Business trip to Manila

It was my first business trip outside of Malaysia. This business trip is for aircraft maintenance procedures which organized by Cebu Pacific Airlines, My colleague and I were invited to attend the course. We had really great trip and feel lucky we got to go.

I came prepared before travelling. Reading map on google and get information about transportation and distances as part of my preparation. Not forget to change currency to Pesos (PNP).

The return trip airfares and hotel was sponsored by companies so I carried with me only Pnp 3280 peso (RM300). Since the hotel come with breakfast so I really hopefully that I could survive that amount of money for 3 days. 

Our flight from KLIA  to Ninoy Aquino InternationalAirport (NAIA) took about 4 hours but we have an hour delayed before departure. so We arrived at NAIA around 11 at night when the flight took off at 7 pm.

Manila, outside of the airport seriously has a lot of people waiting to get you in the cab. I felt annoyed when these people try to persuade u and following you around. Few drivers tried to offer you 1500 peso and some 1300 peso. That was crazily expensive and i think they tried to ripped you off. I seriously say them "NO, thank you"

Luckily we found the long line of people waiting at the end of the airport. We saw they are waiting for the metered taxi. It was yellow taxi car.  So we decided to just stand in the line. Even it was long line and waited about half an hour,it's worth. We finally got the cab and ended up to check in the hotel around 12.30 am. The taxi fare from NAIA to hotel was 210 peso. The yellow taxi surprisedly save our lives.

The hotel we stayed called Red Planet located in Aseana City, Manila. It was cute, clean and nice. But one thing I did not like there were no fridge and water to drink. I was really tired and thirsty, so  I went to reception downstairs to ask for the water. The lady told me if i want to have a big bottle of mineral water, i can go to shop just next door of the hotel.

I went out and saw the shop called "Family Mart" and bought a bottle of water. It cost  me 32.30 peso. One thing amazed me, the cashier gave me a paper bag instead of plastic for a bottle of water. I really support of green environment.

The next morning i woke up at 5.30 am. The window curtain was opened  and I was shocked Manila day time started early.The clear sky on 5.30 am was like 7.30 am in Malaysia.

We got ready by 7 am and went for breakfast. I had pancakes and egg with pineapple juice. Then we jumped the metered taxi to the Cebu Pacific building. It cost us  92 pesos.

Lunch time, Thankfully the meal was provided. Staying inside the building was chilly so we decided to warm up outside.

We hung up for a while outside and grabbed 3 flavors ice cream. Avocado, mango and coconut served in one cup. It was seriously delicious taste especially under the hot sun.

The ice-cream cost us Pnp 30. (30 pesos) for each cup.

There were a logo and the model located in the lobby and I took a chance to take pictures in front of them.

We headed to the mall after class. The biggest Mall in Philippines called " Mall of Asia" and it just beside south east ocean.

Philippine main delicacies is pork i guess,  everywhere even the small stall they served pork. But we have dinner in Burger King. 

The next day morning, we had the same breakfast even do have choice to select other menu. We continues the class as usual the class we had finished early.  
The picture was taken from Cebu Pacific building

The participants received the certificates and took a chance to take picture with instructor and the manager. Honestly we enjoyed the class and the staff are friendly.

Philippine is famous with dried mangoes. I brought home some of the dried fruits that we bought from Hypermarket in Mall of Asia. I spend those dried fruits about 700 pesos for myself and for family and friends

Even we in Manila for 3 days, we ate good and saw so much. The building, the people, the traffic and the city. There were so much to learn and explore in this country. We spent most of times in the main city and I bet there are many pretty places to visit. 

The hat that I was wearing same as like Cebu Pacific airlines cabin crew.

Good bye Manila. See you again

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Weekend Getaway: Klana Beach Resort, PD

My sister and I headed to Port Dickson and stayed in Klana Beach Resort two weeks ago.  It was actually her idea to get off of city so she invited  my mom and us to go. Since we arrived there in the afternoon, Axel and I went to the beach just to relax and play sand.

 Axel was terribly having fun with sand. 

I think he forgot where he is now. He does not care about water at all.

My rating of this hotel about 7/10. They have 2 types of bedroom which are facing to the yard or sea view. The hotel is on the hill so we have to go down by steps to access to the beach. Since the access is just for hotel guest, we have our own space to lay on the beach for quite sometimes.

Okay we satisfied with the room, the air conditioning was working really good and the important thing we had nice sleep. The breakfast food were nice which they have mix local and western foods.

View from the front door lobby of the hotel

We checked out the hotel after breakfast and visited the ostrich farm just nearby from the hotel.

Some animals like goats were out of cage and this ostrich also has freedom to move where ever he likes

The farm not only has ostriches but they have other animals like horse, camel, rabbits and other pet animal. The fees entrances is RM 15 for adult and children above 3. They also sell food like grass or leaves to feed the animal.

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Tioman Island Part 2

Honestly it is hard for me to keep up writing on the blog. I love to update but my time seriously fully occupied with other stuff. It was about the Tioman, so let see the pictures

We had breakfast at the restaurant of the hotel. The food was so goood! I love it.

Then we headed to swimming pool after eating, we wanna try to dip Axel in the water and see whether he can swim naturally or not.

We started at kiddy pool. ooh he hates it!

Then we decided to go to the big pool..

He didn't manage to do it so Robert just put him up and down

He really didn't like it.

We went to the beach after that. Axel and I just chilling  out  at the cabana while Robert went to swim.

 We just ordered hotel food every single night!

Sleep most of the time in the room!!

The happy baby!

One of the duty free shop

We headed back to the airport

We actually didn't have much activity in Tioman since I went there for work and Robert participated the race. We enjoyed the trip and the scenery and the friendly people. Maybe next time!

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Tioman Island (Part 1)

Last two weeks we flew to Tioman Island. The trip actually was part of my work in two days as well as Robert participated in a race in Tioman. We pretty excited about the trip because we've never been to Tioman before and we heard many good things about it. The flight took about 50 minutes from Subang airport. I could say it was short flight but one thing we worried and expecting that Axel will be going to cry due to pressure differences during take off and landing but thank god he was absolutely fine and slept during flight.

It is summer season so we met a lot of foreigners than local in the plane. I couldn't describe more, I have no idea to write about. I took pictures and just write short explanation. I spent two days (Thursday and Friday) at the airport due to my job and we had little fun on the weekends which is will be in part 2.

We departed at 10.55 am and arrived at 11.55 am.This picture was taken when we just landed in Tioman.

The only one commercial aircraft can land to Tioman Island. Honestly it is pretty airport surrounding with green scenery and hills.

We stayed at the Berjaya Tioman Resort. Standard chalet. It was really nice and fit for three of us.

We walked on the path close to the beach while waiting the hotel shuttle

The shuttle leaving the chalet to the school at Kg Sungai Tekek for Robert's race briefing. The building beside us is the double storey chalet and the one that we stayed was a single storey chalet.

Guess what it is? Those creature hung on the trees at the side of the road were bats. To me, it was pretty amazing.

Those monkeys were in front of our chalet.

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