quick!!!

Hey Joy!!

Just quickly before I go to work... here are some pictures from my route home (I think this was on Wednesday!!) and a green bug (he's very small but cute - can you see him??!) and a certain postcard on my happy wall!!!

More later xxxx

i am a sleepyhead..

hey moose!

cheers to you to wake up before 5 am. i am automatically awake by myself around or before 4 am now. some mornings, it killed me for feeling wide awake before 4 am as i just needed more sleep before the clock alarmed but i couldn't get back to sleep. like this morning, i was up before 4 but still remained in bed until i heard the clock sang. around 10 am, i was automatically nodding in front of my pc again.... that's why i needed a cup of ice coffee this morning.

today is the updated photos of the lotus from yesterday. the petals are totally gone but you still can see the beauty in it.. it's bright and sunny this morning but guess what .. it's going to rain again in the afternoon..

i managed to run 3k this morning. not so hard anymore. what is hard is to put my mind to do it. not the body or the sore legs but the mindset on doing it. however, i won my own mind today.. ;]

i am slowly getting back to snapping some pictures everyday.... due to seeing your beautiful pictures every morning..
look! it's staring at you!!

a cup of ice coffee will sure help wake this sleepyhead up! fresh from the can! ;]

this morning after reading, i grabbed my laptop and brought it downstairs to type morning page in the living room. but when turning it on, the battery went dead. so i had to run up to my room again to get my diary and filled in a few pages. i am still using this one. it's 2 months old now made by a girl named joy... ;] mostly i carry it with me when i am away but when at home, i type in my laptop. there, i can type fast and furious.. and it spell checks my poor spellings. i like this dairy as it's small and lightweight and i can add in paper later when it runs out of papers, or when i don't feel like making new one....

i cut out this picture from a brochure i got in phuket. i like the body of this guy. he looks so firm and the picture inspires me to learn rock climbing.. as you said, i am the monkey!!!

Early Lake...

Hey Joy!! Thanks for getting the pictures of the lotus, I'm really glad you managed to do it before all the petals fell off! And I think you look great in your skirt and flipflops with purple nails ;) very cool and feminine!

This week I have kind of unwittingly set myself the challenge to get up before 5am every day. I still set the alarm for 5.45 but so far I managed to wake up by myself, before 5am, for three days running! It's summer now but the longest days have passed - it is still almost dark at 5am now, a month ago it was already bright and sunny! I love the light morning time and want to make the most of it. Today was a rest day for exercise so I went on a special early trip to sit by the lake near work... these are the pictures (I confess I didn't realise it was THIS beautiful when I was there!)

Here's a puddle from last night's rain storm... I loved the reflection of the clouds in it. It was a special time for me, to get up early and wander around the park, and sit by the lake to write, before heading into work for another crazy day... I hope to find other things to do for my early morning adventures too...

the falling lotus..

hi moose,

i am back with photos. i just took them at the lotus pot sitting in the front of my shop. i sit at my desk working and watching it everyday, and hoping to take pictures of it. but when i was about to do it, works came in or customers marched in.. i had to keep my camera and waited for next time, until few days passed and the lotus started to fall.. this morning after clearing the copy work for my customer, i grabbed my camera and snapped before another customer came in again..

today i wear skirt. normally i wear shorts when working in my shop, but today i want to feel different. i wear skirt when i am on holiday so today i feel that i am taking a vacation.. at home.. ;]

slow tuesday..

hi moose!

i love checking our blog everyday and see your pictures. they help lift up my day, really. i am just slacking off taking pictures these days. i think becuase i am confined in the shop digging myself into piles of works.. works works works... i am not supposed to whine as when the bills come, i have some money to foot the bills.. and for our holiday when you come to thailand.. i know that it's still many months away but i am thrilled with the ideas.. ;]

i didn't run this morning. i felt tired and sleepy. tired from running 4 k yesterday. sleepy becuase i woke up 4 am and i had to handle kla alone, joon is in Bangkok for her office things. thinking about running the house alone for a week, i am feeling worn out.. this morning the tap was leaking and i had to run up and down the 4 floors to check and fix it. i fixed it before but it leaked again and i found way to fix it again this morning. when hitting time like this, i missed pt even more... arghhh!!!

today during the day, i will take some photos to decorate our blog and lift up my day..

have a glorious day... gorgeous moose!!

joy..

Heyyyyy

Hey Joy! Glad to see you back!! I wondered where you'd gotten to... sounds like you had a great time climbing trees, you monkey!

I had a nice quiet weekend. After running 5K on Saturday I was quite tired, but I got up to watch the sunrise on Sunday, and write in my journal (and then went back to sleep again ;]

In the afternoon I went out to the park, got a bit lost (near the windmill!) and when I finally found the park it was really hot! I got a bit sunburnt. The last two days in London have been properly HOT, like real summer - temperatures up to 29 or 30 degrees (I know that's probably not hot by Thai standards but it's hot for London!) Luckily the office is air conditioned but I got SO sweaty on the bus and the train and walking home... Had to carry lots of things I bought today, secret things for my art project ;] I am so glad to be home and get cool again! I don't think I could live in Thailand - it's too hot for me!! I'm such a wimp...

our fun weekend!!

long kongs we picked at dad's fruit plantation..
yummy and smelly fruit.. i couldn't take as many as i want.. too much calorie..
i am a spidergirl..
my dad
it was raining cats and dogs when we left home..

what we got after climbing long kong tree filled with tons of red ants..
arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!1
joon was waiting under the tree while we were climbing..
i love climbing..

on friday afternoon, py came to my shop with her parents. i had to babysat her when her parents was away shopping..
the little bird one of my customer saved its life.. py was afraid of it..
at night we met up with everyone in the family and had dinner together..
at my parents'. we didn't go out biking as it was pouring since 6 am so we played and chased her around the house..

hi moose!

how are you? how was your weekend? sorry that i haven't posted for the past few days. since coming back from phuket, i hadn't touched my camera and didn't have much time to write.

on friday, py came to my shop with her parents so we played with her all afternoon and at night we went to my parents' house and stayed one night there and here i have lots of pictures to post...

it rained everyday in the south now. so on saturday morning we didn't bring py out for a bike ride but later in the afternoon before we left for hadyai, we went out to dad's fruit plantation to pick long kong (the lemon-sized round yellow fruit). we had to climb up the trees to pick them. it was a good fun as i had to fight with red ants while climbing, and we got a big durian from one of our aunties..

we came back to the shop on saturday afternoon and went out again at night to buy some DVD.. so last night we watched 2 movies and 2 more today.. it's 4 pm now and i just onened my shop and was just online too..

you see the baby bird in the picture. it fell in the lotus pond in front of my shop and one of my customer saved its life. i told kla to bring it to his home to feed until it is strong enough to find find food for itself and kla will let it go later.. i put it in my palm for py to touch but she was afraid of it..

Sunrises

Two days with beautiful sunrises this week! This was yesterday:

Then I saw this floating in the sky...

A BALLOON! Yay! You never see these over Croydon, and definitely not at 6am... What are they doing up there??!

It made me really want to ride one!

This morning was all misty and the sunrise was really beautiful. The window was dewy on the outside and this is a pic of the sun through the wet window:

It feels so good to see beautiful things first thing in the morning. I love the cool quiet time before everyone wakes up - it's a great time to sit and think and write, before the day begins. Today should be a fairly quiet day, but lots of good things are happening tomorrow... :)
Hope you're having a nice day too!

still some pictures from phuket..

Good morning Moose,

This morning, i managed to get up at 5 am. I set an alarm clock at 4.30 am but fell back to sleep again and then got up again at 5 am. Yesterday and today I ran 3 k. I wanted to do 4 k this morning but my body hasn't been ready yet. It's so so hard to get back on normal track when I had spoiled myself for the past week.

Your breadmaker looks like Thai rice cooker. What kind of flour that you use to make the bread. I am a bread lover. I love all kinds of bread, especially the newly baked one.. hot and smell so good..

I love your new diary. It looks so relaxing and the user looks more like a beach bum.. I've not bougth new diary for very long time. Mostly, I made them myself. It's easy, quick and it's my style.. I will need to make new one very soon. But before that I need to fill the current one with lots of photos so I will finish it fast and start a new diary.. ;]

Today is that last batch of my pictures from phuket. Maybe I might add some more tomorrow if I don't take any new picture. hehehehehehe!!!

have a nice day!

joy..