it came and went

14 August 2009 – two thousand five hundred and fifty seven days of togetherness.
it was our 7th anniversary. how time flies!
8 months ago i had imagined to myself that this day might be the day when i receive a diamond ring.
heh. the wish didn’t come true. in fact, we didn’t even celebrate the day with gifts, like what we used to do for the past 6 years.

but it’s ok! i wasn’t disappointed at all.

instead, we spent a long weekend with sheena and jackson in genting. jackson drove us all the way up, and back again! where to find such a selfless pal? so we spent most of the time gambling. wahaha…. no shopping, no rides – just eating, gambling, eating, gambling, sleeping and gambling again.

as usual dearest and i didn’t have much luck but we still enjoyed ourselves a lot.

we returned home on sunday and then at night, dearest and i went to harry’s at chjimes and watched the first liverpool match in the latest epl season. i have decided to join dearest in being a liverpool fan. hahaha… finally, like after 7 years! well, liverpool lost. but it’s ok. they are a strong team.

and today, i was on unpaid leave and dearest and i went to topone. guess what? we got ourselves like really high on martell. in the afternoon! hahaha… so we went home by evening time and crashed out.

after about 2 hours’ sleep, dearest woke up and went to the toilet. when he came back, this really hilarious conversation took place:

D: 我们的 dice 赢多少？
K： har？
D： 我们的 dice 赢多少？
K： aiya， 不要 talk cock lar
D： 我没有
K： talk cock leh
D： 我们躺在这里可以拿多少钱？

at this point in time i finally realized that dearest wasn’t joking
the conversation carried on for a little while before dearest himself realized that he was talking nonsense
and then we had a really really good laugh over this

die, my dearest is becoming a gambler! hahahaha…

Desaru 5th to 6th July

i’m back!

desaru is a great place for… doing NOTHING! wahahaha…

it’s ok, i’m not complaining because i gathered as much before heading to desaru. i didn’t mention earlier but this trip is made with one sole objective – to sleep for a minimum of 10 hours, as advised by mr chua.

the reason why i chose desaru is because it’s probably the cheapest place. or so i thought. i was misled by the ultra cheap accomodation @ RM120 per night. but everything else is expensive!

just in case any of you guys wish to head to desaru to nua, try the website holidaycity.com. based on my research it has the cheapest accommodation at pulai desaru beach resort. RM120 (regardless of weekday or weekends) per night inclusive of free breakfast for 2 pax. i indicated that i wanted a king size bed, and we were given a huge room with king size bed + a single bed! cool! there’s a balcony too!

but the downside is, everything else is expensive. the return ferry tickets cost S$64 for 2 pax. and 2-way land transfer costs RM46 per pax.

it was a really do-nothing trip but dearest & i had no complaints as we had lots of time to relax. we basically just swim in the pool, play table-tennis, eat, watch TV (there’s channel 8 & U!) and SLEEP!

see the dark clouds? the whole sunday afternoon was rainy. luckily we weren’t into sea sports or it would have been very disappointing.

and here’s a cheery pic of dearest, soaking in the pool while the sun is still bright. cheeky face…

in the evening we paid a driver RM70 (expensive!) to bring us to sg rengit for seafood dinner. the dinner cost us RM179! but that’s because we ordered lobsters. hahaah… the restaurant was featured in channel U but we find that it is overrated.

back at the hotel, we watched tv in bed around 8 plus. by 9 dearest fell asleep, which pissed me off a little cos i was supposed to be the one sleeping for 10 hours, not him! i slept at 10pm eventually and woke at 8.30am. mission accomplished for me! but dearest surpassed me – he woke up later than me, and then continued to sleep again from 10.30am to 12 noon. sigh…

frankly, while there is really nothing to do there, i don’t mind going back to desaru again, especially if we could drive up ourselves. spending RM120 to sleep and swim… not bad… relaxing…

and, i can’t thank tracy enough! for being kind enough to drive us to and from the changi ferry terminal! thank you!

with this trip, let us look forward to better days ahead! HOORAY!

Penang Trip – 27th to 28th June

better late than never… here comes the entry on our long awaited Penang trip.
the trip to Penang was supposed to be (at least to me) a havoc durian tasting trip. but alas… it was not meant to be. nevertheless, the 4 of us had lots of fun – with food, driving on tiny roads full of bends, and visits to temples (and… my poor useless tummy full of shit – no kidding!)

let me start off with a complaint – the next time any of you takes air asia, don’t bother to check in online and print out your boarding passes. why? because when you are at the airport, you will still need to queue up to have your passports checked, which is, fair enough… except that the queue for online check in is longer than the one for counter check in! and the dumbest thing is, after you show them the boarding pass which you have printed out, they keep the boarding passes and issue you with new ones! DUH!

random pictures taken at the changi airport, all of us still sleepy…

with advice from alfred, we decided to rent a car for our 2 days trip, and i’ll say, it was good advice! we’ve had a lot of freedom driving around, stopping as and when we feel like it to grab food, and not to mention the thrill (for the 3 drivers, not me) of driving up and down winding hill roads, which can suddenly change from 2-way lanes to 1 single lane – at a bend! wooo… that was scary (for sheena, i believe)

and here’s our car – a dark purple proton persona, and one of the drivers… heh. the indian guy at the top left hand corner was the staff from hawk-rent-a-car who was pretty friendly and had a shock when dearest took his picture.

and of course… must show you guys the FOOD!

there was penang laksa (duh… by the way this is my fav of all!), char kway teow, lor mee/prawn mee (jackson! i am very sure you ordered prawn mee, not lor mee!!), curry mee, mctucky fried everything (chicken skin, sotong, fish, chicken meat, etc), apom, oyster egg, bak kut teh, fish bee hoon, fresh tropical fruits, durian (not so good), etc… YUMMY!

we went to the toy musuem which cost us RM20 each (for non-malaysians). i was quite excited about it… until i stepped in. the whole place was a maze of display shelves with hundreds of small little toy figurines locked behind glass panels. if you ask me, it’s not worth the money. but then again, i’m not one who loves toys, so i’m not the best person to comment

and… i’m not writing this in sequence, but the first place we went after collecting the car was the snake temple. despite being given directions by the indian car rental guy, we weren’t that confident of finding the place until jackson pointed out “there! ular! ular means snake”. LOL. so we found the place.

contrary to what was shown on tv, the snake temple isn’t that huge, and doesn’t house that many snakes. but it was still quite cool because it seems like dearest is not as scared of snakes as i thought he was.

so it was a quick tour for us, some photo-taking and off we go to head to the sunway hotel.

we also visited the tropical fruit farm where i had my mini disaster of diarrhea immediately after eating the ‘fresh’ tropical fruits. so much so that i had to miss half of the guided tour. the saving grace was that the toilet has a long water hose so that i can clean myself up after every… erm… ‘burst’ (?). haha…

the uncle who was bringing us around for the guided tour was chinese, but spoke in english with an accent. on and off, the guys try to talk to him in mandarin or hokkien but he always replied in english. makes me wonder why. he wasn’t the sort to make jokes but was friendly enough to answer our questions. he was quite pissed off at another indian group who didn’t want to join in the tour though. ha…

we also went to the air hitam dam. just for fun because we were running out of places to go to

it’s like this huge reservoir with a small dam in the center. we walked all the way inside to go to the man-made waterfall, only to find that the area is off-limits

another temple visit – the reclining buddha. it was not easy finding this place. we had to stop and ask for directions a few times.

when we finally found the place and stepped in, dearest held my hand and said “do you feel it? it’s so peaceful here i have goosebumps all over me”. at that moment, i felt… touched… and held his hands tighter. he’s my love.

and another temple:

there’s a really sweet story here, but i won’t share it for now. heh…

and beaches of course!

and here’s the various busy scenes of gurney drive, the famous tourist place with all the delicious food, esp the penang laksa!

and last but not least… the place with the good bak kut teh… except that we didn’t like the taste very much…

ok ok ok… i know this entry is not exactly that exciting. but that’s because it is almost 2 am right now and i have a ferry to catch early in the morning. yes! dearest is bringing me to desaru!

got to sleep…

batam 1 day tour

dearest brought me to batam for a 1 day tour on christmas day!

in the penguin ferry to batam, and dearest playing patapon during the 45 min ride.

rainbow bridge – doesn’t look anything like a rainbow huh… haha

these are taken at a Buddhist temple. dearest said that he felt very peaceful  – i dunno why but i felt touched hearing that.

these are taken at a taoist temple.

this is where we had our seafood lunch.

and a silly random photo of dearest. haha

maybe because we didn’t stay at a resort, there isn’t much to do or see at batam. apart from the pictures above, the other times were spent buying polo ralph, tidbits and kueh. haha… but i was glad for a tiny getaway… definitely beats staying in singapore and wondering what to do for the day. and most importantly, dearest and i spent good time together!!

couple dating @ Genting

alrighty… an update on our trip to genting, as promised.
advanced warning: lots of pictures!

*pls wait for the pictures to download*

we arrived at genting around 2.30pm, after lots of sleep on the long coach ride. dearest didn’t sleep the night before so he actually slept all the way from SG to genting! so we reached and had to queue to arrange for hotel check-in.

first world hotel – where we stayed for 2 nights.

we spent the afternoon romping around the hotels and shopping areas. thought can buy some lovely shoes and clothes but ended up with nothing. i guess sheena and jackson are pretty bored. then it was evening time and we went to this place called mushroom farm, where the main attraction is not mushrooms, but rather good and cheap chinese food.

so yeah, we had sizzling tofu, french beans, pork and african fish! haha… dunno where the fish is from lar, but that’s what they call it. all these and 2 bottles of carlsberg for RM111.80! which converts to S$47 for pax. S$12 each – is that cheap or what? we swear we’re going to eat this again the next day.

took some pictures while waiting for the free ’shuttle bus’ to take us back to first world. it gets really cold at night! which explains why we were hugging each other in all the pictures!

after dinner, we headed for the casino! played french boule – a game which dearest and i were hooked on the last time we were at genting. unfortunately, this time round lady luck wasn’t with us and we lost money.

then we went to coffee bean for a cold coffee in the cold weather, sitting in cold smokey fog. woooo….. shiok!

day 2 – early morning at 7.30am. see how stoned dearest look? haha. we were at the lift lobby waiting for sheena and jackson. it’s a day of theme park, so we got up early, suffered the coldness and bathed, wanting to head to the theme park early.

started with silly children rides.

then took some silly and lame, ultra-tourisy pictures

the brave couple was ready to conquer the corkscrew roller coaster. the last time i went on it with my sister several years ago, i was so terrified i actually teared. haha. so no more roller coasters for me.

we went for a boat ride. was supposed to be a leisurely cruise, enjoying the weather and relaxing. but the pampered ladies let the poor guys do all the work of paddling and so the ride was ended quickly because their poor calves can no longer take it. haha… we took pictures of each other using our cameras, so i only have pictures of sheena and jackson to share – mine and dearest’s pictures are still with them.

and when we get bored, we go for food! 4 of us bought 1 tiny piece of grilled sweet potato to share. and ended up taking silly pictures! haha… cute or not?

then dearest went to buy ice cream. having ice cream in the cold feels great!

this is the bumper boat. all of us love this a lot. you just turn round and round in the water and attempt to bump others and make them all wet. with the exception of the picture of dearest, which was taken by me, the rest of the pictures were taken by dearest. so there he was, trying to maneuver towards us to take decent pictures, but ended up being bumped by sheena, with lots of water splashed onto his face! hahahaha…

ok, this horrible looking ride. i forgot the name of the ride but it basically goes up and down really quickly, at great heights. as usual dearest and i were too chicken to try it and the dare devils went ahead instead. according to them, it was so fun, and probably the least scary one among the thrill rides. hmm… frankly i don’t believe. hahahaha… how can it be? anyway, i wouldn’t dare try. chicken chicken chicken…

my love attempting a 鬼遮眼. i’m terrified or this too! it took me a lot of courage to let go of my hands and hold them up in the air. oh dear, what happened to all my guts?

more tourisy pictures

we took these pictures on board the big red bus. there’s more silly group pictures. will put them up once i get them from sheena.

we spent like half a day at the theme park, and kinda got bored with it even though we didn’t try all the rides. went to grab a simple lunch and headed back to the hotel for a short nap. recharge for the night! because we were going to the casino again to 大开杀戒！

sheena taught us some ‘tricks’ (nothing illegal hor! not cheating) to bring luck at the casino. and it works! 2nd night at casino was profitable. haha…

but we know our limits. so we didn’t play for a very long time. instead we took a break and went to catch the match between liverpool and stoke city. the match was screened at an auditorium kinda place. the atmosphere was pretty good, with liverpool fans cheering away. too bad the score didn’t justify the efforts which the liverpool players put in.

after soccer, it was casino again. oops… do we sound like gamblers by now.

guess what we did on the last day?

yeah right. spent our last couple of hours making money… in the casino. haha… the guys didn’t have much luck but the gals were doing great! sheena has got a sugar daddy, sugar mummy and sugar brother – strangers who placed bets on her cards consistently and won like 20 games in a row. sugar daddy even tipped her! RM25. but she ‘helped’ him win like RM4000! both of us also combined powers and won like RM150 together.

and finally, the short holiday has got to come to an end. picture taken while waiting for the coach.

i miss genting. miss the weather. miss sleeping next to dearest, snuggling beside him to keep warm. miss waking up next to dearest early in the morning in a freezing room. miss the good and cheap food at mushroom farm. miss the relaxed feeling. miss chilling (literally) at coffee bean. miss not feeling the urgency or need to check the time (i didn’t wear any watch there!). miss winning at card games and watching the chips grow vertically. miss the laughter with sheena and jackson. miss taking silly pictures. miss travelling. miss taking leave from work.

oh, how i miss genting.

dearest, can we go genting once like every quarter? or every 6 months? heee…. plss….