[Laguna Redang Island Resort]

Pulau Redang is located in the South China Sea off the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It lies about 45km northeast of Kuala Terengganu, the state capital of Terengganu, and out 22km off Tanjung Merang, the closest point on the mainland. In general, it’s about 10 hours coach ride from Singapore and 1 hour ferry transfer from Merang Jetty.

31 Aug 08 Sat
10:30pm YB and I set off to Kuala Terengganu via Konsortium coach. We have bought the 3D2N coach package from NATAS Travel’08 at $440 each (before UOB discount of $30). If you were to consider direct accomodation booking and purchase coach tickets from Singapore, the price is almost the same or more.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them.
But I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Those were my parting words to my ex-colleagues about a month ago. Along with the picture (enlarged on click) and caption, my email have inspired and touched many colleagues. No kidding!

I liked my job but things seem to be out of hand over the time. Underpaid, overworked yet under achieved. Sounds familiar?

[HK Cultural Centre]

Our last full day in HK and we really went full gear ahead.

Amy recommended Dim Sum at Chao Inn located in One Peking near Harbour City. The restaurant has a great view of Hong Island and you can even see the iconic building on the Peak.

[Chao Inn @ One Peking]

[Modern teahouse with empty bird cages]

[This is only half of what we ordered]

Our table was filled with 250HKD worth of dim sum and was probably the most dim sum two persons could ever eat. We managed to eat everything except two char siew baos….太饱了！

[Ruins of St Paul’s, Macau]

The weather was perfect for our planned day trip to Macau with S&S (SY and wife). Would LadyLuck be on my side? Hee cross fingers!

YB and I made our way to Causeway Bay?銅鑼灣 to meet S&S for breakfast at a nearby teahouse. Apparently, I was the only one who can communicate in Cantonese. My dialect is limited to half a bucket of water but it is better than nothing at all =P

[Star Ferry Terminal]

Rise and shine! Today we walked over to Harbour City which is about one street away from our place. The shopping mall is full of branded labels…nice to ogle at but no money to buy =(

Anyway, the main objective was to locate Patagonia outlet in search for the label’s renowed Houdini specially for Kein. This windbreaker is really light but doesn’t look like it’s worth 125USD. -.-” Despite the price, it is completely out of stock throughout all local outlets.

[Adri’s first bite on Krispy Kreme!]

After about 4 hours on Jetstar, YB and I finally reached Hong Kong! 6 hours ago, I was giving the taxi driver an earful for taking us to the airport via AYE-CTE-PIE-TPE. Luckily we were in time to check in. *blow hot air out*

The moment I stepped foot on the arrival hall, I headed right to Krispy Kreme….Ohhhh I’m so excited because I’ve heard so much about their tasty donuts! 6 donuts for 58HKD and we chose (from top left) blueberry, cinnamon apple, chocolate iced custard, chocolate fudge cake, original and chocolate. Not sure how good they taste at that point because we didn’t want to stop to eat.

Today marks the day I passed my TP test! Finally it’s all over! *Phew*

Am I buying car? In my dreams! I’m not earning enough to support and furthermore fuel is ridiculously expensive. YB has no intention to buy yet especially since he is working so near to home -.-”.

So…more roadtrips!!! Heee ^_^

Hmmm I have no idea how much Vit M is spent. $2-3k? 35 lessons in total I think.

Anyway, now its time to move on to next stage of life.

[Lego Indiana Jones-Flickr: Dunechaser]

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

YB and I caught Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull or IJ4 on Thursday at The Cathay.

$8.50 x 2 tickets + $0.50 x 2 (for blockbuster surcharge) + $1.00 booking fee = $19 *Ouch*

If it is a regular movie on a weekday, I can purchase tickets off counter at 10% discount with UOB and I like it this way better.

Anyway IJ4 is worth Adri’s 3/5 rating because I enjoy Harrison Ford’s humor in his role of Indy and all the puzzle solving with treasure hunting. Ford was already 39 years old when he first appeared in the serial flims of Indiana Jones.

[The Agenda]

I love to immerse myself in nature at times to get away from the bustling city life. The extra sunshine on Saturday didn’t discourage my group of friends from checking out the new 9km network of trails, bridges and walkways that connect West Coast Park and Harbourfront. See ST published map.

All were to gather at Seah Im Food Centre and set off at 9am but as expected we had sufficient time to eat breakfast :P We started off from Marang Trail (800m) and took about 15mins to reach Mount Faber. The trail is a flight of easy steps (as compared to Bukit Timah Hill’s green route).

[Heat Wave - Flickr: evinoryan88]

The NEA has been promoting Energy Efficient Singapore but due to the recent spell of hot weather, some of us are keeping themselves in air conditioned environments. So how do you keep your cool without wasting energy?

I wish I can enjoy Spring or Winter right now and I bet those who are suffering the chilling cold are hoping to enjoy the heat. The grass is always greener on the other side indeed. Anyway the idea of travelling overseas is not monetary feasible.