Diamonds!

At my age, most of my friends are finishing their studies and getting ready to face the working world. While most of us are settling down on new jobs and new places, plenty of my friends are getting married as well!

It is great to see your own friends getting married though, realizing the old friends that you used to play with, now are already adults and venturing into new phase in life! But that comes with responsibilities too. I still remembered clearly that one of the guy friends’ complaint to me that his future wife was demanding for a ring made of either Canary Yellow Diamonds or Cognac Diamonds as the wedding rings!

I could only smile and wished him all the best! What a great commitment! and his wife is sure a lucky girl to have a loving husband as him!

A series of events

Something I caught in the fisherman village the other day. :) hehe...

cool eh? hahaa...first time saw a fisherman throw the net from so close distance. hehe...

Old times

Ever since graduated, a lot of my friends started to reminisce about our times in the university whenever we met face to face or chat online. We talked about everything, from good to bad, from touching stories to stupid things we did. It was great recalling all these moments in life.

One particular incident that my friends kept talking about was the guys’ gatherings in one of the hostel rooms at random nights during the semester. Most of the time, they were playing the poker games and they actually enjoyed the companions and laughter. One of them even mentioned: “After this when we departed, we could meet on Online gambling site to say in touch!” What do you think?

Fisher Village

I have never really been in a fisher village before though, especially those along the seaside. Well, this time was a great experience for me. :)

the bridge is so scary, they are not stable! and yet the kids "flew" on them like nobody's business.

above the water....so, they just throw all the rubbish out of the windows huh?

salted fish. :D

goose! haven't seen this creature for a while! hahaha...

Setokok Beach

In Batam Island, it is very rare to find a beach or place that is without being developed or polluted. There are so many industrial areas that so little places are left untouched by human beings.

So, we drove for around one hour from the Batam City Square (City centre) to reach this beautiful place called Setokok Beach.

tree brunches...

again...can see the fishermen's village behind?

i am advertising for them, Mizone drink. haha...shud ask them for some fee..hehe..

the nearby fisherman's villages.

the yellowish white sand...

found a coral!died already unfortunately...

they have this kind of small huts for people to rest by the beach!so nice...

yeap, i wonder how is it going to be like if i can snorkel there?

one thing i realise after visiting the beach....i think i am not so much of a beach person, am i? hmmm...the sceneries are nice, but maybe nothing much i can do there. should try some snorkeling or fishing. haha...

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Barelang Bridge, Batam

It was a long weekend, and while I was idling at home, suddenly my colleague suggested to go for photoshooting with him and his friend. I agreed without second thought and here we go! By the way, as some of you might not know, I am now in Indonesia, for job. :) hehe...

We intended to go to a place called Setokok and we passed by the famous bridge in Batam, Barelang Bridge. This bridge is divided into 6 bridges and it connects the Riau Islands! The structure was pretty awesome! :)

the bridge as we passed by. Photo Credit to Ario Irawan. :)

another view.

feels like spider web, no?

the view from the bridge.

i like this one alot. the structure on the top left is the fisherman house on the water.

and that's me, slim down, no? :D

hehe...

Gold conversation

Yesterday night, one of the managers in the company invited me and my colleague over to his place for open house dinner. After the dinner, the guys were chilling out at the front yard and we were talking about properties and also some investment.

One of the colleagues mentioned “It is very rare to find anyone that is without debt nowadays.” I find it quite true. Soon we dwelt into financial freedom topic and price of gold came into the conversations. I was not unsure of the gold prices but most of them do, and the manager quoted the gold price immediately when I asked about the price in Malaysia nowadays.

It seemed to me that there were a lot of benefits of investing in gold spot. One of the very strong reasons was gold prices did not fluctuate much over the years and had been increasing consistently. Besides, the information regarding the investment was very precise and easy to access, if one wished to spot gold, he or she can always log on to the bank websites to check out the prices instantly. Moreover, one can do the transaction online for some banks. All the best in achieving financial freedom everyone!

Yue Xiu Park in GuangZhou

If you take the Metro to "Yue Xiu Gong Yuan" station, you will reach a park called Yue Xiu. LOL. I know it's lame, but that's the smart move that the China government took to enable the tourists to find the famous tourist spots easily. :)

Yue Xiu is a very huge natural park. You can find lake, river, mountains and buildings inside the park. Normally you need to pay around 5 yuan to enter the park, but when we went that time, the entrance was free! haha...but it's good to pay the 5 yuan, as a token for the government to preserve the nature! :D

Yue Xiu mountain.

One of the pathways leading to the mountain.

another one, this one is walking towards the mountain where the rams are.

Zhen Hai Tower

one of the lakes. :D

the words literally mean "Heaven". LOL. it's actually the staircase towards the top of the hill.

the staircase towards the top

the famous 5 rams statue, carved from stones by different artists. see here for another pic. :D

yeap, the handsome guy and the beautiful entrance to one of the hills(the 5 rams hill) in Yue Xiu Park.

The park is a nice place to empty our minds and enjoy the nature. the air is very fresh as well, that's why we saw a lot of people exercising there. Maybe Malaysia should have more places like this around the countries? :D

With that, i end my China posts! hehe...overall, it was an awesome trip with family. Maybe next time I will go again, this time backpacking! hehe...anyone wants to join? :D

Food in Guangzhou

I know the China post have been dragging on for a while now, even one of my friends asking me:" when will the China posts end? can't wait!". haha...

but bear with me readers, this will be the second last post. next post i will post on the wonderful Yue Xiu Park then I am done with China for a while. hehe...

Here are some nice food we ate in GuangZhou. haha...

steamed dumplings. very nice and tasty, not sure how they made it so tasty. RM 3 for this. :)

little paus (xiao long pau). minced meat inside, quite nice too. around RM3 for this.

hand peeled salted chicken. a bit salty, but very tasty if eat with plain rice. the chicken flesh are peeled off and are in slices. :) RM12 for this one.

normal vege fried with black beans fish. hehe..

pork slices with green beans


the highlight of the trip, pork slices with sour vege (Mei Chai Kou Rou). super nice! highly recommended. around RM6 for this.

and duck rice at the airport. RM6 for the whole set. :D

I am so hungry. :(