It's Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

I did not go "partying" this year but instead gathered at my friend's place for a drinking & gift exchange session.

The presentsss for the gift exchange. :) The box in red is from me. Do you think I'll be able to get back my own gift? Coz I would like to have it.. haha

Paul received a gift during his Xmas party at the office and he gives it to me as a Xmas present. (How nice of him huh...) It's a box of chocolate anyway... So I opened it up and shared the chocs with everyone.

The time has come to unwrap all our presents.. I got an inspritation book titled 'Believe'. Wow.. How does Santa know I need that? You Believe you can.. means YOU CAN! :D hehe

Anyway.. Have a wonderful Xmas!!

Bdayyyyy

Happy Birthday to myself! I'm officially 26 today :D

My second home

The below room has been my second home for this year. I "shift homes" pretty often these days.. hehe Let me show you a glimpse of my second home.. :)

My King size bed with 3 pillows always positioned that way every night..

and my sleeping companion... My beanie dog.. (I decided not to bring my beanie bear anymore.. The hotel staff is torturing him. hehe ) Look how adorable by dog is..

If I go to the balcony, I'll have a good view of the swimming pool. It's really noisy every morning.. Kids laughing.. shouting.. etc.. A good alarm to wake you up.

Lastly.. the television... That's the only thing I can do in the room.. Online & watch tv.

I'm BACK!!!!!

I've been MIA for a few months but now I'm back.. :)

I'll start to write again because I miss it.. I miss blogging and I think it's one of the best medicine to de-stress as well. ( I've been really stressed lately with my job. I've been working for 6 years .. and I can say that this time is the worst.... :( )

Anyway, look what I got for myself at the airport today while waiting for my flight back to Surabaya.

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SMARTIES!! with cinderella :)

Teddy - Part 2

Everyday after work at Surabaya, I looked forward to go back to my hotel room to check out 'Teddy'. Why? Because I have a cheeky cleaner who puts 'Teddy' at different places with funny positions.

On Monday evening, I found by 'Teddy' doing some Yoga pose..

On Wednesday, 'Teddy' is too tired.. So he just lie flat in the middle of the bed.

On Thursday evening, 'Teddy' was sleeping at the corner of the bed.. waiting for me to be back. :D

Teddy relaxing

When I got back from a day's shopping at Surabaya, I saw Teddy lying on my hotel bed in that position. :)

So relaxed... on a Sunday :) Crossing his legs and also with his hands behind his head resting.

Stressed... Busyyyy

I've been really stressed and busy lately until I have no time to blog.. Will try to find time and write again as I've got so many entries to share..

Day 3 - Seoul, "Dai Cheong Gam" movie set & Nami island

I'm sure most of us have watched this famous korean series 'Da Cheong Gam'. I visited the place where they filmed it. The place is a bit run down because it has been there for many years. I heard that they are going to tear down the place soon.


My handsome... hahahah


Shooshhh... I'm busy preparing meals for the king.. ;)



After that, we went to another famous place called 'Nami Island'. This island was made popular by another famous korean series 'Winter Sonata'. I haven't watched this series before though. :P

Not sure why is there a mermaid in front of the entrance of the island.

I think this is the main actor & Actress of Winter Sonata. aww.. so deeply in love eh..



The weather was freaking cold when I was there.. Shiverring most of the time but the scenery is good. Check out the pictures I took below. You can come here 4 times a year. Reason for that is because the scenery is different in every season. When I was there, it was Spring. So all the leaves are all Green. If you go few months later, the leaves will turn red. Then during autumn, everything will be brown. Not too sure how it looks like during winter. I think you'll just see branches without leaves? :)

Day 2 : Jeju-do

On the 2nd day in Jeju-do, we visited "Yongduam" or known as the Dragon Head Rock.

This rock is a Basalt formation. Why is it called the Dragon Head Rock? It is said that a dragon that lived in the Dragon King's Palace beneath the sea and in its desire to reach heaven, was turned into stone. Do you believe this legend? ;) Who knows ya... From geography point of view, this oddly shaped structure is the result of solidification of flowing lava during a volcanic eruption many years ago.

After that, we went to the cliff. It's something like the Uluwatu cliff in Bali which I went to in March. :)

In Jeju-do, you'll be able to see many yellow flowers field. Nice place to take pictures. We managed to stop by one of the fields to have some snapshots.

We went to a waterfall too. Cant remember the name of the waterfall though. Nothing spectacular about this waterfall. So many Korean students there.. Can't really have a good shot. I stayed there not more than 5 minutes. :P

Great Grandfather of Jeju

In Jeju island, you'll be able to find plenty of "Tolharubang" or the great grandfather statue. This big statue is actually a black lava rock and it is regarded as guardian deities of Jeju island.

Day 1 : Seoul / Jeju-do

"AnnYoung" means Hello in Korean. I just got back from Korea few days back. :) I was there for 6 nights with my mum, dad and uncle.


We reached Incheon International Airport at 8am in the morning. We were supposed to take a flight to Jeju-do at 2pm in the afternoon. In between this time, we went to the famous 'Ladies street' for shopping. There were plenty of clothes and shoes for sale. Didn't buy anything though. It's only my first day in Korea. :D

For lunch, we had the famous Ginseng Chicken.
We boarded a fokker plane to Jeju island. This is a small aircraft with only 4 seats a row. Cute uh.. :)

In Jeju-do, we visited 'Tamla Mok Sok Won' which is a rock garden. There's a huge collection of of natural rock and wood sculptures. All sculptures on display are natural lava rocks and basalt stone.

Luna Bar

If you want to go to a nice & relaxing place for some drinks, Luna Bar will be the right pick. They have 2 sections. One is at the pool area which is without air conditioned and another area is with air conditioned.

I went there last week and they were having some renovation works at the pool area. So the only place I can go to is the air-conditioned section. The ambience here is gorgeous.


I was sitting at a place where I had a good view of the KL tower. :)

The seats were comfortable. You can just lie down, chit chat & enjoy your glass of wine. :)

Banana chocolate cake

If you're a chocolate cake lover, you must try the Banana chocolate cake at Zang Toi's cafe. This cafe is in KL(Sg Wang) for years already. I've been patronising this place since the college days. :) They've just opened an outlet at Parkson, Pavillion.




Do try out their unique drinks.. like the one I ordered. Mango Sprite with ice cream.

The yummy Banana chocolate cake with ice cream! :D

Tanah Lot, Bali

Another famous place in Bali which is a must see is Tanah Lot which means "Land in the Middle of the Sea".

Why is it called Land in the middle of the sea? It's actually a temple built on an off-shore rock. During high tide, the rock area is flooded with water and when it's low tide, you'll be able to walk around that area freely.

I was there in the evening and it was low-tide. So I get to roam around that area freely without getting soaked in water.

The picture above is taken from the stairs at the big rock leading to the temple.



In my attempt of taking the above pics, I got all wet due to the strong waves. :D

Uluwatu, Bali

Uluwatu cliff is one of the highlights of my trip in Bali. The best time to go there is in the evening so that you'll be able to catch the sunset. When I was there, it was quite cloudy and I only managed to catch the cloudy sunset. :P

You have to wear long skirt/long pants(proper dressing) in order to enter the cliff area because there's a temple on top of one of the cliffs. If you dont, you will then have to wrap yourself with a 'Sarong' which they provide you for free. You've gotta return it before you leave of course. :)

Isn't the view in the above picture superb? You get to walk till that end and below is the view I get from there.


There's nothing much you can do at the cliff obviously apart from taking pictures, more pictures and moreee pictures and of course enjoying the view as well. :)