Showing posts with label My Vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Vacation. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13

Visit to Old Trafford



Being a United fan for more than 10 years it is a dream of everyone to visit Manchester United home ground, the theater of dreams.
Due to my recent business trip to UK, I grabbed a chance to went there and fortunate enough, I am able to watch the Carling Cup round 3 game between United and Wolverhampton. It was an awesome experience and huge excitement!
I took a tram from Manchester City center, heading to Trafford bar and from there, I took a short walk to the famous home ground for United.
Main entrance of Old Trafford
The Munich tragedy memorandum clock
Plenty of seats!
MU Mascot is coming out, THE RED DEVIL!
The field
Players are coming out for warming.
The game is almost start.
Sir Alex Ferguson!

Wednesday, February 3

Vanakkam Chennai!



After Manila > Singapore > Kuala Lumpur now I am already in Chennai, India. Well before I come to India, many of my friends told me that you have to come India at least once in your life. Now I know why they said that. This is really a poor land, most probably impoverished by corruption or whatever reason that they should not have it. I guess after this visit, my value will definitely changed...
As Malaysian India is not something new to us - we have Indian as one of our biggest group. Somehow, it is a huge different when I touched the ground and breathe the air in India.
The traffics here are horrible, people are driving like mad and aggressive looks like they are rushing for their life. Everywhere are full of smashed tiles and broken bricks like they have been bombarded for years. Inside the hotel and outside is 2 worlds.
Welcome to India :)

Upon arriving Chennai, a snapshot outside the airport.

We have a wonderful lunch in this restaurant.


This is the real world..


The famous Marina beach.. nothing much it is just an ordinary beach, but to local is one of their hotspots for dating.

This is the fish market.

A goat is standing on top of a store. It is a store :)


Wondering if this is a house? Yes it is.


This is the vihicle we took for sight seeing - Auto rigshaw.

My colleague Raj and the auto rigshaw drive Navin, who turned into a big time con man trying to charge us super extra. Really can't blame them, this is their life.


People in bus are looking for the Chinaman who took picture of them.
A temple in Chennai.
Church, and the iconic auto rigshaw.

Friday, January 29

Maligayang Pagdating sa Manila

Yo Yo Yo! My another business trip, and this time is to Makati City, Manila in Philippines!

I took the Singapore Airline this time, and the trip was just 4 hours (1 hours to SG, 3 hours to PH) which is a relief to me comparing to other trips.

Picture says a thousand words, so go for it!


Came out from the airport, while waiting for my colleague's daddy to pick us up.
This is the airport security.
The crews are leaving, thanks for the service during my journey.
I'm staying in Penisula Manila, this is a XXXXX hotel and it really looks grand!
Here's the big picture, they have a musician at performance all day long - while at least when I wake up and going to sleep they are still playing. Wonderful!
Wondering where are they, here you go!
and now I just want to sleeeeeeeep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Friday, October 16

Dare to London - Episod II (Carnaby Street, Covent Market, Chinatown)



When I woke up it was already 12pm. My buddy Him took me to a restaurant nearby to have "breakfast" and it was the first time I was having a all english breakfast, yummy! After the quick meal we then dressed up and following Hin's uncle to the train station. When we reached London it was already 2pm. First we have a quick glance at the famous Carnaby street while walking to meet another friend. It is really different when you have a tour guide. Our first destination was Chinatown and we have another meal there :) So let's take a walk!


This is the place where I stayed, nice house and very "English" style :)

Walking with Hin to the restaurant.

We were walking towards the Carnaby Street.

Here we are, this is the welcome plate in Carnaby Street.

You are being watched! There are some shop lots along the street.

This is the very famous cinema. Prime show for Harry Potter was held here.

Chinatown! It is in Leicester Square area and here is the core area of London.

This is a famous steak house, plus a snapshot for the UK public telephone.

Some nice logos.

London public bus! Another classic London icon.

London taxi, it is very classy.

We went to Covent Garden, and there is a mini market inside.

Wo ohhhh.. Invisible man! This is one of the road artist.

Another cool warrior with his sword.

This is the mini market, there are many stores and a lot of nice items.

We went to few places and they are very pack, finally we went to a Hong Kong restaurant and have some good foods there. Thanks to Wen for the nice afternoon meal!

Stay with me, more actions after the lunch!

Tuesday, October 13

向梦想出发!伦敦游记 - 1 (Dare to London - 1)


伦敦,大不列颠帝国的首都,曾经是那么不可一世的世界中心,是我向往的其中一个地方。如今趁着公干的机会,加上好朋友的照应下,胆粗粗的就从荷兰阿姆斯特丹飞了过来。之前搜索了少许资料,本以为火车会便宜,怎知道算来算去还是要我两百大欧元。还是我在荷兰的同事提点我坐飞机,时间短而价钱更便宜,才135欧元。我立即就订了机票,向梦想出发!

London, the capital city of United Kingdom and once upon a time was the centre of the world is always in my wish list to travel there. However due to the restriction it is not easy to enter UK. But this time I have taken the opportunity of my business trip to pay her a visit! Thanks to my buddy to offer me accommodation :) First I was thinking of taking train to London, but Eurostar is not cheap at that time. Furthermore, the trip will take longer time. My colleague in Amsterdam told me to look for the cheap flight ticket from Easyjet. I couldn't believe my eye when I saw the price - €135 return flight! Without hesitation I booked the flight and fly to my dreamland!

我成搭九点早上的班机,抵达伦敦Stansted机场时才九点十分(时差啦!)。我要帮我的一个同事找个地方落脚然后我们才四处去逛,所以我们先乘搭巴士到BakerStreet。由于之前工作繁忙,无暇找齐资料,就打算到最著名的景点看看,然后傍晚才去跟我的朋友回合。

I took the early flight at 9am, and when I reached London Stansted airport it was only 10 mins past. This is due to the 1 hour time different. The flight took about 1 hour and 10 mins. I need to get a hostel for my another colleague who joined me so we took the A6 bus to Baker street. I was quite busy working before this and did not have sufficient time to survey around. So my first destination in London was to the famous British Museum, then only meet up with my buddy at night.

第一站就是世界闻名的大英博物院!乘搭伦敦地下铁到Russell Square出来走一段路就可以看到了。这博物馆真的让我大开眼界!

I took the Underground to Russell Square station, just a short distance I found the British Museum. It was really amazing visit!

Easyjet, took the photo when boarding.
乘搭廉价航空时。

Another shot from Amsterdam Schipol Airport.
这是在荷兰Schipol机场。

1 more shot for the memory!
再来一张留念!


Arrived Stansted Airport, waiting for the bus to London.
抵达伦敦Stansted机场,等巴士时拍的。

Hotel Russell at Russell Square underground station, very unique building.
古色古香的Russell酒店,看起来肯定不便宜啊!
A shot of the London street while walking to British Museum.
寻找大英博物院时拍的伦敦街角。
Here I am, the famous museum.
终于给我找到你了!

It is a great building and full of tourists. This is free of charge baby!
这博物院外观真的是超棒,人来人往的好不热闹!这可是免费的哦!

Take a rest first for the longer journey later on...
稍作休息,待会儿还得走呢。

After I entered the museum, inside is actually very nice. White colour painting with some Rome statues.. wonderful.
仅到来之后仿佛变了另一个世界,白色的内装加上古罗马的雕像。。赞!

As you can see the building is full of tourists.
这个时候可真的是多人哪。

Egyptian empire and the Pharaoh.
埃及古王朝法老王的雕像。

This is a statue with black marble.. those ancient people really can create wonder.
巧夺天工的黑色大理石雕。

Mummy! Not sure if he will jump out from the glass window or not? LOL...
木乃伊!好恐怖。。看到时周围的温度仿佛降了几度。

This is the cover of the mummy, it is made of pure gold!
这木乃伊的面具可他妈的是纯金的哦!

Japanese samurai armour!
日本的武士装备。

Money from China, Dynasty Ching.
中国清朝时的银票。

Buddish item from Tibet.
西藏活佛的祭器。

The museum close at 5:30pm so we went out for our dinner, then took the underground again to London Bridge..
博物院在大约五十三时分就关闭了,我们只好离开去祭我们的五脏庙。之后我们就去另外一个景点,伦敦大桥!

The bridge is very beautiful.. really worth to visit London!
真的是不虚此行,这伦敦大桥是在是太美丽了。

After that I took the Underground to Liverpool Street, and took train to my buddy's place.
We have a long chat at that night! We will meet up with another good friend tomorrow! Yeahhhh
大约光了两个多小时,我就去找我的好友了,得知另外一个好友也在伦敦,大家就决定明日一起逛!异地重逢实在是太开心了。

This is a dual language version :)
这次写的是双语版,觉得母语比较能表达我当时的心情。