Travel

had a flying month. literally a month that i flew a lot. I was lucky enough to be rewarded 2 incentive trips after a rather intensive 6 months of working life. Come to think of it, I have actually visited a good number of cities in a very short period of time. Before age of 18, the only city that i have visited outside Peninsular Malaysia was Medan, but ever since then, i was just bombarded with all kind of cultural diversity across a big piece of land.

Usually i preferred to mention myself being to city A or city B, rather than been to the country that city A located at, because even across a city, the building, culture as well as the socio-geography can be diverse enough to spin my head around, what's more its between the cities. For foreigner, KL might be the representative of Malaysia, but we fellow Malaysian know very well it is just impossible to have the capital representative the whole truely-Asia-shit. Maybe, just maybe, i want to look at each country from the angle that their own countrymen look at.

I must proudly said here that although before age of 18, i've not travel much outside malaysia, but i've actually covered a big area of Malaysia, here's the major cities/tourism spot that i HAVE NOT been to only:
Kota Kinabalu (or the whatever Api that they r calling now)
Miri
Kota Bharu
tasik kenyir/Taman Negara
Perhentian/lang tenggah
Ya...i think that's probably the whole list

Here's the list that cities that i have been to:

Medan, indonesea 1996

hatyai, Thailand 2003

2004
Changi airport (not been to s'pore till now)
Dunedin, NZ
Christchurch, NZ
Queenstown, NZ
Wanaka,NZ
Timaru, NZ

2005
Wellington, NZ
Taupo, NZ
Auckland, NZ
Rotorua, NZ

2006
Bangkok, Thailand
Milfort sound, NZ
Franz Josef, NZ
Lake Tekapo, NZ
Kaikora, NZ

2007
Adelaide, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Hanoi, Vietnam

2008
HangZhou
ShangHai
ShenZhen
Hong Kong

i have the habit of writing down story, comment on each cities that i have been to. I have always wanted to post all the written things into my travel blog as a safe choice to keep my memory. However, until today, i'd only key in my travel experience during year 2005...looking at the rate it goes (10 km/h writing speed vs 120km/h traveling speed), i am getting worry that this little resolution of mine will not be fulfill for many months to come....