My perfect travel companion

Long holiday is approaching! Yoohoo!

It's a great time to fly somewhere for a relaxing long weekend but the cost of airfare is so high that I think I better stay where I am and save the money for something else. Darn! It's sad but at least am not hurting my bank account and purse! 

A few months ago, I found a perfect and trusted travel companion. She always says yes to wherever I want to go and always lend me a shoulder to rest on. I rely on her heavily and she never fails me! Also, we get on very well. I wonder where she has been all these years! I kinda regretted knowing her only now! Well, it's better late than never~ haha...

Meet my lovely friend....

ta da...........

My super duber cute neck rest

A lot of friends and strangers fall in love with her at the sight of her. They all said she is cute and asked me where i got it... 

hehe, Jane bought for me from one of the greatest online shopping sites ever invented by men, taobao, my favourite treasure hunting place! She is my bride from the faraway land.... 

有緣千里來相會，大概就是這意思吧？^^

有感而發~

有天看到这些文字，突然觉得很感触。

"幸福其實很簡單，學會享受此刻的擁有，幸福當下即是 (2014-05-10 一日一禪)

我們每個人都在追求幸福，卻總與真正的幸福背道而馳。因為，很多時候，我們追求的往往只是別人認為的幸福——華麗的外表、顯赫的權勢、豐厚的家產等，卻忘了自己內心真正的需要。幸福，終究不是活成別人那樣，而是能夠聽從自己的內心生活。要知道，幸福其實很簡單，學會享受此刻的擁有，幸福當下即是。"

曾經我也是追求物質上的幸福。我以為擁有自己想要的東西就能快樂，所以買了很多想要多過需要的東西，結果雜物堆滿房間，我還得花三星期打掃。過程痛苦不堪！ X﹏X

我也以為快樂來自於旅行所以我每年和朋友相約去不同的國家旅遊。渡假期間的確很快樂因可以暫時把煩惱拋在腦後。但回到現實生活後，渡假時的那種快樂又消失了~ 然後我和朋友們又計劃下次的旅遊地點， 然後又開始了短暫的幸福，渡假結束幸福又消失，然後我又. ..... 這種循環不斷的重複~ 

有一天，我終於明白，原來物質上的追求給我的只是短暫的幸福。原來永恆的幸福不是其他人事物給我们的，而是來自自己的內心！因為我们如何看世界，我们的世界就長什麼樣子！如果我们覺得生命不公平，那我就會覺得全世界的人都虧欠我们！這樣的想法會讓我们的每一天都是灰暗不快樂。我....不想要這樣過我的人生呐！ *唱著陳小春的'神啊救救我吧'* 其實連神都救不了我們 Σ( ° △ °|||)︴真正能救我們的人就是自己！ 噢，原來我們也有'超能力' ！這我喜歡！哈哈！

我有個怪癖。我有時會用數字來衡量一些事情。實不相瞞，這招還蠻管用的！哈哈~ 回歸正題，我如果有幸活到80歲，那表示我只是在這地球住29,000天的旅客耶！算算一下，我剩下的時間不多了呀！ ~( ＞﹏＜)

時間有限, 花在不快樂上真的有點不值得咧~ 我記得有支 L'oreal的skin care 廣告，最後女主角都會說'因為你值得擁有'。是啊，我們也一定要真心的快樂，因為我們值得擁有！^^

只要抱著'有也很好，沒有也很好'的態度，相信生活會快樂一些。知足常樂大概就是這意思吧！

讓我們一起邁向更好的明天！为何我突然想起小時候聽得一首歌'明天會更好'呢？ 哈哈，我不小心洩露了我的真實年齡~

You are what you feel!

Can't stop eating~

I was in Penang for a week.

I love the city! It's a place full of history and story! Love that they preserve the old buildings. Love that they have so many great stories to tell. Love that the colouful buildings. Love the food.... 

As soon as we touched down, my friend's friend took us to eat... and after we ate, we ate more.... Penang food are yummy! 

When we arrived at the open air, we saw a long Q. People including ang mo were Q-ing up for mee sotong! We also ordered coconut shave (the vanilla ice cream totally matches the coconut juice!) and waited patiently for our mee sotong and seafood platter. Then we were off for Cendol. It was a stall by the roadside and despite the hot weather, there was a long Q. We joined in. The good thing is that we didn't have to wait too long as the guy was pretty quick with dessert delivery. Cool! 

One spoonful of cold cendol into my mouth, one word - HEAVENLY & cooling! It's very coconut-ty and a bit salty... quite different from the ice kacang back home but I like it! We gulped down the big bowl of dessert. By now, we all felt a bit full. Our tummies were filled with water! So we decided to go for a walk in the biscuit factory. Not a good choice to let tummies relax because we ended up eating again as the promoters made us coffee and served us biscuits haha...

What we ate in 3 hours

After a quick shopping, our friend said that she had ordered the famous Penang fried kueh tiaw for us, and we need to be there before 3pm. What?! We just ate and now we had to eat again? haha.. This is Food Marathon for sure~ 

Apparently, the fried kueh tiaw is very famous. To eat this, u have to be very patient... and our friend happens to know his family members so she got us 3 plates of fried kueh tiaw through connection! So thoughtful of her! and Of course we had to eat to thank her for her kind gesture! haha..... 

When we arrived, i saw the uncle on his tricycle and stall from afar. Wah, he really reminded me of my childhood! When i was small, an uncle used to come to our neighbourhood on his mobile stall selling BBQ pork! 

Anyway, before the uncle parked his stall at the roadside. there were already a lot of people waiting. We went to a coffee shop nearby to sit & wait for our food. The owner of this kopitiam must be very thankful of the uncle for all he can make money just by selling only drinks and providing tables and chairs to uncle's customers.  We waited for a while because uncle cooked using charcoal! So authentic, so traditional! I have a feeling that this will be good coz anything cooked using charcoal is good hehe... 

I was right. It was really good! The kueh tiaw practically melted in my mouth! i think it's because of the pork oil he uses. No wonder people are willing to spend time to wait for this! After the kueh tiaw, my friend suggested we go for Assam Laksa. Laksa at 330pm? We usually have Laksa for breakfast. Then it is our Penang friend who said "huh? laksa for breakfast? how weird" haha.... Although we live in the same country but we have different culture~ 

Uncle and his mobile stall

Penang, I love it! i would love to go again~ 

To be continued....

Friendship confirmed~

 My old friend created a group chat in one of the apps 2 months ago. We knew each other since kindy and as soon as she got herself a smartphone, she made sure that we keep in touch with each other more often. How thoughtful is that? 

I was happy when i received her invitation until she changed the title to "Good friends??? + a shocked face". Hmm... what's with the question marks and also the face???  What have we done to her which made her doubtful and scared about our friendship? We all questioned her about the odd combinations. She explained that she didn't know what else to put so she just "decorated" the title with random symbols and emoticons. Hmmm... Of all the symbols, why ??? and shocked face???????  I think a simple smiling face would be great... Haha, can u see what her random use of symbols & emoticons have done to us? :P

Good friends??? shocked face

We met a few weeks ago. It was raining and we didn't really like the new place we went to as they don't serve any finger food. What?! There is no food???!!

????  (⊙﹏⊙)  

Yeah! The questions marks and the shocked emoticon are sure more appropriate in this case! :P

So the 3 of us finished our drinks as fast as we could and ran to the cafe behind it. We ordered drinks and French fries and continued with our chit chatting.....it was whole lot of fun... Our drinks were beautifully decorated. Love the flower pot drinks! And it was during this time that my Kindy mate changed the title of the chat group to *heart heart heart* Good friends *heart heart heart*.. We teased her that our friendship is finally confirmed. no more doubts, no more shock~ 

Friendship confirmed :P

Fun Time~
Love the Flower-pot drinks! 
The soil is very tasty hehe

My friend learned that unwise usage of symbols and emoticons can cause unnecessary misunderstanding. Yup, like i said before, messages can be misinterpreted depending on the mood of the readers. 言者无意，听者有心.....

Oppps, i did it again hehe....

A few weeks ago, I was in GZ with my sisters. From the moment we woke up, we couldn't stop eating. Everywhere we went, we had to stop by somewhere for some food or beverages. Even when we were full to our throat, we still had to sit down for desserts. My BIL is totally convinced that girls have a separate stomach for desserts, haha~ 

GZ is not only a food heaven, it's also the heaven of wholesale! From textiles to wedding stuff, clothes to Chinese herbs . I think the city is like a Doraemon! You can find almost anything u can think of here... And also things u can never think of! Love the city! we visited the same wholesale market Jane brought me to years ago. The last time we were there, we bought a lot of stuff which take up space in our homes. I won't say that they are useless because they are useful, it's just that we didn't put them to use. So the fault is on us :P While we were on our way to the market, we warned each other to buy with care so we don't end up with stuff we don't use. 

Talk is cheap, really. Everything suddenly seemed necessary to us when we were there T___T The place is still full of everything! Sometimes we only wanted one or two of the items but to get a better bargain, we had to buy more, which we did ... well, in a way, we get more for paying less, that's savings right? :P 

The building is so huge that we couldn't find our way back to the boots store to collect Jane's new purchase. It's like a maze! I think we only managed to visit 3 floors.. It's too big to walk. We sat down to grab some juice and were too hungry to continue shopping after that... 

Here are just some of the stuff i bought in GZ

Shoes, hair band, purse, books, socks, shoes etc

Gosh, they are ALL useful stuff!

Gosh, if i lived here, i wonder if my home would be a store? *sweating*