Journey to the East - Part 2

Our next destination: Turkey!

So, yes! Our next destination after Singapore was Istanbul, Turkey. We departed from Changi International Airport at 2300 hours on the same date as we departed from Kuala Lumpur. We flew on Turkish Airline. This international flight, I considered it as tip-top! The food was excellent and tasty! It's bun is my favourite!

It was quite a long journey for me. About 8 hours to touch down in Istanbul Atarturk Airport. We arrived there around 4 am istanbul time. Luckily I remembered to take out my coat from the luggage in Singapore, or else I am going to suffer! 

Our arrival was welcomed by snow! Alhamdulillah! It was so cold although the temperature is about 9 Celsius and it was almost the end of winter. However, it was bad-luck-me. I forgot to take out my glove as well! Oh dear!

Since it was still early and none of the shop nearby has open, the tourist guide decided to take us for a tour to the nearest Masjid. Along the way, this is how Istanbul at 5 am.

This is called as mosque.

According to our tourist guide Turkey mosque means our surau while Masjid still remains as Masjid. So, we went to the first masjid. I can't remember it's name.

This is a Muslim cemetery behind the Masjid and all of them are made from marble

 

We managed to take some photo at the area in the Masjid. 

Then we went for breakfast when it was 8 am in the morning at Simit Sarayi. It's a bakery shop. The coffee, soooooo good!

Then we went to the Grand Bazaar. There are more than 4000 shops here however we were only given an hour to spend and it seems impossible to finish even passing by each shop. To finish a row itself has taken us more than 45 minutes. The coldness stung my head!

Then we stop by for lunch. The food was jut ok-ok. I dislike the soup. It was tomato soup.

Before we went to the hotel, we took some photos here. 

Behind us is the famous building which is the Blue Mosque

Back in the hotel, I suffered from jet lag. I lied on the bed and I'm gone to my dreamland. What I remember next was my father trying to wake me up, calling for my name. As I becoming more alert,  , I saw everyone surrounded me. According to my sister, while I was sleeping, she and our cousin went for hi-tea and walk around the street. However, when they have returned, they just realized that they forgot to bring along the key. They knocked (read: slammed) the door for more than an hour. Lastly, they called my father and the 'hotel guy' to open the door and they found me sleeping. Still breathing. I guess I am in a very very deeeeeeeeeep sleep!

At night, I went for a walk at the street in front of the hotel.

 So, it's the end of part 2. I shall make it shorter or else it becoming neverending story. 

Enjoy the view of the Masjid people!

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Journey to the East - Part 1

SINGAPORE!

On 29th Febuary last year, my big family (my family and my aunt's family) went for a long trip - 18 days in total. We started our journey early in the morning from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore! We rode on a bus! We only stopped once for lunch in Johor Bahru before entering Singapore. In the afternoon, we arrived in Singapore. However, we are not staying there and went for trip around Singapore.

Hellooooooooooo Singapore!

The first thing that we do when we arrived in Singapore is buying ice-cream!

Emmmm, Yummy!

Then stopped at Chinatown to buy some souvenirs. According to the tourist guide, here is the place where we can buy souvenirs at cheapest price. Plus, they accept Malaysian currency too! 

 Here are some photos of building and structure in Singapore!

   

This is us, my family and the sisters and brother (another little brother is missing and I do not remember where he went).

To be continued...

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Dropbox - free cloud storage

There was one night when I was really busy finishing up my assignments (two has completed and another one still on the go) and I did not make any backup other than in my pendrive. So, while I was doing my assignment, suddenly something happened to my laptop where it shut down by itself. I felt so stressed up! When I managed to turn it on, all the files in my pendrive was gone! I almost faint! The due date to submit all three assignment was just around the corner and it was really shocking that none of the files can be recovered. 

I was crying and told my friend what just happened to me. She replied that nothing can be done since I did not make any backup at anywhere other than my one and only pendrive. So, I had to redo all of them. Before that, during the searching process, she nagged to me and told me that I should download an application name Dropbox. For me, I never heard of that app. According to her, this app is very important to everyone especially students like us. 

Dropbox is a file hosting service which offers cloud storage, file synchronization and client software. It allows the users to create folder on their computer and any devices that has Dropbox in it. Any files that are added in the Dropbox will be synchronized with all device of same Dropbox accout regardless of which computer or device is used to view it. All files in this folder are accessible through website and mobile apps. (source : wikipedia)

So, with her advices, I made a Dropbox account. I downloaded it on my laptop, iPhone as well as my Galaxy Tab. All of these are just to prevent the same thing to happen again. I no longer have to worry about what if the same thing happen to my pendrive and I can access any of the files in my pendrive. Below is the screenshot of Dropbox from my iPhone.

 

In Dropbox for iPhone, there are four menu available which are Dropbox, Photos, Favourites as well as  Setting. Based on my experience, the type of file such as pdf. ppt. doc can be opened in my iPhone. The files can be edited, save and sync with all the connected devices. 

      

Here is the desktop view of my Dropbox account.

The good thing about Dropbox is that it requires no cost at all to open up an account. Moreover, the storage of the account can be expanded when people that we have invited previously accepted the invitation. This app has made my life much easier, Each time I do my work, I will never ever forget to save it on Dropbox where it will automatically sync with all devices that I have connected. Thank you Dropbox! ;)

 source : youtube

Disclaimer: All photos are taken based on screenshots from my iPhone

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