Happy New Year 2011 Wish from Us.....

We have braved through the year 2010 with courage and determination and it's now time for us to welcome 2011 and continue that to achieve our goal throughout 2011....

For both myself and my wife and our son, we hope to be doing a lot more travelling and blogging in 2011. I leave the year 2010 with good wishes and a very Happy New Year to visitors of our travelogue...

A word of thought for the New Year .....

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. “~ Bill Vaughan

“Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.” ~ Author Unknown

Morib Beach Daytrip.....

It was the Christmas holiday and we were having lunch at a food court in a hypermarket in Selayang when my wife suddenly said "Let's go to a beach !". Port Dickson automatically comes to mind as that is the nearest beach  from Kuala Lumpur. Wait, we're forgetting another beach which was about 86Km from where we were at. "Let's go there then...", said my wife and my son was excited as well. He has never been to Morib.

And so we set out to Morib at about 4pm.Going through DUKE highway, New Klang Valley Expressway, Kesas and the Klang -Banting road towards Morib Beach.  Having exited the highway, we continued our journey through the state road passing towns of Banting, Telok Panglima Garang, Telok Datok, Kanchong Darat etc. It was already about 5.30 pm when we finally reached the Morib Beach.

Jom Heboh @ Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur December 2010

This is our 2nd time to the Jom Heboh carnival which is an annual event by TV3, one of  Malaysia's leading commercial TV station. As always, you will find booths from TV3 itself and companies which anticipates in this annual events. products from the companies are packed in bags and mostly were sold at RM10.00 per bag. Concerts were also held and most booth had celebrities performing live.

Langkawi Vacation 2010 - Part 3

Our 3rd day started wuth a hearty breakfast at Bayview Hotel Langkawi which we had checked in the day before. The Flamingo cafe was much more spacious than the one in Citin Hotel and the breakfast was also much better. The food was warm and varied. There were traditional and western styled breakfast, coffee and tea, fruit juices and cut fruits.

My wife had a more traditional breakfast - Mee goreng
with muffin and some potatoes..

I had toasted bread cold cuts and baked beans...Yummyyy !!!

My son prefers Coco - Krunch cereal breakfast...

Langkawi Vacation 2010 - Part 2

The lobby at Citin Hotel, Langkawi.
Free WIFI is available at the lobby area.

We reached Citin Hotel about 4pm. The hotel looks newly renovated (as mentioned in their website). This was no 5-star hotel but I would highly recommend to budget traveller. There was no problem checking in as we had earlier booked the room online. As we head for the room on the 1st floor, we were greeted by a nice cosy but rather small room. There were no lift but the staff was kind enough to carry one of our luggage for us right up. Our room fronted the road but being in Langkawi with very little traffic, there were virtually no undesirable traffic noise from the outside.

Pulau Langkawi Vacation 2010 - Part 1

We had been planning for this trip to the famous island of Langkawi for almost 4 months prior to the actual date of departure. When we first started planning the trip, we were contemplating on the mode of transport - should we go by land as per our previous travel or should we try flying to our destination. Then what would we want to do once we get there. We did a lot of reading on Langkawi and also browse through other's blogs. Since this was our first time to the island, we decided that we would visit interesting places on the island while throwing in a bit of shopping for duty free chocolates and some tablewares which is what Langkawi is famous for apart from it's mystical islands archipelago tourism industry.


A bit about Langkawi Island

Lying off the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the state of Kedah, Pulau Langkawi is the largest among an archipelago of 99 islands collectively known as Langkawi. With only a small population of 54,000 in a land of 32,000 hectares, Langkawi is surrounded by beautiful turquoise sea with paddy fields and lush jungles cladding hills in the inland.
As mentioned earlier, the tourism industry seems to be the main economic activity of Langkawi island.