And we're now one step closer to that. It won't be easy, but its a step forward on that path.

Quite a good number of Middle Eastern tourists. The ladies must enjoy the cool temperature very much since they have to be garbed in their black swirling burkhas with kohl-rimmed dark, mystic eyes that peek out at the world. There is wifi here and its free, why didn't I bring my laptop?! Checked into the apartment. To find that out of the two bathrooms, only one shower can be used at a time, or the hot water will go off! Sigh. Of all places for the heater to malfunction, when I need a hot shower the most. Headed down to Brinchang for steamboat dinner which was not as cheap as I remembered, but still it tasted so good in the cold night air. They were using the school hall as the venue for some stock clearance and yes, I went in there and bought a pair of Angelo Moda black heels. Aaaargggh!!! What is it with me and shopping in weird places?! Also bought this stapler thing which can sew stuff. Very handy to have around. I just hope it doesn't spoil on my first time using it.

Went back to town, I think it was Brinchang and had steamboat again. If my dad had his way, I can predict the whole trip's menu. Steamboat, steamboat and more steamboat. But steamboat when its freezing and it was raining and we had to sit outside and the rain was kinda slashing in at some point and it was cold and I had a cold it was misery without that hot soup. Ahh..Thank goodness for warm tom yummy soup and hot chinese tea. Went searching for pancakes and found this shop but no, the pancakes weren't as nice as the one we had years ago. Headed back to the apartments because it was cold and I was having a runny nose and I wanted to be tucked up in bed under the warm sheets with you and hot soup for company. What I had was your copy of 'The Soulforge, Raistlin Chronicles Volume I' and my mobile. Phoeeey.

Whew, I don't know where that came from. All I meant to say was, daddy went to play golf early that morning.

Lounged around the apartment munching biscuits and watching telly, it was a show about the invisible man. On the drive down to town, we stopped by to buy fresh produce, the veges and fruits and this is where daddy and I went crazy. We saw flower stalls and they were hocking flowers by the penny! It was umm RM3 for 5 stalks or something like that and we bought bunches and bunches of roses. Deep red ones, champagne coloured, buttery yellows, pale pinks and pure white ivories. Buy buy buy!!! And after buying those, we walked further down and saw a stall that were selling roses in bunches of about 12 stalks for only RM5. Damn, got conned! Anyway, some of the colour variety here were brighter and more striking and bought golden orange flamish ones with beautiful middle pinks and bright lipstick red roses and loads more. I think we bought about RM40 worth of roses which gave us about more than a 100 stalks of roses. Back home in PJ, I don't know what RM40 would get you, but I bet its way less than a 100 stalks. Bought back some geberas and baby's breath and some dried purple flowers and 3 cactis for Daniel which are now sitting outside on the shoerack. Stopped by the teahouse again for a final round of scones and tea and choc brownies with vanilla ice-cream.

Came home to brilliant news that my boyfriend got into Nottingham Malaysia! =)

I nearly died of suspense while driving, wondering and trying to figure out what was it that you wanted to tell me. Almost 2 hours of flooring the accelerator so that I could reach home faster and talk to you. Well, not really flooring but you know what I mean. A truly pleasant surprise indeed, after all that bouts of worry and nerve-wracking anticipation and sleepless nights.

That pretty much covers August except for the Penang trip which was the last week of August and deserves a whole post in itself.

Will edit and post pictures once I'm at home.