Archive for April, 2009

Home Alone Can Be Nice Too…

{ April 28, 2009 @ 8:54 pm } · { Myself }
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My parents are away in Genting for holidays. My brother is in camp. My sister is out with her colleagues. Although I know no one is going to be home tonight, but I still choose to not go anywhere and head back home after work.

The train journey was unusually fast today. Maybe because I was reading “The Confessions Of A Shopaholic” :p When I reached my destination, I went to the NTUC at the station to see if I need to get anything. After walking 1 round with nothing in mind, I decided to walk over to Sheng Shiong across the road. After going past the tidbits section (very sinful!) for umpteenth times, I decided to buy 2 cups of Calbee Jagabee :) After paying, I walked to the coffeeshop near my house to buy a packet of Duck Porridge for dinner before heading home.

I took a nice foamy bath and did a hair treatment for my newly permed hair. Feeling and smelling fresh, I switched on my notebook, went to the kitchen to pour myself a glass of orange juice prepared by my dad, plonked on the sofa and took my dinner in front of the tv which was showing korean drama. After filling my stomach, I put a bird nests mask (recommended by BFF Elaine Rebecca Bloom Woo :p) on my face before I started blogging.

My sister smsed me asking where I am while I was having my dinner and my reply to her was :”Home alone eating duck porridge lor.” She can reply me :”Oh, Say until like so poor thing.. Haha..” Well, I told her it’s not poor thing at all because I am enjoying it. Spending time alone and doing the things you like can do wonders to a stressful body and mind. Alrighty, that’s all for my very-own edition of Home Alone :) Off to do some online shopping now! Ciao!

Edited to add : My uber sweet sister bought her ‘home alone’ sister McDonalds munchies when she came home just now. You see… Being home alone really isn’t that bad afterall *wink*

The Land of Smiles

{ April 23, 2009 @ 10:33 pm } · { Dear Dear, Food, Holidays, hotel }
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Well, as you can see from the title of the post, it meant that I went ahead for my holiday in Bangkok. After seeing the news that the Red Army had dispersed and everything went back to normal, we decided to just go and enjoy ourselves. When we reached Bangkok, we saw that there were also people like us who still choose to visit the land of smiles. I think as long as we don’t wear any yellow or red tops, we should be safe. The 3 days were spent eating Thai food, going for massages, Tom Yum Goong, drinking beer and shopping. One word to describe – Shiok!

Had breakfast at the airport before boarding.

Our stay at Le Meridien Bangkok was fantastic. Big comfy King-size bed, nice view from our room, big bath tub where you can take your luxurious bath and watch tv at the same time :p

We had a quick lunch at KFC before we headed to Chatuchak Weekend Market.

Of cos not forgetting to pray to the Four-Faced Buddha for blessings before heading to Central World for lunch.

Lunch at Yum Saap Thai Restaurant. Out of so many Tom Yum Goong we tried during the 3 days there, this restaurant served one of the best because it’s really spicy.

Dinner was at the little Thai restaurant at Patpong. We also ordered some beers to cool ourselves down. Can you imagine the weather there was between 38 to 40 Degree Celsius? -_-”’

On our 2nd day, we woke up early to have breakfast at the hotel.

This is how the Patpong streets looked like in the day. They will fix up the stalls around 4ish in the afternoon and unfix everything at night. If you have been to Patpong, you will wonder how they fix up so many stalls on the long stretch of street.

It’s time for lunch again after shopping around at Central World. As usual, we had Thai food again. Haha…

We walked from Central World to Platinum Shopping Mall and Pratunam for more shopping. It’s super hot and tiring lor. So we stopped to rest our legs and quench our thirst at A&W. Rootbeer float we like! :)

We continued our shopping at MBK before we headed to Chinatown for dinner. Besides Tom Yum Goong & praying the Four-Faced Buddha, another must-have when you are in Bangkok are sharks fin and bird nests! From the photos you can see how much both of us ate throughout the whole trip :) Well, who cares about getting fat when you are on holiday dio boh? Just eat and enjoy!

How time flies when you are on holiday. It’s the 3rd and last day already. We had a light breakfast at the hotel before going back to our room to pack. Since we had late check-out till 4pm, we can relax abit more. Still a lover for the sun, I decided to go for a swim. I practically had the whole pool to myself. The whole pool place was so resort-style and relaxing. I enjoyed a good swim and sun-tanning session :) Heavenly~

We had a late lunch of Thai food (yet again :p) before we went for massage.

Dear Dear 1-yr Older Le…

{ April 14, 2009 @ 10:05 pm } · { Birthday, Dear Dear }
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Just celebrated my dear dear’s birthday last Saturday. This year, there are no extravagant birthday gift and no expensive birthday treats. It’s just a normal dinner at a normal Japanese restaurant. It’s not because of recession. But it’s because both of us are saving up for more important things. Anyway, both of us are supposed to go Bangkok this weekend to celebrate his birthday and take a short holiday. But because of the riots there, yet again -_-, we are considering of canceling our Bangkok trip and change it to Hong Kong instead. At least we are going somewhere safer just so that we can enjoy ourselves. So now I am still considering whether to go Bangkok or not. Though my dear dear’s birthday celebration was a simple one this time round, but he’s still happy that he have me celebrating with him. So sweet lah this notti one of mine :)

Cake-cutting at home with his family

Japanese food, we love!

Happy Birthday my notti one! Muacks!

Dinners & Friends

{ April 13, 2009 @ 11:23 pm } · { Friends }
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Last Wednesday meet up with my ex-colleagues, Linda & Jessica for dinner. I think they are more of friends now instead of ex-colleagues. It’s always nice catching up with them. We chatted about anything and everything. With Linda around, there’s bound to be laughter every time we meet up. Well, she always have some really hilarious incidents to share with us. We were hoping we doesn’t need to wait several months to meet up once. After our dinner, we adjourned for drinks and continue chatting throughout the night. We even planned to go for holiday together sometime end of this year. Sweet! :)

And the next day which was last Thursday, I met up with the BFFs (Elaine, Shihua but minus Wendy :p) after work. Supposed to be a movie cum dinner cum ice-cream session but ended up became a dinner cum ice-cream session. As usual, we still enjoyed the night together. Now gonna wait for Elaine to come back on Wednesday, hoping that we can still catch that movie named after her. LOL!

Only managed to take the pictures of our dinner and ice-cream. Pictures of us are in Elaine’s camera. Keke…