Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • This is a bit random, but this article on 8Asians (again) reminded me about struggling with issues of make-up. I have long since given up on the idea of eye make-up and wear a minimal amount in general despite being told by a few older Asian ladies that I am beyond the age of needing to be wearing more make-up. 😛 I wear enough, I think! Anyway, something that has long bothered me…

  • A while back I read this post on 8Asians and thought about how Koreans love emotional drama – more so than many of the other countries I have visited. Koreans and Japanese are often compared, but I always find Japanese people too stoic and though their tv dramas attempted to be dramatically emotional, it was rare that it succeeded for me as it often felt more forced than real. In any case, this…

  • Before the summer holidays began we moved apartments from our downtown Al Serkal Towers building to uptown Guardian Towers. Sometime in March, R and I decided that we would move in together since we were always together anyway and spending the nights at one or the other apartment all the time. Since I have had roommates from the beginning, I moved to his place and continued to open my apartment up to guests.…

  • [salbumthumbs=32,3,n,n,center,] These are all the photos from my summer travels. Enjoy! 😀

  • _Hello Kitty Must Die_ by Angela S Choi So, the cliche saying of “Don’t judge a book by its cover” could also apply to book titles. However, when I was searching for something new to read on my iPad Kindle, I came across this title a few times. I could relate because the sickening expansion of Hello Kitty around the world makes me a bit nauseous. Thus in my quest to force myself…

  • It seems weird to write about normal life, but after getting in the habit of writing daily about my days, I guess it is easy enough to just carry on as usual. 🙂 My flights from Bangkok to Manila to Abu Dhabi were relatively easy – as easy as traveling for an entire day can be. I arrived late at the airport and got out pretty quickly, but was quickly given a proper…

  • _Now You See Her_ by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge While I was hesitant to read another Patterson book so soon after my last one, I was looking for a quick read for the plane rides on my way back home. This one was a quick read, which I finished in one day due to a sleepless night before my second day of traveling. The main character runs from her past in Florida…

  • _The Plague_ by Albert Camus Albert Camus (pronounced ca-moo and not cay-mus as I would like to say it) is an interesting author from Algeria. He wrote _The Stranger_ (published 1946), which I read quite a few years ago after my college friends gave it to me as a gift. I hadn’t heard of him before, but I remember enjoying the book, though I can’t currently recall the story. When I came across…

  • Well, our last day was spent relaxing with final massages, errands, etc. Overall, we had a really lovely time in Bali and were sad to see the time come to an end. The return journey took us back to Jakarta on our way to Bangkok. I headed back to Abu Dhabi from there. Here are the last pics from our trip. Back to ‘normal’ posting after this. 🙂 [sthumbs=4205|4206|4207|4208|4209|4210|4211|4212|4213|4214|4215|4216|4217|4218|4219|4220|4221|4222|4223,max,3,y,center,]

  • Hardly worth posting for today, but a little something is better than nothing they say in the blogging world… 😀 The best part of the day was getting massages – about USD6 for an hour – at the first place we went to when we arrived. They were the best. After that was dinner at our Chinese food haunt (surprisingly no food photos this time!) and dessert at: [simage=4204,200,n,center,] Don’t ask why this…

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