The Brooks Half-Marathon 2012 : Ticked Off the List

Posted on March 27, 2012 by jipp

So, I opened my marathon saga this year by running for the Brooks’ Half-Marathon about two weeks ago. It would be my very first time of running after a curfew of about three months with the last run being the Angkor Wat Half-Marathon. For such a long break, I had every reason to be worried. You know how stamina doesn’t cling to you for too long. It has its own way of disappearing into the thin air JUST LIKE THAT if you don’t hold on strongly enough to it by means of doing all the necessary trainings and all. Continue reading →

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My Bucket List

Posted on March 24, 2012 by jipp

Internacionale

  1. Bali Trip
  2. Bangkok – Siem Reap trip
  3. Bhutan / Tibet
  4. Brunei
  5. North Thailand
  6. China Trip
  7. East Java
  8. Everest Base Camp
  9. Summiting Mt Fansipan, Vietnam’s highest mountain
  10. Hat Yai
  11. Journey to The Holy Land
  12. Weekend Getaway to Krabi, Thailand
  13. Laos
  14. Manila with Mom
  15. My Munich 200th BEER FESTIVAL Germany Trip (Re-scheduled)
  16. Myanmar
  17. The Golden Triangle, INDIA
  18. Milford Track, New Zealand
  19. Papua New Guinea
  20. Rinjani Lombok
  21. Scotland – Ireland – Wales
  22. Scandinavian Countries
  23. Sri Langka
  24. Across Switzerland
  25. Iran
  26. Trip to Rome
  27. Timor Leste
  28. Trans Siberia – Mongolia
  29. Trip to Palawan
  30. USA !
  31. The Valley of Flowers
  32. In the shoes of a PTI : From Borneo to Java Islands by Ferry !
  33. Standing on top of Japan done!
  34. Watching a match at Stamford Bridge!
  35. Summiting Mount Semeru, the Highest Mountain in Java
  36. Conquering the Highest Volcano in Indonesia
  37. Doing the Jesus Trail 
  38. Varanasi and Calcutta
  39. Ladakh, Northern India
  40. Sulawesi
  41. Hiking in Georgia

Score : 19/41

Locale

  1. Hiking up to Mt Sontubong, Sarawak
  2. Little escapade to Bario
  3. Going underwater in Mabul & Sipadan
  4. Conquering Malaysia’s 3rd highest mountain
  5. Conquering the highest mountain in Malaysian Peninsular
  6. Salt Trail (Sabah)
  7. Menchandat Sotong
  8. Tekiwit watefall
  9. Conquering Mt. Mulu
  10. Ba’kelalan and Mt. Murud

Score : 6/10

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Phnom Penh: A Palace, A Museum & A Cow

Posted on March 7, 2012 by jipp

I suppose I don’t have to tell you that most palaces in ‘highly Buddhist’ countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand require their visitors to be in proper dresses instead of those all-too bearing clothes that you’d probably wear while strutting your stuff on a white sandy beach in Phuket or something.

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So, the admission fee is USD6.25 (25,000 Riels) and that is like MYR18.50 in Ringgit Malaysia. How worthy it is depends a lot on how you can appreciate what is offered at the palace. Continue reading →

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Jalan Sultan and The Morning Flea Market

Posted on March 4, 2012 by jipp

So, I’ve just returned from Petaling Street or rather Jalan Sultan in KL this morning. I first heard about the existence of some ‘rare’ market there when I was still studying at University of Malaya a zillion years ago.

My housemates would wake up in the wee hour of the morning just so that they could catch as many things as possible by going there the earliest they could. “Things can get snapped away pretty fast”, they’d tell me.

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I wasn’t as adventurous and curious back then as I probably am now so I never joined them – but I’d join the rest of the housemates marveling at all the things that they’d bring back and spread out in front us when they returned home. Continue reading →

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Exploring the PHNOM PENH on Foot

Posted on March 1, 2012 by jipp

It would be our last day in Phnom Penh before we took a bus to Siem Reap the next day. We spent the day before trying to understand what it was in the head of Pol Pot when he tortured and killed thousands and thousands of people during his 4 years of ruling Cambodia. For me, there was no way I could fully understand it but then, whatever happened in the past is going to be a lesson not only to the Cambodian people but the world over.

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We were going to spend the day by visiting some of the major attractions within the city of Phnom Penh. Good thing about Phnom Penh is that, you can actually cover just about everything within the city by just walking and you guys know how I love walking. After all, I practically covered Paris on foot when I went there a few years back so I didn’t see any reason why I shouldn’t do the same for Phnom Penh which is probably less than a quarter smaller. With a map in our hands, we were ready to go… Continue reading →

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