Forget about being nice or naughty (or gettin’ wet and wild with these ladies), santa prolly wouldn’t even bother checking. His rounds of delivering prezzies all around the world is over!
But –gulp- my Christmas tree at home is still up! Not that I don’t bother to ever take it down but there’s always 12 days of Christmas, no?
So whether your Christmas Tree be as tiny as this:
My cousins with showing their teenyweeny… tree. heh.
Or as huge as this:
KLCC’s Christmas Tree
You know you still want to play that Carlsberg Christmas Tree game… and so do I! In fact, I’ve been playing it quite regularly in my free time because I love to see my friends dangling like that. Nah, I was only kidding!
Come on, the reason everybody is playing this is because it’s fun AND it makes them one step closer to winning the grand prize!
Which is your very own private party with 50 of your friends and the FHM Girl Next Door Finalists with free flow of Carlsberg! Awesome ain’t it? And you don’t need to spend anything on party planners and fret over minute things! They’ve got it all covered for ya.
So this is how you do it. I’m not going to be long winded as I’ve already spoken about it [here] but here’s a recap of what you should do.
1. Log onto www.carlsbergchristmastree.com 2. Just start hanging your friends on the tree and watch it grow! 3. Oh, and don’t forget to be a fan too – [here] Nice One 🙂
So get real. We all know guys (and girls) like looking at eye candies. I know I do. *winks* What better way than to spend it with 10 babes and your best buds?
Check out my Christmas Tree so far, a little goes a long way. I’ve got 34 trinkets now and still growing at the current 39 feet high. Laugh at me not *snorts* if yours is longer taller than mine.
Can you beat me? I dare you.
I know some of you have started your Christmas Tree already but probably too lazy to continue growing it. So hurry already 🙂 It’s so addictive!
Yay for the Yuletide season! The joy of Christmas definitely brought some smiles to a myriad of orphans. Wherever there’s charity, count me in. Prince Hotel & Residencies organized a very warm Christmas Lunch for these kids from a Christian Home. Complete with face-painting entertainment, balloons and of course, the jiggly ol’ clown.
What made this Christmas meal different from all the other Christmas meals I had was that this one involved hands on Gingerbread Man creations!
My part was only the decor and the icing! But STILL 🙂 Exciting nonetheless. See see how typical of me. I made it look like Jack Skellington from the Nightmare Before Christmas
QUITE similar 🙂 But MY Gingerbread Jack has red buttons instead of a bowtie!
Since it is such a eventful and mythical day today, I shall henceforth speak of a tale how the birth of my Jack Gingerbread unfolds. So sit back, relax and let your inner child rise
There once was an empty (literally!) Gingerbread lying all alone on the plate. He was forlorn, and left with no one to befriend
So I hid at my corner checking out his solid fat belly and love handles with his arms and legs spread wide open. Oops.
ANYWAY
I then spotted King Louis from Prince Hotel decorating some of the Gingerbread atop the table with cream, icing, chocolate rice and jellybeans alike
WHICH GAVE ME A SPLENDID IDEA!
What IF : I, create a Gingerbread Man to be my very own Prince Charming this Christmas? (I know right, how sad. The things you can cook up when the boyfriend isn’t with you hahaha wtf)Perhaps I can give rise to a suave young gentlebread who will sweep me off my feet tonight?
So I began to seek advice from a young professor all the way from the United Kingdom. Sorry there were many many many little professors running around but I chose him first because he had blue eyes. So pretty!
Then I asked the young professors of wisdom who bore magical umbrellas with a clown bodyguarding them with utmost loyalty
The young Incredible Hulks also gave me fantastic and imaginative ideas as to how I should picture my date should be. Should he be smart? Should he be casual? Should he have a giant wart resting atop his nose?
And finally, I took the words of wisdom from the Lords of Food&Beverage Chef Donald Pezar and F&B Manager Andrew
After much research and enlightenment by these hollistic people, I began to gather my thoughts and sit down with the other denitzens of the round table for the last supper. Namely Lord Jellybean, Sir Chocolate Rice, Miss Cream, Reverend Peppermint Paste, Father M&Ms, Icing the Pink and Icing the White.
Hmmm…. nono darling. This won’t do.
My eyes darted across the room as I spotted a very interesting act of passion and art.
Hmmm.. Face all white Eyes round and bright
I danced around the dining area with glee and delight! The time has come for my creation to surface 🙂 Jack oh, Jack Skellington… where art thou?
“I am here oh Jess the Legend! Never out of thy sight!”
Okay enough of fictional stories 🙂
She went home a very happy girl that afternoon With trails of ginger scent lingering through the night
OKAY ENOUGH! >_<
And they lived happily ever after. The End. (sorry, diedie had to put the that in because fairytales always end with that) Hee.
Festive seasons should ideally be celebrated with family members – no, I’m not some old hag preaching to you as we speak – and I’m glad to know that some of my friends celebrated their Christmas (or Christmas Eve at least) with their family! You know who ya’ll are 🙂
Likewise for me, I had to cancel 4 events for the sake of returning home to my family for this Yuletide season to celebrate our tradition of a Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas carols and exchanging of Christmas presents. And just like every year, it was priceless. Blood is thicker than water and it will always be.
So the entire week of Christmas was practically spent with all the folks of which I call family.
All the way from Penang, I met up with godsister Rachel, Big Aunt and her gramma in Mid Valley Megamall for some quality catching up over ice-cream.
Spent time with my folks at Gold Coast area, in Penang. Here we are fooling around at Aunt Beeliew’s balcony. We played so hard it’s a wonder neither of us fell off headfirst into the pool.
Also, I spent some time with my fluffy new reindeer antlers walking all around KLCC and had fun with some big colorful candy and kids in KLCC Concourse.
I tweeted about it here and lotsa people asked me why I did it for. No, I wasn’t working as a promoter in KLCC! It was merely for the fun of it and all in the name of the Christmas spirit!
But it totally didn’t help when I was wearing the fluffy reindeer antlers while attending the Soft Launch of The Opera (the latest club in Sunway City) because everyone thought I was the liquor promoter/bargirl/cigarette girl -_______-
WHY CAN’T I WEAR MY ANTLERS AS A NORMAL PERSON IN PEACE!?
With Uncle Mike in Harrods
Also, whilst in the LRT skytrain back home I forgot to take off my reindeer antlers and soon enough I was drawing stares from other passengers who thought I was some weird psychopath. Hey it’s the Christmas season.
Which do you prefer, Halloween pumpkins?
Or noodles?
But I still love my fluffy red reindeer antlers. Period.
Meet the Fockers – sans Grandpa T_T
Oh lookie there Godmum matches well with the kids
Christmas Eve was spent in Starbucks during the day, furiously stamping the card-thingy to redeem the Starbucks 2010 Diary-Organizer. Aunt Bethzaida and I were diehard lovers of Starbucks so we ended up ordering the most drinks.
Dinner at Ye’Olde Smokehouse and countdown to Christmas Day at 12AM was of course, with the family at home.
Since I’m in a good mood watching Mr. Bean with both my cousins Elizabeth, 11 and Sofia, 8, all the way from Florida USA, Imma share some piccies of them with you. For those of you who have been following my Tweets, I’m pretty sure yall know lots about them already and how adorably vivacious they can be.
Cute anot? Have I bribed yall enough?
Hope you fellas enjoyed yourselves like I did! If only boyfie was back in Malaysia for Christmas. Sigh. Anyway, whether it be with family, friends or all alone… what didja do this Christmas and who dija spent it with?
Or did you get tortured by Elizabeth like them? haha!She’s one tough cookie
Just a recap, I had the opportunity to venture on a sponsored trip to Sabah, Borneo courtesy of Mayflower Holidays. Oh and, I brought one of my girl friends Jacquelyn along with me to experience the adventure too!
Okay so we finally got our bums up at 6am in the early morning to live our last moments in the wilderness of Borneo. Packed up with a heavy heart and headed to the lobby for our breakfast.
Right after breakfast, we headed down to Sepilok, where the very popular Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre was located. The rehabilitation process has 5 steps – admission, quarantine, nursery, outward bound school and survival training. It’s time to check out those Orangutans yo!
Sepilok is where orphaned and injured Orangutans are nursed to return and fend for themselves back into the wilderness. This rehab is a primary lowland forest, a fine showcase of Borneo’s remaining rainforest – almost like the real one yet very user-friendly too!
When we entered, there was a rather grim looking security guard holding up a ‘SILENCE’ signage of which he waves at people’s faces, should they be making unnecessary loud noises. This is because noises of people chattering or children screaming might frighten the Orangutans away.
We first spotted Mariko, a very emo looking Orangutan. (Okay in fact, I can’t tell the difference between an Orangutan, a Gorilla, an Ape, a Monkey and a Macaque initially. I only knew they differed in size but actually they have different facial features!)
Okay it was time for feeding! The dude climbed atop the platform and emptied a whole bucket of bananas for the Orangutans’ consumption. Being the smaller and faster species, the Macaques and Monkeys managed to steal some away before they ran away in fear upon seeing the gigantic Orangutan CID.
CID’s the tailo! Don’t mess with him
It was so amusing how they “warned” each other that CID was coming and they hid behind the tree after that, occasionally snatching some bananas away.
Look at CID’s mouth stuffed with bananas!
More and more Orangutans swung from tree to tree to grab their share of the bananas.
Just before we left, I was extremely tempted to purchase this Orangutan plushie. But it costed a bomb so yeah. See, adorable anot?? It’s schmiling too!
And we then drove to the capital. I insisted we try out the reflexology there! I practically LIVE for reflexologies. Love love love the feeling of pain at your soles, followed by a relaxing-relieving feel when it’s all over.
Reflexology by the blind in an outlet called Hing Loong
They were sssooooo good and the price was so much more affordable than the exorbitant-will-cut-your-wallets-into-a-thousand-pieces ones in KL
We had a good lunch after that, courtesy of Sandakan Hotel. The decor was pretty simple and clean. Oh, they had chillies at the table too. Sorry had to camwhore – was waiting quite a bit for the food to arrive. Muahaha
with Jacque and Gary enjoying their conversation =P
Here’s what I ate, a Beef Steak burger and of course, drank the very popular Sabah Tea that came in abundance here!
I bought like, innumerable boxes and packets you can’t even imagine.. oh and, I placed a packet of it into Grandpa’s palms while he lay on his deathbed. Because one of it was meant for him T_T But guess he had to go.
Anyways, Jacque and I went shopping for pretty trinkets and souvvies back home. *cough* Believe it or not we even headed to the market and explored the town! To buy fruits of all things lololol.
Here I was at the T-Shirt store. One T-Shirt was freaking more than 50bucks FML. But I shut my eyes, took a deep breath and paid anyway. 🙂
My new Borneo Headhunters Tshirt!
Our next stop was the Sim Sim Water Village. I was in awe the moment I arrived. It resembles a fishing village, no? So serene too.
I daren’t cross the flimsy looking bridge made of nothing but near-chewed up planks and nails! What if it gave way beneath us?
But I guess I was just paranoid, given the fact that the villages walked up and down without a care in the world with their children skipping on it too!
So I faced skywards and walked the plank. (hohoho pun)
I walked right to the very end of the bridge and began to take in the view from there. Pretty breathtaking, if you’re the type who yearns to be one-to-one with nature.
TEABREAK! SPOTTED SOMETHING HILARIOUS THAT I JUST HAD TO TAKE A PICTURE OF. DON’T ASK HE WHAT HE’S DOING. I’VE NO CLUE!
LOL
I casually took a seat atop the wooden bridge and made myself comfortable there and then. Parked my butt there in the middle of the “road”! Hmm.. ya can’t do that in the city lest you be knocked down by a 10-tonne truck.
And guess what!? It wasn’t that bad after all. It was rather fun to see the sea beneath you with each step you take. I was relatively fascinated by the likes of the villages of Sim Sim Water Village. Their humble abode was built on wooden stilts with bits and pieces of concrete!
But I envied the way their lifestyle. So carefree, with nothing standing in the way of them and nature’s wonder. Waves washing hard against the boulders, flocks of birds fleeting by, cool and airy breeze caressing your cheeks, violet hues and warm shades of vermillion streaked across the sky in the evenings.
Beautiful. Why do we urban folks give up all these for technology?
Loves.
Jacque and I played with the thingamajig that made music. Reminds me of a wooden makeshift piano! That’s her videoing me when I just HAD to play with the thingy.
Found myself chit chatting with the villages and apparently, they barely know much about KL City where I come from. All they knew was that it was nothing close to the lush greeneries they have here. Which I do admit – was partially true.
Just a few hours before departure, we killed time having fun in the War Memorial, which was the site of the original Sandakan Prisoner of War (POW) camp.
PEOPLE DID DEATH MARCHES THERE OMFG with approximately 500 deaths. Okay, ‘nuff of the depressing and bleak facts.
On the other hand, it was like a very huge park with a water lily pond!
Gary then led us up the staircase, where more interesting things were sitting prettily waiting for us. Haha. It was quite a long walk with mozzies in the evening but fear not, we were armed with mosquito repellant and long pants!
Pretty cottage-like building We got our visual map/guide from there!
Inside the war memorial was full of artifacts and mechanical inventions. We took interest in the Boiler, which was reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelly tall! It was to generate electricity for the Sandakan POW Camp.
Okay, here’s our height difference.. if you must see.
I don’t even come close!
We also spotted the excavator. It’s something like a trenching machine was used by those Japs to use during construction of the airfield.
Reminded me of a tractor-like-digging thing. Very rusty and ancient-relic looking yo! Meet Ruston Bucyrus. Whoa.. even the names sounds like some suave Englishman’s.
Got so tired of jumping after 100 failed attempts (ok lah, I was exaggerating)
Soon enough, it was time to say goodbye.
We lugged our stuff and once again, headed off to the Sandakan Airport. However, there was a little complication towards the very end. Our MAS flight was delayed for another few hours! But our tour guide, Gary, was gracious enough to accompany us for dinner.
We chit chatted the evening away and reminisced the memories of our past 2 days. Goodbyes were never meant to be sweet. Before we knew it, our flight was called and we had to bid farewell.
Goodbye Sabah! It was amazing knowing you and your wondrous nature. If you haven’t checked out Episode 1 [here] and Episode 2 [here], then you must!
Since there are quite a number of you who asked me HOW you guys can experience the same holiday like I did for 3 Days and 2 Nights, Imma let you in on some good deals! It will cost you only RM980 per person.
Okayyyyyy did that scare you? Haha fret not!
Because from today till March 2010, the promotional rates for a similar trip like mine will cost you only RM582. That’s like, almost half priced.
But then again, since you guys are so awesome and supportive as always, get in touch with me and you will get additional discounts ON TOP of those promotional rates I mentioned.
So waste no time in experiencing an amazing holiday like mine, in the wilderness of adventure and relaxation! Hey it’s not everyday you get a holiday valued at One Thousand goddamn bucks for only RM500 plus. So quickly ask buzz me more about it if you’re interested!
Okay, I’ve made up my mind. My 3rd tattoo will be inked above my ankle after Chinese New year. Will be heading down to Borneo Ink with a friend, Joe, to do his 4th tattoo as well. Piercings? I’ve always wanted to pierce my lip but … *trails off* heh.
Had my bangs cut again just yesterday and getting them back to red just like I’ve always had.
Okay, just kidding. That ain’t me. I have no idea who this girl is. But I pretty damn like her style. Very very bloodshot and goth. Even I didn’t come as close during Halloween
Don’t really have a new piccie of the bangs except the brief one that I posted on my [Twitter page] yesterday. But it more or less looks like the one below, except thicker.
Oh and speaking of tattoos, I actually had quite a lot of requests asking me to show both my tattoos in one picture. Sorry guys, for taking so long! Reason being I really didn’t have a proper photograph that showed both my inks. But whilst clearing up my photo archive, I just realized I had ONE PICTURE!
I don’t remember when it was taken but I think I was shooting some night shots of KLCC
Honestly, I don’t really like both of them as I think they’re kinda juvenile -__-“ Well, I WAS only a friggin’ teenager when I did it! That explains it. This time round, Imma attempt to do something more bold and daring.
Don’t worry, I’m not emo. In fact, I’ve been a really happy girl the whole of this year thanks to a special someone *winks*
Anyways, looking forward to get myself tattooed and scrunching my face in pain again! Hey, it’s actually quite addictive. This time round, I better make sure I video the process of me getting inked. Can’t believe I didn’t get a video of my first two! -___-
But Imma show you some really AWESOME TATTOOS and also, the really horrid/epic fail/cannot make it/diedotcom ones. Enjoy! 🙂 That sorta teaches one to REALLY REALLY be sure of what tattoo to have one because there’s no turning back!
-edit- Oh, managed to snap a piccie of the new hair at my condo balcony when it was really sunny. Red checkered bow and metallic black bangle courtesy of mom. 🙂
I KNOW THIS IS SUCHA RANDOM POST BUT MY THOUGHTS WANTED TO SPEAK OUT OHWELLS 🙂
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