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| Thursday, 29-Jan-2009 23:27 |
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china trip - part 3: the train journey (xian-beijing-hongkong)
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this is where we parted ways with my parents - @ beijing west
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waiting for the train to hong kong
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the waiting lounge @ beijing west station
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train journey from xian to beijing, and then from beijing to hong kong.
again, story later.
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| Saturday, 24-Jan-2009 13:07 |
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china trip: part 2 - xian day 3
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final day in xian. me down with diarrhea. kesan melantak kat muslim quarters the nite before. darn this sensitive tummy, otherwise we all could still explore more!
story later.
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| Sunday, 11-Jan-2009 05:53 |
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china trip: part 2 - xian day 2
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story later later la yer. 
panda conservation center near xian
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muslim quarters.
experiencing the sight, sound, and taste of the charming historical city of xian.
after edinburgh, xi'an is now my 2nd favorite city outside of malaysia that i soooo love.
people, u all should go there too and see it for yourself! 
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| Sunday, 11-Jan-2009 01:51 |
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china trip: part 2 - xian day 1
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hard sleeper class
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with 6 bunks in a compartment
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this is soft sleeper class for the parents
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story later.
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| Monday, 5-Jan-2009 05:33 |
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china trip - part 1: beijing day 3 & 4
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the view from our apt balcony
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beijing morning traffic
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curtain city - tu i bagi nama sendiri. hehehe
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nnt gue citer2.. heheheh
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| Thursday, 1-Jan-2009 12:00 |
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china trip - part 1: beijing day 2
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more pics here. at the great wall, summer palace, jewelry city & olympic stadium. story to come up soon.
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| Monday, 29-Dec-2008 06:18 |
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china trip - part 1: beijing day1
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@KLIA Burger King with tirah, who kindly sent me to the airport
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my sista, mayang & cuz dewi
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mayang & peroz, waiting for the aerotrain
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i've been meaning to write about my expedition to china (beijing-xian-hong kong-macau) last december before i publish this entry, but since its too time consuming (me also busy with so many things lah) and people have been bugging me to show the pics, so i guess, i'll just upload the pics first and write the story later. just bear with me ya.
so people, enjoy the piccas! i took a total of 1751 pics for my 12-day journey. keep come back for updates plz. 
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| Wednesday, 3-Dec-2008 12:45 |
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farewell & welcome parties. in the office.
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award giving..?
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oh its actually fazeli representing us to give k mai her card
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mcm YB kasik derma kt pengetua rumah anak yatim. hik hik.
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Dec 2, 2008. it was kak mai's last day in the team, so we threw her a farewell party. the menu: pizza & garlic bread. the venue: kak mai's workstation.
we also welcome the arrival of a newcomer, budiman, who came on board on Dec 1.
to kak mai - otsukare sama. and good luck. we'll miss u.
to budie - gambarou! kitai suru yo! hope we all can work well together as a team.
p/s: sorrryyyyy... too many blurry piccas here.. tangan saper la yg shaky sangat tu 
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| Monday, 10-Nov-2008 01:33 |
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hot springs retreat @ sg klah
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pooh-chan follows where ever i go
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just arrived: tirah & ban cooling heels
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breakfast coupons & entrance tickets
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the best part of being "young and 19"  is the opportunity to go for vacation with like-minded friends, where u can be u, no holds barred. 
last weekend, with me being the main coordinator (nak gak take credit. hihihii), 8 of us - we took the liberty of calling ourselves HOT SPRINGS BABES; jgn marrahh...  - managed to escape from our weekday prisons for a weekend getaway at totally cool hot spring (oouuhhh i love these contradicting adjectives!) at sg klah, sungkai, perak.
me, tirah, ban, ed, peroz, syura, mazyah, odeng - thats 8. we were divided into 2 teams; the first 4 were Team A (riding tirah's civic ferio) while the last 4 became Team B (riding peroz's civic coupe). since odeng had a training in the morning, team B had to wait for odeng while team A went ahead to get ourselves checked in.
so where did we stay?
at the Felda Residence Hot Springs, located right smack in the middle of Sg Klah Felda settlement. luckily no mosquities flying around at night.. uhuhuhu..
free advertising for 'em: http://www.plantationresorts.com.my/HotSprings/index_ap.shtml - book early to avoid disappointment!
it was a less than 2 hours drive away from shah alam, team A's rendezvous point. we arrived at sg klah just well before noon. check-in time was at 2pm, so to kill time, we decided to go to the spa for a massage. they had a promotion ongoing: a 1 hour session of traditional malay massage at only RM65. who would want to miss that??
- ban after a massage at the spa -
i have to laud the services rendered by the staff at the felda residence - they were amazingly responsive. ed was not feeling quite well when we reached the place, so i requested to have an early check in. they responded well to my request so we got ourselves checked in to our 2-bedroom villa, which i booked a month in advance, more than 30 minutes earlier than expected. 
guess what was the first thing that we saw  - oh rasa nak pengsan! - our very own private hot spring jacuzzi!!
- the first sight that greeted us: ROTENBURO!! -
we were physically jumping for joy, and "waaaaa!!!"-ing when we checked every corner, interior and exterior, of the villa. besides the jacuzzi, there was a gazebo complete with an electric fan in a balinese garden setting, a cozy living room and a fully equipped kitchen, a vast master bedroom with a massive bath tub, an almost equally big second bedroom complete with a hot shower. our villa was at the end of the road, so secluded, our privacy ensured. the villa was very impressive, but u wont see the pics of the rooms in their glorious state because as soon as we set foot inside the villa, we put down all the stuff that we brought at whatever available surface we caught sight on, grabbed our towels and jumped straight into the jacuzzi! x menyempat nyempat. sorry folks, no pics of us skinny dipping here though. hehehehe
team B arrived just before asar. by this time, i was already wrapped in my towel, resting on the couch, feeling a bit giddy from the rush of blood to my head. kekekeke.. over excited. jakun masuk onsen.. kakakakaka..
- tv watching after skinny dipping -
it rained heavily in the evening so we had to haul ourselves out of the pool. and since astro never works in ugly weather, we settled ourselves indoor and had a round of saidina, the local version of monopoly. at the beginning of the game, i was the first to go on a land-buying spree and soon, i ran out of saidina cash. that prompted tirah to remark, "macam ni lah jugak alia dlm kehidupan sebenar.." hahahaha.. correct correct. ban was the banker. the results? odeng 1st place, mazyah 2nd, me 3rd, syura last. kekekekeke. at least i wasnt at the last place. huhuhuhuhu..  aaaa memang macam dlm kehidupan sebenar..
- a round of saidina -
while waiting for maghrib to pass, it was time to prepare for dinner. actually we were thinking of having a barbecue in the villa, but a quick phone call to the resort told us that we were not allowed to have it there, instead they offered the guests' lounge, which of course we declined. we'd rather have maggi goreng instead, as long as we have the privacy of the villa. heheheh..
- giler banyak food! enough to feed an army! -
of coz lah, maggi goreng was not the only menu we came up with. we also had grilled sausages & burgers, many types of spaghetti, salad, fruit cocktails for dessert, and also, bags and bags of junk food.
tummy full, we had another dip in the jacuzzi, totally at our own leisure.
- another one of our night activities -
the next morning, we woke up just in time for subuh prayer, having stayed up late chatting the night away. well. i thought me and peroz (we opted to sleep in front of the tv together with odeng in the living room) were the last to snore, until ban who was sleeping in the master bedroom came out and complained of some bats racing outside the window. aa spooky. dunno whether they were really bats though.. but then again, we were in the middle of a felda jungle. anything was possible.  
the other reason for waking up early (for a sunday, it was wayyyy too early) was because we didnt want to miss our last hours in this little secluded heaven of ours. food was still aplenty so we didnt use our breakfast coupons. after a very filling breakfast of egg sandwiches, sausages, corn soup and tuna spaghetti, odeng, syura & mazyah chose to check out the public pools which was like a 3 minutes walking distance from the villa, while the rest of us opted to gossip in our own hot spring jacuzzi tub.
- milik siapakah gadis ini.... -
the check out time was at 12. it was time to leave our private heaven.  as we still had many (chickens' ya  ) eggs left, we decided to join the crowd and checked out the egg boiling activity area.
- ban, me, mazyah & peroz -
my! what a crowd. this place is sure a very popular vacation spot among the locals. in fact, despite sg klah being in perak, i noticed that the majority of the cars parked at the parking place bear the KL & selangor plates. i was glad we took up the villa, instead of other type of accommodation, because that meant we didnt have to leave the vicinity of the villa to enjoy the hot water from the thermal springs - we could have it right in our own backyard! 
- boiling instructions -
mazyah, syura & odeng were in charge of boiling the eggs. they meant to get them half boiled by following the instructions on boiling time, but i guess, we all got too absorbed in our photo taking that when odeng went to retrieve the eggs, they were all hard boiled.
- boiling our (chickens' ya ) eggs in the hot spring -
i prefer hard boiled eggs anyway. 
- our hot spring hard boiled eggs -
- group pic: the 8 of us. tirah, odeng, mazyah, ed, me, peroz, syura, ban -
- not in the pic: ed -
and then it was finally the time to leave sg klah. but before that, someone suggested that we go get some ice cream, and we did, at the food court near to the egg boiling area.
- one round of ice cream after one round of hot spring eggs -
we were savoring our ice cream when mazyah exclaimed:" weh melodi weh!" so we hurried to the sitting area in the food court and glued our eyes to the tv. it was showing the drama of local celebs norman hakim & abby abadi's marital problems, which is currently buzzing around the entertainment scene. it was said that another woman in the form of an obscure (she was an unknown, well at least to us, prior to this debacle) starlet called memey was the cause of the tiff, if i may call it that since abby's filing for a divorce. but thats another story.
- all eyes on the tv watching the norman-abby-memey saga on MELODI -
we only got moving when the show ended, but not before we wholeheartedly agreed that memey was a b**** and the name itself had a very negative connotation. eyy nak sebut pon geli. hahahahahaha.
- lets get our heavy butts home.. -
team A and team B were supposed to part ways at the car park since both tirah and peroz said that our highway exits were different. but somehow, i guess we couldnt get enough of the time spent being together , so much so we ended up drinking hot tea and eating a few sticks of satay, and laughing our hearts out at one of the guthrie highway's rest areas as we were approaching shah alam. we only left the place out of irritation when someone (who was very very rude indeed) shushed us. how very annoying! not like we kacau anybody.. 
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| Monday, 13-Oct-2008 01:28 |
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a weekend raya-ing
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the month of syawal is a month to strengthen the ties with your family and friends, old and new. raya is a month-long celebration but for most working people, we only get to go visiting during the weekends.
as for me, the 1st weekend of raya was spent at home, since this was the time when family and relatives came visiting, while the 2nd weekend was spent celebrating with friends.
first in the list was syura's open house do last friday. odeng and i went to syura's place at putrajaya straight after work. we were early and missed other friends because we wanted to be home early to catch "ayat-ayat cinta" on tv3!
< my baju & odeng's are of the same material, made by the same tailor! >
this raya, since my brother abo who's working at botswana is not coming home, and my navy brother, ajim is away sailing, we decided against doing our own open house do. our house welcomes anyone who comes visiting at anytime (but bedtime), so datang jer lah ek!
on saturday, i was up early to go grocery shopping. earlier last week, firin, an old friend from my JAD days, texted me to say that they were coming for raya, so i decided to serve them my mom's spagetti (cikwaniey jangan jealous yer! ) and my own special baked macaroni.
< my pride & joy. hehehehehehe.... >
hehehehe.. not like i have a variety of menu under my belt to serve my guests. practically, the 2 dishes are the only ones i am confident about. i said special, because its not like i make it every day or every year. i rarely make it so that makes it special, right? hehehe.. okay okay, i can see some of you smirking (dont sneer, okay!) when u read this so i confess-lah, i rarely cook at all.
saturday afternoon, firin, juan and newly wed fuado, brought their wives to my humble abode for raya. later in the evening, tirah, peroz, odeng, sarip & azli came by. we chatted, we made jokes, we laughed together and at each other, we ate my spagetti and macaroni - an instant hit. i even packed some of my baked macaroni for them to take home! -. i really enjoyed the day. i hope they did too.
the weekend ended with kak fiza-anjang's makan2 do on sunday at their place in bangi. kak fiza's curry mee was so lavish with seafood that i wished i had more space in my tummy to spare for that. gochisousama deshita!
< kad raya from the 4 of us. (ban, rugi aa x dtg aritu!) >
p/s: the pics were a bit grainy. they were all taken using my mobile phone camera, so cant expect much la kan.. 
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makan peking duck ke? i xnah makannnn ..!! hoshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
