Year: 2009

Family Trip to KL, January 2010

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The Air Asia flight ticket booking frenzy is here! I didn’t bother at first but damn… The travel bug was bugging me!

At first I was thinking of booking a flight to KK(only RM15!! Goodness! So cheap!) since I have classmate whose hometown is in KK so it will be easier for me to go there alone(remember I have no more travel companion and it’s not quite possible for me to go solo without worrying my parents), at least she can bring me around provided she will be free or at least I can tell my parents I’ll be there with my classmate but the thing is that there’s no cheap ticket for this year end(the preferred dates). I only found cheap ones for next year March and since I have no idea how’s the class will be next year, I can’t book any. So sad… Everyone is going to KK and I can’t go 🙁 Used to be very easy for me to plan my trip but now sigh…

I thought of giving up but then I still went on to search for cheap tickets with the possible dates that I might be free next year, my itchy fingers. Really crazy ;p I found Macau, only RM200+ for return trip!! Then I found Perth, only RM550+ for return trip!!

AIKS! Problem is that I can afford the tickets but I can’t afford to spend there *LOL* Unless darling will be at those places or if I got the keys *LOL* then I can stay for free *DREAM* but there is no way to know because it’s way too advance ;p. In fact, I can always go to HK from Macau to find my friends there, I can stay with them but it’s still not cheap to travel overseas. Furthermore, I got no idea of my class schedules for next year so it’s not possible at all.

Anyway, after thinking and thinking and thinking, I blurted out to my dad that going to KL only need RM50+ per person with Air Asia. He said that he’s thinking of going to Genting. Of course I told him it’s possible, fly to KL then go to Genting and we get to go to KL also since we’ve been talking about a family trip for ages! He gave me the green light to find the tickets.

I hunted for it and sadly none for the year end which was the initial plan as my bro will finish his SPM and I’ll be done with my exam also. Then when I’m thinking of giving up, I found cheap ones in January 2010! It’s on weekdays, only weekdays you can travel cheap so I told my parents and they told me to go ahead and buy the tickets.

TADA! After about 2 and half hour of trying to get tru’ the system.

Our trip is confirmed! Genting and KL we are coming! Family trip without my sis hahaha… Don’t care ;p She has her doses of traveling in UK all these years, this one is nothing for her *BLEK*.

Going for trip with my parents will mean I don’t have to pay for anything except when I do some CNY shopping for myself! Hehehe… Yikes… It seems like I’ve been doing CNY shopping almost every year in KL since 2006. Oh oh… Cham liao… ;p


Our flight tickets include 2 check-in luggage(return) and 4 meals(one way).

Will be hunting for places to stay in KL, too early to hunt now ;p I’ll be the tour guide by then. Usually people guide me and now I have to play the guide. Hopefully there won’t be any problem *LOL* Thinking of B&B instead of hotel. The B&B must have family room that can fit 4 of us and have attached bathroom. Any recommendation? I don’t want my dad to spend too much money on this trip.

I hope he won’t gamble too much at Genting -.-” This is what I’m quite worry about else the whole trip will be one very terrible family trip. Not to say that my dad likes to gamble, it’s just very common for anyone to gamble a bit too much in the casino and I hope he won’t be one of them.

So yeah… KL-Genting trip next year. Maybe KK will be next year during my semester break 😉

I want to go somewhere outside Malaysia but I can’t go alone, I need to have at least a travel companion sigh… Darling… Do you hear that?

Going Places

Me in Breeze

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Didn’t even know that I’m featured in the 17th issue (June 2009) of Breeze Mag until someone added me in Facebook asking me to add her because she saw me in Breeze Mag. No wonder out of sudden I got so many requests in Facebook this month especially from Sabah. I have 70 in there that I haven’t approve and I can see more coming -.-” I knew I will be featured but I didn’t know when. Now I know ;p

Almost a month then I found out ;p Anybody has the hardcopy? It’s almost month end already, I don’t think I can easily find a copy out there.

Click to read…

The English in there is mine, horrible! I just realized I sent the wrong file to Breeze, the version with better English is in the other file. OMG! Then again, I thought they should fine tune it before publishing it. No? I thought that’s the basic that any publication house should do before publishing anything out as they have to maintain a certain quality in the content especially the language.

Anyway, if I don’t tell you it’s written by me, I think you might be thinking it’s Breeze that writes it. *LOL* Having such English published in the magazine is horrible -.-”

Think again… I shouldn’t tell you that it’s written by me hahaha… OH NO… ;p

You can also read Breeze Mag online, click here for the electronic issue of Breeze for this month.

Me, myself and I

Meet Me in Singapore?

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I’m sure most of you know that I’m going to Singapore this coming August. I’ll be there on the weekdays, 17th-21th August. I’ll be staying at my aunt’s place. Anyone in Singapore wants to meet up? Do let me know or e-mail me so that we can arrange the time.

My main aim going there this time is to hunt for food and maybe shop a bit but I’m not sure about this because I’m running low on money hahaha… I’ve been scouring Singapore food blogs for ideas. Hopefully my friend will be free to bring us around too. Anyone can recommend places that I must try out? Might visit some tourist spots if in the mood. I’ll be there with my sister.

I know many of you also booked your tickets to Singapore because there are tonnes of offers these days by various airlines. At least I know many people that I know are going to Singapore this year.

If you haven’t find a place to stay, there is Accor Hotels City Super Sale going on now and you should go check it out and take advantage of savings of up to 60% when you book online between 23 – 29 June, for stays between July 10 and September 30, 2009. There are over 250,000 room nights will be on sale, with rates starting as low as US$25 per night.

Bear in mind that these are luxurious hotels. You are paying for hotels with lots of stars ;p.

If you are not going to Singapore, there are also other hotels in other countries by Accor Hotels. Enjoy special hotel rates in 27 cities across 10 countries in Asia Pacific.

If I’m not that lucky to have an aunt staying in Singapore then I might consider taking up those offers, Ibis Singapore on Bencoolen might be on my list but if possible I would go for Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay. So don’t miss it out! The offer is only for a limited time only.

By the way, do you know that we will have a new hotel here in Kuching by Accor Hotels? Yes… Pullman Hotels. It will open September this year. It’s located at Interhill Place.

See you in Singapore!

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Going Places, Take A Break

My First Digital Scrapbooking

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I’ve seen many mommy bloggers doing digital scrapbooking for quite a while and I’ve been wondering how it’s done yet I never bother to find out.

Then last weekend I came across a link when I randomly blog hopped. It led me to a site related to digital scrapbooking. I thought there’s special software to do it but there wasn’t any. I read the tutorial and found out that all you need is Photoshop or other photo editing software.

ShabbyPrincess provides kits for digital scrapbooking for free(non-commercial use). You can download them, there are many types available.

It’s so easy to use. Basically the kit consists of various images/elements that you can place into the layers of Photoshop. Not rocket science at all hahaha… Silly me… Anyone that knows how to use Photoshop of photo editing software will not have problem doing it at all. The images/elements are in *.PNG

In fact you don’t have to download the kit if you know how to make your own designs. The kit is just to help make your life easier and for those that don’t know how to make their own designs.

I downloaded one kit called Harvest Spice that was released in October 2007 and here you go… I tried it out today. Took me 30 minutes coz I was doing some other things at the same time.

I know the photos are not suitable for this design ;p

Anyway, this gives me a gift idea for my friend’s wedding this year end. Since I’m invited to her wedding, I told her that I’m going to take lots of photos of her wedding ceremony and she said that she will pay me for it so I might as well do something nice for her.

I’m not so sure about the paying part, if she really pays me, then I’ll accept it. If she doesn’t then I don’t mind too. I told her I’ll just simply shoot, I’m just kaypo-ing, I’m just taking the photos for fun.

It will be my first time attending a church wedding. I’m not a pro photographer, far from that but she insisted to give me “ang pao” so I might as well do something better for her rather than only burn all the images(good and bad) for her.

Oh! This is not paid post!

Me, myself and I, Tech Stuffs

Hanging In There…

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Feeling so tired today, no idea why. It’s been very hot these days too. Not going to update much today, just some thoughts. Need to hit the sack soon.

It’s almost the end of June. Half year of 2009 is almost gone. What did you achieve? How’s the first half of 2009? Broken any resolution? Giving up on your resolutions? What’s your plan for the coming half year of 2009? Anyone of you ponder on these?

For me, I do… For the first time in my life I ponder and reflect. First half of 2009 has been tough on me. I felt betrayed and disappointed over and over again. I can see that these are going to haunt me for quite sometimes. I don’t know when will it end. Maybe only after I cut all the ties. The problem is that it cannot be cut unless some other road or way open up for me.

I’ve been on the verge on giving up on and off. Always when things seemed to be going fine this minute, then the next minute everything just crumbled into pieces. It’s tiring especially if you are feeling like this for almost half year.

Thank goodness that I have people that I can really call friends to pull me up when I’m falling. Also not forgetting the special someone that managed to “save” me when I need it, miss you heaps, hoping to hear from you soon.

I know that somebody will be extremely happy reading this as this is what this somebody wants from me all these while ever since from the beginning.

I know some of you will be saying that I shouldn’t let that somebody win by seeing me suffer, I must prove that that somebody is wrong.

Believe me, I tried but due to various circumstances there is no way I can do it. That person has been using my weaknesses to attack me over and over again. I am extremely exhausted. There is no other option for now, I have to hang in there as long as possible until another opportunity comes.

I know some of you will say that I must go out to find the opportunity and not waiting for it to come.

Trust me, I’m working on it and the result is not immediate, it takes whole lot of efforts and time and also the luck and fate. The Chinese has this saying 天时地利人和 (tian shi di li ren he), I really need this for it to work, lacking of one element won’t work. Or in other words, it takes two to tango.

All right. I must stop here now. Time to sleep, my eyes are getting blurry. Good night.

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