first trip to Bangkok was a 'secretly run away trip' with casper, eve and ah niu niu.
it was a 2002 - 2003 跨年 holiday... told my mum that i was having a chalet....oopx.... and got caught cos i was on the same flight back as her friend.... suay to the max.... =S...
second trip was with vivian, stayed over at aaron's apartment in 2006, robbed him of his king size bed and banished him to sleep on the foldable bed....wahahaha.... was too busy and tired from all the shopping that we din take any photos throughout the trip....
third trip was with the 4 nie ladies, michelle, mab, claire and laurice in Jan 2007
5 girls in a room....all shopaholics.... so imagine the mess, mountains and mountains of clothings, shoes, stationery (we bought a truckload of children's day presents) .... heee
fourth trip was with joyce, ailing and chunyang... was a 2 day phuket and 2 day bangkok trip in dec 2008
as you can see, i had visited Bangkok 4 times in 5 years....it was way too much till i felt that i had enough of Bangkok.... wanna spent my holidays visiting other countries....and so it has been 4 years since i last stepped foot in Bangkok and the craving to shop (running low on stationery, hair clips, shorts and t-shirts) there is back since beginning of this year... =)
been trying to find pockets of time and a travelling kaki to go on a shopping trip to bangkok but to no avail....but 皇天不负有心人, a check with mabel on her diving course resulted in a confirmed bangkok trip this sept holiday... yippy ya yo...
booked the plane tix immediately from scoot.... cost us $210+ each... we also booked accommodation at Baiyoke Boutique Hotel via Asia room liao... 1600thb per room per night which equates to about $32 per person per night based on the current exchange rate of S$1 = 25thb .... comes with daily buffet breakfast oh..... happiness.... =D
as mentioned in this post, all P4 art teachers + myself went thru a 2 hour clay illustration workshop using jumping clay so that we are equipped with the skill to teach all the P4 pupils to make small clay items to be included in the teachers' day goody bags which my committee will be preparing.
Realising that there was excess clay after all the lessons were conducted, and together with the sample packs which were given during the jumping clay competition briefing, i decided to try to make a few pieces myself...and i got addicted.... spent my whole weekend making clay miniatures one after another with video tutorials found on youtube... after spending 2 weekends on this new-found hobby... I proudly present my creations.... =D
Angry bird series requested by Jess
(Cartoon Series) Top from left to right: Scrump, Sabo Kappa and Keroppi Bottom from left to right: Jack Skellington, Cookie Monster and Elmo
Birdies
Micky & Minnie Cupcakes
these are my favourite.... they are small enough to be made into earrings lo.... and the only person i could think of who may be willing to wear these on her ears is Ailing....
Under the sea series
Food Series
Top left is a purple macaroon second row left is a minnie mouse shaped pretzel last row left is 3 peas in a pod
Insects Series
Robot & Monster
Land Animals .... yes, dinosaur was once a land animal... =P
There are over 40 of them and the number is growing every other weekend... managed to get casing for them from Diaso ($2 shop)... =) ... so happy
You can get Jumping Clay from http://jc.jumpingclay.com.sg/shop... Each 50g pack is about $4.70... alternatively, Popular Bookstore sells them too....
Knowing that i was searching for some activities to do during the National Day long weekend, Joyce sent me a link with the following photos and program write-up for 11 August 2012, Saturday which one of her running kakis is organising with YMCA:
It looks so fun.... likey likey.... How can i say no???? especially when it's a trip with joyce... =) ... Happily paid $95 for the trip which includes the YMCA membership....
Joyce picked me up at 530am...met the rest of the participants at 630am.... had breakfast at Yong Peng at 9am and we finally reached the entrance of our destination at close to 12nn..... that was a lot of time on the road...=S
first photo of the day..... joyce, kim, aileen and me
the whole group of 36 adventurers + 1 in-charge from YMCA before the 3 hours of fun and adventure began
Joyce and I were the few without headlights and hence had to be bracketed by super duper nice people with headlights to shine the path ahead for us...
at least 20% of the route was in total darkness, 20% with gushing water, 50% with slippery boulders and 100% with gigantic boulders all around.... one just have to use any patterns or styles of movement that could get oneself from one point to the next... be it a crawl, waddle, wriggle, leap, swoosh, climb, grab, drag, pull. slide, bend, crouch.... just do it.....
slipped and hit my head against the boulder once and slipped and grazed my knee once... =S
You will get the kind of "We ****ing made it!!!" feeling and a sense of accomplishment after the whole trail is over and when the sore sets in.....wahahahaha.....
ended the day with a Nonya dinner at Melacca before travelling for another 4 hours back to Home Sweet Home....
No regrets for giving this adventure a try... =).... brings back fond memories of outward bound back in 1996 and uni orientation camp where we (freshies) were made to walk through some of the drains and canals in NTU in blindfolds in yr 2000.
Upon Angela's request, we decided to have a 蔡's outing to the ArtScience Museum for the Harry Porter exhibition... went online to check out the prices and was happy to find that for $24, Singaporeans get to visit both the Harry Porter and the Andy Warhol's 15 minutes eternal exhibition
Wanted to get tickets from the ticket box office at Marina Bay Sand but was directed to the ArtScience Museum due to the following promotion....
but instead of 6 glass bottles of coke, we got 6 cans of coke each at $24 cos we are singaporeans... =)
'Happy' duo with their freebies
Regretted my decision to go for this promotion....cos there's no deposit area and the counter REFUSED to let us collect the coke cans after viewing the exhibitions so we ended up lugging the cans of coke while enjoying the exhibits for 3 hours...Poor Alfred had to lug 12 cans (6 mummy's one and 6 of his own).....
double regret when i saw this other promotion for the Andy Warhol's exhibition after i just made payment for our tickets.... to sum up all the promo, we had paid $4 for the 6 cans of coke each and had to lug them around the whole day.... really felt quite dumb dumb about it lo.... argh.... =S
enough of complaints.... first stop to Harry Potter exhibition @ B2...
there's a fixed entry timing of an hour to this exhibition gallery so must be careful not to miss it else can be denied entry de oh...
me with my 6 cans of coke in the red bag standing under the flying car.... the only exhibit which photography is allowed.... =S
Alfred is a huge huge huge fan of harry potter...he had all the books of harry porter.... he read the first book at least 36 times (according to his then english teacher) and could recite the first 3 chapters of the first book, word for word (his english teacher actually tested him out and verified).... so he was ready to fork out $30 for the exhibition guide which features all the items being exhibited
he luv luv the acceptance letter into Hogwatts...commented that it would be even better if the letter could be addressed to him... =D
Angela has been losing so much weight that she is hallucinating.... she thinks she is now thin enough to hide behind the book.... wahahahaha..... oopx....
No photography was allowed in the exhibition.... ='(...but when i went online to search, i found this ..... how come so unfair one???
i dun really think the exhibit was very fantastic...i dun feel any thrill looking at the costumes which the characters wore or the wands, potion etc etc which the characters used in the making of the movie.... guess removing the right to take photos of the exhibit removes the fun of enjoying the exhibit too.... =S
but it did make me want to watch/read the series right from the beginning again so that i can picture the exhibit in the different scenes
there were a few interactive displays...
(1) the screeching mandrakes which gives off an irritating screech whenever they were pulled out from their pots and
(2) the 3 quidditch hoops where u get to throw the quaffle through
ending the tour with a purchase from the gift shop
The famous every favour jelly beans ...
that really came in all sort of weird favours
at $6 a box.... it's damn expensive la... but had a great laugh watching the 3's reaction to the sweets... wahahahaha.... i was the chicken one who refused to try any of the weird favours...
Angela trying the rotten egg favour
Alfred trying the earthworm favour.... can hear my evil laughter throughout the end....wahahahaha
I had always thought that these sweets were imaginary sweets invented by J.K Rowling so was really surprised that these are real sweets... they are invented by a guy called Bertie Botts in 1935. He had accidentally created the smelly socks favour while trying to make tasty food favours. Realising that potential of such prank sweets, he went ahead to market the sweets with the slogan:
"Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans - A Risk With Every Mouthful!"
and the sweets became so famous that JK Rowling included them in the Harry Potter Series which makes it even more famous.
Next, we went for the Andy Warhol's exhibition... saw his famous campbell soup, pop art Marilyn Monroe, and silver factory which is a room entirely covered in silver/aluminium foil.... an idea for our very own art exhibition at the end of the year.... =)
more random photos of us
had lots of fun.... too bad 蔡小弟 cant join us for this outing due to his 'o' levels else it would be even more fun... at least there would be one more strong man to help carry the cans of coke.... hahahahaha
