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Ko Chang

I'm on sick leave today. Slept through to 1:30 pm! I just looked through old photos and found this one. It was a good memory of Ko change. At that time, I went with my sister and my mum. Wanna go back again.

New 'Anything' and 'Whatever' drinks in Singapore

There are new can drinks called "Anything" and "Whatever". The idea is if you are at the register already and you sort of cannot decide what to get, just grab Anything which is a random choice of soda or Whatever which is a random choice of tea!

"Anything" comes in a silver can could be a fizzy drink of Cola, Cola with Lemon, Apple, Fizz up, Lemon, Root beer

"Whatever" in a yellow can could be Lemon tea, Peach tea, Jasmine green tea, White grape tea, Apple tea, or Chrysanthemum tea!

Now, what do you want? Whatever!

You can check out their website. There are ad clips and radio spots for you to watch and listen to. BUT! the site is made by Flash!!! You cannot do anything what-so-ever with it apart from click click and click and Google won't be able to find the site either 'cos it's made with Flash! Whatever la!

Isabella Isabella *~*~*

Our beloved niece. Our sweet Isabella.

Isabella having her milk

Beloved Maricris with her Isabella

Nico holding little Isabella

We love you, Isabella! Be happy. Be well. She has my blessings.

Hoodies and Wags go check cabon footprints of the mufin tops

Collins English Dictionary has added words like 'hoodies', 'wags', 'cabon footprints', muffin top, size zero, into its 9th edition, launched just on Monday the 4 June!

hoodie = a young person who wears a hooded sweatshirt, regarded by some as a potential hooligan. Get the picture?

wags = the pampered wives and girlfriends spending their partners' cash, take their place after a sterling performance accompanying the England football team at the 2006 World Cup. In other words, wives and girlfriends of footballers. Who?

pro-ana = those who believe anorexia is a lifestyle choice. Also, size zero

muffin top = the flabby bulge over the top of a tight pair of jeans. some muffins?

brainfood = foods containing nutrients thought to assist brain function.

carbon footprint, carbon offsetting and season creep - the changing length of seasons thought to be caused by climate change. Your cabon footprint?

Apart from these, words like 'Plasma screen', 'Tamiflu' - the anti-viral drug for influenza, 'wiki', 'me-media' - personal online services such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. =D

Phew.. so many... I'm wondering if 'Ubuntu', 'Blogger', 'Cookie', 'Emoticon'...and the like are in there too.

However, Thai people not to worry! Our ราชบัญฑิตยสถาน or The Royal Institute is also updated the Royal Institute dictionary with words used between 1999 - 2007 (พ.ศ. 2542 - 2550) and they call it the dictionary of the current Thai language, literally translated from พจนานุกรมภาษาไทยปัจจุบัน. They have been collected 'new words' for about 2 years and currently there are about 1,000 words from the modern time. You will be amused when you hear what words are being included. They are...

Chill-Chill ชิวชิว = to take it casually, as in 'sit chill-chill at a club' or take it easy
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Ung อึ้ง = shocked and speechless

Kip-Kea กิ๊บเก๋ = chic

Gig กิ๊ก = a person you have an affair with, or as my experienced friend put it, it's someone who is more than a friend but less than a girlfriend/boyfriend.

Go Inter โกอินเตอร์ = to become famous internationally...(I guess this word got its root from Tata young Oh..boys love her..ha ha. There you will find her photo in the link.)

Cha-pai-toi ช้าไปต๋อย = too slow that someone has already taken your chance

Dek sil เด็กชิ่ว = a person who has re-enterd a university

Kan neaw กันเหนียว = to do something or have a contingency plan so that you are certain you will get the right result.

Kai-Kok ไขก๊อก ... This I don't know what it means, but it's from politics I guess.

So.. your gig has go-intered with the help of Dek-sil and what made you Ung was that he said Cha-pai-toi, but your girlfriend just chill chill. ha ha How's that?

Sketch class 2 : Binder Clip

Not given lightly

What a nice day today! It rained last night. It actually rains everyday now. I woke up and the weather was so nice, bright and cool. I also found a old CD I bought when I was in New Zealand. Old time feelings... This CD is actually a compilation of Kiwi artists.

There are:

Loyal by Dave Dobbyn
Sway by Bic Runga
Slice of heaven by Dave Dobbyn with Herbs
Not given lightly by Chris Knox
Drive by Bic Runga
Chains by DLT FEAT. Che Fu

I miss New Zealand. I miss Auckland..

My decent tumblr.

I have a tumblelog now! It's My decent tumblr. It's great. It's easy to use. First let me tell you what a tumblelog is. Tumblelog is a quick way to share things and post things. If blog is like a diary, tumblelog is like a scrap book! If you want more of the meaning, check Wikipedia. Check out mine! And if you want one, sign up at tumblr. . It's so great! I told one of my friends about it and so she sign up and we were having fun posting and playing! So, sign up and tell me your tumblr. site so I can add you as friends ok? he he ^_____^

Old photo : Princess sis

OK. I have to do this also tonight. It's funny...it's my sister...when she was..probably 12? She always thought she was a princess. That's her...and yes...the girl in the background was......me...

Sketch class 1 : 28th Birthday*

I'm 28! I got lotsss of presents and we went to Ruenrod for dinner! ^__^

This is what I drew on the first class.

Shading is difficult. The teacher said I should practice a lot so my hand/wrist feels comfortable drawing. So...this followed.

Lines and Circles

I was supposed to draw a straight line and a round circle.

Working Sat โอ้ย!!

When you have lots of stress and you can not say it you say โอ้ยยยยยยยยยยยยย โว้ยยยยยยยยยย And that's it. I'm happier now. โอ้ยยยย โอ้ยยยยย

Offerings to the holy spirits

Today we made food offerings to the spirit houses in our house. We have 1..2..3.....4 spirit houses in our house. We are actually 2 families living in a 3 plots of land and we have 4 spirit houses all together in our land. There are the 4 holy spirits that protect the 4 directions; North, South, East, West, or ท่านท้าวจตุมหาราชทั้งสี่, the grand father spirit or ท่านพ่อปู่, the goddess of the two banyan trees or เจ้าแม่ไทรคู่, and the grand father and grand mother spirits or ศาล ตา ยาย. When I was young we had a big banyan tree in our land and there was once that a person asked to come into our house to pay respect to the banyan tree spirit. Someone at that time also said they saw a lady in Thai traditional costume standing in front of the banyan tree in our house. Sound spooky but I've never really actually seen her. I just see her in my mind like when you think of someone you know and you see her in your mind. Something like that.

This time mum dreamt there were 2 big elephants standing in front of the 4 holy spirits house and she said that meant it's time for us to give offerings to holy spirits in our house already. We hadn't done it for 3-4 years already. So, that's my house, very superstitious, very religious. But strange, mum always dreams of something of meaning. It might later come true or it would tell her something she's mulled over. The morning before the Tsunami hit Thailand and Southeast Asia, mum dreamt of a B-I-G waves hitting the shore and sweeping people and things away. Uhh..I know that's a bit scary.

And then about half an hour after the offering, the rain was pouring down! We had to rush out and take all the food and everything inside and get ourselves all soaked. Though it was ok since all the ritual and prayer had been done. We just had to take things inside sooner than we had planned to.

That's done. Though , later in the day I found out that MY TOSHIBA Portege R150 that I'm using is totally mute! Before it was the speakers only that didn't work and I had to use a headphone to listen to Windows welcome tone. But now everything is mute. No sound comes out in the headphone either! Gosh...apart from other problems with it...this again. I hate computer manufacturers!!! They don't care about consumers. Just churn out low quality products!!!

Think I have to go to bed now. Tomorrow is Monday and also the first day of a new school semester which means it will be jam packed from the village exit.

Good night...

Being married

I'm a Mrs. now! We actually got married on the 1 May 2007 at 11:49 am at Sapansung district office. Today I just went to the district office again to change the status in my ID card from Miss >> to >> Mrs. They are open half day on Saturday. It feels a bit strange looking at the card and saw Mrs. in front of my name. I've been using Miss for almost 28 full years.

Well... Being married for me I think it's like another stage in life. You have one more person that you really care for and 'attach' to. Your family is extended. It's not only you anymore when you want to make a certain decision in life. I think it's very important that you marry a right person! Definitely. I know everyone knows that, but still some people like to fall for bad guys/gals.

For me being married is...much better than it was before. You always have a friend who understands. You always have someone to talk to and share your view with, especially when you are a person who looks at the world from a totally different angle from other people's. It's just sweeter, warmer, and happier. Don't you feel happier looking at the person you love doing his or her own things? The person you want to be around.

Many of my friends are getting married this year. Some have already got married last year. We went to their weddings together. Happy times. For our own wedding though, I might be around the beginning of next year, maybe Jan or Feb. We are not sure yet. Sometimes it's just too difficult to decide and please everyone including yourself when you have an extended family. Well, we are going to make it. I just don't think about it anymore. When the time comes, I think we can decide on a right thing to do that will be best for us.

I don't know what the future may be, but I'd rather be happy with what it is right now, with the people I love as they are with me right now and enjoy myself in every moment. I would rather do that.

For now, Good night.

Me Emo kid

uhm...somehow unintentionally without realising..until I saw myself in the elevator...that I look like an "Emo kid" today! Though, I'm not wearing glasses and I don't have that skull belt. More like a retro emo kid...

Though..I told one of the mean friends of mine this story and he said..Emo kids are usually young...and that I was more like a "senior Emo kid"... and that's when I called him mean.. ha ha

Though..I'm not heart-broken and I have a gentle personality..he he

P.S.: you can't imagine what you will find when you google image "emo kid". Look here

Now raining

Yesterday storm

Do you see the lit pyramid roof?

That's my office. Uhh scary.

It was raining heavily yesterday, but it made it cooler for us.

Picture from The Nation

28th Bangkok International Motor Show 2007

4 April 2007

Long live the king

You will be welcomed by a Disco Tuk-Tuk

Typical sight at a Motor show

..Classic..

but..would you buy a car that looks old when it's brand new?

Altis' life-saver

(launched in the Motor show)

Vios TRD

Dream car... The Audi TT

New A3 (3,100,000 Bt)

Launched in the Motor show,

but you need to wait 6 months to get only a glass roof model, not even displayed here.

The new Q7 quattro!!

The quattro

Urr....C4 Diamon...Urrhhh

Urrh..What are they thinking??

Have you seen Li-Kae (ลิเก) lately?

Power of the rock!

It can ruin your interior..

Chevrolet CNG

Mercedes E200 NGT

neat...for a price of 3,700,000 Bt

The new E200 NGT

(Launched at the Motor show)

Don't be mistaken. I didn't mean to take a photo of his upper-body part..

Wedding no more...

March is passing so quickly. It's now end of the month, which is at the same time the end of the first quarter too! Oh, what a ride I had! First I was preparing for the wedding. The date had been set already. It would be(have been) on the 26 Aug Sun). I chose the place already. I really wanted to have a garden wedding. So I chose Suanthip. It's such a nice place for a garden wedding. It was exactly what we wanted. But then our dream fell apart when we discussed it with Keng's family. His family had a totally different idea on E-v-e-r-ything! We wanted a 400-guest garden wedding, but his father's idea was to have a 1,000-guest wedding in a well-known hotel.

..Oh well..
Not only that, my parent and Keng's parent had a B-I-G fight that night we discussed the wedding! Basically they disagreed on everything! I was definitely on my mum's side and I think Keng was too.
So we resolved to have no wedding at all. Heart broken but it'd be unbearable to go through another fight. It was supersonic chaotic really!!! I had never had such a scene before. It's like in a soap opera really. Never thought it would happen to me, but it hit me right into the teeth. ha ha

..Sorry gals you cannot be my bridesmaids anymore.. and no more Thai costume-theme party...

Well sometimes you just got to take a detour *wink*


* Pictures from www.suanthip.com

My Frank Sinatra!!

I also got a Frank Sinatra CD from one of the best friends here! He was my first friend here in Singapore and he helped me so much when I first came. We didn't get to talk much lately after I had the pain in the feet 'cos I couldn't go for lunch with him and the usual group anymore. He was also busy with work I guess. I always have to bring my own lunch these days, so that I don't have to bring myself down, in pain, limping.

There was once my feet were in so much pain that I needed the Salonpas to relieve it. I asked him to get the Salonpas for me from a pharmacy downstairs. No sooner than I put a period in my sentence, he sprang up and shot right down the hall, gone in 10 secs, to the pharmacy to buy the thing for me. Then, 5 mins later, there it was, the Salonpas on my desk (with the change). Then in 2 secs, he whoose back to the seat, hands on the keyboard already! He could literally whoosh here and there like in the Smallville, when someone is in pain. Really! ha ha.. It was actually nice of him. Whoose~ I do feel thankful. Whoose~

But, I really like Frank Sinatra. I love Frank Sinatra! I really love Frank Sinatra! I'm so into him! (Though, please don't think I was born in the wrong era. I just love Frank..love Frank...so much... he he he)

New Books!!!

Today I went to Kinokuniya in Orchard with my Indonesia friend and my mum. I had Cesar Salad and Crepe Suzette! Oouu~ Yummy





I also got lots of books!! Shift: Inside Nissan (about cars again, I know) and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I bought "The power of subconcious mind" for my friend as a gift. So he bought me "The confessions of a shopaholic" Well, Subconcious mind for Shopaholic. He said I needed some light reading some, and the Shopaholic was recommended. OK. I will read it. It was good going to the Kino with him. We talked and talked and talked! We also found out that "Why do men have nipples?" and "Why do men sleep after sex?" were not that good or funny after all. They are those time-passing books, I think. He also said for the courtesy of my boyfriend, he would not let me by them. ha ha There were so many interesting books I wanted to read, as always. I'm happy to get these new books, plus the 'light' one!