Travelogue: Kaklong & Kakchik's Northern's trip - Day 1 in Kuala Lumpur

2 bulan dah berlalu since the trip. MashaAllah, kemalasan apakah ini untuk mengemaskini post dekat blog?

Kita update slowly, okay. Let's go!


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20 Julai 2019

Jadi, harini bermulalah perjalanan aku ke Kuala Lumpur untuk misi mengembara bersama Kakchik. Aku ambil flight Malindo yang terakhir, penerbangan pada jam 9.20 malam. Kakchik pulak dah terbang 3 hari lebih awal sebab dia nak melawat mak angkat dia masa belajar asasi di UITM Dengkil dulu.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Jumpa lagi Kuching Intl Airport in a week :)

Seronok dapat seat tepi tingkap yay!

Rancangan awal, aku akan overnight di KLIA dan akan ke rumah kawan pada awal pagi esoknya untuk gathering beramai-ramai dengan kawan seuniversiti yang lain. Yelah, dah alang-alang ada free sehari, kita manfaatkanlah sepenuhnya kan. Tapi, adik yang dah menetap di Shah Alam insisted untuk ambil di airport bawa ke rumah, so terpaksalah cancel plan asal. Nasib jugak belum ajak yang lain-lain, baru inform tuan rumah je.

Oh sebelum tu, plan kitorang bertukar jugak. Memula ingatkan nak cover KL – Selangor – Pahang – Melaka – Penang, tapi disebabkan ada rancangan keluarga untuk bercuti bersama di Melaka dalam masa terdekat, maka kitorang berdua pun tukar plan untuk ke Perak. Dah alang-alang di Perak, nak cover as many places as possible lah kan. Rombak punya rombak, kitorang berjaya finalize kan itinerary kitorang menjadi KL – Selangor – Pahang – Perak – Penang.

Selamat mendarat di KLIA around 11 malam, adik, isteri dia dan Kakchik dah tunggu dekat balai ketibaan. Hari pun dah nak lewat malam, kitorang cepat-cepat bergerak dari KLIA ke area rumah dia untuk dinner. Sempatlah melantak chicken chop malam tu haih hahaha.

Alhamdulillah, ada tempat untuk bermalam dan perut pun kenyang. Lepas settle everything, ready untuk tidur (around 2.30 pagi jugak) dan off we go to dreamland.

BigPay - Skip the hassle, enjoy more benefits

Jadinya, sebelum ni aku dah tunjukkan cara-cara nak dapatkan free bigpoints AirAsia. 2,500 points.  Here's the link gaisss CaraMudah Mendapatkan AirAsia Bigpoints. Banyak tu! Sekarang, aku nak tunjuk cara untuk dapatkan discount bila nak buat payment masa beli tiket AirAsia, sekaligus takde kena caj processing fee guys. Trust me, memang takde.

How? How?? How???

Sabaq na. Teruskan pembacaan.

Mula-mula, korang pergi ke website ni BigPay. Nampak symbol download here tu? Yasss, klik mana yang applicable utuk korang (either; Apple Store untuk Iphone devices or Google Play Android devices), pastu download lah apps BigPay tersebut. Ataupun, just go straight to your Apple Store / Google Play dan search for BigPay. Then, download the apps. Atau jugak, masukkan nombor telefon korang dekat ruang yang ada, then button click BigPay for free tu. Nanti, dia akan bagi mesej yang mengandungi link untuk download apps BigPay. Lepas tu, boleh lah korang download :)

Dah download, register lah ye anak-anak. Nanti ada satu part tu, dia mintak gambar depan dan belakang kad pengenalan (ic) korang, ambiklah gambar ic tu, biar jelas dan terang okay? Pastu, ada part dia mintak gambar korang pulak, ambik le gambar yang molek-molek na. Hieee.

Dah settle semua, dia akan suruh korang tunggu emel pengesahan daripada BigPay untuk account korang. Selalunya less than 24 hours dah dapat. Dah confirm account korang nanti, topup lah RM 20 (minimum) then dalam 3-5 working days BigPay akan hantar kad prepaid BigPay tu dekat alamat yang korang kasi. Wajib tau masukkan RM20 minimum tu, sebab selagi tak masukkan duit, selagi tu kad korang takkan dihantar. Dan selagi kad tu tak dihantar, korang tak boleh lah nak gunakan kad bigpay tu sebab kad tak aktif lagi. Once korang dah dapat kad prepaid tu, dekat belakang kad tu kan ada cvc kod? Pergi bukak apps bigpay tu, then proceed with next step. Final step lah kira. Sebab once korang dah masukkan cvc kod tu, tadaaaa kad dah aktif dan korang dah boleh guna kad BigPay tu.

Dannnn……

Macam account YouGov jugak yang korang boleh earn something bila korang lengkapkan survey dan bila orang join YouGov dan lengkapkan survey through your unique referral link, BigPay jugak buat reward program yang hampir sama.

Haa. Curious tak?

Masa korang create account BigPay, nanti dia ada mintak referral code (kalau ada), korang masukkan referral code ni 3UQ47MK4D3. Bila korang dah create account BigPay sampaiiiiiilah ke final step which is topup kad bigpay dan masukkan cvc code tu, korang akan dapat RM10. Wahh. Seronok tu! Siapa je nak bagi RM10 tu free? Dan, empunya referral code tu (contohnya aku, kalau korang guna referral code aku lah) jugak akan dapat RM10. So, it’s a win-win situation, yes? :)

Sini aku ringkaskan cara nak apply kad prepaid BigPay ni bagi yang malas nak baca entri yang panjang ;)

1. Pergi ke Apple Store (bagi Iphone users) atau Play Store (bagi Android users), cari bigpay dan download.
2. Create account dan macam biasa, isilah maklumat yang dia minta tu dengan lengkap kalau boleh.
3. Dah siap isi semua, tunggu emel pengesahan daripada BigPay (biasanya less than 24hrs)
4. Topup minimum RM 20 ke dalam kad prepaid tu.
5. Kad akan dihantar ke alamat korang once korang dah topup kad. Ambik masa 3-5 hari bekerja. Aku haritu lebih seminggu jugak, maybe sebab East Malaysia? Entah.
6. Bukak apps BigPay dekat telefon korang, dan isikan cvc code yang ada dekat belakang kad prepaid bigpay korang.
7. Kad  dah aktif, and there you go!

Sekali lagi nak bagitahu, kalau korang nak extra RM 10 secara percuma, jangan lupa masukkan referral code ni 3UQ47MK4D3 masa diorang mintak referral code. Percuma RM 10 guyssss!

Macam aku cakap tadi, bila korang buat payment to AirAsia bila beli flight tickets guna BigPay, korang takkan dikenakan processing fee langsung. Malah, boleh dapat discount RM 5 lagi. Huishh, jimat banyak tu. Sebab sebelum ni aku selalu bayar tiket flight guna online banking, aku kena caj RM 4.24 per booking. Kalau dah 10 booking, RM 42.40. Perhhh rugi banyak dah kat situ. Kalo idok,lepas dah nak beli bucket ayam KFC pastu makan ramai-ramai.

Lagi kelebihan kad ni? Adaaaa.

Korang boleh guna kad prepaid ni (Mastercard) dekat mana-mana merchant Mastercard di seluruh dunia, as long as they accepted it. Yup, you heard it right. Whole world! Seluruh dunia! Rate pun lebih kurang dengan rate semasa. So, why not?

Lagi satu, kalau lah korang takde cash kat tangan, and korang urgently need cash at that moment. Korang boleh buat pengeluaran duit dekat mana-mana mesin atm yang terima Mastercard. Rasanya, semua mesin atm terima kot. Ke ada yang terima visa je? Emmm. Tapi, pengeluaran duit through kad bigpay dekat atm machine akan dikenakan caj lah. RM 6 per transaction jika pengeluaran duit dibuat di dalam negara (local) dan RM 10 per transaction jika pengeluaran duit dibuat di luar negara (oversea). Tak payah nak call bank ke apa ke untuk aktifkan kad jika korang nak guna kad ni dekat luar negara. Korang terus boleh swipe swipe je kalau jenis yang malas nak bawak cash banyak-banyak kat tangan.

Kita kan dah masuk dunia digital. Senang go cashless je sekarang. Eh, tiber. Hahaha. I mean, if you don’t wanna go through hassle bringing money around, swipe je lah. Tapi, make sure dalam kad BigPay korang tu ada enough amount to do the swiping. Kalau tak, get ready enough cash in your wallet/purse lah. My style? I love to bring prepaid card/e-wallet and just little cash in case tempat yang aku nak beli barang tu tak accept card (credit,debit,prepaid). Yelah, nak beli kuih RM 5 hulur kad, kau nak kena penampor ke? Hahaha. Ikut logiklah kan kat mana nak guna kad, kat mana nak guna cash. Tapi kan, antara debit card dan prepaid card, aku lebih prefer prepaid card. Sebab boleh control perbelanjaan. Contoh, aku masukkan RM200 per month, so aku tau had perbelanjaan aku guna kad tu maximum RM200 je. Kalau debit, selagi ada duit dalam tu, selagi tu dok belanja dan belanja lagi. Tau-tau, kering dah balance dalam account. Huuu sedih. Don’t talk about credit card to me. So far aku memang tak berniat nak ada credit card langsung. Okay, dah panjang sangat melalut ni. Kita sambung balik.

Camne nak topup kad prepaid ni? Alah, easy peasy.

Korang boleh topup guna internet banking je, atau pairkan dengan debit/credit card korang. Aku lebih suka guna internet banking. Senang. Boleh track record transaction bila-bila masa.

Apa lagi kelebihan BigPay ni?

Korang boleh online shopping dan buat payment guna kad ni, dan korang akan dapat AirAsia bigpoint jugak tau. Kumpul-kumpul bigpoints, nanti boleh redeem free flight AirAsia. Seronok,seronok, seronok! Bukan online shopping je, everytime korang guna kad bigpay ni, korang akan dapat bigpoint AirAsia. What’s not to love about having this card for your own and people you loves? ;)

And talk about redeeming a free flight, I just redeemed myself return flight to Penang. Cuba tengok berapa harga tiket flight Kuching-Penang-Kuching kalau nak bayar cash? Menggeletar kepala lutut tengok harga. Kalau tak RM200+ per flight, jangan cakaplah. Pergi balik je dah cecah RM 400+ ke RM 500. Nangis tepi katil tengok harga tuh makaiiii. Aku redeemed return flight ticket, dalam 5580 point jugaklah. And those point mostly I collected through YouGov. Huiii serius tak rugi aku kerut-kerut kening jawab soalan survey YouGov tu dulu. Hehe.

Eh sebelum terlupa. Ada satu lagi kelebihan kad prepaid bigpay ni. Even if korang tak aktif guna kad ni for a long time, korang takkan kena caj maintenance fee ke apa bagai fee ke. Katalah this month korang tak buat apa-apa transaction through this card, next month pun sama, next next month pun sama, balance dalam kad korang maintain tak berubah. Bertambah, maybe! Kalau ada orang masukkan your referral code masa diorang apply for this BigPay card.

Pasal security pulak, don’t worry. Sebab kad ni pun boleh pakai dekat atm, of course lah kena ada no pin kad kan. Alahhh, macam kad bank yang lain tu. Dekat apps jugak, bila korang launch je app BigPay tu, dia akan mintak pin no yang korang dah set awal-awal masa register account BigPay dulu before korang dapat access your BigPay account. So, nobody can go through your BigPay apps except for yourself. Kecualilah, korang ada bagi pin no korang dekat orang lain cam your partner ke parents ke. Kalau boleh, keep it to yourself lah okay?

So, dah panjang-panjang point aku kasi ni, takkan taknak join?

Go, go what are you waiting for?

Grab your own BigPay card now and starts saving more and more!

Don’t forget to enter this referral code 3UQ47MK4D3. We both will get the benefit!

And wanna collect extra AirAsia bigpoint for free? Here’s how. Click this link Cara Mudah Mendapatkan AirAsia Bigpoints you can read everything here and feel free to drop me a comment if you have anything to ask.

Cheers and good day, everyone!

YouGov survey

Hi! So, esok kita akan menyambut Hari Raya AidilFitri 1439H. Alhamdulillah, moga amalan kita semua di bulan Ramadhan 1439H diterima oleh Allah S.W.T., in sha Allah.

Ada yang plan nak travel atau memang dah ready nak travel di bulan Syawal nanti? Syok la ampa. Saya harap suatu hari nanti saya pun berkesempatan untuk travel di bulan Syawal. Sambil tu bolehlah menikmati sendiri kemeriahan dan keunikan Syawal di tempat orang, kan?

Before ni saya pernah share pasal YouGov survey; iaitu cara mudah untuk mengumpul Bigpoint AirAsia. Boleh refer post sebelum ni:- YouGov survey - Cara mudah mendapatkan AirAsia Big points.

Saya bukan nak bercerita cara nak join YouGov ke apa sebab dah share dalam previous post. So, korang bolehlah tekan link di atas dan baca cara-caranya. Sekarang ni, saya nak 'goda' korang untuk join YouGov.

Tadaaa.!

Jawab survey, kumpul point, dah cukup 5000 points for YouGov, korang boleh redeem 2500 AirAsia bigpoint. Siapa je nak bagi weh?

Redeem jangan tak redeem ;)

Points biasanya masuk less than 2 weeks

Nak dapat extra points tanpa perlu jawab survey tak? Once korang join YouGov, korang akan dapat your own unique referral URL; di mana bila ada orang join YouGov through your unique referral, and that person berjaya jawab 6 surveys, maka korang akan secara automatik mendapat 200 YouGov points. Itu kalau seorang. Kalau 5 orang? Dah dapat 1000 points. Kalau 25 orang? Dah boleh redeem 2500 AirAsia bigpoint. Best kan kan kan? 

Cepatlah register your YouGov account now! Boleh klik link di bawah. Hurry!

https://my.yougov.com/en-my/refer/6n7inFQCmIwWs4Nf8hoJAA/

Ni 3rd time redeem AA bigpoints since join YouGov earlier last year.

So, amacam? Tergoda tak? Hee.

Jangan tunggu lagi. Cepat, register your YouGov account now!

https://my.yougov.com/en-my/refer/6n7inFQCmIwWs4Nf8hoJAA/

Okies. Ni sajalah nak share salah satu kelebihan kumpul AirAsia bigpoint ni. Rasanya hampir semua tau, lebih-lebih lagi travellers tegar. Tapi tak apa, meh saya share my own experience.

Bulan Mac haritu, geng rapat universiti kitorang buat simple reunion dekat KL while I'm here in Kuching. Yang lagi 5 orang semua ada di KL. Last minute pulak, seminggu sebelum tarikh reunion baru decide nak buat. Kalau usha tiket AA dekat website, paling murah pun dalam RM129/way masa tu. Kalau return flights? Almost RM300! Nampak macam sikit, tapi bagi student macam saya, RM300 tu sangat banyak weh! Boleh buat belanja sebulan.

Time tu dah almost redha tak dapat join diorang reunion. Lagi 2 hari rasanya before reunion, sajalah dok usha tiket dekat apps AirAsia Big Loyalty. Sekali diorang tengah buat promo 90% off rasanya. Points for one way ticket masa tu cuma 1000 points instead of the lowest usual, 6500. So, return tickets to KL only costs me 2000 points AA dan tambahan RM30 sahaja (RM15/way untuk airport tax). Apalagi, cepat-cepatlah booked flight ticket, and there! I'm ready to board in less than 2 days.

Murah sangat kau RM30 je for return flights from KCH-KUL-KCH. Selalunya, paling cikai pun harga dia around RM100++ almost RM200. Tu paling cikai. okay.

Masa final call sale for AA flights (using AA bigpoint), memang sangat worth beli tiket flight bila ada points AA. Tak rugi kumpul, serius!

Joinlah, boleh kita sama-sama flying high to the sky! :)

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Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 6

15 September 2016

So, we already on our last day here in Terengganu. We woke up early and went to Batu Burok Beach to find a breakfast there. After keeping our tummy full, we took our own sweet time strolling the beach, taking pictures and be grateful to Allah S.W.T. for this beautiful view in front of us.

About an hour later, we already on our way to Masjid Kristal for our last activity, taking a cruise around TTI’s river. Actually to take the cruise, you need to go to a building not far from Masjid Kristal. It’s not located exactly at Masjid Kristal. Lucky we realize this earlier, or else we would missed the first cruise. We have to take the earliest trip since we had just few hours before our flight back to KL.

The cruise

One before going on the cruise

The trip took around an hour. There will be a tour guide on board and he will explained briefly about the things we saw around such as a small island, the boats, the jetty and all. We also got a chance to take a whole picture of Masjid Kristal as closer as we can from inside the cruise. Masjid Kristal looks so beautiful.

Crystal Mosque; view from the cruise

Finished with the tour, we stopped by at the souvenir and quickly bought some souvenir before going to the car and off to the airport.

Ticket price; for references

At the airport, my mom’s and dad’s friends was already there to send us off. It’s a working day and yet, they freed some of their time to meet us there. I’m both grateful and happy. We spent every last minutes together with both friends before we finally went inside the departure hall. And that, finally marks the end of our trip to Terengganu.

Goodbye Terengganu!

This trip also marks the completion of my trip to all states in Malaysia.

Alhamdulillah for the rezqi :)

p/s: My grammar are so so bad, I know. I mixed present tense with past tense with past present tense, but I’m glad to finally finished writing this Terengganu journal, after one and a half year since the trip ended. What?! Hahaha.

p/s: I almost give up writing this journal in English because I think that I didn’t express my feeling and emotion well and deeply from heart. But I also think that this is the least thing I can do to makes my English better, which is to keep using English even though it’s a broken one.

Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 5

14 September 2016

We woke up early and check-out from the room earlier than the suppose check-out time since we are going back to Kuala Terengganu. Before that, we stopped by at my friend’s house to take our belonging which we left behind yesterday. We spent another hour talking and bonding between the two families since it’s not easy for us to meet unless we’re going to each other’s place.

Arrived at Kuala Terengganu, we made another quick trip to laundry before heading to our homestay to check in. Then, we went out to Pasar Payang and PakSu Keropok Lekor to buy some keropok ikan and keropok lekor here. At PakSu’s, we stopped by to eat freshly fried original keropok lekor and cheese keropok lekor. It’s seriously delicious, I love it! We love it!

We went to Masjid Kristal next to perform Maghrib prayer before going to Batu Burok Beach to eat dinner. I tried Prawn Char Kuey Tiaw, the famous Ikan Celup Tepung (ICT) and Sotong Goreng Tepung. Not bad, but I think the taste is almost similar to the common fried fish. Well, that’s my opinion.

Cheezy Keropok Lekor

Ikan Celup Tepong and Sotong Celup Tepong

We ended our day for the day with a drink from CoolBlog.

Travelogue: Bukit Gambang, Pahang – Day 4

13 September 2016

We woke up early today since we are going to Bukit Gambang, yay! A 2D 1N trip to Bukit Gambang is one of the initial plan that we have. We already booked everything actually. But, since we are changing our plan to Terengganu, we thought that we didn’t have enough time to cover this place. So except for the entrance tickets which we’ve already bought, we canceled our booking for one of the family room there. It was a day before Eid-Adha that we decided to just go having fun at Bukit Gambang. Last minute booking for a room, the price has gone higher. Sigh. But never mind that, as long as we can enjoy ourselves.

After having a breakfast with my friend’s family, we started our journey to Bukit Gambang. The journey took around 2 hours 30 minutes from Dungun. We reached there around 11, and we went straight to the waterpark. After confirming our entrance tickets, we went inside and put our stuffs inside the locker room before starts playing in the water. If I’m not mistaken, we have to reload a card to be used to buy foods/drinks, to rent a pelampung, to rent a locker and so on. All transaction will be done using the card. And before you go out from the waterpark, you can claimed your unused money at the counter.

Hello, Bukit Gambang!

In front of the waterpark

The waterpark is not as big as Sunway Lagoon, and there are not so many places inside the waterpark where you can play sliding and all with the pelampung, but it is still enjoyable. There are not so many people during our time there, so we got to play at each sliding places for a several time. What makes it more memorable was, my parents too, played the sliding together with us. The kids are having fun, so do the parents.

4 hours playing in the waterpark, we started to get tired. So, we wrapped up things at the waterpark, bought some souvenirs at the souvenir’s shop near the entrance and headed to the hotel to check in. Settled with check-in procedure, we went to our room and rest for a while. My skin got burnt a lot. The worst part was, I didn’t used any sunblock beforehand. Gotta take some time for my skin to fully recover from this burn.

Next, we headed to Safari Tour but before that! We went to the nearest restaurant to fill in our hungry tummy and re-energized. After bought the tickets to Safari Tour, we went inside hurriedly since we are already late for the tour. We almost missed the bus which will take us for the animal tour. After half begging the staffs, they allowed us to rode the very last bus for the tour that day. Feeling happy and grateful, we rode the bus to the next station where we will change to a special safety bus to finally take us to the animal tour.

At the station, we need to queue and wait for the bus to come. While waiting, my youngest sister took her chance to try riding a camel. The fee is RM10 for one round. About half an hour later, it’s our turn to ride the bus and finally starts touring these animal places. It took us a little over an hour to complete the tour.

In front of Safari Park

The King

Anyeong, Jong Kook!

It's a tram actually

After finished with safari tour, we come back to the place where we took our first bus. We’ll go watch an awesome performance next, inside the hall. While waiting for the performance to start, we grabbed a quick bite and went to feed the elephant. We met Linda Rafar there, and my mom and youngest sister doesn’t let go the chance to take a picture with her. We then went straight to the hall since the performance was about to start.

Elephant's feeding

The performance was indeed the best. It’s making us laughing all the way, the actors was amazing, and the performance was lit. Everything was just so good. We left the hall with a happy heart. Since it’s already night and we drained ourselves the whole day, we decided to go back to our room and rest. We’ll have another hectic day tomorrow.

Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 3

12 September 2016

Happy Eid-Adha!

We woke up early today. My dad and my brother went to the mosque to perform Eid-Adha prayer, while the girls are preparing things at home. We moved out again today, later on the afternoon to go to Dungun, to my friend’s house.

After my dad and my brother done performing Eid-Adha prayer, they picked us at home and we went straight to my dad’s friend’s house for breakfast and for the next activity, qurban. It’s was my first time seeing qurban live in front of my two eyes, so I was quite excited. 4 cows were down for qurban. This event were so meaningful for me. I saw the struggle of the cows to escape from the rope that tied them up. I saw some cows are really looking sad as if they know they were about to leave the world. I saw how close these people are, gathered together at the morning of Eid Adha, smiling and chatting, sharing foods and all. Actually, we have all these scenario at my hometown. But I never really get to experience it myself except for eating foods together. I have never went to see with my own eyes how ibadah qurban was performed.

I tried to add a video of the qurban, but it seems there's an error since the video is over 100 MB, so I added a photo of myself instead ;)

About half an hour later, we excused ourselves as we have to go to Dungun. The journey is a little bit over one hour. We dropped by the laundry before drove to my friend’s house. This friend is someone I know during my Master’s Degree. We are quite close and regularly keep in touch, so when she know that I’m coming over to Terengganu, she invited us to stay at her home. At first, I was a bit reluctant since I’m not going there alone, but with my family. But, she and her family insisted us to stay overnight, and after discussing about it with my family, we decided to accept the offer. It’s one of the way to bond the two family, so why not?

Later that evening, we went to Teluk Gadung, a beach located in front of UITM Dungun, if I’m not mistaken. These students are really lucky to have a beautiful beach right in front of their university. The beach are beautiful. We spend about an hour there strolling over the beach and chit-chatting. Well, it’s been a while since I met my friend, so there’s a lot to talk about.

One with Ika :)

That night, we are having a barbecue in front of the house with beefs they got after the qurban. I really love barbecue but never really got a chance to do it regularly. We talked, ate and stuffed our not-so-empty tummy to the fullest before going to bed. Having a full tummy right before you sleep is not so healthy hmmm but who cares? As long as we are happy :)