Take a Nap, Bangkok

I thought my blog was getting all about work, so I thought I showed some pics from the place we stayed at Bangkok!

When I took pictures of the place, I wasn't taking them just for the future memories purposes, I really liked the place, and I wanted to blog about it so that if there's anybody looking for reviews or pictures of the place, they could stumble along my blog. Yes, a service to humankind I am doing :P

We stayed in Take a Nap hotel/hostel, in the heart of Silom near Patpong.

We did an extensive research on the place to stay in Bangkok and believe it or not, the prices of accommodation in Bangkok is getting really exorbitant nowadays! Maybe it's because Bangkok has sort of developed into a shopping haven, which I must truly agree - and if any of you are going to Bangkok and wanted a place that can score for less but not reeking with cockroaches and dirty vices, well this is it!

I don't know but I really don't think the place has any shortcomings.

Most are really taken well care of. The rooms has themes, which I think its the main pull for most.

Ours, however came from wanting to be near the MRT or BTS station so that it's easier for us to get around Bangkok. And like I say, if you know, accommodation around train stations are really pricey. And not to mention because they know how sought after these areas are, service/cleanliness tends to get jeopardized.

I didn't want to go and let my mates experienced a major letdown while we are here, knowing that some of my friends can be quite critical.

I really liked the homey feeling the hostel/hotel has. It isn't too over commercialized with the cafes and big entrances. They just play with lighting and small decorations and bold, bold colours. I really feel cozy there.

This has got to be the best thing they have there. Free computer + Internet! There are two computers there and these are extremely helpful. It can get a little annoying at times, because some people tend to hog the computers for a while - but most of the time, we can get on it quite easily. Much of our travel places, how to get there's etc are all googled from the computers here. :)






Breakfast is very home cooked too! I really liked the breakfast/dining/chill area! I think it's very cute and you can see, from the pictures above. It's halal too! There's cereal everyday, and a choice of milk, orang juice, coffee and tea. The main dishes changes everyday though but I think almost everyday you get ommelettes.

This is me and BF, sitting on the bean bags. We had our breakfast and the girls in the other room were late so we were sitting around, waiting for them to finish! It was our shopping day :_( Why are you girls late on a shopping day wuwuwuwu

The TV was playing some dorky Thai drama, I think quite equivalent to our Malay TV dramas in TV3 or something like that. But in the rooms, oh my! There's this Frence channel which my friend, Laura really loves and we caught the Coco Chanel's movie on it one night and got totally hooked!

We saw another interesting movie to watch too, but we planned for supper that night so we had to leave the movie (very, very hesistantly). If you see the pic above, there's actually a DVD?VCD player. Deng deng deng, you can actually borrow the movies on the bookshelves and watch the movies here with your friends/family!

Awesomeness or what!?

I mean, if we were totally bored, I think we would totally do that! Too bad we were too tired by the end of the day and we just plonked to our beds. If I were on a trip with Lisa, Tim and Keith (uni friends), I think that's what we will do everyday! I think we went down to watch stupid TV's and chat all night long almost on a daily basis when I was in college. And then make stupid puny jokes the next day -_- Those were the days, man.

OK, back to the place.

It's around 5 mins walk to the Silom MRT/SalaDaeng BTS which is very near ok. And you won't feel the 5 mins because there's so much things/people to see on the way there. 7 E is right around the corner and so is McD (wow samurai pork burger one pls) so if you're really bored, you can hop to McD, get a burger, 7E's and get cokes, borrow some DVD's and watch a movie, there you go - a party already!

The only one thing that you must keep in mind is... it's actually in a red-light district.

No, nobody will come and bother you, but if you want to explore the streets around, guess a little precaution won't hurt.

There's Patpong Night market in the evening of weekends which is really delightful for some culture experience and last minute shopping.

The room I stayed in was called Happy Forest and it's actually a double room but they add an extra bed for us because we had 3 in a room. It's clean and have this cozy feeling. :)

Overall, really great stay and cheap! For the 6 of us, I think we all paid 1750baht per person (around RM175) for the 4 nights stay.

Bang for the buck, I would say!

Tired of Shopping!!!???

I am feeling overworked.

From a weekend.

Crazy much? YES to me. Because I get off every week, thinking weekend's the time for me to do whatever I want to do, and then coming of from a weekend, totally lethargic and crazily restless is definitely not something I want to have come in a new week.

Here's what I have been doing the whole weekend.

Shopping for CNY clothes for the BF.

From previous experiences, I know how this period of time stresses me out, I just never knew it would get to this extent. I only slept at 4am the night before, because I was watching a Chelsea match and he woke me up at 10am for breakfast and shopping.

We hit a few malls/stores and he got nearly all items on his list, and to see the time hitting 9pm really quite shocked me. Shopping one whole day. For his items. I nearly died being his consultant, because he was so indecisive and he kept relying on me to source out his clothes, to the basic of choosing which ones for him to try, which shops to go to, what pair with what - I wasn't in the best mood/energy to do all those really.

Gosh, is this the job of a fashion stylist because damn, its hard!!!

I definitely wasn't kidding when I said I nearly died. I REALLY DID.

I never felt so exhausted in my whole life, while doing something as leisurely as shopping.

At certain points, I just feel like napping on the couches in the shops.

This is very bad, because I am actually glad I am back at work. I would have died having another round of shopping.

Green Monster

I will not fall into devil's temptation.
I will not fall into devil's temptation.
I will not fall into devil's temptation.
I will not fall into devil's temptation.
I will not fall into devil's temptation.

I will not.. I will not.

What it is, you may ask?

Hint: It is associated with the color green.

Yessssssssss.... (in Smigel's LOTR voice)
YEsssssssssssss....
YESSSSsssssssssssss...

It is the poison of ENVY!!!

Why is it I always feel like everybody get a good/great break in their life, and I never get that one absolute freaking fabulous break!?

One friend told me, "You never know what those people might be envious of you now."

Yeah. So is being fat, pennyless, boring and stressed something those people would like to be envious of?

Errr... don't think so right.

So, I have googling online and searching for believe it or not... wait for it.. wait for it.. PRAYER FOR ENVY... and then, been saying them for almost 3 hours now. Well, of course not continuously la, siaw meh. Doing my work and looking at the prayer, praying and then, when I remember again, praying again.

Honestly, I want to feel happy for my friends/family especially when such good news befallen them - but I guess I often relate to myself - WHY DON'T SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEFALLEN ME?

And then there you go, big fat green monster comes out.

I am trying though, thus this post.

For now, I am feeling a whole lot better. Less envious, at least.

On the lookout of a great dress

It's never easy for me to choose a dress, maybe because my expectation of a great dress is quite high, I would admit so unashamedly.

First criteria is that the dress must never be common. The rarer, the better. One of a kind, the better. This is already the reason why 80% of the dresses that are sold in boutiques and chain stores are out.

Anna Kendrick - SAG 2010

Second criteria is it must be well-fit (duh). Which is actually not hard for me, but to find one that is flattering in my eyes, har har that's another challenge altogether. So to find a dress which has unconventional fit, that's where 90% of the dresses outside won't do.Lea Michele - SAG 2010

Third criteria is price. Believe it or not, I only go for bargains. I almost never buy things at their full price - I think I aimed straight for the 50% and 70% rack. 80% of my clothes are below RM50; I will spend more on bottoms but my tops I have set them to not be above RM30. What about dresses? Because I think that dresses' value is extremely depreciating (I mostly wear my dresses only once because I don't like repeating clothes to the same event and especially to event where you know there's going to be a lot of photographs of you), I try not to purchase dresses above RM50. Which is why 95% of the dresses out there won't fit in.

Marion Cotillard - SAG 2010

Good luck to me on finding my 5%.

(P/S: Pictures are for illustration purpose only. These dresses cost thousands!)

6/6 no more.

It's a sad week this week.

It is only halfway through but already I felt so lousy because of something.

I cannot even began to describe how much this would affect my life or my future activities or how I was going to accept it officially =(

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People, I think my eyesight's degree just went up.

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I know most of you will probably think like, "what the hell!!!! Our degrees go up all the time, never see we complain also!"

But people, I was the girl with the perfect 6/6 eyesight.

The fact that I have to squint my eyes to look at my notes/accounts/this laptop (fml) and I have began to develop major headaches whenever I am at work (because need to look at all those) and not at home (where I don't need to) is a major bombshell to me.

Of course, I didn't think the good eyesight will stay with me for another 20 years but I didn't expect it to become this bad this fast.

FYI, I can still see things quite clearly even as I am typing my words now, but I feel like my eyes can't adjust or feel as comfortable as before; like its trying hard to relax itself - thus developing major headache because I really needed to work/look at accounts/journals.

I am devastated to learn that I might have to wear specs because... because... well, because I have always have perfect eyesight before la, is that a good reason or not lei!?

I honestly don't know how people can survive without clear view and fumbling around for their specs every morning, because I have been blessed with good eyesight these 24 years. So much that I used to forget that I have friends with bad eyesight and during Scout camps, where the convenience of bathrooms, privacy and time are forfeited - I didn't understand why people were sluggish or slow or looks like struggling whenever they wake up in the morn.

You know, those emergency calls or whistles which requires you to run immediately to the place. Then I would question them (angrily, apparently) because the whole patrol gets punished because one (or two or three) members was late within the count of 20. It was when, they muttered something along the line where they couldn't find their specs that it dawned on me why they were struggling in the dark or taking their time (instead of running) with their eyes intently focused on the ground while walking.

Oh, what disaster would it been when their specs got broken or lost during activities and then, they had to survive the whole camp without specs. Which is a frequent occasion to a camp, btw.

I was so naive then, I thought I was a considerate person but truthfully, I never really truly understand what it felt like to be that. Me and perfect vision, ruling the world!

And now that it hit me, I might need some aid so that it can be more comfortable for me to look/read at things - this is starting to become an absolutely crushing episode!

My headache is beginning to be more severe now, as I forced myself to continue working/reading and it sort of confirms to me that I definitely do not have perfect eyesight as before anymore. I blamed a lot of the previous two weeks that I have spent pouring over the accounts -day and night- and the fonts used were ridiculously small but it wasn't a problem for me then with my perfect eyesight.

But now that it started to deteriorate, I felt a whole lot worse that I would not be able to carefreely pick up a book/newspaper/mag and read anymore. And was it worth pouring over those accounts now?

I know it is not the end of the world, def not something huge to most of you who wore specs nearly the whole of your life - but I needed to do sulk.

If there's anything I like to be associated with, it's my eyesight. I admitted I may have never thanked God formally for the eyesight but deep in my heart, I have always thought that it was a blessing to me that I can see every beautiful thing that God created with clear vision.

I hope this gets better, but with the strong headache pounding at the sides of my head, I think most likely no.

:_(

Haiyah

I really got no time to write la.

I am still stuck in my accounts thingee ok. Still. Since 2 weeks before.

And looks like it's going to haunt me till end of this month. :-(

Oh, oh, oh I went to Bangkok last week. With gal pals and BF and one other guy friend. Much fun!

I wished I was in the same room as the girls, because I reckoned the room will be wrecked with all our shopping buys. I visited their room on the night we hit the wholesale mall and the room was almost like churning its own plastic bags from its floor. To the girl's defence, we were running (yes, running!!!) back from the mall using transit, through the Patpong streets, to our little cozy hostel/hotel, took bath and got ready in 20 minutes time! Thus explain the mess.

Crazy much? Only happens in Bangkok. When girls reluctantly leave Platinum Mall.

My hair is slightly longer than shoulder's now! I want a new 'do! =)

I am thinking of Kirsten Dunst short wavy 'do. Kirsten Dusnt because I think my face shape is like hers = bulat! :_(

I don't know whether I will fit into this style, but I chose it because:

1) My face is fat after all the weight gain (5kg after uni! I almost never weigh myself but I had to when I did medical check up last week. So ppl, I am 50kg *death sentence ok kua zhang a bit*)

2) I have the most "limp-est" and thinnest hair in the whole wide world. I need some volume. Like Pls. Hair God, God of Hair, Hair of God. PLEASE.

3) Short 'Do = less hassle on styling.

4) Ok I 'm just bored.

Please pray that I get over this accounting disaster soon! It is giving me sleepless night and breakouts =(

When the World's F-ed up.

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, let the feelings go up to your face...

Exhale..

There.

It's gone.

Focus now.

I have a new found respect for accountants/auditors. How is it that they can bear this nonsense.