Scrap Book

Since i'm going to move into my new home and getting hitch soon, i suddenly have the interest to make my own scrap book. My cousin just bought a book from Penang Island on making cards and scrapbook, imported book with hard cover. is only cost RM45.90. and im going to get one soon. If i'm an Art teacher, i will definitely teach my students to make one on each lesson, but sadly i'm not an Art Teacher and i guess my boss didn't trust my skill. well, i'm bad in drawing but i love to design stuff, especially to do with colour papers.

im planning how to start to do my scrap book. i might divide the scrapbooks into 3 to 4 different books. One for family and childhood photo, one for UNI and school life, One for wedding, and one for my friends. I'm so excited to do, but not until i get the book from Penang ISland plaza......

Going Ipoh

Going to Ipoh now, to meet up with my Uni friends. First day of CNY. Wait for me guys.. dont be late yah...

Venue

we just booked the venue yesterday. Ballroom. Got the date that we wanted. Happy! But now, focus on CNY. We just had lunch reunion and dinner reunion today. Very full. I got 2 angpows ready so far. Hehe. Can't wait for tomorrow. Hopefully, collection is good. Next year, we have to give angpows to others. I felt that the area is quiet this CNY. I dunno why.. MAybe most of them are not back to Taiping. well, anyway, im going off to Ipoh tomorrow night to meet up with my Uni mates. And wednesday another gathering with my girls and Thursday will be my cousin's wedding. So, is kinda fun for me here.

Finally

Finally, the date has been set. Pastor has confirmed the date for our wedding day. we really want to thank and praise God for all He has done for us. It was not an easy path at first, but He sees it all. Planning is going to start soon. My good/close girlfriends have confirmed to come and join us on this Holy Matrimony. Still a long way to go, but they are excited for me coz they will be walking down the aisle with me too. Thank you for everything. You know who you are!!!! Happy CNY.......

Now, we have to move into our new home first......................Is time to save more and spend less!!

i'm so busy

This is what i need now. A holiday....... I'm so busy with my work now. You know, new year, new job. And moving in my new home, around March or April. A lot of work and budget to be done and also getting married by end of this year. More expenses and not to forget my MArch trip to Jogja and BAndung and June to Medan. Money, money... I can't spend a lot now, especially buying new clothes for chinese new year. Gotta save and save now....

Things That I wish i can do/have next year

Many things that i wish i can do this year, but sadly, we left 19 days to new year. and i wish that i can do/have it next year. Things that i really love:

Cruise. Yeah, never been to one and i always dream that i'm on the cruise and look at the sea, like Titanic movie and take lotsa of photos on the cruise. A short cruise will make me smile too...

Trip to Europe. Yeah, never been there too. Dear knows how much that i would like to travel to Europe one day, probably for a month backpacking trip will be good enough for me.

Rock Climbing: Never try that before. would love to try it next year.

Climb Mount Kinabalu. Still in my dream.

Trip to Hatyai with my gf......

as planned, we went to Hatyai on 25th November, Just the 3 of us. Fun. Girls' trip. I booked KTM train tickets from the internet and each one paid RM70 for return trip. we started from Taiping at 3am and we bought the sleeping berth. I took the lower berth because is easier for me. I slept along the way till Padang Besar. really tired...

Reached Padang Besar at 9am sharp and the train stopped there for 2 hours before it continued the journey to Hatyai. we had breakfast here as well.. Padang Besar station is the station to stamp passport and declare anything that you have.


an hour later, we reached Hatyai Railway Station and we walked to the hotel. Grand Plaza Hotel, next to Lee GArden. Cost us rm68 per night and we add rm20 per night for the extra bed because there were 3 of us. this is my 5th or 6th time to hatyai. After freshen up, we went to Lee GArden's food court for lunch. i ordered this meal for 50 bath. Is very tasty. I love the egg...

After lunch, we shopped for a while at Lee garden. den we went for massage at Sakura hotel which cost 240bath for 2 hours. I have been to this place many times and is one of my favourite place for massage in Hatyai.

after massage we went to the highest floor in Lee garden for buffet dinner. cost us 170bath and for your information, due to the flood in Thailand, the food in thai a bit limited especially the buffet part.

got the new short shirt at 80bath. (rm8)



we went to the night market. Trade Market which newly open in 2008. The market only opens on wed to sun. the stuffs here are cheaper and trendy. lot of local people here.

after the night marker, we took tuk tuk back to our hotel and called it a day. tomorrow is going to be another long day., i dozed off once we reached the hotel. damn tired...

Next day we woke up at 930am. yeah... we took our breakfast inside the room and took tuk tuk to the big market. just for your info, this market tend to be famous with Malaysian so the seller usually will hike up the price. I found out that the night market actually sell cheaper things compare to the big market. so u be the judge and experience it yourself.

we walked around and took pictures. below is the big market. bought one of the had made small bag for my niece....cute

after lunch we took tuk tuk to Floating market. we bargained with the driver. we got 2 hours for 400bath. at first they wanted to charge us 500th bath.. i bargained with them.

lots of stalls on the boats.....


this is the best mango rice i ever had in Thailand. cost 35bath at floating river. MUST TRY!!!!


weekend bazaar at LEE garden. only on sat and sun from 11am to 9pm. lots of handmade stuff. a bit pricey but things are special and nice. bought a pretty hair clip here. we shopped again before we walked to the station. got a few shirts for dear and myself.

on the last day we walked to the station to wait for KTM train. we saw the time wrongly and reached there 2 hours earlier. so i decided to walk into the Thai train and snap a few pictures. the train stopped there for hours. look at the classic train, is beautiful. i wish that we still have this in Malaysia. I took the same train in Kanchanaburi...


rain for a while.. train without the head.....






finally the ktm arrieved. took the train,. and reached Taiping at 145am, so it was 1 hour and 45 minutes late. as usual lah, KTM. Biar lambat asalkan selamat....we had a fun and great trip in HAtyai. best place for cheap shopping..

Is Dec 2011

is the final month of the year. and each year when December comes, i will be sad because it will be the final month of the year and i'm going to miss that year very much, hoping that it will stay there forever. well, 2011 has been a good or better year for me. well, everyone grows right??? and everyone changes right?? so do i. Work has been better this year and family is getting better too....what more can i ask? so what are your plans for the final month of the year?? for me.................

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Trip to BALI!!!!!!! Omg, i can't wait. i bought the tickets like 10 months ago. Air Asia lah. everytime when they have sales, i will grab the tickets and this round i got myself 3 tickets to 3 different places in Indonesia. First round, Bali first. Everyone deserves a holiday, especially year end holidays. I read from The Star paper today and this particular topic really touched my heart. Teachers deserve a holiday!!!! I'm super loving it. I actually started my holidays weeks ago. first to Port Dickson with in law and last week i went to Hatyai with the girls. Yeah, no guys are allowed. And now i'm broke. So my plan to KL has to put on hold first till i have some cash. Den to Bali and hopefully after Bali i can do some mini shopping spree in KL to buy Christmas presents and clothes for CNY.

Ain't it sad to bid farewell to December. For me, yes, i'm sad because i love 2011 so much and every year i will say the same thing to the same year. sad to leave them.Anyway, life goes on and i'm preparing for major changes in my life next year, moving to new home and getting married. Is going to be something different and special to me. Let's appreciate December more, for now....

Kanchanaburi Thailand

We were supposed to take train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, den from Bangkok take a bus to Kanchanaburi but the train cancelled due to some accident. So we took 10 hours night bus from Chiang Mai to Bangkok and reached Bangkok at 730am, the next day. I was very fresh, not sure about hubby as i took sleeping pill before i boarded the bus and slept along the way till Bangkok. First class bus. We had breakfast served on the bus too... Once we were in Bangkok bus station, we took another 3 hours bus to Kanchanaburi. We did not know that the bus is using old road instead of high way. anyway, good experience as i slept along the way.

Once we reached Kanchanaburi, we went to eat RM 1 chicken rice..yeah RM1 and we got shocked in our life. can you imagine, 2 plates of chicken rice and 2 coke cost us 40bath. We checked into our hotel/motel after that. rm40 per night and we stayed for 2 nights. our room is on a floating river facing the lake. beautiful.

River Kwai bridge. Beautiful. we rode our bike there and round the place. Small town, but they do have a very nice night market and a big Tesco or Lotus. We booked a trip to Erawan waterfall the next day for 680bath per pax which included the entrance fees which cost 200bath per pax, lunch, death railway and ride on the train for 30 minutes. the cheapest that we can get...

i'm on the bridge...

the view outside our hotel room. i'm loving it.

view at night

this is our hotel room....
i'm enjoying my breakfast with hubby here.. a acup of coffee and a plate of sandwiches overlooking the lake is just amazing...

yummy.. we did not finish everything, so we packed the food to the waterfall....

our driver came at 830am sharp and the journey to the Erawan National Park took us about an hour. Once we reached, our guide gave us 4 hours to spend. there are 7 tiers waterfall where we have to hike to each tier. it was not so bad for me as i'm used with hiking up the hill.. everyone was wearing sport shoes but i wore sleeper, and the guide said that i might fall later but i didn't coz i can hike better with sleeper, my rm2.90 sleeper from tesco...


4th tier waterfall


look at the fish..big one...fish spa here...

2nd tier waterfall

1st tier waterfall



after lunch we went to the death railway. you can read about the history from this place.. beautiful place...




we were there for an hour before the train came. i love the train. it was a 3rd class train without air cond. very classic inside and this train will go to Bangkok too.


after washing up, we went to steamboat for 99bath per person. eat all you can!!!!! cheap and we had massage after that and called it a day because we are going to Bangkok the next day...i will definitely come back to this place again whenever i visit Bangkok in the future. we miss our trip to Ayuthayaa due to the train....