No more toe nail injury

Following my toe nail injury, I decided that I should be more careful next time.

BUT (love and hate this word! haha), that's easier said than done. Because sometimes before one achieves 'perfection', we have to go through some sort of failures. That's the way life is~ Failures are not necessary bad things because they are there to remind us that we need to improve ourselves. They are sort of like Vitamins which boost up our immune system ..... 

BUT (another but?! haha), failure like hitting my poor toe nail against the cement is too painful, so I decided that I need a pair of proper shoes to save my toe nails from sufferings like this one again. 

You see, I need to climb 4 levels of staircase everyday, so the chance of the 'failure" is very high. hehe, what a good reason to spend!! :P 

Was shopping for a father's day gift the other day... i saw a big sale at Prima Vera. Oh well, since i was here, might as well... so i went in to check it out. Within 2 minutes, i bought myself a pair of working shoes.

Boring black shoes haha...

Self inflicted pain

最近開始游泳咯~

好久沒有運動了。身材開始走樣。體力也越來越差了。幸好食量還是一樣大，才讓我覺得身體還沒老化、呵呵~

已經10多年沒穿露腳趾的拖鞋和涼鞋了。那天我因為要去游泳想說穿拖鞋會比較方便，三千多天后第一次穿拖鞋出門去泳池，結果不小心踢到階梯，痛死了！腳趾竟然變了顏色 T______T

應該沒有人想要看我受傷的腳趾頭

來張小小的照片證明真的撞傷了就好。免得大家吐口水，哈哈

我傷到自己的次數多到不行。不是夾到手指，就是削了一塊肉。還有刺傷，肉上割一條，撞到臉和腳趾，燙傷手。看來以後可以開個'受傷'標題 (Label) 來記錄一下，哈哈~

same same but not the same

Did some housekeeping for my laptop hard disk... it's amazing how much stuff i can accumulate in a few months time!! :P

Saw these pictures which I made last September and October.... One was taken when my friend (and now my colleague as well) and I had Japanese buffet while we had training in KL. The 2nd one was taken when Jane came back in October.... Jane and I did the same pose! haha... Twins will always be twins.. we even have to act alike! haha...

P/s: The pictures are animated... do wait a bit while they load :P haha... 

Christine was busy taking pretty pictures of herself

while hungry Jenn was Sashimi eating!

Jane roars like a lion! :P

What's more, we both did that pose with food in our hands! hahaha...

Jane, can u stop copying me?!

終於去檳城咯～

我終於去檳城了！哈哈~ 我知道你可能在翻白眼，想說去檳城而已嘛，有什麼值得興奮的。我真的很興奮很期待因為我最後一次去那裡旅遊是2001年的事了。10隻手指都不夠用因為事隔已13年了！

其實我和朋友們一直有相約要去檳城吃喝玩樂，但飛機票永遠很貴（到底為何國內的飛機票比去國外貴啊？）。但當有便宜的機票時，大家的時間又對不上。就這 樣，一年推一年。轉眼間7，8年就這樣流逝了~ 光陰似箭這譬喻真的沒錯呢！事隔多年，我對檳城的記憶很摸糊。只記得蛇廟，升旗山，檳城大橋，極樂寺和參觀睡佛~ 哈哈，這都是小時候爸媽帶我去的~

這次終於去檳城啦！耶！終於圓夢了！東西還蠻好吃的。第一天一抵達檳島就吃吃喝喝。一直到離開都還在吃~ 檳城的美食吸引了很多人但真正吸引我的是古老和現代建築屋和平相處的感覺，給了檳島一個很特別的feel。在街上行走隨時都會有驚喜，這.... 我喜歡！呵呵~ 比如鬧市突然出現這浪漫的房子！還有這很有小時候的感覺的角落！

浪漫的房子

有小時候的 Feel 的角落

很羨慕他們把古蹟保留的這麼好~ 也許因為這獨特feel 而吸引了很多遊客前來。其實我覺得檳島的老街有點像大版的古晉老街，只可惜我們這裡不停的把古蹟剷除掉~ 雖讓古晉增加了大城市的feel 但卻少了自己的特色和故事。真的很可惜~ 希望政府能好好珍惜和保留先人留給子孫們的的寶物~ 我們也是個'有故事'的城市呀~

楼上这位姑娘让这照片更有feel 

（我自觉啦~ 哈哈）

因為這次人數有點多，所以找了一位當地人來帶我們四處遊玩。他叫阿俊，長得很像阿牛，但他不會唱歌也不會演戲。從他身上學到了一句話。他說如果你們餓了， 請說'喇叭“ （馬來文的lapar)。如果非常餓，請說三個喇叭（sangat lapar)，哈哈哈~ 其實三個有點不夠用，我們喇叭的程度常常在10級以上，嚇壞他了，哈哈～ Jane和我們的朋友們很愛old town的食物，離開檳城那天我竟然陪他們吃了2次（早餐和午餐）的old town!!! 噢麥卡！ 我在古晉一個月都沒吃上2次呢！真的破了我的記錄~ 哈哈

檳城的歷史文化很濃厚。我們去了一家名叫1881中天樓的舊屋翻新的旅館吃晚餐。是依以前娘惹住家的模樣翻新的。很有娘惹的特色，好華麗， 好多細節，好colourful! 真的超美的。在這裡隨便拍就可以美到爆！一般上只有住客可以到樓上，但老闆人很好，他請店長帶我們到處參觀。旅館真的美呆了啦！在老闆的用心下這舊屋有了新生命，也讓我們這一代的人有機會感受到當年的氣派！古時候的富豪真的很誇張，竟然連腰帶都是真金打造出來的！而且女生的腳環還超粗的。我們問這樣不重嗎。得到的答案竟是'因為她們有丫環扶'。噢麥卡！

中天楼的走廊~ 

我真的很喜歡檳城~ 我不介意再去。而且我要住在這美麗的舊屋翻新的旅館~ 但下一次去會不會又是13年後的事情呀？ ╮(￣▽￣")╭

娘惹的家很豪华呢~

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....