Took a walked down to 7 eleven nearby our hotel

to get some breakfast for ourself.

our first breakfast in Beijing!

Awesomely good Porridge.

Kinda like ham egg bun.

My sort-of everyday must drink for breakfast in Beijing-Black soya bean.

My favorite Roasted Beef Noodle (Kang Sifu)

As we had booked a tour guide online way before we reached Beijing so we hooped onto his car and started our journey.

There are alot of motivation awareness road sign all along the road in Beijing.

First tourist attraction – Temple of Heaven (天坛). Bought our tickets which costs RMB35/person.

A group picture in front of the brief introduction board.

Kong Ling (our tour guide) roughly brief us of the temple of heaven.

The moment you walked pass into the entrance this was the first thing we saw.

Is like a botanical garden for the Chinese old folks to have there activities there and the funny thing is YOU HAVE TO PAY TO GO HANG OUT AT THE PARK, even their own citizen.

They joined in the crowd and dance.

The acrobatic uncle showing his skill

Colorful Shuttlecocks (毽子)

Old Chinese Aunties and Uncles are so pro playing that.

Most of the roof has all these dragon or lion (I don’t know)

The 3 Musketeer.

My favourite epic picture for the trip. It looks like I am trying to slap him “gao gao” muahahahah

Our first group photo for the day.

On the way, there’s a long corridor where all the old aunty uncle playing all kinds of games like playing cards, Mahjong, and this one caught our attention – scramble in Mahjong style (creative betui)

Is just a very simple English but it still good for brain training to avoid Alzheimer

Before we enter A must take picture in front of the metal gate.

Temple of Heaven – 天坛

In Beijing I think everywhere and anywhere 365 days also full of tourists.

It was a soooooooooo so so so so so nice scene where an old architect with the clear blue sky behind.

The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿) is a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, 36 metres in diameter and 38 metres tall, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests. The building is completely wooden, with no nails. The original building was burned down by a fire caused by lightning in 1889. The current building was re-built several years after the incident.

The short history of the temple.

The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests has four inner, twelve middle and twelve outer pillars, representing the four seasons, twelve months and twelve traditional Chinese hours respectively. Combined together, the twelve middle and twelve outer pillars represent the traditional solar term.

Noticed that the stone carve with the clouds and dragon

Took the bus shutter to LCCT and had our baggage checked in

The rest went to Taste of Asia to had their breakfast

Enjoying their breakfast

Ready to aboard! WoooHoooooo!

As it was 6 Hours flight so we had to have our lunch in the flight.

Chicken Kung Pao Rice, it taste okok only I still prefer the BBQ Chicken.

So far there’s no problem for me to had a long journey flight because basically I slept alot in the plane but so far the longest I’ve took is just 8 hours I don’t know about those super long journey wan.

This is a must took picture. Anywhere, anytime.

Here we are Tianjin Binhai International Airport.

Waiting to collect our baggages

As Air Asia doesn’t land directly in Beijing so we have to take a shuttle bus to the railway station from airport.

There is a shuttle bus service just right outside the airport so convenient

and it only costs RMB10/each person.

Here we are at Tianjin railway station.

It’s our third year anniversary and it was also the eve for our Beijing trip! wooohoooo!!!
It has been awhile that I took picture in front of the Air Asia check in counter.

Waiting for on board.

Still waiting.

Arghhh I hate waiting. Luckily iRunner was there to killed my time.

and they had their books.

and our flight DELAY!!! WTF!!!

Awwww travel 3 sixty it has been awhile.

Ready to depart.

This time I am not alone who always stand in front of the arrival gate and took picture, I got friends!

waiting for our baggages.

waiting for the shuttle to Tune hotel.

Here it comes.

you pay only RM1 and the shuttle will drive you to Tune from LCCT eventough is not that far but still it save all the hassles.

Checked in to the room 524.

Repacked my bags to make my trip easier for the next day. Lights Off!

It was our short get-away trip to the land of Hatyai.

Had an early breakfast.

Went over to Maybank for a quick stop

To reload touch-n-go

The early view of Penang Bridge

Thanks to Julius for the Garmin Nuvi

Got our passes to Hatyai

Got PCJ 2100 for it’s insurance as well.

He was starving, so bought a Roast Pork Bao.

Naluri Aman’s duty free shop.

This is always my favourite stops to get my passes done.

Here we are. Immigration of Bukit Kayu Hitam.

Immigration of Thailand.

Get PCJ his chop 1st

and then only our turn. It was lucky that we came early, the queue wasn’t that long yet, but surprisingly there are alot of penangites on that day.

Sawadika!

Checked in.

Room 518.

The view from our hotel room.

The wardrobe.

The bed.

The shower area.

The bath tub.

Sing Golden Place Hotel.

Started our Amazing Thai trip.

1st thing 1st, food hunting. Beef noodle. *slurp*

One thing funny about the drinks in Thailand, the straw is so short until u hardly can suck your drinks.

My oh my. I lurve……

Stayed in Lee Garden for my previous trip when I attended Ah Pok’s wedding.

Suan Hin market.

Bangkok Pancake!!!!!!

Went to checked out the Hanky pank’s pink hotel beside Lee Garden Plaza.

Went to New Season Hotel’s for massage.

Highly recommended as it’s cheap and what I like is, it’s very clean.

Went to Lee Garden Plaza for late lunch.

The food court area.

Pork leg rice. My favourite. Costs THB 35

PadThai, my no.1 favourite. Costs THB 35

and after I came out and passby the 7eleven beside Lee Garden Plaza I finally found the Aunty selling coconut ice cream. I’ve looking for it for so damn long. FINALLLY this time i know what time and where she will be.

Happy girl with her favourite coconut ice-cream = satisfaction.

Ohhhhhh…..mmmmmmmm

Went back to the hotel for refreshment and had a short nap.

Ready for the night.

The sky started to turned dark.

Stop for dinner.

This time no more eyes closing.

his fried noodle.

Mine Char Hor fun. Dinner costs THB120.

Took a motorcycle tuk-tuk as we don’t know where West Side Saloon located.

West Side Saloon Bar.

The very fun cheeky waitress that entertained the both of us alot that night.

Made friends with some uncles there. Seriously, a bar filled with UNCLES!!!! but the band was surprisingly good. Hard Rock Penang should have pay them to sing.

7 evelen Basil Chicken Rice for supper.

7 August 2011

Woke up and 1st thing 1st food hunting!

What a heavy breakfast. *tsk tsk tsk*

Tempting!

Bitter gourd Soup

Winter Melon Soup

Raw Vege

Does it look mouth watering?

Sugar Cane Water

Checked out and drove to Tesco Lotus and did some groceries shopping.

Had lunch at the food court before we leave Hatyai.

Had my No.1 Favourite Padthai again.

Pork Leg rice.

Get the refund back for the Cash Card.

And popped to Dairy Queen. Why there’s non of any Dairy Queen or Cold Stone franchise in PENANG???? HUH???

Was dilemma.

Choose Macha Green Tea

and Oreo. It costs THB35 per cup.

It’s time to leave Hatyai and it started to rain.

But when the moment we reached the immigration stop the sky turned sunny again.

Get all the paper work done!

Bon Voyage!

1st tol on our way back.

Hello Penang!

It was 6.47pm when we finally reached home.

From Motorola First Generation V3i

The 1st flip phone that I’ve ever had

to my favourite 1st smart phone samsung galaxy s.

was fed up with all those hidden charges by Maxis.

So made up my mind, from Maxis postpaid

and made the smarter choice, *singing I will follow you* change into Digi Prepaid.

Last day of the trip

Woke up god damn early for a breakfast

Gotcha!

packed and ready to leave

Pay and checked out the hotel

The receipt. 22 USD per night.

Got into our taxi and off we went to the airport at 6.20am!

The line was like soooo lonnnngggggg

got our bags checked in

and I am feeling so sad when the moment I walked into the boarding gate.

My boarding pass

was kinda boring and started to took pictures on those immigration chops for the countries that I’ve been visited.

Macau & China

Vietnam

Thailand

Indonesia

Hong Kong

Australia

Bye bye Hanoi.

had our brunch on the plane.

I ordered Smoke Bbq Chicken

His Awesome pawsome set.

The uncle chin chicken rice.

What’s inside fortune cookies said :

Had a little sky admiring after brunch. Hmmmm I really love flying.

Here I am again LCCT.

Waited for our luggage at the belt.

Boarded the plane.

Home sweet home.

Morning sunshine! I am so sad that holiday ended so soon.

Meet up with our personal tour guides from Hanoi Kids.

And they brought us to our first destination – The Museum of Ethnology.

Buy ourself an entrance pass.

Operation hour

the ticket

I don’t know what the hell is this.

Ha (in red) and Tran (in black) explaining how Vietnam is divided into 54 different ethnic groups.

Water puppetry, Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition.

Vietnamese conical hat called ‘non la’ at different stages. I wanted to buy one for myself but Chris told me it will only look cool when u wear it there not back in our home.

This is amazing.

Taoist altar

Dove’s trap.

Musical instruments.

Went into a the AIDS awareness section.

My attention was caught when I saw this.

A dress which made by condoms!! Amazing. Lady Gaga should have wear this so that she can take the lead for the trend for everyone else to wear it.

Many many types of condoms.

still condoms.

then we headed outside after we are done inside.

There were also an outdoor water puppet show.

The show was just started.

we grab a seat and watched the show

the singers and the musicians at the side.

was curious by seeing so many people gather around

They are competing to see who can make the loudest sound with hollow round shaped plasticines. Well, kind of interesting.

Vietnam hand-made woodblock printing in progress.

Embroideries

Was amazed how they made it.

We were lucky where we went to Vietnam near the Tet holiday season (Vietnam’s Chinese New Year), we managed to enjoy some of the games normally played in the villages during Tet.

bamboo dancing game, just follow the rhythm and jump.

Looooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg house.

They had this very interesting design for the staircase to the long house.

Looks like he doesn’t enjoy groping a wood boob.

Taaaaaaalllllllll house.

reached the top!!

This is how the interior look like.

Had fun playing badminton game using the racquet’s which look like ping pong’s racquet.

Woke up early and went down to the dining area for our breakfast.

3 types of breakfast to choose from the menu. In Vietnam you definitely must choose Vietnamese breakfast as you wont get to eat that back in anywhere else you live.

got myself a namecard of the hotel from the reception just in case we got lost.

A banana a day keeps constipation away

I Love banana.

a cup of coffee for him and a cup of tea for me.

A bowl of mind-blasting pho that can satisfied your tummy.

A glass of lime juice.

Chris booked ourself a tour package to Halong Bay so after done prepared we get down to the lobby and met Mai our tour guide.

He brought us to our van

and start our journey to picked up other passengers

Passed by Hoan Kiem Lake, residence of the famed 1000 year old turtle.

Halfway of the journey we had our toilet stopped.

As usual, when u take tour package this is where they always love to stopped by for you.

Ordered a cup of hot tea.

Chris ordered a fried noodle and brought up to the van for his hungry tummy

After 4 long hours, we arrived at the front entrance of Bai Chay Tourist Wharf. Phew~ is like the journey from pg to kl.

walking towards the entrance.

Wow!

The junk boat we took Halong 08.

Comfortable junk boat.

He’s excited

Went up to the 2nd level of the boat and took a picture with the beautiful limestone karsts by the sea.

“when I was small I wanted to become a captain like those in Titanic….”

I present you Ha Long 08.

it was sooo soooooo so so so damn cold up there.

This is what Ha Long bay looks like, plenty of limestone karsts from the sea.

Admiring the spectacular view.

Floating farm in the center of the sea.

He’s trying to reach the top of the stone.

After done shopping at the floating market, went back up to the boat

for lunch. My birthday lunch on the boat kinda cool

Fresh clams

fresh prawns

Fishy

cabbage

taste like egg taufu

spring roll

squid

romantic lunch. Thought he might actually surprise me by asking everyone sing a birthday song for me but I guess I expect too much Oh well, I do appreciate he brought me to Vietnam to celebrate my birthday. Thank you. Hugs!

Woke up and greeted by the decorations along the staircase. Each floor was designed in different type of deco. Interesting.

Morning.

They were busy preparing breakfast for us.

A cup of juice again. I think if I were to stay there for one week I guess I’ll be given this to me every morning.

My omelette and  baguette.

After Breakfast, I quickly showered and went to Hoang Thy Beauty Salon that I had massage on the 2nd day to get my pedicure done. Guess what, I cannot believe it neither do u. This pedicure and nail polish just costs me VND 40,000 which is RM6.00, YES ONLY RM6!!!! NO JOKE. The cheapest I’ve ever came upon to.

Seriously I just couldn’t help myself but her boobies really very big.

Went back to the hotel and together we took a walk along September 23 Park.

Empty park in the day but when the sky turn dark there will be alot of lovebirds hanging out there on their bike.

Met this cute little puppy on the way. Guess that puppies are just too cute to handle. soooooooooooooo cuteeeeeeeeee…………

Ben Thanh market.

Shopping spreeeee…. but seriously I didn’t get to shop much in Vietnam. I think of all the places I went to Vietnam is the only place I don’t find alot of things to buy there except for lotus seed. 

Rows and rows of the shops.

There were actually a mini food court behind the shops.

there were actually too many to choose and we don’t even know what is what. Somehow this one just caught our attention, probably because of the food?

Vietnamese spring rolls.

The awesome beef.

I am not really a fan of the spring roll but I am definitely a fan of the juicy oily beef,

Ooooooooooooooooooooooo, mind-blasting.

he then saw the dessert stall right next to it.

I don’t know what is that call.

After done shopping, on the way back to our hotel he was so excited see-ing the big ass durian.

Good Morning. This is how Bich Duyen’s dining area look like.

Im hungryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

A cup of juice to boosted us up.

Vietnamese Chili

Banana.

Tea with milk

Our baguette and sunnies side up.

Morning view outside our hotel. I love it here because the hotel located inside the valley without facing the main road so it won’t be filled with all those busy noisy traffic out there.

The street outside our hotel.

The rubbish cart and the rubbish collector.

This is how it work.

Looked out the board above the entrance that’s how u can find Bich Duyen.

Met up with Quang, our tour guide from Saigon Hotpot (Saigon Hotpot is a group of university students who offer free tours of their native city.  All that needs to be paid is their transport costs to and from your meeting place and entrance fees where necessary.)

Here we are.

Buy ourself a ticket.

Loi Vao.

My pass.

Entered into a briefing room to listen to the history and structure of the Cu Chi tunnels before we start.

We were caught by our curiosities of why there are so crowded at that one spot.

Demonstration by the tourist guide.

He taught us how to hide ourself.

He’s gone.

He tried out himself.

Now u see me.

Now u don’t.

My turn.

I was so afraid that my flip-flop might fall into the hole.

Ok this is a false demonstration.

Why?

Because I might cause enemies spotted our hiding entrance spot by not covered with leaves and IT’S NOT TIGHT!!!

One of the many entrances to the underground tunnels.

Watch out!

It’s a trap.

A very small and narrow entrance.

fake entrance for confusing purpose

Women soldiers were usually tasked to guide the soldiers into the tunnels. So they played very important role when war.

Termite hole for ventilation of the smoke from kitchen

Saw a big tank.

Very big and scary when I was up there.

Gory places.

All the scary traps.

The military workshop.

This is how the process of rice paper are done.