Photos first, blog later.

This week will be a hyper busy week for me, but I did enjoy the trip to Pangkor last weekend. I have no time to blog about it, but pics do mean a thousand words.

Thanks you guys/gals for making this trip happen. Appreciate it so much.

Photos: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/cchivy/PulauPangkorTrip2324August2008

Love, Ivy

Minutes of Kuantan.

Kuantan airport --> Hired Car --> Wira Automatic --> "Wah, tak ada Kelisa meh?!" Wira expensive lah --> Sesat --> Found hotel. Too early. --> "Yay! - a Starbucks nearby" --> Chamomile-Tea --> Facebook --> text my colleagues --> "Eii, mana you all??" ---> "Sudah sampai" ---> Makan --> Gossip --> My professor thinks meal too expensive ---> taruh the restaurant: "Wei, though we are tourists, we're not stupid lahh!" --> Colleagues checked in ---> "creepy lah, your resthouse" ---> Register as participant at Hyatt --> "Wah, nice swimming pool!" ---> Short, but scenic beach --> East-Coast Mall --> "Wah, another Starbucks here. There's only 1 in Ipoh" --> Eat laksa --> You balik your creepy hotel; I love my cozy hotel --> Alone. Scared. ---> Watch HellBoy 2 pirated DVD ---> Olympics --> Ter-sleep.

L-R: Starbucks in Berjaya Megamall, Chamomile-T, Extremely beautiful beach of Teluk Chempedak

Aiya, late! Snoozed 3 times --> Drive recklessly --> Lost --> Alas, Hyatt --> Papers after papers; presentations after presentations --> Boring --> Found out that 'Yakult has human feces-bacteria' --> Lunch --> Dr. Tan found me --> become his kuli --> Presented posters --> Car missing, friends 'stole' ---> Swimming --> Pina colada by the pool --> Freestyle, thinking of Park Tae-Hwan --> Alone --> "So many ppl wanna tumpang my car arrr??? Please queue-up" --> Lost (again!) --> I forgo my Grand Dinner --> for Malaysia --> Watch Malaysia kena belasah in Badminton finals --> Dissapointed --> Alone --> "Should have just gone for the Grand dinner" :(

L-R: My poster; My new friend (she's soo nice), Lunch ALONE.

Hyatt --> Dr. Ting's presentation - My ultimate rival in research! --> Flirted with judges --> Later told me I win 3rd place (again! think AMC2007) --> Buy souvenirs --> Sleep in my cozy hotel --> Sleep --> Dream of Patrick, my doggy :P --> Sleeeeeeeeeep --> Prayed that I don't snooze next morning.

Airasia --> KL --> No place like KL. My home.

And it's not even Christmas!

You see, there are many surprises in life. My surprises came in a form of food and gifts.

So, a few surprises by friends. This one's from an newly known friend. It's a mudpie from TGIF. Maybe I've never eaten a mudpie before, but wow, does mudpie really look like this (see below)? This take-away mudpie really 'aroused' my palate and senses. Good 'first impression'. I think this friend knew I had to be reminded of my poo-poo, eh?

My housemate bought me gifts from Singapore. One was a devil's undie (no pictures of it, you wish!) and another was a PRINCE FROG-IN-AN-EGG. If you read Bea's blog, her latest post reminded me of this special gift. Nope, I don't have to kiss the frog (because obviously I am no Princess :P). I had to fill it with water and the frog will melt (euwww..) and voila!, it turns to prince charming. Now here's the catch: you need to wait for 3-4 days before it is 'fully grown'? Errr...

3 days after: What I thought would be Prince William, was a naked prince with distorted mouth and eye-piece. Thank God I didn't kiss it.My brother was the real santa: Bought me a Burberry Brit EDT. Wow, a genuine Burberry and it's not even my birthday?!?! I love the masculine smell. Wait, did I say masculine? Man, this is not good.
And a the best gift this month was a bouquet of dark red roses, sent to my lab, to the amusement of my colleagues and and the hoo-haa of the whole faculty. Oh man! I love them! Ya, buy Kian Ming and Tony Pua a drink, ya?! There's a reason why blogs are life-changing...