Archive for June, 2007

Addicted to coffee or blogging?

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

I come across these quizzes from A Lil’ bit of This & That at PPP. I took 2 quizzes for myself and here you are the results,

I am 63% Addicted to Coffee

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Crocodile cave in Langkawi

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

crocodile-cave

After the eagle feeding, our mangrove tour continued. We ahead to a cave named as cave of crocodile. Of course, there was no crocodile but it named after it because it was there long time ago. The water level was not too high therefore we managed to go through the cave on the boat.

After the cave of crocodile, we were on our way to fish farm. We had good time there. The fish farm owner introduced us several fishes he had there. I’m sorry, I can’t remember their name. On that fish farm, he showed us how he feeds the fishes.We were impressed with the stingrays. They are huge. During the feeding process, the owner asked me to touch the stingrays. I did. The skin of the stingray is really rough. According to the farmer, before we have the sandpaper people used the stingray’s skin for the same purpose. Well, good to know.

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The length of day now is 19 hours

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

midsummer-eve

Tomorrow is Midsummer (Juhannus in Finnish), second important day in Finland after Christmas. Finns start to celebrate Midsummer on the eve (Friday), Midsummer Day (tomorrow) and mostly they celebrate at countryside, near to lake or coast. Therefore, the town and cites are empty. It is quiet.

Besides, the length of the day during Midsummer is the longest of the year. After that the length of the day will starts become shorter and shorter. Now, the sun rises at 4am and sets at 11pm. In short, I’m experiencing 19 hours sunlight (in Turku).

Want to read more about Midsummer?

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Researcher’s life (02)

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

more comics to share.

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Researcher’s life

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I received these comics from friend of mine through e-mail. They are nice. Share them with you.

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Eagle feeding in Langkawi

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

eagle-feeding

After we had our lunch at Oriental Village, we decided to go to the Waterfall just before the Seven Wells not go up to the hill for Seven Wells. We felt a bit disappointed when we arrived at the Waterfall. The water is not as clean as during my last visit in the year 1995. It is dirty and drying. As a result, we don’t stay long at there.

We continued our journey to the Tanjung Rhu for some beautiful scenery. We saw the Tanjung Rhu beach and tried to look for a nice place for scenery view. However, we end up arrived at a jetty. Well, we stopped the car and came out to have a look. One of boat men approached us and offered us for approximately 2 hours mangrove tour and eagle feeding. We heard about this mangrove tour and eagle feeding but we never thought we can get this tour package from Tanjung Rhu. Normally, it will departs from the jetty of Klim River.

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Langkawi Cable Car

Friday, June 15th, 2007

langkawi-suspension-bridge

After stopped at the Kok beach for a while, we continued our journey to Langkawi cable car. It located at the Oriental Village. However, we don’t spend our time at the Oriental Village. We just went directly to the Langkawi cable car station, stepped into a cable car and the journey to the summit of Macincang Mountain (Gunung Macinchang) began.

On the journey to the summit of Macincang Mountain, we saw the Seven Wells clearly from the sky. We stopped at the last cable car station on the summit of Macincang Mountain which about 708 metres above the sea level. You can have a very nice spectacular view from here. There is a suspension bridge allows you to enjoy the nature and also the view around too. When we were stand still on the bridge to take some photos, we felt the bridge was a little bit wobble. That feeling made us became a little bit nervous. Would you? Look at the picture then you will know.

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Yacht Marina Langkawi

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Yacht-Marina

On the next day, we decided not to take any group tour but we rented a car to tour around Langkawi Island. Honestly, you are hard to get lost in Langkawi because there are several main roads only. Besides, it is an island unless you want drive to the sea if not you can’t get out from it.

Our first destination was Telaga Harbour Park (Yacht Marina). From the resort, we drove along the Pantai Cenang road toward to Pantai Kok road. The scenery along the road was beautiful and the weather was of course hot. We have stopped at the road side for a couple of photos. Then, we continued our journey.

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Langkawi, an eagle island

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

eagle statue

In the afternoon tour (it was a group tour), we met up with other visitors from China. I believed they are studying in Malaysia. Well, the first stop for the group tour was the Underwater World Langkawi. However, we don’t join them because we knew an hour was not enough for that visit. We have other plan for this visit since it is near to our resort. We have a long walk along the Cenang beach, of course it was hot.

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Arrived in Langkawi

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Langkawi

After our civil marriage, we have our short vacation in Langkawi Island. We departed from Penang International Airport. Yes, we flew to Langkawi. After compared the ferry’s fees and the air ticket’s fee, we decided to give Firefly a try. Firefly, a new budget airline (100% subsidiary of MAS) starts to fly on April 2007 and based at Penang International Airport.

Well, the journey from Penang to Langkawi Island took us approximately 40 minutes. This was the first time both of us on board a Fokker 50 air craft; we really have unforgettable experience on this “lovely” Fokker 50.

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