Destination: Macau (27 - 28 January 2018)

27 January 2018 (Saturday)

As for our first day in Macau, we booked a trip via TripAdvisor. So, by the time our ferry arrived at Macau, our tour guide, Marco was already waiting for us there. We joined a group of other people and took a bus. Here's the list of the places we visited:

• Venetian Macao (the biggest casino in Macau)
• Macau Tower
• Pastelaria Koi Kei (where we bought their famous Portugese Egg Tarts)
• Sarado Square
• A-Ma Temple
• Na Tcha Temple
• Ruins of St Paul (the main attraction that really brought me to Macau, I've seen it from the famous Korean drama series, Princess Hours)
• HRC (we went here by ourselves, it wasn't included in the tour)

It was a very interesting experience going into the casino. Before we were allowed to enter, they will check our passport. Since we visited early in the morning, the casino was quite empty but there were still people gambling. At first, we were afraid that people were going to stare at us (since we are wearing hijab), but apart from the guards at the entrance, everybody just minding their own business (for sure they need to focus fully on their game). We went in for only about ten minutes. The casino was also a shopping mall.

We went to Macau Tower (338m) next. If you are feeling adventurous enough, you could try bungee jumping from the tower. We watched a few people jumped and Marco told us the more women jumped compared to men. There's also a glass walkway and since I have a little fear of height, I walked as fast as I could through it and minimized my looked down. And then we visited all the places listed above (sorry, I couldn't provide the exact details since I forgotten most of them, huhu..)

From HRC,we took a bus ride to our hotel. Our hotel in Macau is so much better even luxurious compared to our hotel in Hong Kong! We freshened up a little and we went out again for dinner and souvenir shopping. Actually our hotel is in the same area as Sarado Square. So we revisited back the places we went earlier and watched the night version. We did all these on foot since it was in walking distance from our hotel.

28 January 2018 (Sunday)

Our last day, we visited Macau Science Center and as you can guest we spent almost three hours here! The center is very large and it offers many interactive exhibitions! It is a very great and interesting place to visit. If you are a fan of science, this is a must visit for you. In order to get there we took a bus. We need to walk a little bit to the nearest bus station from our hotel. After the center, we went back to the hotel to take our already packed bags and took a taxi to the airport.

Destination: Hong Kong (25 -27 January 2018)

Flight Details

Hotel Details

25 January 2018 (Thursday)

• Tsim Sha Tsui
• Hong Kong Museum of History
• Night Cruise
• Hard Rock Cafe
• Temple Street Night Market

Honestly, I didn't remember much about this trip since it was two years ago. So, again like Laos entry, this entry will also be short.. The most distinct thing I remember about this was I took this trip almost right after my manic episode. Our flight was early so we were at KLIA2 as early as 5am. Once arrived, we took a train to our hotel at Tsim Sha Tsui (the whole journey took about two hours). The location of the hotel is very strategic (in the city, easy to access public transport) BUT there was one major problem. It was not as advertised. This was the worst hotel we've stayed in EVER! The owner (who not even a local) was also nor very helpful neither friendly. The room was very small. Luckily we were only there to sleep.

Our flight from KLIA2 and our train ride from Hong Kong International Airport

At HK airport

Our hotel room

Once checked in, we continued to roam around Tsim Sha Tsui and then took another train ride to visit Hong Kong Museum of History. Since both of Miss A and me love museums, we spent almost three hours there. There was a 'World Heritage along the Silk Road' exhibition. Done with the museum, we went to Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Pier to take the night cruise, 'A Symphony of Lights'(60 Minutes). After the ferry ride, we went to Hard Rock Cafe and Temple Street Night Market to but souvenirs. It was quite easy to find halal food in Hong Kong. We then called it a night and went to sleep in our tiny room hotel, for tomorrow we were going to the main highlight of our visit to Hong Kong that is DISNEYWORLD!

Museum Part I

Museum Part II

Night Cruise

Beautiful night scenery

HRC and Temple Street night market

26 January 2018 (Friday)

• Disneyland
• Victoria Peak

We took a train ride to Hong Kong Disneyland and if I'm not mistaken, it was about 30 minutes. We arrived at Disneyland around 9:15am. We already bought the ticket from Klook (it was cheaper than the one bought at Disneyland). So, we had fun and Disneyland, took a lot of pictures. And as you can guess, we spent the entire day there! We left around 6:50pm. Our next stop was Victoria Peak. We took a tram ride but we were a little bit unlucky that day. It was foggy and we couldn't enjoy the scenery as much as we hope to see. Still, we manage to take a few decent photos. That concluded our stay at Hong Kong for the next day, we were going to Macau!

Train ride to Disneyland

At the entrance (so excited!)

Street view

Attractions/Rides

Happy faces

Until we meet again

See how foggy it was (Victoria Peak)!

27 January 2018 (Saturday)

On this day, we were leaving Hong Kong and took a ferry ride (Turbo Jet) to Macau. Our Macau tour guide was already waiting for us there, so to be continued...

Macau, here we come...

destination: penang [28 - 30 september 2018]

28 september 2018 (friday)

this trip to penang was all sponsored by miss a (flight ticket and hotel). she redeemed flight ticket from celcom (reward) or something like that, huhu.. if not mistaken, we took the 7.45am flight and arrived at penang airport at 8.55am. we rented a car (viva) and our first stop was roti bakar hutton lane. we must first fill our stomach before beginning our adventure in penang. after breakfast, we checked in to our hotel, hotel malaysia georgetown. then, we joined the blue mansion tour (the mansion is right behing our hotel).  the mansion is also known as cheong fatt tze mansion and had been setting for many films, the most famous and recent is crazy rich asian. we were lucky to have the owner of the mansion as our guide.

before boarding at KLIA2

breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so make sure to do it right

the blue mansion

with our tour guide who is also the owner

mahjong scene from crazy rich asian

after the tour, we had lunch at hameed pata mee sotong. seriously, most of our itinerary for this trip is makan, so this trip is really a JJCM (jalan jalan cari makan) trip.our next stop is none other than bukit bendera. unfortunately, it was raining and we couldn't enjoy the view but we did enjoy the bingsoo worth ice, haha.. we then returned to our hotel and prepare ourselves for dinner at pak mat western (see, it's all about FOOD). to get there, we had to cross penang bridge (around 30 - 40 min drive depending on the traffic) and for it is located at bukit mertajam. the food was amazing. the portion is generous for the the price we paid.

ermm, honestly the taste is just mild..

our mango strawberry bingsoo at bukit bendera

mixed platter (RM23.90)

29 september 2018 (saturday)

today, we spent the whole day at escape park! we first spent the time at adventure park and then the waterpark. the passes were for multiple entries using our finger print. as usual, my finger were hard to detect and miss a had to scan her finger twice just to let me in and out. overall, it was worth the money. our body was sore afterward, doing all those activities. and until today, i still couldn't believe that i tried the banana flip!!! one of the requirement is you must be a strong swimmer. i never see myself as a strong swimmer, i barely float! but the boy there and miss a had me convinced. the pool depth is 5m!!! by the time we left, it was already 6pm. we bought some jeruk madu pak ali on the way back to the hotel. we had nasi kandar line clear for dinner (within walking distance from the hotel).

escape park penang

we only managed to complete level 1 obstacle course.. it was harder that it seem, huhu..

taken before changing cloth

one of the slides at waterplay

yummy!!!

30 september 2018 (sunday)

on our last day, we went to the asia comic cultural museum. there were only a few people around. what i love about the museum is you could collect stamps from different regions. the museum lay out is according to the origin country of the comic. once you collected all the stamps, you'll receive a postcard. along the way, we fed ourselves with penang road famous cendol, ghani famous rojak/pasembur and bubble tea. since we still got plenty of time before our flight back, we decided to visit the war museum. overall, this trip is 80% eating and 20% exploring, hehe...

pasembur or rojak

waiting in line for the cendol.. you better ask for less sugar if you are like me (don't like too sweet food much)

i forgot what the name of the shop where we bought this bubble tea

with ujang figurine, famous local comic artist

the stamps i mentioned earlier

only a few people visit this museum

one of the prison

quite narrow tunnel