logistics logistics

i've got my airtix and hotel accommodation in place for my Bali trip next year. i'm just missing my airport to hotel transfer. i'm freaking out. i'm bloody freaking out. my plane is touching down close to midnight. i'll be stepping out of immigration at midnight. if there's no hotel pick up, and i'm going to flag down a Balinese cab at midnight, i'm going to shit myself. i'm to going to bloody shit myself. a million and one possibilities of what the hell is going to happen to me if my cab-driver is some psychopath who i really don't know what the fugg might want to do to me. Darah or Macabre? i'm freaking out. why can't the damn hotel reply me on getting airport transfer or not?! shit. i'll bloody ring up tomorrow. i'm getting impatient.

sun basking...

... rediscovered my favorite pastime.
book in one hand, tea in thermoflask in the other.

fugged sunday

i feel my blood vessels erupting. i feel like my veins are all going to explode and i'll get a stroke. my blood is boiling. so much adrenaline build up i wanna punch a couple of faces in. i am so fugging pissed.

i just want a chill out sunday.
me, my book, this chill out breezey gloomy sunday, warm tea, socks on my feet and my blankie.

chill.
trying to chill and zen out
not let this anger get the best of my sunday.

meeting the giant elephant shrew

sleepless nights means natgeo video watching via youtube.

today is THAT siri day

today marks the beginning of siri & deewees' co-existence.

kuala kuala lumpur

flying up to KL this december over my birthday and christmas.
it'll be my 2nd time spending my birthday abroad. first trip was on my 8th birthday, in Hong Kong and it sucked 'cos it was dead town on Christmas day. my birthday cake was some packed cake cube and Nissim cup noodles from 7-11. my mom got me decent slice of cake from the hotel cafe the next morning. it's no birthday without good cake. my first color-screen sega handheld compensated for everything. memorable.

some sort of emptiness

happy belated halloween

new balance screams SWAG

beating holiday blues with my spanking new neon yellow New Balance 410 kicks.
SWAG!

lilia and shawn 2011

more than a year ago i wrote this...

SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010
lilia and shawn
this is lilia and shawn 3 years ago. always on the move and fidgetting about.

this is lilia and shawn now. just sitting down and watching the world zoom by.

simply shows that we have grown.

and i decided it's time to update status.
so for the year 2011, this is how it is

i'm back to cursing, swearing, complaining, and alot of cuss words in conversation.

happy october!
looking forth to halloween! :D

room is ever morphing

realized my room is forever morphing.
bought my new bed way back in may actually.
okay hold it guys, hold it.

YES! ITS A QUEEN SIZED AWESOME BED FROM IKEA! ;D

digging up old photos of my room. nostalgic.that's the thing about keeping online blogs, your past is so easily accessible. not only to yourself, but to the WHOLE WORLD!
scary aye?

i know.
i'm having goosebumps already...

riding fixed

alrighty fellas. here's my hot ride FINALLY.

i actually got my baby end last month. was kinda busy to share about it. well, nonetheless this post being 2 weeks late is here, i am happy to boast about it. swag purple rims, flashing yellow chains, spanking-hot pink snake skin saddle. all of it just the way i like it. every penny well spent. much thanks to keith (airwalk sg) for setting up this ride for me.

shall post a little later about my exploration around town.

over and out honey!

the question of reasonable doubt

the debate of whether God exists. has led shawn and i to this ideal conclusion that we are both agnostic atheis; we both agree that we do not believe that a God or Gods exist, but we certainly do not rule out the possibility of His/ Her/ Their existence. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism

which suddenly came to mind, how do other couples get through their daily lives, what's in their conversation, what do they talk about? do they too, share and discuss in depth the things revolving life, the world and the amazing universe? if they don't, what do they do? do they not feel empty inside as souls to not ponder and question? or has singapore society, or just the general human society shaped the average commoner to not search in depth nor ponder? have the technological-wizard generation of this time lost the ability to think philosophically? glued to our 9 to 5 jobs that extend for hours, chasing after a plastic dreams, with mainstream marketing feeding us with false ideologies that life is all about pursing an endless plastic paper dream and tangible happiness...

have we lost ourselves?

i almost did.

Up on Melancholy Hill

There's a plastic tree

Are you here with me?

Just looking out on the day of another dream

Well, you can't get what you want, but you can get me

So let's set up and see

'Cause you are my medicine

When you're close to me, when you're close to me

So call in the submarine

'Round the world we'll go

Does anybody know

If we're looking out on the day of another dream

If you can't get what you want

Then you come with me

Up on Melancholy Hill

Sits a manatee

Just looking out for the day

When you're close to me, when you're close to me

When you're close to me

this song is just fav forever.

kuta, bali

trip to kuta, bali in early august was awesome. the weather was great, the hotel was great, food was awesome, the beach and the waves are just spectacular. if only my stay there was longer.

made a review of the hotel i was at. review can be found here at tripadvisor.

still have a couple more reviews to share, shall find time for it. :) not forgetting phuket trip.
can't believe i was on a crazy holiday marathon. 5 days of phuket and 5 days of bali.
bali was planned for months in advance, so we had more activities to fill our days. phuket was the peak of lazy. eating and drinking all day..

anyway, here's photos to share of kuta!

making our way to our room

our pool access room at kuta lagoon, kuta

fangipanis littered on our beds

better off walking, and checking out all the cool ass stores

dinner at maccaroni club is awesome.

a must visit, if youre at kuta. details here.

breakfast! though we kind of got bored of it by day 3.

house visiting a family of painters

ancestral shrines, all dressed in sarong for upcoming festivals

here's one of the 6 painters residing in this property

his father, uncles and brothers are all painters. artistic nature runs in the family.

lunch with sleeping volcano, kintamani

Balinese buffet to fill the hungry belly

plus a beautiful view of kintamani to boot

stone craver at work, another one whose occupation runs in the family

complimentary dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, bali. 

part of out travel deal.

another great view from our balcony

heading to the beach

time for some waves

picking up a new skill  is work

passed Bali Bombing memorial 

see you next time, Bali.

we'll be back soon, i hope. ;)

day to day in the world

i've been surfing the web endlessly in search of enlightenment over topics which revisited my mind; topics that left me sleepless for days, keeping me up at nights thinking of the endless possibilities of what could and may happen. true enough, thinking alone won't aid anything but sprout more grays from the roots of my head. acting on it doesn't make me, an individual, go anywhere but prison. so what should i do? wait and watch?

what are the actions, which I, an average urban dwelling office working drone can do? what is it that is within my means to serve my duty as living functional being from everything catastrophic? would it be just living my life as usual, sipping back into ignorance? drill in the possibly wise and life saving words of "ignorance is bliss" into my mind? maybe that could be it. till I can find myself a feasible way of saving myself and the souls around me.

phuket & bali in less than 5 days!
i can hardly wait. wooot!

your life needs to retard.
it needs to go backwards to go forward.
you need to suffer in dire shitty circumstances first before going anywhere.

you need to suffer for years and years before improvements are made.

and by the time improvements are on their way, i would have cried buckets that will fill all of mother earth's oceans.

x,
depressed.

fancy food making

scrmabled eggs with smoked salmon, and mini pancakes for darling-est shawn for a mini sunday picnic last sunday

this sunday is fancy slaw making. purple and white cabbage with plain yogurt as substitute.

not forgetting... 

fatty girls birthday cupcakes! :)

woot.
hope the week flows smoothly :)

happy birthday my dear, fatty girl ♥

a fat turns 6 today! :)
forever a puppy in our eyes.
we love you, fatty girl.

delish nutella tart served wth a delightable scoop of vanilla

while sharon's tantalizes her platelet with a caramel banana bread pudding, caramel so generous you can happily sink your face into it...  yum!

hello manja cat around duxton park connector! :)

ripcurl surf top courtesy of shawn :)

delish open face sandwich from The Plain, Craig Road

cordially invited to a mix race brazillian-indian wedding going through a traditional wedding ritual

 new bedroom companion

plant 3.90$ + vase 1.90$, all from my fav furniture megastore Ikea

some summery haagen dazs indulgence with my kid-sister 

on a warm humid evening

yet another candid surprise from shawn, 

cheeky mao from my fav touma JPN

here's my new addition to the family, who is happily growing in all direction. 

im apparently not having the greenest of green fingers

this is so goddamn wicked!

supreme, yo! 

much love from shawn

and another from shawn... a rilakkuma teddy! :D

im going to die of a happy overdose

one of the happy meals from May to the first week of June

its some japanese cuisine indulgence at Watami today

eons i mean EONS. gosh am i busy. barely enough to breathe. when the weekends hit, its just house cleaning(50% of the time tidying up my messy , chilling by the pool, chilling out with delish food and good people. typical.

looking at my calendar, i'm depressed to see June and July to be lacking public holidays. but that's cool, i still have a couple of off days thats due to be used.

anyway, here is my status update: ive got a bali trip coming, in some 2months time. woot!

i tried out IPL treatment at Strip, Ministry of Waxing. it was a 5% pain experience. i would say a brow thread would hurt a tit more compared to IPL. what hurt most was the price tag i had to pay. but i suppose with the pain i traded away, every penny was well spent. picked up a hush-hush price package keyed out onto a calculator by Strip's staff,  the figures caught my eye, and i helpless surrendered my card for that painful swipe. lucky enough to strike a cord with the counter folks to hitch a good deal. *winks* the whole IPL experience was comfty, the therapist made this IPL-virgin well at ease. it was swift, quick, 95% painless(closest description will be a mild sunburn), comfortable. so much i've signed up a package with them. for this furry person here, it's a package well worth every cent.

i think i've maxed my card.
need to stick to a tight budget for the rest of the month.

x,
d.