My line of work require me to travel a lot but the stay normally one or two nights… back then when I started working and the pocket is not so deep. I invest RM60 on decent backpack.. A cap ayam Camel Mountain backpack bought from India Street…what can I say… it do the same job. packed my lappies, underpants, shirts, toiletries, jeans, chargers, bottles etc…. good enough for a 3 night stay… But soon, the cap ayam become uncomfortable.. and the quest for a new bag begins.. konon nya..

then GF offer to subsidize a new backpack. hearing that I do my research found the Deuter Crosscity 28 liter backpack… at first I was thinking of getting Deuter Futura 28L but it seems to be over the budget… so Deuter Crosscity it is.. placed my order at an online store and not long after, I received my backpack…

Behold….

Deuter Crosscity…

Compared to my Camel Mountain

Seem a little bit shorter and fatter than the camel mountain backpack..

The challenge…

is to fill all this in the backpack and still have room for another set of clothing for another day… manage to pack 4 days worth of clothing into the backpack since I use it..

and..

it has this nice section where you can put a bike helmet or a jacket in my case… also can put anything you might think.. shoes, small boxes, junk food… anything…

Internal view

This is the front compartment. Smaller than the main compartment of course. Can stuff your toiletries, pen, knife, camera… etc here…

Main compartment with a padded laptop holder… just nice to fit everything in… I mean everything…

It also has a nice side pocket that can fit a 1.5litre drinking water bottles… and probably a canteen as well….

It also have this nice airstripes stuff… which is nothing more than a bulge at the back that can provide adequate air flow to your back and minimize sweating…

Has been using it quite a time now… Still tahan from my constant abuse so far… and its comfortable what…

For Rm255 it must be comfortable…

I was in Labuan long time ago last last last Monday if you people don’t know. It was short study trip.

Labuan is duty free = cheap liquor

Was browsing through the duty free shop and I found this little thing.

Its Choya. The label stated that it is a Japanese Plum Liquor. Look interesting enough to try eh?

So I bought the 160ml version. Which suppose to do nothing to a heavy drinker… which I’m not.

That’s RM13.50 for 160ml…

and here is the caps mechanism..

rather slick I must say, It make me go wohoooo…!!! (engineering high)

The taste?

It smell like the Iban’s rice wine but taste more like a sweet plum juice infuse with liquor. You have that warm feeling after a few sip. Not enough to make me drunk though…

but after a few shot later, its a different story..

p/s: no I’m not drunk. I seem to have a high resistance against alcohol.

cheers

note: This is the start of my blog review. Done only for blog that I REALLY LIKE and NOT SOME BULLSHIT.

Sarikei Time Capsule
Started by a guy from Sarikei, ex-Anthonian. This blog takes us from the beginning of Sarikei, the History I might say. Here we have some collection of Sarikei’s pictures. Some is quite rare because some of it is from personal collections. Can bring the nostalgic feeling for those from Sarikei.

But its not all history, here we have guides for the food in Sarikei too. Every aspect of Sarikei was told in this BLOG. Drop by and say hello to Daniel…

I’m lazy to type.. bye…

Here is another Iban language magazine. It’s more like a mix of information+local entertaiment scene+Iban history+stories.

Tebilang literally translated to Popular. This mag will published every 3 months. Which is a long wait . But can’t blame them because the material to write about is limited. Better than none.

It is a good read in your free time. If you have the spare change and you can read Iban Language, go on buy it… (No I’m not paid to say this)

Apart from this, we have Pegari (which is the stepping stone for modern Iban Magazine, we have a very old publication of Iban language magazine before. I will search for it) and another one named Kesulai (mean Butterfly) I think this one is more on entertainment, not yet get hold of one.

This is your common blog post. A food review. Ice cream review more precise.

Introducing Nestle Drumstick Inferno!!!

I was walking down the street suddenly I saw this big-big box. Somehow it is very cold inside that box even though the outside is very cold. I was like… WTF… the I see this Nestle Drumstick Inferno. Maybe that is why they put it in a very cold box. Then the keeper of the box appear, I was like .. oh shit!.. then it say .. if you want it pay me RM2.50/ … More than glad to pay RM2.50

Walk2 down the street… open up the wrapper… got this ‘extra’ tall top wrapping/mechanism/stuff…. whad the hell lah… then you see this high high… (not that kinda high) stuff….

This is the only special thing…. a lump of extra Ice cream at the top…
I walk2 down street and pass a swimming pool, I saw a man in the swimming pool and I say…
“Hey! I see what you do”

Then I can hear from the back people saying “Must be a Nespray child” ™

Notes: This is not written by me. My dog blackie typed it. Maybe I need to send him for a check up at the local vet. I was forced to hold that ice cream in the picture by Blackie or he bite my camera.

(P/S: There you have it, a typical way we must write a blog post. )