drunk

I have been spending in liquor lately. Not that I go to pub to drink, I stayed at home and had my sip everynight. I don't go pub or club or what soever, and I went none before. A few sips and go to sleep like a baby till the next morning. So now I had my left over Baileys, original vanilla flavour. I'd been hooked up to Baileys since I purchased one bottle at Macau. I love the feeling after having a sip. Everything outside my house window looks so beautiful. I can look at Bayan Lepas night view from my home and plane taking off and landing. Yes, I can see Penang bridge from here too. I feel grateful of what I have now and everything seems so great. I don't feel like working nowadays because I feel work had taken my time of my real life for the past and my best friend ai leng told me that she sees lines under my eyes when I laughed. That's bad. I am not even 27 yet. I don't know how long I can feel easy leaving my work undone because one day someone will complain for sure.

Everyone around me is busy getting engaged. I guess it is the age thing.I receive news about friend receiving proposal from their partner every week. Suddenly it is like engagement season.

Something to take care of recently, a lot people falling sick. I heard cough, flu and sorthroat everywhere. Everyone is like infected by someone everyday. I told my boss I don't want to go to office because there are so many people with cough and flu and he actually said YES. Anyway I am a good employee. I won't use this kind of excuse to keep myself off work. So I am still going to work tomorrow morning.

I wrote the title of this entry as "drunk" but in real life, I am not drunk. I don't even have a typo while writting the whole piece and I am as clear as the water. I have to keep my mind clear just because of one reason. I still have to analyze timing reports. What a life, I just mentioned that I don't want to be the work-addict and now I am planning to go back to work. Pathetic.

Another lowlight of my life: My friends are planning to go for vacation at the end of the year. But I can't join them. That's so sad..........

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I am in Barn Buddy all the times. Planting, harvesting, stealing, weeding and debugging..

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I went home and asked my mom on how to cook nasi lemak. Result: I made this today

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My yummy sandwich for lunch..

Multnomah fall & Lavender farm

First of all, credits to Chun and Aichee for all the wonderful pictures taken. They are all too beautiful not to be picked to post but I still need to select only a few.

We went for a short tour along the Columbia Gorge National Scenic route.
We didn't stop at all points except for one, Cape Horn. It has a spectacular view of the Columbia river. We were at the west side which belongs to Washington state. The right side of the river is actually belongs to Oregon.

Along the way, we saw many beautiful sceneries, trees and wild flowers. Chun chose a larger chunck of wild flowers and we stopped for some photos

There are many falls along the route. This is the horsetail falls which the water resembles the tail of a horse, very obvious from it's name.

This one is Wahkeena falls which Wahkeena means "most beautiful" in Yakama Indian.

Next is the super famous legendary multnomah fall which to say is the second highest year-round waterfall in US.

According to Chun, the soil in this place is very much special due to the volcanic explosion long time ago. That's the reason it has all the wild flowers species that are not found at any other places in the world.

I forgot what place is this, but the view simply breathtaking. Check out the wall on the opposite side of the river..

Then we drove up to a higher place of the hills.. It is called Vista house which is like a observatory place and comfort station for the travellers. There is a gift shop and espresso bar in the tower.

We managed to drop by the Oregon lavender farm for a quick photo shooting. Purple. I am in love.


Before grabbing our dinner we dropped by Portland waterfront and snapped some photos...

Dinner at Saburo, super big eel sushi. Waited an hour for the food. End.

Pictures from Seattle

Throughout the 14 days in Oregon, I managed to steal one day to visit Seattle. When I mentioned to my sister that I am going to Seattle, the first thing pop into her mind is Grey's Anatomy series. All photos are from Chun (Ai Chee's husband)'s camera because he took better photos than me :P



Ai Chee prepared all the itenery till the very most detail.



First we stopped at this engineering place called Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. The reason why they have this complex locks are to prevent the mixing of sea water from Puget Sound with fresh water from lakes, to move boats from different water level between the sea and lakes and also to mantain the water level from the lakes at 20-22 feet above sea level. I looked for all these from wikipedia...

Photo with Ai chee, boat and the blue sky.

Next our destination was to Pike Place Market and there was this pig sculpture everywhere in the city. Just follow the pigs, and you will arrive at the Pike Place market which is the only public market I ever been to in US.

There are many flowers stalls there and I tell you all the bouquets were really beautiful unlike the fancy wrapping we have here in Malaysia. Theirs are the simple brown paper wrapping up fresh and beautiful flowers.

There were peonies too :D I love.

The vegetable handycraft thingy

Fishmongers... This particular stall was a famous one because they throw big fish from outside the stall to the person in the stall. Everyone stood there, cheered and watched because it was an interesting sight.


The first Starbucks in the world, in Seattle

We bought these yummy pastries from a shop just opposite Pike Place market and a few shops next to the First Starbucks. Piroshky, Piroshky. There was this long line outside the shop just to buy their famous pastries. We had the smoked salmon, cheesie thingy and another one I can't remember.

Then we walked to Space Needle tower and took some pretty photos..

The Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park which has all these fancy and weird sculptures which I don't see the beauty in them.

Photos taken from the waterfront overlooking the city at the back. Great photos. Lucky that it didn't rain because in the forecast, it was said to be raining on this day.

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I am officially home.

Australia Day 9

Our second visit to Melbourne city again on the second Sunday. We stopped at Southern Cross Station which had achived some kind of reward for it's building architecture. We went into the shopping outlets located at the corner of the station which is linked together. We didn't manage to get anything except a levis jean for my sister.



At Southern Cross train station.

Then we walked and took tram to the waterfront and had our fish and chips lunch there.

Walking in the city.

We took many photos along the way at some tourist attraction but I don't have them in my camera.

Next we went to Shrine of Rememberance , a memorial for those that fighted in World War II.

Architectures.. The weather was nice although it drizzled a little when we arrived at St Kilda beach.

There was this Malaya word printed on one of the pole too.


The day almost dark but we managed to rush over to St Kilda Pier to watch the sunset. There was this Captain Cook statue which head was full of shit.. :P James Cook was the person who found Australia....

Then we walked to Crown hotel for fireball show. It was said that Crown hotel which owned the only casino in Melbourne created the show on purpose. One will lost his gambling luck after watching the fireball show which lasted for about 10 minutes. There was a lot walking on the Day 9. We took some photos by the river..

Waiting for train to go back home at the famous Flinder Street station.

This is how we ended our 10 day long visit to Melbourne. Tomorrow we will be leaving for Malaysia. We spent the last night and next morning playing board game called "i can't recall" and surprisingly my mom was really good in it.

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Note: By the way, I am in Hong Kong international airport now