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May 01, 2006

And off we go ...

I've handed in my resignation this morning and now I can talk openly about what's happening. It's a bit sad, resigning from Oakton since I really love what I'm doing and I enjoy working with everyone, both the Oakton guys and our client. I guess I'm lucky that I've landed in a few super fun projects during my year at Oakton. Then again, you gotta do what you have to do.

I'm off heading overseas for a year or two, maybe more I don't know. I will be travelling for about 4 months before trying my luck in London to find a job to fund my next set of travel (sounds like a good plan ha!). I've always wanted to do this, but prior commitment prevented me to do this earlier. But now opportunity has presented itself and I'm taking it. This will be my first travelling/backpacking experience ever, if I don't count coming to Australia on the first place is a "travel" (no it isn't). So naturally I'm very excited about the whole thing.

I'm still a bit disorganised, I've done some of the preparation but I still have a crapload of things to do. I will try to blog as much as I can about my travel and for the time being my tech blog will take a vacation as well.

My plan is to leave Sydney on the 2nd June to Singapore (with 5 hours stop over in Perth - sucks I know but I'm flying Frequent Flyer so not much choice there). I'll probably stay for 2 nights in Singapore at a friend's place (party time!!!) before going to Bangkok on the 4th June to start my Cambodia and Vietnam travel.

I know some of my friend will scoff at this (*cough* Jeff *cough* *cough*), but I will be joining Intrepid Travel rather than doing Cambodia & Vietnam myself. So why on earth I join a <gasp>guided tour</gasp>?

Well I do have several reasons:

1. I don't have much time to see Indochina and I want to see as much as I can during that 1 month. The best way to do this seems to join some sort of guided tour


2. I'm Indonesian. I've travelled the Java island extensively using busses (ranging from good aircon busses, average non-aircon over crowded busses, to oh-my-God-I-don't-think-this-bus-will-make-it-there kind of bus), trains, cars, minivans, motorbikes and even at the back of a ute. Trying to figure out how to travel from one SE Asian city to another is neither exiting nor new experience to me. I want someone to figure everything out and I'll just enjoy myself.


3. Intrepid is not your typical bus tour filled with Taiwanese tourists or Contiki (yuck) style. They cater more to "adventure travel" crowd especially with their Intrepid Basix. I have a few friends who have travelled with Intrepid before and they all said it's superb.


4. Intrepid gives back to the community

Alright before sounding like a shameless plug for the company which I haven't even travelled with (and jinx it!), I'll stop now. But that's the main reasons why I decided to go with Intrepid.

So that should be a good one month relaxing and fun holiday in Cambodia & Vietnam. The travel will finish in Hanoi on the 1st July, I'll be flying back to Bangkok then Singapore to spend another night before boarding the 2nd July flight to London.

In London I will stay at another friend's place for maybe 2/3 days before heading to Paris to officially start my western Europe backpacking trip. From Paris I have no idea where I'm going to go next, I'm just going wing it and somehow end up in Casablanca on the 14th August to meet up with a bunch of friend who want to Morocco, Portugal and west coast of France. So I do have a rough direction where to go from Paris (south then west then back up north) but no real itinerary. Who knows I might not even make it to Morocco if I get a better offer somewhere else - east maybe? Regardless I should be back in London mid to late September to replenish the cash.

Well whatever is going to be I don't really care. The world is my oyster now ... at least for the next 5 months :)

Posted by vhadiant at May 1, 2006 09:23 PM

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