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@Trip: Johor Shopping Trip 27 - 28 Oct 2025

Image generated by Gemini       After a long time, Wendy and me decided to plan a Johor trip to go visit the night market beside KSL shopping mall. We decided to book train tickets @ 11pm so we can clear the Malaysia custom fast and reach early in Johor to start our shopping. We left our house around 9:30am and found that timing is a little tight since we are still on the bus around 10:40am. Both of us actually ran to the train station and we made it on time. So we better left the house another 15-30 min earlier so as not to be so stress. It is better to use the electronic immigration system as it is very fast compared to the manual stamping counter. So better use the electronic immigration system in Malaysia next time. It takes about 5 min to reach Malaysia Johor station. We left straight to KSL shopping mall since we want to shop at City Square Shopping Mall when we come back from KSL We walked back to the other building where the bus interchange is to find Bus F100 (RM...

@Trip:Bangkok Shopping Trip 21-25 Nov 2024

Image generated by Gemini My wife Wendy and me booked a flight to Bangkok more than 6 months earlier. Took quite a while for my wife to go for a holiday in Bangkok, after COVID, which is more than 3 years ago for our last Bangkok trip. Booked the 8:10am Thai Airways flight and realized that taking the first MRT train(around 5:30am and MRT station is at Changi Terminal 2) will not be able to make it by 7:10am for check-in to Thai Airway counter. So we had to take a Grab ride to Changi Airport Terminal 1. My wife even paid for the online check-in for Thai Airway. Since we reach around 6.45am at Changi Airport Terminal 1, we have enough time to play with to check-in and board the flight.  When we went to look for local SIM(AIS Tourist SIM 8 days@299baht for 30GB and 399baht for unlimited data) at CentralWorld(Biggest shopping mall in Asia), there is really no discount on the local SIM but at least you have someone to assist you to get the local SIM working on your phone, which is my R...

@Trip:Bangkok Shopping Trip 1 - 6 Oct 2025

Image generated from Gemini      Wendy and me booked a Bangkok trip from 1 - 6 Oct 2025. There was some hiccups due to the flight to Bangkok from Jetstar has been cancelled due to Jetstar closed its operation. We had to book Scoot again. Really troublesome but still managed to fly to Bangkok.      Since this time Wendy does the planning, I just followed her. But found out she know nothing and had to figure out some stuff out like local SIM purchase, taking the metro service to our destination and some minor issues that gets resolved ultimately.     Since we thought we did not buy any check-in luggage, we brought two 20 inch hard cases for this trip. She finally pack lite for an overseas trip. We only filled 3/4 of the luggage and expect to buy a Bangkok trolley back to accommodate our purchases.     I did my research using ChatGPT and Gemini for this round instead of Google Search. Results are pretty promising, except for some results t...