Holiday Stories Continues

And so continuing from the point where we landed up at Penang International Airport…. if you are still guessing where are we headed to… Aija..IT”S PHULET ISLAND lo !!

There here goes our tickets..

Boring wait at the airport..

Boarding the plane....

And up up up we go…… bye Penang .. 

Here comes muffins and grape juice (not bad Firefly’s service… )

After bout an hour in the air…. down down down we go

HELLO PHUKET.. (not much of friendly smiles from the officers at the aiport )

Anyway… what a feeling to finally reach our long-awaited holiday destination. Our hotel was about and hour and a half drive from the aiport.

There here is our Hotel. Upon our arrival we were greeted by a sweet Thai hotel staff. She asked our name and immediately summon a bell boy to get our luggage (we only had one black luggage). And then ushered us to the tram to the check-in lobby. When we reached the check in lobby we saw many ang-mo(s) carrying their own luggages but we did not have to. I felt weird.. Then at the check in counter many guest were waiting  in the sitting area but we were ushered to the front desk. Once again at the mention of Lionel Lim’s name… we were ushered to another desk which has the sign “Hilton honors”..They served us with guava juice and prepared cold towels. What a treat!  We had a quick check in and after all was done the staff handed us a card asking us to fill it up since we are returning guests… SHOCK!! I’ve never stayed in Hilton, How Could I Be A Returning Guest even??????

Looking at the details of the card we found out they made a mistake. Lionel Lim’s name was mistaken for another Lionel Lim residing in Singapore who owns a Hilton Club Membership. Now it clicks.. That’s why we were treated so royally from the start. Anyway the cool thing is that the staff told us, it’s ok, it was their mistake but the service they intend to provide will still go on for us..

So can you imagine paying a cheap package offered by Firefly but able to stay in a super high class room with superb view. And cleaners cleaning your room 3 times a day. Even our room door, bed and toilet was decorated with orchid flowers. Lovely.

 

Here’s our room… Room 306.. notice the big toilet and the toiletries’ brand.. CRABTREE & EVELYN!!. the toilet papers were rolled into that fan shape evryday and the hand towel folded into that cute little Dumbo evryday too..

The sun was scorching hot… the monsoon ended two days before we came. So with light shirts, shorts and cool shades, we walked out of the hotel grounds on Karon streets to rent a bike. We got one for a good deal of RM 30 for 2 days. With a Suzuki automtatic scooter we decided to tour the whole town of Karon. First stop was lunch at a boutique hote by the beach. I particularly love the ambience anchitecture beauty of each boutique hotel. It’s unique each in its own way.

Lunch is over.. what else???? GUESS?? shopping la…. here comes a long list of souvenirs for a long list of people back home. hahaha.. so we got all of it at Karon that day. Welcome to Karon’s Town and sunset view and Karon’s beach.

Dinner at Karon, we decided to go for the locals. Pancake. RotiCanai pastry with toppings and filling. Interesting blend.

By that time of the day, it really felt we were bout to crash due to exhaustion from a WHOLE day of travelling. Back at the hotel we took a nice hot bubble bath, drank coffee, ate chips, watch TV and zzzz.

Arise and Shine…I was looking forward to our buffet breakfast. Eager to taste what a 7 star hotel buffet breakfast would be.. And i was indeed pleasantly surprised…. A BREAKFAST BY THE POOL… Awesome.. with a high canvas roof over our heads to keep direct sun.. we got enough sun to warm the cool morning surrounded by the sounds and sight of blue waters and a man made waterfall. The food was luxurious. LITERALLY an INTERNATIONAL buffet. There was large and variety selection of pastries, buns, cakes, cheese, hams, cereals with all kinds of nuts (including cashew nuts), thai dishes, western dishes, oriental dishes, Malaysian dishes (pau, wan tan), korean dishes, SUSHI, etc….. etc….. etc.. Oh and also 5 selections of juices excluding coffee and tea. We at so full we skipped lunch that day.

Well here we are on the second day at Phuket. Second day took us to the town of Patong (the town that got hit badly during the tsunami). Patong has a flat landscape compared to Karon which actually made it vulnarable during the tsunami. We shopped and rode through the streets of Patong. Beautiful archituring. Nice long beaches. Interestingly though they were badly hit due to the tsunami, the town actually bloom back almost overnight. Not forgetting, we also spend sometime soaking in the sun on Patong’s beach and enjoying the clear waters of Patong waters. Wonderful experience.

We did not stay long at Patong. By mid day we headed back to our resort for a good swim at the pool. As we were laying on the pool chairs we were served with juicy dragon fruits and watermelons.

Evening came another beautiful sunset….

Tonight we decided to visit Kata Town. Kata beach was more rocky and doesn’t really have long beaches. It was Our last night here at Phuket so we decided to go for a romantic beach seafood dinner. We rode and rode and stumble upon Mom Tri’s Kitchen-Fine Dining by the beach. As we step inside the building it was as if we were stepping into Wonderland. Lush gardens build on different tiers, nice round steps leading the way down to the restaurant. Fountains surrounded the place creating a calming effect. The whole place was litted with huge lanterns hanging from the trees. finally we heard the music of the piano. Located deep in the garden, was the little restaurant that stretched out ABOVE the sea. Build on rocks, the whole place was magical. It was like a dream come true. As we ate we could hear and see the waves hitting the rocks.

 

 

Since it was suppose to be a fine dinner for us.. we ordered the most expensive dish on the menu (this is another first time experience). We had SEAFOOD PLATTER for two. The meal began with starters of bread, bread sticks, tortillas and baked aubergine with cheese. A plate of fresh green salad…Then comes the big bang of … mussels, white prawns, tiger, prawns, huge lobsters, and a whole white Garupa. Later we were served with Strawberry Fondue for deserts.. Exquisite dining. Great service. How much better a dinner could I ever asked for.

We rode the bike one last time through Kata and Karon stopping on the fly at one shop cos I spotted a beutiful skirt. LOL.. Yup I got my favourite souvenir on the last day the last stroll through town. Back again at our room. We opened and all the gifts and souvenirs we bought and started figuring out how are we to pack them into one Black Luggage.

That Night I slept peacefull, with deep gratitude for God’s blessing ONCE AGAIN. A wonderful gift from God.

Bye PHUKET

  

counting my blessings and naming it one by one

My Week-Long Holiday

Mon – Tues:

For the first time we are going to leave our little home unattended for so long. It was still dark when we left our home. I felt my heart skipping away into that happy holiday mood. I love the coolness of that morning. We drove and drove and at around 9 am we reached our first destination of our Holidays; BIDOR!!!! Hometown of my darl. We were suppose to meet our college mates here who were also on a college field trip, but since we arrived earlier, Lionel drove to his aunty’s noodle shop. WAH a plate of noodles with curry sauce, with lots of liu and 2 cups of drinks only costs us less than RM 4. Cant believe!!! KL RM 4 can only fill a quart of your tummy! We strolled the small town for a while longer. A nostalgic feeling, laid back mood could be sensed throughout the town.

Then the VANS arrived. The bunch of BCM-ers finally touched down on Bidor. And they were ready to devour all the food they could. MUAhahahaha.. DUCK NOODLES was the first to be devoured. Many duck’s drumsticks were cruely chopped off to feed these mouths from KL. ……………………………………………………………………….it was a pity DELICIOUS!!

After consuming ducks, the whole bunch of us moved on to destination 2: KAMPAR! Driving along the crowded streets of people cycling, riding bikes without helmet and big old Hup Seng Buses roaring away, one of our friends spotted our next food stop. The ice kacang shop. Wahlau… at the entrance of the shop was a sign “buy 10 free 1″ back in KL even with the offer of buy 1 free 1, people will still walk away. But I am really wondering what’s with Kamparians that they can confidently put a buy 10 free 1 sign. Either the food is really good or people there love contributing to the economy even if they only get back minimal rewards. Anyway back to the ice-kacang eating frenzy… it was indeed a cold frenzy.. We ordered almost every type we can find on the menu. And we did receive the buy 10 free 1 offer.. LOL

 

Eating did not ceased after ice-kacang.. we went on snacking on anything we see sold along our way. Too much I forgot what i ate even. Look at all the hungry posers

 

Good thing we took a break from food and headed to more nature activities. Waterfall was it..! lovely refreshing and good de-stressin. The guys went crazy, the girls were kept cool. haha. Great fun time and crazy time skipping stones. Some of us could skip a good 4 times while many of the rest just sanked the stone.

    

This is the I LOVE NATURE GIRL……. and her recruits

   

The good part is at least we are not gluttons always..though we may sound like a bunch of them… Our next stop was not about food anymore..It was truly an experience for all of us and it was an interesting one. We visited a drug rehab centre known as the Vineyard Keepers. Visiting Rehab centres always sounds so uncool especially for a holiday stop over. I felt that way…. but wait a minute.. the moment we drove in the drive way of the centre.. It was like in somekind of recreational centre more than a drug rehab centre. SERIOUS.. DEAD SERIOUS… it is a beautiful place.. The rehabilated druggies literally did beautiful wall carvings on almost everywall. The most beautiful part was the chapel. It looked like a cathedral. Angels singing, playing musical instruments, bible story characters we all carved and painted carefully on the walls. The most painstaking art was carving scripture verses. Every alphabet was carved beautifully in celtic fonts ALL OVER THE WALLS.

The centre owns a massive plot of land which allow them to have a fully equipped gym with full sets of weights and sand bags. They have several courts for sports, a huge football fields a farm of cows goats and sheeps. They reared a kennel of huge K9 Dogs. Foxes, monkeys, birds fishes was all part of their animal family. Another section of their land was  alocated for a gorgeous orchard of flowers, plants, fruit trees and vegetation.

When that little excursion was done… we were all set back on FOOD.. food and more food.. It’ll make you feel blotted if I would to blog the details of the food we had.. So I better not spoil your apetite.. My advice is: Go to ipoh and experience the food yourself and BLOG bout it.

Alas we can finally take our shower and bunk in for the night. We all bunk in Emanuel Church, Ipoh like sardines in a can. We girls were shivering through the night in a small air-con room, with hardly any blanket to cover and woke up with sore backs and sore necks from sleeping on the hard floor with only our bags or stack of clothes as pillows.

Here we go gila-gila-siao-siao-pose-pose and SNAP SNAP in the main sanctuary :P

 

   

But morning breakfast was comforting to our aches and sprains. Good chee-cheong-fun with the famous mushroom souce. YOU CAN’T get this kind in KL! Look at the toast bread ….. topped with the irresistable mouth watering perfectly done half boiled eggs. Look at the yoke… imagine in seeping through your taste buds as you munch on the freshly toasted bread. YUMMY YUMMY YUM YUM.. I WANT IT NOW!!!!!

Here is a Travel Tip when visiting IPOH.. YOU MUST STOP BY THIS SHOP… (Yee Hup)

Here’s where you can get fresh from the oven Hiong Peng and other chinese homemade Biscuits. This is the shop most famous in all Ipoh. They have several branches all over Ipoh but this particular shop we went is the want where the biscuits are baked then supplied to the branches.. So you guarantee get the freshest of the freshest. After that food shopping we stop for coffee and tea at a mamak. This was our last destination with the gang at Ipoh. The gang would continue into the cave of Gua Tempurung, attempting to finished still in one clean piece. While my hun and me would continue up north to Penang.

The journey to Penang seem to me like a blink of the eye and .. BINGO we reached.. well maybe is because I slept all the way til Penang Bridge. Woke up just in time to take pictures of the Bridge. From the bridge Penang looked like a serene lively harbour city. We headed to Gelugor to USM to meet my bestfriend but the hardworking friend of my was still in lectures so she told me to shop from 12 pm to 6pm then only return to USM. She suggested me to shop at queensbay mall. Shopping.. hmm sounds good for a KL-lite. So we made our way to queensbay. Not familiar with the roads on the island we traveled almost half of Penang to get to the mall which was only like 10 mins away from where we started off. We hit one wrong road after another that’s how we ended up exploring half of the island before finally reaching the mall. The mall is HUGE-MONG-GOUS…. You’ll probably shop til you drop and faint… Dun ever attempt shopping at that mall for so many hours with your Boyfriends.. They will forever be traumatizzzzed.

Anyway, after that long hour shopping, I finally got to meet my dear Eang Bee. We talked alot as usual… it was a good thing her boyfriend was able to join us too.They were a good host. They brought us round Penang town and continue to feed our glutonny. We bunk at his apartment that night. Apparently that night at the apartment i pulled a muscle in my neck. Well many of you may not know that I have weak neck muscles since 14 years old. Due to that I was always advice not to strain my neck and to stay away from active sports. But as you know the way I play my games, no one will think my neck is not suited for any of those sports. Okay so I pulled my neck and it was really bad I could hardly move my neck. I could not even sit down. Almost any slight pressure on my neck in almost any position sent sharp pain from my lower neck to the back of my head. It was really a downer..

Thankfully my caring darl, bought yoko-yoko from a 7-11 store and I pop in a good dose of Postan, lay flat on my back and decide to just sleep off. My darl said a prayer and all i could remember after that was a good tight sleep with my darl beside me through the night.
Wed:

The traffic noice from the streets below woke us up. I sat up, turned and stretched my neck a little here and there … and…. Thank God! It was so much better. Just a little sore stil but no more sharp pains. So I applied more Yoko-yoko and off for breakfast. Eang bee and Abe brought us for Pan Mee and Nasi Lemak. ooooo The Nasi Lemak is so  so much nicer than what we get at Kanna.. LOL…

It was quite a rush breakfast because we had to beat the morning traffic and get to the Penang International Airport for our next Holiday destination.

So zoom zoom we went within minutes we were at the huge automatic glass door of Penang International Airport’s arrival entrace. We bid our dear friends bye… and off they went with our car. They would be babysitting our car for the next 3 days. What a Lovely and fun couple they were…. I wish my best friend all the best.. It’s really fun to hang out with your best friend that had been with you since primary til secondary school days. And the double joy is to be able to share our lives and fun with two added love of our life. What a journey together.

Walking through the airport we check in our single black luggage, got our tickets and chilled at Mc D with a cup of hot tea.

YOU MAY BE NOW WONDERING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR NEXT HOLIDAY DESTINATION…

GUESS WHAT…… YOU WILL SOON READ ABOUT IT MORE

IN MY NEXT POST….

……………..to be continued

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What Were My Holidays Like?

Okay…. This is how the holiday started..

The first week went by like this:~

DAY 1&2

UPHILL… Naik Bukit Genting With BCM Gals just for one night…. we ate, played, prayed, ate more, watch wayang, bump each other, and **cuddle** in one room.

 

DAY 3

Leon came back from Spore by plane..after Lionel fetch him and his female fren, Ai Min from air port, they came to my house to pick me up for a whole day of outing…. PHEW!! actually it was an outing to satisfy Leon and his singaporian friend’s food craving. Thank God I live in Msia… Yumm Yumm!

So first stop was Dim Sum.. Leon Paid.. whoo-hoo… Second was KFC @ Curve, then back to Kota Kemuning for homecook dinner… supper was with BCM fellas, Danny, Victor Lee and Girlfren, Jon Koo, Lionel, Me, Leon and Ai Min.

Day 4

Mid val with Ps. Ooi Lin’s family til lunch den headed to Leon’s dentist for his surgery, but good for him, the surgery was not done and it was postponed again. So headed off to Tesco for shopping with the whole family…. shop till you drop…..good thing none off us drop..LOL…

well.. oh ya.. that night we had a show “run fat boy run”… Aft that lionel, leon and ai min slept over at my house so that the next day we did not have to wake up so early to visit Miracle (Leon’s Kai Lui) at Sg. Long.

Day 5

Miracle House… see miracle… den Went to Klang to pick stuffs up …….

Dinner was great!!!! we went for Korean Barbeque with Painted Picture Band and then went over to one of the band member’s house to play Nintendo V.. wakakkakakaka cool… we played boxing, golf and tennis.. it was fun to see the silly expressions of everyone.

 tap-tap-tap with Leon’s IPhone

 Korean Barbecue~Look at the Meat… YUM YUM

 Virtual Boxing with Lionel on Nintendo

Then came the weekend back to church and work……

SUNDAY.. ARGHHH WOKE UP WITH A RED EYE on the right eye… sighs down with sore eye……

Week two was stressful yet the happenings in the week did bring some relief :~

Monday I tried to get enough rest for the family dinner in the evening but eyes did not really cooperate much.. it watered and watered….

Wednesday was the day we went to Cyberview Lodge to check out the place….YEAH!! finally prayer answered. He provided us an award winning garden… Truly he gives and takes away all for a better plan!! 

Thursday, shopping for dresses with the Kay Renn, Yuli, Wai Chi, and Eang Bee…..YEAH YEAH!! Double blessing cos’ now I don’t have to worry about their dresses! Another Big Relief

ooooh but Friday came and eyes hurt even more. Went to doc again for a change of medication cos’ the first medication did not seem to work very well.. sighs..

Saturday, woke up.. *gasp*GOSH. BOTH EYES were red.. the virus must have spread in the night to the left eye.

And Sunday came, swollen, extremely painful and teary. My already small eyes looked even smaller now. NO!!! Then after the service, one of my member who also had sore eyes said he dripped the eye drop every hour and it helped his eyes clear faster. So I decided to be my own doc and started dripping the drops every hour …… GUESS WHAT!!!???

I could sit up the whole afternoon and finisg my assignment without the slightest pain or teary eyes. And best of all the swelling went down, pain got tremendously lesser, and my eyes came back to its normal size..

 

How would I evaluate the holidays????!!????!!

 It was everything but DULL

Yup Thats Bout It!!

Pangkor Island Holiday (Part 1 & 2)

 Day 1:

We started our journey after a quick lunch and headed down from KL to Teluk Intan. We stayed there for one night at one of my former church member’s semi-D house. She hasn’t really shifted in yet, so our company opened ceremony for her new house. We really did WARMED the house with our presence of 23 adults and 6 kids!!! By the time we reached Teluk Intan we were really a bunch of HUNGRY people and gratefully we were treated to a wonderdul dinner at RIVERVIEW SEAFOOD

RESTAURANT. REALLY yummy yummy yummy food.

Ps. Rachel Kala (right) together with my mom and dad

Together with us was our member’s Pastor,

Pastor Rachel Kala. She pastors Faith Assembly (AG) at Teluk Intan. After dinner we headed to Faith Assembly for a visit then it was supper at Teluk Intan’s famous chee cheong fun shop. There was so many of us and the shop was rather cramp, we literaly filled up the seats in that shop.

chee cheong fun shop

Then we headed back for alittle more chit chats and then snores…… 

Day 2:

It was 7am almost everyone was awake. All was trying to get to use the toilet first. I pushed myself up from bed got dressed and then when for a good morning walk and devotion with Lionel, around the housing garden. The area was cool and serene. The air was fresh because the housing garden is surrounded with green trees, jungle, oil palms…….

Once we got back from our morning walk, everyone was now ready for breakfast. We drove to the town’s open food court and had breakfast that were good and CHEAP.

St. Anthony School

Imagine a bowl of curry noodle only costs RM 2:20. Lionel and me shared a bowl of Kuey Teow soup, curry mee, yong tau foo and a few spoon of nasi lemak. How nice if PJ food were this cheap today.

After breakfast we visited the St. Anthony school to watch my church member’s husband’s brass band group play. The missionary school architecture was nice. I always admired missionary school architectures. The high doors, the arches… they are just great. And the unique thing about this school is that the motto of this school is “charity without hypocrisy”

 

Our next stop was the famous leaning tower of Teluk Intan @ Teluk Anson.

Menara Condong

We even got the opportunity to walk inside the tower. There is about 3 stories accessible to the public, the rest was closed off. But we did get to see the interior of it, walk out to the balcony at each leval, admire the wood structure of the tower… according to history, the tower was made to store water. However due to the soft foundation the tower was built on, the pagoda structure tilted.

Gate to the towerThe water tank built within the Tower's structure

A view from the top of the Tower's balconyIntricate wood structure seen inside the tower

 

Just next to the Menara Condong, was Kompleks Menara Condong. In there was a shop with local antiques. Things like, the old school cameras which were used when my parents were kids, sports trophies of their time, weighing scales (dacing), magazines, calendars, mugs, typewritters, fan etc…..

And as city sleakers, we cannot miss our shopping. We headed next to a small shopping mall nearby the leaning tower. It’s no match to our huge midvalleys and pavillon. But I managed to get Lionel a nice pair of leather boots as his Birthday gift for only RM 49 and I got myself a brown heels for RM 27… What a treat!!! 

Close to noon, we left Teluk Intan for Lumut. There were quite interesting sights on the way to Lumut. At one point of the journey we passed by huge vast paddy fields on both side of the roads. And there were Stalks in the paddy fields too. Then the scene changes to acres of oil palm plantations. Later we passed by the coconut tree plantation. We don’t get to see these along our city streets. LOL….

Finally here we are at Lumut Jetty. A good break for a short Photo Taking Session.

 

 

 

 

  

   

 

Not very long after that we borded a bright yellow ferry. I slept all the way til we crossed over to Pangkor Island. The weather then was gloomy with light rain. It had rained heavier a couple of hours before so the roads were muddly and puddles were everywhere. We got a taxi to taxi us to Vikri Huts Resort. Located just opposite the beach, our lodging was a comfortable kampung house chalets with private patio for each hut, fully furnished with water heaters in the toilets and tiled floorings. The place is comfortable and economical. The journey was quite exhausting which made me ate quite little during lunch.

Lunch was over, we settled down in our rooms. Right after that our intinary for the day at the island began. We went for an island tour in two taxis….. It was drizzling lightly as we started off.

We look at giants posing at the mini Great Wall of China

We visited Nipah Bay, satay fish factory,

 

 

a Dutch fort and a Chinese Temple where we got a chance to see huge Koi fishes, 4ft  Apiranas and some other species that were big but i forgot their names. There were also a part at the Temple where big Turtles were reared. One of the attractions of the Temple was the exact miniature structure

Giant Turtles

 

of the Great wall of China, built along the slopes of the Temple. By that time the rain was staring to pour heavier. 

Dutch Fort

As we toured on round the island we passed a small airstrip, beaches, fishing areas, rocky beaches, boat making factory and finally we landed up at Pangkor main town. That was the end of our island tour.

 

 

 

 

 

All I wanted after the wet tour was a warm shower….

The very good thing about mealtimes was that it was all homecooked dishes with fresh from the sea seafood….. Yummy!!!

After dinner we all sat down to fellowship, and later chilled at the beach for awhile before supper was served. And day 2 ended.

Day 3:

6 am I pulled myself out of bed. The temperature in the room was cold…I washed up quickly grabbed my shawl and went out to meet Lionel. We decided to bike over to the other side of the island to watch the sunrise. it was really a cold windy ride. The sky was dark still. As we rode on it started to brighten. Just as we reched the spot…. The view was awesome!!!!.. The sea was calm serene, boats were chugging out to sea. Sea gulls, eagles and hornbills were flying above the beautiful scenery. The waves lapped gently on the rocks by the beach. Then the sun started to peak over the horizon and as it rises, we could see the rays shining over the sea, and the colors of the sky around the rising sky was like some work of art. Truly that morning was like watching God working on his art. It was beautiful. And even more amazing to know that God does this every day – Perfectly!

Later after breakfast we headed in a speedboat for an insland hopping. Scenery was great. The weather was a blessing. Sunny warm and the sea was calm and crystal clear. Sea creatures could be seen right from the boat itself. We had the opportunity to snorkel and see some really nice sea fishes, corals and other sea creatures.

After a good day of sun sea and sand, we headed back to our lodging huts for lunch and some rests.

I was tired out by then and a quick nap did me a whole lot of good. By mid afternoon, some of us when on bike and rode round the island and got to the town for some shopping. I got myself hand accesories, a wrap-around-skirt for only RM 9 and a wrap-around-shorts.

I looked forward for that evening’s meal. IT WAS BARBEQUE DINNER!!! after a long day, it was nice to have a barbeque. The weather was lovely that evening and food was sumptious!!

Day4:

After hearing my news about the sunrise the day before, today the entire group set out to watch the sunrise. The weather wasn’t as clear as the day before but we enjoyed too. After our last meal on the island we played a game of volley ball. There was lots of laughter and sweat even minor bruises…LOL…

Since it was our last day…. we just had to go back to the beach for one final deep, splash and tan……

Then it was time for pack up before heading to the jetty. Standing at the jetty awaiting the ferry, I missed the island. It was time to say goodbye to one good holiday which I haven’t had since a long while. I stood there letting my thoughts run through the few days we had on the island and deep inside me I thanked God for all this good blessing He gave.

When the ferry arrived, we were glad to see that it has an open deck where you could stand up there and watch the island passed as we headed back for mainland. It was lovely with the wind blowing and the smell of the sea breeze and the familiar sights of the island…… i missed the holiday….

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For more photos click the link below:

Pangkor Island album

Retro-ness??!!

Seems like now more and more clothes and fashion outlets in malls are coming on with a new line of retro designs. Maybe this fashion is coming back to town.

Just like this black and white square-rish abstract motif……

Imagine if it was used as a fabric design for a dress…..

it would turn out to be somthing like that….

Not bad for a Retro Fashion…huh??!!

 

Yup my mom was in somekind of really good mood, which is something you don’t always get especially when mommies hit their 50s… LOL… and she bought me this dress…

My equation of my mum’s GOOd moods [good mood=pay for anything no matter how much it costs]…  

Me in the fitting room. Had to take this pic to send to Lionel for him to choose between this dress and another red one. So if you think this dress is nice, it's Lionel's choice. If it's not nice, it was still his choice. No matter what I like it still !!

 

And so this dress in now enlisted in as a newbie in Charity’s Wardrobe

Warehouse CRAZE!!!

It was a madly crazy day… ALL BECAUSE THERE WAS A WAREHOUSE SALES ON!!!!

This how it all began…..It started off with Weng Kim’s daily supply of Star Newspapers. With almost every student taking turns to read the papers every morning, it is no surprise for a 2″x4″ black and white ad on a Guardian Warehouse sales would get spotted. And SO IT WAS “SPOTTED”……

The first warehouse expedition team which consisted of Donny (our wiseman), Mike O (the Nigerian Dude), Lionel (The one who spotted the ad), and ME (the one who suggested that we make the trip there that veryday). The team of warehouse explorers left campus grounds after the morning chapel. Before we reached our destination we were skeptical about the sales and only had afew items in mind we would like to get IF the sales were good. BUT BUT…. BEHOLD when we reached there… My GOSH… you would not believe your eyes.. I bet even the most righteous man on earth would be tempted if not by the serpent..he would be tempted by this sales…..

prices were slashed and sliced, left to right.. Take for example, the japanese cosmatic brand KATE, usually you would have to pay RM60-RM80 for a pack of eyeshadows.. but now its slashed to only RM 20 NETT…. And you could get St. Ives product, Tres Semme hair products, Kanebo and many many more for only RM 5-RM 15 per item. There were other super attractive deals like.. 3 bottles of handwash for RM 10. A set of beauty induldence cosmetics set (1 cordroy cosmetic bag+3 nail polish+3 lipsticks+6 lipgloss+3 blushers+3 sets of 12 colors eyeshadows+brushes) for only RM 10….. Normally that set would costs RM 50-70.. and Cottege fries for only RM1 per pack, Kellogs CornFlakes for RM 2….. and the list goes on and on.. I bet if you are reading this posts… you are already tempted right?????

Okay well the cash in our pockets are the limitations.. SO after getting what we needed we headed back to college…

Now back at college the story continues with Lionel advertising it to almost everyone he meet in BCM… which ended up with us going back to the warehouse with our ACADEMIC DEAN and a whole new shopping list for a couple of other fellow college mates…. the hilarious thing was.. our academic dean said before going she only wanted to get body wash… but.. she ended up loading the car to its max…..

well… there’s so much to say bout the sale.. I’ll let this to picture do its explaining further and I appologize if this post is stimulating your shopping receptor, causing it to send impuls to your main brain and stirring up a major reaction….well if this gets to a critical state my only remedy is this:

THE WAREHOUSE SALES IS STILL ON TILL THE 4TH OF AUGUST @ DATARAN HALMODAL, PJ. CHECK WEDNESDAY, THE STAR NEWSPAPER FOR MORE DETAILS. :p

-Round 1 Shopping Spree-

-Round 2 Shopping Spree-

W380i – My New Dream Phone

ANOTHER ITEM UP ON MY WISHLIST…. IT’S A SONY ERICSSON W380i

Here’s a sleek clamshell phone which has useful features and it comes with my favourite color, the MAJESTIC PURPLE!!

Here’s some cool features of this model:

The Sony Ericsson W380i is a unique sporty looking cell phone that features gesture control technology, allowing you to use your hands to control the phone. For example, you could move your hand above the W380i phone to mute an incoming call or put the alarm clock on snooze. Besides having cool gesture control technology, the W380i flip style phone is designed to live up to Sony’s walkman phone reputation as it comes equipped with Walkman MediaPlayer with dedicated music buttons on the outside of the W380i phone, let you play, pause and skip tracks. Besides that, you also can listen to radio with the Sony Ericsson W380i. This model also has the Bluetooth with the A2DP feature which enables me to stream high-quality stereo music from your phone to your wireless headset or other Bluetooth™ devices.

I hope to sell of my K550i and with that money i’ll top up bout 300 bucks to get my dream phone.

 

Surprises

Well just the other day i woke up feeling mundane and sien with the day. It was a Public holiday there was no classes and there was no appointment on my calender too.

i woke up sitting on my sofa bed staring blankly into space wishing i could just sleep the entire day. Anyway pushed myself up, pull over an old comfy t-shirt and a pair of old faded khakis shorts. Tied my hair into a messy bun with clips to hold the loose ends in place and got going to church to help up in the preparation for Good friday service. All i cared was being as comfortable as i could since i was not going out anywhere i did not bothered much bout my shoddy looks. xD

then about noon time, when i was done with helping out, i received a ring from Beatrice, my college mate. she asked me out for movies and shopping at pavillon. For a moment i thought all my college mates would be busy in church. but yeah … a sudden burst of adrenaline shot up to my brains and i hurried to my boss to ask for permission. ok the FIRST SURPRISE WAS ::: MY BOSS SAID OK GO!!!….. so i rushed home combed my hair, ironed my goin out shirt and jeans, got dressed, and drove off to wait for my friends to pick me up from Leisure Mall.

SURPRISE NO.2 WAS::: DAD GAVE ME RM 100 ….. that was just purrrrfect for my broke status…

SURPRISE NO.3 ::: ERM I GOT A SPECIAL PERSON IN OUR OUTING COMPANY…well that was surprising as we count all this moments treasured moments. so yeah we had a long long day out.. movies, shopping… more window shopping then good food at Jln. Alor, ice-creams at Leisure mall, earrings shopping…. laughter, chats, and good good times….

Well what i really want to say is that at times when we think that all is mundane and boring, God can just drop by with a parcel of surprise to brighten our day.

I mean that day i was just thankful to God for the surprise he gave me. I got to build bonds with my friends. We got to spend that day just enjoying an having great fellowship. i also felt blessed that I could spend the entire day in the arms of the one I love and cherish.

these are times that we call GEMS. common, yes…. but they are worthwhile times, and that’s what matters. God can use the common to surprise us!!!