My Adventure in December School Holiday

School's out. As an annual tradition, I NEED to travel.

This December, I will visiting several countries from 1 to 26 December 2008.

KL, Malaysia - Turkish visa application

Dubai, UAE - 9 hrs transit. Emirates provides free stop over hotel :p

Turkey - Istanbul, the city that is located in both Asia and Europe

Bulgaria - Sofia, the capital

UK - London, my flights in and out of the UK

Leeds, I will be meeting up with some SMSO scholars

Czech Republic - Gonna travel with Azrin from Leeds and spend 1 week in Prague

I have to use all sorts of currencies this time: Malaysia Ringgit, UAE Dirham, New Turkish Lira, Bulgarian Lev, British pound and Czech Koruna. My September trip was much easier, only Euros :)

Mexican Fiesta @ Sheraton Utama

On Thursday 27 November, we went to the Mexican Fiesta at Sheraton. I was surprised that the buffet was of limited choice. Normally, the buffet extended till the poolside. Then I realised that the price was $29+ per person, while on Fridays and Saturdays, it was $36+. Maybe that was why the buffet was of 'limited' choice.

I will try to remember as much menu items in Spanish as possible. 2 choices of soups (Salmon Chowder or Pimento), fried rice, prawns, fish, chicken, lamb, aztec tortillas, chili con carne and all kinds of tortilla and assorted Mexican desserts. Lots of vegetables and could be very healthy.

Okay, what is so big deal about the different varieties of tortillas as shown in the picture above. Burritos, enchiladas, tacos. Actually they are all almost the same. It is called different names by the way it is wrapped or fold in different ways. hahahaha.

We tried to take pictures with the 2 Mexican guest chefs but they left the restaurant much earlier than we expected. So, we ended up borrowing the mexican hat and took photos with it. So what is the big Mexican hat called? The answer is revealed after the next picture.

SOMBRERO

Blogger of blogs

I have not been blogging on this blog for a while. Normally the reason given will be either be lazy or busy. However I am not happy with either of these two 'excuses'.

In addition of posting in this blog, I am also 'responsible' for the other 2 blogs about my school.

SMSOthman

SMSO Careers

As in one of my previous posts "Some facts about blogging",

Scientists have long known the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences. Blogs provide another convenient avenue for writing about personal experiences.

I guess I have taken the therapeutic benefits in writing the 2 SMSO blogs. So by the time I am thinking of writing here, I have nothing more to share or am infected of something called writer's block.

Since school will be out for 1 month with no activities to report, I guess I will be more active in writing here. Let's see what happens ...

Facebook or Friendster?

Here are some facts about Facebook:

• Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004.
  


• Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was a student at Harvard University.
  


• Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students.
  


• The website currently has more than 110 million active users worldwide.
  
  
  However, in Brunei, Friendster seems to be more popular.
  
  Here are some facts about Friendster:
  
  
• Friendster was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002.


• It currently has more than 85 million members worldwide and is mostly used in Asia.

• it caters to men and women interested in meeting people due to different reasons.

Actually these social networking sites are meant for members to find friends or connecting with old friends...so I dont understand why people like to use nicknames etc. Are they trying to let people NOT finding them? In that case, why on earth did they join in the first place????