Japan 11 days 10 nights trip!

Kon'nichiwa,

For those who are new to my blog, welcome to dontworryjustgoyangkaki blog. If you don't understand, it's actually don't worry just goyang kaki (shake legs in Bahasa Melayu). I am glad that you stumbled on my blog to look for information to plan your trip to Japan.

Like what I mentioned in my Korea blog, every year I will make an effort to visit a new country / new place. Please check out my Korea blog post for those who hasn't done so. For 2016, I have decided to visit Japan (Nippon). For this trip, only me and my girlfriend went for the trip. We decided to stay for 11 days in order to cover most part of Japan. Early April is also the Sakura period! Mi Ni Ko I Sakura An E Oh Come and Dance with Me. Our Japan trip includes Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Hakone and Tokyo.

This is my trip in Japan, we flew into Osaka by Malaysia Airlines and flew out from Tokyo. Thanks to the enrich miles I had accumulated during my times in audit and we only need to pay the taxes which cost about RM200 each person. That's a really good deal for a peak timing by Malaysia Airlines. For those who doesn't know about enrich miles, please check out their website.

A summary of what we did during our 11 days in Japan.

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9
Where	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka	Osaka / Kyoto	Kyoto	Kyoto / Hakone	Hakone / Tokyo	Tokyo	Tokyo
Morning	Touched down in Osaka	Osaka Castle	Endo Sushi	Travel to Kyoto	Kimono rental	Travel to Hakone
Afternoon	Namba	Osaka Aquarium	Nara	Kin-kakuji / Bamboo Grove		Hot spring
Evening	Pokemon Center Osaka	Umeda Sky Building	Namba	Fushimi Inari		Hot spring
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Stay tune for the more information on the places we went! Can't wait for the updates? Like and follow my blog in order to get the latest updates on the trip!

Revision of treat points earnings from Maybank

Hey guys, many of you all should know about the revision of treat points earnings and also the 5% cash back changes.

Some of this news wasn't new as Maybank had reduced their 5% cash back to only weekend dining starting 1st August 2015.

This is the snapshot from Maybank website and shows that currently the 5% only applicable to Weekend Dining Cashback.

That's not all guys, starting 15th April 2016 Maybank will revise some of their treat points earnings. This is mainly affected Maybank 2 Card users as some of their items will revise to only 1x points instead of the usual 5x points on American Express card.

Maybank 2 Gold Card
Maybank 2 Platinum Card

You can click on both links to check out the changes and you might want rethink about your credit card usage for these items.

Flat RM8 Via Visa Checkout

Hey guys,

I need to tell you all about this great news! Especially for movie-lovers like me!
GSC is having a promotion of Flat RM8 if you purchase your GSC movie tickets online at their website and checkout using Visa credit card.

Just take note the following:
1. Visa Checkout Flat RM8 campaign is valid for ticket purchase via GSC website only at the moment.
2. Visa cardholder can only purchase a maximum of 6 movie tickets at the price of RM8 each per Friday, per transaction, per card via Visa Checkout.

Do let me know if you found a way to purchase a ticket cheaper than this price!

*Remark* don't forget about TGV cinema movie club.

2 days 1 night trip to Batam

Hey guys,

It has been some time since the last time i wrote in this blog. Just wanted to wish everybody Happy New Year. It was a rough year in 2015 as I have changed 2 jobs and moved to a new country. Currently I am in a small island just beside Malaysia, know where is it? :)

During Christmas, my girlfriend came over to visit me in the small island. Therefore, out of bored we decided to pay our nearby place BATAM a visit. all this was planned in a very short time as it is a last min decision. we are going for a 2 days 1 night trip to BATAM.

first step is our accommodation, we search for a good accommodation and goes down to 2. Harris Hotel Batam or Turi Beach Resort. The difference between this 2 place is 1 is near the town, another is near the beach. At last we decided to go with the beach.

GROUPON is our next best friend cause most of the hotel in Batam you can have a great deal from Groupon. I picked up the deal for Turi Beach Resort together with return ferry ticket from Tanah Merah Terminal to Nongsapura Terminal. Please take note there are 2 terminal who goes to Batam in Singapore; HarbourFront and Tanah Merah. It all depends where you want to reach in Batam; Batam Centre or Nongsapura.

Everything was booked by communicating with the hotel representative together with our ferry ticket. We are good to go. Please refer to the ferry schedule and plan your trip properly. Remember you can only check in your hotel at 3pm and Batam is on GMT +7 (which is 1 hour slower).
A quick snapshot of what we did during our stay in Batam.

	Day 1	Day 2
Morning	Arrived Batam	Return back to Singapore
Afternoon	Massage and Supermarket
Night	Pedicure and BBQ dinner
Where we stayed	Turi Beach Resort

we booked a driver through the hotel to take us around in Batam. it cost us 400,000 rupiah (approx. S$40) and it is mainly only for half day. If you have 4 people I think it is very reasonable. Since we have very limited time, we decided to go Nagoya hill and do shopping together with massage there. But if you have more time, you can always opt to go to cultural tour, mosque and temple visit and sports activity at Turi Beach.

Sorry didn't have much photo in Batam but hopefully this would give you a good idea of what to do in Batam. According to some people, there are only 4 things to do in Batam.

1) Massage (300,000 rupiah each)
2) Medi/Pedicure (150,000 rupiah)
3) Supermarket (??? rupiah) specially indomee
4) A&W rootbeer (less than 50,000 rupiah)

After you have done all those you are good to go or just find a cafe and chill. Just a word of advise, if you wanted to buy branded stuff in Batam, think before you do. Sometimes when it is too good to be true, it is really too good to be true.

If you want to know more please leave a comment. Till next time~

If you missed my Korea itinerary, please refer to 7 days 6 night Korea trip
If you missed my Hong Kong itinerary, please refer to 5 days 4 night Hong Kong trip

Hong Kong for 5 days 4 nights

"Lei Dei Hou" (how do you do in Cantonese)

Just came back from an island we call Hong Kong during the long weekend here in Malaysia. In case you were wondering, it is actually the May 1st (Labour day) to May 4th (replacement of Wesak day) holiday together with one day of annual leave. 

Really sorry cause was busy with my new job so didn't really update much for my blog. However I am back for more! 

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5
Morning		Australis Dairy Company	Tim Hou Wan	Disneyland	Crystal Jade
Afternoon	Flew into Hong Kong	Central	Citygate	Disneyland	Flew back to Malaysia
Night	Walked around causeway bay	Avenue of Star	The peak	Dim Dim Sum
Where we stayed	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel	Mira Moon Hotel

Unlike Korea, we did not switch too many hotel this time. Just stayed at Mira Moon Hotel @ Causeway Bay for the whole trip. Was actually wondering should we stay at Disneyland hotel for the last night but at last was too lazy to shift around and pack together with unpack.

This view would be very familiar to you if you would have stayed in Mira Moon. If you are wondering, this is Causeway Bay. 

The hotel is about 10-15 min walk from Causeway Bay station exit C. It is a tall building but don't expect to see a huge building as there are only 4 rooms in every room. So you can imagine how the building would looks like. Once you get into the building you will see these red beautiful chairs welcoming you. There is also a usher opening the door for you and lead you to level 5 for the lobby.

The room that i opt for is New Moon Studio as the other rooms are actually out of my budget. However this is how your room would looks like with your bed, bathroom, toilet. You will also have a TV, a working table and a chair.

One this that impressed me is that they will refill your complementary drinks everyday. This means that water together with other soda drinks will be refilled everyday. For people that don't drink much water, this means that you don't really need to buy water from 7-11!

They even have coffee capsule for coffee lovers and chinese tea for tea lovers. Do take note that only non-alcohol drinks are complementary; however there are charges for alcohol drinks such as beers and whiskey that you saw in the pictures above.

Over all, our stay at Mira Moon Hotel is good as the service is really good. They provide different type of pillows if the one you having don't suit your sleeping style. *like for that*

Follow my blog for details of what have we done in Hong Kong!

If you missed my Korea itinerary, please refer to 7 days 6 night Korea trip

Oh Scooter! Cafe

Situated at USJ21 is this Scooter themed cafe named Oh Scooter! Cafe. It is the shoplots behind Main Place shopping. Perhaps some of you all have heard about the cotton candy coffee which was really famous at one time.

Some of you all must be wondering why does the cafe called itself Oh Sccoter! Cafe. Well apparently the cafe is owned by a Vespa-loving family. Don't believe me?

This scooter is parked inside the shop and there are a few more all around you when you are seated comfortably drinking and enjoying your HOT! STRONG! STEAMY! coffee.

Let go into our main topic of introducing their in-house special of cotton candy coffee. Deconstructed coffee (RM11.90), with components of espresso, milk & cotton candy served separately. Doesn't it sound yummy? Specially for those that have a sweet tooth of cotton candy.

All the elements is arranged and ready to be photo taken on a chopping board. So you actually have the milk, coffee and the sugar (cotton candy). Give your best imagination on how do you mix all 3 things together. Not sure how? Take a look at the video below on how did we drink our coffee.

Please do forgive us as this is also the first time we try this coffee. It was really fun as our coffee ran out way faster than the cotton candy melts. End up we need to use the stick to force the "sugar" into the coffee. VOILA! You will have your creamy and satisfactory (after the hard work) coffee as the result.

Well for non-coffee lovers, don't worry about it cause they also do serve teas and green-tea latte(RM9.90), so you can watch your friends trying to stir up their cotton candy coffee which enjoying your well brew green tea latte.

It's not just all about the coffee, they also do serve very nice pastries. We tried the brownies (RM9.90) and it was delicious. Spend a some time here in their cozy and comfortable place together with wifi provided. Remember no pests is allowed in the cafe.

49, Jalan USJ 21/10, 47630 Subang Jaya 
+603 8011 5077


Opening Hours
Mon - Sun: 10:00 am - 11:30 pm

Revise in Maybank Treat Points and Membership Rewards Points

This would be blogging on something different. I am from Malaysia and this post is mainly in relation to people from Malaysia. I really sorry for my oversea readers. Please bear with me for this one post. As some of you all had know, our national bank (Malayan Bank in short we call it as "Maybank") will be revising it's treat points and membership rewards points. 

Just a word of caution, this post is not to promote or selling any Maybank card I am just trying to spread this important news. 

Effective from 1st of March 1st of May2015, Maybank will be revising redemption rate from 250TP=RM1 to 400TP=RM1. Maybank has extended their revision date 2 months later!

This is a snapshot from Maybank website itself. 

Trying to make a comparison on the before and after the revision:-

previously was 25,000 TP = RM100

revision will be 40,000 TP = RM100

Imagine you have 160,000 TP, you will be able to redeem RM640 Aeon vouchers or any other vouchers. However in revision, with 160,000 TP will only enable you to redeem RM400 Aeon vouchers starting 1st March 2015.

                                         

This is a picture of the vouchers that I redeemed using my treat points. Just for your information, there are 4 outlets for on the spot redemption:-

Maybankard Centre at Menara Maybank Level 1, Menara Maybank, 100 Jalan Tun Perak,  Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 1300 88 6688

Maybankard Centre KLCC Branch Lot C–21–C Concourse Extension Suria KLCC KL City Centre 50088 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 0320260239

S-208B, 2nd Floor, The Gardens Mall, Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-22888988 

Maybank Centre at 1 Utama Lot G-341B, New Wing, 1 Utama Shopping Center, Petaling Jaya Selangor
Tel: 037728 5451

Please also do refer to their Online Catalog for other redemption items.

The date to remember is 1st March 1st May 2015! Hurry up guys!

~ciao~