Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sekembali Dari Phuket, Kembalinya Arwah Nenek ke Rahmatullah...Al- Fatihah




Post ni aku dedicate kepada Arwah nenek aku, Allahyarhamah Norjani.

Nenek aku meninggal time aku kat Phuket. Memang dah lama dia tenat and klua masuk hospital before that. Tapi meninggal time aku kat Phuket tanpa kesempatan aku tuk cium goodbye, baca yasin and tanamkan was heartbreaking. Then tanggal tarikh 29 April, nenek aku kembali ke pangkuanNya.

Time ketiadaan seseorang, mulalah our mind mula teringat kenangan bersama mereka. Mine with her paling sweet was during my childhood. I remember it vaguely but i remember how loving she was with all of her grandkids. Time kecik dulu ade budak mana ntah buli aku time aku tinggal kat umah nenek aku, dia marah budak tu.Kehkeh. And also, her laugh and her generosity. Time raya paling fun beraya kat umah arwah nenek coz duit raya dapat sorang seratus. Kaaching! Hehe.

Like a typical grandmother, my nenek was famed for her cooking. Being a true Minang at heart, dia masak among the best and spiciest minang food to me. Some of the recipe inherited by my mum but unfortunately x sampai kat kami cucu-cucu dia ni. Some of you maybe know that my favorite dishes in the world is Minang. Bila kitaorang balik kampung, asek disuruhnya kami makan jek. Baru pas abes makan pon dia suruh tambah nasik. Hahah. Nak cucu-cucu dia gemok montel kot. Hehe.

Pasal arwah nenek ni true minang, her spoken words were also in Minang. Some of them i understood and few times, i couldn't make up what she said at all. Her funniest word would be kantuik which means kentut. Hahah. She was also the friendly one. Dalam kampung Kuang tu aku rasa sume kenal ngan nenek aku. Even the bench depan umah nenek pon jadi tempat orang kampung melepak. She was also a good businesswoman. Time dia sihat dulu dia jual barang-barang dapur and also kain-kain beli dari Indonesia. And being a generous, harta yang dikumpul tak penah disimpan tuk kegunaan sendiri tapi untuk dikongsi bersama anak-anak and cucu cicit.

Tapi orang yang dikenang tidak akan kembali. Moga nenek selamat di akhirat nanti and Aap (my nickname among my family) doakan roh nenek dicucuri rahmat. Sedih Aap x dapat bersama nenek di hari-hari terakhir nenek tapi hari mendatang, Aap harap Aap tak pernah lupa untuk doakan nenek. Sayang nenek!

Friday, May 13, 2011

Phuket Holiday - Part 4

So begins la another day in Phuket. FYI, sini subuh diaorg sejam awal and so was their sunset. A clear and bright day tuk kami g masuk hutan main water rafting. HEheh. For breakfast, we didn't take any from the hotel but i brought lotsa campbell soup from KL. A great food tuk bawak luar negara coz mengenyangkan and simple. No added MSG gik mcm megi. I like!

So kami g lobi hotel seperti yang dijanjikan pickup tuk bawa kami berakit. Dah kat lobi tengok2 driver dah sampai. A great timing. Tepati masa. Naiklah van yang besar that for me, very comfortable for and hour and a half ride. Pickup another group of tourist kat Patong town. They were Singaporean college group about 7 of them.AKu dah berkira-kira dah, kalo satu boat nanti mesti kena kongsi ngan depa. Huhu

Bergerak ler kami dari Patong ke Phang Nga.

So geraklah kami ke tempat yang dituju. First destination in the itinerary, Monkey Cave. Being a guy that scare of monkeys, i was not looking forward for this place. Huhu. NAk xnak kena turun gak. But the place was beautiful. There was an awesome temple right next to it and we took pictures there. Also, singgah dalam cave sekejap. ENtrance 20 bhat. Huhu. Kedekut aku nak masuk. Setakat ade sleeping buddha je. And monkeys!. Lot of monkeys. They were quite grabby and cheeky and that among why i scared of monkeys. Hahah.

Don't monkeys look so damn scary? Huhu


Monkey Cave temple.


Kami mencemar duli Buddha. Huhu

After around half and hour kat situ, kami forward to Ba Ting. Before i forget, this place ade kat mainland. around one hour and a half ride from Patong. Kat Phang Nga. Sampailah kami kat resort tu. Waa. Surrounding dia memang tiptop. Ade small lake, cute little chalets, padang. Sebelah sungai yang jernih gik. Memang cun. Rasa nyaman jek. Aku ni memang suka tempat macam tu daripada pantai coz sejuk mata memandang and sejuk menyamankan some more. Terbaik!
Welcomed by suspended bridge kat Baan Ing Tharn Resort

Cute little freshwater lake at the resort.


NIce little resort's cabin by the forest.
Rilek-rilek dulu la sebelum main water rafting. SHit, i'm so boroi!!

Then we suited up for safety. Pakai life jacket and a helmet. Also being given a paddle. For those yang bawak barang, leh simpan dalam provided locker. Don't worry coz barang anda terjaga ngan the key being kept by yourself. Then kami diberi penerangan before the activity starts by sorang ladyboy bermisai. Ahaks. Along yang cakap dia ladyboy coz ade breast which i didn't see. HUhuh. Then sume dibahagaikan kepada group within2 kami saje. Meaning, if dua org datang sekali, dua orang tu la satu boat. Kalo 7 orang, 7 orang tu lah satu boat. Bagus. Xyah share2 ngan strangers. KAmi dapat guide yang paling rock, crazy and kecoh. Too bad i dont remember his name. Huhu.
Kami sudah ready to rock!

Sungai yang kami nak main tu actually very tame. Ala. Macam sungai-sungai kat Ulu Bendul, Ulu Yam sume tu. Tapi kat atas ade dam kot. SO whenever time tuk main rafting, air dilepaskan so jadilah fenomena 'air pasang'. AIr yang jernih and berbatu tu jadi air warna oren ,dalam and deras. But it still looked pretty tame to me coz sungainya x lebar. Cuba kalo sungai tu besar cam SUngai Perak, leh jadi seriau aku. Hahah. Datang air pasang tu, came a number of boat from a different resorts kat atas sungai lagik. Dalam dekat 30-40 boat jugak ler datang situ. Resort kami paling ujung sekali and there were 3 different boat among ourselves. A group of British travelers, Singaporean college kids and us. To think, kalo kami pilih kompeni kat atas2 sikit mesti lagi best coz dapat main sungai lagi jauh sampai ke endpoint. Heheh.




Sungai yang sungguh cun sebelom air empangan dilepaskan.

Lihatlah perbezaan after air pasang. Ganas gak airnya.


Agak havoc le sungai tu dengan 20-30 boat nak harung sungai yang sama at the same time. Which made it more fun. Ade adegan campak2 katak puru between boats la, main campak2 air lah. Sonok tahap maksima. Our boat was among the last yang berlepas. And paling kecoh. I think our boat paling banyak langgar pokok la, langgar tebing la, terkandas atas batu la. Sampai terjerit2 bikin kecoh. Hehe, Our guide also sporting giler. That experience was among the best of my lifetime. Adrenaline wasn't much there. Just pure good fun. Dalam dekat 3,4 km gak sungai tu kami harung. after 20-30 min sampai ler ke off-point. Sronok. Dalam syok2 tu xtau plak ade paparazzi yang amek gambor kami dari atas. hehe. Rupenye depa amek gambor kami tuk dijual once we went back to our camp. Gambar so-so je. Sekeping 15 hengget. Berpatutan gak la banding kat Genting yg sekeping 35 hengget.Kehkeh.

So dari offpoint kami balik ke resort tadi balik for lunch. Waa. Nampak sedap tapi agak ralat sekejap coz we ordered vegetarian/muslim lunch but what was there were chicken and all. we raised our concern to the manager and he assured us the chicken were halal because around the area, chicken were taken from muslim slaughterhouse. And he said himself that he were a muslim. Good enough for me. Either trust him 100% or go hungry for half an hour waiting for them to cook vegetarian meal. Lunch memang sedap. No tomyam but still good. Agak licin sume kami perabih. Haha
Kebasahan dan kelaparan. Tapi maintain camera ready :P

Sedapnya thai food.


After lunch, lepak2 sat sambil depa meniaga gambar2 yang taken time kami main rafting tadi. Gambor agak biasa jek but still, cool enuff tuk wat kenangan. After that, main ngan sugar glider boat guide tadi. Cute little animal. Dia main lari-lari atas tangan. Jinak also. Then onto our next itinerary, naik gajah that will i story in my next post. Later!

Sugar-glider making an epic face kat kamera. Heheh

Sungguh best kat sini. Gambar kenang-kenangan sebelom menuju lokasi naik gajah.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Phuket Holiday - Part 3

Sesudah sampai ke hotel ( Deevana Resort and Spa) after a hell of a cab ride, we were welcomed by the bellboys and cold towels. We truly appreciate it because after a tiring flight, the long immigration queue and a hot cab ride, a dab of cold face towel was kind of nice. Then check in to our rooms. The girls got the room just next to ours. We got the room in the garden wing. The room was kinda old looking but at least it's within a garden. It is much to my preference rather than having a room in a condo or something like that. The room was pretty much basic and quite near to the garden wing's pool. The hotel had two pool with the other being in the spa wing.


@ lobby Deevana Patong. Muka aku paling keletihan.

Reception Deevana. First impression of this hotel, macam 5 stars. Kena tunggu tengok bilik dulu. Huhu


That's our room. In front got a lot of trees and nice garden surrounding.

Our room. Basic hotel jek. Ok la tuk sleep.

The nearby pool. Quite huge for a secondary pool!

Begambo kat hotel nyer garden.

Bagambor ngan tiang pon aku nak. Haha

Rupa dalam bilik standard. Biasa jek. Old looking. Tapi TV okay coz banyak channel walaupon TV kecik and buroks.

After freshen up a little , baring-baring sikit and solat, thought it's nice to take a walk around town. Maybe grab dinner as well and carik stok maggi or something kat Patong town. Also, sunset. Yes, i'm a corny guy. Like to see sunset and sunset. Hahah. The streets sungguh happening. Sungguh berbeza daripada what my friend told me. Banyak massage parlor and they seemed clean. Offer Thai Massage for 200 bhat. Ok ler tu. Restoran seafood pon banyak. Singgah sat kat 7 eleven beli air. Yerp. This is one thing i like about Thailand. They have very tasty and fragrant teh ais. Aku beli air melon. Sedap and wangi. Heheh.

Memang ade roper pelancong asing ngan map and beg bagai

Pastu g jejalan kedai2 ole2. Alamak. Agak mahal le kalo nak beli ole2 kat Phuket ni. Tshirt biasa pon paling murah 150bhat. And design pon boring-boring. Size pon cam x standard. Size M macam size S. Size L macam size Xl. Kejadah? Ntahler. Pelik sikit ngan Thailand ni. Banyaknya jual tshirt bodo like knockoff Billabong, Nike, Adidas etc. Dahler buroks. Sape ntah yang nak beli. Huhu. It's official. Thailand is not a great place to buy ole2. Huhu. Ade gak tawar menawar and the girls bought few things. Most penjual orang bangla. Hmm. Even in Thailand yar.

Tshirt size L yang gedabak besornya. Size M lak size cam S. Xde kualitas! Dahler mahal.

Nice artwork on the street. I believe the materials are from spare parts motor.

Another nice tribute artwork of my favorite movie, Alien! Rowr!!

Dah tu kami carik booth yang jual tour lak. This is for the following day. Tanya first booth for elephant & white water rafting cost about 2000 bhat. Mahai. Mintak kurang pon dapat 1700 bhat jek. Tanya a different booth yang also sell the same tour, cost only 1300bhat. The booth was manned by this one hot chick which turned out to be a ladyboy, so my friend told. Hahah. Aku dah syok baru tau. Hikshiks.

Then jalan-jalan lagi sampai ler kat area Bangla Road. The area seems to be quite normal and x seteruk what my friend had told. Kami terus ke pantai Patong tuk tengok sunset. Sonok amek gambor jek. Lompat sana, posing sini. Adeh.

Satu, dua, lompat! Yang badan paling ringan tu tinggi giler lompat. Ahaks.

Sunset @ Patong Beach. Nice izzit..Tapi area x seromantik kat Bali coz belakang ade Bangla Road. Lubuk maksiat!

Then lalu balik kat Bangla Road. Makin meriah kalo malam ni. Bar sume dah start pasang lagu kuat2 and awek2 seksi start streetwalking. Haha. But it was still normal to me. Strip club pon melambak kat area sini. Aku ditarik but promoter for strip clubs. HAha. Still normal for me. Kalo kat Bukit Bintang aku ditarik by massage parlor nyer promoter, kat sini kena tarik by strip club laks. Muka skematik and cam ustad like this pon kena tarik. HAhah

Salah satu strip joint kat Bangla Road. Husband Day Care gamaknya. Hahah. Ade bran?

Begambor kat Bangla Road. Bar and strip joints keliling. Huhu. Sape yang datang holiday sini elokler jangan bawak anak2 lalu sini. Strip pole pon open. Kejadah?

Sesudah cuci mata, kami sambung bejalan ke Jungceylon Mall lak which is just across the street og Bangla. Quite like a normal mall. Macam The Curve. JUmpa lak kedai jual ole2 yang murah. Who knew kedai kat soping complex yang standard jual lagi murah daripada kedai2 bodoh tepi jalan. Ape lagi. Soping ler sikit2. Pastu dah terlanjur kat situ, jalan2 le window soping. And singgah Carrefour situ beli maggi. Hmm..Agak susah nak carik makanan halal kat sini. Tapi dapat ler stock up for 5 days kat sini. Beli biskut, megi n roti. Letih kaki weyh cari makanan halal. Sampai Carrefour tu nak tutup kami soping situ.

But lupa lak nak cite. Before soping kat Carrefour tu, kami g pasar malam kat sebelah Jungceylon belah belakang. Dekat depan tempat Muay Thai tu. Hmm.. Sama gak tadak makanan halal sangat. Ade 2 je penjual muslim. Satu jual ayam goeng yang dah nak katup, satu lagi jual pancake. Kami pekena pancake ajela. Tapi truth is kat Krabi nyer pancake lagi best. Huhuh. Tapi tuk alas perut ok la. Aku x beli but my friends did. Aku tumpang makan diaorg punya jek. Hahah. Aku not much hungry sgt time tu for sweet pancake.

Sesi poyo sesorang depan Jungceylon Mall..

Pasar malam next to Jungceylon. Banyak babi goreng, satay babi, babi lenyek, sushi babi and kepala babi rebus pon ade. Ergkk!

And letih gak aku g sana sini carik wifi tuk update status kat my girlfriend and family. Ngan enset wat hal. LAst-last curik wifi kat kedai aiskrim kat Jungceylon tu gak . Heheh. Dapat le aku update status slamat sampai and all. Then a long walk balik hotel balik ngan stok2 megi. Sesampai, depan hotel ade gerai jual pancake gak. Aku beli pancake choc banana. 50 bhat. Mahai na..HUhuhu. Same thing could get 35bhat kat krabi. HUhu. Memang meletihkan hari tu. Flight, airport, long walk..Memang nyenyak ler tido malam tu. ZZZzz.. More in my next post.

Phuket Holiday - Part 2




So the day finally came. I was dreading for the trip as I was having a not so good time at work. I just resigned my post in my current company so it was the perfect timing for a getaway. Call it ironic. Last year around the same time I had a vacation to Krabi Thailand before joining the bank and this year, a few days after resigning, I was heading again to Thailand. Hahah. I’ll be explaining more on that in my later post.

So rendezvous kat KL Sentral. Senang. Aku, Along and Dila met up there while Wazir lak g LCCT terus. So kami bungkuihler our lunch, Burger King kat Sentral to avoid expensive meal kat LCCT. Then hopped to one of the bus to LCCT. Oh my God. Worst bus trip ever I took. Sakit leher and belakang. Dunno why but maybe I got used to taking ERL already. Selesa, cepat and x himpit2. X kisahler kena bayar a couple of ringgit more but yang penting, selesa.


Inilah aje beg aku. Barang x banyak mana pon. Sebelom g LCCT, tapau Burger King. Nyum2.


Wrap bag kalo nak selamatkan luggage anda. Aku lak x heran pon nak balut. Xde barang berharga pon. Hehe

The girls took time tuk wrap their bags. Cost only RM10. The check-in was smooth. And that was only because we queued on the regular check-in lane. Turns out, those who did web-checkin need to queue in a different counter and may I add, took longer time because the queue were long. I don’t know. I don’t think web check in is efficient. But be warned guys. In LCCT, they already implement the hand luggage weighing. So if your carry on above 7kg, need to pay RM45. Huhu. Good thing mine was only 6 kg.


Berposing time beratoq time nunggu turn check in bags. Better queue at regular queue dari queue for thos whom did web checkin already.


Lunch ngan Burger King pon jadilah. Meal gue, DoubleCheese Burger. McD's better!


The flight was almost full. Lots of local travelers than usual. Mat Saleh still made up most of the passengers. The flight attendant all were sexy Malay girls. Aiyo. Hmm.. Not an interaction from them because, well, we didn’t order any food. The flight took about one hour and 20 minutes. There was only a 10 minutes delay in the plane. Not so troubling because the plane was comfortable and had a better legroom that the one I took going to Bali. Aku yang katik ni pon komplen psl legroom, apelah nasib mat-mat saleh. Haha.

Sampailah kami di Phuket. Airport was bigger than LCCT. The immigration process took about 20-30 minutes because so many people lorh. After collected our baggage, kami klua dipanggil ulat2. Hiks. Kami nak carik taxi jek.

Sampailah kami di Phuket International Airport. Immigration process took a lot out of us. Letih. Huhu


Taxi Honda Civic that took us to our hotel. Bawak kami macam nak g racing. Berapa kali ntah nak dekat collide ngan other car. Gilos. Bawak gilos2 camtu pon aku nyenyak tido dalam keta coz letih bangat. Huhu.

Here’s a tip. Avoid taking minivan coz diaorg akan bawak korang ke travel2 agency before drop u to ur hotel. Bukanlah murah sgt pon. 150 bhat sekepala. We took taxi for 650 bht which about the same amount if divide by four. By all means, avoid using hotel’s airport transfer as well coz they charge usually at least 200bht more. Good thing i did my study before going to Phuket. Couldn't hurt to learn about the place you'll be going coz the ulat can be really persuasive. If you don't know anything, you might ended up paying more than what you really have to pay. Ok lah. To be continue to my next post..Later!

Phuket Holiday - Part 1


As promised, aku nak cite a fun thing that recently happened. Phuket trip! Yeah, yeah. Sronok habeh. Lagi best dari Krabi tapi still xleh challenge trip Bali. Hihi. Aku decide nak break down the post about the trip into two posts for a single day. Bukan apa. Semenjak dah ade kamera ni, maka banyak ler gambor tuk dipost skali. This is to avoid a single post jadi panjang and messy.

I guess I start with the preparation we did leading up to the date we boarded the plane on the 28th April.

The date:

I thought the date was perfect. It’s during mid of the year and after 4 month of non vacation period for me because my teammate was on her maternity leave. I had to be her backup for the entire period of time. Also, the month of Mar and Apr were without any holiday so it’s nice to take some time off. And all of my friends were on board. And we stretched the vacation even more. Before this, I g holiday dalam 3 malam je tapi for Phuket, we decided to go all the way to 5 nights. Biar puas!

The destination:

It was either Bali or Phuket. We also considered about China which was a bit of a stretch for our wallet. In the end chose Phuket pasal airfare cheaper, cuaca dah leh predict coz been there around the same time last year. Hotel pon seems to be much cheaper coz during May it’s a low season unlike Bali.

The flight:

Obviously, we first thought of AirAsia. Beli around 3,4 months earlier. Tetibe MAS pon wat offer. Pe lagi. Kami grab la. G naik AirAsia, balik naik MAS. Harga ticket like below:

KUL-HKT : AIRASIA – RM 175 including all tax, without luggage and food.


HKT-KUL : MAS – RM 250 all included


Very cheap gak ler! Nak merasa naik MAS gak. Haha. Worth my money la I thought.

The accommodation:

This was the second thing we thought of. And the most expensive. Before that tanya several hotel yang located kat NaiHarn Beach, Karon Beach, Kata Beach and Surin Beach. Really took my friend’s advice tuk stay away from Patong Beach but in the end, we booked kat situ gak. Finally, we booked thru booking.com and asiahotels.com for the rooms. Easier and cheaper. Just need to give them your credit card details. Trust me, it’s even a better bargain daripada bersempit2 kat Matta fair yang xdelah murah pon.

Deevana Patong Resort and Spa (4 stars) - 3 nights – RM 130 per standard room/night

Thavorn Beach Village and Spa (4 stars) – 2 nights - RM 150 per deluxe room/night

Tapi I kinda regret we spend so much for hotel coz frankly, you can easily find cheap and decent room that cost about RM50 per nite kat Phuket. But still, kami puas. Hotel ade pool and garden yang lawa, why not spend more.

OK la..Nanti aku sambung pasal the actual holiday plak along with pictures. Later!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Apa nak Jadi ngan Blog Aku Ini ???

Sayang blog ini. Nak tutup, terlampau berharga bagi aku.
Nak aktif,tadak masa lak..Tenet pon takde kat umah keramat..Adeh..

But good news :)

A lot of good posts coming up. Since saya duk umah Sungai Buluh ni wat sementara waktu and berconnectivity streamyx, expect a lot of my latest posts.

Ader berita sedih :(

Ader berita sukacite.

and ader gak surprise yang some of you may have yet know

so stay blog'd!!!