Thank you for the sweet moments we once had.
Thank you for everything that words can’t express how much I’m thankful for I once had you in my life.

答应我 你一定要幸福哦.

JiunJie is ready

The-camera-alert Woei Kee

Since there is no breakfast provided by our place, we went out to hunt for food.. and we stopped at Joma Bakery Cafe.

and Wow.. they have branches at:-
Hanoi, Vietnam:
#22, Ly Quoc Su, Hoam Kiem
#54, To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Vientiane, Laos:
- near Nam Phou, downtown
- Phonthan Road (near watertower)

and also the one we were at in Luang Prabang is on the main street, near post office and it began operation this year. Lucky us

Don’t be fooled by not-delicious-looking pizza pic.

These pizza are actually very very nice.

Everyone was looking at the very colorful blackboard price lists on what to order.

Aiyer.. Sexy pieces of art hanging on the wall.

Breakfast ordered.

#1: Raisin Twist @ 12,000kip = about RM4.80

#2: Roasted Garlic & Potato Soup @ 18,000kip = about RM7.20

#3: Breakfast Burrito @ 26,000kip = about RM10.40

JiunJie & Shirley’s amounted 56,000kip, which is about RM22.40

Since this place is a bit expensive for budget travellers, we ordered a bit here and there and share among ourselves. Shall hunt for local food later.

#4: Bagel & Egger @ 26,000kip

Not sure if we were hungry that time or.. this Bagel & Egger is really nice

One good thing about here is that they accept other currencies, like USD and THB.

#5: Pizza Pepperoni @ 21,000kip

#6: Coffee @ 16,000kip, about RM6.40 ler.. but it is refillable, as many times as you want.. and *ahem*.. Since this glass of Kopi O is so expensive, Woei Kee shared it with us and got it refilled

Shirley enjoys her American breakfast in Joma

Our total damage for breakfast at Joma Bakery Cafe was 145,000kip O.O

Group picha of us in Joma Bakery Cafe, where Shirley and I trying to do the love shape but failed big time

More group picha with my GreenBein, which has wide angle.. hohoho..

I didn’t read this article, but somehow.. the huge words – A Slice Of Heaven, reminds me of Rachel

So, after we’ve done with our first round of food in the morning, we went to explore the city.. and this signboard caught our attention. “Please Cover Your Body. No Bare Chests. No Bikini Tops.”

We went into the alley next to Joma Bakery Cafe.. and noticed that there were actually many more guesthouses along this alley.

Everyone’s hyper after breakfast

If you’re not on a budget trip, you can always opt to stay at New Daraphet Villa. I believe it’s air-conditioned and they got pretty good service.

Tourists looking at the menu. I guess they were looking for place for breakfast.

Wow !!

and guess what. This Oudom Souk Guest House, the room is air-conditioned.. with 2 single beds, a tv and own bathroom costs only 40,000kip per head !!! and SpicyLao charged us 35,000kip for dome for 8person, fans and open shared bathroom.

We were so going to move here the next day.. Hohoho. So take pics sin.

Walked along other alleys to check on other guesthouse

Camwhore pic to annoy you all

Along the alley, we bumped into this little cutie.

He had hard time stabilize himself.

and we were being evil, we didn’t help him.. but to take pics of him

Correction: Not WE, but THEM, my evil friends

LOL !! Look at that Woei Kee.. Very camera-alert

Wahahaha !! Love my camera

Everywhere I go, I snap

and.. what’s even better than to have cold drinks to chill ourselves

with Fruit Shake at standard price of 5,000kip per glass. That’s only like RM2 per glass. Dai dou lang lor !!

Eeeeee.. what’s Woei Kee pointing at?

Poor 山猪.. Wild boar

The posers !!

Now.. What’s this??

Me taking pic of See Mun taking pic of us

The local ladies are very hardworking. Most of the places, especially the food and drinks stalls are operated by the ladies. Where are the men?

The camera-alert duo

See.. who is looking at the camera again

and again..

The locals’ mini kitchen and they use charcoal to cook.

They were shy when they see me snapping pics of them.

Why is there a hole in each of their red brick?

and while walking.. we accidentally found Lao Lao Garden that we wanted to go the previous night

Forever ready and smile to the camera.

Hahaha.. funny when I look at myself

Drink Like A Fish, For A Price of Water..

Alcohol drinks for alcoholics like… Woei Kee

A little message from SimplyLao. I love it how the locals write English. It’s very entertaining at times

This is how the Lao Lao Garden looks like during day time.

Woei Kee got ignored by See Mun and Jiun Jie.. hahahaha !! They love my camera more than they like yours

When I said 123.. I don’t mean.. Oneeeee.. Twoooo… Threeeeee then snap.. These evil travelmates of mine know how fast my 123 is.. so they’re always prepared.. except Shirley too slow for my camera this time

Another failed love-shaped by me and Shirley

Great Food, Great Fun. Like No PLASE Else on Earth .. ha.ha.ha.

Simple Map of that little place.

Random

I love my pics being blurred. Hohoho..

I syiok sendiri in front.. Shirley syiok sendiri at the back

I iz cute

The two SH

I take pic of Jiun Jie take pic of Shirley

I kinda like the idea of this staircase.

Not knowing where we were heading to. Just walk, snap and enjoy.

Little landslides but it’s very common here.. So the locals are used to it..

The guys brought all the running tees to Laos

There are houses on top there !!

I believe this is the Mekong River as drawn in the simple map

Wath Thammothayaram Thamsouvannakhouha. What does it mean ah?

Kelson & Shirley

Gonna check out the place.

The posers !!

Up Up and Up ~

and Up and up..

JJ coming from the back.. hahaha.. sounds so wrong.

so high up but still haven’t reached the place

finally.. teeheehee..

Kelson with the dragons.

taking pic of them taking pic

Mekong River’s color almost the same with Sarawak River.

Me ~

Imprint of Buddha’s Foot !!

So huge ~

..

Shirley’s signature pose when she was in Laos.. so I follow also

with See Mun

Errr.. Woei Kee.. behave.. this is holy place

The guys.

The girls.

The foursome. Hahaha !!

Err.. why I take this pic ah?

The holy ones

Signage..

Donation please.

Eeee.. what’s down there?

The busybody me, went down to have a look

Ooohh.. another holy place hidden behind the stones.

There is advantage of being short.. Now you all tall people, don’t jealous of me cos I don’t have to bend to walk in there

Place to rest?

20,000kip per pax to go up another level to see Prathat Choms.

Kip kip..

It’s about RM8 per pax to go up there.. Is it worth our money?

I think I still have the tickets

Oohh..

Sleeping Buddha is Tuesday Buddha.

Thursday Buddha

Legs so long also not good. Easier to fall down. Hahaha !!

Gong.

Waaaaah ~

Huge

I’m kinda interested to know histories about the Buddha.. Why is He called Sleeping Buddha?

Woei Kee

See Mun

with her Yoga poses.

Eeeee..

O.o Need to go up again?

Walking up slowly..

The Kiasu ones

Sub 2 runners?

View of the place from where JJ stood in the previous pic.

I’m so high up in the sky

Are we there yet?

The hardworking ants. Just like me. #1 who reached the top. hohoho.

#2.. Run Shirley Run !

Obviously #3

Antique !!

The bullets are so huge !!

Still haven’t seen that 3 who were too slow from behind. Hahaha !!

Luang Prabang Airport?

and I think Sarawak River is cleaner

Shirley, with her yoga pose.

Me, with my Idunno pose

See Mun, with her signature yoga pose.

Kelson’s signature pose.

Woei Kee, with not-his-signature pose. LOL !!

JJ, also not his signature pose.

Hahaha.. this pic looks funny eh.

The couple.

Posing or getting ready?

Wahahaha.. Super love this pic to maaaax

Thanks to this sweet couple from Australia who helped us took our group pictures with few cameras. Very sweet couple.

So sweet till butterfly also likes him.

We were at same level as the aeroplane ler.. Scary !!

Random

Going down is so so so much easier.

This person sure don’t know how to march one

Fat !!

Better angle !

JJ !!

See Mun, so much faster than the 2 runners behind her

Almost reach the ground. Hohoho.

Nice ~

Girl selling souvenirs.

Kelson tried to bargain with her.


Tip: If you think the price is not what you want, just say NO firmly to the seller.. else you’ll be bugged all the way till you might need to run 10km to avoid her. Hey. I’m not kidding. Kelson was bugged by this young girl from the staircase till few streets away ler.. till See Mun or Shirley suggested to him to run 10km and he’ll be free.

Stories of the Mekong.

Wahaha.. He’s not ready

Out of kip !

I didn’t even know we were at bank. Noob me.

The best rates we can get along the street. 1baht for 260.99kip

Siao !

Foreign exchange rates

Sugarcane ~

The weather was so hot ~

Waiting for few glasses of sugarcane.. hohoho.

and I got mine

We’re leaving SpicyLao for a better place elsewhere. hohoho.

It so happened that the owner of SpicyLaos had a party in the house for his newborn baby. All are invited.

and we were served these food. Love the curry

What was See Mun so excited about?

Woei Kee joined the locals for some fun.

Cute little kid.

Why are kids so innocent??

The Angmohs

and Woei Kee joined them.

Hahahaha.. See Mun so evil

It’s time to say ByeBye to SpicyLaos Backpackers. We had fun. But we wanna explore more at the other side

The backpackers ~

One, two, three, four, five, six.. Eh.. how come got extra one?

Woei Kee is smarter for bringing a trolley bag

Our new room. Hohoho.. The four singles in one room. Air conditioned, with attached bathroom for only 40,000kip per pax. So much more convenient and so cooling compared to SpicyLaos. But this is not the one with TV that I mentioned earlier on. But still.. we love it. Can even dry our clothes out there ler..:D

But something bad happened to my GreenBein I was cameraless after that

My Sony DSC-TX5 becomes a vibrator It was hot. I didn’t know what I should do with it

Went to google and was shocked to know that this is actually very common for Sony’s camera. All I need to do is to bring over to Sony Centre and tell them the problem.. and they’ll put greese on it. But I’m in Laos. Where to find Sony Centre

For self reference:
1) Woei Kee‘s Album

I was thinking of doing this just now when I got ticked off, because of someone else’s fault. But I didn’t do it cos I don’t have a keyboard like that.. cos I’m using netbook.

Then.. I was thinking of doing this:

I did.. but of cos no such effect like the one in this .gif image !!

and someone told me it’s rude for a girl to do this !!

Rude meh? Some of my highschoolmates did this ler.. and they’re still doing it what..

So, what do you guys do when you got angry or someone pisses you off?

– Leave me alone, or I’ll bite you !!
– Wait for the person who pisses you off to say sorry? <-- so impossible !!
- Continue to be angry?
- Leave this angry place?
- Inner Peace?

Thanks to Babara who posted *inner peace*inner peace* in fb. When I thought of it, I tried to calm down. The good thing is that no one is in office that time. So, after for like 10mins or so.. I felt much better.

If only we have tv and dvd player in office, then I can buy many comedies DVD and watch in office when got pissed off. *day dreaming*

No.. I didn’t watch this in office !!

But I think I should watch this again, myself, all alone. Since the girls are not in town. Yes.. all the 3 of them are not in town. Na in KL, Dys in Vietnam, Yien in Miri. The rest of the kaki_movie in fb all watched jor.

Or maybe I should buy DVD to watch hor? Is the DVD out yet? *hmph*

I’ve long list of birthday wishes in facebook and I’ve yet to thank them one by one.. hehehehe !!

Thanks so much everyone.. Thank you for making my 18th birthday so memorable <3

P/s:
Aiyaaa.. don’t complain laaa.. People always say.. Age is just a number ma.. So, I mah put a number lor.. Kekekekeke..

Day 1′s weather was superb cold. I seriously under-estimated it. I was so glad Dys actually forced me to take her wintercoat

But beginning of 2nd day.. I still can stand the weather.. Kakakaka.. still didn’t wanna wear the wintercoat.

KCP aka Ping

Our first tour in Hangzhou after breakfast in the hotel

We will be going on cruise on the West Lake aka Xi Hu.

Every place has its stories. The same goes to Xi Hu.

Ripping water shimmering on sunny day;
Misty mountains shrouded the rain;
Plain or gaily decked out like Xizi;
West Lake is always alluring.

Su Dongpo, poet from Song Dynasty composed these when he compared the West Lake to Xi Zi, the most beautiful woman in ancient China.

The rest of the stories I didn’t listen cos I was out there enjoying the breezing sceneries

I looked so tired cos I didn’t have good sleep at the hotel O.O

Oh ya.. I forgot to mention, I finally put on the wintercoat cos I cannot stand the superb cold weather. Hahaha..

I’m sorry tour guide.. I didn’t listen to your stories O.o I don’t remember what are these places.

I was thinking.. If I fall into this lake..

What will I become? Ice Rose? How many degree was the water in the lake at that time? O.o

My cruisemates in the boat listening to tour guide story telling.

There are so many people walking along this lakeside.

and I was wondering.. if it rains heavily.. will the water in the lake goes up?

There is actually stories on this too.. Can someone please tell me the stories? Huhuhu..

After the cruise on the lake, we landed on land

Flowers !! It’s end of winter.. and beginning of spring.. The first group of flowers that I saw O.o

How these kois stay in ice water hor?

Beautiful peahen.. or is it peacock?

Can you see what’s unique in the picture besides the beautiful grasses?

Tie ropes on trees?

Alex, with the beautiful scenery

If only these branches have flowers on them.. Hmm..

Next.. We visited Hangzhou Longjing Tea Garden in Dragon Well Village.

Tea Leaves in the showroom.

AA tea leaves in the glasses.. which were served to us

AA Tea Leaves in the glass with hot water.

Spent RMB1,200 on AAA Tea Leaves for Papa, which I’ve yet to give him.. RMB250 on another bottle of pills O.o Detox pills alike.. LOL.

I think China places hor.. The Chinese are very good at doing business. When we came out from the showroom, they actually have another side of place where they sell sweets and other goods. The travellers, especially people from Malaysia, won’t be able to control spending lor.

Oh.. this is me.. at another corner of the tea leaf plantation place.

Showing off the wintercoat Dys lent me

One thing weird about this clothes. It is this small but can be this big?

Kekekeke.. that’s the end of my Day 2 Hangzhou trip..

We then headed to Suzhou from Hangzhou via bus.. and the ride was about 2 hours plus.

The first thing we did was to eat.. and say Harror to..

Ohh.. Did I mention that I actually “strike jackpot” early of my Day2?? ___/\_/ !!

I would love to drink the drinking water.. but the water is too cold to be drank !! Daiyimah ma.. How to drink cold water wor? Huhuhu..

After lunch, we headed over to Grove Lion Garden (Shizilin), located at Yuanlin Road, NorthEast of Suzhou.

Built in 1342 during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) by Monk Tianru and a group of Zen Buddhist disciples as a memorial of their master-Monk Zhongfeng.

LOL. Who is who?

There are ways to walk on these.

Tour Guide, Xiao Gao, taught us the way.. and can you guess how?

The reason why this place is called Grove Lion Garden is because there are many rocks grotesque in shapes in the garden resembling lions.

Ping & I

While others were in front of me

There are altogether 9 paths and 21 caverns cross among the steep peaks, sharp crags and narrow valleys made up by countless grotesque rocks.

Walking through those numerous winding pathways and caverns of the anfractuous stone forest, one could easily lose one’s way.

With the old pines and cypress trees, the whole landscapes represent scenes of real mountains and forests.

The lengzais and lengluis

We were late to Shizilin, they close at 5pm, so we had to leave before they showed us charcoal face. Hahaha..

People like me hor.. cannot wear something like this. LOL !! No push-ups cannot cheat people.. Hahahahaha !!!

Yuanlin Lu !!

Xiao Gao, then brought us to the so-called Suzhou Pasar Malam. I was expecting.. a pasar malam like ours.. but..

Where are the canopies?

German Shepherd at Pasar Malam? Where to find in Malaysia?

I thought I was sakai.. but.. the Chinese were looking at him and the German Shepherd

We smelled something.. but didn’t know what it is. Some passersby said it was stink.. but.. I was ok with that smell. Ah Ma then told us, it’s the smell of Smelly Tofu.

Ping and I quickly went over to the stall.. and got ourselves some smelly tofu. Hohoho..

The sauce.

Thanks to Ping for the treat

Esther, with her superb cute mickey wintercap

Done with our Jalan-jalan Pasar Malam..

Xiao Ji then brought us to a beautiful LED place..

Next station.. was .. our hotel.. Ha ha ha..

Note: 7 hours to do this post.. ___/\_/ !!

Note#2: Reupload pics to both Photobucket and Mediafire.. and finally got everything done.. took hours T_T