Fifth of March 2007. It is the first day of the agarwood conference. Started the day early in the morning although I was a little reluctant to leave my cozy bed.
Like all other conference that I attended. We begin with an opening ceremony which is boring in my opinion. Then we continue with some presentation from delegates from around the world. All the presentation was interesting but I felt sleepy nevertheless. There are more to agarwood than I have thought. Farrah arrives to the conference during the first tea break.
Well that covers most of the first part of the day. The exciting part of the night just started. It started as an innocent trip to a shopping complex right after dinner. I was dragged out by Farrah who insist on going out for shopping. We took a taxi which drop us in a shopping complex called MAH. It was refreshing to see a big shopping complex that is different from those that you can see in Malaysia. Even though with all those differences, the people inside the complex all looks so familiar with all the Chinese, Malay and Bumi excluding Indian. Alas!!! All the goods there were expensive. So we decided to leave that place and took a MRT to a place which is suppose to be an open market. We got some direction from a Singaporean couple to go to a market called “PatPong”. We did not know of the terror or should I say the surprise that awaits us there…
We finally found our way to the market. The entrance that we found was in an alley which we thought were safe since there is a lot of tourist and people around it. Not to mention that there are a lot of shoplots along the alley so it was brightly lighted so we assume that it is safe.
The first shop that we came across in the alley is a shop selling leather goods. Leather goods is one of our buy list. So we browse the goods in the shop. There is quite a l;arge variety of leather goods. Ranging from the most common cow leather to the exotic sting ray. Nothing reallyn interest us so we move along the alley. We were impressed by all those leather goods for sale. Without realizing it, we came across a dark corner of the alley. We were quite shock by it. Farrah was so excited that she was staring at the shop for quite a long time. It look like a bar with a few exception of female bondage statues on the wall for decoration.
I thought I could find a picture somewhere to prove my point here but it is nowhere to be found. Dang it!!! I should have look for the pictures earlier!!!
Back to the story, reluctantly, I was dragged away by Farrah to the open market which is known as Pat Pong. Guess I did not regret going there after all. Well, Pat Pong is not your typical market like Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur. There are all sort of goods and not to forget a variety of “services” that you can acquired there. There are tons of stuff that you can get there. One of those are leather goods. All of these are pale in comparison to the strip bar around the market. There are a lot of girls in bikini with their butt-swinging dance. I was rather curious to go in and have a look but like what they always say, “Curiousity kills the cat”. Once again I am grateful that I have Farrah around or else I will surely go in and have a beer or 2 (although I do not know how to drink).
I bought 2 leather belts there along with Farrah. The most important when you go shopping there is that you have to haggle for a good price or you will most probably get yourself butchered. Lucky me, I got Farrah around with me. A lot of people mistook her for a local Thai. If only she could speak Thai then we might be able to save alot more in our shopping spree. =P
Where as Farrah bought some leather belts along with some clothes and jacket for her brothers and herself. We saw a lot of interesting stuff on that trip. It was something that you cannot simply see here in Malaysia. How I wish I can actually visit Bangkok again in the near future.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
MS-05B Zaku I Black Trinity
Started modelling around a year ago and I guess it will be great if I were to post something related to my hobby. This is MS-05B Zaku I Black Trinity from the original Gundam series. This is my first kit for year 2007. Hope to build more if time permits. =D
Friday, May 4, 2007
Game for life
Not everybody will realize this but I am actually a gamer. I love gaming as if it is a second nature to me.
Yes… you got me right… I am guilty… It is something that I have realized myself just recently. If there is a game and there are challenges, I will always take up the fight. I have been playing online games, PS2 games, PC games, card games, board games and etc but I never realized the truth not until my friends cum colleagues told me about it.
It all happens during the Valentine Day. I went out for a “date” with 2 of my lovely colleagues on a errrr… single steamboat party. It is safe to say that it is actually a party for losers. =P Hopefully no one reads about this. We have a great time with the steamboat and later on we went to Yacht Club to play a board game call MAD. As the game implies it, this is supposed to be a funky game. It was nostalgic. I remember playing this game once in primary school. Some well-off kids brought it during a midterm break and they actually let a not so popular kid such as me to join them. We have a lot of fun and those were the days…
Flashing back to Valentine Day. It was fun in the beginning since everyone was not used to the rule of the game but I have the advantage of playing this game before. It was so long ago that I thought I will most probably forget about it. To my surprise, the game was rather familiar. I was paired with Farrah who does not know anything about that game. Guess that is the only handicap that I get but I should actually go a little easy on the game. =P To know more about this MAD board game, you should google it out. I bet this game still exist till today.
Well you see, when I start to play a game, I will switch to my gaming mode. At that moment, I will play the game based on a single rule that I always followed throughout all my other games, I “play to win”. Well, I guess that is my fault. =P I was being told that I am taking the game too seriously. Most of the people around the table said that I was too focused with the game which takes out the surprise and fun factor out of the game. I guess they are actually right on that. =P.
Forward to Lunar Year, I went out along with some of my friends to “raid” houses for red packets. We were all gathered in of our house and started to play some card games. All of us are considered as goodie-two-shoes so we did not gamble (or too poor to actually gamble). To add some thrill into the game, we impose a punishment to the loser. The loser has to eat a piece of those fried crackers. =D It was rather fun looking at all those different reaction. =P
Even though I did not have that much fun playing MAD, I actually enjoy the company. =D Guess I should go out more “dates” =D.
Yes… you got me right… I am guilty… It is something that I have realized myself just recently. If there is a game and there are challenges, I will always take up the fight. I have been playing online games, PS2 games, PC games, card games, board games and etc but I never realized the truth not until my friends cum colleagues told me about it.
It all happens during the Valentine Day. I went out for a “date” with 2 of my lovely colleagues on a errrr… single steamboat party. It is safe to say that it is actually a party for losers. =P Hopefully no one reads about this. We have a great time with the steamboat and later on we went to Yacht Club to play a board game call MAD. As the game implies it, this is supposed to be a funky game. It was nostalgic. I remember playing this game once in primary school. Some well-off kids brought it during a midterm break and they actually let a not so popular kid such as me to join them. We have a lot of fun and those were the days…
Flashing back to Valentine Day. It was fun in the beginning since everyone was not used to the rule of the game but I have the advantage of playing this game before. It was so long ago that I thought I will most probably forget about it. To my surprise, the game was rather familiar. I was paired with Farrah who does not know anything about that game. Guess that is the only handicap that I get but I should actually go a little easy on the game. =P To know more about this MAD board game, you should google it out. I bet this game still exist till today.
Well you see, when I start to play a game, I will switch to my gaming mode. At that moment, I will play the game based on a single rule that I always followed throughout all my other games, I “play to win”. Well, I guess that is my fault. =P I was being told that I am taking the game too seriously. Most of the people around the table said that I was too focused with the game which takes out the surprise and fun factor out of the game. I guess they are actually right on that. =P.
Forward to Lunar Year, I went out along with some of my friends to “raid” houses for red packets. We were all gathered in of our house and started to play some card games. All of us are considered as goodie-two-shoes so we did not gamble (or too poor to actually gamble). To add some thrill into the game, we impose a punishment to the loser. The loser has to eat a piece of those fried crackers. =D It was rather fun looking at all those different reaction. =P
Even though I did not have that much fun playing MAD, I actually enjoy the company. =D Guess I should go out more “dates” =D.
Thailand Trip Part 1
Dear Blog,
I started the day off early today. It is a big day for me since I will have to travel to Bangkok, Thailand for the first day of the “Second International Agarwood Conference”. I have been looking forward to this trip dating back as early as the first day of the Lunar Year. I was reluctant to leave at first because there are so many things that I have to catch up on. I need to complete my Zaku Black Trinity, play some of those Planar Chaos league game, and finish SRW Alpha 3 as soon as possible and a lot more.
I have to travel for almost 1 day but it was worth it. I have always enjoyed traveling alone. This is how I think everyone should enjoy their life. Now I know why those European/American like to travel so much.
I touched down in Bangkok International airport around 1630. There is quite a lot of procedure to go through. Cannot imagine what will happen if I actually lost my passport somewhere. =P I was eager to go out of to see the Bangkok. To my surprise, Bangkok is more or less the same with Malaysia. The people look the same, even the smell of the atmosphere is the same. The only thing that might give out the similarity is all those billboard and signboard, which is in Thai.
I got a ride to Chaophya Park Hotel, which is a nice hotel. During the welcome party at night, I was able to meet quite a lot of people. I got to enjoy a nice hot bath, which is so relaxing. It is going to be a big day tomorrow…
To be continued…
I started the day off early today. It is a big day for me since I will have to travel to Bangkok, Thailand for the first day of the “Second International Agarwood Conference”. I have been looking forward to this trip dating back as early as the first day of the Lunar Year. I was reluctant to leave at first because there are so many things that I have to catch up on. I need to complete my Zaku Black Trinity, play some of those Planar Chaos league game, and finish SRW Alpha 3 as soon as possible and a lot more.
I have to travel for almost 1 day but it was worth it. I have always enjoyed traveling alone. This is how I think everyone should enjoy their life. Now I know why those European/American like to travel so much.
I touched down in Bangkok International airport around 1630. There is quite a lot of procedure to go through. Cannot imagine what will happen if I actually lost my passport somewhere. =P I was eager to go out of to see the Bangkok. To my surprise, Bangkok is more or less the same with Malaysia. The people look the same, even the smell of the atmosphere is the same. The only thing that might give out the similarity is all those billboard and signboard, which is in Thai.
I got a ride to Chaophya Park Hotel, which is a nice hotel. During the welcome party at night, I was able to meet quite a lot of people. I got to enjoy a nice hot bath, which is so relaxing. It is going to be a big day tomorrow…
To be continued…
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