Venice II

February 15, 2011

This is probably one of the most colorful and beautiful posts i’ve done so far.

We went island hopping in Venice so we went to Murano and Burano, and Burano is the most colorful place i’ve ever seen.

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Murano is a glass-making town. But on the day we went, nobody was working because it was a very cold winter and. And also because they are Italians -_-. People who watch Eat Pray Love will know Italians dont work. Haha it’s true to certain extend. They should be called Eatalians instead.

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Finally found someone who would make glass for us to see.

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Puffing and blowing glass at the same time wtf.

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Lunch at Murano.

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Beautiful alga. And because of this photo i almost slipped and fell inside water fml.

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Wa this is my fav photo ever. It’s a 1 euro glass shop, although it is Cheat One™ la some stuff are 5 euro or more. But  you can find cute trinkets for very cheap prices. I bought my Venice snow globe here for 3 euro <3/

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Then we arrived Burano. It is a train ride (which is also a boat ride) away from Murano. I inserted this picture, which is a google image result of “Burano” just to show how colorful it is ah.

Actually right, i don’t understand why they want to make two towns sound so similar. What if on that day the Venetians catch a cold ah, how do the people know if they wanna go Burano or Murano ah?

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Colorful!

It’s amazing all the houses there are painted different bright colors. What i also don’t understand is also, how do they decide what color to paint??? Like, there’s never a repeated color within ten blocks. So let’s say my neighbor painted pink, then FML la, i have to paint a second favorite color la?

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See what i mean?

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Pink and violet, so pretty!!!!!

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*pretend to look like someone took this picture wtf. #foreveralone

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This is Italian Madonna. Mama mia.

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More colorful haoses!

It was very, VERY quiet though. I guess Italians only eat, sleep and have sex in winter.

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Cute little shop.

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This is the most normal touristy picture of me. Normally i really hate posing liddis. At least i make an effort to put my hand somewhere. But it’s ok la cuz i’m The Tourist. Johnny Depp was quite cool to be one.

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Finished with Burano, took the train back to main island.

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This is Hotel Danieli damn pretty.

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Night time outside the hotel. Walk two more steps and i’ll drop into water wtf.

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The next day.

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Street shot.

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Finally was quite a sunny day!

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Normally when kids see me they will cry one. It’s like my name is Tear Gas fml.

But dunno why Kesha and Shinta liked me so much until my hands damn sore cuz they were holding onto them whole day long. It’s like hauling two huge luggage cases of different weight. Every 20 minutes i had to ask them to change position so that i don’t become long short limbs wtf.

Also i created the Jacket Monster and they loved it max. I hid my hands inside my sleeve la (cuz it’s so damn cold) then their cute tiny hands come in and search for mine i will nom their fingers with mine like a hidden beast. Hence Jacket Monster wtf.

So that one whole day my name became Jacket Monster wtf.

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Doggies!

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This is at a… erm… car park.

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This is pretend-to-wait-longingly-for-someone-at-the-train-station look.

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This is my-blind-date-looks-like-limkokwing-fml-lemmi-hide-behind-lamp-post look.

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I like this picture cuz i think it’s very cute!!!!

… ok la Shinta and the glass figures are quite cute too la.

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Backyard haha.

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Big alley.

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At St Marco square.

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I pretend didn’t take this picture. #foreveralone

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Gondola guys!

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#Foreveralone pic number 3.

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Grand canal.

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Jacket Monster and two victims.

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Doggie in a cafe.

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So colorful and pretty! I mask buy one of these when i come back to venice again for the carnival!

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A poster i like very very much dunno why. She’s hot.

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Shopping

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(taking a break from caption)

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A love this pic very very very much! Poor bird la but cute! It’s an Italian hound dog i think.

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Sunset

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Fake sunset.

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I think the white space is very wasted. Maybe should PS my face there.

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Night time.

Ok hungry go dinner first bai.

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Venice I

February 11, 2011

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From the airport, took a taxi to our hotel.

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Taxi put us at back door cuz main entrace no water passage wtf.

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This is Hotel Danieli  nais anot!!!!!!!! *waiting for Angelina Jolie to shashay down

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*posey

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Haih but the day we arrived was super foggy. Normally on a nice sunny day Venice looks like those in the paintings one.

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Venice in night time

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It could look a bit eerie i think. Maybe it’s just in winter time cuz everyone just go back home but they never switch on their lights one i dunno why so it’s all dark and gloomy like ghost town wtf

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But like, friendly ghost town la. *waiting to meet Casper

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The Venetian Carnival costumes. Omg so sad we missed it because it’s only happening in February every year which is like, nao T__T

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The next morning was foggy too FOL.

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But foggy and gloomy Venice is quite morbidly romantic too wtf.

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View from the famous Rialto bridge at the grand canal.

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Last time looked liddis one.

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Put hair down because erm… it’s natural scarf wtf.

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Guinness Boat in Venice wtf.

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Went to the morning market where i saw the naked bunny T_T

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Fruit market *waiting for Johnny Depp to jump down from roof.

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Lotsa fresh veggies!

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Spotted shark in the fish market!!! (pun wtf)

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Damn pretty rainbow trout. Doesn’t really show in this picture but super iridescent in real!

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Kesha and Shinta who was on the trip with me.

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Gondola outfit. Nao i know where the whole can can hat look came from!

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This is erm.. train station wtf.

Suddenly very lazy! Continue tomorrow ah.

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My Europe Fashion Graph

February 7, 2011

This is my usual post-travel style shot post. Two weeks worth of fashion diary.

Before i start, here’s a graph i painstakingly drew on Photoshop after some Herculean effort (i had to stop chatting for 20 minutes and completely shut my mind to conserve some brain cells so that i could come up with this challenging and almost puzzle-solvingly enigmatic graph).

Please stare at it for at least 5 minutes to give it some well-deserved appreciation.

As you will notice in this post, the temperature of the day in the place of my travel directly affects the whateverness and anyhowness of my awesome fashion sense.

We traveled from Venice to Lyon to Zurich, which only got colder by both location and day. The temperature was dropping as we moved on so i sort of had to wear thicker and thicker.

This is another graph to illustrate also the corelation between the day of travel and said awesomeness.

Day one is low because everyone looks like shit after a 20-hour flight. Then steadily but rapidly decreasing  from day to day, until somewhere in the middle of the trip where guilt begins to take over, hence the occurrence of a surge in graph, a result of a desperate attempt to bring up the awesomeness almost, but not really unsucessfully.

Here are some pictures for reference. They are almost all taken in hotel rooms so they are a bit blurry. I couldn’t take the picture outside, because i would have looked the same from like day 1-7 because there were only so many winter coats i brought T_____T.

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First day checking in to Hotel Danieli in Venice. It was much colder than i expected, because just a few days before we flew the temperature was about 9°C. I know if i didn’t do this Liz Lisa thing it would just sit in my luggage forever till the day i send it back to Malaysia. I didn’t exactly have a pair of matching leggings, that explains the lack of full body shot. Also because there wasn’t full length mirror in the hotel.

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Taken on the same day evening. Already put on the warmest scarf, gloves and jumper because not used to the cold yet fml.

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This is day 2. And my best effort ever. That’s why the picture is bigger.  It also deserve a longer lingering stare because this was the only day i ever bothered to put on this much make up complete with falsies and circle lens. And the only day with a conscious hair style. T__T

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So this day deserves two pictures.

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Actually, three.

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Day 3. Braved myself to wear leggings and shorts wtf. And please look away from my exploding wastline wtf.

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Day 4′s fashion was so shit i should have taken picture of my shadows instead.

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With my new Hello Kitty top i bought from Venice!

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First day in France. A brand new (and foolish) mood  trying to wear my 4 inches Liz Lisa suede boots wtf.

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Trying to look smart for Bocuse d’Or day.

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Oredi deliriously confused about the whole fashion thing cuz i started to have to repeat wearing the same things so just anyhow threw in things that i haven’t worn so that the  KGs and all the sore arms from luggage hauling didn’t get wasted T___T

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This is don’t-really-care-anymore-and-i-look-fat-but-here’s-a-picture-to-warn-the-future-me-not-to-make-the-same-mistake photo.

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Just arrived Zurich. Have been reserving my warm boots for the snow. That was me eating hotel’s complimentary Swiss snack.

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I know. If i could, i would never, ever have worn a dress with a pair of jeans. If only i could.

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Had to recycle my Liz Lisa top cuz running out of things to wear wtf *panicked

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Outfit to the snow mountain. Minus the jacket. I kind of want to give myself some credit here for even bothering to want to mix and match each day so that i look different inside when i had to the same jacket for the rest of the trip that makes me look 8 months pregnant.

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Let me praise myself again for even trying to escape that Pregnant Jacket so that i could give this it’s-really-not-that-thick-you-will-definitely-regret-this black rider jacket a chance to be on this blog since it was the last day of our trip before i flew back. Decision was made right after i checked the weather of the day— it was the coldest day in Zurich thus far (-8°C).

I survived.

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This is the same evening. Really kenot tahan so i put on my Preggie Jacket.

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Double picture to reward my bravery wtf.

AND THEN!!!!!!!!

On the last day, i packed all my luggages and wore the most comfortable clothes so i could be at ease on the plane. What i forgot was it was a night flight and we still had time to do some sight seeing. So we went to some Swiss Castle and i looked like if i squat down with a hat people will start dropping coins in fml.

This is how comfort looks like.

Thanks but no thanks. Never again.

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Eat.

January 25, 2011

Will deal with Pray and Love later. And Weight Loss.

Eat was all i want in Italy. Wise is Elizabeth Gilbert.

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After trying prawns in Venice, i’m starting to suspect that there’s something fishy behind the rock of the whole prawn business in Malaysia. All Cheat One™.

One bite and i was like “bloody hell this is how prawns are supposed to taste like?????????????? I feel cheated for my whole life FML!!!”

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Mantis prawns and other seafood!

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Squid Ink pasta

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Seafood Risotto

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Went to the morning fish market omg so much fresh seafood some of them are still wiggling one wtf.

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Squid

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Super cute wine bottle <3

In Italy they make you drink as early as 10am all the way till you pass out.

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More seafood antipasti!

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Scampi pasta

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This is the famous Venice specialty i forgot the name already! Some cod paste with corn cake wtf we ate this thing 5 days in a row.

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Squid with erm… it’s own ink.

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My fish and seafood! FML i forgot most of the name of the dishes in this blog post wtf it will just be some generic caption la like, you know, fish risotto, prawn pasta, etc. *leaves room for imagination wtf

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So here you go. Fish risotto.

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Wild Boar fillet.

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Assorted seafood antipasti ok this is getting repetitive.

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Some Cheat One™ fried dough in prawn shape for breakfast!

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Omg this is my fav thing in Italy! The Tramezzini thing! it’s basically just a sandwich pocket with super a lot of different types of yummy fillings! I can eat this everyday! And so cheap!!!

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I think this is egg and tomato

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Prosciutto (ham) and egg

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Spinach and egg. Ok i obviously love eggs wtf.

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Some other ham with some other name i forgot but omg it’s so good

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Breakfast for me was always a Hot Cioccolatta and a sandwich.

OMG the hot choc here is not hot choc i tell you. It’s melted chocolate blocks wtf. it’s so thick you almost have to chew it wtf.

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Breakfast bar! Strange lo Italians don’t do breakfast one. They just go to a shop and order an espresso and drink on the bar the go off wtf.

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Pizza time!

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Tomat0 Gnocchi

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Some shell pasta with shrimps!

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Grilled fish

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Mushroom fettucine

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Clam Linguini

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Pizza with prosciutto!

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Fruit & Ice cream!

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In Harry’s Bar in Venice that’s Peach belini that costs 15 euro a glass. And whacked all the free olives cuz oredi paid so much T_T

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Massive Pizza

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Pastry for Venetian Carnival!

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Dessert time

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I feel fat just looking at them T_T

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Marzipan in all sort of cute different shapes.

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That’s Fragolini–Mini Strawbie so cuteeeeee

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Guess what is this!!!

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It’s the coolest chocolate i’ve ever seen!

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And cheese chocolate!!!!! <3

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Errr… fish chocolate.

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Omg i love all these colorful pasta <3333

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Rainbow pasta!!!!!

I bought tons of these, i have decided that these are my Birthday Pasta. Feel so happy just staring at the colors.

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Penis pasta, anyone?

OK I KNOW YOU HUNGRY AND EVERYTHING.

Time to suppress your appetite a little.

Let me show you the Naked Bunny. Sounds kinky and naughty.

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This is how a naked bunny look like F the Rabbit’s L.

T__T

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The (Malaysian) Tourist

January 21, 2011

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Ciao Venezia!

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Right in front of San Marco square. Our hotel is just right here, Hotel Danieli, which is the one Angelina Jolie and Depp Depp stayed in The Tourist (!!!). I think!

Been walking two days two nights in cold. Because there’s no such thing as cars in Venice. You either walk or take the bus. Which is a boat. Or the taxi. Which is a boat. Or the train. Which is also a boat wtf.

But seriously walking in cold is so much better than walking under hot sun.I can walk and walk forever.

Ok pix time!

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This is Burano (another small island in Venice). Super colorful!

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Gondola!

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Just had my first gelato (Hazelnut flavor)!!!

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Venezia!

January 19, 2011

Nothing! Blogging t 4:53am Malaysian time just so i can Show My Flag™!!!

At San Marco.

Not much pictures cuz today is super foggy and cold wtf.

My first of many many many more glass of wine and Grappa to come.

Ok time to Show My Flag™ ciao.

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