Sarawak Getaway!

Hey peeps,

For those who have not been to East Malaysia, Sarawak in specific, here's a good package that you may want to consider taking! :) It's the latest package from Beds and Escapade Borneo (you won't find it in any other travel & tour agency! Serious! :P).

Beds and Escapade Borneo!
(Click photo to website!)

4 Days 3 Nights Kuching Borneo Getaway

Day 1 - Free & Easy

• Airport Pickup and transfer to guesthouse

Day 2 - Trek to Waterfall

• 07:30: Pickup from guesthouse and proceed to Selakau Village (100KM from Kuching City)
• 09:30: Arrive at village - proceed to trek to the waterfall
• 11:00: Arrive at waterfall
• 12:00: BBQ Lunch
• 15:30: Trek back to the village and back to Kuching City
• 19:00: Trip Ends

Day 3 - Rainforest Kayaking

• 08:30: Pickup from guesthouse and proceed to Selakau Village (100KM from Kuching City)
• 10:30: Arrive at Begoh Village - proceed to kayak downstream (duration 4-5 hours)
• 15:00: Trip end and transfer back to guesthouse

Day 4 - Free and easy

• Transfer to Airport

Rates: RM680.00 (minimum 4 person)
Package inclusive of: airport transfer, 3 nights accommodation at guesthouse, waterfall trip, kayaking, breakfast, BBQ lunch, pack lunch and 2 dinner.

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Some sand in between the toes.

Sa-wa-dee-kapppppp!

From Penang to KL to Krabi to Phi Phi Island and finally, to Phuket!
All that in the span of 4 days.
It was exhausting physically but somewhat liberating spiritually and mentally.
After months of planning and talking about this short trip, we, a bunch of friends met through the many FES events that we have participated in, finally executed it last Thursday.

At LCCT before departing to Krabi.

Landed at Krabi International Airport... From the moment we landed, we all had a hard time calculating our monies. Totally not used to the Bath currency... Each time wanna pay for something we had to stop and calculate mentally. And that also we had problem doing.. Maths memang koyak rabah lar...

Arrived in Krabi town. Taking a "taxi" to the pier to get to Phi Phi Island.

We decided to spend two nights over at Phi Phi Island, with the package of a one day island hopping trip, snorkelling included.

Phi Phi Island.

We stayed at this place call "Harmony House". Not too bad a place.

It was Awwwweesoooooomeeeeeeee...
Phi Phi Island is really great to just chill but at the same time, you can do stuff like snorkelling, rock climbing, etc.
Quite a good mix of activities.

Getting our gears!

The place we snorkelled wasn't exactly the best spot..
But for the price that we paid, we couldn't complain much.
It was still something to treasure and experience.

FYI, I can't swim!

Whoopie! Fishy all around us!

Jo, Ngee Ying and Kim actually jumped off a cliff! (Too bad we couldn't get that on camera)
Very daring of them... But once they came out of the water, the first thing they said was
"Waaaaah... backside pain weiiiii kena the water... " :P

From snorkelling, we went to several other islands to explore and just chill...
The boat ride was pretty crazy. The boat literally flew over the waves a few times...
The girls were screaming their lungs out.
The beaches were really niiiiiiiceeeee.
Penang punya beach kalah teruk teruk...

Rejuvenating.

It's a scene you'd picture out of a postcard.

As for me, I see "S" in everything...
This was the product that came out of spending too much time on the beach...

Not bad eh?
Oh wait.. You guys think that was okay only ar...
Check this out then...

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Ta-Da!!

I scuplt it out of my ham and bread breakfast!!
Don't believe me?

HAH!
Betcha can't do that, can ya'?? :P
It requires precision oKAYYY. Hehe.

Er.... Sorry...
Syeok sendiri... Hehe...
Got cape all some more...
:P

After a long day of snorkelling and getting burnt, what better way to pamper yourself than to stuff yourself with fooooooooooood.... Yum! Yum!

Food, glorious food!

From Tom Yam, to green curry to prawn cake to Singha to super cool Thailand bottle of water... MMMMmmmmmm...
But it wasn't as spicy as we expected it to be though.
Oh well...

We spent the last two days at Phuket, Patong Beach.

Phuket Town.

Honestly, I prefered Phi Phi (pronounced as Pee-Pee-Island :)
Phuket is more of a shopping hub whereas Phi Phi is more of doing outdoor'ish things. Nonetheless, it was nice.
Since we were there, apa lagi, shop lar.

Oh did I mentioned I got "molested" by one of the saleswoman there. *Sweat*

Serious wei.
I was bargaining for some of my friends there and this saleslady tiba-tiba came up to me and stroke my er... chest area. Gosh.
Freaky.
That's only the first timeeeeee..
The second time what happened was we were all walking along the shops at Phuket town and you know how they are famous for their "massgae parlour" right?
Each time you walk pass these places, the "ladies" will come out trying their best to lure you into these shops.

"Sa-wa-dee-kap... U wan massage.. Very nice one.. Come come.. "

And suddenly, this lady came to me with her hand and my chest area and started to push/pull (wasn't sure what happened) me man.
She was agressive.
I lari lar.
I cepat cepat stand in between Christine and Kimberly. I was suppose to protect the girls but end up they protected me...
Takut giler okay.

The sunset at Patong beach was beautiful.
It's one of those jiwang moments captured live.. Hehe.

Jiwang.

A reminder that God's beauty is painted everywhere around the world :)

Did I shop? Mestilah....

Chris T & Chris K got ourselves a pair of new slippers.

Did I kena con? Mestilah... Crap.

Christine got a bigger bag than me with the same price!!
Tak Puas!
Got conned big time!! ARGGGHH!
Tan Poh Choy, you owe me!!!! :P

Although it was really a short trip, 4 days, it's still something to cherish.
I've always said that it's not the place that makes the difference, it's the people that you go with that makes a difference.
Indeed, they have.
Great friends to chill out with, jaw-dropping scenery, a million and one shops to check out and great food, whatelse can you asks for?

What I've learnt?
Life is like having some sand in between the toes.
It's irritating at first... but in time, you learn to enjoy it.
You know perfectly well that the waves will wash them over.
But you also know that eventually the sand will find its way back in between your toes again.
A cycle that will repeat itself until we get off the shore.
So don't try and clean the sand in between your toes cause so long as you're on the beach, it won't go away.
Feel it...
Learn from it...
Enjoy it.

From left:
Jason, Chris K, Chris T, Kok How, Jo, Ngee Ying and Kimberly.
You guys rock!

Thank God for keeping us safe throughout the stay there in spite of slight fear with all the riots that's been going on in Bangkok.
We're back in one piece!

I'm happy!

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*Away*

Finally, the long awaited get-away!
I'm off!
Will be back next week with loads of photos for sure!



=)

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Crikey!

People, I'm back frooooom...

Yep, for those who didn't know, I was in Perth for the last 9 days for the Asia Pacific Floorball Competition (APAC) 2008.

My journey started all the way from the north, Penang Island, travelled down to KL and from KL took a bus down to...

Kluang!

Followed Merv to his beloved hometown and tasted that renown Kluang Station coffee...
Went to the original coffee shop ok... Good stuff.
Ohhhh.. And guess what man... Of all things to bump into while we were in Kluang minding our own business... We saw this... *Jeng*Jeng*Jeng*...

What the crap is the USM bus doing in a place like Kluang anyways??! Haha...
Funny wei...
Anyway, after spending two night at Kluang, Merv and I travelled down to Singapore.
Why Singapore?
You see, we are on a tight budget and thus, we need to get on a budget airplane.

Tigerairways!

Seriously, Tigerairways' dirt cheap.
The catch?
Being a budget flight, the services are all "budgeted".
Yes, even the stewardess, if you know what I mean... :P

Arrived in Perth on Saturday night about 9.15pm and boy, it was cold.
I for one can't really tahan cold lar but it was nice nonetheless...
We stayed over at this place, 'Beatty Lodge', located in a small cozy lil' town called Leederville, just a train stop away from Perth City.

Yep, they welcomed the whole Floorball jinbang! ;)

The following 5 days were all about the sport...
Floorball, floorball and more floorball.

Floorball Mania...

This APAC only 5 teams/4 countries participated; Australia (the host), Australia Under-19, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.
By the looks of it, we were the underdogs.
Singapore, previous champ, though without several key players, still were the favourites of the competition.
Eventually, as predicted, they won it again.

Australia vs. Korea

Australia vs. Singapore

Malaysia!

It's always hard to relate the excitement of floorball that I have to my friends for the simple reason that it's not a well known sports.
Being there, at the competition, though with fellow rivals and competitors, it was nice knowing that we all shared a common fascination and interest towards this urban sports that is still finding its way into the mainstream.
The Koreans were exceptionally friendly.
More over, their fighting spirit and stamina is ridiculously strong.
They were my favourite team, not the best, but the most spirited.

The Koreans with the Malaysians.

After playing, of course we being Malaysians have to eat puas-puas...
Subway became our best friend!

We practically had at least a meal at Subway every day cause it was
considerably cheaper and more filling as compared to
the other shops that were around there.

This APAC has been significant to me in more ways than one.
Some say it has more negative effect than that of positive.
I for one, like the math formula, believes that negative and negative becomes positive, it all depends on how the individuals inteprets and accepts it.
Either way, I believe these things that we saw, we heard and we experienced before, during and after the competition has helped us discover things about ourselves, both as a person and a player.
I learnt to take a blow in the face while at the same time "let nothing move you (me)".
Everything counts for a blessing - all those cheers, all those jeers, all those praise, all those criticism, all those jokes, all those seriousness...

All those team talks.

For me, as a player, I felt 2 consistent things;

Inadequate in abilities and pressured by expectations.
As my team mates will say, "mental tak kuattttt"... :)
Nonetheless, I am blessed to be part of the team second time round.
What more with my good buddy, Mervin...

And a bunch of crazy team mates...

(Yes, like I said, crazy team mates... )

As much as it was a sports expedition, it was also a personal time-out for me.
Appreciating the natural surroundings and the weather in Perth, the cool breeze and the greenery park, lingering thoughts popped in my head every once in a while;
faces appeared, feelings swept by, facts uncovered and future untold.
I love the breeze.

Imagine...

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National Duty

I'm off!
To all who have supported me (you know who you are :),
Thanks so much!!!

To all who are blur about what I'm talking about, I'll blog about it when I get back!
As for now, pray that I don't fall sick!!

Kangaroos, here I come!

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