Saturday, April 30, 2011
我的三角恋
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Europe Accomodation, florence - athens
Address: Via Luigi Alamannni, 5, Florence, 50123, Italy
Phone : +39 055210283
Email : info@hotelaurora.info
Enquiry call from singapore : 800-1205159 (English)
Check in – 2pm, Check out – 11am
Free wifi, air con and private toilet
It freaking difficult to find a B&B in florence with a private toilet....had a few discussion with Mr Ang if we are really okay with shared toilet and no we are NOT okay.... think we are just not that kind of super friendly + backpacker style of travellers bah...
took me a few days before i found this hotel that has a private toilet in each room and yet still consider affordable to us (€386 for 5 nights).... and damn... accomodation in rome and florence is damn freaking expensive la.... i know i had complained it endless time liao...so all the more it dosen matter if i complained about it again here lo... hahaha....
Phone : +39 055210283
Email : gerencia@rivierahotel.cl
Enquiry call from singapore : 800-1205159 (English)
Check in – 2pm, Check out – 1pm
Free wifi, air con, private toilet and continental breakfast,
description from booking.com:
"Hotel Riviera is housed in a historic palace and features a panoramic, strategic location in front of the lagoon and the waterbus stop, within quick reach of Venice’s historic center. From the waterbus stop located just outside the hotel you can reach St. Mark’s Square, in Venice, in about 10 minutes.
The waterbus stop offers regular service to Marco Polo Airport (where i need to travel to to take a flight to Greece), Piazzale Roma Bus Terminal and Venezia Santa Lucia Train Station as well. The seaside resort has also attractions of its own, including the beach (the hotel can arrange beach chairs and sun umbrellas on request). The hotel offers charming views of the lagoon and unforgettable sunsets.
A health club is available with sauna and whirlpool. Guest rooms are clean, comfortable and equipped with all conveniences."
this hotel cost us €120 for 3 nights....and from the above description, i can conclude that i need to go to St. Mark’s Square and must take the water bus...hahaha.... will need to find out more....Accommodation in Athens, Greece - Phidias Piraeus Hotel
Address: 189, Kountouriotou, Piraeus, 185 35, Greece
Phone : +302104296480
Email : phidiasgr@otenet.gr
Check in – 2pm, Check out – 12nn
Free wifi, air con, private toilet
this is like the prettiest accomodation that we will be staying in for the whole europe trip (based on photos that i saw online)... hahaha.... check out its website http://www.hotelphidias.gr/index.html for more photos lo.... it's like a brand new hotel in super bright colours.... likey.... and it only cost us €90 for 3 nights.... oh ya...and they provide transfer to and from the port where we need to catch the ferry to santorini early in the morning at 7am....heee....
Address: Perivolos, Perivolos, 84703, Greece
Phone : +302286082246
Email : info@roomsmary-perivolos.com
Check in – 130pm, Check out – 11am
Free wifi, air con
cost us only €54 for 2 nights... the cheapest accomodation for the whole trip liao... wahahaha... also got free transfer from the airport = no need to plan transport again...woohoo....and also super duper good reviews about this hotel from booking.com...link below....
http://www.booking.com/hotel/gr/mary.html?aid=309842;label=hotel-280594;sid=9a85ecba699cecdb06c8b9f09217da08
santorini is the place where lewei took her wedding photo (if i din remember wrongly).... and it's a beachy place....from what i assume.....hahaha.... hope it's the type of beachy place i always like... so miss the langkawi trip with Mr Ang a year back lo.....
conclusion: accommodation is so much prettier and cheaper in greece than in italy
by the way, we (more to me) gave up searching on what we should do in europe liao... hahaha... we (I) have decided to just ask the B&B owners what is the suggested itinery .... hahaha.... anyway, i don't know anything about the places that we will be visiting...so i confirm wun regret not visiting any place...
actually got abit la... should have stay in santorini for one more day and one less day in athens.... santorini seems more interesting with its volcano theme than the usual dome & museum & church theme in athens.... as if there's isnt enough domes & museums & churches in rome & florence.... =P ...i m really hoping i dun regret choosing europe as honey moony place lo.... oopx....
Saturday, April 23, 2011
风水 matters for home sweet home
洪妈妈 and 洪爸爸 are super into 风水... as in they have these 2 风水 books lying permanently on their coffee table so that they can always refer to it... they also have many many 吉祥物 around the house for various purposes...
so 洪妈妈 decided to get our home sweet home 风水-tised as well... =)... basically, i wun get a 风水师 on my own accord but i wun stop anyone who is willing to pay for it for me.... oopx.... from recommendation, 洪妈妈 selected to consult Miss See Han Tee from Jmine Consulting... http://www.jmine.com/index.htm ...
so far, we have completed the full cycle with the 风水 process....
1) first visit - view our home sweet home to gather information
2) second visit - submit report to us, suggest first knock dates, colours to use and basic furniture arrangement
3) third visit - placing of 吉祥物 around our home sweet home so that Mr Ang and I will be goody good good in the years to come.... =)
some of the 吉祥物 we had around the house include:
This product symbolizes ancient official stamp. In ancient China, official stamps were use by royal and officials. One of the effects of this product is to boost status in career. It also induce sales. Bringing sales, or greater heights in career also would mean greater wealth. In addition to this, it also helps to stablize concentration power for students.
The gourd (葫芦) is effective in promoting health. Sometimes one (both Mr Ang and I) is more prone to fall ill and this is caused by the negative forces in the surroundings. In these cases, the gourd can help to minimize the negative forces. It counter attacks Sha qi (杀气) that may be working on the occupants. Hence, it can be used to provide protection too.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
HIHS once more
last, use sticky tape to join back the opening and then pile more sticky tape on the whole art work....
think that it's quite an interesting and easy to make art form...
this kind of art form is actually inspired by Mark Jenkins.... check out his work in the links below... =) ...very interesting....
Monday, April 11, 2011
10 April 2011 - Bearbi Left Us
i was just thinking of baby in the morning.... was thinking of asking angela to bring her over to our new house to let her run around when they deliver my barangs barangs in a week's time.... i was even as lame as to think if she would pee under my decal tree...
so much of her in my mind.... how small and how dark her black fur was when i first saw her in my room when she was only 3 months old... how cuddly and baby like she was then and that's how she got her name... how she would jump and hop around and in the process scratch our legs when we just arrive home... how she would follow us into the bathroom when we bathe, pee or poo...
still remember there was once she entered the bathroom with me... usually she will stay in the dry corner and wait ... but not on this particular day... when i opened my eyes after rinsing off the shampoo, i saw a drenched baby sitting right next to me... that day, she decided that she wanna take a bath with me... i could still remember that i was laughing and scolding her at the same time...
also remember how she goes around licking and licking almost every part of the floor... how she hides and sleeps under my clothes on the cloth rack... how she likes to snuggle on bags left on the floor and how she once fell off the tv console while she stretched in her sleep the other day...
also in my mind were how she looks like a chi wa wa when she is shaved and how furry and tangled she can get when her fur grew out... how nice she smells when kom bathe her with a little dove... and how cute she looks in her green cheer leader dress, orange and demin dress and the pink polka dot dress which i gotten for her for my wedding...
miss the way she always stand to ask us to carry her and the way she knocks on the door to ask us to let u in or out...
she is the reason why i go back home every week... i really miss u...
http://tangtang-land.blogspot.com/2010/11/bearbis-new-dress.html http://tangtang-land.blogspot.com/2011/01/spagetti-4-lunch.html
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Train from Rome to Florence
quite lokcok hor??? worse when being compared to the Eurostar and Intercity Plus train but no choice la... Mr Ang and I are budget travellers...or should i say...we are catty travellers.... oopx...
Let me summaries the differences:
(1) Eurostar - 1 hour 35 minutes - 1st class is at 63€ while second class is at 45€
(2) Intercity - 3 hours 1 minutes - 1st class is at 39.50€ while second class is at 30€
(3) Regional - 3 hours 49 minutes - 16.50€
i feel that a 48 minutes difference between the intercity and regional train dosen really make a difference for a 3-4 hours train ride...so no point spending extra S$50 (for 2 tickets) to take the intercity train... then when compared to eurostar... the 2 hour 14 minute difference would cost us S$100 more...definitely a no no no.... time is really not that precious to us while on holiday.... hahahaha.....
so we decided to just 'enjoy the real rome's way of train travel and the scenic view on the train ride bah... hahahaha.... hopefully we get seats too as there's no reservation of seats for regional trains de.... =(....