Fantastic end of Feb!

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Yes, I know this is super late! Have been preoccupied with work. The last week of Feb was fantastic because I caught up with both groups of my closest friends :)

These days everybody is busy working and spending time with their other half, that we hardly meet each other! Sometimes, we take months (like 2 or more!) to get everyone together for a meal -_-

Here's Lee Lee, Chian Huey and I over a dinner at Le Midi, BSC. A good night spent chatting about Lee Lee's job as a lawyer, Chian Huey's experience in a Michelin star restaurant in Hong Kong, and .... Malaysian politics :P I love it that I can talk everything and anything to my girlfriends ;)


Lee Lee's great photo taking skills resulting in me wearing a huge, China concubine-like headgear ;)




Camwhoring in the toilet, as if we're still 17 back in high school :D



That Saturday itself, we went out for a celebratory lunch for Chian Huey at Three Little Pigs, Bangsar Village 1. Got lost finding the entrance to this place in the mall, that I had to ask around, only to find out its' entrance is through a small door in Village Grocer!





Good food, better companions ;) I'm wearing Whitesoot's Full Bloom Peplum Top here! Just launched last night ;) Mum got herself a piece in Violet Rose too because she thinks she looks pretty in it, and I agree! ;)

The next day, Bryan and I met up with my ex-colleagues over brunch at Red Bean Bag, Publika. We used to work together in a Marketing team, and it's wonderful that we are still close today, even after all of us had left and pursued a totally different career path :)




Oh! And during brunch, Jin Han (that macho guy there, other than Bryan) announced his engagement to his girlfriend of 7 years! Looks like someone else is getting married too ;) We were so happy for him, that I suggested we all become his heng dai LOL!

Other than that, it was just all work for me. The Whitesoot sale ended that weekend, and it was a packing frenzy the Monday after! Thank god for the operations maestro, Ric, who organized the entire packing during the Sale.

And since we had a trolley in the office, I can't help but do a silly jump with it! Please excuse me ;)



Cliff Diving & Sunset Cruise in Boracay!

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This is the place I realized my fear of heights. Although the scenery was amazing from the platform's edge, it's so damn scary to jump off!




There were 3 platforms – 5m, 8m and 15m high.

The daredevil Bryan saw two other Korean boys jumped off the 8m platform gleefully, and he happily joined in the fun, only to realize (in mid-air) that 8m is pretty high up!

He was so quick to jump, I haven't even found myself a seat by then!

That dive, he pulled his shoulder muscle a little bit because he didn’t land properly -_- So he had to recuperate for almost an hour before he went in the second time!

On the other hand, it took me a while to gather my guts before I could jump off! I was a little overwhelmed by the 5m high platform, so I jumped off a lower cliff at 3m first. There wasn’t a platform for that height - I just jumped off some random rock hehe! ;)

Yep, LIFE IS GOOD indeed (when you're in Boracay!)


Three hours passed, I’ve had a couple of beers and yummy caramelized bananas (they were so good, I ate a 5 bananas, and Ching probably had 20 of them!), and THEN something got into me.

"I should JUST DO IT Nike-style, jump off the 5m (at least!), and make my RM150 worth it." (the activity cost RM150 per person!)

Just like that, I was ready for my 5m jump.

PEACE!


Sue May, on the other hand, already knew she had fear of heights. So the poor girl only managed to jump off some 2m high rock hahaha!





One of the divers surfaced with a pretty blue starfish, so we struck a pose with it, and gave it back to him :D

After cliff diving, we went for a sunset cruise on a local paraw. Paraw is a local makeshift boat by the villagers as a mode of transport. We got it for so cheap – a ridiculous RM10 per person for a 45 min ride out to the sea!

It was such an incredible experience!

It's hard to forget having the breeze on my body, as the paraw sailed further into the ocean, my feet dangling over the 'seats', occasionally having sea water splattered on it, one hand holding onto the wooden panel, and the other holding the fiance while admiring the beautiful golden egg yolk sunset.










Simply amazing. Boracay's sunset is the best I’ve experienced yet! SIX days in Boracay was definitely insufficient for us. The next time we get to Boracay, we’ll stay for at least 2 weeks ;)

A couple more photos of us there ;)





I'll be back, Boracay! :)

Next up - Melbourne!

Birthday surprise :)

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Earlier in December, I kinda figured what I was going to get for my birthday.

My compact camera was getting old (In Boracay, I tried taking a picture of Sue May, but the camera insisted that it focus on the coconut tree behind her -_-), and Bryan kept discussing with me about new cameras. So, it was pretty obvious I was going to get a new compact camera. I just didn't know which one, until a couple of days before my birthday.

Bryan suggested we decide on the camera together. After discussing for weeks, we finally settled on the Lumix LX7 ;) Bought a day before my birthday!


The week lining up to my birthday, we had tonnes of celebratory dinners (for all various reasons including my brother's graduation dinner & my surprise party (organized by my mom!), my nephew's return from Singapore etc) so I was constantly full to the brim every night! I don't even want to eat in the mornings!

So for my birthday, we just thought we'd go somewhere, just the two of us, for a quiet & simple dinner. Bryan made reservations for Nero Teca, but we didn't make it because we ended work later than expected! So, we ended up at a Chinese restaurant nearby :)

And just when I thought my birthday was going to end the way it was, with no surprises whatsoever, Bryan whipped out a folded A4 paper that looked like this.


I said "Oh wow! What is it?" but honestly, I was thinking 'Wah, why is my fiance so cheapo? Don't want to buy me a birthday card, but choose to fold an A4 paper?'

If you're wondering what Mao Mao is, that's what we call each other. Don't laugh! ;)

But of course, when I started realizing what that A4 paper was...


It was a return ticket to Melbourne for the both of us in September 2013!

T_________T

I absolutely love Melbourne, and although I just visited the place last month, I can't wait to get back there again!

But Melbourne will just be a stop-over. The main trip will be somewhere else, and we're gonna be traveling for almost a month! ;) I'm gonna keep the location hush-hush for now!

THANK YOU SO MUCH Bryan!!!! :D You always surprise me!


And now that the flight tickets are bought, we better start saving for it! :)

Boracay, PH : Beach house & self-select, fresh seafood!

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Our private balcony with welcome drinks

View from the beach house




If you want to travel to Boracay from Kuala Lumpur, do consider it's traveling time. We took ONE WHOLE DAY to reach Boracay!

4 hours flight to Manila (we left KL at 4AM)
3 hours of waiting
45 mins transit flight to Kalibo
2 hours bus ride (through the mountains!) to jetty
5 mins boat ride to Boracay (reached at 8PM, like finally!)

But once you reach Boracay, you kinda forget about the traveling :) This place is heavenly! Alright, I might be a little biased because I love the beach, but I'll let the pictures convince you :D

We booked ourselves to a wonderful 2-bedroom beach house on Bulabog beach. We ended up not staying in the famous White Beach, because with our budget, we can only live in very old hotel rooms which resembled my previous apartment in Hyderabad, India. -_-

So it was pretty obvious we were going to go with the beach house :P

My travel partners for Boracay - Bryan (can never leave him out, can I? :D), Sue May and Ching!






Sue May & Ching are so cute together, right? One's 5 feet and the other is 6 feet tall :D Not apparent in the pictures above, but you'll see in my next posts haha!

It was a rather relaxing holiday for us. We ate (a lot) and did a couple of beach activities like sunset sailing on a local paraw boat, and cliff diving!!! Will get to that in my next post ;) I reckon beach activities are cheaper here compared to Thailand. The rest went for skim boarding too, but I was too slack to do it (I ended up watching the sunset!)

Other times, we just lounged on bamboo sunbeds next to the beach house, drank lots of San Miguel while snacking on tapas, soaked in the water during sunset and basically, just do nothing :)






Windsurfers on Bulabog Beach

Enjoying a bottle of Mango fruit shake, at Jonah's.







The famous Willy's Rock, with a statue of Virgin Mary at the top

One of the nights, we found ourselves wandering to a local wet market. Apparently it was popular with the local Filipinos to purchase fresh seafood from markets, then bring it to the restaurants for it to be cooked. And that's exactly what we did!

Bryan haggled for them, and we ended up getting two lobsters, two crabs and a fish. All of them were giant-sized, and it left me wondering "How can four of us finish it?!" The lobsters were so huge, that its antennas have flesh in it -_-

The waiter suggested different ways to have our seafood cooked, and he thought since the lobsters were so huge, they'll take the heads and cook porridge with it. WOW!!! That was a brilliant idea! Can you imagine porridge with all that yummy, goooey Lobster roe? *salivates*

Bargaining in action!

Lobster roe porridge!



Bryan with lobster antennas!

Grilled crabs - the night's winner for me!



Every night at the beach house (after replying Whitesoot emails, and yes, I can still put food in my tummy after that huge meal) I enjoy a bottle of San Miguel while listening to songs played on Ching's portable speaker.

I remember thinking to myself "Life can't get any better than this..." :)

Next post - Cliff Diving in Boracay!

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