Dublin winter 2008

Dublin is a very laid back city that can offer a lot's of fun things. The kind of city that has it's own charmed and identity. Cheers!!

Hehe Warming up before reggae nite out in city center with beloved friends. The rise of the 'Jahat Crew'!

Hehe :-)

Grafton Street.

Good time guys, brappp brappp brappp!!!

Beloved and respected friends. What a nite!!!

Trinity College.

River Liffey during dawn.

Redang Island 2007

Redang Island is one of many islands in Malaysia. It is becoming more popular destination amongst many international tourists recently. The white sandy beach and the blue crystal clear water makes it really hard to resist. Another precious jewel of the east coast island!!

Welcome to Redang Island.

The view from our room's balcony, hemmm!!

White sandy beach.

So nice taking a stroll along the beach, peaceful!

Look at the color of the water, very inviting.

Perfomances by the resort's dancers, love those beautiful malaysian colorful 'sarong'.

Kuala Lumpur 2007

Just random pictures from the multicultural and vibrant city of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Petronas Twin Towers during cloudy day, what a boring look!!!

With beloved friends watching football, we miss you guys a lot!

At Farul's wedding ceremony in Kelang Selangor. Wab you make those funny face as always hihi, Z where the hell are you? Tommy our teddybear, Zura and Lee you two definitely match for each other, miss all of you!

Our Olympic size swimming pool at Bayu Putri Apartment, damn we miss that!

Masjid Jamek ( Jamek Mosque ) is situated in the middle of city center and it is the oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur. The mosque was built in 1907 and until now it is still consider as one of the most important landmarks for the KL'ites.

If Copenhagen is famous for their bicycle, then Kuala Lumpur is famous for their motorcycle, vroomm vroomm!!!

The beautiful colorful decoration made by a local artist during Deepavali celebration, happy Deepavali to all my Malaysian Indian friends.

Our favorite market in Bangsar. We just love all the fresh veggies,fishes, fruits and many different kind of super delicious snacks. Hemmm yummyyummy keropok lekor, we can definitely eat that now.

Time Square shopping mall and it has a fun indoor theme park, kinda cool. So much fun for the kids and even for grown ups.

Hoooo hoooo hooooo Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to all my Christian friends.

Open weekend market at The Curve. There is always people no matter what day and time. Amazing!

Me, my most beloved wife and my respected close friends. We had so much fun together that night, vodka shot until the last drop, damnnnn!!!

Tioman Island June 2007

In the early of June 2007 we spontaneously decided to go to Tioman Island with 2 friends. It would be our first visit to the island and we were all very excited about it. 
Tioman Island is located in the South China Sea about 32 km off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia. The densely forested island is 39 km long and 12 km wide and is still sparsely inhabited. It is surrounded by numerous coral reefs which makes it a perfect destination for scuba diving.

The 4 of us got on a bus in KL very early in the morning and headed towards the seaport town of Mersing where the jetty to Tioman Island located. The bus journey took about 5 hours.

In Mersing we bought the ferry tickets to Tioman Island and there were many travelers waiting to get on the ferry. The journey took about 1 1/2 hour and was quite comfortable. On the way you'll pass many smaller island and some of them is where Surviver and the Scandinavian program Robinson Ekpeditionen have been filmed.

Most of the visitors to Tioman Island choose to stay in one of the several beaches on the west coast of the Island, since this is where most of the accommodations are. The good thing about Tioman Island is that there are many low budget accommodation to choose from.

We did a bit of research before we went to the island. We decided to stay in the east coast of the island, it is called Juara beach. At that time there were only 2 ways to get there: 1) put on your trekking shoes and find the way through the jungle across the island yourself. 2) hire a 4 wheel car (with a driver) that can take you through the jungle and muddy "road".
We choose the 2nd option and what a crazy ride (felt like a verryyy long roller coaster ride!!). It was quit pricey but what a fun experience:-)

We rented Mr. Bushman's chalet and each cost only RM50 a day! What a place and bargain! Aren't they charming?

Just having a bit of fun at Bushman's cafe hehe:-)

Enjoying the sunset from our chalets every night. Fantastic!

Besides our 2 chalets there were only very few chalets further down the beach. I think nobody rented them because we never saw any other people on this beach except for Mr. Bushman and his family.

No people yeah! This is all ours!!

And crystal clear water to play around like a seal. We are in heaven!

More pictures from our beach. A river debouches from the jungle.

This is the Bushman cafe where we had all of our fabulous home cooked meals.

Putrajaya Kuala Lumpur 2007

Putrajaya is a new smart city which is located about 30 minutes from Kuala Lumpur city center. It has a highly organized urban planning, and it is consider as an intelligent city within a green park. The city council has implement many good methods to maintain it as a echo-friendly city. Putrajaya now serves as Malaysia administrative center due to the overcrowding and congestion in the city center area. Many tourists came here to see the architectures and the landscapes of the surrounding area.

The Palace Of Justice building.

Putra Perdana. The prime minister office.

The Putrajaya Mosque standing by the lake.

Seri Wawasan Bridge. Love the design.

Tine and her mom wear the head cover dresses before entering the Putra mosque compound hehe :)

Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary July 2007

Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary was established in 1989 and since then it has been more and more attractive to many visitors from all over the world, who want to learn a bit about this loving and intelligent mammal. This sanctuary is managed by Malaysian Department of Wildlife and National Parks and all the workers here are well trained. The sanctuary is located about 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur and visitors can also reach this sanctuary by using the public transport. It is really worth a visit if you are in Malaysia. So let us support, protect, and help this gentle giant to live freely in the wild!

Upon arriving in Kuala Gandah. Tine's mom and Erling are trying out the local malay's village style restaurant speciality, teh o' ais ( ice tea )

The workers of the sanctuary cleaning and bathing the elephants. And the elephants love it!!!

Tine's mom is feeding the elephant with fruits. I hope the elephant is eating the fruits not her hand hehe.

Erling looks so happy or scare?

Baby elephants, naaahhhh!!! So cute!!!!

Sungai Congkak, Selangor, Malaysia 2007

Sungai Congkak is located just outside of Kuala Lumpur in the little municipal town call Hulu Langat. It is a perfect retreat for city folks who want to enjoy the breezy/cool air, lush green area and the refreshing and cooling river water. Along the scenic river, visitors can see abundant stalls selling food and beverages and other knick-knacks for the 'typical' city folks.

We found this empty, old and shabby picnic shelter which is just perfect to blend in with the nature.

This is so not city folks. They just couldn't wait to jump in the river. Splashhhhhh!!!!

Sungai Congkak, Hulu Langat.

Do it yourself grill with 10 michelin star master chef Boy aka Jozzzz hehe no grill no thrill!