On 2nd August 2009, Azman and I went to Bangkok for shopping and sight- seeing. It was my first time to the capital city of Thailand and Azman’s fifth or sixth, maybe. He was there on work for the earlier trips AND HE BETTER NOT KNOW WHERE THE TIGER SHOW IS!!!!

The taxi that took us from the airport to Royal Asia Logde off Sukhumvit Road

From the moment we sat down on the flight until the very last moments we spent in Bangkok, I had been holding my stomach not to vomit blood from the repetitive attempt to tell these people that SORRY, I AM NOT THAI! PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH…

Oh well, what can I say, it’s not their fault, I have always known that I could pass anytime for an Indon, a Malay, a Thai, Sri Lankan, Indian, Pinoy, Chindian, a Martian.. I had been mistaken for a Chinese girl many-many times too…I bet the Chinese babe that I was mistaken for  had fallen asleep in the tanning bed and woke up like a piece of bread after ten minutes in the toaster. On high temperature!

Sawadee Kap!

Anyway, after touch down at Bangkok airport we went straight to check in at the hotel, leave our bags and straight away took the BTS train from Nana to Chatuchak. Chatuchak is claimed to be the biggest market in the world and opens only on weekends. To get to the super duper cool bazaar -like market, just took the BTS train and get off at the last station – Station Mo Chit. The market that sells just about everything under the sun is situated across the nice Chatuchak park.

I bought a lot of things there. Not too much by my personal standard actually, I was in full capability to purchase more, but the items I had gotten included three wall decorative lights that’s dirt cheap but huge. Azman had a tough time carrying the box around the hot and humid market, so I consoled myself by keeping a mental note that when I wake the next morning I would still be in Bangkok.

Shopping at Chatuchak

I would say eating in Bangkok is pretty hard for a Muslim. There are plenty of Thai halal food around but when there are pork bergantung manja beside the halal chicken I cannot telan laaa… heheheh.. So we ended up eating from the Arab restaurants that sell costly food and since Arabian food is not really my fave, after our second meal there, I had a headache. Hehe.

There is so much that I would like to write about this trip. More stories coming in the next entries, but in the mean time, I would say that Bangkok excites me and scares me at the same time. Though I would say that I am no Miss Goody Two-Shoes in Malaysia, still the women of Bangkok freak me. Especially with all the vegetables that they can shoot from their vajayjay.

Later~

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This blog has been suspended again by the webhosting.. and this time I give up!! Those suckers@Malaysi******* keep blaming us and they said that we received too much visitors that cause their server always down. What wrong with having many visitors??

Then… they asked us to upgrade our service to semi dedicated server that might cost us RM250/month. Hahahaha..Crazy!! On the day they said we are having too many visitor….is the day we actually had the lowest visitor count in the past 1 month!! Sound fishy huh??

We refused too upgrade and they also refuse too unsuspended our blog!! So… we decided to change hosting. We have got enough of Malaysia******!

Change webhosting wasn’t as easy as I thought. We have already been using the same hosting for almost 3 years and the database are so huge!! After doing full backup via Cpanel, the size of database already about 2.5GB. How can I upload such a huge files to a new server?? How long would it takes?? Our internet was quite slow and I don’t think that I could complete the file transfer in 1-2 days. It might cause us almost a week to complete it!!

You want to know how?? I am going to share the experience with you.

I would like to separate this diyanazman blog & manutd blog into 2 different domains. So, I decided to sign up with 2 different webhostings. The best that I can fine is HostGator because they offered FREE transfer service.

Below were the steps that I take..

1. Sign up with new webhosting then asked for their DNS nameservers.
2. Contact previous webhoster/registrar that hosted diyanazman.com domain and asked them to change the DNS nameservers to a new nameservers. Then, asked them to unlock the domain and request an Authorization Code from them as the confirmation of releasing the domain to a new registrar.
3. After changing DNS nameservers, it took less than 24 hours for the domain name to ‘propogate’ or be usable throughout the internet. However..sometimes it might took up to 48 hours.
4. Request full backup link from old hosting.
5. E-mail to new hosting support, attached the backup link and request them to do all the backup restoration. Hosting likes HostGator will do everything for free. However, make sure you used the same username and password during registration with new hosting for easier restoration.
6. Wait for them to complete the backup restoration process that took less than 24 hours. EASY!!

Transfering manutd.diyanazman.com to new domain themanutdfan.com;

7. Register with another webhosting for Manchester United Fan In Malaysia blog and also new domain – themanutdfan.com. Make a fresh installation of WordPress.
8. Create SQL database backup from diyanazman.com domain. Go to Cpanel > Backup > Download SQL database
9. Transfer all “wp-content” in manutd folder of previous hosting into new hosting using FTP.

This is how to restore SQL database;

10. Login into your WordPress blog and select the same themes that you last use for the blog.
11. Go to Cpanel > phpMyAdmin. Click at the SQL database for your WordPress blog.
12. Check all & Drop all the tables.
13. Go to “Import” tab. Upload the backup SQL database.
14. That’s all! Yeahhhh…

If you have problem with downloading or uploading your SQL database, the easy way is to login into your old WordPress admin.
Go to Tools > Export > Download Export File
Then.. login into new WordPress admin in new domain.
Go to Tools > Import > WordPress > Browse and Upload the file from above step.
Easier but its only import the posting!! Settings and everything must be done manually one by one.

After 2 days…everything is DONE and both of our blogs were UP again…

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I have never found myself attracted to something so black. Yet now I am totally enjoying the pleasure of being engulfed with the darkness and the feeling of mystery that is lurking beneath the handsome dimness.

Do I sound like I have a crush on a negro vampire?

I am talking about my favorite kitchen la!

Azman and I are in the midst of getting ourselves in debt for 30 years OUR OWN HOUSE! Yea! And just like any other makcik hot blooded woman, young and sexy.. I dream of the kitchen.

Black kitchens and red kitchens. Oh if I have these, I will never cook in them, I vow to be just like Nigella Lawson (minus the boobies), an ultimate domestic goddess! I promise!!

the black yet cosy…

the elegant one

the totally posh one

the cool one

The one with tiles are green not black but just gorgeous… And lovely view outside the window…

I am totally in love with the house we are getting. The kitchen is huge. But the kitchen cabinets have already been installed. Although they are nice and cost a fortune, tapi mak tak taste la nyahhh!!! Color brown kekdahnya! Takpalah, mak pasrah!

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