We left in the morning of Friday and took a 5-hour coach ride that brought us right into the city of Kuala Lumpur.

We arrived at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon and walked to our hotel at Traders’.

We got a great room, again! After leaving our stuff in the room, we went for our afternoon tea at the lounge. Pastries and cookies, we relished!

After a short rest in the hotel room, we had our cocktail in the lounge. Lovely snacks were served.

I had a sip of this strange thing and I didnt like it. It was coffee and whiskey, I think. I had a fruit punch instead, and truly enjoyed the sweetness more.

We went for a walk at Petronas Towers shopping mall, also known as Suria KLCC. We saw this setup at one of the floors. Alice in the Wonderland!

We turned in early for the evening following the short shopping trip at Suria KLCC. In the morning of Saturday, we had international buffet breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant. It was nice.

After breakfast, we walked to KLCC Aquaria, which is an underwater park located about 50 steps from our hotel room. There was a queue and a lot of noisy kids. Pff.

The underwater park was smaller than I had expected and before we knew it, we were at the souvenir shop. I was a bit disappointed that there was no real penguin at the underwater park and the disappointment lasted for as long as it took to find a fake one. Tada~

Look, a sad turtle…

We went to Pavilion shopping mall for a little tour. It is located about 100 steps from our hotel.

I love the purple lion. It must be one of those rare colours for a lion because they are usually red in colour! It was a pretty tiring day for us. We went back to our hotel for our afternoon tea at the lounge, and later, our cocktail at the same place.

On Sunday morning, we had breakfast at the lounge instead of the hotel’s restaurant.

After breakfast, we walked to Times Square shopping mall. That was my first time there.

The place is so huge. I am really amazed by the endless shopping stores in there, and guess what? There is even an indoor theme park!

We had a relaxing afternoon sipping coffee at the Starbucks cafe in the shopping mall, and on our way back to our hotel, we had lunch at A&W’s.

We skipped afternoon tea on that day and proceeded to rest in the room, watching tv and reading our books. We could have kicked up some fuss and argued as per holiday normal but we were good and we didnt. It was a lazy afternoon. We went to the skybridge for a while before it started raining heavily. I hadnt noticed earlier that the pool at the skybridge is not sheltered.

The rain was getting heavier and we could feel it on us even though we were away from the pool. It was cocktail time so we decided to go to the lounge instead and had a slow afternoon enjoying the snacks there.

In the evening, we did a bit of shopping at Suria KLCC before we called it a day. On the morning of Monday, we had breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant before we left for home.

Oh did I mention that we had a great room, again? I simply love the view! Check out the pictures I took of Petronas Tower at different time, from our room!

That’s all. Hope you enjoyed this post!

See also KL 2008.

Strangely, it never occurred to me that life is one gigantic decision tree. I have always lived life as it is and each set of actions I take is normally a result of some decision made by me or by people who have a certain kind of influence over me at that point of time, to achieve optimality based on the current scenerio coupled with some foresight of future scenerios.

Strictly speaking, it is almost impossible to include all possible future scenerios in a foresight made at one particular point in time. At time t, you may be able to predict what will happen by time t+1 hence you can certainly take a set of actions such that optimality can be achieved by time t+1. It would be very difficult to achieve the same level of optimality beyond that at time t.

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like now if you had stuck by someone else instead or had chosen a series of different decisions? You will never get the answer now and guessing based on what you had believed in then has its downtime. Well, the worst guy could have changed for the best for some reason which I cannot think of at this moment, the best guy could have died while waiting for you near your place when a flower pot fell on his head, you could have slipped and fallen into a drain and broke a leg while going to your new work place, etc. You will never know.

If only we could see at the end of our lives, all the possible outcomes, and be able to choose the one that we like most. That is impossible because backward induction does not apply.

My new realization is quite useless.

Anyway, I went shopping yesterday. I bought a bag, a pair of slippers, a top and a dress. Like my dress?

It was one of the greatest weekends! I had my birthday on 12Feb and Chinese New Year celebrations and holidays from 14Feb-16Feb, which amounts to three days of public holiday instead of the usual two for CNY, because the first day of CNY falls on a Sunday for this year.

My birthday treats started on 11Feb! I had lunch with an ex-student of mine who came to visit me at my work place and to pass me a present. That was so sweet of her. In the evening of the same day, I had a great seafood dinner at Fish and Co with my two of my good friends.

After dinner, we had ice-cream desserts at Swenson. We had so much fun snapping away pictures of ourselves that we were kind of late for our ice-cream desserts. They melted quite a bit before we started eating them.

On 12Feb, which is also one of the greatest days on the calendar, I mean, my calendar, I was on  leave and stayed at home the whole morning and early afternoon. It was kind of relaxing to do nothing for most of the day every once in a while, especially on your birthday. I had a good rest and in the evening, I had Italian dinner with F at Folino. It was a great dinner!

In the midst of our quiet dinner, we were suddenly serenaded by fireworks for CNY! We could see it from the glass panes of the restaurant. It was so cool, yet astonishing!

Thank you for arranging this, and thanks for the present!

My present: A HELLO KITTY MAHJONG SET!

Everything in the box is so cool because everything in there has a part of Hello Kitty on it. The back of each tile is PINK and has a Hello Kitty’s face on it! Totally cute!

On 16Feb, I met up with another group of friends for my birthday treat. We had lunch at Secret Recipe and then a coffee at Coffee Club. All was nice!

After lunch, we visited a friend at her place. It was crazy time with the little ones. I mean, I wouldnt think of making all the funny faces for the camera but that was exactly what they were doing the whole time. It was pretty entertaining and I joined in the fun after a while although I just had my birthday like four days before and should have attempted to grow up a bit, but well. Check out the pictures:

My friend has a very nice place! It’s one of the nicest cheaper units I have come across. I think the previous owner paid for the design and such and did not really charge her for that. Cool!

The day was supposed to end here. I was so tired and all ready to go home, get a shower and hug a bed but then I decided to join my friend and her family for dinner at Sakae Sushi. Little boy has grown up a bit and is such a good boy. He had some quiet time of his own while we had dinner.

Check out the tiger costume I bought for him last year. He has finally grown enough to wear it. Oh, the tiger costume comes with a tail at the back. ZZzz!

Isnt he mad cute?! I gave him a red packet since his mom wants me to be his godma! So sweet, huh?

That’s all for celebrative good times! I wish it is my birthday every day!

Right, duck?

This post is about a sunny weekend that went… a bit too sunny. My face was pretty red and shaken during the weekend and now I am shedding skin flakes from my face! I feel like a sick shitzu.

The Singapore Airshow was held at Changi Exhibition Centre. We reached there in the late morning just in time to catch the aerobatic flying display at 11:30am. It was quite breath-taking at times and the crowd was cheering non-stop, even for a black bird that flew by. Talking about the crowd, it was so crowded and I still dont get why people went there with their young children and even babies. The planes were so loud and the little ones started crying. The sun was totally merciless! All airshows should be held in door I tell you. Look, I took pictures with the Airbus (below) and of US Air Force planes.

Dinner was home-cooked Spanish food. Perfect.

Kittylab was in SG last year and I was there!!! Check out my pictures!!

This is the entrance to the convention hall used for Kittylab!

This is a map of Kittylab!

This is the ticket booth to Kittylab! Yes yes, totally queue-free!

A Kitty lanyard gift for each when you buy a ticket to Kittylab!

These are tickets to Kittylab! No no, you dont need two to enter!

This was the first thing we saw when we entered Kittylab. I think some bear (who?) was knocked down by the car. I still dont get this part!

This is one of the streets in Kittylab. So cool, huh? There are a total of 13 stations in Kittylab. At each station, we had to do an activity.

Station 1: Kitty College
Record the characteristics of Kitty’s eyes. By My Melody! She is totally studious!

Station 2: Mrs. Ribbon Salon
Choose a symbolic ribbon design that best suits Kitty.

Station 3: Badtz-Maru Playground
Play rock-paper-scissors to determine Kitty’s best friends. Badtz, no!?

Station 4: Star Museum
Find Kitty’s destined guardian. Who is this museum bear?!

Station 5: Kitty Cafe
Win Kitty’s favourite food. That’s Kitty’s mama outside… and inside!

Station 6: Nekosen Station
This is actually the last stop. Print Kitty ID!

Station 7: Strawberry Hospital
Obtain Kitty’s body figure information. Who is this crying bear?!

Station 8: Kitty Police Station
For those who have lost their way. Who is this police dog?!

Station 9: Hello Tower
A landmark at the city centre of Kittylab.

Station 10: Daniel Travel
Travel around the world to get Kitty’s favourite accessories. Aww, you are such a big love, Daniel!

Station 11: KT Formula
Win a pair of shoes for Kitty. That’s Kitty’s papa outside!

Station 12: Kitty Co. Ltd
Look for the desirable job. Someone watch out before Kuromi escapes!

Look how authoritative Kitty is, especially with that strange hairstyle.

This guy was standing around with his mouth wide open. I think he is Minna No Tabo.

Station 13: Kitty Boutique
Go on a buying spree for Kitty. Who is this shopping bear?

There were “No Photos…” signs everywhere but all I did was take pictures! This is the only picture I took with my favourite girl. Aww, she looks so hip in her pink dress, white bag and ribbon on the wrong side. By the way, is that a COACH bag? LOL.

IT is 26 Jan and this is only my second post of the year! I have so much to tell you girls but I am always so lost after work. I would usually wake up with a big plan in mind. The big plan would usually begin with me being on time for work, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, to writing a post in the evening. Pfff. I am thinking of writing at least one post every week. What do you say?

The first week of the year was an extremely busy week for me. There was quite a bit of catch up work that had to be done, but it was good to be back in the office again. The second and third weeks were slightly better. This is the fourth week of the year and I am feeling great. I am looking forward to birthday celebrations, and chinese new year’s too! After all the celebrations, I will be going to KL Malaysia over a long weekend for a short break. I am looking forward to that too.

Hey peeps. I had a great holiday in the last two weeks and thanks for all your well wishes. Sorry I didnt have time to upload the pictures of KittyLab@SG before I left for my holiday. Here’s the link to my facebook photo album on KittyLab@SG. I have set the privacy level to public so all can view. Have fun!

Since I came back to SG last saturday, I have been feeling pretty crap and I dont know how to describe it. I couldnt sleep at night and couldnt keep my eyes open in the day, especially during noon time. What a war to fight just to keep myself awake in the day. Just this afternoon, I was dozing off right beside two other colleagues in a threeOfUs meeting. It was so embarrassing I know but I just couldnt help it. Every few seconds I had to use ultra much effort to wake myself up - only to fall asleep again. It is that bad.

Good bye, dear friends. I am leaving for Italy this evening. In the last few months, I have been so down and confused. I think I would have needed a sanity check if not for something like a holiday to cheer me up. A good old friend has planned this trip for us and has had the itinerary written down to micro details. Angels come in various forms! I hope I can survive everything and if their snow storm does not kill me, I will be back on 2nd January.

As I walked along Orchard Road yesterday, I was immersed in such a huge crowd. Some were screaming away, rough and noisy. Some were running all over, jovial and carefree. Some were just walking along with the rest, enjoying the Christmas decorations, and stopping every so often to capture the moment with their loved ones. No one seemed to be alone and I wonder what is wrong with me. If there is one thing I really hate, that is having to hold a conversation with myself in my head whenever I feel like telling someone something. Like whenever I see something and want to say “Hey, look at that!”, I hate to be the one to reply to myself in my head. “Yes! That is a grand xmas tree!”. I hate it.

After I am done with packing my stuff for the trip this afternoon, I will write a post on Kittylab@SG. Did I mention that I was there? I am sure you will love the pictures.

That is all my dear friends. Happy thoughts make you fly - Peter Pan