Saturday Work Play Outfits.

So yesterday after the crab-fest, my sister went to work (she's an English tutor) in these.

By the way, those sunnies are mine...

And here I am preparing to hit the mall.

In my favorite dress of course :)

The switchboard at the crab place. Impressive. How I love old stuff!

Ah.... getting ready for Monday again. How come weekends go by so fast???



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Daddy took us out for crabs.

So yesterday dad took us out for crabs. He was reading about this place from the paper, and it wasn't that far, just around Phan Fa area, and it's called Phan Fa restaurant. The place was so old-school. You know, not much decor, tiny and steep wooden staircase, and waiters who looks like they've been there for 30 years. Oh, and the grandma sitting near the restrooms. Anyway, they're known for crabs and chicken rice, so this is what we got:

This was sooo good. Juicy and the meat was so fresh!!!

I had half the plate :P . Really.

The chicken rice. Not that special.

Crab claws. Yummy yummy.

Seaweed and tofu soup. Also good. They put in minced chicken which was nice.

Tacky crab decorations on the walls.

And my sister the crab claw model. Haha.

Overall, it's great for taking your family. Grandparents would feel right at home. And the service was good too, we could be kind of picky but they were fast enough. Also, they have really delicious pomelo (which we brought home) that was so juicy and sweet (too busy eating to take pics of the pomelo though...)

I was intending this blog to be a lifestyle blog, but I seem to just concentrate on food!!! Whatever makes me happy, right?

Love you readers :)

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We eat like we mean it.

And after a looong day, me and Jip changed and went out to eat. It's called ก เอ๋ย ก ไก่ Kor Euy Kor Kai and it's the best neighborhood coffee shop/rice place I've been to in a while. They're really nice there, and the second floor where we were sitting doubles as a book store while there's a ping-pong table on the third floor! We were just hanging around eating and reading magazines :P

So there's Italian soda, my green soda, her rice/omelette/tom yum goong
and my pork and rice with miso soup. Yummy!





They got the BEST cha-yen, Thai iced tea. Honestly.

Then we literally stuff ourselves with waffles. Full full full.

Her hungry face I guess. We haven't eaten yet when I took this.

And me. Happy to be eating :P

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Sisters on the way to work.

Well, not exactly work today. I had a training course, and my sister was all dressed up prim and proper to apply for a stewardess post! Anyway, I thought we looked kind of nice this morning, so here goes...

Jip, with her hair in a bun and the knee-length skirt.

And me, with my favorite school-girlish polka dot dress.

And us. I was almost late to the training though... Hahaha

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Sisters.

So today I came home, and found my sister in the most adorable outfit! She took the pants from grandma's closet(!), actually, she took about ten of them. Not joking. And she's been wearing them to work everyday! Leave it to her to recycle these things and make them look so nice!




Sigh. I want half the things in her closet, but unfortunately am too big to fit into them :P
I borrow her shoes without telling her sometimes though. Shhhhh...


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Dreaming of the Beach.

Last year I took a four-day diving trip with some friends. We went to Koh Nang Yuan, and 8 hours on the bus and two hours on the ferry later, there was paradise. These pictures don't do the place justice. The water was so clear, and the killer view... ahhh..

Sunny mornings on the island.

This teeny tiny island got only one resort, so we didn't really have a choice :P

Me with long hair tied back.

Jeab, my best buddy.

The long and winding path from our bungalow.

I seriously need a vacation!!! But until then... I can fantasize :)


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Slaving Away Sunday.

Sunday came around and I'm still at the office for the third day on my 8am to 9pm shift :( Anyway right around six o'clock I got really depressed, wandered here and there, then decided to venture up to the roof. It was sunset, and I had all the space to myself! Whew finally some time to breathe!!!






Took this with my iPhone, film would have been much better though, sorry about that....

I still have a busy week ahead, so let's see if I can actually get to take any pictures at all!!

On a lighter note, this evening my brother asked me to sew this thing for him, as one of its eyeballs was falling off....




So I took the liberty to upload it here... hahaha it's kind of cute in a creepy way. Wouldn't want to wake up with this on my bed though, but my brother loves it to bits.


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Say it again.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Oh, how I love that book. Heartbreaking and so real. Jonathan Safran Foer always knows how to touch you in that spot where you can't explain, then put it into words and stories. Like this one.

I should be reading more, really. Once I find the next perfect book to cuddle up with on a rainy afternoon, while nibbling on homemade (and hopefully not bitter) brownies...

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Sci-fi world.

I love science fiction. Especially ones about travelling in space and time, or about the future. My favorite childhood film, apart from The Sound of Music, was Back to the Future.

I'd say simple is the best. I didn't need that much CG to believe we could actually time travel! And these two were soooo funny.

"Doc" and Marty.

And, growing up, I was fascinated by Gattaca (and Jude Law, of course!). This could become the actual future, who knows.... all those stuff about DNAs are coming true anyway.

And the last scene is perfect. How we all came from particles of the stars. Speaking of which, Ethan Hawke was also in (actually he was the leading actor. But I just like Jude Law and Uma Thurman better than this pretty guy).

So the last film for this post is Daybreakers. Vampires are all the rage now, from Twilight to True Blood, but Daybreakers got that scientist element that I just can't resist. And I wasn't disappointed at all. Ethan Hawke was great, and I think they used enough blood to drown the theater!! How cool would it be to have coffee stands, where you get a choice of how much blood you want in that morning (or rather, evening) coffee....

Harvested human. Bad joke, huh?

..Ting, sci-fi freak

Forgotten dream.

I'll tell you one of my dreams

I was at the beach in a frilly, fantastic white dress,
puffy and revealing my shoulders,
just the way I like it.

I knew I was waiting for someone, but I was all alone.
Then a littel a girl walked past me, wearing a tiny red bikini.
She asked me, "Can you give me wings?",
I said, "Honey, I'm not an angel, I can't".

She tug on my dress, she must've thought that was
what I was because of all the whiteness against the sand.

I suddenly wanted to get wet, so I took off the dress, but the girl was gone.

I laid down on the white sand, looking at the clouds.
Strangely, there were leaves, green leaves, floating in the sky.
They whirled, they danced, never falling.

I closed my eyes........





..... and woke up to the world.




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Ting and Alice.

It's Tuesday night and I'm doing a night shift at the office. Anyway, yesterday was grueling Monday, so I just had to wear something nice. I happily put on my thrifted blue and grey dress and white stockings to go to work. And yeah, someone actually said I look like Alice in Wonderland ... hmmm should I be happy or what???

white tights

heart-shaped necklace

and me, in the editing room :P

I'd say it was a happy Monday.

So today I just took it easy, going to the mall with my girlfriend who got a facial massage while I browsed the bookstore, then we hung out at home and sang karaoke... I sucked but she had to bear with me anyway!

Then I came to work, just to go out for midnight noodles. It was pouring and flooding, and sooo awkward having to fold my jeans up, wade through the water to eat! Well, me and my co-workers got back to the office in one piece, but I got kind of wet so I hope I won't catch a cold later....

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All you need is love.

And love is all you need :)
I love The Beatles, but I'm amazed at John and Yoko's love. Just watch this. And these pics...






"and woman hold me close to your heart, however distant don't keep us apart... cuz after all it is written in the stars..."

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It had to start somewhere.

I confess. I had zero clue about baking. But I love chocolate, so that was where I started, from my chocolate lava cakes.... and it was like a beginner's luck, the first one came out great! Then the others were everything ranging from good, okay, to downright bad I had to toss away! Anyway, now my oven and I are one pretty food terms (took a while for me to realize the temperature is actually too high, so I had to turn it down from the recipes), and I'm being more patient and careful. Well, I still got a lot to learn.... but this was one of my first.


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Beautiful as heaven.

Say not, "I have found the truth,"
but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul."
Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

-The Prophet, Khalil Gibran

Simply beautiful. When I read The Prophet, I just let the words flow around me. It would linger, and life would seem more meaningful.

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First One Ever...

Just popping in to say hi...
I live in Bangkok, and I like baking, yoga, thrift store shopping, old smelly bookshops and photography.

Yesterday I had a free afternoon, so I baked some marshmellow-walnut-chocolate chips brownies, which didn't turn out so moist like I wanted them too, but it was an improvement from my last bitter bitter brownies :P

Oh, and I didn't run out of marshmellow, the walnut-only ones were for my dad. He just loves nuts so much that he'd actually pick them out of cookies and brownies (which was exactly what he would do if I don't make them like this!)

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