Random and bimbotic but so what?

Afraid that my blog will be neglected and be found one day covered with cobwebs, I decided to blog at least three times a week. At least for now. Since I am so free till I can remove my leg hair strand by strand with a tiny pair of tweezers.

Ok, I admit that part of the reason is that I need the clicks and advertisements moolah to put some instant noodles on the table. Hint big enough? Click on the ads you see, people!

Suffering from the lack of brain juice, I decided.....posting random stuff on the blog is better than nothing at all. Muahahahahaha!

So, here you go. Random stuff to entertain you on a rainy day.......

Randomness One : Beautiful nails done by yours truly. Now, I am going to whine. Since I met Ray, my nails have been breaking. Non-stop. Finally, they are all about the same length and I decided to do my nails before they break again. Three hours of eye-squinting, back-breaking, fingers-shaking, loads of swearing later......ta-dah! Pretty nails!

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If you noticed....yes, I went overboard on the glue. And fucked the ring finger up a bit. The lucky part, all is not lost. After a few washes, the extra glue will be washed off. Phew....

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Randomness Two : Purchasing six bags in two weeks. What can I say? I have a weakness for bags. Muahahahaha!

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Look what came in the mail a couple of weeks ago? My six bags.

My justification for the need of six bags? They are birthday pressies for myself!

After long searches, I finally found the Chanel-inspired handbags in the colors, quality and size I want. Ray is still not aware but I have ordered these in another two colors. And they are due to arrive in early December, just before Christmas!

Cute checkers! Not really the me-kind of bags but hey, we should all try something new at times. It's boring to stick to the same old styles, right.

Revisiting the "New Year" resolutions

Remember how a knock on my head back in April knocked some senses into me and I decided to set myself some "New Year" resolutions? Vague memories? Never mind. Click here.

Remember now? See what a knock it has been. Determined not to waste my life away anymore, I decided to set up some "New Year" resolutions. Setting them in April is late but well, late is better than never, right? So, seeing that it's November now, it's time for a check to see what I have (or rather haven't) accomplish so far.

• Build my savings up again. Being out of love is not only heart wrenching but expensive too. How the fuck I blew 5k on alcohol in a month, I don't know and I don't want to know either. So, I seriously need to build up some savings since the last look in the savings account shows only a pathetic two hundred bucks. - Fuck shit. Still not done and I am jobless now and I need travel funds for Perth in three months' time. Looks like this needs to roll over to 2010.
• Freeze/ cut up/ hide the credit card. This is the only way to not overspend on yet another pair of shoes or bag that I don't need. - I didn't freeze or cut any cards. But the card with the highest credit limit is gone. And I am only left with two cards with pathetic credit limits. EEYER.
• Cut down on alcohol. And I mean seriously cut down on it. My body is already protesting to my three/ four times drinking sessions a week. I think two will be a nice number for now....hahaha! - Hiak Hiak. I did it! I am now only drinking like once every fortnight? Lalalalalala.......
• Spend more time with my family and Christmas. A sudden death recently kinda jolted my thoughts. I realize that sometimes regrets are really too late. The only thing we can do is to cherish what we have and show our appreciation while we can. - I am indeed spending more time at home now. And I kinda wondered if my family is irritated by my presence 24/7?
• Go for a holiday - anywhere except Genting/ KL/ Desaru/ Batam/ Bintan/ Phuket/ Bangkok/ Philippines. No, it's not the memories. Duh. But the fact that I've been to these places again and again. I want to go somewhere else. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Korea or Taiwan will be nice. Just no fucking China. - I went to Vietnam for the first time in September! And well, I did go to Genting (again) in July but then that was where everything started. New memories have been formed and honestly, how can I not want to go there now?
• Be honest with the "other person" if I meet a new guy. Honesty ie : what I can give and what I expect. I don't want to waste anyone's time further. If we somehow can't meet each other's expectations, I want to cut the loses and move on. I don't want to waste time trying to accommodate someone or have him accommodate me just to go through another six-year relationship and end up breaking up. - It might be too soon to say this....but I think I have found someone who is perfect to me. For the first time, I actually look forward to seeing someone's face everytime I wake up.
• Lose 10kg. No, I am not bulimic. I dropped 15kg in a month then but now I am at a healthy 60kg. I think if I can lose a few more Kgs, it'd be easier to get clothes. - Shit! Stagnant for now. Time to diet again.
• Seriously take care of my complexion. Being born with ultra sensitive skin should have been a warning but I decided to try the heck care attitude and am now left with horrible scars. Nabeh!!!!! - Mission accomplished. And no, I DID NOT go for plastic surgery.
• Buy a Miu Miu bag. - Didn't happen. But last month, I bought six bags. O.O

Hmmm......seems like I didn't really do much. And by the looks of it, I don't think I have enough time to do much now anymore. However, I am happy enough that some goals were accomplished. Life can't be perfect all the time and for now, I am satisfied with what I have.

With the clock ticking away, we will soon bid farewell to 2009. This has been a roller coaster year but it was a good roller coaster ride. It started out totally fucked but ended with a high. Things I did not expect has happened - I have a new job, a new career to work on, a new man, a much happier and fulfilling life. And most importantly, the courage that I once lost, I found it back.

So, for now, I am all ready to say goodbye to 2009.

2009, you have me found some good things among the bad. But soon you will be nothing but the past. So goodbye. I am looking forward to 2010 which I know will be a wonderful year for sure.

Till then, I will be thinking of my 2010's New Year resolution and looking forward to it with a big grin.

Fantastic Four

My heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

I have spent a lifetime searching..........and there you are.

(I really wanted to add in "on Facebook" after "there you are" but well......)

It has been an amazing four months. The best, I think. And the fastest four months. Yeah, Ray and I had been together for four months exactly today.

How the hell we got here so fast? I really don't know. It feels like yesterday when we first met. Feels like not too long ago when we warned each other not to fall in love with the other. Feels like not too long ago when we went to Genting. So, where did all the time go? Hmmmm.........

I think I have been very blessed. Very, very blessed. Someone up there is definitely looking out for me. Never have I been this happy before in a relationship. And never have I met someone who is a perfect fit for me. We haven't had a quarrel before (not like I am hoping for one, ok?) although sometimes tempers flare a little and the attitudes were a bit off. Eh, come on, we are after all human, we have our own fucked-up days can?

We are all always searching for that perfect someone. And I admit, Ray is probably not the most perfect person in the whole world but to me he is already the bestest. How many times in our lives can we meet someone who can accept us for who we are? How many people out there can love someone for who he/ she is and not try to change the other? And how many couples can actually speak right to each other's heart? And...most importantly, how many times can we meet someone who says it all without even saying a single thing?

I love how we try to look ahead and plan things together so we have wonderful things to look forward to. And it's these little things that brings happiness and motivation to me. It makes me want to put in more effort into making things happen. It makes me look forward to life. And these little things actually makes me want to spend my life with someone.

As for what I hope to see unfold between us down the road.....well, simply more and more anniversaries (in all kinds) coming up. ^_^

After all, what is impossible if we are both looking forward in the same direction?

Btw, I actually like this photo more than the one on top and I so wanted to use this instead of the one up there but Mac has made me disabled. I don't know how to use bloody Windows to adjust the photo straight. Plus I think it's evil to make the readers all tilt their heads to their left just to look at the photo.

However, on second thoughts, it's funny to visualize all of you tilting your head to the left whenever you read so i am posting this up anyway. Bleah.

Halo...Halo...Halloween!

Who's that girl.....lalalalalalala......

That's me. Yes, yours truly. See, I make a pretty geisha, don't I?

It's been like a billion years since I celebrate Halloween in a big way. The last time I went for a Halloween party was like eight or nine years ago at the not-so-happening-now-anymore China Black. Yes, I was once young and crazy and I did partied like mad.

After a long hiatus, I am slowly finding my once-lost life back. With my crazy partner. Ah-huh. *grinz*

So, this Halloween, we dressed up, met up with my partner's friends and rocked Clarke Quay. Well, we didn't actually rock Clarke Quay. Apparently, there were like millions of people dressing up on that day. But our group did actually attract quite a bit of attention because we had a sexy Brazil Carnaval Queen and someone who looked like he just walked out of the Detroit Metal City movie. Check out the piece of work that I am claiming some credit for :

Ain't that a fine piece of work? It was hilarious because some of Ray's friends could not recognize him at all! *Fun! Fun! Fun!*

And I just have to show a picture of both of us together. Because someone came up to me and told me that we were a perfect match in our costumes. Excuse me, Ray looked damn scary and I looked gan-puah-si-lang-chio can? How can we be a perfect match??? Unless you think a red cape plus a red kimono equals to a good match......then I have nothing to say. -___-

This is the chio Brazil Carnaval Queen I am taking about. Not too happy about meeting him or rather her (her name is Michelle). I thought I was the prettiest for the night till we met. He stole all my limelight away. Argh!!!

You know how beauty queens pose and smile and act friendly for the cameras despite being jealous of one another? I have perfected that. Can you sense any jealousy? I bet not.

This is only a small group of Ray's friends. And I mean A SMALL GROUP. There must have been at least fifty people around if they all fall in.

DMC meets erm....a butcher?

Viet Viet (A Far From Overdue Post)

I hate to admit this but I have been slacking. From the looks of it, I have joined the slackers clan - where the blogs get forgotten; the Twitter gets no updates; the news do not get read despite the RSS feeds and the once hectic life comes to a standstill.

Oh well, how many times do I get to be jobless and do nothing but sleep till 12pm daily, wake up and do nothing? Guess I should treasure this slacker lifestyle before I swing right back to the crazy corporate world.

So, as promised, I am posting up a brief of what went on in Vietnam. Honestly, I am not going to and I cannot do a proper write up of Vietnam because :

• When the history lessons on Vietnam were on-going in school, I was either sleeping or playing truant.
• Whatever that I had managed to absorb (when I actually sit in for that few lessons), were left behind in school when I graduated.
• When our tour guides were briefing us, I was more interested in the birds that were flying by.

Yes, I admit, I do have a learning disability. I take in things visually easier than via listening. Hence, the crazy amount of photos we took in Vietnam.

Here we go, follow us through our journey in Vietnam - starting from Ho Chi Minh to Da Lat to Nha Thrang and back to Ho Chi Minh.

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All geared up and excited about Vietnam.

Passports - checked. Boarding passes - checked. Off we go!

Arriving at Ho Chi Minh's international airport.

Lavender Hotel - accommodation for the first night at HCM.

A friend told us not to go too near this building as the guards will come with their guns.

Arriving at Da Lat's market. We bought winter coats in Vietnam.

Can you believe that?

A back alley we chanced upon. It was one of those old school back alleys. Beautiful.

Having our first meal the Vietnamese way - sitting on the low stools and eating at the low tables. Did I mention that there were cubes of pig's blood in these noodles? WooooOooooo!

The tour starts at the Prenn Waterfalls in Dalat.

Then we went on to see a much more nicer waterfall - Datanla Waterfalls.

Our holiday mates - Lawrence and Karen at The Crazy House.

Buddhist Meditation Monastery - I hope we didn't destroy the peace there.....

One of my favorite shots taken at The Valley Of Love.

Didn't I already said it's The Valley Of Love we are at?

The King and The Concubine found at The Summer Palace. I hope this photo spooked you out a little. I purposely touched up the color so it looks faded. One day, when we are old, we shall show this photo to our grandchildren and see what reactions they will come up with. Muahahaha!

Soaking at the Mineral Mud Spa.

Strolling by the beach at Nha Thrang.

First stop of our tour at Nha Thrang - the aquarium with not much fishes. But we had loads of fun taking pictures. Hah!

Sometimes, just sometimes, I like to pretend I am a mermaid and not a Dugong.

My baby's first attempt at para-sailing!

I thought this is interesting - we tried sea urchin for the first time. The sashimi and the porridge versions. The sashimi was perfect while the porridge was so-so. Now, you know what to order if you decide to try it, don't you?

On board Boat Trip No 4.

Can you see how happy I am? Cos I finally get to hit the sea!

Another one of my favorite shots taken by Lawrence. I am too photo conscious most of the time and it's nice to have something shot in a much more natural way.

And this shot marks the end of our tour in Nha Thrang.

It was back to Ho Chi Minh the next day.

Fooling around just before entering Cu Chi Tunnels.

This is the original size of the actual Cu Chi Tunnel entrance during war times.

See how my baby is struggling to get in?

Outside their General Post Office at 4.25pm.

Notre Dame - the one in Vietnam.

Coming back home. Obviously, we are not excited about coming home at all.

The surprise

I wanted to blog about Vietnam but thought everything should be in order. So instead of Vietnam (which will be coming up shortly), I thought I will give an update on the "Best Two" surprise first.

So, I made Ray pick out two sets of clothes that Saturday (and he doesn't suspect he is not coming home that night at all. *palmhead*), packed our bag and headed off to Rasa Sentosa. I probably got away easy cos he goes to Sentosa for volleyball every Saturday. Only when I got the cab to turn to the driveway of Rasa Sentosa then he started to suspect something was not right. Men - they can be very oblivious to what's going on at times, isn't it?

Anyway, thanks to Rasa Sentosa, we got 50% off the whole bill. From accommodation to F&B. And we got a free upgrade on the room! From Deluxe Sea View to Panoramic View Room! We got the discount because Rasa Sentosa was having a promotion and the upgrade was just a coincidence and not because I am some famous blogger who gets a discount everywhere I go (though I wish I am one). LOL

Everything was splendid - the room was beautiful, the toiletries provided is definitely something you will scream about, the view was panoramic and the seafood buffet was delicious.

My only complaint is the serving of the food at the Silver Shell Cafe where we had our seafood buffet dinner. The restaurant hardly serve enough crayfishes to cater for the crowd. When we reached the restaurant, we didn't see any. Somehow in between, Ray saw them serving it and manged to get a couple back for me. After fifteen minutes (half an hour before closing time), I walked back to the buffet line and saw that there were no more crayfishes served. Erm....so what's going on? The restaurant has no money to buy in more and could only afford to serve that pathetic few pieces? Well, then simply don't serve it. It's embarrassing when you are serving a buffet but yet cannot cater enough.

Well, I think I am getting nicer lately. The bitch in me actually didn't show her claws and scream at the manager. In fact, I smiled and say it's ok and we shall just go take a walk around (okay, I admit. I am not nice. I just didn't want our Two Months Anniversary to turned out fucked). Oh, not screaming doesn't mean I won't blog or Tweet about it. This blog post is appearing on Twitter shortly. I am turning into a nice bitch!

So, scroll on and enjoy the pictures of Rasa Sentosa. The next time they have a 50% promotion, go for it. It's a nice stay-cation for the couple or family but I definitely wouldn't pay full price for it as the costs will be enough for two to go to Bintan. Enough said.

Enjoy........

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Our Panoramic View Room (free upgrade..muahahaha!)

All kinds of toiletries. They even provide shower puffs!

You can't see the view from here but our balcony was overlooking the beach.

And we saw a male peacock courting three female peacocks by the pool!

Nice seafood spread but the budget for crayfish was not enough? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Ray's best Two Month's Anniversary. Of course right? It's with me can?

Good night, world. We are off to bed...

Back from Vietnam!

I am still alive! Just got back from Vietnam yesterday after traveling for eight days.

Not MIA-ing from the blogosphere but just resting and sorting out photos. Will be back in action in a couple of days. Watch this space for the beautiful pictures of Vietnam!

P/S : Love to you readers out there for the well wishes before I left. I survived the traffic and got back safe and sound!