I’m finally updating regarding my life. REALLYYY SORRY. I wish I had like 48 hours a day.. Really!

Anyway. It was DADDY LOVE’s birthday a couple of days back.

A simple dinner & a Chocolate Banana Secret Recipe cake to celebrate the occasion.

I know my daddy will never visit this place. BUT I still wanna say. I LOVE YOU DADDY! You’re the best Daddy one can ever have!!! <3

Highlight of dinner was this Blue Lobster dish! Can’t exactly remember but it was air-flown somewhere from London?!? I asked a ridiculous question when the dish was served. “Why is the lobster not blue?” Of course it isn’t after its cooked! & Then I recalled I even knew why the reason seafood like prawns and lobsters turn red when cooked… So silly!

Family photos are ultimate love.

I wanna take a family potrait – those big big and framed up ones, sometime soon this year! (As a request for 21st! :D)

They are the only ones who would accede to my camwhoring requests ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. <3 The brothers would grumble non-stop when I request for photos taken! BOO!

LOVE YOU MOMMY AND DADDY! & BROTHERS!

&JUST CURIOUS. Do you guys thing I look more like my daddy or my mommy? Some people say I look more like my dadd while some feels I look more than my momm. What say you? :O

p.s. Did you miss my pet Goldie? I’m gonna update about him next. Stay tuned!!!! :D

finally a proper post! :):)

gonna show you guys some photos of my recent roadtrip with my family! it was a lovely Sunday. and it was like the first roadtrip after don’t know how long. daddy is usually very lazy to drive to other places in M’sia!

I love this photo! The structure you see behind is the bridge. Its like those bridges you see overseas! GOT FEEL! :D

As we travelled further away from the bridge.. & if you’re wondering, the black horizontal lines are on the back windscreen!

I have no idea where is this place that we ended up in. Its on the road towards Desaru, but we took the other direction inside of to Desaru. Pengerang!!

Its a jetty where you can take a boat/cruise? back to Singapore, and it takes only an hour! haha.

Its the durian season! <3 nom nomzzzz

Okay the purpose of driving so long is to eat Seafood! :D

There, the address!!

Sotong’s my favourite. BUT this was just mediocre. NOT NICE. :(

They have only 2 ways of cooking their lobsters, and this is the 1st one. SUPERBBBB. I LOVEEEE.

another photo of my favourite dish! hehe

yay its gone!

This is bamboo clams. Not nice! Tasted better cooked ones in restaurants in JB..

The second type of cooking style for lobsters! Don’t really like it though its healtheir! Not fried! haha.

We also ordered prawns! But was too busy eating I didn’t take any photos! Teeheee.

Their lobster stocks just came!! hehehe.

Alright thats all! =P

Though it was just a very short trip I enjoyed the time spent together as a family! =))

Photo w gill.

Went to disturb bro at their room! HEHE.

From heidelberg last night, we travelled to Cologne! Still in Germany!! This is the famous Cologne Cathedral! Its considered one of the greatest Gothic church in Christendom. Very magnificent!

Love their window panels..

Buildings around the area.. Took them while waiting!

:3

Can you see that this is 3D? That awesome guy over there drew this ON THE FLOOR. How amazing it looks really real and 3D. (Y)

Why are the clouds and skies overseas so much nicer than what we always see at home?

McD! :D Daddy love bought McFlurry for me here!! haha.

& Byebye Cologne! We’re heading over to Amsterdam after that! I can’t remember how many hours of bus ride because I always spend them sleeping…..

Half way through, the driver stopped for us to release our bowels! :D I always feel uber relieved after that. HAHAHA! ;) Taken at the petrol kiosk’s supermart! Nice ehhhh? I likey!

Amsterdam’s next!

Look at the first! Sucha’ cute apron lol.

This is taken along the red light district.. HAHA! Since our dinner was somewhere nearby, the tourguide brought us around to let us see see! But I didn’t see anything interesting ;(

Spot my daddylove!

Red light district!

You see this dark green cylindrical thing? Its a ‘toilet’ for guys! Try spotting this signboard thingy slightly to the right on top of the man in a red jacket. Its a sign depicting a guy peeing. lol.

Hello Amsterdam!

>.>

Look at the spelling! So cuteee!

:)

Hotel~

Thats all folks for the day! Spent the night at Amsterdam! =)

See you guys at part 4!!! :D I hope you liked the photos!

The view from hotel room in Luzern! Very foggy morning, else it’d be beautiful!

Obvious #fail attempt for timer shot. HAHAAHA. So much of the foreground! >:(

Our hotel in Switzerland! Very deserted and country-like feel.

Another photo before I boarded the bus!

:O

This is the Rhine falls! I figured this was still somewhere along Switzerland, not Germany! My apologies :P

Colour different, because its from bro’s S90!

:)

& YESS, this is the border of Switzerland! After this ‘customs’, we’re over in Germany! I love how ‘open’ Europe is! No need passport to go to all the Eu countries!!

See the + symbol? Swiss!

See the Germany flag nao? We’re at the border of Germany already! :)

Deutschland Republiccccccccc! ;)

hehehehe.

Lake Titisee! Very beautiful! Cannot be judged from photos!

It was lunch time and we were walking along this stretch of shops opposite Lake Titisee! :))

I think Black Forest is behind! :D The name behind black forest is because the trees in there grow superduperultra near to each other, such that almost no light can be seen in the lower canopies.. yepppp!

Germany’s signature dish: Pork Knuckles! (Gosh, I suddenly can’t spell knuckles. is it correct?) The fork is purposely there for you to gauge how huge it is!

My pork lover brother finished the whole freaking pork!!!!

Whoooopeeeee, then its desserts’ time! This is where Black Forest cakes originated from! :D

After lunch, it was time for the visiting of a cuckoo clock workshop.

A piece of wooden carvings for the clocks! We didn’t buy any though!

I likeeeeeee this clock!

Unsure where exactly in Germany we were for lunch, but photos after these are from Heidelberg!

The heidelberg city!

This is the old (& Pretty broken castle) of Heidelberg! No longer in use, I think!

Just love the scenery..

An ultra long postcard!!

After that, it was time to go back to the hotel. The end of the day! 2nd night, in Germany!

Settled down in the hotel!

Kekeke.

This is the itinerary!

Part 3 coming up next! Where we stayed in Amsterdam for the night!

1. I love POMERANIANs!! :) in future when I have my own family, I’m gonna buy a pomz!!!! :D (okay if its feasible laa, but I’d really love to own one)
2. I LOVE TO SMILE!! some people thinks i smile too much!!
3. I love my parents super lots!! :) Can’t live without them!! my brothers too (if they don’t provoke me!)
4. I can’t cook for nuts. even my brothers can do better. (hope this doesnt deter guys away hahahaha!)
5. Despite knowing there can never be a perfect person.. I’m still striving to be as close to perfection as possible. it makes life really difficult. but then again, everyone strives to be the best..
6. I love to dance although i have like 0 dance sense.. one of my regrets was to give up ballet in primary school. argh =(
7. I only started to realise that I actually love playing the piano after i quitted. and up till now, i still haven’t had time to make myself take lessons again.. but but, i have 0 music sense as well, can’t play well for nuts! [feels like my life is full of regrets but sometimes i really feel that way]
8. I have a very bad temper, i bite when i get provoked.
9. I love hello kitty alot again! (been changing my favourite cartoon characters a zillion times, from hello kitty to powerpuff girls to spongebob to cinnamoroll to … idk. and now hello kitty again!)

(((((:

<3<3<3

I wouldn’t mind a golden retriever too :D

My bag for the day!

+ my MUST-BRING-CAMERA in that Rilakkuma pouch! :D (And eye liner and loose powder and contact lenses :P)

Anyway these days kite-flying had been such a popular hobby eh? Everyone seems so obsessed with kite-flying. Loads and loads of people were flying kites and it was like an exhibition of kites in the sky. I love pretty kites too!!! :)

Very cute stingray kite!!

My girls!! Hello love and chua, I miss youuuuu!!

My muimuiii and me !! so dark!

Python kite!

Picturesque view of the ‘golden lands’ from Barrage!

I love this photo maxxxxx!! Of course its because of the Pomeranian doggie! Grrrrr, why must I smile till no eyes, why must the wind blow my fringe all over my face?!?!?!?!

The pom pom! How come none of my friends have poms? :(

My lover! :D

My girls again!! Love love love this pic!

Another one! & the last photo of the 3 of us together because love and chua left early! :(

Chuaaa and I! :D

Kite of a bear on a parachute!!! Hehehe! So creative!

Camwhoree~!

Barrage in bright day light! 

Some photos from RY darling’s camera!! Awesome dynamic colours, I love!!!

<3!

No matter how ugly I look, I must justify the cute POMPOM! <3 Irresistable fur ball! (I SMILE TILL NO EYES AGAIN AND THE WIND. @)$(@)_#@#)

The girls! <3

Like some potrait!! HEHE!

Group photo but without love and chua ‘coz they left earlier! :3 Nevertheless, love youuu people! :)

Okay you can see those not so fantastic-dynamic-ly coloured photos, they are from my Canon camera. HAHA!

MBS. Haven’t stepped my foot into this place!!! suagu max!

Evening view of Barrage. Love the orangey pinkish sky.

Love this collage HAHA SO CUTE!

& I forced my “kor kor” to camwhore with me because I was bored. HAHA! :D :D

Almost-night view from Barrage.

Marina Barrage: A place with the skies so blue, grass so green. The world really seems a better place to live in. :))

SEE YOU SOON, MARINA BARRAGE! :)))

Golden Retrievers!! (Its some other fellow picnic-ers’ dog Felix captured @ the barrage) I love golden retrievers too!!! Except that they’ can grow really huge.

MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE. Puny, fluffy and CUTEEEE! Pomeranians are my ultimate love! :)))

I’m going thru another period of dog craze after seeing these dogs!! <3

Can I has new dogs!!!

The short clip they showed us was full of movements here and there. The circular platform in the middle is the main stage, and surrounding the circle stage it was made up of 5-6 boards of LED screens that complimented with the scenes in the centre of the platform.

All the LED screens were retracted.

These were the LED screens.

This is one of the LED screens (thats what I meant) and they move up and down.

The effect was gorgeous. I hope you got what I meant. HAHA!

On another faithful day, we went to this villa (別墅) which was previously owned by some big shot. Perhaps a highly ranked government servant or a really rich fella.

This was the place!

I think I got the school girl look. Especially with my backpack. HAHA!

F and I! *act dramatic only*

We got to take a ‘sampan’ out..

:)

It took him 3 shots to take a PROPER photo with me.

Then on another night, we went to this wax museum.. It was located where the Shanghai Pearl Tower was. 

 

See the little girl in the tub-like thingy? Thats how they used to keep their children while at work, to prevent them from running around. So cute!

 

Busy at work, with I-don’t-know-what.

 

 

I think the buildings are really well done it looks sooo real.

 

Niceeeee right? (:

 

A little explanation about this street. I hope you can see the words!

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVEEEE this!

 

From the outside, it looked like a mini little wax museum but after we started it seemed never ending! We walked till our legs were reallyreally sore, and tummies were growling because we haven’t had our dinner despite it being like 10ish soon.

Another night, we went to this Times Square. I really have no idea which part of China were we at, my apologies. But they had the longest LED panels, I think. Look at the photos in the first row of the collage. It was all along the whole mall. Really a pretty and hi-tech mall eh!

And I hugged Hai Bao.. haha! SO CUTEEEEEE.

This was at the night market of Yi Wu, another city in China.. THIS WAS WHERE I SAW THE LITTLE POMERANIAN DOGGIE!!

From an artist’s impression..

That was Mummy and I with some of their ‘stalls’. I really wonder how they do the business they have like less than 30 pieces of tops..

I bought my plastic glasses there HAHAH! Removed the lenssssss! :D

This is the baby pom, if you’ve forgotten. HAHA.

YESSS, this is the place I mentioned, Yi Wu! :))

Basically a wholesale market for everything you need, under the sun. BUT, you need to buy your goods in extreme bulk. like at least in hundreds, or thousands.

All over the wholesale market they have many many ladies walking around with a tool kit and they help to clean those leather shoes!! HAHA. Mad cute! Daddy and Felix got their shoes cleaned!!!!

Some self-loving at night in the hotel room..

I love my glasses I wanna make a pair of real ones! But they always turn out horrendous once the lenses are inserted.

Hehe, my falsies!

lalala~

This was one of the place we dined at in Yi Wu, its like Chup Chai Beng but they have like maybe a hundred types of dishes for us to choose? Maybe a little exaggerating but there’s really ALOT! The place is called CMK, haha! And that day we ordered like 18 different dishes!!!

Raindrops Cafe was the other place we dropped by for dinner @ Yi Wu! And I REALLY loveeeeeee this cafe! Because there were like 10 of us, they gave us a special room and yes, what you see above was in the special room! An automatic MAHJONG table!!! and also a computer (which I didn’t feature in any of the photos, but anyway there was one.). Awesome isn’t it! :D But of course it comes with a price too, it was really of cafe standard! HAHA!

I think there’s an overload of photos already. I’ll continue on my next entry! :D

HAPPY FAMILYYYYYYY!

This post will be mad full with photos, from China! Butbut, they are not in any chronological order because by now I’ve forgotten all the littlest details. Like which place did we travel first, and later, etc.

The tourist attraction we went!!

I have to say, this is one of the best attraction we went to. Not purely because I’m a Buddhist, but because it was really worth your time, worth your sweat climbing nearer to the Buddha’s statue. And not forgetting, I’m so proud to be a Buddhist! The following photos will tell.

The name of the Buddha♥

This is the magnificent Buddha statue, standing at 180m tall, if I'm not wrong!

The steps I mentioned, worth your sweat and perspiration. (:

A close up photo!

You see tiny little humans slightly above the lotus? Thats the closest we could go – to touch the Buddha’s feets. Like the Chinese saying goes “凌时抱佛脚”. haaa!

In order to enter the world's most magnificent(!!!) temple..

Yessss, they had to protect the temple, so we had to wear protective shoe covers!!! BUT IT WAS WORTH IT AS WELL. Because I’ve never seen a temple more magnificent, more luxurious, more majestic, more impressive, and I could go on and on.. I’ve always visited churches which are outstanding, nice and all, but not temples, and this is my FIRST. It beats all the temples I’ve visited hands down.

One part of the ceiling.

Colourful little Buddha statue.

I’m still in the midst of figuring out how to show you the temple because I took an overall video of the inside. It’d be too exhausting to capture every area of the temple using photos! I’d need hundreds of photos to show you them all. HEHE.

The outside of the temple!

My lovely parents & I!

A better view of the whole area

The birth of Buddha!!

This is the lotus that depicts how Buddha was born!

Buddha is born!

see how the lotus opens up?

*My apologies I have 0 intentions to publicise my religion on my blog but I have to show you what I find really impressive. I hope its an eye-opener to you too! The temple was only completed in the recent years because the last time I was here, it wasn’t existent yet.*

I did a jump shot infront of Buddha's palm. lol!

How the palm looks like!

Some really random photos up next!

If only I could bring it back...

Its a Hello Kitty storage box! They have HK all overrrr, I want!!!

JUMBO XXL WANGWANGs.

Then our first day @ the Shanghai World Expo 2010!!!

Australia Pavilion, like what it reads.

Singapore Pavilion!

I’m still pissed at myself for forgetting to give this pavilion a visit! Now I wonder whats inside…

Malaysia Pavilion! Really got the 'feeeel'.

And yes, we visited this pavilion because we didn’t need to queue!!! *flashes Malaysia passport*

Guess what?

YESS, China!

None other than the formidable China Pavilion!!

A better one!

WE WERE HAPPY.

Because we thought we could omit all the queuing as we were told we managed to ‘reserve/book’ to visit this China Pavilion. Express lane hor, see no queue behind one.

Turns out that, there's another queue inside!

Look at the crazy crowd. So apparently after you manage to ‘reserve’ a timing to visit this pavilion, you only omit the primary queue. There’s a secondary one waiting for you inside. And it took us nearly two hours to get in.

Lots of time to camwhore.

This is ME, cous, and cous-in-law. (:

A group photo (((((((:

After we came out!

A last glance @ China Pavilion!

If you’re wondering, I’d say China Pavilion was worth the 2-hours-queue. It was awe-inspiring inside, they showed the world what China could do. Thumbs up!! Its the best pavilion we visited. And also because we didn’t visit that many in the first place. HAHA. But I assure you, if the queue is only two hours, its worth the wait.

That rabbit: Macau Pavilion!

And beside = Hong Kong Pavilion! Didn’t manage to visit both.

India Pavilion and something else.

I really liked the aerial design on the India Pavilion. The crowd was overwhelming as well so we didn’t visit it too.

ice-cream endorsed by Luo Zhi Xiang and Angela Zhang!

Tried this ice-cream just because of lzx. It wasn’t awful but not nice either.

Notices at the start of the queue for Germany Pavilion

It warns: Queuing time for the Germany Pavilion is 5 hours. F-I-V-E. No kidding.

Korea Pavilion!

Again in closer up shot!

I love how the Korea Pavilion looks. Colourful and all!

One last photo!

It was crowded like this everywhere. Wherever there is a need to QUEUE.

It turns us off! We’ll never win the locals when it comes to queuing. Zzz. Packed like sardines!

SMILEEEEEEEEEEEEE :D

My favourite!

This photo reminds me that I’ve yet to try these biscuits! :)) And I realise alot of the local brand products are endorsed by artistes!

&& One last photo..

The famous Shanghai Pearl Tower..

G’night!!!! I took afew hours to complete this entry! Mad exhausted!

I’m glad some of you still visits anna.my! Because I’m back to my daily updates, as often as possible, as much as I can manage! :D so visit me whenever you’re on alright!

That aside, I’m gonna write about my much procrastinated China trip earlier this month! Hehe, finally, before June comes to an end.

This was the mode of transport we took when we were at the airport. Its something like our MRT train but this particular type of train travels via magnetic forces.. LOOK AT THE SPEED.

Its called the “MagLev” Train, so basically it travels by magnetic levitation and thus there is hardly any friction between the train and the rails, thus the SPEED. :D Thats what I understand about it, correct me if I’m wrong!

Presenting to you.. The Shanghai World Expo 2010 Mascot! Its called 海宝!! Such a cute name right, in direct translation, it means “Water Baby”. I totally adore it, though I agree with my brothers there’s absolutely nothing very captivating about this blue thing over here.

But anyway throughout my 9 days over @ China, I see this mascot EVERYWHERE I go, no joke, everywhere. I’d still crazily and excitedly tell someone about it but my younger brother never fails to dim me shut and ask me to stop rambling about this stupid-blue-thing. HAHA. He hates it to the core.

This was first on our itinerary immediately after lunch. I think we were at Hang Zhou. We took a little cruise along the 西湖 “west lake”, I think. Apparently I learnt that it was an artifical man-made lake that was dug long long ago..

Afterwhich, it was to this pagoda-like building. The middle photo is the name of this pagoda.

The middle pictures at both sides are the sculptures found inside. They are really impressively nicely carved, to the finest details.

Afterwhich we also visited this 西湖。新天地 place. A really westernised tourist attraction. And why do I say westernized? They have Starbucks, Haagen-Dazs, Costa Coffee, etc.

Its situated along a lake..a PLUS point :D

From what I can remember, thats our day one. Super tiring one because it was a mid-night flight, meaning when we reached, it was time to travel around! Its those times that I really loved going back to the hotel, drop dead on bed and slack for abit before bathing and sleeping early. BLISSS♥♥♥.

If you needed a reason to love yourself.. I’d give you aplenty to! :D

& I hope this brightens up your day. Because all these sweet little photos did brighten up mine! ♥

(I’d continue with the rest of the days! Now that I’ve gotten the full collection of photos, I pretty much don’t know where to start..because, I simply have toooo many photos!)