I order some stamps from a company named EZ stamps. Let's look at my haul!

I ordered four stamps. I was surprised when I opened the parcel. They gave me some reward stickers and four bookmarks. Very thoughtful. Pamphlets were also found in the parcel.

*heavy breathing*

First stamp is a must have for me. My name in both languages because I'm working in a Chinese primary school.

Look at these. They just make me eager to mark my pupils' work more! Lol. 

Free gift from them.

Love it so much.

Gosh! I am really busy with my job now. A real job. However, I'm always a full-time dreamer. I notice that I still have 20 blog posts pending but I havent' finish blogging my last year's singapore trip, short trip with my mum, and 2016 hatyai trip. I promise I will blog once a week but I am too occupied during the weekends. Feeling stressful at my workplace, so I decide not to bring too much works back home..Gotta stop complaining here. And hey, I am pretty much excited for my upcoming trip to somewhere. I'm going to hunt for cheap tickets at the Matta Fair soon!    

At first, I think that I am going solo. Phew! Luckily my friend decides to join me after hearing my travel plan. So I guess I will postpone my plan to travel solo until next year. I'm not ready yet and I still find the right time to travel. :(  You know..it's hard for me because my holiday is not always fixed. I plan to travel at least 7 days. I even imagine myself work and travel,  and volunteering for 30 days in order to really immerse myself in other countries' culture. Too bad. Too bad.We will have meeting either on 20th December or 31 December annually. Damn hard. Damn timing. Just damn. How nice if I were still in college. At least I can estimate the holiday and book all the cheap tickets in advance.....................Sorry for all these vent up emotional words. It's hard but nothing's gonna stop me anyway. I will try to travel to all the countries in South East Asia before I hit my 30's. :) 

And I will die happily if I'm able to travel to USA! It's my ultimate travel goal!

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I made another planner goodies for September. Trying to improve on my designing skills. Hope you'll like it!

I was so excited when I knew that there was a Masking Tape expo in Kuala Lumpur. Without any hesitation, I asked my friend to join me to visit this expo. We spent some money to buy the masking tapes.This expo was indeed a heaven for planner addicts. I saw some of the people bringing their Midori Traveller's notebook. I brought my Paperdorable planner because I wanted to get the signature stamp from this memorable event. The tapes were pricey but the quality of the tapes were really good! I couldn't choose and I wished that I could say 'Shut up and take my money!' Haha. At frist I was excited to see some Hello Kitty masking tapes were displayed in the boxes. I chose one roll. Hmm..Then I told my friend that it was too expensive. With this money, I could buy two masking tape! So, I put the Hello Kitty masking tape back to the box reluctantly. It was so crowded at the play area. Visitors got the opportunity to use the masking tape for free.I witnessed some people for being so greedy. They sat there for so long because they wanted to use the masking tape to decorate their mobile phone! I didn't want to talk much about this because I was quite angry. Lol. 

The expo was not that big but it's very special to have a first masking tape expo being held in Malaysia. So we wanted to see how was the expo but ended up buying some masking tapes. Lol. I told my friend I just wanted to buy one masking tape only. However, I bought three masking tapes.

Lots of masking tapes. Amazing.

Hope that they will not throw these masking tapes.

Chose three masking tapes. Done. Then, I took out my planner and I went to the counter to get the limited edition stamp. Woohoo.

Lovely!

I waited for more than fifteen minutes to get a seat.

My friend was pretty much excited too. This was her first time doing journalling/planning. I persuaded her to go to Typo to buy a notebook because I wanted her to do this with me. Heh. She didn't want to buy a planner so she bought a notebook. Two notebooks for RM30. 

I didn't want to waste much time here and the crowd was getting bigger. Besides that, we had a meetup with a backpacker in the afternoon so we just decorate the book for less than 15 minutes.

My friend's work. Nice right.

And I found this. RM9. Gotta catch 'em all! 

The staffs were very friendly and told the guests how to use the masking tapes.

Okay. Heading to the counter to pay money.

After I reached home, I unpacked all the tapes and pasted them on my journal. 

I like the wax seal masking tape the most!  

After our Hatyai trip, we  jalan-jalan at Bukit Bintang area. We went to a mamak to have our breakfast because Marry said she wanted to eat nasi lemak. We were so tired of walking and we ended up eating nasi Briyani. Lol. Then we had our lunch at Tous Les Jous Bakery. It was opened many years ago and finally we got the chance to dine here. *weareworkingadultsnownice* It was located in front of Fahrenheit88 shopping mall. 

Nice ambience.

Mouthwatering food.

1)Peach Danish - RM4.06                              2) unknown but it's very delicious. 

3) Honey Flower Cheesebun - RM6.13          4) Orange Mojito - RM11.23

Rating

Food                :✮✮✮✮

Price                :✮✮

Atmosphere     :✮✮✮

Will meet with these girls soon! Waiting for our convocation meetup. And I miss K13. ;(

We searched Hostel.com and we found out that there were only three hostels available in Hatyai. I had mentioned in my previous post that this was a random trip. We planned it just a few weeks before the Raya holiday. We went there during peak season and the cheapest hostel named Hatyai Backpackers Hostel was fulled. The hotels  there were very expensive. So we only left with two choices which were  Hat Yai Youth Hostel and The Hive Hostel. At first I wanted to book The Hive Hostel because the atmosphere looked like the one that I had stayed at Taiwan. The hostel looked clean and comfortable. However, my friend said that it was expensive. So we chose Hat Yat Youth Hostel.

1. Hatyai Backpackers Hostel------RM28.16 per night but fully booked.

2.The Hive Hostel -------------------Rm39.42 per night.*pay few more bucks only to get better rooms*

3. Hat Yai Youth Hostel ------------ Rm32.66 per night. *since my friend was on tight budget*

p.s Sometimes we ought to choose wisely. Some hostels are really cheap but the beds are fulled with bed bugs. So it's not worth to stay there. Luckily this hostel was in good condition when we stayed there! 

We paid 553baht per person for our two nights' accomodation.

Deposit RM11.70 per person.

Price

1.Private rooms

Basic Double Bed Private

-sleeps 2 

-shared bathroom

Basic 4 Bed Family Room                          (We chose this room because there're four of us.)

-sleeps 4 

-shared bathroom

*2 bunks beds, 1 air-con, 1 fan, and room with window   

2.Dorm Beds

-Basic 4 Bed Female Room

-Basic 6 Bed Mixed Room

-Standard 6 Bed Mixed Room

Facilities

Free                  ◘Linen Included  ◘Free City Maps  ◘Free WiFi  ◘Free Internet Access

General            ◘ Security Lockers  ◘Breakfast Not Included  ◘Air Conditioning  ◘Adaptors

                         ◘Book Exchange   ◘Hot Showers   ◘Hot Tub  ◘Cable TV ◘ Parking ◘ Ceiling                                    Fan ◘ Washing Machine

Services            ◘Airport Transfers  ◘Bicycle Hire  ◘Towels for hire  ◘Tours/Travel Desk 

                         ◘Currency Exchange

Food & drink     ◘Cafe    ◘Tea & Coffee Making Facilities

Things to note

1)Cash payment only upon arrival.
2)Visitors/friends are not allowed.
3)3 days advance notice for free cancellation.
4)Check in 2 pm and Check out 12 pm. 

5)The door is closed at 21:00

My Review

My friends and I had a pleasant stay at this hostel. The location is very near to Lee Garden Plaza. Besides that, Ed is a very helpful and thoughtful staff. Thanks for the hair dryer :D. We booked a one day tour from the hostel too and it was nice! This hostel is very quiet so you can rest well. Toilet is clean. The room is comfortable. A small yet cosy hostel. The common area is quite small and it lacked some atmosphere. We didn't get to meet many backpackers here. Overall this hostel is worth to stay! Based on our conversation with Ed, we just knew that he had cycled from Kuching to Sabah. Then he dived at Semporna. Amazing right! This was one of the reasons that I wanted to stay at hostel.I always got the opportunities to listen to backpackers' stories. We asked him because we saw a Sabah flag displayed on the hostel's wall. At first we thought that the flag was a gift from his guest. Then, he told us about his cycling adventure.

Yeah. Ladies. Haha. It took us almost one hour to get prepared. Even though we kept on yelling we were hungry, we still applied our makeups slowly. Lol. Girls being girls. Then we planned to go to the Central Festival.

We loved the interior design of the hostel. On the right was the book exchange area. 

The pantry area. We didn't eat the free breakfast during our two days' stay because we woke up quite late. Do you notice the Sabah flag? 

We were talking with Ed. We booked a one day tour at the hostel. The tour was 2000baht per day. Ed told us that the driver would fetch us to any 5 destinations in 8 hours only. So, we discussed the places that we wanted to go.  Initially, we wanted to add Khao Nam Khang tunnels and Ton Nga Chang Waterfall into the list but the driver told us that these two places were far from the city. We needed to add more money for the gas. And Ice Dome..Damn. It was closed many months ago. It was kinda ruin our plan. We just knew that after we reached the destination. It was replaced with some Magic Show. So we changed to Hatyai Municipal Park, Chang Puak Elephant Camp, Reclining Buddha, Samila Beach and Tesco Lotus. Tesco Lotus was the last place that we wanted to go because we didn't have any nice places to go already. 

Here are some advices for you...

It's better to book a tour if you want to visit Songkhla area which the iconic mermaid statue was located. I can't imagine taking a tuk tuk to Samila Beach. It's almost an hour's trip to Samila beach. Taking a tuk tuk would lengthen the duration to reach there. Our cab overtook so many tuk tuk on our way to Samila beach.

If you can't speak or can't even understand simple phrases of Thai language. You should book the tour. You should ask the hostel staff to list down the destinations and talk to the cab driver. We forgot about it and we thought our driver knew some basic English. So we didn't tell Ed to talk to the driver. Too bad...When we boarded the taxi, I told the the driver that we wanted to go to Hatyai Municipal Park. He didn't know what I was talking about. Some tut tuk driver also couldn't read English words. For examples, Prachanam road which was the road to our hostel. Most of them knew Lee Garden only. So every time we'd ask the driver to drop us at Lee Garden Hotel and we walked back to our hostel.

Show the drivers the photo of the places that you want to go. Screenshot the streets in Thai words. It helps!

Learn some basic words before you visit any countries where the local seldom speak English.

Besides that, I realised the importance of having internet connection. We got lost for so many times so I had to subscribed two days' roaming to use google map. 

If your friends keep on saying expensive la whatever la..want to experience the 'local feel'. I mean you can experience tuk tuk ride at Hatyai area la. If they still want to take a tuk tuk to Samila beach. Lol. I'm sorry. I can't help. You know what to do.

Let's go!

Our first night at the hostel. There're like nobody there but us in the hostel. Haha. We were enjoying our pork flavour instant noodles. My friends were very excited because this was their first time tasting pork flavour instant noodles. After we had our supper, we were pretty bored because there were no signs of other backpackers at the common area. Then we went back to our room to sleep.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. :D