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Tamiya Honda RC211V – tribute to Daijiro Kato

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:47:15 +0000

It been about 9 years ago when I followed some close buddies to watch MotoGP at Sepang Int. Circuit. I’m not a huge fans for super bike racing but since rm50 entrance fee for a main mall area seating, I thought it would be an interesting experience. And guess what, I really enjoyed it! The crowd.. cheers.. and the thundering engine sound really mind blowing! After watching the race, I went to some toy shop and found this Honda RC211V rode by the Champion Valentino Rossi however was not the actual his version but the other team. I bought it since i think this blue bike looks even better than Rossi’s

If you are not familiar with what Tamiya has to offer in this box, let me tell you.. it’s a self-assemble toy. I was too lazy to assemble it until recently

I’m not using everything sold by Tamiya which is very expensive. I get these cheap tools from some stationary shop and mr diy instead.

I’m going to share with you the whole process that took me about 2 weeks to finish.

Following the steps in the instruction carefully and this is the first thing to do.. engine..

The engine was growing with more parts

I took a shot everyday.. hmm what a slow progress

I just spend an hour or two daily after work to do this.. that’s why

ohh yea.. here comes the tyres and body frames..

fit the engine to the body frame

another part the the body frame

attach the rear tyre to the body

bought this cheap Anchor spray paint(rm7.50) deep blue color with a hope it would look like the real bike blue. actual tamiya spray paint sold >rm40..

Sprayed it but the outcome was not so ideal

poor spraying skill resulted not so glossy paint coat.

ok.. continue with other parts.. front shock absorber

ready with brembo disc brake

exhaust pipe painted with silver and gold marker

exhaust attached with the seat

Using a cute little screw driver to tighten the little screw to combine the body with tyre

and now the exhaust pipe to join the part

finally it could stand up

the naked bike need some clothes

sexy bike!

oh boy.. it’s all fully attached!! but wait… something still missing

Yes.. it the stickers!

lots of stickers..

It’s not perfect but it still looks quite ok when I’m not wearing a specs. I chose number 74 as a tribute to Daijiro Kato

Jeju Trick Art Museum

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:50:07 +0000

Sometimes your eyes would trick your own mind. So you can’t believe what you see all the time.. Jeju island is full with many kind of museum that you could enter after paying an entrance fees. If you interested to have some fun photo shooting session or never tried something like this before, this your be your destination! A mere 2 hours visit would be enough for you. To give you an idea how it works, the model should pose as if he/she interacting with the subject on the painting on the wall and the shoot should be taken from certain recommended angle for the best results.

Cheers..

Torn

Frog Prince

Fail Whale

I believe I can fly

Feed the Rexy

I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat

Are you able to do this?

What is the different between human and monkey?

Location Name: Trick Art Museum

Name in Korean: (주)트릭아트뮤지엄

GPS Coordinate: N33 23.938 E 126 47.150

Tel : 82-64-1330

Entrance Fee: 8000 won

Business hour : 9:00am – 7:00pm

Address: Jeju Special Self-Governing Provice Seogwipo-si Pyoseon-myeon Seongeup-ri 2381

Jeju Seongsan Ilchulbong – A Gigantic Crown

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:58:41 +0000

Rated as a World Natural Heritage by Unesco, Seongsan Ilchulbong is for you all the nature lovers out there. This gigantic crown like mountain was formed by volcanic activities and regarded as a holy mountain(Seong-san) by the local since many years ago. In fact the locals at the old days bow 4 times towards it as they passed by. Be early if your hotel is far away like mine(at Jungmun). If took us almost more than an hour drive because there are just too many speed traps on Jeju island. After I parked my rented car, I can’t see the mountain is actually in a con shape(bird view) as described.

Seongsan-ilchulbong written in Chinese character and this is in Korean -> 성산일출봉. Entrance tickets counter open for business right in front of the car park spaces.

Similar to my other earlier posts about Jeju hotspots, how could I never mentioned the Jeju abundant! Yes, it’s the WIND! See how the young girl in front of me seems surprised by the strong breeze.

All walks of life – the walking trail which heading towards Seongsan was crowded with local and foreign tourists.

Here is where plant being protected. Thumbs up from me, for the effort to preserve the natural beauty as well as maintaining Seongsan from the Unesco’s list.

Stones of various mystic shape were on display along the stairway to the top.

Wow, seems we were quite high above(half-way) the ground after less than an hour walk. Pics above is a ‘right’ view towards the ground. Those look like ants are actually tourist that just start to walk on the trails to the top.

And this is the ‘left’ view. Notice that Seongsan is connected to the main island with some some narrow land only.

Ahh.. finally we reach the top! However, we can’t get the bird view of Seongsan of course. This shot is actually only able to show some part of the whole crown like rock formation highlighted above. We were not allow to walk down to the lower ground anyway.

If you are not an active mountain hikers (like me), you could opt to not hike mount Hallasan and choose only Seongsan for a more relaxing trip. Of course, no pain no gain. I read many good reviews of Mt Hallasan for it’s good scenery which I think would be worth a visit if your stay on Jeju is long enough(as there are quite a lot to explore here).

After spending some time chilling around and photo shooting session, we walk down from the top back to the ground again.

I read from somewhere that horse riding is a ideal activity here but I could not spot any horse that day. The scenery here is just stunning until we spend too much time chilling around and we had to give Seopjikoji a miss! :’(

Moreover, we almost forgot that we haven’t had anything for lunch yet! We managed to try some snack at the gate before looking for lunch nearby. I forgot what is the name of this snack that my wife bought.

Hmm.. I found something more interesting.. meat! haha, it’s normal for a guy to pick meat snack and girl to pick dessert type snack. This looks like Korea version of Satay sized XXL.

Yummy!

Location Name: Seongsan Ilchulbong

Name in Korean: 성산일출봉

GPS Coordinate: N 33 27.738 E 126 56.154

Tel : +82-64-710-7923, +82-64-783-0959 (Korean)

Entrance Fee: 2000 won

Business hour : 1 hour before sunrise – 8pm (Winter ) , 1 hour before sunrise – 9pm (Summer )

Address: Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Seogwipo-si Seongsan-eup Seongsan-ri 114

PS: If you wish to vote Jeju Seongsan as the new 7 wonders of nature, please do it here http://www.new7wonders.com/vote-2

Jeju Yong Duam and Oedolgae Rock

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:03:19 +0000

Rock is 1 of the 3 abundants in Jeju island beside women and wind. If you like all the 3 abundants including rocks, then Yong Duam and Oedolgae Rock should be in your itinerary. Anyway, these 2 place is not near to each other – Yong Duam rock is near to Jeju airport while Oedolgae rock near to Seougwipo City. You may want to drop by these 2 places if you happen to pass by. The reason I said so is because you won’t spend much time here and some might not enjoy rock watching especially Yong Duam rock. There is not much to do and see at Yong Duam but it’s an iconic tourist spot for picture taking and scenic sea view would make it worth a 30 mins stop by.

In fact, the time I reach there by following the gps devices attached in my rented Avis car, I spent some time to figure out which is the Dragon Head(Yong Duam) rock at the seashore. It was a windy, cold and late evening after dawn and I finally spot a dragon like rock head looking at me. However it seems this is not the actual dragon head rock I thought too much.

I decided to walk around and finally I found it! I know this is not the best angle to get the dragon head shape but because of the cold wind and it was getting darker, it decided to head for dinner as my stomach was making sounds ..

Location Name: Yong Duam Rock (Dragon Head rock)

Name in Korean: 용두암

GPS Coordinate: N 33 30.956 E 126 30.719

Tel : ??

Entrance Fee: free

Business hour : 24×7 (better not at night )

Address: Jeju-si Yongdam-dong

Ok, let’s go to Oedolgae Rock at Seogwipo-si. Again, the time I reach here is at dawn and it’s not the best time to take great photos. There is a park for you to stroll before reaching the spot where we could get the best view of Oedolgae rock.

Look at the clear water and the scenic view here. Even we were alone at the park at that time, we still able to enjoy the great view here. I believe a passionate photographer would be able to capture the view here very dramatically. Yes, it’s not me.

Rock, rock and rock and roll..

We watch Dae Jang Gum (大長今) on purpose before visiting Jeju because many parts of the movies filmed at several spot in Jeju. This include Oedolgae rock!

I could feel the spirit of Dae Jang Gum here.

Location Name: Oedolgae Rock

Name in Korean: 외돌개 공원

GPS Coordinate: N 33 14.446 E 126 32.813

Tel : ??

Entrance Fee: free

Business hour : 24×7 (better not at night )

Address: Seogwipo-si Seohong-dong 791

Jeju Hallim Park with 3 Jeju plenties – Wind, Stones and women

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:29:16 +0000

Situated at Hallim near to Jeju-si, Hallim Park is a huge well-maintained botanical garden right at the Geumrueng beach. You could get the know the latest events and exhibition at it’s official site here. We went on 23 May 2011 which is the end of Spring seasons in Jeju. Of course we missed the chance to see the cherry blossom garden because of this Moreover, the time we we there was very windy. Wind – is the first ‘plenties’ in Jeju. Since it’s just next to the beach, there are hardly any obstacles that blocking the sea breeze. Walking pass the palm trees avenue made us worry that some rotten leaves would fell on our head because the palm trees were swinging vigorously.

I’m not sure if it was the wind that caused this flower pot collapse ^^

But I think this bonsai appearance is not caused by the wind even it looks like it

I wonder how to make bonsai to grow in such way.. or it’s something natural??

At some point of time, we decide to take a shelter from the wind in the covered subtropical garden.

We were just like this cute tortoise that hiding under it’s shell.

The temperature in these covered garden are well controlled for tropical plants and animals

This park more than ordinary park when there is actually a real cave that we could explore (Hyeopjae & Ssangyong caves).

This is the real wind&rain shelter! I treat this as a mini Manjanggul Cave since we didn’t manage to visit the longest larva-tube cave itself.

Jae-Am Folk village would give you an old scene of the old days village of 1890′s if you not manage to visit the “Jeju Folk Village Museum” like we did.

The bird garden also offer some bird species for animal and bird lovers. Wow! The white peacock is so pretty!

Stones.. which is the second of the 3 famous plenties in Jeju also available in this park for your eye feast

Great collection of stones which appeared to be in some interesting shapes like the one above – a bird that drinking water

a smiley side face

E.T. or CJ7 stone

Jeju stone with head

The third plenties in Jeju – women which complete the infamous Samdado – island of three abundances. Jeju women divers statue dedicated to the important women roles in Jeju island. Hmm, in case you don’t know, in old times women was the head of families and earn the living from sea products. The real Girl power!

Lesson of the day – 1 of my favourite PS3 game Bayonetta originate from a plant name

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Click the image above to browse the pictures I took at of Hallim Park!

Location Name: Jeju Hallim Park

Name in Korean: 한림공원

GPS Coordinate: N 33 23.441 E 126 14.267

Tel : 064-796-0001~4

Entrance Fee: 8000 won

Business hour : 8:30am – 6:00pm (summer, 8:30am – 7:30pm)

Address: Hyeopjae-ri, Hallim-eup, Jeju-do

Website: http://www.hallimpark.co.kr/engli/main.htm

Jeju Miniature(Soingook) theme park

admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:34:39 +0000

There are 2 similar theme park of this kind in Jeju island. I was no different from other travelers that hope to visit as much destinations as possible! However, all optimistic travelers have no choice but to give a some places in their plan a miss due to time constraints ^^ As you can see, the pics on the right it the main entrance of Soingook, means I had give ‘Jeju Mini Mini Land’ a miss! As the name suggest, Jeju Miniature theme park houses a lot of the world and Korea’s famous architectures and many more. Here would make your around the world in 80 minutes and Gulliver’s Travels dream come true ^^

Hmm, if not mistaken this is miniature of Catholic Church at Saenamteo

A realistic looking miniature of a vessel which looks like Pirate’s ship.

The ship’s bowsprit

This one focusing on the main deck

Easter Island Head : Hey Dum Dum, You give me gum-gum!

mini version of Erechtheion Temple

Isn’t this Mount Rushmore National Memorial sculpture?

Namaste Taj Mahal. I didn’t visit the real Taj Mahal when I was at India so the miniature is here to compensate ^^

Is this Paris? May have a plate of Ratatouille?

I finally found an architecture from my homeland – Malaysia! Tanah tumpahnya darahku.. from the description, Kuala Kangsar – where the Mosque situated sounds so near to Ipoh.

I find it a bit funny when Aladdin and Princess Jasmine seems from Malaysia ^^”

After a long time of outdoor strolling and photo taking session, I finally reach the end of the park, and enter to a building which seems to lead me to the exit.. but there is something more here in this dim lighted building

My wife and me was alone here and got a shock when we first discover someone seems sitting idle in one of the glass window. Then we realized it was actually wax figure ^^

After meeting the auntie, we discover more and more ‘people’ including mr barber with his kid client..

someone having nice meal with kimchi of course

and even a pretty girl having a photo shooting session – probably shooting for passport photo

Say cheese…!! Those antique cam looks real

Welcome.. please be seated. Want some delicious bakkwa?

Teacher, I got a question. Why do boys need to shave to bald?

Location Name: Soinguk Miniature Theme Park

Name in Korean: 소인국테마파크

GPS Coordinate: N 33 17.361 E 126 19.302

Tel : 064-794-5400

Entrance Fee: 7000 won

Business hour : 8:30am – 7:30pm (winter, 9am – 5:30pm)

Address: Seogwang-ri, Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do

Jeju Teddy Bear Museum

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:37:05 +0000

I still remember i had a teddy bear toy during my childhood. Until my recent visit to Teddy bear museum, i dunno much about Teddy bear’s background and history. This museum which houses lotsa Teddy bear collection located in Jeju Jungmun Resort. It was my first experience to visit the museum of this kind. Please be warned that I’ve attached quite a lot of picture of the museum collection in this post below Hope it wont make your 7000won entrance ticket wasted if you are planning to visit it in your coming trip.

Who says Teddy bear is not hot and sexy?

Charlie Chapbear

Jack Bear and Rose Bear – I’m the King if the world!!

Superbear that saves the world

Saving Private Rybear

Mickey Bear – I thought Mickey is a mouse

Terracobear

Micheal Jorbear slamming the dunk and sticking his tongue out

Thinker bear – you can’t touch him else would distract him from thinking

The Kiss bear couple

The Creation of Adam bear

Mona Lisa bear

Tiny bear couple that stands on the planet earth with love and hope

And here comes the most expensive LV bear in the world!

LV handbag that not for sale

Mahatma Ganbear

There an displaying Teddy bears which you could bring home! of course after you paying the price tag attached

Beautiful building structure

This is how it looks like from outside

It was raining when I tried to stroll at the garden outside the museum. Can I take a shelter from the rain in the teddy car?

Angel bear pond

Some Polar bear has migrated from Arctic to Jeju

Love Teddy bears, love real bears. Bears are cute and don’t let them gone from earth.

You could save them!

Location Name: Teddy Bear Museum

Name in Korean: 테디베어박물관

GPS Coordinate: N 33 15.030 E 126 24.761

Tel : 064-738-7800

Entrance Fee: 7000 won

Business hour : 9am – 8pm (18Jul ~ 23Aug, 9am – 10pm)

Address: Jungmun resort, Saekal-dong, Jungmun, South Korea

3 Waterfalls in Jeju

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:57:38 +0000

There are 3 well-known waterfalls in Jeju. They are

Jeongbang Waterfall 정방폭포 (N 33 14.714 E 126 34.254),
Cheonjiyeon Waterfall 천지연 폭포 (N 33 14.645 E 126 33.603)
Cheonjeyeon Falls 천제연폭포 (N 33 15.172 E 126 25.090)

You may wanted to add into your list if you are planning to Jeju for vacation or honeymoon. I wished to visit all 3 on the first day I reach Jeju, but however it was too rush to make it. In the end, we were only visit the first 2.

The first one we went is Jeongbang falls.

There are 2 entrance to the falls, this is the walkway which lead us to the entrance of the fall.

The garden besides the way.. seems there’s a church in the garden but we didn’t enter and continue walking.

After we purchase the entrance ticket and a little bit of stairs walk, the waterfall is within our sight.

The sea water is crystal clear which you give us a clear view of the rocks under the waters.

We walked closer towards the waterfall, wishing could feel it better…

or probably could taste of the falls

After photo session over at the waterfall, we return to the car park and discover in fact there is a museum. Here we could learn about that Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) emperor ordered a servant named Seobul who passed by this waterfall during his attempt to find the elixir of immortality.

Beautiful lotus that grown at the lake outside the museum. Then, we head to the second waterfall, Cheonjiyeon.. dun mistaken with the third which have the similar name, it’s not typo error.

Cheonjiyeon has a nice garden for us to stroll before reaching the waterfall site.

You would meet alot of this guy.. Dolharubang means stone grandfather, in fact you will see them anywhere in Jeju. In old days, people believed that Dolharubang would protect them from bad things to happen.

an interesting small bridge to cross the river at the garden.

It’s getting nearer to the waterfall, you could get some nice view of the small cliff there

Opps, i forgot to take the photo of the waterfalls alone. my wife’s arm could be seen here and the cropped part of waterfalls is out of focus

Here’s another one

On our way back, we saw a wishing tortoise pot where you could throw in some lucky coins and make your wishes.

If you are bad in aiming with coins, you still could make your wish here. Find a rock (but it’s not easy) and place it here before making your wishes. Beware not to destroy others’ wishes by collapsing those nicely arranged stones there! I saw someone did that ^^

Back to entrance of the waterfall, there are many snack stalls such as dried/bbq octopus and squid

colorful corn..

and .. what is this? wood worm!? dare to try? seems saw this at thailand too.

Suites Hotel in Jeju

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:54:55 +0000

Suite Hotels situated in Jungmun Resort at Seogwipo-si. It’s about an hour drive from Jeju airport. We booked the room thru Agoda booking site online which cost us MYR 1,345.83 (USD 432.52) for 4 nights stay. The room amenities is nice and hence we get what we paid for. I read some people mentioned there are better choices nearby but for me it meets my expectation with the price we paid for a 5 stars hotel. The only drawback is air conditioner seems not strong enough which contradict to the windy and cooling weather outside. Look at the photos I took at the hotel for details.

The reception at Lobby

A cafe at the hotel lobby

Garden view at the ground floor room

The bed in fact made up from 2 single bed, 1 of the drawback

Spacious wardrobe with safety box inside

I’m not sure why we need this in our room since it’s ground floor
Huge LED TV with HD channel. Ip Man in action!

CD player with a oldies songs cd inside

Little pantry with a little fridge

Towels rack

Washroom Sink

Bathtub with strong stream

Notice anything special about this toilet bowl?

Yes, the toilet bowl come with this auto-washing function! Just press the wash button once you done with your big business, and … WOW! just like what the device brand suggest, yes, WOW! You could adjust it if it’s not accurate There is ‘Massage’ and ‘Rhythm’ feature as well. ‘Massage’ means the water stream would move up and down and ‘Rhythm’ is the water stream would vary from strong and soft. Moreover, the water temp is adjustable as well. After the washing done, press the ‘DRY’ button and it would blow you to dry!

Mysterious(Dokkeabi) Road Jeju

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:50:45 +0000

Sometimes, what you see is not really the truth. After fetch my rented car from Avis Jeju, I head straight to Mysterious Road which few km away from Avis office towards Seogwipo. I’ve read about it on internet about the illusion happen at this road, so decided to go and witness myself. Please see the few pics below which I took there and tell in which direction should your car move when your car in free gear mode. All the photos below took from the same direction.

The car should go downhill right? My thought was same as you, but in fact, my car was moving BACKWARDS! I tried it with my water bottle and it moved to the same direction. Hmm, sometimes just don’t fully trust your own eye!

GPS coordinate : (N 33 27.027 E 126 29,277) on Road 1100