Hello 2012!

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Anna Ker

Its my first post in 2012!

I know I’ve been lagging a little.. Its 8 days into 2012 and so far, I’m enjoying it!

However such days are numbered, school ~~(reality)~~ starts tomorrow. So not looking forward to it, actually. On hind sight, I’m already into year two semester two of my university life. How did 1.5 years past so fast!? In no time, I’d see myself in the graduation gown and my square hat! :D

Anyhow.

Hello 2012.

I’m thankful for 2011.

Grateful for new friends, and old friends that stayed.

Grateful for my parents being healthy and happy, for showering me with tender loving care, anytime, every time.

Grateful for brothers, for loving me, for taking care of me.

Grateful for everything that happened, because I believe in the saying “Everything happens for a reason.” They mould me into who I am, today.

On a happy note, I finally did something to overcome my weakness. I joined NUS toastmaster’s in late 2011. I’m definitely working on it. :’)

I’m a lucky girl, this year, I managed to travel to a handful of countries!

-Kick-started Chinese New Year 2011 in Bali, Indonesia.

-Overseas Community Involvement Project in Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 2011

-R&R in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Bangkok, Thailand, June 2011

-Europe trip in June 2011

-Taiwan trip in December 2011

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Very grateful. Thank you Daddy & Mommy.

I remember I wrote down some resolutions in 2011.

1. I definitely didn’t manage to lose weight. =.= I gained instead. But I believe I’m on the healthier side of life because I exercised more! :’)

2. I’m working on this.. I am able to constantly remind myself that I will always regret if I throw tantrums, so yeah..

3. procrastination is still my #1 killer. It messes up my life.

4. Time management still needs more improvement.

5. Less lazy.. hmmmmmmmm.

In 2012.

1. I want to lose weight healthily! Currently planning for weekly badminton sessions with my friends! <3 yayyyy!

2. I want to kill my last-minute-habit. Stop doing things last minute, always be ready!

3. Time management! For school, for social life.

4. Work on Toastmaster’s projects :D! The only way to overcome one’s weakness is to do IT.

5. Blog more! Since I always tend to have the ‘feel’ to blog whenever I’m busy! =.= Possible with better time management, I believe.

This should be all for now. I hope I’ll remember to review these resolutions in a few month’s time, or probably half way into the year. :))

I also hope to do something I like; which is to take up dance course in school!! But I don’t think I should kill myself this semester. We’ll see about that..

HAPPY 2012 people! I hope we’ll all have a splendid 2012 ahead!

I can’t wait for Chinese New Year! Its my favourite ocassion every year! <3

Taiwan photologs!

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Anna Ker

Finally finally. A part of the Taiwan photos are with me. The brother is sooooo lazy he’s so slow!

I abhor DSLRs/semi-pro cameras which takes photos in .RAW form. At least for now, I don’t require that kind of detailed processing of my photos. I’m TOO LAZY and its TOO TIME CONSUMING. Kudos to all photographers! All your time and patience spent on the processing photos is a virtue, I respect.

Enough of rumblings and rantings.

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Photos! I shall let the photos do the talking.

Jiu Fen old street!

Spot my greedy face. *guilty* We were eating tang-yuans (glutinous rice balls) alike stuffs, which are made of yam/pumpkins.

Smiling for the camera!

I look like my mouth is filled with half a dozen of tang yuans-alike!

It was more food than anything else, at this Jiu Fen old street. Daddy ate this traditional fish balls! They were quite yums too, alot of meat inside their fish balls.

The peak.

Catch the name of the shop on top of the photo. Its a shop selling lots and lots of goodies! Be sure to visit them when you’re here. They allow samplings for most of the goodies so you’ll definitely buy the right snacks home! :DDD Remember its “AH XIN DE DIAN”.

Brother’s photo taking skills #megafail one. Has to retake few times and see the difference in lightings..

These little kittens are massagers! Their rounded paws are for us to massage eg our forehead area..

Outside Jiu Fen old street.

We’re at Ye Liu!

If you read Chinese, the blue signboards thats the two words “Ye Liu”

I was trying to imitate the ‘statue’. Obviously i failed.

Lol, ponchos rock!!

Not many photos taken there because of the rain! :O It was more important to protect the camera.

Next day. The night was spent at the motel. 汽车旅馆! Read more about the hotel HERE!

The garage of our hotel!

Isn’t it damn cool!

The following night, was spent at the resort I previously blogged about here!

It was an orchid based hotel/resort..

& There were many many different types of breeds of orchids in their lobby!!! I’m not sure if I’ve taken a photo of everything actually..

At the hotel lobby waiting for the tour around the resort!

Look at my slippers. Epicccccc. I wore this hotel slipper out instead of my shoes because they were wet from the touring earlier in the morning! =.= It was damn funny everyone was looking at my unique shoes.

Mua chee making time!

Funny mascot at the resort. HAHA! :D

& Then Mua Chee was readyyyy! :)

Alright its been a really long post! More photos in the next photolog! :D

Twenty Twelve

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Anna Ker

& So.. Its almost 2012.

Are you hanging out with your significant other or friends tomorrow for the craziest count down party tomorrow?

Have you forgotten about your family?

Remember to spend some time with your family, perhaps spending some time for lunch with them before you party your night away, would be good!

Have lots of fun people!

I shall stay home, i’m too old for such stuffs! :D HEHEH.

HAPPY 2012 LOVELIES! :’)

fake lashes x loveeeee!

Welcome 2 Taiwan! part 3

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Anna Ker

Hello sweeties! :)))

More of my Taiwan Adventures! Glad I brought my camera as well because the brother is so slow, he still hasn’t uploaded our photos! >:(

No more hotels for today!

People in Taiwan REALLY LOVE DOGS!! (Haven’t seen much of cats though) And they bring their dogs everywhere they go. Thus I’ve been seeing dogs everywhere on the streets. So pampered and cute!! Alot of people are selling dog’s clothes as well, I believe especially in this season due to the chilly weather. This dog’s owner bought the pom a dinosaur attire. SUPER CUTEEE but I didn’t capture it! :O

This is 玄天上帝神像! (I had to refer to my itinerary, :/) Its a super huge statue! :)

A close up of the pretty statue!

This is another tourist attraction spot! The mouth of the dragon is the entrance!

Pretty background! Its called a 亭 in chinese, where people can take a rest in it!

Two pagodas spotted afar! :D

The entrance!

Streets at night.

One of the night markets. I can’t remember where already!! =(((

Uber huge sotongs!! Or do you call these octopus!?

OHHH, its LIU HE YE SHI!!! :) Spot mommy queuing for this Hu Jiao Bing!! Its not bad, I feel :)

It is baked inside this well-like thing with charcoal! So unique right!! All the little round buns you see inside is the Hu Jiao Bing! (Pepper biscuit – directly translated!) The person have to dig out the buns one by one!

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The next day, we went to Sun Moon Lake! Pretty pretty place!

Daddy’s friend says it would be perfect if we could spend a night there, but our tour package didn’t! We only went on a boat ‘tour’ around the lake!

I don’t know how to describe its beauty.. But this photo is definitely not doing the place justice! You need to be there to enjoy the breathtaking view!

If I didn’t remember wrongly, the tour guide mentioned that Sun Moon Lake is made up of two parts. One side of it resembles a Sun while the other resembles a Moon! Thus there comes the name!

Our boat docked at a little island..

&&& THIS IS THE FAMOUS AH PO CHA YE DAN!!! <3333333 Its mad delicious.. I had TWO eggs. I would have gotten more if eggs were free of cholesterol!!

I’m missing the CHA YE DANs as I’m typing away now! :(((

& Back to where we boarded the boat! Ain’t the backdrop beautiful?! I took a photo here as well but its with the brother! >:(

Super duper long bananas spotted there!! haha.

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Some self-loveee!

all from my iPhone!! =^^=

Its so true that once we get an iPhone, there is no/less need for a camera! I almost didn’t camwhore with my camera this time. HAHA, because I have my iPhone! :D

Hello from my Apple*pie! :D

HEHE! HELLOKITTYYYY.

One of the pair of shoes I bought there! Super cuteee its hand drawn! (YESSSS I’m well aware I’m 21 this year! :P)

<3 this photo with the parents! :D Except my fringe .___.

& These are my ear muffs!!! HEHE its baby pink in colourrrrr I love it! :)

Alright its a long post! :D Shall post again real soon!

GOOD DAY PEOPLE! :)

Welcome 2 Taiwan! part 2

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Anna Ker

& So continuing my photolog…

This post consists mainly of photos of the hotels I stayed in! Interesting because its my first time staying in such hotels lol.

I think they call it Motels. I used to think motels are cheap hotels, but after staying at this, I thought otherwise. Correct me if I’m wrong! Because the motel I stayed in was so good! The only bad part is I stayed in it with my brother. =.=” They are called 汽车旅馆! It was an experience I’d say. ;)

Awesome hotel, but with the wrong person. HAHA!

Lovely (fake) flowers at the corner of the room, beside the make up table!

A small platform beside the bed area with a small table! Nicely furnished right!

The wash up area. Its not enclosed!

Shower area. I specially took this photo because the shower head(s) are so awesome! There’s THREE or FOUR outlets of water.. Super comfy! From the top (reaching our heads directly), then then usual angle, as well as another one that will reach our back area…

There’s also a sauna area. The toilet bowl, shower and sauna areas are demarcated with GLASS. So basically everything was see through –_____ – when I bathed, the brother was restricted from the area, and vice versa..

There’s even a mini Jacuzzi inside the room! How awesome. But I didn’t manage to use it, felt so sore about it :(

It was open as well, only located behind a “wall”. Everything was so exposing wtf. hahaha. That is why I said I was there with the wrong person. *Sorry for the blur photo. Didn’t realise!

&&& Not fogetting a huge TV!! :D If you can recognise, behind the TV, its the wash up area. So the toilet, shower and sauna is all there. Infront of the TV is where the beds are!

& Why is it called a 汽车旅馆? Because you can drive your own car into this garage, and your hotel is inside!

Its like a super nice hotel for honeymoon. *But also for people to 偷情. hmm..

Anyway I didn’t do anything that was not-decent there.. So it was just an experience for me!! Because I’ve never stayed in such a hotel before.

That’s my “room” number!

Before setting off in the morning!

We went somewhere..

Which I can’t remember what it is anymore. #fail =/

*Its 中正紀念堂!* My teacher and friend told me on facebook! I’m such a disgrace HAHA!

Same for this, I forgot what is it. #failagain

*This is Taiwan’s 國家音樂廳* Thanks to my dear friend Yih Yun :D

& Thats all the photos I took during the day because it was a really bad rainy day. I could only remember my shoes were thoroughly soaked (of canvas material T__T)! So it was crazy uncomfy for me the whole day.

The hotel we stayed that night was interesting too!!! It was like a little resort and they had activities prepared for their guests! ;)

Guess what are we making?

Mommy love mixing the flour and the mixture.

Ready to steam!

HEHEHEE.

After its steamed, its whacked with the wooden stick to make it more Q~~

And TA-DAAAAA. ITS MUA CHEEEEEEEE!!! =DDD The stuffs you see on top the flour is peanuts and sugar! It was super noms!!!

Besides, they also let us write our wishes for the coming New Year, and we tied it on a tree!

We wrote our wishes on this cute rabbit! & Tied it around a tree. They had a little temple infront of the trees! May the Gods bless and grant our wishes! ^^

The words you see in chinese, is the name of the ‘resort’. It is called a farm stay if directly translated.

After that, we went to their KTV rooms! Didn’t sing though, we sat around hear some of our tour-mates sing and left soon after to rest! :D

& That was all for the night!

Alright I’ve been typing a bit! So tired now because I just came back from a 3D2N camp! I’ll update again real soon! :)

Welcome to anna.my :)

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