Saturday, July 17, 2010

Jack and Jill went up the hill...

... to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
and Jill came tumbling after...

I apparently drove Toni crazy with this song. I was singing happily (over and over again) as we hiked up Pointe de Miribel.. which was about an hour away from Geneva across the French border.

As soon as I got out of that bloody car, I was just like "Shit that's high".

But didn't say it to Toni (for obvious reasons). But! The walk was 'shockingly fine' for me and my short legs.

From time to time, I stopped during the walk pretending I was looking at the view... but I was actually out of breath. LOL. Hopefully, Toni didn't notice.

One of the many cows chillin' on the mountain. I took pics of their uhhh landmines of poop but decided not to post them up, just in case the prophets of vomit decided to pay a visit.

Aww wild pink roses...

Perverts! stop checking out his ass from here. LOL

What I initially thought were tombstones turned out to be just posts to give respects to Virgin Mary.




A statue of the Virgin Mary right at the top.


A sneak peek of Lac Leman.

Overall, no complaints from me... before, during or after the hike. It was 'shockingly awesome' (my current catch phrase)... hence I sang the same wonderful song all the way down the mountain... :-)

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Rising Shuffler

I'm putting up this post because it's awesome.
My brother noodles can shuffle... a dance era way after my generation... (and yes i suddenly feel old after saying that). The boys in my generation who COULD dance had gay moves. LOL
Well done, boy!

... and this song rocks!~

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

So close...

Jon Mclaughlin - voice of an angel...
This totally deserves to be posted in my blog. :-)

Saturday, July 10, 2010

ASEAN Sports and Family Day 2010

The Philippines was the event organiser for this year. Well done, guys!

The Brunei tent.

i LOVE kuih mor... Thanks ka hjh kam, delicious!


The lucky draw prizes contributed by each mission.

Winners of the bowling - ladies team

The winners of the dart competition!! Congratulations!!

The highest pinfall for ladies' bowling goes to Mali! Well done!

A packet of dried mangoes, kindly 'provided' by the organisers. Ok... more like STOLEN from them... hehe they didn't seem to mind :-)

My gold medal for billiards... and an Umbrella won as a lucky draw number from Cambodia.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Dear Aprilia,


Good bye, Selamat tinggal, Au revoir, Sayonara, Ciao.

You're in good hands now.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Welcome to Isola dei Pescatori (Fisherman's Island)!

Over the weekend, we went to Isola dei Pescatori... one of the islands on Lake Maggiore, northern Italy.

We left Geneva around 9 am, drove through Bern and Luzern, then to Locarno, and took the lake drive to Baveno. We arrived in Baveno around 6 pm, left the car there and took a boat to the Island.


We would've arrived earlier, if it wasn't for this massive traffic jam in Uri. One hour in the car moving slowwwwlyyyy... for what could have been a 15 min ride...


I can just imagine how the conversation went between the couple in this car.
Wife: 'Honey, i knew we shouldn't have bought this car!'
Husband: 'It's ok honey, see? i told you we could bring everything with this car.. The boat, our bikes, the kids and the dog! Problem solved!'

The passenger behind me was obviously bored.

Locarno!

Ahhh, Baveno at last!

The day was beautiful one second, and then... it hailed the next!

One of the hail stones that came with the rain.
Isola dei Pescatori - The island on the left

Charming..!




The island opposite ours (yes, it's now 'ours') LOL

Must be a lost Bruneian fan hehehe


St. Catarina


We took the ferry from Laveno (which was on the other side of the lake) and went back to Intra. We then drove from Intra back to Baveno.

My baby's first ride on a ferry (how cute) :-)
*i'm talking abt my car* durr

We found this awesome hiker's path on the way to Simplon Pass

We decided to take the mountain route of Simplon Pass instead of busy Bern and Luzern. Good call!




nice. oh i mean, bad.