2012?

2011 年的最后一天了，怎么办？

微不足道的成就感

我学会了在路上礼让的精神。换言之，胆子也许变小了。

如果能站在路边为打包2包炒粿条而等了45分钟，让我更想挑战自己的忍耐力到了哪个境界。



两个不同层次的小事，两个不同领域的成就感。

Merry Merry Christmas

Cake Popssssss

Hi Santa

Chicken little

Many says that if I were given a chance, I would have chosen the alternatives. Should I have the chance, again, it might prove how trash I am.

So chicken. 2011 has not been that great.  

1 December

A joyful evening having our awesome Korean dinner at Daorae while chit-chatting and simply bullshitting nonsense and we even filled ourselves with two kimchi hotpot just because we couldn't get enough of it. From teasing one of us who recently gained so much weight, to how horrible my maid was and her epic stories, it was a great night filled with our laughters. 

I think it's all about fate. 

If we were not that close to tease the message... 

If we have read the message earlier... 

If we knew the bola session is cancelled...

If we have stayed longer in the house...

or if we left earlier to meet the guys... 

If it wasn't raining... 

If one of us was sitting at the passenger's seat... 

If we weren't using that road...
If the car wasn't lost control...

or even, 

If it wasn't a City...

Everything could have been different.

Too much if that weren't answered but till we learnt it ourselves. It wasn't easy seeing people you are so close to bleeding on the spot with a minor short term memory lost and another one is splitting in blood. All I need to do is calm. One had to undergo a jaw surgery on the next day and one had a lung injury and thankfully is well after CT scanning and God bless me more I only had a swollen chin and aches all over the body. 

Truly, they are very important persons in my life and I know this friendship is worth maintaining for life. Even if they might be childish at times, or even at all times, and the sarcastic & vulgar communication we usually have, to me it's the sparks of our friendship. I love the way we are.

God bless us for keeping us safe. I am grateful and I am thankful 因为我们活蹦乱跳的日子还是持续不变。

缘分。注定.

The Reunion

中秋

The festive that I've been longing for so long and finally I can be home to celebrate this year. So much I've missed for the past 3 years...

But looking at the amount of mooncakes we have at home, I think every festive means to make you fat.

The Long Neck Karen

Long Neck Karen - is it a tourism spot or not, it seems (most likely) to be frankly. You know, a tourism spot that aims to gain from the visitors (but which tourism spot doesn't huh.. ), a place that tends to look real yet it's too commercial to be true.

I don't wanna be mean.. first.

I think this old lady is 52 years old. "The men in the village are working in Myanmar now," said her. We were told that their mythology explains this is to prevent animals from attacking in the village them while the men went for hunting.

To my surprise, *click* accidentally googled this fact - In fact the appearance of a longer neck is a visual illusion. The weight of the rings pushes down the collar bone, as well as the upper ribs, to such an angle that the collar bone actually appears to be a part of the neck! 

Spot the huge earrings on this old lady despite the striking custom of the neck ring. She told us that she had the earring on since she was 5. This can't be fake I suppose but at 5 her ears wouldn't fit such a huge one right. Ok it might be from a smaller one to a huge one today as what we have seen. hmm.. but sometimes you might come across some people on the street has such a huge earrings on too at these days. 

They said they sew the scarfs. Half half to be trusted, at least they show us what they are doing. Apparently goods are all imported from China nowadays especially the souvenirs sold at the tourism place.

And this wooden bridge is a 'separator' for them?! They are not to leave the village because they basically don't have citizenship of the country and.. they can't remove the neck ring or the removal will lead to death as the neck muscles have been severely weakening over years for not supporting the neck.

Unless we were visiting their real village like this.. at least it looks more real to me, exploring their real life... 

But what we actually visited in the Long Neck Karen is a well organised site with stalls building up connecting each other selling varieties of souvenirs, from handcraft long-neck statute, to long-neck keychain, to bookmark, to bamboo cups, to pouches and handmade scarfs and etc.

I am not prejudice but this twins attract most of the eyes I guess and they make most money out of all stalls, most probably. Everyone takes photo with them and kindly buy something from them too. But they are really pretty, aren't they? :)

Oh and they have a grocery store outside the village - water, pepsi coke, coffee or beer, anyone?

300 Baht per person for the entrance fee to the Long Neck Karen. If there isn't any organization behind this, where does the money go? And how do they transport the souvenirs/goods here?

Yet to be known, or take it easy.. they just live as what we've seen. And there were kids in the village with hands without fingers. They need our sympathy, no doubt it's still heartbreaking to see that. 

But things are funny when one of the uncle in our group softhearted-ly gave a 100 Baht note to a kid, in a blink of eyes a bunch of kids were running towards the uncle. The world is so damn realistic, everyone recognizes the money note. Lol. Instead of money, we should have bought some snacks  or food for them, which is more realistic. Even a little candy will make their day.

At least this little boy poses for the camera :)

Say hi to the world out there!

Herng's birthday

Celebrating bestie's birthday is a bless ❤

2010

Sydney

2011

Home

You have us, we have you

A short trip to Cameron Highlands is the best getaway for everyone. You get to go crazy with the bunch and chilling at night with the cold breeze, bbrrrrr.. and at the end you realized the trip is too short.

Sunflower that is biggest than your head

We came across this huge huge sunflower at Kea Farm while waiting for the others to arrive. It's even bigger than Zaolon's face, imagine it. Lol.

and the macam-macam flowers which I only know the Hibiscus and.. the Lady's shoe at Rose Garden.

BOH Tea

To me the highlight of the photo is the kid, not the adults. :)

Sweeeet 

Bidding goodbye with Rachel

She is the main reason we made the trip to Cameron instead of somewhere else. How supportive we are, coming all the way from Penang, KL and Singapore.. just for this reunion.

Ipoh

This is how dramatic the group is, bonded 11 years ago and it continues indefinitely.

Okay.. isn't the trip too short? :)

Fragile

Just came back from KL. Witnessed an accident, live. Safeguard security van banged on a Honda Insight.

Bang... and the guard flew out from the van.
Flew, LIVE.
And on the ground.
And reds. 
And he barely moved a little.
And traffic congestion.

Flew. wth. Live. wtf.

Fasten your seat belt please, everyone. This is not funny.
It doesn't cost you anything for the seat belt because it's paid.
It's not paid for not utilizing it.

God bless the guard.

Fam Love in Sydney

Blowhole Point, Kiama

Nobby's Beach, Newcastle

Somewhere in the Royal Botanical... Park?

Papa Baron and Mama.. Kiama

hello :)

WOooOOps!

Fam Love

Graduation Take 2

The Quadrangle.. everyone's dream.

With the tax professionals!

The siblings

Lunch buddy & I :) Thanks Gee for the flower and the Swarovski pen!

The girls - Xinyun, Grace, Joe and Meizhi

Grace & I, the buddy that we attended all same courses in the 1st semester!

Happy Family :) In front of the Law building, the most significant and extraordinary building.

Happy Graduation to myself :)

Colour My Life!

... love ❤

❤ cute buddies ... 

Now I can really tell the differences..

Between waking up in the morning with munching a bun on the way to the office and occasionally waking up in the morning to have a satisfying breakfast. And, having mask at home and surfing net while waiting to meet my lunch date at a Thai restaurant later. 

 But.. I had tonnes of paper to write, and I've nothing to worry about at the moment, literally.

Don't worry this will just last for 10 days and I will back to reality in a glimpse of eyes. And I'm not sad but happy, this is the weirdest part of all.

Ciao.. I will be late for the lunch date! Oops..

The Koh Lipe Trip

I almost became a chicken and gave up this trip when I read on the newspaper re the flooding news everywhere up north the peninsular to Hatyai. We really shouldn't be a chicken because we are born as human, not chicken! That's why I'm not typing using chicken feet. Crap. 

I will not forgive myself if I ever missed this and tell me I can miss this only if you can show me there's somewhere in Penang that's comparable to this.

All thanks to this great leader!

Chong Chi

We knew that this trip must proceed no matter what because no one knows when will be the next one. This was planned about 7 months ago when I was still in Sydney.  Extra-advanced planning needed because everyone had a hard time applying leave. Oh working people. But.. it turned out only 8 of us went instead of 10 as planned.

Cindy & Jolene

I woke up at 4.30 in the morning, thought we were meeting up at 5. This is bad if you're sleeping early (not really early, only 4 hours before the departure) before the departure because you wouldn't get to see the last message posted on the wall shifting the meeting time an hour later so what you got was woke up and waited for an hour. Lesson learned - don't sleep 'early' or ask someone to update you the changes if there's any after you hit the bed, at least you get to ignore your alarm clock for an hour.

Gim Teik

After a loonnnnng journey, at least 6 hours I guess but it wasn't that bad because all we did was chatting like we haven't met for ages plus the motion sickness that shut Chia Bin's mouth for hours was the most hilarious part. 陆上一条龙，海上一条虫！

Chia Bin

Chang Yee

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hang Sing

We came across this place that looks like the pirate's place when we were looking for the Sunset Beach. But no one was there, only a dog that we could see.

Big Jolene & Small Joe-Lene

We were saying, when will be the next one? If we have less commitment...