It sure does feel good to have a well deserved break. Honestly, at the end of my semester, all I focused on was to try my best for exams and the break after. Indeed, having a holiday does feel good. There’s more me time, family time and boyfriend time.

Lim Ah Meow and Jamie now have a stay at home mum too, as they’d be abandoned throughout the day as I was busy with classes and meetings. And Jamie is seriously making me grin with happiness, he’s the fattest cat I ever had weighing in at 7 pounds, and he’s still a young cat about 5-6 months old. Can’t wait to see how big he’ll grow!

Anyhow, I shall begin my holidays with a backpacking trip with Hugo to Hong Kong starting tomorrow, no tourguide, no big group holiday, just maps and our own common sense, we’ll see how it goes. We’ll be covering places like Macau, Disneyland, and all sorts of touristy places that Hong Kong has to over. Ironically, this is my return to Hong Kong after being there 10 years ago. I still remembered how’d Disneyland looked, it was just piles of sand and rubbles with barriers on top of the hill and I can’t wait to see how it looks like right now, although I do know it’s uncomparable with the Anaheim, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland.

So till then, happy holidays to my fellow classmates and yay I can finally catch up with my series and Breaking Dawn!

♥ Wendy

It’s been a week since Chinese New Year and how time flies when you’re having fun.

Bringing Lim Ah Meow home was sorta a bad decision as the dogs and Ett Ett didn’t exactly liked her so she was confined to the inside of the house, and she made it her kingdom. Especially the kitchen. However, after she’s back in Penang, she looked so much better since this is familiar grounds. I’m glad to have company at home, really.

I’m not sure whether how am I with degree. In a way I don’t think I’m coping, I’m feeling a little aloof and lost, I’m not saying that I wanna give up but it’s just that, I do pay alot of attention during lectures and tutorials but the readings given doesn’t even match the outline given for the course. Assignments wise, I think most of us are as lost as ever. Maybe we’re still the spoon fed bunch in diploma, but seriously feeling more lost than ever?

I’m trying my best if it’s still to no avail, then gone case la.

However, during my Chinese New Year break it’s been a fun yet a dramatic one. Freakin’ hot as hell too back in Ipoh, and doing the mandatory visits to relative’s houses was not much fun either, just seeing it as a must do on the list. The fun actually started during my last days in Ipoh, going back Penang earlier was a good decision. I find it really ironic that the saying goes we don’t need money to buy happiness but most of the time we do stress because of money issues. Does that happen to you? I know I do, and I don’t ask for much actually, I just want my monthly allowance of 300bucks regardless whether it’s enough to last me a month or not. I’m frugal enough to survive I guess, most of the time I always have balance for savings.

When I was back in Penang, first thing I felt was peace and tranquility. Seriously, compared to my Ipoh home, Penang is like some zen place because back in Ipoh it’s just so noisy and busy. People say I’m unappreciative, because I don’t care about Ipoh anymore but when my commitments are in Penang, what am I to do?

I’m always a quiet person, I can be loud crazy if I want to but I’m always thinking, my brain is always working and sometimes it’s good to sit back and analyze people so that’s why I’m always quiet. It’s not that I’m being anti social but that’s who I’ve came to be. I used to be loud spontaneous rambunctious, I still am that person but now I’m more cool, calm and collected because most of the time, I think my mistakes are made when my words came out without going through my brain. So yea, I’m taking a more matured approach with things and if you can see, I’m much more serious about things compared to who I was in the past.

Nowadays, I don’t hang out with people as often as I do last time, and I think it’s for the better. I had more time for myself and my responsibilities as to for others. Plus I learned to be careful with people, I find it hard when I get to close to someone, it actually spoils the relationship and I prefer a barrier to keep things cool.

I have people saying that I’ve grown up and matured , and yes I do think I have. Although sometimes I think that the things I’m carrying are too heavy of a burden, and I have no where to go and no way to salvage my dire self.

Well that’s life for me right now, and I’m not complaining! Just sharing.

♥ Wendy

Good morning people , at the time I’m writing this post it’s 9.30am and I just came back from a 2 hour morning hike around Gurney Drive and Pulau Tikus. I sweated so much and it felt so damn good I tell ya. I didn’t need an alarm clock to wake me up, I just sprang out of bed, got a change of clothes and pack on my phone, wallet, keys and I-Pod and I was off! V

Too bad I had to leave Lim Ah Meow at home, but I made up for it by taking her down to the garden below my apartment. And she is getting so fat OMG I can’t believe it. She loves playing with sticks and making weird meow noises when she sees birds. But she’s too heavy to be chasing them. And I kinda miss my dogs too, will definitely go on a hike with them once I’m back in Ipoh! Yay for hiking!

Going on a hike this morning was nice actually, the weather was cooling as the sun was camouflaged by the clouds and the breeze was pretty motivating too. And I managed to snap a picture of Gurney Drive, or what’s left of it anyway. Dry as a nun’s gusset. And I had so many cars honking at me as they pass me by while I was brisk walking. What the heck.

However, I feel extremely satisfied knowing that I’ve been waking early for hikes, last weekend was at a padi field in Balik Pulau which is extremely gorgeous by the way (the sight OMG!) and also at the Air Itam dam, which is a nice little forest path to go to for morning hikes. I would go there during weekdays but it’s so freakin’ far and I have classes.

And because I’ve been hiking so much on my Crocs, it’s dying on me! Plus, I assure you (with my feet as proof) that Crocs are not meant for hiking, at least for my Crocs la. I’d get blisters on my soles and I shall save my beloved Malindi for normal walking instead of hiking. My verdict is, for people with Crocs out there, no Crocs for extreme hiking or your shoes dies fast. So for that, I have new hiking shoes. And I’m loving hiking even more now!

I’m looking forward for morning hikes now. I’m not a lazy bum anymore!

♥ Wendy

Well, as I’ve promised a video of Lim Ah Meow! I named her Bella actually, not very nice kan calling her Lim Ah Meow all the time? But I still prefer calling her Lim Ah Meow, pretty unique and ah beng of a name for cat isn’t it?

She’s a little LOA (Lack of Attention) most of the time, she has to sleep on my lap whenever I’m on my laptop  and yes she is on my lap right now and she is OMG crazy tam jiak (read: glutton!), everything anybody eats in the house has to go through her and she’s practically hyperactive all the time. She never takes a nap and what kinda cat that doesn’t take naps? Other than that, she’s a good cat la, she greets me at the door whenever I’m back home and easy maintenance.

I’ve read that, white cats with coloured irises are actually albinos, in a sorta mutated gene way. And I think she’s partially a Japanese Bobtail breed too, she does look like one with the big googly blue eyes and white fur with the short tail. And I included a video of her for everyone’s viewing pleasure, recorded using my e71 which I do think that I wanna change phone already! Nyahahahaha. V

My mum spoils her abit too much I think, she got her a scratching post, a bed and even more cat food! Lim Ah Meow has quite a big belly right now, compared to a month ago when I got her to now, she has definitely grown horizontally alright! ) But I’m happy to have a companion at home! It’s like I’m having my very own baby. Speaking of baby, I’m happy to say there’ll be an addition to the Wong family later this year!

♥ Wendy