I am lonely without my Iphone4 and Instagram. Cause when i’m away, these are the only things that keeps me company. Don’t think I can imagine my life without these two items that have made their way to the top of my traveling essentials.

In all honesty, It does get lonely sometimes. Especially when you are used to being surrounded with friends and family. It sucks not having anyone to laugh with upon encountering something that is out of the world funny that you know only you and your circle of family and friends would get. It’s pretty sad that Instead of laughing out loud, you laugh out loud in your HEAD and find yourself pressing an imaginary save button for you to tell it back to your friends another day.

i have an imaginary hard drive full of funny traveling stories.

but in any case, you try to make the best of things and make the most of your stay. I’m currently in Siem Reap for a meeting. In the last 3 days i have been on a diet of coke and tropical fruits – the only tea time options that they seem to have along side coffee, tea and a platter of weird looking local cakes (I’m a food snob like that). For lunch we are being served COLD everything.

By the time the meeting ends, i’d be too tired to find food that i’d usually retire to my room and feast on a packet of banana chips (or two) from the mini bar. It’s been a while since i had a fresh warm meal and i’m sure the salt and sugar content in my body is way beyond salty and sugary by now.

detox. Monday.

anyway, lucky for me the meeting ended wayyy ahead of schedule and instead of playing against the 20-something friends i have on Drawsome, I forced myself to brave the scorching heat to visit one of the 7 wonders of the world.

and oh, and was it WONDERFUL.

Words simply couldn’t describe how beautiful this temple, that i’ve only heard in History books actually was. I was enchanted to the point that if i had all the money in the world, all the money that even PRICELESS could buy, this would be my first real estate purchase.

This is what greeted us.

My friend and I were wondering how it was possible for the monks to climb up those narrow stairs. It was later in the day that i found out that there are actually 3 types of stairs in the temple each representing hell, earth and heaven. Apparently as you go further in to the temple, you would notice that the width of the stair steps gets narrower.. the explanation for this is because it’s easier for one to go to hell which is why the steps representing ‘hell’ are wider in comparison to the other two. The stairs going to heaven would be narrower because unlike going to hell, it’s more difficult for one to go to heaven.

and these people paid USD$20 to cheat their way out of hell.

hahaha. pakai tangga spisil. anyway, sucidial thoughts of me choking on mangoes and banana chips went away upon visiting this ancient site. kan. the best things in life are USD$20 a pop. sometimes more. but it’s usually worth it.

anyway. that’s all for me in Siem Reap.

THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY. I look forward to going home and my daily runs. Oh and fresh warm meals , unlimited internet access, family and friends..and… and…

😛

kiss me.

Everyone knows how much i loathe my job. Most days i find myself sitting in the office dreaming of opening a cakery of my own. Surfing the web for the latest trends in restaurant interiors, checking out latest courses in french pastries on lecordonbleu.edu and conjuring up a long list of potential flavors for Brownies.

But today, i am reminded how much i love my job and why i should put my brownie business on hold.

all because I met her.

hello doll!

I was in Copenhagen not too long ago but i was told that she had left for a year long expo in China. And now she’s back and i just happened to be back again for a meeting 🙂

It’s all about timing.

I managed to get to her JUST before sun down, which is coincidentally also the perfect time to take photos. Something about the natural lights kah apa kah whatever i was told.

isn’t she just beautiful?

Sometimes it amazes me how i managed to get here…not just here but to places that i’ve never dreamt of going – in my life! x 100. This just goes to show that one should just sit back, relax and let life take you wherever it wants to go.

I now believe that, If my brownie business is ever going to take off, it’s going to happen on its own. With a little bit of planning , luck and patience ..i’m going to get there and believe me YOU will too 🙂 (the same school of thought also applies to finding Mr Right)

here’s to staying positive like HIV.

kiss me.

My eyes popped open at 5:30am this morning. After tweeting a series of good mornings to the birds and the universe i thought i’d go back to sleep and wake up just in time to shampoo, make myself an awesome breakfast and arrive on time for work.

and then it started raining..and i was more than happy to succumb to the cozy warmth of my blanket so i Snoozed. I snoozed my iphone to it’s death and woke up just in time for a quickie shampoo and breakfast which consisted of a CEREAL BAR in the CAR and arrived work at 8.30. fuck my life banar banar eh.

well. at least, it’s good to know that i had good intentions. eh..more like high ambitions.

now, to reach that high note like Whitney.

haha.

ok. Tuesday, be nice.

Chivalry is officially dead and i blame social media for it. When was the last time you received an actual TEXT or a CALL from a guy asking you out WITHOUT approaching you on Facebook first?

I’m just saying that it hardly ever happens anymore. Now you get random boys adding you up on facebook, throwing pickup lines in the chat box and THEN they will proceed to ask you whether it’s okay to WHATSAPP you. It has come to a point where they don’t have to work that hard to get you anymore.

Now, I dont know about you, but Is it wrong for me to want a guy to spend a few cents to text me kah? It’s not like i’m asking them to shower me with gifts. The shorter time taken for men these days to get a girl lowers the excitement of ‘the chase’..mcm. ok lapas whatsapp, whatsnextapp?????

However, if it was to look at it from another point of view.. we can look at it like SPEED DATING. lapas whatsapp, if u no like,kensel. move on. start whatsapping with the next guy who just added you on facebook. haha. but no, that’s not my point. im just saying, it’s nice for a guy to work a LITTLE bit harder to get your attention. But if you’re the kind of girl who can settle with the above-mentioned arrangement den errr.. okay lah. I like my men, BRAVE. If not, don’t waste my time.

haha. anyway. it’s Monday. I’ve never been this grateful on a Monday. Only because last week felt painfully long. Now that i’ve made peace with myself on a number of things, i just look forward to the rest of the year. It’s funny that it is already the middle of feb, and my year is actually JUST starting 🙂

“So verily, with the hardship, there is relief, Verily, with the hardship, there is relief. So when you have finished, then stand up for Allâh’s worship. And to your Lord turn your invocations. Quran 94:5-8”

Here’s to a good week.

kiss me.

It seems like all i do is apologize for not blogging. I don’t know why I still have the blog up pun. when i should really be password protecting each and everyone of my blogpost just in case someone decides to use it against me one day.

its february. hello february. what’s going on?

a plenty. a large chunk of it consists of things i don’t really want to talk about but rather accept them as they are and move on, a part of it, i dont want really want to talk about too..cause its work related and i should just suck it up like a working girl (on ice).

so again. going back to that question of WHY i still have this blog.

ntah. i just like the idea of having some place to carry and shelf my thoughts kali. Twitter is usually sufficient , Path does the job equally well..but there’s nothing like ranting and rambling on a blog.

i’m sure those who used to have a blog still have a blog. as they say, once a blogger. always a blogger.

kiss me.

Sedang apa…dan dimana?

Ex lead singer of the indo- band Krispatih.

this guy right here is what ballads are made of.

🙂

Happy new year world.

2011 flew by so quickly. It’s as if it was only yesterday i told myself i was gonna climb Mt Kinabalu sometime last November. haha. I don’t think i ever blogged about what made me chicken out of the climb. I owe you a story.

It was last year that i got all excited about an invitation to go waterfall abseiling in the jungles of Temburong, oblivious to the fact that i did not at all fit the profile of an adrenaline junkie. So i took my back pack, got ready as early as SIX and wore my RUNNING shoes in to the thick slippery jungles of temburong to embark on adventure of a life time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Half way in to the jungle, I was already agitated because i just kept falling on my ass. It was a 45 minute hike and the path was slippery and my grip-less shoes didn’t help with my balancing. When we finally arrived at the waterfall i was already mentally and physically exhausted.

They say, It’s either that you are an adrenaline junkie, OR you are just purely suicidal to go on an abseiling trip. The latter didn’t occur to me until i missed a step during my decent down the waterfall and swung my back against the hard rocks. For a moment there, i thought that was it, it’s either i’m going to plunge to my death or half my body was going to be paralyzed from the impact of the rocks. Thankfully, I was the luckiest girl on earth on that day. I made it to the ground SOMEWHAT safely and crawled out of the jungle with a large bruise on my back :- It was just between my butt and what could’ve been my SPINAL cord. mun CORD piano inda jua apa.

If the unfortunate event was to teach me anything, it had taught me to:

– Not go in to the jungle with strangers.
– Always bring a close friend along, because not all people are nice in this world.

As i nursed my injury on the boat ride back to Bandar, I also tossed my MK Climb idea into the Brunei river. It just proves that some things are just not meant to be kan? And when this happens, it’s time to find something else that YOU KNOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE. Sometimes you just have to be realistic. But don’t give up without giving it a go.

Mount Kinabalu could still happen. Once i get rid of my phobia of heights kali.

anyway here’s to a new year.

what will you bring me oh 2012?

Kenapa nama rancangannya, Imam Muda? kenapa inda Imam BUJANG? . The question is a rhetoric by the way. But if i was to answer my own question (because i’m capable like that haha) my reply would be that if it was titled Imam Bujang, it’d be a reality tv show on star tv. macam The Bachelor. huhu. with a huge ustazah BUJANG following. Sekali, kenapa ia ustazah pilihan? kenapa inda ustazah COMEL? hahaha.

its tuesday. and this is my early morning attempt at being funny.

i will excuse myself quietly now….

im streaming criminal minds episodes one firefox tab after another while stuffing my face with chocolate coated cornflakes..ONLY one after another. this is turning out quite the holiday…better than Melbourne. This is what i’m going to do every chance i get for a holiday. stay home go for a medical procedure and watch tv and eat crap all holiday long. the next holiday, i will get my teeth done.

😀

the internet’s cooperating well tonight. it’s so good i decided to blog twice.

maybe i should be giving credit to these chocolate cornflakes. they’re good too.

so good that they may as well be..uh.. chocolate cornflakes.

ok time for more criminal minds and chocolate cornflakes.

this is awezome.

Can anyone recommend good strawberry yoghurt brands other than Pauls? cause Pauls is a little bit too sour for my liking. im feeling slightly better today. a bit braver to move around. Hence why im tuning in to Law & Order on Fox.

I love Law and Order. It’s one of those drama series that doesn’t really require you to follow it from the very beginning of the season . You can just sit down and start from where u left off. It’s like meeting up for coffee with a good friend that you don’t see or talk very often but it always feels like you’ve never parted.

wahahah deep jua ku mengexplain atu ah? come on. it’s just law and order. haha

guess who’s not doing anything again today?

ME!

🙂 🙂 🙂