Arrived at Kuala Lumpur International Airport around 2pm on Wednesday after a six-day holiday in Vietnam. The below photo was taken last Friday, my first day of the trip, when my plane was approaching Hanoi…

The cloudy-mountainous view mesmerised me… I think I might have fell in love with Vietnam before even setting foot on the Vietnamese soil. The ‘honeymoon’ didn’t last long though, when serenity turned into chaos as I started exploring the ground.
Plenty of stories and photos to share, stay tune for more updates.
Most Asian Pacific countries have some sort of rice cake dishes of their own… it can be eaten sweet, salty, or spicy; and come in variety of shapes.
Not sure where this particular dish was originated; it’s a common Chinese street food that can be found in Malaysia… rice cakes stirred fried with soy sauce, bean sprouts and Chinese chives, and normally with chillies as well.

Stir-fried rice cakes
Super GT race queens, Zent Sweeties at Malaysia Super GT Int’l Series 2008…

(L-R) Kaori Morita, Hitomi Furusaki, Mayu Oya and Junko Iida
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Some random photos from my Taiwan visit in April/May 2008…

The plane I was boarding from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei
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Some local foods in Jiufen, a small town in Taiwan which I visited in late April 2008…

Caramel haw (冰糖葫芦;
bingtang hulu) is a traditional Chinese candy made by dipping haw-on-a-stick in hot caramel… it can be done with other fruits as well, obviously
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Super GT race queens 2008 for team apr Doublehead at the Sepang race…

Japanese GT race queens (L-R) Nanami Norishima, Mai Masaki and Ema Tokunaga
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Super GT’s pit walkabout is a special period where visitors (with extra passes) were allowed to visit the pit-lane to catch a closer look of the race cars, the drivers and the GT race queens. Some pit photos below, taken on Saturday (June 21) at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia, where the 4th round of Super GT race was held…

GT300 driver Hiroyuki Iiri with ORC race queens Yamauchi Chie (L) and Maika Misaki
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