Off to Kuala Lumpur

Traveling to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow for the weekend!

First Eaglepoint Malaysia convergence. All three churches (Puchong, Damansara, and Penang) from around Malaysia will 'converge' and have a joint service of celebration. Pastor Steve Murrell, co-founder and President of Every Nation Ministries, will be speaking. Stoked!

Bus leaves tomorrow AM at 0730 hours. Gah, kill me now. Kidding, I'm excited to go. I'm just not looking forward to waking up early.

I'll be staying with Jack Chong, Luis with Jun Kheng, Jenny with Jun Gan, and Sabina & my mom with Mr Frank and his family. Ha ha, kinda funny that we are, in my mom's words, being farmed out.

By some time next week, I'll probably have another post about the whole experience. Either abridged or... well, unabridged. Stay tuned!

Song I've been really addicted to the past few days by Oren Lavie "Unhidden Track: Quarter Past Wonderful":

Cool [Upside-down] Things + Justin Timberlake

Now playing: Let It Fall by Lykke Li

Here are a few more stuff on the web that I've found a tad bit interesting. OK, a little more than just a "tad bit". Most of these are pretty rad.

Invisible Shoes by Andreia Chaves
This low-cut boot reflects its surroundings making the earth part of your wardrobe. Regardless of being environmental or not, these pair of shoes make you feel like your helping stop global warming. This interesting design is part an innovative collection of footwear concepts. I for one am excited to see her concepts materialize in the near future. (I wonder if people will wear them too?)

Fully Functional Upside-down House, South Korea. I always thought that these kind of stuff never made it past the drawing board. But, believe it or not, these houses are not just mere art installations but are fully functional. More at Modern Met & Spot Cool Stuff.

Wizard of Oz-much? Korean tattooist Kim Joon's "Tattoo & Taboo" is now on display at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills. His work is vaguely explained here.


I haven't been feeling very well the past couple of days, I've been feeling somewhat like this:

This is one from the collection of Stephen T.C. Morris in flickr. I like the concept. It hazily expresses how I sometimes feel--as if things aren't "straight"; as if things were abnormal and distorted in an uncomfortable kind of way; as if I were sick and felt like throwing up... Check out more of his stuff. Some are also pretty comical. Like this one:

Talk about getting your head dunked in the toilet, aye. Proud to say that I cannot relate.

Not to forget, here's one of Justin Timberlake with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots doing a homage of HIP HOP hits. Got this from JT's twitter page. He. Is. Oh. Some. ohhhsome. Idol.

I feel bad for this blog... (And about Thailand)

... I really do.

I keep telling myself to blog consistently, but I never do.

Anywho! I just got back from Hat Yai, Thailand and I had fun. It was my first time in Thailand.

We hired a van that came with a driver that drove us (No, duh) across the border and into the city of Hat Yai about an hour and a half from the Malaysia-Thailand border.

We left Penang last Thursday morning– at about 630am, 7am? We watched the sunrise from the van and the air-conditioning was cold. The trip took about 4 hours. By the time we reached Hat Yai, it was almost lunch. So we just checked in and walk around town looking for Green Curry but instead had Pork Leg. By the end of the trip we'd had Pork almost every single meal (Yes, it's that good! Like really good Crispy Pata!!) and we never found our Green Thai Curry. Fail.

The girls Jon and I accompanied were Jenny's classmates. They had to film a documentary for their final project in school. Jonathan and I were supposedly gonna be their "body guards" but at the last minute, something came up and Jenny couldn't go anymore. But since we'd already paid for the transportation and hotel, we (Jon and me) still decided to go even if Jenny wasn't with us and we were the only guys, heh. So I guess we were their body guards?

The entire trip didn't cost more than RM400. Of course it depends also on how much shopping you do--I barely shopped. I spent most of my money on FOOD. Gosh, we ate A whole LOT (of pork, hahah!). We stayed at the Golden Crown Plaza. And went to Songkhla twice. The second time we went we took a tuk-tuk (A really small, tiny version of a Jeepney). Now that was fun, sticking our heads out the windows and hanging from the back

Me and Cindy Leow

We spent the entire Saturday afternoon there and got badly sunburned. OK, maybe not that bad but my back and face were really red and my arms and legs got really DARK. The next day our backs or faces didn't hurt. I didn't peal, so yeah, it wasn't that bad.

Songkhla Beach

Here are a few places of interest:

The third largest reclining Buddah

Klong Hae Floating Market

Klong Hae Floating Market view from the bridge

Night Market - Eating again, haha!

And of course, the highlight of my trip was eating a scorpion! That same night we also ate maggots, grasshoppers, crickets, and two types of beetles. Though, nothing came close to this.

Before tackling the mountain, haha

 

'Twas a good trip. Let's go again?