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Sunday, June 17, 2007

普吉岛之约 - [未完篇]


第一日 -- 普吉市一游


一睁开双眼,尽入眼帘的是青青蓝蓝的海水,及无数的小岛。朵朵云彩缓缓地飘过,形成一幅美丽的景色,令我忍俊不禁地将这些美景收入小小的Canon箱子。



有点像海龟哦!



在不知几千尺的高空下,一颗心情不自禁地跳跃了起来,对即将在异国小岛度过的四天三夜之旅满怀了无限期待。。。

抵达普吉岛的机场时,已是下午一点多了。由于时差的关系,在这里,我年轻了一个小时,嘿嘿! 过了关卡,提领了轻便的行李,就看到导游遥遥而立。一行为数16人,就此浩浩荡荡地上了早已备好的旅游巴士,开始了我们的旅程。一路上,导游不断地跟我们介绍普及岛的民情。由于忘了带纸笔,只好拼命地记下一些零零碎碎的资料:


普吉岛简介

Phuket出自马来文的“Bukit” ,即山丘之意。市区之外,岛上到处都是绿树成荫的小山岗,椰林,橡胶树林点缀其间,风景名胜比比皆是。每年的11至三月为旅游旺季,吸引了许多外国游客前来观光。这儿的主要人口为泰国人,而华人则占了大约10%,多为福建人,其他的族群则有马来人及吉普赛人(Sea Gypsea) 。吉普赛人为普吉岛的原住民,他们多集中在一个海边(忘了叫什么名) 。 据导游称,每天凌晨五时,他们就会起床,将排泄物埋在海边,故此沙滩遍地黄金,吓跑了不少游客。

吉普赛村


“黄金”遍地的沙滩


生活水准

基本上这里的生活水准不高,大学毕业生的月薪只有大约6000-7000泰铢(约马币600-700)。当地人民的主要收入为橡胶,珍珠制造业,椰子,腰豆,旅游业等等。在这里,欲申请信用卡,需有至少15000的月薪,而刷卡的偿还期限为两个月。

交通工具

这里的主要交通为嘟嘟车及电单车。由于低收入,只有老板阶级才有能力购买汽车。沿途见到不少的日本车,如Isuzu,Toyota及Honda。根据导游的口述,这些车龄都不超过5年,新款式一旦推出,泰国人就会弃旧迎新。 一路上,到处可见到不戴头盔的电单车乘客。原来在这儿,只有电单车骑士才被规定要戴头盔,乘客则不需戴。

信仰

泰国人非常迷信。他们最怕的两样东西,就是鬼及降头。据闻,只要得到一个人的八字,相片及身上的物件如头发,就可以对他下降头。因此,泰国人不随便给人相片,也忌讳烧相片(意即相中人已不在人世) 。此外,他们对大象非常尊敬。买一头大象,几乎相等于买一辆车,但对一些泰国人而言,却宁愿买象,也不买车。他们对大象的崇敬程度,由此可见一般。据导游称,大象的鼻子若向下,表示能避邪,向上则招财。


导游也教了我们一些简单的泰语,可惜语文天分奇差的我,只学会了两个字:PI(哥/姐) 及NON(弟/妹) 。


导游介绍我们尝试当地的福建面,作为我们的午餐。出乎意料之外,这儿的福建面有别于吉隆坡的福建面,反而有点像Sarawak的炒煮面。不晓得泰国人是不是比较小食,它的份量很小,一碗35泰铢,我们只好另外叫了蚝煎,Otak-otak及海鲜面。

福建面

基本上,第一天的行程有点闷,多是参观制造厂,如蜂蜜,腰豆,印有普吉岛的T-shirt等等。

腰豆的庐山真面目

当地的土产之一 - “GAO SI” (有点不文雅),其乃猪肉丝也! 乍看之下,还有点像KFC的Nugget,哈哈!

傍晚时分,我们才抵达酒店 – Royal Crown Hotel & Palm Resort。由于位于高地,所以这间酒店并没有被两年前的南亚海啸所摧毁,更有不少人因为逃到这间酒店而得救。

我与姐姐的房间

各自回房洗刷后,就在酒店的餐厅享用了丰富的海鲜大餐,特别值得一提的食物是超辣特酸的TomYam Kung,非常赞噢!




够酸够辣,一级棒!




巴东夜市 - 繁华的夜生活

晚餐后,就到闻名遐迩的巴东夜市去走走。这个导游所谓的Pasar Malam,真是令人大跌眼镜。这里简直就是吉隆坡茨厂街+星光大道的结合体,男士们的人间天堂嘛! 身材姣好,穿着清凉妖艳的变性人及辣妹们比比皆是。单是那五花八门的娱乐休闲场所就有点百花争艳到天明的感觉。纵横交错的马路是鳞次栉比的酒吧,餐馆,小商店,路边小摊,果然是越夜越美丽,与白天淳朴的沙滩生活,简直是天壤之别。






形形色色的比坚尼,沙滩短裤,拖鞋,翻版名牌,纪念品,艺术品等等,应有尽有。。。唯价钱之昂贵,摆明了要赚游客的钱。有时候目光情不自禁地被一些物件吸引住,却也不敢询问价钱,因为一些较凶的售货员,会一副逼你买的样子。导游也一早就告诫我们千万不要杀了价后又不买,以免被拳打脚踢。女孩们最好不要落单,否则遇上轻佻的男售货员们,就会难免被调戏一番。

原本以为会满载而归的,结果只买了几样手信。奉劝要来的朋友们,最好带多一点泰铢,因为这里是有钱人享乐的地方。试想一想,若能坐在酒吧品尝当地的啤酒,或享用当地的海鲜,边吹海风,边欣赏行行色色的“美女” ,实是人生的一大享受也!


第二日 -- 拥抱碧海蓝天

阳光,沙滩,海洋。。。完美的组合。在普吉岛的第二天,向Coral Island 报到了。刺眼的阳光照得粒粒眼睛都眯成了半月弯。细幼洁白的沙滩,是温热的;海水清澈碧绿,天空蓝蓝的,伴随着白云朵朵,椰树随风婆娑起舞,仿佛在热情地迎接我们的到来。






卸下背包后,就在阴凉的椰树下,拣了张懒惰椅躺了下来。有个皮肤黝黑的沙滩小子口操流利的中文,向我们讲解这里的水上活动及收费。除了一些普通的香蕉船,水上电单车,浮潜等活动外,这里还有专人指导潜水,整个过程大约为一个小时,收费为2000泰铢。此外,这里还有全世界少有的Sea Walk,顾名思义就是在海底行走,头戴一个圆圆的东东,包你可以妆容完好无缺,头发毫不凌乱地在水中行走。半个小时收费为1500泰铢。几经考量后,多数团员们决定潜进五彩斑斓的海底世界中,与鱼儿共舞。


首先,教练教我们如何在水底呼吸,克服水压,己一些基本的手势来与他人在水底沟通。之后,穿上潜水衣鞋,背上超重的氧气筒 -- 重得几乎站不起来,教练们就以一领二的方式,先带我们到浅海潜水。待我们习惯了之后,才牵着我们的手带我们游向水深处,展开海底神秘美丽的探险。鱼群不揪不睬的从我身边游过,教练还不断怂恿我们去触摸一些说不出名字的海底生物,好奇特的触感噢! 遗憾的是我看到了许多死珊瑚,不晓得是被两年前的南亚大海啸摧毁了,抑或是环境的污染造成的呢?


而后,教练分给我们一些面包碎,立刻引来鱼群争先恐后地抢食,一些甚至毫不客气地亲吻我的腿及手。然后的然后。。。Nemo!发现了Nemo!就在珊瑚群里游来游去。。。教练马上为我们摄下这难得的一刻。


带着满足的心离开了小岛,接下来,就是去看看怎么养珠的啦。

美丽的珍珠


晚上,导游介绍我们去享受泰式传统按摩,整个过程为2个小时,400泰铢,相当便宜噢!



我舒服得睡着了。当晚,也睡得特别沉,特别香。。。赞噢!



[未完篇]

Friday, February 16, 2007

EyEs on Malaysia

上个星期六,终于有幸去见识大马最新的旅游景点。这个有东南亚最大摩天轮之称的“放眼大马”,启动了马来西亚2007旅游观光年,更吸引了不少人潮。位于吉隆坡蒂蒂旺莎湖畔的
摩天轮,高达60公尺,共有42个车厢,每个吊厢约可乘坐8人。



白天的景色 - 四周的美景一览无遗


迷人的夜景尽收眼底

很漂亮噢,值得一看。。。烟花表演将于二月底就结束了呢。还未去的朋友,赶快行动吧!! ^-^

Thursday, October 26, 2006

tEam bUilding, PD (Part III) - F1 Go-Kart


We had Go-Kart in the following morning. After a nice breakfast, we started our racing game!! We were arranged in 2 teams. Each team member was first be given a lap around the race track to familiarize ourselves with the go kart and also the layout of the track. Then we raced for 3 laps before changing drivers, but before the change of first 3 drivers, we must first solve a jigsaw puzzle before the next drivers drives off.
One funny thing is that each of us had to wear a shower cap provided by the resort due to hygiene purpose when wearing the safety helmet. All of us looks funny when wearing that. Hahaha...



The track length is 400m.

My turn!! ^-^V

**Cheese**


tEam bUilding, PD (Part II) - Treasure Hunt, Obstacle course and Telematching


The first game for the team building is Treasure Hunt. Since 2 cars lost their direction, we only had 13 participants for the game, ie. 3 - 4 persons in a team. We were required to find out the clue in a white paper and answer the question or find out the treasure as mentioned. Then go to the next destination for the next clue. Luckily my team is the winner!! We won ourselves a T-shirt and key chain. ^-^ V

After our lunch break, we had the obstacle and telematching courses. The obstacle course is quite challenging and interesting. There are a total of 20 obstacles in different stations. Each team must work together to clear all the following obstacles safely and also in the shortest time:

  1. 2ft singe bar - jump across
  2. 6ft double bar - climb up /down the bar
  3. swinging bridge - walk across and balancing
  4. tyre king - rawl through
  5. crab walk - ran through balancing
  6. loft tunnel - crawling through
  7. staggered ladder - climb up/down
  8. 6ft wall - individual climb across
  9. 8ft wall - team effort - climb across
  10. water hazard - jump across
  11. rope netting - climb up/down - across
  12. loft vertical rope - climb down hill
  13. single beam - walk across
  14. tarzan swing - swing across water hazard
  15. monkey rack - swing across
  16. barb wire - crawl through under bard wire
  17. single cable - walk across on cable
  18. barb wire 3ft - duck walk across
  19. log riding - sit sliding along the log
  20. jump over ditch - jump across

*Challenging obstacles are in BOLD.

Don't know what does it called..??


Log riding. This is easy for guys...


Tarzan swing...


Barb wire

8ft wall


6ft wall


loft vertical rope


After the obtacle course, all became dirty and some of us are injured.


After the obstacle course, we had telematch. This is much more easier if compared with the obstacle course. Most of us are tired and exhausted. Luckily there's only few games for the telematch, and doesn't required much energy. We had about 2 hours for bathing and resting before our BBQ dinner started.



Our dinner... the food looks nice but mostly tasteless.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

tEam bUilding - Eagle Ranch Resort, PD (21-22 Oct 06)



I've just joined my current company for less than 2 months, but luckily I had the chance to join the team building course in Eagle Ranch Resort, Port Dickson for 2 days 1 night. There are a total of 21 participants in 6 cars, which 2 of the car drivers decided to depart earlier to avoid the traffic congestion due to long DeepaRaya Holidays. We departed from Tropicana at 6am, and reach Port Dickson within 1.5 hours. The event started at 9am, so we still had plenty of time to enjoy our dim sum breakfast. After the breakfast, then we continue our journey to find the Eagle Ranch Resort.

The reception of the resort


Out of my expectation, the resort is not near to the beach. It's located at 14th mile, Port Dickson, and offers a unique "Home on the Ranch" stay amidst rugged 28-acre surroundings with beauty of the natural. Choice of accomodation at the resort varies from kampung houses, log cabins, paddock chalets and tepees to dormitories.

Log Cabin with open-to-the-sky waterfall showers



Red Indian Tepee



Kampung houses over the fishing pond



There are variety of sports and recreation activities, but I would just name a few:

  1. paintball
  2. horse riding
  3. Go-Kart
  4. 20 Item obstacle course
  5. treasure hunt
  6. telematch
  7. flying fox
  8. sea rafting
  9. jungle trekking
  10. archehry

Hmm.... Finished the introduction of the resort, next I'll blog about the activities that we'd participated, which is full of fun and challenge!!

Friday, October 20, 2006

Day Trip to Malacca (14 Oct 06)

It's years ago since my last visit to Malacca. Having planned for weeks, finally I stepped into the territory of this historical ancient town again with few of my good friends. We departed from KL at 9:30am, and reached there within 1.5 hours with normal speed. Once reached there, we straight away went to the famous chicken rice shop for our lunch. There are few shops famous of the chicken rice scattering around the "Red House" (direct translation from Chinese =.=), but we chose "Chung Hwa" which is an old shop at the corner. It's just opposite of the OCBC Bank, if not mistaken.
After the meal, we had a walk near the "Red House". We went to Christ Church, St. Paul's Church, A'Famosa and People's Museum which are just within the walking distance. All of these are the hallmark of Malacca.


Christ Church since 1753. A must-visit famous place.

Line of trishaws passed by while we walked along the antique street. This is one of the promotional event of DiGi.


Thanks to our neighbouring country, it's really hot due to the haze. So we decided to have the famous cendol, and also tried out some of the nyonya food. Unfortunately we were still full and only managed to try out 1 dish which is called the "Ayam Pongteh" - Miso Soy Chicken. It's actually the chicken which is cooked with preserved soy beans [Miso], dark soy sauce, sugar and other ingredients.
After that we walked along the old shops, and were attracted by 1 of the art gallery.


Tang's Art Gallery


Each of us bought a Chinese stamp with our names, which costs us around RM40-50 each. The writings are really nice. The business is actually operated by 3 brothers who are quite friendly. They had even drawn a map to guide us to some of the famous food around the area, including the "peanuts soup", "satay celup" and fried oysters. Hmm.. We had really eaten alot. ^-^


Nice fried oyster. Even much better if can put more oysters. It's a long queue and we waited for about 30 minutes before getting our food.

Hmm.... A very nice trip, just eat, walk, eat, walk and eat... ^-^



Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Trip to Fraser Hill (2-3Sept)

Just a quick post... These are some of the photos taken in Fraser Hill:

Post office

This is where the advertisement of Salem Cool Planet took place.


A very nice Smoke House.

{Might have more photos coming soon}

Friday, August 25, 2006

Team Building Program



With the purpose to build team spirit, my client company has organized a Team Building Program on 28 July in Selesa Hill Homes Resort, Bukit Tinggi. This is a full day event with lots of fun activities and games. We drove there in several cars and unfortunately 2 of our cars drove to the wrong direction. We almost reached Bukit Tinggi Resort before we were informed of our mistakes. Thus we were rushing for our breakfast before the program ‘officially’ started. We were arranged into several teams, and mine is BLUE. Yeah, we named our team “Blue Busters”!!


For the first activity, we were required to find a partner from different company and to get know of his/her better by asking few questions like what is his/her nickname, how is her/his ideal partner like, any embarrassing moment etc. Well I don’t actually get used to tell these kinds of things to someone whom I’m not closed to, and also in front of so many people. But I did enjoy of others’ stories. :D Following this are a series of games in teams. I did really enjoy all the games and there are full of fun!!



We had river trekking for the afternoon session. Being guided to the jungle, each of the team was given an egg and a glass of water on tray. We are required to hold these while playing games without breaking or falling any of them. That is the challenging part of the game! By helping each others, all of us were managed to finish all the session.







Unfortunately my team did not win the game. Anyhow we had done our best!! The program ended by prize giving, speech and camera sessions. We were given a certificate of participation.



Monday, June 12, 2006

Day trip to Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park

I had a day trip with my church-mates in Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park last Saturday. The place is being developed by FELDA, and it's well maintained. We can smell of the sulfur once entering to the park.

Main entrance of the Hot Springs Park

You can bring eggs and boil it here. The temperature is around 100c.

Our lunch in Kampar. Famous curry chicken bread. The curry is yummy!!