I'm really starting to treasure the evenings at home, watching tv and all, though I know it's a passive activity. But hey, it spurs me to do stuff too kay, and I gain knowledge from watching it.
For instance... Destination Most Wanted!
Bryan Wong really made me yearn for more travel trips man. He introduced me to hydra island in greece and burano island in venice!
colourful houses in burano, venice. tales were told of housewives painting their homes in different colours so that their husbands can find their house when they came back from the seas. haha. i want a purple one! And if you ever go there, please buy their laces, as venetian laces are of high quality and usually handmade! :)
it's a photographer's paradise indeed. small island, takes about half an hour to circle the perimeter, but beauutifulll!
say hi to hydra island in greece! it's near athens (3 hours boat ride), which explains the popularity AND the expensive housing prices there. Also, it's uniqueness lies in having absolutely NO cars (or motorcycles for that matter) in it, with a population of 2500 to 3000 people living in a serene, breath-taking place whereby everyone's super friendly and perpetually in a happy mood always. who wouldn't? hahaa! it's a painters and artists heaven as they flock there to rekindle their creativity and to gain inspiration. The slow pace of life is also reflected by them walking everywhere (I'll lose 5 kg living there for one month) and I love the bakery guy. He's so funny in the show. :D oh and they use donkeys to carry heavy goods around. keke how cute!
goodness I just blurted out all these from memory. I'm falling in love with hydra island!
don't you just wanna pop over?
and since it is a harbour, there's bound to be fishes, and here comes the cats! siew this is for you. hahaha!
I'll be patiently waiting for the day I step foot on the two of you! heh. oh yeah, derrick and siew, these two places are DEFINITELY on our to-go list for 2012 kay. oh, we can catch olympics too. :D
Okay, back to Singapore, our sunny and sweet little island we call home :)
my week's worth of adventures!
backtracking from last sunday's morning run with kairu and an evening MOF dessert meetup!
mattchazen. i still can't get over my fear of red bean haha
strawB! we talked and planned our perth trip and exchanged so many stories on travelling heh! but i think your most traumatic experience is really quite extreme. if I ever experience sth more extreme i'll tell you too kay haha! hopefully not!
blissful just thinking about my trips :)
green tea milkshake! it's my one fave item on the menu =D
Donuts mania
I met lala twice last week! hahaa we've been seeing each other often eh :D because something is gonna be launched soon! Do check out mykindofcard.blogspot.com on 12 April yeah!
we attacked 24 mini donuts from JCo! $10.50 for a box, you can gorge yourselves with it.
artistic shot taken by lala :)
i look funny. =/
"huh? what's that?"
it's a miniature spongy clay donut made by lala especially for me!!!! thank you =D i'm really touched! it's sitting on top of my barren coin box now. hahaa
and... we polished the entire box! heh. that's effectively our high sugar dinner
can't wait for our shop to launch!
Joyce's belated celebration
finally!! joyce's present reaches the rightful owner instead of collecting dust in my cupboard. wear it often yeah! :D
we love the queen and mangosteen pub :) i tried samples of the archipalego beers. surprisingly they go down quite well considering i'm not exactly a fan of beer. =/
it's always so interesting to meet you cos you have so many stories and updates for me! haha. but don't dwell on it too much, and don't make yourself unhappy over it yeah. accept people for who they are and don't be swayed by certain people! hahaa ok i'm biased
their toilets. whacky, i like!
*hugs* good luck for your exams! stay focused!
Shopaholic movie with lala plus midnight chats with lala and mavis :D
Shopaholic movie is quite nice, gives you a tingling feeling after watching it. haha. luckily it didn't really gives me the urge to shop =P the plot is quite extreme but i like the way romance developed between her and her beau. :) i think her best friend looks a bit like anne hathaway though.
so, after our 6bucks movie at filmgarde @ iluma, we popped over to the newly opened arcade that is half-filled with catching machines (what do you call them anyway?)! ohoh there's a ice cream machine and i saw TONS of b&j ice cream tubs inside! it's like a huge fridge full of ice cream. there's magnum too i think.
the balloons are very attractive! :)
now you can see our faces haha
wanwei, for you! :D
it's super duper huge, and I broke the law cos I crawled in to take the picture heh
bestie, for you! pika? kachu! though i doubt you'll ever see this. haha!
pooh: help. i'm stuck
eeyore: i'm no where better. and my head is bigger than yours.
tigger: i need to bounce! i can't bounce!
FYI: you have to use the toy-catching mechanism to push the soft toys down in order to "catch" it. so it's like reverse catching. a bit silly, cos no one bothers to read the sign on the right (and ended up trying to "catch" it the normal way, and it's just downright impossible to do it.
maybe the smiley will stand a higher chance since it's flat. doesn't this make you cheery all of a sudden? haha!
flutter flutter. some random deco i found in the arcade
*growls* *snaps*
carebears! it's found in the comics connection-like shop
and so we met mavis at night to have a late-night chat at her condo's poolside, and it was a really nice end to the day :) we poured out our concerns, worries and got some opinions on certain things. quite interesting! such chats are nice once in awhile. :)
a day of walking around seah street
ah! i just remembered i met siew last sat cos we went for an interview at Timbre for the beerfest asia. and I was just notified that we are selected! =D not sure of my job scope yet though.
I went to the dentist at amk polyclinic before meeting siew to check on my wisdom teeth and got a referral to do surgery to pluck them out at jurong medical centre. haven't got around to calling them yet though. =P but the dentist helped me to remove some tars from my teeth and boy, i feel so much happier after the dental trip, like as if I did rebonding. heh! it just feels nice having clean teeth again :) you guys should make a dental appointment soon!
had lunch at manhattan fish market :) thats the prawns platter and fish &chips! i love the sauce that comes with the prawns *swoons*
the afternoon was spent lurking in popular bookstore at bras basah looking at travel guide books and entertaining ourselves with pictures of love hotels in japan. we are looking for interested investors to open a love hotel in singapore, any takers? hahahaha!
moving on... we chanced upon this wonderful street named seah street, which has always been around but I usually don't take notice of it. and there's so much gem in it! it's like stepping into a different culture and timeline with every unit i passed. =D
First, there is the mint museum that has a collection of toys from the past decades with a cute little cafe downstairs
a painting on their wall
it always amazes me how people can create such stuff
after that, there is this traditional chinese medicine shop, and then a pub, and then a modern chic clothing shop that is beside a old dialect association, few more pubs, a mushroom hotpot restaurant from taiwan, and.... naumi hotel!!!
small luxury hotel that provides 5-star services. :) their reception is very friendly, so I managed to get her to give us a tour around the hotel heh! their rooms are very spacious considering the small space they have, and it's really very inviting! gosh i will definitely stay there if i have the chance. or if i have friends coming over for business or sth, i'll recommend this to them :D you can even play Wii for free in your room! not that any self-respecting businessman will be caught dead playing Wii, but you never know!
their pool that reaches the edge of the building and unhibited views that just makes you feel like you are at the top of the world. such a great feeling :D
so after enjoying the superb hospitality brought to us by naumi hotel, we went to esplanade to catch a band playing there with tzu qun too :) i still can't remember the name of the band to this day though i've seen them play twice... one of the members is a friend of tzuqun and siew.
yep, here they are! they have a damn good sense of rhythmn i would say... but need to work on changing the tempo and feel of some songs. they are getting too similar. haha. i like clockwork though! could hear myself humming it the day after. hahaa
but it's an amazing feat to be able to play at the outdoor stage, so kudos to you guys!
whoa. i can't believe i actually finished posting everything. no bad at all *self-satisfied smile* can't wait for thurs! it's a long weekend this week :)
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