9 more to go!

//A photo of my hometown airport–Kota Kinabalu International Airport.

After setting the goal to visit each of the Malaysian states this year, I have managed to cross off Melaka, Penang and Kelantan my list.

This year and next, I will work my way through the other 9 states. My next destination is Sarawak’s Kuching.

Apart from travelling in Malaysia, I’ll start exploring the tiny island of Singapore in depth.

This tiny post is part of bootsnall.com’s 30 Days of Indie Travel project. Day 1: Goals

The rest of my posts for the project can be found here.

Melaka: Torture equipment exhibition

The following post contains materials that might be disturbing to some.

You are advised to close your eyes and scroll away if you feel quesy.

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Fleeced sheep

Went to Ginza on Monday night for dinner.
Stopped by the Apple Store when I found out it was nearby.
Found out that the iPhone 4S is only S$770 for the 16GB model in Japan. In Singapore, the same memory is more than S$900.
Totally WTF

Tokyo, the milky way

Time to catch up on my travel blog.

Writing this post on the plane back to Kuala Lumpur. It is now 12.17am, October 26. I can’t sleep because the pilot has left the lights on.

xxx

I’ve always loved the night view of cities. Tall buildings with lights on look like the night sky.

On the way to Tokyo, I had the window seat and I had the chance to see the goegeous night view of Tokyo.

The first thought that came into my head when I saw the lights sparkling below the dark land was “The Milky Way”. It looked exactly like the stuff we see on TV, where a swirl of white and yellow and red dots decorate the pitch black vacuum.

Unfortunately, my camera skills and my camera didn’t do justice to what I saw.

I’ll still always love cities, especially the night.

Attacks of the deers

I was sitting under my umbrella in front of Todaiji Temple when a deer (one of the hundreds there) decided to come around and see if I had food.
With its large doe eyes, it looked at me and poked its nose into my bag.
Of course, being the Gen Y that I am, my first reaction was to take a photo of it with my phone.
Unfortunately, by the time I dug out my Lady Madonna, the deer was attacking my magazine. I had to wrestle to pull the book back.
I changed my seat and the deer left me alone.
But this is not the end of the story! There’s part 2.
My mom bought me a postcard of Todaiji and I wrote the card I promised M. The mail described the deer attack. After writing, mom and I sat around eating persimmons.
The deers (another 2) probably smelled the juicy plump fruit and wanted some of them too. One even chomped onto my postcard and refused to let it go and I did a tug-of-war with it.
A guy standing near us gave the postcard-eating deer a pat on the behind and it let the card go.
But it went around for a bite of the magazine as well. :(

To Ōsaka

On rapid train (not shinkansen) to Osaka, the land of food and comedians. I am now wearing a pair of carrot orange tights which I bought last night at Uniqlo for 100 yen from the bargain bin. I suspect it’s too gaudy to be sold at regular price.

Looking around the train, most people are wearing black tights. The only colored pair is wine red worn by an old lady.
The train supposedly will take 50 minutes to reach Osaka. That’s a lot of time to spare.