Trip to Pulau Pangkor & Royal Malaysian Navy

          Departing at 11pm sharp, we were heading towards Lumut, Perak where the base of TLDM (Royal Malaysian Navy) was. Travelling along the North-South Highway from Ayer Hitam towards the Sungkai exit at Perak is a boring journey. We did take a stop at Rawang R&R for some break.

          After 7 hours journey, we reached Lumut at 6.45am. Took our breakfast at the nearby Mamak stall and began our day. Since we were only allowed to enter the Navy base at 2.30pm, we walked to the nearby jetty terminal where there's a ferry service towards Pangkor Island. The ticket for a two way rides was RM10. 

Trip To Kukup, Johor

          Its been a semester break for those studying in pubic universities. Me and my friends went to Kukup for a holiday vacation. According to Wikipedia, Kukup is a small fishing village located about forty kilometres southwest of Johor Bahru. We drove there from Batu Pahat via the North South Highway. Departing on 9.30am, we stop half way of the journey at Ayer Hitam. We took our breakfast at the famous pau shop in that area which is Tang Chuan.

          After approximately 1.5 hours of driving, we finally reached Kukup. We parked our car at the nearby car park and walk a distance of 500 meters along the path towards the homestay that we booked. All of us paid a total of RM125 each person to the house owner, which is the one who responsible to plan our activities in this place. Honestly, we were so amazed to stay in a house which was built on the sea!

          Our first meal was at a seafood restaurant, situated directly at the main entrance towards the fishing village. After lunch, we went back to our homestay and begin the karaoke session. For your info, nearly all of the homestay located in kukup are equipped with karaoke system. At 3.30pm, we decided to travel to the nearby island, which is the Kukup National Park. We took a boat ride at RM10 per person to the island and pay an entrance fee of RM5. As soon as we approached the island, we saw a large amount of mangrove trees. We walked along the 800 m path for about 1 hour and returned back to the jetty.

          When the day turn into night, we had our barbecue dinner at the opposite homestay, where the house owner prepared for us. During the night, we walked around the village. The whole village was very happening where you can listen karaoke from almost every homestay in the village, sounds of firecracker and fireworks. After that, we resume our karaoke session until late of the night.

          The next day, we had our breakfast bought by our homestay's owner. We had nasi lemak, curry puff, roti canai and some local kuih. After that, we travel by boat to the nearby kelong. We had some briefing on a few types of fish besides than visiting a souvenir shop located on the kelong.

          At 1pm, we had our lunch at the same restaurant where we went on the first day. After that, we went back to our car and leave this place. Since me and my friends were going to Johor Bahru for shopping, we didn't follow the convoy back to Batu Pahat. It was an amazing trip for us!

Google Street View

          Google Street View officially announced in Malaysia end of September, 2014. With the various responds from the public, it seems that most of Malaysian haven't prepare for this technologies to be implement in Malaysia. According to an interview from Astro Awani, most of the respondent were not comfortable with this technology due to privacy. However, there are many advantage over this disadvantage from this technology which I will not elaborate further in this post.

          Idea's came out when I was using Google Street View to view buildings from certain angle along a road  I found out there will be some fun when we use this technology to create something amazing! Therefore, I am going to create a hyperlapse on building or places in Malaysia. In case some of you doesn't have any idea about hyperlapse, let me have a short briefing about hyperlapse.

22 Terrible ’90s Problems That Kids Today Will Never Understand

1. That sometimes all your music would fall out of the box your music was kept in.

2. And that the only way to get the music back into the music box was with a pencil.

3. That later, you abandoned your music boxes and got a giant saucer iPod that was too big for your pocket.

You Know You're Getting Older When

          There are some changes that took place in your life when you're getting older. As I'm turning 20 years old end of this year, I noticed that I'm one more step from getting older. Below are some facts that I realized:

1. Appearance - Compared to me when I'm still in secondary school, hairstyle is very important to me. No matter where I'm going, as long as there are reflective objects around, I will look on my hairstyle. But when getting older, appearance is still important but as a form of respect. I began to wear smart.

2. Financial - As getting older, I train myself not to ask pocket money from my parents. Instead, I began to support the family's financial in a small amount.

3. Interest - While I'm teenager, I used to read comics and novels. I have a series collection of Enid Blyton's story book besides than the popular Doraemon comics. Turning older, my interest moved to things that are more practical and able to increase my knowledge. I began to have interest in investment, business and properties. I learn business strategy from experience peoples, observe how peoples run their business.

Amber Court At Night

          There are tons of ghost stories in Malaysia over the internet and the famous one was Amber Court. Well, it does look creepy before its renovation took on early of 2012.

          As I have been working as a part timer in Genting Highland for quite some time, exploring nearly every place in this mountain is a fun for a teenager like me. And guess what, visiting Amber Court was one of my wishlist.

          Before start writing my own experience in this article, lets have a look on Amber Court before its renovation. (I do not own the images below)

Producing Music Video

          Peoples nowadays tends to gain popularity from many diffrent ways. One of them is by becoming a Youtube celebrity. Recently, there are many youngsters tends to gain their fame by uploading videos to youtube. The famous one was Joseph Germani, Dan Khoo and Jin Lim (Jinnyboy). Besides than them, there are tons of Youtube celebrity out there with interesting stuff and worth watching video.

          Although I personally have a Youtube channel with over a million view, still it doesn't make me famous. All it need to make someone famous on Youtube is producing a video that shows your creativity, interesting to the audience and brings a lot of knowledge.

Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Genting Highland

          As promised, today I'm going to proceed on the full article regarding Believe It Or Not. The first post can be read by clicking this link. Ripley's Believe It Or Not is situated on the second level of the First World Plaza, Genting Highland.

          Operating from 10am to 10pm daily, the admission fee is RM22 for adults and RM18 for children. Below are some photos I managed to take during my visit to this place. Be prepared and enjoy!

Segenting, Batu Pahat

          Today, I'm going to introduce a place called Segenting. If you love nature, I'm pretty sure you will love this place. Segenting is a fishing village, located 8km or 20 minutes driving from Batu Pahat town. From Dataran Penggaram, there will be a signboard showing Pantai Minyak Beku. To reach Segenting, make a left turn at the junction as soon as you passed a school on your right hand side. As the journey to Segenting is quite winding, please put on extra attention while driving. There are few sharp corners awaiting you along the journey!

                                 

          Besides than finishing village, there will be a chinese temple, Chong Long Gong located beside the village. This temple is famous among the locals. It is believe that luck will come to those who touched the big fish in the temple.

A Long Weekend

          It's a long weekend for a college guy like us. Starting from Thursday to Sunday every week since this is our last semester in our diploma studies. Some of our friends spent their weekends by travelling back to their respective hometown, some even decided to have a short trip to Desaru, Johor.

          For us, we spent our weekends by travelling around Batu Pahat. Since this is our third year in this little town, we planned to do something different. Instead of watching movie and shopping, we went to the nearby tourist hotspot, which is Segenting, near Pantai Minyak Beku.

Into A New Level After SPM

          A story about my life when I was 17. It was the days when i just finished my SPM and having an eight months long holiday. Many peoples seems to have their own plan, some helping their parents in business, some doing part time jobs at shopping malls nearby.

          I was lucky to have friends who loves challenging. We went to Genting Highland, which is approximately 4 hours of bus ride from our home! Many adventures that we go through together during our six months in Genting, including some creepy stories that we experienced.

          Before starting stories about our adventures, let me share some interesting photos during my visit to Believe It Or Not, Genting Highland. There will be two parts regarding Believe It Or Not, and this is the first post. Click here for Part 2.

The Beginning

          So, this is my first time writing blog regarding my life. Previously, i had managed blogs for my friends' photography group, SY Photography. This time, instead of sharing my current life, i'll be sharing some stuff that i kept in my photo album. But first, let me introduce myself, I'm Raven Lee, 20 and currently studying in a local uni.

          I had worked in different kinds of sectors, from clothing to tourism, designing to business. And I'm currently working as a part timer videographer for a wedding's video firm. The most recent video that I'd made was this.