:: to blog or not to blog ::

sigh. sometimes when i have the time to blog i'd rather watch vcds or play Solitaire. n when i have something to blog, it's always inconvenient, so i have to hold my thoughts. been at this cycle for the whole month of May, if u'd noticed.

hmm, just a quick run thru.

this month i missed Tue prayer meeting on the 8th because i chose to go watch Spiderman 3 with some of my cell grp friends instead. very hard choice :P

on 10th thurs after work i went to PS to meet my sec sch friends, to celebrate Peiyun and Belly's birthdays. They treated us to dinner and Swensen's! so nice... =)

sat... gee on my planner i wrote MCG meeting, but i dun remember if there was a meeting tt day. oopss... led cell word, about Nehemiah, like a continuation of last week's word, but more like a detailed study on chapter 3, which i've been wanting to share about for so long :P after tt there was prac for Mother's day service. prac v long because some of the songs are new and the band dynamics is new too.

sun... after service i went to Vivocity with my parents, sorta to celebrate Mother's Day. we went to Kim Gary Hong Kong Restaurant. thought it's some big shot because the last time i passed by there i saw a very long queue. turns out just normal, similar food items like the Hong Kong cafe at Kovan as well as Chit Chat cafe in Chinatown. but more ex.

fri 18th went to Vivocity again, cuz on sun the salesperson in Giant told us tt the promotion for suitcases will come on Fri. so i went with my mom. we had dinner at Food Republic, my fav eating place in Vivocity. Last time went to Vivo to watch Spiderman i ordered a dao xiao mian, $5, very big portion, i felt v guilty for not being able to finish it, so this time i wanted to eat it again, sharing with my mom. even finishing this was still difficult because we also ordered dim sum. bought suitcases, one small one medium. needed to buy cuz my sis took my small one :( it's mine because i pasted a sticker on it, n i went to HK with it!

sat went to Tanjung Balai, this time by myself. at first didn't feel lonely or what, but felt tt i needed help, esp someone to lead worship. n then at night i realise i have no activity, no one to chat with, cuz Wiky went out with friends without bringing me along. but i watched tv with his family instead. oh yah, i cut my hair there for 20,000Rp! that's about $3.50. cool! i just needed to show the hairdresser a pic in a magazine for what i'm looking for. =) sun Persis, n some Praise pple came in to do Sunday school.

21st may mon i forgot abt the Gen12ii commissioning thing until Andrielle smsed me. so after work i headed to Faith Methodist church to attend it. saw a lot of NYP Campus Crusade friends. n a lot of my church pple, esp M'kkadesh. then i realise it's Amber's graduation ceremony, which is why they're there. quite impressed that the worship leader seems like a young girl, n then i feel like my church youths are old (i'm not! hehe). felt tt this time the commissioning service is not...the same. the emphasis is not very much on the mission trippers, but rather on the graduates. dunno la. after tt i went for supper with my church friends. a little hungry n tempted to eat a lot, like Gene's fried bee hoon and fried chicken wingsssss (sobbbb...) but i have to control because it's late! i'd get indigestion for bullying my stomach! oh it's also my sister's birthday tt day, but she's away in a resort... no one to chat with me on msn boohoo so bored at work.

23rd wed.. Amos' birthday celebration. dress code is a long sleeve shirt inside a short sleeve shirt. weather damn hot to wear like tt! haha.. only put on the outer wear when i reached. can't pronounce n can't rem the name of the restaurant. i only know it's in Sixth Ave Centre. been searching online for directions to get there. Bukit Timah is just not my place. dinner is not bad, tried new food, interesting.

sat went to far east plaza with Angie and jeffrey to pick up books n cds from Crest for PRC. this is the first time for both of them. there's a Planetshakers cd promotion! buy any old album and get a Reflector album free!! wow! i quickly called Kelvin to tell him abt it, cuz i lost his Reflector album, in thailand (sobb...) n i decided to get it in the promotion. win-win la, i get a cd cheaper n he gets Reflector. it was out of production n i couldn't find it in any store, until now. wow, thank God! had lunch with cell grp at chicken rice stall near church, with Angie joining us. cell word was led by kelvin, about David. there was a part about Bathsheba n i wanted to share abt what Carol shared, but i was too eager ba, i think i must have sounded feminist. haha.. n after cell grp i went to set up for PRC. stayed back for prayer n learned something from Dallas. he shared about the poor widow who put in 2 coins in the offering bag, n it was all she had. Jesus commended her for giving more than the rich pple. it's not abt the amt actually, it's abt the proportion lor. went back for dinner with my mom. yeah i guess i haven't been eating with her much. she was alone cuz my dad went to tj balai with his cell grp.

sun... argh i missed the prayer meeting with MCG! i only realised tt when i saw them walk in together, n i wondered is there something i didn't join in? haiyo. this service is reflective service. umm.. they didn't switch on the lights during sermon n it was certainly difficult to stay focused. then there was flag day for Thailand. Amber and Shuhui shared abt their experience in Thailand. after service i went to man the booth with Angie n Jeff. and i guess we started packing up quite late, because we ended late. Jeff drove me to Far East to return the stuff n Jac accompanied me. thank God there's her around, because i forgot to take out the money from my bag!! she helped me pay first. i am really blur. even the counting of money i wasn't sure if it's correct (now i'm sure it tallies). so after tt we went to AV to find our cell grp for lunch. hmm, the roast duck rice is nice! n avocado juice.. v long since i had it. v filling sia. decided to go home after tt, instead of going for the Global Day of Prayer. i know i would learn something more if i had gone, but, hmm.. went home to sleep and then had dinner with my mom, cuz my dad was still not back from balai. she kept bugging me to wake up. ahhh

31st thur. Bangkok. didn't dare to sleep but i was so tired i know i have to. was afraid of missing my flight. but i felt more secure when my dad says he's gonna send me to the airport :D checked in and had breakfast at Han's, the only eatery at the Budget Terminal. then went in at 5.10am, to walk around the Budget terminal. first time in there since it opened. lotsa shops still not open yet :( but the Duty Free Shop is. i saw something new - Absolut Pear!!! green colour, nice! i'm gonna buy it~~~ then went into the boarding gate. so laoya one, have to WALK to the plane. i didn't feel v well on the plane, but not as bad as my return flight from HK the last time. was quite happy to get a window seat anyway. but towards the end of the flight i felt tt i need to go to the toilet, but too paiseh to ask the 2 pple next to me to let me cross. so i decided to hold it till i reach the airport.

didn't get to meet Kiko at the airport, she didn't reply my sms also. :( so i was quite bored waiting for my sis to arrive. so bored tt i walked finish the airport. umm, almost la. so bored tt i decided to take a paper and write my sister's name, to flash it at arriving passengers like a tour guide. :P her flight was early, but the baggage took v long to come out. when she came out she told me tt she's got mild food poisoning. oh no.. but the whole trip she kept complaining abt how sick she felt tt at the end of the trip i felt sick too. really. actually i was quite upset during the trip. she kept complaining abt everything and verbally abusing me, but i decided not to talk back, or we would have ended it really nasty. n i realise tt it's better we don't live together. @#$%^&*. :( this trip was supposed to be our birthday celebration. the hotel is very high class wor. welcome fruits, toothbrush, weighing machine, a bottle of water delivered everyday, wow... i actually felt tt i dun deserve such high class treatment. the more u experience, the more u expect from the next experience.

anyway here's what we did, we went out for lunch at Bug & Bee. place looks interesting, but the food was too salty. got sick of it after half the plate. the drink was diluted. then we went back n rested in the hotel room till 6pm, then we went out to Suan Lum Night Bazaar. was a bit disappointed tt i didn't get to go to TCDC, some design centre cuz my sis was not feeling well n i wasn't sure yet how safe it is to go out on my own. tried to ask a Thai friend Annie out, but she made other plans already. awww.. so anyway at suan lum i was quite happy la, bought quite a bit of things. had dinner at the tree house. dinner was ok. i had spaghetti. wanted to order beer, but it was Vesak day, they don't sell beer. >.< my sis kept wanting to go back. so we stayed until 9pm only. turns out it was just the right time to go back. by the time showered, do QT etc.. it was 12am!

next morning woke up early.. planned to go The Neilson Hays Library to chill out. i wasn't sure of its location n i didn't copy its address. i thought most pple would know the place. sigh. took v long to find it. bought a few old books from the library, looks like some of them came from Singapore! haha.. the library is really nice. looks like our SAM. we took taxi back to hotel to drop the stuff then took BTS to Siam. haven't found anything to buy until we reached MBK. walked around on my own while my sis went to extend her eyelashes for 700 baht. bought a dress and heels for a friend's commissioning ball. watched Pirates of the Carribean 3. had to stand up for the King's song. didn't hear anyone singing leh. it was quite an experience :P then we had dim sum for dinner. wah, 14 baht per basket! tt's like 60¢! wowoww!! ordered scallops, abalone... wow... haha.. took BTS back to Sala Daeng. finally got chance to buy bras. :P

sat's plan is to have breakfast at Jim Thompson cafe. u know, Jim Thompson is really famous in Thailand for silk. but we didn't get to see any silk there. hmm. anyway there was a blackout in the hotel and even the lift stopped working. so we didn't go back to the room. we took MRT straight to Kamphaeng Phet station, where Chatuchak market is. didn't really get to the right section until afternoon. and by then my sis was complaining of the heat she wanted to go back to hotel. she kept rushing me like my mom would. i did buy some stuff, but not enough. haha. her friends came n so we followed them around. n i was also starting to get sian of shopping already. so we left. took BTS to Siam, where we walked to Central World. wow, the BTS is on the 3rd level, and on the 2nd level it's like an overhead bridge, but it connects station to station! tt means if i want to save a few bahts on the BTS i can choose to walk instead. safer than the traffic on 1st level. i'm impressed. singapore wouldn't have done tt. our mrts would rather make us take the train than give us an option.

had ice cream at iberry. then chilled out while we chat with her friends. they're v funny and have lotsa experience to share. their english is also v good. =) then we took a taxi to Yaowarat Rd (Chinatown) because i wanted to revisit it. i like it. =) but we took taxi again, to Phra Athit Rd for dinner instead. this place is also nice. n v near Sanam Luang. i was actually planning to avoid Sanam Luang, because it's near the government area...n on wed there was the political thing going on there. :S got to see an old fort, n Rama 8 bridge. very very scenic. there was some orange lightning going on at the other side of the Chao Phraya River. cool. we had dinner zi cha style at an eatery called 1000 Thanks. the place is air-conditioned, walls look raw and huge photos framed on the walls. very very nice~! food aroi mark. haven't had such a good meal since i reached BKK.

walked to Khao San Rd to take a look. my first time there. =) i'm glad to meet my sis' friends there, who would bring us to places. it was very ...angmoh-influenced. lotsa pubs. we went into one.. there actually a few of them that would broadcast movies (pirated) to customers. the one we went was showing The Marine. boring show. i ordered a bottle of Singha. i like ice cold beer. when the chill is gone i dun really like it anymore. after tt we took taxi back to hotel to rest n pack up. it's our last night there. i was sooo tired i couldn't finish reading 2 chapters of the Bible.

next morning i had to wake up extra early. wanted to go to the supermarket to shop. i realise i could have gone even earlier because it opens at 8am. i had set my alarm clock wrongly at Singapore time, so it went off at 7am. so i snoozed it all the way to 8am. went back to room to wait for shopping centre to open at 10.30am. i spent too long trying to find something for my boss, so when i went back to the room for final packing i was rushing. didn't get to go for church service as planned because there was no time. we checked out of the room, took a taxi n got to the airport. i checked in n found my friend Kiko. finally got to see her! i didn't really know what to do. i'm supposed to get into the gate already but my sis convinced me tt i still have time to eat. i also wanted to catch up with my long lost friend. so i went to eat. ended up after going thru the custom i was left with 10 minutes to get to the gate. and my gate was soooo far away! that's the bad thing about new and bigger airports. argh. i was 2nd last to board the plane. it was so warm n stuffy on the plane i thought i wouldn't need my jacket. so i stowed it in my bag in the luggage compartment. minutes after take off i started to feel cold, and sick. i had contracted stomach flu from my sister. she probably complained so much tt i got it. argh. this time i have an aisle seat, tt means i can go to toilet as often as i want to. i almosted fainted on the plane. had the feeling of blacking out, but i managed to stumble to the toilet before i did.

anyway after landing i managed to buy Absolut Pear and Hoegarden. hehe.. still continue to have diarrhoea up to today.i weighed myself in bkk it was x+6 kg, but at home i became x+1 kg! (numbers are sensitive here.) woah. i dun mind losing the weight as long as i dun bleed man.

hmm. today at work i learnt tt my boss has gone to Bangkok. -.-

i'm drooling and smiling when i watch Golf on the Golf-Mike cd + vcd i bought. =D