Malaysia oh Malaysia

If what the political noises tonight comes true tomorrow,  it is taking us the rakyat for a ride, a blatant rude betrayal even Anwar Ibrahim himself admits its a stab in his back, and making a mockery out of those overseas who battled the odds to make their votes count during the 14th general election.

I see it as a disgust coup and I would have preferred a snap general election to a backdoor illegitimate immoral government.

I would still vote for Pakatan Harapan or whatever it will be called tomorrow.

Indeed, one can't change the spots on a leopard. And the leopard has now shown its true colours.

Welcome 2020

I almost forgot about this!

But recently some guys reminded me that they still read my blog, and need some "answers" or "closures" as to what happened to other bloggers of the early 2000s.. A lot of them stopped writing around the time Facebook came about..

Looking back, I have been writing for about 17 years now.. It all started when I moved to Singapore in 2003.. I needed an outlet to vent about my life about being alone in a foreign country and things like that..

Throughout the years, I am glad how this blog helped some of you come out, how this blog gave you hope to that being gay is fabulous, how this blog lets you know that you are not alone..

Perhaps the style of writing has also evolved much.. it used to be a lot about bitching about life and venting about life's inadequacies.. then somehow it turned into a soft-core porn-ish photoblog.. and then later in recent years it's about my travel shenanigans..

But I am still around, still writing.. In fact I still love writing.. Although you can now follow me in my Instagram (I post more there than here, in fact!), so feel free!


Lastly, welcome to 2020 and another year of blogging!

A short Hatyai getaway

When I said I am not travelling at the moment, I am just lying..

Because end of August during the National Day, I went with my friends on a roadtrip to Hatyai.. We took the train from KL to the international border and crossed into Thailand on foot..

This is a video that I made using my GoPro..

It was a 3D3N roadtrip where we took an overnight train departing KL Sentral and arriving at the border at 4.30am.. The Padang Besar immigration counter does not open until 6am, so we had some time to kill at the station, my friends were busy playing games whereas I was busy taking videos and editing some footages..

When the border opens, we walked into Thailand and waited for our ride.. We booked a van to take us from the border to Hatyai, an hour away.. For both ways, it costs only THB2,500 per van and there's 7 of us, so it's cheap (vs the hail-van fare of THB200 per person per way at the customs).

We stayed in PM Residence, the hotel is centrally located just walking distance to Central Hatyai (although its 1km away actually), but it's close enough to everything we needed and wanted..

This trip was to makan, so we spent a lot of the time eating.. not in the footage were DimSum 1 which was at Ahma Dimsum and McDonalds for post-dinner dinner/supper.. I didn't include AhMa Dimsum into the video because of the video length and also I did not have footages there, the shots turned out to be burst photos...

AhMa Dimsum

AhMa Dimsum

There were some really good shots, from the video, as well as photos taken by my friends..

These were the shots that didn't make it into the video.. some are personal photos so I purposely had excluded them from the video..

Swimming pool at the rooftop of PM Residence

My room which I shared with one of my friends

Bathroom 

Just chilling...

Just chilling

Just chilling

Just chilling

Enjoying a break

Caught slacking between shooting

One of the best shots...

August is the month where I blew my money on diving equipments and this GoPro.. I bought a mask and snorkel and fins which costs about RM700 in total, and the GoPro which costs me RM1.7k.. I also spent a lot on the GoPro accessories, setting me back another few hundred..

This is how I chose to label my fins.. because they say, there are 2 types of divers, those who pee in their suit,
and those who lie about it..

I pee in my suit..
And this is inspired by my instructor who has the same warning on his fins..

But it's worth it, because as I am learning how to shoot GoPro videos, I also have plans what I want to shoot... every trip and every gathering and make videos out of it..





And next week I am going to Bali... to dive!

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What have I been up to in the last 2 months?

So in June and July, it was hectic months for me..

After back from Taiwan, I went to take up my PADI Open Water Diving certification in Tioman, have always wanted to take up diving but never really got the time to do it.. so I eventually did it anyway.. an unfortunate accident to my dive team mate caused some delays to my diving schedule and I had to extend another day to complete it..

After that, I flew off to Bangkok for the company's global department meeting and also to attend a major travel conference.. It was at Bangkok that my superior decided we should go to Guangzhou for site visit and to meet our operations team..

So after coming back from Bangkok, it was just a few days spare to quickly get the visa done, and I was off to Hong Kong and Guangzhou...

I just returned last week, tired, feeling rather sick because it was about 40 degrees there and visibly dehydrated..

So I am still recovering now.. no more travels until September, when I planned to go for another diving trip.

Taiwan 2019 - Day Triip: Keelung

I had the opportunity to follow my Taiwanese friends on a day trip to Keelung, stopping by several spots along the way for some photo opportunities, just for me to see..

This is a stop 不厭亭. . A very scenic photostop where you look down on this oncoming road and also go there for a picture in the middle of the road. 

Somewhere before reaching Keelung, stopped for lunch nearby the Elephant Rock

On the way hiking to Elephant Rock

View of the Pacific Ocean from Elephant Rock

See that's Elephant Rock

They are plenty of good food in Keelung, such as this ice desserts.. The queue is so long!

Look at how huge each bowl is!

The boss of a biscuit shop at the Keelung Miaokou night market.

Mango pudding

The trip to Keelung isn't far, just take about 2 hours slow drive over the steep mountains.. The way I see my friends drive, reminds me of how we Malaysians drive on our mountain roads., so it's best to just sit back and relax... don't even look at the road!