Because I shopped till I droptoday

Usually when someone ask me what I want as a present, i'd say, "Anything" or "No need"

But now, all i want are dresses

just to say..

It snowed today!

;)

The Script - The Man Who Can't be Moved

I visited Claude's site and heard this song on his site.
It sounds really good.

didn't think the song's title would be "The Man Who Can't be moved" though.


AND.. I can't stop watching this video again and again!



So CuTe!!

The weather

Oh gosh I can't believe I have to rely on weather.com everytime I need to go to the mall.
Thunderstorms tomorrow
:(

Back in KL, no matter rain or shine, I'll be able to head over to the mall. I've never logged on to weather.com at all in KL.

Oh, why does Short Pump mall have to be outdoors??!

Seattle Trip (Day 2)

I'm actually writing about Day 2 on Day 3. I thought of trying to blog before the day ends, but Day 2 was a long day and the fact that I am still jet-lagged doesn't help at all. That means, when it is only 9pm in Seattle (12am in Virginia), my brain is dead and I'm terribly sleepy as bedtime in Virginia is 12am for me.

I would say food played an important role on Day 2.

Jet-lag made me wake up at 7am while my sister and friend were still in slumberland till 10am. Thank god for wifi in the room. We left to Chinatown at 10.30am.

We had dim sum at Jade Restaurant. It took a excruciating long time for us to get a place to sit EVENTHOUGH we made reservations! Well, everyone who were there made reservations too! There were humans everywhere standing around, waiting patiently, with ears wide opened, hoping in great anticipation whenever a table leaves, that the hostess will call their reservation name.

Suffice to say, the place was PACKED! We had to squeeze our way through the front door, squeeze our way to the hostess stand, and I had ti squeeze my way even when I wanted to settle the bill.

But, the squeezing was all worth it as the FOOOOOD was AWESOME! Siew mai, and ha kau was the best I've had in USA. The fried yam was good but it was served cold. The two had checheong fan and some pork. I only stuffed myself with radish cake, salad prawn, and the steamed stuff.

The one chinese lady who served us was attentive and quick too! :)

After dim sum, we headed to Umi something supermarket to buy junk.
It was an asian supermarket. we bought yan yan, and Pocky.

There were also some cute buddha banks for sale.

From Chinatown we went back to rhe hotel, parked the car then walked to the monorail five minutes away and headed to Seattle Center where the Space Needle and museums were located.

I think paying USD15 for the Space Needle was a disappointment. The Space needle wasn't high enough and I didn't feel like the view was fantastic from up there.

Then we headed to the Museum of Music Project. Took some pictures around the building but decided not to go in.

Next was the Pacific Science Museum. A pretty interesting museum. Science is always interesting ;) There were kids everywhere playing with all the exhibits.

We spent about three hours in the museum. It was a nice place to visit.

We had dinner at a restaurant called The Crab Pot. It was an early dinner. But again, we had to wait for our turn to be seated. The place was busy too.

In crab pot we had two orders of Alaskan platter, crab bisque, mushroom crab cakes and a mudslide cake to end it.

The Alaskan Platter consists of two types of crabs, oysters, shrimps, mussels, sausages, baked potatoes, and corn. The corn was really sweet and juicy. The whole platter was delicious but I'd go back because of the corn!

Before the platters came, the server placed a huge piece of white paper on the table, gave us Crab Pot's bips, a wooden plate, a hammer, fork, and then poured out the whole platter of seafood onto the table.

We definitely had a feast!

Unfortunately..........

When we got to the hotel, my sister started puking and had diarrhoea. Through the night she puked four times.

Then again today, day 3, she puked once more even after Cory and I bought medication for her to take.

So here I am, on Day 3, lazing around in the hotel room as my sister, the navigator, the driver, is sick :(

The good thing is, it's downtown, and it's walking distance to shopping havens ;p

Oh, I went to Pike's Market this morning again and bought more grapes. The grapes were extremely juicy and sweet!! I bought persimmons, an apple and kiwi too.

Seattle trip (Day 1)

I am finally in Seattle!


I woke up at 4.00am and caught the 6.03am flight from Richmond Airport to Detroit Airport.


Catching the early morning flight and booking the window seats for my flight was the best thing. As the plane took off from the Richmond's runway, the sun was rising, the sky was a gorgeous spread of orange, and the plane was at one point parallel to the orange spread. It was a sight to behold.


It was an hour flight to Detroit's Airport. The airport was amazing. There was a stretch when I had to use the walkalator to get to Gate A and there were lights blinking to the beat of the music playing. It was a pretty cool sight. The walkalator was divided to two-one for standing and the other for walking. I stood and took picture of the lovely sight. There were also a number of fast food shops in the terminal. The washroom was nice too and comparable to Changi's airport.


From Detroit Airport I flew to Seattle's Airport. At one point during the journey, I looked out the window and saw clean white snow on mountains covering the trees. It got me thinking if Seattle was snowing already.


I arrived at Seattle at 11.30am, met up with GL and Cory. It has been awhile since I saw GL and so it was weird calling her 'jie jie'. The weather in Seattle has been marvellous since I arrived. It rained a little but did not rained at all when we were touring around downtown.

We stayed at downtown, Executive Hotel. The hotel was pretty decent. Clean, two queen sized beds, a tv, and nice hot water to shower in ;p


After checking in and settling down, we headed to Pike Market Place. There was a wet market there which sold fresh looking seafood like lobsters, shrimps and huge crabs.
There was also the famous fishmongers who threw fish and sang while manning their stall.


We had lunch at Emmett Watson's Oyster Bar. It's cheap but nothing impressive. I would say Manhattan's Fish Market tasted much better than the bar. We had Captains Basket which consisted of fried seafood like shrimp, oysters, fish and fries. We also had clam chowder, which was pretty good, and cioppino, which I don't recommend as it tasted too fishy and herbal.


After lunch we bought fruits and cheese cake truffles.


In downtown, we shopped at Chef's Kitchen and I bought a couple packs of creative was candles and pancake moulds. Then we went to Sephora, a cosmetics haven! Sephora is the place where we can find Stila, Bobby Brown and other famous brands, all in one building!! It was definitely eye-boggling and we would've bought some stuff but the queue to pay was too long. We'll be back tomorrow:)

We also took pictures at a manmade falls, and went to See's Chocolate shop.

Cory and GL are sleeping now as they had a very early start driving from Vancouver to Seattle.

We'll be having duck in Chinatown for dinner later :) Yum yum

Birthdays!

Today I bought a cake from Cold Stone to celebrate Christopher's and Samantha's birthday. The cake was made of coffee ice cream, almonds, chocolate cake and topped with kit kats.









All of them were in their pyjamas as it was a school night and they were getting ready for bed.













I think it's adorable to see and capture moments when kids are devouring their chocolate cakes :P







And an older sister who bugs the kid with kisses :P:P

Halloween

Halloween








Shopping after Halloween Day

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Halloween has come and gone

Autumn has arrived and summer is gone

Looking forward for the upcoming Seattle trip *fingers crossed hoping it doesn't pour*

I'm tired