When Air Asia first launch the Taipei101 ticket promo, Alex and I just have a click in seconds to get all the bookings done. Initially we do not have any planning towards this trip, simply a vacation. By times gone by, lots of planning has been implement, and yes, we’re going to Taiwan for our Pre honeymoon trip and Wedding photo shoot.

It seems fated that I’ll bump into the wedding fair in Miri. Coincidentally they are from Taiwan too! It was really attractive that I’ve agreed to sign up the package with them. Months and months to go, looking forward to our Taiwan trip. Finally, 30th Dec 2009 has come.

We transited at KL and flew over to Taipei with AirAsia X from LCCT on the next day. It’s new year eve. Both of us are really excited. Its winter time in Taiwan, estimated to be 13′c on this new year eve. That’s gonna be very memorable!

The flight was full, this could tell that lots of people really heart Taiwan. This is my second visit to Taiwan, but a different feeling cos this time I’m going with my love ones. =) We reached TaoYuan International Airport around 2pm. Apparently, Nee – my buddy in Miri were in Taiwan for vacation too! She & YW came to meet us at Airport and then we transfer to the 8 elephant HOSTEL that Alex booked online.

Due to Peak season on this new year eve, lots of hotel in Taipei City were fully booked. We could only locate this Hostel at slightly higher price but comfy. 8 elephant hostel is run by a pretty young lady, and most of the guest who stay here were more to backpackers. For short – Ang moh lang!  Its location is quite good, just a few minutes walk from the Guting MRT station. The very popular ShiDa Night Market also just a few steps nearby.

From the Taipei Main Station, its totally packed when night gets nearer. Everyone were out for Countdown. 4 of us went to Ximending and have our new year dinner at one of the very popular steampot shop – Fei Tian 飞天。The steampot selection here are absolutely much much better than what we had in Malaysia. You may select 2 types of soup out of 4. You can have unlimited selection of foods from meat to vege and to desserts.RM40 per head.

That’s it, our wonderful steampot new year dinner at Taiwan. Thanks for the treat , Ah Nee!

Greeting each other a Happy New Year, and we separated and have our own countdown.

I was eagerly waiting to watch the fireworks at Taipei 101. So to use up the remaining time wisely before it reach 12, Alex and I spend some time exploring Ximending.

Ximending is a shopper’s heaven. Its true, there’s lots of great stuff can be seen here. Other than great foods, there’s even magician performance by the street, live band, cosplay & etc. You will never get bored here as long as your pocket is thick enough.

As time getting nearer to 11, lots of fireworks can be seen playing at Ximending. The whole phenomenon seems brighten up! Its time for us to move on to Taipei 101.

I’ve been told that it might be very jam. We’re just trying our luck. Getting stuck half an hour inside the MRT station, packed & humid in the underground and the authority announce that the gate has been closed. Obviously, they are controlling the traffic.

20 minutes to Year 2010. We decided to go back to Hostel and see anything happening. The weather is getting colder. Both of us are freezing on the way walking back to Hostel. To my surprise, the residents seems quite. No celebrating. I bet most of them are clever, avoid the jam and watch TV at home.

The moment that we’ve been awaiting was ended up in the bathroom, listening to the fireworks but can’t witness it. Sigh. Worst case is, Hostel does not provide towel and we did not bring our own towel. There’s no reception, this is not a hotel. Let’s guess how we dry up after bathing in the freezing cold winter midnight?

It has been a tiring long journey from Malaysia to Taipei. We gotta rest earlier for the next day. We’re going to Ping Dong 屏东. Although its a little disappointment, but at least I have a memorable year of 2010 with my love one.

Coming up next, Ping Dong 屏东 . Our wedding photo shoot trip. =)

I’m stuck here.

Even the topic I can’t think of a proper one. Where’s the crapping Goolooloo has gone? I wonder, am I still able to resume writing. As mentioned before, I am just too busy to sit down and hardly get some good time spent on my blog. Gotta admit that FB is really a blog replacement to me. Anyway, there’s been too much things happened in the beginning of year 2010.

Time flies. I gotta make sure I’ll jot it down before I forget.

Check List :

• Pre Honeymoon to Taiwan
• Wedding photoshoot experience in Taiwan
• Preparation to my wedding
• The Big Day of Alex and Mary

I’ll be back!

For more photos of  Our wedding, do visit out wedding page at AlexMary.com =)

Noticed that Maswings are doing promo lately. I’m talking about Maswings, subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines which take cares of Sabah and Sarawak’s inbound flight.

First they’ve monopolized the market, control all the ticket prices which is way more expensive. It may be expensive than going  oversea compare to some other airlines.

Take a very short examples for Miri to Sibu which I fly most. They used to come out something like Maswings Prepaid, which for me back then the fare is still acceptable although it is still quite expensive which is RM90 for one way. But okay, at least its less than RM200 which still not equivalent to air ticket to KL by using Air Asia. But then, they’ve stop it, and implement something new.

For now, the ticket price normally starts from RM138 onwards exclude of Taxes. For a return flight, the minimum I’ve to spend would start from RM280. If I book within a week, the ticket price would hike up to RM300 ++. Is that really reasonable for such a short distance and just flying in the ATR72?

Okay, that’s enough, I can’t say much, they’ve invest on the new ATR fleet. Since they monopolized the whole market, we, the people in Sabah and Sarawak need to pay more to fly! Fly nearer but pay more. This is totally unacceptable.

Can’t you come out something like budget airlines? Or give us more promotions?

Yes, they did actually, but its just another gimmick from them.

I saw this on Maswing’s facebook page. I’m really happy to see that Miri – Sibu are having offers for as low as RM12 one way. That’s really help me to save a lot of money and time. The truth is, the promotions are totally invalid. I’ve been clicking the whole schedule from 01Jan2010 till 30thJune2010. I didn’t see any! All started with RM138.

Okay, assumed that the above promo are not ready, or they published wrongly which I totally can’t get it from their webs. That’s fine! ….

Dear Maswings,

Can you tell me what actually happened to your Malaysia Airlines’s System?? Ada problem kah? If you are unable to give good promo, then don’t give!

Your booking systems are not as good as other airlines. MAS ground staffs are mostly not helpful. Unless you know any of them, maybe its easier. The customer careline are always busy. If you have anything urgent, you just don’t hope they could assist you, I think you might have already drive to Airport and get everything settled.

I’m very disappointed with Maswings. I really hope they could have much more improvement over their marketing skills. Not to give empty hopes only. Please reduce your fare. Those in rural areas are those who need to fly more frequent. We in Sabah and Sarawak don’t have big highways that connect us to everywhere. If we have more and better options, I will not take flights. The truth is, that’s the most convenient way.

If you really want to serve the mass market, then you should be able to make everyone can fly with not much hassle.

So please!

Please be more considerate and love us, your customers more. I’ve been flying with you for ages even before you turn into Maswings.  Don’t you have any better deals for us?

Please make sure, your pilots won’t be as the picture below. Even if Free tickets it shouldn’t be in this way!

Thank you so much!

Your’s sincerely,

Mary Ting aka Goolooloo
Your loyal passenger

Has been idle for quite sometime, its really my bad. Lot’s of friend came and asked , “Hey you stop blogging kah?” , I feel ashamed to answer that I was too busy lately. That was not really an excuse, but just nothing much that I could bring up to blog again these days.

Both of my digital camera was sent to the hospital, one declared death and one is still under investigation. Anything related to life stories hardly to bring up here without a good picture.

Anyway, the one and only big news to share now is , The knot is tied. =)

Thanks for all the blessings and wishes from family and friends. I love you all ! Muaks!

I used to be a daily blogger, little bits of things must blog, no matter big or small. I thought that was my responsibilities as a blogger to blog whatever I like. Well Said, but due to my long working hours, I do feel that blogging actually spends me quite a lot of time. I need to have “ideas”, I need to have “pictures” in order for me to blog. The most important thing is, Do you still read blog nowadays?

I gotta admit, I rarely read blog ever since I’ve addicted to Facebook. Anyway, FB is a very successful lifetime interacting tools, which is fun enough to update, or to “kaypoh”. But don’t ever take things too seriously over FB cos you’ll never know who is reading or stalking you behind the screen.

No, I don’t like Twitters. So not to have further comments on it.

Goolooloo.com was once a most popular blogs of Miri Community but not in Malaysia. Seeing the other bloggers being nominates, I could only say their hard works paid off. This could never happen on lazy bloggers like me. Anyhow, my blog will remain. I’ll still update on my travelogue as usual but have to cut down all my travel plans due to my tight budget plans.

My next travel destinations will be on Sandakan. =) Domestic travel would be fun cos you don’t have to worry about the currencies difference or the language problem. Let’s have some fun with the “Orang Utan”!

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I’ll be back!

I just got addicted to another Facebook Game recently, it is called Cafe World brought to you by zynga.

Cafe World is just like the other interactive game that makes you addicted over it and it would be the best diet plan as you would play day and night and forgetting your meal.

As usual I will share my experiences in playing FB’s games so that more of you could join me in the game.

I just started to play Cafe World yesterday after the invitation of my friend. You would need to have neighbors in order to get more benefits such as visiting them daily and receiving gifts from each other.

Cafe World would be quite similar to Restaurant City . I did some comparison to RC and found out Cafe World is easier to interact and it cut down the unnecessary steps in RC.

Talk about tricks, every game are built to use our wisdom. I noticed that in the first few level, you might be running out of time, so spare a stove for the short time recipe such as burger and salad. The other stoves can spared it for long cooking recipe. Make sure you calculate the time before you start cooking, or else it will just gone to waste as you did not serve it when its ready.

Another tricky thing I could find is the door. You might worry your customer run away when your food are not ready. If you worry that will leave a bad impression to your customers then you could sell off the door and put it back when your food are ready for business. I’m not sure how useful is that at least your Buzz Rating wont keep dropping. Don’t worry the door is “free”.

Alright, that’s all my findings so far. Would share out more after I level up. Good luck in your game and do share with me if you have better tricks.

I killed my cat, it was an accident, I ran over the cat by my car. It was a misfortune, but I do hope the cat would rest in peace.

The incident goes like this, it was before I went to work this morning. I reversed the car, and stopped a while before I accelerate ahead. Poor thing happened, when I drive forward I felt something bumpy at the bottom. I look right, I saw the a whity fur flying. I knew bad thing happened.

My cat, which is still consider a kitten, who just arrive our home for 2 months. She’s a lovely cat, but likes to play hide and seek. My mom had warned me that the cat would hide under the car, just that I did not expect it happened on my car.

I saw it bleed. I saw it struggle for the last breathe staring at me with her eyes open. Nothing much I can do for the lost of the cat but only Sorry. It happened.

Hope that she’ll be luckier next time.
May her rest in peace.

This would be a tribute for me to remember her always.