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Siem Reap Trip - Part 6

Talking about hot balloon ride, how would you expect it to be?

Would it be something like this which will take you around the city? An exciting trip where you float above the city and drift with the breeze?

Where you sit in the wicker basket with a limited number ppl, when the hot air ballon is operated by an experienced operator? Maybe you could be having champagne breakfast while flying? (Ohh okay... I know it's too much... but there is really such deal.)

And you run the risk where the balloon or the wicker basket will get burned?

Sound so tempting and exciting right?

Can you imagine when you're excitedly going for the hot air balloon ride and you see the balloon looks this?

There is no hot air... but lots of ropes...

And the wicker basket become a donut shaped gondola surrounded by ropes as if you're put in jail?

And the balloon doesn't take you around the city but it flies straight upwards and stop at certain height? Can you see the string that ties to the balloon?

Anyway.... it's only USD 15. I can't be expecting the ride be that adventurous as I imagine. The ride only took you 15 mins. So it cost USD1 per min for the ride.

At the visitor centre there's this signboard which put up all the scenery you can view high above the sky - Angkor Wat and Bakheng are one of them.

But, there weren't much scenery view. I was thinking maybe the weather was not that good that morning. The best view I can shot of Angkor Wat were as follow, pretty disappointing.

Angkor Balloon is something you can try after visiting to so many temples in the Angkor. Whether or not it is worth for money? You judge it yourself.

Let's go Barossa Valley for the adventurous hot air balloon air ride next time. Anyone interested? Heehee...

Siem Reap Trip - Part 5

If you have very limited time for Angkor Complex... apart from Angkor Wat, the next worth visiting temple will be Bayon.

Bayon is located at the centre of Angkor Thom, one of the Buddhist temple in Angkor, symbolised by the smilling faces (approximately 200) everywhere in the temple.


Smilling face on the tower. Each tower consists 4 faces. One at each cardinal points.

Wall of the temple depicts apsara dance. Below is the classic apsara craving at Bayon.

Yang Boon's first apsara pose. ^_^

At the centre of the tower, it was a very dark area where there was some praying activities. It's indeed a very dark area and I hardly saw what's going on in there. And suddenly somebody made a noise and I.... screamed~~ out~~ loud~~ *faint*

A snapshot of the dark place. Pretty eerie when think about it. So dark... how do they pray?

Bayon is best seen in the morning. If you are visiting Bayon, make sure you visit in the morning. According to guidebook, sunrise creates eerie effect on the faces. Hiak~

Dining at Cafe Swiss

It's not of any special occasion. This Michelle suddenly called me while I was about to leave office.

Michelle: Hey.. where are you?
Me: Office lor...
Michelle: What? still working?
Me: About to leave.. why?
Michelle: What do you want to do after you get home?
Me: *puzzle in mind - How am I supposed to answer this?* Nothing much.. home means home lor.. your question is funny leh.. haha...
Michelle: Oh.. hahaha... then you want dinner with me or not? We go some places where we can get 50% discount.
Me: Why got such good deal? Ladies' night ah?
Michelle: Aiyah... I got Raffles' member card mah...
Me: Don't tell me it's Raffles Hotel again ah....
Michelle: No la... Let's go Cafe Swiss.. But I'm still at office now.... I pack and go now..

Faint lor this gal... I was trying to cabut as soon as possible in order to shun this 阴魂不散 stalker in office but this lady was still in office at Tuas! Goodness... and I take my hat off to her for her tai-tai lifestyle, always dining at high end cafe. The first time I had dinner with her was at Mount Faber; then buffet at Bar & Billiard @ Raffles Hotel; now Cafe Swiss @ Swissotel.

I didn't bother to wait her in office but said to meet her at Robinson Rd instead. I'd rather stroll along the street rather than kena stalked by that manager.

Got into her car, she started to tell me how busy she was because her boss is flying to Shanghai for F-1. *hahaha* Amusing enough. As we sat by the table, after we placed order she said she wanted to take picture. *Gosh* I told her that my this mobile phone doesn't have flash light and it's only 2 megapixel. The resolution will not be satisfactory but she insisted. Okay.... so we got the waitress to take the first shot for us.

After viewing the picture, she said the view was not good. The waitress should take from this and that angle so that the view could be better.. Okay.. so I told her to get another waitress for another shot but make sure it's not the same waitress again. Then she said she'd get a waiter instead of waitress, maybe guy could get her mean better. *faint*

Well... she's satisfied with this picture... Is there any significant difference with the view? I wonder. I personally don't think there are much differences compared to the first shot.

Okay.. now's the classic story... This lady asked me to send her the picture so that she can put the picture as her wallpaper.

Michelle: Send me the picture leh... I want to put it as my wallpaper..
Me: Okay.. you turn on your bluetooth?
Michelle: Ya...
Me: Okay... I'm searching now... Which one is you? Wai?
Michelle: *A bit blur* Hm.. Ya..
Me: Okay... sent...
Michelle: Sent? I didn't receive..
Me: Hello... you accepted the file just now..
Michelle: I didn't.. by the way, how to turn on my bluetooth??
*Nearly faint*
Me: Hey.. Xiao Jie... then who is this "Wai"? I asked you if you're "Wai" you said yes? This guy has got our picture now!!!! And now you tell me you don't know to turn on your bluetooth??
Michelle: I thought you'll be sending the picture via MMS mah....
*Vomit blood*
Me: Aiyoh.......... where got ppl send picture via MMS now?? Bluetooth you know??

So we quickly looking around to spot this "Wai". But 方圆四百里 I didn't see anyone holding mobile with a weird look, nor looked towards our direction.

Vomited enough blood, I took over her mobile and started to send the file to her. Files were sent but no where to retrieve. Couldn't locate her memory card. This lady didn't seem to know her mobile well either. *Faint* I was asked to transfer the files again but this round, store them in phone.

~~ File is too large to open ~~

Apa phone ini?? Really speechless. Wasted my effort to figure out as to how to turn on her bluetooth, send files and retrieve files.

Despite the starter I had - bread and pumpkin soup, I had the Salmon (don't remember the name of the dishes) as main course, and lastly lemon lime sherbet as dessert.




Have been eating more than usual since last Thursday... As a result, I put 2 kgs on weight in a week!!!

Can somebody tell me how to lose weight now?? *sianzzz*

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At the other end of MSN...

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Hahaha... "stupiak".... what a classic word.
Nvm... listen to the song here...

Siem Reap Trip - Part 4

If you have limited time to tour around Siem Reap, I believe you'd know where are those you-cannot-miss-out places in Siem Reap. Angkor Wat is one of it.

Angkor Wat is such an amazing spot, there are lots of information you can surf through internet. So, I'm not going to write the history and background about this temple, they're just repetitive. (What a powerful excuse. Hehe) Here's some useful links (you may just search in google and you'll get plenty anyway....):

Angkor Wat Information Page

Angkor What??

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风尘四侠游柬埔寨

To summarise:

1. This temple was built by Suryavarman ІІ and is considered the biggest Asian pyramid
2. The temple is divided into 3 levels
3. The most famous decorations of Angkor are the heavenly nymphs (Apsara)
4. The temple is a representation of Mount Meru, the home of the gods

If you ask 10 ppl who've been to Angkor Wat, 10 will tell you they wake up early in the morning for sunrise at Angkor Wat. Yeah... we're one of them. Set off to Angkor Wat at 5am for the sunrise.. crazy huh..

Find a good spot and sat by, there were many crazy fella like us sitting by the lotus pond and waiting for the sunrise. Then, you'd see local kids approaching the tourist: Sir, you want coffee? You buy coffee from me, the sun will come out. Hahaha... (if you go market, ppl will say: Lady, you want scarf? If you buy, I can give discount.. )

Can see the sky was covered by cloud. It's a bad timing and we're not able to see the sunrise. The best sunrise we could see is shown in the pic. No sun at all, but "sunlight".

After the disappointing sunrise, before we headed for breakfast, I took this pic for Ninja. Then suddenly he said: "Hey... 什么来的？？" (see the 不明物体 circled in picture). Yalor.. What's that? UFO? Then we had another shot, the thing was not there anymore..

We came back Angkor Wat in the afternoon. As Angkor Wat is oriented to the west, it is best for visit in the afternoon whereby it looks more magnificent under "optimal lighting condition"?

The first level presents the mass of bas-relief carving include includes the Battle of Kurukshetra, the Army of Suryavarman II, Heaven and Hell, Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Elephant Gate, Vishnu Conquers the Demons, Khrisna and the demon King, Battle of the Gods and the Demons and the Battle of Lanka. (Don't ask me what are those.... basically 我看不懂... 呵呵..... Maybe a tour guide will be helpful who can tell you the stories?)

An introduction quoted from ctrip.com:

第一层：最下面一层平台周遭长800米的回廊布满讲述宗教故事的浮雕。从西门入口开始逆时针行进，看到的分别是：

（西）决战俱卢之野-黑天举起牛增山-猴王波林之死-

（南）苏利耶跋摩二世军队-阎摩审判-

（东）搅拌乳海-（大象门）-毗湿奴战胜群魔-

（北）黑天与魔王班那-神魔之战-

（西）楞枷之战

It's pretty tiring though.. I felt so as I tour along the long galaries. Of cos.. woke up so early in the morning...

Some ppl even fell asleep lor....

Scenic view from at first level. Can see the hot air balloon right? Something out of topic - we'd been to the visitor centre thrice before we can actually alight to the hot air balloon.

Then come to second level, actually the second level didn't leave me much impression. According to the guide book, second level presents distinctive apsara carvings.

第二层：第二层平台比第一层高7米，周长约430米。这一层的浮雕与第一层相比较多装饰意味，如仙女雕像、莲花蓓蕾等形象。

You might be wondering what is apsara... This is apsara.. This is not the classic one. Something out of topic again: According to Ninja, it was a nice smile while he took this picture but, it turned to be angry face and she showed teeth. Those red spots were not seen while the picture was taken. Strange huh?

Don't ask me what is this.... looks like a swimming pool to me... haha...

This is a stone temple. Carving is everywhere on wall, pillar, and roof. I cannot visualise how the temple was built. How much human resource and efforts were put into the building of the temple?

You might be impressed by this.... although it doesn't look coordinated with the background.

Lotus tower

Then, the third level... I'll not forget about this because of this STEEP staircase.

第三层：呈正方形，边长75米。这是神庙的最高层，四座小塔拱卫中央主塔，象征着诸神居住的圣地须弥山。通向主塔的台阶被称为“天堂阶梯”，高13米，几乎与地面垂直，攀登时必须手脚并用，信徒以此体会天堂之路的艰辛，表达无限虔诚。 1973年，一名法国女游客在攀登中失足跌落致死，她的丈夫悲痛之余捐资在西面台阶一侧修造了扶手。从此这一侧阶梯也被称作“爱情阶梯”。

Looking from top-down... quite scary actually...

Up there at third level, the view is quite similar to the 2nd level actually. It's surrounded by apsara carvings along the walkway.

Till then... Angkor Wat... Stay tune for next part - Bayon... :)

Rich Dad, Poor dad

Read this book a few years ago. As I was waiting someone at MPH, I simply grabbed this book and read again while waiting. Yeah, it did remind me something.

Not to mention what this book is about. In summary, the book is basically telling ppl the only way to be richer is make money work for you. How? Through investment. Invest your money in capital market or buy income-producing assets, e.g. property. It's not investments I want to talk about. Ppl like me with little cashflow in hand can't really afford throwing money into capital market. Plus, I'm such a risk-adverse kind of person + my luck "dai sai" especially this year = I'd better play safe.

As I stumbled upon the book, I have strong feel over these 2 lines: "Work to learn" and "The rich don't work for money".

Indeed, to me (and maybe to most of the ppl), working = learning. I always believe one should not mind putting extra efforts at work, this is especially when you're a new bird in your field. I used to have this mentality in the initial years of working and that's why I didn't mind working late, and most of time I don't mind those times were not charged OT. Sound silly and stupid but that's part of the learning curve. Maybe I was badly affected by the phrase "work to learn" or maybe it's different in this profession as in, you learn and progress if you're willing to spend time. It does make a difference when you're willing to input your personal time into learning the essence of something which will make you stand fit in your position and differentiate yourself from your peers.

To link this to "the rich don't work for money", one must have enthusiasm for work. Once you lost the passion then you'll be ended up working for money, let alone learning and thus no more advancement. Yeah.... Exactly, that's the state I'm in. I finally realise I'm feeling lost because I'm no longer living with this work-to-learn attitude. (Because I thought myself experienced and be contented?) I have too much blames and that's why I feel miserable (always think myself suay and kena all the sai jobs?). I look at my friends, yes.. you... you....and you (my dad, hehe)... one should really expertise your interest while making a living in order to get rich.

For those who think themselves are not moving forward, I hope you can be more aggressive at work... If you think yourself are getting low pay, find a way out! I'm telling myself this also. Oh.. I recalled a comment He-man left me:

"Saving is only part of it.. so the ultimate "solution" is to make more money. there is no limit out there, there is no limit on how much you can earn. don't waste too much time on how can you can save. should spend more effort on how you can make more money."

Different ppl different needs. I'm not workaholic though, I need job satisfaction; I do not need loads of money, I want to be affordable for things I need without worries.

After all, it's the attitude that matters...