My LittleXiaoTao is now 2 1/2 years old!

After much consideration…deciding between Canon powershot, Panasonic Lumix (again?) and Canon Ixus…checking on reviews online for days… Finally! I made my decision on Canon Ixus 80!

Ixus 80 comes in 5 colours, i wld prefer the brown one cos the color is unique but too bad no more stock. MS color only left with Blue/Pink and since today is the last day of Canon promo…i just go for the Pink one then…anyway Pink is one of my fav colour…:-)

—> Pink Ixus 80

Testing the digicam for the first time @ Acacia today…pretty satisfied with the quality…:)

Not too bad ya? At least to my liking:)

Happy Birthday Poem

- Written by James Lee

Once a year I get the chance

to wish you birthday cheer.
It pleases me no end to say,
I wish you another great year.

So happy birthday to you Dear Fzeda,
From the bottom of my heart.
And may your good times multiply,
till they’re flying off the chart!

Wahaha… indeed our poet… Thanks my fren!

What ’s Wrong with the taxi operators?
Super pissed!…what fare changes are the result of a depth review of the industry by the grp, which include suggestions and feedback from the public (Who? Who are the public they are talking about?)… forever quoting the higher operating costs of taxis… and the best of all, oh so it can address OUR concern on the difficulty in getting a cab in the city in the evening while encouraging call bookings to better match the demand and supply of taxis!

Craps lar! See so many empty taxis in the evening waiting for ppl to CALL THEM so can charge booking fee! Oh and is it fair? Instead of the $2 peak hrs charge, it is going to be revised to 35% of the metered fare… why not make it 50%?

I think better quit and be taxi driver lar… ! Arrrrrrrgh!!!

Very d/p with the service Hongthai provided. I hv booked a taiwan tour with them for Nov trip. At the time of booking…of cos very nice lar…friendly …smile smile, I was told that if there is any cancellation, they will inform 2 weeks in adv. Well, last fri is exactly 2 weeks, yet no one contacted me. I called up earlier that week to chk confirmation, was told only 6 so far. Ok lor i wait for their call. I went down on Sat to chk confirmation of booking, either to pay for balance amt or get refund for tour cancellation (min 10 to depart) and chg to another agency.

So i went down with my mother. I asked if the tour i booked confirmed. The tour consultant happily said…"normally during sch holidays one are confirmed"…ok i smiled bk and told her that i have called lately and understood that there arent enough participants. She paused for mins then told me "ya the tour is not confirmed". Of cos i asked for the deposit refund so i can hop to join another agency.

Then that lady consultant told me that she cant decide and ask me to wait while she asked her officer to serve me. Wait lor, officer arrived, nv say anything, kept checking the PC and look at my confirmation doc….answered a phonecall, let us wait like nobody biz. Then told me that i got to wait till Mon as they got to sort out something and only can confirm on Mon if the tour is confirmed. >_<

I was quite angry already…in the 1st place they dont even bother to call me! i told them i hv booked my ALs and thus if this is cancelled i need to change to another agency. She kept repeating herself that mon will give confirmation. Fed up! I am not someone who will find trouble outside but this time i am really damn HOT! So i questioned..meaning you yourself isnt sure that the trip will be confirmed right? So do you mean if tour not cfm, i have to come down again on mon, do refund procedures and go hunt around for another agency? Do you think i am very free to come down? I think my tonality wasnt too good so the consultants nearby were looking at us…haha but i cant be bothered cos it up to my boiling point.

Eventually they agreed to the cancellation refund but show me a black face throughout!

Lousy service…think twice before booking with them…

Last Sat, i attended kokkok wedding at Plaza Parkroyal Hotel.  Yest i attended another Income fren’s wedding at Le Meridien - Jenny aka "bian fuxia" (bat)’s wedding…

I could see the happiness on her face…haha…the important day finally arrived! Yesterday dinner also seemed much like a mini Income Day. Yeah it is true! More than 1/2 of the guests were from Income! It was quite a relieve to many that our CEO couldnt make it to the dinner as he is in overseas…:p

Oh this was also the first time i saw Wawa and elvina in makeover (they are the Jie Meis) !!! Elvina looked great with hairdo/makeup and her sexy dress!

Took some pics with my hp yest…

// The bride…isnt she gorgeous?

//Wa, bride and I… at the hotel bridal room

//Wif Elvina, Eve & Mixue

Had been excited about the trip…mainly to visit their Angkor temples and to see how’s life for cambodians. It had not disappoint me. I see for myself both beauty and sadness in this place.

Visited both Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Different experiences in both places.

Siem Reap

A laid back place despite their famous Angkor temples. Most of the inhabitants are farmers. Compared to Phnom Penh, it seems to have more poor people around in Siem Reap.

There isnt any tall building around in Siem Reap. It was said that their govt has set the rule that buildings cannot be taller than 4 storeys. There is no factory in Siem Reap too. Reason: To show respect and to preserve their famous Angkor temples. (One of Cambodia’s main source of revenue is from tourists)

Ancient Angkor Thom Temple and Angkor Wat Temple (ex-7wonders of the world) left the most impression in me - Kingdoms of ancient Cambodia…amazing structure! Beautiful!

We also visited their floating village - Kampong Luong. You will see floating houses by the lake…you will hear buzzing motorboats, childrens voices and dogs barking. There are school, church (build by korean christians) and souvenir shop in the floating village. Children will hop from their motorboat to our tourist boat to sell Bananas! haa. Residents there drink, bath, wash their clothes with the same lakewater- yellowish and muddy. Quite poor thing. So children will beg you for water.

In Siem Reap, you will see more beggers including childrens. Oftenly, you see small children wearing no clothes. Very poor thing. But they are smart ppl ok… besides their khmer language, they learnt other few languages like mandarin, jap, eng… so when they asked you for money or food, they converse in mandarin to you. Amazing right?

Phnom Penh

Different sight of Cambodia. This place has some similarity to Vietnam, lot of motorcycles. Mainly chinese living here. Bosses from other countries like Taiwan, China invested in factories here.

If you have a weak heart, i will suggest you not to visit their killing field (Cheong Ek) and Toul Sleng Museum. These are sad places…esp Toul Sleng. This place confirmed is haunted cos when you entered you can feel as if hair standing.Toul Sleng used to be a high school but was later taken over by the Khmer Rouge as an interrogation and torture centre to purge Cambodia intellectuals and anti-Angkar ppl. They are many ways to torture ppl till death, i shall not describe over here, i can just say the methods are inhuman!!!

Quoted from the leaflet-The regulations of the prison:
1. You must answer accordingly to my questions. Do not turn them away.
2. Do not try to hide the facts by making pretexts of this and that. You are strictly prohibited to contest me.
3. Do not be a fool for you are a chap who dares to thwart the revolution.
4. You must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect.
5. Do not tell me either about your immoralities or the revolution.
6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all.
7. Do nothing. Sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no orders, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something. You must do it right away without protesting.
8. Do not make pretexts about Kampuchea Krom in order to hide your jaw of traitor.
9. If you don’t follow all the above rules, you shall get many lashes of electric wire.
10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.

OH…one of the tour mate captured a pic with a soul reflection…. she showed it to us… we zoomed in to see and it looks real…damn scary…

Sounds like horror story telling…haha..anyway there are shopping markets in Phnom Penh - Central market and Russian Market. Better to shop in Central Mkt cos Russian Market is too cramped, dark and very warm.

Though i believe i wont be visiting Cambodia in the near future, but definitately i would say this place is worth visiting…you wont regret.

Looks like i have wrote a long story….wahaaa…. anyway for photos i have uploaded on the left     <—- photo album. Check it out!

Yes this is how you will be greeted at the Cosafe Maid Cafe. Their greeting is quite long actually …but all in jap except "I am you maid for today"..haha thus could only understand this. My jap all returned bk to my jap teacher:p

This is the 1st cosplay restaurant in sg…with "maids" being their main feature. Theme seems interesting…but actually not really interesting…. they are just waitresses in cosplay costumes lorz. We seated inside as someone expecting rain lorz…but actually outside ambience is better….

Our purpose there was to celebrate our dear pek’s belated birthday! Oh he got himself a gf and we are so happy for him! The whole night, we are trying to dig out more information on his gf! It was soooo difficult cos he wasnt very cooperative you see…. it took patience and skills to dig out the info! Arrrrghh..

The price is quite on the high side despite food so so…not very impressive and someone complained hungry on the way home!!! But CHIJMES leh…expected the price.

Oh yea….we took some pics with the pretty "maids"!

Back from my vacation yest mo…. feeling quite sianz… holiday is always too short and today i am back to work again….:0 i am a lazybum…haha!

Went on a guided tour to Beijing/Tianjin/Chengde with my parents and sis….my bro cant join us due to his attachment…

Well cant really say i enjoyed my trip alot…. i wld say i prefer Shanghai than Beijing though…

But one good experience…i finally climbed the Great Wall of China!!! HAHA! Not easy you noe….i only managed to climb up to the 4th stage….so as my tour grp… :p Maybe if got time…can slowly climb up to the top…

Trying hard to smile…:p

Anyway China is so damn lotsa walking…by the 3rd day…. my legs already cannot make it…..haa!!

I miss the so called roti prata there….damn nice lorz…prata with egg, topped up with sauce and vege. If you are staying at the auspicious cultural hotel @ beijing, then you must not miss this street stall. I had it twice…

The "Roti Prata" couple

As for shopping…quite dissapointed….not very fashionable you noe…. and alot of imitation goods like bags/shoes/clothes. Got to learn how to cut price cos their price is terribly marked up high above the sky… they can quote $1000 RMB for a bag and you can cut to $80 RMB…for shoes they will quote something like $280 RMB and you can buy at $40 RMB…see the diff? Always the same trick they play…you walk away and they will call you back….

Got to say something on their toilet…OMG….i saw one open toilet…open i mean OPEN….i screamed and ran away…. even if you are lucky to find toilet with door…many are w/o lock… even if with lock…. some ppl dont even lock the door!!! Sometimes accidentally i push slightly and see someone there with half moon…i so paiseh and said sorry but the person has no reaction! OMG!

And ya…. Vincent Ng, the mediacorp wushu artist boarded the same flight as us! He was siting just one row behind us….!hee

Great to have spent 8 days with my family…..i am looking forward to one day when my whole family can go holiday together…:)

Uploaded some of the photos at http://fzeda.blogs.friendster.com/photos/beijing_jun07/

If you have seen me recently, you prob will see me wearing my toot-toot specs….. omg….i hate it and am not used to wearing specs (except at home)…. why? cos i kena red eyes abt 2 weeks back and i wonder y…. now i finally got the reason! my gosh…

Luckily i read mypapers today, i saw the recall announcement for a contact lenses solution and OMG that’s the brand i have been using…. I tot it’s the lenses prob so i threw away the lenses and changed the solution (which is again this brand!) and now then i know that the problem lies with the solution! From what is written in their announcement, it may even leads to possible vision loss eventually… damn it…i wld nv trust this brand anymore!

I wish i could fully recover from my red eyes very very soon before my trip…haiz…

Sounds damn "Suo Gu" but i am experiencing for the 1st time wireless surfing at home! what a joke!

We used to own only 1 pc at home…thus it cld be quite frustrating when both want to use the pc… a laptop with wireless connection will solve this issue we suppose.

Anyway kinda wrong choice to buy dlink router as it is not compatible with vista (got to say….vista is not so user-friendly though)…we tried for days and yet cldnt work. So we gave up and got the IT expert to help (what a waste of $$$!)….in the end realised it is the router issue! Omg shld have just bought linksys router as my IM neighbour recommended in the 1st place! So finally we topped up $$ for linksys router and it works well now! Thanks God!

Hippee! I am luving wireless service!