LONDON... Here we come!

Hi family and fellow supporters

Without realizing it, time passes fast and it has been almost 1.5 years since we started our blog and we have been steadily building our followers around the world.

When we first brainchild the idea, many people would not believe that a small group of Penangites will able to perform such feat to drive all the way from Penang to London non-stop in 2months!

Nonetheless, today we have able to group in total 08 Penangites with the assistant from Old Free's Association Penang and Singapore for this amazing trip.

As we progress along the preparation, we received both skeptical and supportive groups of people... nonetheless, through our determination and strong will, we managed to convince several top supporters and sponsors for our trip. They are;

1) Kendall Motor Oil USA
2) Old Frees Association Penang and Singapore
3) Papago GPS Navigator
4) Prima Pearl Toyota Sdn Bhd
5) Penang Global Tourism

Our team managed to organized a dry- run today 18 May 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, in one of our team members house.

The dry- run session was very successful and we able to complete many items from our checklist.

All of us are looking forward for the trip and our sponsors has been very generous in their support.

Thank you everyone for making this trip closer to reality.

Brgds
Steven Foong
Lead

Welcome on board Kendall Motor Oil USA!

Dear team and family

We are proud to announce that our diligent effort to raise awareness on our mission has not come into despair. Since we launch our sponsorship drive, we have received numerous enquiries from various parties e.g. GPS navigator provider, motor oil, telecommunication, motor service centre company, NGO and among others.

As we are gearing up towards our D- Day on 1 June 2012, everyone in our team are feeling very excited especially with the addition of our latest sponsors, Kendall Motor Oil USA.

Part of the ConocoPhillips family of lubricants, Kendall Motor Oil enjoys a dramatic heritage. The Kendall Refining Company was founded in 1881 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, with the goal of refining local Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil into kerosene, lubricants and greases. With more than 125 years of experience to draw upon, Kendall Motor Oil has led the industry with a number of significant firsts.

We are very proud to have Kendall Motor Oil as part of our team!

Collaboration with Borneo Child Aid Society

Dear family and friends

We are very happy to announce that we finally found the ideal organization that share our passion and effort towards the under privileged children.

World Tour For Children overland trip will work closely with Borneo Child Aid Society Sabah, Malaysia  http://www.borneochildaid.org/ to raise targeted RM100,000 from both corporate and kind Malaysian public during the whole duration of our quest from Penang to London.

I have included the link on this blog that will brings you directly to their donors website.

Again, this amount seems big and I have been receiving push back from certain quarters asking 'What if you do not achieve this target?'

My question to them would be 'What will happen if we do not reach this target?'. Are we going to be prosecuted for not raising enough money?

Many people fails to see that sometimes it is not the results that matters but the FIRST step and effort to make it REAL is the most important.

By taking action from our idea, we have already won half the battle... we did not let OUR dreams faded away and burial inside us. You often hear words like 'I will do it when the times is right' or 'I know it can be done but this is not the right time', but deep inside our heart we know that the only thing that stop us from taking action is SETBACK and afraid of failure.

Questions like 'What if I don't make it? Will my peers laugh at me? Will I be labelled as a failure?'

The answer is NO. There is a vast different between 'I failed' and 'I am a failure'.

This journey from Penang to London is not only an endurance physical test for our members but it is more to strengthen our mentality to cope with failure and push back. With a positive mindset, we will conquer the world!

Finally, we urged and seek the support from all quarters to help us reach our targeted RM100,000 donation by the end of our journey to London.

Your contribution in helping us to create awareness among your network will prove you still have the heart for less fortunate fellow Malaysian... you can break a stick but you never break a bunch of sticks!

Hardware Mode in Haadyai

Haadyai Thailand 10 March 2012- We took a few weeks to figure where should we install our aft hard top canopy. It was a 'no brainer' when we found that Haadyai is actually almost 50% cheaper than in Penang.

Adrian and I decided to drive up to 'The Land of Thousand Smiles' on 10 March 2012 for this purpose. The day started early when Adrian picked me up from my mom-in-law place at 10 March 0430hrs. We took a turn to the famous Penang road 'Line Clear' Nasi Kandar stall and 'tekan' two plates of Penangites famous dishes.

We reached Thai border approximately 2hours after we left Penang and it didn't take long (including stopping by Chang Lung for vehicle insurance) before we are Sadao, Thailand.

It has been a few years since I last visited Haadyai by road, but my memory still serves me well and it was only a short while before we found the heart of old Haadyai- Pink Lady shopping mall.

We quickly parked our car and heads off for our morning Thai breakfast including thai handmade pau, fried koay teow, half boiled eggs and hot cuppa of coffee.

Thereafter we took a spin on our Hilux to start looking around for suitable accessories shop in town. My dear friend from Haadyai has already told me approximately price for a 'Carryboy' hard top canopy before we left Haadyai. It took us 03 shops before we decided to go for the 'G3 series Carryboy'.

Installation took us about 4hours and in the meantime, we ventured the old town on foot including chicken rice lunch and some shopping.

Before we leave Thai border, we managed to have our dinner over at Sadao, Thailand for a decent meal... it was fantastic!

Overall, we are very satisfied with the results and the new look of our Hilux. Our short one day venture ends in Penang at 10 Mar 2300hrs when Adrian dropped me back to 3 Mandalay Road Penang.