I'm back...

Lucky for me to still be able to sit straight up and blog after an almost 12 hour train from Gdansk to Krakow. It was another adventurous 2 guys' holiday trip for me after the one I had with Desmond to Singapore and conquering the peak of Mount Kinabalu with Kian Joo. The difference now is I'm in a far far away land and everyone speak some languages that do not understand each other....this trip is real "traveller sejati".

It was splendid all the way from Warsaw to Gdynia then to Sopot and finally Gdansk. These tri-city is really a nice place to visit and to relax my mind with some chilly but cooling Baltic sea breeze before begin my medical studies.

I would rather say this trip is not as intense in the sense of tiredness and wilderness compared to my Singapore trip except the train ride back home to Krakow. Basically pictures uploaded in FB explain the beauty of the tri-city and it is really worth all the way up north of Poland which is about 750km away from Krakow in the south.

Nice places, nice food, nice hang out activities at night in some foreign land...this is really backpacking. A brand new experience for my American travelmate, Mike. This is his 1st time going on such exhilirating trip with a friend especially Ng Ming Lee. U can juz ask Desmond Ang or Kian Joo bout their experience...;)

It was the train ride coming back from Gdansk to Krakow that made the climax of the entire trip. It was a whole 12hr journey which begin at midnite. Having backpack on our back, we hopped on to a very cheap train ride. These are the comparison on the trains I took which show why I say the trip back to Krakow was very cheap:-

Krakow to Warsaw (3hr)- about rm80

Warsaw to Gdynia ( 5.30hr)- about rm100

but

Gdansk to Krakow (12hr)- about rm50

The catch is the cheap one is that there is no seat reservations, u have to rush to get on board, squeezing with some drunk,big size, fierce looking people in the middle of the night to get thru the narrow corridor, no bar cart and last but not least awfully dirty toilets( in comparison, I must say even Malaysian public toilets are better...now u noe how bad it is...lol). But we managed to get seats in one of the many full compartments after sitting in the hallway for more than one hour in which a massive drunk guy was sleeping alone in there. Eerie at first but he actually turn out to be a typical Polish guy that trying to get some sleep for a long haul ride. There are many youngsters too actually partying in the trains with alcohol n smokes. This is the real conventional train ride my readers.

After a boys weekend out, me and Mike got safely back to Krakow and ever ready to start the engine for the new semester with 1st session- Anatomy Dissection Class. See you all again.

Cheerio. ;)

Hoping this train to take me home thru the country road or rather railway...enjoy the song posted too.

My first stop...

While I still manage to use internet in Warsaw...yeah...I'm reporting from Warsaw.

3 hrs Intercity train ride which cost 66.66PLN (approx RM80.00) from Krakow to Warsaw brought me to my first stop in my Tour de Polska.

Greeted by friendly seniors...a drop at Hamdan's apartment...off we go to Frederick Chopin Airport...to welcome my old frens and classmated whom juz arrive from Malaysia to study in Warsaw University. What a reunion after months...reli touching.

Same incident..tonnes of bags...tired faces...but still head to Malaysian Ambassador to Poland residency for Hari Raya open house. After more than 3 weeks...finally tasted again some Malaysian food but still better back home...swietnie( excellent in Polish).

Blogging from Hamdan's apartment, will go tour Miasto Warszawa tomorrow after getting out official things done...teraz to wszystko. Do widzenia.

Dedication to My Dearest Grandma

It has been a while since my last post that is when I had just arrived in Krakow from Malaysia.

Indeed I left home filled with excitements, hopes and feeling of success. There is really nothing I could say I have not had left undone back home before I leave. For example set foot on every states in Malaysia including the summit of Mount Kinabalu, had oversea vacation to Vietnam with my parents, savouring many of my favourite food back home,precious time with friends and family, tonnes of good and touching farewell wishes and lots of friends and family sending me off the airport but there is just only one thing,just only one.

My dearest grandma,Mdm Lim Tuan Ha, was ill and had been on the bed for more than 6 months before she peacefully leave behind her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends and relatives just today morning Malaysian time. I had expected that I couldn't send her off in her last departure. This is the only thing that I had to heavy-heartedly left behind.

It is indeed a great loss to me but this loss at least comes with an ironic sense of relieve and contentment. It would be a greater suffering for her to be in her state of illness longer. I don't wish to see which the worst which had happened to my grandfather before he passed away few years ago to her also. It is indeed the most painful thing to experience by closest family.

She had been living with me for years ever since I was born. My grandmother is a really admirable one as her capability of running the family business during her younger days and building the family tree to a highly sturdy one...capable in all required skill as a housewive needed from babysitting, sewing, cooking to even ...and what's more...her wits and guts of course. Not many people expect her as a chinese old lady to speak Malay, English besides all those major Chinese dialects so fluently...Just too much to tell for those experiences I had went through with her all these years. I will always miss her.

As a devoted Christian, she spend her life praising the Lord from her younger days till the day she can't lift herself up to go to church. She lends her arm to those who needs without second thoughts.

But I would really say I'm sorry because I had sometimes make you angry and at times make you annoyed. Thank you for all your wishes all these years before you go to bed in hoping your this grandson will be successful in everything. Thank you for all your teachings in everything and those had really brought me through all the way to where I am now. I promise you that I will strive and be able to become a successful doctor. I am really proud to have you as my Grandma and you will always be remembered in your this grandson's heart. Sorry for not be able to be by your side during your last moment. But I am always glad that you will never forget me.

Love you Grandma. May you rest in peace.