WE ‘R’ MALAYSIA – THERE IS HOPE

I like musical...my favourite so far is Annie :" tomorrow, tomorrow.. i love ya tomorrow..you always.. a day aaaaaway"

Coming up We R Malaysia the musical this Sunday. 4 December 2011, 8.00pm @ Dewan Lee San Choon, Wisma MCA, 163 Jalan Ampang Kuala Lumpur.

See facebook page, facebook.com/wrmmusical2011
OR visit blog, http://wrmmusical.blogspot.com/ for more information.

See you there :)

New Zealand- part1

Haven't been updating my blog since march. It's been so long that i've forgotten my login password. hehe.

2011 has been a great journey.

Four major holidays for the year: Hong Kong, Successfully climbed Mount Kinabalu, New Zealand (most recently) and soon Beijing.

In between, i've escaped to Singapore for weekends and local beaches like Port Dickson.

Other than traveling is of course work...occupying most my time. But i guess, it isnt too bad.

Anyway, i flew to Auckland on 29th Aug, good timing for a long holiday as it falls on Raya period, so that i dont have to apply too many days annual leave.

We spent a total of 10 days in New Zealand- since the land is so huge...10 days isn't a lot to cover the country but we still manage to cover the north island.


We rented a Sunny Nissan (aka Nissan Sentra in Malaysia) from GoRentals and drove around north island, from:
Auckland-Hamilton-Rotorua-Taupo-Mt Ruapehu-Wanganui-Wellington-Napier-Tauranga-Auckland.

Quite effective aye? but can be quite tiring. We rented the car for about NZ$ 30 per day, of course the more days you rent the cheaper the price will be and if you are wondering how much is the petrol prices, average is about NZ$ 2.04 for a litre. But i think its best way to move around if you are not traveling alone; if not the buses are not bad too.

We spent the first night at Rotorua, nearby there this nice lake

cold & misty

visited the Rainbow Springs Kiwi Wildlife Park-where you get to see local birds; Kiwi, Kea, Tui and etc. But i think the park is quite small...only manage to see two Kiwi Birds... quite disappointing. Nearby there is also the Tamaki Village where you can get to experience the Maori Culture...but it is very pricey, so we decided not to go.

Day2, we moved quickly for some fun activity.
The New Zealand RiverJet

we went on a weekday, so there isn't anyone besides us.

Our personal tour-guide

its a high speed jet boat where we speed down the spectacular Waikato River.
It was freezing cold btw.

Stopped by Orakei Korako, the beautiful thermal reserve in New Zealand for a walk.
Here are some pictures from Orakei Korako

the elephant rock

the boiling mud pool


At last, we get to experience the world famous jet boating action including the 360-degree spins.

Then we went to checkout the huka falls, the largest waterfall on the Waikato River.

The hukajet might be a good option as it goes very near to the falls and you get the same 360' spin experience

the huka falls is really magnificent, i've never seen anything as blue before!passby the Volcano Activity Centre

and the Lava Glass Studio
saw the making of Lava Glass

we end the day 2 with a beautiful sunset by @ Lake Taupo.

Day3: Waitomo Caves...famous for black water rafting

We went for Ruakuri Cave tour & Waitamo glowworm cave

Outside Ruakuri

Forgotten how many feet below...

the natural stalactite and stalagmite formation is beautiful.

its like chandelier

& these blue little dots are lights from the glowworms.
interesting little creature.

those fine lines/chains are glowworms' saliva...to trap food!

it was cold in the cave

Later of the day, we went for a Kiwi Culture Show @ Woodlyn Park

the seating is quite cool but very antic.
lots of sharp tools stuck on the wall for deco
what if any of it fall off the wall??? kinda scary..
The whole show was quite raw... its all done by one person only but I think its still pretty amazing for a one man show.

the show covers from the history of men using different techniques chopping off trees...to sheep shaving and many more animals...

Possum was one of the many cute animal we saw
Some pictures in Woolyn Park

love these flowers

nice place with different room concept...

train motel

plane tail

ship concept

movable toilet?

& finally, room for hobbits!

That's all for Day1.2&3.more updates next time.

March March March

never like March because i am most likely to suffer a series of "loneliness -depression".

thank goodness for the crazy Hong Kong trip at beginning of this month,
at least, something to brighten the month.

more bridging collection
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2011

A new year a new me!
starting from the new look:PHappy 2011 :)

Seoul, Korea

Dear Diary, sorry for the mess up agenda. I am guilty for not recording for several months. Let me recap hows the porkie's life been last month.

In November (16 nov to be exact), i flew to Seoul, Korea for holidays. Korea has been one of the destination in my head. I wanted to booked the Air Asia X package to Korea when they first launched but it was sold out quite fast, a little disappointed . Then later, I got lucky, my company announced a company trip to Korea :D so it was mostly subsidize by the company.

It was autumn when i was there; very cold & chilly. Day time average @ 4'c night time average @ 0-1'C.

Upon reaching Incheon Airport, tour bus was already waiting for us. First stop was the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). The area is tightly watched by the army; they will check individual passport.

The DMZ area is approximately 4km, the border between south & north korea. The tour guide brought us to the observation area. Just a few binoculars for tourist to view north korea. Again army walking around to make sure the photographer don't step out of the yellow box. basically, you can't use your camera outside the yellow box area. I heard from the tour guide, the purpose of this was to protect & prevent spy

They also showed us documentary...several underground tunnels were built half way & discovered by the Seoul Korean. The third tunnel was discovered somewhere 19XX dont remember but it is now open for tourist to visit. Its a long bumpy walk down the tunnel, and whats in there? some bob wires! hehe the weather was at 4'C but after completing the tunnel walk? it felt as tho the weather increased drastically to 25'C! very good exercise indeed :P

Also visited the freedom bridge; where i bridged like a free man :S

Dorasan station was the railway that once connect both countries, north & south korea

Also notice most of Korea tourist highlight includes places that been some famous movie/drama set. This particular1 was the setting from "de chong gum" drama place

the set was quite huge but of course on TV it looks even larger than live.

Another film set was @ nami island where winter sonata was filmed.
This is my favourite place to visit in Korea after Jeju Island

Around the island, they had mapped out the scene from the drama.
& this spot here is where they filmed the first kiss scene :)
sweettt...


*t0 be continue*