HOLIDAYS...

went for 2 holidays already and im pining for my next holiday. argh. this sucks. why do i have to work? why cant i be "Hannah Hilton"? then i can just travel around the world. i should have been more determined to lose weight when i was younger and become and air stewardess and then i can travel around the world. argh. this sucks. im always looking saving $$$ and then i'll spend it holidaying. at this rate, i will never be able to save $$$. this sucks. 

well, first destination is Langkawi. nice short getaway where i got a nice tan. hee hee. i miss the sun. havent seen the sun for a long time. went with a friend whom i met 2 years ago on my Israel trip. we went to mangrove swamps, eagle-feeding, fish farms, bat caves and we even dived. talking about diving, it's super duhz. we signed up for the diving thingy but we said we both forgot our license. when we signed up for it, they said we can speak with the dive masters/instructors and we should be able to dive. but on the day, we spoke with that dude and he refused to let us dived as we dont have our licenses with us and he said we can only do the beginner stuffs which is to dive around the boat. my friend was pissed as she's an advanced diver! haha. anyway we argued with the dude and then finally, some kind uncle said we can join them. yay! seriously, those who refused to let us dive were CRAZY. why would we lie that we can dive when we cant? who in the world would lie about diving??! i mean it's not like drinking. if you lie that you're above 18 to drink, that's fine.why would we lie that we can dive when we cant? we're not on a suicide trip!!! we were in langkawi to enjoy!! then we concluded that the malay instructor was lazy and didnt want to bring us down. hahaha. anyway, the 2 dives that we had was not fantastic. it's not clear and there's nothing much to see. sigh. but overall, it's a very chilled trip.

 the mangrove swamp that we went. basically nothing much to see and so we camwhore a lot. and so there's not much pictures of anything else but moi. hahaha. 

haha so this is me. and below is my friend and i. many commented that we look like sisters. but i always insist that im the younger and prettier one. hahaha.

after this sunny trip,i made a trip to LONDON!! this is my first trip to London and my first trip to Europe. i was uber excited. i cannot contain my excitement. and my accommodation was free as my friend has just relocated to London. so it's AMAZING. i did all the touristy stuffs and i also did the local stuffs. i went to Oxford, Bath and Stonehedge. I hung out at the locals with british and hungarians. i drank almost everyday and i visited museums and took the underground. i even went to work for a day. oh, i also took a speed boat down River Thames, visited castles, went up the London Eye, and met up with friends in London. the only thing that i didnt do is to watch a musical. i decided to drink instead of watching. hahaha. i want to go back to London again. and guess what? i think i am. haha im planning my next trip to Spain and i have decided to drop by London and then to Spain. hee hee. oh, not to mention, i made new friends in London and they are such fun people to hang out with. they are forever drunk and hungover and so they are always wasted and funny. hahaha. and people always say the weather in london was gloomy and all. well, the 8 days that i was there, it was sunny and nice. oh and i didnt have a chance to sip english tea with the queen. think she's out of town. oh well, will do it another time. hahaha. ooh and i wanted to go MOS but everyone kinda said it's expensive and not worth and so i ended up in the locals ( this is what they call their usual drinking hangout ). i really hope my company can send me to London for like 3 months stint or exchange. that would be my dream come true. sigh.  

I so need to take these 2 pictures. they are the typical London things. right???? hahahaha.

 the famous London Eye which our Singapore Flyer copied from. I actually took it on a sunny day and it's quite awesome. it's very pretty. 

this is the Parliment House. I wanted to see this badly as I remembered Harry Potter and gang flew past it in the latest movie. haha i asked if i can do the same and everyone kinda ignored me. 

the famous bridge of London. i always thought this is London bridge but i was told that this is Tower Bridge. London bridge is just a normal bridge. hahaha. 

and i went to the Oxford castle. it wasnt what i expect it but oh well, it's still a castle. hee hee. my all-time dream to visit a castle. i need to start looking for suitable castles for my wedding. hahaha.

this is Oxford. makes me feel like studying again. same feeling i got when i visited Princeton 3 years ago. haha i think maybe i should seriously consider studying but then again, i may  not be smart enough to get into these ivy-league school. haha. 

oh went to Windsor Castle too. this is like the summer house of the Queen. too bad she's not around to have tea with me. but it's amazing. i love this castle. it's actually livable. haha. very very interesting. 

i finally see the guards!!!! they are sooo serious. and i wonder when they were marching and with all these tourists taking pictures and looking at them, what are their thoughts. if im one of them, i would definitely be very conscious of how i look and if i look fat and if my hat is crooked and if i would look good in the camera. and if there's some cute girls taking pictures, i would love to ask her for her name. hahaha. 

this is at Bath. we went to the Roman Bath, which i thought wasnt great but the town itself or whatever you called it, is extremely pretty. i would love to retire in UK. but that is provided it's always spring time haha which is impossible. hahaha. 

and how can i not go to the Stone Hedge? i forced my friends to go with me and i told her i NEED to go to this place. but to be honest, it's nothing much. haha just stones. i cant even go near them. they are like 50 m away. haha and all we can do is walked around it and take pictures and every other pictures look almost the same. i wonder why does it not look like the wallpaper. haha. guess i need a better camera. 

and my final attempt to have tea with the Queen. i went all the way to Buckingham Palace and was told she's at Windsor. argh. i think she's avoiding me on purpose. I wonder why. oh well, never mind. i will get in touch with her again. and too bad i missed the changing of guards.

sigh, i need a holiday again!!!!

Where is my Personal Space?

have been wondering and thinking if i should delete my facebook account. maybe im just paranoid or maybe i am really too affected by my boss.i have people from my office who are my "friends" on facebook too. and so when i have updates or pictures uploaded or when i made comments, everyone can kinda see it. and somehow, some of the comments i made or updates that i made, according to my boss, can be misleading. 

seriously, i was appalled. this is because i never put things like " i hate my job " or " i hate my boss " or " i wanna quit " something like that. things that i put on my FB are mostly personal. yes some of them are evoked from frustrations at work and it may be linked to that BUT it's not obvious, at least to me. unless you know me or are working with me or whatever.but even if it's obvious, DOES IT MATTER? this is my personal life and i am a human. whatever happen will affect me in some ways or another. agree? so why am i devoid of this right simply because i have work people on my friends list? this is absurd!

i remembered there was this time, i said " i need to stop shopping" and my friend outside of work commented that i need not stop shopping as im earning $50,000 a month. now, this is a private joke between my friend and i as we always tease each other about how "much" we are earning. and my boss (who is also my friend) actually told me that this is very misleading because people might actually think that i am earning that much money (in hkd of course ) and that we are giving the wrong image to the other teams. SERIOUSLY, this is too much. i told him this is a private joke between friend and i. and he suggested to me to comment back to say i am earning $500,000,000 or some absurd numbers so that it's obvious that it's a joke. SERIOUSLY. isnt this too much? 

and yesterday, im not sure what happened but i think there are some negative comments/gossips about me in Singapore. somehow, these comments/gossips kinda reached my global manager and i think she might have mentioned something to my manager. so my manager told me again that i must be extremely careful with my friends in Singapore. he emphasized again that they may appear to be friends but they are not friends. he again told me to be very careful of what i say to people in Singapore and i should really do something about my FB. seriously, FACEBOOK AGAIN??? this sucks. i was kinda frustrated and i almost deleted my FB account but there are many who arent my co-workers. i thought about deleting those co-workers but then i think it's not worth it at all. 

this really pissed me off as i really hate it when my personal life is affected by my work life. anyway, have decided im going to keep my FB account and will block certain comments from those co-workers or maybe i should create a 2nd FB account. HAHAHAHA. but too much work for something that is personal. seriously, this sucks.