Happy Chinese New Year 2007

This is the year of the pig and although I dont know what it means for me but its supposedly a very good year for horsies (that is me!) I just want unendless Health and Love in my family and my friends =)

So in order to get caught up in the festive mood, we made Kueh Buloh and its done the traditional way with charcoal and the 1000 year old mould which if landed on ur toes you can watch it turn green the traditional way too.

you heat up the charcoal making sure its hot enough but not too hot

pour batter into 1000 year old mould, there's charcoal at the bottom and on the lid itself machiam buried with charcoal~~

wait few mins and its baked through top and bottom

kueh buloh got fish shape somemore

In the office, it was holiday mood already. Who really wants to work?? Here's what I mean

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i want a pay rise! (bang table)

unfazed?? i show u my little mouse...grrrrrr *flex flex*

Actually she's demostrating how to play 5 stones to my indian head. Not bad eh? Wear so nice to office then its.....5 stones time!!

Back From Bangkok

Touched down at Bangkok in the evening, went to the taxi queue and it was quite confusing. They have a counter setup and upon informing lady at the counter the desired destination, your assigned tickets and then what? Mix and match? Someone comes up to you with a stub to match and gestures for you to follow into their cab.

Destination: Twin Towers Hotel and Toll fares have to be paid if you choose the Highway. Cabby was driving at 120km and we're talking about Bangkok city..we were flying.

After checking in we didnt feel like hanging out, beat and hungry we settled for room service (it was cheap!) and rested for the next big day

Main highlight was shopping in MBK!! Shoes, tshirts, jeans, bags, more shoes, jacket, pants, shoes again!

It was the language of calculators. "How much??" and a calculator is shoved to your face, you take the calculator key in your magic numbers and shove it back saying "gimmie good price, cheap cheap" This gets repeated couple of times and its either deal or no deal. Sometimes you have to attempt the 'walk-away' trick that's only if you can find it in your heart to let the item go. If the wind and all planets are lined in your favour, they pull you back and let you have it. =)

We checked out Central World and Discovery Centre but these shopping malls are akin to our Takashimaya malls and not the reason why one should be in bangkok. I would recommend Tesco Lotus, it's like K-mart with loads of apparels from furniture to clothes and groceries. Needless to say more shoes were bought, no bargaining here, all marked prices but real cheap.

Who would miss out on the night markets right so it was Patpong at Silom. Stuff here aint cheap though, unless you cant find it in MBK you might wanna consider getting it here after long match of bargaining. I didnt really fancy this place, loads of angmohs and they were surrounded by people soliciting them to those sleazy pubs lined alongside the street. The laminated menu had header which read "Sex Show" and there were bikini clad dancers doing their moves on poles.

Spotted this signage which amuses me





Meals there were mostly: Phad Thai and Tom Yum Goong. Thai salads were known to be appetising but this has gotta be one of the worst dish I've ever tasted



I leave you a video clip of my trip in Bangkok, it's got audio so you might just wanna have your speakers turned on

Im going BKK!

4 days 3 nights woohoo! Last min decision, booked everything online and I'll be back on Friday

A little apprehensive though with the little unpleasant stuff that sparked off from the ASEAN cup, oh well...stay tune for updates and pics

And YES I've finally gotten a decent mobile...the long await ericsson W850 in White!

One of these days, I'll get down to blogging about my mobile stories....all ill-fated.

Will guard this baby with my life keke

oh ya my NZD pics? Consider them fully uploaded, there's more but these are the nicest ones too lazy to sort them thru again =)