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[Travel] Perhentian Island, Part 1 of 3

It may have been a while since the last travel post I have made on my blog, but I will be gladly to share with you my experiences throughout the entire trip. Located just right on the bottom of South China Sea, on the upper part of Malaysia, Perhentian literally means “stops”. It’s a stop that everyone that loves island should at least spend time on this place. It’s exceptionally beautiful and you can’t really imagine that Malaysia has one of these gem hidden inside the country.

To get a glimpse on where it is located, click on the image above. It will lead you to Google Maps that points you to the exact location of the island. Perhentian is also located nearby to other exotic and popular islands such as Redang or Lang Tengah Island, which made this island special because of it’s coziness and less crowded compared to Redang. Generally, the island is separated into 2 piece of land which known as Perhentian Besar (Big Stop) and Perhentian Kecil (Small Stop). Funny but true.

What would be the best time to visit this miraculously beautiful island? It’s said that during the period of March-June where the Monsoon winds and rains were on the other side of the country, so you’ll definitely get a full blast sunlight on top of your head. We were there during the period where the locals would catch squids! Too bad we didn’t take part in it. Would be fun to have ink splashed on your face.

The crews on the trip, just a friendly disclaimer, all of the pictures on this 3 part of the trip, are not taken by me, though digital post-processing are done by me. So you might be able to see some different style in photography. In fact, I didn’t have my camera with me at that time.

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[Preview] Perhentian Island, Malaysia and Taiwan

Perhaps this would be one of the  chain-travel that I have been doing, 2 trips within 1 month, of course it is nothing comparable to backpackers that travels almost everyday to different country. But I’ll be packing up here and there to prepare both travel destination in my blog. Till then, keep posted here

Perhentian Island, Malaysia

Perhentian Island, literally named Island Stops, where you would be mesmerized by its beauty, the sea and almost everything you can touch, see or feel with your 5 senses. I even felt there’s an understatement to it when I say Perhentian is a beautiful place. It’s…magical.

Update 11th June 2009 : The first part of the trip has been posted. Enjoy reading!

Update 15th June 2009 : Part 2 of the trip has been posted as well!

Update 20th June 2009 : Final part of the trip has been posted!

Taiwan

It has been a period of 2 year since my last visit to this interesting country that is filled with a lot of Chinese historical values, and a mix of aboriginal elements as well. This time around, the trip took about 8 days from Taipei to Hua Lien, located at the east of the country. Something entirely different compared to the trip previously, that is planned from a tour.

Update 15th June 2010 : After one whole day, finally the entire travel-log to Taiwan is completed. Enjoy reading it here.

[Rant] May Flu Bless You

It must have been a while since there is a proper update on what is happening around my life in the past month. I hate it during this period of time so much, but it’s something that we will have to go through, some seasonal flu shit, in a more larger scale nowadays. The month of May has been a crazy one with so many sleepless nights and people around getting infected with the “seasoned” flu, and people getting paranoid over a lot of things.

Well one of the highlight would be my frustration over my macbook’s keyboard are finally curbed with this below. I know it does come with a hefty price tag for a keyboard, but it’s either i fork 500 ringgit for the replacement on the top cover (i didn’t buy ACPP, damn) or vice versa) 

It’s actually pretty well built, and I think most of the newer iMac owners would appreciate this old fine keyboard. 

Would take a bit of  getting used to that some of the function keys are repositioned. But my overall impression on this keyboard, is really good. The build’s pretty solid, the keys felt snappy and you can type pretty fast on it, just probably the most common question would arise from everyone’s mouth after a while, how would you clean it?

And no, I didn’t buy the album, in fact, I won it, (or precisely, “we”, my girlfriend and I were walking down the Orchard Road after dinner in Singapore) from some street event by a local radio station here. Just some random Q&A and got it

I still think they’re pretty… experimental to me.

Hot hot heat!
It’s undeniably also a freaking hot month to come for us. And reported on the news that the temperature might go up by few degrees more. Some of the capture taken along the balcony at my workplace. I hope you’ll be able to feel the heat from the heavy shadow casted on the floor. Yes, it’s that hot.