A Material Girl

I'm such a material person. I cant help it, really. I so wanna get myself a designer bag and the thoughts been killing me. It's not that I cannot afford (can lar, if I spent less on travelling), it's somehow like the morale I've been educated growing up in a family to not being material on buying/owning branded stuffs. One side of me saying that it's addicting, once you start to own one, then you'll get the second, then three, four, five ... arrghh the thought's making me excited only, damn! Ppl (those who dont go for designers bags) say with the money you spend on buying one designer bag, you can spend the same amount for travelling or buying more nice and cheap handbags. I know, I know, I know. But the mini me inside (ego) is telling me if I should just get one for myself, cos everyone (most of friends) got one! And it's a designer bags not the normal one you can get at pasar malam (okla, got fake one also but those are cheat one okay!)I'll go for something in the lower range 1st, I'm thinking to get a Coach 1st, then maybe a Gucci during my Taiwan trip in Oct (my friend told me there is a Gucci store in Taipei airport, duty free!).

Now that I'm scratching my head to decide which Coach I would get. ok, this one is going to be a birthday gift from my dear dear, I was really surprised when he told me the other day to choose a Coach I like, wooah! Funny thing is that my birthday has actually passed 1 month and I havent decide which Coach to buy. okok, there are two that I fancy, COach Poppy large spotlight (slightly more pricey but gives a very young look) and Coach Op Art Brooke in Khaki. DD said Brooke is nicer as there is coach signature pattern on it, unlike Poppy which is merely plain white with yellow strap. I hope I can get it before CNY. *fingers crossed* ;)

Reviving This Blog

Traveling is one of the priorities in my life. I read travel blogs and drools everytime I saw those nice travel pics posted up by the bloggers, then dream of going to those places day and night. I've only been to like a few countries (okay, a handful!) and most of the time I enjoy doing my own research and plan all my itineraries free and easy style. Friends have been pushing me to write my own travel blog but I'm such a lazy person. arrggh.. I hope I can really start on this blog and to have the diligence for continuous blogging. It would serve as my travel diary (in case I lost my memory or something, or maybe lose all my pics). Of course it would be good to share with ppl who also love travelling. Dont be surprise if you found I did not update any post after this (or the following after next). haha..

Sawasdee Hatyai

This is a short 2D1N trip organized by me (of course!) during my visit to Penang year end 2009. It is also a birthday trip for DD cos we celebrated his bday there. The trip was awesome given that food are cheap and shopping is crazy!!

The journey from Penang to Bukit Kayu Hitam, the border between Malaysia and Thai, took about 1 and 1/2hour. We parked our car in the Duty Free Zone Shopping Complex and took a cab into Hatyai, which took another 1 hour. KL was pretty excited at first cos the cab's a Mitsubishi Lancer, but it was a rather old car.

this car had super loud engine sound and driving at only 70kph sounded like 120kph

fake accident display by roadside to alert motorists

The driver only charge us 400baht (RM40) for a 60km journey. Thai time is one hour later than Malaysia time, so it was only 10am when we reached our hotel. Lee Garden Plaza hotel (Rm110 /nite for a superior room) is situated right at the central of Hatyai and you can easily find lotsa tut-tut outside.

Dearie got excited seeing the hot chick in the tiger show ticket, not knowing that the picture is merely for illustration purposes

testing the bed, okay, comfy enough!

Tut-tut cars everywhere, honking at tourists (and we thought we heard them saying maicib*i, haha, sometimes Thai language can be confusing, greeting sounds like cursing...)

One of the must-try in Thailand, Samurai Pork Burger in McDonald's

Not spicy at all, pork meat patty dipped in sweet sauce. However I must say, very disappointing, I don't fancy the strong pork smell =(

Then it was time to do massage. It's my 1st time doing Thai massage, did Oriental Chinese and Balinese massage before, those are oil massages. Thai massage is completely different. They dont use oil but mainly pressing, pulling and twisting your body and spine. I was a bit nervous at first, but slowly enjoying it. Thai massage is relatively cheap compared to other massage, only 250 baht for 1.5 hr.

very clean place, no kinky services available here, all massauers are aunties. Health Massage at the 7th floor of our hotel

I love shopping at the lil boutiques in Lee Garden Plaza shopping mall. And a creative art market was going on too

I think these are called BB-bullets guns, banned in Malaysia cos I heard it can actually kill if shot at near distance. The stall also sell Japanese Samurai swords

Khlonghae Floating market

     

The boats literally dont move

        

The pork kebab is nice, others so-so only

Beehoon soup and kerabu (20baht each)

Finally, it was the most anticipated activities of the trip - the tiger show @ Hawaii. I've already watched once in Amsterdam red light district but still I'm a bit looking forward to this Asian version. lol. We had to wait for the previous show to end. When it was our turn to enter, we quickly rush in, not that we are kiasu, we dont want to be left choosing the seat in the front row. There were a whole lot of other tourist, I can see they're Malaysian cos all look very sakai. 450 baht with a glass of beer.

The show started off with all the performers dancing with their clothes on, then a magician did some lame tricks. After that the real performer came out in bikini, she looks so young I thought she's underaged (who knows). She did some strip dancing and pole dancing then came down from the stage, nude, and started to jump onto some single men. haha.. I was so shocked cos this never happend during the sex show I've watched in RLD. Then there were several other performing stunt acts using their private parts. Not really disgusting, but quite amusing in a way. There was also a guy performer doing the drum and keyboard with his d*ck It was really funny! And of course the "live" show in the end. Oh, I nearly forgot, the last part was a really pretty girl doing the strip dance and showing her d*ck, yes, she's a shemale. haha... Dearie was near to throwing out. lol.

Went for bird's nest soup before we head back to hotel. Bird's nest soup is my freaking fav food, just that I cannot afford to have it often. All vain ppl out there, bird nest is good for your complexion! lol!

*slurp*

I 'm not sure why Hatyai has so many shops selling bird's nest soup. We got this 200baht per bowl, yummmm .... and with bai guo.. One each, okay, no sharing cos vain ppl like me need to eat a lot. lol.

We gave dearie a surprise birthday celebration. Poor him, already sound asleep when nhiou them came in with a birthday cake.

Dearie with his bday gift - a Guess watch - from me

Even Ronald in Hatyai says Sawasdee, Kap Kap

I took this photo cos I want to remind myself that Thai pineapple is really really sweet

Our ride for the last day tour to Songkhla, a Chevrolet

We had some difficulties communicating with our driver. Ah Porn the travel agency taukenio should have arrange someone who can at least understand English, bad! It was funny when we had to do hand and sound gestures to tell him "we wanna go eat nice seafood at nice restaurant with seaview" (pls teach me if you know how to translate in Thai)

Mermaid statue in Songkhla

Tang Kuan Hill, overlooking Songkhla City
(don't go here, it's a boring place to visit)

A seafood village restaurant. We're seated outside with sea view, nice!

nth better to do, so we posed with the local mineral bottle

yey, time to savour!

all of these only cost us 1000 baht (rm25 each person), cheap wtf

green mango kerabu with lots of cashew nuts, oh heaven!

i love this seafood tomyam, cos it's thick but not too spicy

cuttlefish in curry powder gravy

happily feasted

We did some shopping for liquer chocolate at the duty free shopping complex before heading back to Malaysia. It was a long queue exiting into Malaysia immigration. Yeah back to home..   

♥ Anniversary in Langkawi, Weeee...! ♥

Fine, this was supposed to be romantic happy loving passionate affectionate, whatsoever words you can think of, trip for me and dearie's donnohowmanyyear 7th year anniversary ;P but got ruined by that stupid idiot Malay guy. okay, I think I better erase that part of fugly memories from staining this post.

So it was a superly perfect trip for both of us (wee!), minus that tiny weeny part of imperfection, which is completely fine. wtf! oh, and this is a backdated post, a trip during end of Aug.

ferry terminal at Kuala Kedah

not much of our luck, heavy rain upon arriving Langkawi

friend of the stupid idiot guy asking us to rent their car

A friend told me after I came back from the trip that cars are duty free in Langkawi which mean they are damn cheap compared to what you're driving in Penang or JB or KL. Based on that fact, car rental charge should be cheap in Langkawi, maybe RM50-60 per day for a Wira. If I know this earlier, I wont get conned by the stupid idiot guy who purposely want to cheat our money and refused to refund us our deposit. But it's okay, we still can afford to give you that money to wipe your shit, assh*le!

Langkawi is a super small island. It's so easy to drive around, a map will do the help. And there's not much to do here unless you're here to booze or abuse chocolates. Haha.. siaw

Big fish greeted us at Underwater World

Penguins are curious animals, we watched them, they watched us

Err.. grilled with sambal or lemongrass better?

Feeding time

testing the bed, standard procedure

Checked in into City Bayview Hotel in Kuah town. We did not op for beach resort this time round. I give two thumbs up for this hotel, it's clean, spacious and we paid slightly higher to get ourself a sea-view room for watching fireworks tonight. It also has a big bathroom that I think 3 ppl can fit in at a time, cos there's one bath tub and a shower cubicle, haha but who the hell wanna shower and do business together, crazy.

 

right choice getting a room that have seaview in day time & fireworks view at nite

The trademark of Langkawi

Seaview at Eagle Square

Black sand beach

Legend said the sand was black due to the remains of skulls, bones and shipwrecks resulted from a battle

Close up

Tanjung Rhu beach

Watching sunset at Tanjung Rhu, so romantic kan!

Paddy field

Beers/liquer in Langkawi are like drinking water - damn cheap

Fireworks during midnight for our anniversary national day

Island hopping for RM30 each

Reaching the Pregnant Maiden Lake (watch out for monkeys chasing after your plastic bags!)

Myth says that whoever touch or bath in the lake are blessed to be pregnant. And the lake is actually freshwater. The cave gap (the gap between the mountain in the pic) separated sea water from the lake, amazing right?

Urgh, nasty animal

you can rent a paddle boat or have a dip in the lake, I prefer to sit nia..

Dearie says these are ciaksai (eat shit) fish, haha! so my feet is sai..-__-lll

I had goosebumps the moment when the sky was covered by wtf lots of these big wild eagles

our boatman threw some food to the eagles to let us take close up shot of the eagles, too bad, this is all my lil dummy camera can get

Next stop is at a freaking awesome beach, worst part is I din bring my swimsuit. pufff

Wet Rice Island?

Oohh, ammmmazzingg..

Dearie eating ice cream with his eyes

The island hopping tour only took about 4 hours. After the tour we drove to the other side of the island, to the cable car up to Mt Cincang. The cable car was alright, kinda humid and gave slight funny smell, but I still prefer HK Lantau Island cable car which is clean, spacious and with music playing that makes you feel safe and forget about the height. The cable car ride eventually brought us to the platform where within 15-20 minutes of walking, climbing, hiking, panting, sweating distance, we reached the suspension sky bridge. Okay, this part freaked me out like hell. I never knew I'm so scare of height, that I really am! It's like the worse walk ever for me to reach the other end of bridge. Scariest part is that the bridge was literally shaking due to strong wind, crap! No doubt the view was breathtaking..

The sky bridge that nearly scare the sh*t out of me

Can these few pieces of steel bars hold?

One hand taking photo, the other hand gripping on the bar

Photo taken at safe zone, lol!

Guinness chicken (from Ireland, not!)

Egg tofu on sizzling plate

Seafood tomyam soup, must!

One more booze before leaving the island

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Always & Forever... ♥