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When the booming music from the Holi Hungama celebration at the field near our place nearly shattered our windows and eardrums, we finally found the motivation to fix our bikes for a ride (aka escape) to East Coast park on Saturday evening. Rode to the quieter stretch to enjoy the breeze and peace before chilling at a beach bar for some Mexican dinner. Brought back fond memories of Club Med. Salty sea breeze, yummy food, great alcohol and time standing still. Ahh... can just feel the stress melting away..

Barely 24 hours later, here I am staring mournfully at the unfinished work on my computer screen. My ever increasing workload has finally found its way into my precious weekend.

Damn, I need a drink... it is gonna be a long night.

Run: 3km

Total since Jan 2011: ..... (lost count)

PS: Just have to share this ADORABLE blog I chanced upon recently. This "stay-at-home, freelancer-for-hire and user-of-many-hyphens Dad" was so used to sticking post-it as reminders in office, he decided to use that while watching his son. Tongue in cheek blog title: Message With a Bottle

Tailored made Cheong Sam

I told myself that I will own cheongsamS eventually after we decided on the for rent option for Dang package. Tailor made from scratch. And here is my very first piece. Same seamstress as my bridesmaid dress for those interested. The only gripe I have with it is that it is too short! I want my cheongsams to be work friendly.

So onto cheongsam project #2 soon!

Scenery Resort - The outdoors

We were too paiseh to ask the Thai Auntie to shift her bag. heh...

Part of the farm is open to the public where tourists can come in to feed the sheep and do some major cam-whoring with the lovely surrounding. Not surprised to find a wedding couple doing their pre-wed shots in the resort. After all, we got attracted to Thomas' portfolio because of the shoot he did for a friend in this very resort.

As you can see from the above photos, i was terrified of the overzealous herd. According to my zodiac sign, they are supposed to be docile, gentle and meek. My foot! Or.. hooves.. as we tried to rub off the hooves prints from our tops after their enthusiastic feeding time.

I prefer the calmer ponies.

But the lambs were so cuuuute... they are liked.. little puppies... very frisky puppies...

Sorry i just had to add that photo of Yong in his favorite position. After all these years, I never really gotten over the Ah Beng crushes, I had to marry one!

Btw, for whom interested, you can actually fly in to this resort, well, if you have a private helicopter. We just HAD TO do these crazy shots on the helipad, to the great amusement of the wedding couple and their crew. (or annoyance since they had to wait to use the premise till we got our shots right; wasn't really sure, didn't really care, ha!)

And with such to die for landscape, how can we miss out the narcissistic cam-whore photos? Lovingly selected from hundreds of failed photos. 

Scenery Resort - The warm welcome

The owner of Scenery Resort pull out all the stops to transform the area into THE whimsical countryside farm. Right down to the flushing handle of the toilet bowl. No wonder Thomas (our wedding photographer) highly recommended this place. It is a photographer dream destination. You can put your camera in continuous shot mode and throw it into the air and you will still get good shots.

Unfortunately for us amateur photographers, our cheapo prime lens is so limited that we had to rely on our trusty iphone camera to capture some of the wider angle.

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(supposed to be posted on Sat morning)

Pardon the random thoughts. Need to clear my head. 

Brain can't really function very well after 2 weeks of travel and heck of a day at work yesterday. Mind still spinning from the footage of the devastation of the earthquake in Japan. I just want to crawl into bed and stay there till the weekend is over.

Election is coming. Headlines screaming of revised policies that showcase the benevolence of the ruling party. News of disputes, ugliness, dirt on the opposition parties stream in. I don't follow the politics news that closely so pardon my ignorance but shouldn't the next election date be something that should be announced way in advance and not just a month before?? I still can't get over how petty our ruling party can be when playing the politics game.

People, please vote wisely. I seriously doubt there would be any change of hands in this coming election. But we definitely need to have less voices that mimic everything the ruling party says. But more who question the integrity and motives of policies. Because we did not have that for the last few decades, we are in the unique situation where the players, scoreboard keepers and referees are the same party. How fair can that be?

Received emails from colleagues and friends that they are well and okay from Japan. Breath out. Still watching the news very closely. Having just visited Japan and that it is easily my favorite country in the world, I am devastated by the news. Being a new Christian, I can't help but read and re-read passages from gotquestions.org to answer the millions of questions racing through my mind.

Work is piling up in the office. I did a quick to-do list on Friday before ending the week and my head hurts from thinking about it. Shucks. I want to go back to Scenery Resort.

Heaven on earth - Scenery Resort

A very hot and humid one.... :P

3 hours cab ride from airport and here we are... lovingly built paradise in Ratchaburi.. Wish the weather is 23 degree instead of 33 degree though.