it's Saturday. my favorite day of the week. surprisingly enough, i woke up at 7.30am as opposed to my usual 11.30am during weekends. so, we got out for breakfast at a nearby coffee shop.
i had:
- economy noodles + fried egg - kopi si peng - half roti bakar (forcedfully)
he had:
- economy noodles + curry + fried beancurd - teh ais - half-boiled eggs - half roti bakar
we hardly get to do breakfast together, so with food and a copy of The Star, we're happy weekenders :)
bf didn't sleep the whole night, so now he's asleep while i type this very boring entry. will have to wake him up at 12pm for his dental appointment at 12.30pm in Uptown and i will then have 1hr 30min to kill there. which is dangerous. places like Bangsar, Uptown and Kota Damansara are now killer places for someone who is abstaining from shopping till May 2008.
but. no harm with just browsing right? i think i'll give Sue a call right now. she lives opposite Uptown :)
bought over lunch break with Sue (who gotten herself, The Beatles Anthology, Michael Buble and Jet)
bought at RM48.90, which was originally priced at RM89 according to the salesperson.
currently at song #6. *love love love*
i'm a happier person already. tra-la-la ~~~~
Disc One :
01. Eva Cassidy - Yesterday [03:06]
02. Charlie Hunter & Norah Jones - More Than This [04:10]
03. Dianne Reeves - Both Sides Now [07:02]
04. Enzo Pietropaoli - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word [04:08]
05. Miriam Aida & Fredrik Kronkvist - Sunny [05:13]
06. Julie London - Fly Me To The Moon [02:34]
07. Nancy Wilson - People [03:42]
08. Cilla Black - Alfie [02:38]
09. Angelita Li & Hans Ulrik - Close To You [05:21]
10. Patricia Barber - A Taste Of Honey [04:29]
11. Sarah Vaughan - In A Sentimental Mood [04:05]
12. Dinah Washington - These Foolish Things [03:28]
13. Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind [03:27]
14. Lena Horne - Imagination [05:49]
15. Billie Holliday with The Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Trav'lin' Light [03:18]
16. Ella Fitzgerald - Medley: Candy / All I Do Is Dream Of You / Spring Is Here / 720 In The Books / It Happened in Monterey / What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry [06:42]
Disc Two :
01. Lisa Ono - Tea For Two [03:19]
02. Sanne Salomonsen - Smooth Operator [04:19]
03. Eartha Kitt - The Girl From Ipanema [03:04]
04. Eden Atwood - Fool On The Hill [04:08]
05. Melissa Errico - Never Saw Blue Like That [04:27]
06. Cassandra Wilson - Time After Time [04:07]
07. Jane Duboc - If It's Magic [03:43]
08. Silje Nergaard feat. Pat Metheny - Tell Me Where You're Going [05:23]
09. Fay Classen - What Are You Doing The Rest Of My Life [04:40]
10. Peggy Lee - I Left My Heart In San Francisco [02:23]
11. Liza Minnelli - Theme From New York New York [03:17]
12. Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow [03:31]
13. Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose [03:25]
14. Jan Lundgren Trio feat. Stacey Ken - I Don't Stand The Ghost Of A Chance [03:51]
15. Caecilie Norby - By The Time I Get To Phoenix [03:24]
16. Minnie Riperton featuring Jose Felician - Light My Fire [05:10]
*and obviously i did not type all the titles above! copy + paste.
she has just about 7 days more to decide what to get him for the Fourteenth.
you can forget about shirts, pants, belts, wallets, ties, cuff-links and even underwears coz those are Past Tense. here are some Present Tense ideas:
indulge the crap out of the boy. i.e Spa / Massage
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ok that's the only thing i could think of now but will cancel as well coz he ain't exactly the Spa-spa kinda person
she might. she just might send him flowers at his office. eek!
which reminds her, he is turning 30 in May. The Big 3-0. hello UNCLE TAY!
she has decided to put on the Organizer cap and throw him a poolside BBQ party at the residence. have to determine the guest list for now, decide on caterers, check on the booze stock at home and who can she hire to keep turning the marinated chicken wings throughout the night. and how much.
must refer to this particular participant in Amazing Race Asia Season 2 to get this:
girl i hope we get selected for season 3. boy mmmm. oh, you know what?! you become cacat la. got higher chance to be selected. hahahahhahhaha! girl *glare* boy oh i know i know! OKU! hhahhaahahahaha!
so bad i tell you. OKU = orang kurang upaya.
anyways, just for the fun of it, we agreed upon this IF we get selected.
car driving - at first i volunteered myself coz i can't read maps for shit but no, mr tay said no way in hell i am driving. so...
map reading - if we wanna win this, it has to be HIM reading the map only
road block tasks - him too! i mean, did you watch the current episode on the flying fox one?? i honestly don't mind the flying fox (in fact i'm thrilled!!!) it's just the mental arithmetics which is the killer one! again, you have to be watching the current season to understand what i'm talking about. i suck at mental calculations and the whole wide world knows that.
eat yucky stuff - have to be the both of us of coz
the application form is a tad too long and i am just beginning to fill mine. can't decide what to shoot for the video yet though.
I really really really wanna do this!
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angie says:
i mwiss you
d a v i d i a n i s m says:
i oso wiss u
d a v i d i a n i s m says:
haha
angie says:
pig
d a v i d i a n i s m says:
= babi
angie says:
i printed out 2 sets of amazing race app forms
angie says:
i have to set a deadline for us to finish everything. plus video
my blog will remain at this current page/entry unless Something Extraordinary happens to me.
Some Extraordinary Ideas:
being abducted by aliens (which is very much welcomed by yours truly. and possibly secretly wished by mr tay, to get rid off me)
being accepted to participate in Amazing Race Asia (hello, allan wu *wave wave*)
miraculously lost 10kgs (10kgs is about right. +/- during monthly bloating periods)
my plants start to sprout gold nuggets
suddenly awoke on a mundane Monday morning to discover that i have super power(s)
and speaking of super powers.
in the beginning, i thought Hiro possessed the greatest power among all Heroes. and so, i wanted that.
watching further, i realized, hey Claire's cool. she can never die! so, i abandoned the desire to bend time and space (teleport and freeze the world) and started to liken to the idea of immortality.
watching even further, i decided this, while lying on the bed last night, staring up at the ceiling and twiddling my thumbs.
girl hey, i don't want Claire's power la. boy mmm. why? girl i want Peter Petrelli's power instead. boy hahahhahaha! so tamak.
why settle for ONE power when you can absorb ALL the other powers without having to kill like Sylar?!
therefore, my friends... i am very much looking forward to Heroes, Season 2
p/s: any idea whose power i think is the dumbest of all?
Crabbie cracked me up big time on MSN earlier on. i laughed and laughed till i cry, then gave him a call and continued laughing like a mad woman. received stares from fellow colleagues around.
therefore, in that happy state of mind, i've decided to delete all the hiroshima + nagasaki portion of what had happened earlier. don't wanna pollute my 2008 blog with negative chi
so, it continues below...
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admittedly i got pretty mad. in a fit of anger, i banged on the poor keyboard numerous of times before remembering mr tay's advice to take 2 deep breaths (whenever i am about to do or say things i might regret later), which ended up with FIVE deep inhalations, took my wallet + hp, stepped out and met up with Chu Siang for lunch.
Pasta Zanmai. a relatively new restaurant at One Utama with a fusion twist between japanese and italian. i liked it. took me awhile to decide what to order because there were just too many choices. and for dessert, i had a green tea tiramisu, while Chu had a strawberry crepe. they even have green tea latte and green tea pudding, which i want to try next. i am digging green tea stuff lately, not quite sure why. lunch was on Chu, hehe.
and then, some guy messaged me on facebook complimenting my krabi pics. mentioned that he'll be going to krabi in march and he works in 8tv and he noticed that i worked just next door. asked me out for lunch / coffee to... 'tell me more about krabi and your trip'. signed off with his name and contact number. so weird right.
p/s: oh! oh! Chu said his gf Madeleine is also fed up with her boss and wants to open her own boutique! told him, me and her can collabo together-gether! wahaha!
p/p/s: at pasta zanmai, there was this lady sitting at next table to us. she's very powerful ya, she decides what shops get to be placed at One Utama and also she is in charge of all the Bandar Utama properties, so if there is any upcoming projects/houses, she is first to know Chu knows, coz he works in the same office as her!
we were both so worn out and tired from the past 2 days of activities that i actually had secretly hoped the guide would somehow forgot to come pick us up, and then we can complain and demand for refund. hahahahhaha.... very nasty, me.
but of course that didn't happen. the pick-up van came as sharp as 8.30am. day 4's itinerary looked pretty simple and less tiring:
- Hot Spring - Emerald Pool - Elephant Trekking
see! day 4's activities were just about splashing water around and be taken around like a queen on A Huge Mammal.
in the pick-up van on the way to the first destination
: Hot Spring :
40-42 degree celcius! don't play play! but apparently good for health
easy does it...
i had to dip myself in carefully, little by little, as there were lots of rocks around plus, the water was pretty hot!
the trick was to actually, just soak in and within 30 secs your body sort of acclimatize to the surrounding temperature.
roasting ourselves silly
human BBQ roasting pit
: Emerald Pool :
jungle trekking at the National Park begins here
be prepared for a looonggggg walk
omg, it was a looooongggggg walk before reaching this.
see the emerald green pool, not the boy. why garang face, baby?
all smiley again
but of course, i had to sibuk and get into the picture
this is where the actual EMERALD POOL is
it is naturally emerald green and not man-made k
so the guide dumped us all here to have a swim for like 40 min
: Elephant Trekking!!! :
*squels*
they were all quite busuk actually, same as phuket elephants, haha
ok. all elephants are smelly.
getting on Wat-na the Elephant must always know the name of your elephant
and sex. Wat-na's a betina
from this view, we could actually see the front elephants do the following:
- shit (HUMONGOUS shit!) - pee (2 huge buckets!) - trample down all the smaller trees - tear down banana trees (they LOVE banana trees! especially the soft young shoots inside)
boy eh you think their feet hurt when they step on the stones? girl how do i know la! you go ask them boy those guys should make shoes for them
the boy said it. not me k.
the boy said to look up but it was super glaring
helloooo
the Maharaja & Queen
after the ride, we got to buy bananas to feed them! at only 40 baht per basket, we bought 2 baskets - 1 for mr tay and 1 for myself *happy*!
mr tay feeding greedy Wat-na, who kept wanting more and more
i fed her too and got her saliva wetting all over my fingers it felt very geli actually
good girl, Wat-na can you see her smiling? i swear she was smiling when i touched her
she's still smiling!
not so smiley. so Wat-na preferred me! wahahhaha!
girl i think i wanna rear an elephant la boy everything also you want to rear. the last time we watched The March of the Penguins, you said you wanna rear a penguin. then, you saw this documentary on pandas and sure enough, you wanted to rear a panda. what else? also, forever want to rear dogs. somemore? piglet. i remember you said you wanted to rear a piglet. go build a zoo la. girl shaddup. you forgot dolphins.
: Dinner :
Angie's Spastic Moments #282
and then... it came.
*speechless* taking a moment before squelling in delight!
ordered yummy clams too!
mr tay's beef stroganoff and pasta
: day 5 :
just finished packing and about to check-out from hotel
we should be leaving to the airport soon, but "i still wanna shop!"
sure, no problem, says The Hand
i can't resist colorful thingies
at the airport checking in our luggage bags actually luggage bag. just 1. i was pretty good girl this time, packed really light
- the end -
Rating for this holiday: 9/10 - minused 1 point, coz we argued upon arrival and on day 4.
on day 3, we signed up for another package that toured around 5 islands including the very famous Hong Island.
same routine: wake up at ungodly hour (on a holiday) to have breakfast, scrambled around and got ready by 8.30am.
i don't function well early in the mornings
but for the camera, I CAN
and again...
we were actually waiting infront of the tour agency for our pickup to arrive to pick us up to the jetty
in the pickup van, mr tay trying to look matrix-cool
gorgeous old fishing ships at the jetty
looking very much like toys
in the boat heading towards our first island - Hong Island!
it was a long, bumpy and wet ride with water splashing at my laura-merciered face and mr tay's dr murad-spf20-sunscreened face
We Have Arrived!
this can only be done by the female
who else but, the male's work of art
i helped too.
i helped to collect sticks to be broken into smaller pieces to form words
KAYAKING TIME!
oooh, i underestimated the area and distance needed to be covered. i was so wrong! the journey started off really calm and easy but by the15th min, our arms were aching like crazy and at some point, the seas were getting really choppy that i really thought we would overturned!
amidst all chaos of a Drama Queen on board,"we're going to overturn and sharks will eat us and we'll all die!!!", mr tay tried his very best to stay calm and kept reminding me to, "stay near to the rocks. steer the boat towards to rocks."
a serene ride before the drama
even, mr tay managed to camwhore
ooo, i love going through holes like this
Angie's Spastic Moments #281
battle wounds and oh-so-proud of it
CAN'T YOU TELL ALREADY THAT I LOVE THIS SHIRT!
it's almost like the stuff i drew at facebook's graffiti, hehe!
purchased for only RM29 at purpledotz, bangsar
*loved*
: Episode Starfish :
slimy! ewwwwww
"stop hogging the starfish! let me have a go!" says him
"i wanna have a bite!"
bite, and you're never ever kissing me. ever.
[before]
[after]
Best Friends
- end of episode -
this is him, trying to act cool again la
and this is me trying to act 'lovely'
... more like, "the camera's this direction, stupid!" this was from day 3 actually just love the black & white effect on it
in 'lovely' mode again
fail.
guess which is mr tay? (hint: the one with the bigger butt)
: Episode Lala Girl and Lala Boy on Swing :
- lalagirl and lalaboy on self-timer and mini tripod -
- end of episode -
: Episode Tarzan & Jane :
off to another island!
lalagirl on BIGGER swing
what lalagirl does, lalaboy copies
in some jungle with a Miraculous Toilet Facility area, waiting for truck to pick us up back to Ao nang
back at Ao nang with, again, the infamous Energy Booster
banana + honey (my fav) and banana + chocolate
and the below are taken at Black Canyon Coffee cafe, after some cheap pad thai (30baht) + cold chang beer for dinner (tepi jalan stall)
an extremely tiring but fun day! on day 4, we deal with Elephants and Some Very Hot Water.
Episode Mr Tay Jumping Off a Cliff Despite The Gf's Disapproval
do you hate waking up early during holidays? well i do! but that's exactly what you've gotta do when you have scheduled ahead a full day's worth of activities.
there are various packages available for you to take up at Krabi. trust me, you NEED to take up some, else it's just gonna be yet another shopping trip like Phuket. so, on Day 1 upon arrival, we signed up for package: Full Day 4 Island Tour by Longtail Boat.
which covers:
- Poda Island - Tub Island - Chicken Island - Phra Nang Beach - lunch, fruit (pineapples and watermelon), water, snorkeling gear, etc
so, on Day 2 we dragged our asses up early for breakfast and got ourselves ready for the guide to come pick us up at 8.30am.
my very friendly webbed friend
the bag that mr tay hangs around him is super useful for beach! bought it at bali and have also lent it to mom for her langkawi trip 2 months back.
mine! all mine!!!
hello baby, what are you doing?
ohhh... my slave hard at work doing my mandatory names on beach sand thingy
this is Chicken Island there were no landing spots there, so we just circled around it looks like a chicken head, no? hehe
chicken & us
he was looking for nihon-jins again!
what to eat when you've used up so much energy for snorkeling and running around the beach?
Thai Pancakes of course!
chunky peanut butter and banana + honey (this is the best i tell you!)
bought a cowgirl hat
colorful M I N I M A R T
we asked the locals for a good place for dinner and were directed to Sala Bua
... and that was day 2. tiring!
we took another package for day 3 and it was hell a lot more tiring as it involved kayaking. but fun!!!
Chu knows, coz he works in the same office as her!
