Away we go, Away we go.

We were actually suppose to fly on sunday night instead of saturday morning. Airasia sent us an email informing us that our flight was going to be delayed by 3 hours. So we wrote an email to request to fly the day before and they arranged for that to happen straight away, no extra charges incurred. Two thumbs up to that!

One thing about flying is that I can't sit up and sleep with my back straight like all other passengers. It's like as if my head is a bowling ball and I need to rest it on something to hold its weight. I always tell people it's because my head is so full of knowledge and ideas i.e. brains, that is why I need to rest my head to sleep, tee hee.

I love travelling with bigbadwolf and I need to have him next to me because I get to...



have my very own human pillow wahaha! How cool is that. I feel like a little kid though, because the cousins I travel with like ruby and yenyen can sleep upright whereas I can't. Yenyen ended up being my feet warmer as I so conveniently tucked my feet in neatly between hers hahaha. I never sleep on the plane if I travel alone, unless I get really tired and I accidentally fall asleep for an hour or something.

Oh and meet my other two travel mates,

ruby and yenyen hahaha. Contrary to how the pictures all turned out, they are actually very bubbly and fun to travel with. We were communicating on our nintendo ds lite drawing pictures and writing to tell ruby to flirt with the girl sitting next to her because she kept watching us through out the whole time. I think she must think that we ruby is very interesting.

Anyways, I ended up having instant noodles on the way back to malaysia because bigbadwolf caught a glimpse of the instant cup noodle on the cart before and got really excited because he said that he saw tom yum instant noodles. So I ordered them. Well I ended up with ayam (chicken) noodles. He thought that ayam was asam, and that asam meant tom yum. -_-" Why is my boyfriend so stupid? They were worse than the ones I've had from the canteen during high school, yeuck.

It didn't really matter though, because when we touched down, daddy took us to the famous chow mein and seafood restaurant straightaway, it was was heaven on earth.

to be continued...

Tangalooma Take 2 - Sea

After our long and sweaty journey back from the desert, we got back to the resort to rest for a while. Being a troublesome pig, I couldn't take a nap as I'd sleep for hours if I closed my eyes, so I started unpacking our little luggage to get ready to hit the pool.

Bigbadwolf finally woke up and we all headed off to the pool to take a dip. It was so cool and refreshing as I had sand everywhere on me before from sand toboganning.


The view was amazing. We spent the evening watching the sunset, and left after to get ready for the dolphin feeding session.

The dolphins were wild bottle nose dolphins, therefore we weren't allowed to pet them as they may not be immuned to whatever bacteria we may carry. I was really excited at the beginning before we got to Tangalooma as most of you would've known with my constant ramblings of hoping to touch and swim with the dolphins.

But when it was finally time to feed the dolphins, the dolphin that I queued to feed the fishie accidentally bit on my nail. Of course I didn't bleed or anything! It was just their beak-like snout that snapped on my thumb that made me so terrified! Look at the photo haha, I was watching the dolphins every second to make sure they didn't get to me! :S

How (un)fortunate of us, the person supervising us with the dolphin feeding thought he'd be nice and let us feed the dolphin a few more times. I was so horrified I just dropped the fish into the water each time which made it worse because the dolphin started getting closer haha, stupid me! Here's a proper picture of us smiling. I'm not sure what my colleague was doing though hehe. We headed back to our rooms again for a quick shower and change for our company dinner after.

My choice for the night was the butterfly chicken fillet with mushroom sauce. It was superbly delicious. Bigbadwolf stuck to his usual t-bone steak medium rare. The girls had some red and white wine while some of the boys kept to their cold beers. We retired early that night to get ready for the next day. To be honest, I would classify the resort as a 2-3 star motel with an awesome view. The bed was damp and the room was furnished with very old furnitures. It didn't really bother us though since we spent so little time in the room.

The island on the otherhand is extremely beautiful, a picturesque sight. The next morning, I overslept and woke up only when sweetiie rang me. I dashed out of my room for the buffet breakfast in 5 minutes still in my jammies hehe, but with a long jacket to cover myself la. The buffet was pretty impressive as I wasn't really expecting anything that great. We had everything - from bacon and sausages to pancakes, hash browns, and etc. What a hearty breakfast.

The weather was really gloomy in the morning, so alot of our colleagues decided to take the early ferry back home. The rest of us decided to stay longer thanks to our manager's determination, and I'm so glad we did in the end. The weather took a turn for the better and we managed to take the dinghy out for a swim at the shipwrecks.

We walked around taking photos, cam-whoring everywhere before it was our turn to take the dinghy out. We had to rent two dinghys since we were only permitted four people per dinghy babies included.

The cool breeze and amazing view.

The mommies stayed in the boat to mommy their hubba bubbas while we dived in to explore. It has been such a long time since I've been out in the sea! We decided to go back ashore since the others wanted to rest by the beach to waddle around where it was shallow.

Looks can be deceiving, but I swam all the way from the sea side to the ship wreck and boi was it really far away. I was absolutely exhausted hahaha. I wish I had better stamina, thank god I had the life jacket on the whole time. I would've sunk in the last five minutes heading towards the ship wreck. ;p

Our dinghys finally arrived and we got our photos taken haha! We didn't get onto the ship wreck since we didn't have any flippers or flip flops to wear. After about an hour, we got back onto the dinghy reluctantly to had back to the shore. Our time was finally up, and so was it the end of our short vacation.

I had a very good time and really enjoyed our little short trip. It was a great bonding time for all. Bye bye Tangalooma, hopefully I'll come back again some day. :)

Tangalooma Take 1 - Sand

On the 7th of December 2007 was when our company organized a christmas trip Tangalooma Wild Dolphn Resort in Moreton Bay. We met at 9.30am at Holt Street Wharf to catch the 10am ferry to our short sunny vacation. It started off with a nice breezy day followed by a burning hot sunny day after.







Our baggages were all mixed up when we checked in. After hunting down for our luggages and changing into our bikiis and triangles (tee hee) ;P, we were finally ready to kick some ass! We started off with buffet for lunch and then headed off to the bumpy bus ride to the desert while the others decided to stay behind to relax at the beach.

Boy were we glad we didn't eat too much. Would've had a major puking session with that bumpy ride, haha. Sally sweets, Ted and their bubs came for the company trip as well. It was really fun playing with her cute bubba, baby Brayden looks exactly like his momma!

The Desert. That's bigbadwolf taking a dump into the middle of the tracks.

Sandboarding babies!

Bigbadwolf looking all professional on his way down the slope.

I on the otherhand was masking my nervousness grinning like goofy. It was a pretty steep slope and I was totally sandwiched towards the end. Have you ever tasted sand in your mouth? All I can say is, thank god sand is tasteless haha. It wasn't as fun as the time I went sandboarding at Port Stephens with my bro. When we were at Port Stephens, the slope wasn't as steep so we could sand board as many times as we wanted to, and do it however way we wanted to!

The sand slopes or watchamacallit were really steep, I think only only one of us managed to make it up twice. Here are the boys chilling with their drinks after one go. :p

Wee, that's our ride!

Bigbadwolf and I at the Sahara, tee hee. It's so beautiful!

Where's my prince charming, come pick me up!

A small group photo of us and the two bubs.

Mwah, to be continued...

Our Destiny

Nearly two years ago while I was still in Tainan, I had to make a trip to Taipei to get my passport renewed. I met up with an old girl friend of mine who used to reside in Brisbane. We were having brunch in Sogo when we came up with the idea of going to visit a fortune teller. Generally, we didn’t have any major problems but we were both curious to know what the fortune teller had to say about us. It would be a nice change from the tarot readers in Australia.

After we finished with our food, we went on our way to the fortune teller. Boy it sure was one hot sunny day. We had to cross a bridge, go through a few traffic lights, walk through little passageways, walked past plenty of shops before we finally got to an old strip of shop lots where the fortune teller was situated. I tried to catch my breath and slow down my breathing pace as we walked into the shop.

It was a rundown little shop that looked like it was around for decades. We were greeted by two amicable elderly women and my friend started conversing in Taiwanese with them. Their voices trailed away as I scanned the shop, and my eyes rested on an old, grim looking man seated before a wooden table. He looked up and stared straight back at me, his eyes piercing into mine. He looked so menacing and cold. He then closed his eyes and turned away, chanting to himself as he tapped his fingers.

After a few minutes, one of the ladies directed us to the table as I expected, and my friend decided that I should go first. Every time the fortune teller asked a question, my friend answered as they were speaking in Taiwanese and I couldn’t understand. He then asked to speak to me personally and my friend explained that I didn’t know how. He exclaimed infuriatingly how insulting it was for a Taiwanese not to know how to speak one’s own language and that I should be ashamed of myself. I looked at him horrified, and retorted that I wasn’t even a Taiwanese to begin with!

The guessing game of my origin then began. He started off with Hong Kong first, then China, then Singapore only to see me shaking my head in reply. “Shouldn’t he know where I’m from since he is a fortune teller?” I thought to myself in disbelief. I then answered that I was originally from Malaysia, not Singapore. He proceeded to ask for my ba zhi (date of birth, time of birth etc.), took a quick look at my right palm, and then moved his thumb from finger to finger, counting away.

He proceeded to tell me about the five elements according to his book and which one I was, and then shook his head and proclaimed what a disaster my life was. My friend was jotting down everything furiously on a paper as he continued to talk. According to him, my health was a concern, my love life was a mess, my studies and careers wouldn’t go smoothly, and my family, oh I can’t even bring myself to type it out. Practically speaking, there was no more meaning to my life and I really have nothing to look forward to at all. He paused to look at my reaction. I looked at him intently. I was totally flabbergasted, my palms were sweating, my friend was looking at me sympathetically, and the fortune teller, well he was still waiting for my reaction. I was just…

fucking horrified! 0_0

He then smiled and started talking. "Fortunately, with the changes that had happened in your life, it's not going to be so bad after all." Phew, you got me there Mister. He mentioned about the major moves I have made moving from different continents, the moves from different houses, and then the little accidents I had such as spraining my knee or ankle, the importance of having godparents, and ecetera that curbed the bad destiny I would have had to face. Most of the things he said was pretty much general and the others, I shall not reveal hahaha.

So basically to sum it up, my love life and health would be alright after all, my studies and career wouldn’t end up so bad, and that my family would still be tight knitted. -_-" Looks like I’m back to square one with not much answers ei. The only important thing he mentioned was that there’d still be many changes and moves I’d have to make in my life and that it would be necessary and be a good thing for me.

My friend was up next and he discussed about her life the same pattern as he did for me, starting off with all the extremely horrible stuff you can never imagine before ending with all the oh-so-good things. Apparently later on, I heard from many other friends who had gone to see him that they all had to endure the same painful discussion, and most of them reckons that he probably does it to all the people. That’s not very nice!

Over the years, I've forgotten most of the stuff he said. He mentioned that I'd definately go back to see him a year later with so much confidence. Well did I? No. I think we're all better off not knowing what lies before us. It's alright for some guidance, but basically our life changes according to the different paths we choose to walk in life. To me I think that your life is in your own hands, you change your own destiny. Most asians also say that the lines on our palms change every five years as well. Does it really? It sure is something to ponder about.

What do you think?

Salmon Overdose

As we left on our journey back home from Queenstown to Christchurch, I felt really bored and restless sitting in the car for so long, bum bum so sore la, hehehe. Thankfully just as we were about to make a pit stop for some fresh air, we chanced upon a sign that read, “Salmons sold here”. Woohoo, awesome baby! We quickly made a u-turn and stopped by to have a look.

It turned out to be a Salmon farm where they reared freshwater salmons. I got pretty excited knowing the fact that we’d be having our own supply of salmon sashimis at home that could last us for quite abit. They were so cheap too compared to the ones that were sold in the supermarket. It was around twelve dollars ninety cents per kilo for one whole fish, alot dearer if you wanted them to cut it for you of course.

Apparently, the salmon farm began by collecting eggs and milt from captive broodstock, incubating the fertilised eggs in a freshwater hatchery, and rearing the newly hatched fry for a further six to twelve months. The young smolts are then transferred to larger cages or ponds where they are reared for the remainder of their lives. Fish remain there in captivity for two to three years, and are typically harvested at weights of between 2 and 4 kg.

Here are some pictures of the salmon farm.

Yumm tumms. So fresh and tantalising! Who wants some? Tease tease. :p

We were even allowed to feed the salmons. It was pretty hard to take pictures of them coming up for their food, they were so quick! Here's my closest attempt to capture a shot of it. That's the friendly lady packing our salmons. salivates.

What a glorious day it turned out to be. We got home and gorged ourselves silly with lotsa salmon sashimis, hahaha. After a few days of continuous feasting, I kinda got sick of it though, because we also made salmon fish head soup, cooked salmon fillets, had smoked salmon, it was pretty much salmon everything! But now... ooh boi, pass me s'more of that salmon sashimi please! :P

Queenstown - Puzzling World

So I didn't get my ass to posting up more photos from Queenstown. Thought I'd do so now before my photos start piling up.

While I was helping bigbadmama book her spa sessions while we were in Queenstown, the adverts for Stuart Landsborough's puzzling world caught my eye as I was browsing through the tourist attractions brochures while waiting at the reception. The entry fee was only ten dollars per person, and is located in Wanaka, only about an hour's drive from Queenstown. Awesome. I convinced bigbadwolf that we should go visit, and the next day we left to Wanaka.

Stuart Landsborough’s puzzling world is a unique attraction that specialises in puzzling eccentricity. It offers the world's first modern-styled great maze, incredible illusion rooms, and eccentric architecture and installations. We had fun playing around with the camera taking photos in weird angles and positions. I'm too lazy to upload the videos haha, so photos will do hey. :p

The illusion rooms are so coool! You can see some of the photos later as you scroll down haha. We probably spent around an hour in the illusion rooms before we headed off to the puzzling maze. Pretty soon we realised that the weather was too hot and sunny, not very ideal when you're lost in the maze while sweating like a pig. It was really frustrating because there seemed to be so many dead ends! Nooo, I can do it! We kept bumping into the same people, and we'd exchange sympathetic smiles and carried on walking around persistently trying to accomplish it.

Wee... puzzling world here we come!

The weather was almost too perfect. I love this trippy pic! :p

Bidbadwolf going at it after bigbadsis finished it so quickly. He wants to prove something eh hehe. Thats me constipated grins.

The illusion rooms. I seriously am standing upright in the second pic, like I was in the first, but why does it look like I'm tilting forward? Ooh, for that particular room, the floor is tilted. It was pretty hard trying not to fall over hahaha. You can lose your balance soo easily in here. Makes me feel abit dizzy too! :p

Look at us, we're both midgets! What happened!! "Honey I shrunk the kids!"

"Oops, isn't that the right size now? Oh noo.. they're giants now!" Lol. So coool!

Here comes the complicated bit. Ready, steady, go!

Ah, we found the first corner, after fifteen minutes though haha.

Then forty five minutes past, and we were still stuck. Oh man, this is more streneous then we thought.

Finally the blue corner! By then it was time to leave, as the other bigbaddies were waiting for us impatiently. Bigbadsis had some function to attend two hours later, and she wanted us to rush back home now. So nooo, it's not our fault we didnt finish, grins. You know I could've! ;P

Us playing the fools before we left. Who da man? :P


We got home burnt as after. It's a great one off experience, but probably not worth going back again and again since you would've seen and known everything by then, which doesn't make it challenging anymore. ;)