So many mall cropping up in kl

By 2020

Kl ecocity
Kl 118
Bbcc
Plaza rakyat
Paradigm oug
Bukit jalil pavillion

Melbourne Auckland trip

Day 1 Thu - went to Caroline spring to shop. Nandos dinner. Quest apartment is quite new but no wifi included

Day 2 Fri - stay in hotel watch ABC kids the whole morning. visit water gardens ate a huge fish soup pot, sweet n sour pork rice for lunch n dinner. Shopped at Target

Day 3 Sat - Phillip island chocolate factory some farm and noobies centre. San Remo fish and chips. Mad mex from Chapel St

Day 4 Sun - Melbourne Royal botanical garden Shrine of Rememberance. dondon lunch Harbor Town. Chef Lagenda Malaysian food dinner

Day 5 Mon - shopping at water gardens. Bought new shoes for siubi. TGIF dinner. Sabrina started to eat fries.

Day 6 Tue - stay at home on this rainy day and had dinner at The Good Fish Co. Went out the house for the first time.

Day 7 Wed - Moldy liao. Weribee open range 65 Aud sia zoo. Red rooster dinner at home

Day 8 Thu - Mt Dandenong and yarra valley very scenic. Visited chocolaterie and had a nice gelato and a lot of free chocolates for bb. Had lunch at cuckoo. German food. meaty.

Day 9 Fri - auckland early morning departure. Woke up at 3am. Weather was good but not enough sleep. Apartment is spacious with free Wi-Fi. La porchetta pizza pasta dinner. Bb ate rice with minced meat.

Day 10 Sat - went to sheep world but it rains. The staff was nice to let us see the bunnies and a 6 weeks old lamb. Shopped at west field St Luke's to buy bb groceries. Dinner teriyaki chicken sushi rice. Not enough. Bought Carl Jr. Burger for supper.

Day 11 Sun - Cornwall park bistro. Had fish n chip and lamb ragu pasta. Nice One Tree Hill. Saw many sheeps real close. Mexican food dinner. Bb ate rice with Mexican pulled pork.

Day 12 Mon - Mission Bay and devonport. Movenpick ice cream and Auckland fish market. Dinner nandos and Wendy's. Bb ate rice with fish n nandos chicken. 

Day 13 Tue - Hunua falls and Auckland botanic garden. Pork belly lunch at Cafe Miko. Roast duck and soya chicken, broccoli n rice for dinner

Day 14 Wed - went to Sylvia park shopping and ate Japanese lunch.

Day 15 Thurs - time to go home

Gearbox type

1. Manual clutch

2. Automatic 

A. Semi auto clutchless / automated manual= EGS/ ETG6
B. Manumatic = torque converter + ability to manually select gear shift
C. Dual clutch = DSG/ Powershift/ EDC
D. CVT

Gearbox manufacturers 

Getrag

Borg Wagner

Aisin 

Zf

Jatco 

petrol credit card tie up

caltex - sc, hsbc n ocbc - plus
spc - uob, amex n posb - spc&u
Esso - Citibank, ocbc n dbs - smiles
shell - uob, Citibank n hsbc - escape

cold storage, giant, metro, coffee bean, tung lok, singtel, guardian - uob
sheng siong, paragon/ tangs, starbucks , m1- citibank
ntuc, robinson, paradise, unity - ocbc
taka, crystal jade, starhub, sheng siong/ watson - dbs
suntec, vivo, ion orchard, tung lok - amex

Hsbc, dbs, ocbc do tie up with gv cathay or shaw

Maybank, cimb are less popular becos they have no petrol tie up

6 Main cc player uob , dbs, ocbc, citi, sc, hsbc

Electrical appliance in sg

TV bog from best denki and Harvey norman
Aircon sanyo 17 k btu from gain city
Fridge and washing machine Harvey norman

My TV evo
1. Sharp LCD hd
2. Samsung smart hd led non wifi
3. Lg smart led fhd wifi

Asean pass

Sin - lkw -kl- kk- sin = 8

Sin- kl - bkk- sin = 9

NZ + AU mix n match

Adelaide - Cairns
Sydney - Canberra - Wellington
Melb - Hobart
Brisbane - Gold coast - Queenstown
Melbourne - Auckland

Other places I wish to go
1. Okinawa, Hokkaido, Jeju, Fukuoka
2. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland

Rotterdam and tonsberg trip

First time taking a350 and embraer 190. Had the opportunity to try out biz class. Weather was quite cold 8 to 14 deg c. Manage to get a vodafone you L prepaid sim for 15 euro with 3gb data for 1 month that can roam the whole EU. Quite a nice deal.

Tonsberg trip is fantastic but kind of expensive. Highlight of the trip is lunch at hilton, hotel ny, scenery at tonsberg and bog bb a pair of shoe. I dont like the hotel at spijkenisse. Too far out not convenient to metro and need a feeder. Bog aha diapers which is like pampers. Oso bog 10 cent per piece Norway first price diaper.

Uber and Grab are good

Been using Uber quite regularly especially going to the airport. The referral fee system is very good especially if you go to overseas and you happened to buy a local SIM. Uber x is especially a good alternative compare to taxi since their booking fee is low. With the endless promo code sometimes 5km Uber ride can be as cheap as $2. We use Uber and Grab interchangeably depends on the real time price. This private hired car alternative has definitely changed the commuters' behavior traveling short distance. No more feeder bus no more walking to MRT station.

Car rental

Road trips

1. Miri to brunei Hyundai matrix hertz
2. Kuching Hyundai Verna hertz
3. Penang saga, Ford fiesta Avis and Hertz 
4. Kl Avis  iriz, saga
5. Perth vw Passat europcar, Nissan pulsar redspot
6. Langkawi sentra
7. Brunei Hertz vios

8. Melbourne Vw Golf europcar

9. Auckland Holden Captiva europcar

Bb word count

Baby only started to talk something make sense from around 13-15 mo.

Before 18mo - baba, mama, mum mum, Jie Jie, uh oh

18mo - nen nen, dog dog, ball ball, bye bye, bear

20mo - 呆(开), 洞(痛), boobooi 💩💩, 要 (want), mai (don't want), teh toon (cartoon), bag, zhoo (shoes), 抱抱 (hug), 怕怕 (scared), nononak (banana), 灯

24mo - 

Trip to Perth without a stamp on passport

First time on Boeing Dreamliner

Day 1
Touch down and got our car Nissan Pulsar from the underdog. Reached hotel late. Nothing is open so we ate oat meal in our Quest apartment for dinner.
Day 2
Carousel baby groceries shopping and visited Kings Park. Bought diaper, rice and uncle toby Cheerios. The Chinese mixed rice is so yucky and expensive we started to cook rice every single day. Nando's is about the same price as Malaysia.
Day 3
Drizzle and windy. Went to Rockingham but u-turn to Fremantle ate fish and chips then Baskin robbin. No walking around due to drizzle. Ate Mad Mex in Subiaco.
Day 4
Rockingham penguin island free penguin show admission and shopping at Target. Hugs Breath is cheaper than SG. Bought Fila shoes for 15 sgd and Logitech universal remote control. Mad Mex again but with some kfc.
Day 5
Swan Valley Mondo Nougat factory, ate dim sum, bog a Vodafone 4g sim and city tour on foot after checking into Novotel. Perth people start happy hour at 430pm. Packed Ribs n Burgers for dinner. Cat bus is free. We took red line to Mecedes college and walk back to hotel. Played Kinect games at night.
Day 6
Visited Fremantle market and prison. Ate big breakie at a local cafe. The f&b service in Perth is very slow. Only 1 coffee machine, 1 chef to make all the order. Resting inside the car at monument hill. Packed some grilled fish from food court for dinner.
Day 7
Ferry and train ride and prepare to go home. Common ticket $3 for 2 hours. Packed subway at train station to scoot. The airport is having a makeover. Had fish n chips again and hawaiian pizza at long neck cafe. Scootimaus stewardess very determined to catch ppl eating outside food. That's their strategy to keep bugging you until you fed up and give up. 5 hours flight is really not easy with bb on board. She only slept from 9-12 on plane then 3-7 at home. 

18 mo quantum leap

Between 12-18 month I don't really remember what new tricks my bb Sab learned. But from 18 mo onwards, her skill and behaviour development is amazingly significant. She can almost run, almost feed herself, almost sleep through the night and stop nursing to sleep at night. She can open the kitchen sliding door, walk into the kitchen and point at the milk bottle rack to indicate that she wants milk. She lie on the couch and hold her bottle firmly, pull the teat in and out of her mouth to adjust the pressure inside. She understand shower and walk into the bathroom. She understand her body part on her face. She can kiss me on my lip. She get on and off the dining chair carefully without aided. Colouring became one of her favourite activities. Before leaving the house she will point to the shoe cabinet. She sit still in the car seat on morning ride. She dance when there is music and stare at TV when there is motion picture. She stack up toys and clap to praise herself. She can do so much fun stuff and made me laugh.

Singapore 2020 -the future

Greater southern waterfront
Tuas megaport
Marina south
T4, jewel and T5 changi airport
Sin kl hsr
Paya lebar airbase development
North south expressway
Tecl mrt

The high end travel card

Citibank prestige
Uob visa infinite
Scb visa infinite
Amex plat charge card
Ocbc voyage
HSBC visa infinite

Orly Airport on a shoestring 2008

8 years ago we went to Paris using Air Berlin. We landed at Orly Airport and we took bus 183 to Porte de Choisy. From there we took a tram to Stade charlety. You just need a single ticket to perform this trip.

Then we walked to Ibis Hotel nearby Gentily. The bus is very cheap less than 2 euro and bring us from Zone 4 to Zone 1. The next day we bought a Mobilis day ticket to Disneyland.

We avoided the Orly bus as it will me more costly to travel to Gentily. In 2013 a tram line 7 from the airport is open to Villejuif.

Basically from the airport you have the option of taking local bus, Orlyval, Orlybus, shuttle bus to RER C Ponte de Rungis and Tram line 7.

The t+ ticket allows you to travel on:

• metro lines
• RER lines (RATP and SNCF) within Paris (zone 1)
• Ile-de-France bus lines (RATP and OPTILE), except Orlybus and Roissybus (see the specific conditions below for the Noctilien network and lines with special fares: 299, 350 and 351)
• tramway lines (RATP and SNCF)
• the Montmartre funicular

The following types of connections are possible with this ticket:

• metro/metro
• metro/RER and RER/RER within Paris
• bus/bus (including between the RATP and OPTILE networks), bus/tram and tram/tram for 90 minutes between the first and last validation

Please note: it is not possible to make metro/bus, metro/tram, RER/bus and RER/tram connections using the same t+ ticket.

2016 travel plan

Feb cny sin - kl - kk - bwn - sin

Apr Perth

May Rotterdam & oslo

Sep melb - Hobart - Auckland

M1 movie sunday

If i want to watch movie alone i will watch during weekday at engwah.

If on sunday i will choose to watch at shaw bugis using m1 one for one

Otherwise during weekend or when shaw not available i will watch at gv with hsbc prepaid

Trans tasman fifth freedom

Besides virgin aust, qantas, jetstar and air nz

The following foreign airlines fly tans tasman

Emirates, aax, sia, philipines, china airlines, LAN

Shopback + Lazada + hellopay + dash + cc combo

Ultimate combo potentially can get 30 sgd discount

Lazada max discount 15% + 5% hellopay loyalty + 5% dash rebate

What is happening to MAS

I never took Mas before. So far only took firefly. Currently Mas is partnering with Emirates for long haul flights to middle East, Europe and Africa.

However for the average Malaysian we can assume that they will also have the choice of flying via changi and bkk via one stop transit or direct using aax.

What is happy roam?

Starhub and m1 now competing to offer prepaid user roam data like at home. Personally i like this very much save the hassle of swapping sim or registering a new line when at overseas. I am now contemplating to cancel my hotlink in 2016 and use either m1 or starhub to roam. 

Starhub is slightly more x but i allow you to data roam in 6 countries.... australia, taiwan, thailand, indon, hk, msia

Even now singtel prepaid can data roam.

In general 10 sgd is for 1gb for 30 days or 15 sgd for 2gb

Alternative can be buying local sim 

Hotlink and u mobile provide option to data roam for rm 10 per day. The supporting country is the only differentiator 

Friends' children birthday

Friends' children birthday

Serena 16 Dec 06

Ivan 31 Aug 07

Gordon 12 May 09

Ian 12 Aug 09

Emily 26 Dec 10

Verona 1 Jul 11

Gladys 19 Feb 12

Caleb 8 Dec 12 

Evan 15 Dec 12

Sabrina 08 Oct 14

Glenda 28 Jun 15

Air freedom

Airlines flown

Lcc - jetstar, aa, aax, tiger, malindo, firefly, scoot

Fsc - sia, air France, Royal Brunei, saudia, Emirates, Thai, finnair, anz, Lufthansa, united, air Berlin, Klm, Cathay Pacific, mas,

V day at Brunei

Every time we go Brunei we must eat askapi sushi. After the heavy meal we went for a stroll at a park near the hotel. The park was quite well kept. Wished I could go up to the tasek. Perhaps we will revisit this park again when i revisit brunei in 2019 when the temburong bridge is completed.

 Brunei is a safe place with no tax. This time, Xft went to shop at Mothercare. Rented a new Vios from hertz. Petrol is cheap and easy to drive around using hou Liu dik Nokia gps. Low cost of living. After the walk we had a vday buffet at the hotel. It cost just sgd 35 nett per pax. In 3 years time we should be revisiting Brunei. All in all the trip is relaxing for a short transit with bbo. First year bb went cuti cuti. Second year bb start to go overseas trip.This year brunei is part of the epic annual cny SIN-KUL-BKI-BWN-SIN trip. The transit can be via BWN, Kuching or JB. Everytime bb wake up she will be at a new place or country.

Mobile alliance

Bridge- singtel, maxis

Conexus starhub, ntt docomo, vodafone

Asia mobility m1, axiata - Qorus alliance

Acasia - telekom, cat, singtel, telbru, pldt, vnpt, indosat

Spectrum

P1+TM

YTL+ Asiaspace

Alltel+Celcom

Maxis+ U mobile+ Redtone

Only digi is left alone. P1 has sign domestic roaming with Celcom. Another round of potential consolidation seems likely for the weaker players. P1 and YTL are planning to launch TD LTE