Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Glacier Hiking Day

Went to glacier hiking on my last off day, it was a new experience for me coz i won't be able to try it in Malaysia and the feeling of walking on the ice was amazing..hehe..it is really nice to stay in Alaska coz u can try alot of new things that u cant find it in Malaysia..My next target will be ice climbing..hehe...and hopefully i can make it and wont slip down from the ice wall...




can u all see the ice cave....





took the picture before went for glacier hike...





~~can u imagine the feeling of walking on the ice~~



i am standing on the ice..hehe...it was amazing..:-)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

~~My Working Situation~~

Omggg…today is Thursday again le, means tomorrow I need to start my work again…haizzz…..Since I am so free right now, I will update my working look and some of my working situation in the working place as I promised in previous blog..

My job in Kennicott Glacier Lodge(KGL) is a dishwasher (but got a lame friend dun believe me that I am a dishwasher, dun under estimate me coz I am type of man that can enjoy till crazy and also suffer till crazy one…:-p ) and sometimes will become prep cook when my colleague is off duty..Dishwasher is a tough job for me because I need to stand for 8 to 10 hours everyday without having a chance to sit down and let my legs rest a while and most of the time I will work from 9am to 1pm and 5pm to 10pm, during the off period is the only chance to let my hands and legs rest for a while, but once the off period is over, I will wash those dishes till crazy because all the kitchen stuff and plates will put in basin there like a mountain and everytime I almost fainted when see all of those stuff…haiz.. …although we have washing machine here to help us clear the oily and greasy stuff, but we still need to clean all the plates before put into the machine, but most of the time, I just simply clean it then put into machine already because I am not the one who use for it…:-p…( if my boss read my blog, I will be fired immediately..hahaha)

Another new experience for me is “America food is SUX”…I missed home cook food and Malaysia food so much because here the food is so hard to put in mouth. Most of the food here is eating with fresh without cooking such as vegetable, ham slide, turkey meat slide and roasted beef slide, all is having it with fresh and without cooking….is so geli and disgusting ….Moreover, my breakfast and lunch menu is the same from 19th May 2009 until today. My breakfast are include pancakes, eggs, sausage and as for my lunch menu are ham slide, turkey slide, roasted beef slide, tomato, lettuce, onion, bread, cheese and we will use all this stuff to make our own burger....and I still need to eat for 3 months more…IT IS GOING TO KILL ME SOON……the only food that change everyday in my lunch menu is the soup…Lonce I back to Malaysia, the first thing I want to do is go to Bentayan and eat until full full…who want to join me…:-p....Luckily the dinner menu that we are having it is changing everyday and most of the time we enjoy the same dinner menu with customers, hahaha….or else I will dead for sure. I like the dinner time coz we can eat salmon fish, steak, and sometimes we will have dessert after dinner time..it is so nice…hehe…..Anywhere I want to say thank you X unlimited to Siau Chen Tan that post a lot of instant food to me coz u are the only one that know my situation here…haha…looking for the arriving of your mail package…hehe..:-) ..and as I promised, I will write ur name in mountain of Alaska…wakaka….

That’s all for my update today and I will try to post my housing environment in the coming blog….hehe..:p…take k all my frens and also my family….

My personal workplace...

My uniform look..is it look like a chef, jus lack of 1 chef hat..:-p

Closer view of me with uniform

~~My dinner set, is it look like delicious~~


My lunch set and it is SUX, everyday having the same food

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

River Rafting....

I love Wednesday and Thursday so much because it is my off day after 5 days work…and today is Wednesday, huiyo…..Suppose I will update my working situation as I mentioned in the previous blog, but since today there is something different happen in my life, I will postpone my working situation in nex blog…hehe..

Today I spent USD 80 for river rafting, and at the moment of paying the money, I was thinking is it worth for it because it is around RM 280 for few hours only...But after river rafting, I can only use 1 word to describe it which is AMAZING…..it is so excited to having this kind of activity which I never try in Malaysia before, and I love it so much..It is hard to describe the situation during the river rafting and u will only know the feeling when u sit on the boat and try for it. At first I was quite worry about it because I duno how to swim and what should I do when I felled into water…L..and once the boatman start to move the paddle for few minutes, my stress was totally released because of the skill of boatman is so good…he tried to bring us to those area which is big wave and it was so fun when the big wave hit on the boat, is such like sitting the roller coaster, but u will get wet after the big wave and the water is freaking cold….my hand are freeze and numb after few times of big wave…but it is NICE…it is so sad that I cant take the photo while sitting on the boat because of the unstable situation…

And we were going for hiking for a while and I saw the footprint of the bear…but unfortunately I cant see the bear…haiz..:-( ….and I even leave my name in the sand by using stone and the sand is so smooth and the water is clear and clean and I oso leave 1 lame queen name on the sand…hahaha..At last, we had safely completed our river rafting and prepared to go back to KGL..it was another fresh thing that I never try in Malaysia which is sitting on a small plane and view the scenery.. my life is so wonderful here and I ever travelled with a big plane which is United Airline, a medium size plane which is Airasia and now I had tried the small size plane which is the plane that send me back to KGL..and maybe next time I should try rocket and my life will be completed without regret…

After a wonderful river rafting, what I can say is nice and wonderful and I feel that our life is like sitting on a boat… As a boatman, need to decide whether to take the risk by go through the big wave or not and once u pass through the wave, there are only 2 possibilities which are u will fall into water or get the satisfaction after the wave. So maybe it is time for me to take some risks after going back to Malaysia. And wave is look like the process of our life, high and low and once u pass the low and calm period, there will be high wave waiting for u and on the other hand, once u pass the high wave, low and calm situation is waiting for your coming…that’s all for my update today….



Before rafting


Lame queen...i help u leave ur name in Alaska le..Lolx



Footprint of bear



the small plane that send me back

Sunday, June 7, 2009

My 1st Wages and Tips in USA....


I am here again to update my latest news in Kennicott Glacier Lodge, Alaska. My mood was quite down few days ago because of the internet speed. Until now, I only knew that there are limited usage for the internet in my place and because of over limit ( too much of pps and meetoto), my internet speed was reduced by the noob isp from 1mbps to 0.1mbps…WTH is it….and luckily the speed is getting better this few days. And now I need to control my usage of internet because if one more time over limit, owner of wireless is not going to let me use his wireless again…L…cant pps ady…sigh…


But yesterday is a wonderful day for me because I gt my 1st wages and tips in USA le…It is so nice….I worked for 2 weeks and the wages is around USD 500++ and the tips is USD 120…huiyooooooooo…..I am rich if I am in Malaysia now….hahaha…But..still need to pay my brother and sister for borrowing money to come USA…sad thg again…haiz…

this is my 1st pay slip in USA...is so much of money if convert back to RM...Huiyoooooo


As for today, the job is freaking tired although there are 1 more dishwasher right now, i worked for 2 position today, which are chef helper and dishwasher, but only take 1 salary..:-(….Woke up at 6am to start my job and worked for 10 hours…Omggg…is so tired..But once I think that can travelling in September, everything is worth for it….:-)

Is time for me to rest le...will update my work place and my uniform look in the next blog.......^^..

Sunday, May 31, 2009

A QuiCk UpDate...Going To BaR In McCarthy...


Nowadays my job is getting easier then before ady because another dishwasher is coming to Kennicott Glacier Lodge ady. Before the new dishwasher coming, the job is going to kill me and my hand is non stop washing the plates for 8 hours, and sometimes i even think of give up, but finally i able to cope with this. Today my job is freaking relax during the nite time, both of us(me and another dishwasher) were staring each other because we are too free. There were no plates for us to wash at all, because there were only 8 customers came for dinner in the lodge. I am so happy with it...^^.. And today is the 1st time that i finished my job at 9pm, before that i usually finished my job at 10pm or later...hehe.. But sometimes i am quite happy to work in kitchen coz we have special food from the chef that other collegues dun have...^^..the supervisor is so nice to us, always give us some special dessert during the dinner time...^_^

After that, i went to the McCarthy Bar with collegues and i was wondering how the bar look like in this super rural area...As i expected, the bar is so lousy, is just for drinking and chatting for us...haiz...I even duno how to describe the bar...i miss malaysia night life...i miss poppy garden and luna bar...lolx...Btw i need to wai until October only gt the chance to go for Malaysia nightlife...All my frenzs must wait for me ya....:-p....


the front view of the bar...how to compare v luna bar....:-(


the interior design of bar...jus simply take the photo of counter..:-(


another front view of the bar...the bar is made by papan...lolx...this is the bar in kampung area..

The weather nowadays is making me so moody coz eveyday is raining day and it is freaking cold, i am wearing 2 clothes and cover 3 blankets during the nite time, but i still will feel cold during the morning time. Yesterday i missed something that i dun have chance to see in Malaysia which is SNOWING....Omggg.....I so wish to see it but i missed it ady coz i was sleeping during the snowing time...haiz...hope will have another chance to see it...

**Okla...that is the short update from me...tomorow have to work at 9am again...haiz..

Thursday, May 28, 2009

~~My Journey To Alaska~~

16th May, it was the day that i leave my lovely country Malaysia and started my Work & Travel USA programme...The day before my departure date, i was having my farewell with all my best friends and that day is the 1st time i drunk until cant even walk, need people to carry me all the way, btw, thx for those who carry me during my farewell and for the person who make me drunk, i sure will rmb u de...:-) I was looking forward for this day since i registered as a WAT student and it is out of my expectation, the journey was almost take my life coz it is freaking tired..My 1st transit airport is in Changi airport, and the time in Changi airport was moved like 'tortoise', i reached there around 10.30pm and my nex flight was 7am..WTHhh...i need to wait for around 9 hours without any entertainment, and the worst thing is the flight was delayed...shit!!! and i didn’t slp all the nite..:-(...
~~tis is the gal who make me drunk~~

Cant fall aslp, so took photo in Changi for fun
While in the aircraft, i oso dun sleep while because of the seat is so uncomfortable and the stewardess for United Airline are so old, and i think some even can be my mum ady--so my advise to all of u is dun ever take United Airline...the life in the plane was so boring, and i only slp and eat and slp again.

Coz of the Nut United Airline delay the flying time, when i reached my 2nd transit airport-Narita, Japan, i had to rush for the next flight and caused me dun even have time to take a photo in Japan, which is 1 of my desire country...it is SUX....and finally i reached my 3rd transit airport in USA--Seattle Airport around 12pm, and our next flight to Anchorage is 9pm. I need to wait for another 9 hours..Oh My Godness....
Due to the tiredness, i decided to go for the hostel in pike town, and we took taxi to go for it, it cost me USD 45 for taxi fare...WTffffff...it is around RM 150 for a 20 minutes distance...Btw, my 1st impression of American is they are so nice. The hostel that we take a short rest name Green Tortoise Hostel, owner of the hostel is so nice. According to the plan, we will take walk around in the pike town, but unfortunately, coz of the time difference between Malaysia, i was so so so tired and fall aslp in the hostel..if gt chance i would like to go for Seattle 1 more time for holidays...
Finally the time for our flight to Anchorage is nearer, this time we take a bus to airport and only cost us USD 1.75 like tat, it is so much difference with USD 45…swt..During the check in to the flight, it is so troublesome for USA custom, we need take out our shoes, take out laptop everythg and only can pass the gate..haiz..the only thg I hate for USA is the custom…After 3 hours flight, we reached Anchorage and it was so lucky that Charles picked us up in the airport and we stayed in their house for 1 night before going to Kennicott…thx so much for picked us up in airport and let us slp in ur house..:-)..From Malaysia to Anchorage, it took me around 37 hours including the transit period in airport…it is SUX…..

It is so sad that I need to wake up early for the next day coz need to apply social security and open a bank account..haiz..and finally I started my journey to kennicott on 12pm and it was a long journey for me again, it took me 8 hours more to reach my final destination…but on the way we took a lot of photo and enjoy the nice scenery which is impossible to see in Malaysia….

taken from plane on the way to Anchorage

On the way to Kennicott, ice mountain~~woo~~

My collegue, Jake, is the driver who send me to Kennicott

The road to kennicott, such a lousy road no wonder ned 8 hours and only can drive 40km/j

Stop on a bridge and photo shooting, if bridge broken, i will die for sure

~~is time for me to take a rest, will update when off duty....take care all my frenz