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As much as I love Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, I love Tony more.

He has his dream come true, He put Malaysia on the map and he has a team that makes every­thing hap­pen! (I know all lead­ers more or less have these qual­ity but this guy right here is a Malaysian)

Blog­gers can reach as far as a neti­zen to tell the world where the hell is Malaysia but this guy fly the red machine across ASEAN, build low cost hotel all over, and the Lotus F1 dream. He started this all with only 2 air­planes in 2001!

Peo­ple were writ­ing our obit­u­ary before we could even take off. Today we have 90 planes (and grow­ing) and we’re cross­ing con­ti­nents. ‘Tis a great feel­ing, con­found­ing skep­tics.¹ — Tony Fernandes

Spe­cial Dis­count for the 25K Fans

I for­got to men­tion rea­son num­ber 4 didn’t I? Oh Tony just did!

If you have Face­book, add Tony as your fan and you might just get sur­prises from time to time. The Book­ing Period for the spe­cial price offer may be end­ing but this morn­ing I checked it still valid. So hurry

You guys have a great day!

I am still think­ing where should I go…

1. http://www.tonyfernandesblog.com/main.php/2009/12/24/the-day-i-cried [↩]

How are you my great fol­low­ers and lovers? Ohhh I know I have been pretty quite lately haha­haha! Have been dis­tracted by work and daily rou­tine, can’t help it. Life can be very cruel some­time isn’t it? you get some, you lose some. Never had enough time to do every­thing we want and we make sac­ri­fices. In my case, Blogging!

Also, I am so sorry if I haven’t been vis­it­ing your blog lately and you know that I don’t mean to neglect read­ing your blog. Will fly by your blog one at a time, I promise.

So here’s a bit of updates on my trip to China and I will updates more when my time and my rou­tine permit.

We were fly­ing AirA­sia on this trip and was also my first long haul flight with AirA­sia. I com­plain about foods served on board Malaysia Air­lines before and I’m drop­ping this topic on AirA­sia – I can never be sat­isfy and happy, period.

Old Town White Coffee

I do like to com­ment two things how­ever, one, The foods was not enough for every one to BUY and two, I do rec­om­mend every­one who fly­ing long haul on AirA­sia should con­sider to get the pre­mium class ticket if you can afford.

It’s took 4 hours from Kuch­ing to Macao air­port before we finally landed at 8.30pm and make our way to immi­gra­tion to quickly check out. Quickly, other wise you would stuck in the next immi­gra­tion for hours and hours and yes we did!

Oh Btw, AirA­sia is ter­mi­nat­ing the Kuch­ing – Macao flight for the sec­ond time in 2 years.

Macao Air­port

We cross over to Zhuhai, Guang­dong province via Gong­bei Port. You really don’t want to mess with this port, it was busy as hell! You are highly rec­om­mended to cross over dur­ing evening time.

Psst! Lot of Main­land Chi­nese chicks with LV, Gucci and all other branded goods cross­ing this port. Macao is truly a shop­ping haven for the Main­land Chinese!

Gong­bei Port of Entry 拱北口岸

We finally out from Gong­bei Port at 11pm, phew! We than straight to the bus stop wait­ing for our coach with dusty and smelly treat for 30min! Ah! Very tired I think I man­age to cap­ture few great shots under very bad cir­cum­stances. Hehehe!

Gong­bei Port of Entry 拱北口岸, Coach Area

Gong­bei Port of Entry 拱北口岸, Coach Area

Gong­bei Port of Entry 拱北口岸, In The Bus

It’s a relief to have entered Zhuhai after 3 hours. We have prob­lem with the health dec­la­ra­tion form in Gong­bei Port earlier.

Zhuhai night scene is kinda cool

Zhuhai 珠海, Building/sign board

Zhuhai 珠海, Building

Zhuhai 珠海, Street

We reached our hotel room at 11.30pm, tired and hun­gry! We put down our lug­gage and the first thing we did was look­ing for food. Not sure we would enjoy our foods but we sure need some foods

Here some shots of the loca­tions where we had our mid­night sup­per and it was windy “yeay!” cool! And dusty! “Boooooooo!”

No.21 Yix­ian Road, Qian­shan, Zhuhai. My mom on the right next to the bike

No.21 Yix­ian Road, Qian­shan, Zhuhai. “In Love” This shot takes my breath away!

My Favorite! what’s this call?

por­ridge

So we had our sup­per, we get drink­ing water on our way back to hotel and I have to tell you, it is very dusty here. I like the cold windy tem­per­a­ture though.

Haot­ing Com­mer­cial Hotel, 3 stars hotel 珠海豪庭商务酒店

First part end here, will con­tinue writ­ing (tomor­row hope­fully). Trivia ques­tion: what’s so spe­cial about Zhuhai? What’s the con­nec­tion between the two, Macao?
Will let you know soon

Good night!

(singing: I got the feel­ing… tonight it’s a good good night!)

25th March 2010, 6pm, in a plane…

This is crazy. Im already on a plane to Macau and should be reach­ing in 3 hours and 45minutes!

I have been very busy ever since my mother-in-law passed away. I think every one of us did. We try to occupy our­selves with lot of activ­i­ties. The pain is still in every one heart and the med­i­cine we need right now is “busy”.

Shin­goT wrote a very touch­ing sto­ries about a girl name Lisa few month ago and I can’t help to share story of my beloved mother-in-law after read­ing his post. He later shared my com­ment to all his friends in his lat­est post with lot of lot of kind com­ments and encour­age­ment in return.

I thank you Shingo T, you’re one awe­some guy! (or uncle as every one call you? Hahaha) this world need more peo­ple like you, kind and thoughtful.

I have never seen any one with proper plan­ning before vaca­tion other than MKL. He basi­cally do his research, wrote some com­par­i­son than throw some imag­i­na­tion and if that not enough he even wrote in his/her per­spec­tive. How exciting!

I on the other hand, busy, busy, busy than grab my bag board the plane, off I go! I did not have any expec­ta­tion nor direc­tion. I am more like “sur­prise me! Hit me!” haha­haha I will not even know how Macau look like if I wasn’t read­ing MKL recent visit to Macau.

@Hardrock.com

It’s not quite true that I do not have direc­tion. One, my friend Jimmy in Sin­ga­pore already ask­ing me to get him Hard Rock Cafe Tshirt. Two, every one else ask me to taste the Por­tuguese egg tart for them and my friend Den­nis request that I “tapao” for him and send it right back to Kuch­ing. Three, lot of pho­tos! MKL was there last week and already miss­ing Macau? Wow!

I bought a total of 16gb of mem­o­ries for this trip! I am expect­ing spec­tac­u­lar and out of this world awe­some­ness from Macau, Hong Kong, Shen­Zhen and Dis­ney. I almost wanted to buy a new lens but I didn’t because I am sav­ing for my 407! I think I would get a tri­pod here.

While trav­el­ing I am still think­ing of busi­ness. Kind of shame when talk­ing to some busi­ness­men on board but I don’t have name card to give out.

I enjoy this flight more than any other flight, it feels like home! About 60% of the pas­sen­ger are Chi­nese Hakka and it so dif­fer­ent to travel with these com­mu­ni­ties. It feels like bring­ing our home trav­el­ing with us.

Chi­nese Hakka love to talk, no mat­ter where they go they will chat about water (have you drink enough water before you board the plane? Very health con­scious), chat about prayer at Bud­dhist tem­ple, invite peo­ple to sing! (every Hakka love to sing!), keep ask­ing about time (They dont under­stand eng­lish so I would trans­late), they laugh out loud (They are really happy peo­ple when they got to travel), talk about shower (Hakka peo­ple love to shower! They shower 3 times a day! Myself included when I am not working)

I was talk­ing to a Chi­nese Hakka bos recently and he is con­cern that the young Hakka gen­er­a­tion will not speak Hakka any more, most of us speak Man­darin on a daily basis. I would sug­gest par­ent should make it a habit speak­ing Hakka to their chil­dren or else Hakka lan­guage would be forgotten.

Here a ques­tion for you guys. Do you take note of how many times your belong­ing travel with you? Haha­haha I have this habit!

My Nike Air 360, Tis­sot watch, wind­breaker has been to Japan. My Mac­book, Hush Puppy bag, Canon D400, 70-200mm, kit lens, 50mm lens, lens fil­ters travel with me for the very first time! I think I like to ded­i­cate a page for my belong­ing of where have they been trav­el­ing! It would be awe­some! Wow, very orig­i­nal! I think I like to give them a title “have belong­ing will travel!” what do you think?

Now that my jour­ney has started I like to clear one myth, they said when you travel in group and by a tour guide you nor­mally would be force into pay­ing in all the places you go. Let us see how true!

Happy Hol­i­day, Yay!!!

If you think Malaysia Air­lines ser­vice sucks, please con­sider to do this sur­vey. Thank you