My Dec.24-29 Christmas Holiday

Christmas day just passed by. Hope you all had good memories tagged along with it. Given that I'm not with my son, my celebration was not perfect and ideal. Still, it was indeed very memorable since I'm sorrounded with people who cares. I'm so lucky that even if I'm away with my family, I strongly felt their love even on the simpliest "happy holidays" phone greeting.

December 24:

I woke up on the right side of the bed and started my day jolly. I was on a very nice Christmas spirit mood as I gave away personalized cupcake gifts. However, morning itself I started to felt sad and empty when I saw via webcam our new Manila house. Imagine this scenario - all my close relatives are there... my mom was busy cooking food for the eve's thanksgiving dinner... to top it all, my son was roaming and dancing so happily around the christmas tree... You can't help but cry right? I lost control and burst into tears - though with the consoling help of my office buddies (thanks alot guys!!!) and my mom & son's soothing sweet messages, I manage to get back on track and have fun.

4pm when we started going to boatquay for our office Christmas dinner - food was good and tequila was again unlimited. I got a very cute santa claus soft toy on the exchange gift activity. We finished around 8pm and I headed back home to change clothes in preparation for my evening party. A friend pick me up at 10pm, we thought of going clarkquay but since we can't get a decent parking - we headed of the city and went Chijmes.

Roaming around city on Eve of Christmas

Chimes until 12midnight

After 2 hours of soft acoustic music, we transfer St. James Powerstation. Too many crowd at the main club so we opted to stay at firefly and novida - we dance our heart out! It was already 2am when we went Starbucks ECP to cool down and unwind over a cup of coffee.


View of Novida from Firefly 2nd floor

Signing off by a cup of Starbucks coffee...

December 25:

Remember the "Yes Man" movie of Jim Carrey? Well, someone promised me that he will be like that on this day. Hehe...

Me: Can we eat chicken tikka and prawn masala for lunch?
Friend: Yes

At Banana Leaf Apollo

Me: Can I have unlimited ice cream both on Vivo City and Sentosa?
Friend: Yes


This is actually my third ice cream for the day

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Me: Can we cycle and roam around sentosa?
Friend: Yes

At Imbiah lookout

At the beach station

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Me: Can we have dinner and cocktail at Clarkquay?

Friend: Yes

At Ras - Essence of India

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My final question.

Me: Can you still be my Yes Man until December 2009?

Friend: Ah.... Uhmmmm.... Yes????

Me: Hahahahahaha! I'm just kidding, don't worry :)

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December 26:

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I was in Genting at 7am. Very bad news - no available room. Tried calling my friends who were there since Dec.24 but all are not answering thier mobiles (either they are sleeping or they don't want me to share a room with them :P). I was so tired and no proper sleep yet so I decided to go down KL and call a friend who is based there.

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My friend fetch me at Ancasa hotel and offered me his room for the rest of my stay. I had a decent rest until early afternoon. Started to prepare myself as I will meet some of my Malaysia officemates for dinner. Andy fetch me at the condo I'm staying and treated me for dinner. Then went office gusthouse to meet Anwar and his family. After a short chat and lots of picture taking, I left at around 10pm. I need to rest early as I want to follow my Singapore friends in Genting.

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At Malaysia office guesthouse

December 27:

Initial plan was to go genting, follow my Singapore friends and stay there until Monday morning. But when me and my friend reached the bus/ skyway ticketing station, the next available trip was at 4pm already. Waaaaaaaaaa! So we decided to book for tomorrow instead then just do city tour and mall hopping for this day. We first went to Sunway Lagoon Themepark and Sunway Pyramid Shopping Mall. Wow! Almost all stores are on 50% to 70% off - too tempting not to take a look. We also played archery there - of the 16 arrows i had, 2 were bullseye, 5 were cherry (2nd best spot) and the remaining 9 are either on the floor or on the other lane hitting paper. Hehe...

At Sunway Lagoon Water Themepark

Archery at Sunway Pyramid Mall

Had KFC hot and spicy chicken lunch then went to Midvalley Mega-mall. Watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua (yes, it's still open in Malaysia cinemas). It was an ok-ok movie, you will appreciate and understand the characters of the film if you are maybe an animal lover - or moreso, if you belong to the elite owners of pet who won't trade anything less for their top-breed possesion. Story is entertaining and some scenes are really cute, but not enough reason for me to highly recommend it to friends. Played bowling after wherein I lost more than 20 points (can you imagine that???). Lastly, we played snooker which again I lost twice.

Reached home at 7pm. Meet another common friend together with his wife 8pm for a local chinese food dinner - steamed fish, tofu with minced meat and yang chow fried rice. So yummy!

So big cinema house at Midvalley Mega-mall

Me and my friend's bowling score

Pretending I'm good at snooker - hehe....

December 28:

Wake up early so as not to be late to our genting bus/ skyway schedule. Place was so cold and foggy. It actually rained heavily late afternoon, which resulted for the themepark management to close the outdoor area for a number of times. I made the most of my all-park ride bracelet - even the very simple kiddie rides I qued. Again, I imagined my son was with me. I know how my son will react once exposed to rides, clowns and toys. Visualizing my son's excited and hyper face made me smile - don't worry Zy, mommy will prepare and plan well for our Dubai trip next year.

I enjoyed the token game booths alot. I played almost all of it - shooting, toss the coin, catch the fish, etc. So after spending 36ringgits on tokens, I finally got one medium-sized prize. Haha! Aside from the indoor and outdoor park rides, we also tried the casino slot machine (which needless to say I never won).

Boarding Genting Bus
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Skyway transfer
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Outdoor park

Indoor park

Archery again at Genting

With my prize from the token game booth

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Went back KL at 11pm. Watched several episodes of "desperate housewife" together with my friend's fellow housemates then went to sleep at 2am.

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December 29:

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Had a McDonalds breakfast meal at Puduraya. Catch a bus back to Singapore at 9am and reached home by 2pm. Now, back to reality - since I was out the whole weekend, need to laundry my clothes and clean my room big-time. Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

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Hey, any idea how can I spend my New Year holiday?