My travel holiday officially started on the 13th December 2008. I’m pretty sure this is the best holiday ever! …and the best part: ITS NOT EVEN OVER YET!!! too bad Steph is in M’sia…would be nice to have her company 
Anyway, so my holiday goes like this:
BRISBANE – KUALA LUMPUR (13 Dec ’08)
KUALA LUMPUR – PHNOM PENH (17 Dec ’08)
PHNOM PENH – KUALA LUMPUR – SINGAPORE (21 Dec ’08)
SINGAPORE – LONDON (24 Dec ’08)
**drove back to Holland: LONDON – FRANCE – BELGIUM – HOLLAND (28 Dec ’08)
HOLLAND – ABERDEEN via EDINBURGH (27 Jan ’09)
ABERDEEN – LONDON (04 Feb ’09)
LONDON – KUALA LUMPUR – MIRI (05 – 06 Feb ’09)
MIRI – KUALA LUMPUR (18 Feb ’09)
KUALA LUMPUR – SINGAPORE (dunno…unbought)
SINGAPORE – BRISBANE via DARWIN (19 Feb ’09)
sort of complicated but you get the idea...
*Phew* thats a heck of an itinerary huh? now you know the backlog of my blog posts, haha…and so, I present the Captain’s Log.
Day 1: 13th December 2008
I am embarking on my journey around the world in 70 days. Weather is calm, flight departure is on time. Stephanie is accompanying me for the first leg of the journey. No events to report.
Day 2: 14th December 2008
Safely arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Retrieved luggage and proceeded through immigration. Upon exiting the terminal, taxi driver with my name is present. Two hours drive to Ipoh to visit my grandmother and relatives, as well as little 1 year, 8 month old Eanne.
Grandma and grand daughter
Fumbly hands ...check.
Pudgy feet ...check.
Girl talk ...check.
Headshot 1
Headshot 2
Head and Shoulder
my failed attempt at hi-key...too lazy to photoshop...
Mother & Daughter (My Auntie Chritz)
Father & Daughter (My Uncle Ming)
...and finish it off with a family portrait.
Day 3: 15th December 2008
Took train back down to Kuala Lumpur. Roamed around the city for a bit. First stop: NANDO’S CHICKEN!!! No events to report.
Day 4: 16th December 2008
Today we were scheduled to meet up five more of the people that would be accompanying us on the mission trip to Cambodia. However, they were only to arrive in the late afternoon. Therefore, Steph and I decided to pay a visit to the Bird Park in Lake Gardens. Unfortunately, on the way there the cab driver convinced us that the butterfly park wouldve been a better place to visit …and so, we went to the butterfly park instead.
taken by Steph at the Butterfly Park, Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur.
This is kinda cool...not exactly a butterfly so what is it?
Taken with Sigma 10-20mm @ f/16 + ND8 Cokin P154 (I love wide angles!)
Day 5: 17rd December 2008
Today we venture into the uncharted territories of…*drum roll* …CAMBODIA! *thunder in background*
We were on a mission trip to Phnom Penh where we would be ministering to three small villages as part of an outreach by New Life Fellowship (NLF), the organization which allowed us to come. They have been building the community for a couple of years now. They are basically a church that have provided the community with a place to worship and learn about God. Besides that, they also provide English lessons as well as computer training to the locals which greatly increase their chances of getting a decent job…and they’re VERY good too! Our translators were taught by NLC and are proficient in both English and Cambodian (obviously!)…Not only that but they provide medicine and first aid medical treatment to the locals. SO much so that the government has actually recognized their contribution to society and are actually funding them in some parts as their own hospitals and clinics are inadequate to meet the demand. Seriously, they’re very very good so if you are reading this I urge you to continue to pray for this organization and that Gods hand be upon them.
Upon arrival we were greeted by Pastor Kim and made our way to our accomodation by tuk-tuk.
Very dusty and my nose is very sensitive so I used my hanky to cover my face, hehe...
Townview Hotel, our accomodation for the first 3 nights.
Below is our first dinner. You can see the team from our Mission Trip. The first three on the left is Pastor Kim, an Australian pastor that moved here a couple of years ago. The two beside him are his wife and daughter.
From the Left side of the Table: Pastor Kim, Nicole, ?, Pastor Yew Meng, Seng Yee, Jason, Patrick, Andrix, Edna, Ben, Stephanie, and Auntie Elena.
IF SOMEONE CAN REMIND ME WHAT PASTOR KIMS WIFE’S NAME WAS PLEASE LET ME KNOW YA!
As you can see they've already adapted to the local culture...
Day 6: 18th December 2008
This was an awesome day! We went to a local program thingie where they look after small children including first aid medical attention and washing of their feet. However, the main purpose of the program is to expose these youngsters to Christ and Christianity. We had a blast, we were humbled, we were amazed, we were so blessed that day…and…
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*sniff*
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*sigh*…
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In my defense, I didn’t actually forget, it was that I woke up late for breakfast so instead of walking back to the hotel and taking my bag I had to go straight to the church from the restaurant…
…at least I managed to get some pictures of what we did at night. I’ll let the pictures tell the story:
We visited this house sort of like a boys hostel which housed quite a lot of them. We were invited for dinner and got to know some of them.
You can see me in my "relentless for Christ" shirt...the guy to my right is Si Hua, the guy I met and got to know a little bit better. Credit to Steph for taking the picture.
After that, we prayed for them and took a nice group photo. (the houses in Cambodia are such that they
Even though we were only there for an hour or so we felt that we had really bonded. However, it was time to bid farewell and it was really quite touching.
Day 7: 19th December 2008
Today we had a day off…a day completely to ourselves. What normal people do on such an occasion is to visit the Angkor Wut…one of the 7 wonders of the world! …but instead we go to a museum of torture and the killing fields where a regime that took place was so cruel and so merciless that their exploits made Hitler look like kindergarden.
Toulsleng Genocide Musuem
Read it. Seriously. Read it.
Pictures too small to see...but basically what they do is hoist the prisoners up by their hands which are tied behind their back. They automatically hang upside down. The torturers interrogate them until they pass out. Then, they are lowered so their head go inside the pots which are filled with some smelly fertilizer thing. This causes them to immediately regain consciousness so the interrogation can continue.
This picture depicts how they kill babies. The first torturer throws the babies in the air. The second holds a rifle up towards the baby. On the tip of the rifle is a knife. The baby falls on the knife which pierces it before the torturer flicks the baby onto the mass pile of bodies of previous babies. Some babies do not immediately die but because of blood loss.
This was just the beginning. There are many more but I’ll stop there. Theres more gruesomeness to come…Next, we paid a visit to the killing fields, where thousands of people were slaughtered to death and left to die in mass graves which are all over the place.
Choeungek Genocidal Center. Credit Will for taking the photo. (I think)
The Killing Tree. Another form of how babies were killed. The executioner would hold the baby by thier feet, swing their head against the tree so that they crack open their skulls, and thrown into a pit (which is just to the right of the tree which I didnt picture).
See those indents in the ground? Each one holds the remains of over 100 bodies.
This monumet was erected to pay respects to the people who were killed during this time. The centre is housed with thousands of human skulls which have been excavated from the killing fields and placed on shelves.
Will decided he should start giving money away...nah, just kidding, but thats what we thought!
The Royal Palace - at least the gate anyway.
After a full day out around the town we went back to Pastor Kims “Healing Home” The healing home concept is hie brainchild where a set of decentralized houses act as a sort of nursing home or clinic where they can take care of the less fortunate and people who cannot afford to stay in private (or public) hospitals. Instead of having a single hospital like building, his plan is to have at least one healing home in ever province and eventually in every town or village. Below is the first healing home. They provide basic ammenities free of charge and at present can accomodate 4-6 people.
This is one of the rooms where patients stay. On the bottom right you can see a door. That leads to the attached toilet.
This is the toilet. Its basic but sufficient.
In case you’re wondering, they don’t simply give medicine to the patients. If the case is severe, they will have the patient examined beforehand by a certified practitioner before following carefully their treatment procedure. They employ certified nurses to administer the treatments.
After that we had dinner at a nice little coffee shop. Our group was so big that we took the entire upstairs area! lol...Credit Ben for taking the picture.
Day 8: 20th December 2008
Today we checked out of Townview Hotel on our quest to the remote parts of the country. We visited a place called Kampong Thom, some 3 hours drive North (I think) of Phnon Penh, the capital city.
On the way there we stopped at a petrol station for a toilet break. This is an interesting petrol station. Scroll down to find out why.
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When we arrived for lunch beside the hotel which we stayed at we were greeted with the sight on deep fried crickets. Needless to say I tried it. ...can't say it tastes like chicken though!
After our lunch (which did NOT consist of insects) we had a little bit of time to unwind before heading to our first destination in Kampong Thom.
This is the church where the first celebration took place. The house in the background in the church and they erected a stage outside to accommodate enough people.
While they were setting up stage we played volleyball with the local kids! Thanks KEC otherwise I'd be uber crap.
When the celebration began it was already dark.
They had singing...
They had breakdancing...
...and as you can see there was a lot of people!
Finally, it was our turn. We presented 3 songs. Credit to Auntie Elena for taking the picture.
You cant see it from the picture but at the time there were bugs flying all over our heads and it was so difficult to try pretend that it wasn’t bothering us! After we finished our presentation we headed back straight away because it was already late and it wasn’t exactly a “friendly” neighbourhood.
Day 9: 21st December 2008
The very next day we were to visit a small local church. By small and mean REALLY small. Our pastor was set to preach today. Of course there were translators there too.
The wide angle lens literally got the whole church in this shot. Is a small zink hut with a zink roof.
We wore our C2C shirts today. Can anyone guess what it stands for? It says "R U C2C?".
Heres a shot of the congregation from the front.
This is the pastor of the local church.
We also did half the praise and worship. We did actions with our songs and got the congregation to join in as well!
Needless to say we were quite thirsty after that.
After the service we gave all the little children gift bags which had different things ranging from Koala key chains (see pic.) to Australian candy bars!
Group photo of the whole church.
Pastor noticed a motorcycle that belonged to the pastors wife who gave him permission to ride it. According to his wife (on bike) he used to bring her out like this when they were dating...over 20 years ago! Good times!
That night was our third and final appearance as we did the same thing as the first celebration but in a different church. Needless to say I won’t dwell into the details.
This was funny: Steph saw this cure little girl and wanted to take a picture with her. The other kids are like insects who are attracted to the light from the camera flashgun. After I took this shot Ben said he also wanted a picture with her but when the other kids noticed they quickly gathered around to be in the photo as well.
As the other kids crammed into the frame they ended up squishing the little girl (see pic) while Ben was still happily smiling to the camera. ...poor girl.
Later on in order to entertain them Jason thought of leading with the song "Christ is the Vessel" and its actions and the kids followed on...the kids follow everything you do...and so...that gave me and INGENIUS IDEA!
Thanks to Andy I started singing "MAKING MELODIES IN MY HEART"!!! ...and everybody followed! It was awesome!
As you can see once again this christmas celebration did in fact draw a huge audience!
And that was it for our mission trip. We were done. Finitimo. Habis. Kaput. The next day we were to catch our flight back to Kuala Lumpur (and for myself, Ben and Edna, straight on to Singapore).
Day 10: 22nd December 2008
The last day in Cambodia…and what do we do?
SHOPPING! We had a couple hourse to kill before we had to be at the airport.
They sell clothes, souvenirs, bags, ornaments, electronics, etc...
They also sell food and drinks!
To the Cambodians, this is the Russian Market
To the Australians, this is like the Sunday market.
To the Malaysians, this is like Petaling Street.
To the Dutch, this is like Hobbyma.
To the Scots, this is like Primark! haha!
back at the airport and all in one piece! The last group photo before we went our seperate ways.
Flying back to Kuala Lumpur.
After this, the three of us flew directly to Singapore. Thats Captains Log Day 11…and we’ll save that for another day.
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