it was our last day in pengerang and we were returning to singapore in the morning. my brother’s car was parked at changi and he had paid the coupon for only until 11am, so we had to get back before then.

my dad and i specially woke up at 6 plus to watch the sun rise at the beach. the sunrise would last only a few minutes. so we had to station ourselves there in advance, lest we miss it. this time i was hoping again that the tide would be high. and guess what? it was low tide again! i couldn’t believe that of the three separate occasions i went to the beach, all three times it was low tide!

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day 2 was a day of mostly eating. woke up at about 10am and went over to my relatives’ place for a breakfast of laksa. one of my aunts had cooked a huge pot of laksa and brought it over early in the morning.

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i woke up on wednesday morning feeling all tired because i didn’t get much sleep at all. did some last minute packing before we drove off to the changi ferry terminal. my relatives live in pengerang which is along the south-western coast of malaysia. so taking a ferry there would be much quicker as compared to driving across the causeway.

the changi ferry terminal has been revamped and the place looks a whole lot better now. they have finally installed scanning machines so that people can no longer bring in illegal stuff. before this, the policemen would just conduct random checks on people’s belongings, which means theoretically drug traffickers could get away scot-free if they’re lucky.

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hello people. i present to you version 9 of sparklette.net, titled “void“.

i try to incorporate my favorite things into my layouts to make them more personal. for example, almost every single one of my layouts features stars of some sort. now, i shall explain why i included the various elements that i did in the design.

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alrighty, i thought since i blogged all the way from my departure for bangkok right up to my last day in bangkok, i might as well blog about my return trip to singapore too.

i remember waking up early wednesday morning feeling all sad and blue as i had to leave bangkok in a couple hours’ time. the past one week would have seem short anywhere else. but in bangkok, it felt as though i had been there for a month! i realised i had already fallen in love with living in bangkok, eating from roadside stalls, commuting via public buses and skytrains.

i couldn’t even bear to leave my apartment. although it did take me a couple of days to get used to it, not having to fear ghosts at night, it had become a cozy and very comfortable home for me for the whole week.

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