Things to cherish about 2008

Christmas has come and gone!!

Can you believe it, its the 31st tomorrow???!!! Zomg. How did time fly by so fast? I feel my days in the UK are already numbered T_T .

There are still so many things I have yet to do before 2008 is over. I guess I'll just be the bum I am and leave that up till next year. Hohohohho!

I'm gonna start a tag!!! I always complain about doing them, but not doing them for half a year makes me miss doing 'em. Its the Law of Balance people.

(p/s: Make it a picture tag!)

12 things I shall cherish about 2008

1) The day I picked up an eyeliner and glued on fake eyelashes. I should have started this since I was 18!!!.Cibai. All those wasted photos.

Those pre-bimbo days......

My microscopic eyes can finally be seen!! I look so much more chio-er if I do say so myself. Ahem.

2) My Scotland Holiday

3) My Singapore Holiday

4) My Tioman Island trip with my mates holiday

5) Seeing snow for the first time in the UK

6) Bittersweet memories (yeah, a lot has happened but I don't regret them :) )



7) Still mixing with the same old friends and making new ones




8) All those birthday celebrations

9) My beautiful La Senza panties. I love them love them love them. *kisses aaron*

10) Time spent with family, the bf, & friends b4 I left for the UK (gawd, I'm getting so sentimental)


11) Seeing Justin Timberlake dance in a leotard & heels






12) Yamcha sessions!! (I can't believe I found this pic!)

Originally I made this a 20 things I cherish but its just too much work. :(

I tag:
Eiko
Sam
Lynda
Mun Onn?

Scotland Wildlife - "Tulaness"

Scotland wildlife/animals all like to give us the "tulan" look during our journey.

Everytime we see a farm animal or some wildlife along the road someone in the car will go "EEEKK!!!! STOP THE CAR!!!" and pull over to take photos of a sheep/cow/goat/or reindeer like some animal papparazzi.




And the animals just don't get it.





For eg. we saw a reindeer while driving along the highway and I pulled into a really sharp turn to look at it!

There was a car before us just parked beside the reindeer taking photos. We were behind them in our car.

Then so creepy lor!! After the car drove away it immediately turned around and gave us this look:

which literally just said:

Driving along the road we saw so many adorable cows and hence we stopped to take more photos

Its like animals have hidden camera instincts. Lol.

Scotland - A Christmas dinner at Inverness

We had a mini-christmas dinner celebration in Scotland at Culbokie Inn once we reached Inverness. By then it was nightfall and we were all thoroughly starved from the long drive.

All set up for a christmas dinner

Black & White photos seem to make memories even more nostalgic......

Presenting our meals:

Appertizers

Everyone's absolute fav..........Looking at it I have to scoop up my saliva

The main course

The Just Desserts

Tracy enjoying her Meringues

Next post would be our stay at our very first Bed & Breakfast :P I enjoyed this stay the moost!

Scotland - How the trip started

It didn't start too well unfortunately.

We were supposed to leave for Scotland at a 11.15am flight. Everything was perfect. We left the house at 8am, took a taxi to the airport, arrived & checked in 1 hour and 30 mins ahead of time.


But we somehow still managed to miss our flight.

Looking back now, it is really really very funny.

We missed our flight not because of some paranormal activity or a catastrophe that was totally our of control, neither was it the fault of any other human because of any misdirection of the sort.

We all just plainly forgot to look at our watches and continue jabbering away with ourselves. We could have talked to 3pm and never even realised time flew by. LOOOL!!!!

But this careless mistake pushed everyone into panic gear.

Everyone got very upset (obviously!)
Weird photo moment was despite the stress everyone still had time to pose 'upset photos' for the camera. HAHAHAHAHAAHA!

Therefore,on the very same day, we ended up booking train tickets to Scotland at 11.45pm from London. We had to forfeit a whole day's car rental, one way plane tickets & and one night hotel's stay.

My mother would bitch slap me kau kau if she found out about all this.



Taking the bus wasn't too bad albeit extremely tiring. We stopped at Buchanan bus station in Glasgow where we got our car. And since we had lost one whole day's worth we had to start on our journey immediately!! This meant being in our smelly clothes for 2 days in a row. Eww.

Glasgow didn't have anything much, it was just a city with very huge, dark dirty buildings. But upon driving out of the city with our rented car we finally got to see Scotland's famous scenery for ourselves!!!

Lots & lots of sheeeeeeeeeeeppp!!

Unfortunately, it my haste to take photos of the sheep I dropped Suwen's scarf into goey fresh mud. Sorry darling!!! Luckily she brought two. But the next day she dropped that into mud too. LOL!!!

Our plan was to reach Inverness by evening, but we were all starving so we stopped by at a tiny village called 'Lass' for lunch.

In this town, I saw a real live Shetland pony alone in a fenced field. It was sooo adorable!!

Mr.Pony took an unusual liking to Sam.

Or should I say Sam's coat. LOL!!

The pony somehow started chewing on her M & S coat! God, Sammie was super pissed.

"Cibai you stupid pony!!"

Green on her beautiful white coat. Poor Sam.

We ate lunch in this small hotel. So expensiveee!! T_T

A real fireplace!! Finally! i'm si beh sick of seeing fake ones.

Please excuse my fucking scary face. this is from sleeping only 3 hours a day.

Aiyo, I forgot to take a picture of a horny ang mo uncle in the same restaurant who had a thing for Melvyn. He suddenly went up and ask us, " can I have a picture of you two?" (But I swear, I saw him glancing at Mel the whole time I was eating lunch)

More gorgeous Scotland scenery:

We later stopped at Fort William to view the Loch Lomond and Ben Nevis. But because it was such a foggy day we could not see the Ben Nevis mountain which was such a waste!!! Ben Nevis is apparently the tallest mountain in the UK.

View of Fort William

View of Loch Lomond

Going onwards driving towards Inverness!