Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur - Major Road Names
Major Road Names
- Toward city: Jln Tung Razak, Jln Sultan Ismail
- Toward Singapore: Serembum, NS Highway
Malaysia - North South Highway Exits
from Singapore - KL
to Uncle's place
From KL - Singapore
to Kukup (closes about 9pm)
to Uncle's place
- Take the stupid Daman Sara Exit before KL!!!
- else you will head a big round, over 40 km to KL exit and another 30km back...
From KL - Singapore
to Kukup (closes about 9pm)
- Leave early so that we can exit via Geylang Patah
- The Pontian Exit is at least 1.5 hours with cars strolling at 50/60km per hr
- (this is the looooong way about 45km from the exact opposite direction of Kukup)
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Monday, 30 August 2010
Hong Kong - Itinery (30 August 2010 - 8 September 2010)
30 August 2010 (Monday)
- Touch down Hong Kong
- Checked in Mira
- Walked south of Nathan Road
- Star Ferry Terminal, Avenue of Stars
- Wu Song Street for Dinner
- Jacuzzi in morning, evening
- Sorting out stuff on Laptop
- Explored Kimberly road, found a mini mart and bought beer back
- Had dinner at Leung Kee, wide variety of asian cuisine (not very cheap f or a usual HK cafe)
- Spent whole day in the room
- zzZ entire day...
- Walked along Nathan Road, stumbled to Yau Ma Tei, Temple Street, actually nothing much and at 10pm+ stalls already starting to close.
- Installed Canon EOS Utility software and organised new and old pics.
- Intend to take night shots at Victoria Peak
Friday, 6 August 2010
Shanghai - Economy & Market Rates
- Airport Cab Fares
- Beer $10 (Big Bottles!)
- DVDs $4 per pc
- Liquor $35 per glass (one shot)
Heng Shan Lu MV, July 2010
- Mixers 1 jin, which is 1 can >< sold seperately about $6.
- Bottle of chivas is about 800 with 6 cans of coke or green tree and this is overpriced.
- On weekends, minimum 'expenditure' of 100rmb)
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
of Luggages and having it all
Finally picked up the... Damn I forgot and it doesn't really matter series 29" luggage at Suntec after my last trip to UK, few years back. Ok, it is the X Blade Series, Spinner, 80cm or close to 32''
Spent $480 on it, black one! It was a good buy, a difficult decision, where apparently I'm not a decisive person I thought I was, as usual ending up confusing myself with all the different series, prices and before promotion prices to gauge the value of the luggage.
Summary of the end mind block and confusion: the practical side of me thought, a luggage is a rugged item, that is thrown about behind the check in scenes, that is at most, seen in the hotel room, mostly in the store room, and transported from cab to airport, from airport to hotel, and from hotel back to airport.
1. What's on your mind?
An executive set, one big one for travels up to 2 weeks and winter wear, if necessary and one cabin size luggage.
Does it have to be a set?
Actually think about it, no, for the short travels would be independent of the long travels, fuck I don't even travel that often. So it doesn't have to be a set.
2. Black label series
Whilst series sets, are nice to see and have, we were lucky to meet Peter, who very patient with me, gently reminded and dropped some hints in his capacity as a sales person. I said we are paying for the brand, and he said that the material, I think he said armoured nylon, better material and finishing for a executive look, apart from that, hmm. Capacity isn't as big as the one we chose.
Meaning, nice is nice, practical is better, to me, buying a nice looking set may attract unwanted attention from unwanted people, it will still be scratched, thrown about, and will still wear and tear from it's showroom condition.
The former me would have paid $770 for the nicer looking series, felt stupid, and still go for it anyway.
3.Hard Vs Soft cases.
You can't have it all! Yes of course hard cases are more durable, but the capacity inside is very limited, and we cannot pack more stuff inside compared to a soft luggage which may be able to squeeze in that last minute shopping.
Soft cases, depending on the series, can be tough, made of polymide (if I remember), with a mixture of polyester.
Xion series was heavy, Pro DLX II even heavier, but a worthy buy at $372 from over $970, my original intention. But it was too heavy! about 6kg, lucky I didn't buy in impulse from the Funan sales guy.
4. Choice of Layout
One was designed that the luggage was split into two, another was a one sided compartment. Tendency would be for the one sided compartment to 'crush in' when weight is on top of the luggage, but it is ok, it doesn't happen that often, all I need to do is to stack it on top when storing it.
A one sided compartment, with organised toiletry compartment on the other side, with one more extra compartment below it, is much more suited for an organised person like me. The sales person said if you don't like your things to move around and like to be neat, take the one-sided one. Girl knew that was the one for me, she always knows such things, even having a feel of what my father would need, want, and is his for a carrying document/laptop bag but alas, it was over $400.
Anyway it turned out, it was more over a $100 more expensive, the 2-sided one was only $336.00.
Trying to save, made me want to go for it, lucky Girl knew me so well, and she was right, had we bought it, I would keep thinking about it and regretting that decision.
So, one hour later, Girl paid for the luggage and left, I gave many thanks to Peter for his patience and staying with us though the boutique had closed at 9pm.
We can't have it Cheap, Fresh, complete with big Tits, the hokkien saying goes. ^^
Spent $480 on it, black one! It was a good buy, a difficult decision, where apparently I'm not a decisive person I thought I was, as usual ending up confusing myself with all the different series, prices and before promotion prices to gauge the value of the luggage.
Summary of the end mind block and confusion: the practical side of me thought, a luggage is a rugged item, that is thrown about behind the check in scenes, that is at most, seen in the hotel room, mostly in the store room, and transported from cab to airport, from airport to hotel, and from hotel back to airport.
1. What's on your mind?
An executive set, one big one for travels up to 2 weeks and winter wear, if necessary and one cabin size luggage.
Does it have to be a set?
Actually think about it, no, for the short travels would be independent of the long travels, fuck I don't even travel that often. So it doesn't have to be a set.
2. Black label series
Whilst series sets, are nice to see and have, we were lucky to meet Peter, who very patient with me, gently reminded and dropped some hints in his capacity as a sales person. I said we are paying for the brand, and he said that the material, I think he said armoured nylon, better material and finishing for a executive look, apart from that, hmm. Capacity isn't as big as the one we chose.
Meaning, nice is nice, practical is better, to me, buying a nice looking set may attract unwanted attention from unwanted people, it will still be scratched, thrown about, and will still wear and tear from it's showroom condition.
The former me would have paid $770 for the nicer looking series, felt stupid, and still go for it anyway.
3.Hard Vs Soft cases.
You can't have it all! Yes of course hard cases are more durable, but the capacity inside is very limited, and we cannot pack more stuff inside compared to a soft luggage which may be able to squeeze in that last minute shopping.
Soft cases, depending on the series, can be tough, made of polymide (if I remember), with a mixture of polyester.
Xion series was heavy, Pro DLX II even heavier, but a worthy buy at $372 from over $970, my original intention. But it was too heavy! about 6kg, lucky I didn't buy in impulse from the Funan sales guy.
4. Choice of Layout
One was designed that the luggage was split into two, another was a one sided compartment. Tendency would be for the one sided compartment to 'crush in' when weight is on top of the luggage, but it is ok, it doesn't happen that often, all I need to do is to stack it on top when storing it.
A one sided compartment, with organised toiletry compartment on the other side, with one more extra compartment below it, is much more suited for an organised person like me. The sales person said if you don't like your things to move around and like to be neat, take the one-sided one. Girl knew that was the one for me, she always knows such things, even having a feel of what my father would need, want, and is his for a carrying document/laptop bag but alas, it was over $400.
Anyway it turned out, it was more over a $100 more expensive, the 2-sided one was only $336.00.
Trying to save, made me want to go for it, lucky Girl knew me so well, and she was right, had we bought it, I would keep thinking about it and regretting that decision.
So, one hour later, Girl paid for the luggage and left, I gave many thanks to Peter for his patience and staying with us though the boutique had closed at 9pm.
We can't have it Cheap, Fresh, complete with big Tits, the hokkien saying goes. ^^
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Xu Zhou
4 Zhan Zi Di, surrounded by:
Bei mian (North): Ji Zhou, Hebei Yuan Shao,
Dong mian (East): Nanyang Yuan Shu
- Ji Zhou, You Zhou, Qing Zhou
Jing Zhou: Liu Biao
Gongsun Zan
- 楚霸王项羽在此地用三万铁骑, 杀得高祖帝五十万兵马
Bei mian (North): Ji Zhou, Hebei Yuan Shao,
Dong mian (East): Nanyang Yuan Shu
- Ji Zhou, You Zhou, Qing Zhou
Jing Zhou: Liu Biao
Gongsun Zan
- 楚霸王项羽在此地用三万铁骑, 杀得高祖帝五十万兵马
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Dangerous Mushrooms
Yunnan
- known for wide variety of mushrooms (Xiang Gu)
- People collapse from sudden cardiac arrests during conversations, there is a cluster of deaths in villages in very short periods of time in the summer.
- Believed that the Trogia mushroom is the cause of it
- taken from Straits Times 15 July 2010
- known for wide variety of mushrooms (Xiang Gu)
- People collapse from sudden cardiac arrests during conversations, there is a cluster of deaths in villages in very short periods of time in the summer.
- Believed that the Trogia mushroom is the cause of it
- taken from Straits Times 15 July 2010
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Shanghai - Language & Culture
Xu Yao Shen mo: Xue sha?
Food
Food
- Light sauce: Shi You
- Red chilli: Pau Jiao
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Shanghai - Places to go
Bookstores
Clubbing and Pubbing
- Soho Club: more ''atas'' club, plays trance music
KTVs
Massage and Foot Reflex
Shopping
- Fu Zhou Lu (in Ren Min Guang Chang)
Clubbing and Pubbing
- Heng Shan Lu Area
- Soho Club: more ''atas'' club, plays trance music
- Xin Tian Ti (Singapore's version of Clarke Quay)
KTVs
- Yan An Lu (27th floor)
Massage and Foot Reflex
- Lin Fen Lu (near Gong He Xin Jin Jiang where we stayed)
- Jiao Zi Lu? Xu Zhong Lu?
Shopping
- Nanjing Lu
- Huai Hai Lu (Higher End)
- Ren Ming Guang Chang (their Orchard Road)
