A Story Forgotten

Once gone, never forgotten,
Softly the memories will shine,
Brightly, pulsing and glowing,
Like the flame of candlelight.

The dangling links on the chains of a watch,
Seem fragile but in the moment,
They are stronger than life itself,
Bridging the gap between life and death.

Emotions are depthless,
Pools of hidden waters,
Their surfaces barely touched,
Rippling and cascading.

But hope and celebration will shine,
As a beacon of comfort,
Always and after.

Just a little poem that I found when I was rummaging through my stuff the other day. I wrote it when I had just entered the first year of IB and if I remember correctly it was in one of my TOK lessons - not that TOK lessons were boring. Not at all! They were probably one of lessons which I actually looked forward to during the week but as students... you know the mind tends to wander and stone :) But yeah, I hoped you enjoyed it~ I also found some photos taken when I was in Year 5 during my residential. Oh my gawd.. haha :) But yeah, if I find a scanner, I'll try to post it up and embarrass myself XD

A photo story on Wednesday:::::

Grilled Mediterranean vegetables with Pesto sauce. Seriously the pesto sauce from Greyhound is undefeated! I tried to make it once and it tasted nothing like the one from this restaurant. Hhhmmm - I don't think I have tasted something like this in Melbourne either....

Pan-fried seabass on a bed of mash potatoes with tomato salsa. Yummmyyy~~~ =)

Pretty Xmas tree on the table! It did remind me of one of those metal scrubs used to clean dishes and what not though =.='''

We had dinner at Greyhound the other day and this is a photo of what was written on the wall. I'm not sure about you guys but somehow those simple words resonated very well with me; it is what I would love to do everyday given I had the time and the freedom to do so!

Starbucks time!!! Lol. Knowing how cheap it is here now compared to Bangkok, I have been a constant visitor to the Starbucks around Bangkok. So much so I have in mind a list of the ones which make better Classic Hot Chocolates! :) But yeah.. it helps when my dad loves Starbucks more than I do.

I was bored at Starbucks yesterday so I started to sketch the drawing on the book I was currently reading. I know the movie version has come out but I sincerely believe all books are better than films. So once I finish this book (which is a really good read by the way, it has been some time since I have fallen in love with a novel), I'll compare it to the film and see how it goes. Bags the book though!

The leisurely and totally whimsical life in Bangkok

Hello people!! I am obviously totally and utterly in Bangkok now that the summer months have swung by. I would love to say it's good to be back home but I'm not entirely sure where home is anymore. Not something that I am totally foreign with considering that for the first few years that I lived in Thailand, I still considered myself Malaysian but gradually I realised I had almost no ties with the place, I didn't know the geography, I can't speak the language (well.. up to standard 3 level if that counts for anything) and I felt like a fish-out-of-water every time I went back to visit. Home became Thailand for me and since I have had lived 10 years in Bangkok, I shouldn't be surprised. I thought when I returned back from Melbourne, I would have trouble figuring out to speak Thai again because I haven't really had the chance to converse in Australia but it came back quite naturally. Of course there were the occasional mind-blocks when it comes to searching for certain words like the names of the months! Oh my gosh... never really got a hang on those anyways (+.o)

So... yeah, got side-tracked there. Hhmm... what have I been up to in Bangkok? Well besides repeated shopping trips to Paragon and Central World where I think I have attained some job position in haunting the Zara outlets in both places, I don't believe I have been up to much. I have been getting some good stuff lately though especially clothes for working in Germany. I never thought I would wear a high-top skirt but I got a pair. I hope it doesn't look that bad! And.. I got boots!!! Another pair which I adore. It's grey and looks pretty fab if I say so myself :)
Haha. I wish I could say I've been doing a lot of cheap shopping but I realised that I have gained a significant amount of weight since I was in Melbourne and unless you are Thai size which is like tiiiiinnnnnyyyyyy~~~, it's pretty much impossible to get those cheap clothes. It is ok though, I will just confine myself to buying cheap earrings and accessories!

Let's see.. today - I went for my first ever manicure and pedicure which was an interesting experience I guess, since I haven't been pampered in that way before. I got to choose my colour and everything~ Ok... bimbo part over :) But it is a pretty nice purply metallic colour with a darker shade of pink mixed somewhere in between - not bad for someone who has never worn nail polish on her toenails before. And yes.. every half an hour or so, I do like at my feet just to see how pretty it looks :) So after that we went home and I was pretty tired from doing pretty much nothing so I took a small nap and then woke up to bake the cookies I was planning to bake 2 days or so ago. The recipe was called 'Lemon Stars' but the final product was less cookie and more cake-like and less stars and more like clumps of cup-cakes. Haha - totally a success as a cake mixture but not really as cookies. I had substituted some stuff in the recipe though like the corn meal I added was really fine instead of the coarse ones which were asked for and I had used wholemeal flour instead of all-purpose flour so differences were expected. Ok.. so the morphological structure wasn't exactly the same but ooh, the flavour and texture is good! The lemon zest really adds a punch to the dessert. Yummm~~~ I'll post up some photos with this post so you guys can see what I made :)

pre-xmas in bangkok~