Behold, the Taming Sari

*I actually don’t know what “Taming Sari” means… paiseh*

Clear blue skies… green trees 🙂

I tried using the polarizer… it kinda darkened the corners coz the CPL I bought was a bit thick T_T

(I didn’t know that thickness or thinness matters)

Cute buildings near the Taming Sari

This overexposed shot looks nice as well 😛 looks artistic to me at least… can be used as wallpaper 😛

What do you think?

Trying to capture Aaron taking photos of McBone 😛

Aaron seems to be satisfied with his shot lol

We are going to enter the Taming Sari next XD

wee! We’re inside!

Satkuru Kawaii!

 

View from the top… You will see the Portuguese ship

OMG that’s a long lap pool I want!

I am not sure where the North part is but if I knew, I can tell the time when this was taken without looking at the digital time stamp 😛

The shadow of the taming sari is like a Sundial hehe

Pahlawan mall top view 🙂

Looks like an alien space ship parked in Melaka lol

The buildings look like doll houses and the cars look like toy cars 😛

I believe this is the *Eye of Malaysia*

Cute park 😛

I bet it’s nice to cam-whore here 😀

 

View from the insides of the Taming Sari

Eh? Bone, you got dizzy?

They were taking photos of the reflection in my shades

After the ride wee!

Aaron Woolala still manages to do his signature *eyebrow* look 😛

Everyone was trying to capture the reflection from Sat’s shades as well.

That’s how we roll guys 🙂 All of us had DSLRs :P  All of the bloggers I know in Malaysia have a passion for both blogging and photography

Get to know my Malaysian friends who toured me.

Here’s some link love and shoutout to them!

Satkuru, Aaron, Alvin, Wiliam, Jess, Steven, McBone

till the next blog post 😛

xoxo,

FlairCandy

 

Satkuru, Aaron, Alvin, Wiliam, Jess, Steven and McBone took me to Melaka :D  This post contains the many things I saw and experienced while we were walking around Melaka.

Me and William waited for Sat, Jess, Steven, McBone, Aaron and Alvin at Asia Cafe.  I ate some Asado Beef noodles I think (you know how heavy of a breakfast eater I am)

and of course, my favorite, Milk Tea 😀

I look different and weird here… I look 10 pounds more lol

This is Jess ^_^ One of the sweetest Malaysians I know 🙂

My first impression of her when we finally met “Wow, she’s tall”

Her first impression of me “Oh, she’s small”

😛

Four Feet Eleven baby 😛

On Williams car with Me, Aaron and Alvin.

No cam-whoring inside car lol

We kinda all wore read.

It wasn’t planned.

I didn’t know how to spell “Melaka” at first.  There seems to be different spellings like “Melakka” and “Malacca”

Good thing I grabbed a snapshot of this signage.

“Melakka” – is just a misspelling

“Malacca” – appears to be the English word counterpart of the place

(I remembered Malacca from our Asian History Studies in High School)

Entering the City of Melaka 😀

Outside “Christ Church” a dozen of Pedicabs decorated with flowers were parked nicely 😀

A busy street in Melaka.  It had really tiny roads.

Aaron’s shirt says “I’m Surrounded by Idiots”

>.< grr

“Selamat Tahun Baru Cina” which means…

(I don’t know really :P)

Sign pointing to “Eye on Malaysia”

Me taking a picture of William taking my picture, who also is taking my picture while I was taking a picture of him.

Get it? lol

Aaron behind me has a “wtf” face as I cam-whore lol

 

I don’t know what this is, it was just nice taking photos of it because it is red.

The structures and buildings around Melaka are painted with the same shade of red.

Even the Church is Red.

More about the Christ Church on my next blog post 😀

Guess who 😛

We headed to Pahlawan mall to chill 😀

Fountain inside the Pahlawan Mall in Melaka

Lovely Plane, GGP alert lol (inside joke)

Train for display (doesn’t work)

I am not quite sure what this wall is, but it looks like our very own Intramuros.

Close up 😀

Silhouette of the Portuguese Ship Museum.  Shooting against the light is a challenge.

This is actually a part of the Portuguese ship.  I think they used this river as ports before 😛

Looking back at it now, I could feel again how relaxing it is just to sit under the tree 😀

The old school Portuguese Ship looks pretty.  It’s like I’m being transported into a time capsule or something.

 

When traveling Melaka, make sure to bring light colored clothes and very comfy ones like spaghetti strap, sleeveless tops, shorts and sandals.  It is very hot in here!  I wanted to wear a bikini lol.  Just bring water as well to prevent dehydration.  But remember, do not take too much water too!  You don’t want to have the urge to pee all the time while traveling. 😛

On my next Blog posts: Christ Church, St. Paul’s Church Ruins, Bowling in Pahlawan Mall, Taming Sari and Dinner in Melaka (Satay Celup)

Till next time 🙂

xoxo,

FlairCandy

These guys are my friends from Malaysia and I met them all online.  Yes, we EB’d (eye ball) in Malaysia lol.  I’ve known them for more than two years now and it all started here.  Before there was Facebook and Friendster was getting a little bit “jeje-ish”, I chat on this specific chat room when I was bored at work or in my house 😛

This chat box could be embedded in your blog and what’s great about it is that the url of your blog is linked at the bottom of your every chat.  Shoutout Lounge was previously called PenangPenang.com.  Penang is an island in Malaysia known for its great food 😛 (I am going there this August :P).  Envy me?  Bec a blogger lol.  Through my first years in blogging, ShoutOut Lounge gained me more than just traffic.  It gained me friends and I became a part of a fun community.

These friends of mine from Malaysia will be touring the Philippines finally!  I really wanted to share to them how beautiful the Philippines is.  10 Malaysian bloggers will roam around Northern Luzon.  I’m also looking for sponsors for their trip.  10 bloggers are also photo-journalists in their own way who take the most awesome photos from their annual travels :)  If you are interested to sponsor their trip give me some love mail, and I will tell you what we can do for you :D  With blogs averaging PR3, oh we can do so much!

Anyway, these are just road trippin’ pictures.  I have yet to upload separate blog posts for our trip in Melaka, and my solo trip in KLCC.

By the way, I went to Malaysia ALONE!  My first international trip alone!  How is it so far? Lovely!  But, since I’m a girl… it can be a little bit scary travelling alone.

Anyway, here are pictures of Malaysia ^_^ I couldn’t even believe I went here to meet them already!

 

Thank goodness I have friends here.  I was sitting pretty inside William’s car.  I didn’t realize that commuting in Malaysia is a bit more difficult than I thought.  The airport from KLCC to the main streets of Malaysia proper takes about an hour.

Woohoo!!! MALAYSIA!!!

I had a nice view from the car.  I knew I had to take pictures of streets and signage that say “Malaysia” or Kuala Lumpur or any popular landmark 🙂

I just realized that Malaysia looked like Manila, Philippines.  The roads and the buildings typically look the sam-ish.  I felt at home.

Except for these structures… you won’t see this in Manila 😛

Malaysia is also Toll heavy like here in the Philippines.

of course, there are many signs that I don’t understad as they are either in Malay or Chinese Characters.

A signage with the Major cities ^_^ wee!  Still, I don’t understand lol

This is Alvin Chew (left) and Aaron Woolala (right).  Aaron is the one driving!  YES!  They drive on the left side of the road and drivers seat at the right side of the car.  British influence.

This is William’s phone 😛 It’s a Nokia E71.  The E71 has a built-in GPS.  William installed a Garmin Software and voiala!  GPS guiding us wherever we go!

I am not sure where to download Garmin map for E71 or E72.  You can install a Garmin software for your E63 too, but you need another phone with GPS and you connect to the other phone’s GPS via bluetooth.

The look of the Garmin map is very similar to the stand-alone GPS device Vince has.

KLANG!!! Klang is very famous for Bah Kut Teh!!! My favorite!

more Malaysia Road photos behind the wind shield…

William gases up!  In Malaysia, you put your own gas to your car just like in the states T_T

I kenot do this lah… I dowan smell like gas or anything and I don’t think I know how to do this.

I’m used to being serviced by people who work for gasoline stations and operate the gas pumps for us 😛

While William is getting some gas, I cam-whore 😛 lazy bum lol

I have shades because I barely had sleep 😛 and we woke up early for Melaka!

Malaysia Flag 😀

Malaysia has different states by the way, just like in the US.  And different states have different individual maps.

I believe this road is in Subang…

More about Malaysia, Melaka, Kuala Lumpur, KLCC, Malaysian food and more soon!  I will be uploading a series of my Malaysia trip this week… do watch out 😀

xoxo,

FlairCandy