YS is going to Mars!!!

So I just got myself a ticket to Mars, for free!!!! Woohoo!!!! Pweeeet!! Clap clap hug hug for myself!!

Okok, enough of the confusion. There's an offer from NASA to put our name (yes, our name, ONLY) on board of Orion to fly to Mars this coming December 4, if everything runs on schedule. So, officially, YS the name will be flying to Mars this December... yea....

Karate-d by Nee

I woke up, hmm.. more like being awaken by a kick into the upper part of my face by Nee this morning. This is the second time in a week she did that to me. It was painful so rather than trying to fall asleep again, I decided to went down and do my work in the living room. And continue with my daily weekdays routine. Everything is pretty normal until Halema came into my room to discuss on something and before she left, she asked what had happened to my right eye. Told her nothing happened and she pointed out there's blood spot inside my eyes. I went straight into the washroom to check and yea, there it is, blood in the white part of my right eye aka subconjunctival hemorrhage. It's not painful, in fact I don't even notice it until Halema pointed it out to me. As precaution, did some research here and here and well, it's nothing to be worry off as it will go off between seven to ten days.. Hmm.. this little girl is getting a bit rough lately on the bed, need to talk to her tonight on this matter.

My family in the morning

This will best describe my young family in the morning, every day (well, almost).

Me

Her

Our daughter

Early morning conversation with Nee Nee

location : living room

time : 0650

Me : Nee Nee chor chor, ok? Papa feeds Alex. (Nee sit down ok)

Nee : Ah.. (yes). Mommy chor gung buy milk milk. (Mommy go to work, earn money to buy milk milk)

M : Yes, mommy go chor gung buy milk milk lor.

N : Ah... Nee Nee oioi..

M : Huh? Nee Nee oioi??

N : Ah... Papa chor gung buy milk milk, Nee Nee oioi. (smiling happily)

M : .... (Sigh)

Eastern Europe Trip Conclusion

Overall, both of us had plenty of fun, sweet memories and wonderful adventure during the entire trip. We also make new friends and keep in touch until today. And I always believe that keeping the sweet memories rather than pondering the bad ones will make me a better person. If family or friends ask me should they go for honeymoon, I will definitely say yes without a doubt. It would be the sweetest memory with your other half, and a perfect way to start your life journey together. The destination is not important, as everyone close to us knew that Eastern Europe is not our initial destination. The journey, from the moment we step out from our home into Uncle Wong's taxi going to airport all the way until we concluded the trip will always stay close in my heart. And finally, after close to three years, I finally able to conclude our honeymoon trip. Love you always dear.

Vienna 23 June - 24 June 2011

After three years after our honeymoon, I still have the perception that Vienna is the most unlikely city that I will ever recommend to family and friends to visit, save for the world-famous Sacher-Torte cake, swarovski crystal and classical music. And due to the high cost of living, we only managed to settle for a out skirt hotel, somewhere in the local housing neighbourhood. Anyway, there are many beautiful places to visit and if only the tour guide gave us more time at the Schonbrunn Palace, I would have taken plenty of photos of the surrounding places. 

plenty of wind energy farm along the way from Budapest to Vienna

Schonbrunn Palace

Views of Vienna

 Have you ever see a clean river without any rubbish floating in it at KL?

One word, DELICIOUS! We even tapao it back to KL

swarovski crystal shop, purposely detoured back into the city on 24 June just to visit + shopping for crystal in here

Budapest 22 June 2011

After a good rest and a sumptuous morning buffet, we started our sightseeing on Budapest. Today was the first time from Day 1 that we had to wear summer clothes as temperature was closed to 34 degree Celsius. Humid and hot indeed, something similar to KL and Singapore. Budapest is indeed a very historical city but perhaps due to the heat and sweating, we didn't take extra effort to venture out from the pack to do more sightseeing. 

The evening free and easy session was spent venturing inside their grocery market, tea break at one of the famous cafe and dinner at the open air restaurant (of course after the sun set). One of the most famous delicacy in Hungary is the traditional Hungarian goulash and beef is always the preferred choice of meat to make this dish. I tried the pork version during dinner yesterday but I always prefer to try the authentic local dishes so well, I ordered the beef version for my dinner. My verdict, not much difference. And, because of my eagerness and failure to control my temptation, I developed rashes all over my body (since I don't eat beef due to religion and belief). Once back to hotel, I took a quick shower, popped some vitamin C and quickly call it a day.

Notice the word TERROR in the shadow?

Heroes Square

Views from Fisherman's Bastion

Views from Gillert Hill

Some photos of the city

Our second optional tour, the Danube River cruise

Coffee and cakes at Gerbeaud 

Some of the fresh local produce and cured meat at the local wet market (it should be called dry market, since the floor is dry, unlike the wet markets in Malaysia)

Krakow - Slovakia - Budapest 21 June 2011

The plan for today would be to take an optional tour to Wieliczka Salt Mine and then continue our road trip into Budapest via Slovakia. Since this was a optional tour, there were few of us who opted out and go for shopping instead (it will cost you 45Euro with and 40 Euro without elevator ride). From the beginning of our trip, both of us had decided since we had already paid close to RM 16,000.00 for this trip, why bother to save a few hundred bucks just to waste our previous time in a foreign land to go walking around in some hypermarkets and not fully appreciate the place and its surrounding? Out of three of the optional tours in the entire trip, we only opted out of one, the Mozart and Johann Strauss Concert in Vienna since both of us are not classical music fans. 

There's a beautiful park situated on top of Wieliczka Salt Mine, which is a underground mine. There are plenty of beautiful sculptures, halls and even hosted a Cathedral. The mine is very well preserved, and is listed under the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The beautiful park on the surface of the mine

The Last Supper sculpture on the wall

After the Wieliczka Salt Mine tour, we continue with our road trip to Budapest via Slovakia. We were told we will only reach Budapest by sunset, however, due to road closure in parts of our original road, the bus driver had to detoured and subsequently get himself and all of us lost somewhere in the middle of no where. But, somehow, we ended up in a beautiful resort/ cafe around the highlands in Slovakia which is usually packed with people during winter but well, since we were there during spring, it was mostly empty and and serene. After the stop at the resort for our lunch, we continue our journey and we took another two more stops, one for afternoon tea and another to the wash room visit before finally arrived in Budapest some time after 8 pm. We went straight to the restaurant for our Hungarian folklore dinner and then check in into our hotel. For the first time during this trip, we had to sleep on two single size beds and the hotel is just decent, nothing to shout about and it actually looks old. Anyway, too tired to even think about it, just shower, watched the news on tv and then bedtime for us. 

Below are some photos taking while the bus was travelling to Budapest and also the beautiful resort we stop by for our lunch. 

When was the last time you see a clean and crystal clear river flowing in our country?

During winter, the mountains will be covered with snow and people will be flocking into this area for skiing and other snow related activities

Our tea break

Beautiful rainbow greeting us while on the way to Budapest