of it and whatever la...Well, what to do..I'm busy wat..(Pretending as I have a very big business on hand).

Wokkie~ Let me recap what I have done in the past few years. Personally, I feel a little bit disappointed of myself as I'm don't really satisfied of what I have achieved in last year. I screwed most of the wishes that I thought I could achieved within a year (Especially in my career*Sob and hide in the corner for a while...) Perhaps I have expecting too much from myself maybe. But what to do, I'm 25years old already (Okiieee, corrected it. I'm turning to 26years old in this year ><") but yet, I can't even foreseen where is my future? Where I'm gonna be in the next 5years? Is this is the right path that I wanna do for at least another 30 more years? Is this is the life that I wanted to Live and make me no regret when I grew old next time? Nah...I have no idea at all =(.

But look from the other side, perhaps, 2011 isn't that grey anyway. At least through my current job, It's make my Travel & Living dreams come true =). Quite proud of myself as within a year, I can afford to travel to a lot of places by my own effort, such as the heaven for honeycoon couple- Bali (went there to have my honeymoon with 2 of my collegue...wtf.haha) , The Best Diving Spot in the world- Sipadan & The lovely country that touch our heart ( Nah..I didn't simply said punya ar..It's the the tagline from their board of tourism what) Taiwan with My Dear. Thanks to my current company to make me able to fly here and there more often. Where to find a company that offer you a job while you can get paid to travel for work, eat a lot of delicious foods which always failed my diet plan and at the same time to enjoy own leisure moment? Err..I mean except if you are working in the airline industry la of course.Well, no free lunch in this world. The time I am required to fly is the time when I have to got screwed by my customer due to the stupid customer complaints, or maybe new inquiries by those very demanding clients. Second thing that have to be proud is in the earliest of my 20th, I can afford to have my first ride- Toyota Vios. Thirdly, I began to be more grateful and appreciated everyone in my family. As you all know, I have lost my dearest cousin in 2011 who was suffering from Leukemia for the past few years. This make me learn that we can't predict what is going to happen in the next day. Therefore, do appreciated everyone in your live, especially the valuable family members and the love one. Live like you're going to die tomorrow, Learn Like you're going to live forever-Mahatma Gandhi

Ahha! After Reflected of what I have done in the previous years, now It's the time to list down of what I WANT to achieve in this year! For your information, my tagline for this year is....." I don't want to be nobody anymore, But I want to be Somebody!"

Well, I wish I could be like

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg-The co founder of Facebook when he was 20years old and named by the Time magazine as the Person of the Year in 2010.

or Maybe like Timothy Tiah

The co founder of the most famous blog advertising company in Asia Pacific when he was 24th (If im not mistaken la...)

..to sharpen my Business & Administration skill & utilized my 3 years of completing my BA (Hons) Marketing in my very own path =)

Or make my childhood dream come true and making Flying Above the Sky as my full time career. Dear God, Please granted my wish. I didn't expect much, 2 years bounding will be more than enough to me, I swear =)

Of Course, I hope my relationship with all the one I Loved most in my live will become more better than the previous years. Dad & Mum, I know sometimes I'm bad and not a good daughter. But believe me, I love your guys very much!

Oh..Last but not least, I wish I wont screwed my diet plan any more in this year. I want to look more prettier and sexier than last year!!XD (Trust me, I can do that!hahahahahaha)

Wokieeee guys, I think that's all that I could think of for the time being. Will update my wish list if I got some in my mind later..Happy Bless full, Successful, Fruitful and Blissful 2012 years! Wish for world peace and 2012-End of the world won't come true! =)

To Try or Not To Try

2011-12-20T06:03:00.000-08:00

Yea!! Was so happy to receive this email.

At the same time, was disappointed too. Because after a few years, I have to given up again for the 2nd time as this round, I'm not ready to go yet and I'm don't expect that fast to receive the invitation. But, chance don't come always. Do i still have the chance in the future? I don't know. But I wish I have, when I've more confident

This is my dream, I wish I can, and I know I will. To chase my dream, I do =)

Kolo Mee at Open Air Guang Xiang Ju (廣香居)

2011-12-16T19:14:00.000-08:00

Craving something light for dinner last night, hence, we decided to go to the Open Air Market Kolo Mee- Guang Xiang Ju ( 廣香居). This is most delicious Kolo Mee in Miri. They are famous not only because of their kolo mee, Steam Chicken, and Porridge, but also the characters of the owners! =) I'm not sure how old are them, but i guess they are at the late 50 already. They are look old, but yet can move very fast and memorize all the order very efficiently without noted down in the paper! Solute them very much.One thing to remember when you place your order. They might seems like not hearing at you, but actually they did. Just tell them what you want to order and that's all. Don't keeps on reminding them or else you will get scolded =)

Altogether, there are 6 or 7 of them. Each of them playing their own role. One boiled the noodle & porridge, One pouring source and mix the noodle, one cutting the chicken, one topping up the dishes with Char Siew, and the rest are helping in washing dishes and serving foods.

Normally, they open at 730pm and it's available at night only.

As usual, we ordered the Kolo Mee, kolo Mihun and Steamed Chicken and guess how much is it? Well, All together is RM10.00 Nett Only (Murahnyeee~~~). Damn reasonable weih! Another must try is their Chicken Porridge. But we didn't order for it last night.

Somehow, my heart will feel a little bit sour when looking to them. I'm wondering if they have get married and do they have any children to taking care of them. But according to my friends, yes, some of them did married with kids, but some of them did not. The sad thing is they don't allowed the children to continue their business next time as for them, this is not a good future that their children deserve to have. Well, I hope they are going to change their mind and allowed their children to continue this business and a family business and make it as one of the famous Kopitiam in Miri next time.

But something I have to voice it out at here. I just can't help to see some jerk that are very impatient to waiting to be served. Common la! They are old people, how you gonna expect them to increase their capacity?! If you come in late, then you just wait! Don't keep on rushing them and asking how long to be wait! If you can't wait then fuck off! They didn't ask you must eat at their stalk anyway! And if you

are waiting for your tapao, just find a free space beside the stalk, stand there and wait!! No point for you to stand in front of the stalk, blocking their way, because it won't help in speedup your order too! Can't you see that their only have limited space already, and yet you are blocking their way, squeezing with them and making the space become smaller and smaller?! Just like what has happened last night. Those people who are waiting for tapao were blocking their way while all of them were rushing to deliver the foods and preparing the foods. One of the owner with unintentionally knocked the arm of the one who are cutting the chicken, hence, his finger got cut and bleed. He keeps on blaming his sibling to pushing his arm and yet the crowd still standing there and did'nt make a way for him. After that, he leave with angrily and perhaps, heading to the nearby clinic. Can you imagine how hurts is him?! damn those people, it won't be happened if they didn't stand at there and squeeze the space. At least the old folks have more bigger space to move and this can prevent the accident to be happened. So PLEASE la ok, next time, you tell him what you want, then find a seat, and sit diam diam to wait. For those who are tapao-ing, go and stand at the empty stall and wait! Don't blocking people's way.

Last but not least, I pray and hope that nothing serious happened to him. Decided to go there again tonight and i wish i could see him working as usual at there. Thanks God.

Love & Travel - Taiwan Touch Our Heart- The End

2011-12-11T08:24:00.000-08:00

The Rest of the Days

--------Taipei.Danshui.Xinbeitou.YehLiu.Jiu Fen--------

台北.淡水.新北投.野柳.九份

Day 3.

Our first stop in Taipei was the City of Foodies and goodies-Ximending!

One of the Must Try foods in Ximending- Ah Chong Noodle (阿宗面线). See the crowd there? The seats are limited, so you might need to stand and eat at somewhere.

Besides than Ximending, they also have branched at Shih Lin Night Market

Next, Chou Taufu!

Very Delicious!!=)

Piggy Blood Ice Cream..EeuuuwwwwKkkSS!

But he said it's very nice. Alien~

Arh!! This is also very Famous in Taiwan! 滷味! (Marinaded meat) I'm ok with the 滷味..but not the Duck tongue 滷味.OMG...Geli!

I like this too! the Onion pancake! It taste like our Roti Canai but with Daun Bawang and some Inti inside.

Well, people said Taiwanese a lot of weird Idea. Indeed! See how the bun looks like?

Day 4

Today we gonna visit Yeh Liu Geopark. It is famous for its sea erosion landscape & sea products.

Catch a bus from Taipei Main Station to catch a bus to YehLiu Geo Park.

How I wish I can get this from the 7-Eleven in Malaysia.

It took around 1hours to reach to Yeh Liu from Taipei. Just in case you don't know where to stop, just let the driver know and he will let you know once arrived. The bus will stopped somewhere near the convenience store. From there, you might need to walk around 15mins to arrive at the Geopark. However, if you are lazy to walk, Don't Worry, there are a lot of cabs waiting at the junction that have offer various of tour package from Yeh Liu to Jiu Fen, Jing Gua Shi and so on. Anyway, in order to save our budget, we decided not to take cab but to walk by ourself.

You will found....

The fisherman Wharf at Yeh Liu

Sea products & Sea Food restaurant

A Temple in the middle of shop houses.

The Waterfront

A store renting diving equipments

And Finally, we are here!

The Entrance

NT 50 Each

Saw the Wedding photo shooting. Well, i must said, it's really a very beautiful places for the wedding photo shoot!

List of the Rocks that you can found inside the GeoPark. We didn't manage to find all, but we do found some. =)

The Mushroom

Lady Head

The Fairy Shoes

The Famous Queen Head

The Ice Cream

Toufu

Dragon Head

Whale

Elephant

A must try buy foods at Yeh Liu!! It's damn cheap weih~

After took a quick lunch, we proceed to Jiu Fen (九份)

This is the place were the Spirited Away （千里千寻-the animated film by Miyazaki get its inspiration for the design of the village inside the film from.

The Famous at Jiu Fen are

The Mochi

The Handmade Fishball

Er..I duno what this call. But it is a wrapped ice cream.

This is how its looks like.

Ah ha~ Not to be missed. The Local Highland Tea. Damn, 1 box cost NT 150. But worth it. It's good for health and smell good.

The Rice Flour ball dessert

With variety flavor

Again, the marinaded foods

hmmm...Didn't try. Don;t know how it taste

and Handmade Souvenir. All the souvenir inside the shop are designed by the Ladyboss herself.

The Meatball Soup

and the Guava or Pala（芭乐)

also forget what is this already...

While waiting for the sunset

Beautiful isn't it?

Exhausted. Stand for almost 1 hour in the bus as no more seats available during the way back to Taipei.

and the bus dropped us somewhere near SOGO so from there, we gonna catch another bus back to Taipei HSR main station.

Day 5

The sunrise at Taipei was more earlier than at Sarawak. When we wake up at 6am and ready to shoot for the Sunrise in Taipei City, we found that outside its already looks like 8am in the morning.

Today we are going to the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (国立中正纪念堂)

and see the Guard Marching

Really solute for their professionalism. They wont moved no matter what. Look at him. He was actually running nose during that time and i guess he has a fever too during that time as his body keeps on shaking. But yet, he very responsive to his duty. He don't even moved or get off from that place. but of course la...the officer on duty will help him to lap it. According to my boss who has studied at Taiwan before, those who are selected to be on duty as a front liner Guard are those who has the best achievement and discipline during their army service.

The guard Marching occur once per hour.

Went to XinBeitou after that for Hot Spring!!!Yipiieee! It's gonna be my first Hot Spring Experience.

The Hot Spring Museum

Public Open Air Hot Spring NT 30 Each and free Ice cream.

The Hot Spring Drain! XD

Lot of Auntie Uncle soaking their leg inside the "Hot Spring Drain"

The Thermal Valley and it could reach 100c! Very Very Hot!

See the stem and you can imagine how hot is it!

and we thought to try out the private Hot Spring...

and we thought by walking more far, the price will be cheaper. Well, the fact proved that we are an idiot! In fact, this hotel offer NT2,800 per room. (If I'm not mistaken la...hehe) But the environment is very nice. Up on the hill, so you can see the whole town's view from your room. Anyway, we didn't try for it as it is exceeding our budget.

Ended up, we went to

and try for this 1! This is good enough for me. With NT600 per hour, you could have your own bathroom, own hot spring tab, own living room with TV and 2 mineral water for free. =) The most important is, you no need to walk very far as it is just located at the left hand side of the Thermal Valley Entrance.

and visited a museum when we are on the way back to the MRT station.

From the Xinbeitou, we proceed to the last station- Danshuei

Danshuei are also famous with its food stalls and sea products. Our initial plan is to visit the Lover's bridge, Fisherman Wharf, but once arrived there, it's dark already and quite windy during that time. Furthermore, we are tired like a hell, so we give up on it =( Only Manage to walk and eat around.

What are they looking for?

quail Egg, Hot Dog! Yummy!

Guess what is this? it's a type of candy- Fruits wrapped with sugar, like the one you always see in the old time drama =)

Ya, this is very nice- aiyubing 爱玉冰

Dorayaki

See how many people are queuing for it?

Another must try food at Dan Shuei

The Night Street

Yea, this is the well known Shih Lin Night Market! It's huge and again, we don't manage to cover all because i'm worried that we might need to admitted in E&E if we do so.

Deep Fried Chicken Chop! Cheap weih~ NT 50 each!

Erm...this is something like a Pau kena fried but by water..Something like that la..

As we already eat a lot at Danshuei, so only bought Onion pancake, Fried Oyster, Noodle, Hot Dog, The Steam Fried Pau, Chicken Chop and drinks. But guess how much is all of these? It's less than NT 300 weih~~Cheapnye~

Too big. Can't finish by us.

This is nice also. But make sure you eat it while it is still hot!

Day 6

Have Pork Sausage Muffin with Egg at McDonald as our breakfast.

and after that, take a MRT to Taipei Zoo

But we are not going to Taipei Zoo...

In fact, we are there to go for the So called longest Gondola Rail in Taiwan. Overall, it tooks around 30mins to arrive at MaoKong.

Waiting to on board.

So here we go! You can see the Taipei City from there

Arrived MaoKong

The small town with very fresh air and good environment.

Fresh Tea Leaf

As usual, It's a makan makan time again!

This time, I'm thinking to order for Ma Lat Mian -Hot& Spicy Noodle.

But ended up, give it to Dear to try it as they did put the piggy blood inside that,,EuuuuwwwKs!

The gondola Station

Oh, did i mention in earlier on that there are 2 types of Cabin available at here? and the famous 1 is the Crystal Gondola! First, I thought i was scary but actually it's not. You can see the Taipei Zoo is just under your Foot! =)

Heading to visit the most famous landmark in Taiwan- The Taipei 101!

Nothing much different with KLCC- selling all the branded stuff.

As I read from the internet earlier on, from Taipei 101, there are free shuttle to Mr.J French Restaurant but we didn't manage to find it. Ended up, take a bus and dropped off at the Taiwan Medical university. It's really so hard to find this restaurant as the shop-lot's number were very tricky. It could be jumping very far from each other. And damn the young boy selling shoes at there, we asked if he know where is the Jay Chou's restaurant located and how dare he said he don;t even know there is a Jay Chou restaurant at there. Wtf~ but luckily, we met a lady and she told us try to search inside the University compound.
And finally, we found it!It's hided inside the university and beside the 7-Eleven. ow i wish i could be the student at there a...

The price is consider as "Standard" lo...but the dishes is so so only. Sorry to say, Nothing Special.
This is the Piano that appeared in his Movie last time.

Trying to imitate the pose of the Hero & Heroin in that film. XD

Have you ever see this appear in his most recent concerts?

Although didn't manage to meet Jay Chou, but yet, still feel very happy and satisfied, at least i have been there and touched his guitar and sit on the same chair that he used to used when casting in the film and touched the same piano that he used to play inside the film too! XD

It's dinner time and we are heading to Ximending for the Steamboat buffet Dinner.

NT 450 each (If im not mistaken)

Seafoods

Meats

The best accompanion for steamboat- The local beer

Fruits

Teas

Soft Drinks

Variety of Cakes, cheesecakes, Tiramisu...oh~

and free flow of Haagen Daz Ice Cream!

The Last Day...

Time flies very fast, It's our last day in Taiwan. Wake up very early as we need to rush to the airport . Before leaving, take the very last pic from our room.

and guess, what time is it? It's 530am in the morning! But its looks like 7am isn't it?

Finally, I'm done with Taiwan's post! PheWwww~~
Thanks boss for sending me to out station, so that i have my time to blog all this out within 3 days!!haha... Anyway, I miss Taiwan very much! I miss the friendly Taiwanese very much! I miss the Delicious Taiwan foods very much! and I hope, I could bring my parents here again next time!
Miss ya Taiwan!

Love & Travel - Taiwan Touch Our Heart- Part 2

2011-12-10T20:30:00.000-08:00

Day 2

--------Sun Moon Lake 日月潭 --------

Sun Moon Lake -the largest lake in Taiwan, is located near Yuchi, Nan Tou. How this 7.7 square kilometers lake gets it name is because the northern section resembles a rhombus-shaped sun while the southern section looks like a crescent-shaped moon. Well, i have no idea from which angle or which spot to see the lake view and make it looks like Sun & Moon.

We transit at Nantou to catch a bus direct to Sun Moon Lake. The bus comes every 45-50mins. Bought 2 Sun Moon Lake Day Pass at NT 299 each. You may also get it at the nearby 7-eleven. The package are including the daily ride pass for buses around sun Moon Lake, the Gondola to Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村) , one way boat ride pass from Sun Moon Lake to Ita Thao. Some package do include the day pass to Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village (九族文化村)- the One Piece (航海贼) too but of course the price will be differ as well.

Reached at Sun Moon Lake around 430pm and its quite jammed during that time. Perhaps because it is a weekend and there is an event over there so most of the hotel were fully booked. Finally, we found 1 room available at MayZen.

Walk around and we found these....

Local handmade sou vernier

Sun Moon Lake Wharf

The Landmark

Church of christ

The wharf

and had our dinner at here

Ordered the bamboo shoot soup and Wild Board with white wine for dinner.

Shooting for night view while waiting for the fireworks

The Sun Moon Lake Music Festival 2011 (2011 日月潭国际花火音乐嘉年华）

and the fireworks!

Having breakfast at the Minsu

after that, proceed to the wharf and start the journey of the day

Each boat will be lead by 1 tourist guide. He will do the brief introduction of several famous spots around the lake.

Our pic of the day

finally, arrived at Ita thao lo...

a lot of stalls selling foods

Guess what is this? It's a real flower man! Needless to water it and it will survive by itself. Thought to buy this, but it's hard to carry it back by plane.

The local wine

The Wine Museum

The clock found after the earth quake occured on 21st September 1999.

Proceed to the board on the gondola. Damn.. Long queue there.

Beautiful Scenery

the journey tooks around 15mins per ride.

Meet this lovely Taiwanese couple

a Must try- Ah Po Herbal Egg

didn't manage to go through all the hot spots as we are running out of time!

Waiting for the bus to go back to Sun Moon Lake from Ita Thao

and Next....Waiting for the bus from Sun Moon Lake go to Taichung HSR station.

Taipei! See you soon!

Say bye to Sun Moon Lake!

Love & Travel - Taiwan Touch Our Heart- Part 1

2011-12-09T21:22:00.000-08:00

The last trip of the year 2011 - ❥7D 6N to Taiwan !

Pre Flying to Taiwan =)

As usual, we transit at KK and overnight at The Crown Borneo Hotel for 1 night. Catch the earliest flight from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to Tao Yuan, Taiwan in the next morning.

Day 1

--------Cing Jing Farm 清境农--------

Landed at Tao Yuan, register at the Visitor Counter to collect our Digital Tour Buddy, which it really help us a lot during our stay in Taiwan. We don't even bother to buy any local Simcard or do any Roaming call as the it was provided with NT100, if im not mistaken la..haha..And it is very useful. You will receive a daily update of the traffic and weather condition wherever u are located. But you have to go online and apply for this devices at least 7days before your departure. Besides, you may apply for the Youth Travel Card from the same counter too and enjoy lots of discounts from the those participated restaurants, stores and hostel.

The Youth Travel Card is only valid for traveler aged between 15-30years old only. Click Youth Travel In Taiwan for more info.

Next, paid NT 30 and catch a Ubus from Tao Yuan Airport to the the THSR station (Taiwan High Speed Rail). For your information, THSR has offered 3 types of seats. Which is Standard Seat (You can choose your seats), Business Seat ( Not sure about this, but i think the seat might be more special than the seat at Standard Cabin) and Non Reserved Seat (Which mean Free Seating, its depend on your luck lo...If you are heng you will get the seats lo...otherwise,you will have to stand all along the way until you reach your last station). Normally, the price for Standard Cabin & Non Reserved Cabin are just NT 20+- in differ, so why bother to sit at the Non reserve Cabin, right?

From Taoyuan HSR, pay for NT 540 each and board in Standard Cabin to Taichung. Just like Airasia, the cabin crew will pull their trolley and sell some light meals in the cabin too. The seats is very spacious and even more comfy than MAS.

You can put your luggage either in from of your seat or on the overhead compartment above of your seat. he journey took around 40-45mins. By the time we arrived at TaiChung, it's already noon and both of us were starving like a shit since we are rushing to catch the train so only manage to took a cup of coffee from morning until noon. Bought 2 set lunch from 7-Eleven and I have to say, I love the 7-Eleven in Taiwan very much!!Awww...they offered a lot of choices and drinks & meals! Have "Shuak Shuak guo" sumore!

After lunch, rush to the ground floor and catch the Nantou Bus NT 240 to Puli, from Puli will direct to CingJing.

Beautiful Scenery along the way to Cing Jing

at the highway....

On the way to CingJing from Puli. It tooks around 45mins - 60mins.

One of the Minsu..Well Deco

Well, because of too SyiokSs-ing the view outside the bus and without our noticed, we have missed up our stop =(. What makes me pissed off is the Bus Driver as he said will inform us once arrived at our Minsu, but he didn't. He only informed us to get out from his bus when we have arrived the last stop at Cing Jing. Damn him! No choice, but to call the Minsu's owner and fetch us there.

Booked a stay at Misting Villa, CingJing. The room was very clean and spacious. The location are very convenience too.

Spacious, Clean and Comfortable Room with private balcony.

Drop our Luggage in the room and headed to Small Swiss Garden. It's just opposite of our Minsu.

See the sheep? It's all make from Wood.

The fog is coming..

Was thinking to go and have the "Goat Milk Steamboat", but due to the heavy fog, it's quite dangerous for us to move up or down slope at night. Ended up, we had our dinner at 7-Eleven again =)

Remember to keeps the stickers as it can exchange goods =)

bought a small souvenir for ourselves

The Next Morning.....

Having Breakfast at the Minsu...

and i like the hot soy milk very much.

the reading corner with various types of reading materials.

After breakfast, took a shuttle bus and go to Green Green Grasslands. Love the atmosphere very much, Not so cold, but not so hot as well. Recommended to bring along your umbrella and sunblock to prevent direct sunbath.

Breathtaking view. Good weather but beware of the sun bath!

Taa Daa~~the sheep shearing show. What was really amaze us is the sheep shearer. Although he

is from New Zeland but he can speak Min Nang Yu (Hokkien) very well!!

Cute mo?

Must tried dessert- The GoatMilk Ice Cream...I

After that, walk all the way to down hill and you will found a bazaar selling a lot of local disches. Such as the Wild boar Hot Dog...

Deep Fried Wild Boar...

Butterfly Farm...

Walking back to Minsu. It tooks around 30-45mins to walk back.

Before Leaving...took Pic with Nui Nui the Pug

and Nita the Owner...

Say See Ya with the Twins =)

Station berikutnya, Sun Moon Lake!

My Vacation- Updated!!

2011-11-04T22:50:00.000-07:00

Has came back for a couple of weeks already but yet, I'm just too lazy to update the post for my Taiwan Trip!! Anyway,
Stay T U N N E D

Love & Travel - Sipadan, Mabul, Sabah

2011-08-31T06:11:00.000-07:00

It has took quite sometimes for me to updated my blog as I was too lazy to upload the pictures.=)

Anyway, let's get it start!

This was one of my long awaited trip in this year. Have been planned this trip since a year a go. Just for your information, due to the limited rooms in the island (Mabul island and Kapalai Island), you are advised to book your package at least 6months before your arrival date. And for me myself, i have been do the research online and liaise with my agent since a year ago. And finally, the 6days 5 nights journey begin from here.....

*Not forgotten to bring the hat that I bought from Bali.

Day 1: Miri - KK (45mins Flight)

Accommodation: The Crown Borneo Hotel.(Booked through Agoda.com)

*Click Tripadvisor for reviews posted by Me & others room guests

Price (Per Night): RM130+- inclusive of breakfast for 2, Room with Wifi.

**Airport Pick up by FREE airport shuttle provided by The Crown Borneo Hotel.

+ Clean room with awesome glass bathroom design & room lighting.

- Small room, no elevator available.

15mins-20mins walk from The Crown Borneo hotel to Tanjung Aru Beach.

Bought a fresh cup corn and

Steamed Peanuts

See children playing happily on the beach.

Having our dinner at Stalk No.7

and a Must Try drink

Jumbo Mango Juice at RM8.00. Enough for 2persons

Yummy BBQ Wings

and Tomyam!

On the way walk back to the hotel, we dropped by

It's a nice place for family recreation and a very excellent place to jog with a very comfortable jogging track while enjoying the relaxing music playing around the park.

The show begin every half and hour, start from 7.30pm

Children Playground

Day 2: KK- Tawau (50mins) - Semporna (45mins) - Mabul (60mins)!

Leave the hotel in the early morning without breakfast (Although the hotel package was included of breakfast for 2 persons, but the breakfast serve from 7:00am onwards)

Waiting for the flight at Domestic Boarding room

Flying above the cloud and saw Mt. Kinabalu on the left side.

Landed at Tawau airport

Once you have stepped out from the arrival hall, you can see a lot of people holding their guest's name waiting outside the hall.

We were welcomed by the S.M.A.R.T 's crew and headed us to the van that will picked us up from Tawau to Semporna. Besides than us, there are 1 family that if I'm not mistaken, they are came from Georgina, Canada.

The weather is not ok upon arrival. Raining all the way to Semporna.

Arrived at Semporna jetty.

and on shore via boat transfer for about 60mins-75mins due to the bad weather.

Arrived at SMART resort. Short briefing before they distribute and headed us to the hotel room. SMART is the biggest resort on Mabul Island. Besides, SMART, there are a lot other resort as well. Such as Scuba Junkie, Uncle Chang, and Mabul Water Village. Normally, the package are almost the same, which is started from the transfer from Tawau to Mabul, meals, and dive boat transfer.

Our Room No. 152. Spacious and comfortable. Equipped with hot and cold water in the bath room, air con, ceiling fan, safety cash box, and mini refrigerator...

private balcony

and mosquito repellent as well! =)

This is the view in front of our room

It's raining day and nothing much we can do...so we decided to have a walk around the resort

at SMART, there are 3 options of room available. One is Semi D with shared balcony, another one is Stand Alone onshore Bungalow, and the third one is Water Bungalow. Obviously, the Water bungalow are among the most expensive among the others.

From water Bungalow, you can found the Mabul Water Village resort is just next to it and another platform based hotel known as

Seventures Diver Platform

For your information, all daily entry to dive or visit to Sipadan Island will be subject to approval by the Sabah Parks Management, so you are only been informed for the permit approval status a day before your arrival. The total number of divers or visitors allowed to visit Sipadan island is restricted now to 120 pax per day. The permit cost RM40 per pax for a non diver if it is apply through own resort or additional RM 70 is needed if the permit is apply and bought from the other resort. Normally people who stayed 5days and above will get a better chance to go. But some even need to stay more than a week just to get a dive permit to Sipadan.

and we are damn surprise when saw our name wrote on the notice board during the lunch time!! Yuhoo!! Can't wait for it!

taken in front of the bar at SMART

The dining hall.

Day 3: Mabul- Sipadan (30mins boat transfer)

We are suppose to follow the diving team to Sipadan on 5.30am. But due to my laziness, we decided to change the schedule and follow the lunch boat to Sipadan.

So, we went for snorkeling around Mabul Island in the morning.

Together with another 3 divers, we headed to the mid of Mabul Island. Due to the heavy rain last night, we can found a lot of small jelly fish under the seas. The water was quite cold and the current was quite strong which caused me to vomit for twice after the snorkeling trip..EEuuu~~

Next, we follow the lunch boat and headed to SipadanCarribean oceans, Indonesia and etc just for diving.

Anyway, I didn't do any snorkeling at Sipadan due to the minor vomiting that i have on this morning. But Kevin did! They saw barracuda, Jack fish, baby shark and Turtle! and me too! I can use turtle swimming underneath the boat too!

Reached the shore around 4pm. Have a short break and we started our journey again.

But before that, went to the Equipment Rental Shop to return the shark fin,google and the life jacket.

I have read some reviews wrote by the other visitor and found that they claim the rental at Mabul is more expensive than the other places. Well, i have no idea if that is true or not. But for all the equipment that i have rented, it cost me for about RM40 per day.

Majority of the villager are working at the nearby resort, while the rest are fisherman.

While we are on our way to the village, we met a girl from Shang Hai. She has went to snorkeling at west Malaysia, and Philippine, before she came to Mabul. She invited us to join her to Uncle Chang's resort for a live band performance.

The guest room at Uncle Chang. Usually, backpackers will like the environment over here, but not for me. I found it quite unsafe as there are no handle along the bridge. And the condition of the room doesn't suit me. =(

Anyway, I like the balcony.

And the lazy chair facing to the sea. A great place to wait for the sunset.

Went back to the Jetty's bar at SMART. The water was so calm.

And the Dinner of the day is BBQ!!

All the staff at here are very friendly and cheerful. Every night during the dinner time, the owner of the resort and the Dive master will walk around and chit chat with their guest. They even remembered what is your name and which room are you! They really try hard to makes their guest feel like it's second home for them =)

Day 4: Mabul Own Leisure

This is the last day at Mabul as we gonna leave by tomorrow morning.No snorkeling trip today as we decided to walk around and visit the nearby villages. Besides, we have paid for such a HUGE amount of money (at least for me, it is a bit expensive la..) for this trip, so we decided to fully utilized the facilities in this resort.haha!

Swimming pool and jacuzzi are available in this resort. Sea Kayak is available for rent as well. Besides, there are basketball court and volleyball court as well. Normally, the staff will mixed around with the guest and have a match in the evening.

1 of the thing that I like to stay at here is you are needless to bring you purse and wallet all along the way. It's very convenience to purchase anything in the resort. All you have to do is get the stuff that you want, bring it to the counter, tell them you are from which room, and carry your things back with you, that's it! They will automatically charge it under your bill and you are only need to pay it at once before you check out. Isn't it convenience?

And one of our mission for this trip is to shoot the local children playing on the boat! and yes! we did it! XD..

Watch out for those kids! They climb up to the deck and begging money from the people! It's been advised not to give any money to those children but it's ok to give them small souvenir such as caps or t-shirt for them. This is to avoid it's become a norm to them to begging money from people.

Another Dinning Hall Located at the Water Bungalow

Aww...Sexy lady

I like to lay at here..looking to the sea view

And have a coke will be nice too (RM4.00 each)

Feel the breeze

and saw an old man with children

in the hot and sunny afternoon. Poor...but no choice, that's the routine of their life.

Saw the staff were busy decorating a table for 2 by the beach...Wondering who is that lucky couple..Hmmm....

One of my favourite shoot for this trip...

Walking back to our room. We decided to take a look who are the lucky couple of the night...but disappointingly that the dinner is not start yet. So, headed to the room to take bath and ready for dinner.

On our way back to our room, we stopped by a staff called "Lang Lang". "Helen, your dinner will be serve on the beach tonight =)"... Kevin and I were very surprise. Kevin thought it was a birthday surprise that i planned for him, and i thought it is the anniversary surprise that Kevin set up for me..

Later, Lang Lang told us, it's actually arranged by our lovely agent Ms.Serena Vun who planned it. How sweat she is...=) Appreciated it very much.

The night is abit windy, but we enjoy it very much.

Day 5: Mabul-Tawau-KK

Today is our last day at Mabul.

Having the last breakfast at Mabul

Souvenir given by Patrick, the dive master

The shade in front of our room. I'm gonna miss it soon

The exterior of the dining hall

The only doggy on the beach-Yellow

Perhaps i should come back around May next time to see the turtle lay eggs

Er..So far I only saw 1 Sting ray somewhere under the water bungalow.

I love to lay at here so much!

Finally, have to wave goodbye to all the staff. Thanks for the staff for their kind hospitality, thanks LangLang and Serena for the special dinner arrangement, Thanks to Neneng, Patrick and other Dive Master for guiding us to have a safe and enjoyable trip, Thanks to my dear new friends that i have met at here too!!It's a fate brought us here together!

Bye Bye Mabul

I'm gonna miss all the memories that I have at here.

On the way transfer back to Tawau Airport and saw this sign in the van. Yeah, Say No to shark fin!

And this definetely will be our next destination after we got the PADI cert soon!

Souvenier from SMART resort

Day 6: KK- Miri

Flying back to Miri.. Buhbye Mabul!!We will be back soon! Thanks SMART & Asia Vacation for giving us an unforgettable trips at Mabul!

EndNote: Mabul, Kapalai, and Sipadan is a Must Go destination for those who loves diving. For those who plan to go Mabul, you may book your package via serena@sipadandivingvacation.com and attention to Ms. Serena Vun. She will be more than happy to assist you =)

I'M BERSIH, Do You?

2011-07-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

709 (9th July 2011) is gonna marked as a memorable date for all the Malaysian.

BERSIH has to be something new for a person that are not so fanatic about the political issue like me. However, this time, the BERSIH 2.0 was really touch me to the heart.

Before I start my post in any further, here is a little bit about BERSIH to share with you all.

BERSIH was formed in 2005 and officially launched on 23 November 2006 in the Malaysian Parliament building lobby by the Joint Action Committee for Electoral Reform. The main objective for BERSIH is to push for a thorough reform of the electoral process in Malaysia towards a clean and fair election. The first demonstration for BERSIH was help on November, 2007, where thousands of Malaysian are reported to participated in the activity to show their support towards BERSIH's objective.

In 2011, BERSIH is back and re-launched as BERSIH 2.0 by Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan as the Chairperson for this event. This time, they aim is to:

1. Clean the electoral roll

2. Reform postal ballot

3. Use of indelible ink

4. Minimum 21 days campaign period

5. Free and fair access to media

6. Strengthen public institutions

7. Stop corruption

8. Stop dirty politics

*Data source from http://bersih.org/

Report show that 50,000 peoples have joined the rally. Around 1,650 peoples were reported to be arrested by the police before the rally was broken up. More than 150 activists in recent weeks were questioned by police, and 91 have been barred from the city.

BERSIH 2.0 has given me a lot of thought, regardless is about society,the nation, or self reflection. I can't understand and found no reason why they have to banned BERSIH 2.O and described it as an illegal rally organized by the outlawed group that use to manipulate the people to gain their support by the opposition leaders. Besides, Bersih wasn’t organized by a political party, it doesn't sides either to the opposition party nor the government in power party.

Attack!

Earlier, the Prime Minister has agreed to reopened the door for discussion with the organisers to discuss the possibility of holding the rally in a stadium with a condition it is done in a peace manner as our beloved PM said he doesn't want to see any injury caused to the public and he want to protect the general public from anything untoward happening to them. But thing seems has goes in the other way. The government has instructed the police to arrest numerous of innocent people who are wearing yellow shirt...

and attacked those who joined the rally with tear gas and the water canon.

The brutality of those police who are suppose to maintain the law, follow the order, and preventing criminal in the country are even clearly shown when they has "acted professionally" by arrested the public, lifted them and push them on the road!

Followed by the died of the 59-year-old Encik Baharuddin bin Ahmad, husband of Puan Rosni Malan (head of the women’s section of Setiawangsa PKR),after tear gas was fired into the crowd at KLCC...

and the injuries of Anwar Ibrahim caused by a tear gas canister fired directly at him and his bodyguard.

So, is this the so called "peace manner" that has carried out by our PM?

I've presumed those intelligent people should have a better understanding on the contain quoted under Article 10(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution, as well as Article 20(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human which saying “it is the right of members of the public to assemble and to express their views in a peaceful manner" rather than me, but seems like I'm wrong. Yes, we are living in a democratic country but yet, we are not allowed to be democracy. Isn't it sound so funny?

The Crowd

Throughout the rally, the people had been orderly and peaceful. They started the rally peacefully, marched peacefully, and leave peacefully. There was no chaos and no disruption of public peace. And a special thanks to the government for spices up the rally and make it successfully drawn a lot of attention from people around the world.

Portland

Australia

France

Canada

Singapore

Switzerland

Japan

It's even "increased" the confidence level of the foreign investor to keep investing in our country, attracting more visitor to come and visiting our country, polluted the air and created a new record in Malaysia traffic jammed history.=)

Anyway, the campaign is over. But the spirit should keeps going on. The irrational, unreasonable, and illogically action taken by the panicked government during this campaign will caused them to lose a lot of support during the up coming election. Instead, they will gain more support and respect if they can react rationally, endorsed this campaign by thinking positively without banned it. Perhaps, it's time for them to think and reflect, why thing like this will happened.

Before I ended my post, let's take a look of these pictures. I respect this lady to the max! Good Job, Auntie Anne, the Malaysian lady of liberty!

She is old, but her spirit to fight for a better future are even stronger than anyone of us!

See? Isn't she is loving?

Once she started the march, she has no way to stop it before reaching the ending point.

The true beauty of Malaysia-Helping each other regardless of religion and race

Her strength and spirit to finished the march has really inspired me.

I hope that she is doing fine now. Auntie Anne, you are my idol!!!Solute you to the max!

This is the video that they made especially for her...

Dear the people who banned this campaign, don't you feel ashamed after saw her spirit and what your people has does to her?

Afterall, We want nothing much but a clean and fair election, for our better future sake.

It's My Bithday!

2011-07-08T00:44:00.000-07:00

Hey, Late posted for my 25th Birthday...Anyway, its awesome!Thanks to the pals! you guys are wonderful!

Well, this year's birthday is a bit special. The birthday was celebrated triple in a roll & received numerous of cakes this year!

On the 9th June 2011...My customer paid me a visit. We are suppose to have a quick lunch at one of the hotel in town. But due to so called a-very-urgent matter by my dearest colleague, we have no choice but to canceled the lunch. Anyway, It was a surprise when they came with a cakes for me..AuWwww~

Thanks to Jimmy & Esther!

Next, thanks to my dear colleagues!!!=) I have my best pal to celebrate the birthday with me!!She is Chang Chang!!! we born on the same date and same month, but different year!haha...

As usual, the "Birthday Suprise" by my dearest collegues.

Me & Chang Chang

Thanks to all the sponsorship in the office =)

This year, I decided to celebrate my birthday with my family only. So, mum prepared a simple dinner for us with my favorite curry...yam yam...

And thanks to Sis Joyce for the cake..Like it! Like It!

The next day

10th June 2011

The Birthday Girls

Chai

Chang

and we become

Chang Chai!

Having our birthday dinner at Cafe Rosita, Dynasty Hotel.

Thanks to Pui, Chin, Alex & Chong

and on the Third day

11th June

Birthday dinner marathon continued with my DearDear at my favourite Korean Restaurant..

Thanks for the treat dear!

This year birthday are full will joys, laughter, cakes and foods as well..=="

But I like it! Anyway, Thanks again to all my sponsorship!

and

Happy Sweet 25th For me!

Johnny Vs Angry Bird

2011-06-04T20:24:00.000-07:00

Look at Johhny!!

and now, look at this...

Don't you feel that they are look alike?

*Have a Nice day*

Unsent sms

2011-04-27T22:45:00.000-07:00

"You must be strong ok! don't worry, you will be ok soon. I know you can do it!"-SMS pending to deliver on 7:10am 26th April 2011

A few hours after that, mum cried and told me, " He has leave us...."

Wendy said "Gasah Ko ko went to a very far place ...He has sleep and won't wake up because he was very tired. But I want play with him, can I go to find him?

He was called by God to back to his Kingdom in Heaven on 10am 25th April 2011.

After battle with Leukemia for more than 2 years, finally, he has leave us in peace. He was a brave guy. He was strong and tough. He never show us how painful is he, how tired is he. He never give up his life and he has become more mature to facing his days...Remember when I visit him last time, he told me, "BB, I'm not like before already. Nowaday, I become weaker and easier to get tired"...and last night, When Sis Xiao go to visit him, he don;t even show his tears to them...Instead, he welcome them will a very calm's smile. Sis has shown him Wendy & Johnny's pics. Sis Has asked if she could take his pictures and send to us. He said, ok. If put myself In his shoes, I don't think I could be that strong to face my days.

Now, It's time to wipe away our tears. I'm sure he doesn't want us to see us to be like this. Perhaps, I should think like this....God sent everyone come to this earth with a task. Once we completed our task, It will be our time to leave. Same goes to him. He has done with his task...Althought I'm don't know what was his task. But one thing for sure, he is one of the people that has walk into my life and delighted my days.

If I could see him, I wish he could see the very last sms that I have sent to him on the day before he leave us. I wish he could wait for me & mum before he goes...I wish I have the chance to teach and advice him when he entered Uni... I wish I could give him a big hug...I wish I could give him a ride...I wish I have a chance to treat him a meal, I wish he never leave us...

It's time to let him go and I knew It. May Our father in Heaven look after him, guide him and show him his place in His Kingdom. I know he won't be alone because angels is waiting for him & will keeps him accompanion along the way to the place call Heaven. don't worry about us. We will be ok.We will take care of your family too. Please do not forgot about us, because sooner or later, we will meet & reunion with you again in Our Father's place. Amen.

"Sending failed"- Delivery report received on 7:10am 27th April 2011.

Gasah, we miss you.

I'm Not Happy

2011-04-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, I'm wondering, if this is really what I wanted to be?

Why I'm feel like I'm living for someone else? I can't make any decision for myself....I can't do anything that I like...I can't go here and there....I have no friends besides that colleagues, I have no place to go besides than my home and office...I have no own life...

I don't like things to be like this, I don't like let the whole world know what is going on with us...I don't like to be restricted from doing things that i think there is nothing wrong....I don't like things to ended like this too.

I just need a little bit time for myself...I just want to hang out with my friends like how the others do...I just want to make decision for my own life...I know what I'm doing...I do the thing that I'm sure I didn't betrayed anyone and I know what is the limit.Please let me go....and leave me alone..I need some space to breath, I need some space for myself.

Love & Travel - Bali, Indonesia

2011-04-18T18:21:00.000-07:00

Long awaited vacation is finally arrived!!!

Bali, one of the island among 17,000 islands & a well know holiday location in Indonesia is located at the western of Lesser Sunda Island. The provincial capital of Bali is known as Denpasar.Majority of the population living in Bali are Balinese Hinduism, while the majority of rest of them are Islam. Christian could hardly found in Bali. I think most of the Christian are the visitors from foreign countries, just like us.I'll let the pictures do the talk for My 5days 4night trip to Bali....

*Ready to Fly...

We departed from Lcct on 9.25am. The flight from KL to Ngurah Rai International Airport tooks approximately 3 hours time. My advice to those whoever that gonna take a flight for more than 1hour, P L E A S E avoid to choose the seat at 11th Row...Why? because it is just in front of the emergency exist and the seats are not adjustable!!wtf.

Day 1

Finally arrived at Ngurah Rai International airport after the 3hours back ache flight..

Welcomed by our Tour Guide, Xiao Fei. For your information, Bali is known as the "Island of Thousand Puras (Temples) too. This is because the Balinese strongly believe that everything have a God. They worship almost everything that around them, including, seas, trees, and roads!!

Canang Sari is a tray that made from coconut leaf which contains small flowers, coins (could be replace by biscuits or foods as well) inside as the offering to the creator Sang Hyang Widi Wasa. You could found this all around the corners in Bali island, such as temples, small house shrines, beaches, shopping malls, and even on the floor! But not to sweat if you have stepped on it unintentionally as it is not a big offenses.

Heading to Malioboro somewhere at Kuta area for our lunch.

Taa Daa!!! 1 of the Must -Try-Dishes, The Crispy Bone Chicken or Ayam Tulang Lunak. It comes in 2 flavor, 1 is Original Crispy Flavor...

And another 1 is Salted Egg Your Flavour...

See what's on my hand? It's the Happy Soda, or in the other term- Soda with air sirup. *Sweated* Guess how much we spent for this lunch? RM30++ per person..*Sweat again*

Headed to Uluwatu Temple in the afternoon. The Sun was hot enough to caused sun burn. But the beautiful panoramic worth the visit. Visitors are required to wear properly and for those who wear skirts or short pant will requested to wear Sarongs and it is available for free at the entrance.

Thing to be ware when you are there is the monkeys. Try not to wear sunglasses, hats or caps, and colorful slippers at there or else, it might been snatched by the cunning thief-Monkey. But of course, you can still get your belongs back by exchanging some fruits with those monkeys. Alternatively, you can also pay some tips for the local guide or the temple prieststo help you obtained back your goods too.

This is the common entrance that you could found in Bali. The size was very small and it is to be designed like that to avoid the demon or bad spirit to get into their houses or compound.

Next, we went to GWK (Garuda Wisnu Kencana) Cultural Park.

Here, you could found the biggest Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue in Bali. However, the statue was incomplete yet due to the financial and sponsorship problem. But once it is completed, this statue is believe to be more bigger than the statue of Liberty, New York with 150 meters tall with its wings span 64 meters across.

On the way to the top.....

Now, can you imagine how big is this statue?

Statue of Garuda

Er..no idea what is this...

The completed GWK Statue will look like this

Having our dinner at Jimbaran, the famous finishing village in Bali, where 20 people were killed in a series of terrorist suicide bom in year 2005.

A nice place for dinner

But the BBQ dinner ..Err....Well, can try la...

Day 2

a temple somewhere at Ubud market

With Chieng at Ubud Market. This street sold alot of souvenier. But, must becareful with those tricky peddlers. Sometimes, due to too many "0" in their currency, I will get confused actually how much is the total amount that i need to pay. And I have a very bad experience when bought souveniers at here. We try to bargainwith the peddlers, but guess what? We have been scolded by them by using their local dialect as they told we cant understand them. I'm almost being cheated by the tricky lady as I have pay more but she just keep quiet and trying to avoid paying me the chance. wtf!

For those who would like to buy souvenir from Bali, I will rather recommended you to buy the souvenirs at GWK cultural park or somewhere else but not here as the things at here are quite limited of options and the quality isn't worth for those things that's almost the same price selling at somewhere else. Besides, try to avoid buying goods from the front stalls. Try to walk and discover the small street behind of this stalls and you will found out much more better goods with better price and space for bargain at there. And before I forgot, please do always remember, things at here are sell at quite higher prices, so don;t forget to bargain with them 50% or 60% from the original prices that they offered. If they refuse to accept your price, then just move out from their stall. For sure, they willl pull you in and say:" Ok la, I offer this price for you only. Don't tell my neighbourhood stall that you get this at this price. Or else, they will feel angry with me!"...wtf..i met & heard dis kind of tactic almost everywhere i went through in this street. Some even worse, telling you that they have offered the cheapest price, if you don't believe them, you could go and buy the same item from others shop which sold cheaper than them, and they will refund to you your money!!Please never ever believe this! They are not going to pay you back. Instead, they will ask you:" So how la?you want to buy another one from me huh?"Wtf...

One of the famous dish that only can found at Ubud- The dirty duck. It's taste quite nice, except for the veges.EeuWwK!! Wondering why they like to eat bean sprout!

the water fountain at Tampak Siring

Nah! For those who likes to throw coin and wishing better look at this sign!

There are 2 bathing spot here. Balinese usually will "wash" themselves or bathing at the 1st pond before get into the second pond.

Another entrance before entering the 2nd pond.

This is the 2nd pond as i have mentioned before. So, at here, people will wash their face & leg before proceed to the prayer in Pura Tirta Empul temple. In the picture, a young lady was offering the Canang Sari to their God.

Some do believe that the spring water have the power to cure, bring good health and prosperity.

The locals.

-Tampak Siring, Ubud-

Souveniers

The Balinese women carries goods on their head just to earn RM 3 per day...

Stretching my piggy leg. We are suppose to visit the active Mount Batur, Kintamani. But due to the bad weather, we have to cancelled it. Will going back to visit there some day.

Having our dinner at this beautiful lake somewhere at Benoa.

The Benoa port is somewhere there too

Welcome to Akame restaurant, at Benoa.

Welcome to Akame!!

A restaurant with fishing pond.

The beautiful scenary

Walking around Kuta Street at night.

And found this cutie little Bubba

The train is ready to depart!!!

Welcome to Kuta Station Hotel & Spa Bali!! (We are just helping to promote, but didn't get in there.)

Day 3

Third day,woke up around 9am. Today will be a very relaxing trip.

The main building of Palm Beach International Hotel.

We decided to walk around after the breakfast.

Holiday Inn. It's looks more like a temple than a hotel.

Garden Spa & resort.

This is the only church that I found in Kuta area.

The interior of the church.

Chieng & I in front of the main door.

The exterior of the church

St. Francis Xavier

On the way back to hotel & we found this. Guess what is this? It's gasoline!!

They are really a very devoted follower. All the roundabout in Bali must have the statue of their creators.

Arrive at hotel. What a hot morning.

at Klapa , New Kuta Beach

There was a photo shooting session of models from China when we arrived.

PhewwiiiTttSS!!

Beautiful beach

Going down to the second floor

I like this pic so much!

Shade under the tent. Guess what time is it when we were there? it's 12pm!!!wtf

Leaving my footprint here!

With Xiao Fei. Guess how old he is?

The next stop is Traditional Aroma Therapy Massage at Valentino. Well, I don't enjoy it as I memang tak suka massage. Feel quite "geli" when the therapist massage my hand and leg. Can't help myself stop laughing inside there.

Found this sign somewhere back to hotel. " Bankrupt Stock" OMG! Perhaps I should propose to my GM to use this words during our next promotional activities?

Cultural show inside the restaurant.

The end of the 3rd day.

4th Day

Today will be a 2nd last day of my sunny holiday...

Get ready to Turtle island, Tanjong Benoa using the glass deck boat. Well, quite disappointed with the so called "glass- deck"...cux indeed, it is just a small pieces of glass on the deck, but of course, you still can the fishes swimming under the sea water.

The boat will stop in the middle of the sea to allow the visitor feeding the fishes. But something to mention is, they didn't provide the life jacket. Well, I think this is important for the people like me we can't even swim for 500m. Alex & Chieng can't stop laughing at me as I'm scared and keep holing tight to the handle all along the way to the island.

This beach is famous with the variety of their water sports. And it is just located near the Ngurah Rai International Airport. So you can actually enjoy the beautiful scenery for about 3mins+- before landed at the airport. the water sports are including parasailing, snorkelling, banana boat, Sea walk,jet ski, bla bla bla and the most famous is Fly Fish, which they claim could only found at Bali island. All games are charge using USD.

It takes around 10mins to arrive the Turtle Island.

Baby Turtles

Daady or Mummy Turtle

Grandpa turtle =)

Besides turtle, there have snakes,

Fruit Bat

Komodo

suppose to be Iguana, but due to out of stock, so have been replaced with Chicken..hehe

Being force to take pic with Eagle....

Am actually scared if the eagle suddenly fly to me!

The beautiful Tutrtle Island beach, sorrounded with white sand.

This island once was took care by the government. However, after the bombing few years back. The government refuse to give any funds to them. So now, this island are take care by the volunteer body, where they sometimes didn't get paid at all! Therefore, all the expenses are get through the donation from the visitors. If they have a spare from the donation, only then the volunteer will get paid for their wages.

RP30,000 for 1 coconut

The children and her parents are the only family that stay in this island.

Souvenir shop

Get ready to going back.

It's time to back to shore

Reached shore!

Next, visited to coffee factory.As what you can see on the pic above is the Luwak Coffee, which are very famous in Sumatra Island.

See, it is among the top 10 most expensive foods in the world! 1 small cup is cost around 67USD!

Coffee beans

Luwak Coffee

Free coffee for us..but i wish the glass could be bigger...

The last stop of the day is Tanah Lot,

Tanah Lot

forgive me for my laziness to write the description

Another must try food in Bali- Babi Guling!

5days

Last day in Bali....
Erm...overall, i'm quite enjoy this trip. How about the foods? Err....no offense but honest speaking, I don't really enjoy it. But the people here are quite friendly and capable. They could speaks whatever language that you could mentioned!
If I have the chance to come back again, i wish i could go to

Infinity Church

Blue Point church

And Kintamani Mount Batur

Well, it's time to get back to work...But once again, I would like to take this opportunity to tell the people out there, P L E A S E do not keeps on calling me, sms me when I'm on leave!! You will just spoiled my holiday mood! As if i have told you to just leave me an email and i will reply you as soon as possible means I WILL REPLY you la! wtf to keep on calling me?!ish!

Pheww~~Finally finished this post after a weeks to compose it. Exhausted. Good Night~

My Vacation

2011-03-27T02:04:00.000-07:00

Hereby,
I declared the 1st Vacation in 2011 is now ON!!

Stay tuned for more update!

B A L I! B A L I!