Krabi '10

It's been a wonderful year for me and bee, and what better way to celebrate than to go for a sweet little vacation in krabi! what an awesome vacation it was. from turquoise blue waters, to complimentary birthday pancakes, to nostalgic massage parlours with old hokkien music... but nothing beats being able to experience all these with the loveliest girl in the wirl!

doggies chilling in morning sun

tourguide chilling in morning sun

morning sun!

amazing magic carpet jetty


a pretty girl ran past me...too fast!

what beautiful scaffolding

longtail boat


how can this be real!?


i must get my tan!

even the rocks are turning turquoise!

the beach from "the beach"


monkey island's resident

ice milo

look at the water!!

he's going to have weird tan marks on his face

i'm so loved


i can train anywhere!

makes me wanna drink it all up

it's quite amazing how strong ropes are...and how light boats are in water

sulky looking rooster

look what the tsunami did to the trees...

finally we see our hotel room...and it's amazing! i recommend amandari krabi to everyone!

minion is excited to0

bee's complimentary bday banana pancake!

we had ice water cos we thought we should start being healthy, after drinking like 6 glass bottles of pepsi on the boat

cholesterol never tasted so good

papaya salad! my new essential thai dish

the rain stopped, and gave us a wonderful sunset

aww... hope the kiddos grow up like this

pretty flowers

so poetic

naming FAIL (meant to read Loma....)

front row seats

day 2! here's our cute hotel receptionist. very chill, like she's having a holiday everyday

ginormous shoulder pads

we are happy bees!

the tiny hole in the centre is the home of a tiny white crab

many tiny white crabs died in the process of making this photo :(

tropical paradise...

conversational rocks

i can kayak with one arm!

alien rocks

baby mangroves!

anti-social frogs :(

juicy looking lotus bud

which immediately bloomed for us!


lunch at a thai italian restaurant. we were hungry!

i can still taste the tom yam in my brain

giant calzone with pretty girl backdrop

sexi taxi dudi

minion was exhausted from cleaning up our room

we only managed to take a few photos here before it rained big time :(


check out time! goodbye awesome bed!

snow bunny on a tiny taxi-van

peace laguna resort. omg. i'm sure our hotel is better... but omg...

job satisfaction

awesome zhnged taxi!

best massage place on earth

this was our second visit cos we couldn't get enough yesterday!

feels like home...

our friendly masseuses!

the hotel food was cheaper than outside food

snow bunny was very satisfied

back to singapore to start our brand new 2nd year!

who wants to be a minionaire?

minion's heart

because life is so stressful, i decided that for wen's 29th bday she will get her very own minion to do everything for her. that way we can have lots of quality time together! but because i don't have access to any cloning devices, plus minions weren't out in stores yet (at least not in singapore?), i had to home-make my minion out of the following:

1. yellow cloth for tights
2. white cloth
3. fibre stuffing
4. black permanent marker
5. thread
6. lots of heart :)

due to time constraints, minion is currently naked and very embarrassed. but we will clothe it soon! in the meantime, check out naked minion pics!

minion wakes up

minion fools around

minion goes travelling, with us!

minion finds a job!

Inception

i watched inception sitting just 3 rows from the front, which was absolutely fantastic especially during the tumbly hotel corridor scene where arthur had to fight off fischer's brain security guard while the whole world rotated about him. i've long been fascinated by dreams, and christopher nolan really did a great job constructing this universe, such that it made almost perfect sense even with all its complexity. i liked the representation of how our dreams can get affected by our surrounding environment in real life -- even though sometimes the expression of external conditions seem to get translated too directly into the dream world (eg. being in a falling van outside the dream = being in zero gravity inside the dream). i would have assumed that there should be some transitional distortion, at least that's what happens when i dream! although i've never been dreaming while in a falling van, i've definitely dreamt of dogs barking incessantly at me while in real life, the alarm clock was ringing at full blast.

oh and i'm always intrigued by the idea of lucid dreaming -- i think i've probably only had 1 or 2 lucid dreams in my entire life, and i really want to have that ability! one instance which i remember very clearly is when i was in this huge common toilet and a slime monster was chasing me through it, slithering in and out of urinals. i remembered how a friend told me once that if i encounter a nightmare, i should go out into a field, sit on a rock and tell myself "i want to get out of this dream". so with the realization that i definitely wasn't in reality, i did what he told me -- found the rock, sat on it, and told myself to get out. and i did! woke up in cold sweat and with great gratitude that i was nowhere close to being devoured by phlegm.

cos it smells better?

there's this particular urinal (and also a cubicle) in my office that i would always use, except when it's occupied. absolutely no conceivable reason that has anything to do with practicality, convenience or comfort. is that normal?

and why? i don't get it.