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• 30Apr

  MPSPK: Why fun ride?

  Family & Friends, MTB / Cycling No Comments

  Why fun ride? I don’t think Jamboree, which now mostly turn to JamboRace, is for me. It used to be fun. Meeting people, making friends was the objective. Enjoying the scenery and different terrain what we look forward to.

  • In fun ride, I don’t have to worry about the placing I got.
  • In fun ride, I can get my family to join
  • In fun ride, I’ll get t-shirt. I’m not excited about wearing body-fit-jersey
  • In fun ride, I’ll pay less to join.

  I used to know a lot of riders when joining an event, but now I only knew a handful.

  MPSPK organised a very good event. It was held at Tanjung Dawai and was joined by more than 300 riders. A good t-shirt and refreshment for just RM15. Total distance is 34km.

  

  

  

• 24Apr

  Great Adventure for Birthday

  Family & Friends, Others, Travel 2 Comments

  This trip was planned mid of last year. April is the birthday month for me and my wife. This is sort of gift for each others.

  There is nothing great about this trip except we booked nothing except the flight tickets. The trip was full of suspense. We did not know what to expect when we landed in Delhi except what we read on the net. We did not have any idea where to look for cheap hotel in Makkah and Madinah since both cities are under intense development. There were so many uncertainties.

  After all the planning, Alhamdulillah, the trip was a success.

  A lot more postings on this trip will come. The posting on food and places we visited in Delhi. The posting on tips of DIY-umrah and how much the food and hotel cost in Makkah and Madinah. A little of Arabic does help a lot during our trip.

  The brief of our journey:

  1. Day 1 – 6 April 2012: Alor Setar – LCCT (by Airasia) – KLIA (by Bus). Sleep on airport chairs
  2. Day 2 – 7 April 2012: KLIA – Indira Gandhi International Airport (by Malaysia Arlines) – New Delhi (Metro Train) – Jamak Masjid. Check in hotel there.
  3. Day 3 – 8 April 2012: New Delhi Sight seeing and shopping
  4. Day 4 – 9 April 2012: New Delhi – Agra – Taj Mahal (by Taxi)
  5. Day 5 – 10 April 2012: New Delhi – Madinah (by Saudi Airlines)
  6. Day 6 – 11 April 2012: Madinah
  7. Day 7 – 12 April 2012: Madinah – Makkah (by Saptco Bus) – Umrah
  8. Day 8 – 13 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  9. Day 9 – 14 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  10. Day 10 – 15 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  11. Day 11 – 16 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  12. Day 12 – 17 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  13. Day 13 – 18 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  14. Day 14 – 19 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah
  15. Day 15 – 20 April 2012: Makkah – Umrah – King Abdulaziz International Airport Jeddah – KLIA (By Saudi Airlines)
  16. Day 16 – 21 April 2012: KLIA – Jalan Duta (by Taxi) – Alor Setar (by Bus)

  Thanks to Mohd Adnan, Hj Arsad, Shapiah, Haslizan Hassan Omar, Sohaimee, Hasanin bin Ahmad, Md Nayan Bahari, Jagung Mas Travel, Asari Murni Travel, family and friends for making this trip possible.

  

  

• 05Apr

  Visa for Umrah

  Islam, Others, Travel 19 Comments

  Applying a visa for umrah is not as easy as other visa. You cannot simply apply yourself but have to go through an umrah agent. Agent in Malaysia has to engage an agent in Saudi (Muasasah). Some muasasah insist that you must have accommodation and  transportation arranged first before you can apply for visa.

  I called Utas Travel and Gemilang Travel, but they only arranged visa application for the one who took up their umrah package.

  At last someone told me about Jagung Mas Travel. They charged RM350 for the visa. They applied the visa as if I’m traveling in their group. For cheaper alternative, I heard someone doing it in KL for RM270.

  The Visa condition: You must enter Saudi within 30 days from the date of the visa. So the earliest you can apply is 30 days before you are due to enter Saudi. Your stay in Saudi must not exceed 30 days.

  After all the suspense, I finally got my umrah visa. InsyaAllah, I’ll arrive in Madinah on 10 April and travel back to Malaysia from Jeddah on 20 April.

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  Step by step procedure:

  1. Buy ticket. You need to submit ticket when applying visa
  2. Ladies must have mahram and any sort of documents to prove that, to submit together when with visa application.
  3. Contact agent for visa application. Not many agents willing to do it if the ground arrangement not purchased together. They will get in trouble if you overstayed or violate any of visa condition.
  4. In my case, the agent sort of evaluated me and convinced that I would not violate the visa condition before agreed to arrange for visa.
  5. They will create a mock package and stick on the passport before applying for visa.
  6. When you received back your passport, you will notice a small sticker at the back with the name of an agent in Saudi.
  7. Before traveling to Saudi, you have to have some idea where are you staying, at least a name of the hotel. Just the name and do not have to book it. In my case I have the business card from the hotel given to me by my father who went there a month before.
  8. When you land in Saudi, all went as normal except before final exit door at the airport. Someone will ask to look at your passport and they will shout the name of the agent at the back of your passport.
  9. Your Saudi agent will approach you and ask you about arrangement in the Saudi. You just tell them that everything is arranged for and give him the name of the hotel.
  10. They will arrange the taxi for you.

  That’s all.

  
  

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• 03Apr

  Daging Bakar Danok

  Food No Comments

  This is my first post in food category. I’ll give the gps coordinate so it will be more meaningful.

  Daging bakar in Danok is not to be missed when visiting Danok. Most of the shops open around 5pm to until midnight. There are few shops selling the same things and some are better than others.

  N6.5257987  E100.4185270

  
  

  Puluk Ayam is the most favourite food in Thailand.
  

• 02Apr

  Pictures with GPS tagging

  Computer/Internet, Photography No Comments

  When I purchased Nokia N8, the GPS info that tagged with images fascinated me. Now, a lot more things I can share in my blog. Things that came to my mind was the food that I enjoyed I will published here with GPS coordinate. What you have to is just key-in the coordinate in your GPS devise.

  Then Canon S100 that I recently purchased also comes with GPS info. Now more and more info will be available to whoever follow this blog.

  Then, the next question is which image browser can read all those coordinate? My main image browser is Fast Stone Image Viewer. But it cannot read the GPS data. After browsing, I came across GeoSetter. It works perfectly for me.
  

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