Cheng Ho Tea House

somewhere in old chinatown melaka, we stumbled onto this tea house on a hot saturday afternoon. we were only planning to stop by a teeny weeny while but ended up parking our asses there for a bit. actually it was rather pleasant :)



i am enamored of tea houses, ah! i wish there were some good ones here that i can hangout @! Cheng Ho is not only a tea house but also a museum and theatre. Oh how i wish we could stay for the play !!! i must come again ..... The Madam there was very fixed on us having chrysanthemum tea, so after much explanation we had a pot! ( i would prefer something other than chrysanthemum or jasmine, cos we have that pretty often! ) it was pretty soothing, just right for a hot afternoon! i always thought the art of tea pouring fascinating. it requires grace and patience. something that is not my forte. perhaps that is why i like it so much. i must say, it was really a good mood that day and thanks to the moon cake season, Tea Madam served us some delicious cakes! ho ho nice ! nice !

our very own, Philippe Pappillion! see how he flutters! perhaps another reason i enjoyed that day was because of the good company ... we spent a good day together wandering about Melaka.


there was a lot of lovely 'tajau'. but nothing is in there, not like them chinese movies with brimful of wine. aiya! the good ol days! come to think of it , there were some huge 'tajaus' at our place last time, wonder where it'd gone to? oh well ..... theres also a very tall wooden giraffe statue???? theres a story behind that. something to do with a gift ...?? emmm, can't recall (we also have giraffe at home, smaller version!) but the cooolest thing bout this place is that it has a hidden entrance!!! exit??!! so cool! right? right? i want hidden pathways in my house too! it goes straight to junker street! check it out!



good good. after this i plan on exploring tea houses everywhere. i'm so happy to find another thing to enjoy! by the way, thanks to sister and Ray for the wonderful trip : )

good work today!

its been a while since my last illustration, simple stuff like this also took me hours : (

but i feel refreshed doing something other than advertisements and photography so its all good for now.

i'll be back soon posting recent stuff .... later ya'll!!!

my perfect day ...

Kuta, Bali ~ 9th August, 10 am, Saturday.

finally opened my eyes to greet the day :)

i didnt sleep much the night before but its okay cos i get to sleep in because the order of the day is 'Milly is Queen'.



we started out just walking around kuta. just strolling around like a typical tourist is fun, altho i also live on an island, bali is much smaller and its breezy no matter where you are, so it was a pleasant morning.



i've done most of the shoppin already so i thot to just get some 'omake', but of course i ended up buying a whole lotta stuff! .... and all for myself!

.... jeskiddin!



just as i thot my legs would give out, we decided to break for lunch. the food here is great all all the restaurant have such great mood.



yeah, i think i could live here. the tiramisu ice cream is heavenly!



that evening, we parked our asses in kuta beach to send off the sun. it was a glorious sunset. there sure was a crowd! there's a lot of entertainment and eye candy so its no surprise. heh heh. during season, turtles come up to lay egg here but not tonite.



ahhhhh, my birthday dinner ..... went to a classy italian restaurant just by the beach. live music's great, drinks great, food's great ...company's great. heh heh. you will notice we ordered the same thing we ate for jon sang's bday , cos unhappily that time i was sick and couldn't taste a thing. so now i'm satisfied.

after the wonderful dinner, in our room we beep beep beep ........ ehehehe.

thanks for the wonderful birthday jon sang!!!!

: )

more random post to come.

........

the days go by so fast lately, i just take one step after another and just hope that i'm headed the right way. i am directionally challenged. its not a bad thing, not really, sometimes i remember to stop and smell the flowers so to speak and its such an amazing feeling.

something happened recently and i found myself questioning the concept of friendship. all my life its been pretty clear to my what friendship is suppose to be. i don't force my friendship on people, feel free to ignore me if you so like, i'm not an easy person to get along with so i've never expected to be popular. i don't want to be anyway. my trip in life so far i can say, i have 5 very important people that i really cherished besides my family, i'd die for them just as i'd die for my family. in fact they are like family too, i've adopted them. but that's just me, i don't know, well, not really know what i mean to them but i hope its something call friendship and love.

but i have other friends as well and i care for them too. and it does hurt when that friendship is taken lightly. being betrayed by someone you consider a friend hurts like hell. friendship. love. i might be guilty of being to rigid in my views on it and i make no apologies because that is how i plan to live my life.

now i find myself asking what i would do for sake of friendship, because of friendship. when another friend stabs the other am i just gonna sit here and watched the bloody episode? should i just stay out of it? who should i comfort? who shall i betray? will you hate me?

BUT WHY? why did you do it.
you won't say and i can't ask.
while i call myself your friend am i not allowed these feelings?
i'm sorry, i don't know what to do. i can't pretend and i won't forget.

its good that the days fly by and i haven't time to sink into this mess properly. i can say with authority now that ignorance is blissful and yet ... we enter the concept of forgiveness. this another black mark on my report card. GOD forgives, but i'm not God am i? i'm so far far away from it.

CHIVAS neat, on the rock.
Blue Indigo - Llorca.
the only thing that keeps me sane. oh and of course mr. jon sang. thanks honey for still loving your OCD, bad tempered, alcoholic pill popping druggie girlfriend.

Temporary Out Of Order!

i am back from Paradise
but i'm goin out of town again ... right now! ...
so no post till end of the month :(

later people!

Vacation!

Thanks to mr. jon sang, who very nice treat me to a much needed time off in ...
Bali!

see ya'll when i'm back!

Lately ...

despite being feverish and koff-a-lot, it has been quite an interesting few weeks. check it out !



we did some shots of shopping complexes, just to update the database. somehow there was a 'little' misunderstanding and we got 'shooed' off from 1Borneo for shooting without permission! [i said, there was a little misunderstanding!] i dunno if i can show my face there again. mebbe next year. [damn i have an assignment there next month!]



we went around to some of the interesting places of worships! temples, churches and memorials.



updated some shots for hotels too, since i'm working on the accommodation brochure, i've shot tons of hotels! here's the recent ... imperial, le meridien, hyatt and radius.



cos of the many development goin on right now KK's skyline ain't looking good, but here some nice vistas ...



and eventho i was @ the waterfront ... i din't drink a drop of booze. at least i enjoyed the sunset!

what? another birthday?

yes, this time its jon sang.



we had dinner together to celebrate :) it was @frattini's.



our parents wanted to come along but we ditched em! we are still lovey dovey in our own weird way...

now regret ordering the RM41 roast lamb, since my taste buds weren't in order. couldnt taste anything! woo woo! i feel so old, i nodded off @11 last night! in the olden days a little cold and fever like this wouldn't keep me down ... here i am already a week into it. when will i get better?



this guy ate the entire pizza all by himself!

every year when july comes along i always get broke. i'm sure you can imagine why ... it seems that everybody's birthday comes along at this time.

[is mating season in november?

another bday!

i had a good time today!



lunch @hana restaurant, one of my fav japanese res. YUMM!



we've been friends forever! sometimes the days go by and before we knew its half a year before we spoke again but when next we meet it feels like only yesterday ....



we've been thru a lot together ... ever since we were 5 year olds (damn! i gave away my age ...) i always got your back!



despite sharing a lot of things in common (Japanese food!) and being childhood friends - two more different people i can't imagine.



happy birthday gal!

Birthday!

Hawding!



i do miss our drinking days!!! emm ... drunken days?

All the 'bestest'!

you look so sweet together !

Wedded Bliss!

kyaa! kyaa! bro got hitched!

it was a heartbreaking yet happy day at the same time. my poor brain is so abused, i slept for days. i'll post more when my fever lets up.

men of honor

should i ever get the guts to take the trip down the aisle then i would want noyod to be suffering right along with me.




i'm sorry, you being prettier than me and snatching the title of 'ms stb' just makes me wanna bully you more.

you promised!

happy birthday mom!

Egad! it was close call!
lucky i remembered and bought a cake!

since she dint wanna go out so had take-out from our favourite restaurant :) i dint wanna let this one go since i might not be able to be here with everyone like this anymore, so this year i'm gonna go all out for my family and celebrate every occasion : ) i'm making memories everyday. even with the plants, the turtles, the assassins, OB, the chimes, ehem ... my bed.

i love my bed.

happy birthday mom!

i don't need promises ...

'some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them'

william hazlitt

'if the lord be with us, we have no cause of fear, his eye upon us, his arm over us, his ear open to our prayer, his grace sufficient, his promises unchangeable'

john newton

'being of no power to make his wishes good
his promises fly so beyond his state
that what he speaks is all in debt he owes,
for every word'

william shakepeare

............ ............. .............

'truth is beautiful without a doubt, but so are lies'

ralph waldo emerson

'i must stand up in search of the truth, if i don't i only roll with the flow of the lies and make it stronger'

anon

Settling Down ...

as you well know we've been kicked out of the studio. how sad.



this druggie will need to ask my permission to leave his seat :)

we're at least happy we get to be together :p

hey, that reminds me of that old song 'bahagia bersama - sama .... bla bla bla ...' oh yeah, the ayamas song! he he he!

but its not so bad up here too ... check out the view from our shared window.

not exactly sea view is it ... but we know its there .... and we see a lot of random characters wandering around ... not bad entertainment!

we finally gotten around to buyin stuff with our gift voucher that we got as a prize for the treasure hunt! uhuhu, yummy!

i guess theres no cause to complain .... i only need to get use to the persistent chatter around me ... actually it makes me somewhat lonely. oh well.

lotsa stuff been happening and i'm friggin behind in all, but i'm surviving, eventho it was really heart breaking .....i'm sorry for worrying you guys , even devils may cry.

i'll just try harder ...

Otaku Post

OHSHC
Awwww! Mori's omake is sooo kiiuuuut! heh heh! my type!
ugah! its so long to wait what will happen next!

OP
hell yeah lotsa action happening and chibi luffy is so damn kiuuut! heh heh. but damn, why no ace update? and noyod's been catching up so we can start the otaku talk!

Bleach
i've been neglecting ichigo since i can't stand the slooooow drama unfolding but noyod tells me its heating up i gotta go read up!

Yaoi
i've been peeking into it lately since nano~chan sent me some manga. at first i was .... how do i say it ? shocked? emmm, no but reading the more less violent stuff i find that its often very thought provoking ... which is something different from what i usually like in manga. but in a way ... its gotten me hooked, the guys around me are agog and in horror that i'm reading such stuff and that i wanted to 'discuss' it with them. heh heh, i'm just bein the usual curious self ~ they always head for the nearest exit. but seriously, its very interesting, i've been learning lotsa stuf .... ...

what the ???

whats the deal with the fuckin rumors? its gotten so bad that the entire nation freaks out! the traffic was so bad and all we could get out of it was an empty gallon! dats brother punya kepintaran la! its actually a funny story but i don't know how to .... fufuufu ..its too funny!

it created massive traffic jam and a nuisance to the people who really needed to fill up. like us!! crap, wasted a lot of time yesterday! time is valuable people!

please don't let it happen again ...

on another note i manage to take a scary photo because of that incident. take a look ...

....... dint i say so ....... we were scared to get out of the car ....

mother's day vs father's day

don't the mommies look cute and all happy?



we had a private dinner for father's day, can't stand my uncles blubbering :) (grown man crying, i can't face i tell ya!, i'm really glad i was outta town that time!) and another brawl might break out : p

air supply show

last night was great!

i'm not saying i'm hardcore about them but i've always enjoyed their music. the drummer rocked too! altho my seat was kelas kambing, (in fact its the last row), but i don't mind so much cos we at the back were all standing on the chairs anyway!

i did not take any pic cos it was not allowed as stated in the tics, but many people were clickin away despite the organizers best effort to curb it and now i regret it. jon sang took a shot too. i'll post it sooner or later :)

i'm all outta luv right now, so i better shaddup!