New Year Eve 2012

One more day till 2013.
It always feels exciting to be able to live another year.
Everyone is one year older,
Hopefully one year wiser,
One year happier.




I am having one of the best time of my life right now with a bunch of humble pies :)

Today calls for make-up!! I rarely wear them. But, today is a rare occasion.

Happy New Year everyone!

Scones

I made scones today. I had it with the extra cream cheese I had left after baking cheesecake for christmas. The combination of fresh scones with cream cheese was amazingly divine.

I like making things in the kitchen and giving it to a few of my friends to eat too.
Unfortunately, one of my friend has never heard of scones and therefore did not know how to spell it. He posted on facebook a picture of me, mispelt scones and I laughed so hard till I teared. At least he did not think it was called Stones!

Boxing Day in Glasgow

What I did on Boxing Day??

First, I walked to Nando's at St Enoch. I had to wait 45 minutes for a table. Upon being  seated, I waited for 15 minutes for someone to take my orders. Later on, I only realised I had to place my orders at the cashier. I had the Full Platter, which was one whole chicken with large fries and large portion of garlic bread. Three people, one Full Platter of Extra Spicy Peri-Peri Nando's Chicken. We were very very satisfied. Compared to Malaysia's Nando's, Glasgow's Nando's was so much better. The sauce in both countries taste the same, but the chicken in Glasgow was definitely meatier and bigger. I banned Nando's in Malaysia as the meal was always not satisfying due to the disproportional meal size vs the price. We were so full when we finished our lunch at 1pm until we did not need dinner at all.

After lunch, we went to Carphone Warehouse and then Primark. Bought nothing. Then we decided we'd rather be at home. So, we went home.

The end of my Boxing Day  :)

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Mayan forecast

Here is a picture I found about the Mayan forecast. So many people are worried that 21st Dec would be disastrous. I was told by a friend to buy extra water to keep, buy batteries and torch light amd stock up on food. People are saying that there will be no sunlight for three whole days, which means it will be freezing cold here. I remember last time when it was too cold in New York i think, the water pipes were frozen amd so some people did not have water supplies. How true is the Mayan? NASA says nothing will happen. Wikipedia says it is just a change of the era where some countries might be affected due to tsunami and earthquakes.

Latest news I read in Yahoo! Says that Malaysia will have medium sized earthquakes in the near future. Those affected would be the places which has felt tremors before. Previously, small earthquakes and tremors were know to cause damage to our country's building structure. Therefore, a medium earthquake might cause major destruction as our buildings are not earthquake safe.

Predictions - u wanna believe it and yet you also dont want to....

Half the world is probably stocking up for safety while the other half go on with their lives not fretting about THE day.

For me, I have chocolates :p

Scottish Highland Cows (Cattle) @ Pollock Country Park

This trip was perfect because the temperature was 7 degree Celcius and it did not rain. After experiencing minus 6 degrees for two days, 7 degrees felt like nothing. We walked so much in the park till halfway through I was walking without my jacket on.

This trip was perfect ALSO because I had the chance to see Highland Cows! First of all, I would like to say that if I did not follow the tour, I would think that I will just be in Pollock Country House visiting the museums and the famous maze. I would not have found the Highland cattle because we needed to walk further up to see it. There were two museums in this park which I did not visit.

The first farmland we walked by had Highland cows but the cows were really far away. The tour guide thought this would be the only chance we would get to see the cows, hence he directed us to trudge through some muddy undeveloped farmland near to where the cows were, in hopes of us getting a closer look at the cows. There were plenty of thin branches with sharp tiny torns. Thank god for jackets and long pants. I could hear the torns scratching (or maybe tearing) my pants as I walked through the path. I think someone once came to this place to poop a I saw a pile of it.

We could go no further as there was a river between us and the farm. We took shots of the cows from where we were. Very tiny shots.

When we were back on the main road of the park, we walked further up and lol behold, we saw another farmland with Highland cows right in front of our face. We spent a good 30 minutes or so just looking and snapping pictures of the cows.

The Highland cows looked so peaceful with no worries in the world. They did not moo at all. They hardly budge from their spot except one which came closer to us. The horns on them makes them look fierce like bulls, but they were really gentle. They have cool hairstyles too :P

Besides the cows, we also saw this huge tree believed to look like that due to a witch curse.

On the way back to the train station, I saw a set of teeth (i an guessing false teeth) in front of the Pollock Park sign board. It was intriguing but disgusting at the same time. Anything other than that, the park was fantastic.

I met some elves and horses wearing Santa hats too.

Losing your child....

... Make grown men weep too!

So painful to know each kid was shot more than once.

Today we start to see the pictures of smiling six and seven year olds who could go no further in life

Newtown shooting

Feels so sad to read about the scary incident.

Miss Universe 2012 - Frontrunners

I read from Yahoo! that the Miss Universe Pageant this year will be held on 19th Dec in Las Vegas. They compiled a top 10 list of 'Early Frontrunners' and I must say, some of them looked really gorgeous. Our Miss Malaysia 2012, Kimberley Leggett is one of the top 10. Truthfully, she does not look Malaysian eventhough she is a Malaysian due to her mix parentage. But, I guess if that is what it takes to try to win the Miss Universe title.... that will do. The list:

Miss Malaysia 2012, Kimberley Legget

Miss Puerto Rico 2012, Bodine Koehler

Miss South Africa 2012, Melinda Bam

Miss Colombia 2012, Daniella Álvarez Vasquez

1. Miss Universe South Africa 2012, Melinda Bam

2. Miss Universe Colombia 2012, Daniella Álvarez Vasquez

3. Miss Universe Ecuador 2012, Carolina Andrea Aguirre Pérez

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Miss Universe Ecuador 2012, Carolina Andrea Aguirre Pérez

Miss Universe South Africa 2012, Melinda Bam

1. Miss Universe Colombia 2012, Daniella Álvarez Vasquez

2. Miss Universe Ecuador 2012, Carolina Andrea Aguirre Pérez

MissMiss Universe Ecuador 2012, Carolina Andrea Aguirre Pérez

Miss Universe Poland 2012, Marcelina Zawadzka

Miss Universe Venezuela 2012, Irene Sofiá Esser Quintero

Miss Universe Australia 2012, Renae Ayris

Miss Universe Philippines 2012, Janine Tugonon

Miss Universe Croatia 2012, Elizabeta Burg

Non-biological twins

I read an article saying that Everybody has a twin. While reading it, I thought the pictures were amazing and it was pretty cool to have a twin. In my mind I thought, they would be bestfriends! But when I finished reading the article, I recalled a time back in high school when I had a schoolmate who looked like me. Well, at least that was what most people said. I remember resenting having someone who looked like me. I avoided her like a plaque. I did not want to get to know her at all. We may look alike, but we do not have the same character. Generally, people's assumption when there are twins is that, they behave the same way and like the same things. Ask me again why I detested knowing that I had a lookalike - I do not know. Maybe its like having another girl wear the same dress like you at a party and you thought your dress was the prettiest until she wore it too??!!

But, of course, NOW I think it is cool to find out that you have a non-biological twin. Just do not expect them to be best of friends. See more pictures here: DAILYMAILUK