Dils Stop .

Going back to JB this weekend (eh tonight!). Woots! Jumpa Fasha di belakang rumah pagi tadi cari gaduh dengan the new cat at our back alley. They are spitting and hissing kat umah sbelah. Hish2. Suke tul buat perangai kat rumah orang. I hate those Nuffnang innit popup thingies, too. Naseb baik, I taken off the Nuffnang ads from the blog before those annoying thing pervades. And there are some that you can't minimize. Thanks a lot for creating new pop-ups, just when I thought they are now almost obsolete. During lunch, had some Nasi Kandar from the Kudu restaurant. Supremely sleepy. Its 5 pm. And its Friday. And I am itching to go back home. Sometimes people take things for granted and it is pissing me off. A simple thank you pon susah ke? Or do you think you are so special that you are entitled to 'certain' things without any form of acknowledgements. Lantak la. Aku mahu balik. I am seriously considering in buying a portable DVD player now. Ramai sangat guna komputer kat ru...

There's a reason why I do not put up a wish list... as it is kinda presumptuous. Something like hoping one of your readers or your friends ( who read your blog) would picked up this thing that you would like to buy but loathe to part your money with and give it to you. Being stingy without telling the world that you are and so forth. Though after a while, come to think of it, the wish list that they put up is not actually for others. Its for themselves. More of a goal... "I wish to accumulate so-amount-wealth so I can buy this stuff". So I let go of my gripe about wish list and just loosen the hell up la kan. Because I also want a wish list, damn it! I want to buy thing without any money depleting my sad little bank account. Though material-wise and travel-wise, there's a lot of things that I wish for like " A bungalow with indoor swimming pool" or a "tiny castle beside a lake in Scotland as my summer home with James McAvoy come attached to it, even if ...

Am feeling terribly uninspired at the moment. Because it is Monday? Bought Fables Vol. 4. Yeay! Finished Neil Gaiman The Dream Hunter, Yeay too ! The tale is really lovely and bittersweet. Also finished Harriet the Spy. Pretty great. Not your usual fare of childhood story and the correlating morality that always come attached to it. Went to KLCC on Saturday as my husband was feeling generous and wants to buy the above Fables for me. Then went out with my friends on Saturday night for a movie (Night at the Museum 2. Meh). And on Sunday went to Azie's house at Rawang for a lil visit to the new mother and daughter. Then teman my husband to pick up his sister who is coming here for her graduation. Hence, the events on weekend. I am still feeling blah and sakit perut la plak. Hoh! Yeah, still not feeling too la-di-da. Later.

Review of a book! Yeay! Long overdue for a book nerd... This book was one of my sis's book actually and had been sitting on the shelf waiting to be noticed. Where one day, I looked through the shelf and goes "Hey... I haven't read this one yet". As it had been left on the shelf gathering dust for a few years, the smell was... off putting to say the least. Took me a few months to get this story over with, to be honest. As sometimes when bored or when I feel it gets too heavy I would then read 'lighter' books in between. Also during the first few weeks I just couldn't stand the smell and kept on sneezing. The smell of the book got better after a while as it had now been considerably aired and even went to Cambodia with me. Now the story. The summary of the book conveniently lifted from Amazon.com The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, ...

Day 5 Ok I am combining the days 5 and 6 as there were not much activities left. Initially I left the Friday open actually for Tonle Sap, but as we had already gone there the first day and spent 20 USD, not much keen to pay more for a more wider visit. Artisan D' Angkor So we decided on Artisan D' Angkor as it was just a stone throw away from the inn. We were greeted by one of the guide and was left on our own to just browse around the workshop. Hmmm. Ok. The Artisans D'Angkor also provide a free shuttle bas ( a van) to their silk farm which is about 11 - 16 km away. So off we went. We were greeted by one of the guide who then steered us around and gave us a tour around the place. We basically got to see the whole process on the silk making from the puny little wormies spunning its golden cocoon to the lovely woven silken cloth. The only complaint that I can think of was that the guide was a bit too hurried. But we did enjoyed our time there. Dropped in their shop and was s...

Just got back from the warehouse book sale titled above at PJ. These are what we bought. Around 24 books. If you rajin enough to count, there are 22 books in there. 2 are not pictured. One of them is a recipe book (OMG! Dils cooked? Horror of horrors! Don't fret, it will be most prolly just for display) and another is a Minnie Mouse cloth book for Abid. I gave that to him and he tossed it aside. He is more interested in MY books. Overall I am pretty satisfied with what I had bought. Bought 2 Matthew Reilly books,which my husband was looking cause he was hooked on the previous Matthew Reilly's 7 Ancient Wonder's book that I bought. 3 or 4 books in the box (like the Guinness World Records and Jokes book thingies which I would never bought because what the INTERNET are for if not for useless facts eh. Different people, different taste) are his. Pretty excited because I was hoping I could get Cormac McCarthy book "The Road" and I found it. Bought the Golden Compass s...

The last temple visits left in our 3 day pass. I did planned to go to Beng Meleaa but paying extra 20USD for a ride over there is a bit pricey for us as the journey is more than an hour . So we went to the Roluos group of temple that is located a bit further away from Siem Reap town. Our visit today at least is shorter than the past 2 days which is just nice because moving my legs was beginning to be painful due to the energetic roaming and climbing around we done the past 2 days. Lolei We got here early and there was no one around. Not much to see either, kinda like a forgotten 4 old towers in the middle of a village although long ago this actually used to be an island temple in the middle of its man made lake (baray). There were some orphanage groups near the place smiling giving us their pamphlets informing on the plight of the children of their orphanage. Preah Ko A lovely 6 brick towers temple. It used to be rather big and nearby it should be an old Royal Palace even but some of ...

Taking a break from this Siem Reap posts. Yes, more to come. But not much more. Anyway, last weekend I had rendam a blue baju kurung that needs to be handwashed (actually not need, but I like to hand wash any baju kurung that have beads) with a pink silk blouse. Leaving it for a few hours and I noticed that the baju kurung now had tompok-tompok pink, and few other clothes too (undies!). I totally hate it when that happened. Grrrrr. I forgot that some of these silk blouse color totally run. And it messes the nice baju kurung which also I pinjam from my sis. Hikhik. And those stain are a bitch to wash out. After separating the clothes, googling, putting some vinegar and baking powder for good measure. Went to Giant and bought Oxy-Plus Stain Remover. Pour a bit into the soaked clothes and leave for a few hours, and it is gone! Yeay! The same for my undies too! Yeay! Though it is advisable you used hot water to wash out tough stains. So I pre-soaked my clothes in hot water. Do that and it ...

This day, we had another appointment with another tuktuk driver Mr. Rithy (who brought us to the Tonle Sap)for another day of temple visits. The temples that we going to visit is a bit further away, so we had negotiated the price of tuktuk of about 15USD for the whole day. Banteay Kdei Our first visit was Banteay Kdei. We planned to visit this temple the day before but did not have time. Glad we make it that day on early morning. The temple had whimsical feel to it due to its some part in ruins and some part restored. Lots of mosquitoes in the early morning though and we forgot to bring the insect repellent. We did enjoyed looking around the maze like place. There was a tiny cute little boy who persistently asked us to buy the flutes he's selling (2 for USD1). We declined nicely, and only afterwards I regretted not buying the flutes as it was cheap and would make a great souvenir. "No, thank you" had become an automatic response due to lots of peddlers and kids selling t...

We had arranged for the hotel on our tuk-tuk for the whole day. Our plan for the day is basically going from one temple to another around the Angkor Wat area. We planned to take the 3 days pass to visit the temples ruins. So lepas ni berlambak la gambar temple2 ancient Khmer ni. The temple pass bought at the the ticket counter near Angkor Wat is USD20 per person for 1 day, USD40 for 3 days, USD60 for 7 days. (Macam bole muntah darah je tengok temple tak abes for 7 days . Prolly more suitable for people who are really into ancient art carvings or history and wants to take note and such). For a tour guide, it will cost you USD25 per day. I do think hiring a guide is the way to go, but we don't have a lot of money to spare, so we opt out and bought a guidebook instead. But if you went there with family or with a group, a guide would be great in telling the history and the details of the places. At first we went into Angkor Wat. We headed out at 8 a.m. But it felt like in the middle o...

Haaa! Dah dapat pon komputer. Super excited. The komputer had been wiped clean btw. Thank God I didn't copy all pictures to my work laptop and delete the memory card in my camera like I originally planned. Computer ini sekarang suci dari dosa-dosa. Sudah-sudah, jangan merepek and will blog about Siem Reap. Those looking for the condensed version can go visit my husband's blog . For once, he blogged more than moi. ( Dan make me much malas to update. Boleh?) We bertolak at 27th April around 11 am from KLIA and reached there noon. Cambodia is an hour behind us. Arriving there, a tuktuk hired from the guesthouse we would be staying was waiting for us. We took Mandalay Inn as a our place to stay during the week duration as it is within walking distance to the town and cheap (16USD per night for our room). Yeah... Does not look much. But the staffs there is super friendly. And most importantly the room is CLEAN. Which it is always kept as CLEAN during our duration there. Did not take...