The Taste of Vientiane
Saving the 'best' of my Vientiane post for last and the best I'm talking about is food! The major importance whenever we travel to a foreign country is to try the local dishes. Right? Sadly, when you follow tour guides, they tend to bring you to places where you eat food you can always eat back home. The 1st night I →
Sights & Sounds of Vientiane, Laos Part 2 of 2
Here is the continuation from the previous post on the place I've visited in Vientiane, this place I visited was located on Lane Xang Avenue with it's entrance facing Ho Phra Keo, it's the only temple to survive the Siamese invasion and popularly known as Vat Sisaket to both locals and tourist. The Vat or Temple holds several thousand →
Sights & Sounds of Vientiane, Laos Part 1 of 2
One of the captivating aspect of Vientiane, Laos is the beautiful architectures, I am not talking about their modern buildings but the beautiful temples and monuments that was created very very long ago that still survived til this day. Some people asked me whether it's advisable to take a tour package to visit all these places and my advice would →
Off the Beaten Path in Vientiane, Laos
In this 2nd installment of my visit to Vientiane, Laos, I'd like to bring you back in time, in time to the age where modern technology has yet to have it's influence to the way of life.The place I'm talking about is called Dane Song, about 30km from Vientiane on the Luang Prabang Road. My initial plans to go there →
Setting Sun over Mekong River
The 1st set documenting my holiday in Vientiane, Laos. I am not touching on the places I've visited for now but share with you some of the beautiful sun sets I've seen along the Mekong River on the 4 nights I was there traveling. At certain parts of the river, the Mekong was so dried up that we can practically walk →
The Work Experience @ Vientiane, Laos
I know I don't write much about my line of work/business and I prefer to keep it that way, after all, this site is about myself, not what I do to earn my keeps. But once in awhile, I do come across some stuff that I'd love to share even if it's about my work. For those that knew me, they'd →
Twitter SEA Games Updates
With not much time to update my blog, I shall do it the cheater's way, by copy and pasting all the updates I've done via Twitter. 11:42 PM Dec 5th : 1st thing that we see checking in at the airport. http://flic.kr/p/7kPqDL 11:46 PM Dec 5th : Leaving in the plane. http://flic.kr/p/7kQ2Uj 12:00 AM Dec 6th : Toys from SQ for Gabriel n →
The 25th Laos SEA Games Opening Ceremony
It's the 25th SEA Games and it's held at Vientiane, Laos. Even though the games had started some time back, the Opening Ceremony was only held last night (9th Dec). The opening ceremony started at 5pm local Lao time with songs and music but officially started at 6pm with the two MCs counting down with the crowd in the National stadium. Immediately →
Nazim Restaurant @ Vientiane
Sabaidee! That's the Lao's way to say Hello. Just an update from Vientiane, it was at Nazim for dinner. Located just beside the Mekong River, Nazim Indian Halal Food restaurant serves up some nice indian dishes we can eat back in Malaysia. Having malays as part of the team, we have to make sure that the place we go to is →
Day 1 in Vientiane
Officially the first day at the International Broadcast Center. It's all busy busy busy setting up the station ready for our first broadcast from the venue. Here's where I'm working from, about 30min drive from the hotel I'm staying in but near to the stadiums. Changed some money to spend, I'm a freaking millionaire there but the million doesn't last long as before →
Onward to Vientiane!
The Opening ceremony's about 24 hours away. If you're seeing this page, that can only mean one thing. I've gone to Laos and for the next 2 weeks. I'm going to be there cheering the Malaysian team on, irregardless of how many medals they are bringing back. An estimate of 300 to 400-member Malaysian contingent is already there getting themselves used →
