Eeeek!

The Capsule Hotel Asakusa Riverside :


Great location but me no fancy at all.

I can never imagine sleeping in a capsule as such. It does not only look like an oven, it looks like the place where they store the body before being cremated!

And i. i. i am claustrophobic!

But the best part is, it's only a stone throw away from the subway and it only costs a little as $26 - $52, in Tokyo!!!

Still, i am claustrophobic!

Yeah, i am still here. Didn't leave again. Because the husband loves me, or so he claims =_=

Not too bad afterall..

Because i wanted to doll up a little today, i went for pedicure yesterday.

It was my first time there.

I didn't take up their package even though i quite enjoy it. Mostly because i don't usually go for pedicures. The last time i went, it was exactly 1 year ago :P

But, do you know what i got after my session after filling in my particulars just because i was nice enough to give my feedback voluntarily about the seating position and so happened that the lady boss was there to overheard me and even adjusted them on the spot before asking me to try the seat again?


Red wine manicure & pedicure worth $126!

Reason given was : It's your birthday tomorrow! Heh.

Apart from the above incident, my girl pals were so sweettttttttt to me as well. I never told them that it was my birthday today, not wanting to trouble anyone to get me pressies or buy me cake or hold a dinner just for me. Paiseh lah.. :P

But it was such a coincidence that the girls planned to have dinner yesterday and when they did find out it was my birthday today, they got me a yummilicious cake! Not only that, Celest even got me a pressie, in such a short notice! I was pleasantly shocked of course. Who in the world wouldn't yeah? It was a lovely lovely necklace.

Lovely isn't it? But it looks even better in real life. Thank you Celest! :D

Thank you girlies.. for the dinner, for the cake, for the thought and most importantly, for your friendship. Love you all! *muaks* :*

Can't wait for Phantom tonight!

Me a child?

Guess who was the most excited one when this got unwrapped?



From the subject of this entry, it's not hard to guess aye? :P

Yup, it was me and it wasn't even my present!

My bestie gave this to one of my boys as their birthday presents last month. Guess the sight of it brought me down the memory lane. My sisters and i love playing Checkers. That was almost 1.5 decade ago.

So yeah, when i first saw the board game, i was even more excited than the boys! Lol. Some mother i am! Grin.

OT : u know, i was also the most excited one when it comes to opening the X'mas presents, according to most of the eye witnesses who saw me in action. Almost like a child, an old one that is *blush*

Anyway, back to the board game subject.

Guess who was the victim whom got forced into playing with me??

Yep yep, none other than the husband, who should feel very honoured ok! Afterall, i'm sharing my childhood memories with him :P

That very night itself, both of us and the game on the bed. And guess again, who won the first and only round so far?

ME! Lol.

During the start of the game, i was so convinced i was gonna lose and even voiced out to hb that i got tricked by him but surprise surprise, i beat hb hands down and nope, i didn't cheat! Hb died until very ugly.. Haha.

Next up, Snakes and Ladders. Yay!

Huge and long

Just the other day when i opened the grocery bag given to me on the weekly basis by my in laws, i saw this..

A prawn this big!

The spoon used in this picture is the normal dinner spoon, not the short dessert spoon and the plate used is the big dinner plate.

But somehow when i saw the photos above, it(the prawn) didn't look that big.. sooo, i took another picture of it, hoping it will be a better picture to emphasize on the size of the prawn :P

That's my giant hand. Heh. Big right?? I meant the prawn hor.. :P


Fyi, my hands are usually bigger than most guys' u can find. When i first got to know hubby, he was so shocked at the size of my hands and the length of my fingers. Heh.. Thankfully, hb's hands are still slightly, very very slightly bigger than mine (because of his big palms ah) but you know, he's 6 feet tall! How can compare right? Grin.

Anyway, i'm still thinking of how to cook these prawns to bring out its best..

Stay tune!

I wrote..

6. I was a straight A's student but not a degree holder

for my previous entry on Weirdometer.

Before u start thinking that i'm an intelligent or a knowlegable person, please.. read on. But this entry will not only let you in on that, but also 2 other personal 'me' topic. So, yes.. it'll be a long one. Grin.

I have stopped studying for a very long time, since beginning of 1999. From then on, i hardly touch any book at all, except for romantic or chic novels from time to time, say.. less than 5 times a year? (as a mother of 3 who also bake and cook plus surfing the net, how to?) :P

From the time i'd finished my first year in 1999 till today, I have also not worked at all. So literally, i have stopped using my brain for quite sometime already. Life as a stay-at-home-mom doesn't require me to. I bet if u were to dissect me at this very moment now, u'll see my very mouldy brain. I have stopped using them for a very long time, so long that i have grown so used to not using them that i have became very lazy to even use them! Lol. Serious. Not joking ok.. These days, if u were to give me a a sum to do in the head, i'll say er, pass me the calculator please. Or if u were to ask me to do some puzzles or riddles that need me to think, i'll say, aiyah.. don't want! I have, indeed.. grown to be that lazy!

Slowly, i became what i am today. No longer the straight A's student material definitely. Lol. Pretty enjoyable i'd say. The plus plus point is definitely not needing to live up to others' expectations whenever questions are being shoot to you. Now, i'll just give the i-don't-know look and act blur :P

Since i'm on this, i might as well reveal a little more on myself, on the subject of my very powderful engrish.

I am a real kampong girl.

I grew up in this very small town in Pahang, Malaysia. A town where English does not exist, almost. My family moved to KL when i was 9. I didn't speak a word of English then and very reluctant to do so as well after that because the other kids in school spoke excellent English. I was afraid i might be laughed at. Hence, i only hang out with the Chinese girls. That was also a problem at first because i speak no Cantonese. I still remember we actually communicate using Bahasa! I only knew bahasa and Mandarin and they, bahasa english and cantonese. So, bahasa it was. Hah!

I managed to siam speaking English all the way till i was 13, that's when i started Sec 1. I had absolutely no choice then. The friends i know in class can only speak English. It was very bad when i first started but i took it with a pinch of salt, laughing together with them when i made a boo boo. Wanna know how bad my English was? :P

You know how when we used to get picked in class to read a story out loud? I actually pronounced 'unique' as u-ni-q! The whole class burst out laughing upon hearing me. Even the English teacher couldn't hide her amusement. Grin. My face was red as a beetroot within seconds. I was 14 then.

After 1999, i didn't have much chance to improve my English any further since i have stopped studying and was neither working. I don't speak English at home as well. So, my Engrish is as good as any Primary 6 student here.

Imagine my 'headache' when i first penning my thoughts, my life here. Nightmare! Lol.

Now you know why sometimes, (a lot of times more like it actually, hehe) my sentence sounds weird or not right, or my spelling was misspelt, or my words/phrases used incorrectly or i have lousy grammer :P

Hubby told me, well.. at least i'm providing a little bit of entertainment here, something for you to laugh at *shake fists* :P

On the topic of husband, you know.. the mean husband loves to tease me mercilessly whenever i try using a new cheem word. Ugh. Or when i mispronounce an unfamiliar new word, he'll go 'ngek ngek ngek' - immitate my pronounciation - then 'ngek ngek ngek' - grin evilly. Ought to be whacked right?

Now now.. anyone wanna get me a thesaurus for my birthday? Heh. Kidding! I seriously do not want that okay? Don't even think about it! :)