Salam,
It has been 21 days I am in Philippines, or Metro Manila to be specific. You will be wondering why I am here for so long, this is because I am here for a company assignment. Don't worry, I will not overstay (VOA only limit myself to be here for 30 days), it will be another 5 days to go before I am leaving back to KL for good.
So, here is the summary of what have I done while I am staying here. Due to work assignment, I have limited time walking / touring around. So I would not have gone very far, all places here are within Metro Manila only and all the tourings are done during weekend and Public Holiday.
Hotel: F1 Hotel and Resort, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.
Green Hills Shopping Center, San Juan, Metro Manila
I was lucky during the first weekend of my stay, my colleague was happened have to come here due to emergency assignment. Hence, that weekend we took a cab and went to Greenhills Shopping Centre. This mall located at San Juan, another city within Metro Manila. Just for your info, Metro Manila consist of 13 cities, so you will never get bored of being here for a long period as there would be a city that you must visit. However not all is worth to go.
It took 15 minutes to reach Greenhills and the fares should be around PHP140 - PHP150 from BGC.
Greenhills is the great place if you are looking for pearls, replica handbags, and souvenirs such as fridge magnets, paintings, key chains, Manila / Philipines print tshirts and clothes. You must always bargain the price as the quoted price is always expensive. I managed to get good quality replica handbags for PHP600, Medium sized 3D contemporary abstract paintings for PHP1200, Philipine print tshirt for PHP180 / piece and big size of fresh water pearls for PHP1600.
This mall is a Muslim friendly mall. There is a huge surau / prayer room nearby (you have to go out of the mall) with reasonable facilities. There are 2 halal-claimed restaurants nearby the surau that serving Southern Philippines dishes (forgot the name of the food that we ate). Besides, there is another halal-claimed restaurants at Greenhills food court (located at Ground Floor) area that serves Middle-East and local Philipines dishes. Here I tried Beef tapas and Fish Kare-kare. Beef tapas is a marinated beef which is for me tasted very salty and you have to dip it in vinegar to balance the saltiness. Fish Kare kare is a Dalca look alike with long beans and egg plants cooked with peanut (I did not tasted peanut at all) and coconut milk as well as local herbs. Fish Kare Kare has to be eaten with Fish paste (belacan taste) that I forgot the name already.
Most of the pearl traders are Muslim .
I like Greenhills so much, I have been here 3 times already and I think that is just enough.
Market! Market!, BGC, Taguig City, Metro Manila
This is the shopping complex that I usually get my groceries and needs while I am here. It is within Bonifacio Global City and it is just 15 minutes from where I am staying. This place has many choices of restaurants, shops,Metro Supermarket and Department Store (equivalent to Jusco in Malaysia) and even pearls are available here. There is a bus terminal near-by so this place is always crowded with people. Outside of Market! Market! there are stalls that sells specialities from Philippines' provinces such as Cebu and many more.
SM Aura Shopping Mall, BGC, Taguig City, Metro Manila
This shopping mall is equivalent to Pavilion Bukit Bintang in KL. Most of the shops here are high-ends, but there is Uniqlo in case you running out of your shirts. Cultura, a famous local chain-store that selling Philipine's souvenirs is also available but the space and varieti-ness (is this word does exist?) is not as big Cultura at SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City.
According to my Pinoy friend, SM is stands for Shoe Maker. The founder of SM conglomerate was a shoe maker before he gets rich so SM is to reminds him on his past history.
Bonifacio High Street, BGC, Taguig City, Metro Manila
Just as the name itself, most of the shops located here are high-ends. From my observation, BGC-ians are very health concious, there will be alot of people jogging around even at 9pm at night. Hence, besides international coffee shops, sports store also dominating this area such as Nike Store, Converse and many more.
This streets is very well maintained and has a lot of decorations between the shops blocks. Not to forget, BGC area is a dog friendly area, you will find many people walk their dogs freely. So far I haven't seen any dog poop or pees around which shows the cleanliness level /concious is very high here.
Robinson Galleria, Metro Manila
According to my Pinoy friend, this shopping mall actually located in 4 cities that are Mandaluyong, Quezon and .... I forgot another 2 cities, please forgive me. This is a huge mall, and located besides SM Megamall. I did not tour this shopping malls heartedly due to the tiredness after long day walking around. I went here with my Pinoy friend and here I got to know Custard flavour Hopia, a local Chinese delicacies, that tastes very sweet according to my taste buds but have a very lovely and soft texture. My Pinoy friend bought his engagement ring. I am wishing him happy engagement and hopefully it will continues till marriage and after.
Let me continue the rest in the next Post.....
p/s missing my Bobo....
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Jakarta visit
Assalamualaikum,
Ini kali ketiga aku ke Indonesia. Oleh kerana kali ini lawatan berkaitan dengan kerja, maka tak banyak jalan.
Aku ringkas kan apa aktiviti aku semasa lawatan 5 hari itu.
14th Jan 2014 ( Day 1)
Naik MAS (MH 725) jam 6.25pm.
Tiba di Sukarto Hatta International Airport jam 8++pm.
Untuk ke Century Park Hotel yang terletak di Jakarta Selatan, kami menaiki teksi Golden Bird. Di Indonesia, kebanyakan teksi tak boleh dipercayai kecuali teksi yang berkaitan dengan Bird - Bird ni.
Syarikat ni ada beberapa perkhidmatan:
BlueBird - Teksi biasa, tiada resit, tapi so far aku tiada pengalaman ngeri dengan teksi ni, jujur dan tidak menipu.
Silver Bird - Teksi premier, mahal sikit.
Golden Bird - Teksi Limo. Camry, Merc E200 ataupon Alphard.
Kami memilih Golden Bird, amik Camry dengan bayaran Rp310,000. Tetapi memandangkan Camry tak ada pada masa itu, maka kami di upgrade kepada Merc E200. Thanks Goldern Bird.
Malam itu tak de aktiviti apa-apa, semua sibuk dengan preparation untuk kerja esok hari.
15th Jan 2014 (Day 2)
Lunch time kami di bawa menikmati Makanan Padang, makanan nya sama aje mcm lauk pauk di Malaysia.
Lepas kerja, jam 5pm sini, kami di bawa ke Melawai. Melawai terletak dalam kawasan Blok M. Di sini ada Carrefour dan banyak lot shop.
Selepas itu kami di bawa makan Sate Padang. Ia dimakan dengan nasi impit dan beberapa cucuk sate. Sate nya diperbuat dari daging lembu dan organ-organ yang lain seperti paru dan sebagainya. Kuahnya pula bersantan, pedas (pedas pepper) dan pekat, tiada kacang macam kuah sate kita.
16th Jan 2014 (Day 3)
Lunch time kami makan di BakMi.
Lepas kerja, kami berjalan-jalan di Senayan Plaza, di sini bole diibaratkan umpama Pavilion. Mahal banget barangan nya.
Kemudian kami makan malam di Betawi Cafe. Aku makan Mee Kangkung, dan ada beberapa menu lain yang agak sedap.
17th Jan 2014 (Day 4)
Kami ada meeting jam 10am dan 5pm. So ada masa senggang di antara nya. Maka kami ke Tanah Abang bersama rakan kami yang sangat baik hati, iaitu Pak Andy. Kami ke Tanah Abang menaiki Taksi dengan bayaran Rp30,000.
Perjalanan ambil masa dalam 30minit.
Di Tanah Abang, kami sempat membeli Jaket kulit kambing ori (Rp600,000), Kain sulam (Rp75,000), dan jubah kain cotton (Rp 70,000). Setelah itu kami bergegas pulang ke kantor untuk meeting jam 5.
Kantor kami berdekatan dengan Metro. Metro merupakan pusat membeli belah sebagaimana KLCC. Disini tiada apa yang di beli kerana harga nya mirip di Malaysia.
Setelah itu, Pak Gun, rakan kami di sini membawa kami menikmati makanan Menado di Beautika Cafe. Cafe ini terletak berhampiran dengan Senayan.
Menado merupakan sebuah daerah di Utara Sulawesi. Makanannya pedas-pedas dan lazat. Sampai berpeluh2 kami di buatnya.
18th Jan 2014 (Day 5)
Kami tiada aktiviti sangat pada hari ini kerana perlu menaiki flight jam 3.45pm waktu tempatan.
Ini kali ketiga aku ke Indonesia. Oleh kerana kali ini lawatan berkaitan dengan kerja, maka tak banyak jalan.
Aku ringkas kan apa aktiviti aku semasa lawatan 5 hari itu.
14th Jan 2014 ( Day 1)
Naik MAS (MH 725) jam 6.25pm.
Tiba di Sukarto Hatta International Airport jam 8++pm.
Untuk ke Century Park Hotel yang terletak di Jakarta Selatan, kami menaiki teksi Golden Bird. Di Indonesia, kebanyakan teksi tak boleh dipercayai kecuali teksi yang berkaitan dengan Bird - Bird ni.
Syarikat ni ada beberapa perkhidmatan:
BlueBird - Teksi biasa, tiada resit, tapi so far aku tiada pengalaman ngeri dengan teksi ni, jujur dan tidak menipu.
Silver Bird - Teksi premier, mahal sikit.
Golden Bird - Teksi Limo. Camry, Merc E200 ataupon Alphard.
Kami memilih Golden Bird, amik Camry dengan bayaran Rp310,000. Tetapi memandangkan Camry tak ada pada masa itu, maka kami di upgrade kepada Merc E200. Thanks Goldern Bird.
Malam itu tak de aktiviti apa-apa, semua sibuk dengan preparation untuk kerja esok hari.
15th Jan 2014 (Day 2)
Lunch time kami di bawa menikmati Makanan Padang, makanan nya sama aje mcm lauk pauk di Malaysia.
Lepas kerja, jam 5pm sini, kami di bawa ke Melawai. Melawai terletak dalam kawasan Blok M. Di sini ada Carrefour dan banyak lot shop.
Selepas itu kami di bawa makan Sate Padang. Ia dimakan dengan nasi impit dan beberapa cucuk sate. Sate nya diperbuat dari daging lembu dan organ-organ yang lain seperti paru dan sebagainya. Kuahnya pula bersantan, pedas (pedas pepper) dan pekat, tiada kacang macam kuah sate kita.
16th Jan 2014 (Day 3)
Lunch time kami makan di BakMi.
Lepas kerja, kami berjalan-jalan di Senayan Plaza, di sini bole diibaratkan umpama Pavilion. Mahal banget barangan nya.
Kemudian kami makan malam di Betawi Cafe. Aku makan Mee Kangkung, dan ada beberapa menu lain yang agak sedap.
17th Jan 2014 (Day 4)
Kami ada meeting jam 10am dan 5pm. So ada masa senggang di antara nya. Maka kami ke Tanah Abang bersama rakan kami yang sangat baik hati, iaitu Pak Andy. Kami ke Tanah Abang menaiki Taksi dengan bayaran Rp30,000.
Perjalanan ambil masa dalam 30minit.
Di Tanah Abang, kami sempat membeli Jaket kulit kambing ori (Rp600,000), Kain sulam (Rp75,000), dan jubah kain cotton (Rp 70,000). Setelah itu kami bergegas pulang ke kantor untuk meeting jam 5.
Kantor kami berdekatan dengan Metro. Metro merupakan pusat membeli belah sebagaimana KLCC. Disini tiada apa yang di beli kerana harga nya mirip di Malaysia.
Setelah itu, Pak Gun, rakan kami di sini membawa kami menikmati makanan Menado di Beautika Cafe. Cafe ini terletak berhampiran dengan Senayan.
Menado merupakan sebuah daerah di Utara Sulawesi. Makanannya pedas-pedas dan lazat. Sampai berpeluh2 kami di buatnya.
18th Jan 2014 (Day 5)
Kami tiada aktiviti sangat pada hari ini kerana perlu menaiki flight jam 3.45pm waktu tempatan.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Full car loan repayment
Ramai dok tanya, camana nak buat full loan repayment?
Aku baru je buat untuk keter kesayangan ku last month.
Ada baki lagi 1000++, sepatutnya loan aku abis lagi 7 bulan, aku ingat aku nak setel kan semua.
So step dia cam di bawah:
1) Call bank yang anda buat pinjaman tu, katalah pinjam dengan Bank Rimau, maka call Bank Rimau.
2) Check ngan bank tersebut, nak buat full car loan settlement, ada berapa baki yang perlu di jelaskan sekiranya nak buat bayaran tu sekian-sekian hari bulan.
3) Bank akan bitau, baki anda perlu jelaskan ialah sebanyak sekian-sekian. Bank Rimau baik sket, kalo setel awal dari tarikh yang sepatutnya akan dapat rebate. Aku dapat rebate RM50++. Ok la tu. Hehe
Jangan lupa tanya pasal Geran dan E-Batal. Mintak tolong bank buat serahan geran dan buat e-batal tu sekali.
4) Bila nak buat full setelment, tanya camana nak bayar ni. Macam aku, aku turun kaunter bayar. Esok nya tengok kat M2U da tak de da loan detail kat hire purchase loan.
5) Kalo anda request geran dan e-batal tu dihantar melalui pos, tunggu beberapa hari, dokumen tersebut akan sampai kepada anda.
6) Selesai sudah hutang bank :)
Aku baru je buat untuk keter kesayangan ku last month.
Ada baki lagi 1000++, sepatutnya loan aku abis lagi 7 bulan, aku ingat aku nak setel kan semua.
So step dia cam di bawah:
1) Call bank yang anda buat pinjaman tu, katalah pinjam dengan Bank Rimau, maka call Bank Rimau.
2) Check ngan bank tersebut, nak buat full car loan settlement, ada berapa baki yang perlu di jelaskan sekiranya nak buat bayaran tu sekian-sekian hari bulan.
3) Bank akan bitau, baki anda perlu jelaskan ialah sebanyak sekian-sekian. Bank Rimau baik sket, kalo setel awal dari tarikh yang sepatutnya akan dapat rebate. Aku dapat rebate RM50++. Ok la tu. Hehe
Jangan lupa tanya pasal Geran dan E-Batal. Mintak tolong bank buat serahan geran dan buat e-batal tu sekali.
4) Bila nak buat full setelment, tanya camana nak bayar ni. Macam aku, aku turun kaunter bayar. Esok nya tengok kat M2U da tak de da loan detail kat hire purchase loan.
5) Kalo anda request geran dan e-batal tu dihantar melalui pos, tunggu beberapa hari, dokumen tersebut akan sampai kepada anda.
6) Selesai sudah hutang bank :)
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