MINNY IS BACK FROM JAPAN!

Konnichiwa ^.^

I'm finally back to the blogging realm and finally able to be on facebook.
argh, how i miss the touch of my keyboard slapping on my fingers. teehee*

shinjuku

oh well, i miss all of you guys back here.
I'll start blogging about this when my 'alert-ness' is back.
i feel sooooo freakin lazy now!

Japan~漆、ここでは、私は来ま

GUESS WHO'S GOING TO JAPAN? :D

i'm gonna be so broke after this trip :(

seriously can't wait!
will be going on ourselves with the bf, Imelda, Honey, Melvin.. yay!

home sweet home

dipping in mud, at Tangkuban Perahu, Bandung (Volcanic site)
was exhausted tho, hiked quite a bit to get up there!


been away for a week now...
Jakarta was a blast
everything was cheap; from clothes to food!
HAVEN.

updates soon!

SAWADEEKA IV, V & VI

and so, my bangkok post has come to an end (hooray?)
anyhow, i feel a tinge of guilt for not being as active as i was in the blogosphere


it's father's day today, so i'm taking this opportunity to wish each and every father out there;
especially my dad.
:) i know that you've been through so much to provide for the family,
sometimes you would rather carry all the weight on your shoulder just to see us happy.
i know that i've been ignorant towards your advice sometimes,
and may cause you to worry so much about me with my slightly rebellious attitude.
you're always trying to cheer me up when i'm upset,
tell me - where else can i find some one to replace you?
i love you daddy! ♥


alrighty, back to siam.
fact #1 - i put on weight during my bangkok trip NYAHAHHAA
look at how bloated my face was!
fact #2 - it's a shame that i dont quite remember the name of the places we went to :( my bad!

DAY 4

i look so sleepy and like i had an overdose - of FOOD.
anyway, we had brunch at some Thai stall by the road side,
it looked like "koay teow thng" but tasted way better!

u see what i mean when i told you i had an overdose of food in bangkok?! -.-

i love this photo, although my dad can't really pose
HAAHA

we went to central world shopping mall
walked quite a lot that day as i can remember.
i kinda dig the phrase on the billboard there "no matter what, it is our life!"




multi-story roads?
1 & 2 is for the trains
3 is for the pedestrians
4 is the main road

this is taken directly opposite central world
look at the colorful taxis! how cute! :)

another means of transportation
by boat. WAY cheaper but the river's so darn stinky and polluted!!!!

and so, we went on a couple of tut-tuts, and continued walking.
and we walked. and walked. and walked. and walked.
until our legs couldn't take it anymore.


when the sun retired and the moon got back to work,
we walked ourselves through a typical night life street!
saw a bunch of bars, pubs, massage parlors and such
it wasn't a weird scene to see a tourist holding hands with a local Thai girl (they're paid to like bring those tourists around and to you-know-i-know-lah)
it was actually gross because those Thai girls and trans-genders were obviously selling their bodies until an extent where they were dragging on your shirt and squatting in a very obscene yet alluring position while saying
"sir.. what can i do for you tonight"
EEEEEEEEEE *freaks out*

DAY 5/6
i started to feel homesick. seriously.

went for lunch at a 'floating' restaurant again; haha
actually it rained quite heavily the night before
and it flooded - ankle deep!

fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodddddd

later on, we went to Chatuchak Market or more well known as the "JJ Weekend Market"
walked through a really pretty park :)

@ Chatuchak Weekend Market
bargains EVERYWHERE.

man, i wish i can like go to Bangkok every month or so to restock on my clothings.
anyway, i was buying this i-donno-what's-it-called Thai delicacy
it's wrapped in a leaf, with peanuts and such in it
it's really good!

we went back to Siam Paragon later on

cannot afford to shop in Versace,
so we took pictures instead lol


GOODBYE BANGKOK :)

i am soooooooo glad that my parents decided to take the plane home
the train ride was just ridiculous!!!
oh my penang, how i miss thee!!!

SAWADEEKA II & III

OH-KAY!
i know ive kept you readers awaiting for this post for too long;
i'm sorry - there's just a lot going on for the past couple of days.
my mom just got discharged from Gleneagles Medical Centre this noon after an operation.
no worries though, everything went on smoothly :)


back to my Bangkok trip!
this post highlights day 2 and 3 of it,
i just wanna get over and done with it; about 15+ photos i think lol.
so let the photos load for 2 secs, and start reading!

DAY 2

family photo - without my brother who's in sabah :(
off to SIAM Paragon!
everything is way too expensive there;
luxury items - branded goods.

Siam Popiah?

this one's my favorite though i have no idea what's it called!
sweet and crunchy at the same time :)
just plain YUMMMMEHHH!

you can't say you've been to thailand without riding on their tut tuts!

i remember walkin from street to street,
from one BTS station to another;
from one shopping complex to two other across the road.
what more could be more blissful than a 1 hour thai foot & shoulder massage!!!!
ONLY 129 baht! ish. so addictive.



DAY 3

had this for breakfast!
"koay chiap". pretty good stuff;
you can even add sugar and salt and chili powder to it!

from Huay Hwang station
took the train to godamnit-i-dont-remember-the-name-of-the-place

ooo market market!
"come madam. come see. fresh! only 10baht!
very nice."

after about 30 minutes -1 hour walk around that area,
our tummies started to grumble!
thank goodness there was a food stall in the market area
so we stopped by for a bite!

my "grape juice"?

it was such a hard thing trying to communicate with the Thai people
especially when they speak so little english
and the only sentences i know in Thai is "sawadeeka" (hello)
and "ka khun ka" (thank you) lol.

ANYWAY,

I wanted to order Grape Juice and i ended up pointing north-south-east-west
and she still didnt get the point...
but she served me something beautiful :P
a drink that matches my green top!!!!

one of them Thai delicacies.

on our way to chinatown!
have u ever wondered;
why does almost every country in the world have a place called chinatown?

i look SO tired; that's cuz we did some serious shopping and walking that day!
EVERYTHING IS SOOOOO CHEAP!!!
couldnt stop buying!
i wanna go back there n buy somemore!!!!!

my legs were so sore from all that walking;
thank God that uncle Alan came to the rescue
picked us up for dinner near Hwai Hwang or something
a floating thai restaurant with a live jazz band!
AWESOME ain't it :)

part of the restaurant
i was too sore to get up and snap photos of it lol




fishhhhhhhhhhhhh
and it's gooooooooooooooood

nothing beats the taste of this baby!

SAWADEEKA part I

Sawadee-ka!
yes ka, im back from bangkok ka.
here's the first part of my trip ka! :)
lol im very much siam-fied!


anyway, our mode of transportation is pretty "extravagant" and shocking at the same time.
parents decided to travel by TRAIN. ohmygoodness.
a 20 hour shaky choo-choo ride all the way to Bangkok.
it was such a waste of time; despite it being an experience that i would totally embed in my mind for years to come!
that train ride is my first and definitely my last.
you know, God was being brutal that day;
our train broke down and we were stuck in that train for more than 24 hours!!!!
IMAGINE THAT!

Bukit Mertajam train station

seats are meant for two but my sister and i bunked in with my parents for dinner.
i realized that i look so different now and then - must be the hair!

my sister got really paranoid; LOL
we slept in the train obviously (duh), but not in a seated position
they have bunk beds that can be stretched out from the seats!
divided into the lower and upper bunk,
my sister and i made the upper decks our crib for the night.

i remember waking up several times that night; heard Thai people murmuring in their mother tongue and what more i was sleep deprived due to the bumpiness of the train. My phone kept ringing; it was Friday night that day.
Friends were looking for me and Steven,
sorry that I coundn't make it to your birthday party at SS!

FINALLY! we arrived in bangkok at 1430 BKK time
which was 1530 malaysian time.
look at them people sitting around waiting for their train ride.
i saw a few leaning against the wall in a seated position, completely dozed off!

this was taken somewhere near where we lived;
thanks uncle Alan for offering us all a roof on our heads during our visit;
not to mention the hospitality that you've provided!

argh. the cost for 1 litre of petrol.
approximately RM4 in thailand;
i guess we malaysians are still lucky for just having to pay RM2.70 per litre.
I'm totally unhappy with the hike in our petrol price,
but i guess it's a world wide economy thing.




headed of to some night market near Bangna.
SO MANY CHEAP CLOTHINGS AND FOOD.
this one really caught my eye. :D
moths, lizards, grasshoppers, worms, etc etc and god-knows-what.

appetizing enough?
lol. i almost puked.
gonna puke if i stare longer at this picture;
WILL NEVER EVER EVER in my life put a roach in my mouth!

well i need to make a shout out here to a couple of people here
please shift your "care" towards your own children or spouse or relatives and not me
stop interfering with mine and blabbing things that may cause havoc
it's my life anyway, do i even need your consent? - NO.
are we even connected? - NO.
do i need you to manage my life? - NO.

SO, i'm being nice here, i dont need nobody to tell me what to do in life
especially from people who dont know what they're up to sometimes.
it's my own life, i sow what i reap.
besides, who are you to judge me?
stop acting like you know everything when you don't.
bugger off. thanks :)

all the way from BKK

FINALLY. I'm here! in bangkok.
such an adventure to get here;
my sister and i was ridiculously paranoid when we were on our "adventure" getting to where we are at the moment. It was fun, nonetheless :)


I can't update my blog for the next couple of days;
so do check back around the weekend - I think I'll be back in Penang by then.
I didn't bring my laptop here and
I don't think I want to spend my vacation infront of the screen either.


Scrap out the part when I said something like I wanna indulge in their local food?
MAN, I DO NOT WANT TO TRY THE ROACHES AND SCORPIONS AND MOTHS AND .. and .. and godknowswhat! Saw some lady selling it on the streets today and being a blogger that I am, I took pics of it lah - but I was grossed out. cannot tahan :(


AND OH!
I miss home already! I miss you guys!
I totally missed out on partying last night and tonight;
I know a lot of people were there - I received phone calls and such but;
too bad..


Well, it's getting quite late and I have a long day tomorrow,
take care loves!
xoxo.

"Each moment when it pops into my mind;

it's also the moment when I realize that it's probably just not worth it.

Why bother when you're the only one bothering?"

13 years; memories!

finally! after 13 freakin years,
i breathed in that same old Genting breeze again.

so, Willaz was the man behind the wheels to and fro Genting.
we went with his ride of course;
our ears were pretty much delighted with jazz and hiphop tunes
throughout the whole journey.
not being able to remember a single shit about my '13 years ago' trip,
i was REALLY REALLY REALLY EXCITED;
except a few hours earlier la, i slept like nobody's business :P

it was c-c-c-c-cold!

we checked in;
four of us had a room to ourselves.
the rest of the gang booked another room!

my Genting trip camwhore buddybuddy.

it was a funny attempt trying to get into the casinos there.
i'm still UNDERAGE - like, DUH!
and i got stopped and then bounced out after that.
hell, i was even told "datang balik pada bulan oktober"
hahahahaha.

but i managed to walk in two times.
obviously, Ralph encountered the worst.
he's stopped every single time he tried to get in;
until the point where he had to borrow someone's IC

Played Rollette, Three Pictures, Casino War - i think that's about it.
had a really fun time there.
The rest went to the Theme Park (i wanted to go SO badly)
but, oh well, i was promised to the fact that we're gonna go play the next day
and heck, it didn't happen. but i was cool with it. ended up going to KL instead.

anyhow,
After dinner, Satkuru and Daniel joined Ralph and me at the casino.
Stayed there til like 4 in the morning. craziness.

not exactly.
we went to Midvalley, KL.

Satkuru, myself and Mr.Spongebob!
so cute can?!

A group picture before we left genting.
godamnit, i look stoned!
www.hugolim.com for more photos!
go go go go.

had carls jr for lunch!
then headed home to penang [:
right after, I went to Bt.Feringghi with Mark and Roby

truckload of assignmentsssssssssssss.
shit.