ShangHai Jinjiang Metropolo Hotel Classiq YMCA上海酒店-锦江都城青年会经典酒店

The hotel that we stayed in ShangHai is this hotel ShangHai Jinjiang Metropolo Hotel Classiq YMCA, which located at XinShiJie Station (Line 8, middle of Exit 1 & 2) Auleo knew that ShangHai is the first tier city in China- meaning the hotel accommodation wouldn’t be any cheaper as expected. And friend introduced to us this hotel, after own stayed found it’s worth to introduce to the readers here.

Kawah Putih , Bandung (White Crater) 印尼万隆白色火山口

When you travel to Bandung, other than shopping trips, the famous journeys are always included those volcano and hotspring etc nature beauty scenes. And it’s divided into sound and north bound trip.

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And we had chosen the sound bound (to be precise, it’s south west )trip, as we read from Lonely Planet that the scenery for sound bound is richer in diversity and less crowd has been flown there, so I thought it should be “more nature” a bit

Taiwan Government Uniform Invoice 台湾统一发票

There is something interesting in Taiwan receipt when I was there-I found almost every receipt that I received from the merchandise was about the same size.

I googled and found this is so called Government Uniform Invoice (GUI), or in Taiwan they call it 统一发票.

Taiwan Youth Travel Card 台湾青年旅游卡

Would like to introduce everybody another good travel pal in Taiwan- Taiwan Youth Travel Card 台湾青年旅游卡.

When you arrive in Taiwan Taoyuan Airport, you can
go to Taiwan Tourism board counter to get your digital tour buddy 宝贝机，
While at the same time you can ask the officer for Taiwan Youth Travel Card台湾青年旅游卡 application form, it’s totally free, and need not pre-apply prior to your arrival in Taiwan.

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The main benefit for getting a Youth Travel Card is to have discounts in a lot of places, eg some museum like 故宫 can get up to 50% discount.


By reading the booklet that come together with the Youth Travel Card, I saw many tourist spots, transportation, homestay,food, Chinese language learning course and shopping arcades are alliance with the Youth Travel Card.

Even though during the time I was at Taiwan, I used only once the Youth Travel Card (as I have pre-booked the accommodation online before) in 故宫 Museum.

The normal rate for adult is NT160, but by using Youth Travel Card, get 50% off, only NT80, and all you have to do is just by waving your Youth Travel Card to the counter. Cool ya, isn’t it?

But yet, I forgotten that I could use Youth Travel Card in Deng Tai Fung Restaurant, not really having any discount in this famous franchise Xiao Long Bao restaurant, but using Youth Travel Card can earn you a little souvenir-Xiao Long Bao key chain.

Thus, I strongly recommend backpackers like me , should really study through the benefits of the Youth Travel Card at their website, you can get a better value of your money .

And another info for all backpackers out there going to travel to Taiwan:

From now onwards till 31st August 2011, by using Youth Travel Card, to register your receipt online , then you can join their lucky draw,the first prize is Ipad.  really regret….

Taiwan Digital Tour Buddy 台湾宝贝机

Introducing a very good thing from the Taiwan Tourism Board- the digital tour buddy, and it’s FREE for application for backpackers from all over the world!

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There are two types, one is together with the cellphone they loan to you , while the other 1 is only loan out the 3G Sim card.

Me and myself separately get the 2 different types of digital tour buddy plan, but later on I found it’s more worthy to get the plan of only the 3G sim card, because its credit included in NT200, while the one with cell phone provided is loaded with only NT100.

If you are using smartphone, think undoubtly you should get the 3G sim plan.

Because the digital tour buddy cellphone OKWAP A272, to be frank, is not that user-friendly. I was having a hard time of typing a sms using the phone

You can start the digital tour buddy application online 2 months prior to your arrival in Taiwan. If your application is successful, an notification email will be sent to you. Even though the website saying you can apply on the spot over at the airport’s tourism counter, but I bet this programme should like a hot cake, if time permits, you don’t want to risk not having one, do you?

If you interested to apply for the phone, you can go to this website


or to go its main page for any other promotions on Taiwan

Singapore Istana Open House 新加坡总统府开放日

Istana- which means Palace in Malay is the Singapore President House.

The Istana Open day is opened for public only a certain days in a year- festive days of each races in Singapore- Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Thaipusam, Singapore Natioanl day and Labour day.

Tanjong Pagor Train Station丹戎巴葛火车站

Finally the Tanjong Pagar KTM railway station had come to an conclusion- to end its mission serving KTM in this coming july 2011. After this, Malayan Rail will move its Singapore stop to the border- Woodland.


Recently Singapore government had also announced to gazette the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station as National Heritage, is it going to be some sort of Train museum?
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Johor Bahru Chinese Temple Festival 新山游神

Introducing this special Chinese New Year event in Johor Bahru, which falls on 23rd Feb (wed) night this year 2011. The Lunar new year 2011 officially ended on the 15th, but the Johor Bahru Chinese community is so uniquely celebrating Lunar New Year for 22days !


Johor Bahru Chinese Temple Festival,or Chingay procession- As the name implies, is a festival uniquely held at Johor Bahru, the Malaysia’s southern gateway.

Johor Bahru Chinese considers the end of the Chinese New Year period only after the Temple Festival. So this could be titled as “The world longest celebration period of Chinese New Year.” 
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2010 Singapore Orchard Road Christmas Lightup 2010 新加坡乌节路圣诞灯饰

Singapore Orchard Road Christmas Lightup activity, to me is an annual activity that pay tribute to.

Even though I think the Orchard Road Lighting is the same for every year, feel kinda boring of it already, especially this year lighting design is worse than last year!

Bukit Mertajam Food 大山脚美食

I aint whatsoever food hunter, but my friend did strongly recommended me to pay a visit to Bukit Mertajam for its food, thus here I came to the famous Bukit Mertajam Ku Zha Market ( means olden day market) together with my friend hunting for the reckon Kueh Chap. In fact I have watched it via the tv shows * Ah Xian.

Singapore is a fine country

Previously when I did my shopping at Singapore China Town, I saw some cute shirts written “ Singapore is a fine country”, I thought this was something the tourism promotion kind of things.

But afterwards, I realize that “Fine” has got another meaning in English, which means punish or punishment.

Geylang Serai Ramadhan Market芽笼士乃开斋市场

While the Chinese in Singapore was preparing for the hungry ghost festival, Muslims around the globe are already in their annual fasting month. And following the end of the fasting month, will be the grand Hari Raya celebration. To celebrate this big event, how not to mention about the festive shopping?

In Singapore, Muslims which majority consist of Malay, generally do their festive shopping at 2 major spots, 1 is at the Arab street which is near to Bugis, another one is the traditional kampong area- Geylang Serai.

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Singapore Bus Travel 新加坡巴士旅行

During my weekend in Singapore, other than some special tourist spots I will definitely opt for the MRT, other venues that I had visited before, I prefer to take different mode of transport to arrive there.


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Singapore Casino-Marina Bay Sands 新加坡金沙赌场

Singapore Marina Bay Sands has already been opened to the public for 2 months, hehe, and till now I only made my time to there to open eye view-to see this mega project which claimed to keep Singapore’s economic competitiveness in the future.


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Henderson Waves, Singapore

Land size of Singapore is very small, but its government had tried their best to give others an impression that it’s very spacious with a lot of greenery scenes –everywhere big raintrees, everywhere gardens can be found-at least I feel so.


And there is this new attraction-Henderson Waves in one of the Singapore gardens being opened to public not quite long ago.

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Singapore Christmas Hippo Bus

During Christmas time, other than light decoration at Orchard Road, Singapore has another Christmas attraction –The Double decker Hippo Bus

2009 Singapore Orchard Road Christmas Lightup

I remember last year 2008 christmas lighting in Orchard Road was pretty discouraged. So I had so mood to help promoting it via my blog. I can still remember the time when the world economy was still in unsure situation, nobody can tell if tomorrow would get sacked.everyone lived in worry. Singapore economy which relied a lot on exports was so badly hit.

Kampung Laut, Kelantan

Kelantan- the state ruled by Islamic Party PAS, always like to label itself as the country’s leadership in Islamic teachings. For sure by any chance won’t be missing from promoting the oldest mosque –Masjid Kampung Laut ,in Peninsula Malaysia.


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Pantai Sri Tujuh, Kelantan

Initially I didn’t plan to go Pantai Sri Tujuh, because when I first planning my Kelantan trip, it seemed too far from Kota Bharu. When we consulted the Malaysia Tourism officers, where can we find those colourful malay fishing boats? As I read from internet, almost everyone who went to Pantai Sabak for the colourful boat , were complaining that site, and saying couldn’t find any boat at that beach.

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Pengkalan Kubor,Kelantan

Ever since 2years ago I went to Malaysia-Thailand border-Wang Kelian, this time round I arranged another border trip, and also due to the unforeseen circumstances, I didn’t go to the more-famous border Rantau Abang, but the less-famous Pengkalan Kubor.

From Kampung Jubakar,we continued our journey from Kota Bharu to Malaysia-Thailand border.

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