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I went to Maldives.....

A friend went to Maldives for her honeymoon recently... and "brought" me along...

Before she left, she asked me to send her a photo of myself.., and she will have something special for me from Maldives...

I was wondering what was it... and she uploaded this on FB today...

LOL!

I asked her to give a free trip to one of her friends.., and her answer was... "Wait for me to get some monies from Uncle Lim first..."

Are you ready?

I had coffee with a friend recently, and we had a chat. As usual, she is concerned about my future. Seemed like lots of my friends/family/relatives are concern about me being not-married at this age.

So this friend asked... "Now you guys had bought a place together, so what's next? Getting married soon?"

Well.., I don't really know what to answer her... coz, deep inside, I don't really know what I want.

Do I want to get married soon? Yes? Maybe? Not sure?

Honestly, I really not sure!

Certain days, I think I do... certain days, I scared to lost my "freedom" (even though we are living together now.., am not really "obligated" to tell J where I go etc... )

I don't know... I think being together, living together is way different than MARRIED TOGETHER, right?

Am I thinking too much? Or is it its the "buying-house-together" that gets onto me?

For now.., let's focus on one thing at a time....

We are actually very excited about the new house.. we had started our plan on what to renovate, what to buy etc... and trust me, the amount of monies we need to spend.., scare both of us.....

Does Companies get "Stupider" when they GROW???

Stupid MAS Wings (wholly-owned company of MAS) spoilt my day early in the morning. (this post was written few days ago..)

Let me share the scenario.... and also hence why the title of my post...

My tech manager is in East Malaysia for quarterly preventive maintenance for a client. So, as usual, schedule is always planned, and its very tight. So, there's no room for FLIGHT CANCELLATION or CHANGE OF TIME.

Oh well, but, MAS WINGS managed to do that. And, guess what, he supposed to fly at 10am from Tawau to Sandakan. And, at 8.45am, MAS WINGS messaged him and informed him about the flight cancellation!
For God sake, he was already in airport by then; and walking towards the check-in counter!

Guess what's their offer to the cancellation? I spoken to the counter person (my colleague was so pissed that he called me, and let me talk to that guy... )

The stupid guy told me these:-

Our contract / responsibility is only to bring you from Point A to Point B.
And, there are only 2 options now:-
1 - We give you taxi voucher to take you from Sandakan to Tawau
2 - You wait for 5pm's flight.

Problems are:-
1 - My tech manager have a connecting flight from Sandakan to KK at 3pm via Air Asia.
2 - He need to visit a customer site BEFORE the flight.

So I told Mr A, the stupid guy at the counter.... "Fine, you get him to Point B, as promised time, before 11am! "

Guess what's his response?

You only have these two choices, if you want to complain, complain to our Management.!

And I told him, Okay, I will. And, btw, you are working for the most useless airlines!

Now, why my post tittle...
A taxi ride from Tawau to Sandakan will cost them RM350, and its payable to THIRD PARTY. So, if they had allowed my colleague to change his ticket from Tawau direct to KK., it cost them ALMOST NOTHING!

So, they rather throw away their RM350, and at the same time get a very unhappy customer. (Actually not only one unhappy customer... they forgotten about the power of SOCIAL MEDIA!).

Yoga, here I come!

I been wanting to try it.., but as usual, been dragging my ass...
Finally, my ass got lighter and I make appointment to attend the 1st trial class this evening.
Oooohhhhh... Finally, I got a taste of what is "restorative" yoga. Stretch punya stretch.... I survived the 1-hour class, sweating!
Actually, am amazed... I mean, I never knew that stretching can really make you sweat so much!
Okay, am not trying to exaggerate here, but my shoulder do feel better.., not as stiff as this afternoon.
And.... I signed up for a one-month-unlimited class.., which I plan to attend the morning class, everyday!
Wish me luck!

Chitwan National Park

After the 9-days trek, we chilled out at this national park, watching animals...

We were lucky to spot numbers of them.. especially Sloth bear which were rarely spotted. And we saw a couple of them... cuddling and playing with each other.

It was a 5-sec experience and we didn't manage to capture it on our camera.; but nevertheless, we managed to capture it in our memory... they were so cute.

Here, some of them that we managed to capture in camera..

The nicest & cleanest room in Nepal that we stayed in.

And that marked the end of our trip in Chitwan..., before taking an 8-hour bus ride on a bus similar to our bus-sekolah back to Kathmandu....

The FISH died standing..

Burnt Chips!

Do you know that chips can start the fire in BBQ?
Well, J knew about it, but totally forgotten about that.; and this is the result..



















He almost burnt the toaster!
How did this happen? Well, the chips we bought gotten a bit soft.., so I was complaining about it.


He, decided to "toast" it a bit to make it crunchier....
In few mins.... This is the result..


And it was BURNING when he took it out from the toaster!
I panicked and didn't capture the burning photos....

So, remember.., NEVER TOAST YOUR CHIPS, unless you want to start fire...

A Pen to Seal it?

Got a stack of Loan Agreement to sign. The lawyer even attached a pen with it for us to sign...
I find it very thoughtful and funny at the same time... :p

Journey to Ananpurna Base Camp - Part 3

Map on trek..; all described using pictures, so no miscommunication.. ;)

One of the thing that I enjoyed most on the trek was, meeting people.

We met a group of nice Czech's family, son-in-law whom travelled with the parents-in-law...
It was nice to see that a son in law can be so close to the father in law...
After chatting with them, only then we realized, they were friends before the son-in-law courted the daughter....

Then, an old French couple whom had trekked more parts of the world than any three of us. Though they are already in their 70s, but they are still STRONG! They are planning to come to Malaysia soon too.., and I shall be their host.

Finally, of coz, our nice porters; whom carried our bags without any complain and also our Guide whom handle all our needs during the trek. Nice people.

Me, proudly standing on Poon Hill @ 3210M. This is the place where I almost gave up!

That's all for the 9-days-trek on ABC. Next post shall be about Chitwan National Park...

Save like a Malaysian

I saw a friend posted this on her FB, and find it interesting.

Save-Like-A-Malaysian

Do we, Malaysian, really saved enough? OR, does the writer actually only see a very small percentage of Malaysian?

I am not trying to be racist here..., but I do think, some race know the need to save, because we know that we are not supported by the Government. 

BUT, there are also race (i rather not spell it out here..) that don't save. They don't care, coz they know the Government will take care of them.; right? Probably not as pampered as the Brits.., but still? 

I better remind myself to work harder and start saving... or at least invest... 

Journey to Ananpurna Base Camp - Part 2

There were so much I saw during the trek that it was overwhelming. Everything seemed to be so pretty there.

Here, flowers & plants I saw...

Animals I saw...

Terrains we walked on...

Journey to Ananpurna Base Camp - Part 1

Its been almost a month since I came back from Nepal. Finally, here I am, get my ass seated and blog about it, before I forget the details of the trip.

I took about 3-weeks off work for this trip.

This was the summary of my travel itinerary.

KUL - BKK - Kathmandu - Pokhara - Ananpurna Trek - Pokhara - Chitwan National Park - Kathmandu - BKK - KUL

But for now, am going to blog about the 9-days trek on Ananpurna.
Well, lots of friends asked me, whether is the trek difficult?
I think its not tough, its not so much about stamina (though its nice to have that), but more about mental. I almost give up during my trek up Poon Hill (to watch sunrise at 5am).
But am glad that I didn't give up, and just keep going on.

I travelled with EJ & LS for this trip. We didn't kill each other at the end of the trip, so, I think we are compatible traveling partners. ;)
The Immigration Officer even stamped me & EJ's passport on the SAME PAGE as where we got our stamp for Europe's  trip.

The highest point we went up was about 4,130M and that's Ananpurna Base Camp.

Here, tonnes of photos to tell the story. Let's the journey begins...

At the beginning of the trek

Let's start with FOOD, the most important element in all my travels.

Different type of breads served on trek.

Typical local food : Momo (which became LS' fav food, and she ordered it almost EVERY DAY) & Dhal Bath (local ate this as frequent as we eat our rice... Ya, Daily Basis.)

Yummy Korean noodle at the height of 3,700M. Instant noodle never tasted so good!

Now, ROOM that we stayed in. Mostly were pretty decent, except, its "acceptable" that you can hear everyone's conversation, or even their SNORE. 

One of the night, I can REALLY hear one of our neighbor snore, as if I was sharing the same BED with him! And LS actually can feel when her "neighbor" tossed around. 

And, one of the room had RAT that bitten our bag and ate our food, while another one caused us had a "catch-the-cockroach-frenzy", and I sprayed a quarter can of Ridsect on it! 

Cozy sleeping bag was my best sleeping companion during this trek. Thanks to J for lending me this nice & comfy bag.

Now, the beautiful MOUNTAINS we saw throughout the trek..

First glimpse of the mountains, from the "flying bus" aka plane.

The Flying Bus that we took from Kathmandu to Pokhara.

And, here, Ananpurna Base Camp, the highest point we conquered.