Air Asia to Malaysia is fail

I’m finally in Malaysia on holidays for about 3 weeks. However, the journey here wasn’t very pleasant though.

The night before my flight, I received an sms from Air Asia, the carrier I was flying with, stating that my flight was delayed by 8 hours due to aircraft technical issues.

Great. Flight delayed by 8 hours, and I have a flight from Sydney to Melbourne at 7.15am with the new take off time at 8.50pm now. What on earth am I going to do for like 11 hours in Melbourne?

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Travel Plans End of Year

The end of the year is just around the corner and I’m excited to take a month off and have a little holiday. Thinking of heading off around the end of November to mid December period.

Prospects so far? 1-1.5 week in KL, 1.5-2 weeks in Sabah, and 1 week in Bali/Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia, depending where my other mates want to go.

I’m hoping that the Australian dollar will spring back up again and make me a rich dude once I go to south-eastern countries.

Although I’m really keen on visiting a few places within the next few years: China, Africa and Alaska. Why China? Well coming from a Chinese heritage, I’ve always been fascinated by ancient Chinese history and culture. It really intrigues me on how rich Chinese history and culture is, providing many insights from early civilisation and wars to modern day revolution of China. There’s just so many things to see and discover!

Why Africa? I’d like to see and experience the third world countries in a way that will open up my eyes from my comfort of transportation, education, health, democracy and all other basic things in life that I take for granted. It would definitely put our (including myself) day to day complaints to shame and to realise how pathetic they are compared to the rest of the world whom 90% are probably living below poverty line.

Oh yes, I’d like to get some safari action too! I’m a big national geographic fan :)

Why Alaska? I don’t know. The fact that a 2-3 week cruise around the Alaskan glaciers and enjoying the beautiful untarnished environment of Alaska would probably be a big factor. Also the fact that I’ve never seen nor experienced snow in real life as well.

So many things to do while you’re still young. Better make the most of it ay?

More pictures from Melbourne

Totally forgot there were more pictures in my dead camera. Hong Yi was looking for pictures from our trip to the ACMI video game exhibition. The exhibition exhibits all the old school games such as Pac Man and Mario Brothers to the modern games such as Wii and X-Box.

Hong Yi and I were playing Mario Brothers as it was one of our favourite childhood games. Here’s a screenshot if you don’t remember what it is.

Boy do I have to say that both of us don’t have teamwork! She especially tries to kill and sabotage me by getting all the coins and kicking all the bumped monsters, while not helping me at all! We definitely don’t do well during team events, hehe.

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My Trip to Melbourne in June

Ok I’ve been consistently bugged by my girlfriend to put up pictures from my trip to Melbourne in June. Unfortunately few days into my trip, my camera decided to commit suicide and die of mechanical failure. Thus tilll today I am still left camera-less.

Thinking of getting a DSLR once I get my tax return in. But can I justify spending $1000+ for it?

Anyways, here’s some pictures taken from my trip. Unfortunately it’s not much and most of it is still on Hong Yi’s camera.

Dinner with some other friends: Denise, Joel, Jonathan, Adrianne.

Hong Yi and I having dinner with some friends at some Thai restaurant I can’t remember.

My lunch at Yu-u with Nicole. Some famous and randomly hard to find Japanese restaurant. $16 for a lunch menu. Quite good!

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Greetings from Malaysia

I flew down to Malaysia on the 25th of November via Jetstar. You’d think you’d get pretty crap services and facilities with the budget airline, but it is quite decent. I only paid $240 for a one-way flight.

Flight was smooth and had no issues at all. I bought a book at the airport which I was planning to read on the plane, but ended up just watching movies and sleeping.

So what have I done so far ever since I touched down? Eat eat eat. :S

Food here is soooo cheap that it’s hard to say no to seconds. I’ve been having mamak & chinese food mainly.

Also I’ve been fishing with my highschool friends at some man made pond in Sri Petaling. Costs around RM23 for 4 hours on Mondays. We ended up fishing for 8 hours hehe. I didn’t catch anything though, so unlucky. My friend caught a 3kg pachu fish and we traded it for two 2kg patin fish.

I’ve also been doing a little bit of shopping. Not as much as I want though. Only bought a pair of boxers so far. Will be going to Lowyat today to buy a bunch of electronic goodies.

Not sure if you’ve been to a pub called Wabisabi here. Had beers with friends there last night. Gosh, it is soooo expensive! RM42 + 10% surcharge for a jug of beer. I’ve always hated having alcoholic beverages in Malaysia because it is so expensive compared to Australia.

Well my reasoning was I’d rather eat 40 roti banjir instead, hehe :P

Anyways, if any of you want my Malaysian number, just send me an email and I’ll get back to you.