BVB Asiatour

It has been one month plus 2 days since Borussia Dortmund came to Malaysia for one of the stop of Asiatour. It has been real fun and lots of picture to share.

As stupid as me, I forgot that I brought along my DSLR which can zoom closer. So if you manage to spot the blond handsome guy, that's Marco Reus. He was here for an event at Puma Store JBCC, very lucky to get a big help from store manager to be able to meet up with him for like 5 seconds and took a photo. :-)

Sorry for the blurry photos, he walked really fast and I was shooting from my phone. 

Nothing much to share from the game, it was a friendly game and obviously BVB is not very serious about it.

That's Sven Bender, Aubameyang and Stankovic. 

World cup winner Erik Durm in action.  

Marco was doing his model posing. 

And of course his true love, water bottle. 

New coach, Tomas Tuchel. 

The players show some loves and appreciation to the fans. 

The next day though is more fun, went to Meet n Greet with Jonas Hofman and Lukasz Piszczek. Met some Lukasz's fans from the Philippines. 

 Somewhere in there are the signature of Aki (BVB CEO), Tomas Tuchel (BVB Manager), Marco Reus (BVB most beloved player), Roman Weidenfellen, Jonas Hofmann, Lukasz Piszczek, Pascal Stenzel, Marouka and Julian Weigl (BVB next big thing aka Michael Carrick in the making). 

So with some fond memories, few selfies and couple of hundred poorer, we bit farewell to Asiatour. It was really fun and hope to see you guys again in 2017. Come back to Malaysia and Singapore.   

Who wants to visit Mumbai? or it is Bombay?

So here I was in Mumbai for a short trip. Despite not been my dream holidays destination, I still managed to visit part of Mumbai or Bombay? The tour guide told me the local still prefer to called it Bombay, as it represent the essence of real Bombay. The birth place of bollywood, the place where the dream does come true...................sometime.

The infamous Mumbai's traffic. Chaotic but managed to maintain its own unique unspoken rules that still smooth moving. 

 The open laundry of Mumbai, world largest open laundry that exist for generations.  

The house of Gandhi. 

 The floating garden of Mumbai, apparently because it was build on a water tank. 

The colour and flavour of Mumbai. 

The sunset over Arabian Sea. 

The gate of India under the spotlights. 

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. 

 The Victoria Station (Train Station, where the J-hou song was filmed) 

Mumbai is really a mixture of rich and poor. I had seen a family's own building that consist of 27 floor, housed 4 in a family with 200 servants; I also seen those homeless by the road side where the children is half naked and just wander around on a hot day of 31C. You can be a wealthy king here and vise versa; you can be in heaven or otherwise. 

Boh Tea Plantation, Cameron Highlands

On a recent trip to Cameron Highlands, we frequented the Boh tea plantation again. But this time, with the benefit of hindsight, we only visited at close to 16:00 hrs. This way, we would avoid the traffic on our way out.

Unfortunately, 16:00 hrs was too late a time to go. We would have had a chance to wander around and see more if we had visited an hour earlier, but we were kinda busy with the strawberry scones at The Lord's Cafe.

 Proof that tea leaves can work as well as flowers as a way to a girl's heart ...

Still, I think that everybody enjoyed themselves. And at the end of the day, that's really all that matters when it comes to holidays.

say cheese !

Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia .. again

Photos of the waterfront this time :

  

  

Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Some shots of Bintulu - yet another industrial town in Sarawak. Nothing particularly remarkable about this town for a tourist to check out, that's why you won't find many about.

There is one little nugget to process though. You can't find a single McDonald's here as "You make money back too slow. There are faster ways of making money in Bintulu." Fair enough.

Waterfront. Can't really stop people from trying to put a little beauty somewhere, somehow.

The following ones are from the wet market