Because Joey asked for it

I know I haven't blogged in ages, I think Joey is the probably the only one who notices but... I'll entertain her for once. :P

Haven't been doing anything much that is noteworthy lately.

Well, there was a change in management in my school.

And I saw the cutest teacher.

Bought air tickets to Korea.

And I am Day 2 into my new health regime.

Okay, maybe there is some noteworthy events happening.

Yep, my school changed bosses, which is so sad. I adore my old boss, Jan. The new one ain't bad, at least she did not make any radical changes to the school, but still, I will miss Jan. :(

Male, Cute, AND a Teacher, need I say more? Okay okay, I don't even know him, but.... so CUTE~!

It was a rather random decision but I had money saved up for a trip, any trip since last year December and wanted to go somewhere with someone who had the smallest chance of irritating me. (Yeah, everyone has been irritating me. Maybe I'm undergoing menopause.) Started talking to Mas recently and I think she needed a break too (don't we all?) and ta-dah! I'm going for a 12D/11N free and easy autumn season Korea Escape in October!

Places that are currently on the itinerary are Seoraksan in Gangwon-do, Hallasan in Jeju and the DMZ.

Which leads to the last point in this post. I have frigging mountains (in my city-girl context of course) to climb and I can hardly walk up three sets of stairs without wheezing, so it's time to workout. (Which was also my 2011 resolution to be fitter.)

Day 1: Half hr of wii tennis and boxing (full strength, not wrist flicks)
Day 1 damage: I cannot raise my arms above my head without wincing.

Day 2: 45 mins of briskwalking
Day 2 damage: To be announced.


Have fun and cheerios!

The political maelstrom

I know, I know, it's been donkey years since I posted anything, but I can't help it. I need an outlet to vent. And where else do I vent, where I know I won't be interrupted? Here of course. :D

Polling day is inching closer and closer and I've been doing so much reading, I think I even know what color underwear the nominees are wearing. (Not really, but still...)

This picture came up while I was reading about and it made me crack a smile even though I am half dead from a full-to-exploding timetable.

LOL! RPG anyone?

I'm not planning to persuade people to vote for any particular party but I do encourage everyone to read up. You can head to mrbrown's, the online citizen, or the temasek review.

I'll just add one last note. People who are in power, and don't want to give up their power, are the ones who should immediately be removed from power.

Take Gaddafi for example. How can anyone claim to love their country when they don't hesitate to bring out the guns on them? Likewise, how can any man claim to protect Singaporeans when they are whoring our country to the rest of the world? Singapore, the country, needs a pimp. It's getting too many customers as is....

Apologies

To whoever read this blog (probably less then the fingers on one hand), sorry, haven't been doing much updates.

In summary, work's been mad (but good), been gaming, and sleeping.

Nothing much up now, will see you guys around.

Cheerios and have fun!

Oblivion

My ears are ringing, I am seeing double, but I am still conscious.

I miss the days when I can drink myself into Oblivion.

When I have no plans whatsoever but personal time.

And yes, I work everyday-ish.

Sigh.

Taking down the chatbox

Taking down the chatbox for now, I realized that weirdo's are spamming it.

Won't be blogging as much, addicted to work and game right now.

Happy Chinese New Year folks!

I'll see you around...

Right ear

Hearing in the right ear is horrible today. Sounds are muffled, like I have cotton wool stuffed inside.

The ringing is gradually becoming more frequent, especially at night.

Will have to stop listening to music while on the go if this continues.

Enough

This has got to be the last time. *Smacks self back to reality*

A little solitude

One thing, about the internet, great way to keep on contact with people, great way to get misunderstood for just about anything.

I'll run the risk of get chewed over again, here, but hey, this is MY BLOG, and I run this place, if you can't handle my thoughts, you shouldn't be reading this eh?

Rough week, cough was killing me, I was pms-ey, emotionally confused and voila! I get a nice early trick or treat present from someone whom I'm not particularly keen on hearing from. Ever again. First night couldn't even finish a glass of wine, was too bushed.

Second night, the thoughts, hormones and wine really kicked in. And horror of horrors, I started crying, and it wasn't a one tear perfect movie moment. It was "Boo hoo hoo hoo!!" (You shoulda seen the admin's face when she saw my poofy eyes the following morn, heh.)

The last time I did that was like, 4 years ago? And I had a pretty damn good reason for it too.

But this time, I have absolutely no idea why. Cos the present bugged me? Sure. Cos my hormones? Probably. Anything else? Hrmm.....

If there's one thing I have learnt from this week, it is that I let people get me down too easily. Thought I had conquered that point, but no, I'm still too easily influenced.

In any case, this is a classic example of "You know what, if you can't handle my vices, sorry, bye bye." Simply too tiring to accommodate everything. Here's 10:

1.) I hate, I really hate waking up in the mornings unless it is for work
2.) I like to drink when I'm out at clubs/bars
3.) I hate jokes when you poke fun of others, no seriously, not funny
4.) I hate it when people insist they are right and dismiss you when they are proved wrong
5.) I hate waiting for people, period, especially if they are more than 15 mins late
6.) I like my alone time and will ignore my phone, msn and my mom if I am in my zone
7.) I hate hearing people complain about their lack of money, or in my opinion, their poor budgeting sense
8.) I have 3 alarm clocks, live with it
9.) Yes, I need my morning coffee, no I'm not useless without it, and no, hating coffee doesn't make you cool
10.) I HATE HATE HATE salty popcorn


Give yourself some alone time, figure out what your 10 vices are. See, this is what I do when I am not talking. Personal contemplation.

Last thing I contemplated, the worst thing about having shit happening to you, is not the shit, but that you don't have someone to just curl up, roll into bed with and sleep it off.

Next?

It was A Little Pain and Starless Night back then.

Then it was Yoru Wo Kakeru.

What's next?

Cambodia - Siem Reap Day 2/6

Day 2:

Woke at 7am, to stone, bathe, stone then head to Sojourn's restaurant for breakfast. Everything on the menu was included in my free breakfast. Cool! Ordered a big breakfast and a latte cos the wine yesterday made me wake up starving.

Big breakfast of scrambled eggs, baby tomatoes, toast, bacon and sausage. Yum.

My package included a Temple Pack Lunch which consists of 2 drinks and a sandwich/salad. I picked out a wholemeal chicken sandwich. All off them stored in this cooler bag.

9am, met up with my tour guide for the day, a young man called Sokha. (I think I spelled it right.) A very friendly and chatty person, occasionally lame but I'm sure older tourists will love him. LOL. Mr Han sent the both of us to Angkor Wat.

Mr Han left me and Sokha to wait at the Tuk-tuk while we went to explore the gigantic stone landmark. Walking. Nice.

View again from Angkor Wat across the moat.

At the start of the bridge across the moat. See the Stone Lions? Apparently they had tails, probably made of metal, but it was plundered a long time ago. ALL of the lions in ALL of the temples had no tails. How strange is that?

Tourists and security guards along the Bridge. Yep, It's a long bridge.

We didn't walk into Angkor Wat straight away cos the entrance was under restoration, instead we made a detour around it.

View of a part of Angkor and one of it's many ponds beside it.

Another view of Angkor. Can you see the green netting covering the restoration?

Angkor from the back.

Sokha brought me throughout the entire first layer, explaining the histories and details. Unfortunately for the poor man, the ancient names are completely lost on me. Using Wikipedia now, this place is built by Suryavarman II. Back at Angkor, I called him S the Second.

For the top layer, Sokha didn't follow me up, so I climbed up 2 storeys of vertical, scarily high stairs to explore the place on my own.

View of the forests around Angkor from the top layer.

Climbing down was a complete biatch. The height is just scary, lose your step, and it's pretty much a free fall. The French couple before me clung tightly to the handrails and another group of Japanese tourists were complaining about the height. Welp, we gotta go down, don't we?


On to the Second Layer we could see HUMONGOUS bas reliefs, all of ancient legends or histories. I saw 3, the last one, The Churning of the Sea of Milk was under restoration. Booo....

A Bas relief of Hell. This one was highly interesting to me. The bottom section was of Hell, middle was of Earth, and the top was Heaven. Now, Heaven was very simply decorated, mainly of flowers, and swirly designs. Earth was more detailed, we can see villagers going about their lives, the nobles holding their meetings and groups of musicians. The most detailed realm? Hell. I saw people being hung up and stabbed, burnt alive, eaten by creatures, chopped into pieces by demons, you get the picture.

This is how long a bas relief wall is. AND THERE ARE 4!! (I think.)

The corridor right before the Bas relief walls.

Last view of Angkor Temple. The fan thingy in the centre is called a Naga. A very common motif found in most temples and artwork.

Had a quick lunch, was so hungry clamboring up and down Angkor, that I polished the sandwich off without taking a picture, heh. One thing I remembered was there were kids running around looking at me sitting alone having a sandwich. I'd have offered some of mine if they seemed hungry but they seemed more interested to make me talk to them then to eat. Hmm.

Next up, Bayon! Personally, this is one of my faves. I love crumbly ruins.

Reliefs on the pillars at the entrance of Bayon. Apsaras, which simply put, celestial maidens *rolls eyes*

Sokha had asked me to sit at this spot to take a photo of me. But he asked me to look forward without telling me why. I complied and this was the result. ..... LOL!

The many many many faces of Bayon. Fantastic.

Last view of Bayon. I really adore that place.

Another Temple, which, I'm sorry to say, I have forgotten the name, didn't really explore it cos the stairs were :/

Yet another Temple called Phimeanakas. I remembered the story Sokha told me. According to legend, the King built this Temple to sleep with a Naga disguised as a beautiful woman. The King had to sleep with her every night or else calamity will befall on his country, or so the king said. NICE EXCUSE!!

After that temple, it was a 15 min trek to the next spot, Elephant Terrace. Now this is spectacular.

According to Sokha, the plain you see here was actually a parade ground for the elephants in the ancient kingdom. People from all over the country, at a certain time of year, will bring their elephants here to show them off to the King. The elephants will perform a series of tasks, for hunting or for war. If the King likes the elephants, he will recruit them in his army. This place was also used for the King to view his army.

Yep, the terrace was a really long terrace

Elephant, elephant.

Beside Elephant Terrace, is a structure known was Terrace of the Leper King. Sokha told me, a King (I forgot the name) fell ill due to Leprosy and understanding the pain his people suffered, that King built (if I remembered right) over a hundred hospitals during his reign and this terrace.

Inside the Terrace of the Leper King.

Another temple, but I forgot the name :D

And another one. :D

After that temple, I called it a day, and it was good-bye to Sokha and back to Sojourn for a much needed bath and short break then it was off to Siem Reap town again for an early dinner so Mr Han can get me back to Sojourn before 6pm. Again, to Pub Street for Red Piano, since it was so famous.

Picture of the Angkor Wat pass, taken while I was waiting for my food.

Red Piano's menu.

Amok Fish with Rice. It is made up of some local spices, chopped onions, and of course, fish. IT. IS. AWESOME! I cleaned the whole plate :D

There was a street of blue tent thingys just across the Red Piano. I walked past it and they were selling food, at USD 1!!! For a plate of fried rice!! Imma head there next!

Mr Han picked me up at 5 and back to Sojourn we went.

And cos the day was rather overcast, I grabbed my swimsuit and headed for the pool. First dunk and I was bleh, saltwater. Guess I'm too use to chlorine pools. Got out, took a nice long shower, skyped mom and dad for a bit and went to bed.

Day 3 up next!