Day 3 & 4: Puerto Iguazu

It took about almost 2 hours flying from Buenos Aires to Iguazu. For this I need to bangun awal, had basic breakfast (no cereal) because it's too early for hotel to prepare. Pick up time was at 7am to airport. I don't bother to think I'm in Argentina during online check in so I took aisle seating as usual. Then I only realized lepas pakcik Jepun keep snapping his camera tepi tingkap, enjoying the view. Lesson learnt, the next 3 consecutives domestic flight duduk tepi tingkap je; hasilnya tak mengecewakan. Arigato gozaimas sensei!

Upon arrival at Puerto Iguazu I was picked up by travel agent with a van can fit about 16 people max; masalahnya only 2 of us! Memang like a boss. The whole trip kat Iguazu memang like a boss, macam private tour padahal dalam package shared service. Syukur! 

Aeropuerto

Sampai hotel terus unpack, panaskan nasi yang dah masak dari BA lagi, makan dengan lauk ayam kicap (canned food) & sambal hitam. Solat then terus siap untuk first excursion, Iguazu Falls visit at Brazil side. Wohooo. Then I met Rene Sosa the tour guide, very nice person and immediately became my FB friends. Immigration control in Argentina and Brazil tak macam Miri-Brunei; tak kena isi form dah tak payah bayar toll whatsoever. Side Brazil lagi kelakar, kena parking, turun jalan gi office check ID/ passport. Being le boss, semua Rene yang buat, duduk goyang kaki dalam kereta. Ada juga nampak kereta tak stop pun kat check point, blah gitu je- must be local.

Travel record

Instead of posting it on Instagram I prefer to put it here

Day 1 and 2 Buenos Aires

Day 1 (KUL-DXB-EZE)

Hola. It's good to know someone is waiting for you when you arrived at strange place for the first time; in this case Buenos Aires. So my tour agent rep, Venesa (takde Hudson der) dah tunggu lepas claim baggage. 

Terus straight ke hotel, it was almost 8pm at that time. During the drive dia explain bit about the whole program (driver orang lain la). Side stories sikit like they just finished election to select candidate untuk new President, come October. How important USD to them that only recently they are allowed by government to change peso for USD, max 300 peso like that. Buying house is preferred in USD mainly due to inflation. Dia advise jangan show off iPhone (mine 4S) sebab BA tak jual/ mahal gila; bila dia bawa keluar phone dia, sekali iPhone 6 kau! Menarik la and it ease my nervousness a bit. By the time sampai hotel, lega and excited to begin my adventure. In the room, take pictures and update loved ones back at home. Thanks to the superb Internet connection; TM/ maxis take note.

Because Obama is so mainstream

Day 2

Alhamdulillah my sleep was ok for the first night in BA, not on the next two consecutives day tho (maybe more about this later). Bangun and breakfast, tips- kalau nak pergi jauh dalam travel ni (fuh ayat..), biasakan makan cereal, InsyaAllah you will survive. About 8am, city tour begins (shared services). Just enjoy the pictures ya, basically we covered San Telmo, Boca, Recoleta and Palermo (where my hotel is located).

Bunga kebangsaan Argentina (kot). Jadi symbol kat park, it will blossom during the day and kuncup during the night BUT because it was broken it remains like that all the time <jokes tour guide>

Ada 2 version pasal warna bangunan ni but I like where it was colored by mixture of lime and cow blood. Satu lagi, president at that time minat putih and merah, hence jadi pink #boooring

St Martin dengan perjuangan keamanannya symbolized by the fire/ flare. Kalau padam maknanya ada huru-hara ataupun ada staff yang nak hilang kerja la tu

This is just a telco shop but nice kan

Tun M mortalized. No wonder he likes Argentina a lot 

Just to let you know, Marijuana is legal here. That noon diorang berkumpul reramai kat  main plaza ni and get stoned! Tak tahu la celebrate special day ke protest on something. I was like whaaaat

Colorful la Boca

Main entrance to La Bombonera. I wrote about the team on my FB page so gonna skip this

Even before I came here dah search about halal steak and finally found one! So boleh claim la makan daging Argentina yo. Nama Kedai ni dah tukar few times for the last 3-4 years I think, formerly known as Baraka. 

The Not so Secret Life of Nor Fairolzukry

I have to admit this is one of most the drastic decision in my life. Takde la random decision sangat, been thinking about it almost like 8 months camtu. Circumstances changed. And we have to adapt.

Ok to cut the chase, I am going to explore Argentina. Alone. KUL-DXB-EZE. Total travelling time could be closed to 30 hours. Alone. There is concern, of course. Before I answer why Argentina it is fair to justify first, why I am going alone. My other half- wait for it- is pregnant (Alhamdulillah). This is such a HUGE news to us, to the family. Beyond the decision to go to Argentina. Initially mestilah dah plan pergi berdua and I am not that evil (London hari tu was exceptional la kan). Part of me berat la nak go just like that but after series of discussion I believe this is the right decision. I am definitely going to share the experience and probably come again for the adventure. InsyaAllah. 

So.. Why Argentina? Jawapan senang, tak pernah pergi. Sebelum ni was fortunate to experience Europe, United States, Australia, bit of Middle East etc ok lah I am partially guilty tak banyak pergi ASEAN countries. Bila orang cerita Ho Chin Minh, Bali, Bangkok, Cambodia noob gila. Hopefully that can wait. Another thing, ter inspire tengok movie Walter Mitty; sangat adventurous dan penuh dengan element self-enrichment.

And also "Beautiful things don't seek attention".

Alright times up. Need to prepare and board to the plane. Kinda feel macam wakil tunggal negara nak main sport or something. Doakan my trip dipermudahkan, Selamat pergi and pulang. Miss my little family already. Bismillah.

April 2015

Fast forward banyak dah berlaku. So summary as below:

GST kick off. I have divided opinion on this. Oh it reminds me to watch video Rafizi tu *double tap > Select YouTube > search 

Bought GoPro. Sangat practical (skill takde), mohon roi dapat diterjemahkan ke dalam Photobook. 

Comel boleh buat cover album Nirvana 

Quick getaway at the Dusun. After I posted pictures on FB or even Instagram ramai dok tanya kat mana #bukanlagusingapore Truth is memang Malaysia kaya dengan tempat percutian, even the place is owned by Omputeh! Ironic gila cuti camtu. Tapi memang best! Almost totally shutdown from real world (takde TV & internet connection)

Gaya. Mutu. Keadilan. Background dusun durian

Memang (lagi) Twitter kinda contest, bukan ticket London cuma larian di Putrajaya powered by Primax. Gitu

Bersama prminat tegar yang dipaksa bergambar tanpa makeup di awal pagi #NaturalBeauty

April born! Somehow banyak kekawan celebrate birthday anak dan menyambut kelahiran anak bulan ni. Alhamdulillah. Yeah April born awesome like that. August born pun ye jugak. Hehe

Gambar ihsan dari GoPro duit sendiri. Tak letak watermark, barang siapa yang curi memang rendah la integriti mereka. 

 

Don't Mess with Texas!

Truly grateful for the opportunity. About two weeks+ after Maldives, we set our foot on America soil yo. This time I will let the pictures do the talking.

Rent car. Houston Premium Outlet. Ok, ok Johor pun ada. Tapi tak dapat kan Levi's size ngam RM50-60 je. 

NASA space center. Yang ni Malaysia belum ada lagi, sampai 1MDB pulang modal mungkin boleh berangan dulu la

Travel: Maldives

Time flies. Memang tak percaya kembali menulis. Since I believe it is important to write somewhere for future reference and/ or whenever you don't have better things to do you will need something to (scroll) walk down the memory lane kinda stuff. 

Where were we last time? Ah, Maldives. I did ask to read my other half blog kan. Well, apparently she has better thing to do, so tahan je la read this blog. For now. 

Am so malas to details up the trip but it was a fantastic getaway. We went to normal pulau (Malé & Hulumale) and private one (Bandos)- so yeah we got to experience both world. Pulau sampah je tak pergi for obvious reason. We did island hoping on private excursion. 

Treasure the moment but to be honest memang la mahal kat sana tu, GST alone je dah 12% #kauhado. Kata kuncinya ialah kena pandai plan. Jangan nak kedekut sangat dan tak payah la perasan macam duit jatuh dari langit. First time experience bawa rice cooker and masak; I am about to repeat the same trick! 

Mana gambar? My phone iCrashed so hilang la segala gambar laut hijau-biru, jerung (a real one!) dan segala picturesque pictures! Namun jangan berduka, head to my Instagram account and enjoy #Maldives. Nampak tak pancing. Okthxbyexoxo

Hello 2015. Thanks 2014

Hi. It's nice to be back after more than a year. Life has changed so much from the last post. Where to begin.. The reason I'm writing again? Well at least you get to read something exclusive about me that I don't talk much in real life. Nah. This is for my record and future reference; eg. go back to previous post and feel ashamed on grammar error and repeat it again and again #mudahterhibur

Let's do the annual review (dah la 1 post ni je kot). 

It's the end of 2014. As a Malaysian most of us see 2014 as a not so good year, I couldn't agree more. But. Personally contradict to what happened to the nation as a whole, I feel so blessed this year. Sorry not to offend sesiapa. Particularly-finally both of us got to be transferred to KL, living together, pergi kerja sekali and what not. #initahunlah accomplished! Syukur. So many family events, ups and downs. And let's go to what I have picked up while living in Borneo- run a marathon; yet to go for a full mode. 

Been running like never before this year. If I'm not mistaken I've clocked more than 100km on event (not so impressive for so called runner). It just that the preparation prior to the day slightly different. Still glad I did it anyway.

The collection. Ni je. Humble brag.

Move on.. Less flying this year. That didn't stop us from going exploring another part of this world. Got to experience Krabi. Alhamdulillah for umrah trip, definitely to be going there again (amin!). And then the Goldcoast adventure; well we utilize travel agent package from Matta fair. You need to read my other half blog for more details. She writes better than me anyway.

Illustration purpose only. Tak makan pun. Nasi 'Kerabu' Krabi lagi unique weh

She seems ok with the dogol part

G'day mate! Sedap kan bau kari

All in all I am looking forward to 2015! Nope it's not about RON95 which is now  RM1.91/L (record low for the past 15 years?).  Alhamdulillah for 2014 where I considered it as one of 'my year'. Thank you Allah. Thanks to nice people around me. Thanks to you for reading this. 

Technically I'm still in 2014 due to time different in Maldives. Yeap we are here for 5D4N :) 

Happy new year! *fireworks*

The Truth

I actually wrote a post somewhere in May/ June and somehow it is not posted. Blergh..

That time I decided to go for full marathon and laid out some basic plan. So I'm back to push myself for another journey. 

Basically I'm happy with my life but I want a change. 2013 could be the year. It has to be. Ini tahunlah. 

Stay positive. 

Keeping up with Life

Force myself to write, just an update. These random photos represent my random life towards the end of 2012; nobody give a damn about that Mayan tribes anymore I guess.

It's so wrong to instill what you believe what's right for you to others. Bukan tak boleh but you have to understand that people level of acceptance is different you know. Problem is you will rage when people disagree with you which is normal for average human being. Unless you Judge Dredd.

This is my 100th blog post! Memang not worth of celebration pun.. *cengkerik*

Snapshot from a movie called 'Epic' will be released in 2013. Another reminiscence of Honey I shrunk the kids kinda movie

The Becks. Cannot really blame their photogenicism

Random travel picture. Not mine though. A frozen lake

Yeah, let's observe this