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Genting - Christmas Season!

Siem Reap 6-11-2007 (3rd day)

Last day of our trip, tomorrow we will fly back to Kuala Lumpur early morning..
At start of the day, we went to post office to buy setem and post off our post card. Weird system of post office, the setem is around value USD0.50, but they want us to pay USD1, and it is like a official earning for the post office.. First time ever in my life i go through such a post office system.. but anyway, we paid...

After that, we go to Kbal Spean to look at the River of 1000 Lingas (Lingas mean male sex organ), it has been craved into the river bed all along the river... interesting! and there are others carving too. We climbed for almost 50 minutes up, quite tiring.... after we return from the mountain, we have a simple lunch, and move to Banteay Srei 女王宮, the carving there is special and different from other temples, it is the most beautiful carving compare to the rest. On the way out, we saw some sugar stall next to the road, we stop by and see how they cook the palm tree sugar, we bought some back as well... later on, we visit Banteay Samre and Banteay Kdei.. Thats about it... for conclusion, we had a good trip.. tiring.. but worth it..

Siem Reap 5-11-2007 (2nd day)

2nd day of the trip, we wake up at 4.30am in the morning to watch the beautiful sunrise of Angkor Wat, after that, we went to Ta Prohm, Tonle Sap Lake, and some other temples...

Siem Reap 4-11-2007 (1st day)

I just got back from Siem Reap few days ago, I had a 4D/3N trip, we spent not much.. We got the free Airasia ticket to Siem Reap, thanks to Airasia, now everyone can fly!

Ittinerary for our 4 days trip:

4-11-2007, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Phimeanakas, Terrace of Elephants, Terrace of the leper king, Angkor Wat, Apsara Dinner

5-11-2007, Angkor Wat Sunrise, Ta Prohm, Tonle Sap Lake, Preah Khan, Pre Rup for Sunset.

6-11-2007, Kbal Spean and the River of 1000 Lingas, Bantaey Srei, Banteay Kdei

7-11-2007, go home loh!

We are in a group of 6, will introduce you one by one later in the pictures.
Lets Start!

籃籃的馬來之旅最後一天

最後一天了... 時間真的過得太快了.. 一眨眼, 已經過了三天....
今天, 本來的plan是要到Templer Park, 但是我爸說現在, 沒什麼人去那兒, 怕被打劫.. 所以, 我爸提議我們到Royal Selangor Pewter Factory走一趟...還真的不錯也....

早上, 我們到了Jalan Gasing吃了早餐...然後就到Setapak去了...參觀了他們的工廠.. 還蠻interesting的....之後, 我們就到了Bangsar吃午餐, Banana Leaf Rice...然後就會到酒店拿行李, 就要到機場去了.....就這樣, 我們就完成了4D/3N的籃籃馬來之旅......好捨不得, 雖然好累, 但是玩的好開心... 希望你也是......有機會再見囉...............

籃籃的馬來之旅第二天

第二天, 我們到了Brickfields吃了mamak早餐, 走了一回印度街, 然後到了著名的黑風洞(Batu Caves), 再到Kuala Selangor去, 看螢火蟲, Padi field....

籃籃的馬來之旅第三天

第三天, 一早,, 我們就到了jalan imbi吃豬肉丸粉, 也試了Nasi Lemak (辣死你媽.... 哈哈), 然後, 就開始了我們的旅程到馬六甲(Melaka)...走走了一下, 吃了著名的雞粒飯...不幸的, 在回程時候, 遇上大雨...車駕得好辛苦哦...後來, 我們又回到我家, 等停雨...好好彩, 很快就停雨了, 我們又再出發了...我們到了Jalan Klang Lama一家Bak Gut Teh吃了晚餐...然後到了Dataran Merdeka, Titiwangsa (Eye On Malaysia), 最後, 我們到了OUG Heights的Steven Corner Mamak Stall吃了美味的消夜...Burung Puyuh, Satay, Maggi Goreng, Limau Ais........就這樣結束了第三天...好累吧...

籃籃的馬來之旅第一天

這是籃籃來馬來西亞的日子.. 18th Oct 2007是值得紀念的日子... 有很多我們的第一次... 對我來說, 很多我們馬來西亞的地方, 我都沒去過.. 經過這一次做導遊的經驗, 發覺到, 馬來西亞, 有很多很美的地方.. 所以說, 要珍惜眼前的.. 發現身邊的美好, 比遠方的美來得更重要.. 是吧?

這個trip, 我安排了一些旅程, 這是第一天的行程......

1. KLCC
2. KL Tower
3. China Town, Petaling Street
4. My House..... Mahjoong Time!

坐着火车去西藏

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Travel
Author:	陈旸

This is a book about the new train service provide from 西宁 to 西藏 (Tibet). There are many hostel name, how much is the cost, which place is worth the visit, and a lot a lot more..... I want to go...! need more planning and also need to save more money!

心相约

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Biographies & Memoirs
Author:	陈鲁豫

Chen Lu-Yu is one of the tv host in Pheonix Television, she is also the famous talk show host for "A Date With Lu-Yu" which is known as "Oriental Oprah". In this book, she is telling story about herself, how her study, how she join Pheonix TV, how she become reporter, how she started her own show... very interesting story... This make me wonder how difficult is their life, how dangerous when they trying to get the truth and show us.... keep up the good work!

My Beloved Turtle Underwater

Cuttlefish at Night Dive

Dayang 4-7 Oct 2007

This is a special 3D/3N trip which difficult to arrange due to too little people, thanks to Nizam... he did it....:-p

This is Bryan open water and advance, and Edna Advance trip, and we have a Non - diver joinning us as well, which is Phoebe...she is enjoying herself alone while we are diving.. hei hei....

We have a good trip in total, quite a bit of a current, but manageble...
Many nudibranch and cuttlefish in this trip, and also i see my beloved green turtle in our last dive....woooooo! and we saw a huge huge huge bumphead parrotfish hidding under a big rock while we diving in Rayners Rock, i think it might be around 4-5 meter long....Nitrogen Narcosis?

Putrajaya 30 Sept 2007

Suzanne, My mom, Natalie and me going to Putrajaya, the main purpose just to take some pictures... doing some training using my SLR... Have a great time there...

Pulau Dayang 3D/3N

Start:	Oct 4, '07 6:00p
End:	Oct 7, '07

Zoo Visit 8th Sept 2007

Eye On Malaysia

I went to Titiwangsa just to take photo of this beautiful "World Largest Portable Wheel" ... is beautiful. I paid RM15 to have a ride on it.. the view of KLCC is nice, but besides that, nothing much! By the way, i'm using my new SLR camera with tripod... like the result? :-p

Kuala Selangor 31st Aug 2007

I went to Kuala Selangor just to buy fish and makan... that day is Merdeka day, somehow, there are a lot of people, traffic is bad, food is lousy cos too many plp... not so good experience, but i like the village feel... good for photography.

15th July 2007 Xtion Paint Ball, Bukit Jalil

This is our industry tounament, we lose, but we have fun...We need to shoot the opponent, and grab 2 flags in front.. It is interesting! If you interested, you can visit their website at :http://www.xtionpaintball.com............cheers!

2D/1N Four Wheel Drive Karak Camping Trip 7-8 July 2007

Im follow Suzanne to join their " 校友會" trip... first time im been on a 4 wheel drive trip.. really interesting, bumpy ride, cool air, freezing water... nice scenery.. and also first time ever in my life, 朝拜營火....so funny...

Nasi lemak for dinner, Nice BBQ wild boar, chicken wings for supper, and porride for the next day breakfast.. everything are just sooooo nice...

Let me know who interested, we can organize one on our own...:-))

WWF Voluntery Week 23/06 - 01/07 2007

I went on a 9 days voluntery work with WWF to help on conservation work for Hawksbill turtle...

WWF is a environment conservation organization who help at all kind of environment issues. Me and Suzanne has join them for 9 days voluntery work to help on conservation on hawkbill Turtle...

Some story about this island:

Two nautical miles off the coast of Klebang is Pulau Upeh. A tiny island of seven acres, it can easily be explored on foot within 30 minutes.
Formerly known as Ilha Das Pedra, which means 'places of stone', the island has come a long way from its quarrying days when the Portuguese reigned supreme. Now the island is being abandon, and nothing much is going on there, besides some security person, basicaly, the island is empty.

What I learned from this voluntery work:

1. How to recognize what steps of the turtle nesting by listening to the sound... pro ya!

2. The nesting behaviour of the hawkbill turtle. (Come up shore, body pitting, digging egg chamber, lays egg, cover egg chamber, sand bathing, return to sea)

3. I can now pick up the egg from the egg chamber and put it into the box. Do not think this is easy, you cannot turn the egg at all.. have to be very careful! And also measure the egg size and weight.

4. Besides the above, the staff will measure the turtle length and width of the carapace, relocate the egg, measure how far is the nest to the shoreline, the depth of the nest, send the egg back to hactery, after 3 month, when the egg hatched, measure the hatchlings, and release back to the sea.

5. How bad is the population of the turtle in Malaysia, Hawksbill is critically endanger, and Letherbacks is almost extincted, there are 7 type of turtle in the world, and Malaysia have 4 of them, besides the 2 above, there are green turtle and Olive Ridley (which no one know where they are, extincted?)

6. Every one thousand hatchlings, only 1 survive to adulthood.. that is very little, and this is only estimated number not including bycatch or dead because of boat crash or other reasons.

7. Because of the handling causes, the hatchlings rate is lower compare to natural hatched. But there are no other way to protect it, the fisherman or procher will just find the egg, and sell it for food... terrible!

Come on guys, please dont buy any turtle's product, if you have time to spare, join them, if not, become a donor of WWF, at least help on the fund, and they can hire more people to help to save the turtle.. Of cause they didnt only work on turtle's conservation, but others, please feel free to visit their new website: www.wwf.org.my

In this 9 dyas of work, we have experience 7 turtles in total, very lucky of us. Almost all are tagged turtle (means come up to nest earlier, and tagged with numbering tag started with Alphabert MY which means "Malaysia Turtle" i assume... hei hei), but we have 2 new one.. I have record the date and number of egg, just for my record:

23th June - 1 turtle
24th June - no turtle :-(
25th June - no turtle again....:-(((
26th June - 1 turtle :-)
27th June - 2 turtles :-))))))
28th June - 1 "NEW turtle"
29th June - 1 "NEW turtle" again...
30th June - last day already.... 1 turtle
1st July - Return home!! sob sob!

so total of less than thousand of eggs, come to think about it, might not have one will grown until adulthood! so sad! ok ok.. be positive ya! At least we gave the efford here...

Melaka History Visit 20 May 2007

Nothing to do, so when come to Suzanne birthday, we decide to drive down to Melaka. Just visit some museum and makan!

Puffer Fish In Dayang Island

Dayang Island 27-29 April 2007

Group of Barracudas

Another baby of my fren -May "Yong En"

We are so tired trying to wake her up.. but fail..

Janice - 10 days old....

Angkor Wat - UNESCO World Heritage Site!

Start:	Nov 4, '07 03:00a
End:	Nov 7, '07
Location:	Siem Reap

Thanks to Airasia - Now everyone can fly! I got the zero fare air-ticket.....
So looking foward to the trip... doing research now.. if you have any idea, do let me know...

Coach Carter

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Sports

I just finish watching this movie from HBO, this story is about this Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) who acting a basketball coach who not only teaching basketball but teaching those student how to become a resposible, smart, good at study and at the same time good at basketball person. There are in the society that everybody thinking blacks has nothing good but basketball, but only this teacher have visions to bring up all student and make them a somebody in the future by forcing them to sign a basketball contract with him, as if there are bad in study, they can't play basketball, he even lock up the basketball room. By this, the whole town has turning their back to this teacher, and he is willing to ruin his whole teacher life and trying all his ways to help the boys.. He wanted to make this work for the boys just because this is his school, his home town, and he dont want those boys became like his classmate who just know how to play basketball, and yet, they went into the jail, and somes die...

It is a good and touching movie. At the end, all boys went into college, graduated with degree by getting scolarships, and no one went to jail or die...although they didnt win the final game, but they learned whatever they should learned. And thats the story.

My "God Daughter" Janice 3 days old...

Bali Tour 21-27 March 2007

A flower i saw in Harris Hotel.. Beautiful!

Bali is a beautiful island belong to Indonesia. I just came back from there yesterday, and I enjoyed it so much.

Bali is a place full of cultural, and have heavy religious country. Most of the people here are Hindu, and they have very strong believe in everything. I see them praying anytime, everywhere. And we are quite lucky as we saw some ceromonies around Bali on our 7 days tours.

Below are our simple itinerary, which we have arrange by our own.
4 person including me, Suzanne, Jac and Eric.

21st March Day 1 (Half day)
- Lunch in Made Warung
- Erlangga for shopping (fix price, and cheap, this place help you to get some idea what is the bottom price of things they sells in Bali, help you expertise in your bargain on the street)
- Visit a shop who sell sausage, dry meat
- Shop for fruits and nuts
- Dinner at Plengkung Restaurant
- Shop around Kuta.

22nd March Day 2 (Full day)

- Besakih (Mother Temple of Bali)
- Mount Batur
- Lake Batur
- Tanah Lot
- Dinner in Made Warung again.....hei hei..

23th March Day 3 (Full Day)

- Full day in Ubud, with many time of lunch including Babi Guling (Bu Oka), Dirty Duck, Pork ribs in Nuris Warung..they are all delicious.
- At night, we went for massage in Girl Loka Spa in Harris Hotel
- Dinner at someplace opposite Starbuck, which i cant remember the name.. not nice..

24th March Day 4 (Full Day)

- Walk around Kuta beach in the morning.
- Taman Pura Ayun
- Lunch at Cafe Tahu
- Lake Bratan
- Uluwatu
- Dinner at Jimbaran Beach - Aroma Restaurant

25th March Day 5

- Transfer to Tulamben early morning by AquaMarine Diving company, and stay in Matahari Tulamben Resort. Do 2 day dive, and one night dive, that is just wonderful dive site.

26th March Day 6

- Diving the first half day, transfer back to Tanjung Benuo around 1.30pm, and reach the next hotel - The Oasis Benuo - check in and walk around the beach.
- About 6.15pm, we got transfer ready for us to see a dance show in Bali Dance Festival Resraurant.

27th March Day 7

- Enjoy our time on the beach and swimming pool
- And get ready to leave Bali back to Kuala Lumpur..sayonara

Tulamben Diving March 2007

Firsti time using my new underwater camera - Fujifilm Finepix F30, good camera..sharp colour...

Group of Jacks in Tulamben Drop-Off