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Last night I sat in bed propped up by my pillows and my duvet covering from my hips down. It was past midnight, I'm sure. My room was very dimly lit by two tiny table lamps acquired from Bangkok, Thailand. You have to have it right in front of you if you want to read a book. Everyone else was asleep, except for my sister who lounged on her sofa-cum-bed, her earpiece in her ears, chatting with her friend on her laptop.

I was with my earpiece on as well. It was plugged to an Akira portable mini DVD/VCD player propped by another pillow on my lap.

Fingers on one hand were on the volume controller, another near the screen. Those were my safety measures to prevent myself from dying due to a scare. In case there's a scream expected, I can lower down the volume. In case there'll be a scary figure with a scary face popping into the screen, my hand can cover the screen. But I had nothing to prevent my own screams from my mouth (no, i don't want a gag!). Nor could I control my heart from racing.

It was also surprising that I had a laugh every now and then.

"Amazing! So darn amazing!" was what I utter as I switched off the player and my table lamps, preparing for sleep.

I was watching "SAW".



In my own world,
1:39 PM

Please welcome the newest members of my family.

Meet BoBo, Hammie, and erm.. I can't think of another one. And I also don't know which one is which. Hahaha. But whichever that likes me more, the name's BoBo.

Here's one showing one of them eating.

Isn't he/she adorable? My darling.

I know this one's a male. I can see the pee-pee. Can you?

Them sleeping.

Before I held them in my bare hands, I actually used surgical gloves to carry them. Hahah. I was scared. I was bitten before. It hurts ok. Feels like needles.

One thing you should know about hamsters is that sometimes they collect food and put them in their cheeks, like a pouch. I didn't know that the first time. So when I carried it one time, they started moving their mouth and I saw food coming out of their mouth, undigested tiny whole nuts. Immediately I put them down. I thought they were vomiting!! It was a scary sight. Worried me to the max, I tell you.

To another topic. I dreamt that Julian Hee and I knew each other. One time in the dream I was so scared of something that I almost cried. And get this. He came towards me, kissed me on the forehead and hugged me. OH MY GOD!!!!! It felt wonderful cuz he's big. Hahah. I'll put up a picture of him so you can imagine too.





So. Who wants to name my third hamster?
In my own world,
5:01 PM

Been to Aisyah's chalet at Aloha Loyang. So much for girls only. In the end two boyfriends came but only one stayed overnight. However, it was still absolutely fun. Laughed a lot.

They went swimming while I became the photographer.


They were asked to get out of the swimming pool by the lifeguard because they weren't in proper swimming attire.

Kan kena marah. Haha.

So they went to the Jacuzzi instead.



Here's a couple of videos to show you how much they're enjoying themselves. Turn up your volume. It's hilarious. Or you can click on the video again to see it in YouTube.com itself cuz my blog has background music.

And this is post-swimming. Hahaha!



Ate a lot. I love the potato salad. I wonder if they had leftovers. If they did, I regret not asking them to let me take some back home. I think the reason was because I was too exhausted.






We stayed up all night. Talking at first and then to the stupid hilarious games. It's a good thing Farhan came with playing cards. He taught us how to play Poker and BlackJack. We gambled with Skittles! Hahaha. I'm still in debt of a couple of Skittles. I actually went down to negative(-) 11. Hahaha. We also played Police and Thief. Instead of winking, we used our feet, under the table. Hahah. I'd say I'm a good policewoman.



By 6am we were all pooped. Wanted to go see the sunrise but people were lazy and utterly worn out. Sad.

About 7 something Tini, Nisa and I went to get freshened up. We stole a few minutes getting some shuteye. After that, I couldn't wait to go home. I was so tired. The last time I felt like this was on the night of the HS movie marathon. Not that I was there the whole time. Hehe.

Anyway, there are more funny photos that I took but they're not with me. We'll see when I get them.

On to another topic, Azfar IM-ed me the day after I came back from Bangkok. At first I was suspicious. Why, after 3 years of not keeping in touch, did he IM me today? But after that, it was nice and fun updating each other. I still don't know the answer to my question. But it was a nice surprise. He misses the MI days. Aww. Me too.
In my own world,
11:49 PM

I'm almost a week overdue on my Bangkok Trip update.

First thing first. Guess what my favourite mode of transportation is. It's flying. I LOVE airplanes. I just can't let the thought of how huge the commercial plane sink in. It's the most amazing transportation ever invented. I love the view of a plane speeding on the runway and take off into the air. It never fails to catch my breath and leave me awestruck. It's one of the best feeling I'll ever have.

We took the budget airline.

The sunset on our way to Bangkok.

The 6 of us.

Once reached, we took a limousine to our *ahem* budget hotel. It's alright I guess. Nothing special. Well, at least OUR rooms didn't have anything special. We arrived at our hotel about 8 or 9pm. Go changed and head out to dinner. We took the tuk-tuk. So much fun. I like the wind in my hair. So anyway, our driver was a little.. scary, maybe? He sped. Usually people start up slowly and gradually pick up speed. But he, he zooms off! We could feel the single front wheel lift off the ground. He did that like 3 times. And when there were potholes, he didn't slow down. A thought that's been on my mind when I was in that tuk-tuk was "Will this 3-wheeled vehicle turn onto it's side by the way he's driving?".



He brought us to a restaurant where the waiter taught us how to say fork and spoon in Thai. I don't know which is which but when the two words are said together, it sounds like "cheongsam". Right. So anyway, the food was alright. Expensive though.



After that, they wanted to go to RCA, where all the clubs and pubs are. Took the same tuk-tuk with the same driver. The drivers were like "OK!! I take you!! Anything you say!!" in this super cheerful-give-me-the-creeps way. We got on, after a while, they turned into this majorly dark and deserted alley and stopped right in front of the steps of an entrance to God-knows-what. There were a few sneaky-looking men sitting at the steps. A couple of them got up and walked towards us and invited us in. According to the drivers, that was "Disco!! Goooood!!". The six of us just sat in the tuk-tuk, momentarily stunned. Then Nisa (or was it Ruizman) spoke up in this serious no-nonsense way "No. We want to go to RCA. This is not RCA." It took a while to get the drivers to bring us away from that place. But the scariest thing was a guy from that "disco" got into our tuk-tuk, start up the engine and stepped on the accelerator. I was like "Oh no." I thought he was going to kidnap us and bring us to no-one-knows-where. You can't imagine the relief when he just made a tiny U-turn, turned off the engine and got out giving the tuk-tuk to it's original driver back.

Well, we didn't go clubbing that night. We chilled out in Hollywood instead.



So that's the first night. The next two days plus the next night were spent in lots of shopping and walking. We tried the BTS. We bargained with a lot of people. We met a number of nice people. We looked for Halal food shop. We found them near our hotel, a good thing. Food were good and reasonably priced. We played hilarious stupid games in our rooms. Oh on one of our shopping sprees, we met a few of our fellow NP HS Year 3 nurses!!! Such huge coincidence.

I wear XS. She wears _______. (Fill in the blank)

The last night they went clubbing at RCA while I spent my night in my hotel room. I didn't want to go. Full stop.

On the last day we shopped some more to finish up out Baht money. To tell you the truth, there really isn't much to buy over there. Sure there are cheap clothes to buy but they're like the same and can be obtained anywhere. So there wasn't much things that's special. There were souvenirs that's evidently from Thailand but knick-knacks? They'll just collect dust.

We didn't do much sightseeing because it seems to take a lot of time and money. Bummer. So basically what we do is shopping. I'd have prefer to stay longer and go sightseeing. Make the trip more educational or something. Like when I went to Cambodia. It was more fulfilling.

We were shopping at the airport before our departure back to Singapore. I think we didn't realize we were late or something. So while walking to the borading gate, an airport staff was like in a hurry saying "Are you taking Flight TR 109 to Singapore?" Ais and I nodded. And she said "Hurry. The gates will close in 2 minutes." Ape lagi. Lari ah. Tini, Nisa and Ruizman were behind us. Ruizman couldn't take how Tini ran. It was too funny. She had her jacket and plastic bag of mashmallows and her moderately-sized travelling bag on one hand. Another ziploc bag with her toiletries and passport on another hand. *Give me a 5-minutes break to laugh* HAHAHAHAH. Picturing her is so funny. I just laughed out loud. Ok let me continue. Why she had the toiletries in her hands were because during the bag scanning thing, they had to confiscate her liquids! Her hair curl gel and her sun block lotion was taken away. So she didn't have time to keep everything in her bag when the staff said the gates will close soon. So I don't know which bag and jacket she has on which hand but one hand was grasping her jeans to prevent it from falling down while she ran! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Stop it, Nadiah!! Hahhahahah.

Anyway, wanna know how utterly budget-ed our hotel is? Our hotel is like hidden in an alley. There was no grand lobby welcoming us. I think you can count the number of staff in 2 hands. There's only one lift. And it's tiny. Our room can only be dimly lit by 2 table lamps and 1 spotlight, all in orange. The floor to ceiling wall window has the view of the airconditioner machine thing.

One time, while Ais was having a shower, she was bathed in darkness and cold water poured over her because there was a blackout in our room. Tini and I had to go next door to Nisa's and Ruizman's room to borrow their shower. Otherwise, we'll be groping about in the dark trying to find our toiletries.

Another time while we were going down in the lift, we met 4 other Singaporeans there for vacation too. So it was like "Where are you from?" and then "Singapore" and then "Us too!". And there were cheering like "Yay, Singapore!" Suddenly the lift came to a halt. The doors didn't open. The digital display had an "E" instead of the level of the building. The assistant bell didn't work. So the newly met guy forced the door open. He opened a crack and yelled for help. So they just forced the doors open and someone came and helped open the doors. I got a shock at what I saw when the doors opened. We were below ground level. There were NO basements. The lift it seems has gone through the ground or something so it's like a third of the lift is below the ground level. And you have no idea how naive we were. The newly met Singaporeans climbed out first. Then the hotel staff told the rest of us to stay in the lift first. Like they're going to do something. So we were like okay okay. For a few moments, nothing happened. It was quite silent. I can't remember who finally said "Why are we staying in here? Could have just climbed out just now." At the same time the newly met Singaporeans opened the doors and said "Nevermind. Let them come out first." So we all had to climb out with the help from the people outside. It was quite high! Unbelievable. We had to take the stairs la. Luckily our rooms are only on the fourth level.

Oh well. But it was still fun going on holidays with friends only. It'll always be remembered.

Guess which one is whose.

It was sweet that Wilson messaged me when I was in Thailand.

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In my own world,
6:57 PM