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 :)