on my steps to europe!

hi fellows,
i wont be around for quite long until i come back from my europe trip...

Kiev - Frankfurt - Barcelona - Madrid - Porto - Lisbon - Milan - Venice - Kiev

all these places in jz 15 days....what an amazing race :S

somewhere in simferopol.....

It's a sunny day..we are so glad it's sunny day as 2 previous day was rainy. accompanied by the sun on top of us, it brighten up our day and makes our mood lighter :D
i took some pics and random shoots....

before walking to the bbq spot

cheeers~~happy gals

it's about 15-20 minutes walk up the slope

seems like endless long way up

again....gonna up some more :S
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patient la....here comes some nice view

we had the whole panoramic view of Marino, the reservoir dam, some houses, trees etc

me in the shoot :)

after some photo shooting...it's time to set up the fire before the hunger hunt us down.
well~ i just skipped that part as i have no intention to post about the foods and ways we ate......hahaha, lets get back to some other pictures

see this little yellow flower?

it's scatter everywhere over the hill....so yellowish~

it's not over yet......

try to imagine what a bunch of guys will do after filled up their stomach?
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tada!!!!!!!
over-boredom :P

now i understand why my extreme surgery teacher said there will be more cases of fracture during spring-summer time.....@.@"

i always wanted to jump high into sky!!!
some more with different poses~
finally conquered!! haha

as u can see the weather is changing from the pics....cloud approaching from no where out of sudden and spoiled our mood. Crimea weather change every second, just like gals( sorry, no offense to any gals out there but this my own experience)

this is what we spotted during the way back down hill, do u see anything there?

yeah, it's a squirrel~
it's cute, isn't it?

desert safari - dubai!

ha...finally i m free to upload some pic of mine during my transit in dubai~

i din walk around in dubai city center..it was tooooo hot for me, and i rather stay indoor :P
but i went to desert safari.hoooo~~it was fun!! it's like rollercoaster in middle of desert,hahaha
until i felt nausea at the end of journey...OMG!

hehe, 1st time so close to u..Mr. Camel
4WD in action..can u see my shadow?

lost in middle of desert...it's like hell~sunset in desert..i like this pic:)just posing...after one tiring day in desert safari..i m exhausted :S
having lunch...i forget what i had..but it's huge in amount,haha

hm..i din really unmask the unique of dubai..but i did enjoy my stay in dubai, especially the desert safari...a must try if u ever come to dubai!

unlucky journey to home

1st of all, i need to thank everyone who was with me along my journey back home. THANK YOU for your support, help and caring all the way, if not........i might be no able to reach malaysia in time

i started my way home on 20th jun 2008 7am. yea~~i know it's a bit early(actually it's much too early) for a 10.45am flight. we, me and another friend of mine reach the airport by 7.20am.....oh gosh~~! what are we going to do here for another 3 hours? the airport is empty without anyone (it's definately no like KLIA, it's 1000x smaller than that). stupid us go there too early.....aih~
what to do, just wait there until the flight loooo........

then the next station, Kiev
it was cloudy and having small rain....it's suppose ok if we are in the airport. YA, WE ARE IN THE AIRPORT AREA, but the domestic and international airport is apart and connected only by a 10 minutes open-air walkway. so..no choice but walk as we need to catch for the international flight to shanghai within 2 hours.

the Kiev international airport....i was abit shock when i saw it. it's not too big, nor very modernize, but it's just like i m back to Pudu Raya in KL... crowded like sardin, hardly to move around. everyone is squeezing here and there to move around, i just have to beware of my belongings.

suddenly my friend just realise his hand-carry bag is not around. GOSH!! where could it be? he ran all the way back to domestic airport as he remember put it at the chair while he went for collecting luggages. thank god he found his hand-carry and we successfully check-in by time, but the flight is 1 hour delayed due to raining, which means less one hour to spend in shanghai.

the weather in shanghai was not good at our arrival day...it was misty and hot, we felt just like in sauna.... all scenery view were not good.
we are too tire after 9 hours flight from Kiev to shanghai, and continuously walk for 5-6 hours in shanghai city center. someone even fall asleep while we are resting in starbucks cafe,haha

when we arrived back in shanghai pudong international airport, we spent around 30 minutes walking between terminal 1 and 2 just to collect baggages and check-in...try to imagine how big ,how tiring and how inconvenience it is, especially when we are sooooo tire after 'exploring' shanghai city.
all above just a small matter... and here comes the huge and most horrible hurdle of my journey back malaysia.

around 10 of us are inform by the check-in counter that we can't go on board as we didn't pay the fee for changed date of flight. it was just like a hit on the head....we are just one more step from home and you just cut off our leg,dammit!!!
initially we insist not to pay as the airlines(aerosvit and china eastern airline) should settle the money problems by themselves, furthermore i don't have that much of cash to pay it. but as flying time approaching and we are still not allowed on board....we became worry and unease.
both airlines stuff seem doesn't pay any effort in settling this matter, they just pushing the responsibilities away and want us to pay ourselves.
last minute calling....we can't stand the uneasiness and decide to pay it, by throwing out all atm or visa cards available. but not all of us manage to pay it, as i and a girl need to borrow money to pay for it. thank you for borrowing me money, or else i might need to stay overnight in shanghai airport.
the last part was just like scenes in movie, as i and the other girl were the last two to enter the immigration and custom, we were escort by the airline stuff all the way to the airplane, and i think i ran a distance about 500m with my hand-luggage(10kg, with wheel) and my laptop bag(15kg, put too many things inside =P). the door closed once we enter and pilot start announcing to take off.
finally the plane take off and i had a great sleep on the plane. we all reach malaysia on time without delay, wao~~it was fast!

beside all the unlucky happenings, i still experienced some good stuff in my journey,

• watch sunset and sun rise on plane in less then 4 hours

sunset on the plane

sun rise on the plane

down there is 1 am

• delicious 'xiao long bao' in shanghai
• experience the only commercial Meglev in the worldit's always 10 cm above ground
  

one day trip

me at the final destination

it was two weeks ago, we planned to visit seaside during our spring holiday
we went to a town in sea coast of Crimea State, Sevastopol
it was a military base during World War II, and now it is a famous tourist spot in Eastern Europe. unfortunately there are not many battle ship left over there

we took train to reach there. it took around 2 and half hour to reach Sevastopol from Simferopol trust me...it's a long journey.

countryside view along the railway

a view at the train station after arrival

it's not like going to seaside in Malaysia, where u may reach within 1 hour, but here it will take u at least 2 hour(crazy)me at Balaklava, a small port near Sevastopola tunnel for submarine in Balakalvaa view at the dock with many boats

jellyfish at the dock, so beautiful

jellyfish in my hand, felt just like jelly

from the dock we move to our final destination via matsut(local public van transport)
another half hour to go there...Fiolent

still long way walk to cliffwelcome to black seaview at the cliff, magnificent!!black sea and the sky..do u see the line in between?group photo before went down the cliffstarting to walk down.....tooooo many steps :Sjust half way down, still long way to go
people down there are so tiny
sooo~~ tire after all the steps

guess what, we went down of equivalent height of 30 to 40 floors....can u imagine we have to walk all the way up again, it was 'breath taking'.....
anyway, we still manage to make it back to top once again, but we all have shortness of breath.
it was a tiring trip(we left Simferopol at 7am, and reach back Simferopol at 10pm) coz we waste toooo many time at transportation, but it's a memorable trip