龙 & Kelly - VISIT MALAYSIA 2011

REDANG ISLAND - LAGUNA RESORT

潮游泰国 - 曼谷之旅 - LAST EPISODE

.
after so many days of walking under the direct sun and carrying heavy shopping bags, our tired legs, arms and skin needed extra care. so we decided to go for a spa. our hotel recommended rangnam spa. good service - the spa even sent a mpv to fetch us from the hotel to the spa. i have no idea whether this is expensive or reasonable - RM210 for a 2-hour spa, which includes whole body scrub, oil and thai massage. i tried out jasmine body scrub and orchid oil massage.
.
i always reject 'invitations' to massages and spa treatments. i just dislike the feeling of being rubbed and massaged. the feeling is like... they are dealing with my bones, breaking and reunited them back again rather than dealing with my pressure points. perhaps, it's not an easy way to deal with my skinny body, though. it's kinda like touch me - touch bones. hahahahaha...
.
bangkok, thailand isn't a place for me, i'd say. the weather is too hot & wet. the rain falls without alarm. imagine this... sweat + dust + drizzling rain = dirt. rain falls for one minute or two, bright sun appears again. back to dirt + sweat + dust + drizzling rain (if you are really bad luck) = 2x dirt. yeerr... i hate this!!
.
correct me if i'm wrong - BANGKOK is the CAPITAL of THAILAND. yet... the place is so so so dirty. dah tahu kotor takpe, lagi takde tong sampah. apa nak jadi ni...??!! really can't find a dustbin along the road, not even one. of course, wastage are dumped everywhere on the road.
.
another thing... the electrical wires connected among lamp posts. the wires are just like the ang mos' hair locks. OMG...
.
the famous street food are sold by the roadsides. perhaps, just beside the engines of cars and tut tuts. eating them is like swallowing dust. argh... our mamak and lok lok are better still!
.
the best part i hate about this place - TRAFFIC JAM. no matter it's a morning, afternoon, evening or night time, cars, tut tuts, motorcycles, bicycles and all other unlisted vehicle types are on every road in bangkok. i'm not sure if they are parked on the roads or waiting for the time to move. really makes me feel sick and headache. i should not be visiting bangkok in the next years, not before i can forget the frustrations that i have experienced.

p/s: future bangkok visitors - please bring along a mini fan, wet tissue and a person / directory that guides you to the food. fashion items are no more cheap there, please bring more THB.

潮游泰国- 曼谷之旅 - CHAPTER 2

.

.

so coincidencely our second day in bangkok was the four face buddha day. i think it should be a big day as believers from singapore, hong kong and other asia countries were there, doing prayers, some of them actually worship the buddha with wooden elephants and some of them paid dancers to perform a worship dance for them. the rates are based on the number of dancers and the duration of the worship. personally, i think the dancers were not sincere, though... hmm... interesting..

siam paragon

central world

siam square

we went to the hi-ends in siam. christmas decors are everywhere. i like paragon the most - the decors are extended to the walkway to siam square. beautiful...

central world is the mall that i long to go. at first i wanted to get myself a custom made scheduler for 2010. i watched from a tv show, that the mall has a counter, which does design for calendars, note pads, diaries and photo albums. but i couldn't find the counter, 算啦! i know there's a shop in the tropicana mall which is doing 'more or less' the same thing as this is doing.

siam square is like a park with unique boutiques. erm... similar to our jalan telawi in bangsar but the size of the park is like 2x of jalan telawi. big billboards and colourful window displays are simply too attractive.
.

.

we went to the big C for groceries. hahaha... once an auntie, always an auntie. i wanted to buy instant noodles-lah and rainie wanted to buy phad thai for dad, so there we went to.

.

.

.

we went to kao shan for dinner. rugged ang mos are everywhere, as seen in travel directories. tattoos, locked hair, face pierces, bars, hoegarden... ooh... my cup of tea. hahaha...

潮游泰国 - 曼谷之旅 - CHAPTER 1

.

we arrived at the baiyoke boutique in the midnight. we thought of registering only 2 pax for a standard deluxe room (while i try to smuggle in for free). who knows there are CCTVs in front of our room. we got a call from the reception once we stepped in the room. i never knew Thais are soooo efficient & effective. hahahaha...still, worth paying the money - overall the hotel is clean, well facilitated and staff are nice.
.

we headed to the chatuchak weekend market after our breakfast in the hotel. the weather was extremely warm. we walked the whole day under the brightest sun in the universe. of course, we bought many things... mostly t-shirts. we had our lunch in the chatuchak too - noodle in chicken soup. haa... with the whole chicken drumstick. slurp...!!

.
.

our hotel is actually located near the platinum fashion mall. this is the most famous warehouse in the pratunam area. tell you what... the above photos are no jokes, they are real! the fashion items are really like this. they are sold in a bunch. let's say... one piece for THB180, three pieces for THB450. luckily there were three of us, we got most of our items at wholesale price : )

what a fruitful day... : )

潮游泰国 - 曼谷之旅 - THRILLER

.

EXOTIC THAILAND - BANGKOK CITY

.

.

Departure: 07/11/2009 2125 LCCT - T14

Arrival: 07/11/2009 2330 Suvarnabhumi International Airport

Length of Stay: 3D 3N

Accomodation: Baiyoke Boutique - Deluxe T/S with Extra Bed

Room Charges: THB2,200 (Inclusive of THB600 for extra bed)

Transit Charges: THB400 (inclusive of total toll charges of THB65)

sCaVenGer HunT

just came back frm a 2D1N team building camp @ kuala lipis-bentong. we left for the camp @ arnd 3pm frm office to kuala lipis. the journey took abt 3 hrs, immediately we checked-in to our hotel rooms and headed for a 'so-called' BBQ dinner and we attended a classroom training shortly after the dinner (erm... i shall share with u later on the lessons i learned frm the training. i've learned a lot frm the tests and they are seem so true abt me!!!).

david, the trainer (aka the joker) with his common words like 'interesting, huh?!' & 'does it make sense?', sensible, realistic and mindful jokes, made the training a memorably crazy one for everyone of us. we enjoyed so much, every little moment of the training. the room was filled with tears of laughter, craze, joy, hot music & dance etc... - POS, pls imagine L doing the sexy dance. kakaka...~~~!!! i bet, max entertainment, man!!!

that was yesterday's night... today, we went through an adventurous and tiring day - the scavenger hunt. we actually needed to scout for hidden materials for the cookout @ the waterfall. we searched all over the place, frm up the hill to down the river. we got ourselves wet-n-dry-n-wet-n-dry... i lost count of how many times this circle happened. haha~~~

the best best part was the 4x4 wd journey. the drive was mad & crazy, yet we enjoyed it so much!!! very much!!! the drivers were friendly, humorous and experienced. we were standing behind the jeep, shouting and yelling like mad ppl - overcoming our fear while riding in old fashioned looking jeeps yet equiped with evo & silica engines, going up the hills and going down the rivers. i tell u ar... this is really crazy *sweat & faint*

we reached the waterfall after a hunt and 4x4 wd drive of abt 3 hrs. erm... let's cut short on the cookout. u wouldn't want to know how we came out with the food but we finished almost everything after going through a starving morning.

overall, i'd rate this 95 points. the -5 would be the cookout, most probably. it wasn't s'thing interesting to do *yawn*

whoever is interested to organize one on own expense, please feel free to contact the bridge ICD at the below link - free advertisement as i really want to recommend this outing to u.

http://www.bridge.com.my/_mgxroot/page_10784_27.html

happy & enjoy viewing!!

p/s: dear god, thank you for bringing us to the trip, arriving and reaching home safely. thank you for all the joy and laughter during the get-together. may everyone feels the same, happy with
blessed trip. thank you for introducing me to this big family, bunch of colleagues and i believe in U, eventually we will be good friends. thank you for inspiring me, helping me realising the true-self within me, through U and the training. may everyone blessed with a good & comfortable night. in jesus name i pray, amen.

ipoh mari... ipoh ipoh mari...

20/09/2008 - 7.00am

ring~~~~~~ 'stupid alarm!! what's the time now?? don't you know today is saturday??'

while getting myself awake, my mind played back to yesterday night, when i was packing my things for the makan-makan trip to ipoh. aah... my god, i was late. ipoh, please wait for me...

oh, s**t!! i needed to collect my medical report from pathlab. ipoh, please wait for me...

grrhh... hungry : (
gotta have my breakfast in imbi market first. ipoh, please wait for me...

10.00am - arrived at office in excitement. straightaway we jumped into cars and off we left for ipoh. we drove, drove, drove and drove... ipoh, please wait for us...

12.30pm - at last we reached ipoh. we gathered at the first mcD outlet after the toll plaza for our ipohan colleague a.k.a. tour guide. after waited for a while, she came with her husband and the assistant tour guide - her brother. eik... sorry, the tour guide was actually the brother and the ipohan colleague was only the assistant. who cared anyway... we came for food :pp

1st ding - egg tart from simee market. tasted a little similar with tong kee egg tart. but this was bigger in size. hmm... the layers were not as crispy as tong kee's. rated 2 out of 5.

2nd ding - yong tau foo. cheap, tasty but a little too oily. variety of choices, even more than kl's. the clear soup was bitter gourd soup - added points. rated 3 out of 5.

3rd ding - sweet peanut porridge and mua ci. recommended by ho chak a little while ago (perhaps, in season 1. the label looked old :pp). 'i want a bowl of black sesame porridge, please'. 'no black sesame porridge wo'. 'haa... sold out ar? it is stated here that you sell this wo... not meh?' 'it's ma zi wo...'. (oopps... i thought zi ma (sesame). oh, it was ma zi (mua ci). cheh...) 'ok lah... peanut sweet porridge-lah then'. slurp... wow wow wow... ding ding ding... marvelous!!! very smooth... so tasty. not too sweet, tasted just nice. yum yum... yummy... : ) rated 3.5 out of 5.

arrived at our rented condo in bercham. this new area was so peaceful and i found it very convenient. a kindergarten at a side, tesco extra nearby, nice garden view and well facilitated with swimming pools and park.

3 rooms, a kitchen, 2 shower rooms, fully furnished and air-conditioned. not bad, huh...?? good... very comfortable. felt like staying at home. zzz... slept for a little while, when people around me busy discussing who and who in which and which room. for me, whatever... so long as i got myself a place to sleep - not in the toilet or kitchen, please... :pp

moving out from the house again to all the caves in ipoh. first, we went to the kek look tong. then to the ling sen tong, nam tin tong and sam poh tong. we reached the sam poh tong a little later - it had closed for visitors. hmmm... never mind. we came for makan-makan, not for the caves. these caves looked more or less the same. not as interesting as the upcoming dish. kekeke...

while waiting for the dinner time, we went shopping for locals at the yee hup biscuits. the shop was just outside the sam poh tong. didn't shop much this time - i'm not interested in biscuits. moreover, my heart had already flew to the...

4th ding - steamed chicken with beansprout and hor fun / rice. we were seated in 2 different tables due to space constraint. 7 pax & 8 pax. our table of 8 pax ordered a whole steamed chicken (half kampung chicken and half pasar chicken), beansprout, special roasted pork with bbq sauce (char siu), meat & fish balls and hor fun / rice. these were originated from ipoh and they were really belong to ipoh. i couldn't taste any in kl which tasted as nice as these in ipoh. really special. tasty tasty tasty.... rated 4 out of 5.

we needed some exercise to digest today's input. we had too much nice food today. the best exercise ever - shopping for locals... AGAIN. well, nothing much we could do... talking about night time entertainment and night spots, ipoh is too faraway from kl. ipoh is much more boring than kl, i'd say.

we had another place to go than shopping for locals. yeah, right... we shopped in ipoh parade this round. haa... gosh... okay okay... go go go!!! (unwillingly... :pp)

after a tiring walkaround - shopping shopping and shopping... we went for the...

5th ding - supper in tong sui street. eik... no tong sui geh... instead, i got myself a can of cola and half plate of fried hor fun. not bad not bad but it was the 'baddest' in the day. rated 1 out of 5. didn't manage to taste the beef noodle. the boss was too bossy to serve the noodle at another stall. cheh...!! i skip you, beef noodle!! don't be so c**ky, okay... no big deal not to eat you!!

back to condo, got myself ready to bed, energizing myself for tomorrow eating outs.
zzz~~~


21/09/2008 - 7.00am

'good morning everyone~~' got myself ready in minutes, superb faster than ever. cos... it was dim sum time!!!

6th ding - dim sum at foh san biscuits. hmm... sounded weird, a bakery selling dim sum. who cared, who cared, who cared... tie kuan yin - yeah~~~ a must!! char siu bao - yeah! siu mai - yeah! yu mai - yeah! fried choon guen - yeah! wow... eat eat eat eat and eat...

when i was about to slurp the stuffed tau fu - hmm... it smelt so... good. smelt like tau fu... yeah, i know... which kinda tau fu that doesn't smell like tau fu?? but this was different. the smell was so strong, even i could taste the tau fu before it got into my mouth. at the moment i put that piece of tau fu into my mouth... gosh... ding ding ding ding ding... marvelous, bravo, superb, ho chak, hou sik, hao chi dao... i was so amazed, how could this taste so nice... the feeling was right from the heart. it made me melt, man... : ) rated for this particular stuffed tau fu - 5 out of 5 - excellent, 100% pure tau fu, smelt and tasted nice.

ha gao - not cooked yet. wait a while-lah. ha gao pls - hold on, let me see if there is any left. ha gao - sold out, now cooking. (hands up) ha gao - no more already. now cooking. wait a while-lah. (standing up) ha gao - cooking. (waiting at the stall) ha gao - no more wo. haa... no more? don't bluff-lah. how could this be? waited for the whole morning for ha gao and the waitress said there was nothing left. so disappointed... : (

wait... the 'no more' was for takeaway. ha gao was still available for eating in... more to go... and immediately, there was a plate of ha gao on the table. it was so approaching - 'come-lah, eat me-lah, i taste as good as the tau fu...'

chiap... yum yum yum... wow... it really tasted as good as the tau fu. no ha goa in kl tasted as good as this, not even from the best dim sum restaurant in kl. the crystalite prawns were so fresh and... and... and... wah, song-lah!! syiok-nya... the feeling was like - yes-lah!!! rated 5 out of 5.

7th ding - sweet beancurd at funny mountain. there was only 1 phrase to describe this dessert - melt in the mouth. wooh... another song, syiok, yes, whatsoever... i have lost of words... didn't know how to describe further. tasted so nice... although we had to eat in the car (no more seats in the shop), we were still happy - got what we wanted to eat, for sure no regrets, no matter what. i was... so hang fook... so lerm... mmm... so nice : )

we headed back to kl after the dessert. i was so full with satisfaction and my stomach almost burst with nice, tasty food. what a wonderful and fruitful trip... for sure, i will miss ipoh very much...