Yep, folks, we’re at the last instalment of the series in the travelogue. Next time i should use one of those picture viewers with the caption below so that it’s easier to post lots of pics… Anyway here are the earlier posts in the series: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3: Ocean Park and Victoria Peak Day Four was the highlight of our 5 day trip. We packed up everything in the hotel we’d been staying in for the past 3 nights – BP International in Kowloon, cause we were spending the day and one night in Hong Kong Disneyland…! Or as the locals called it “Tik see nei”. Yeah…

Taking another break before the last in the series of the HK travelogue. If some you may have noticed, it’s 2007 already. In fact, we’re almost half way through the year. That means that it’s been ten years since Princess Diana died in that much publicized car crash. She passed on on 31 August 1997, our 40th national day. Not hard to remember. The thing about dying young is that people will always remember you as a young person, not the old, frail version if you are advanced in age. For Diana, whom at that time was the most photographed person in the world, i think the world couldn’t get…

This is the second last in the series of post on my recent trip to [tag]Hong Kong[/tag], you can check out the first and second parts here: Hong Kong Memories… Day 1 Hong Kong Memories… Day 2 Okay, okay i know, too many travelogues are a little tiresome, so one more post and i’m done, okay? So on the third day, it was a free and easy touring day for us. We didn’t have to wake up too early like in the earlier days, but not too late, since we had lots to do and see. This is the view from our hotel room in the morning. All concrete buildings,…

Taking a break from my Hong Kong travelogues. Talk about COOL CAR REGISTRATION PLATE NUMBER! To the owner of this car, my apologies, but you have one kick-ass ride, and not to mention an even more bad-ass car plate number? Did you also own that old night-club in town sometime back?

(This is a continuation of the previous Part One) So the second day of our stay in Hong Kong, we got up really early to follow this half day city tour organized by our tour agent. I’m used to waking up early, but not while on holiday… besides we had to wake up early to eat breakfast, which was cup noodles and 3-in-1 coffee in typical Malaysian fashion. They came round punctually at about 7.30am, by then the city was already buzzing with people and traffic. This is our tour leader Ah Fai, a really nice and funny guy. He tells lots of humourous stories about life in Hong Kong…

Yep, i was in Hong Kong with my family last week, it was a beautiful place. It was very hot, though, as hot as Malaysia, plus it’s dry and not much wind despite being an island. We went to a whole lot of places – Disneyland (stayed a night there), Ocean Park, the night markets, Repulse Bay, the Peak, etc and took a whole lot of photos, but i won’t kill your modem with all the photos here, but i’ll show a few choice photos from each day i was there. So here we go… On day 1, the first impression after touching down was the new Chek Lap Kok…

Last Monday morning, exactly seven days ago, my brother went home to be with the Lord at about seven in the morning. He would have been forty this September. He fought a short uphill battle against leukemia and chemotherapy, but lost the struggle in less than two short weeks. It was only last year that he endured the indignity of radiotherapy for cancer. I know, life sucks. When i received the call, I was waiting on the waterfront of a foreign shore. I waited awhile to tell my wife, as she was laughing with my two children almost a stone’s throw away. When she walked to me, I started with,…

As you guys are reading this, I will be in Hong Kong for a long awaited holiday with my family. Hong Kong Disneyland Victoria Peak Ocean Park I thought of using Twitter to doing a live update while i am there, but decided against it when i took into account the SMS charges! Anyway, when i come back there’ll be loads of pics to share, some more my digital camera got 2MB card one… If you don’t know how Twitter works, you should check it out. Meanwhile, let’s hope the weather holds up in Hong Kong while i am there. Among the many places we’re going, we are also planning…

I went to the Eye on Malaysia last week. I know, I know. Everyone else has already gone there. But i took one day leave, sort of a break in the week, just to see what the fuss is all about. It seemed like only a short while ago that i was watching the launch of the event on New Year’s Eve. On the whole it was okay, due to some issues, we got nine rounds on the giant ferris wheel, more than the usual. Coincidentally, i found this report in the NST about how it has not been attracting the crowds as expected. I suppose it’s good for a…

This is from Nick, of JJCM fame. Interesting tag, i love music. Here’s the rules of the tag: 1. Go to www.popculturemadness.com 2. Select the year you turned 18 I was 18 in 1991… ah, i remember it like it was yesterday… 3. Get all nostalgic over the songs of the year i did some googling to help me jog my memory of that particular year. At age 18, people say you are at the prime of your life. I was a bright eyed and optimistic, it was the year i enter uni, my life before me. As i listened to the fantastic world of format FM stereo radio Singapore,…