Mid year vacation over, back to reality

Yeap, my island adventure part 4 has come to an end. Time for me get recover and get back to reality. I had a very wonderful island adventure with my other 8 friends. To honest it was fun but not as fun as last year's one. May be it's because of the accommodation and facilities that was provided. I find that the room was the only good thing here. The rest like food, beach boy friendliness and the activities provided still lose to cheaper resorts and chalets in perhentian lsland. I stayed at Bubu long beach resort btw. I wouldn't recommend anyone to go bubu long beach for the price. Cheaper resort can do better than Bubu long. Why do i know? Because i have been to perhentian island 3 times in a row and i have stayed at Perhentian Island Resort (2007) and Cocohut chalet (2008) and there are a lil cheaper than bubu long but in term of activities , facilities and food provided still lose to both ot them. I highly recommend cocohut and it was the best one i every stayed. Food is freaking nice, beach boys are fun when you go snorkeling, room is very comfortable and friendly staff there. So planning to go perhentian trip ya guys can consult me...hehe.

Anyway...now let me get in detailed to my holiday here. We had fun that was for sure because this time we had a underwater camera! Well...it's not really a underwater camera but it's a normal digital camera and we got a cheap underwater casing that will work no more than 10 feet underwater. Seems fair enough for me because we're just snorkeling and wont be diving too deep after all. Here is a shot underwater.
We used bread to lure the fish to us so we can get a up close shot here.
Here is a shot of me in the water. If you noticed i wasn't wearing any life jacket while swimming, that's because i wanted to have the freedom to swim at the open ocean. I want to give in the ocean to see the corals and fishes nearer. Don't worry, i can swim pretty well i think...LOL. But a piece of advice here, if ever you plan to go and swim in the open ocean and even if you know how to swim but you're not confident with the open ocean, please put on the life jacket. I have seen amatures swimmers struggle to keep them self a float because of the underwater current.
Here is an example how someone should put on a life jacket...hehe

So basically what we do there for 3d2n was just eat, swim, and play and eat again. Same routine. We spent a lot of time in the water thought.
Here is a poser pic of me and kevin for you to see. Trying to be like ultraman i guess...lol. We saw sea turtle too and i manage to swim along with the turtle and took a few pics. Here is one. It's damn big i tell you! i think this turtle has been around here for almost 100 year.
Now we paid another extra snorkeling trip and we went to the light house....boy i tell you the corals underneath the light house was sooooooo nice! I mean what you see outside the resort most of them are dead thanks to the the amount of people swimming around that area. If you ever go to Perhentian island, the light house is a MUST go place for snorkeling. Trust me you wont regret. We then docked at the light house and the boat man went up the light house and jump down into the deep ocean! Wow now that was freaking fun and i wanted to do it too!
Here you can see me i have climbed up the light house and about to jump into the ocean! It's about 2 story tall into the ocean.
You can see here the beach boy just jumped into the water! Freaking awesome! To honest here i was kinda afraid when i got up the light house....it looked pretty high but i was determined to do it! Every time i wanted to jump, my leg just couldn't let go of the ledge. Kevin pushed me into the ocean once but i wasn't satisfied because i want to jump the light house ledge on my own so i climbed back up for 2nd attempt.
It took me around 10 mins standing at the ledge before i jump into the ocean! Everyone was waiting for me to jump and now i am being teased by them.
Now that's me in the water already...couldn't manage to take the shot of me jumping into the ocean in time.

It was one hell of an experience and i will do it again if i get the chance. Well, after that we got back to our resort, took a nice hot shower and ate dinner. At night we had a secret operation for a good friend of mine. He was going to propose to his gf to marry him and we make him a treasure chest and guess what...the operation was successful! I am so happy for my friend here. This friend of mine better belanja is BIG BIG because we did played a big part in planning ...hehehe.

Now i am back in KL with sun burnt mark on my back. It was really red and painful yesterday but now not so painful. Now my skins is turning darker and it's starting to itch. It's a sign of the skin is stating to peel. Well...i have been to island adventure 4 years in a row and guess what 4/4 times i got sun burnt! Oh yeah! I am so used to the feeling already which i literally don't care. I did put sun lotion on but still i always kena. Don't know why but well...as long i had fun...it's ok to get sun burn once a year...HEHE.

Okie...that's all from me and here is the pic of the resort
Alright, I'm off...here is a song i have been listening until now since 2001 for you to enjoy..."Vertical Horizon - Best i ever had"....adios amigos!

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1 comments

Time for a break

I took my CCIE written exam last monday and i pass with flying color (thanks to p4s) and now i have renewed my CCNP and now i need to prepare for the ultimate challenge which is the super lab! I have 1 and half years to prepare for my lab so i some how gotta find motivation do study. For the past 2 week i haven't been playing my guitar a lot. May be just 10-30 mins a day max if i have time but now im back to being a full time guitarist at home! So glad i can fully concentrate on my guitar and trying to improve myself at the same time.

Pretty much i'm all beat up. Alright, it's time for me to take my 1/2 year break for 2009.This sunday i'll be taking a plane to KB, then a 40 mins car ride to Kuala Besut, then another 20-30 mins boat ride to Perhentian Island! Boy i can't wait!!!! I can hear the waves washing up the shores now. This is what im picturing in my head now below:
This will be my 4th island adventure in a row and my 1st holiday of 2009. Going to take my guitar there to and have a beach street performance. Let's see if my skills have improved to draw a lil crowd. There will be 8 of us going and we plan to go on a fishing trip. I have been looking forward to this trip for a long time and it's gonna come very soon! Oh boy oh boy i better get my stuff ready.

Well....that island adventure will be my mid year holiday and end of the year i have another holiday to look forward too and it's Krabi in Thailand! I have never been to Thailand before. Do you know that all staff are required to take 2 weeks force leave off during december. 2 weeks is hell of a long time and i don't plan to sit at home and rot. So i was thinking something fancy and may be Thailand. Was talking about it with with my ex-colleague and she too agreed to go Thailand. So i suggested Krabi and we went and looked for another 2 person and guess what...with in 24 hours after discussion and we have booked AA direct flight from LCCT to Krabi for only RM211 with return! I must say this is the fastest planned holiday in history! It's like "i on. you on. they on. air ticket cheap buy now." and the next second it's "Krabi here we come!" we shouted. There will be 4 of us and we'll be ther for 4d3n. We haven't look for accommodation yet as we still have time to plan. I have never stepped out of Malaysia since im back from aussie back in 2005. Okie, may be Singapore but that's too normal to me. Now Thailand, that's something new for me.

Ho ho ho...i soooo cant wait for my holidays! In fact i have other group of friends also suggested Bali this year. I don't mind going there but it seems there isn't any cheap air tix for now. We'll wait and see if we will come across any cheap tix.

Okidoki, i guess that's all i want to say here. Let me see if i have time put in one more entry before my Perhentian trip. Before i sign off, now here is another song for you to enjoy. It's a new song from Miley Cyrus called "The Climb". I'm no fan of Hannah Montana but this song pretty encouraging to listen too if you know what i mean. Alright, signing off now. See ya~

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2 comments

Time to put my guitar a side and get serious

Alright, i have an announcement to make here. I will be quitting my guitar until 15th June. I know, i know, you guys must be saying "what!?" or "you must be joking right Benny?". Well, im not joking here. Something that i play in front of my pc everyday i will put a totally stop on it! Okie, may be not total stop la but when i think i need a break, then i'll pop my guitar out and play for a while. The reason to this is because i will be doing my CCIE written exam on the 15th June i don't plan to screw this up. It's the highest certification in Cisco certification and not easy at all! I need all the time available to study and score here. This means no more going out with friends until dawn. So wish me luck here!

Today, i looked up the sky and saw the moon shining so brightly up the sky and it's a full moon. I stared at it for a while and smiled, thinking about something i wrote to someone about the moon shining so bright during the night. If i can remember clearly, i wrote this:

Everybody want to be the sun to shine on you but i rather be the moon, so i can shine upon you during your darkest night when you need light

I don't think that's the exact words i said but something close to that. Can't believe i actually thought that up...lol. I took the picture of the moon today.

I know the bright round thing don't look like a moon that's because i was using my phone camera. You know phone camera are not meant to treated like a digital camera especially if it's a Nokia.

Oh shiet, it's 3:37am now. I think i better go. But before i go, i got something to say here. You all noticed i added a new music player on my blog here. Now for every new post here, i shall add in the song i'm listening at the moment. So for today's post, it's a classic song back in the 90s during my secondary school time called 'Greenday - Good Riddance(Time of your life)'. It's lyrics if the song is very meaningful so that is why i like this song. I can play this whole song on my guitar too and i'm planing to record it and upload on youtube one fine day.

I don't think i will be adding any new post until 15th June. So hopefully the next post, it will be good news about my CCIE exam. Until next time, take care, and later~

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por BaRNeY ~ Sunday, June 7, 2009 3 comments

Exactly 1 year ago

Today mark a very special date for me. Exactly 1 year ago on 31st May 2008, a good friend of mine came back from Australia and we went to Perhentian Besar Island on that date upon her request. There was 4 of us, her younger brother, her best friend and ME of course! We took a bus to Kuala Besut from Putra bus station beside PWTC. It was a midnight bus and i remembered i didn't sleep at all during the whole journey. It's not that i don't want to sleep but i just can't sleep when something is moving like in the bus or plane. We reached Kuala Besut jetty around 5am++ and we ate breakfast at a Chinese shop. After breakfast all of us have to wait for our resort office to open around 8am++ so we all hang out at the jetty area. I was kinda tired and the rest of them slept at the jetty waiting area. Since the 3 of them slept, i took the courtesy to look after the belongings and them of course. I even took some shots of them sleeping :P .

When the resort office opened, we all went in and register our self and they all slept again at the office. This time there is a nice sofa for them. Again i took pics of them sleeping but this time asked the office girl to help me take while i pose in front of them. I remembered i got scolding from them for taking the pics while they're sleeping.

Anyway, we only took off to the island around 10am++ and i was still very awake considering i was wake since yesterday 7am! When we reached the island, checked in, change to our swim attire and ate lunch. All of us was so pumped up to go snorkeling. The snorkeling trip was so damn fun and our last stop was at a natural mini cold water fall. I remember my friends took the cold water and splashed at me.

And so, after the snorkeling trip, we went back to our room, took shower and ate dinner. Honestly the dinner was seriously good as they serve kampung style food. At night we just hang out by the beach and i took out my guitar started to perform...hehe. A staff from the resort came to us and started to ask what song i play. Well, i played any song that came to my mind at that time. That night we didn't last long as we're dead tired from all the travelling we did from KL. I crashed around 11pm++ after almost 48 hours awake!

DAY 2, rise and shine. I had a good night sleep and now im all geared up for another new adventure! Morning we had breakfast and getting ready for round 2 of snorkeling. Guess what...the whole boat was just 4 of us and another 2 guest. We made friend with the 2 guest who happens to be Malaysian also. 2 hours ++ later we headed back and no more snorkeling trip for us outside of the island. We ate lunch and went on a banana boat with our 2 new friends. We only fell off the banana once but it was a BIG one. When all of us hit the water, i collided with my friend's younger brother head to head and my friend feet hit my head! BUMP! I blacked out for 1 second and regain consciousness and was seeing stars already(yes, seeing stars was real). All of us was in the water and we hug each other so the water current won't push us too far away.

Then it was dinner time and we had dinner with the 2 new friends we just made. We talked a lot and after dinner i took out my booze and asked them to drink with us too. I took my all time favorite Solo softdrink from aussie as the mixer. Everyone said it tasted better than coke as the mixer. I exchanged my name card with the 2 new friends so we will still keep in touch even after our trip. It was fun drinking with them, chatting and laughing! The ladies didn't really drink a lot and i didn't want to take back my booze so i drank most of it and was a lil high but still can walk. We did a night walk around the beach, took photos, and when we stopped at the jetty, things got worst for me. Suddenly felt i cannot walk and need to sit down. I puked a lil and crashed. I was still conscious but i sat with them looking at the ocean.

Once everyone is done talking by the jetty, we headed back to our rooms. I was walking kinda wobbly already and my friends best friend hold on to me so that i don't drop and sleep on the sad. I remembered that i even remember to walk back to the dinning area, pick up my guitar and go back to the room and sleep. That conclude my trip and we headed back to KL by bus on the 2nd June 2008.

Have i told you i will be going for another Island adventure trip next month? It will be 21st June - 23rd June and this time it's Perhentian Kecil Island. Can't wait for that trip! This time i will be going with 8 person and this time they are all my childhood friends. staying near by my house. Gonna bring my guitar and my best friend will be bringing it too. This will be my 4th island adventure in a row. I have listed them down here with pics and year:

Redang Island (Redang Bay Resort) 2006

Perhentian Besar Island (Perhentian Island Resort) 2007

Perhentian Besar Island (Cocohut Chalet) 2008

Perhentian Kecil Island (Bubu Long Beach) 2009

Ahhhh....sweet memories from the past. All those pictures taken was around June - July during the peak season.

And so, i will conclude my blog for today. I purposely waited for this date to post this blog as it's an important date as it was the beginning and the ending too. Made a mess out of myself and i shall end it all. I will roam freely again and will aim for the things I've always wanted in the past. Before i sign off, just wanna say "Thanks for the wonderful memories....and Good Bye~"

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por BaRNeY ~ Sunday, May 31, 2009 0 comments

BaRNeY the Skeleton

For the past weeks, i have received numerous complaints about my weight! Most of my female friends (which i have not seen them for like may be no more than a month) told me this "eh benny, are you eating? how come you looked more skinny already?" or "how come you're so thin already benny? how you do it ar?". I have heard that from so many people for the past 1 month! OH SHIET! Im DOOMED!

It's not that i don't want to put on weight, i just cant put on weight so easily! I pull iron at home everyday, eat daily and when i go eat outside i sure whack kao kao the food. My makan friends knows that i can eat a lot. Still, i am getting thinner day by day. Some told me "Benny, you will be fat only when you get married and have kids". Okie, now that may be true but as far for my concerned, i have to do something about my weight. You know any books like "Gain weight for dummies" or "Gain weight in 24 hours"? If you know just anything, just hit me with anything. May be you want to help me out by buying me lunch or dinner and feed me like a pig, i'll be glad to tag along with no questions asked!

Who is kind enough buy me meals i will gladly accept. My weight is in your hands, so HELP me! Anyway, stopping here for now. Hope i can gain more weight in no time, hehe...till then, ADIOS~

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por BaRNeY ~ Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4 comments

Good ol feelings with good ol friends

14/05/09, thats today's date im blogging. Gonna be 12am soon but i feel like writing something here. Last Saturday me, C, A, J, and K went up to Genting for a guys night out. We didn't invite the gals up because it's called "Guys night out" where only guys hang out and do crazy stuff. We brought our own Scotch Whisky up and we're planning to drink out door! Before i go in detailed to the drinking part, let me tell how wow did our journey went

All of us sat in my car and i drove up the hill after breakfast in KL. We reached there around 11am and that time the room wasn't ready for us yet so we ended in the casino watching people gamble. We din really do much during the afternoon and evening. Just walk around and waste time. We even took an afternoon nap in the room. At night we went out and look for dinner and ended up in this hong kong style restaurant called 'Causeway something" which i forgot. the name. God damn it the price on the menu was crazy! Super expensive! We wanted to walked out but since we're seated de, might as well just order something to eat la. All of us ordered Chinese tea and guess what, i finished my drink de and called the waited to refill the water. The waiter told me "add water need to add 0.50 cents. want?". I was stunned that they waiter asked for 50 cents from me just to add hot water! OMG! Crazy...but just to give face, i said yes. I told the rest of my friends not to add water and better go casino and enjoy hot chocolate for free.

Dinner was ok only and we went in to casino to try our luck. Too bad i lost and so did J. The only person who won was A and his wining was RM25 only. LOL, he decided to buy us lunch next day. We finished our gambling session around 11pm and went off for our booze session! We went up the room got out drinking stuff, took the lift down and exit the resort hotel. Beside resort hotel got this small japanese park, that's our camping place. We wasted no time and started drinking the booze. I said this when i took the the 1st sip "AHHHHHH, this is good SHIT!". Drinking session was held outdoor and it was very cooling. To me it was very nice feeling but A cannot take the outdoor drinking. He was shivering and we needed to buy him a cup of hot tea from coffee bean to cool down. A vomited and we asked K to take A into the hotel to sit down where its not cold.

During the drinking session K just drank a sip and he said he was drunk. We was like WTF!? Is K a big wuss? I scold the hell out of him that don't fake drunk but K kept saying he was drunk. Me, C and J couldn't care less and we continued drinking until K took A to the room to rest. A is no ta good drinking and i know it. So we can forgive A. So left me, C, and J finishing up the last few shots of whisky. That time all us was kinda high already and talking nonsense. I remember C even took a video of us, interviewing us. I was cursing like body business and so was J. After we finished the drinks, we still can clean up the place and go back to the room.

Now the real fun starts here. When we got back to the room most of us was kinda high except K who was faking drunk. We tried to play the board game RISK but it ended up in a disaster. I was trying to place my troops on the board and simply screaming and cursing at the game. Suddenly A got angry and threw the broad away...LOL. Then we all started to really talk nonsense, over turn the tables. C saw some bikers outside the window and threw a bottle a them and we all laughed sooooo loud! Out of no where A took his favorite board game and wanted to threw it out the window too. All of us was shouting "oi A what u doing!?" and stopped him from throwing it out the window. Then A tried to lift the TV and threw it out the window too and again stopped by us. C was busy capturing video of us doing the chaos in the room. J also had his moment. I was really sober that time and told J "lets go casino now". J said this "Ok....i am going to win back my RM400k!". We all heard that and said "J, where u find RM400k wo?"...LOL. That moment was recorded on the video too.

Seriously it was a very crazy and fun night. We all seriously went back to out youth again and start doing prank like what we do best in primary school. C even walked out our room, go to the next door room and press the door bell. HOLY SHIT! That time was like 3am++ and when he ran back into our room, we all laughed sooo loud. I was so afraid that the management will come and look for us to complaint but lucky that didn't happened.

We had fun that night except that that idiot K who tried to fake drunk and run away. Even a lady could do better than K. Well....C took all the pics and video but i don't have them yet with me so i cannot show you what exactly happen. One thing for sure is we have to filter alot of pics because most of the shots take was crazy sober shots if u know what i mean.

It was a successful 1 and we will make another trip next month and this time we're bringing the ladies up. We have 2 free room that we can use. It's late de, i think i need to crash. Will try and write again soon. Will show you the genting pics when i have them. Until next time, adios~

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por BaRNeY ~ Thursday, May 14, 2009 2 comments

May, please be different than April

April came, April gone and now it's May. OH CRAP! We have gone through 1/3 of 2009! You know, i am very glad that April has past. I had the toughest luck in April. The shit just keeps coming and coming every week nonstop. Trust me my friend, you won't want to be in my shoes last month. Imagine this, it's like you're walking on this long straight road. Walking half way someone took a piece of crap threw it at you and flee away. You're standing there stunned for what just happened and said "What the f*ck was that?". So, you clean yourself up and start your journey down the road again and again someone threw crap at you again. All i want to say here is what i did to deserve all this crap? But all things happen for a reason that's for sure. I will talk about "things happen for a reason" on my next post here.

So, May is here and I'm hoping i will have better luck this month. I think my luck is coming back to me because on the 1st of May, i thought my phone died. I was pretty much devastated to see my 3 months old phone just couldn't turn on in the Morning. Just when i thought I'll have the same crap from April, i was told my forumers to charge the phone longer because the phone may be drained out all the batt dry. So i did and guess what, it's ALIVE! I was pretty much relieved that my phone won't end up in the workshop. I guess my luck for May is turning to the better? This i gotta wait and see.

Yesterday i went to MV to watch a Chinese movie called "Sniper" with my friends. After the movie i decided to go into the Nike shop to see if they have the sneaker i want. I found 1 that i really like and bought it! Here is the picture of it below:

Ah, another white sneaker for me. This is my 2nd pair sneaker after my Adidas superstar sneaker i have been wearing for years. This sneaker cost me RM189. The a little bit of orange color really make it more "alive" i can say. So now i have 2 pair of sneakers to decide which to wear when i go out. Hehehe. Here is another shot of my Nike sneakers from another angle.

Oh ya, my parents just came back from Aussie last Thursday and look at what they got for me!
Yum yum! My all time favorite Smith potato chips from Aussie and soft drink that taste better than coke! Not forgetting it goes very well with liquor you know?

Next week Sat i will be heading up to Genting for 1 night with my primary school friends. Gonna bring my smith potato chip there for supper and i'll save the soft drink for next month perhentian island adventure trip with Blue Label to go with. Sharing is caring, hehehe. Can't wait!!!!

Okidoki, time to stop here. I'll be back to explain "Things happen for a reason" on my next post so stay tune! Until then, ja-ne~

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por BaRNeY ~ Sunday, May 3, 2009 2 comments