Monday, October 06, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I'm Smiling Again
I've not been blogging for the longest time already. Time really flies when u are trying to focus on things that really matter. Over the past year... I've been really busy with many things. I've started 2 new jobs, picked up new hobbies, learnt new skills, rediscovered an once neglected passion and I feel that I have grown up as a person. Of coz, I've been busily distracted by someone very important in my life. And recently she's been asking me to revive this blog of mine.
I'll try as much as I can to share the on-goings in my simple life with you, my friends. Not too sure how many of u are still checkin back on this blog tho. Haha~
K... its time to zzz. Gotta long day ahead at work tml. Cheers!
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Lost In Cooking Land...
I've been gone for a very long time. This is what I've up to. =)
Recently I've been dabbling in cooking and baking with Ru in the kitchen quite a lot. Here are some of the stuff that we have made so far...
Chicken Pie
Koniyakku Jelly
And our most successful product to date....Killer Super Yummy Cupcakes!
It looks super yummy right? Well, if anyone wants to order any of these, just drop me a message! =)Thursday, September 06, 2007
Too Busy To Blog...
I have not much to say recently. So I've come up with some words of wisdom for everyone to ponder.
No Worky = No Money
No Money = No Honey
No Honey = No Happy
No Happy = No Lifey
U agree?
Monday, July 23, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Sad, Lonely, & Overworked *A Cry for Help*
I'm slogging my ass off cheonging work... and my gf is not around to listen to me whine. *sobs* Need a hug badly right now. Someone pretty please bring my baby back from Teluk Intan!!!
Monday, June 11, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Save Ur Bloody $$$ (Looted Off Nicky's Blog)
Advice to All You Graduates: Let's Start With That Daily Latte . . .
By DAMON DARLIN
Published: June 10, 2006
This is the season for giving advice to graduates as they enter the workplace. Instead of listening to yet another recitation of the usual admonishments to "change the world," "carpe diem," or "wear sunscreen," those graduates — unless they are already trapped on the nonpaying internship hamster wheel — need to hear how to manage their paychecks.
Parents may have tried this. And many will undoubtedly send this article to their children. But, dear graduate, before you wad this up and toss it next to the keg still sitting there from last week's party, consider this: If you think it is tough living on very little now, imagine what it will be like when you are old and sick.
Surveys say most of you already suspect Social Security will not be around after mom and dad deplete it sometime during your peak earning years. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 61 percent of Americans 18 to 29 years old favored a system of privatized retirement savings accounts.
Let's start with the easy stuff first.
Make your own coffee You probably know you spend a lot at Starbucks, a company that collected $6.4 billion from coffee drinkers last year. You probably don't have any idea how much of that total came from you. A calculator at www.hughchou.org/calc/coffee.cgi let's you figure that out and also forecast how much you will spend over a decade of coffee breaks. (This Web site contains a treasure trove of financial planning calculators.) Say you spend just $3.50 every workday for your latte. If you drank the free office brew instead, you'd have more than $11,500 to play with after 10 years.
Does coffee shop coffee taste better than the free stuff? Probably, but ask yourself, do you want to live in a roach-infested studio apartment with two roommates your entire life?
By the same logic, if you smoke, now is a good time to quit. Doing so will save you on average $25,600 over 10 years.
Learn to cook Unless you have learned the art of sneaking into conferences at hotels to snag a breakfast croissant or cocktail-hour shrimp, you need to reduce your dining budget. A twice-a-week kung pao chicken takeout habit can easily drain you of about $10,000 over 10 years.
At the very least, learn how to pack a lunch. Taking your lunch to work may seem like the equivalent of sitting with the nerds in the school cafeteria, and going out to lunch with colleagues can sometimes be a smart career move. But bringing your lunch lets you be more choosy about who you are eating with and saves money. How much? Back to the online calculators (www.hughchou.org/calc/lunch.cgi) and you'll discover that the savings could be as much as $23,000 in 10 years.
The tally so far: $34,500 (for the nonsmokers), or enough to make a down payment on a $172,500 house. That won't get you much in most big cities, so you really need to exert yourself.
Pay yourself first If you do everything suggested so far, you haven't had to sacrifice much except perhaps a regular lunch with the office jokers. Now, prepare to sacrifice.
Set aside 10 percent of your paycheck in a savings or brokerage account separate from where the rest of your money goes. You'll be less tempted to spend it if it is hidden away there, unattached to a checkbook or an A.T.M. card. If your employer has direct deposit of paychecks, your paycheck can probably be directed to different places.
Here comes the tough part. You are going to squirrel away this money in addition to the pretax money that you take out of your paycheck to save in the company 401(k). Only 31 percent of workers 18 to 25 participate in a tax-deferred 401(k) retirement plan, according to a recent survey by Hewitt Associates, an employee benefits consulting firm. The others undoubtedly assume that they'll get to it later. About two-thirds of workers 42 to 59 have money set aside in a 401(k).
There is an important reason you want to start early, even though it hurts. Say you withhold $375 a month for your 401(k). In 40 years, you'll have $750,000. But those who waited a decade to get started would have only $377,000.
And guess who delayed? Mom and dad. The average amount in a 401(k) is less than $60,000, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade association of retirement fund companies. Generation X isn't in any better shape. A study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that 49 percent of those born from 1965 to 1972 won't have enough money at retirement to maintain their standard of living.
Another bit of advice: Stick the money in the broadest stock index fund offered by your plan, not bonds and not a money market fund. Sure, the markets may stumble at some point during the next 45 years, but history has shown that they will rise over a period that long. You take risks when you are young.
Ignore your raises Every time you get a raise, and you'll get them because you are working hard instead of spending money you don't have, pretend you didn't get one. Bank the entire amount.
Over time, you'll start spending the money. It's human nature. But you'll start spending it more slowly. You'll keep the car another few years. You won't immediately move to a new apartment. All that helps money to accumulate.
By this point, you may be screaming: "I can't afford to do this. There will be nothing left for me to live on. Have you seen my student loans?"
A few words about those loans. The government will make its annual adjustment of interest rates on existing student loans on July 1 to reflect recent increases in all interest rates. Consolidating your loans at a fixed rate to lock in a lower interest rate is one possibility, but you need to calculate if the longer time frame of such loans — and the greater overall interest payments — offset the savings from the lower interest rate. (You can't consolidate consumer loans or credit card debt with the student loans.) You can always pay a loan off early once your salary increases.
Now, back to the hectoring. Having less to spend can help you spend less on frivolous things and save for worthwhile causes. Having less will also make you work harder to get more. If you are comfortable, you get complacent.
Don't borrow to buy depreciating assets Almost every consumer product from an iPod to a sofa is worth less the moment you buy it. You are just paying extra for it with a loan. Borrowing, by the way, means taking out a loan, buying it on installment or using your credit card when you don't have the money to pay off the balance. If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
An exception is a car, which may be a necessity that would be out of reach otherwise. One option to consider is a used car coming off a dealer's lease. They tend to be driven carefully and there are a lot of them thanks to recent incentives from manufacturers. Keep the term of the loan short to minimize cost. The latest edition of the Consumer Reports "Buying Guide" lists the most reliable used models, including the best ones for less than $6,000 like the 2002 Saturn SL sedan and the 2000 Toyota Echo. The guide also includes the less reliable models like the 2002 and 2003 Mini Cooper and the Volkswagen Beetle from 1998 through 2004.
Protect your credit Eventually you will have to borrow money for a car or a home. If you want to pay as little as possible in interest, you want pristine credit. So make yourself a credit card company's worst customer: pay your bills on time and never carry a balance. No exceptions. To help avoid temptation, use no more than two credit cards. Try to find one that gives you rewards — airline ticket rewards or cash — for using it, but still won't charge a fee for that privilege.
Another technique to cut down on incidental expenses is to train yourself to use the A.T.M. only once a month. Take out enough cash to get you through the month, and when you run out of cash near the end of the month, stop spending. Don't grab for the credit card.
Now go out and seize the day. And wear sunscreen.
By DAMON DARLIN
Published: June 10, 2006
This is the season for giving advice to graduates as they enter the workplace. Instead of listening to yet another recitation of the usual admonishments to "change the world," "carpe diem," or "wear sunscreen," those graduates — unless they are already trapped on the nonpaying internship hamster wheel — need to hear how to manage their paychecks.
Parents may have tried this. And many will undoubtedly send this article to their children. But, dear graduate, before you wad this up and toss it next to the keg still sitting there from last week's party, consider this: If you think it is tough living on very little now, imagine what it will be like when you are old and sick.
Surveys say most of you already suspect Social Security will not be around after mom and dad deplete it sometime during your peak earning years. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 61 percent of Americans 18 to 29 years old favored a system of privatized retirement savings accounts.
Let's start with the easy stuff first.
Make your own coffee You probably know you spend a lot at Starbucks, a company that collected $6.4 billion from coffee drinkers last year. You probably don't have any idea how much of that total came from you. A calculator at www.hughchou.org/calc/coffee.cgi let's you figure that out and also forecast how much you will spend over a decade of coffee breaks. (This Web site contains a treasure trove of financial planning calculators.) Say you spend just $3.50 every workday for your latte. If you drank the free office brew instead, you'd have more than $11,500 to play with after 10 years.
Does coffee shop coffee taste better than the free stuff? Probably, but ask yourself, do you want to live in a roach-infested studio apartment with two roommates your entire life?
By the same logic, if you smoke, now is a good time to quit. Doing so will save you on average $25,600 over 10 years.
Learn to cook Unless you have learned the art of sneaking into conferences at hotels to snag a breakfast croissant or cocktail-hour shrimp, you need to reduce your dining budget. A twice-a-week kung pao chicken takeout habit can easily drain you of about $10,000 over 10 years.
At the very least, learn how to pack a lunch. Taking your lunch to work may seem like the equivalent of sitting with the nerds in the school cafeteria, and going out to lunch with colleagues can sometimes be a smart career move. But bringing your lunch lets you be more choosy about who you are eating with and saves money. How much? Back to the online calculators (www.hughchou.org/calc/lunch.cgi) and you'll discover that the savings could be as much as $23,000 in 10 years.
The tally so far: $34,500 (for the nonsmokers), or enough to make a down payment on a $172,500 house. That won't get you much in most big cities, so you really need to exert yourself.
Pay yourself first If you do everything suggested so far, you haven't had to sacrifice much except perhaps a regular lunch with the office jokers. Now, prepare to sacrifice.
Set aside 10 percent of your paycheck in a savings or brokerage account separate from where the rest of your money goes. You'll be less tempted to spend it if it is hidden away there, unattached to a checkbook or an A.T.M. card. If your employer has direct deposit of paychecks, your paycheck can probably be directed to different places.
Here comes the tough part. You are going to squirrel away this money in addition to the pretax money that you take out of your paycheck to save in the company 401(k). Only 31 percent of workers 18 to 25 participate in a tax-deferred 401(k) retirement plan, according to a recent survey by Hewitt Associates, an employee benefits consulting firm. The others undoubtedly assume that they'll get to it later. About two-thirds of workers 42 to 59 have money set aside in a 401(k).
There is an important reason you want to start early, even though it hurts. Say you withhold $375 a month for your 401(k). In 40 years, you'll have $750,000. But those who waited a decade to get started would have only $377,000.
And guess who delayed? Mom and dad. The average amount in a 401(k) is less than $60,000, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade association of retirement fund companies. Generation X isn't in any better shape. A study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that 49 percent of those born from 1965 to 1972 won't have enough money at retirement to maintain their standard of living.
Another bit of advice: Stick the money in the broadest stock index fund offered by your plan, not bonds and not a money market fund. Sure, the markets may stumble at some point during the next 45 years, but history has shown that they will rise over a period that long. You take risks when you are young.
Ignore your raises Every time you get a raise, and you'll get them because you are working hard instead of spending money you don't have, pretend you didn't get one. Bank the entire amount.
Over time, you'll start spending the money. It's human nature. But you'll start spending it more slowly. You'll keep the car another few years. You won't immediately move to a new apartment. All that helps money to accumulate.
By this point, you may be screaming: "I can't afford to do this. There will be nothing left for me to live on. Have you seen my student loans?"
A few words about those loans. The government will make its annual adjustment of interest rates on existing student loans on July 1 to reflect recent increases in all interest rates. Consolidating your loans at a fixed rate to lock in a lower interest rate is one possibility, but you need to calculate if the longer time frame of such loans — and the greater overall interest payments — offset the savings from the lower interest rate. (You can't consolidate consumer loans or credit card debt with the student loans.) You can always pay a loan off early once your salary increases.
Now, back to the hectoring. Having less to spend can help you spend less on frivolous things and save for worthwhile causes. Having less will also make you work harder to get more. If you are comfortable, you get complacent.
Don't borrow to buy depreciating assets Almost every consumer product from an iPod to a sofa is worth less the moment you buy it. You are just paying extra for it with a loan. Borrowing, by the way, means taking out a loan, buying it on installment or using your credit card when you don't have the money to pay off the balance. If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
An exception is a car, which may be a necessity that would be out of reach otherwise. One option to consider is a used car coming off a dealer's lease. They tend to be driven carefully and there are a lot of them thanks to recent incentives from manufacturers. Keep the term of the loan short to minimize cost. The latest edition of the Consumer Reports "Buying Guide" lists the most reliable used models, including the best ones for less than $6,000 like the 2002 Saturn SL sedan and the 2000 Toyota Echo. The guide also includes the less reliable models like the 2002 and 2003 Mini Cooper and the Volkswagen Beetle from 1998 through 2004.
Protect your credit Eventually you will have to borrow money for a car or a home. If you want to pay as little as possible in interest, you want pristine credit. So make yourself a credit card company's worst customer: pay your bills on time and never carry a balance. No exceptions. To help avoid temptation, use no more than two credit cards. Try to find one that gives you rewards — airline ticket rewards or cash — for using it, but still won't charge a fee for that privilege.
Another technique to cut down on incidental expenses is to train yourself to use the A.T.M. only once a month. Take out enough cash to get you through the month, and when you run out of cash near the end of the month, stop spending. Don't grab for the credit card.
Now go out and seize the day. And wear sunscreen.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Allergic To Caffine?
I get twitchy... Got a blinkin headache & I lose my appetite. How?
Could I realli be allergic, coz it'll be so sad. Is that why I always get an adverse reaction when I eat chocolates? =(
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Turning 25
This year, I had many surprises for my birthday. I was not really expecting much this year coz I'm not too much of a birthday person. But I guess things just turned out pretty nice this year!
First of all... Ru went to Taiwan for a few days and came back with this realli limited edition Gloomy Bear!!! I somehow had the feeling that she would get me a Gloomy of some sorts. But this one is realli realli special. ^_^
First of all... Ru went to Taiwan for a few days and came back with this realli limited edition Gloomy Bear!!! I somehow had the feeling that she would get me a Gloomy of some sorts. But this one is realli realli special. ^_^
This Gloomy can turn its head around,it can transform from the cute Gloomy to the scary Gloomy
with blood on its face.
Next on the list, I was scheduled to receive a birthday voucher from Capitaland from Xiaoxin, Zen, Tabby & Dan. But I happened to chance upon this pair of limited Adidas NBA Superstar Originals that I had to buy it on the spot as the store only had one pair that fits my shoe size! Thus I promptly asked my dear friends to sponsor me this new pair of shoes. Hehe~
Side Profile of My New Shoes!!!
Back Profile of My New Shoes!!!Up next was a Major Major Surprise! I was scheduled to meet Xiaoxin & Zen for dinner before Ru and I went to catch Spiderman 3. I thought that we were just going to have a normal dinner but oh boy, I was in for a major surprise! When we met, Xiaoxin whipped out a big bag and told me to check out what was inside the bag. To my mega mega surprise, I saw many really sweet looking cupcakes sitting in an alluminium tray. Xiaoxin hardly cooks anything at all, so it is really a very very rare and touching gesture that she actually baked cupcakes for me!!! So gan dong!!! Xie xie Xiaoxin!!! HUGzzzzz T_T
See, She even spelt out, "Happy Birthday"!!!Ru had long planned to bake a Cake for me, just that she has always been procrastinatin. And now that Xiaoxin has baked cute cupcakes for me, she has no choice but to finally carry out her plans to bake me a Birthday cum "Delayed" Valentines Cake for me!!! Wahahahahaha.
So sweet lor~ She baked till 1am in the night so that she could give the cake to me the following day. Baka to all those dear friends of ours who always say we Tian Mi Mi. How not to Tian Mi Mi when my other half likes to cook/bake such nice & yummy, Tian Mi Mi food for me to eat! =)
I can see all my friends freezing to death at this very moment! Wahahahahh~
So sweet lor~ She baked till 1am in the night so that she could give the cake to me the following day. Baka to all those dear friends of ours who always say we Tian Mi Mi. How not to Tian Mi Mi when my other half likes to cook/bake such nice & yummy, Tian Mi Mi food for me to eat! =)
I can see all my friends freezing to death at this very moment! Wahahahahh~
This is the cake that Ru baked for me!She says its an Orange Buttercake.
I say its fucking delicious!!!
Anyone wanna place orders just drop me a line. ^_^
Me Enjoying My Cake!
Ru Enjoying My Cake!Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Sweat!
I've just finished taking a nice cold shower on a warm afternoon. And it really pisses me off that taking a shower in Singapore to cool down is really pretty much useless.
Why?
Becoz within minutes, I was sweating beads of sweat once more! I have a fan that is blasting at me and yet I am still sweating. I really need to stay in a fridge or something. I really do not understand why my folks at home do not like the idea of installing air conditioning at home? It does not need to be the entire house. Just the bedrooms suffice.
But what do they say? They don't even bat an eyelid when they say no. Gossh! It is so sad to be lying in bed at night, tossing and turning, hoping that it will rain so that the air around me would be cooler. While I toss and turn, the air starts to get humider by each passing moment and it reaches a point where I would be on the edge of bringing my pillow and sleeping beside the open fridge door!!!
I bet I'm not the only one who has noticed that the weather in Singapore has become more humid. Mother Earth is dying and she's gonna bring us down with her. At least please let me die in an air conditioned room?
Why?
Becoz within minutes, I was sweating beads of sweat once more! I have a fan that is blasting at me and yet I am still sweating. I really need to stay in a fridge or something. I really do not understand why my folks at home do not like the idea of installing air conditioning at home? It does not need to be the entire house. Just the bedrooms suffice.
But what do they say? They don't even bat an eyelid when they say no. Gossh! It is so sad to be lying in bed at night, tossing and turning, hoping that it will rain so that the air around me would be cooler. While I toss and turn, the air starts to get humider by each passing moment and it reaches a point where I would be on the edge of bringing my pillow and sleeping beside the open fridge door!!!
I bet I'm not the only one who has noticed that the weather in Singapore has become more humid. Mother Earth is dying and she's gonna bring us down with her. At least please let me die in an air conditioned room?
Friday, April 27, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Krabi!!!
It's almost a month since I've been back from Krabi. Been too overloaded with work, that's why I ain't got the time to upload my pixs. Now that I have a bit of time on my hands, I'll throw everything up online!!!
Day 1
On the first day, I think we all had to wake up at 4am and get our arses out of home and head off to the budget airport. Think our flight was 740am so we had to be there abt 2hrs in advance just to be safe. Damned, I was so excited coz, Me being the country bumpkin, I'd never previously taken a plane ride. So it was my first time!
Thankfully the flight went alright and we got window seats coz we being Kiasu Singaporeans walked really fast so that we could get to the front of the queue! Whahahahha~ But still there was enough window seats for everyone.
Taking a budget flight was indeed a unique experience. The stewardress were... different, the seats were uncomfortable, the ride was slighty bumpy, but still we got to Krabi safely. So I'm not gonna complain that much.
After touchin down, it took us 15mins to clear the counter before we could finally make our way towards the exit where our resort staff were waiting for us. We had to take a transfer on a mini-van to the jetty where we took a longtail boat that brought us to our resort in Railey Beach.
After we checked in & settled down, we decided to take a walk around and bum on the beach to enjoy the nice sun and sea by the beach. Zen and I had an eyefull as there were MANY topless women wading in the water or sunbathing on the beach! Lolz!!! Luckily our gfs didnt really give us disapproving looks and instead they stared at how massive their boobies were. Xiaoxin even mentioned that most of the Caucasian women there had J-Cups!!! J for Jugs!!!
Haiz, it was such a nice nice start to our holiday! Lolz, doubt i'll ever see so many topless chicks in a day ever again. *Ru's so gonna kill me for this! Lolz*
After the bumming and frolickin in the water for a bit, we started to get hungry and started lookin for lunch. Honestly, the food in Krabi seemed to have a personal vendetta against me. Almost everything I ordered tasted either woefully average or plain awful. Thankfully the first day was a good day and most of the food was good.
After lunch, I think we retreated to our rooms for a while to shower up and to zzzzz. After the afternoon nap we decided to go to Ao Nang to shop. On our way there, it started to pour like crazy and thus Me and Zen had to get drenched while the gurls took shelter under the one good umbrella that we brought along.
We spent most of our time haggling in one shop and Zen showed how good a negotiator he was when he managed to bargain down the shopowner until the fella wanted to strangle him! Hahaha~ But ultimately we got our stuff and 2 makeshift raincoats for Me and Zen!
Think we didnt stay too long at Ao Nang as the rain practically spoilt the entire shopping trip and we headed back to Railey before it got too dark. Afterwards, we had dinner and headed back to our rooms to Zzzzz...
Thankfully the flight went alright and we got window seats coz we being Kiasu Singaporeans walked really fast so that we could get to the front of the queue! Whahahahha~ But still there was enough window seats for everyone.
Taking a budget flight was indeed a unique experience. The stewardress were... different, the seats were uncomfortable, the ride was slighty bumpy, but still we got to Krabi safely. So I'm not gonna complain that much.
After touchin down, it took us 15mins to clear the counter before we could finally make our way towards the exit where our resort staff were waiting for us. We had to take a transfer on a mini-van to the jetty where we took a longtail boat that brought us to our resort in Railey Beach.
After we checked in & settled down, we decided to take a walk around and bum on the beach to enjoy the nice sun and sea by the beach. Zen and I had an eyefull as there were MANY topless women wading in the water or sunbathing on the beach! Lolz!!! Luckily our gfs didnt really give us disapproving looks and instead they stared at how massive their boobies were. Xiaoxin even mentioned that most of the Caucasian women there had J-Cups!!! J for Jugs!!!
Haiz, it was such a nice nice start to our holiday! Lolz, doubt i'll ever see so many topless chicks in a day ever again. *Ru's so gonna kill me for this! Lolz*
After the bumming and frolickin in the water for a bit, we started to get hungry and started lookin for lunch. Honestly, the food in Krabi seemed to have a personal vendetta against me. Almost everything I ordered tasted either woefully average or plain awful. Thankfully the first day was a good day and most of the food was good.
After lunch, I think we retreated to our rooms for a while to shower up and to zzzzz. After the afternoon nap we decided to go to Ao Nang to shop. On our way there, it started to pour like crazy and thus Me and Zen had to get drenched while the gurls took shelter under the one good umbrella that we brought along.
We spent most of our time haggling in one shop and Zen showed how good a negotiator he was when he managed to bargain down the shopowner until the fella wanted to strangle him! Hahaha~ But ultimately we got our stuff and 2 makeshift raincoats for Me and Zen!
Think we didnt stay too long at Ao Nang as the rain practically spoilt the entire shopping trip and we headed back to Railey before it got too dark. Afterwards, we had dinner and headed back to our rooms to Zzzzz...
We've arrived at Krabi Airport and we're looking pretty good despitethe early morning flight and serious lack of sleep!
Ru & Me mucking around in the MiniVan on our way to the Jetty
Our taste of being on a Tut-Tut!!!
Xiaoxin & Me on the Longtail Boat
Ru & Me on the Longtail Boat
It was low tide and the boat couldn't get us al the way to the shore.So they got us a little pickup to drive to where we were and picked us up! ^_^
One of the many pretty standard views in Krabi.*I swear, this rock looks like an evil face screamin in pain at night*
I believe this was my orange juice! Looked damned shiok!
My fave food, Chicken In A Basket! Lolz~
We went to Ao Nang and it friggin started raining.So Zen and I got some makeshift raincoats from a store that
we spent a good 30mins bargaining over various items!
Of coz the gurls were nicely sheltered by umbrellas.
The Standard Thai Fried Rice... Lots of prawns.Day 2
We spent most of our time that day Island Hopping. I don't realli remember how many islands we hopped to, but we sure did have a lot of fun! In the morning, we even had time to muck around on the wooden horsies outside the cafe.
I loved the snorkelling part of the trip but it was such a pity that Zen and Ru couldn't join us as they were both non-swimmers. Zen tried to snorkel with the lifejacket on but it was still quite dangerous for him and he ended up drinking a fair bit of sea water before he called it quits. So at the end of it all, Xiaoxin and I spent most of the time snorkelling while poor Zen and Ru had to stay on the boat.
Speakin of which, we realli enjoyed being on the boat as it sped across the open seas! Wah... the feeling is just plain shiok man! Anyways, by the end of the day, we were pretty spent and tired and I think I was so tired that I don't realli remember what we did already!
My Ru is so cute while Xiaoxin charms the pants off the rocking horse. Lolz~
My lame attempt to be a jockey.
Apparently, I'm too tall and overweight for the job!
Cutesy Poo Horsemen/Horsewomen Horsing Around~
Neigh~ Neigh~
Who made such lovely patterns on the beach?
It's this cute little crab!
I loved the snorkelling part of the trip but it was such a pity that Zen and Ru couldn't join us as they were both non-swimmers. Zen tried to snorkel with the lifejacket on but it was still quite dangerous for him and he ended up drinking a fair bit of sea water before he called it quits. So at the end of it all, Xiaoxin and I spent most of the time snorkelling while poor Zen and Ru had to stay on the boat.
Speakin of which, we realli enjoyed being on the boat as it sped across the open seas! Wah... the feeling is just plain shiok man! Anyways, by the end of the day, we were pretty spent and tired and I think I was so tired that I don't realli remember what we did already!
My Ru is so cute while Xiaoxin charms the pants off the rocking horse. Lolz~
My lame attempt to be a jockey.Apparently, I'm too tall and overweight for the job!
Cutesy Poo Horsemen/Horsewomen Horsing Around~Neigh~ Neigh~
Who made such lovely patterns on the beach?
It's this cute little crab!
Our Favorite Shot of the Holiday!
Xiaoxin & I going snorkellin~
Picture Perfect.
It's such a beautiful place, I'd go back there again!
Zen buryin Xiaoxin in the sand on "The Beach".This was where a certain Mr Di Caprio shot that famous movie on.
Day 3
DO NOT GO ON THE FUCKING FOUR ISLAND TOUR! IT IS A FUCKING WASTE OF BAHT! We wasted our morning by going on that stupid tour. Haiz... We could have gone to Krabi town to buy fish crackers lor! T_T
But we got to frolick in the waters by the beach with HUNDREDS of fishies... and that was a pretty surreal experience!
After the crappy trip, I taught Ru how to Lindy Hop in our room and she picked it up realli fast!!! Amazing, she managed to cover the entire Lindy 1 syllabus in abt 30-45 minutes!!! Den after that we went to slack and waited to Xiaoxin's frens to arrive in Krabi so that we can have dinner together.
While waiting to have dinner, Ru and I went around the beach shooting pixs for an hour or so before we finally met up with everyone else to have dinner. And after dinner, we retreated to our rooms to shower before heading over to Xiaoxin & Zen's room for beer. I tell u, I am so ashamed to admit that I got wasted on 1 pathetic bottle of Hoegaarden. Lolz! Looks like Beer does not work for me! So please do not give me any beer as it makes me totally wonky!
But we got to frolick in the waters by the beach with HUNDREDS of fishies... and that was a pretty surreal experience!
After the crappy trip, I taught Ru how to Lindy Hop in our room and she picked it up realli fast!!! Amazing, she managed to cover the entire Lindy 1 syllabus in abt 30-45 minutes!!! Den after that we went to slack and waited to Xiaoxin's frens to arrive in Krabi so that we can have dinner together.
While waiting to have dinner, Ru and I went around the beach shooting pixs for an hour or so before we finally met up with everyone else to have dinner. And after dinner, we retreated to our rooms to shower before heading over to Xiaoxin & Zen's room for beer. I tell u, I am so ashamed to admit that I got wasted on 1 pathetic bottle of Hoegaarden. Lolz! Looks like Beer does not work for me! So please do not give me any beer as it makes me totally wonky!
Morning On Railey Beach!
This Cute Kitty is not so innocent!
This was an uneasy truce between these 2 kitties.(They started fighting after I stopped shooting them!!!) OMFG!!!
This was one of the few good things that came out from the Four Island Trip !
Longtail Boats docked by the beach
Shoot and shot!
Ru comtemplates the thought of leaving Krabi.
Funky Hippie Plays Friskbee by the Beach!
Frolickin In The Sunset!Day 4
We realli didn't want to go home. The moment I came home, I started working liao. Poor Louisa had to pick me up from the airport and rush me home to do work. Boohoo~ =(
I dowan to go home!
Our last meal in Krabi!
Nicey nicey clouds to send us home!Flyin Charleston
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