Today is yet another few hundred kilometres to travel, as I head up north from the capital city.

It has been a challenging 3 weeks with a lot of travelling for family affairs and I am just so grateful that my little 13 year old pegasus once again thrive through on such a hot and sunny weather, while seeing other (bigger and more modern) cars broke down by the road and waiting for road aids.

Heading home of my parents after leaving it alone for 3 weeks would have a lot challenges ahead; a messy and dusty house is just one of them.

And true enough, we came home to a mini forest full of wild flowers in the lawn. At least we know that while we're away there were still rain and nature lived on.

My parents were relieved that there was no power trip this round.

At least I got this really cool photo capture that could any time turned into a wall paper

The moment we opened the door, our feet felt the unbelievable discomfort. Before we know it our feet were covered with a thick black layer because the whole house was truly covered in dust; and off my mom and I went to take pails of water and get cleaning.

We all had our roles of cleaning respectively; and to clean a build up of almost 22 X 70 feet after a long travel can be more challenging than before.

But that is also the very reason I could reach 15,000 steps and can submit this post as part of the winning a SF4 contest together.

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And speaking of contests...

I am going to kill 2 birds with 1 stone post.

@anomadsoul has yet another time posted another contest topic about Budgeting

And before this trip up North, I remembered that I still have some Thai baht left from my last trip to chiangmai several years back and started searching through the my packed boxes (from last years' move)

Lo and behold I found some indeed, and right now I need @waybeyondpadthai to verify for me whether if I can still use these 😂

Flight ticket money

I have been setting aside some money every month since last year and was planning to fly off overseas sometime this year or next year.

I have saved enough and I also realised that my passport would have been almost expired so now I need to set aside more cash to renew my passport!

Passport cost for about 5 years is MYR300 and I have been checking with farecompare and Expedia to see if I can get a cheaper flight in case I can't make it with the group to fly together and will meet them at there instead.

Accommodation wise I might need to plan with @elizacheng, @joannewong, @aaronleang if they are going; because it is still nicer to travel together and see if we can share accommodation expenses later.

Right now I am really hoping that everything will be more certain in another 2 weeks so that I can plan.

As for the Steemfest ticket....

I am still really hope I will have a chance to win a ticket through the #blocktradescontest as this will really be meaningful as my very first Steemfest because I really don't want to power down and then have to rebuild the entire SP again to continue to support #teammalaysia members (remaining active ones) with their amazing perseverance.

Right now @bitrocker2020 has given some crypto advices but that really need a lot of scrambling of collecting crypto.

I have about $50 USD worth of LTC and I'm going to see how much I can scrap a little more as I am not very good with trading just yet.

Hope I can find something enough to get a plankton ticket before 30th August / I can win a blocktradescontest ticket.

FINGERS CROSSED! 🤞🏻

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