Do you want to know what is the perfect song to add on your current running playlist or jogging list of songs? At least right now for me, “Moves Like Jagger” is at the top of my list. Everybody loves this song and who wouldn’t right? Seriously, I wouldn’t mind spinning this tune on repeat for the gazillion times and I’ll still be all pumped up throughout my run.
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Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera:
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It’s time for that Travel Photos again and this time around it is a series of travel postcards from my road trip in New Zealand.
Do you send postcards to people at home when you are traveling? I recently do! I would like to make it a ritual when I travel to send people at home really interesting postcards. It’s going to be exciting for the receivers don’t you think?
Here are some of the Travel postcards I sent to family and friends while I was on a 24 days, adventurous travel road trip in New Zealand :
Postcard of Shotover Jet – Jet Boating in Queenstown, New Zealand : http://www.shotoverjet.com/
Maori Warrior Dance postcard where performances are held each day at Te Puia located in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. For more on Te Puia, click here:
Postcard of a beautiful lake view with the reflecting mountain range effect on the surface of the lake.
Last but not least, a postcard of Mount Cook!
I’m happy to announce that everyone who received the postcards were really happy to have them in their mails. I’m pretty sure the happiest out of all of them would be my little 3 year old niece who can already read and recognize her name. Unfortunately, one recipient didn’t receive hers and I’m sorry for that girlfriend.
I know sending postcards are really old school but I think it is one of those really nice surprises you can give to anyone when they check out their mails. Postcards are nice, colorful, you can leave short lines of nice things to say and for that, what’s not to like with postcards?
Do you send postcards when you are traveling? If you haven’t make it a habit of sending one just yet, I think you should start doing it now. It’s nice to hear what are the reactions you will get from the recipients and I’m very sure they will all be more than happy to get at least one postcard any of these days. On that note, if you have no one you can think of who would like to get a postcard, why don’t you send one to me? I’ll be happy to blog about it then.
Happy New Year 2012 Everybody!
I know I’m like four days late to do this shout out but it’s better late than never. How was your New Year celebration? I hope it was great enough to keep you going and pumping with excitements throughout this year!
My celebration was fantastic. It was fantastic because we being a true Malaysian celebrated the coming of the new year with a simple yet delicious home cooked dinner at home. We had some tandoori chickens on the BBQ, chicken tikka masala, raita, papadoms, rice, some fried vegs, and ‘siakap bakar’ ( grilled Barramundi, I think that’s what it’s called in English) and cold Root Beers with ice creams for desserts.
So all in all, we had an outdoor dinner right on the front yard with the main theme of North Indian dishes. Of course we had to have the BBQ for the boys to start playing with fire and that’s just more than enough excuse to have the tandoori chickens too. Initially we wanted to buy some Roti Naan (Naan Breads) from the nearest Mamak shop to compliment the tandoori but thankfully we were all out of hands and if we did get some Naan breads, I think we would have an awfully stuffed tummy hours before the countdown of the new year begins.
I had a splendid pigging out session with my family during New Year’s Eve and I think we badly needed that little time to have everybody finally sitting together at the same time and have a good meal to kick start the New Year.
So here goes the pictures. Some really decent ones that I’m really willing to share with the general public. Haha.
A bowl full of heavily gravy-ed Chicken Tikka Masala, Papadom and some diced cucumber to make the raita
All in a plate - rice, chicken tikka, papadom and raita minus the fish and tandoori
Tandoori chicken on bbq - very Malaysian style lah!
Finally, let’s have a wonderful, happy, healthy, wealthy, lots of travel and more adventures for this year 2012! Happy New Year 2012 Everybody 
It is almost like a ritual now for me to hike up Broga Hill at least on an annual basis. I did write about how things have changed tremendously at Broga last year. This time around, our plan to climb Broga Hill was a last minute thing. It was something that has been brought our during my losing game of bowling. Hehe. Despite thinking that Bukit To’kun hike at Bukit Mertajam, Penang could possibly be the closing hike I would be doing this year, I was totally wrong about that. I’m game and all gear up to do more outdoor activities during this year ending holiday season.
So let’s get talking about Broga Hill at least from how I see it last weekend.
What is new at Broga Hill now?
- I spotted a couple of make shift toilets hidden away at the corner of the oil palm parking lot and another one just at the beginning point of the hike
- There weren’t a lot of people last week comparatively to the throng of human processions I’ve seen over the days. I’m blaming the holiday seasons so people are getting out of town.
- There are more food stalls and the usual Chinese aunty who sells her cold drinks is still there but she is sitting way up to the starting point which will be the first stall hikers will meet as they reached down from the hill. Business is getting really competitive these days at Broga Hill. hehe. Surprisingly there is also a burger stall. I was like WT* for a second there thinking that it is so out of place. People someone should note to them that people who are hikers are usually health conscious and we care about what goes down into our stomach. Burgers will mess up with our system dude!
- As for the track itself : it is the usual track. I was wearing someone else sport shoes and it does get a bit slippery on some trails. We didn’t climb up the last point of the track too. It was rocky, with a bit of rope climbing and not to mention slippery because we were people watching and so quite a few slipped down and got them hanging on the ropes. But not to worry, it is fairly safe provided you have people around to give you a hand.
- I think quite a number of people were actually climbing up Gunung Tok Wan which starts at the highest point of Broga Hill. Yes, I was somewhat suggesting to my fellow hikers to do this Tok Wan hike last month but we didn’t because the timing was all off. So yeah, I have enough reason to come back Broga Hill again next year so that I can finish up Tok Wan.
- The view has always been stunning at Broga Hill so I didn’t bother to really pose and have a nice shot taken. I’m silly like that so silly is the only thing I know when it comes to posing for pictures. It’s fun though and you should do it too!
Me being silly and look at the view! That's Broga Hill peeps
There you go! The final report on the things that has changed at Broga Hill for 2011. I’m expecting things to ‘develop’ more at this place. I hope it’s only for the better. You still have this weekend and next week to hike up Broga Hill if you haven’t already. Go there. Get hiking. Get sweating. It’s really fun and hiking never gets old despite how many times you walk up the same trail.
I’m going to make this one short and this quote should be able to help you to make a decision on what is your best next action to take when you are stuck in a crossroad.
Quote of The Day is : If You Hesitate or Doubt on Something, Don’t Go For It!
When you have to make a choice and if ever you start to hesitate even on one small thing, you SHOULD SKIP it, PICK another and yeah, get on with the next best thing. Hesitate = doubt = your subconscious mind telling you, ” Don’t do it baby!”
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