Family time

OMG. its 4 plus am and i cant get to sleep. Hoh is soundly asleep on his mattress now. I am so frustrated with my hay wire biological clock and i m aching all over.

It's terrible when he has to sleep early at 10plus pm and i am wide awake at wee hours.


Now, our only time spend together during weekdays is from 7 to 11 pm and usually i will be energetic while he, having a long day at work will be pretty tired so we cant go anywhere either. Lately, i have been away for most wkends so not much quality time togther..booohoo.. cant wait to come back from sydney where he's gonna clear his 2 days of leave with me.yeahoo

In order to pass time and get myself tired, i shall blog again.

Quite happy that i managed to get some time off with my family. last last wkend i went swimming with them. my cousins are all 10-ish but being the big kid , i think i mix with them pretty well.whaha, we had quite a good time playing relay.




I totally adore my sis for this expression of hers. me , sis n my cousin elson in dad's car.


the scary cheong sisters. that's what we are good for. can anyone beat the 2 of us, pls?

Last night, we had a table for a relative's wedding. so of course, i gotta be there for good food.

my sis's attempt to make us look tall. n my god, when did my cousin grow taller than me? kids do grow very fast..or am i really ageing? shit.


The cheongs girls with our bushy eyebrows. that's my scary sister at the bottom.


wow, not bad..my sis is getting more girlish.


we were pretty bored so we started playing with e cam.


A super traditional wedding dinner @ yong chuan yuan.


The lady gems again.


us @ it again.

Then, today my mum happened to be on leave. so me and mum went to town to meet my sis after her job preview. Really hope her medical test goes well and she can start a real job soon. I'm sure her job's gonna train her and make her grow up. Prison officer leh, dun play play..
bit worried for her though, sounds like the training is gonna be really tough but i have confidence in her. looking forward to see her slim down to her old self again after her 6 mths training.whhahaa..



mum n sis @ the cathay. Sis finally got her belated bdae adidas jacket from yours sincerely. she sumhow managed to pyscho me in geting her a running shorts too. damn it. that's also the reason why i cant wait for her to start working.whaha.

Notice my mum in her LV bag, i caught her putting lipstick (not so usual) and guess what she told me " aiya must put ma, if not hw to match the bag? "
win liao lo.. she's damn high.



pink xmas tree is sooo sweet...
anyway looks like we r glowing?? perhaps we are fallen stars..whahah


3 of a kind.

ok it's 5 plus am now. should be really bedtime for me... i hope...

Italy..where my heart belongs

I think italy is one of my favourite europe station, cos it's very romantic esp Venice and it has the nicest tiramisu around. and everywhere you go, you get to enjoy a nice warm foamy cappuccino with the loveliest tiramisu that melts in my mouth. I swear i had that dessert almost everyday in Milan.def 4 out of 5 days.. N even Mccafe there served superb cappu and tiramisu.. i'm drooling over it again....never been such a coffee lover b4..

We put up at this hotel called the Chedi which is in a residential area, nt so convenient. but at least they had reasonably priced italian food around the area. my reasonably price means 10 euro for a meal, so u can imagine the normal priced items in town. anyway this hotel is very newly furbished.hmm i like it!

My 1st meal . this is 10 euros n very delicious. the crayfish looks like prawn isnt it.

N here's where we had our pasta. very homely n xmasy.

Then it was Off to some sightseeing in Milan!

our 1st stop. the Duomo

Spot the men working on the xmas tree.

A very unfriendly Santa Claus...

The Galleria. Dazzling high end brands.

Even LV is getting festival!

Then me and Jamie decided to pay 7 euros to take e lift up duomo for our crazy phototaking..

The spikes on the statues are pretty eerie. Wonder what they are for? something to do with preserving the structure?haha what a wild guess.

Will you catch me if i fall?

Love the colour contrast of this pic

I had so much fun snapping with Jamie's SLR camera. I might consider taking up photography. It's so cool!!!

My favourite picture!!!! sunset @ Duomo

Taken using the concave lens of her SLR camera

Bird eye view of the square and the incomplete xmas tree.

Can you believe this is macdonalds.. looks like a hotel lounge to me.soo nice

n my all time fave..TIRAMISU!!!!!!!

It was a duck and chicken talk.

but yeah, we still managed to find our target- casteloo sforzesco. at e other end of the street

Indiana Jones music brought vibrancy to the city

There was a photo exhibition along the walking street. Each n every photo was so beautifully taken.

casteloo sforzesco

serenity

followed by the bazaar surrounding it....

I had this cheese @ this restaurant and its really yummlicious. From the buffalos.. usually taken with tomatoes olive oil n a pinch of salt.

the night casteloo sforzesco

We then settled @ a random cafe.

My cappuccino that's filled with love. Check out the heart on the foam..

Simply yummy. not a bit of tiramisu left.

Dinner was back at another italian restaurant where we had another round of chix n duck talk. We tried our best to tell them we want a pizza with calamari and fungi and it turned out to be an amusing half calamari and half fungi pizza.

2nd day- Venezia... Venice!!!

The 2.5 hr train ride to Venice-- the sinking city

I was so excited to see water everywhere!

The first view of the fabulous city out of the train station.

Water Taxi

I heart the Venetian masks!!!

Venice...City of Water

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I heard the crowd will be twice as much in summer.

The Cheeky boxers

I wished that's my window

So beautiful

This is creepy....

Lacey umbrellas for u?

Ready for the gondola ride

The ride that cost us 20 euros each for 30 mins maybe? would be most romantic if u have ur loved ones with u...Awwww..lucky them

The grand canal

The small alleys

Me and the xin fu couple...with the gondolier singing for us..

Thats us!!

Rialto Bridge

Isnt it such a captivating city..

Me posing with a weird veggie

Rialto market with fresh produce

Sexy pasta.. imagine a bowl of carbonara penis...whaahahha..so scary

How cool are these clocks!

From left to right, Doge's palace, Basilica san marco n piazza san marco

Doge's palace

Nice to pose.. better not touch

This is a disturbing sight, i pity this lady.. wonder if she's enjoying it cos she din seem to shun away. Imagine all the HDB pigeons flocking and crawling onto u..ohhhhh yucks

The exquisite byzantine basilica

unique xmas tree

the long nosed mask was used in the ancient times by doctors during plagues, its cavity filled with perfumed herbs to filter the diseased air.

Act mysterious

On our way back to milan

Taken in the train toilet.wahah.

Then i slept for maybb 5 hrs and woke up at 3 plus am to do the shuttle to barcelona and back. if only we get to stay there.

Came back milan around 12 plus and joined the rest for lunch. then off i went alone to Town cos my initial plan was to visit Pisa the next day. Who knows the weather forecast predicted a 100 % precipitation so we gave it a miss cos we din wanna visit a raining Pisa.. soo disappointed. 2nd day became shopping day too.didnt gt anything for myself anyway

in the tram to town. fighting hard not to fall alsp cos i was alone.

I really love xmas!!!!!!!!!

And now the xmas tree was up!!! remember the earlier pic when they were still working on it.

Magnificent Galleria at night. the crowd was overwhelming

This top is at a sale price of 4 euros.cheapest thing i found there. pity dont have my size.

the nicely done up xmas tree with cutesy flowers.

I really love Venice.. i'll be back again..hopefully with my loved one this time...