Egypt post part 4...

This is like never never ending huh... guys just be patient and it will be over soon, real soon. but anyhow, hope you guys enjoy the stories..

Day 4, 5, 6 was nothing much, all we did was walk around in Hurghada, enjoying the breeze and sunshine. It's nice to get some sunshine in the midst of cold winter not to mention in Ukraine the country I am staying now is freaking cold AGAIN. yes, I mean AGAIN, it was once spring-like but don't know due to what PMS reason, the weather changed drastically which is so atypical for a winter to end like that.

OK, back to our topic, we browse to shops, cari gaduh once in a while, stroll along the beaches and even went up people's private yatch. Gosh they are friendly.

Enjoying ourselves at the beach.

Speaking about beaches, there was a very interesting scene I must share. There is a very very very "Sexy" man sunbathing and was probably from some acrobatic or ballet academy . His posture was first class and he is real good at splitting and showing off his "banana", not to mention he wears a G- string. Thinks that I am exacerbating, check out his photo below.

See, told you already...

We went to Hughada's Marina, which is actually a port for the rich guy yatch to park, wow, there were lot's of yatch big one small one and many many others. I enjoyed by just looking at it.

The water was crystal clear that we can even see SEA URCHIN .. aka sea rambutan.

This is my yatch..
This is mine too..
This also... very greedy huh..
I am trying to drive it.. stupid arhz.. it is autopilot want lahz.
A snap with the owner. He is from Turkey, travelled 2 months to reach here.
Our seafood meal.
With the craft man. I am ruinning his work.See his work....

Day 6 was scuba diving day. As usual, we board a yatch and went out to the middle of sea. Bad day that day I can say, because the waves and current was very big and the yatch was so shaky that resulted me "mabuk Laut".

In the middle of mabuk laut--ing..

How? how? how? my entire diving trip was spoilt, the world spinning around me, I feel like puking.. gosh.

Finally decided to change and get the life-time experience.

But finally, I made a decision to get myself into the water diving. It was my first time diving and I admit that I freak out. I was damn scared ok... but the moment I get into the water, everything was ok as my instructor was awesome. He guided me all the way and actually there was nothing to freak out.

The scary face... haha..

I dived for 2 times once is 8 meters deep and the 2nd time is 10 meters deep. The underwater world is awesome and I can said it is a good and wonderful experience, except for the part that the stupid waves were too big that day .

In the action..
After that... the feeling was awesome, i felt like I just challenge something new.

It was rather relaxing , a break from the hectic medical student life, the tight schedule of travelling to historical sites, a few days where you can wake up at 10 am enjoy your breakfast and go back to sleep. It is a nice nice vacation.

Stay tuned, Pyramids are coming up..

Polyclinics in Ukraine..

I am having my therapy aka medicine cycle in Polyclinic N 2 in Ukraine, Simferopol, teacher is superb and the cycle was rather relax except for the fact that I need to get up super early in the morning and walk in the cold winter air just to get my lazy butt to class is rather annoying.

Polyclinic is a place where a wide range of health care services (including diagnostics) can be obtained without the need for an overnight stay. ( Taken from Wikipedia), but polyclinics here are more to...


A super super super super multi purpose stall selling shoes, cloths, shampoo and cosmetics .. probably the ah ma aka locker lady needs some side income or part time job, but the problem is, who will come to a polyclinic to buy this stuff????

Only the Ukrainians have the answer.

Egypt part 3...(Discovery Safari)

Here is the story of our Safari adventure.. ( hope you guys are not too bored about Egypt stories yet ) I still have so much to tell..

The trip begin when we were dropped off by our tour guide in a deserted land somewhere near Hurghada. Since it is desert as everyone may understand.. ( * desert = no water, cactus, sand, wind, sun and mirage if you get lucky).. no no no, the desert we went is a very commercialized desert, it is so commercialized that I shall name it desert that is specially designed for tourist.

In this particular desert, there are many activities awaiting us. Spider car, quad bike, Jeep safari, etc.. As kiasu as we are, we indeed tried all. The most fun part was the quad bike I shall say although there are some funny stories which I shall tell later on.

Desert = sand + wind, so everyone has to be equipped with sunglasses and Palestinian face wrap.

See, we are holding the scarf which is
gonna wrap our face up later on.
The end result.. Seems beautiful
even after the face wrap.* perasan betul*
Gear up ready for the spider car adventure. According to the tour guide a spider car cost around 10,000 USD. But, to be honest, it's doesnt' seems to function like it should be costing.
Another angle of the car.
And here is me with the quad bike.
My hands are too small to control the accelerator and the break at one go, I nearly flew off the bike without anyone notice and the problem is I DROVE TOO FREAKING SLOW that resulted me at the last place ... sighs.. this is so not for me.
As I said, we kiasu people have to experience every single vehicle in that desert. Here's the jeep people, it's fun though. They are my travel mates.

Having sandwich in the Bedouin Camp. There are some sourish thing in between the bread and we doubt it is camel milk.. Imagine yourself..
Bedouin camp. This is how the people live in the desert. They don't have nationality and they migrate from one desert to another. According to the tour guide, pretty girls worth more camels... I wonder how many camels I worth..
The cute chubby little swedish baby, her name is LULU and she has caught attention of someone...
Free sheesha testing, I didn't try..
tobacco is just not my kind.Just posing for a picture
Camel riding. Exciting and fun especially the start and the end.
At the end of the day, I tried out this greenish
exotic jacket which is obviously too short for me.
* I know,I know just laugh out loud*

Egypt trip part 2..

After the wonderful snorkeling trip, it's time to explore some of the historical monuments in Egypt. Our 1st destination is Luxor, then we will be spending a night in Aswan and then we will head off to Abu Simbel.

From Hurghada to Luxor is around 4 hours journey by car then from Luxor to Aswan is another 4 hours and lastly to Abu Simbel is 2hours. That means, most of the time we will be in a the bus travelling.

Luxor is a city located in the southern Egypt, it is a city of agriculture, it's famous for it's sugar cane estate, there are sugar cane farm along the Nile river. Luxor is divided into the east and west bank also known as city of life and city of dead.East bank is the city of life as the sun rises on the east while west bank is the city of dead as the sun sets on the west. Therfore, east bank are paradise for thombs and west banks are for temples, economy and agriculture center. Cool huh, imagine 2000 B.C , there are this kind of city structure.

The sugar cane farm ..

The view upon sunrise..
Behind us is Nile river.
Valley of the Queens..
FYI: It's been buried underground to avoid thief and Bulgar, it is the tomb for the Queens and children.

The entrance of Queen Nefertari Thomb, but too bad it's closed.
This is Colossi Of Mammon.According to the tour guide, it will have sound when the wind blows at a correct direction. It is believed to be a guard for the thomb behind it.
Entrance to Karnak Temple, the world largest open museum.
My favorite part of Karnak Temple, pillars. Impressive.
There is even a lake inside the Temple.
It is believed that royal kids studied here 50 centuries ago.
Oblise, which represent Pyramid. *wondering, how could they cut such an acute angle 5000 years ago?*
Statue.. of Ramses.
We were cheated by our useless tour guide to go to some banana farm for 50 Egyptian pounds.
On top of a traditional banana house.
This is our room in the Nile cruise..
Our dinner in the cruise.
Our cruise...
Abu Simbel, the most magnificent temple in Egypt. It is craved on a mountain, but due to the flood of Nasser Lake, Unesco had shifted it uphill.
This is Queen Nefertari, Ramses beloved wife temple, he build this temple for his beloved wife. On the mountain, you can see the cravings of Ramses and his wife.

Egypt trip part 1..

This is long waited egypt trip pictures.
Warning!! they will be many parts of egypt.. and enormous me in the pictures. what the hell... i went to egypt of course the pictures is full of me.so just be patient, sit back and enjoy the pictures.

Our trip begin in 9th of january, we are taking a 16 hours night train to Kiev the capital of ukraine to catch a 5 am flight to Hurghada, Egypt.

Ok, I know I know, but .. just imagine u're stuck in this small room for 16 hours
After several round of "phase 10" this is the look u get OK?!

Then we finally arrive in kiev at around 8 am. God, it was cold there. after passing thru some nuclear proof underground ( accd to guide bk) we reach Xreshatik, shopping heaven for girls and walking hell for guys.
Pizza * i forget the name of the shop* cheaters,
pizza is small that is not worth the $$. But good ambience..
Travel companion..
And them too.. damn fun people to travel with.
cam whoring while waiting for the so undersized pizza.

After a long tortorous wait at Kiev airport, we finally board the plane and arrived safely in Hurghada, egypt @ 11 jan 2009.

Some introduction about Hughada, Accd to wikipedia (the all time favourite online encyclopedia) Hurghada stretches 36 km along seashore and it is once a fishing village. Now it's a poplular tourist resort famous with is crystal clear water and nice beach. It is a perfect spot for diving and snorkelling because it has the perfect bed for coral reefs, some which can't be found in other places in the earth.

This is our hotel. No lahz, just kidding,
this is the view from my room. what the hell,
but anyway, still small portion of sea can be seen via the "sea facing" room

see, told cha there'll be lot's of photo of me..

The next day, we head off to Utopia island for snorkelling trip. Utopia island is a coral reefs reserve site which is only open at a certain period of time.

The four of us on a yatch ready to sail off.

My flippers...
and the goggles/mask
cam whoring
Just bear with it.
Getting ready to snorkel.
the underwater world. Well, just part of it.
Damn cold after snorkeling.

Lunch served on the yatch.
Traditional egyptian cloth folding..which is actually my towel.
coral searching..

To be continue.....

I am back from egypt...

I am back... wasted $$, got tanned, enjoyed...

Now it's time to move my lazy butt and start to work.

aware!! tonnes of pictures coming up.

finally..

I finish my exam.. passed it..

THANK GOD!!

Egypt here I come...