italia ii_firenze - roma

291207_fab finds firenze

(as promised the continuation of the italy trip ;) wahaha...it's been exactly 2 months away from the day, it's 29/2 today, happy leap year!! and to whom which cares, arianna doesn't work today... hooray~ the software is written in a way which cannot register 29/2, yea man...)

Where are we now..... yea florence =)

Of all meals, breakfast was the one which i long for... ate plenty of bacon and scramble eggs and drank a pool of cappuccino! mamamia~

For the first night in Italy, we had our stay in Grand Hotel Mediterraneo. Can't complain, it was the most decent place I've stayed in Europe by far... clean decent HOTEL... hot shower with bath tub, uncensored TV programmes with hot babes in G-strings flaunting bouncy butts hehehe... most interesting part, was when the camera being panned to the male audiences expression... all hyped up! Entertaining can...

the courtyard next to the lobby...

Mask from the Venice

Fountana outside the hotel

It's a chilly winter morning when the moon was still hanging up there longing to meet the sun.

Here goes the first destination, the Piazzale Michelangelo Florence, where you can oversee the Duomo in distance... From then on, we're accompanied by a local tour guide, which speaks in a absolutely Italian slang English...

The view of Arno Valley - I heart most ^^

Don't you feel cool David?

Scenery right behind was deserted by the people...

Marzapane

Gelati is everywhere!! So tempting...

The Duomo

Giotto's belltower

Mr Nepturn is as strong as David... stand still in the rough winter, salute~

The marble sculptures are all naked...

and violent too...

Ponte Vecchio... the medieval old bridge~

You'd be surprised to see locks of lovers along the Arno River. It's a kinda romantic custom to reassure your relationship if you write your lover's name and yours on a lock, and then throw the key into the river... and so to signify love forever~ interesting...

Pleasant stroll along the river is certainly worth your while...

Seafood risotto... i called it half-cooked rice... cuz it's very chewy!

Lunch after a long spell of hunger, had fish filet as main course... fresh peas are the best!!! (to be continued)

=(

'seein' myself walkin' in a steady steps again...'

Until your life begins to fray

One deserve a second chance to make things better...

random wuliao ii

italia i_roma - firenze

281207_faraway voice

After another 6 hours plus of flight time, finally we arrived in Rome. I was greeted 'good morning' by a very kind custom officer, suprise surpise... =) Pretty name they have for the airportat - Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport, or better known as Rome Fiumicino Airport. ...

First meal in Italy at Cicca E Piazza... all tired and sleepy, but patiently waiting for the lunch to be served...

Deng deng deng deng!!! Let's say hi to the rock-like bread... instead of butter and bread, ate the bread with olive oil, black vinegar. *gulp

Second course - appetiser, helo PASTA!!! so highly expected authentic yummy pasta but turned out... ok... so-so... none appetising... cannot finish the dish... as it was half-cooked, rubbery, oily and tasteless... As plain as you can imagine, very unattractive meal to begin with.

The day was sunny, felt a little warm somehow... Pretty blue sky contrasting with white and pink houses, beautiful and even mesmerizing~

API - a chain petrol station in Italy. Everywhere you go you'll see Api. Don't know what it means by Api in Italian, but in Malay... by all means, let's go to the FIRE and pump some fuel... sounds quite unsafe and explosive can! And I wonder, why is petrol station always yellow, if not green??

4 hours bus transit to Florence would be very boring without these wintry scenery...

才四点多，夕阳转眼间就逝去
都还没来得及做些什么的，天就黑了……
已经踏入第24个小时没躺下睡过

but but but, here's THE MALL which made us all awake and energetic once again!!! It's a mall located in the green hills of Tuscany, did I mention outdoor? Stuffed with all the branded goods, Gucci, Prada, Tods... etc Alas, not as complete branded goods shopping outlets, as they don't sell LV here. However, managed to buy a Burberry shirt at €30!!! where else can you get this price...

Albeit freezing in a subzero temperature, shopping here was such a remarkable experience... People don't just see, they buy...

3 days after the X'mas, the deco was still hanging there... =)

The journey has only just begun...

random wuliao-ing

4 days left for 2007

271207_fri : rudimentary sense of existence.

Wake up early in the morning... winter clothes are scattered all around in piles in my room. Luggage is still left unpacked..... -___- The long awaited journey is finally here BUT take a deep breath and I tell myself... 'You still need to go to work today lor!!!!!!'


With all the responsibility that I'm having, I think I ought to be there until the last minute somehow... However, good thing is I'd be able to leave after noon, YIPPEE... V^_^V For the first time, I have the feeling that once I step out of the office, I would never come back again...byebye work... byebye...~ haha...


Here I come my precious one week break!!!
"You're sixteen going on seventeen~~~" (chanting in the air)
心情开心到要飞起来

^^

...
Of all important moments in my life, taking a flight certainly rank as high as when you're setting out for a school trip when you're young... For the second time I'm here at KLIA, again I'm going to board another long haul flight - after a year. This time round without anyone with me except my colleagues. I suddenly missed Fei Wen and Joanne's companies =)

I'm more than happy that I'm flying with Emirates again! Their ICE system is just too cool! It's like a multimedia library housing lotsa movies, musics, games for you to enjoy throughout the journey on your control... Not like some which run on loop, if you missed it then that's it. To start off with, I've chosen Ratatouille - it's one funny cartoon hence I don't mind re-watching it =b

Not long after the plane take off, 'brekfast' is served.

This is oh-so-familiar, right Fei Wen?? hehe... and when it comes to 5am in the morning (Malaysia time), they serve what it called 'Dinner'...
-__-
Regardless of the odd meal at odd time I'm experiencing, all the meals are very delicious afterall... =) ...After 7 hours... I'm having 2 hours transit in Dubai airport with my half-awake brain and tired body. After a cuppa refreshing coffee, I then start digging the Lonely Planet book. *the perfect match bookmark - cutey aeroplane given by Lou Fuu (as shown in the pic) has become 'wing-less' now after the hardship of the journey, sum tong nya...*Don't you be surprised if you stumbled upon... something in white in the Dubai airport... like this...? These people in white are lying around at almost every corner in the airport, just be cautious to not step on them will be good enough... ...Some says : Bad news is time flies. But good news is you're the pilot. Yes time flies, yet I'm ain't no pilot. After the 2 hours, the plane departs to the final destination. Again, one meal is served after another... breakfast and lunch. Just to let you how long the flight is taking... let alone the entertainment one can have in flight, to be sitting there straight the whole night with limited legrooms can really drive me crazy!!! If not for the sake of Italy, can be really tiring too...

When lunch is over, peek outside I see the matchbox houses, I know the plane's going to touch down the land soon... Would you stay tuned with me? =) Take Florence as the first stop!

di roma

venezia, its where iàm now... living at a hostel by the roadside... more like highway, but with such a prize, itàs considered good. clean and really helpful staff... iàm still in a piece altho all alone, worried not =) just being a bit lost in venezia, crossing countless bridges and small alley, literally map is quite useless here... kawan i missed u all too in msia, i missed my mama and family the most, and also the food already... dinner time... ciao...

那首歌

121207, wed : gloomy_

6.40am_ 踏出公司的那个早上,天空比我想象中的还亮得早. 从镜子中望着一个22个小时不睡觉的我,差点认不出自己.

9.00am_拖着一个不属于自己的身躯,我开车出门. 浓浓的粉底加深紫色的眼影暂时掩盖了一切.我一直告诉自己,再忍多一下吧,一切都会过去的. 一路上太阳暖暖的照在脸上,我相信其中那3秒我是睡着的. 感恩我还活着...

1.50pm_接近尾声了,the last brand plan of all five,宛如戏剧般的我竟然夺门而出(从来没想过这句话可以运用在我身上-__-)因为终于,我忍不住呕吐...一切不愉快的,难过的,都让我用力地一次吐出,无比畅快...

..........什么时候才可以结束这样的日子,然后以孩子的姿态阔步向前走???..........

谢谢一直关心我,对我不离不弃的朋友 - 半夜送我去看医生的你, 一直叮咛我不可以一个人走去停车场的你, 陪我吃晚餐的你, 打电话说冷笑话逗我笑的你, 陪我一起失眠聊未来的你......我统统都收到了;

感激一路走来陪我加班,一起吃晚餐,帮忙我的同事们;

感激你感激我的老板lorraine,我从你身上学了很多;

还有一直不断鼓励我的哥哥;

最后,我的弟弟,妹妹,爸爸和妈咪... 没有你们我根本熬不下去,我不知道我还会在哪里...

3.00pm_我开始昏睡. 辛勤劳作后感觉的疲惫,其实异常快乐...(我是疯了吗?...zzz)


131207, thu : mc - a day of darkness_

停电的下雨天,在家里睡得非常安稳...

倒数着,还有两个星期,我就可以暂时逃离这个绝望的城市,回到过去,飞往一个陌生的城市,不去牵挂任何人.


141207, fri : tgif + where are you xmas? + rain rain rain_

期待非常的星期五终于到来,公司里陆陆续续添上了圣诞装饰,同事在我面对的落地玻璃喷了个雪白的merry x'mas =) 我开始感觉到新的一季即将来临.

很久没见了朋友. 我离场后再回来,一切好像已经面目全非. 感到无能为力之际,我什么也帮不上.

这是一个太多感情贯穿的年代, 你我他都受过伤. 我固执的认为,一个人最悲伤的时候,自然的你会忘了如何表达自己有多难过. 我不想同情谁或谁,我想你会懂的. 因为我还是站在你那里.


151207, sat : enchanted...

不经意的发现了这个消息时,我不知道我要如何说句话来安慰你...仿佛一个星期前,当表弟告诉我他外婆过世的时候...除了替他难过以及献上悼念,我都希望留下的人,伤心过后就更要好好的活着...

回想起当年,当我正经历着你所经历的一切时,我一句话也听不进去. 闭上眼睛,想着忽然离开我的外婆; 闭上眼睛, 脸上又湿了一大片...当时的世界只剩下眼泪...

希望你能真正休息好,走更长的路...

华灯初放的黄昏,我也好喜欢.

你是我的眼

Not that you need to know but I have a odd habit of repeatedly listening to song I like 9-11 for hundred times. 9 to 11 basically reflects the working hours that I'm leading now. Lately my favourite, 《你是我的眼》rendered by a very new and young budding singer in Taiwan林宥嘉.I'm really engrossed with it and I can't help. As the song title it means : you're my eyes, literally it tells a story of a blind man, the original singer and composer behind the song.


On a totally different note, not as frequent as nowadays that i'd pay visit to my hairstylist...once a month at least and have a rather mundane and unnoticeable trim each and everytime. At the end of the day, i think i changed a little with a new parting. It is not something to be proud of nor to be flaunted about, as it looks all unnatural and bald. Anyway, i believe that some good might have come of it. A change, for better or for worse, make you a more adaptable person to things which you think you couldn't get rid of, in fact you can really do it.


Already the weather is growing chiller with the rainy season arrived... It seems to me the zeitgeist has been passed for the longest time and with it I'm getting more and more deserted. Home turns into a hotel for me to eat, bathe, sleep... it is a vicious cycle. I was forced to put my foolishness behind and being left aloof. From time to time, I'm trying to find the strength within to stagger further. With my eyes pinch shut, I didn't smell the love in the air; I'm mute to any comforting words; I didn't show up and let you cry on my shoulder; I didn't comply to what I have promised... I tried to pretend that I'm careless to everything, I tried to pretend that I didn't feel hurt by these...


Fallen into one drinking spell to another, I listened to the sounds of muffled laughter of you people. Hats on and hair down, you move your body slowly to the pulsating dance floor, with the luring neon lights, smoke, rapidly emptying glasses and the hardcore party music, you were out of your mind for a while... Gazing mistily at myself from the reflection of the mirror. I realised that I'm one of you.


Here I wish you nothing but the best.


Merry Christmas...