So far, there only seems to be two department stores here in Yeosu. The biggest being Lotte Mart (why of course! i reckon they should just rename their capital city of Seoul to ‘Lotte’!) and the second being E-mart. I prefer e-mart because it’s smaller and they have free wi-fi for shoppers! but for some reason, we always end up at Lotte mart.

Anyway, we were just there earlier this evening. I was looking for Strawberries. FYI, Korea has the best strawberries in the strawberry universe. I don’t know why we bother importing our Strawberries from Australia. Korean Strawberries are fat , berrrryyyyyy juicy and sweet.

so anyway, i found my strawberries and headed towards the dairy section for whipped cream. nothing like the old fashioned strawberries and cream kan? Local products are mainly being sold through out the supermarket but most of their dairy products are imported. As i was browsing the shelves for cream, i caught sight of the prices for butter.

close to 9 bucks!!!??? for BUTTER????. and i thought we had it bad in Brunei. BND$3.10 for 250g of Newzealand butter doesn’t seem so bad anymore. i think i finally understand what they mean by “Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik negeri sendiri”

Rain fall gold in people country, rain fall stone in own country, better in own country!

I AGREE 100% with you Mr Peribahasa Melayu.

but in anycase, don’t they EAT butter here???? i’m guessing they dont. that’s why the namja and the yeohjaaa chinggus are all sooooo PERFECTLY SIZED.

I also passed by the cheese section and my eyes got even wider when i saw that they were charging close to $16 bucks for CHEESE.

and it’s korean cheese. wtf.

ok. nvm. ill just have strawberries for bfast lunch and dinner from now on.

arrosso!?

kudeo.

kiss me.

Here i am sitting cross legged, korean style in a korean styled hotel room ..replying to work mail whilst listening to the likes of Big Bang. It can’t get anymore Korean than that. Wait. actually. it can.. but i refuse to call room service for a bowl of cold stoned rice.

ive succumbed to the world of K-pop. It’s the only way to learn the language, FAST.

anyway, this little fella made my day today.

I saw him walk past me once. and i thought, eh what was is this boy wearing on his head? Whilst waiting for our driver i saw him again and i stopped him for a photo .. and he was more than happy to pose 🙂

bah eh back to work. krg kana ucap nda kraja. kana ucap kraja ku disini ani blogging saja.

biasa..manusia kan? inda lari dari annoying. annoying ha-seyo!

kiss me.

so i’ve decided to post again for the second time today. facetimed with the family and mom told me that she read my blog today and asked me to keep it updated. i’m such a good daughter.

walked to the minimart nearby to get a few bottles of Mul. that’s water in Korean for you (but don’t bother saying it to the girls at the cafe downstairs. they seem proud to be able to pronounce ‘Evian’ the french way. Everytime i ask for Mul, their reply would be.. “Eviang?” and a loud round of APPLAUSE would immediately follow – IN MY HEAD. ) At the minimart, i came across a variety of chewing gum. They had the normal bottled ones but what caught my attention were these Lotte chewing gum (it’s amazing how Lotte started making chewing gum and now runs the whole of Korea) that offered 2 different flavours in 1.

Mcm kacamata atu jua ah? those glasses that would turn dark when you’re out in the sun and back to clear when you’re in the shade? awu bah cinggam ala ala kacamata VVVVIP.

Anyway, They had orange flavored ones that CHANGES to Mint and Mint flavoured ones that changes to GRAPE.. the third one that i saw was labeled ‘Mystery’. Being the curious cat the i am, i chose Mystery only to be dissapointed that it tasted like STRAWBERRY.. the WHOLE TIME. I was chewing on it for a good two hours before accepting the fact that they weren’t going to change flavour.

kirakan mcm SURPRISE, kau kana tipu oleh chinggam.

banar kan? i think i AM in Pyong Yang.

:S

kiss me.

I haven’t been much of a blogger these days.

I’m also currently not in the country. Will be a way for most of April,May, June, July and inshallah returning home just in time for the Eid Celebrations. lol. “Eid Celebrations”. who am i kidding? Raya lah! hahaha. hahaha. hahahaha.

Whatever it is, this mini posting i’ve been given..i can’t be more grateful for it. It’s not like i have a choice BUT to be GRATEFUL.

but in anycase, it’s nice to get out of the office and work in the comfort of a hotel for a while. the hotel isn’t much of course. it’s very basic but then again, this isn’t Seoul. I’m located South, of South Korea. The views are scenic, the weather is Spring, but the work is the STORY of Pyong Yang.

Great challenges are coming my way, and it’s fast approaching too. I can only pray to god that i come out of this alive:- stronger and wiser than i was before. inshallah. amin.

i miss food by the way. it seems like Yeosu doesn’t have much to offer apart from the Prawn or Squid burgers from Lotteria. a Korean equivalent to Mcdonalds. Sort of like a Grade “A” version of a Mcdonalds, and they do it very well too!!

There’s also only one Mcdonalds here and Fillet o Fish isn’t on the menu. I’m guessing one needs to catch their fish themselves and bring it to Mcdonalds. Other food items are a hassle to order. People here don’t speak much english, let alone have menus written in the common language. The english friendly restaurants like the one in the hotel however, specializes in BLOW FISH (FML). I’ll leave it for when i’m feeling a little bit more suicidal.

I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday :S Maybe this is a good reason for me to have Blowfish for lunch? lol. they don’t call it suicide tuesdays for nothing. haha.

but hey, it’s SPRING time. We flew in just as the Cherry Blossoms were blooming. Unfortunately, we nly managed to enjoy them for FOUR days before the rain came and blew them away. Initially i thought they’d be around for the whole of spring, turns out they only bloom for a few weeks in a year :S haha but i was lucky enough to see it.

time to go to work. *pasang baju asgai*

kiss me.

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.

🙂