Archive for the ‘Trips’ Category

Mantanani

Posted: November 22, 2010 in Trips

the sea was choppy… wind blowing against your face.. the smell of the sea surges into your smell senses..bumping up and down in our boat.. everybody was in a holiday mood. We have Canadian, Koreans and locals. The imagery of the white sandy beach, clear visibility underwater and the quiet serene night …hearing nothing but [...]

Serene, quiet and easy.. such is the atmosphere of Kuching on the eve of Christmas unlike the metropolitan, Kuala Lumpur. Hazy, bumper to bumper crawl, honks blared by exhausted and stressed drivers crawling on the highways. The intention to get away from the hustle and bustle of metro life was attained. Excitement grew as the [...]

Garang Asem Ayam

Posted: December 31, 2009 in Trips

Country : Surabaya, Indonesia Beaten, shabby and extremely humid. Yet this place is always full during lunch time. Blue and white collar workers thronged this place just to get a ‘kick’ from the spicy broth. They are famous for the garang asem ayam.. in other words sour and spicy chicken broth. This particular dish is [...]

Kingdom of Cambodia

Posted: October 11, 2009 in Trips

Finally, after the long awaited opportunity to visit the Kingdom of Cambodia,  I managed to set foot on to the soil of this kingdom.  Though it was a business trip but the excitement to be in such an exotic part of the world enveloped me.  The Ketsana Typhoon has been hostile to the northern part [...]

Vietnam Revisited…

Posted: October 9, 2009 in Food, Trips

With the mid-autumn festival just round the corner, the task of distributing mooncakes to our faithful customers in this region was undisputedly handed over to me. Boss had to make a trip over to China. 6 cartons filled with 12 boxes each with extras of 8 boxes of mooncakes to be hand carried. Oh yeah [...]

KL Tower

Posted: June 18, 2009 in Trips

Standing tall at 1,381 feet above the sea level, crowned as the fifth tallest tower in the world is the Menara Kuala Lumpur. Used for communication purposes. So basically it’s the antenna  that helped Menara KL to to gain that height. The roof of the pod is at 335 m (1,099 ft). The rest of [...]

Penang..

Posted: June 12, 2009 in Food, Trips

We were up there for business visit and put up a night at a 4 month old boutique hotel at Abu Siti Lane. Hotel PP Island used to be a college building, reconstructed into a 62 room hotel. Their current promotion is RM78 per night for a standard room and RM88 pernight for a deluxe [...]

Vietnam

Posted: May 30, 2009 in Trips

Electric wires decorated the city sky line like pine trees at Christmas, the aroma of freshly baked french loaves filled the streets as the city folks zipped left and right through every orifices that they could find on the busy traffic on their vespas and Honda 100cc bikes.  Who would have known that a normal [...]