What's happening?

Well, so, been a little confused lately

About trust. faith. loyalty.

Insecurities are running through me
And even when I look at him

I don't feel anymore secure than I should be

What's happening, I ask myself

Only to be faced with emptiness
No answers to soothe me

Is this what it's going to be like
From now till forever?

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As we sat through lunch in silence
He looking everywhere else but at me
Me playing with the food on my plate
I feel a stab

And again, I ask myself, what's happening

Is it just the insecurities?

Or is it more?

And still, no answers.

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Is this a mistake then?
Something that is going to ruin my life forever

Or is this normal?

But I know normal
And normal does not feel like this

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So, please tell me

What's happening?

Snapping out

You know what. I just realised that the pass few blogs were all about the wedding. It's like as if I have nothing else to blog about. It's like as if my mind is all about the wedding and nothing else. Well, I guess my mind IS all about the wedding these days.

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I'm always looking through my guest list to make sure that I've given out all my cards. Either that or I'm debating with Fatty about something that has to do with the wedding. I'm helping Fatty count and put aside finances for this and that. Even when I call my friends, it's about the wedding, whether or not they are coming, are they bringing a partner, and yes, please give me angpows! Even when with the family, it's all about the wedding.

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I'm so busy planning out the wedding program, making sure that there's nothing missing from anywhere. Is there gonna be enough alcohol? Should we buy more? What if more people turned up at the dinner than we expected? How many reserved tables should we have? Will my make-up be okay? Will we get back enough to cover our expenses?

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I never thought planning for a wedding could be so difficult and frustrating. Doesn't the hotel handle everything for us anyway? And church is just a simple ceremony right?

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But I guess each wedding is unique in it's own way and each couple would want to make their day as special as can be. Therefore all the headaches put into planning the whole thing and trying to make it so wonderful that all friends and family will have fun and remember it for always.

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I've been so busy fussing about everything about the wedding, just to ensure that everyone will enjoy themselves, that I actually forgot about my own happiness. Till BlossomMich knocked some sense into me.

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"Woman, I've never seen such a depressed and easily agitated bride-to-be as you are. It's your wedding. You're suppose to be excited about the planning and looking forward to it. Not bitching and stressing about every single thing.

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So what if your mama invited the flower lady? Let your dad settle it. Some things are out of your control, girl. Just be happy that you have people coming for your wedding. And leave all the running around to us. That's why you have us for. To HELP you! You know, by being so depressed about your wedding everytime we talk to you, it's starting to rub off on us too and it's not healthy!

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Some of us might not even have the chance to be happily married, you know. And you do! And your family are being soooo supportive! So please, snap out of it!"

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And well, that kindda opened up my eyes and made me realise that I have been amazingly depressed lately about every single thing on the wedding and this is not the right way to work at it.

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So, I'm going to really try to lighten up and look at the whole thing in a different angle and perhaps, I'll be a much happier person.

Official in a month

Exactly ONE month from today

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I'll be

OFFICIALLY

married

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OFFICIALLY

someone's wife

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OFFICIALLY

own a husband

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OFFICIALLY

known as Mrs. Fatty

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blink blink

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*Waaaaaaaaailsssss!!!!*

Some bad and some good

So stress until can die.

So many things to arrange for and only 4 weekends to go.

Wish we had more time.

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Called PrettyInWhite to find out if my designer is back from her maternity leave.

Not until Nov 1st, was the reply.

And I have yet to see both pairs of the shoes they're making for me. And my evening gown. The one and only time I did see it was like 2 and a half months back, and when it was still full off pink round head pins holding it together. I've not even gone my the actual fitting. This is just the evening gown. I haven't even started with the bridal gown.

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We also finally got the wedding bands.

Had to go around the world to look for the rings. The whole incident was just so miserable. Fatty and I fought so much because of it. But I'm not about to go into details about it here. Fatty gets very sensitive sometimes.

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But all's well now. We managed to find the - well, not exactly perfect - ring, and paid the deposit for it too. We still have to wait a good 3 months for the custom-made rings to be ready for collection. And again, I'm not about to reveal how much the rings cost us because I might just cry. But here's a little hint.

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But no, stressing about the ring and the gown and shoes are considered absolutely nothing, if compared to stressing about the guest list. OMG!!!!

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THE GUEST LIST!!!

Someone please kill me now.

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Scenario 1: To woman and husband.

Woman RSVPs back for herself and husband plus 2 kids and 2 maids!!!!

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Scenario 2: To aunty.

Aunty RSVPs back for herself, her 3 sons, 3 daughter-in-laws, 2 grandchildren and 1 maid!!!!

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And here I am, slashing down on number of guests and tables as much as I can and these people aren't helping a bit lorr!

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Can so die right???!!!

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I mean, where can like that wan?

Invitation to you and hubby, then bring only you and hubby lah.

Invitation to you alone, fine, understandable if you want to bring someone with you, but to bring your entire family! Plus maids!!! I'm surprised you didn't RSVP your dog, your 10 goldfishes AND your neigbour's servants too!!!

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You think what?

So many tables to house your whole kampung arr. Next time you get married, I'm going to bring my dog's children and my 10 bodyguards as well. Ya lah, I need bodyguards arr. Cannot arr.

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*Sigh*

Dunno lah. I'm just so mad that people don't know how to use their brains these days. Simple things like that also try to understand a bit lah.

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I mean, if I had ample tables to give away, fine, you can bring anyone you want to. But I've only got a limited amount of table and the invitation was only to you. Not that difficult to figure out right.

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See lah, when I do my final round of calls to everyone for their RSVPs, sure mati wan.

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Anyways, onto happier things.

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Fatty and I have decided to go to Greece for the honeymoon.

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It's such a lovely place, with all year round Mediteranean weather, so nice for honeymoon kan.

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And I can go visit the temple of Zeus....where my ex-husband, Hercules, was born!!! Soooo nice!

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I found something interesting to do too

After reading everyone else's blogs and wondering why they're not updating as much as before anymore, I realised they all have ONE same excuse - FACEBOOK! However, like I have admitted before, I'm also addicted to it, therefore, will not be the one to blame them for their lack of blogs.

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But this time, I'm addicted to something else on FB.

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I love it I love it I love it I love it!!!

I love it so much that I've been spending too much time DURING office hours designing my own polyvores. You should try it out too you know. Trust me, you'll get hooked.

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Counting down

36

days to go to the 'BIG' day

oh gaaaaawd

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I think I'm starting to get wedding jitters.

But I cannot say why.

But I have been acting weird the pass few nights. Feeling restless. And I don't know if it's because of the upcoming nuptials.

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And I think Fatty is feeling it too.

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Shit.

This is not going to work, is it?

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Mummy and Daddy are getting us a honeymoon package to somewhere as our wedding gift. Mummy suggested either Maldives or Kashmir. Fatty suggested Bali :(

I'm suggesting either Switzerland or Vienna.

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Any other suggestions?

Boleh lah boleh

So, it was last Friday night, when I was rushing home to shower, that I had a conversation with God.

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This is what He told me:

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Kristy, I know you'd be extremely excited if I were to tell you that you're gonna have a baby, so that's why I'm here now, having this conversation with you. Eventhough you're only gonna be officially married in less than 2 months, and you're not yet married now, I'm still here to have this talk with you. You have NO TIME, NO MONEY and you're NOT READY to be a mother yet. Therefore, you'll have to keep your excitement till after you're wedded.

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And then, He disappeared.

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And I had to drive like a race car driver back home because the waterfall started -_-

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***

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Was having dinner at The Curve last night with Ade and some colleagues when some bastard came and switched Ade's laptop bag with an empty one.

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And we didn't even know it happened or when it happened.

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We were sitting there from 7.30pm all the way to 9.30pm and we didn't realise anything, until when we were about to leave.

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Ade: Who's laptop bag is that?

Me: *thinks to myself, duh, yours lah*

Ade: Why is there a laptop bag here???

Me: *blink blink*

Ade: Fuck!!! Someone swtiched my laptop with an empty one!!!

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And then, she went hysterical.

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And used a serviette to pick the empty bag up.

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Ade: We have to send this is to have it dusted for fingerprints!!!!

Me: Malaysia not CSI k.

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I went with her to the police station to make the report, and when we asked the cop if this happened a lot?, he made us look under his table where he kept a dozen more empty laptop bags.

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Me: Wah, encik boleh buka gerai jual laptop bag lah!

Ade: Boleh ambil fingerprints dari bag ni ke?

Him: *looks at us like as if we were idiots* Ini Malaysia lah. Mana boleh?

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So, next time, if your neighbour's house gets broken into, and someone gets murdered and the murderer escapes from it without being caught, and there's nothing no lead at all to start the investigation except for some fingerprints maybe left on the broken glass windows or whatever, don't even think to open your mouth and ask them to dust for fingerprints ya.

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Cos he's only gonna turn around and say

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INI MALAYSIA LAH!!! MANA BOLEH???

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Hmph...

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MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!

I can STILL draw better

First thing I did when I logged on today was to click into FaceBook...
to be slapped with the sight of THIS!!!!!

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on Fatty's profile!

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Who the FUCK was this woman who dared to write this on Fatty's FunWall???

Who the FUCK was she to think that she can declare her love to him in public???

And you're fucking right you can't draw for nuts!!!

I mean, have you seen what I drew for him???!!!

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So go hide yourself in some hole and don't even come out alright!

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UmaAnn walked passed me later that day when I was still fuming.

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Me: Do you know who (mentions name) is?

He: *weird smile* Why?

Me: Do you know or not?

He: *still with that weird smile* Why lah?

Me: Because, she wrote I LOVE YOU on Fatty's FaceBook!!!!

He: *laughs*

Me: *frowns even more*

He: She's AnnUma's cousin lah

Me: So! That doesn't give her the right to declare her love to Fatty!

He: She wrote it to everyone on her contact list

Me: Oh *blush*

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Way to go, stupid Femme.

New fear

Everyone has their fears.

I wrote about mine *here*

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Now I think I have a new fear.

My MOTHER.

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Her: You're not pregnant, are you???!!!

Me: Me? Why would you say that?

Her: Cos your msn says '4 days and counting'

Me: Well, it could mean anything.

Her: I'm your mother!

Me: Look, if I were, you'd be the first to know.

Her: If you are, I'd be a grandma in 7 months!!!

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and....I'n ONLY 4 days late.

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Aniston: So, 4 days late, huh

Me: Yeah, but I'm not worried - yet

Aniston: Let me see, when was your last period

I gave her the date.

Aniston: Ooh, your baby will be due June 9th! Few days after your birthday!

Me: Great! Another Gemini!

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This is just how much the world has changed.

I bet if we were still in the 20th century, my mother would have forced me to go for an abortion, whether I'm pregnant or not. She wouldn't be jumping for joy and counting down the months to the day she becomes one generation older.

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And I'm NOT even pregnant!!!

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And I wouldn't have been so opened about telling the world that I'm 4 days late, or whatever.

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But then again, it could be because I'm already gonna get married anyways, and it's only 2 months to go before the wedding, so what difference does it make whether I'm preggers now or later. It's gonna happen sooner or later anyways.

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But then, if either Jojo or Sarah comes back and say, "Mom, my period is late 1/2 day", I think my mum would hit the roof and disown them. *Shrugs*. I don't know.

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All I know is that I'm 4 days late and there's nothing I can do about it.

*Sigh*....oh the joys of life.

3 days late

but i KNOW it's coming.

i can feel the cramps, i feel bloated all over and everywhere hurts.

so there's absolutely nothing for me to worry about.

i'm just annoyed with the fact that it's late and i'm suffering for nothing.

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well...
i'll give myself up till end of this week.

and if it's still not here yet, i'm marching myself straight to the nearest pharmacy.

and i WILL drag Fatty with me.

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***

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i'm addicted to FaceBook.

i'm sooo addicted to it i actually can't sleep at night if don't log on more than thrice a day.

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Was out at Wine@Nine last night with UmaAnn, AnnUma, Stevie, Jo and Fatty (entirely a LAST MINUTE plan of course)

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UmaAnn: Eh, your boss don't say anything when you stroll in at 10am in the morning arr?

Me: *blink blink*

Jo: Aiyoh, she work until 8pm at night, of cos won't scold lah

Fatty: Yah, but from 4pm onwards, she's on FaceBook

AnnUma: *laughs out hysterically*

Me: >_<'

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Was suppose to have an early night last night, so had a quiet dinner in SS2.

Lagi I was only wearing shorts, a white tee, with one bandaged ankle (yes, I sprained it, please don't ask how) with absolutely NO MAKE-UP!!!

And bumped into someone we so did not expect to see
and was dragged into Bambo09.....or Bombay as the drunkard called it.

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I ended up creeping-limping out when drunkard wasn't looking.

So happy!

And because of that, I managed to get to work on time today.

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HARR HARR!!!

Welcome to the world, Devon!

I have another nephew!

And I'm soooo happy to hear that he came into this world without giving much pain to his mummy.

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Congrats, CuzNette and CuzInLawHamish!!!
I can't wait to see the baby when you come back in November for my wedding.

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Oooh, two joyful occassions to look forward to and this excitement is already making me squirm in my seat!

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Devon, when you big enough, Aunty Kristy gonna go introduce you to party places and alcohol okay!

Aunty Kristy is the MOST FUN to be with.

And I promise you that.

SO WRONG

when i had to find out about your 2nd pregnancy through your blog *hmph*

Shame on you, Aniston! You promised to wait for me!

But CONGRATS!!! *happy hugs*

Can't wait to meet up with you to see your expanding tummy - again. Haha!

You must be soooo excited.

Aiyah....NZ trip can wait till number 2 pops out yah.

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Went to see Father Simon of SFX today to get the words for the church wedding booklet approved. He approved of everything BUT took a second look at my song for the bridal entrance.

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I waited, heart thundering.

Please please please let him let me play that song.

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"What song is this again?"

"Erm....Return to Innocence by Enigma" I whimpered softly hoping he will mistake it for something else.

"What does it sound like?....OK, nevermind, I download now and hear".

Waaaah, so canggih wan arr, priest also know how to download from YouTube wann worr.

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In less than a minute, the song was blasting out through the speakers on his laptop.

I closed my eyes.

Please please please let him not know it's a satanic group.

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"No no no no no" he came running out. "We cannot play this in church".

"Why arr?"

"Because..." it's satanic .... "It put images of half naked indian men dancing in my head!"

Blink blink

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So, I need to find a back-up song.

SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!!!!!

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And counting down....

2 months and 6 days to go before the BIG day.

How come I'm not getting wedding jitters yet?

I'm thinking

It's so crazy but I feel like as if I need another holiday after going away for a holiday. Will be heading to Cherating again this weekend, but that would be just like going 'home' so doesn't really feel like a holiday.

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At least this time we'll be going with CrazyChristine, FunnyVJ, Stevie and Jo, so perhaps it'll be more fun and we might get up to doing naughtier things *shrugs* who knows.

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And I couldn't tahan.

TOLD myself to be patient till November, but I couldn't tahan.

I went to see Fred@TTDI and snipped off my hair.

That was ONLY phase one.

Going to see him again for phase two.

And I have no idea what he's going to do with it this time.

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I finally uploaded pictured from Redang. But not all of them. So here are what I did upload.

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our first glimpse of redang island and it was enough to take my breath away. gosh, this is so much better than Cherating!

crystal clear water meets sandy white sand. just perfect!

even the clouds swirls around in a happy, clappy weird way, making everyone feel even happier.

looking down on the terrace while having dinner on the upper floor.

shadows cast on the sand while we strolled along the beach after a heavy dinner. live band played in the background

more clear skies on our second day

fatty enjoying the sea breeze

see! we can never go on a holiday without bringing my beloved jack along

feeding the fishies with bread, fattening them up for bigger fishies to eat

they may be tiny but their bite damn painful k

our first moonshine. it was gorgeous. but sorry arr, me not that masterful with the camera so cannot take canggih canggih pictures wan

the oh-so-famous more more tea inn, made famous by the movie summer holidays starring ritchie ren and sammy cheng. if you haven't watched it, no worries. book yourself into laguna redang, turn on channel 6 and it's showing there 24-7.

Damn lazy lah

So lazy to download the pictures from Redang lah.

Snapped too many pictures, now dunno which ones I wanna keep and which ones that should be tendang-ed out.

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But Redang. GORGEOUS!

So gorgeous, I didn't wanna come back.

And

I got my tan.

And I'm loving it *winks*

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Pictures should be up soon I hope depending on how lazy I am, and I have to admit, I am getting extremely lazy these days.

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Plus, a big-ass zit which plopped itself nicely on the top right side of my lip is beginning to turn white and it hurts like hell!

And I'm too pussy to burst it myself.

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But BIG shout out to FlightyHsiaoJean and BeerDrinkerHeather (previously known as FeatherHeather. She's not that featherish afterall).

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLINGS!

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I know I just came back from the island, but I'm off to the beach again in 2 weeks!

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>_<'

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I know I know

But it's the LAST opportunity for us to go Cherating before AuntyLuan officially sells off her resort by Sept 30th.

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The feeling is like losing a home to go back to.

SNIFF

Guess we have to start looking for another home to go to now.

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I'm thinking

KOH SAMUI

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Gotta love it, no?

Toodles

Have a great weekend everybody, I know I will.

Redang here I come...
Snap snap snap...

Pictures galore!

Lunch time

and I didn't finish my lunch till about 4pm. By then, it was so cold, I totally lost all appetite. Imagine having cold tom yum fried rice. Just thinking about it now makes me wanna gag.

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If lunch time was interrupted because of something worthit, then I wouldn't be complaining so much. You know, like maybe if I won a zillion dollars and the postman just HAD to come lunch time to give me my money immediately, or Fatty bought me a new car and drove it to the office to pass it to me, or perhaps, my boss decided to choose lunch time to announce to everyone that I've been given a promotion and increament, I definitely wouldn't mind.

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But no lorr, it wasn't meant to be.

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The BIG One up there memang very fair wan lorr.

Give looks, means no brains.

Give brains, means no looks lorr.

Me? I'm a balance of both Harrharr!!!

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She was a beauty. The minute she walked in, the guys in the office just fell off their chairs. And I have to admit, she is good-looking.

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Too bad lorr, she shouldn't have open her mouth.

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She: Ha? What's that?

Me: No-frills. We're a no-frills hotel.

She: Ha? How you spell arr?

Me: N-o-f-r-i-l-l-s. You know, no-frills.

She: Cocks head to one side like a bloody parrot What's that arr?

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After she left

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Office guys: So so so, who's that lah? Why never introduce?

Me: Repeats whole story

Office guys: It's ok. We like them dumb

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>_<'

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What's in a stag night

anyways?

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No, seriously, why do people celebrate hens nigth and stag night?

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I thought they do it to announce to everyone that they won't be single for long and use it as a good reason to get drunk and wasted. If this is really the reason behind having a stag night, this I understand.

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So, which part do the strippers come in?

Why are they even in the picture in the first place?

And do friends organize strippers for the party to tease the groom (or bride) or is it really for themselves?

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If you ask me, I'm getting married!!!
I wanna tell the whole world that I'm gonna be somebody's wife soon.

I wanna celebrate this wonderful occassion with all my close friends.

I wanna drink and chat with them throughout the whole night till dawn breaks and then pass out in each others' arms.

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I wouldn't wanna be stuck somewhere with a room full of girls watching a well-built man writhing and struggling to get his coo-coo standing to full attention, just so that he can strip down to nothing and have everyone go ooh and aah.

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Hello, didn't I just say that I'm gonna get married?

I'll be hooked to my own personal stripper for life!

Why would I want my friends to spend all that money on another stripper that won't even have my attention?

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Honestly, I'd rather be out clubbing and having fun with the girls than having to watch a stripper.

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But if everyone else out there love to have strippers for their hens night, please ignore me.

I'm cacat.

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As for the guys, my goodness....all you have to do is ask, "So, what's in a stag night?"

They'll give you the same answer...

FEMALE STRIPPERS!!!!

STRIP DANCING!!!!

BOOTIES!!!

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*femme rolls eyes*

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If you want that sooo much, then DON'T FUCKING GET MARRIED!!!

Photos from Cherating

Here you go, as promised...the pictures from the Cherating weekend!

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we stopped by at a malay restaurant in bentong on our way up.

food sucks!

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AuntyLuan & I ay Kampung Cherating

now with Fatty

it kept walking closer, as if it wanted to be in the picture

view of after sun set in kampung cherating

my great-grandma used these lights

the silent streets of kampung cherating

fireflies sighting

pretty lights zooming by

my attempt to get a shot of the blinking fireflies

bedtime for fatty

the 2 rows of shops in ayer jernih

quaint and quiet

sleeping dog lies

the only restaurant with good food

yummy yummy curry wild boar

deep-fried wild boar - their specialty

deep-fried cauliflower - damn yummy!

it was drizzling like that the whole day

nelayans taking a snooze

100 and still living

This is my 100th blog on blogspot!

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Woooohoooo!!!!

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Something to celebrate about k, cos I didn't expect to actually last till a 100.

But I did!

And I'm still not bored with the blog yet.

Thank goodness I love writing.

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Cherating was AWESOME!

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We arrived like almost midnight on Friday night so went straight to sleep lah, but early Saturday, we woke up and headed for the beach.

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The sun was up'n'shinin', the waves were rock'n'rollin' and beers were nice'n'cold. Nothing could get better.

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And good it was cos this time, I successfully worshipped the sun for a good 5 solid hours, without any hint of dark clouds to block off the rays.

And I got my tan back!

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So happy *femme grins widely*

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Sunday, however, was bleak.

So bleak that it couldn't get any bleaker.

It rained from the moment I woke up till the minute we arrived back in KL.

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So, instead of spending time on the beach (like I had any other choices), Fatty and I went to Ayer Jernih with AuntyLuan for a day out.

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She brought us to this restaurant where they served delicious curry wild boar!

So yummy can die.

And it was weird cos out of nowhere, after an hour of driving from Cherating, two rows of wooden shops appears in front of you and one of the shops there is famous for their food!

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Will post up pictures next once I've got them downloaded.

His drunked moments

When his friends were trying so hard to get me to give him a chance,
I turned and saw him dirty dancing with another girl.

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When I tried to get him to take a decent picture with me,

When we weren't even together yet,

He turned around and planted a drunked kiss on my cheeks,

Just as I pressed the snap button.

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Our first trip to Penang together,

He left me alone on the beach to defend myself against a perverted Middle-Eastern guy,

While he was out working on the field.

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I found a starfish and a live squid,

And bounced happily back to show him,

"It's dead", he mumbled, without even opening his eyes.

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We went off on the jet ski together, with him steering,

He took a sharp turn,

And sent us flying right, and the jet ski flying left

And we landed in jellyfish infested waters.
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I tried to button up his jeans for him,

While he lay there snoring on my mother's couch,

And as I turned him around,

His fist came flying and made contact with my face.

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He says "Baby, I'm a man, how can I not look?"

And points at the ass of a girl in short skirt

I say "But she's ugly, Baby"

He replies "Just cover her face and do it for the country lah".

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He went down on his knees,

And asked me to be his wife,

And after I said 'Yes', he left me alone in the hotel room,

And went to watch football.

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We had a romantic dinner at J&R,

And then he fell asleep,

And left me to spend the remaining hours of our anniversary alone,

Watching House of Wax.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABY!!!

this is a little belated, I know

but I still love you very much

after all you've put me through

it's been a great few years together!

I can smell the ocean's breeze

It's HIGH time I went away to the beach again.

When was the last time you read about me going away to the beach anyways?

Wha-? You mean my last trip to Cherating?

Hello....how long ago was that! Please, check the dates.

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So, since it's been so long since I've been away, it's time to go away again.

And I absolutely can't wait!

And just nice too....haha....right after my probation period and I'm off skipping and hopping by the clear blue sea again...

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...and getting my TAN!!!

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JamieLing said she has never seen me this fair before (eventhough I am still 5 shades darker than her), so you see, I NEED my tan.

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We're also going there for Fatty's birthday lah.

Since it was postponed from last year.

I just sure hope it doesn't rain when we get there.

It would be such a waste!

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But on another note, instead of having to wait 3 weekends to the day we go to Redang, Fatty and I will be off to Cherating - again this weekend!!!!

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Soooo happy!

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At least I get to tan a bit bit first before waiting for Redang.

Just hope that I don't have to fight with the dark clouds again in Cherating this weekend like I had to the last time >_<'