Hi there, just wanna inform that I will be going Finland for training for a month.
Leaving tonite itself.
Datuk Lee, please don't fail us this time!
9th March - 9th April
Snow snow, here I come.
Will blog if possible.
Take care guys!
Finally got some free time to blog d.
The long awaited(ahem, okla nobody waiting oso) Finland and Amsterdam post is finally done!
With lots of photos(as usual, lazy ma).
All in all, it was generally a nice trip. Virgin trip to Europe!
Hopefully can go again some time in the future.
Finland - Vaasa
Thanks to my dear company, I was given a chance to go to Finland for some product user meeting. There's this branch situated in a small town called Vaasa(one hour flight from Helsinki) - that's where I'm headed to.
The view from my room.
OMFG - the room is SO small!
Unbelievably small. 90EUROs!
Who would pay 12EUROs for a porno?
Nice autumn feel.
But it was a wrong time to go ler, strong winds, rain, etc.
Didn't get to see snow oso.
This is a famous cartoon character in Finland which I forgot its name.
That's about it for Finland. I have more photos but it's about work so I think won't feature here.
The Netherlands - Amsterdam
Oh, I forgot to mention that my trip to Vaasa costs me around a whole 24hrs! CCB!
KLIA - Singapore - Amsterdam - Helsinki - Vaasa
There's no direct flight from Malaysia to Finland so I gotta use this route.
Since I'll be changing flights in Amsterdam so under the super kindness of my super cool company, managed to stop by two days in Amsterdam during the trip back.
Of coz the expenses there paid by myself la.
I stayed in this SUPER COOL hotel called CitizenM that's just beside Schipol Airport.
Mahai, the room yau so small wan. 75EUROs.
But much more worth it than the one in Vaasa ler.
This hotel was built with trend/youngsters/futuristic/etc in mind and it found Philips as its technology partner.
All rooms are equipped with a gadget called the Mood Pad which could allow you to control every-f**king-thingy in the room. For eg,
Fancy a blue light for your shower?
How bout pink for the girls?
Maybe green for the environmentalists?
THE PORNOS ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!
Let's head to Amsterdam town..
Nice view!
Amsterdam Centraal.
Ownself take train from Airport to town.
Very the easy to go around with everything in English.
Dim Sum in Amsterdam. Eat-all-you-can somore!
Only open in the evening though.
Did I mention that everything is so f**king expensive in Europe?
That time I change money the rate is RM4.98 for 1EURO leh.
After I come back only the EURO drop like shit.
Bad timing.
This is the best money I spent in the entire Europe trip.
7.50EUROs for a super delicious breakfast set.
Damn geli. There are these urinals situated around the city for men.
Dare to piss there ma gentlemen?
I is dun dare and I ended up spending 0.40EUROs(twice) for toilet entries in one mall.
That's RM2 per entry guys.
There's a fun fair in town.
I dunno what's this called but it's available in Genting wan, just near the entrance.
But look at this, it's sooooooooo high up in the air!
The best photo I took for the entire trip.
Really like the scenery in postcards.
Rijksmuseum.
There are so many meseums/art galleries there man.
Went into this wan and pura-pura damn atas like that "xin shang" all the paintings, sculptures, etc.
Oh, this is nice to mention. Dunno Malaysia got ma. Maybe got kot.
There's this fast food shop where the food(burgers, hotdogs, etc) are put in these glass, oh my, wat is the word - compartments?
So you slide in your coins, open the "door"(hehe), and take your food out.
I tried a burger and it's really not bad!
The supposed "fun" side of Amsterdam - The Redlight District:
"Honey, let's buy some marijuana."
Erotic Museum anyone?
Where are the girls by the windows?!?
Photography not allowed k, so take the windows instead. Haha.
Overall, I feel Amsterdam too over rated ler. Buat like so happening like that but go there quite disappointed.
Maybe I din try the "coffee shops" ler, hehe. That's y not "high" enough.
Everything is so commercialized there too with thousands of tourists flooding the streets(really wan). Want to walk abit oso hard.
Remember I had two days in Amsterdam before I leave for Malaysia?
I decided that one day of Amsterday city was enough so the next day impromptu-ly(wah, can like this use the word?) I went to another small town not far from Schiphol Airport.
The Netherlands - Leiden
WINDMILL!!!! When see it really excited ler.
WINDMILL AGAIN!!!
These are not real working windmills though. These used to be working ones but they are not needed nowdays so serve as deco only.
Actually I plan to go and see the really working ones but the place really far from the airport(near the sea wan) so in the end din go.
This small town is so nice ler. Another canal city.
Everything like so relax there nia.
Literally, you can imagine the ppl there got no work to do but to "hang gai" and drink coffee for few hours then continue hang gai again. Haha.
That's it folks.
Thanks for spending your precious time reading these.
Do share your Europe experiences if you have any.
Hey there, haven't been blogging for some time. Today beria-ria went to search my photo albums and think I could blog something about my trip to Vietnam last September(mahai, how time passes!!).
Basically it's just a photoblog(i'm lazy as usual) but this time it contains something about my work. So thought you all might be interested.
Communism ROX! Haha.
There's this river in front of my hotel. Very nice indeed to look at it while having dinner after a tiring day at work.
Nice hut to have dinner in it.
Vietnamese rice cracker. Sibeh BIG. Eat one enough d. Noneed eat dinner anymore.
I only travel between work place and hotel and usually have my meals in the hotel.
This is Fried Pork with Fries.
Instant MILLIONAIRE!!!
RM1 = 4500 Vietnam Dong
It's really nice having a few HUNDRED THOUSAND in your pocket.
IT REALLY IS!
Ever wondered what the hell E-quan is doing? Well, just not to be too specific, my work quite oftenly involves going to an Oil Refinery.
Bet you all never see an oil refinery before rite? You all are in luck this time..
Going to this site makes me think about Red Alert 2 nia. For the guys, remember how we use to play the game and we would like build a refinery by clicking on the refinery structure and placing it on the map and WALAH..we have a refinery in 15 seconds.
This is like the real thing man! It takes so much man and machine power to built one. Really impresses me.
One weekend my colleagues there brought me to the beach. Not very impressive but beats PD anytime.
We had seafood after that. This is something like Teocheow Steam Fish.
You could eat it by wrapping the fish using this
something-like-wantan-idea-but-the-material-is-more-like-paper-
or-maybe-thin-fuchuk-skin kinda thingy.
Oh yeah, you put some vege in the wrapping too.
The good old glass bottle coke. SYIOK!
That's all folks. It's such a simple and clean blog post..the way I like it.
Next would be a post about my Finland trip I suppose.
Till next time..
Take care.
Hey guys, i'm currently in Quang Ngai, Vietnam for a job assignment. Will be here till the 9th of Oct. Haih.
Very the sien here. Lucky still got ADSL and satellite TV.
Been travelling a whole damn lot lately. Till i quite scared thinking about it. But the nice part about this travelling was: Meeting my coursemates! Syiok, it's so nice seeing everybody after so long.
First stop: Malacca
Met HockPoh and Clarence here. Kelian, only they both there. Haha. They both are the same! HP still so fei and all. It was really nice listening to HP's germany trip and CC's taiwan trip. Din manage to see HP gf. Rupanya not working there, that's y la. And really thanks come fetch me and spend me dinner ler. Remember you both promised come klang for bahkuteh. Dun ffk me.
Next: Penang
Had a job in Sg Petani and thought of: Since such a long journey to the north, sure must go visit the Penangites! Met YenPin, YeeVoon, SzeLek, and Annie there. All of them are the same as well. SzeLek nice lor, go Amadika for few months. YP and YV still loving couple as always, sure kahwin soon. Annie oredi kahwin. Haha..just jk. Everyone is real fine here. Lek-go going to be promoted to Assistant GM soon, in-charge to company expansion and internal system coordination.
Oh yeah, must mention this: I stayed in B-Suite hotel. Superb room for RM125 per nite.
Next: Singapore
Went for a training there. Managed to catch up with MeiYi, HooiEan, and HooiMin. They all really nice ler. Bring me dinner and jalan-jalan after that. Listen to their working life interesting betul. Beza between malaysians and singaporeans, haha. Esp MY's stories. Thanks bring me go minum in Clark Quay ha. Lowkei, Hooters nice hor? Haha.
Learned one word there: Chiong (as in rush to the scene that "rush"). Din know can like this use: Yesterday I went to "chiong" with my colleagues = Yesterday, I went clubbing with my colleagues. Haha.
Next: KL
Well, KL is not actually a trip per se. But anyway, the central region gang comprising of myself, Elaine, YewFatt, KamTat, Lowkei and gf, went out to have a farewell with IanCing who will be relocating back to her lau jia for her new job in Malacca. She'll be HP's colleague then. Happy bor, HP? Lowkei planned go itu Souled-Out in hartamas wan mana tahu that nite they having private function and it's closed. CCB betul. End up went somewhere near there for japanese food and some minum. Hope IC will suit well to her new job. All the best!
Now: Vietnam
Haih, no coursemates here of course. Just hoping that time passes quickly. Can't wait to be back.
The ppl here are frenly though. And the traffic here is crazy. I was in a car that day and the journey was really like in the movies, with a bus coming straight at you and you narrowly escaped that type. Oh yeah, honking is their favourite hobby. =P
Next: Finland
I really hope everything would turn out well. That i get back from Vietnam on time, one week to prepare, and off i go on my first Europe trip! Really looking forward to that. Having a meeting/training there. Made the flight schedule ngam ngam so i could stop by Amsterdam for two nites. Haha. Pray pray that everything will go smoothly. Paling penting is i leave Vietnam according to schedule. Dowan to be delayed here.
That pretty much sum up about how am i doing lately.
Till we meet again. Ardios and take care!
Remark 2: Chibi Maruku-chan comedy(real person, not cartoon) going to air on Malaysian TV soon. Excited!
Remark 3: Oh yeah, MERDEKA!
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Perhentian Trip - In a glance
1. Sea - Nice
2. Accomodation - OK
3. Food - Nice
4. Hotel Beach - Sux <-- More on that later
Perhentian Trip - Expenditure breakdown (for 2 pax)
1. Flight (KL to/fro Kota Bharu) MAS - RM304
2. 3D2N Arwana Hotel package -RM836
3. Taxi (Kota Bharu Airport to/fro Kuala Besut Jetty) - RM150 <-- Sibeh expensive
4. Marine Park Fee - RM10 <-- Totally tipu our money
Total - RM1300
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Let's start...
Cheapest breakfast you can have at KLIA.
Elaine: I'm SO EXCITED about the trip!!
Me: Yes, I can see that. =P
We fly MAS cause that time got promotion. Worth it.
See, got peanuts to eat leh.
Got juice somore.
At Kuala Besut Jetty. Damn alot angmohs man.
Yay, reach d. VO_OV
My shirt spells - "ROCK OFF RAVE ON". I have absolutely no idea what it means.
Zhi Pai.
We stayed in Arwana Perhentian Resort in Perhentian Besar.
I don't care where we stay. Chongchi ROCK OFF RAVE ON man!
Oi, hungry d. Still wan take photo meh?!?
Janganlah marah-marah.
I confirm I went there with Elaine only. 2 adults.
You know la, chinese bulan 7, scared man. Suddenly my group got 4 pax. Choi choi!
Zhi pai.
My shirt this time - "Style is the Message". Huiyoh, sibeh chuan!
Elaine.
Such a beautiful scenery.
The beach looks fine rite?
Until..
The air surut.
CCB. Like this oso can?!? The beach really lousy man.
Blue sky.
BBQ dinner, SYIOK!
Yay, wan go snorkelling d!
I took this photo from our boat. The water is THAT clear!
Mari makan roti.
We couldn't see any Nemo! Damn disappointed that wan.
Luckily still got Dori, small shark, and turtle to compensate.
Cantiknya!
Ok, no message-type t-shirts this time.
Elaine.
Zhi pai.
Hammock hammock!
Ppl want to sleep leh. Go away.
I love this photo.
Unfortunately this wasn't the chalet we stayed in.
Water taxi rate for your reference.
Map - Perhentian Kecil.
Map - Perhentian Besar. See the road from Flora 2 to Perhentian Island Resort?
Coz we're jungle trekking across the island.
Reach d! But the journey was quite intense. Not easy leh for ppl who don't exercise like us.
Mahai, the beach here so cantik!
I think of Perhentian Island Resort damn sad. Should have stayed there.
Heard the price difference not so much oso. CCB!
Our hotel swimming pool.
In our room. I love this photo too.
Makan-makan. They keep feed us. Damn nice.
Oh, so fast last day d.
Let me enjoy a glass of watermelon juice while wearing my gaya pair of shades.
Oi, pinjam itu shades.
Gaya ma? Like Neo in Matrix ma?
You wish!
On the way back(speedboat) we stopped here(Cocohut) to pick up a few passengers.
Time to fly now. Goodbye Perhentian!
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