Jail House Rock

This is not planned but look how we attire ourselves to the gardens!!!

This is better still..............

the Jail House Rock Band with our leader attired in black

 or 

are we just a new breed of freedom fighters!?!?! 

We do have our fun out in the sun

and occassionally such photos do kick start our laughters.

Now you know for sure how fun filled are mornings are !!

And this is not all....... after the walk, its fruit galore at Ah Kok's fruit stall

and.....

"drum roll please" ..... 

we go for a sumptous breakfast - the highlight of our day!!

(photos courtesy from LO)

GGC - Another Attempt at Fun!

Two pretty faces....

One can see the food is an important part of a GGC's life.....nothing better than a good meal.We are back to our old haunt, after a break of a month! Another attempt at having fun again....

Brunch at Loy's

Super Delicious.....

The Buffet Spread... just dig in!!

Best Carrot Cake, EVER!! Special Order accepted!

Our gracious hostess

Food glorious food....... a meal of home cooked "lontong" dishes by our gracious hostess goes a long way... what with good company and fun!!After eating ... its tall tale time!!

2 simple riddles:
Aunt Lucy has a big one
Aunt Molly has two small ones
A man has none and
A lady has it in front

Ramasamy has a long one
The wife will use the husband's one
The priest will not use his one
and your brother has one

GGC - Happy Times

Hahahahahaha!! This is the best stress reliever!

Just give us a table and some chairs in a comfortable environment..... and you will see happy and laughing faces like this.................Golden Girls having another eat out and chit-chatting session.......

Golden Girls Day Out

Buah Langsat tree in BG

Botanical Garden in full bloom

Golden Girls at their best..... daily early morning exercise to keep fit and healthy ..... hunting for good bargain .... eating fruits before breakfast.... roam around until we are hungry again and then .... lunch before we are ready to go our own way.........

At one of the bargain section (70% discount) at MJ Members' Day

Coconut Water .... anyone?
It delicious, nutritious and cools down your body!

Quote for the Day!!

'Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.

If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.

If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

So - if you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of shit.'

Love and appreciate all the women in your life!

I like this quote… found on the internet as well. So ladies, you are phenomenon and gentlemen…. be informed, treat your ladies well and you will get double good treatment!!

A tribute to the Golden Girls!!!

Your Right If You Live to 50!!

After living for 50 years and more, you have definitely earned the right to a lot of "privileges"!! Golden Girls have agreed to a few.....

After 50, one should....

live while you can
love while you can

spend time with love ones while you can
spend time with friends while you can

do things you enjoy
do things that make you laugh
do things that are fun
do things that you want to

live day by day .... but to the fullest!

And after 50, you have a right to.....

forget your appointment
ask for reminders
forget friends birthdays
say "no" to anything you are uncomfortable with

stop worrying about "what if"
stop crying over spilt milk
stop living for your children
let them live their lives, the way they know how
they will find their ways, just like how we did!

Forgetting is part and parcel of maturing and
then, just like one of my friends said so appropriately.....

If and when you remember .... it is a BONUS!!

Terracotta Army 兵马俑: bīngmǎ yǒng

Xian city, Shaanxi Province ~~ civilisation at last. We had a good shower and scrub to wash off our tiredness and fear. Finally we could sleep at peace without fear of any negative element out in the open which could devour us and threaten our very existence.

Our experience on the way to Xian did remind us to appreciate the good and simple things in life. We are so blessed!!

When we arrived, Xian suddenly became "heaven" on earth where we could get our well-deserved cup of fresh hot brewing coffee ~~made us marvelled at the very convenience of modern day........

The highlight of our visit to Xian is to see The Terra Cotta Army, the 8th Wonder of the World!!

The old man in the picture is the only living person who first dug out this site.....







Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China.

Cross Country Adventure

After experiencing Huhhot's Mongolian influenced culture and sampling a varieties of dumplings for lunch, we continued our southward bound journey towards Shaanxi Province. To see Terra Cotta!! The self-proclaimed 8th Wonder of the World! "Bingma Yong".

Reaching a small town, Da Yong for a farmer's style home cooked dinner, we had an equally unpleasant "toilet" experience. If you think the bucket system of yesteryears was bad, this will make you think again. It was all the way ~~ hold your breath, do it quick and don't even bother to look down situation!! :( :(

We decided to continue on and we had packed eatables to sustain a battalion but we did not anticipate what awaits us on the road.

At about 1am we were suddenly enshrouded by a menacing thick white fog that seemingly appeared from nowhere. Nil visibility!!! We were ill prepared but were forced to continue for fear of the 2 evils....the fear of slaming into a front vehicle or being banged by some huge truck from behind. We chose to drive on guided only by the white lines dividing the 3 lanes.

Despite the poor visibility we had trucks, lorries, and other bigger vehicles zooming passed us. We were amazed and even tried to keep up by following their tail lights but were defeated and left the lone car by this foggy mess!!

The fog cleared by 4am and our poor driver was physically and mentally exhausted. We stopped by the ear of the highway for a quick "power nap" with the hazzard lights on... but ended being chased away by the highway police.

We managed to reach the next rest stop without much incident and got our deserved 2-hour undisturbed sleep in the cold autumn weather in the car.

We arrived at Xian, our destination with a great sense of relief and achievement. It was indeed a great adventure for us city folks!!

Inner Mongolia, Huhhot

After some stressful planning months in advance, two of the Golden Girls finally arrived in Beijing on the night of 27 September 08 on a cool autumn weather......

Immediately early next morning we were whisked off in a 8-seater to the journey of a life time. We were on a 5-hour road trip to Inner Mongolia arriving at Huhhot at noon all ready and eager for our first onslaught of a chinese/mongolian meal of cold noodles.

The highlight of our visit at Huhhot was the all famous "Heaven Grassland". We had a hilarious time trying out the distant outdoor "toilet" facility which is way off our imagination. We laugh till we cry while contributing manure to the heavenly grassland.....lol


Horse riding was a first and literary "pain in the butt" experience for me. It gave me a painful blister that lasted a week at my tailend....lol but believe it, it may be a painful but it was indeed exhilarating for me.... It was the most enjoyable 1-hour of the trip!! :) :) :)

GGC- New Recruits

Here they are ~~ 2 new beautiful faces to add to our very small team of Golden Girls!! :) :)

As the group gets bigger, your focus gets diluted and you tend to get into small groups chatting away and outings dragged on longer than usual because there is always something else to tell, discuss and repeat.

We found another reason to go out for lunch last Thursday; recruiting new members as well to celebrate one of the group's birthday ........ again we had loads of fun and laughter.



Sexy shoes...........













This beautiful lobster is too good to be consumed...

"Nasi Lemak" Bonanza

Do you believe that we were at it again? ~~ this time around its lunch in a cool place built above the sea, its mud more like it probably because of low tide. Its no big deal because we enjoyed our meal tremendously......

Doesn't this looks delicious!!

And the company is even better. The Golden Girls strike again; doing the things they do best ~~ eating, chatting, laughing and improving on picture taking. This time around the pictures are more natural.

See, everyone is looking happy and smiling!!

We even met our beautiful friend, "Soo Mei" and I hate to think that someone is about to come along and pick her for their next meal....its a sad sad world :)

Look how beautiful she is on a close up picture, beat the Golden Girls flat!

Our next outing is already on the drawing board and this time around we are going to have new recruits and we can't wait to meet again in a few days time......

Golden Girls Club

We are hooked! We did it again! We got together for brunch and had our laughing bouts one more time. The only negative side of this gathering for me is the eating; we have to be careful not to let that get out of hand; otherwise its all fun, fun and fun.

We unanimously agreed to form the Golden Girls Club and the positions of President=LO, Vice President=SK, Honorary Secretary=MT and Honorary Treasurer-AL have been filled. We even discussed on the next activity. How serious can we be?

Being golden girls we are a bit disorganized and distracted and although it has been discussed no date was fixed for the next event. No fear, we will touch on this during our morning walks.

Our main activities are eating, chatting and laughing but we have other activities like massage, yoga, breathing exercises, trying out clothes and card games thrown in.......all the fun things we can think of.

Hey girls.... we need more fun pictures.....

The Golden Girls

Its time for us girls to go out, this time at night, to "paint the town red".......

We plot and plan; find and create excuses just to go out and have a good time. So we picked the nearest birthday and said we will celebrate in style. And since one of us is turning 55, it is indeed a good excuse to plan a whole nighter.

Our normal activities concentrated only on long breakfast hours after our morning walk and lots and lots of chit chatting and laughs and our outings only until after lunch, never on a night out. Most of us haven't a clue where to go and what to do and since in our midst there is one "party animal"=MT, we leave it to her to plan the night.

The dinner venue was decided and table booked a month ahead, and I stress over how we are going to behave and whether wearing what we wear everyday is appropriate. As time drew nearer to the date, I suddenly felt unsure and wished I had committed to a lunch instead of a dinner. For a moment it fully dawned on me that I am so out of touch and there is one for sure; LO who admitted that she felt the same...

But lo and behold, the night turned out to be a great success and we had so much fun just chatting over coffee. We talked and laughed till we cried, took pictures of each other trying very hard to look like 18s...... blaming the camera, the camera operator and anything else except ourselves for the bad look.....

We all can't wait for the next reason to go out ~~ at night ~~ girls you agree with me right? Chance for you all to get back at me.... comments... comments... lol