Penang Hiking Trip

Really sorry about the last post. If you all didn't guess by now, actually, I didn't forget to post; I didn't have time to come up with something to write. XD

Anyhow, I went for a hiking trip last Saturday. I hiked to this place :-

Photo courtesy of crazee85
(Haven't buy a camera yet. Hoping for price drop)

I went hiking with two other friends. All of us never hike up Penang Hill before so we ended up getting a bit lost. We had to ask an auntie, that was hiking up too, for directions.

Luckily, we manage to find our way up. It took us about 3 hours to reach the top. When we reached the top, we had our breakfast(nasi lemak) at a stall there. We were quite tired from the hike up and we said to ourselves, "Actually, the train ride very cheap only". XD

We had to hike back down because our car is not at the train station but I was kinda glad we hike back down because I get to learn something new: If you hike down an asphalt road, hike down backwards. It's a little more controllable than hiking down the normal way. It's also good for the knees and I get to workout some target areas that I rarely workout, my calves.

Calves pain for about 3 days but I was a good kinda pain. I was glad I went for the hike and most probably gonna hike again when I come back from Chinese New Year.

Thank you all for reading.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!! GONG XI FA CHAI!!! HONG PAU NA LAI!!!

Band Competition from sometime ago

Sometime ago, this band called 50 Bucks went on stage and tried to rock it but didn't really manage to do so. Anyway, here are the videos:

Back Fresh - 50 Bucks(Reptilia Cover)


Back Fresh - 50 Bucks(+44 Cover)


Actually, I didn't really wanted to blog about this because I think I sounded bad. But it was fun nonetheless so if any of you peeps want to comment, details please. Don't just say, "You SUCK". Let us know how we suck. Thanks

For more information, please visit BandBandBand

New Year Resolution

Happy New Year 2009 to everyone.

Since it's the beginning of a new year, everyone gonna make up a new year resolution. Well, most people make up their new year resolution at the beginning of the year and then just forgets about it later on. But for me, I try to take it seriously.

Last year, my new year resolution was to graduate. Well, it wasn't that hard of a resolution to achieve and I've done it half way through the year. So this year, I'm gonna level up the standard a bit and not only that, I'm gonna make it a 3 tier resolution. The first tier is a basic resolution - a resolution that must be achieve. The second tier would be an extended resolution - a resolution to do if I achieve the first tier before the year end. Lastly, the third tier would be a resolution for the sake of dreaming - fantasy resolution.

So, what are the resolutions? Here it is:

Basic Resolution - get in shape
Extended Resolution - stay in shape
Fantasy Resolution - get featured in a men's magazine

You can start laughing now.

Christmas

Since it's the holiday season, I won't post much on anything because I'm in a very lazy mood. Therefore, I'm just gonna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your wishes come true, your body stay healthy, your face stay cheerful, and anything good bestow upon you.

P/S : If anyone of you wonder how many applications I get from the previous post, the answer to that question would be zero.

Relationship Application

Application for relationship with mikewongaa is now open. For those who are interested to apply, please acquire the application form here.

The application is open until mikewongaa gets married or mikewongaa dies, whichever comes first. Eligibility: -

• Women only (Transsexuals are not eligible)
• Have reached the age of reason

Fill in the form, rename the file to your name.doc (e.g. Cyndi.doc) and email it to mikewongaa@yahoo.com. Please attach together with the email a photo of yourself. All information of applicants are strictly confidential but in the event that your information "somehow" leaked out, I will not be held accountable.

For those that are shortlisted, you will be contacted for an interview session. If prior to an interview session, you wish to have a mutual application, please attach the application form for a relationship with you together with the email.

*Note: The application form was created all in good fun and does not reflect any actual application of any kind but feel free to send the filled form back to me for fun. My apologies if you are offended by the contents of the blog or form.

**If you have any bad comments, feel free to keep it to yourself.

Blog Reopens

After a long period of absence from the scene of blogging, I would to announce that I have finally gotten an internet connection at home here in Pulau Pinang. This blog updates would commence back as normal.

So I thought I'd start out talking about how life is now. Firstly, I'm staying at an apartment now; its about 15 to 20 minutes away from my work place. Food is within 5 minutes walking distance so I won't starve I think.

Its been a month now and I'm still trying to settle down with the living culture here. The hard things to cope with are the hokkien speaking hawkers, the traffic jams, and the complicated town roads. Have to learn hokkien I guess. But there's one thing I love more than anything else is the internet connection I have right now; 2Mbps all just for me and I'm only paying Rm60 per month.

Wondering why? If you are from Pinang then you would know but in case you are not from Pinang, I've subscribed my internet connection from PenangFON. I won't talk much more about it cause I don't wanna sound like I'm advertising for them so if you wanna find out more about it then just google the name.

There's a long story behind acquiring this internet connection. If you have the time then read on. It all started after about a week since I came here. I couldn't wait to get an internet connection so on the first second Friday that I was here, I went straight to a TM Point and subscribe myself a phone line and a streamyx combo package. There was some problem with the computer and teller told me to come collect the phone the next day, which was a Saturday. Fine. I went and collect it the next day.

The following Monday, the technician came and installed the phone line, which was already there. All I saw him did was come in, take the phone that TM Point gave me and plug it in the outlet, which was already there. Paid him RM30.

The next day came and I found out about PenangFON from my friend. When I heard about it, I was drowning in disbelief and felt so cheated by TM. And so I thought, fine, I already subscribe to Streamyx and I'll just have to live with it. But since there wasn't any call from TM about the streamyx connection, the next day I went to TM Point and inquired about it. What I found out was that the port in my area was full and they told me to wait a week.

A week came and no streamyx. Guess what I did? Yup, I went to cancel my phone line and streamyx. After that, I subscribe PenangFON and here we are now. I've gotten a bill from TM for the phone line subscription. Its amounted to RM118.37. Still thinking if I should pay it.

Anyway, I think I'm gonna stop here for now. Thanks for reading.

Next: mikewongaa blogs about relationships

Temporary Discontinuation Notice

Hi, everyone. Thank you for coming in but I have something to tell you guys and girls; I am temporarily discontinuing my blog post until further notice. This is because I am relocating to Penang and my access to the internet would be limited indefinitely. Please be patient and thank you for coming in again.

P.S. : If you haven't know, I am relocating to Penang because I found a job in Penang and will begin on th 10th of November.

Hong Kong Trip

My family and I had gone off to Hong Kong for a vacation holiday and this was what we had for lunch. We took Malaysia Airlines so we had in-flight meals.

The flight was about 2 hours and I spent most of my time with the in-flight entertainment; everyone had a small LCD screen in front of their seats. You can play games, watch movie, view the flight information, listen to radio, watch drama and also listen to music.

After we arrived, we were taken straight to the hotel. This is the lobby of the hotel we stayed in. Well, the ceiling and the wall of the hotel lobby at least. Kinda fancy looking, don't you think? But you'll be surprise of how big their rooms are. Have a look at the rooms:

Yup, this is the room after we messed it up. It's not on purpose. All of us just forgot to take the photo of the room before it was messed up.
Don't ask about the rest of the room because this is the rest of room. Aside from the toilet, what you see here was what we got. This is, indeed, a very small room and I thought First World Hotel rooms were small.

What do we have in the room? Everything you can find in a hotel room, of course. There's a kettle for us to boil some water with or we could have some tea or coffee, which is placed on a small shelf above the kettle. What this? There's even a cabinet for you to hang your clothes with, and if you could see, just beneath that cabinet is a small little safe. There's even an LCD TV. What more can you ask for? Oh yeah, don't worry, we have our own toilet.

Even though the rooms are so small, they have their own toilets. No shared toilets or anything like that. This is the toilet after we messed it up again. Sorry, didn't took one before it was messed up also for this one. Everything you need in a hotel toilet is also here. There's towels, soap, a glass for the water you rinse your mouth with, shampoo, shower cap, mirror, and there's also a hair dryer too.

We went to Hong Kong on a tour package but day 1 was all free time so we went roaming around. Since it was during the period of the Beijing Olympics, there was decorations around when we went there and here's a picture of it.
It was dinner time so we went looking for food after that. We found a restaurant somewhere near by and this was the stuff we ate:



After the dinner, it was pretty much go back to the hotel and rest. So, that's it for now. This is the end of part 1. See ya.

New Direction

Thanks for coming in to this blog even though I did not update it for such a long time. That won't be the case from now onwards. There's a new direction.

You might have notice some of the changes I've made to this blog of mine. I've made changes to the template and I've also added a profile photo. I've also added a new gadget which is the update countdown timer; it will let you guys know when the next update would be. I'm going to try and be active in this blog. Therefore, there will be consistent updates starting from now.

Firstly, I had so many photos from all my travels so I didn't know which to write first. Hence, I will write on all of it for the next few scheduled posts. The updates will be about my life adventures for the past few months. Beginning from my visit to Hong Kong...


to my visit to this baby right here...

This is not a photo that was grab from the internet. It is an original photo which took during my visit to India. It is a little photoshopped though but it looks so much better after it is photoshopped.

Well, if you are interested to know about my travel adventures, stay tuned. I will tell you about it as much as I could. Thanks for visiting.

Misadventure at the Money Changer

As you all might know, I'm heading to India for a robotics competition called ROBOCON. Therefore, I needed go and change Indian Rupee for my trip. This is how the story goes:-




A couple of friends and I was going around the money changers near Jln Bunga Raya and there were a few of them so we went about them and seek the lowest rate. When we finally found one, we all change the money individually. I had to change for two of my friends also but something had gone horribly wrong. One of my friend gave me RM1800 and the other one gave me RM300 and for myself, I wanted to change RM300. For some reason, I thought I had to change RM1600+300+300. Maybe it was because of my other friends who had also changed RM1600. And so, I told the money changer I needed to change for RM2200 but the actual amount that I gave the money changer was in fact RM2400 and the money changer changed for me the amount of Indian Rupee equivalent to RM2200.




When I finally went to give my friend his Indian Rupee, I realize that I had a short of RM200. I was devastated. My friend said I should go back to ask for it and so today I went back to the Money Changer and told him what had happen. To my surprise, the money changer said he had an extra RM200 when he closed his account yesterday. He gave me back the money in Indian Rupee. I was so relief and happy. I did not believed my ears when I heard what he said. I thought he would have said that he could not have check yesterday money or maybe he would have told me to check my money before I had left. He is such an honest businessman.




That concludes my misadventure at the money changer. Thank you for reading.