I don't celebrate Deepavali at all, but for the past 2 years I did. Last year, I came back from SG to meet the bunch of blogging friends for the first time and went to MOS Euphoria on the first day and TGIF on the second day. This year, I celebrated it by having a dinner outing with fellow blogging friends in Kajang. If you called that a celebration. XP



    Alex and Jeffro was there too. There's some of them that I met them for the first time. Xiang and Sam falls into this category, while Pui Yeng... I knew her for so long but then this is the first time I meet heartless her. XP



    Everyone has arrived and the satay feasting starts. Its been a while since i last had any satay, and this experience was made more memorable by hanging out with a bunch of friends. Too bad that Jessiebi can't make it since she's in Ipoh. The irony is she went back to visit her sick grandfather and in return she got food poisoning. >_<


    We chit chat-ed and crapped alot until there's continuous laughter all the time. Soon enough it was time for us to go. However, we continue taking pics outside from the Satay place and crap like there's no tomorrow. Roughly about 45 minutes later only we decided to truly call it a day night. XP


    Oh, all photograph are by Christhoo. Its truly a great experience. Had fun with you guys. ^_^

    Yeap, I went to Dubai last month. Before I start to talk about the trip... I would like to bitch about MAS airlines. A 7 hour flight without ANY PERSONAL ENTERTAINMENT SCREEN?!?!?!? I can die of boredom seriously if not for my MP3 player and PSP...


    Bitching aside... I landed at the Dubai International Airport around 3am local time. The first thing I feel when I stepped out from the Airport... Freaking HOT! The night time temperature is about the same as the daytime temperature in Malaysia... Imagine how hot it can be during the daytime...



    Went back to rest at sister's apartment before going out for my first ever sight seeing in Dubai. The first place we covered is Madinat Jumeirah. Its widely known as the souk, which means traditional Arabic market.


    The architecture  and design looks like an open-air souk right? Well, don't be fooled. The whole building is equipped with air-cons. its a great example of fusion between traditional and modern design. Items like souvenir, traditional clothings, painting, house decorations and shisha are widely available here. Just watch out for the price tag before you get anything as not everything is cheap.



    Just outside from the souk, there's classy dining place all around the waterfront. Just opposite the water front are two resort hotels. There's even boat services for hotel guest to go around the waterfront. Of course, not to forget is the magnificant view of the Burj Al-Arab, the proclaimed first ever "7 star" hotel in the world.


    Next stop, Dubai Mall. Totally different from Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai Mall is arguably the biggest mall in the world. The mall itself have an indoor theme park, aquarium, ice skating rinks, cinemas and of course gazillion shops! I bet even shopaholics can't even cover every single shop in the mall in a week time. ^_^




    A short walk out from the mall, there's plenty of wonderful scenery and buildings to look at. The Souk Al Bahar is just opposite Dubai Mall, the tallest building in the world Burj Dubai is within sight and of course the Burj Dubai Lake with Musical Fountain performance from 7pm onwards. By the time we were there, its just about sunset time and we spent a lot of time there snapping the sunset pics. ^_^




    Dinner was at the Souk Al Bahar in a Thai cuisine shop call the Mango Tree. By far this is the grandest thai food I ever had. We took the A-La Carte Buffet special and the food are definitely worth the money. We started off with the welcome snacks and appetizer.





    Throughout our dinner, we saw the Musical Fountain performance for about four times. Each time with a different Middle East music. The lights and water move in rhythm with the musics being played.


    After that, we continue on walking around Dubai Mall before we call it a day. What a great way to kick start my first day in Dubai. By the way, one last thing to share with you peeps. Doesn't the picture below looks like "level gila?" For those who don't understand malay language, "gila" means crazy.

    The most anticipated Nuffnang event across the region, the first ever Nuffnang Awards was held just a few days ago. Lucky bloggers from Malaysia, Australia and Philippines are chosen to join the local bloggers in Singapore for the event. After some delay for the check-in procedure, everyone was finally in the room busy preparing for the awards. I was in the same room as Chris Thoo.


    After the brief SS moment, we proceeded to the lobby. To our surprise, most of the girls were already there. So much for not enough time to prepare for the event huh? XP



    Before the event, everyone was free to mingle around with other fellow bloggers. What are bloggers without their camera? Thus the whole night there was photo snapping all the way from before the even till after the event. Wasted no time to take some photos with friends and well known bloggers. ^_^




    Allan Wu was the host for the night, and he made a mistake on one of the award presenter's name. As for the first award winner, they are literally speechless on the stage. They were like looking at each other when questions were asked and their answer is not really related. The rest of the nominees were notified to prepare a "thank you" speech for the crowd should they win the award. To watch the awards presentation, proceed to Jessiebi's post. ^_^




    Congratz to all the winners especially Xiaxue who won 3 awards that night. If I were to describe the event in one word, I would say that its a good first attempt for the fellow nuffies. ^_^


    It was such a long wait for the last bus cause apparently the bus was waiting at another location... Tired bloggers finally boarded the bus back to the hotel. After a refreshing shower, I became re-energized again and so did the rest. We decided to get together for time which was eventually known as the 434 sesison. ^_^

    4 years ago, my laptop is one of the latest available in the market. 4 years later, my laptop is throwing tantrums at me... Windows Messenger appear 10 seconds later after I click on it. Photoshop program lags more often. Basically it will hangs for a moment whenever I am using 3 or more application...


    Pssst, I am typing all this during my lunch time. Company's lappy is so much faster compare to mine... Too bad I can't use photoshop or video converter here... Else I could have finish some post already...




    Then there's some outing post from here and there... I can see alot of backdated post coming soon. UWARGGHHHHHHHHH!!! Anyone care to donate a brand new super duper fast lappy for me? XP

    From my 8 days visit in Dubai, I got to know a lot of random facts. Here are some of the interesting ones...


    If you are driving and didn't accelerate 2 seconds after the traffic light turns green, the car behind you will honk madly.


    Apparently, 38 degree Celsius is a "nice weather day" according to the radio Deejay. Well, it does considering that the temperature can go over 40 degree Celcius I guess he's right after all.



    Most of the buildings' interior, exterior and scenery will make you go... WOW!!! Seriously, those buildings and sceneries are super duper nice!



    According to Wikipedia, beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage. But, all the beers available in Dubai stores/shopping center/supermarket are NON-ALCOHOLIC beverage. How can a beer be a beer if its  NON-ALCOHOLIC?



    The cheapest room in Atlantis, The Palms is AED1600, about RM1450 or SGD600. The most expensive room in The Palms? About AED30,000, equivalent to RM27,700 or SGD11,500...


    UAE's sky are so clear that I didn't see any clouds during my  visit. Or should I say there's hardly any clouds in Dubai?



    Bus stops in Dubai are equipped with air-cons. However, buses are often darn late or they speeding past the stops.

    Covering more about Dubai soon. I hope... Stay tune!

    No matter what kind of a person you are, Singapore will always have a spot on for you. If you are a food person, Singapore's wide range of food from traditional local dishes to fine dining will give you a headache to decide what to eat. For shopaholics, there's at least 15 shopping centers along Orchard Road, not to mention there's big malls all over the island. For night life peeps, Clarke Quay have a variety of clubs and pubs to offer. There's Night Safari, Singapore Zoo and Jurong Bird Park for animal lovers.


    With almost everything available on the smallest island in Southeast Asia, how can anyone not want to visit Singapore? Singapore have a lot to offers in term of places of interest. The public transport and the security are pretty good, thus it will be a safe place for tourist to travel to. The most important thing is that they have a tourist info counter located all around the hot spot in Singapore. Now that's a lot of reason WHY I just had to visit Singapore. ^_^

    I did my fair share of research, and if given the chance for a 1 day tour in Singapore, these are the must go, must eats and must dos.




    To start off the day, I would love to visit Bugis. The nearest MRT of course is the Bugis MRT itself and its located right below Bugis Junction, one of the most visited shopping centers.




    Right across the street, there's Bugis Street. (no pun intended) Unlike Bugis Junction, Bugis Street is more to selling cheaper items, accessories and souvenirs. Haji Lane, located a few block away from Bugis Street would be a nice to place to go to as well.




    From the outside, the buildings that stand tall along Haji Lane does not bear anything outstanding, for it only seems like an ordinary colonial infrastructure.




    But each of this shop contains one of a kind designed clothing and accesories that is only available in one or two pieces. Definitely worth to take a look around.




    Lunch would preferably be Botak Jones at Youth Park. Botak Jones is a Western fast food joint with a great selection selection of food at an affordable price. Have I mention that the food portion is just so big that sometimes even a dude can't finish everything on the plate? Definitely a must try for tourists.




    After Botak Jones, what is the best way to digest the food faster? By doing more shopping walking of course! This time, the place to be is Orchard road. As far as I know, there's roughly about 15 shopping centers for the whole stretch of Orchard Road. Guess it will be a shopping heaven eventhough for non-shopaholic like me? Hehe...




    Well, for dinner I suggest to have a Japanese buffet at any outlets of Sakura. Sakura offer one of the cheapest buffet in town and with the majority food are japanese cuisine. Definitely a must dine for japanese food lover like me. ^_^




    After dinner, I would love chill and chit chat with friends at the Merlion near the Singapore River. One of the best place the magnificant view of the city by the riverside. From time to time there are live band performance around the area. What's better than to chat with friends, enjoy the night scenery and having entertainment around you without needing to pay a single cent? That's killing three birds with one stone!




    When the clock strike midnight, Clarke Quay is the place to be. The place is full with pubs, bars and of course clubs. The best place to get some liquor while being in a lively atmosphere.




    In my heart, I am still a Malaysian and people there usually hang out at mamak stall after clubbing. Singapore too have mamak stall although not as many choices compare to Malaysia. There's a pretty good recommendation about this Al-Azhar mamak stall, just across the Beauty World Shopping Center in Bukit Timah. The must try includes the Murtabak, Prata Banana and Milo Dinosaur.

    Full planning from AM to PM for the entire day. Even if I were to cover half of the places mentioned it will be a fantastic experience for me. Hanging out with fellow blogger friends from all around Southeast Asia for a day in Singapore is a once in a lifetime experience. So quickly write in, pack your suitcase, and be prepared to be among the lucky ones chosen to...

    Fellow bloggers, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Thank you for spending some time to read this post. I am the voice of the blog and will be your host today. We will be covering a special edition of DEAL OR NO DEAL. The main sponsor for this time is Pringles, Its KRRUNCH Time! Get Playful!




    The contestant, Josh524 will pick out a KRRUNCH case out of the ten available.  The game proceed as Josh524 choose a certain amount of KRRUNCH case to open.The banker will call from time to time, He will make a barter offer to exchange Josh524's briefcase for a certain amount of Pringles. The amount will varies based on the Pringles still in play. The game ends when Josh524 accept the offer, while play will continue if he rejects it.