Dreaming With A Broken Heart

You know you are a hopeless procratinator when it's June and last year's calender is still hanging on your bedroom wall.

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Last read- Grass For His Pillow

Currently reading- The Harsh Cry of the Heron

Books 3 & 4 of the Tales of the Otori series respectively by Lian Hearn. I'm hooked. At least my love for reading has returned with surprised vigour. Even tho' I'm probably gonna screw my exams for this. Meh.

Am I at rock bottom yet?

I swear it Murphy's Law at work- Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.

Or even better, it's Finagle's Law- Anything that can go wrong will, at the worst possible moment.

It started last night. I fetched my sister to her apartment coz she had a really bad bout of food poisoning to see her Aussie friend who was staying there to bring him food coz he also had food poisoning. On the way out, while I was manoeuvring through a tight spot in the parking lot (a spot which I dread to go through coz there's super little space and you have to be very careful about the edges of your car coz it's very close to the wall) I bumped the left side of my car into the wall. Great. The one thing that I TOLD myself to be careful of, I did it anyway. So the left side of my little tortoise just above the hind wheel has lovely scratches which streaks of white paint to complement it and a nice little dent to boot. That was the first time that I, myself caused damaged to my tortoise after driving it for what, 10 months now? Sure, I've been in accidents but that was due to other people's carelessness, they were in the wrong and crashed into me. This is the first time that it's my own fault, my own carelessness, stupidity and bad judgement that caused the damage. When I first started driving, I swore to myself I wouldn't be like those bimbotic girl drivers who really cannot drive or park and shouldn't be on the road because they give us girls a bad name. (Like this super smart girl that wanted to reverse but instead put her gear into drive and stepped really hard on the accelerator and vroom-ed across the kerb separating the rows of parking spaces in the Monash carpark. Needless to say her Kembara was suspended since she couldn't go back or forth after that. Funniest sight ever. I'm mean, I know.) But now lookie lookie here, I go and do some equally bimbotic thing like not know how to turn a damn corner. Gah.

Okay, scratched the car and dented it, nevermind. At least the rims are okay and the back door can still close properly. Thought the next morning could try and ask my mom to see if polishing the car (to get some of the scratches away) so that it wouldn't look bad before telling my dad about it. Otherwise, he'll just go beserk. He loves cars more than us I would say. So happened he decided to wake up early today when he NEVER wakes up early unless he has an early meeting which he didn't. I practically gobbled my breakfast and tried to make a quick escape before he saw the car but to no avail, he saw it when I was reversing to go out. So yesh, his face was frowning all the way. I haven't gotten my lecture yet because he's not back from work but seriously, I dread dinner time.

So nevermind, disaster temporarily averted though I'd get it when I got back from uni. Got to uni, Dr. Yeoh, my communications lecture was giving us back assignment 2. Dahlah very kan cheong maximum coz all of us did super last minute work for assignment 2 coz we had two assignments due on the same day and we didn't really understand the topic. Was waiting for my name to be called so I could go and get it but he never called my name. Nevermind, maybe I just didn't hear it kan? So after class went to look for him. Once he saw me, he said: "I didn't receive your assignment." That's when the 'OMG are you fucking serious face' came in. Because I swear I dropped the assignment in the correct box at the same time as I handed in my film assignment. And I've already gotten back my film assignment but my comm assignment is missing? What the eff?

Furthermore, he said he sent me an e-mail saying that he didn't receive my assignment. So I thought it was my own carelessness for not checking my mail otherwise I could've resubmitted it earlier or something. I went straight to the library, no computers available. More signs of things not going my way. Usually when I go to the library, I always manage to find an available computer, but not today. So went to the computer lab on level 5, hung around for 5 to 10 before getting an available computer. Checked my Monash mail and wala! Tak ada e-mail from him pun. Wanted to print some sample exam questions for Accounts. Printed the first set and wanted to print extra notes but some stupid guy started printing about 100+ pages of lecture slides. ONE SLIDE PER PAGE okay? Can you imagine how long that took? Talk about hogging the printer much? Nevermind, I waited. Finally, after like 20 minutes he finished but my papers didn't come out AND they had already minused my credit. Couldn't be bothered to wait longer coz I wanted to go and see Dr. Yeoh before he went for lunch.

So went to his office and told him that I didn't receive any e-mail from him. Then, he double checked his office but still no sign of my assignment. Seriously panic kao kao already now. Coz I submitted the original copy of the newspaper frontpage that I was analysing as the appendix. Now you tell me missing, where am I gonna find May 15th's frontpage of NST and The Sun to resubmit as my appendix? Had a panic session, Joyce said she might still have the newspapers at home coz she used the same day's newspapers as me but different articles. Panic alleviated for awhile.

Went for lunch in Pyramid with Kit Mun to cheer me up. Wanted to have Michelangelos coz of the yummylicious pasta. Forgot that school holidays had started so had to battle for a parking space. Walked all the way there from where we parked to find that it CLOSED DOWN. I swear, can I get any unluckier? Gah. So went to Wendy's to have lunch. Vented my frustrations to Kit Mun about how I was rushing to finish that missing assignment to print it out and hand it in on time. I remember I had to wake up extra early on that morning to finish it and even woke my sister up to ask her to help me cut out the newspapers articles coz I was rushing for time. That, and I had close to sleepless night before that, trying to finish up two assignments. So, lunch was okay. Finally something that went without more bad luck happening except that poor Kit Mun had to put up with me. Sorry kit mun! =(

Right after lunch, received an SMS from Joyce saying she sold all her newspapers already. So she doesn't have anything left. Texted Joanne asking her if she kept hers. She only had 8th and 9th of May's newspapers. All this happened in Accounts lecture mind you. Kit Mun was super nice and layan-ed me. She tried sms-ing her friends to see if they read NST or not but no luck. Everybody reads The Star, not NST. Then, finally found a person that reads NST- Jess. Still waiting to hear from her to see if she has 15th May's one. Hope restored for now.

Drove home without incident. Opened the gate, my dog shot straight out and practically galloped like a mad dog all around outside. More bad luck. It would probably take 3 elephants to pull him back into my garden. Couldn't be bothered anymore, just left him to his own devices. I think he just came back coz it started raining and he hates the rain.

So yesh, now I am waiting for Kit Mun and Jess to get back to me to see if they can get the frontpages for the The Sun and NST respectively. Please keep your fingers and toes crossed. I guess out of this whole ordeal, if I try to play Little Miss Optimistic, I should be grateful that:

1. I merely scratched and dented my car, which can be fixed (although it'll probably cost a few hundred bucks. =/) ; At least I didn't crash my car in a serious accident so I have that to be thankful for.

2. My 2000 word essay is safely saved in my laptop and pendrive so at least I don't have to redo it. If things were really bad, my laptop could have crashed and my pendrive could have been corrupted and I would have lost everything.

3. I have awesome friends who were worried for me and tried to help me out so I felt really blessed while having my little panic session in uni. Thank you Joanne, Kit Mun, Joyce, Jess, Justin and everyone else who tried to help. I appreciate it.

So yes. That's the bright side I s'pose. Anyway, I sincerely hope that I have hit rock bottom now. Because things can only get better after this right? Or this could just be the beginning and thing's could get a whole lot worse. Urgh.

Edit**

Kit Mun just called. Tak ada. I am screwed. Yep, things could just get a whole lot worse. Absolute-*tooting*-lutely wonderful.

Oh and my dad just came back. I forsee it's lecture time. =/

Edit**

I think I hit rock bottom just now liao. Managed to get my ex-colleague to scan me a copy of both NST and The Sun's front page. *phew!* Thank You So Much Astrid!

So crisis averted. Ah, I knew interning for a media company had it's perks! So things can only get better now right? ;)

Come What May

Last month we had a surprise early birthday celebration for Khai Yin in Pyramid. She was actually attending her graduation ceremony at Sunway Convention Centre and didn't suspect a thing! So everything went according to plan which was good. Or more or less according to plan. ^_^

We were waiting for her at Sakae Sushi under the pretence of having a small primary school gathering. So when her boyfriend showed up with an ice-cream cake, she was very shocked. All thanks to the amazing planning of the organizer- Ri Hao.

There. Yummylicious cake! And a very happy couple. ;)

Now, me, Kai Jie and Siok Yean had to go earlier because we had specific instructions by Ri Hao to go and buy KY's present. Since KY got a very er... interesting birthday present for Ri Hao last year, it was time for revenge in his case. (Read about it in my old blog --> sidebar) Besides, he managed to record her saying that she'd wear anything he bought her. So yeah. He was letting her listen to the evidence. Hehe.


Hoho. The present. She was a bit apprehensive after hearing the recorded convo. And yesh, we were using our chopsticks to eat ice-cream cake. Lack of better utensils. Plus Sakae Sushi staff are damn slow and blur. I am gonna offend a lot of people again but...I really don't like Sakae Sushi la. Sorry larh. Sushi Zan Mai is like 100 times better than Sakae Sushi in terms of food and service. But then again I just had Rakuzen yesterday so I might be a bit biased. The food there was insanely yummylicious. ;P



TA-DA! This was our hard work okay. We walked around Pyramid for close to 2 hours before finding this dress. Went into SO many shops and they didn't have anything suitable. Ri Hao wanted a super sexy dress that would grab attention and would be suitable for clubbing. You'd think that'd be easy to find right? WRONG. Even fail-safe Forever 21 where we gave Ka-Yee all those sexy clothing makeovers failed me that day!! Thank goodness Ms. Selfridge saved the day. *Phew!*


I swear, things always appear when you don't need them and when you do, they magically dissapear. Meh.


That was her, opening her present.


There we go! Sexayyy Khai Yin! She'd look even sexier without the tube. *grins*


The birthday girl and I.

Well, I hope she wears the dress! KY, do you hear me? Wear the dress!! Surprises are always so much fun! A bit stressful to plan but when you see the look the surprised person's face, instant rewards! On a sadder note, Ri Hao's going to Australia soon so we have one less crazily fun person in our group planning all these awesome gatherings and keeping our friendship stronger than ever. Sigh, I am gonna miss his sarcastic remarks during gatherings.

3 posts in a month. Definite improvement lehh. =P

Last watched movie- Revolutionary Road

I thought the ending was so ironic! As we all know, this is the first movie that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in together since Titanic. And in Titanic, Leo dies and Kate lives; in this movie, Kate dies and Leo lives. Ironic kan? That aside, their acting was superb and I guess this movie says a lot about life, relationships, marriage and ambitions- finding out what you really want in life. I've always like Leo coz I think he's a great actor, but after watching this and The Reader, I think I'm adding Kate Winslet into my favourite actress list too. ;)

On another note, since we're talking about birthdays:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICOLE!!!

Another one that will be leaving soon. I'm gonna miss you larh woman. =(

Happily Ever After

Girls have been indoctrinated by society believe that everyone will eventually have their happily ever after and that we should all wait for our Prince Charming to come and sweep us off our feet and ride off into the sunset . It’s incorporated into every Disney cartoon we’ve been made to watch since we can remember; every fairytale that’s been told to us as bedtime stories since we were young. And even now, as cynical as we may be, as realistic we have become, some small part of us still believes and hopes that we will be swept off our feet by The One. That’s right, the belief that somewhere out there, there’s this perfect guy for us all. And of course, he is the one that will give us our happily ever after through marriage. It is every girl’s dream- that big, white wedding.

But what happens after? What happens after the happily ever after? When things start to fall into a routine, when problems start to arise, when the person who we thought would give us that happy ending changes. Will love still prevail then?

I find too many women settle. They settle for whatever they have at the time due to various reasons. Pressure would one of the main reasons I think. When all your friends are off getting married and starting to have babies, you’d feel so left out. It may sound stupid now, but really the pressure is quite intense. When everyone is asking you whether or not you’re getting married soon and your own biological clock is ticking, you settle. Fear is another one. What if you break up with him now but can’t find another boyfriend after? Better to just continue. If it ain’t broken, why fix it right? Even if you don’t feel the sparks anymore, even if you realize that ultimately you and him seem better off as friends than lovers.

And that’s the root of most marital problems I think. That, and the fact that everyone takes forgranted of their other half. They forget that it’s the little things that matter. The simple I Love You-s, the habitual hugs and kisses that lets your partner know how much you appreciate them. Why do all these seem so common when people are dating, yet they dwindle off when people are married? The passion, the fire, where has it all gone?

And so, women turn a blind eye to their cheating husbands loveless marriages. Out of duty as a wife and mostly to their children. Especially in Asian societies. Ignorance is bliss but is feigned ignorance the same? I have seen so many, too many in fact, marriages that are not based on love anymore but a sense of duty to the kids. And they think the kids will sense that nothing is wrong. Oh, how naïve all these people are!

And of course, money. The main thing that holds most marriages together. The root of all evil indeed but all the same, it makes the world go round and people happy.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, in the future when we contemplate whether or not to say ‘I Do’, remember the consequences of those two words. Remember that this is the rest of your life. Messy divorces not factored in of course. Remember that you should be able to accept you partner for who they are and love them unconditionally. Remember that when you’re old and grey, you actually want someone that you’d be able to talk to. Remember that this arduous journey called life is meaningless unless we have someone to share it with. And make sure, that someone is the one you’re getting married to. Otherwise, it is rather pointless isn’t it?

So this is my note to my future self. My little reminder on my own happily ever after which is yet to come if I am blessed enough to enjoy one. On my last outing with Wee, she reminded me that I should find someone that would match my awesomeness, and settle for nothing less. Well, I fully agree. Let that be a reminder for every girl out there: You are awesome, and the person you’re with should totally appreciate your awesome-ness. Otherwise, he’s just not worth your time. He should accept you for who you are and you should never be belittled or made to feel inferior. It is my belief that for marriage to work and love to prevail, you should see each other as equals. Maybe not physically, but intellectually and emotionally.

Anyway, I attended two weddings in December last year. I sincerely hope that they find their happily ever after-s.

Staphanie and Jason's wedding

This was my first proper church wedding that I attended.

The church was pretty big and air-conditioned. Very cool.

Adorable flower girls. However, one of them got scared while walking down the aisle and started crying. The other had to pull her along. Awww.

My sister was the maid of honour. She looks lovely doesn't she? Her best friend was the bride.
Sorry for the poor quality pictures. I was still using my Casio at the time.





The pastor gave this speech that I totally did not agree with- about how women should submit to men and respect them. That respect comes before love and many other appaling things. But even worse was the people there actually AGREED with him and his views on women and were nodding their heads. Sigh, but I shall not mention it here lah. It is supposed to be a happy occassion after all.




Her dress with the super long train. I'm telling you guys now larh, if you want me to be one of your bridesmaids, please don't wear dresses with long trains however princessessy and fairytale esque it is. I don't want to spend every 5 minutes adjusting your train and making sure no one steps on it, including the groom. I am offending a lot of people by saying this hor? I forsee my name being cut off from the bidesmaids list liao but nevermind, I will still be happy to attend as a guest. ;)

The sisters.

Went to Coffe Bean after that to have a drink and get breakfast. Yummylicious-ness!

Pei Tze and Denzil's wedding

My cousin sister got married. :)

At the church waiting for the ceremony to start.

My cousin Michelle, who was the bridesmaid, and I at Jarrod & Rowlins for the wedding lunch.
Food was good!

Pre-dinner drinks before the wedding dinner.

And this was during the wedding dinner.

I am FINALLY done with all my assignments for the semester. It has been really a really hectic one I must say. Now I have to prepare for finals which are looming. Good Luck to everyone okay?

Currently reading- Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hern



This is the second book in the Tales of the Otori series. My father's business friend's wife (complex eh?) gave me the complete set as a gift after she found out I liked reading. So generous of her. She insisted that this series was one of her personal favourites because it was a really good read and I must say I agree with her. Check it out if you have the time. Highly recommended. Sigh, and this is what I've been doing. Reading storybooks from morning till night when I should be studying like Kit Mun. I just don't learn do I? I can't help it lorh, once I start reading, I cannot put the book down wan. To the extent that my mom had to confisticate my storybooks when exams rolled around when I was younger. It runs in the family larh. My sister and I are all bookworms at heart.

Last watched movies- The Host & The Fast and The Furious 4

The former because I had to watch it for Film Studies since one of the exam questions will be based on that. I was a little apprehensive at first since it was labelled horror and we all know how much I love horror films. But it turned out to be not scary but filled with lots of ideologies. I still find it amazing how a seemingly B grade Korean monster movie turned out to have awesome character development and many, many ideologies embedded within it which made it kind of interesting really. Now I understand why it won so many awards.

The latter I watched it again because I like the Fast and Furious series (I'm a sucker for fast cars, sue me) plus I had to supervise some guys who were doing some renovation work and had nothing to do all by myself. Adele came and teman-ed me after that for which I am grateful! Thank you darling Adele!

I really need to start studying larh. Make me feel guilty and yell and at me to study when you guys see me online. Maybe that'll help. Heh. ;P

Toodles for now.

Eh wait, TWO posts in a month leh. Got improvement liao. ^_^

What Can I Do

Hmm. The trend seems to be a post a month eh?
I try! I really do. =/

Anyway, I'm currently buried 6 feet under with assignments in addition to being as sick as a dog coz of this horrible sore throat that hurts everytime I swallow. Hence, I'm gonna talk about something mindless that makes me happy to take my mind of things, like... manicures & pedicures!! =)

I can't remember when I started going for mani/pedi-s but I remember it was my eldest sis who got me hooked! She brought me to Bangsar Village 2, Chic Nail Spa by Soong Ai Ling and to this day, it's still the place I go to when I want my nails to look pretty.

The thing about manicures and pedicures is that if you don't start doing it, you don't see what the fuss is. But once you start, you can't stop! The feeling of looking at your nails all buffed, neat and with no dead skin just gives one a feeling of immense satisfaction!

And of course choosing the different colours makes me feel like a little kid in the candy store again- a little overwhelmed but yet supremely happy and excited.
You might be thinking:"All this over nail colour?"
But really it's one the most relaxing things you can do to pamper yourself and indulge in life's little luxuries.

Besides you don't have to do it often, just once a month or once in two months is pretty good.

In addition to that, if a girl takes care of her nails it says a lot about her. It means that she takes time to care for herself and wants to present herself in the best way she can.

And by that I don't mean those bimbotic girls who have nails so long, holding a cup might just break them clean off. *rolls eyes*

I mean girls who have clean, neat, trimmed, shaped nails instead of girls who have chipped, uneven, dirty fingernails.

The former would so much better to look at right?

So without further ado, let me show you my favourite manicure of all time...

TA-DA! Drawn on my Soong Ai Ling herself. She really is really super talented with nail art!

See the amount of detail? So awesome! Imagine how steady one's hand must be to do that! :0

I wouldn't say this is my favourite pedicure of all time but I can't seem to find the older pics of my mani/pedi-s so yeah, I'll just post the recent ones. =) It is still pretty cool.

My favourite colours for toe nails are dark purple and dark blue in case you were wondering!

If you guys want to try something new, try those two colours! You won't regret it.

And this is my second favourite manicure of all time. The snowflake was just really cute (not to mention incredibly hard to draw since it was so tiny 0_o).

Again drawn by Soong Ai Ling herself. She's pretty awesome. I highly recommend going to her shop if you ever want to get your nails done.

Sigh, I supposed I should go do something productive now. IF (note: IF) I can wean myself off doing mindless things like playing Pet Society and watching Gossip Girl. Damn!

Currently listening to- Nan Quan Mama

Currently hooked on- Gossip Girl Season 2

Currently addicted to- Pet Society

Last watched film- Elephant (it's an experimental film we had to watch for Film Studies. Very interesting camera angles and the usage of long takes and stuff. A lot of people found it weird but I thought it was pretty cool and realistic in a sense.)

So there you have it! A little update on my life. =)

Now & Then

I don't know if you guys know this, but I do feel truly blessed that you guys still care.
You guys care enough to drop me comments every time you visit my blog to badger me to blog.
You guys care enough to ask me why I never blog anymore when you see me.
You guys care enough to say that you don't know what's going on in my life anymore because I don't blog.
It's really quite a trivial thing, but it makes me feel loved and blessed.
I am lucky to have every one of you.
Really and truly.

I never did get the chance to say thank you did I?
So here it is. Thank you for being such awesome friends.
I love all of you!

I also didn't get the chance to thank everyone for the awesome 18th birthday eh?
It may have 4 months ago, but I still want to thank everyone for all the terrific presents and well-wishes.
It really meant a lot.

Thank you.

First of all, thanks to these wonderful bunch of people I met during my 18th year on this world.
Without you guys, college wouldn't have what it was- insanely fun and crazy.

My family and friends.
Thanks for coming that day. It was good spending time with everyone.

My girls. Always and forever.
I wouldn't know what to do without you guys.

I loved my present. I've been wanting it for the longest time ever and I am insanely touched you guys remembered just because I said so in Langkawi.

And the card- it rocked socks.
So did all the other presents mind you.

My family, ever the greatest, brought me to El Cerdo on the day itself.
Psst: Obviously, my sister wasn't too keen on seeing me chop up the pig. Look at her expression. Teehee. She actually shrieked when I did that.

That was me, cutting the pig, making a wish and breaking the plate as is their custom over there.
Awesome dinner. ^_^

A wonderfully sinful way to end the day- with amazing desserts.

The complimentary flashing lil' piggy from El Cerdo. So bloody adorable.

Not to forget, the presents from the cousins.
This present is so crazily cool it's not even funny.
Thanks so SO much for this cousins.
Switchfoot autographed posters and their CD! Really, need I say more?

The Switchfoot band members made up the words.
Cute kan?

This is my hoard of Roxy presents from Aussie given of course by my sister.
Oh and a very cute and surprisingly quite tasty Christmas cookie on the left hand corner.

And the Roxy earmuffs!!!!
So incredibly cute and fluffy! Can't wait to wear this.
Thank you darling Mins!

My lovely family who came to visit me during lunch break on my birthday.
We were having yummylicious coffee at San Francisco at my office.

And this is Adele Wong, who drove all the way to surprise me at work on the day itself.
Did I mention how touched I was?
Sorry darling we couldn't celebrate your birthday on the day itself but I really hope you liked your presents. I immediately thought of you when I saw it.
May angels look after you always!

A simple piece of cheesecake that really made my day!

And of course, my sweet, friendly colleagues who celebrated my birthday on my third day of interning- the exact day itself might I add.
I'm sure everyone is sick of me saying how touched I am right?

Part of the Secret Recipe cake my colleagues got me.
It was more yummylicious than usual coz of the effort behind it.

And last but not least, the present from my eldest sister.
Tag Heuer Aqua Racer with blue mother of pearl face.

Did I mention how blessed I was?

Anyway, I'm not gonna promise another post soon.
Because I don't really wanna break ANOTHER promise.
I'll tell you the truth, I haven't blogged in such a long time because blogging is starting to feel like such a chore. A responsibility.
And I don't want it to feel that way.
I started blogging back in Xanga for fun, for self-expression so I don't want something that used to fun turn into something that I feel compelled to do.

However, do not despair!
I have strong blogging urges from time to time! (Like today, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this! =P)
But seriously, getting used to another blog hosting site is exhausting.
Blogger is pretty different from Xanga I have to admit.
But I'm getting there. Made some slight changes here and there and tweaked some stuff to my satisfaction.

Alright. Till here for now.
Toodles!

Currently listening to- all the Disney theme songs
Supercalifragilisticexapialidocious anyone?

Starlight

So here it is- my long awaited first post in my new blog.

So many people have asked me "What happened to you? Why don't you blog anymore?"

Hippo even tagged me as the one who disappeared on one of those Facebook tags. Yikes! 0_o

I never even knew so many read my blog until I stopped blogging. The irony huh?

Anyway, I really am sorry it took me this long to churn out my first post here.

For awhile, I just lost my blogging mojo.

I wasn't inspired to write at all. I think my situation was probably a bit like Wee's!

Plus I was working during the whole of December and January. Interning at Mindshare as you all know so that took up most of my time.

And most of all, I was just lazy lah! I mean, you all know I'm the world's biggest procrastinator it's not even funny.

Having said that, here I am.

And I have so much to blog about... so much of my life to share with everyone again that I itch to write everything down.

Continue my life documentary. =)

So... I shall begin where I left off.

After graduation, my college mates and I took a 4 day 3 night trip to Langkawi. I miss Langkawi, I really do!

So I've decided to write the top 10 things I miss about Langkawi as my first post.

Because really, I don't want such awesomely fun memories to go unwritten.

The Top 10 Things I Miss About Langkawi (in random order):

1. Taking bikini showers after going to the beach with Mel and Ann.

We'd laugh and shower together in the bathroom and come out smelling delectably good because of Mel's watermelon shampoo.

2. Sitting at the beach at night gazing at the stars and hearing the waves crash onto the beach.

It's one of the best feelings in the world! I felt at peace with everything because listening to the waves hurtle against the shore coupled with the stillness of the night and the twinkling stars made me feel like I was truly alive again. Mmm, what wonders the beach can do eh?

3. KAMPAI KAMPAI KAMPAI!

I think that's pretty much self-explanatory. It was our favourite alcoholic drink in Langkawi. Ann liked it so much that she drank it the first thing in the morning on our last day! Alcohol and chocolates actually. We had packs and packs of Kinder Bueno too coz it was cheap!

Our margaritas by the beach. Yummylicious!

4. Watching sunsets by the beach.

The breath-taking, stunningly beautiful, picturesque scenery unfolding before your very eyes makes you appreciate nature so much more!

5. The awesome company

The boys were exasperatingly emo at times but other than that, the company was really great! I guess we got to know one another better during the trip and thus cementing our friendship bonds. I miss everyone!

6. Telaga Tujuh waterfall

Climbing up the waterfall and sitting on the rocks letting the cold, refreshing water tumbling down the waterfall splash and sprinkle upon you... it doesn't get any better than that!

7. Singing our lungs out to The Lion King song and Can't Take My Eyes Off You in the car.

And the windows were down. People outside must have thought we were crazy!

The singers. ;)

8. Staying up till late at night gossiping.

Hmm...I guess we were pretty noisy because people from the next room basically banged the wall and told us to shut up. Oops!

The gossipers. Minus Nick. Oh and Teik Chi. And Russell!

9. The Loaf

I know we have The Loaf in Pavilion. But the atmosphere at The Loaf there and here is so different! Maybe it's because The Loaf in Langkawi is the orginal outlet plus it's at a harbour where all the yatchs and boats owned by the rich and famous are docked making the atmosphere so much more different than the one here in Malaysia located right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city. The atmosphere in Langkawi is more of a lazy, relaxing one I suppose. I loved the cheesecakes and coffee at The Loaf.

Where The Loaf is located in Langkawi.

10. The holiday mood.

That relaxing, laze-around-and-do-nothing, idle holiday mood which seems so faraway now that uni has started is something I sorely miss. And lazing around with in the company of awesome friends is even better!