A short break

I will be flying off tomorrow to Bangkok for a 4D3N trip. You might think I'm crazy to go Bangkok at this time due to the military coup in Thailand currently. I had a hard time persuading my mum to let me go! I will be travelling with Hui's whole family (total of 9) and 3 colleagues together with their 2 friends. A total of 14 persistant people who dare to take the risk, proceed with the holiday that was planned 9 months ago!

We got the ticket during AirAsia don't know how many months anniversary last Year December and it was FOC! We just had to pay for the airport tax. We waited patiently for 9 months and when days were getting nearer, the state of emergency in Thailand happened.

We were so disappointed and thought we had to postpone the trip that we had planned 9 months ago. 4 other colleagues postponed their flight on Thursday and cancalled the hotel room. The other 4 (including myself) decided to wait till Friday to see how's the situation in Bangkok before deciding if we should proceed as planned.

Thank god that things started to get stable and business as usual this morning in Bangkok.
I will take some photos of Thailand army tanks and soldiers and show everyone. ^_^

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1 more month

How times flies. Left 1 more month to my wedding! I had been preparing for the wedding since 1year plus ago and was enjoying the preparation slowly. Now as the date got nearer, I started to dread it. This is because I can no longer take my own sweet time to get things done. All things had their targeted deadline to meet and if it was not done properly, it might disrupt my wedding.

I had drawn up a whole list of to-do list that needs to be performed prior to the actual wedding day. This helps me to organise my task in priority and ensure I do not miss out anything till the very last minute.

I had already started to send out the invitation cards through snail mail. Today, Hui and me distributed the cards to our colleagues in office. Next week will meet up with secondary school friends and Uni friends for gathering and passed them the card. My wedding website had offically go-live. If you are my wedding guest, the URL will be stated in the wedding invitation card.

I will be flying to Bangkok from 23rd - 26th Sept for holiday. My Guo Da Li will be on the 30th Sept. A very busy September! Workload in office is getting heavier too and I'm looking forward to my 2weeks+ break in October!I really need a long break. I really DO!!

Hen's Night

Thanks so much to Phyllis and Limei for putting in effort to organise this Hen's night for me on 2nd Sept 2006. A hotel was booked at Swissotel The Stamford at a very cheap rate due to staff discount from May. Thanks May, for helping us to book a room and coming down personally to check-in for us!

The 3 of us met at 1030am and started off the day at Kbox @ Marina Square from 11am till 2pm. It was a Kbox Lunch at a price of $9+++ per pax. Food was just alright. The rice was hard and cold. But the curry fish was not bad.

After the KTV, we proceed to the hotel to meet up with May for check-in. There were some commotions at the counter mainly because May and Phyllis were "aruging" over a king size bed and double single bed. Guess the lady over the counter would have mistaken them as lesbian..hahaha..

After we check-in and deposit our stuff, we took some pictures and left the room for shopping. I closed the balcony door and drew up the curtains before we left the room.

We went Marina Square and Suntec in search for the Jie Mei outfit for Phyllis. A baby blue top and white skirt. After in and out of many boutiques, she finally settled on a white skirt in a shop called 'IS'. As we couldnt find any suitable blue top for her, we decided to end the shopping and headed to Sakae Sushi at Marina Square for dinner.



After the dinner, we went Giant to grab some tidbits and drinks to bring back to the hotel room. We also bought some breads for next day breakfast. It's time to head back to the hotel.

Strange thing happened when we reached the hotel around 7+pm. When we went into the room, we were shocked to see that the balcony door was left wide opened! Curtains were not drawn up and was pushed to one side! Everyone started to wonder if we had forgotten to close it. But Limei and I remembered vividly in our mind that we had closed the door before we left the room. Alright, maybe the cleaner came into our room for cleanup and left the balcony door open. But if it was a cleanup of room, why was the bed still so messy? (we mess up the bed before we left the room for shopping). Would the hotel cleaner came in to clean up the room when the room was already spack clean before we check-in?? We started to check our bags for any lost items and luckily everything was intact. In order not to let our minds ran further, we just closed back the balcony door and proceed to bathe one after the other.

After our shower, we had our tidbits, drank and chit chatted till about 1+am. We played True or Dare using poker but basically, all the punishment are 'TRUE'! We just want to probe into individuals relationships and sex life...haha..just 1 word to describe..KAYPOH!

We just draw a card each and the one with the smallest card had to answer 1 question raised by the other 2. Maybe it's my Hen's night, lady luck was on me. After many rounds but I've not got to answer any questions yet. Well, do you think the other 2 would just let me off so easily? The next round THEY help me choose a card and obviously, I'm already prepared to lose this round! As to what questions we asked, it would be a secret between the 3 of us....;) Besides all the Q&A, ofcourse we also complained to one another about GUYS!
We slept at around 2am and ended the night with a fulfilling information in our minds.

We woke up around 10am and had our bread we bought the previous day. After breakfast, we went Bugis for a walk in search of nice bags to carry for functions. But 3 of us couldnt catch anything we like and we walked back towards our hotel. On our way back, we passed by the newly built National Library. Phyllis suggested to go in and take a look, hence we walked in. It was real big! The signboards were clearly identified and you would not get lost in there. We loitered awhile and went back to Raffles City Tower. We bought Mos Burger back to our room as lunch before we got ready for check-out at 3pm.

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Lucky no more

The sentence from my previous blog "Well, we don't always have a chance seeing planes pumping petrol in the sky right?" no longer valid after RSAF open house started on 2nd Sept.

The amazing scene I mention was being demo during the open house. Initially, I still thought the planes ran out of fuel because of the constant practising in the sky to be ready for the open house, but in actual fact, that was one of their show for the event. And I just happened to see it during their rehearsal!

Kind of disappointed as I thought I'm one of the lucky Singaporeans to be able to see this, but now it seems thousands of Singaporeans who went for the open house had seen it too. Well, guess now it's nothing special to talk about refuelling petrol for planes in the sky!

For those who had miss the open house, here's the picture of how it's done.
Credits to Ricky for providing the well-taken photo.