After a very hectic battle stablishing the employee self-service workspace application, with many long hours weekdays, dedicated weekends workforce, adhoc communications in the late nights on the devilberry, I decided to give myself some spaces to enjoy a sweet escape. I am not running away from the responsibility but I just need to destress a bit.

As such, I made a road trip to Johore Bahru and Singapore to visit friends and take some pictures. Tripping and photo shooting have been the best way for me to destress myself after I quit partying and dancing.

My holiday started on Friday. Went to shoot some photos in KLIMS, followed by shopping at Ikea to survey on the furniture price. In the night, worked on an adhoc issue from home, credits to the devilberry.

I actually had been requested to come back to work during the weekend but I turned it down, I just need a break. Saturday morning I went back to office for a while to visit the team and also organised a short briefting to Joyce, the person delegating my jobs during my absence.

In the mid afternoon, I headed down to Johore Bahru, arriving in the evening. I stayed in Johore Bahru for 2 nights, in Grand Paragon Hotel. After settled the accomodation, Seow Lin came and picked me up for a dinner at somewhere I forgotten the name. Met up with her friends, a guy and a pregnanted lady, ahhh sorry I forgotten the names as well, haha!

Grand Paragon Hotel @ JB

After dinner, we went to meet up with Danny, Raymond, Kai Chen, Zhan, and some of their friends that as usual I couldn't remember the names, at De Bali Pub. Guess what, these crazy folks took me to Singapore in the midnight because Raymond is leaving JB to Segamat on the next day and he wanted to gamble so badly. In the end, he drove us to Singapore but his stupid Garmin GPS doesn't want him to gamble, find no way to the casino and ended up we passed by Geylang and had a drink there. Ehem, sounds fishy right? Few gentlemen went to Geylang in the midnight, what is the better thing to do there? Haha, anyway we had a lady with us, so that's the best way to prove that we did nothing there! Haha!

They were trying so hard to find the way to the casino

And we ended up arriving Geylang, Garmin is playing us a trick?

It was a nice experience heading into Singapore at 1am, stuck in custom for 30 minutes and missing in the freeway for an hours or so, and ended up had a Roti Plata and Nasi Lemak supper in Singapore before heading back to Malaysia. It was already 5am in the morning by the time they dropped me off at the hotel, damn, I was so exhausted! Phew!

Quickly bumped into the blanket after shower. Forgot to display the DND card at the door and got woken up by the room cleaners at 10am, damn! I ended up slept until 3pm in the afternoon. After woke up, been ringing a few friends but everyone were busy with their businesses. Luckily I still have an OL friend who does not need to work during the weekend, again the same person, Seow Lin, who were forced to be the tour guide to Singapore again, LOL!

Arrived Singapore in the evening and we went to Clarke Quay for dinner @ Hooters, yea I just miss the chicken wings so much! But again, just like the Manila branch, they do not serve Daytona flavour chicken wings as well, sigh. And their Hooters Sling taste like cough syrup! I wonder where can I get a real nice Singapore Sling?

Hooters @ Clarke Quay

Chicken wings dinner @ Hooters Clarke Quay, Singapore

After the dinner, we went to shoot some photos at Clarke Quay. Poor Seow Lin who is not a photo shooting fan that she has to accompany me, haha! But I really appreciate the time you forked out to tourguide me, thank you very much!

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Clarke Quay

Then we headed to Resorts World Sentosa to try our luck. As usually I don't have luck in any "pian chai", that's a Chinese word, meaning to say the money that doesn't come with hardwork. Anyway it was expected thus I didn't exchange too many tokens.

Again I took my camera running here and there to shoot some nice pictures. It wasn't as nice as I wanted it to be though, I am still improving my photoshooting skill okay!? Heh!

Resorts World Sentosa

DREAMS on...

Christmas is in the air!

Universal Studios Singapore

Universal Studios Singapore

It reminds me of last year's this period, whereby I was homesick at the States, shouting on facebook that how much I miss Malaysia and wanna come back so so so badly. Guess what, now I started to miss those days riding on a Subaru speeding here and there in the States, playing with snowballs, and chilling in the balcony enjoying Shiner, the Texan beer. And also, how crazy I was to ride all the way from Segamat to Singapore to visit a friend that I didn't get to meet up for very long. Those were the days.

And here we go, the song that inspired my homesickness last year.

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