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Are you an iPhone user?
Have you been installed Whatsapp messenger on your iPhone, yet?
It's currently FREE in the app store! Faster grab one from the app store now! It's previously $1.99 and now it's free!

What is Whatsapp Messenger?
It's a instant messenger for iPhone users / blackberry users.
It send message to others by using data, and not even charged a single cents from your telco. So, why not just installed the Whatsapp and save your bill?

I personally installed in my iPhone 4 and used it ery frequent to keep in touch with my girlfriend whom in Australia and also my others friends whom using iPhones.





Get it now! It's exactly same with typical SMS! :)

Update 1 | No longer free in App Store. It's $0.99 now!

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Venice (Venezia), Italy trip. Part I

On 19th March, we went to Venice (Venezia in Italian). The world most beautiful water city.

A place you have to go if u're travel/work in Italy. It's beautiful, and amazing floating city that you'll never seen in Malaysia! <3

'Venice is a city in northern Italy known both for tourism and industry, and is the capital of the region Veneto, with a population of about 270,660. Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area.'

Source: Wikipedia.

It takes up to 3 hours and 30 minutes from Milan Centrale to Venezia, with a price Euro 14.65 with normal train. And Euro 32.50 for fast train with duration 2 hours and 35 minutes. In my trip to Venice, we chose the normal train because 1 hour different doesn't make sense for us.

We went there around in the morning, couldn't remember the exact time.

So after 3 hours and 30 minutes, we arrived in Venezia train station.

You must be very curious, train or plane? I suggest train if you're traveling and wish to see the beautiful scenery during the distance. Another thing, the destination in Venezia, is just exactly in Venezia. You'll be seeing how awesome view is Venezia. Believe me. :)

*Remember to get yourself a map before you walk, can easily get from stalls.*

This is what we saw once we step out from the Venezia Station. Do you feel familiar with this view? A lot of movie took the scene at here, and here we are, Venezia the Floating city!

This is the station that we walked out from. Nothing much to see.

The first bridge we saw, and i took a photo with it. The main river of Venezia.

Every place in Venezia you'll be able to see Gondola and the Gondolier.

I didn't take the chance to try because it was too expensive.

In Venezia, you can't see a single vehicle except boat. Everything that done by car/lorry/motor in our usual place are done by boat in Venezia.

Some random photo of the house in Venezia.

The scenery is awesome and i feel like i'm in the other world.

Very very different with Malaysia, for sure.

Rumors said that Venezia is the city that having most bridges in the world. 400++ bridges, not to sure about the figure but one thing definitely is, there are many bridges.

This is the Rialto bridge (Ponte di Rialto). One of the most famous place you must go in Venezia. In Italian, Ponte means bridge. So when you heard of Ponte, you have to know it's bridge! :D

The feel is just so 'Venice' when you have bridge and Gondola~

'The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal.'

Source: Wikipedia.

A random shot at the wall behind the shop at Rialto Bridge.

A lot of tourist hired Gondola for their Venice trip, but not me.

So, it might be that beautiful, you can try it :)

My lunch! Seafood Spaghetti. It's around Euro 15+- including Coke.

A place you have to go at Venezia, the Piazza San Marco!

If you want to see the full view of Venezia, you can pay the entrance and go up to the tower. I wasn't pay for the tower because it was so crowded and everyone were queueing up. Since i've limited time so we decided to skip.

The wall beside Piazza San Marco, with the trademark of Venezia! The flying lion!

This is me, taken at Ponte Della Paglia with the background of San Giorgio Maggiore.

There were quite many stalls selling souvenir along the Fond. d Farine, somewhere near to San Marco Giardinetti. It's the seaside though..with a nice view along the street! <3

This is the Ponte Dell Accademia, a wooden bridge to let you crossing Canal Grande.

So now we crossed the Canal Grande..

To be continue the journey in the next post. <3

Florence (Firenze) & Pisa trip. Part III

After a night in the hostel, which is quite okay (except my friend's snoring).

We woke up in the morning and continue our journey to Pisa!

The fresh air in the morning make so in love with the Duomo~

There are nobody at this morning, feels like Firenze is mine! :D

In case you don't know, Pisa and Firenze is just an hour of distance.

The trenitalia ticket (or we called it Biglietti) is just costs for Euro 5.80 per trip.

But to be honest, this train is just average class so don't expect any luxury feel.

You'll see a lot of beggars to beg for money from you, just say No or ignore without looking them is enough..

Normally they won't touch you, they will just put a paper beside you and write down how poor they are..Better don't touch the paper and they will collect it back after some time.

The seat wasn't that comfort anyway, but still acceptable for Euro 5.80 pricing.

And yeah, that's me posing anyway..

After roughly an hour of journey with the accompanion of beggers..wtf..

We reached Pisa city, famous with their......

...... Pisa Tower? :)

Always seen on internet/movie/travel guides but this is the first time i'm looking for the real naked body..It was started to built at 1173 (wah! Almost 900 years!) and obviously standing still until now..just a little bit of leaning..haha..a 'little'..But it safe! it's safe :)

With Euro 15, you can enjoy climbing up to the top of Pisa Tower and have a look.

Such a fehmes tower, it's so waste if you choose not to climb up..isn't it?

With the fees, you get another booklet writing down some info about Pisa.

The stairs..It's kinda small in size and you might need to be careful..

Up to the tower you can view the city view of Pisa, and the full view of the church beside the Pisa leaning tower..

This, is the leanest part.

If u're not that brave, avoid coming to here..but actually no worries, they won't let you fall down and claim your insurance so easily. Of coz they will make those safety things lah!

The city view.. i likey!

Pisa tower, in UWA 10mm mode! xD

This is one of the moment, i fell in love with my wide lens coz i don't need to talk so damn far to take this shot.

The must-do post when you're here in Pisa! haha..Everyone is doing the same thing lah, don't laugh :P

Just around 4 hours of visiting in Pisa, i returned back to Firenze.

Basically in Pisa there are no much things to visit. Just..the tower, i think.


Back to Firenze, we quickly grab the time and walked to the Ponte Vecchio.

The famous bridge in Firenze which was there many many years ago..

When you heard 'many many years ago' in Italy, it means at least few hundred years and maybe up to thousand years ago. But on the other hand, don't use this thinking in Malaysia, coz according to my friend, the most old mosque in Malaysia is only 300+- years, correct me if i'm wrong.

On the bridge there are some shops selling gold, souvenir, leather stuffs and etc.

If you like, you can buy..remember to bargain a bit..don't bargain until 80% like in China ok?

On the bridge there's a statue there, and a lot of ppl putting lock on that..

I guess it was hoping to lock their love forever..

But when you look at the signboard carefully, it stated 'Don't put your lock' there..

Palazzo Pitti, nothing much to see here so i just came here to visit and take pics and ciao!

We were just walking around the city in Firenze before we go back..
Our train back to Milan city was in the evening, so i shall ended my Firenze/Pisa trip here.

Good bye Firenze & Pisa! I will miss you..

Florence (Firenze) & Pisa trip. Part II

If you're in Italy (I'm not sure about other country tho), and you have time.

You can buy a ticket for shuttle bus, it will bring u around the city main points.

Actually, every city of Italy has this kind of service as well.

You pay an amount of money, you can take the bus to points.

In fact there are a lot of company doing this service..

Such as 'Open tour', 'Citysightseeing' and etc.

The bus will stops by each stop for around 5 minutes.

What if you want to stay at the place longer?

Easy, they have a lot of buses take turns to round. You can just get down from your current bus, and enjoy your place and take the next bus at specific time.

So, continue from previous post. I jumped on the shuttle bus tour.

It was called 'Open tour' bus, i paid the ticket for Euro22 with 48 hours valid time. Yes, 48 hours. Means you can continue taking the bus on the next day if you want to.

You can find a bus stop like this and purchase the ticket from the seller there.

Usually they will wear the uniform, if you can't find the ticket seller, you can just wait for the bus to arrive at this point and purchase with the seller inside the bus.

With the Euro22, you get:

1) A 'Open tour smart guide' booklet with the maps inside, and introduction of each points that you're visiting.

2) A pair of earphone, to let you listen to the electronic tour guide on the bus to introduce all the places' histories while visiting.

*Reminder*

Keep your receipt well, coz you can get 20% discount on the next city ticket purchased.

If you're choosing the seats up on the bus, which is open-air. It's better to prepare some cap or jackets especially you're traveling during winter time. The cold air while driving is gonna blow your head and you might caught cold.

Out of the points that i'd visited with 'Open tour' bus. This is the point that i dropped off from the bus and take some nice pics. It's the Piazale Michelangelo. A big square where you can actually look at the beautiful view of Firenze city. It's very romantic, believe me!

The environment is filled with romantic feeling, it's the best you come Italy with your love one.

A picture of myself, taken by Hadi. With the view of Firenze as background.

I like to see how western ppl shows their love to the partner.

They don't need to care how people might see, they don't care how awkward to kiss each other at there. Unlike we Malaysian might feel shy by doing that.


There's a statue of Michelangelo's David at the square.

This is an replica copy of david tho, the real one is now under protected in Museum.

Who is David? <- Click here if you dont know who is David

He's a masterpiece of Renaissance Sculpture created at 500 years ago, by Michelangelo.

And it's moved to Academia Gallery at 1873.

So, around half and hour at Piazzale Michelangelo i took another bus to continue our journey around Firenze. This is a photo when we were stopped by at Ferrucci.

This is the famous museum in the western world, the Uffizi Gallery.

What is Uffizi Gallery?

I was there during evening, the museum was closed.

According to others, the Uffizi Gallery is always full with people. If you're intended to go into the museum, you're recommend to come early and queue up. That's why i skipped Uffizi Museum and rather have a walk to Firenze City.

It is also one of the oldest museum in western world.

Is was begun to build at 1560 and it's stand still until now.

A big Wow! to Europe, everywhere is thousand year old building.

In Malaysia, i think 500 years is very well enough to celebrate already! haha!

And at the night, i had some ice cream from the Jelato nearby my hostel and went off to bed. Continue our journey the next day to Pisa!

Florence (Firenze) & Pisa trip. Part I

Quick reminder: I wasn't came here for vacation, but company trip for training. And i only travel on weekend. =/

So, after my trip to Seravalle, i'd another weekday of working life.

On the next weekend i had, we went to Florence & Pisa.

Quote from wiki: Florence is a capital city of the Italian region Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most popular city in Tuscany.

Florence, which also known as Firenze.

It's basically more to the middle of Italy, where Milan is more to the North.

Pisa and Florence are just within an hour of journey thru train.

So, our plan for the week was to Florence for a night and Pisa in the next morning.

This is the Milano Centrale, the main station in Milan city.
To gain more time to walk around, we chose the early train in 6.55am to Florence.

And we had to wake up at 5.30am to get ourself ready before the train goes off.

The train we took was the normal train, which costs us €29.50 for each trip.

It's Inter-City type of train, which is consider normal train. Took us 3 and half hours.

If you take FrecciaRossa, which is the fast train will cost you around €53 but take you less time to reach. Around 1 hour and 45 minutes.

The train took off quite on time, so make sure you're there slightly earlier.

A photo of myself before i got into the train.

The interior of Inter-city train was normal, quite reasonable.

One thing is, you can't actually adjust your seats to make yourself comfort.

It's fixed, that's it.

Apparently there are two station in Florence/Firenze.

The one i stopped was Campo di Marte, this is a smaller station.

After 3 and half hours, we finally reach Firenze.

It's very lucky that i have my iPhone with 3G signal.

The Maps function actually helps me alot.

So this is a photo while we were walking to hostel to check in.

The Firenze, looks peaceful huh? :)

The first tourist point that we stopped on the way to hostel was Piazza Di Santa Croce.

We were just stopped by there and took some photos and had lunch at the restaurant beside there before continue to our hostel.

The statue in front the Piazza Di Santa Croce.

Thanks to my colleague, Marco Sanna who intro me HostelWorld website.

I'd made my booking at Hostel Greci at Borgo dei greci 13 one day before.

But due to the lack of room on the day we reached, the hostel people were very kind to arrange another hostel which near to the Duomo at the same price we paid. So, at the night we actually stayed in Via Dello Studio, which is just right beside the Duomo in Firenze.

Our hostel fees was €30 per person. It's very cheap for the price you can get in city!

For a budget hotel i dont think you can get €30 in the city.

So we placed our luggages in hostel, the first place we went was the Duomo.

Duomo is the italian word of Church.

This is one of the landmarks for Firenze. Must visit.

Saw the tall tower beside? We paid €6 for going up there.

There's no lift for the tower, all you have to do is climb yourself. haa..

But with the €6, you can get the breathtaking scenery.

The view of Firenze city.

For unknown reason, i like the way european building was built.

There were some fences for safety purpose, but it's big enough to squeeze your lens out there to take nice pics without the blocking of fence.

And here we are, Hadi and I took the photo together.

We continue our journey in the next post...