Bangkok Trip Last Day

we were late!

we promised Cheeng to be downstairs for breakfast 15 before 8 and we are only there by 8! I rushed like mad to the coffee house for the french toast with honey and whipped cream...and a cuppa...off we go to the Grand Palace...reluctantly when the most that I wanna go was the floating market...but since time didn't permit, I just have to agree with a tour in Grand Palace...

Nur, at the entrance of the Grand Palace

Nur & Paul...

just can't help it...they stand still...i wish to make them smile a bit...but failed!!!

it's them again!

look at the painting...

intricately done...some part of the walls in the palace...

me, Paul & Nur

by Cheeng who always give his back to my camera!

so many guns! and i have to guard them!

After the Grand Palace, we decided to do some shopping...went back to Dusit and we checked out. But my friend said that she've got a head ache...but do we have a choice? we are in Bangkok for God sake, and we've checked out. to get some Thai silk, we were recommended to got to Nice Fashion...I manage to get some for myself and lil' girl...good price, good ambience...

Went to Sukhumvit for some food, but our time wasted, read: and i hate that!...for some reason...dear friends, if you happen to travel with me, please take care of your health....I hate to hate you for that! we end the 'shopping spree' in MBK..duh!!!

We left Dusit Thani around 5pm for th airport...me, Nur, Cheeng & Paul...cramped ourselves in the limo. We reached Suvarnabhumi airport for less than an hour, very early when our flight was only at 7.52 pm Bangkok time.

After saying bye to Paul, we checked in, and went around the airport to look for some food to bring back (no I didn't bring back any) due to some frustration!
we finally settled in a restaurant for some food, and chit chat and crying our heart out with Cheeng...
we didn't stop until we realized that we are just 15 minutes away from a departure time! and please remember that the gate was the last gate and we are now at the other end of the airport!!!!
damn! we just remember that and we've got to run!
Poor Cheeng he was pushing the troley with all of our hand luggage...and while we were walking fast, and Nur was with her high heels, the minutes I passed by one of the BIG speaker, I heard they are calling out our names for the final call for our flight!!!
Damn! Damn!...nothing to be done, we ran like mad to the other end!
Embarassing! that was! very....and we kept on running!
At the check in point, unpack things!!! and re-pack! oh Dear God, why is this happening to us!!! I wanna go home...I don't wanna spend another night in Bangkok...I miss home...

The minutes we step on board...it was very quiet...and obviously we were the culprit to be the last on board...
Went to my sit, and trying to gather my breath that I lost while running...*inhale...exhale...* harshly...
The run that I will never forget...that was a story in Suvarnabhumi airport a week before they took over the airport for the new Thai PM...
Good bye Bangkok...till we meet again...

small lil' thing

when facing lots of unnecessary thing everyday...some small lil' unexpected thing will surely make your day...at least...
the last thing to expect was to receive some small lil' remembrance...

since working with EM, i discovered that Thai people has always their own ways to remember the counter part...
the card and their pictures....sweet...

thank you ladies...!

Bangkok Trip Day 3

i knowww....!!!
only now to update the soooooo long Bangkok trip day 3... so kesian!
it shows that I remember but I'm so occupied! super!
the meeting ended with some wrapped up of the whole meeting objective. nothing much on that, just some business matters... we end the day with a lovely cruise dinner along Chao Phraya River...brilliantly amazing views... me as usual, the photographer of the nite...the nite where my lady boss won the best dress...
lovely...

the Grand Palace from the Chao Phraya..spectacular!

temple...I dun remember the name..

me and the girls

me, the girls & Paul

my starter for the nite

our team and my lady boss in saree...was her nite!

called early rest for the nite...long day waiting the next morning...

You Are Traditional and Dependable

You are gutsy, daring, and completely adventurous. You don't look before you leap. Or ask what's in a cookie before you eat it. You are a very active, on the go person. You get restless if you're forced to sit still for too long. You're high strung and have a bit of an addictive personality. You have many vices. You seek security in your life. Feeling safe is important to you.

The Sandwich Cookie Personality Test

before everything

before we have something, we have nothing
before everything, it's just nothing...
when we have that something, we appreciate it...we don't want to loose it...
we do everything to not to loose it...
even though we know it will go to nowhere...

so, that's the reason of my behavior
and you understand that...

*keep on analysing...

for better or for worst

I have 2 contradict situations with 2 souls that I love...read : yeah, i really love them...

One, should I be grateful? or should I feel sorry for myself? or should I prepare for the next downturn cycle...I don't know...

One, I'm praying hard..I need to. The voice, made me cry, make me feel like flying. The truth, I'm so worry...for not being able to face the situation, when it come...

*God, I'm a sin...please forgive me and please give me strength, that I really need...

our Sunday

I took B to clinic the first thing on Sunday morning. The nite before, we went for a dinner with SIL & BIL and B started to shiver on the way back home..and getting worst very fast!
I freaked out...but still he refuse to be taken to clinic...!
The nite, he's sleeping with a very high temperature...

Alhamdulillah, the clinic that normally packed, was so silent with no patient when we arrived. B's favorite GP was on duty and soon after we headed home with some breakfast for B...he refused to go to the kedai mamak that he love to hang out at...

Close to home, we bumped into makcik that we normally buy her nasi lemak, I stopped her & got 5 packs of nasi lemak for us...me? happy!!

The rest of the day, I was nursing B until his body temperature went down & he sweat...lega!

I end the day with a lovely evening surrounded by a lovely people...

*Farah was the most gorgeous bride I ever seen...THANK YOU for the rest of the night and the gift too...so lovely...

our visit...

the previous weekend, we went back to Johor again...dad has been discharged but the water retention is happening again...
earlier, lil' girl came to me while I was working @ home on some photos and started to cry, worrying about dad...

off we go back, 3 of us whilst B wasn't coming since he's working on Friday...
dad, being him, was waiting for us until wee hours...sleepless...
he's sick, he's weak yet still waiting for us to arrive...I'm worrying and still I am

reminiscing time when my parents were still in KL before and we used to go back to Johor to visit nenek...they cried everytime we are about to go back to KL...and now, dad is the same...

for lunch before we go back, mom cooked masak lemak cili api with ayam kampung...oh! how I missed that a lot!
Tho i'm not a fan of masak lemak, but mom's cook is always the best!
Yummy! that is...

Since lil' girl and Ayang never been to Kluang Railway Station coffee shop, we stopped for a while for coffee & roti bakar keping & half boiled egg...
very nice...

*I've got some comfort...thank you...cos I know, you know the feeling...

being surrounded by silence

unless I really feel like wishing, not everyone I have a heart to wish the new year...
i'm still tired...and still working hard.
no changes on the working schedule...

i thot that i can have some real break this month, but i still have lots of things to do...
and shooting to start again in February...
plus, my new boss is ready to occupy me with more than 50% of my current work schedule...
i have to be ready.

office has been quite, when my neighbour will only come back on 12th January, and another soul last day was on 2nd last day of 2008, leaving just the 3 of us in the office.
mind you that all of us are in our own room...

*i'm happy but i'm not sure...