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  • Bangkok: Erawan Four Faces Buddha Shrine

    Bangkok: Erawan Four Faces Buddha Shrine

    Bangkok: Erawan Four Faces Buddha Shrine – A must-visit for Buddhist in Bangkok as it’s a place I would visit for a little prayer every time I travel to Bangkok! It’s so famous that Buddhist from all over the world flock to this little corner at Erawan to do prayer! The Buddhist way of praying is actually wish for some good luck from the Buddha, and people claims that the wish comes true after praying here. I do not know a lot about prayers, I just seek for Buddha’s blessing and that’s it. Even if you are not a Buddhist, it’s nice to take a visit to this place, and see the devotees doing their prayer. Very culture-ful!
  • Bangkok: A Night Walk Around Pratunam

    Bangkok: A Night Walk Around Pratunam

    Bangkok: A Night Walk Around Pratunam – In my Bangkok trip, I stayed at a hotel named Ecotel Hotel and it’s located in the Pratunam District. You might thought it’s near to Platinum, Central World, but then it’s quite a far walk. Anyway, me and my family went for a walk around that area on a fine night after Thai food treatment. We were too full and a walk in the city helps the digestion, I guess.
    Do you just realised that Thai enjoys the night? They operate their street food stalls at night, just anywhere in the city, and there’s lots of stalls set up by the pedestrian walkway, selling clothes, bags and accessories. I know those are targeting the tourist, but I find it a good way to light up the night.
    Only in Bangkok.
    The night just never sleeps.
    Thai Queen’s portrait was up in conjunction with her birthday.
    7 Eleven, one of my favourite place in Thailand for sausage, but not anymore after the diarrhoea I had.
    Pad Thai in making!
  • Bangkok: Terminal 21 Shopping Mall

    Bangkok: Terminal 21 Shopping Mall

    Bangkok: Terminal 21 Shopping Mall – One of my favourite thing I like about Bangkok is their shopping mall, not those typical old MBK or Platinum, but their new modern mall like Siam Paragon, Siam Centre, Central World and this Terminal 21. Their malls are really well-maintained and the interior design is actually quite interesting!
    Terminal 21 is one very interesting mall as it’s has a theme of famous travel destination like London, Paris, Rome, Japan, and more and it also incorporate airport-style design too, like those terminal gate, huge airport-style clock!
    Best part, there’s cheap and fashionable buy too! I actually bought some nice fashion shirt at there! Here’s come the most interesting part, all of the toilets has different designs, you can hardly visit them all. The Thai really take design and fun seriously. Salute!
    The world is small! Couldn’t believe I met my classmate – Jia Hui, at Terminal 21. Haha.

    TOILET!

  • Bangkok: KL LCCT, Don Muang Airport, Raining @ Nana

    Bangkok: KL LCCT, Don Muang Airport, Raining @ Nana

    Bangkok: KL LCCT, Don Muang Airport, Raining @ Nana – 2 weeks ago, I went on a short trip to Bangkok, one of my favourite destination in South East Asia. There’s a very unfavourable moment happened on that trip – I had diarrhoea! I was very well until the day before I leave Bangkok, then the I started to head to the washroom very often until no medicine can stop it. That really ruined my last day at Bangkok. Well, this does cause some phobia to me, because the last time I went to Hatyai, I also had diarrhoea after I came home. I suspected it’s the sausage bought from the convenience stall was the source of the sickness as it’s me and brother had it and we two had diarrhoea. Haha. Anyway, Bangkok is still fine for me, I will visit again in the future!
    Charging phone @ LCCT, Kuala Lumpur.
    Waiting @ LCCT, Kuala Lumpur.
    Let’s not talk about that sad thing first and share something interesting about the trip. I took AirAsia from Kuala Lumpur and it’s my first time flying to Don Muang Airport. It was Suvarnabhumi International Airport all the while, but this year, AirAsia had changed to an older airport. No more of luxurious welcome anymore. Don Muang Airport is really old, but at least it’s very clean.
    The old Don Muang Airport @ Bangkok.
    Queuing for cab just outside of Don Muang Airport. You know, meter cab is cheap in Bangkok!
    Wet day in Bangkok.
    Somewhere in Nana, Bangkok.

    Rush hour in the BTS train.
    Without much hesitation, we took the cab, headed to the hotel, checked in and headed to Nana, a place you can find many Arabic restaurant and also tailor shop runs by Indian/Myammar/Banglah, they are just not pure Thai. My brother wanted to custom-made shirt, that’s why we went there. He said tailor is cheap and quality in Thai, I don’t really know but he made shirt at 1500 baht/shirt, what do you think?
    After settling with the tailor, we took the BTS from Nana Station and headed to Asok Station, it’s just a stop away where the theme-shopping mall – Terminal 21 is!
  • Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya

    Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya

    Super Crowded At KLCC Park During Hari Raya – I know Raya has passed for a few weeks already, but then I am very free right now, enjoying my lovely holiday and so there’s plenty of time for me to throwback some interesting moment and stuff.
    Sharing back about Hari Raya, I believe many people balik kampung to either celebrate the holy festival with their family, and the people who were not celebrating, too went back to hometown for a holiday. Somehow, I’ve decided to stay in Kuala Lumpur during that time as I know hometown Penang would be packed with tourists and people, traffic congestion would be everywhere too.
    Very interestingly, Kuala Lumpur was deserted, with so little car on all the major roads. No surprise because many who resides in Kuala Lumpur are actually came from other part of Malaysia. However, if you take a trip down to KLCC, you would be shocked by the number of people at there! It’s the most crowded time of the year, with foreign labour all packed at the KLCC Park, making some uncomfortable moment for me. Moreover, there’s the Popular Book Fair happened at the convention centre, no doubt, everyone cramped in this iconic place of Kuala Lumpur.
    Well, I actually recommend people to head to Kuala Lumpur during Hari Raya because during that time, you can be king of the road with no ‘pek-chek’ moment in the traffic jam and enjoy your shopping, but just beware of the crowds at KLCC.
  • A Site Visit To Menara Binjai

    A Site Visit To Menara Binjai

    A Site Visit To Menara Binjai – Actually it’s kinda cool for studying interior design as I get to visit many nice building located right at the heart of the city centre. Just a month ago, I went to check out a new Grade A office block located just right across of KLCC – Menara Binjai as part of my assignment requirement. I don’t really get any chance to own or work in a office in the city core just because I am not a corporate person. Have you ever came across any interior design firm with a strategic view of the city centre? I don’t think so.
    But then visiting the place and designing a space at these office would be even more interesting to me somehow, rather than working at there, Nevertheless, check out Menara Binjai. KL should have more of these high-rise building to dense up the cityscape like Hong Kong, Chicago, Singapore. Yeah?
  • Singapore: Momiji Japanese Buffet, Revenue House

    Singapore: Momiji Japanese Buffet, Revenue House

    Singapore: Momiji Japanese Buffet, Revenue House – On a after-work Friday evening, after fetching my brother from the CBD, he brought me and Clarice to the Revenue House at Novena for this Japanese buffet @ Momiji Japanese Buffet Restaurant for dinner. There’s nothing much special of having Japanese buffet in Singapore, it feels the same to me, except that the currency is in Sing dollar. Interestingly it’s located in a government building where it’s very quiet after work.
    Comparing to Malaysia’s, it’s only S$36.80++/per pax, given that you earn in Singapore dollar, it’s pretty affordable comparing to at least RM80/per pax in Malaysia with the similar salary payroll, but in Ringgit.
    Forget about the money talk. Let’s get into the restaurant for food. If you come early, in between 6.30pm to 7.30pm, you can get a free flow of Sapporo beer. I assume that they want to bloated your stomach with beer so you can’t consume much. HAHA.
    Nevertheless, the buffet choices was pretty interesting, there’s a wide range of fresh raw sashimi which I only targeted the raw salmon and shrimp. Other than that, the teppanyaki and cook-on-the-spot section attracted me well, as well as the dinner special of snow crab and crayfish. Snow crab was really interesting with juicy and salty crab meat.
    Desserts furthermore satisfied my sweet tooth with a few repeats of Haagen Dazs ice cream, and cakes.
    Ended with a satisfied stomach, fulled, and a smile on the face. We then headed to Gardens By The Bay for a little night walk to ease the digestion.
    Revenue House #02-02
    55, Newton Road,
    307987 Singapore.
    Telephone: +65-6253-2469
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  • Singapore: Universal Studios Singapore (again)

    Singapore: Universal Studios Singapore (again)

    Singapore: Universal Studios Singapore (again) – A year and a half ago, I went to the Universal Studios Singapore, and last week, I went again, with my dear Clarice! Actually it’s kinda fun if were to compare with Genting Highland, of course the ticket price is a lot higher! I don’t mind, since I didn’t tried a few rides during my first visit – Transformer The Ride & Rapid Adventures, and it’d been a while since I go on a road trip with Clarice, so going to the USS again is fun, moreover, lunch, snack, and free parking are included in the MY Superdeal promotion for Malaysian-only.
    Saturday, oh as expected there’s super big crowds in the theme park. Luckily the weather was not killing us but the the pay-off was the super long queue at several ride, like 110 minutes for Transformer The Ride and Rapid Adventure. Still the best rides to me are the Transformer & Battleship Galactica. Ride twice on both of them!
    The queue at the park actually killed of our opportunity to see the show. Actually I have seen before, just that Clarice haven’t and it was kinda disappointing for her. The weekend-only fireworks was not so impressive after all, but at least it’s something new comparing to my last USS trip. HAHA. Blah, anyway, enjoyed and tired!
    Super long queue at the Transformer.
    Hello Bumblebee.
    Although it’s just 4D, 5D or what you may like to call it, but Transformer The Ride was just so awesome.
    Free Char Siew Rice from Hollywood China Bistro.
    Free Chicken Rice from Hollywood China Bistro.
    On the way to Rapid Adventure, one hour + of waiting time!
    Do not spend SG$3 on these poncho,  you only get wet, a bit. Money sucking. Bring your own is the best.
  • Singapore: Gardens By The Bay

    Singapore: Gardens By The Bay

    Singapore: Gardens By The Bay – Finally, I get to visit the Gardens By The Bay in Singapore. I’ve wanted to go there already, but it was either too lazy or too tired to walk across the highway to reach there from Marina Bay Sands. This time was different cause it’s a road trip and I drove and parked directly in the garden (SG$0.02/minute for parking). =D
    Super Trees are impressive, the idea, but they are too bald right now. Somehow the whole ‘Gardens By The Bay’ concept failed to impress me because it’s a concrete garden! There’s no green grass field and it’s more like Tree-less Gardens By The Bay to me. Imagine going there in the day time, hot die you I assure!
    SuperTree restaurant!
    Bald super tree.
    Clarice dear.
    Brother and me.
  • Singapore: CBD & Merlion Park

    Singapore: CBD & Merlion Park

    Singapore: CBD & Merlion Park – For the first time, without the parents sitting beside or driving, I drove a Malaysian vehicle on the Singapore’s road, it was a road trip with my dear Clarice last weekend and it was a great one.
    Looking up from Battery Road.
    In front of Bank of China while waiting for my brother to finish work.
    Went into the Central Business District of Singapore Downtown Core to enjoy being flooded in the tall city and beautiful sky scrappers. The small city of Singapore is just so awesome that the road are so wide, clean and linear that I suddenly felt that Malaysia is like so far behind. Undeniable, Singapore’s city is world class.
    Crossing the Esplanade Bridge. I parked my car at Esplanade Mall.
    A visit to Merlion Park is a must if you are a first-timer. Although I have been there before, yet I do not want to miss the opportunity to visit there with Clarice and take photos together. =D Not to mention, it has a nice panaromic view of Singapore together with the famous Merlion statue. But be prepare to be annoyed but the huge number of tourists. XD
    This is good!
    Top 10 ugliest building in the world. LOL.
    I really admire the way the Singapore create tourist attractions and city planning, why they can, we cannot?! Blahh… I believe Penang has the opportunity,  but I am not sure about other city.
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