Hello, I’m Chloe and welcome to my space!
I write random stuff. I take random photos. Sometimes I do technical writing. 🙂
I’m an animal lover (dogs and cats particularly) I love taking random photos of stray cats.
I love books. I don’t have a particular book genre to read. I’m a huge fan of Mitch Albom and John Grisham, btw.
I’m also into KDramas. KPOp, sometimes.
I don’t have a proper training for writing, I just love to write down random things that pops up from my head. 🙂
This page is a work-in-progress.
YAH bless you every day!
P.S I love memes of dogs and cats.
I’ve mentioned it from my previous post that we went to one of my happy places, KL. As always, we don’t have fixed itinerary in mind. We just book our bus tickets and hotel accommodation. While we were travelling, I casually told the husband, why don’t we try hop-on hop off? I heard it’s the best way to explore a city. Yeah, sure he said.
When we arrived in KL it was 5am, the city was still in slumber. We went straight to our hotel so both of us could go to rest as well. 🙂 We didn’t get much sleep while on the bus. And when we were alive and fresh enough, we didn’t waste time went straight to breakfast and search the kiosk for hop-on hop-off so we could start our day 1 in one of my happy places!
Below are some photos I took while on the hop-on hop-off bus.
One of the reasons why I love KL is because of their food! No doubt about it. Below is not even half (i think?) of the food I had while we were there. 🙂
Just after a week from visiting KL, now I want to go back soon and have a plate of Nasi Lemak from the same shop we went to at Jalan Alor. 🙂
How’s your April so far? Mine? So far so GOOD! Well, except for the crazy weather lately, it is soooo HOT!
A little life update. I started going back to reading (again), I challenged myself to read atleast 10 books this year. Crossing fingers and toes I won’t be distracted by social media and streaming platforms so I can complete the challenge. I spent the first month of this year back home. It was such a wonderful time spent with family, relatives and friends. I hope to do it more often. I went back to Kuala Lumpur and stayed for couple of days, didn’t do much except for walking around the city. KL is my happy place.
For this second quarter, I got some things planned. I plan to sort my closet and give away the things I DON’T NEED! (actually I already started). I plan on going back to running. I plan on travelling to a new country. I hope I’ll be able to achieve them.
For now, let me start with my plans… let’s see how will I progress in the coming days. 🙂
2023 was the year I travelled to new countries and new places. It was the year that we were able to visit family and friends which we haven’t seen in a while.
2023 was the year that I drink too much coffee and slow down when I got sick in November. It was the year that I started to seriously drink macha tea. It was the year that I had too many chicken rice and curry fish head. And it was the year I regularly exercise!
I guess it’s safe to say that I travelled a lot, ate a loooot and exercise a lot last year?
2023, thank you!
January What we had for the New Year.January Better than NY Cheesecake 😛February First time in Phuket.February Hello Pattaya Beach!March Forced myself for a morning walk.March Good morning, Singapore!April Went out with housemates for a Badminton sesh.April Celebrating Passover.April Went to Malaysia and visited Ipoh for the first time.Aril And moi went to Melbourne for the first time!April Exploring Melbourne 🙂May Autumn Leaves are so pretty.May Driving around Melbourne.June Bundled up coz it was really cold.June Hello there Grandpa!July And moi is back to the sunny city of Singapore.July Tried Mahjong and it was stressful!August Oh! To be a kid again.August Exploring the other side of Singapore.September I love this photo coz I look like a uni student. heheheSeptember First time at National Museum of the PH.October Me paborito Banana heart salad.October Took the nephew for a stationery shopping.October Sister In-laws are in town!November Random night walk around Marina BayNovember Celebrating Emily and Anthony’s birthday.December Random facts found outside of a pre-school, cute.December Feeding Frenzy and Friends.
Its been a while since I read a book. Its been a while that I wanted to finish a book in one sitting. If it was not for my chores, I would have finis this book yesterday.
Its not the first time that I’ve read Lee Child, but its the first time that I wanted to finish it in one go. Maybe because of its plot? Maybe because its Lee Child? Or maybe, maybe because its been a while?
Its been a while that I haven’t smell the “old room smell“.
I used to read a lot.
Thank you Lee Child for awakening my reading interest again, hoping to read more of your books, soon.
I first heard of a cruise ship when I was in elementary school, we had one neighbour who was working in a cruise ship. But I never really knew what was a cruise ship back then, until I saw the movie Titanic.
Fast forward to March 2017, we had the chance to onboard a cruise ship. My husbands good friend was working in a cruise ship and it happened that they were in Singapore, he invited us over for a ship tour. That was my first encounter of a huge ship. I was… lost for words. It was so huge that I was scared. Good thing at that time we only toured around, never really “travelled/ cruise”. After the ship tour, I told myself… I am not going to try cruising in that huge ship, it was scary!
Six years later, here I am on-board my first cruise! Together with my husband and our friends, we on-boarded the Royal Caribbean Spectrum of the Seas. It was… an experience on another level. In this vacation, this is the first time that I didn’t really care about taking photos (lots of photos), I still have few to share though. I was there to experience the life in a cruise and I did it!
Day One
We departed Singapore on Feb. 2. First thing we did when we on-boarded was to have lunch, then proceed to tour around. Food photos deserve a separate post. 🙂
this is our room
DayTwo
The ship was scheduled to arrived in Penang, Malaysia at around 2:30pm. While waiting for the ship to dock, we busied ourselves in the different activities that the ship offers. Abby and I went to attend a morning dance exercise then we went for Bingo (which we never won). Right after the Bingo we went straight to lunch and waited for the ship to dock at Penang. We never booked any excursion in Penang, we planned to just walk around the port or took a hop-on-hop-off bus. However, when we were looking for the bus stop, the rain started to pour. 😦 We weren’t able to reach the bus stop for hop-on-hop-off, instead of running back to the ship, we decided to just relax in the nearby hawker centre. The moment the rain stopped, we decided to just go back to the ship and call it a day.
Hello Penang
Day Three
Day 3 was the day I am most excited. We reached Phuket Thailand in the morning and I was able to witness the sunrise! We booked an excursion for Phang Nga Bay. It took a 2 hour bus ride to reach the province of Phnag Nga then we need to take a long-tailed boat to see the Phang Nga National Park. It was a very good and fun experience. Our guide pointed the famous James Bond Island, and being me, don’t have a good photo of that island. After the tour we had lunch at a Muslim Fishing Village, then proceed back to the mainland province. Before going back to Phuket, we went to visited a Buddhist Temple, rest for a while then continue with the long bus ride to Phuket. When we reached Phuket, we decided to walk around the famous Pattaya Beach for a while before going back to the ship.
Phuket is one of my dream destination, me being there even for a few hours made my heart full. Will I be going back to Phuket? Definitely! I wanted to experience more of Phuket, someday.
Good morning Phuket!Pattaya Beach
Day Four
Day 4 was cruising day back to Singapore. Everyone was tired but happy. We had a blast of course since it was our last day cruising. We never planned anything on this day, the guys were at the casino while us ladies was just roaming around the ship, eating our hearts out.
Back in Singapore
And just like that, our 4 day cruise is over. My tummy was full. My heart was full. My memory bank was fuller! It was an experience I will truly remember forever. Food and shows will be posted separately. I need to gather my thoughts again, especially for the shows. I don’t know if I can find the right words to describe them.
To my husband, thank you for sponsoring this trip, without your generosity, I won’t be able to experience this. hehehehe… To Neng and Jomz, thank you for being good travel buddies and thank you for taking videos and photos for us! To Ate Ana, Kuya Jimmy and Abby, thank you for encouraging us 4 to experience this cruise ship! It was so worth it! Till our next trip again. Hoping we will be complete by then.
After the tour we had lunch at a Muslim Fishing Village, then proceed back to the mainland province. Before going back to Phuket, we went to visited a Buddhist Temple, rest for a while then continue with the long bus ride to Phuket. When we reached Phuket, we decided to walk around the famous Pattaya Beach for a while before going back to the ship. 
Random Thoughts. Random Places. Random Faces. 