Okay, if ya think it isn’t another sappy love story you’re sitting down to, then be forewarned. Because it probably is. And make it with double doses of syrupy sweet musings.

I know I haven’t exactly been penning down my personal life, depicting it with pictures and emotional thoughts very much this year. Reason not being my unwillingness to share – but simply because apparently I seem to have detoured to other priorities in my writings, which are other blog entries scheduled for publishing.

Then again, how much of a public blog do I want this to be?

Another dry, commercialized platform?
I wouldn’t dream of it.

But gone are the days which I would return home and wank my thoughts out or blog personal pictures/stories from the grey matter every few hours. Today, 4 years down the road in blogging… I now bring you public interest content, photography and event coverages.

Which can be a tad exhausting for me, keeping to deadlines of my fast and furious activities. One of my New Year Resolutions is to make this blog entirely more me. Yup, you still get the same post-event stories and piccies but also once again, bits and pieces of my personal life of love, friendship and family. Hey, it’s variety! *winks*

Many a time, the boyfie casually questions me in earnest, as to why I don’t blog about our relationship, our dates or our holidays together and other special moments.

Call me paranoid or secretive but I shudder at the mere thought of having another publicly broadcasted relationship story only to have it under surveillance by certain unorthodox people poking into our lives.

Leave us alone. We bite.
I savage.

Which I have done, in the past with the ex-boyfriend only to close the chapter of a 4 year relationship. (Don’t ask) It’s just funny how people can publish their intimate moments and dramatically proclaim their love to one another for the World Wide Web to see… and when it ends, all is tragically silent. And not to mention, awkward.

I guess this was my lesson. Or rather, a qualm to ponder upon and holding me back before I see myself in a repeating cycle of this nasty vile taste called life. I was just afraid the past would come and bite me once again, leaving me to nothing but disintegrated shreds of remorse and buckets of tears. I was that paranoid child snared by the past.

But now, a fresh new start of more than 1 year down the road, you, misturr, have proven me wrong.

You are indeed one of the most patient, open minded and tolerant person with lots of empathy, warmth and tender loving care that I’ve ever known. Cajoling me and subsiding my bawls whenever I get lonesome and often, putting up with my misfit of a much dreaded long distance relationship (LDR)

During my PMS-sy days, I always question myself as to why I even bother putting so much effort holding on to what might seem to be a virtual relationship and living a life counting the days to the next time we see each other again. Really. It’s tiring.

But again, you would never give up on me neither wanting me to ever give up.
What’s the 1st few years of an LDR compared to eternity of a lifetime relationship after?

Welcome to the world of LDR – where airports become your best friends. May your bills skyrocket and absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Often I get inspired by my other friends who are, themselves, in an LDR too, one for 2 years and another for 5 years. Sure, predicaments will come and go, but one must never forget the pulsating reason why you both embarked on this journey of test and time in the first place.

As corny as it may sound, the reason is because you have found the right person.

To share a life with and for certain times of the year, having a good challenger to beat you flat or let you rule at hardcore drinks. Ahh yes.

And someone to annoy you by constantly spoiling your self-indulged camwhore moments! FML but ILY all the same. Rawr!

Sure, we bicker at times but we all should never forget that there is always an option to agree to disagree. Differences come and go but then again, it’s what makes every individual so one of a kind. 🙂

But like everybody says, making up after a fight is always the sweetest. I bet every couple can attest to that. Guaranteed!

It’s the little things that keeps us freshly and crazily in love everyday, certainly takes two hands to clap. Not one side, but two. The both of you.

If one side only wants to make it happen
how to finish this drink ah?

Surprises, love notes, gifts, heart to heart moments, getaway trips together, random bursts of sweet talk and spending time with each other on the phone till we fall asleep. Thank technology for MSN, e-mails, SMS, calls and skype.

And ultimately, trust and optimism.

For something which we thought would only be a December fling, blossomed into something worth fighting for and looking forward to, each fleeting day.

But now, a year has passed; marking the 1st milestone of our official dating history. I can never forget how you held my hand in yours with shiny hopeful eyes, after last New Year’s fireworks display, when you first asked me to be your girlfriend,

of which I answered in the affirmative (duh!). And here we are today!

365 days of being loyally committed to an LDR. *beams* I must say I’m proud of us! There was never a day which we never spoke or told each other how much we loved each other. It’s quite fun to always sneakily plan surprises for each other to unfold when we meet again.

Athough being physically apart (unlike other non-LDR couples) from you can be painful at times, I’m thankful how it made us grow as one, not taking each other for granted and getting to know each other better and better as time passes.

Thank you Josh dearest, for being the best of me.

My only wish though – I just can’t wait for the day we can finally lift this LDR into having become at least, in the same vicinity. And there, another love story begins! 🙂

Happy 1st Anniversary lurve!
… and more to come!

Okay since I’m wide awake at 4.29am, Imma add in a nicely photoshopped note *biggrin* And ahem, I don’t know why you magically did not see the draft of this post when you logged on my blog’s dashboard. Or did you? O_O

Okai now I can sleep before tomorrow’s trip. Naites youu!

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:

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.

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.

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

Check out how my last Christmas was [HERE]

At the Famous Amos booth with lotsa Christmas Teddies!
If you wanna be my bff, buy me Famous Amos or Peperidge Farm
^_^ muahahahaha

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!

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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. 🙂

Christmas has always been a family practice and celebration for all the years that I’ve walked the planet. Coming together in the Yuletide season of togetherness rocks the end of the year!

Singing Christmas carols, hanging up Christmas stockings for Santa, homemade Christmas dinners with the roasted turkey, exchanging Christmas gifts and my fave part – DECORATING THE CHRISTMAS TREE!

I was invited for a session at the Carlsberg Lounge at Shah Alam with a few others to share the cream of the latest festive joy. Thanks to Yann and Jun for sending me some pix as my DSLR external flash died on me.

Throughout the session, I was naturally psyched upon hearing that Carlsberg will be having a fab Christmas Promotion this year round.

Remember this teaser piccie I put up?
Some of you said I’m hogging the beer tap haha!
MINE! ALL MINE!

All you have to do is to decorate your own Christmas tree!
Toldya it’s that simple : )

Follow the instructions and you will be asked to ‘Choose Someone’ which is, to select which Facebook friend you want to add to your Christmas Tree

Now that I’ve began mine and shown you how to, click [HERE] to get yourselves started!

Best part is, you can add as many of your pals as trinkets on your very own Carlsberg Christmas Tree. The bigger your tree gets, the better your chances are in winning the contest!

This means, you’re one step closer in winning yourselves the Grand Prize -your own private party with 50 of your closest buddies and the bombshells of FHM Girl Next Door! All proudly hosted by Carlsberg

And in case you were wondering, no we’re not those aforementioned finalists of FHM Girl Next Door, mind you 😛 Anyway, cheers! Let’s klink our Carlsberg glasses together to usher Christmas this 2009! Remember to decorate your Christmas tree while you’re at it!

Free flow of ice-cold beer!

All this wouldn’t have been made possible without the awesome sponsors – Carlsberg! Three cheers for them! So do show them some love and support, will ya? : ) Become a fan of Carlsberg on Facebook [HERE]

Okay, Imma head off to make my Carlsberg Christmas Tree grow bigger than yours! *Psst – this game is a real bag of fun and can be highly addictive too!*