Too long never update my blog! Lazy? Busy? Kinda like a mixture of 10% busy and 99% of laziness… Hahaha…
The 1-month trip in Taiwan was nothing more than a superb, excellent, fun trip and I will definitely miss the times I had there~~~ I will try to update you guys as soon as I finish catching up all my studies and stuff.
For the time being, enjoy some photos from the trip. 
My 1-month trip in Taiwan. Week 1 in Northern part of Taiwan. 
Watch it! Watch it!!
Last post on our trip to Cameron Highland… We had DIY steamboat during our last night and it’s definitely cheaper to do a DIY steamboat!! Haha.. Lots of fun especially when you are preparing with a bunch of friends~~ Oh yea~~ Before I forget.. Let me post the video taken by my Nikon D90!! Woohoo definitely my baby baby!! Haha.. Look at the color~~ So nice!!
Let’s start the photos oh!! haha.. Tell you the photos below are super scary lor!! Hahaha… We ate until midnight!!
I purposely NOT focusing on the background lor..
Playing WWE Smackdown!!
But Christopher seemed very enjoy… =.= See his face aledi want to slap + smack + smash liao!!
Last morning, we bid goodbye to the lovely place~~
Bye bye Cameron Highland!! Til the next time we meet!! Haha…
Remember to watch the video ya!! Color super nice oh!! Also next will be posting more on a BBQ party I attended last week. Wanna try out the night portrait and night shooting with my Nikon.. The results somehow ok for me given that I don’t have an external flash unit. So see ya!
More updates on my Cameron Trip! Haha… Now more photos on the tea farm!!
We had our English style evening tea there~ Haha~~ I didn’t realize the sandwiches were so HUGE!! Haha..
Does this photo makes you feel like joining them for a cup of tea? lol
Then we were so tired and hungry… lol… So we went for half-lunch half-dinner!!!
Lovely restaurant.. We spent a whole lot of time there~ To rest and take a slow look at the small town of Tanah Rata from the second floor in this restaurant~~
Then we just played around~~
Then for that night we spent whole night having steamboat in Japanese tatami style!! Haha… Stay tuned!!
It’s a new day!! Haha.. Today I’ll let the photos do the talking!! Haha.. We booked a van and a tour for half day about 4 – 5 hours at RM200 per van. So we can visit the places we wanted and not rushing through all the sceneries… Haha.. Clever move.. Because we took about 1 hour plus at each place for photos and it’s not enough!! Haha..
First stop, Rose Garden (Entrance Fee: RM4). We spent a lot of time taking photos (actually nonstop since this morning) and still not enough time..
Next stop… Strawberry farm..
Then we move to Butterfly Garden… Another RM4 but quite worth la… Haha.. Really a lot butterflies and other stuff to see!!!
Wow… I’ll stop for awhile… Coming up!! Cameron Highland famous tea farm!! Give you some preview now.. Hehehe…
So exciting that we are now in Cameron Highland!! The bus dropped us at Tanah Rata and our apartment aunty was there to fetch us! But first… sign up a tour for tomorrow first! Haha..
Then get on a 4-wheel… Haha.. The trip was fun and adventurous!! Hahaha..
The place we stayed.. Desa Anthurium. About 15-20 minutes walk from Tana Rata. We discovered a shortcut the next day!! Haha..
After unload all the stuff, PHOTO TIME!!
Muahaha… After nonstop photo shooting, finally we decided to stop because we were all hungry… So had to go out for dinner la!! Haha..
It’s a long walk (about 20 minutes)… Actually better if we were driving.. Haha..
Without wasting much time, we decided to eat here.. T-Cafe~~ Quite a recommended one in Tanah Rata. The price is considered cheap ah!! Haha.. The food is ok also~ Environment and ambiance is perfect!! Haha..
Now… The Food!!
Hehe..
Then we walked around~ Eat around~
And went back to play until midnight~ Hohohoho~~ So bising!!! The whole apartment so noisy because of us!! Hahaha~ Post more tomorrow!! Oh yea~ Show you this to end the post today..
So here start the post on my Supper Gang trip to Cameron Highland. They all came down to KL a day earlier before we all departed to Cameron Highland. It’s gonna be exciting!!
At first they called me asking me to come out and I was like… uh… So late adi… Tomorrow not waking up early meh?? Still want to go where?? Then suddenly they said “We are at Ampang Lookout Point now!” Wakakaka… Then I appeared in 5 minutes~~ Hahaha… I live near there ok?!!
Paiseh I didn’t bring my tripod la.. Haha..
After hanging out there until 12 plus, we went out for a good rest and Cameron Highland here we come!!! Next morning we met at McDonalds’ near Kota Raya Petaling Street there and we walked around the place before boarding for the bus!
Eat the famous wanton mee…
and the bus late… sienz…
This is a story of me winning the first million dollar (before 20% tax deduction and in Taiwanese dollar) in my life.
Thank you everyone for making this “The Moment” of my life. It’s gonna be long. I should get it published as a book. Like Beckham…
THE MOMENT I heard our team’s name being announced. Everything came true! Finally… WE WON!!
Let’s rewind back to 5 months ago. Kai Yit just graduated from University of Malaya, looking for job while I was having school holidays but in the midst of preparing for camp and industrial attachment. Just a casual internet surfing I accidentally bumped into an advertisement about this “Best Trip of the World” competition organised by Taiwan Tourism Bureau.
BooN -- “Hey.. There’s a travel competition like the Australia Best Job in the World in Taiwan.”
Kaito -- “What is that?”
BooN -- “The Australia Best Job in the World? About hiring an islander to take care of the island and make it a … … … … blah blah”
Kaito -- “No. I don’t care about Australia. What’s about Taiwan’s part?”
And we were in the competition slightly 5 minutes after that.
But first problem was communication. At the starting stage we almost conducted our discussion through emails. I was in Singapore while Kai Yit was in KL. It was so difficult to get a thing done and took much longer to decide on a thing. Luckily I made several trips back to KL whenever I was free. At this stage, we never expect ourselves to go that far. All in our mind was to spend our time to have fun while working together to come out with the best plan ever!!
The first round required us to submit 2 things. A proposal for 4 days 3 nights with a clear theme with places that we were going to visit together with a 1-minute video of team introduction. So whenever I return to KL, we would spend endless day time in Starbucks, Kim Gary, Old Town… Almost all places that has got WiFi in KL for discussions… We wanted to do something really really big and serious this time. So we decided to give our full attention into it.
Once we were so frustrated, so many themes to be explored in Taiwan… Which one to go with? Be very special~~ Be very discreet~~
It was luck again when Kai Yit stumbled on an aboriginal song. He showed me the next day and immediately we fell in love with the theme “The Search for Aboriginal Melody”. What a beautiful yet creative theme for 4 days in Taiwan! We never had the chance to explore the aboriginal races in Malaysia so why not now with a chance to see it there?! That’s how we got our theme.
For the video, we were so excited about making our first introduction video and decided to do our shooting in KLCC as the location best represented our country. We felt that the video was very important as it would give the very first impression to the judges. So we took a very special approach as the first part of the video was very serious introducing the theme of our journey and in the later part of the video unleashing our energetic and young team doing all the fun stuff.
It worked.
July 10 marked the first step ever to our 1 million dream! We were so shocked when it was announced that our team made into the World’s Top 50 in the competition. We stumbled, we stunned but we went on! We quickly picked up our pace as we didn’t have much time to prepare. My school was starting in 3 weeks’ time and Kai Yit had just found his job. We couldn’t delay our trip any further but to have it in 2 weeks’ time, and we hadn’t even started a booking yet that time.
2 weeks from July 10 to July 25, we had the biggest storm before the trip. Flight tickets, accommodation and transportation arrangement, meals, exact location of places and much much more to worry. We had so little time yet we faced more and more troubles along the way. We were both students without credit card so it was really a trouble for bookings. We both had laptop of “centuries-old” and we were worry that it might not function well (for video-editing) … We tested and tested and reviewed and reviewed …
July 26. We were set!
And go! Taiwan here we are!!
The week we had in Taiwan were both exciting and exhausting. We would spend the whole day playing nonstop and yet night we were busy typing and editing videos for our blog as a requirement in the competition. The day would start at 4 or 5am when we woke up in super blur condition and it would end at about 2 or 3am right after we satisfied with the progress of our products. We had only 1 week in Taiwan and so our team had more to do compared to other teams where they could do the video and submitted them later on in Taiwan. But we were fine. We had so much trouble on the trip, the equipments kept malfunctioning, the laptop kept jamming, the batteries kept running out… But we were fine.
I remembered that we were not after the 1 million prize money that time. We were purely executing our duties and responsibilities as we were given a chance as the World’s Top 50 in the competition and the opportunity, and so we worked our best while having our great time there. I couldn’t deny that I wished I can just enjoy the whole trip without doing the blogging and video. But we glad that we were able to share our amazing experience with the world after that!
Our first news article appeared on Nanyang Siang Pau. We never expect that the news would keep on appearing for 6 or 7 times after that!!
Just a quick fact on our achievement.
Highest views on 4-day travel video
1800+ fans and supporters on our BKT Facebook Fans Page from more than 20 countries
More than 40 bloggers supporting our team on their blog (list below)
More than 20,000 views on our travelogue in Cari & Backpackers forum
Featured at least 7 times on newspapers
Featured 2 times on local Chinese radio station 988FM and AI.fm (+ 1 in Taiwan radio radio channel)
Featured 3 times in magazine
Countless features in online media
September 10.
Our team won the “Most Popular Team” for the Chinese category. Though a little unexpected but we were confident that time with our effort that time. We knew our hard work had started to pay off and thus we pushed ourselves even further in each round. In the final round, the “miracle” happened!!
OK I won’t deny that I was the one who came out with the crazy idea. I was actually half-jokingly suggested the idea and I never expect Kai Yit to nod his head. At first it was just a random joke, but Kai Yit nod his head, SHOCKINGLY!! (perhaps he wanted to do it for long? we’ll never know…)
To sort of like “perfect” it, we found another 3 victims who also nodded their head (how come so easy de?!) but we were deeply regret the moment we were forced to wear the dress on. It was hard. Really hard. I was damn regret the moment I was trying to fit my fat body into the dress… But we learnt to push down our dignity and learnt to appreciate women more. It was hard to be a women, really. We learnt it the hard way and so please believe us!
All I wanted to say was I am lucky to have these guys as my friends. Where can you find such crazy friends that would do such things together with you?! (with no pay of course! All we treat was a Bak Kut Teh meal… so pity huh?!)
Well some people asked me what made me wanna go that far to dress up like that for the competition? Am I confident that I will win it? That’s why I did it?
NO. The answer was NO. I never predict anything closer than TOP 3 that time. The competition was huge. So many great teams out there that deserve to win. I did it purely because I don’t want to be typical. I couldn’t deny that I wanted to grab attention but wasn’t it the real meaning of doing the video? So let me present to you the greatest video with more than 30,000 views!
Amazing huh? =.=”
Catching up with studies and work, we never stop chasing our dreams. Pulling votes from time to time, we got huge response from all over the countries, and that’s when we started to believe in ourselves. And we knew we can do it!
So we pushed ourselves even more! Sharing our experience face to face with people in my university, breaking into the school compound to get support directly from students like me!
And we met many people with same passion as us in travelling, in sharing our overseas experience through such events… We received even more support then.
My life had became more random than ever. I never been to and fro between the city of KL and Singapore so many times in my life. Averagely I would be taking buses (often I just hopped on.. without much planning ahead) every 2 weeks. My sleeping times were disrupted. My blood pressure had increased. My workload had been more than ever. My financial crisis was bigger than ever!! (Imagine per round trip cost RM100 and how much it would cost you to travel in 5 months?) It’s a good chance for me to polish my social life as well as to get adapt to the flexibility as well. I won’t say I love to travel that much but I started to getting used to it. It wasn’t that bad after all.
And 5 months had passed just like that!
November 1 when the competition had ended, our team never rest. We compiled all of our effort into a full report and sent to the committee as a reference. We did it as a duty and responsibility. Then we rested and continued with our daily life. I was waiting anxiously until November 11 Wednesday, I received a call from Taiwan during my class. I almost yelled and screamed but I didn’t. I was told that Bak Kut Teh had made it into the Final Top 3 and we were asked to attend the ceremony on Sunday November 15.
But we were told to keep it as a secret and confidential.
I was excited but I couldn’t tell anyone. (Except my family) But I was afraid that I lost. I had the hardest time in my life in that few days. What if I lost? What if I gone to Taiwan and lost? How would I feel?
But think again. 5 months. We walked so far. We had done so much. We had done enough. Win or lose. We are in Top 3 of the World! How many teams can do that? We didn’t even thinking of winning at the starting of this competition and yet we walked this far. In my mind, I am already a winner. Yes. Winning or losing is just a formality of a competition, as long as you know you had done your best, you are a winner.
So we flew to Taipei with a relax mind. Though nervous at some moment, but we mainly spent our time with our freed mind.
November 15 was the day. We were walked to the venue. They hid us in a room avoiding the media before they brought us in and showed us the final 4 results.
We were so nervous in that room. Haha… Knowing that we were so close in the end! And we met…
West meets 东! Another top 3 finalist, Althea Lin and Ben, a strong team and young couple from the USA. We were friends since months ago chatting on facebook but it was the first time we met. A really great pleasure to meet them, nice people and they brought their baby too!!
It’s always to have a baby with you cause they are the medicine to everything!! We were playing with the baby and we never realised that it’s time to announce the results!
And so we were brought to the live venue for the media centre. My first time that we were surrounded by so many media.
To better facilitate you to imagine the live event. We recorded THE MOMENT in the live news below.
It all came true with that sentence.
It all came true.
We always hear “Nothing is Impossible” but we never believe it fully until we face it. From zero in June, we are now literally winning our first million dollar in 5 months. It looked surreal, but it all came true. That’s why I couldn’t control my emotions and cried when I heard our name was called.
No, sorry. I wasn’t as strong (emotionally) as you think. Out of happiness, I cried. Out of excitement, I cried. Out of the perspective that we never let our supporters down, I cried. For so many reasons it’s worth for me to tear for awhile. It’s THE MOMENT of my life.
Seriously, it all came true with our effort, with our friends’ support, with all our supporters’ votes, with everyone together in achieving this. This is an honor I want to share with you all. Really appreciate your support all these moments. I always watch reality show where the final winner walks away with prizes and I never expect that today would be the day that I won and walked away with the top prize.
Thank you very much!
This is THE MOMENT of my life.
Blogs that posting our BKT final video and e-book
以下是轉載我們精華短片和電子書的部落客（25名）：
http://angwoeishang.blogspot.com/
http://lyx911.blogspot.com/
http://zouyuhui.blogspot.com/
http://therealkylelai.tumblr.com/
http://vtcwisme.blogspot.com/
http://thatmygoal.blogspot.com/
http://mylifecreation.blogspot.com/
http://blog.omy.sg/fifthavenue/
http://thomas--world.blogspot.com/
http://pikulingu.blogspot.com/
http://lovestoryhouse.blogspot.com/
http://baiqin.blogspot.com/
http://oldstonehome.blogspot.com/
http://vivalive33.blogspot.com/
http://cheehueiblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.ifublog.com/danyanpi/
http://www.ahbing.com/
http://kuahownland.blogspot.com/
http://blog.udn.com/sherpa/
http://daifeijay.blogspot.com/
://zazapo.blogspot.com/
://lisa717.blogspot.com/
http://infinityken88.blogspot.com/
http://kenny-o-logy.blogspot.com/
http://kankisu.blogspot.com/
http://www.akiraceo.com/
Blogs that supported our 4-day travel video experience
以下是轉載我們四天旅遊短片的部落客（15名）：
http://www.howard-u.com/
http://yenniedoll.blogspot.com/
http://bryanlyt.com/
http://hpility.com/
http://daifeijay.blogspot.com/
http://snowpiano99.blogspot.com/
http://lyx911.blogspot.com/
http://guoxingdeblog.blogspot.com/
http://leonlkw86.blogspot.com/
http://jeffwonderland.blogspot.com/
http://muncheeloo.blogspot.com/
http://angwoeishang.blogspot.com/
http://thatmygoal.blogspot.com/
http://thomas--world.blogspot.com/
http://cacingkk.blogspot.com/
p.s: Next post will be in the weekend I suppose, as I have exams and job interview on Friday and this is a super long post. You can read it for days I guess… lol… Will post more about my media experience in Taiwan, first time ever there were more than 10 mics pointing at me… =.=”
second post of the day!! must update you all… got promotion from airasia again!!
AirAsia… Makes Everyone Can Fly Real Cheap…
It’s something that you love and hate..
You love it, because it gets so cheap that sometimes it would be cheaper than a bus trip!
You hate it, because you get so frustrated with their booking system especially when they opened up their special promotion period, that sometimes you will smash your computer and instead of getting cheap air tickets, you need to pay for the repair fees for your laptop that you smashed.
They are having it now! So quick!!
I’ve been sitting in front of my laptop, for 3 hours straight, kept on refreshing the screens, kept on typing my family details, then the system crashed, then retype, then system crashed again, then retype, then when i proceed to the last stage, the seats had been taken and then retype again…
I keyed in my family details (total 5 of us) for more than 10 times I think. Now I won’t forget their birthday FOREVER.
After almost 2 hours of tense and frustration, I got through finally.
I guess it’s something worth sticking your ass to the chair for hours.
HONG KONG + MACAU … HERE WE COME!!
很久没有称赞港剧了. 无可否认香港每年制作出无数的有水准的作品,可是要知道这么多年来,井也会干枯,矿石也会采尽. 我从小就看马来西亚电台入口的港剧(也是因为我一口流利的广东话的来源)长大,来来去去…就是那几种…
可是,看了这个以后,我改观了.至少这部港剧不像其他…
我没有看<溏心风暴>,可能也因为对家好月圆是续集的误解而没有第一时间观看.同样是以亲情为主体的家好月圆至少让我再看了第一集以后,牢牢的扣住我的心.妈妈的伟大胜于一切,而促使到我的好奇心,让我更想知道这么好的妈妈能不能与她的子女重聚在一起,真正的<家好月圆>…
有点怀念香港，现在看戏都会看到熟悉的地方。。。哈哈。。心里都会兴奋一下。。。
我昨天开始看,现在看了20集 (还强过我看prison break… 哈哈哈)。戏中我哭了不少次，真的很少系可以让我起伏这么大。前十分钟我还可能嘻嘻哈哈的大笑，后来竟然拿起纸巾哗啦哗啦的哭了起来。。。
哈哈哈。。。不过不用紧啦。。刘德华唱的。。。男人哭吧不是罪。。。我要继续看了。。。哈哈哈。。。
