Fish Avenue

I know I should take this positively. I have been trying to convince myself to take it as a compliment, others have said the same too. But I just couldn't when it's too much of similarity out there.

I know I have no copyright of the language. I know everyone has their freedom to write the way they want. And I do know there is thousands or perhaps millions of blogs out there which may look similar. But there is also one thing I do know, one blog can indeed have so much influence over others' writing style when they read it frequent enough.

I love Jenny Sun's blog, I love the way she writes and her creativity. But it is never in a million years that I would want to copy her style. Perhaps copy is a harsh word, learn is the correct word. I simply admire the way people write things beautifully. It awes me to the every bit of my brain how wonderfully they can write. But it never occurs to me that I could imitate or learn the way they write. I never think that "oh, that is good, I shall use that in my writing."

I know everyone has their right to adopt other people's writing style. But doesn't everyone has their own unique writing style? It is our very own unique writing style that makes us uniquely different. It is our very own "write with your feelings" that makes us interesting. Imagine if I were to write the way Jenny Sun writes, that wouldn't be me writing with my feelings. Because I would have Jenny Sun in my mind all the time, how she writes and what she uses in writing. This is Ashley writing with her own feelings, nothing else.

What's the purpose of blogging? Different people have their different purpose.

Guess I have said enough of my purpose of blogging, I simply want to remember what happened in my life and how I felt at one point of time.

Do you have your own unique way of writing? Or are you a follower?

Writing this out has once again helped me collected my thoughts.

Yes, I feel great now when I know there is someone out there likes the way I write and writes the way I write. It's a compliment, and I am flattered. Thank you.

Blogging is definitely therapeutic if you know how to let it go and flow! :D

2 years ago, I wrote about this. Now I am wondering it all over again.

I used to think "one couldn't be blamed for sharing too much". But I guess I was wrong. For one, could indeed be blamed for sharing too much.

It is never safe to share a secret even when you think somebody else can keep a secret.
It is also never wise to share a gossip.
Guess I have been both careless and stupid to share.

I feel lucky though. There are certain things that I don't share and speak, and that saved me from falling into another hell hole.

I do not blame anyone for my own mistake. I learned my lessons from the mistakes I've made.
I just wish I could control my sharing habit and stop sharing secrets and gossips.

Now, I shall cherish the ones that love me instead of dwelling on the reason why the others do not.

Life moves on, so shall I.

Heard both a not-so-good and god-damn-good review from 2 friends on the movie.

I was in fact very interested in the movie when I saw its preview, so was Andrew. But we decided to watch it a bit later when the ticket is cheaper. :)

We went for District 9 last night. First 30 minutes of the movie, boring and disgusting. So much of talking that it bored us. I could see Andrew's "boring" face. Then it was disgusting seeing those aliens and human puking or dying. In fact, there were many disgusting scenes, definitely not for those faint-hearted people. Besides, foul language is flying everywhere in the movie!!

The movie went on quite well, the way it evolved towards the end of the movie. I think all of us feels sympathy towards the lead actor, Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley). I was puzzled how the hell that the alien can understand our language and we understand them. Again, think. The aliens have been on earth for 20 years, living with us. Definitely we would have gotten used to their language, even when we can't speak theirs, we can understand. It works the same way when you live in a foreign place for 20 years. Don't tell me you can't understand that foreign language at all after 20 years.

It is indeed like one of my friends said, "the movie takes on a new different concept to portray the aliens". The story is told in a documentary way. It is the different perspective and point of view that left me thinking, what if we lost our mother earth and we landed on other planet that's having other life form than us? Will they treat us like how we treat the alien refugees in D-9? We call the other life form from other planet as aliens, we are equally aliens to them, aren't we?

It is so often that we think aliens are intruders, bad, attackers...... Well, when we first put our footprints on the moon, when we first explored the planet Mars, didn't that make us intruders too? We took the moon rock, we took the sand on Mars, aren't we bad too? We could also be deemed as attackers too if there were other life forms out there.

We are just some creatures inhabit the mother earth which happens to be a small insignificant planet of the solar system which is only a small part of the whole universe. So people, please take good care of our earth. It is the one and only place we have. Do your part before we all become refugees on other planet.

I was so excited when she engaged me to shoot for her pregnancy photos. It was one of the 10 portraits that I was giving out in the month of June. I am so glad that she showed me her support! That is exactly what I needed and still need at this moment. Thank you Shin Yee for having faith in me. :)

But I was so nervous last week. I was worrying I may screw up the good memories. I kept thinking "what if the photos aren't nice? What if she doesn't like them? What if my photos look flat?" I flooded myself with so many of what-ifs!!! Assurance from friends didn't seem to work on me. Hahaha.

Anyway, here are some of the photos.

I'm so sorry that I posted this Singapore trip up so late! I went Singapore before Redang but I posted this after my Redang trip. Gosh...... Here it is.

It was a trip that I planned long time ago, to visit Adeline in Singapore. If you do not know just who Adeline is, click here for her blog. She married to a Singaporean last year and has been living her adventurous life there ever since. LOL! Ady, please don't kill me after reading this. :P

The plan was to have a photoshoot session with her, but due to some other factors, the photoshoot didn't materialise. Well, it's okay, I bet there's going to be more Singapore trips from now on since she's getting her own house very soon. :)

This is actually my second trip to Singapore. My first was almost 3 years ago, with Andrew. Spent 7 days there in his auntie's house. :P

I was in fact going together with Wan Yi, her husband and her boss' family. Her boss Mr. Lew (I'm not sure if I got the name correct) has got a beautiful daughter!!! She is only 8 months old, yet she is a laughing-baby!!! She just loves to smile and laugh.

When we were outside of the Ion, we saw this RED man!!! Yes, we have yellow man in Malaysia, and now they have red man in Singapore! LOL! They are from SingTel, a telecommunication giant in Singapore. Okay, I guess having too much of soup and sandwiches could get you go a little bit of crazy. I couldn't believe I suggested taking a photo with those RED men!!! Hell, now they were pushing me to go first! There I was, with Adeline, standing with 3 other red men. Hey!!! I was wearing red too!!!

When we reached Atria, we went to have our proper lunch in MOS burger. Geez, can you believe that I was craving for it like 3 years?! This time, I had the ebi rice burger instead of unagi since I've tried it before. Oh gosh... It was so yummy!!! Geez... I'm drooling now......

After 4 hours of shop and walk, Ade's husband came to join us too! Well, to find a seat in the restaurants at such hour was disaster. Most of them were full with long queue outside! So, we went to Haagen Daaz to have an ice-cream treat. Ooohhhh...... I felt so sinful! LOL! Adeline and her husband are so funny! 2 of them are definitely made for each other, so funny and full of jokes.

We went separate ways after the sinful treat, by Adeline's husband. He insisted on picking up the tap. Well, let him be the man then for this time. Hahaha.

The next morning, all of us woke up late, around 10am. Then we went to Ya Kun Kaya Toast in Lot 1 for breakfast. The soft-boiled eggs are so delicious!!! The eggs are so huge! What a satisfying breakfast. I bought some Giordano clothes there, for Andrew and myself. :) Wan Yi then brought all of us to the IMM mall. It actually has more of household items, but with one floor of the mall full of boutiques and food!

3 of us decided not to go for proper and filling lunch, instead we went for snacks and sharing the food together so that we could try more food! Hahahaha...... First thing we tried was this Istanbul Kebab, with 2 hunky macho men selling at the stall!!! LOL! Yes, that 2 Turkish men are definitely charming. We bought the beef kebab, and gosh, it was super delicious. I didn't expect it to be so delicious! I'm not a beefeater, I eat beef occasionally. I would say that the kebab made me feel like eating it again and again!

After the kebab, we went on to have some oyster vermicelli at Shihlin Taiwan Street Snack. I have tried the one in KL, it tastes awful, or I would say yucky. But this one, is way better from the one in KL. See, once again it shows that the standard in Malaysia and Singapore could be so much different. Why is that? Do they think that Malaysian has a bad taste bud that we do not require such higher standard of food? Geez......

We went to Esprit outlet, I didn't buy anything but Wan Yi bought a little dress for the baby princess and her husband bought a sweater which I think is cool. Hahaha. Well, we then had some ice-cream from Hokkaido Ice-cream. I had my favorite passion fruit.

We saw this wedding decorations shop and thought of buying a wedding gift for a friend. I saw this cute little pair of bride & groom decorative, but damn, the price is kind of steep for us. We had to give up the thought then. :(

Around 5pm we decided to go home and pack for the journey back to KL. Sigh...... Fun trip has finally come to the end. When we were back in Malaysia, we stopped in Yong Peng to have our dinner. The restaurant is previously being recommended by a local food show, famous for its Hok Chiew noodles. Well, the food isn't bad, just that it's a little too salty.

During the trip, I spent more on the clothes, because thanks to Mr. Lew who had actually paid for some of the food when we dined together. LOL! Also there were a few times Wan Yi paid for some of it. I am so lucky! Hahahahaha. Guess what? After all the spending and eating, I found out when I got home, that I still have SGD35 in my wallet! I was pretty surprised. I spent about SGD150 on clothes, and I only spent SGD17 on food!!! That is a new record for me!

Think I'll be going to Singapore again and again...... Hahahaha...... Next I'm going to eat all I can rather than spend the money on the clothes. :P

Here's the RED MEN!


The new Ion Shopping Complex


This is definitely NOT for sale!!! LOL!














LOL! Imitating Nicole's pose in Seremban previously!!!






She's the same like Wan Yi, so many facial expressions!!!










Here's the little princess. She was so tired and bored.




All happy again after her meal. :)




Had our breakfast here.




The artwork from the children.




This is the hunky man I mentioned.




Oyster vermicelli from Shihlin.






Spotted this popcorn vending machine!!! Cool!


Baby princess is so cute!!!
















One happy family.




Baby loves Coach!!! Gosh......








Superman hair style! LOL!










Had our dinner in Yong Peng. The food is nice, but a bit too salty.