I know i know, I have been missing in action from blogging. YES i was missing in action drinking my life away...

Kidding....

I have been travelling still yes. Not as much but still am. But have been hectic lately at work that time does not permit me to write.

Many years ago, my grandmother kept asking me to go Phuket, Thailand to meet the family that i never met or knew my existence. 

Since my grandma passed away last year, i decided to go there with my aunt to let them know my existence and to know who they are. I never wanted to go to Phuket in the past with all the rumors about it. 

Bought my tickets, dragged a few friends along, and of course with my aunt and we headed there...

To my surprise, Phuket was okay. It was like the Thai version of Penang (adding the other ++ services) 

Oh and the beach is way cleaner than Penang.

Met with my long lost family whom i never met and still have problems with language barrier.

This is my original Kampung house which my great grandparents stayed in.

More lost family members

The lady in the middle next to me is my Grandad's sister

Oh did i mention my friends also came to Phuket to have fun with me. 

A few months after, or actually 1 month.. We headed to Vietnam to do some shopping. It was just us girls - Mel, Jo, Dawn, YQ and myself

Indeed a shopping heaven

did i mention haggling?

And meeting up with Julie was fun!! and Anh Tuan

After that i headed back to Pui Kwan's wedding in Penang. Was fun catching up with old high school friends which many were married and mothers!! 

Had more awesome fun seeing the god son have his new temporary pet- A CRAB

 A few weeks after, headed to Alor Setar to catch the MUPC tournament and support Yik's event :) with June 

I got lazy to write.. Just view the pics

Sailing at Marina Pulau Indah

Thanks to Groupon , I had the opportunity to buy and try out a day's course for Sailing. Despite the heavy rains for the past few days, on the day we had to sail, the weather was perfect. Hot and shiny... but no wind to begin with. 

The boat we were to sail on

So we started chilling and having snacks on the boat

The captain was a very friendly fella :) 

Some phenomena.. The ring around the sun..on the day we sailed.

Layan pictures

This is what happens when there is no wind.

The girls started blowing the sail! 

 After awhile the wind came, and we got busy with handling the boat.

Awesome trip but tiring

We even gotten Certificates for it! whooohoooo

Weekend away in Kuantan

1 Malaysia holidays should be celebrated like this. Different race, culture and nationality going somewhere and having some fun. That's exactly what we did. Well with a little purpose in it.

 The weekend was planned to head to Teluk Cempedak, Kuantan to participate for Ache Brasil Capoeira's 3rd Batizado (graduation). It was at the beach the whole time. Very hot, very windy and very fun trip all in all. With Malaysians off all races, malay, chinese, indian to other nationalities like Brasil, Africa, France and Canada.  Having a traditional outfit bbq party, to driving to Cherating to waking up the french boys for a day of fun :) Here are some pictures to share.

Even the Brazilian wore baju Melayu

Capoeira workshop beside the beach

Gangsta girls

Getaway to Cherating beach

Cherating beach! ALL TO MYSELF!!

EVIL French boys had their own private pool in their villa

Its time to wake them up

Kevin was not as happy as Younes to be woken up

Well everyone came out at the end.....

And loads of fun...

Of course we raided the private pool

WEEeeeee

The getaway girls!

 My review on this trip is simple 


Teluk Chempedak, Kuantan is fun filled with local cultures and families around. It is more packed with people and there are night shoppings and cheap food. But if you are planning for a sun tan in your bikini and some quiet time, i would not recommend this to you.


Cherating, Kuantan is a more relaxing place with lesser crowd on the beach and more foreigners. The water is clean and is plan tranquility. Food is more expensive though and not as much culture to experience :) 

Travel bug

I know I've always been into travelling.. even when i was broke. I recalled a few years ago someone told me it is because my generation of people were born during some alignment of the moon or some planets that people born during the 1980s were during the time of Mercury or something (the bullshit i can't remember) and were all into travelling. So blame it on the galaxy alignment... 

I wonder if i should change this boring blog of my life to the different travel journey's I've taken. I already share my travels but i was thinking of writing all the beautiful things i see, experience and all that. Perhaps i'll give it a try. 

Note: I'm not the richest girl around and i travel cheap/moderately and most of the time it's to somewhere nearby. We have 4 more months to go till 2012 happens and i have quite a number of places i already have in store... 

 Let's see.. Last 2 weeks ago was Jakarta & Bandung .. Which i will not blog about since i was 99.9% shopping only and didn't take much pictures.

 Coming up next would be Kuantan even though the trip is meant for mainly the Capoeira Batizado for a group there, I'll try to start from there and go around (if time permits me)

Kuantan, Teluk Cempedak Beach - Capoeira event location

After Kuantan in September, the next in schedule would be Janda Baik in Pahang. Some quite resort area filled with nature. This trip would be just 3 girls and it's for catching up and relaxing.. Also because we bought it cheap from Groupon Malaysia. 

Janda Baik - It looks nice.. we booked a whole house not this one i think

 The weekend right after that, Nadja saw this deal and bought also from GroupOn Malaysia a weekend for me and her to relax and at last visit Cameron Highlands. I foresee loads of pictures for this trip.. my mom even laughed at me for not being to Cameron highlands before and she drives there sometimes just for lunch.. Zzzzzz

Smokehouse, Cameron Highlands

 In November, we have Phuket early of the month. Did you know my father's family originated from Phuket? We apparently owned some plantation of some sort which my grandpa gave it away to his brother and moved to Malaysia. So this time around i want to head there for the first time and if there is a chance, to also meet my family there which i don't know who they are or seen them but i do have a phone number.. but i don't speak thai. Hmmm... Gonna be tricky. But either ways, will be loving the beach with Nadja, Urko,my aunt and her partner.

I hope Phuket will be as awesome as i expect it to be.

Oh did i mention, there might be a possibility of Jakarta again in October and Ho Chin Minh in Novemeber. Depending how lucky i am with AIrAsia.com or Fireflyz :) 


Wish me good luck with my blog post on travelling soon.. Perhaps i will go korek some old pictures to blog about past travels again.. :) hehehhe...