Wednesday's Anchovies

I had my second visit to Bukit Kutu on 5 March 2016. It was also the day for KubUltra trail run in the morning. We reached the hiking spot at 830am and there were many cars parked along the road. Guess Saturday is always a good day to start something exciting. We had the very first trip to Kutu back in June last year, please click here for the post. This time, I had one 1.5l water, two 500ml 100plus drinks, packed lunch, two breads and few Snickers in my backpack. At the end of hike, we consumed all the fluids, with only the breads and Snickers left. We started the hike at 9am and reach the Batu Tedung Checkpoint at 1030am. After 10-mins break and taking photos around with the incredibly huge boulders, we proceed to the chimney area where the Kutu summit is just close by. Ascending... Batu Tedung Checkpoint. Finally, we reached the summit at 12pm. We took few climbs further to the viewing point using the ladders. According to site information , the panoramic vi...

Everyone knows that completing a 42.195 km full marathon isn’t an easy feat. To go beyond the distance, I have decided to participate in the Route 68 challenge 50 km category. This April 2016, it is the second edition of the challenge. Considering myself as a newbie to the ultramarathon, we decided to reach to the race site as early as 5am using the bus service arranged by organizer. To prepare myself in endurance running, I have engaged myself in functional training classes (by Country Club Fitness ) and do hiking / running around KL parks at least three days weekly. The race venue on 10 April 2016 Mandatory item (blinker, mobile, hydration belt and headlamp) display (and reflective vest) Back at the race site, after performing our mandatory item check, the 50 km category race flagged off at 7am. For safety purpose, we runners had to keep the blinkers and headlamp on, together with the reflective vest put on in the first hour of race. At First 10 km, we passed by two...

What to eat in Bangkok? Haha, dessert from After You is a must for me :P What else? Seafood at Chinatown? Chicken rice at Pratunam ? Papaya salad at Som Tam Nua? Too mainstream for you?! Let’s try this! Prawn meat ball noodle at Ding Cai Fatt!( 丁财发虾丸面 ). 丁财发   is a small shop hidden in a corner of Bangkok :P We spent some time walking on the unknown path before we able to reach there. Thanks to its popularity among locals, we managed to reach the hidden restaurant after guidance given by random passer-by :P The restaurant! Image from Google Street View is closed LOL :P  丁财发虾丸面! 丁财发虾丸面 located some where around Sukhumvit 62. It is a simple restaurant, where everyone there can hardly speak English. The only menu is full with Thai words that we can’t understand. However, everyone there is being so nice and patient with us, we ended up managed to place our order using body language :P The menu! Our noodles with the signatu...

Must do thing at Kanchanaburi? Must see thing at Kanchanaburi?  Bridge over River Kwai ? Kanchanaburi War Cemetery ? What else?  Well, we managed to explore Kanchanaburi throughout out short stay over there, and we found the hidden gem LOL :P i) Japanese Garden A small hidden garden behind River Kwai Train station. A very photogenic place which might make you wonder are you really in Thailand LOL :P Welcome! It is actually a tea house or cafe, too bad it was closed the time we were there. Goku!!!! ii) Kanchanaburi train station The last time we were here was few days ago, where we were on the train to Nam Tok. This time, we reached here by bicycle LOL :P Road leads to the train station. Here is very much less crowded compared to River Kwai station. So if you would like to have some peaceful photo shoots with railway or even train, Kanchanaburi station is always the better choice compared to River Kwai station.  ...

Time to talk about food again :P What to eat at Kanchanaburi  ? We would like to talk about 2 restaurants that we like throughout out short stay at Kanchanaburi. No. 1: Blue Rice Restaurant (Apple's Retreat) I believe that this restaurant would appear on your screen if you key in "What to eat at Kanchanaburi" in your Google search tab :P  Blue Rice Restaurant is a restaurant under Apple's Retreat, which is a guest house and travel service provider. Not only the food, this place is famous with cooking class provided too! It is not exaggerate to say that Apple's Retreat is having the best cooking class in Kanchanaburi which covers Traditional Thai and organic cookery workshop! One cooking course is 1550Baht, including ingredients and recipes book. The course started with local market visit and you get to learn 4 dished throughout the course!  Too bad that we did not have enough time to join the class, for more information, can click HERE .  ...

After spending three days two nights at SaiYok (River Kwai) for the RKIHM 2015 , we back to Kanchanaburi town. Commuting to the town is easy with an hour bus ride from the bus station at SaiYok. The journey passed by entrances to Erawan National Park and Tiger Temple.  Erawan National Park is well known for its seven-tiered waterfall and it is also recognized as one of the most beautiful national parks in Thailand. For the infamous Tiger Temple, it was raided and forced to shut down early this year for animal mistreatment and keeping them without permit. It was raining the time we reached Kanchanaburi. Hopped onto a tuk-tuk and we reached our guesthouse at Kanchanaburi, Chitanun Guest House. A non air-cond and non hot shower room costs us 250Baht. It is a good deal! Since it was raining season, the weather at night is not too hot, a fan room is enough for us :) Tuk- tuk at Kanchanaburi bus station. Entrance of Chitanun Guest House. For fan room, only 250Baht...