Get-away

Thought of a great holiday get-away before class starts, and this was what I had:

Traffic jam.

Yet, it wasn't that bad considering the experience of being at 41st floor and walking on the KLCC bridge. But the queue for it was....super long. Started waiting since 7.30 am for a 10-min walk at 9.30 am. Not bad though, the view. :)

A visit to the bird park was rather pleasant with love birds, peacocks, parrots that greet you with "Hello" and "Apa khabar" and interesting bird shows. :)

Not to forget, the climb up to Batu Caves with 250+ steps on a hot sunny day with monkeys jumping around and snakes and iguanas being carried as pets.

Besides shopping and lots of walking and food testing in the malls, awesome food are not to be missed! You know them better than I do. :D

Even the attacks of Churches did not dampen our spirit to make full use of the few days of break, except the misfortune of being sick most of the days - yet still striving to not just stay at home to rest. A good experience being challenged of endurance and perseverance.

A great start for a new semester. :)

Back home

Got home two days ago after a whole long week of sessions with about 5 hours sleep at night to sustain the long hours during the day. Slept for 24 hours yesterday with 3 hours awake in between, broke my old record of 11 hours straight haha.

Anyway, the trip to Thailand was tiring but fun in a way that we slept so little yet could stay awake the whole day without complaints. The first day itself already was hectic due to the fact that we almost missed our flight and heard our names being called over the microphone while in the washroom! The run-for-your-plane was funny since we raced a European lady whose name was called too.

Upon reaching there, my friend's luggage got spoilt so we had a long wait for baggage claims but it was worth the wait. 350 baht. We were patiently waited by Kit, our old ASC friend together with his student Bank who thankfully could speak English-Thai so we had a good chat in the car while Kit drove at 180km/hr. Even though the session had already started, we took time and had dinner by the sea on the Floating Island enjoying life. Haha.

The sessions were great, in a way we learnt lots of new songs and actions and new words.. Not forgetting new friends and reuniting with old ASC friends - Reynard and Tui and Kit, Asian Team. The cultural night was funny yet fun, in which we from Malaysia performed bamboo dance which stirred the crowd to join us. My first time actually performing it but it was great. All went well. Malaysia won the AIDS quiz (so kiasu) and we greatly honoured all the countries for setting up wonderful exhibition booths (especially Laos who won the exhibition corner).

After a whole long week, goodbyes were exchanged; no tears though - as it was in the wee hours of the morning that most of the other countries left for the airport. The 3 of us went to Bangkok and visited Bank and Kit's school - so advanced! O.O My jaws practically dropped and my eyes couldn't stop staring in wonder.

We departed at the Assumption Cathedral as UCAN office boy came to pick us up. Sad to leave but life has to move on. We should not hold on to people, but to the memories we had. At UCAN we did interviews and it was rather funny to sit on such high chair and speaking in front of the camera. But we were paid that evening with a trip to the night market where shopping was the best for us. I bought less as my parents mistakenly calculated and gave me RM70 (700 baht) ONLY while my other friends shopped till I had to help carry their goods. All the same, it was great. They even went for Thai massage. I didn't. :P

Now that I'm back home, things had to be straightened out. College classes starting next week and camp preparations must be done for next month. Reports for this Thai trip to be out asap and I'm back to my busy life. Haha. Wish the trip was a week longer. :)

Pictures to be posted up soon, perhaps on Bangkok city and food. I won't bore you with the session pictures. But if you want to see them, check out facebook. :D

Sriracha

Sa wa dee ka...

In Sriracha now. The previous blog was written before I left, so it was scheduled to be posted today. Thailand is famous for its food and fruits. Here are some of them:

Stalls by the sea selling fresh lok-lok seafood and dishes.

Sotong the size bigger than my friend's palm.

Papaya salad - som tam. RM8.

Pig's neck - kho mu yang. RM 6 only.

Tom yam shrimp - tom yam kung. RM15.

Thai's best fish - krapung. RM20.

That's for now. Need to get back to dinner at 7pm (it's 8pm in Malaysia). Hungry and tired, lacking sleep. One more week to go. :)