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How I spent my Christmas this year.

First off, a very very belated Merry Christmas to all of you.
If you follow me on twitter, you’d know by now that I went to Hatyai with my friends for Christmas.
But that wasn’t me and fatty’s initial plan.

Weeks ago, he went to Singapore with his family for a day for some reason and he came back telling me that the streets on Singapore are all decorated with Christmas lights and tress.
He told me Singapore looks really beautiful and that he would want to bring me over for Christmas and of course upon hearing this I was mad excited.

We did some research and realized that it was quite costly for the both of us to spend our Christmas there.
And as you all know, it’s Christmas which means everything will be much more expensive especially the accommodation.
The cost for a room per night itself can already cover my Hatyai trip expenses.
Which explains my trip.

We were still deciding on where to go until Gavin came up with the idea of going to Hatyai.
And off we go, the eight of us.
We departed on the 23rd, Friday midnight after our super at Jalan Alor. The guys drove for seven to eight hours, all the way to Thailand’s border.

I think we reached the border at about 11am (I was busy sleeping).
We parked our car at the duty free car park and get a van to fetch us to our hotel.
Before that, we had to line up at the immigration to get our passports stamped and the amount of people waiting in line shocked us.
We were all like, ‘Fck do we really have to go through this!?’.
Then there came a savior or money-eater we called it.
He said for Rm20 per pax we would be able to stamp our passports immediately without having to wait in the line.
Greedy man!! RM20 is hell lot and we said no. We bargained and he agreed to Rm15 per pax.
Still a greedy man but we, the lazy men agreed to it.

After getting our passport stamped we told the van driver to bring us to a famous chicken rice shop which is just along the way to Hatyai.
I researched it on the net but I do not know what the restaurant is called. Also my friend told me that there is really a famous chicken rice shop and they said it’s good.
But I guess he brought us to the wrong one!


* There’s crowd in it and I thought, ‘YES’ because I’m hungry!


* Our sugarcane drink.

One thing good about Hatyai is that there are still some people who speak Mandarin/ Hokkien and that ease the trip a little.
None of us knows how to speak Hokkien except for Ben, so whenever we’re not able to communicate we would ask him to try to speak in Hokkien and see if they understand him.
Thank god for the fat translator.


* Very dry chicken. Seriously I think the van driver brought us to the wrong chicken rice shop. ):


* But the siu yuk is pretty good. Very crispy skin they have.

After our breakfast/ lunch we slept all the way till we reach our hotel at Songkhla.
Why Songkhla is because by the time we wanted to book our hotel in Hatyai town, it is already fully book so we’re left with no choice.
We stayed at Pavilion Hotel in Songkhla and the first thing we did upon reaching the hotel is sleeping like there’s no tomorrow after the very long ride before going out for dinner.

Take note: Do not book hotels in Songkhla if you’re not as desperate as we are because honestly speaking it’s a waste of time and money.
From our hotel to Hatyai town cost us about 500 to 600 Baht and it takes about half to one hour, depending on the speed of the tuk tuk.

The first tuk tuk we took to Hatyai town is mad slow and according to Gavin who sat in front, next to the driver, he only drove like 40 to 50 km/h. Not to mention that the roof of this tuk tuk we picked is extremely low, makes it hard for the boys to sit.
Hatyai’s tuk tuk is very much different from Bangkok’s. I did not take a picture of it but here it is, from google.


* Bangkok’s tuk tuks are motorbikes which maximum can probably only fit in 3 people but Hatyai’s tuk tuk is a van or mini lorry which can fit in about 8 people.


* Fatty looks like he’s lost, haha.


* Bff


* Alvin and his girlf Mai, camwhoring?


* Gavin and Zoe, the entertainer. :D

We walked around Hatyai town looking for a suitable restaurant for us to have our dinner.
Passed by one restaurant that has chinese words all around and is very packed with people but we figured that it might be very costly because they target people like us, tourists.
As we continue walking we saw another restaurant, ‘Hong Gei’ and the lady knows how to speak Cantonese, so this restaurant it is.


* Very refreshing guava juice.


* Something you must order no matter which restaurant you’re in, Tom Yam.


* Deep fry pork knuckle, extremely delicious.

Everything from that restaurant is pretty good, from their Thai steam fish to fry green leaves.
One of the best meal we had there.


* And THIS!! Is of course, our second best meal! Extremely large prawn!

We walked around the town after our dinner, giving it some time for digestion before we head to massage parlor.
We walked into one, somewhere around Lee Garden Hotel named Sawasdee and all of us went for Thai full body massage.
That is by far the cheapest massage in my entire life. 200 Bath per hour for a full body massage.
Oh you gotta be kidding me.

We all enjoyed the massage session especially fatty.
After massaging, we decided to take away whatever we can from the street and have another eating session at Mc Donalds.
Of course, one of the must do in Thailand is visiting their Mc Donalds because theirs’ are more awesome than ours’. Pfft.
Pork burger!
But this time, pork burger isn’t the champion.
I shall reveal at the end of my post.


* Durian sticky rice that I did not try. Durians over there are HUGE, just do a comparison with that white styrofoam in the picture.

After our meal, the alcoholics bout beer and off we go back to our hotel.
We picked a different tuk tuk this time, we picked one with speakers and we party our way back to hotel.


* That’s where the party begins.


* That’s Alvin, attempting suicide haha.


* Gavin, Zoe, Fatty and me. (:

Went back to hotel and it’s time for gift exchange.
I bought a pair of monster socks from Topshop and Alvin got mine, while I got the best gift of the day.
A Starbucks tumbler. Hehehehe.


* Look at bff, that’s her present. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

We end our night with laughter and cheap beers.
I should have just down some beers and sleep soundly but I did not.
I lay on bed feeling extremely scared (yah yah I’m afraid of ghost and I scare myself often wtf), so I just grab fatty as close to me as possible and keep praying.
Amitabha!!! Thank god nothing happened, I heard too many stories no thanks to people who told me.

The next day all of us woke up feeling oh-so-okay but that 40/50 km/h tuk tuk driver has to ruin our mood!
Not knowing where to eat I asked the receptionist and she wrote us the name of the restaurant just somewhere nearby our hotel.
We were reluctant to go for that slow ass tuk tuk at first but there wasn’t any more tuk tuk for us to choose from.
And this slow ass tuk tuk is seriously a cheater because he brought us to the wrong restaurant and that bloody restaurant is bloody expensive with food that is not even half as nice to begin with.
Kena conned! We were all so pissed at that tuk tuk driver, seriously.
He should have told us that he do not know where the restaurant is instead of just dumping us just like that.
But we figured the restaurant owner is his friend, pfft!!!

After our kena-con-lunch we went to a temple located at Songkhla called Chedi Thaimongkhon.
The temple is located uphill and we have to pay 30 Bath each for the cable lift ride.
Yes, not cable car but cable lift.


* That’s how we roll.


* Me and Zoe.


* By the beach.

No pictures of temple because I was busy praying and by the time I’m done with my praying it rained!! There were so much more that I have yet to explore but it rained! What on earth ):


* This is all I’ve got, hahahah.


* Kepala senget.


* Boyf #likeaboss.


* Some floating market it seems.

After our praying x raining session we went to Hatyai again to eat and to shop.
First we went to floating market but there’s nothing floating on that day because it rain.


* Fried quill egg.


* Would you like to try some!? Worms and more worms. Disgusting!

Shopping in Hatyai IS NOT FUN and it just makes me miss Bangkok even more! Rawr!
First they have ugly clothes or okay clothes, then their ugly clothes are really expensive comparing to Bangkok’s.
I can get a dress for 10 Bath in Bangkok but in Hatyai a top cost 20 Bath!
For reals!!???

It’s okay it’s okay, fatty said we’ll go to Bangkok together in the future because he knows how much I love that place! (:

Overall, Hatyai is quite a boring place but a boring place can still be fun when we have friends around.
The whole trip cost me 4000 Bath, it should be cheaper if not for the tuk tuk service from hotel to Hatyai town.


* Mc Donald’s Spinach pie, the best pie on earth I swear!!! MC DONALD Y U IS NO HAZ SPINACH PIE IN MSIA!?

Two Bangkok post here and here if you’d like to know more.

I AM MISSING THE SPINACH PIE ALREADY!!!

some leftover photos from last year

It’s the third day of a new year already!
insanely fast!

people has been asking me what’s my new year resolution.
normally every year i do have a list but maybe not this round, realising that i can never keep up to it.
not a list but i have one thing in mind.

* do not get easily affected by whatever others have got to say about me and stay happy.

you should know by now this is a very difficult task for me to do but no harm trying (:
he asked me why am i so easily provoke, i can never answer.
i don’t know either! i have no EQ, that’s it.
but i’m glad he’s here for me this time because my *akhem* bff is gone! GONE!
never mind, i shall meet her in four more months if all else permits. :D

here’s some remaining pictures from last year (:

#1 – Aaron’s birthday!
forced to cook for a few of us on his birthday at ginny’s house, poor thing. haha


* some salmon mushroom spinach thingy, taste kinda good :)


* ginny’s own-made for aaron.


* poor bruce, he don’t even have a proper cake blowing session, alvin using his lighter as candle.


* happy birthday balloon i bought him and i cant stop whacking him with it, hahaha.

2# – Christmas dinner with love at Neo (:


* if you notice, that aint my camera. it’s my brother’s, he passed it to me cause mine is always down with some shivering shit and please excuse my messy room.


* while waiting for our food (:
dinner was great. had foie gras with scallop, lamb shank, and something else that i couldn’t remember of :)

3# Christmas eve with taboo gang.


* hi there.


* vivien, alvin, susan and I went for dinner before the others join in for drinks.


* 3 emo scorpios. no, wait. it’s 4 including the emo cameraman :P


* love you baby :D


* love you too vv :D


* somebody let go tons of white helium balloons, and when the balloons was flying up the sky it looks like a bunch of sperms swimming hahaha.


* and while we’re snapping pictures this random kid walked up to vivien, showed her his puppy eyes asking for the helium balloon she’s holding. he just keeps telling vivien he wants the balloon HAHA! and we gave one to him. too adorable (:


* our second stop at Palate Pallete


* Ian was the first to arrived for second round. if you can tell i’m already red, thanks to the alcohol.


* Vv, susu, me and bruce.


* why are they sooooo cute!?


* the taboo gang with alvin missing. we’re cool like that we name ourselves the taboo gang because we played taboo wtf.

am really glad having these friends around me during christmas eve and my emo girls being there for me.
so much different from the way i celebrated christmas the year before.

4# New year eve
spent my new year eve at d’villa service apartment at ampang with taboo gang again. :D
me and ben went earlier because he wanted a swim but we didn’t stay in the pool for long.
the water was so so cold!


* while waiting for the others to gather at the apartment, nothing else better to do. (:


*while playing cards and why do i look so damn emo here U_U


* emo alvin and happy vivien.


* vivien and bruce (:


* cutie susan and daniel with a moon on his forehead.


* ben’s blur face after waking up for broga hill.

yes right. both of us potong-ed them by going to bed early and waking up after that to go climbing at broga hill.
these guys are still playing when we’re awake.
did not really regret going to broga hill but i guess i wont really go back again.
it’s a little too steep for me, i’m paranoid all the while when i’m trying to go up.
and we didn’t manage reaching the top. what a waste, i know.
another fail sunrise watching.

overall, i had a great new year eve.
especially the fireworks-watching-part. i love watching fireworks.
who don’t? it’s so beautiful. if only we can watch it nearer, it’ll be perfect.

did you guys had a great new year eve?
no idea what 2011 is gonna bring me, but i hope all is good. (:

Merry Christmas ♥

Merry Christmas ♥ !!!
How did you spend your Christmas?
Wish you guys have loads of fun.

As for me, I had Christmas dinner 3 days in a row (:
Gonna bbq with my secondary mates laterss.

I rarely had any christmas present in my life. Not to say none, but rarely.
And I got this for my christmas present this year! I’m so touch, words cant quite describe.
I hope the present I bought is as good as the present I receive (:

* at Neo’s.

* my emo girls and I outside pavvy (:

* Ian, Susan, Vivien, me and Bruce at Palate Pallete after dinner .

* Bruce on Bruce, me and balloons.

* Emo and I. he bought us the helium balloons :D

Cant wait to get the pictures from susan’s camera!
I’ve got so much to update!
Enjoy the remaining hours of Christmas and happy holidays lovelies.

Dear Santa,

christmas is drawing near.
so very near.

every year, i’ve been wishing for something from santa.
the same old thing. same old wish.
in fact that’s the only wish i ever wish for, be it during birthday, xmas, or even some god-knows-what-fountains.

and it kind of like hit me, there isn’t any point in wishing.
cause i’ve been wishing for years and nothing seems to come.
i just sort of like told myself to stop wishing, let it be and enjoy whatever I have at every moment.

seriously, there wont be any ‘dear santa, i’ve been a good girl this year bla bla bla..’
i haven’t been that good this year anyway. gonna leave that for my new year post.
but there’s still ‘dear santa’.


via: My Milk Toof

dear santa,
i don’t know what’s going on. no idea where this is all going.
but thanks for the big fat present! (:
never feel this bless for sucha long time.
for whatever that happened and bound to be happen, i’ll just try to enjoy every happy moments together.

i would give santa a hug if i could, bwahah.
cant quite wait for xmas dinner!! tonight, tomorrow night, and chirstmas night (:

bad romance

so for some reason, i’m not allow to upload these pictures which is taken on the 17th.
i’m only allow to post it on january but since january is only two days away…
so i don’t care larh, just post. bwahah :’P

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* such coincidence. i called the twins ‘eh, go zouk mou?’ and they replied ‘har? why all go zouk? i’m going later with my cousin.’ me: ‘ouhhhhh *big grin*’

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* that night was crazy. sooooooooo much fun, :’D

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* we went up to the podium. tsktsk :X

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* bumped into jimmy and liepeh. (:

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* thom looks good here. (: sigh, my camera is out of battery. this is from ee’s hp. T_T

and here’s some genting pictures. we went uphill on christmas day itself. (:

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* we walk around genting wearing our xmas headbands and hats. :’D

we went into firstworld casino. we went to this ‘big small’ table and i tried to guess. and most of the time i get it correct.
then the guys wanted to change casino so we went to another bigger one.
once i went in, i have this ‘lose’ feeling, wth. walk around, saw this cute game.
they put three dice in a bird cage look alike thingy and spin it. there’s number 1 to 6 on a dice, so we have to guess which number will show up. i guess a few times, and every time i got it correct.
so me and ee, we buy rm50 chips. rm10 per bet and guess what. we lose 5 times straight in a row. WTF!!!
tipu orang punya. stand up guess, correct. sit down guess, wrong. gg.com
pffffffffffftttttttttttttt!! no happy.

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* our president and president’s wife.

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* this is actually a testing shot. and look at the fog man. it is sooooooo cold, everyone is like freezing. remind’s me of europe’s weather during summer. the wind is crazy.

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* no flash allow due to the fog. jones went with us but he resist to take pictures. sot sot dei jor.

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* when we took picture, we heard dog barks. we look across the road and saw a very HUGE dog. those tall tall huge huge dog with a deep deep bark that kind. this one also sot sot dei, bring the dog to genting. some more keep barking at people like wanna eat people like that. hak sei yan meh :\

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* nice picture but what’s that thing at the bottom left? jones, lousy photographer.

after genting we went to petaling street for porridge. mmm (:

can you tell that i’m rushing my post.
i wanted to blog everything before new year comes.
i still have piao’s farewell and a few from estee’s birthday. gasp.

p/s: i start to use song title jor..

hi there turkey. it’s christmastime

christmas pictures!! (:
i’m gonna bombard this post with lots of pictures taken at the christmas party.

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* first picture, me of course. the reindeer (:

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* we work quite hard for this party and god bless, our hard work paid off.

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* me and the two good girls. with the stupid sofa.

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* high school zimuis. (:

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* awwww. the guys look so cute. bwaha

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* that’s our turkey babeh. we’ve got spaghetti, cheese bread, salad, and mix grill too which is really tasty. mmm

remaining pictures are from jayson’s camera.

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* me and wilson. why he looks so handsome here. :O

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* i’m one of the present. please take me home. :’P

i had lots of fun decorating the tree. and i love the lights. look at the presents under the tree. each of us have one. (:
spent quite a lot of time to hunt for pressies.

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* zimuis from college. (: look, we spray fake snow on the window. ngehe..

after our scrumptious dinner, all of us went to the living room for present giveaway session.
and the best present of all is…

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* …this! i saw this dick when we buy christmas stuff at petaling street and we decide to get this for jones. LOL!

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* then we went out and played with stick fireworks. :’D

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* this is my little brother. who went there straight from malacca after his flying lesson. he’s so tired. :\

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* (:

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* and then we jumped into the pool. lol.. we’ve got lots of activities.

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* i did not down liquor this time, surprisingly the water aint cold.

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* me sitting on ivan’s shoulder. first time doing that and i find it quite scary. after sitting on his shoulder for a few seconds, i said this to him. ‘i don’t want to play already, put me down. put me down. put me down!!!’ haha, damn lousy pfft.

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* the guys always drag twins down. kesian.

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* see. everyone seems so happy .everyone had so much fun and enjoy themselves. ((:

after swim swim. we take turns to change and bath. then lepak at the living room again.
as for me..

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* …this is what i do. bwahahah. i tell you the dick damn geli, soft soft one. :|

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* i ♥ the candles and the xmas tree behind.

the guys played game but i didn’t join them.
i snap more pictures. :3

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* took the stick fireworks, went into a room and taddaa.. i don’t even know what is that. fail.com :\

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* wanted to write merry xmas but the fireworks just doesn’t seem to turn out as i wanted it to be, so we changed to torchlight. there, merry xmas. (:

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* i’ve got six hands. :X

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* Hah! Ee, crystal, and me. so fun, i wanna play again.

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* like ghost like that.

i don’t know how many times i repeated myself but seriously!!
this is the best xmas party!!
decoration. head gears. food. presents. dj. music. fireworks. swimming pool. and most important of all, great friends.
better than zouk and poppy coz we don’t have to pack with the others. and become sardine. :X

where did you guys went for christmas? (:
..
gahh, there’s a burning sensation in my stomach. i ate tomyam just now at murni. :X
my stomach don’t feel very nice, hurhur.
i went snowflake two days in a row and ordered the same thing.
what’s wrong with me? but snowflake frozie damn nice can.
actually this is the only thing i’ll drink from there.
maybe there will be a third day in a row. coz i might be going to subang again tomorrow. :\

tsk tsk.
someone just reminded me how unhealthy i am for staying up so late almost every night.
i better get going.