Sibu Island, Johor

No, no… It wasn’t me who initiated this trip… you know that I’m not soooo beach fan, being physically under hot sun, oh it’s not my cup of tea!

(I know you will ask… why SIBU ISLAND? Right???? ^_^)

Many people claimed that Sibu Island has the most beautiful coral life compared to other islands in peninsular of Malaysia. The island is still new; I think they only received the first visitor on last 5 – 7 years ago. That’s why Sibu Island still falls under virgin island.

We started journey in the late midnight and reached the jetty at 7.30am just ngam-ngam for breakfast. They even have KFC restaurant in case KL-ian still can’t take Johor-ian Malay food style hahahaha. So good.

It took about half an hour only to reach the island and as per my expectation, the island not as nice as what we heard. The chalet that we stayed I would give half of the star only. The attached bathroom and toilet is suck. However, if I compared to the price that we paid, nothing worth than that.

The main purpose we were choosing Sibu Island was to experience the beautiful coral life ever (which they positively claimed) but unfortunately, we can’t go near to the spot due to the big wave coming to our way since we arrive. We were so disappointed, but not our luck this time. So, I’m not being able to give testament on how beautiful the coral are.

With all-in package worth RM230 per person, I would consider this holiday as just destination-budget getaway trip with the friends. I just wonder, if without the friends who with me that day, what would the trip turn to? Bored? Nothing? Whatever?.

God created friends for a reason. Yes.

My Family Trip to Langkawi

My previous visit to Langkawi was on 2008 during my birthday and I went there again with 80% of my family members on the last school holiday. That was not easy task to handle bunch of people who never been to Langkawi and to treat them well throughout the trip because most of them are my elders in the family. But thank God, they gave us a good compliment at the end of the trip. *flip my hair*.

We managed to bring them to all the attraction places in Langkawi but most of the time we had run out the time and only been to the places in short while only. Again, not easy to handle so many travelers, some of them were super slow, some love to take longer time to shop and some were happy to make a few trips to toilet every time when we just about to leave.

But for sure, we were happy during the trip. Make some jokes (most of the time hehehe), taking pictures with some ugly posses, having typical Malay meal which contains full of carbohydrate and cholesterol, dress well and put on makeup even just for the short stop to the beach side and making a ‘show’ session for the chocolate and kitchen utensils that we bought to each other with some typical words can be heard everywhere “wei, what do you buy?” “How much do you buy this?” “How come I don’t see this” “I should go and get this tomorrow”.

Before we went there and during the journey, I felt uneasy. I didn’t know what was it but after hubby fell down and broken his left arm at the swimming pools of our rented apartment in Langkawi; I knew that I should have taken extra careful whenever I felt that way. But some say, something happen is out of our control.

I had almost 5 hours ‘honeymoon’ time at the Langkawi hospital. I don’t want to talk about the service here as I know that all of us have had the ‘nice’ experience with the Gov hospital.

Hubby supposedly to be admitted and operate straight away due to his conditions. But, nobody wants to be admitted far from the house right? Especially when we know that the place is not really easy access onto land. So the Doctor advice him to go for the healing, at least it well help him to reduce the movement of the bone.

Me: Doc said he will be healing your arm, so that it will reduce the pain before you go back and do the operation in KL.
Hubby: Yeay, I can go for cable car tomorrow….
Me: Duhh.

The next day, he still followed us to finish the trip. I knew he was in pain, but he trying his best to bring my family around as he promised. May God bless him for this. If I was him, I was pretty sure that I’ll be in the first flight back to KL on the next morning or I’ll be screaming and crying the whole day and night for the pain and more for not being able to shop at Langkawi hehehehe. But still, luckily it wasn’t me.

I got the new beach hat again! Same pattern but in the different color, this time is in red. It damn cool girls. So the old one I had given to my sis.

Bye bye blue hat

Putrajaya

I just realized that I never blogging about Putrajaya, the well-managed, vibrant and prosperous Federal Administrative Capital of Malaysia. It’s been more than 10 years since my 1st time visited Putrajaya and what I can see is; the city that develop the most.

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I’m sure that nobody will see the Putrajaya as Dr Mahathir (former PM who has the initiative to form Putrajaya) sees today. His vision to move the government administration department to Putrajaya has reduced the traffic flow in KL. I still remember on how most of us respond when he proposes this project. We were complaining for no reason. But now, Putrajaya becomes the most well-managed government administrative department in Malaysia and throughout the Asia.

I can’t believe to see how much it develops now. Those days, the only attraction place to see in Putrajaya was the Pink Mosque. But today, from the building to the garden to the bridge, all are stunning to my eyes. I’m sure the international delegations will love Putrajaya as I do.

Sister and her son

one of the monumen. Hubby so excited.

The mosque with no fan. Mainly depend on the original wind. But it was really windy especially in the evening.

Photographer style

Recently, many people willing to queue for the job offer from government. For sure, the queue will be long and tough. The challenges and basic pay might be a lesser amount of compared to the private sectors, but the benefits and work environment give a lot of satisfactions. Their office and quarters in Putrajaya are damn good. Seems like having a small world with the beautiful sceneries.

For this reason, I still love Malaysia. I miss my own country especially when I’m abroad. But if Malaysia does have snow, I love Malaysia 1000 times. hehehehe.

A night in Saigon Vietnam

We made a transit to Saigon city from Korea and manage to overnight in Saigon.

Saigon also well known as Ho Chi Minh city..

In a hurry, i still manage to shop a lot of leggings and blouses. Damn cheap and the material also quite good. The quality is far better than Thailand and china product.

So bad as we didnt have a chance to round the city but we manage to celebrate New Year 2011 at vietnam!

Coffee shop

I found this in their coffe shop hehehe

...and this -__-

One of the monumen

A must to see

Traffice in Malaysia? Try to consider this first.

Snow in South Korea!

Hubby kept wondering on why I so addicted to the ‘snow’ and being so ‘I-don’t-care-I-want-snow’ attitude each time we were talking about yearly getaways. To be frank, I have no good answer for it. It might be look nice in the big coat or in cute gloves or it because of the different temperature once in the year. ‘I-have-never-been’ and ‘never-experience-it’. I guess, this is the best reason for my hubby’s answer.

He doesn’t feel good when I wanted to go honeymoon in winter season. Apart of ‘can-hug-my-hubby’ romantic kind of mood, a lot of honeymoon activities can’t go as smooth as planned. He stayed in Manchester England for about 3 years, hence explains on why he is not excited enough on the snow and temperature changes.

I have been dreaming to step my foot in the snow and let the snowflakes touch my hair since I watched the first drama aired in the TV on Christmas. I was 10 on that time and how nice to watch the snow in every scenes. The dream has dragged me to Beijing on 2007 and so disappointed when I have nothing except the -8c temperatures and the artificial snow in the Ski Resort. By all means the dream still in my mind.

Either you believe it or not, we registered our name to Korea trip package, 5 days before our flights (something that not healthy to follow hehehe). We had planned to Hokkaido on the same week, but due to visa problem on the last minute *angry face* (I-don’t-want-to-remember mood), so we have not packed out our luggage and it explains on how we manage to jump on the cab to KLIA and my boss seems willingly to let me go from 27 Dec 2010 – 1 Jan 2011.

One day before out trip, the temperature in Seoul South Korea, drop drastically to -19’c, hence explained the unusually heavy snowfall and triggering traffic chaos and forcing airlines to delay all flights. We were supposed to arrive at Incheon airport by 0630 in the morning but it was closed by the time our flight just about to slowing down and landing. With just “we-can’t-landing-due-to-the-bad-weather’ and ‘oh-I’m-not-good-in-English’ kind of announcement, the flight finally landed at the Je-Ju Island, the other part of South Korea.

We use the Vietnam Airlines, in case if you are asking =).

We managed to enter Seoul only after 4hrs trapped in Jeju Island and IN THE FLIGHT!! Can you imagine? A Vietnam airline is much much far worse than Air Asia X. We can’t even straighten our leg and only being served half cup of orange juice for breakfast?? So mean!

Only when we reached the airport, we were told by the ‘weather’ that the heavy snowfalls have caused the closure of the airport. So, they need about 4hrs to clear off the track for landing. The snowflake fell to our windows seems welcoming us. I was worried before our trip if I’m not be able to catch the snowfalls. Just for your information, South Korea is occasionally has snowfalls, but it still far better than Beijing. If you are planning to Korea for snow, make sure to check the weather before your trip (opps, not easy to change the flight ticket right?) or u can stay at least more than a week. Better than sorry!

Apart of the chaos, I feel blessed to experience the snow. I seem have forgotten myself when playing, throwing and ‘guling-guling’ in the snow like a Hindi movie. Don’t ask me how many photos that I snapped, as when I reached KL, God knows how frustrated was I to have only 2 photos me and hubby together in one photo. *slap forehead*.

Tips of the day: don’t bring 2 cameras if you are husband-wife. Bring one and tripod as well.
 
I was trying hard to build a snowman. A lot of tips that I received from my friends and after so many attempts my snowman ends up still an ‘OKU’ hehehe. I surrendered! I remember scolded my hubby on why he has no skills to build one. He gave me that kind of ‘i-have-to-many-other-things-to-do-in-England-than-build-the-stupid-snowman’ looks. So not sporting! But he still together with me trying to built up the snowman. We called this as a ‘honeymoon-activity-that-we-should-have-during-winter’. Worth it.

one of the photo with both of us in one picture!

Halal food in Seoul are teribbly difficult, be ready for it if you are planning to Korea. Look at the menu and the way of cooking, i will give them full marks on how to be healthy. Most of their receipes should have vegitables and some sort of ’herb’ flavor to replace the ’Ajinomoto’ job. No wonder, all the ladies in Korea has such a nice glowing and young skin. But i’ll think thousand times to go for the meal again... not so me.

Be sure to watch again ’Winter Sonata’ or ’Dae Jang Geum’ series to raise up your interest to Seoul. Nami Island is where the background place for Winter Sonata scenes and Je-Ju Island is the location scenes for Dae Jang Geum series. But if you are Korean Singer big-big fan e.g. Wonder Girls, se7en, Super Junior (just pick some of them... my nieces are really addicted to them, all of them!), why don’t take a break and leave for Korea… it’s worth it!

Some tips during Winter: dress in layers. Get yourself some thermal wear, sweaters and winter jackets. Scarf, gloves and something to cover your ears are also essential. Koreans are very stylish, thus u might also want to consider to bring some stylish outfits. In Winter, the air is very dry. Drink plenty of water. Get a bottle of Johnson & Johnson Baby Oil for your body and Miracle Water (SKII Treatment Essence) for your face and trust me it was worked for me well.

Even a short break, but I had visited the most attraction places e.g.: Nami Island, Everland Theme Park, Safari World, Ski Resort, National Museum, Kyongbok Palace & Namdaemum market.

But after all, the snow really transforms Seoul into a winter wonderland with full of white trees, icy road, frosty wind, and I miss KOREA so much!

Saufi Ville Janda Baik

My girlfriend asked me to survey this place for her next birthday party, since we were hungry for some short gateaways during the weekend, this was a good timing after all.

The location is quite far but the view is spectacular. This saufi Ville is actually a bunglow located on top of the hill. The swimming pool is nice and the best part is when the bunglow is surrounded by the Titiwangsa Mountains. Oh, reminded me about my geography book while in secondary school.

Nice right the Titiwangsa mountains?

Nice isn't?

Fully recommended to those who love natural view and really want to have a very private party. But off course, is expensive Man!

First snorkelling ever - Krabi Thailand

Me and the other 2 friends has decided to celebrate our friends’ birthday at Krabi (don’t falling chair now as she was the one who initiate this and we pay for our own expenses). It was so sweet of us.

So 4 of us took a trip down to Krabi on 23-26/2/10 by Air Asia and I had very crazy cheap returns airfare. Make sure to be clever to book the ticket at least 8 months ahead if you wanted the cheap holidays too =).

For so-so beach lovers like me (that’s why I got cheap ticket), apart from had a great time with the biatches and the scenic & relaxing backdrop of the island... I would rather not to have any beach-trips for the next 1 year. I had enough salty water to my stomach and extra tan to my skin. I’m sure I need at least 3 months to get my skin color back and I’ll kill whoever asked me for the beach trip again. Make sure don’t be a first person okey.

2N in Phi Phi islands and 1N in Ao Nang, offered us a great package of holiday especially the 1-day island hoping on the private boat (as Donald Trump’s lifestyle so called ^_^) and the Minah Rempit series when we rented a bike at Ao Nang. First time ever I had myself to snorkeling activities at the 8 islands with different of coral pattern and colorful sea life.

The island is beautiful but much more interesting if you go with bunch of people that you love. We were laughing, taking picture with some ugly poses, UNO-ing, shopping, swimming and a lot of ‘together’ kind of activities.

Oh ya, we did learn some new words while in Krabi:-

"how long u setay here?" (how long do you stay here?)
"you here setadi or soping?" (do you here for study or shopping?)
"no polit!" (there is no police there)
"no far, 10 kilomit oli" (that's not far, 10 kilometre only)
"no esepensif.." (not expensive)

hahahah... reminded me on the my first year trying to speak English. Two thumbs up for them, at least they are trying hard. If by chance you will be travelling to Thailand, make sure to use broken english while communicating. It will help you to get to the point easily.

To my girlfriend Shaq… Happy Birthday to you, may you have a wonderful journey in your life ahead.

We were too busy and didn’t bother to have a birthday cake… so thanks for asking =)