Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat. Phuket 2015 Part 2

On our second day, we both went gym (yes, I managed to psycho him!) and chanced upon a table tennis room! Oh, it brought back so much memories of playing table tennis back in school days.... ahh... those days..

He managed to beat me and then told me he was in school team. What?! Should have given me handicap right?! Unfair.

But well, it was an enjoyable moment playing together. :)

 

Then, we ventured other beaches using the motor cycle we loaned for 24 hours.

It was seriously hot that sitting on a bike get suntanned faster than if you were at the beach.

 

Because of the heat, we didn't have the mood to eat as well, hence we just brought some food at the mart and bring it to the beach to relax, enjoy the breeze.

It was really much cooling under the coconut tree and enjoying our romantic beach picnic. hehe.

 

 

 

Mid afternoon, we returned the bike and stayed in our hotel and enjoy the facilities - Swimming pool, tan, and drinking coconut juice. Enjoyment. Life is great just like that.

 

 

 

Personal opinion, the swimming pool is quite impressive for this so-so hotel. Didn't expect this though.

 

 

We bought Fantasea tickets and went for it at 6pm. The bus picked us up and sent us there.

This is my first time and I was quite amazed by the grandness of this place.

Thought it would be only a small place, but it looks big.

 

Because I was so hungry, we went for dinner first. The dinner is buffet and it was big! Like Expo hall size. Note that when you enter, walk straight to eat first, don't go right side and take picture because they will think you have eaten your dinner, and cannot go back into the dining hall again.

When you exit, you have time to take picture.

 

You will be allocated seats when you purchased your tickets, so just go to your assigned seats to eat.

Dinner was good!

 

 

 

 

We decided to have some fun before entering the show and played all the kiddy stuffs. And he won! haha... :) He is good at shooting games, think that's what his NS trained him well.

 

Overall, I enjoyed the show and think it's worth watching one time. But I wouldn't go back and watch again.

Our next day was just totally nua until just eat, swim, massage. haha...

Went to this apparently popular food place, called No. 6 Restaurant near Bangla.

Soup is great! :)

But noodle.. not good.

 

 

Till the next holidays! :)

 

 

 

Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat. - Phuket 2015

Ah. Being back from a super relaxing beach break - Phuket.

Booked this during some fare sale and just do it.

Phuket wasn't on our "to-go" list but heck it. We need a break!

 

Booked sea sun sand resort which is near the end of patong beach.

It's true that most reviews says it's confusing because you have to change lifts here and there to get to your rooms.

But that's a minor issue.

To me, the major issue was the sound proofing was bad. People close door and hear very loud.

But i'm on holiday, so having the seaview, sunset view, and the pool view was just comforting for me.

 

 

Since it was already close to dinner time, we decided to take a walk down the beach and over to Junceylon for a nice good dinner. GGH wasn't feeling well, hence we went for steamboat at MK Gold Restaurant.

Ordered ala carte and had a very filling meal. Cost ard $40 for 2. The most expensive went to the shabu shabu meat.

Went around for a walk and just within 1 year of returning back here, Junceylon is getting very international. There's even Pandora there! Sometimes I kinda hope that such places don't so internationalised so that it keeps the local feel and us, tourists, can appreciate their culture.

Most of the people shopping inside are all tourist, I wonder does the locals visit...

 

 

Settled down early in preparation for the next whole day event.

We bought island hopping trip from one of the street, costing us THB1,200 per person.

Different operators quote differently, so try and get your best price.

We also got the Fantasea tickets for THB 1,600 including dinner.

 

The Phi Phi Island trip is the whole day, and it was a 45min bus ride from our resort to the marina.

 

Started off with the Monkey Island where we get to see monkeys. Not very interesting considering zoo has a lot of monkeys. haha.. even Machritchie has monkeys roaming. hahaha...

 

 

After that, we went to the middle of somewhere where we got to jup off the boat and snorkel in the middle of the sea.

The water was so clear and beautiful. You could see many small fishes!

 

 

After that, we went to an island where they served buffet lunch. This was slightly different from what I experienced during Krabi.

In Krabi, my island hopping lunch was brought to the beach itself and they just laid a mat and serve us food.

This, was a proper restaurant type.

And the food is quite good. Had ourselves ice cream cause it was too scorching hot! It was like 36 degrees??? I was like applying sunblock every hour.

 

 

Beautiful sight.

 

We reach Maya Bay where we could snorkel/ swim over there.

Damn shiok. The scenery was beautiful, and lying in the waters under the sun was super cooling.

My skin was burning!

 

Our last island was Khai Nai Island, equally beautiful.

Much bigger and there were shops selling bbq food.

Again, we snorkelled and saw more fishes here.

I think this place has the most types of fishes I've seen so far. 

 

 

Beautiful beach seats, but it cost THB150.

 

 

 

After our whole day island hopping trip, we had a very quick dinner because we booked our massage at sweet lemon grass which was rather far from our place.

 

We settled for an eatery just beside our resort, and it serves good thai food! I was surprised, cause I didn't really expect that type of standard lah... Thumbs up!!!!

 

And we decided to try renting a bike to ride!

Super nervous cause both of us never try riding a bike!

The rental is cheap so it's definitely worth renting than going by taxi.

One day rental was THB300. Quite standard. Unless you choose those newer ones or more trendy ones.

Bravo boy!

We made it safe to our massage place and had a wonderful massage.

A 90min aroma massage cost only THB500! :)

 

 

 

Let It Go

It's a long time since I ever chased a serial on TV. And this time, I finally watched a full serial that caught my interest - Let It Go. This is on Channel U, recently ended, so you can catch it on Catch Up TV. A short 13 episodes only. Why I was interested in watching is because of .. ELVIN NG!
hehe.. He's my favourite boyfriend on TV. HANDSOME TO THE MAX. *fanmode on*

Besides the incentive of looking at the handsome guy, the story plot is interesting as well. And, somehow, it makes me reflect of my love relationship.

I remember when I was at my worst chapter in my life 4 years ago, it was really horrible.
The pain left a scar and was mentally tormenting. For me, my way of recovering was shutting up myself to the extent I could not bear it anymore and just break down.
I have a habit of crying at night cause no one will see me.
The longest, and hardest let it go... was probably this.

My friends around me knew, and of course, consoled me and shared my sorrow.
Working was terrible, and I kept making mistakes, and staring into blank spaces. When they found something amiss from my actions, people started asking.
I particularly remembered though, my good buddy, who at that time left Abbott already, texted me when I was still doing OT to ask me what happen.
When I spilled the beans, I guess the conversation crafted a bad scenario as if I was going to end my life (probably that time maybe), and he sent someone else who was still in Abbott to watch out for me.

And that someone else became my boxing bag since then. Because he has nothing to do, single, he followed me for sad walks, kept bringing me back to reality when I stone. I would look through photos and weep. He was a trustworthy friend because he never gossips nor spill beans. He never ask any questions but just sat quietly there or talk other random stuff. I was really thankful.

Slowly, I got back my normal life and tried to move on with the pain still buried inside me.
One day, when he confessed to me, I stop short and went away. I didn't know what to react and realised I wasn't done "letting it go". And I didn't want to hurt him.

I thought I had "let it go" but it was just being buried. I didn't erased all that left memories. And I remember he said to me something like that... I can always be trap in my own memories, but he has moved on happily, while you are still sad. Is this something I want.

I then found my own way of letting it go, and the only barrier is myself.
I deleted all photo memories, took new course, and did a solo trip and meet new friends. I want to have back my independence that I used to have. Motivational books definitely helped me in my negativity.

They say time will heal everything. I say, maybe not. Healing depends on yourself, how fast you can fight yourself and win that emotional race. And I believe in letting it go before holding someone else's hands. Never bring down other people when you are still not letting go.

And now, I'm thankful for all that I have even though it is a tough journey.  

Full of Meh-Meh celebrations

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

How's your new year so far?

Mine was boring... but as usual boring lah.

Probably the only difference this year was accompanying my mum to guan yin temple at bugis. Could feel the atmosphere of new year.

 

February new year is always a hectic one. cause there's many celebration like our dear yuez bday who falls on one of the cny days. So have to plan for another day to celebrate in advance.

Went to hai di lao!!!

As usual, OVERATE! The soup was superb that I kept drinking it. hehe.

 

 

The waitress stopped us from ordering so much the first time round .. but end up, we ordered again 2nd time after our food was running low. haha. How glutton we are.

 

Went for a walk down to PS due to overeating... and ended up at Starbucks (our usual hangout)...

But somehow I kinda prefer hanging out at starbucks/ any other chill out places cause it's the time where we can chit chat anything under the moon. Auntie mood on.

 

 

On Valentine's Day, it was my family reunion and GGH wasn' feeling well too so we didn't go out.

He came over to deliver hamper to my dad then go orchard area to shop for my dad new year shirt.

Walked down Paragon Soup Restaurant for reunion dinner.

Ever since my brothers are married, we opted for early reunion cause they have to shuffle to in laws place for dinner as well.

Too much food that we couldn't finish lots of dishes!

 

 

 

Shortly after, GGH and I walked down the street of orchard before heading home.

 

My valentine present. Made by himself. :):):)

 

Because he thinks my chou chou is too dirty. hahaha... and smelly (but its not!)

So he made this himself.

 

Love the effort he put in. A child like picture ... chou chou can be for adults ok?! why only children can have chou chou?!

 

 

And my Line Camera plushies! I bought one Cony in the collection and decided not to get all cause too ex... This is much bigger that the rest of the collection.

 

And my TonyMoly facial mask! My only favourite right now!

 

To my unsweet boring bf, thank you for trying your best to be sweet, and putting effort in what I love and trying out my hobby. :)

 

Wheeler's Yard

Because the boyfriend and I had been spending our dates on exercising and there's just too little time for dates left, this was our first official date in 2015. Like really just to two of us going on non-exercise, normal dating times.

 

So, GGH planned on this date. Told me to wear our 1st couple tee out together....

There's a reason why...

Cause he brought me to Wheeler's Yard. That explains why he wanted to wear the black couple tee. (btw, he also bought a white couple tee).

The black couple tee was a cycling graphic design.

And, Wheeler's Yard is a garage café with cycling stuff deco.

Totally forgot to take pictures of the surrounding and their default blue signboard. Guess I was too hungry.

 

 

 

My brunch was Smoked Salmon and scrambled eggs.

The salmon was okay, but the eggs is absolutely not fantastic. Food was meh.

 

 

We also shared mushroom soup and garlic bread. Soup was also a disappointment. Although it has chucks of mushroom, but the mushroom didn't taste fragrant.

GGH ordered the grilled chicken under the main course and it was passable.

I probably wouldn't go back here again cause the food really... isn't worth it.

The average cost of mains were around $18++...

Had much better food with that kind of price.

 

Went shopping for a travel backpack but couldn't settle for one. Really like the salomon red bag but it cost like 280 after 15% discount. Cannot bring myself to buy such an expensive bag.

 Ended up watching the thai movie in the evening which was really funny. Great show!

3 year old Lucas

Ok, Jan & Feb flew by too fast! Way fast for me to even catch up with my photos uploading and journaling all my events.
Decided not to go all the way back to January.. hence shall start on Lucas birthday!

It's actually his birthday today! But we celebrated in advance for him since today is a weekday.

Please let me braggg about this cake first. This is sponsored by his aunt... and he specially requested a Peppa Pig cake.... Cost me a huge amount! Well, huge amount for a cake so small lor. Comparatively.

But what to do?! Love him so much that I decided to part with my money to see him sooo happy.
He was really very happy and excited to see his cake. To the fact that he asked his mum to keep the train and his name in a container.... hahha... I hope he don't actually eat it...

Lucas, I hope you remember this though. If not, your aunt will remind you when you are older. :p

 

 

My sis-in-law's family.

My bro's family with Godpa & Godma.

 

So happy singing away....

Kids nowadays are getting smarter than before. Technology does make them know more things at a younger age.
Seeing all of them growing up so quickly, I understand the woes and joys of a family. It's really not easy to juggle all of them. And both parents must support each other. Finding a right partner is definitely an important part, and mutual understanding of each other will help to have a balanced lifestyle. #justrandomthoughts

Anyway, the very next day we actually celebrated Charlotte's full month. That's why this aunt is so busy. Cause I had to prepare for Lucas birthday cake, and prepare his gifts to his schoolmates, and preparing Charlotte's decoration.
Thankfully, I had the help of GGH. He really helped a lot and my sis-in-law actually commented his talent. OKAY...... he isn't very talented to me .... well.. he is not the sweet type mah.... but occasionally he does display his talent... but NOT TO ME... :(
The deco was not bad lah... I just didn't think of it mah.... I got so lousy meh?.... haha

ok, shall update soon. cya.

 

 

oh hello 2015!

Hello 2015! Just like that, half a month of 2015 is gone... not that I am neglecting this space, but well, life caught up too much of stuff.

 

On the very first day of 2015, a new child is born and added to the Lim family tree.

My eldest bro have a daughter, Charlotte.

Such light little baby.

 

2 weeks passed, and.... I as an aunt, haven really got to carry her because she has been sleeping all day long and with Lucas around, I had to have my focus on him instead of his little sister.

 

2 kids in a family, I can feel it. Tired to the max..., for just playing and staying alert. haha...

 

 

Shortly after, my weekend was spent with mahjong kakis and also another day with my SHE girls.

Haha..... they came over for steamboat. All the way from the west and north okay?!?!?!

All of them stayed like jurong and yishun so willing to come to bedok. What you would do for food and gossips. Hahaha..

 

anyway, we tried the home packed Hao Di Lao soup base, and it was equally good!!!!

Equally spicy! Worth it for the price comparing how much you pay at the actual place.

Thumbs Up!

 

 

Also took this chance to celebrate Esther's birthday!

We almost celebrate CNY tgt. hahaha.

Bought her requested Durian cake from Emicake.

I'm surprised by how it tasted so good even though it's emicake. Didn't know they were popular for Durian though.

Happy birthday Esther!

Don't travel so often. hehe.

 

Have been busy visiting the new born on weekends and with meet ups... and also on running practice cause GGH and I are aiming to run twice a week to train for stamina to do a climb.

Don't know when, but i'm sure it will be this year!

So many things to accomplish before I say bye to my twenties!

 

The last of 2014

Time flies isn't it.
We are at the last day of the year. My year in review....

Left my first company Abbott and joined another major player. Was a very tough decision, and I still do miss my colleagues. It became more of a family than colleagues.

Completed my studies and obtained my professional certs. This was a long journey, considering all my friends not already not studying... haha... Learning is a lifelong journey, and I do believe in it. It is not only textbook oriented, but also real life experiences makes you learn as you grow. It's the perspective on how you see things then you will be able to realise that you are learning.

Travelling is also a learning process. Learned about different cultures, experiencing different lifestyles.
This year was fantastic, from Taiwan, Thailand, and Cameron Highlands. All of them are new experiences. Yes, even Thailand.... seeing temples the whole day was new. hahah

I also took up my first lesson in wakeboarding and on/off went for a few. It was challenging but fun as well. Managed to stand up for a longer period of time and learnt to go left and right. Will continue this expensive sport, but not so often lah.

Focusing on tax specialisation this year is in a way, a new role for me. I didn't see this coming. But it's something that I don't hate or dread. People don't believe me, but I really do like tax because it's challenging and it changes with the economy. It's not dead.

I must say this year really has been a wonderful year for me, blessed with many true friends around, and happily in a relationship, and enjoying my super work-life balance career. haha...
Next year....... let's watch. :)

 

Happy 2015 everyone!