Friday, December 27, 2013

Bandung, Indonesia

This is a super long overdue post .. This gonna be on the trip to Bandung that I went in end of 2011 ..

And now it's already coming to the end of 2013 .. Seriously -.-

With the help of god of photos, will try to remember as much details as I can of the trip .. And because it's just a short weekend trip, so thank god there's nothing much of activities we did except for shopping .. LOLOL .. Anyway, one of the place that is worth the visit is definitely the active volcano known as "Tangkuban Perahu".

Before that, on our way to the volcano site, we stop by at this Wilujeng Sumping Restaurant for some authentic Indonesian food ..


We ordered the famous tempe, fried fish and i-dont-rmb anymore because I don't have photos with me simply because I only remember the food was not near to me and by the time it came to me, it's already half eaten, so no food pictures !!


Lime Juice .. Apparently is one of the popular drink in Bandung .. They called it "Es something" :X

Failed in recalling my memory .. *sigh* 

Main reason why I needed to blog all my life event !!!

Ok .. Back to the topic .. So after our decent lunch .. We continue our journey to our main itenary of the trip ..


Amazing scenary !




And we also decided to trek down into that hot pool of sulfur water hot spring ... And I are not prepared for trekking, I only wore like slipper .. So, after the trekking, my slipper actually gone as in spoiled and gotta buy a temporary flip flop .. Booo ...


Me with the young gor gor and jie jie :D

On our way .. we saw this man was doing some carving .. And to our surprise, the woods are just so special that they actually have patterns on it !!




So magical horrrr .. First time seeing wood skin with patterns one leh ...

Some of the scenary along our trek down to the hot spring ..



 Tree trunk that has a big hiding place .. Luls ..


 HUMANSSS !!!


 So near yet so far


 Im going down down down down ~~

I think we trek for about an hour half before we reach to the hot spring site .. And it's spa time !!!




They even have people to help you do the massage .. hehehe .. Nice nice ... Of course you have to pay la .. But it's not expensve and don't ask me how much k .. Probably by now the price would have been inflated also la ..

 Selfie level: Mud spa

 Daddy so happy with his smooth leg now .. LOLOL ..


And there's another pool it's so hot that you thought soon it'll gonna explode soon ..




PS: Pls dont jump into that .. You probably be melt .. But it's just awesome for some hard boiled egg ...

Then, we had dinner at this awesome place at Kampung Daun .. Totally love the ambience and the food .. Just awesome :D And highly recommend to come in at night for the feel ~



LOL .. My new colourful flip flop xD




It's so jungle feel with the sound of the flowing river .. Just very cooling and romantic lor .. And if you are wondering if there's mosquito, well, I don't remember me complaining about it considering I'm wearing shorts ...

The foods all with the famous ayam penyet .. YUMZZZZZZ ...







Ayam penyet is like the main dish while the rice are the sides .. LOL .. Although some of the pictures looks the same actually they are not ... The rice comes in different type, some are plain white rice, some are like pulut, some with things inside the rice .. Overall, all is nice the chicken is just so crunchy and yummy !!

Although Bandung was a known place for shopping as all the factory outlets are based here, I wasn't really the shopper type, so thus I don't have much comments about the price and fashion .. I find it OK and not to say cheap also .. So forgive me for that .. But of course I cannot lose out, I do shops some bags and shirts too .. LOL .. 

Shopping and food .. I'll choose food ... Heh ..

Monday, December 16, 2013

My mid-December 2013 Happenings

Woah ... Was just looking at my recent posts, I seems to be just blogging about Kashmir Trek and that also took me like what .. 3 months ??!! One month one post ??!! So fail leh me ... But ok, to be honest, I did became lazy in updating my blog, not until recently I discover a new app that allow me to do mobile blogging which then let me do post my daily life and feelings (which again not so much things to write also =.=!) ..

So maybe in that case, this blog may be a SLIGHTLY more informative blog as in about my travel ? Heh .. Maybe by doing, I could attract more readers too .. LOLOL *syiok sendiri*

So here's some of the happenings for myself for the past few weeks :D

1. Attended one of my very good friend that I know at work wedding at Westin Hotel


Lovely couple .. Wishing them happily ever after and they have the best ever wedding dinner ever i.e. buffet dinner !! It was really something different for a chinese traditional sit down dinner .. Though we sort of just went ahead with the foods without having the couple to have official walk in .. LOL ... And this bride, I felt like she is the usherer more than a bride herself =.=!! But love her to the maxxx !! Hehehe .. Seriously, I don't know where else you can find a more hyper bride than her .. :P Hope she don't read this .. LOL

Just us !! Have i told u that she's my best of the bestie that we are the known couple :P

Totally love this picture of us with the bride .. Everyone just look so pretty and happy here :D Thanks to buaybee Wern for the photo ..

2. Being one of the JiMui to the Bride

It is definitely an honour when someone asked you to be their bridesmaid aka ji mui in cantonese because that mean they see you as one of their important close friends in their mind .. And our theme was red :D

 Sheeshhh .. My arm looks damn big here !!

Love contract done by ME !! Yay to ME !!! 

3. Attended EAT annual dinner

Who's EAT? It stands for Evergreen Adventure Team. I'm not an adventure person, so how do I get to be in this group? All thanks to Kashmir Trek that by mutual of dad's friend, we got to know some of the most awesome people .. :D


Think my collage that I posted in Instagram pretty much sums up how awesome these people are .. The dinner theme was Kashmir Night, kinda regret that I did not dressed in according to the theme .. Cz it was kind of last minute that dad informed me about the theme and that time I was having exam, so didn't really had much mood to think of it .. 

Pretty much a happening December for me :D With a hopefuly feeling, everything's gonna turn good and great for me from this season of love onwards ..

Ending the post with gingerbread man !! Heh .. This weekend's target to go malls for more christmas deco photos !!!


Smile like him :D

Nights peeps ~

Saturday, December 14, 2013

It's a Wrap (Almost) for 2013

Seriously, it's already mid-way to December .. And in few blinks of an eye, I will be in year 2014 .. Yet again, 2013 has been a lot of ups and downs for myself but I seems to be at bottleneck coming into 2nd half of the year ..

So here's some highlights of my 2013

1. My year started with the biggest commitment that I ever made where I got myself a new car and a house ^_^ Of course, all these can't be done without help for my parents .. So, I'm really in big debt now .. Huhuhuhu ... But on the brighter side, at least I've secured myself with a property .. :)

2. Trekking to Himalaya in Kashmir .. My another biggest achievement for the year .. For a inactive sport person like me, I honestly couldn't believe that I can do it, but well I did it .. I'm not sure I will do another one in future but hopefully I will .. As a motivation for me to be more physically fit by training myself up ..

Probably this 2 is my biggest achievement in this year .. On the downside, my biggest disappointment would come from work .. I honestly can't believe I was penalise for things that I think it's beyond my control .. Just because people has perception on you .. This is also my biggest life lesson at work .. Don't ever just let people take advantage of you ..

Because of this, it has really made me feeling depressed for the past few days ..

2013 is coming to an end and I hope in 2014, I will prove those people wrong !!! Done it on me once is more than enough ... There will be no 2nd time ..

As for 2014, thus far, hasn't has any things for me to look forward but I'm sure it'll be a better year than now .. :)

On a side note, can't wait to go around malls to take photos of the Christmas deco but thinking of the crowds, I chose to just hibernate at home :X Maybe with that, I can be more active in updating my long expired blog post .. xD

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Kashmir Great Lakes Trek - Day 5

Kashmir Posts:
1. Kashmir Great Lakes Trek - Day 1 and 2 [CLICK HERE]
2. Kashmir Great Lakes Trek - Day 3 and 4 [CLICK HERE]
3. Kashmir Great Lakes Trek - Day 6 and 7 [CLICK HERE]
4. Kashmir Great Lakes Trek - Day 8 [CLICK HERE]

Day 5 - (Gadsar / 12,000 ft to Satsar / 12,000 ft)

Rocks and mountains are not enough. Today, we were given yet another challenge, walking on the ice  .. To be honest, I'm kinda freaking out when I look at the ICE ! :X


Can you see the big fat ass crack in the middle ?? And below the ice is actually the river stream .. And yes, I kinda have a lot of scenarios playing in my head. What if the cracks gone worst and the whole ice cube just fell off ? What if my stupid shoe is not good enough and I just slip down the river and hit myself with rock? What if I'm too fat and the ice just cracked when I stand on the ice?

Seriously, all those was what-if questions were playing in my head. T_T

But thank goodness to the kind soldiers who actually came to give us the help and yes, the ice did not crack any further ... *phewwww* And according to our Leader, a day before us, the horses which also cross on the ice, few of the horse actually slip and fell into the river and died .. :( Sad to know that ...

After crossing that, we had a wonderful view of the mountains and river by walking about an hour or so on a long trail .. Not too tough as there's not much of ascending here .. Probably just a slight one.


Some of the lovely views I caught along the way ..



Love this stunning shot of the horse ... *syok sendiri*


Just probably half an hour before reach to 2nd army camp, the sky started to drizzle with strong wind .. And also that last part of it was ascending T_T So, managed to test my windbreaker to its usefulness .. So yeah, definitely a good one ..

Reached the army camp and again, thank god for having them we have a place to hide from the strong wind and rain and have our lunch break ..


The army .. When talking to them, apparently they have to be stationed there for few months (can't rmb specifically how long) before they can actually go back to city or back to their own family .. I on behalf of all the trekers, thank you for your service and ensuring the safety of the place around .. At least, we all can trek in peace without worrying much of our safety .. :)

Although it is still raining heavily outside, we still got to move on as we have to reach the camp before the skies get dark .. So, we just rush through the rain and wind .. Thank god we have one of the guide with us that bring us all the way :)

On the other hand, when we reach the camp which was just an hour away from our camp .. The rain sort of stop and the view was just superb !!



 Best windbreaker !! 

 Daddy trying to dry up the shawl .. kekeke







 Thank god the weather turn good so that we all can dry up all the clothes, raincoat and our shoes

And of course thanks to Indiahikes team for their friendliness, professionalism and care towards all of us

According to our Guide Leader, this is considered the highest camp that we have for the whole trekking .. So, it''ll be the coldest among the nights .. 

Just when we thought the hardship is over, not until the next day ... :X