Traveling

Traveling, sounds fun. Who doesn't wanna go all around the world to enjoy days of vacation, everybody wants to!! (If they could afford that is.) In the world right now, work like crazy to earn money to save up for vacation seem to be in the "To-Do-List-Before-I-Die". Words are that you could prolong your life, to take a break in your busy life, sit back and relax~ Now I dun travel a lot, the furthest place I went before is Bangkok, and it is not really a vacation, it is a student exchange thing.
However, having the chance to work in the Travel Industry, you got the change to listen to "Feedbacks" & "How It Feels Like To Travel Around", I heard it all from REAL travelers, by "REAL" means really make their vacation a "vacation"!! They leave home for like 14++ days, and have multiple destinations, not only from Kuala Lumpur-Cameron-Penang-Langkawi, I meet some that fly from Hong Kong-Macau-Kuala Lumpur-Penang-Manilla- Bangkok-Home. Their passport is surely full of chops. You would think: "OMG! ! So nice!! I want it too!!!". Yes, everybody wants it, but before you start your challenge to fill your passport with chops, here are

Some Facts Of Traveling:

1) Be Prepared For Culture Shock
An Australian guy once told me: "We Australian, like to go slow, relax, and enjoy the ride~" And he told me his story when he is in Hong Kong. "Everything there is so busy, and fast" "The taxi driver drives fast, wants you to get down fast, unload luggage fast, drove of fast. You have to be FASTER to not get yell at." In case you dun realize, "RELAX" & "RUSH" dun cope so well with each other. He then add one more fact: "That is why we travel around, we wanna experience something different!!" So when you plan to go somewhere, be prepare for something different from where you are from, it would be fun and also shocking enough to electrified you.

2) Communication Problems

One thing for sure, dun expect everybody to speak your language. As a lot of people feel that English is very useful seen it could be used in a lot of country but when you are traveling, once you step out of the hotel, not everybody can speak English. This I experience personally as well, that is when talking to Arab guest, it all depends on body language, there is also once that open an online dictionary ask him to type what he wanted to tell me in Arabic and let the dictionary translated it into English. It is an extreme problem when people can't understand you!! Especially when you are traveling since you need information form locals. So if you are planning to go place that speak languages you dun understand, better prepare all the information you needed before you step your foot in their territory, or at least learn how to said :"Anybody here speak English?"

3) Money

You see, even if you are in a vacation and plan to put your worries aways while you are in your vacation. It is still hard when money is in concerned. What most travelers fear while they are in vacation, is that they spend the wrong amount of money on something. They go around, ask for prices, compare prices, then only decide go for it or not. To put it in a nice way, it is of course good to compare and make sure you are not exploited. But if you have so much concerns while on vacations, I won't say you vacation would be a REAL "vacation". So be prepared to spend, if you wanna go for a vacation.

4) Plan Before You Go!

This would be the most important thing to do before you go for traveling. Make sure it is all planned out and arranged before you start it. A lot, a lot of those "REAL" travelers that I mentioned, they DO NOT like to plan their travel, to them it is flexibility, meaning they can stay if they like the place, leave if they dun like the place, go back home anytime they want. But this could also bring problems, "Hotel fully booked" & "Flight fully booked" are the common problems that they would face, not to mention the how annoying it would be  if you can't get a hotel to stay and things doesn't goes as you wish it would be. Furthermore, last minute rushing for bookings could be really tiresome, trust me, even me as a agent rush hotel bookings for guests are tiring enough. It really sounds good to come and go anytime you want, but it is still good to stick to grandma's law: "Prepare your umbrella before it rains "

Travelling could be really fun, but you should also prepare a few things to make sure your holiday would be a good memory. Happy Traveling!! =3

Mr E signing out, it also hurts when you see people traveling around and enjoy their vacation while you are working because of their holiday. FML.

Be glad. Malaysia

Now, I dun really know about politics here, more about other countries, so pardon me for speaking out from the little brain of mine.

We, Malaysia are gifted and blessed since times of you opening up your history text book. From resources to multi culture we have here. Multi culture is really a gift. It become a very unique point of Malaysia in varies way. People are envy of us, came all the way here to see how we blend our culture to live in harmony (As they believe), it is really something unique to foreigners. For the generations in Malaysia as myself, you would say "How hard is that anyways?" . If you recall, we do have multi-culture, to be more precise, multi-racial issue that turn into bloodshed before. Short but devastating "fight" among each other leave a "black mark" in our history. I am glad that things turn out good and we still live peacefully in harmony.

My point starts here, look what happened when other country have multi-culture issue.

Just recently, a guy tries to bring the government and everyone in his country to be aware of the problem the nations feel they are in. Just one man. He, did it in a way you never would wish it happened here.
Massacre. If you ask how many people would a man kill anyways? 68 is your answer.
If you are someone who chase news around the world, this is not something new to you, it happened on 22th July 2011. The Norway Massacre, where one man, Anders Breivik, goes on a killing spree on Utoya Island  turning it into hell for 530 youngsters who attended The Norwegian Labour Party summer camp that day. According to the news, he arrived the island at around 1700 hours and was caught at 1827 hours. His victims are all shoot down by guns he equipped and some are killed merciless and in inhumane way. Some survives  with their souls dead. All this to bring out the immigration issue that the European fear multiculturalism would sooner or later takes away Europe's heritage, to be more precise, they fear "Islam" would be Europe's major religion. I won't touch much on that. What I wan us, Malaysian to see here, is that what happens outside of our wall when there is multiculturalism issue. Crazy, nightmare, and I bet, this is not the worst case ever to happened in the world due to multi culture issues.

To read more about the Norway Massacre: Norway massacre  & Message Form Anders Behring Breivik

So be glad, be glad of what we still have in Malaysia, a peaceful and harmony society we have. Be glad that we are able to blend more than 3 cultures in Malaysia today and nobody goes out on a killing spree and cause such tragedy to happen.

As I said, I am not Mr.Know-It-All, I duno the real thing thing or cause of what happened everyday, but I just do hope one thing, that our uniqueness of multi-culture & multi-races would still be in peace and still be a major reason for Malaysian to be proud to be a Malaysian. We have blend our culture well up to date, if we continue to strengthen and set aside the fact that we are actually different in culture or races, we will be the proudest nation in the world. Malaysia, we culture and races are one.

I love Malaysia, as the way it is. (Would love more with some improvements xD)

Thanks if you go through that long long post of the little me voicing out what my little eyes and brain could adsorb. I apologies for any offends that I would possibly cause. I hope for a better days for Malaysia.

Sincerely,
Mr E