Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Ex-HSBC Usage team gathering 2016

It was amazing how we can still keep in touch after so many years... :)

We make it a point to meet at least once a year to catch up and so far we are good! :) All thanks to our great organizer, Lily!

As Fred is Vegan, he reco this nice small eatery along East Coast road.







We have passed those times where we will take photos of food... LOL! We have grown up!!! We decided we should eat first and not our phones! :)



And we cele Meng's bd!!!



We have some candid funny shots which I didn't even know Ange was taking!!!



And Ange said that I looked like a Happy Bimbo besides Yvonne... LOL!





As usual, we have to replicate our yearly pose! We are missing Eunice (still in the office) and Joanne who just gave birth.


And we still look the same!!! :)

Friday, March 25, 2016

When Barbie Bern and Ken Denden went Phuuukkkeeetttt.... Sawadeekaaaaa~~~


Okay.. You get the idea... Yea, I really do not look like those beach-y sunshine blondie gals, I know ok! But then... I still like a bit of relaxing and nuah holiday de mah.. And what's best than to book a resort by the beach and nuah for 2 days??? LOL!

And yes! Phuket it shall be! Decided to go with a fren, Denden to Phuket during the Good Friday long weekend. He's sooo sweet de lor! He booked everything and planned everything so that I can just turned up and enjoy!!! *kisses*


OK, my small luggage! And thanks Gine for the nice blue luggage belt. But then hor... I donno how to use!!! It kept dropping off and in the end, I put it inside the luggage. Wahahahaha!!! *Opps*


Bored in the taxi...

Anyway, I reached airport and went dinner with Denden before boarding. We went to the airport staff food court to eat! Wow!!! I suaku! Never been here before. It is quite nice leh! The food also reasonably priced and not bad! Yummy de!!! :)



Guess which one of the above is my dinner??? LOL! :p

Ok... Stomach full liao... Off we goooooooooo!!!!

Oh and before that, we must buy one important item before we board...


Tadah!!! Our Junmai-Daiginjyo!!! Our big banana!! Tis getting more and more fun!!!

More selfies!!



Wanted to take a selfie when boarding but a super-enthu-flight-attendant asked to take photo for us so we paiseh to reject him lor...



And yay! We boarded...

A small 小插曲: Actually our seats are separated... Strange lor... Although Denden booked our flight together, but as he didn't choose his seats, other people chose liao, so we are allocated remaining seats... Hahah! Actually we don't mind lah, but we hoped to sit together cos we realized there are many things we didn't know about each other and it's a good chance to chat throughout the flight!

And as if God has heard us... When I sat at my seats (besides me was a couple of angmohs), Denden suddenly texted me "to prepare to join him at his seat in front"... Huh??? What he mean?? Got empty seat meh? I remembered the check-in counter lady said all full wor...

And true enough, a flight attendant came to me and ask me if I would like to go in front. YES!!! Of course!!!

I flew straight in front and happy to see the entire row was EMPTY except for Denden! Wow!!! so coincidence!!! We were very happy to sit together and yes, we chatted throughout the entire journey!

See the entire empty row??? Denden is sooo sweet to book the whole row for us... Hahahah!!! :p


After 1.5 hours, we arrived!!! Sawadeekaaa~~~ Selfie while waiting for our luggage... LOL! Always welcome a selfie moment!!!

We went to take a cab to our hotel... It was hilarious how the "cab system" work... Well, we went to the counter to pay for a cab to Patong and was asked to go wait at a location. So we assumed that we just need to show our booking slip and the guys there should be able to point us to a waiting cab... So we went and strangely.... Everyone was waiting (not in a queue) in random! Apparently, the guys there were also in a mess! Hahaha!! We saw a few well-dressed (didn't dress like going to beach kind, more like corporate wear) Ang mohs getting frustrated cos they were before us, but the guys there kept assigning cabs to other people and not them...... Hahaha!

Anyway we waited patiently for our turn cos we were not in a hurry lah..Hey come on! It's full moon and we are on a holiday! Let's chill and 放空 a bit lor! LOL!

Finally our cab came and off we gooooooooooooo!!! Yay!!! Holiday's coming!!! :)

After some turning and twining and driving into dark small lanes (I was oblivious to the roads actually).... We finally reached!

Another 小插曲: I was blabbering on inside the cab... And after a while, Denden seemed more relax and he then told me that when the cab turned into small dark lane, he was actually quite worried and started praying. Now that the cab had turned into the main road and a street that he was familiar with, he was more relaxed now... Huh? I didn't even notice wor... Hahhaha!! What a Barbie! I assumed all cabs in Phuket is safe de mah... We are Asian leh and both of us looked like thos backpacker students lor, not rich Angmohs mah... Hahah! So funny! Denden was surprised I didn't notice anything. Yea, I really didn't notice!! Wahahaha!!! 被抓去卖了都不知道!!!! :p

Anyway, we reached our resort (and only then I realized Denden got motion sickness de!) Really?! Wow!! He must have suffered inside the cab just now!!! Lol!!! And Barbie me didn't even notice. What a Barbie!!!

Anyway we were a bit tired by then... It was around 9pm I think... And when we reached our door, the bellboy tried to open the door... BUT... CANNOT... Huh??? He tried both keys but... Still cannot open!! WTH! So he apologized and went to the counter to change another key... Hahaha!!! My first time encountered such stuff!!! :)

And but WOW........ The room was DAMN nice!!!





Nice sia!~~~



Anyway, after putting down our stuffs, we decided to go downstairs to immerse ourselves into the streets! We haven't had dinner yet wor!!! And we need to buy water too... 

Yay! Patong here we come!!!



Quite happening sia!!! But we were not very interested to party... We were hungry!!! So we bought Mac and went back to our room to binge and drink our Sake. 


It was a really interesting night as both me and Denden shared some of our stories and had a good bonding session!!! :) Then we KO... LOL!




Wow! Nice view from our balcony! 

Anyway, I indulged in some good sleep while Denden woke up for the pool... We got ready to leave the room to find food around 11am... We already thought of our breakie place yesterday night! 

Au Bon Pain!


Great thing about eating with Denden is that both of us have small appetite... So we can share! Yay!!! :)

After late breakie (more like brunch), we go to book a movie for the night before heading for the beach!!! Although we love to watch Kungfu Panda, but it was 3D and both of us cannot take 3D movie (too giddy and troublesome to wear the glasses), so we decided to watch Batman vs Superman instead... Heard so many talks about this movie and seemed like it is a must-watch blockbuster!

We paid 200 baht to get a space on the beach with a tattered old umbrella that really can't block the sun... *faint*





And another funny 小插曲... Actually an embarrassing one... I was walking towards the sea... And suddenly a BIG WAVE crashed in and my bikini bottom was knocked out! OMG!!! I immediately pulled it up and dipped myself into the sea. Hahahah!!! So embarrassing lor! Lucky I am well-groomed. :p

Anyway, the sea is nice... But too sunny for my liking. So I went out of sea and kept myself happy at under the umbrella... Oh btw, I wasted a bottle of good Heineken cos I accidentally knocked the bottle down without knowing, spilling out the beer into the sand... And when I turned over for my beer.... Awwwwww... No more!!! But my sweet sweet Denden passed his bottle to me... Awww... So sweet de lor!! :) What a clumsy Barbie... :(

Well, after a good 2 hours of tanning and nuahing at the beach, we headed back to our hotel to wash up to go out for a walk walk and also to book massage... I suddenly have cravings for ice cream and we had McFlurry!!! My fav!!! Yummy!!! :)



Jungceylon is a nice shopping place! Great to just walk around aimlessly... Looking for some nice bikinis but couldn't find any nice ones though. The prices are just too high!!! But I managed to buy a pair of cutie slippies!!! Aww.. That's just soo cute! And only 59 baht! Cheap!!!


Anyway we found a good massage place inside the mall and went for 2 hours massage!!! So shiok de lor!!!


So funny... Denden was asking the lady to "press harder harder" while I kept telling the lady to "softer softer!!!"... Hahahah!!!


After shiok shiok massage, we went to find food.. There were lots of choices!! I so love the place by now!!! :)



Settled for some Thai food and when the tom yam soup came, Denden so funny. He thought that was bobochacha or chendol... But it was Tom Yam!!! So strange that it was milky lor!! But it was nice and spicy! Surprising!!!



We had a good meal and time to go movie!!! Yay!!! We went back to our room to take sweater, just in case it was cold in the movie theatre.


And the funny thing is... I rushed out the hotel room and when Denden was closing the door, hmmm... somehow I felt quite short... LOL! OMG! I was wearing my bathroom slippers!!! So funny!!! I had to go into the room to change into my slippers.. So blur Barbie!!! :p

And the funny thing is... I thought Denden wanted the Kungfu Panda popcorn box cos he excitedly showed me this cute display... So I thought he liked it.. But he thought I wanted, so we bought... So funny de!!! :) So please guess this Kungfu Panda 现在在谁家?? LOL!


Well, the movie was ... HORRIBLE... Sigh... Not nice... :( I fell asleep during some of the scene (I saw Denden also falling asleep too!) and some of the scene too bright, so I had to close my eyes... Anyway not nice lah... Period.


We went for a walk to look for supper... And we bought cup noodles back! LOL! Denden so sweet de.. He helped my pao my kopi while I'm showering... Awww... Nice!!! :)




Denden very cute... After sinful supper, he started workout... Really meh?!?!? Must workout in front of me to make me guilty de meh?? Hahaha!!! But I still nuah there and continue munching my snacks while watching him workout. Hahah!! I am a lazy Barbie!

Well, the next day, we decided to watch something lighter... As usual, we slept late... This time we really slept till 10am!!! I actually can sleep a bit longer de but I was too greedy yesterday and my tummy still uncomfy from the large cup noodles I ate last night!... Hahah! My small tummy cannot take too much food lor... And Denden also lor! He thought he will always wake up earlier than me, but he was wrong! The super comfy bed has super power to make people wanna nuah a bit longer... Anyway after some wash-up, we went for late breakie and to book movie again. The days in Phuket is always in a "reset" mode. The itinerary today will be exactly the same as what we did yesterday!

As usual, we already decided our breakie place yesterday... Black Canyon! The coffee is definitely better than Au Bon Pain... 



Hahaha!! Stoned look??? :p


Yummy! As usual, we shared one portion as I was still too full from yesterday's cup noodles...

After breakie, we went to book our movie... Decided on the Divergent Series: Allegiance. Should be a better movie than yesterday's bah, I hope! 

Today we decided to go pool instead. Cos it was really a hassle fighting with the sands... And we have not been to the pool yet, so might be worthwhile to try the pool first. If no fun, then we can still go to the beach anyway. :)

Ok set! I'm excited cos I can read my book in peace without sands getting into my way. And from the pic Denden sent yesterday, the pool seems like a nice place! And sure enough, it was nice! We were lucky that we managed to get a place a good umbrella. Thank God!!! :)



I ordered Mojito first and then Heineken! I'm in heaven!!! :)



See the clear blue sky? I'm so loving it!!






And Denden wanted to do his Yoga pose... So fun de!!!! I was stressed cos afraid I can't capture the right shot and he had to do again and again... The floor is very hot de leh! Can boil an egg lor! Imagine doing the headstand again and again??? Wahahaha!! But of course I'm not so jek-ark lah... I must try to take as many burst shots so that he can choose the best one! Honestly, taking the shots were not easy. The sunlight was soooo strong that I couldn't see the screen properly. I just anyhow press and hope for the best!!! 


(Oopss!)


Tadah!!! See the nice posture?? Of course, photographer should be given most of the credit lor! :)

A small 小插曲: While I was reading, suddenly I heard a loud THUD! Both me and Denden jumped up and saw a little Korean boy fell and knocked himself against my sunbed. I got a shocked! The boy started crying and I just stood there like an Idiot! Cos honestly, I have never handled any kids wor... What to do at this moment???? We looked around for the mummy and luckily the mum was nearby and she came to carry him to her sunbed. So scary! The boy's kneecap was scraped and can see blood and flesh! OMG de lor! 

The mummy asked the hotel staff to provide some antiseptic and plasters. Denden very nice, he immediately went back to his room to bring his antiseptic wipe and his minion plaster for the boy... Aww... My Denden is sooo sweet de! :)



See the minion plaster? LOL! Thanks to our Denden, the boy is not crying now. Of course lah... Cos he was treated like a king! Hahah! The aunty bought him food and drinks! Anyway the hotel staff was very slow... I think they took nearly 20-25 min to bring the first aid kit to the mum. But since the kid was already nicely washed and plastered liao, so the mum didn't need the first aid kit anymore. :)

Okay... All drama is finished... Back to my book! :) And Bimbo selfies! 



Another funny moment... A family of three came to the pool and what caught our eyes were their "sunblock" on their faces! OMG! The hubby and the kid's faces were basically WHITE. They smeared thick layers of sunblock onto their faces and didn't blend it. So it was basically WHITE cream on the faces, looking like "Ju-on" the horror movie!!!



 See the super thick sunblocked face?



Hahaha!!! But the kid is super cute de lor!!! :) 

After a nice afternoon nuahing at the pool, we went back to the room to wash up and nuah a bit before looking for food... We realized we always skipped lunch cos we have small appetite and only require 2 meals a day! But we snacked on fruits and snacks of course! Both of our diet really so matched de!!! :)


So funny! Denden used the plasters given to him by his boss! He crashed onto the pool concrete while trying to do a different pose just now. Hahah!!! He was trying to find an occasion to use this minion plaster and tadah!!! He got it!!!


Hahahah!!! Knocked out after just 2 poses?!??!! He always so drama king de leh... Hahah!!

As usual, we went for a walk along Bangla street to see if got any nice tees and shorts or bikinis to buy... 



Felt so nice to walk around and chill at the same time! We walked towards the beach and around the area... Denden bought some tee, so cute de!


We went for massage after the walk. No photos this time cos it is the same. LOL! :p

Anyway after the massage, we went for Japanese food this time! We saw this restaurant like very popular like dat... So we went! And it was nice... But........ My Katsudon was so-so... The pork like not cooked well leh... Scary de!!! :(



The Sake was good though. We chose the Hakutsuru Sake, same as what Ginegobell was having the previous night!

After a nice dinner, we went movie again!!! Yay!!! :) And this time round, we didn't bring our sweater, cos yesterday's theatre was actually not that cold... But so silly of us lor.. This time, this theatre was COLD de lor!!! Both me and Denden were shivering throughout! Hahaha!!!

This movie was soooo much better than the batmanvssuperman one... LOL! Most important, the male lead was so cute!! Eye candy!!! :)



Cute de right??? Drool..... I so like this type of guy de! Cute and macho and yummy!!! :p

After movie, we went for a walk and went back to finish our Sake... It was our last night and need to pack up for check-out tomorrow morning... Awww... Going back is always tough. :(

We need to check out early and go to the airport. We had BK for lunch before boarding...


Going back.... And.... We will be back! So long Phuket!!!