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Smirnoff is now giving away a 'Pai Rasta Holiday' for two for the player with the higest scores before 12 Jan 2009 (Hurry up you've got today and tomorrow!)

The winner will get to fly to a Pai Reggae Festival@Mae Hongsorn on 23-25 Jan 09
The prize includes 2 round trip plane tickets to Pai and 3 days 2nights accomodation.

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Dont miss your change to win this a cool trip to Pai today.I know I wouldnt want to!

Be happy on Christmas Day!

A day to remember when the moon is smiling at us

I got a sms from my BFF whilst having a dinner that "Look at the moon. I'm smiling at you" I thought it was the sweetest thing she could ever say to me. So I said that to her. She called back and said she actually meant what she said. She wanted me to look at the moon. Alright, I will look at the moon but after my dinner of course.

Unfortunately, the sky was so cloudy where I live here in Koh Samui. I thought maybe it would be just our place, maybe we could drive around the island and see if there's any clearer spot. So my colleague and I drove for 1.5hrs around the island and saw nothing but some shining stars I really REALLY feel so disappointed. Reading people's blogs/journals about this smiling moon makes me feel like I've missed out something GREAT.

The reason why I wanted to see it so badly cos my friend told me that this is something that occurs in every 100 years. I dont think I'd live that long to see another one, unless there's a hot sexy vampire like Edward Cullen to suck on my neck hahaha anyway, that information was WRONG! I did some google and found out that you will be able to see it again in next 48 years hehe now thats I feel a bit better! I really hope I'd still remember this in next 48 years lol I dont know if I'd still be alive by then!

So here's the story, if you've got time to read about it........

So wondering why the moon smile at you? Tonight you might have not notice the moon is smiling. Go out and look at the moon and you might see the moon smiling back at you. The smiling moon phenomenon happens every 48 years, so don’t miss it! “Astronomers say Venus and Jupiter and a crescent moon will form a smiley face tonight, with the planets forming the eyes and the moon forming the mouth. Venus and Jupiter have appeared side by side in the evening sky over the last week or so, but tonight will be the best night to see the “face” appear, astronomers say.”

There will be a spectacular conjunction between the two planets Venus and Jupiter and the crescent Moon. Though the conjunction will be impressive from anywhere in the world, it will only smile on Australia and Australian longitudes almost in the form of a “smiley” emoticon. From the USA, for instance, the conjunction will be in the form of an upside down sad face.

Although the three brightest objects in night sky will appear to be bunched up close together in the sky that does not mean that they are actually close to each other. They are, in fact, just in the same line of sight. The Moon is the closest at about 400,000 km away from Earth. Venus is almost 400 times further away while Jupiter is almost six times further away. They are not close to each other at all.

If you can, try to photograph this event as photographing such bright objects provides an easy way into celestial photography. You will need a tripod and a digital camea with the ability to take a time exposure. Bracket your exposures by taking exposures for, say, 1, 2 and 3 seconds. It can be a little tricky to record the Moon with the correct crescent shape as it is so bright that it is usually overexposed. Turn off the flash as it does not help with distant objects unless you specifically want to record the foreground - a tree or a bush, for instance. When taking the image use the self-timer on the camera to trigger the shutter so that any vibrations have the time to dampen down.

Addendum 1 December 2008: Two pictures from the previous evening. By tonight the Moon will have moved closer to the two “eyes” and will form the smiling mouth of the smiley.

Addendum 10 pm 1 December 2008. There are lots of frowns in Sydney as it has been cloudy. Here are three pictures from Colin who is 7 km west of Gunnedah, NSW to show what Sydneyites missed out on. Thanks Colin

Perhaps it is a reminder for us to be happy amidst the crisis and problems that the world is suffering. Think positive. Be happy!

source : http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au

Then I fall in love with Singapore ♥

I'm pretty sure that many of you would probably have been to Singapore as it's very close to Thailand and the airplane ticket is not that expensive comparing to other countries. I went there once before in 2004 but only for 4 days. I thought I've seen it all cos it is a small country but this time I have seen more of what I have not seen, with some help of my local friends and wikitravel.org [a very good website for all travelers as well as wikipedia i recommend] lol

My first plan to go there is to go to Kanye West concert on 19th Sep but it was postponed to 29th Oct. It sucks I know! I didnt think I wanted to change my flight and everything to next month so I remained everything as planned but I'd need to convince myself what would be a good reason to go there cos I didnt really impress about Singapore that much last time. So I talked to my friends who live in Singapore. They suggested I should go there for the Formula 1 as it'd be the very first night race and if I could I should go there a week before so we all could go to the beach party at Sentosa. Of course I wouldnt hesitate to book my flight from 20th - 29th Sep. I couldnt help thinking if it would be boring there cos I didnt find many activities to do there last time. Oh well I was sure my friends would make sure I'd have a great time there!

It took 4 hours for me to pack my bag. My flight was at 7am so I hadnt really slept until I arrived at my friend Nick's place and slept till 6pm lol We all went to have a Mexican dinner at the restaurant called Burke or something on Clarke Quay riverside. I gotta say that my friend place is really located in a very good area, 5 min walk from MRT and Clarke Quay! We decided to party hard that night as its saturday night and I just arrived. I was so ready to party! Nick and Nigel had to go to their colleague's birthday party. Leaving me alone with 3 boys, Charles, Adam and Paul.

Thanx for making my trip so wonderful guys ♥

Our friend Nicole Chen was DJing at Arena on Clarke Quay that night too but she wouldnt be there til 2 am so we decided to go to the penthouse club called Gotham. I cant remember where exactly it was but we had to pay 20SGD for an entrance fee as there was a special performance from South Africa, a lips sync of Justin Timberlake. It was really hot cos the guy looked pretty much like JT himself haha Too bad we're not allowed to take any photos or vdos during the performance or i'd love to share with u guys here.

Now we know why all the gay guys love Charles - Gotham.

Our friend Nicole Chen as a DJ at Arena

I cant remember what time we got back to Arena but I think the boys opened the bottle of Johnnie Walker again. The table seemed to be full when we walked in. In the meantime, Charles spotted one asian girl and made a bet with me that she was definitely a Thai girl. Man I could not really tell if she was or not cos she looked a bit Chinese. Hence she could be a local! Turned out she was really from Thailand and only here for her Indian/Singaporian boyfriend! I would have to say Charles has become more and more Thai, and perhaps more than me? lol I have no idea how much we drank that night but everyone was so drunk, really drunk. I kinda lost Charles somewhere but he texted me he went home. Paul passed out and fell asleep on the table. I am not sure if I tried to wake him up or not but I think I did say good bye to him before that. Adam left before cos he was sick and started to feel unwell. I dont get it alcohol is supposed to heal your cold right? lol Thank god my place was not that far. So I could just walk back to my place in 5 min.

So this is the Thai girl we met at Arena, really wonder whose fingers is it.

I had a painful hangover the next day. I think I got up sometimes in the afternoon before getting ready for a beach party @ KM8 beach, Sentosa. I was tpld that people always go there every Sunday. My memory of Sentosa beach was not that impressive. Someone told me it was a fake beach [?] but I could see this time that it is NOT haha perhaps someone could explain to me. Anyway I LOVE this beach party! It's full of so damn good-looking expats and models! haha I felt like I was in Heaven. I forgot that I didnt really turn on my flash when taking a picture so they all look a bit dark and blurry, sorry! If anyone of you would have a chance to go there, I'd recommend to check the "BLUE" drink in a bottle of Absolut Vodka. I cant remember what its called now but you can ask for it at the country. Everyone is drinking it there so they know what it is. It's about 50SGD per bottle and it would really hit you in a few hours! We were almost the last group on the beach who left the place around mid night. There's no taxi coming in for you. You need to make a call to taxi service. I'm glad I went with some locals ;)

The local supermarket near Nicks place

DJ Booth at KM8

They call it "sperm pool" I still havent got a chance to jump in haha

Later that night

The next day is Monday when everyone had to work. I didnt have any special plan as I was not really planning to do any tourist stuff since I was here 4 yrs ago. Well I got up around 11 and in time for Lunch with Charles and Adam. So I stopped by their office and had some Japanese food. I never realize that Nick's place is only 10 min walk from where they both work, 1st George street. Then I decided to wonder around Orchard road, shoppers paradise! It hasnt really changed from the last time i was there! except that there were a lot of F1 ads everywhere. Good to see a lot of Kimi's cute faces haha I was wearing my high heels so I could only 3 hrs walk there. Got home around 4-5pm and went out for a dinner at Tapas tree near Clarke Quay river side around 11pm. It's a very nice spanish restaurant. If you like spanish, you may wanna check it out. As for me, I still cant remember what the food we ordered is called, forgive me! hehe

1st George Street

Hong Lim Park. I like the view of that fingers building haha

Orchard Road

My sexy Kimi ♥

McLaren team!!

Renault's Hall of Fame!

I couldnt help thinking that he used to be so cute!

A Fined City! hehe

Join the pact NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE

My Dear Friends,

Johnnie Walker is committed to signing up as many people as possible to their pact to never drink and drive.

F1 star Lewis Hamilton has signed up, as have as thousands of others. But we still need more and it'd be great if you could sign up too.

After you've signed up you will receive a Join The Pact Certificate which you could see an example as below. It would be great if you could forward that to me at filurina@gmail.com as we're having a little internal competition at work to see who can get the most people to sign :) It only takes less than 5 minutes to sign your name. 

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