九份/Jiu Fen, Taiwan

I'm back with another update on my Taiwan business trip earlier this month! I am sure many of you have heard about this popular place in Taiwan, also a must-visit spot for tourists there. Basically we need to take about an hour to reach thare by train from Taipei Main station.

Waiting train from the Taipei Main Station

Jiu Fen is a place which located on the mountain areas. Therefore, if you're to take a train from Taipei itself, then you'll be able to reach "Ruai Fang" only. Next, proceed on to take a bus right outside the train station straight into Jiu Fen, it tooks us around about 10 mins to reach the hill from the train station anyway.

That's the ticket... Taipei ---> Ruai Fang

The weather is cold and the surrounding scenery (mostly green environment) is superb! However, this place is really crowded all thanks to the non-stop tourist visitings. I found that almost all the shops there have Japanese-translated information tagged along. And to my suprise, most locals there speak fluence Japanese. Gosh!

This is the main entrance leading into the famous street of Jiu Fen, and there's the scenery overlooking the mountain area when we got to the top!

This street is the most popular spot in Jiu Fen, that's because inside there, you'll find way to much of interesting local made stuff and most importantly, loads of nice local foooooood! And the street is kinda long, you would need to travel by foot and walk at least 3km, till the end of the street and make a round back to the main entrance.

The shop owner here will teach you how to select a nice writing brush for souviner. They even helped us to carve our names on it.

Here's another nice place selling the tea pots and also place for a cup of hot tea!

I love this shop! Selling hand-made clay instruments - flutes especially. Here's the pretty shop owner doing a live flute performance for us.

Food, food, food... along the way! You may find these type of stalls along the street.

Isn't the house here beautiful plus it's located along the cliff? Makes a nice place to yum cha accompanied by the nice scenery. There are a tons of inns like this around this area.

I really find this place unique~ at least you won't be able to find it in M'sia :P

Left - Right: Japanese and M'sian college. Both enjoying their time here just like I did!

Another group snapshot... before we leave this place back to Taipei city! :)

-FeeBz-

Taipei 101

During my trip to Computex in Taiwan for work, my colleagues and I went to the Taiwan World Trade Centre (TWTC) whereby the show was held. You will find a few famous shopping malls centralized within the trade centre area which are the Taipei 101, New York New York, and Xing Guang 3 Yue.

After completing our round of visit on Computex show, a few of us decided to go up to Taipei 101 (also the world's tallest skyscraper!) in the evening. When we got up there and saw the view, it is one of the most beautiful night scene overlooking the city. Very nice! It cost us about NTD 400 each person to go up.


From Computex TWTC walking to Taipei 101


Lock our stuff in the locker before going up to 90th floor


Here we were at the top!


Welcome to Taipei 101!


The huge yellow ball behind us in the background is actually the wind damper, which supports the entire buiding structure and prevents any shaking.

Was busy here writing on some nice postcards to be sent back to Malaysia. However, till now they have yet to receive the cards. *sweat*



Finally complete and ready to send out from Taipei 101~

That's all for now, will try to update more especially on this Taiwan trip. Till then, tata!

Scorching Hot Day

I couldn't believe it is happening now. The heat's killing me, thanks to the extemely hot weather in recent days. 

 

Makes me feel like hitting the beach, go for a swim and chill out. Brings back the memories of our Port Dickson Avillion holiday last year. Sigh.

This is madness. Rain, time to get your cloudy ass back here and shower us with heavy 'love', I beg you please!

-frag

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Moooo....

Yeah I know, this blog has not been updated since last year. :)

As the Year of the Ox is about to begin, it is once again the season for many of us to return home a.k.a "Balik Kampung" to reunite with family and friends - celebrating the coming of a new year, also not a very good year for business etc.

With that, both Feebz and I hereby wishing everyone a special wonderful Chinese New Year,  and may the Ox Year filled with plentiful good fortune, success and tremendous wealth along with excellent health and an abundance of happiness. Well it better be!

Gong Hei Fatt Choi and keep the angpows flowing in people!!!

Pulau Ketam, Here We Come!

I believe many of you have heard about Pulau Ketam, it is a small fishing village island which is 30 mins away from the Port Klang Jetty if you are taking a speed boat there. It's the Raya public holidays again~ and Frag's friend, Joelle came up with a plan that we all should head there for a day's trip!

As everything was confirmed on the following day, things started with 6 of us including Frag's ex-colleagues to gather at the Organiser's place at 9 a.m. in the morning, then head off to SS2 for our breakfast before shooting down to Klang.

As we reached there, there were already a huge crowd waiting / heading to Pulau Ketam, in fact we queued up for an one hour & half just for the arrival of ferry. Crazy! We actually waited for 3 rounds to secure ourself into the ferry. It was extraordinary packed that day.

The ferry that we boarded was moving slow when it reached a certain area of the sea, that was because of the tide out and the sea level was too shallow. By 1p.m. we had reached the island, the first thing we did were to go for LUNCH! We had a nice seafood meal in a restaurant right after the jetty, I wont say it is very cheap judging by the standard over there~! 

We then took our sweet time walking and exploring around the village. There are a few temples in the island and a lot of people especially locals, moving around with their only mode of transportation... bicycles! Saw a loads of nice houses and boats as well. We walked around till it was 4.30p.m. then we headed for the jetty, as we can see the crowd were started to Q up. The last boat to leave the island will be usually around 6.30p.m.

Take a look at the Q on the bridge~ so terrible


Finally we reached the island~


Makan time with the gang~ Yummy seafood!


A big temple in the middle of the island


Salted fish 'sunbathing'~!


Heard that people recommend this "lala Jian" and "O jian" stall is nice, so we gave it a try, but nothing impress me :(


Fresh bamboo shell clams on sale, just back from the sea!


Nice environment + view on the Crab Bridge~!


Muahaha, selfshot - just the 2 of us.


We all love this photo that we took~ It was starting to drizzle


Yeah, went up to a boat and fooled around!


Thanks to the boat owner allow us to take picture on his boat, the whole boat has been booked by a groom whom that time was having a wedding lunch on the island.

Anyways, it was a nice trip, different experience and we had a really good time and fun with the rest despite the sunny weather and the mad queues while waiting for ferry! :)

Sweet Holidays...

Reporting live from Bamboo Hut Bistro (thank you for the free broadband internet access!) in the Aldy Hotel Melaka, situated a few blocks away after the Red Square Clock Tower by the Malacca River.

Seeing that the holidays are coming this week, the Team F&F consist of... us decided to head off here for a day doing the 'walk-walk-eat-eat' stuff in Malacca, an UNESCO world heritage historic city and followed by a trip back to Feebz's hometown in Johor Bahru. Hehe.

By the way, Jonker's Street is just a stone throws away from this hotel. So it's pretty convinient if you are into sight seeing and visiting places of interest. Will be meeting up some friends later for lunch at a place selling Satay Babis (Pork Satays), which is a must eat whenever I'm in Malacca.

So long for now peeps, enjoy your holidays & Happy Merdeka!

Yours truly...
-/frag/-

Avillion Port Dickson - 2

We did really enjoy our stay at the Avillion Port Dickson, even though was only just for a night. We did a lot of sun tanning and swimming during the 2 days, as well as enjoying the view and the sea breeze~! Nice white sand beach maintain well by the management. Cant wait to go back there again!

Relaxing at one of the look out point spot

White sand beach~ Had a long sun tan session here


Strictly for adult! Open for 24 hours~ Did our late night swim here!


The pool that belong to us! Wahaha!


Frag get ready for sun tanning


We left this marking on the sand~


The sun was so strong and Frag really enjoy that :)


These are the food we brought all the way


Steamboat time! Having them on the sea, with nice sea breeze~ priceless!


Can see the line below my pants? I was so so tanned after 1 day~


Relaxing in the nice room~!

-FeeBz-

Avillion Port Dickson - 1

It's been a while since we do some updates here on this blog. Started my new job in a local bank not long ago, pretty interesting learning the trades of the banking industry - if you minus out the regular tense working environment and usual daily routines. Not bad!

Anyway, the blog will continue on, after some pesterings made by our readers! Haha! We made a sudden trip to the Avillion Port Dickson (famous for its water chalets & seven-finger piers reaching the sea) for a night's stay, after deciding to take a break from working life in the city.

Fulamak... we found the atmosphere and environment of the resort simply breathtaking! We chilled out, went sunbathing and swam for the entire day. Nothing beats sleeping, basking and relaxing at a private white sandy beach - accompanied by the sea and sun.

The entrance to Avillion PD

At the entrance, there's a little stage on a pond. Staff there plays traditional music... welcoming guests & visitors. Soothing to the heart, mind and soul

Walking to our water chalet room after checking in

The view of the swimming pool, facing the sea. It was cloudy when we got there

The adult pool... also known as the 24-hour pool, isolated from the resort's main swimming pool. This is the place where we spent our late hours in the night swimming!


The Pet farm... open for daily feedings for the visitors. You'll find chickens, rabbits, tortoises, hambalang also got! Suprisingly, no flies spotted

Avillion’s signature rooms - water chalet room - sit on stilts above water. Comes with four-poster king size bed & 'Pangkin' (day bed) with partial sea view for those who just want to do nothing but relax by the balcony and unwind. Freaking awesome


Push away the rattan blinds and you'll find this balcony facing the sea. We sank here on the comfy seating area a lot during the night while enjoying the sea breeze. Lovely

The open shower concept bathroom where we pampered ourselves with the freedom of showering or simply sink in the deep bathtub under the sky. It's super spacious, too bad the bathtub only fits one person though :(

From our room door facing the outside neighbouring chalets. There weren't many people that time as it was Sunday. So we pretty had the entire area to ourselves


The sunset view on the balcony area

There's more of our Avillion adventure on the next post.

Keeping you guys posted soon!

-/frag/-