People @ Vietnam

This is an usual sight in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam where people carrying this to earn a living. 

Photo taken at 2.14pm 21/9/2011 during my backpack trip to Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam.

Giant Roots of Ta Prohm, Angkor Wat

oh come come see the photo at my other blog: http://oce-thephotojournalist.blogspot.com/2012/01/giant-roots-of-ta-prohm-angkor-wat.html

Kata-kata hikmat

jauh perjalanan, luas pandangan.

new song by Penny 戴佩妮 - 回家路上

hey listen to this song. you Chinese song listeners must really listen to this song.

I like the melody. The MV is even better.

She went to India to shoot her video clip.

Oh i must go to India one day.

me in backpack trip

so boring la tonight. Kampar so quiet. everyone has gone back for Deepavali and public holiday tomorow. i also wana relax tonight. i freak out with the name of FYP already. let me rest for a night la ok..

I think many of you know that I went for a backpacking trip last month. The trip lasted for 10 days. I haven’t written about the trip yet although I have a journal with me along the trip. I haven’t posted up any photos yet too.

These are some of the photos (of me) in that trip. Syiok sendiri punya photo la. I brought along plain A4 papers and a black marker pen. Then i wrote down the location on the paper and posed for photo as memory. lame.. nevermind. i like it!!

Other photos next time la. =p

Day 1 2.14pm (Malaysia's time) 20/9/2011 Butterwoth Train Station, Penang, Malaysia.

Started my trip with a train ride to Thailand.

Day 2 7.08pm (Thailand's time) 21/9/2011 Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand.

Day 4 10.23am (Cambodia's time) 23/9/2011 Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Day 8 2.50pm (Vietnam's time) 27/9/2011 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Day 11 8.04am (Cambodia's time) 30/9/2011 Siem Reap International Airport, Cambodia.

It's time to say goodbye. Flew back to Malaysia by flight.

*Credit to the photographer, my travelmate, my uni buddy, Lee Pei Suang. All the photos here are taken by her. She suffered and stressed a lot because i am too demanding. She was sweating everytime she tried to take my photos. hahah. Thank you. I always ask you to take pictures of me because i have faith on you and i know you can.*

postcard from Vietnam

The weather is so marvellous today. It’s so blue, so clear and breezy. It’s sunny but not humid. It’s so cheerful.

The weather just makes me feel happy. Those who love photography, this is a good time to take pictures.

On this good day I received good news.

In the morning, while reading The Star Online, I saw my name in one of the articles here http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/10/6/central/9612768&sec=central

And then just a while ago, I received my own postcard which I posted about 2 weeks ago.

It’s a Cambodian’s postcard but sent from Vietnam. Final destination? Malaysia!

Hahaha!

I know it sounds crazy that I send postcard to myself. But it’s fun. It’s like wow, I received a postcard from oversea.

I bought that postcard from Siem Reap, Cambodia. Initially, I wanted to post it to Malaysia at that time but too bad, Siem Reap was having massive flood. When I was at Phnom Penh, they were having their public holidays. No chance to send.

Finally when I reached Vietnam, their post office was open. So I sent it on 27^th September. After 10 days, I received it!

Kwan Yee and Pei Suang, have you got your postcard?  =p

quotable quotes

"When the world ends, we are all friends."

~ a tour guide for Chu Chi Tunnel, Vietnam
~ 28/09/2011

after 10days, i am home!

This blog has been untouched for almost 2 weeks. Now the owner is back!!

Uh la la..

I am home, finally. I am home in Malaysia. I am home in Penang. I said before and I’ll say it again, nothing feels better than home. Malaysia is still the best.

‎It’s awesome to meet my family members once i arrived in Penang. Kwan Yee sent me to my amma’s house. My mum was waiting me there to fetch me home. At home, home-made food were waiting to fill my hungry stomach.

Some of you might not know where I went. I just came back from a 10 days backpacking trip with Kwan Yee and Pei Suang to 3 countries, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

It was great. I have too many stories to share but not here this time.

I just wana say that I am safe and sound, still as skinny as always.

My begpack weighed 17kg! damn! I had to pay USD18 to check in my begpack. Haha.

I brought RM1.5k for the trip and back with only RM20. Haha. At least I have RM20 savings. Transportation cost a lot of money. That’s why I couldn’t buy a lot of souvenirs for friends. Budget a bit tight and I don’t know what I should buy. Sorry my friends.

Sorry to Kim as well. I couldn’t find selling hand-made soap in these countries, what more a normal soap. Only groceries sell it. I didn’t buy anyway.

I bought some gifts for my family members and some friends. Hope they like it though.

Eventhough we went to only 3 countries, but we had 5 currencies. What is funny throughout the whoel journey is 3 of us are sucks in Maths. Everytime when we have to pay, there will be problem. And we took a lot of times to do the conversion of currencies. =p

One thing I’m surprised is I didn’t have stomachache or lausai during the trip. Not at all. But now after back home, I lausia!! Wat the shit. ..

Thanks to Sarah Khoo for lending me her sleeping beg. It meant a lot for me as I slept in Bangkok Train Station for our first night and in Siem Reap International Airport for our last night.

Total clothes to be washed are: 6 shirts, 3 pants, 2 underwears and a boxer. Hahaa.

Photos? It’s still in my pendrive. I haven’t transfer it yet. Too much of photos!

I have been sleeping the whole day besides than eating. I made nasi goreng for lunch and it’s damn yummy. Today shall be my rest and lepak day at home. A lot of unloading and cleaning up stuffs to do as well. I am still feeling sleepy right now.

Tomorrow will be a working day for Kwan Yee, as usual. As for me and Pei Suang, we’ll back to suffer, to do our serious business, finishing our Final Yeap Project and submit at the end of the month.

Many things are pending to be done. October shall be the month for FYP, the top priority.

Things have been good since I touched down from the flight yesterday. I got good news lasty night and this morning.

Hope everything will be good for everyone till we meet 2012.

May Buddha bless you all.

Bye.

toilet in travelling

i'm very particular about toilet.

yes, very particular.

i'm more particular about it when i go travelling.

i conside rmyself a backpacker (not so hardcore yet lah) and when i go travel, i can really go stingy about my expenditure.

i'm willing to spend on food but not on entertainment or souvenirs or hotel.

for me, the point of backpacking is to experience a lot of different things while you stay out of your comfort zone. Then only you'll feel worth it.

talking about hotel, cheap hotel is the best. i just need the room to sleep not to make love. so what if the motel or hostel is dirty or smell badly?!! i don't mind.

but what irked me the most is the toilet!

the toilet must be clean and comfortable!!

while studying here in UTAR, i have been to two places. One is Cameron Highlands and another one is Perlis.

eeeeeeeee.. i beh tahan with the toilet la. in Cameron Higlands, the water pressure damn low until only few drops of water came out from the pipe and u know what the water is yellowish. besides, after you shit you kenot flush. kanasai!

while in Perlis, things are slightly better la. but the water in teh bucket is so damn dirty n smelly. seriously.

for me, bathing is one of the things that i enjoy the most in life. although i don't prefer to bath when i go for backpacking but if there's a toilet, i'm tempted to clean myself. the toilet must be clean ma..

toilet is one of the best places to stay in the world ok.

like i said before, maybe the government should make a toilet classroom where the classroom contains cubiles or toilets. students will sit on the toilet bowl to study. while they are studying, they can shit too. how nice is that. ahhh..

oh. im too fulled. it's time to pangsai again. wahahah.

JOM PANGSAI! =p

KL im here

heheh. yes i must admit that KL is fun, a city of exitement and civilization.

im glad im out of Kampar, at least for 2 days.

i don't hate Kampar. im just tired and stress la. Kampar is a small quiet and laid-back town but the students there especially me is go crazy!

life changed after the election.

hahah.. different tak sama dah.

anyway im here in KL for the Malaysian Student Leaders Summit at Nikko Hotel on Saturday and Sunday.

im now in my Aunt's house already at Bandar Tun Razak.

damn sleepy n tired la. 2 begs. heavy ok.

had a nice and exciting trip with Adeline Wok. we took the same bus.

will tell you what happened la huh. haha.

but i tell you something now and u don't tell anyone k. it's a secret. i tell you hor itu Adeline Wok said Petaling Street Night Market closed at night. yea CLOSED at night. wahahha!

okla good night.

Berkhidmat Untuk Negara!

my India trip

I supposed to be in Trivandrum, Kerala, India right now.

As in NOW!

I supposed to take my flight at 6.30am this morning.

Haha..

But here i am, in Kampar, going to take my shower then sleep.

OKOK i'll tell you what happened some other time.

I'll go to Trivandrum, Kerala, India in my dream lah.

a call from a worried mum

well, i jz got a call frm my mum. She lied 2my dad abt my 31/3/2010 plan. She has to. no choice. I didn't tell my dad yet. i planned to tell him but i just duno how.

And my mum thought i'll never tell him. so she helps me.

Mum alwaz support me no matter what i do although sometimes i do crazy things, dangerous and life threatening.

She knows im enjoying it and it's my passion.

But now she's so worried n ask me not 2go.

I feel so bad when i have to lie to my parents. i feel more miserable when i made them worried.
I know they love me.

They never and they don't have to say 'i love you'.

i know and i can feel it.

i love them too.

so what should i do now?

I should review my decision now and it's not easy. It's tough.
It's hard when you have to choose between ur parents' wish n ur dream. =(

countdown to 31/3/2010

31/3/2010 is gona be a significant date in my life.

i can't wait for that day.

it's gona be one of the grand things i've ever done.

n i noe im gona be proud of it despite all the obstacles that i went through.

well, it's less than a week from 31/3/2010.

i have a short resolutions to achive in these few days before 31/3/2010.

1. i wana stay as fit as possible.
2. take supplement and cereal and milk everyday.
3. pray everytime i wake up n when im going to sleep.
4. be nice.
5. control my anger.
6. send pictures to those people that i owed.
7. workout at the gym at least twice.
8. finish at least 70% of my assignments.

Evergreen City of India

ahahhaha!

Have you ever heard of that term??

Yes?? No??

hmmm.. i think most of you never heard of it. hehehe.

The term refers to a city.

Mahatma Gandhi is the one who said it.

go google if u wana know where's the place.

im so excited.

because...

yes i'm going there next year.

woohooo!!