年尾了，新的一年又到了。Year is ending, a new year emerging.

我身在邦戈罗，坐在旅馆房间的客厅中。刚吃饱饭，看着电视，享受这片刻的宁静。还有一个星期左右就要迎接新的一年了，难以置信的是我竟会人在国外，虽然我该会在12月30号回到马来西亚。

新的一年当然少不了新年誓言，新的期望，新的目标。我虽然不是年年都对新的一年都许下一个期望，定下一个目标，但根据我的记忆中所记录下的一切，从来没有一个愿望实现，没有一个目标达成。太可笑了吧！既然如此为何今年又许个愿望，定下目标呢？某个伟人说人没有目标就没有人生，没有愿望就对生活没期待。我对我至今的人生真的有小许失望，我不想继续如此，我要打破人生的僵局。

先定下目标吧。新的一年，我要更稳定的经济状况。说实在的，现况的我实在是可以用4个字来形容-入不敷出。想象不到吧，对我的朋友来说也许看不出，但我自己可真的发现到我是归于这一类型的社会人。工作了3年，普通人都觉得这个人照常理来说该有多多少少几千块钱的积储吧。我可不是，而且还欠债累累。也许欠债累累听起来挺吓人的但我可是欠了不少钱。别担心，欠的可是卡债和大学的学费债。这些债我可是还有能力还，只要我肯省吃省用（可是我好像好些虚荣的东西。。。）。令我深思自己经济状况的是启发与两个现象，朋友和数字。数字是最近弄了个excel来算算看我的入与出。竟然让我发现我一天只该有的花费是如此的低，而且是全部薪水花完的哪一种计算。这对我来说是一大惊讶。回头看看之前的我，吃好的用好的，这样下去我可不行，未来没保障啊。

看看自己合同期的朋友们，我就显得经济能力极差的一位。一个满要好的朋友有一天再msn谈天时发现到他在股票市场上亏了7千多块马币。你也许看到的是怎么这么笨亏了这么多，但我看到的是他尽然有7千多块马币来亏，我呢？对我那朋友是比我聪明，比我能干，得到的工资比我多一些，那我因该不会比他差那么多吧。我也该有能力亏个2千到3千左右吧，很可惜我不能。另几位朋友都有能力结婚了，开始步进人生的另一阶段。我又想过靠我现在的能力仅仅能维持我一人的生活，别想说养另一半了。所以说新的一年我要该头换面，变成一个节俭的我。不再上贵餐馆，不买贵货品，能省就要省，把自己打造成一个经济能力稳固的聪明人。

目标定了，愿望我可就没什么愿望。只希望工作顺利，爸妈健康，弟妹不必让我太担心那就好了。和愿她一切顺利。

既然年已接近尾声，住我和各位朋友Merry X'mas and Happy New Year!大家向前望吧！

My 2nd Trip to Bangalore soon

As per plan by my manager, I will be going to Bangalore for the 2nd time to support the project and now I am acctually at Bangalore now.

I dont know why I am here actually because before I came I talk to my manager about my concern. I was to help to test at PG and for me being at Bangalore it was not impossible to do but it will cost a lot of time in testing as remote testing is a bit troublesome. I see that the manager from Bangalore wants me here is to help on another task as well but again I do strongly believe that the folks at Bangalore had it in their hands. They are work up for that task and want me as a safety net? That still workable if I am at PG.

I think if I keep talking I will find a couple more reason or excuses for it but that does not kill the fact that I am here at Bangalore physically already. I must change the attitude which I am close to the state now. 既来之则安之。。。。。

Already for the weeks I am here and still I kind of wake up around 6am Bangalore time which is am PG. Looks like jet lag can kill me. Another thing that surprise me is that I dream of her on the 1st or 2nd day when i am here. Kind of miss her. Everytime I went shopping for souvenior I am trying to get something for her more. Looks like I am into something something.

Some Clips from Bangalore, India

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZOg70MxkZ4

a devil ride from Bangalore - the Auto. (kind of like the tut tut from Thailand)

Cheapest transportation, great view, skillful driver and heart beating experience you will never forget. This is a great view from night city life (above) and for early bird you can watch the morning version of it (below). haha

Food & Drinks

opener...

Well if you read my blog alot you should notice that i like to use Chinese to write but due to i am in office now and i am too lazy to use the Chinese so i use English. But i guess you should enjoy it too.

Bangalore Best Food Guide

Leela Palace - Citrus

Leela Palace - 6 star hotel (plp say it was 6 and not 5 because there is plp in the toilet to help you "wee wee" so there goes the extra 1 star on top of it) right across Intel Building. you can acctually see it from a manager's cube and he told me he been dream to stay there for 1 night since he works in Intel. Too bad he is not staying there as the price per night was ~USD360. But I believe he was able to pay that bill.

Been having my first lunch in Bangalore at one of the hotel restaurant - Citrus and shockingly cost me a lot of penny. The most expensive lunch I ever had. Took me 2000 ruppee. Money aside lets talk food. Variety of international cuisine and categorize to vege and non-vege. Saw quite some exortic food like Sashimi (fish is hard to get at Bangalore), Blue Cheese, Lobster Soup and others. Serve with wine, some liquor, drinks, coffee, desert and dont forget a jazz band made of 3 beautiful lady. You think it worth? then can experience the high class environment to eat there. Oh ya Leela have 2 other restaurant there one call Zen (Japanese food and again cost you 2000 ruppee ~RM170 for lunch) and another is indian food and I believe the price is similar.

a glass of white wine
A lobster soup - taste like feet to me.
Cup of capucino.
Chocolately rich covered dry food and mush mallow.
Mr Alvin (left) and Mak. Thanks for the first exotic lunch on my first trip to Bangalore.

Here is the receipt prove to see the price.

BBQ Nation

For thos who like BBQ and eat a lot here is a good place for you. Situated not far from Intel as well. Approximate 10 minutes walk from Intel, right opposite Mainland China (one good chinese restaurant at Bangalore). Serve lunch and dinner. Cost you 450 ruppee exclude drinks.

If you think that the main course is the BBQ then you are as wrong as me when I first walk into BBQ Nation. BBQ was acctually just its starter. Yup you not seeing it wrongly it is just starter. they serve you with BBQ stick with chicken, fish, prawns, vege and let you BBQ just like what show in the picture. Then it has the main course like the rice, curry, soup, desert to choose from the table. It is different then what you have in mind that it serve you with thousand kind of BBQ food but acctually it serve 5-6 kind of BBQ, others are normal rice and food. Though you might say this you call a BBQ restaurant? but you cant deny the BBQ station there. Is the BBQ environment you enjoy in here and if you want to be picky about it, I would say is just put on the heated charcoal and heat up the food. Good place for plp who want to have an all you can eat type of food.

There goes our BBQ..

This is me having bite from the BBQ. Taste not bad you know.

Tandoor

Ah..... the Tandoor house. Located at MG (Mahatma Gandhi) Road, one of the busiest road in Bangalore. Get to know this place well before I reach Bangalore. Heard of it from those who went business or relo there before and is highly recommended. So I cant miss it right?

Food is very very good. Price cost like 1600 ruppee for 4 person meal. The meal consist of 2 meat and 1 vege or 2 vege i cant recall. Highly recommend for Indian cuisine. The Tandoori Chicken is a must order meal. Else you will regret for the rest of your life that is if you are not back to Bangalore again. hehehe. :)

Menu for the Tandoor house

This is kind of a starter or source to go with your food. See the onion? that is a good tast onion.

The 4 tough guys from PG travel to Bangalore. (from left) Mak, Siew Cuong, Alvin and Me.
Snap shot of the meal we have. Let me recall Mutton Briyani, Tandoor Chicken on top left, another mutton below the spoon and some Vege cover by the pile of Briyani. Yum.....

Indie Joe

Indie Joe (not Indiana Jones) fusion restaurant mainly on western food. Famous for their Pasta (according the captain there) and I found it good for most of the food. Average cost I spend there was around 400-600 Ruppee include drinks. Their sizzling plate was nice and will full up your stomouch. Nice place to go for a meal or a drink.

Me having my Pizza at Indie Joe. Good Environment here.

Mailand China

Mainland China - good Chinese Food. Save me when I start thinking of chinese food. According one of the bill board on the road site and an article in local news paper Mainland China serve the best chinese food in Bangalore. You really feel good when you step into the restaurant with its interior design with a little touch of chinese. Serve chinese food from noodles to rice. Steam fish, vege, braised duck, although is not all chinese food have there but it was enough to make you stop thinking of chinese food back home. Reasonable price, good food, specially recommend the braised duck from myself. It worth going and you will like it.

Drinks serve in Mainland China. What a colorful world this is.
Guess what I am having. Looks like fish ball eh..... haha. Is acctually Lychee Toffee. Is a desert.

Corner House (Ice Cream Specialist)

Corner House - Let me tell you 1 thing, this is the thing that I miss out most after I back to Malaysia. Their ice cream is damn good. My personal thought and describe for it is, the ice cream is milky and soft, the toppings and cream bring out the freshness of the ice cream and dress the ice cream nicely. It is kind of like Baskin Robbins or Hagen Dazz but in a lower price. Cost you around range from 45-100 ruppee and you can deep yourself into the ice cream fantasy.

The Corner House logo.

Almond Fudge. Look how many almonds in there and the dark chocolate is coated under the white Vanilla. This is call the Dry Fruit something. Taste good but not as good as the Almond Fudge..... arrgh who can bring me one now!

Barista Cafe

Surprisingly you wont find any Starbucks or Coffee Bean around Bangalore. Want a sip of coffee lets go Barista baby. Here it is just like Starbucks or Coffee Bean back home. Good coffee pricey food. Well for a coffee guy like me, I am rather enjoy it.

A Cup of something coffee. I cant recall but looks nice and taste good.Here is the top view for the same coffee above
My call of food. I forget what it call but for sure is pasta. Taste alright but a bit pricey for a small plate. Anyway I am here to drink and taste the athmosphere, food is not the main attraction.
Lagsagna ordered by a fren. Looks cool and comment by him, not bad.

Samarkand (Best of the best)

Here comes the best food I rated in Bangalore...... Samarkand. Cautesy of RamP a tough guy in Intel Bangalore that introduce us to this restaurant. Here it is still Indian food but I think fuse with a bit of Iranian style I think (dont trust me as I am not a great food taster I just judge base on their style and what stated on the menu). Great Chicken something that serve on a sword, taste quite the same as tandoori chicken. Great mutton Briyani, it was damn surprise when the waiter serve the briyani on a bowl type of thing and when open out it was white??? white??? I was thinking and when he start serving the rice..... damn the aroma is damn damn damn good and the mutton was tender. Another dish is the potato type with heavy curry gravy. That too was like heavenly food. Compare to Tandoor house, here is cheaper and I personally edge to Samarkand more than Tandoor. To get here is a longer ride, is around Safina plaza and the street I call it "black street" as there is a lot of souveniour shop and many people come and greet you "fren come, come, what you need or what you want to buy, we have it". Lets back to the food among all restaurant I would say this is a must come places. Oh ya and something to add on, they provide fork and spoon but really you got to try with your finger and that make the food taste even better.

Exterior of the restaurant
The famous Chicken something (chicken on the sword) and the mutton briyani
This is not a deco on the table but this is acctually a appetizer call bread stick. Goes with milky cheese.

Here is a simple dish for 4. Taste good, cheaper price. To sum up, Grrrreeeaaaat place.

This is me with the Chicken something.

This is kind of sweets after meal. Almost all the indian restaurant serve this after you are done with the meal.

我住的地方。 My squarters

我的住处。The hotel.

旅店前的火车头。The train head at the entrance.

火车头的全照。Another view of the train.
新印度旅店。New India Hotels (IBC)
我在我的房间（好大的玻璃对着床前）。
Me in my room(what a big mirror infront of the bed).
我的房间。My room
又是我的房间。Again... my room.
还是我的房间。And again.....still my room.

酒店外的街道，很有印度的感觉。Street out of hotel, what an Indian feel.

我飞了。。。。。我到了 I took off.....and i reached

再次踏上槟城国际飞机场。相隔了大概有2年吧，之前都是为了回到砂崂越念书，这次是出过工干了。

Penang International Airport.... is been 2 years i step again to this building. Previously was on the way to Sarawak for my university life and this time is for business trip.


我的旅程是从槟城到新加坡（1个小时）在从新加坡到班格罗（4个半小时）。

My flight was from PG to Singapore (1H flight) then transit to Bangalore (4 1/2H)

我乘搭的飞机。

The plane that take me away.

章宜国际飞机场-我踏上了新加坡的土地。。。水泥地才对。
Cangi Airport-the Singapore soil that i step on....er should be cement not soil

章宜国际飞机场上的我。
me on Changi Airport
好长的路。
What a long road to the gate.
SQ502可以开始登机了。
Flight SQ502 Gate is open.

E27号登机处。
Gate E27...
到了印度吗？
Am I at India now?
这可以证明了吧。
This prove where I am now.

班格罗机场外观。(看到那些人和车吗？）
Exterior of Bangalore Airport View. (see all the cars and plp?)

Bangalore之旅前的心情

明天将会是我第一次出差到国外工作。
今天9月7日，星期五，外头家乡的天气不会很热，风刮得还蛮大的。
下午2点半，不必上班。拿了一天假，收拾好行李和心情，为明天之旅做好准备。
如今坐在这咖啡厅，写着当今的心情与期盼。

行李大致上都收拾好了，心情没什么大变化。从同事与朋友口中认知了一些关于Bangalore的点点滴滴，负面的资料虽然比正面的多，比如说晚上没什么东西好玩，人超多的，食物与水很不清洁等等的，心中可真地对此之旅有着特定的期待。有机会到另一个国家，而且是印度。人力最便宜，很多软件高手，经济上对马来西亚具有威胁力的国家。看看世界增广见闻还是一件不可多得的事，更何况是公司给钱的，何乐而不为。

此旅将会去足3个星期，该会看到很多东西和新鲜的事务。相机是不可缺少了，致那些有留意此blog的朋友（我想改很少吧），请期待我post上一些照片。

不多谈了，下一次动“键盘”将会是在Bangalore。

PaintBall + Team Building

Sign the "Dead is your own problem" form and get ready for the war!
The Alpha Team.
The left guy is me? no the centre one? no the right one? Who knows all looks the same with that mask.
In action!
The "Deadman's Hut".