U S A - Night 1 San Francisco

July 4, 2008

Everytime i fly, I’d love to sit by the window, because sometimes I really get some amazing photos of the geography below.

So on the 1st July, I set foot in the USA for the first time. Hello San Francisco!

It was quite a long flight, but loved it. Watched 3 movies, had 3 meals, a nap, and I was ready for my West Coast whirlwind holiday.

Wayne laughed at my pyjama looking get up… but hey… you’ll really appreciate it when you’re flying for so long.

Will update again when i have the time, and when i have the internet connection.

Meanwhile, i updated photos in my galllery HERE

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trot-a-tot-tot

May 3, 2008

So after this morning’s little panic with the bathroom door, I was fed up of running errands. I drove to the Perth Hills for some bush trail horse riding.

It was about one hour away from Perth city in the hills, but not too difficult to get to.

I had my favourite Js on my itouch, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson and Jason Castro accompanying me all the way to the stables.

I was riding with another Japanese guy who happened to be here on holiday. I wasn’t in the mood for small talk, so i just rode and took in all the sights and smells of the Australian bushland. I really missed riding, I think the last time was with Wayne at Margaret River about 4 years ago.

The highlight of the ride was seeing Kangaroos in the wild. But the highlight of the DAY was the paddy field of sheep i met on the way home.

It was most bizarre, when i slowed down to have a look at them, they all came running towards the fence. Probably thought i was going to feed em. It was hilarious…coz when i moved, they moved. When i went a bit faster, they ran a bit faster.

i kid you not! Here’s the video…They were so cute!

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Horridae

May 1, 2008

Just when i thought i was finally on holiday, this morning I woke up set for a jog. Went into the laundry room to get my gear, and the door had locked itself in. SHIT! Now i’ll have to call a locksmith in!?! You got to be FReAKIN KIDDING ME!!!!!! ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

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Day 3 - errands errands errands

April 29, 2008

I love how this duvet cover feels on my skin… something about it, maybe the thread count? Or fabric softener? It’s soooo soft I could wrap myself around it for the whole day.

But of course, I couldn’t do that, I had RAC come over this morning.

Got the car battery replaced, and she’s purring like a kitty. But she looked horrible, she had a thick layer of dust over her.

After the RAC guy left, I showered, got changed, and headed to the nearest gas station to pump her tyres at 32 psi. Who says women are incapable of taking care of their wheels. Tsk. I managed just fine.

Then headed to the manual car wash to get her cleaned.

Now I finally feel like I’m on holiday, enough dramas for now please.

Went down to subi to grab some groceries, but of course by then it was 2pm and I was starving! So I had a fantastic beef & mushroom pie at Funtastico on Rockeby Road.

I was so hungry, I forgot to take a picture of the pie. Realised a bit too late, here’s a picture of the aftermath.

After which I went down to the car shop to get my lights checked, coz one of the high beams wasn’t working, turns out it was just a bad connection.

Went down to Merchant Coffee to get my week’s dose of ground espresso beans, and took a drive past Tweedale Road. It’s funny, every time I’m back in Perth, I would drive past Tweedale, just because it brings back so many good memories, and I guess I like to be reminded of those days once in awhile.

Just down the road from Tweedale was the foreshore, I spent half an hour watching a black lab play fetch in the Swan River, and watched seagulls fight for my attention at the park bench.

Seagull perched on a parking sign.

Isn’t he so cute. He looks like a little otter in the river.

I like how they had a Doggy dumpage disposal unit, a box of plastic bags to pick up dog poo poo. If they had that in Singapore, I bet someone would steal all the plastic bag aways.

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QF72

April 28, 2008

I couldn’t blog yesterday because I didn’t have internet connection. Yesterday morning, I was on a flight to Perth Australia. Since I was at Changi early, I decided to take the sky train over to T3.

Don’t know what the hoo ha is about, its just…new…new design… new fixtures, but nothing out of this world.

I met Wayne at Yakun for some kaya toast and egg. Hmmm….

QF72 bound for Perth, Australia.
I don’t usually go trigger happy on a flight, but today, the view was just ab-so-lutely amazing. Here’s a couple of my favorite shots from the air.

Indonesian islands. I loved how the couds and islands were all lined up.

Just out of Singapore

fluffy clouds, was just waiting for a care bear to pop out.

The yellow part in the picture is actually sand.

beaches

Perth on aproach

more beaches

I flew on a Boeing 747-338. Don’t usually notice these sort of things, but the Rolls Royce engines are REALLY quite quiet!

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Leaving on a jet plane

October 9, 2007

going now…at the date. Thanks iconites, you guys are the greatest. And to my parents… will write later

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Packing…is such a chore

September 21, 2007

Ok… this is not the fun part. It;s 1:35am and me thinks i packed too much. OMG i still have to wake up early for work!!!

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Countdown BEGINS!

September 20, 2007

Ok, it’s a bit late for the countdown, but i just had no time to post it up. My colleagues are sick of seeing me dance around the office, so i had to express myself somewhere else. Different medium….

as of 3:58pm, it will be 1952 minutes till i’m in Perth!

AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’M SO EXCITED!! Can you tell? CAn yOu tell? CAN YOU TELL? I’m bouncing off the walls here… Can’t wait to see my Perth Peeps when i’m back!

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Penang Jamboree 2006

January 4, 2007

Day 1
- Long drive up to Penang in a mini van

- Arrived penang

- Dim Sum breakfast at Lai Lai

- Race registration to collect goodie bag and number tag
- Check-in to hotel
- Walk to nearby lanes for famous Penang Chendol, Laksa, Kueh Pai Ti, Fried Kway Teow, and Sng Bui drink.
- Komtar for foot reflexology
- Evening ride to Gurney Drive for Bak Kut Teh dinner at Zealand
- Ride to race site for briefing
- Ride preparation
- Sleep

Day 2- Breakfast
- Ride registration
- Baaaaab… OFF WE GO
- Climb climb climb
- Down down down





- Shawn was so nice to give me some excellent photos he took that day
- FINISH
- Back to hotel to wash up
- Walked to McCalister street hawker food for late lunch

- Komtar for foot reflexology
- Dinner at ride site
- Sleep

Day 3- Breakfast at Air Itam market
- Chee Cheong Fun, Prawn mee, Herbal chicken, kueh chap.
- Kek Lok Si Temple

- Grandma’s place, where we accidently took a branch off the rambutan tree

- Check-out
- Heading home

- Late lunch, best wanton mee in the world
- Home sweet home

Ride Time: 5hr 18min 49s
Distance: 35.9km
Calories: N/A
Max HR: N/A
Avg HR: N/A
Avg Speed: 8.2 km/h
Max Speed: 36.7 km/h

I managed to put a few videos and pictures together, so if you’ve got the patience download it, i’d suggest the higher resolution one HERE, and download the original file.

If you’re a quick quick chop chop “who-cares-about-cycling” sort, then watch it below.

To look at more pictures, just click HERE

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Forgot about Phuket day 4

September 2, 2006

I totally missed out the last day of my Phuket holiday in May, so i’ve posted it where it belonged. Here’s the permlink if you want to have a quick read.

Phuket Day 4

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Phuket - Day 4

June 2, 2006

I just realised i forgot to post about Phuket Day 4 !!
We went on another tour on Day 4, and this one was a real action-packed itinerary. It started with a looooonnngg van ride to the inskirts of Phuket. It must have been around one and a half hours drive to get us to the white water rafting camp. YEeeappp… you saw it right, white water rafting!?! Each dingy sits 4 “tourists” and 2 trained navigators, front and back. So all we basically had to do was strap your feet in, and ROW! ROW! ROW! That first picture above was taken by the photographer stationed at the bridge. The only thing that put me off was the body odour coming from those men in our dinghy. PEwwww weeeee….

After all that, it was a small trek to the waterfall. i can’t remember all the names of these places, because i lost the brochure! Doh! At the waterfalls, all the boys were jumping off the rocks, and of course, me being me, i had to prove myself i wasn’t scared, i jumped too. tehehehe…. again AGAIN!

Next stop was elephant camp. A small ride around the premises, and then quad biking. This part of the tour was dissapointing for 2 reasons, there wasn’t much quad biking involved, and i didn’t like the fact that the quadbike area was so near the elephant camp, i’m sure it startles them a bit at least.

Next on the itinerary, an ox cart ride, followerd by a baby elephant show at the huts. If we wanted to feed the baby ele a basket of bananas, he’ll come towards you, use his trunk to take the note from your hand, trods over the banana stand, pick up a basket of bananas, and send it back to you. From there, you can feed him by hand. SO CUTE!

On our last night, we had a cocktail at the hotel bar, a nice dinner at a restaurant by the sea, and stuffed ourselves silly with seafood. The next day, we left Phuket before sunrise to catch out flight back to Singapore.

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Phuket - Day 3

June 1, 2006

Ok, Day 3 was alot more exciting. Same scenario as the day before, canoe trip was cancelled yet again due to bad weather, so we opted for a different tour instead. We decided to do the phi phi and james bond island tour, since there wasn’t anything else to do anyway. I mean, we go all the way to phuket, i’d be darn cheesed off if i didn’t at least bake for another day!

Had another greasy breakfast before heading out to our tour destinations. The boat ride there was absolutely horrendous! The sea was incredibly choppy, so alot of us felt a bit seasick! Even a regular like me felt a bit queesy. It was only a matter of time…2 people threw up! Urgh!

I hate to go too much into to detail about the day, but just to summarise. We fed monkeys, snorkelled, fed fishes, and baked in the sun. I love my underwater camera…check out the rest of the photos in the gallery.

blog more tomorrow. Good night.

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Phuket - Day 2

June 1, 2006

So here comes day 2 update. We originally planned for a canoe trip to Phang Na bay to see the caves plus a bit of snorkelling, but due to the stinking weather in the morning, they called our hotel room at 6am, and said it was cancelled. Bummer!

So instead, we had a nice breakfast at the restaurant, where we bumped into Janice’s MIL aka her Marmadillo. Whats the chances of that !?

Late morning, the sky was still quite overcast, but i wasn’t about to flop around the hotel for the rest of the day. So we trudged down to beach, rented 2 deckchairs, swam a bit in the sea, laid on the chairs, and fell asleep. Late thai lunch at a restaurant around the corner, then back to the hotel to book our thai massage.

I feel kinda bad…for these poor women who are paid so little to scrub my feet and knead my back. But i guess its alot to them.

Dinner, then Patong nightlife round 2. Same ol she-males, just new outfits.

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Phuket - Day 1

May 29, 2006

It’s about time i blogged about my little getaway. I finally got paid for the STB Ads, and decided to splurge on Wayne’s birthday present this year. So 2 weeks ago, i took him to Phuket, Thailand. Tiger Airways offered the most competitve prices, plus their plane looked pretty cool on the outside (i’m a sucker for packaging). While we were waiting at for our gate to open, i went online to check the weather forecast.

Lesson numer one: ALWAYS CHECK THE WEATHER BEFORE PLANNING YOUR HOLIDAY! No wonder the tickets were so cheap?! It’s freakin thunderstorm season.

On the up side, our hotel was amazing! We stayed 50 metres away from the beach at Banthai Beach Resort Patong, onThaveewong Road. I highly recommend this place!

After checking in, we planned out our days with the tour operator at the lobby, done. Since we couldn’t join any tours that late in the day, we rented a HUGE ASS jeep for just $28 a day! Wayne being Wayne wanted the BIGGEST baddest road beast there was.

Lesson Number 2: Always check if the rented jeep has power steering. Wayne probably gained a kilo of muscle mass on the arms.

We visited Wat Chalong temple, viewpoints over-looking the beaches and drove through Phuket town.

In the evening, we walked down the infamous Bang-La Road, where it was lined with bars, bars and more bars, and the occassional tailor that gurantees a suit can be made in 24 hours. We sat at a bar, beer in hand, watching groups of sexy women dancing on the platform. WAIT A MINUTE…EGAD! They were MEN!

Lesson number 3: If you ever want to get plastic surgery done, go to thailand, the surgeons would have had lots of practice. Flawless work, flawless!

My gawd, these trannies had the works done and they weren’t shy to let us “inspect” either…happily flashing their full ample melon bosoms and lifting their skirts exposing their non-existent shlongs! shocking! But it was fun just watching them trying really really hard to tease and seduce a tour group of rigid korean toursits. I took a picture with one of the ‘girls’, and trust me, you would have never guessed she was a he.

Slow walk back. slippers dragging. wash up. heavy lids. cold sheets. warm boyfriend. yawns. good night.

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Amazing Race Asia

March 7, 2006

The Amazing Race has always been one of my favourite TV programmes, and today, they were advertising for participants for Amazing Race Asia! It would have been a great opportunity to travel and explore, but Wayne can’t take 40 days off work to run around asia… Damn rational thought!

Wayne: You Upset?

Angela: No not upset…just a lil disheartened, but i totally understand :/

Wayne: I know babes, i would love to do it with you, coz i know we would make a really good team. Why not we work something our for the next race?

Angela: It’s ok, Life with you is always an adventure, and i don’t need a reality tv programme to tell me that.

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Are you being served?

March 5, 2006

While i was in Penang over the last weekend, me and my sister spent most of our time watching “Are you being served”, a 70s British Comedy which my dad just LOVES…so much so he bought the whole box set. My favourite of course by far is Mr Humphries, with his famous catchphrase “I’m FREE!”. And isn’t that jingle just so catchy, i added it to my playlist just for the fun of it.

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GO DADDY GO!

January 1, 2006

And they are off! Uniquely Singapore Clipper boat left Fremantle this afternoon for Singapore. For those who are lost, My dad is taking part in a Roung-the-world Yacht race, but just doing 1 leg, from Western Australia to Singapore to Qingdao China.

I’ve been involved by creating a blog for the team at Uniquely Singapore Clipper

Please show your support, write comments, because they need all the motivation coming into home port!

I can’t help but feel proud of my dad, for undertaking such a challenge, and i MUST add, it’s not an easy journey at all!! 4hour watches, rough seas, unpredictable weather. They arrive in Singapore around the 14th of Jan depending on how fast they sail. Do give them the support, these sailors really are doing Singapore proud.

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Crabbing@Mandurah

December 29, 2005

Yay! I’ve got internet again, but it’s of course a torturous 56k, how I wish I was back on cable.
Ok lets retract. On Boxing Day, me and my parents set off to do some errands, the plan was, if we could find crabbing scoops, we’ll go crabbing in the evening. Well, we did.

We headed to Fremantle to pick up the other car of clipper crew, Mervyn was kind enough to join us and lead the way to Mandurah. It was a horrid evening to go crabbing, the wind was blowing, water choppy, and not to mention the weird weather Perth has been receiving, it sure felt like an autumn night.

We headed into the estuary, caught about 20 crabs, and a lot were undersized. The minute we got out, the fisheries authority came out of their hiding place behind the bushes to fine us. 200 bucks!?! Man, even writing about this makes me angry!? Well they confiscated our whole loot, and we were left with ZERO crabs! I was close to tears, I’ve been driving for 1 1/2 hours to get to Freo and Mandurah, then out in the freezing water for 1 1/2 hours to catch pathetic crabs, and now you’re telling me I have no crabs and another 1hour drive back! Then again, we should have been more diligent about measuring those little rascals.

CRAP!

And what got me irritated were the stupid questions the fisheries officer was asking me. I know it’s their job to confirm identity by comparing my answers with my driver’s license. But there I was freezing from the water and wind, and he asked for my name at least 3 times within 20mins! I mean, come on! How different do I look from my driver’s license photo!

I watched Narnia last night with Mervyn at Garden City! If you were a kid watching this movie, you’d probably think it’s such a cool action, fantasy movie. But I guess the “older kids” like me would see the many Christian connotations in the movie, interesting watch, well worth it. After the movie, we went to Oriels to meet Phillips! My philipo is attached! Told you it was the haircut HAhahaha.

I had a great time last night catching up Phillips and Mervyn, and honestly I can’t wait to see them again this NYE.

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Perth

December 25, 2005

in perth, shit no more credit on internet cafe account…. i’ll be back!

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