Christmas in Miri and Kota Kinabalu

Hello!

I think I've lost interest in blogging and prefer to edit videos now. They are so much easier than editing photos wtf.

So here's just an update on what happened since like a long time ago. Watch all the videos below. I swear I'll be back soon with a proper post!

I damn thick skin these days. Why don't you just subscribe to my channel? :P Click here!

Or you can just watch some of my latest videos below.

WATCH IT!

My Miri & KK trip over Christmas last year (Dec 2011):

Episode 1


Episode 2


My company 2012 CNY Dinner that I helped organise (Jan 2012):


Singapore Nuffies Came Visit & Malay Man Singing Chinese Song (Feb 2012):


Okay I guess that's enough to sum up the last 2-3 months for now! More soon!

See, you can now know more about me in just a single blog post! :D

Lovessss!

I went to the Temple : Happy Chinese New Year 2012 - Chiang Mai

Hey Y'all,

The year don't really start till after Chinese New Year does it? Haha!

Well, at least for me. I do not necessary have the most Chinese family traditions, but we do celebrate Chinese New Year to a certain extent.

I was born into a Buddhist family so in my IC I'm a Buddhist. However, a couple of years ago I somehow lost faith and decided that religion is good for nothing. And since then, I don't pray or even believe anymore.

However when I went to Chiang Mai for my company trip few weeks ago, I decided that hey we should totally visit the temple. And so we did.

It was really spiritual. I never thought that I'd ever want to enter a temple again (not by choice at least) but I did and I was really glad I went there.

It was recommended by the locals and apparently it's one of the best temple in town.

It was huge.

The grand entrance. Everyone need to remove their shoes before entering.

Pinky and me in our sarongs!

Offerings.

All of us looking really tired from the activities and travelling.

We gave offerings and prayed. That's June in the middle.

Monks. Some are alive, some aren't.

Huge Buddha statue.

You're allowed to take photos in the temple, but no flash!

And here's the corpse of a monk who died at the age of 98.

Bath.

The reason why we were in sarongs.

That concludes my trip to the temple. Like I said I'm not religious, but I do believe that Buddhism is more of a way of life than a religion. I believe in karma and doing good things to other people.

I wish all my readers, a Happy Happy Dragon Chinese New Year 2012 and may everyone find long lasting happiness this year! :)

Ball lights I bought from Chiang Mai for only RM9.00! Bargain! Look how pretty it made the sakura tree look!

To those who gamble during this festive season (not that I encourage it), win more!

xoxo,

Mimi Pie

Siripanna Resort & Spa Chiang Mai : Paddy Planting

Hello All!

I recently went to Chiang Mai for my company trip. BEST TRIP in 2012! Well it's only January! Haha! What a way to start the year. 2012 is definitely going to be a good year.

I'd love to just blog about the whole trip in one post but I wouldn't want to miss anything out.

Our first day was hectic. I got on the plane at 6.55am. I left my house at 4am in order to make it for the check-in, baggage drop off etc.

I literally didn't sleep all night till I get on the plane. 3 hours later, we landed in Chiang Mai. I imagined the place to be more ulu. So, I was pretty impressed that they have a decent airport. Like a proper concrete one. Entirely different from the one at Koh Samui.

Once I got there, I met Elisa (Singapore HR Exec) to coordinate the Nuffies for the activities that were planned for us.

Elisa was right, it's really a resort in the city. Except that you won't feel the city when you're in the resort.

After the ice breaking games, the event coordinator from Siripanna ushered us to a secluded part of the resort to play games.

For the first time in my life, I "planted" rice!

Let's take a tour, shall we?

Here's the walk way towards the secluded area.

I must say that Thailand is really a spiritual place. It's almost always so peaceful. (I haven't been to Bangkok, so won't comment on that but Koh Samui was really quiet too.)

I can't remember if they called this place Panna House or something.

The only two HR Execs in the Region. Elisa is half Thai (I now officially have 3 half Thai friends! Whee!) so it's really nice to have her take me around since she can converse in Thai! It's so cool to hear her speak!

I've never been this close to a real Scarecrow before in my life. It was cute!

My Team Mates - Ming & Tim (Co-Founders of Nuffnang), Huiwen (Singapore Country Manager), Elisa and Latif (Malaysia Web Developer). Having the bosses in my team definitely made me more nervous. Nonetheless, I wouldn't exchange my team mates for anybody else! :)

Ran off to take a pic with Righty! Not profile picture worthy, so just post here la.

Latif got his game face on! Rule of the game is that we work as a team to plant rice. We were judged on the consistency and the tidiness of the rice/grass/paddy (I don't know what to call that - the green thingy la) when we stick it into the mud.

Huiwen trying to make sure that the plants were in order!

Looking more Thai than Chinese! :)

Tim joined us not long after the game started! He flew in from Bangkok.

Latif: I'm on the right track baby, I was born this wayyyyy.....

Timothy Tiah.

Ming Shen.

Ming planting rice. Rare sight but my bosses are really sporting people. They both got down and dirty for the challenge.

Tim beautifying our plot.

End product.

Nice anot? Nice right?

But we didn't win! :D I'm sure we came close enough but it didn't matter, it was a really good experience for me.

Zhuhai and Henan, China

After crossing the borders of Macau, we've reached Zhuhai, China.

This is my older sister, Melissa. If it wasn't her and her husband Jeff, we'd never visit this part of China.

Haha! Here she is all grumpy cos she's hungry.

At the border in Zhuhai. They have loads of cheap clothes and shoes but we didn't get to shop. We needed to rush down to Henan.

Jeff hired a driver to drive us down to Henan. It was approximately a 2 hours drive.

China is just so different. Even though it's just a stone throw away from Macau.

Before heading to Henan, we stopped by for some famous Zhuhai fresh seafood.

I don't know what this is.

Plenty of choices. All fresh.

Abalones anyone?

My pretty mommy and I.

I can imagine them in my stomach now. Yum!

My baby sister, Mandy and I.

Mommy and Mandy.

Next will be pictures of food we had that day.

Tofu.

Shrimp

Escargot.

Black pepper Squid.

The restaurant where we had our lunch.

The dude in red is my brother-in-law, Jeff. And the dude with a ciggie is the driver and the lady is our assistant during the trip.

I can't read Chinese, so there if you ever want to find this place.

Seafood market right outside this stretch of restaurants.

Here I got photo bombed by Melissa. I think it's a cool picture though!

My three favourite girls!

Mandy and myself! I must say, during my HK/Macau/China trip, my face still looked a little strange with my braces. All puffed up and shit.

Leaving Zhuhai!

Taking off! 2 freaking hours!

China pretty much looked like that all the way. Not very pretty.

*I slept all the way to Henan, I didn't take any photos.*

At a market place at Henan. Baby Chicks! So freaking cute!

Finally arriving at our hotel. I honestly can't remember the name of our hotel but according to Jeff it's the best hotel in Henan. Google that okay.

Lobby.

That's our driver for the entire trip.

Okay first, dinner time!

Fresh worms wtf. At least that's what I thought it was.

The restaurant where we had our dinner. I find it a struggle when there's no signs in English. I'm honestly glad that I can at least speak Cantonese.

Their version of a high class restaurant. The food were pretty good though!

Three Roast.

Fried lala.

Stewed Eel. It was so fucking good.

Egg baked Crab. Yum!

After the meal, we went back to the hotel for a hair wash and back rub. It was strongly recommended by Jeff. So we went for it.

Spacious area for hair wash.

The next morning was when I finally get to check out Henan from the hotel room.

Let me tell you, Henan is the dustiest place I've ever been too. There were construction sites everywhere.

I guess it's a developing town.

Ugly pool.

Right next to the hotel.

The suites aren't fantastic but it's pretty comfortable and clean.

It's way to big for 3 people though. Melissa and Jeff have their own room. We coulda share.

Clean toilets at least.

We had dim sum at the restaurant in the hotel for brunch before making our way back to Macau. It's Jeff's favourite dim sum place in town.

Lotus with Salted Egg Yolk Pao.

Quite a nice restaurant.

Waiters and waitresses speak Cantonese here.

Mommy and me!

Yum yum egg tarts.



Pig's insides.

Bachang.

The cool hotel lobby.

They have an aquarium of turtles and sharks at the lobby. I find that inhumane. :(

Koi fishes.

I tried Googling for the name of hotel but can't find it.

Good luck!