Langkawi Part 2

O.k... now that I'm home and my wife is busy setting up her Palm... more pictures! Hooray! Anyway, these are pictures while we are at MINES resort. Not very good though I must admit but definitely keepsakes for the memories. The pic shows an image of the swimming pool. O.k for some info. The official website is www.mines.com.my. From Novotel hotel we insisted on taking a metered cab to Mines which cost less than RM$20. But we paid the cab RM$40 for being very chatty. Nice guy. Anyway, if we book a cab, it'll cost us around the same amount. It was nevertheless a harrowing ride. Traffic was er, nightmarish!. We left novotel around 6 in the evening and reached mines closed to 8. We checked in the beach spa hotel and realised that the shopping center was only less than 5 minutes walk. We love the shopping center. Food, food and food and plenty of sensible shops. Sensible would means, non boutiques, non expensive stuff. These boutiqueys and expensive stuff can be had at KL sentral itself. There is even a Tanjong Golden Village cinema there and we managed to catch Eragon for RM$9 a ticket. It was an experience watching a movie there. For one thing, the audience is much more responsive. And the reacted even before the actors had finished speaking their dialogues. I gather, it must be the subtitles. O.k, it lunch time. Need to eat. Will continue.
Oh, have a Merry Christmas.
25 dec 2006
1400 hrs.

Langkawi Part 2

O.k... now that I'm home and my wife is busy setting up her Palm... more pictures! Hooray! Anyway, these are pictures while we are at MINES resort. Not very good though I must admit but definitely keepsakes for the memories. The pic shows an image of the swimming pool. O.k for some info. The official website is www.mines.com.my. From Novotel hotel we insisted on taking a metered cab to Mines which cost less than RM$20. But we paid the cab RM$40 for being very chatty. Nice guy. Anyway, if we book a cab, it'll cost us around the same amount. It was nevertheless a harrowing ride. Traffic was er, nightmarish!. We left novotel around 6 in the evening and reached mines closed to 8. We checked in the beach spa hotel and realised that the shopping center was only less than 5 minutes walk. We love the shopping center. Food, food and food and plenty of sensible shops. Sensible would means, non boutiques, non expensive stuff. These boutiqueys and expensive stuff can be had at KL sentral itself. There is even a Tanjong Golden Village cinema there and we managed to catch Eragon for RM$9 a ticket. It was an experience watching a movie there. For one thing, the audience is much more responsive. And the reacted even before the actors had finished speaking their dialogues. I gather, it must be the subtitles. O.k, it lunch time. Need to eat. Will continue.
Oh, have a Merry Christmas.
25 dec 2006
1400 hrs.

langkawi pt 1a

I know I'm suppose to update the blog on the Langkawi trip but I'm at home at the moment. Anyways, just for your info, after staying at NOVOTEL, we went to Mines Resort. Nice place but three nights is just enough time to stay. Any longer, we would have been bored. We stayed for two nights, however.

Anyway, bought for me wife the PALM Tungsten T/X yesterday. Will update with a review although it does not look as nice as my Palm T5. Got it for $498. Got a 1gb mini sd card, leather case, screen protector for free. Also bought infra keyboard (original Palm) for $80 and got a stylus thrown in for free. Bought for me a sd wifi card for my palm t5. Don't know if it'll actually work but will try. Got that for $90.

Palm T/X
http://www.palm.com/sg/products/handhelds/tx/

24th December 1410hrs

just got back from langkawi part 1

Went on a holiday with my family to kuala lumpur and langkawi. I intend to show of the pictures on the blog. So this is the first entry.

Anyways, to start of, we went to Langkawi by way of Kuala Lumpur.
We took a bus there, aeroline, and it costs us S$47 per adult one way and S$35 for a child (adam and sara).
You may want to try https://www.aeroline.com.my But a word of advise, try booking the return ride in KL itself, you can save quite a bit.
Anyways, the ride starts from HarbourFront and ends at Corus hotel in KL, which is about 10 minutes walk from KLCC, the shopping center and KLCC, the MRT.
Met up with my sis who is staying at the novotel hotel. We got a room there for RM$178.20 before tax. You may want to try http://www.novotel.com/novotel/fichehotel/gb/nov/6324/fiche_hotel.shtml. Although the address states that it is at Jalan Kia Peng, it is actually nearer to Jalan Chu Lan something like that. We took a cab from corus hotel to novotel and it costs us less than RM$10. When we finally checked in, it was about half past eight in the evening. We finally retired at amround 11 pm.

In hindsight, we don't really like the hotel that much. The rooms are small but they are adequate. Anyway, we stayed there for only a night and we set off to MINES resort the next day.

bought some stuffs

Hello...today is the first time I felt like I am on a holiday. Actually my official hols start yesterday but I still have some unfinished work to do. And since my wife is not going to the office today, I thought of not going to school too.

So we went to Popular at Bras Basaht. I have not been there for quite a while, at least 10 years, and the first impression I got was that there wasn't alot of changes. But when I stepped into Popular, I was very pleasantly surprised! It was bright, cosy and the staffs were so friendly. Perhaps we were there early.
I bought 3 cds, Taufik Batisah, Hady Mirza and Il Divo. Hady's album was a let down but Taufik's one is a nice one. No wonder he won the MTVasia award... Have not heard the content of IL Divo yet but I'm hopeful.

Next we went to Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City. Parked at the 7th floor and took the lifts down to the 3rd floor. Saw Kino's dinky entrance but was very awed when I went in. It is like a never ending tunnel with book as far as the eye could see. If I were to compare Kino with Borders, I would say Kino got more class. My wife bought a book for SOTA. Whatever it is, it is nice to be in town in the morning. A priviledge I would cherish as a teacher...

December 5th 1535 hours.

Oh Adam is enjoying himself especially with Irsyad around.