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I need a break!!!!

2012-02-18T15:07:00.001+08:00

Time flies! After the busy buzzy of chinese new year and Valentine's day, finally life back to normal routine. 2012 kicks off with extremely two busy months, and I was like riding on bullet train, chasing a station by another station. Although daily routine finally back to track, but I really desire to have a break now, a short vacation if possible. How nice if I am now soaking in Maldivian sea, sunbathing on an isolated beach or enjoy a real nice Balinese full body massage. Hope my wish would come true in very near soon, but by now, I need to back to work to clear some backlogs and stop day dreaming!

2012 new year resolutions

2012-01-12T18:43:00.000+08:00

It is said that on 22nd, Dec of 2012 is the end of the world. But I am just a mortal and nothing I can do to change anything, if something really ought to happen. However, life just goes on and no one could stop the time passing. So, I still positive in every edge of life.

Last year was not as smooth as I had planned, instead it was a tough year, a lot of tears and sweats, especially the second half year. The process of replacement for flower delivery driver and maid who take care of my mom were not as smooth as we thought. The problem had been dragged for 4 months, and the first time in my life I felt so pressure and depress, more patient and toughness were needed to get over these. However, life is not always at the down side, as well as the opposite. We finally see some bright side in 2012, and I hope the stability could stay longer as we wish. Let's pray hard to GOD!

I welcome my 2012 with a garden wedding deco on 1st Jan. It was a good start for a good year and I hope we can do more wedding deco in this year. We would like to see more wedding couple smile with satisfactions, by create their dream wedding come true.

Second, I want to make 2012 a travel year for me again. I didn't make it to Europe last year, and I am going to make it HAPPEN this year! And I must, I must, I must make it happen, no matter how!!! lol! Let's see how many vacation I manage to go this year. Plan in my list: April - Taiwan and Macau with hubby and family; June - Turkey or Nepal with my best friend HL; September - Europe trip, probably Spain.

Wish 2012 is a prosperous, happy and healthy year for me, my family, my friends and everyone! And let us work hard towards our wishes!!!

Garden Wedding Decoration - Bukit Jawi Golf Course

2012-01-12T17:48:00.000+08:00

I started 2012 with a garden wedding decorations at Bukit Jawi Golf Course on 1st of January. Bride was an elegant and gorgeous lady, and red was her favorite color. Red is not a popular color for wedding now a day, as most people think it is too tacky and traditional. However, when a little bit of striking red match with white, the atmosphere would immediately turn out gracefully, bravery and flamboyance.

Nice golf course view for the garden wedding ceremony.

Theme of the day - bird cage

Red daisies chair sash looked outstanding on white color chair cover.

Turn your hobby to job?

2011-10-19T23:09:00.001+08:00

Many curious about how I turn my job from an engineer to a florist. Frankly, flower arrangement was not my hobby before I had the thought of start a florist business. My dream was to have a career that related to art, craft and fashion, florist shop was one of the option. I injected all the 3 elements to my new career.

Nonetheless, it was not easy and smooth at all to chase my dream. I fell down, stood up, fell down and stood up again uncountable time. And, I sacrificed my adolescent, 2 years of life without facial and gym. I bet I would look 2 years younger if i never step into this business.

This is the 7th year of my new career, it become better and better now. I start to taste the feeling of stay between my dream and real life now. Let us cross over it, if you are having difficulty chasing your dream.

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes" -- Author Unknown

English afternoon tea party at home

2011-09-21T22:54:00.002+08:00

I love old fashion and vintage style in all way. I always wish of having an English afternoon tea party at home. Tiered plates and china tea set were bought long time ago, just to wait for the day! Recently, my dream came true with the help of my sisters. We had a simple and maybe not very proper English afternoon at my house.

We had raspberry cheesecakes, blueberry cheesecakes, marble cheese cakes, tuna sandwiches, cherries and strawberries. We enhanced our tea party to a more exotic way, by adding tapioca cakes and yam cake to our food menu.

It would not be an English afternoon tea party without a pot of tea, local Cameron's Ceylon tea was the tea of the day. Instead of traditional way, we had red wine and mojito too. Mojito were made of home plant mint and lime.

Table setting for our simple english afternoon tea.

Garden Wedding Decoration - Lone Pine Hotel, Batu Ferringgi

2011-09-21T21:31:00.000+08:00

Nice weather, lush garden, white sandy beach and a pair of lovely couple.... what could we ask more for a perfect garden wedding decoration?

The bride was a cute, pretty and charming little lady, pink and white were just right for her style.

Addition of ivy garlands create a dreamy fairy tale garden.

Ring pillow surrounded with white orchids.

Main flowers of the day - white roses, pink roses & white orchids

One side chair sash, pink roses and white orchids with pink organza.

Islands of romance - Maldives

2011-05-31T15:25:00.022+08:00

I need a spoonful of beach breakaway each year, to release all the stress and escape from the reality for a while. This year we made it to a more luxurious Maldives, a truly paradise lies in the Indian ocean.

We found huge solace in a small piece of gems, Komandoo Island - one of the thousands beautiful island in Maldives.

Komandoo Island

In this small and isolated island, all the activities we did in 6 days were barely eating, drinking, snorkeling, swimming and sleeping. The sea depth was about 4 to 5 feet height within 250 meters from beach, water was very calm and clear, I never felt so much pleasure swimming in the sea. And the house reef was fantastic, with a pair of fins and dive mask, we swam amid the coral and sea creatures.

However, I enjoyed sunbathing while reading my beach books the most. Although I live in a equatorial country, but I rarely do that in my own country. I could not just sunbathing on my bikini in my own garden! Or else I might get famous among my neighborhood! :D

On sea plane from Male. Jet, set, FLY!!!!!

With hubby on sea plane, thank you so much for the romantic breakaway!

An island sighted from sea plane.

Baby shark welcome us to the island!

Crystal clear water.

Our beach villa. Every morning, we wake up with the view of glorious sunrise on the beach.

A picture taken from our verandah.

Me, posing at the back yard of the villa. :D

Water villa, going to try this next time!

Buffet restaurant.

We experienced an entire afternoon as Robinson Crusoe in this dessert island, Kuredu.

Jetty.

Slack off

2011-05-18T12:36:00.003+08:00

It has been a busy month since end of April, brother-in-law's wedding, mother's day and the visiting of the relatives from Australia. The events and activities involved a lots of works, dinners and some outing.

After those events, I feel very sluggish, I just want to stay at home, do nothing and watch TV. If you want to throw me a party, please be a slumber party, and that would be great! My tiredness is finally recovered after a long holiday, slack off at home. I have been slacking in writing blogs, scrap-booking and even gardening.

It's time to get up and be on track again, gambateh neh!!!!!

Shopping in Japan

2011-04-07T01:37:00.006+08:00

Japan is a shopping paradise where every fashionista covets make pilgrimages to. Most people may think Japan is one of the world's most expensive country, but perhaps it is not as notorious as it once was. The fact is, it is cheaper to travel and shopping in Japan then some countries in Europe. There are wide range of choices, from budget flea market, middle range shops to top end houses of haute couture. It would not burn your pocket if you shop wisely, and you will get many goodies from small boutiques.

Harajuku is my favorite place for shopping in Tokyo, it is so trendy and spendy. Name any brand you want, Vuitton, Prada, Gucci, Gap, Zara, Forever 21.... ect.. There are also small designer's boutiques and second hand shops. For other places in Tokyo, do not miss out the flagship stores, Uniqlo in Ginza and Muji in Marunouchi, but there are branches all over Tokyo. I get many T-shirts for myself and gifts for my brothers from Uniqlo.

Louis Vuitton, Harajuku

Sapporo was nothing compare to Tokyo for shopping, but there was a Kinokuniya book store near JR Sapporo Station. We spent an entire lovely evening there, while snowing outside. A small cafe at 2nd floor served smooth coffee, nice cakes and sanwiches. Kinokuniya has all branches all over Japan too.

I bought some scrapbook making books, scrapbooking is my new hobby and I was so happy to find these books. I get so many ideas and inspirations from these book.

Car repair day

2011-04-06T18:03:00.007+08:00

I overslept this morning. My alarm didn't work and at the time I woke up it was already 9:30am. Stock market starts at 9:00am and I had not read any news from the internet yet. Gosh.... I got a bad bad feeling that it was going to be a bad bad day.

And yes, bingo! My shop driver called up to inform me that our goods delivery van was not in good shape. He claimed that he could not hold the break, so I asked him to send the van to a nearby workshop for check-up. Half an hour later, he called back and said that it was clutch problem and the repair cost would be around RM600.00. Well, this time my pocket is going to burst. Frankly, I do not know anything about car and not to say car repair, I always leave this kind of problem to my dad and hubby. How I wish there is a local reliable online car workshop that I can get repair estimation for price comparison purpose. After some consideration, I decided to wait for another 2 days when hubby and dad come back from KL to settle this problem.

Then, the worse thing come after i finished all my morning tasks. My car couldn't start after some tries. General knowledge, it must be battery weak. This time, I could not wait until Friday, i called hubby to get some car repair advices. Luckily, my car finally started after many tries, and I drove to a nearby car workshop for the battery replacement.

When all bad things happen, make sure you settle it with calm. The day is smooth after the two incidents ( I have to call it incident, because it was a very difficult task for me, lol!), and now I am sitting in front of my laptop, drinking coffee and writing my blog.

Snowing Sapporo - Otaru

2011-03-22T22:16:00.005+08:00

1.3.2011 - Sapporo TV Tower

1.3.2011 - Clock Tower

2.3.2011 - Otaru Canal

2.3.2011 - Sapporo night view

3.3.2011 - Sapporo Morning

4.3.2011 - Sapporo to New Chitose Airport

Sakura & plum blossom at Shinjuku Gyoen

2011-03-22T00:30:00.009+08:00

Shinjuku-gyoen is one of top cherry blossom viewing spot in Tokyo. The cherry just started blossom when we were there, it was early of March.

Not as famous as cherry blossom, but unique and lovely in their way. We spent hours in plum blossom viewing in Japanese Garden. We were lucky to see both cherry and plum blossom at the same time.

Me, being taken a photo by my dad as a memory of this beautiful park. This was one of the best part of the trip.

A world with no barrier - Japan

2011-03-13T21:56:00.005+08:00

My parents and I came back from Japan few days before the earthquake and tsunami. We were shocked and it was lucky that we escaped from the havoc. I felt regret and sympathy for the destruction, as it is a place of delicious cultural, beautiful sights, shopper's paradise, glorious food, and wonderful people!

However, I was most impressed by the effort Japan had made a heaven for travelers with disabilities, a world with no barrier for the disabled people. Many buildings in Japan have access ramps and lifts, traffic lights playing melodies when it safe to cross, train platforms have raised dots and lines to provide guidance and many disabled public toilets in town. And the most importantly, they help and give priority to disable society, not only by spoken but real action. We received immediate help when we had difficulties. Japanese are remarkably conscientious, meticulous and honest. I hope and I believe Japan can recover very soon result from the characteristics. Kambateh neh!

Mom traveled in Sapporo town on wheelchair. She able to travel again after 5 years from the accident that cause her on wheelchair. Dad was so great that he pushed her all the journey, even in the blizzard. I was touched, it was not easy, really.

Valentine's day fever

2011-02-17T23:02:00.010+08:00

Valentine's day is always the busiest day in a year for florist. This year, the business is really good and we had to work through out the night before the V-day. Without any surprise, hand bouquet inclusive of red roses, chocolates and bears is among the most popular. Bear is a new popular item add in flowers bouquet for recent years.

One of my very favorite V-day special for year 2011 is the old shanghai style couple bear hand bouquet. The couple bear wear cheongsam and we used gold as the theme color to carry out the heritage theme. Inspired by the old shanghai fashion, we also add some lace to enhance the design.

Another cute and fairytale one, a frog prince holding a diamond ring, surrounded with hydrangea and silver butterflies. It tells : "Kiss me please.... and I will turn into your Prince charming!"

I have a deep interest in hand bouquet design, it can be elegance, heritage, cute, romantic, fashionable, seductive, artistic and etc. Truthfully, I really love Valentine's day, it's not only the money making day, but it gives us a lot of space and opportunity to create plenty of variety designs.

Application for Japan Visa

2011-01-19T23:05:00.003+08:00

Dad and I went to Consulate of Japan in Menara BHL this afternoon to summit our application for visa to Japan. We thought we had prepared all the documents as per stated in their website, but the officer told us that the documents were not sufficient. So sien... that means I need to go over again.

They requested almost all the documents to avoid any mistake, like my birth cert to prove that I am travelling with my parents, a very detail travel itinerary and even a consent letter for visa application from hubby ( as I will travel without hubby).

So it looks like I need to prepare more and I hope my documents would satisfy their requirement next round.

New Year Resolutions

2011-01-05T22:36:00.004+08:00

2010 was a happy, prosperous, fruitful and healthy year for me. I got married, moving into a new house with my dream garden, hired a new staff, visited world expo in Shanghai, got my first iphone and most importantly, I had learned some basic financial technical analysis. However, the past is past, and I am looking forward a greater year of 2011.

In the new year, there will be 2 major objectives for me. Firstly, this will be my vacation year. Hong Kong - Hokkaido - Tokyo in March with my parents; summer Europe trip with my brother; and a long waited honeymoon to Santorini with hubby.

Secondly, it will be my career, I think it's time for me to put more effort in financial technical analysis and boost up my income from this field. Nonetheless, florist is my number 1 favorite, but I need to choose one for the sake of more guarantee income and most importantly -- freedom of time. Skilled and trustworthy worker is one of the major issue of doing florist business, or else you need to stay in the shop for the whole business hour, and that is what I really not willing to do.

Besides the two big objectives, I want to spend more precious time with hubby, parents, siblings and some good friends. I want to think in good and positive way, do more charity and laugh more. This might sound a bit naive, but these attitudes are always the correct path in life.

I hope everything goes well and this year will be my happiest ( as my promise to hubby), healthiest, most prosperous and most fruitful year ever I have!

It's Xmas & New Year again......

2010-12-22T00:13:00.005+08:00

It's Xmas and new year season again, and everybody is in holiday mood. How I wish I could have the holiday mood too. For me, this is the busiest season in a year, and it will continue until Valentine's day to the climax.

From years of experience, I learn to prepare 1 or 2 months ahead before the event. It would be really busy after January. I mean really busy, both Valentine's day and Chinese new year come together. Now, I have finish most of my new design work task for both event, and waiting for my web designer to upload the photos to my web page. Hopefully everything can be done before the new year.

Meanwhile, I will have a short holiday during the Xmas, and take this precious time to recharge.

So, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone!

My new toy iphone 4

2010-11-16T11:32:00.005+08:00

After waiting for almost a month, eventually I got my iphone 4 2 weeks ago. This is truly a new gadget for me, as I haven't use any apple products before. I didn't catch up with iphone 3 when it was first launched in Malaysia, as hubby have just bought a new Nokia hand phone for me from Singapore.

BIL has an iphone 3G with him and he plays with many of the applications, especially the hot games like Angry Bird. He plays with his iphone whenever and wherever, lol! It's good to have him teach me how to fully utilize it. I am not so keen about games, but already addicted to application like youtube, itunes, news and photo edit. In additional, I get alert whenever new order coming in from my florist website. Hubby downloaded few of my favorite songs for me, and I just couldn't stop playing it again and again. Surely, I will be more rely on my new gadget when I go more familiar. I guess ibooks will be the next application I will addict to, but ipad would be a better device for ibook. So, should I get an ipad soon? lol!!!

Shanghai World Expo 2010 - Luxembourg Pavilion

2010-11-16T10:49:00.008+08:00

Luxembourg Pavilion is very unique among pavilion in euro zone, it's made of rusty steel plate. The building is simple and small, but perfectly formed and beautiful as well as the country is. In the view of artistic, I will give this architecture a glorification.

A golden diva statue outside the entrance of the pavilion.

A small garden on top of the roof, from here we could see the Italy and UK Pavilion clearly.

A corner of the interior, displaying their visions and goals.

Shanghai World Expo 2010 - Tunisia Pavilion

2010-10-20T14:55:00.007+08:00

Tunisia Pavilion is another nice one to visit other than those with long queue. It doesn't look attractive from outside, but the contents are quite rich and interesting.

Tunisia's hand craft human portrait.

Some building detail influence by Islamic architecture.

A reward token to Tunisia Pavilion for hi-tech presentation on people, culture, geography and economy of the country.

知道不知道

2010-10-04T00:52:00.001+08:00

山青水秀太陽高，好呀麽好風飄。
小小船兒撐過來，它一路搖呀搖。
為了那心上人，起呀起大早!
也不管那路迢迢，我情願多辛勞。

山青水秀太陽高，好呀好風飄。　
心想著他呀他，我想得真心焦。
為了那心上人，睡也睡不著!
我只怕呀找不到，那叫我怎麽好。

山青水秀太陽高，好呀好風飄。
三步兩步跑呀跑，快趕到土地廟。
我情願陪著他，陪呀陪到老。
除了了他呀都不要，他知道不知道？

他知道不知道？

Shanghai World Expo 2010 - Peru Pavilion

2010-09-24T14:39:00.011+08:00

Hubby and I went to visit a friend in Shanghai during the hari raya long weekend. We spend a day in world expo since we have free daily ticket. Due to time constraint, we decided not to visit those pavillions with long queue, like Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Italy, England, German...ect.. Peru pavillion is one of my favorite.

We had our lunch at the pavillion. Peru's seafood rice and pork dish.

Peru local bear and cocktail.

Eat Pray Love

2010-09-21T15:07:00.002+08:00

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is really hot among women in early thirties recently. I found that many of my friends read this book. From the title of the book, we know it is all about Eat(in Italy), Pray(on India) and Love(in Bali).

Frankly I have not finish the book yet. But there is a chapter she wrote about Depression and Loneliness that really touch the bottom of my heart. I know the sorrow she wrote about and it similarly happened to me a few years ago before I met my husband. In the chapter, she asked why she ruin her marriage, why she messed up things with her boyfriend, where she was the night she turn thirty and why things have gone sour since then, why she is not at home living in a nice house and raising nice children like any respectable woman her age should be, where she will end up in her old age if she keeps living this way.....

I was lucky that I did not face as much problem as she faced, and I was in my late twenties that time. I am glad that I have my dad and some friends who help me to get through these. I learn to appreciate things around me and I thank God who always stay with me and let me met with my husband (who brought me back to the happiness life that I think I deserve for). I am totally out of the sorrow now, and I look things differently since then.

I pray to God for those in suffering, please help them towards the path of sunshine.

Short weekend at Langkawi

2010-09-21T13:52:00.010+08:00

Hubby brought me to Langkawi for a short weekend in July eventually. August would be the raining season in Langkawi.

We stayed in The Lanai Beach Resort, which is located at the end of Pantai Tengah. The resort is at a nice location, by a white clean beach and away from a busy stretch of restaurant. In the short stay in Langkawi, we spent most of our time sunbathing, swimming and doing nothing. Truthfully, I never experience such a rest and relax holiday in my life. I just gonna do it again soon.

Oh, of course hubby and I would never miss out any delicacies anywhere in the world. We tasted ikan bakar at Kuah, chinese seafood at Pantai Cenang, italian food in a warung operate by a foreigner and nasi kampung melayu in a malay restaurant near Lanai Resort. All the food tasted above average and the price was fair.

No honeymoon yet

2010-07-25T14:27:00.002+08:00

Due to several reasons, initially hubby and I planned to have our honeymoon in September. It's six months after our wedding. Our honeymoon target is Santorini in Greece, one of a very famous place for honeymoon. But now, it seems like our plan has to prospone again to next year, cos hubby is dealling with some projects. He is now on is own company, so his time schedule is not as flexible as last time.
Well, sometimes we only have to choose between one, career or life. For now, we have no choice but to choose career first, by hopefully it will bring a greater life in the near future.

My garden wedding decoration at E&O Hotel, Penang

2010-06-09T15:19:00.022+08:00

I remember the first time I went to E&O Hotel when I was 10, I had my 1st grade piano practical examination there. Although It was before the restoration and I was nervous of my exam on that time, but these didn't ignore me for admiring the beauty of the heritage. No doubt, It become more magnificient after the restoration. I have always been interested in vintage things, so I chose E&O hotel for my wedding.

I had my wedding vow at Verandah Garden. Our garden decorations were fairy tale and vintage inspired. There were white calla lilies, white roses, white lisianthus, white orchids and green leaves every where.

The wedding cake was in white sugar paste, decorated with some fresh white lisianthus and orchids.

My bridesmaids each dressed in green skirt and holding a small posy of flower. Well, dont' they looked like tinkle bells!

Bridegroom and best men were in simple white shirt and black suit. They were all so gorgeos!

For myself, I wore a self-design satin wedding gown, it was simple and elegant, thanks to Auntie May who made this for me. Inspired by the Greek goddess, my make-over artist, Anderson Chu set a messy side braid hairstyle for me. And I really like it so much!

I need a long long vacation!!!!

2010-05-25T11:56:00.003+08:00

It's been a long time since 6 months ago I went for a long vacation. After 2 months of my wedding, I start to itchy again for vacation. But hubby is starting busy with his work again and no time for that. Futhermore, he cannot bear to have more holiday, since we will go for our honey on September for about 2 weeks, his boss would start to make some noise if he take more holiday.

I start to think of travelling alone, or maybe find a couple of friends to travel? But, who would be so free to bother me at this time? Oh God! I really need a long long vacation, better get a plan for myself before i fall in depress. lol!

Fresh flower vs artificial flower

2010-04-24T11:32:00.005+08:00

I aware that artificial flowers are getting popular now a day. Last time, people only buy artificial flowers for house decoration and opening ceremony. But now, artificial hand bouquet become popular too. People not care about the meaning of sending flowers anymore, and girls would not mind to receive artificial flowers from their lover anymore. Some people even use artificial hand bouquet for their wedding. People just concern about to keep for the flowers forever, they claim that fresh flowers die soon and it waste money.

However, I still encourage people to buy fresh flowers, although I sell both artificial and fresh flowers. We only could feel the liveness and nice aroma from fresh flowers, especially flowers like rose and lily, don't they smell nice and make ur day wonderful? I love to see people smell on the flowers when they receive it, I feel that they really know how to appreciate it. We need not keep the flowers forever, even the artificial flowers would become fate one day. However, a good memory would keep in our mind for a long long time and remember the person to give us the sweet memory.

Hiring new staff

2010-04-22T16:32:00.003+08:00

Finally, I made up my mind to buy a second hand van, and I had it last week. The van condition is still good and need not much money to repair, thanks to dad for the effort to search for the van from one second hand car shop to another. We almost dropped by all the second hand car shops at Sungai Dua and Bagan Ajam.

Next, I hire a runner to do the delivery and collect payment. The runner was previously the owner of the bakery next door to us. I was so lucky that he agreed to work for me. It's not so easy to find good employee now a day. Today is his 3rd day working with us, and things run quite smooth. Let's see if I can be more relax in future, I really wish to have more time to work and study in finance. Wish me luck that the runner can work longer.

Back Back Back

2010-04-19T01:45:00.003+08:00

I finally blog all my hong Kong trip, it took me nearly half a year.... :P. I wish after all my wedding, house renovation and Valentine's day have past, I could start to write my blog again. At least once a week, to make a record of my life, work and hobbies.

Hong Kong Trip - 5th day

2010-04-19T01:11:00.004+08:00

After a 2 days 1 day short trip in Macau, we were back to Hong Kong. We didn't do much thing on that day, except eating and shopping.

We took a ride on tram.

And, hey it was a extra for us to bump into a Hong Kong super star Miriam Yeung on a Nike product launching somewhere in central district.

Classical street food in Hong Kong, milk tea, shark fin soup and curry fish ball.

Our last meal in Hong Kong in airport, BBQ meat rice.

Macau Trip - 4th Day

2010-04-19T00:55:00.006+08:00

We went to Macau for a day. Again I was having seasick on the ferry, the worst thing was the weather too hot and the crowd really make me sick. I did not enjoy much at the tourism places, but luckily still managed to have a lot of fun in casinos and food.

Pork chop Burger.

Crab porridge.

Prawn eggs noodle.

Portuguese egg tart from the famous Margaret's Cafe, this was the most delicious egg tart I ever had.

Hong Kong Trip - 3rd day

2010-04-19T00:16:00.006+08:00

We went to the Lamma Island on the 3rd day, I was so excited that I could escape from the hectic Hong Kong city. However, it wasn't a smooth journey as I had seasick. The waves are too strong.

My pale face upon arriving in Lamma Island.

However I had my appetite back after a walk around the Lamma Island. And this was our delicious Che Cai Noodle '车仔面’, it really tasted good.... yummy...

A photo took at Hong Kong Chai.

We had our luxury afternoon tea at renowned Jumbo floating restaurant at Aberdeen Harbour. Actually the price was not too expensive, but a lot of well known people had been visited this place, included Queen Elizabeth II. It's our pleasure to have afternoon tea here.

It was a bit weird to have dim sum at this hour, but we were casual on this trip and the dim sum taste really not bad.

Hong Kong Trip -2nd Day

2010-04-18T23:52:00.005+08:00

It was a plenitude day, that we went to Lantau Island for the Po Lin Monastery, Causewaybay, Victoria Peak for the million dollar Hong Kong's night view, and a walk at night market at Miu Kai.

You need to climb on hundred steps to take a photo like this.

A photo of me at causeway bay.

Live band which sing classical old songs. I was so surprise to see the oldman dancing with the singer, that I saw him before in a TV program which introducing tourism in Hong Kong.

I am not so good in taking photograph, this is the best night view photo I took from The Peak.

Hong Kong Trip - 1st Day II

2010-04-18T21:30:00.007+08:00

We continue our journey after lunch at Mong Kok. We started at gold fish market, flower market and then bird's market. Nonetheless, we spent most of our time in flowers market. I was so attracted by the variety and modern arrangement of flowers.

Gold fish market.

Flower market.

Pink peony. This is the first time I see real peony, I love it so much. Peony could be my favorite main flower in my flower arrangement if I could find it easily in Penang.

Special flowers species imported from Australia.

Lovely mix color roses, I believe this is a new species. Hope can see you soon in Penang.

Cute button chrysanthemum.

I love the style of hand bouquet in HongKong, just simple and elegance. These are my favorite hand bouquets, which wrapped in brown color. Its give me a lot of inspiration of my recent design.

Some cute flower arrangement in box, which are not so popular yet in Malaysia.

Aw.... these butterfly orchids are real, and nicely arranged. Wish I could have these all in my garden.

Bird's Market

Hong Kong Trip - 1st Day I

2009-11-22T21:52:00.009+08:00

It has been a long time I didn't update my blog. There are many busy things happen around me, house renovation, wedding preparation, cny, Valentine's day preparation and bla... bla... bla....

However, I still manage to steal some time travel to Hong Kong and Macau for a week. This was the 2nd time for me and 3rd time for my dear to Hong Kong. Thus, this was all about jalan-jalan

and makan makan (eating and walk around) trip.

I had my very first meal 鱼胶粉 (fish gelatin dumpling noodles) somewhere in kowloon once we arrived in Hong Kong. The dumpling skin was made of fish gelatin and it's more sticky compare to ordinary dumpling. And I really like it, cos I love all sticky food such as glutinous rice.

Then we went to a wet market some where in Wong Kok. I saw a lot of fresh and live seafood. It would be great if we had a kitchen in Hong Kong to cook dishes. ( Dear, next time can we rent a apartment with kitchen?)

I found something I love to eat very much -- Frog! OMG! Can't believe it, I saw it alive!!!

Baby Fullmoon Party Decoration

2009-10-07T13:16:00.003+08:00

This time it's a baby boy's fullmoon party, so the theme color definitely would be baby blue! To make it more boyish look, despite of flowers, I chose bear as the main character for the decoration.

Decorated backdrop and baby cot for presenting baby to the guess.

An 'Egg' shape flowers arrangement on the coffee table. Egg is a symbolic icon for new born.

A bear riding on bicycle carrying a posy of flowers welcome the arrival of Baby Lucas.

Beach Wedding Party

2009-09-30T20:27:00.002+08:00

It's fun to attend beach wedding party, especially with those friends who could really go all out for fun. See, how enjoy they were singing and dancing on the sea shore! There is only one thing worry about beach party in Malaysia -- Raining! Luckily it didn't happen on that day, if not I think the bride sure would cry like hell.... lol!

A friend wedding at Vistana Hotel

2009-08-19T18:44:00.009+08:00

Finally I got the photos from the wedding couple last weekend. But the cd that contains 1500++ pictures. *Phew...* I have used some time to dig out which photos that related to me, but i found out that those pictures are mostly 'human potraits' lol! Out of no choice, I share some photos of mine, my dear and some friends on the event.

Group of the wedding couple's friends.

Yam...... Seng....... Toast from the brothers.

Heroine.... lay down all the boys.... lol!

Me and my sweet dear.

Birthday Holiday

2009-08-18T11:40:00.003+08:00

Babies born everyday, and every day is somebody birthday. One of our everyday activity is sending bouquet for birthday girl/boy to their work place. However, I found that 50% people take leave on their birthday. Thus I know that many treat their birthday as a very important day.

Well, maybe I never do this in my life, I feel quite surprise of this. I really don't know how they celebrate their birthday. I guess they go to salon for facial, set hair and make-up for dinner date? Wow, if that's the case, they really have a big celebration for birthday! lol!

Nonetheless, I get to know that many just want to rest for a day, treat themselve better on their 'big day'! For working class, to relax at home for a day during the weekday is a luxury, isn't? That's the best birthday gift for themselve.

Wedding Decoration at Vistana Hotel, Penang

2009-08-10T23:04:00.005+08:00

I had done a wedding flower decoration at Vistana Hotel few months ago. I wait for the wedding couple to send me some photos taken by the professional photographer, but I don't receive anything until now. So I decide to post some photos taken by myself, before it rot！Lol!

Flower stands along the red carpet.

I combined both ikebana and english style to my flowers decoration.

Reception table flowers decoration. I used antorium as my main flower, because its red heart shape which brought a lot of meaning to the new wedding couple.

Bali Day 5 - Nandini

2009-08-01T00:26:00.005+08:00

It was the last day we stayed in Bali. We stayed in Nandini Bali Jungle Resort & Spa for our last 2 nights in Ubud. Nandini is a very isolated resort located on slope of the Ayung River Valley.

Morning view at the balcony from our room.

Me, picture taken outside of our villa.

My dear were enjoying his morning walk along the steps access to the gondola.

Gondola that carries passenger to villas from different level.

River Ayung, located down hill of Nandini Resort. Access by gondola and hundred steps to the river. My picture couldn't be shown here, cos I am not confident with my bikini's look. lol!

Rice field beside Nandini Resort.

We spent the whole morning in Nandini resort by playing at the river and trekking on the rice field. For lunch, we had the famous 'babi guling' at Warung Ibu Oka. Before we went back to the resort for our massage session, we walked around Ubud and had some window shopping for those oil paintings and crafts. And then, we came to a very beautiful Pura Taman Saraswati. How nice if I could have a lily pond and balinese garden in my house like this.

We would leave Bali on the next morning, thus we had our candle-lit dinner in the resort. Before the dinner, we went for a balinese massage at the riverside spa of the resort. It was a very nice experience for being massaged accompany by the sound of river flow and insects. At that moment, I really wished that I could stay forever in this paradise......

Bali Day 4 - Ubud here I come!

2009-07-30T00:08:00.004+08:00

I couldn't wait for going to the beautiful Ubud, I had heard a lot about arts, culturals, food, shopping, natural scenery and trekking activities. But first, I tried a Balinese dessert which called 'Pisang Rai'. It was really good, sliced banana steamed in some sticky souce (which taste similar to chinese new year sticky cake). People who like cny sticky cake sure would like this too.

There was no night life in Ubud, so we spent our night watching dance performance at beautiful Ubud Palace. They had Barong and variety of other dances on friday night.

Bali Day 3

2009-07-23T23:23:00.007+08:00

We needed to return the car today, so we rushed to the rice terrace field nearby Gunung Lempuyang early in the morning. It was not so magnificent as my expectation, but not too bad for a first timer like me.

A balinese woman carrying some leaves on her head, climbing from the rice terrace towards the main road. They are all very good in balancing, as it is not easy to carry such a big basket.

The whole morning on the 3rd day was only for rice terrace. It was about 1pm when we reached Kuta, and we changed our vehicle to motorcycle. Well, it is much convenient riding on motorcycle to explore Kuta and Legian. We had our lunch at Warung Yogya, which located at Jln. Padma Utara, Legian. I had nasi campur again, and it was so much different compare to the previous I tried. They had something like meat frost that make the dish taste better.

After the meal, we heading to Uluwatu to see sunset and Kecak performance. It was quite a good experience watching Kecak. It feature a large choir of bare-chested man who, packed in a swaying, fire-lit circle, chant a hypnotic 'chak-a-chak' accompaniment. If you only want to watch one balinese dance, this is the one recommended.

After the Kecak performance, there was nothing left to do in Uluwatu. While on the way back, we had BBQ seafood dinner at a candle-lit table on the sand at Jimbaran bay.

Surfing in Bali

2009-07-13T23:22:00.005+08:00

I had my very first surfing lesson in Kuta beach. Kuta beach is the best place for beginners. Like other sports, we need a profesional lesson to master the skill, but surfing was not in our schedule. However, I really wanted to experience surfing, but due to the time constrain, I only managed to try bodysurf. It's very fun and exciting! I felt glad that I had tried it in Bali, as Bali is a paradise for surfer. Next time maybe I will take a professional surfing lesson to truely experience the fun of surfing. If you plan go to Bali, do not miss out surfing, check out www.prosurfschool.com or www.schoolofsurf.com to get more infomation for surfing classes. It really made my trip different from expected!

Bali Day 2 - Pura Besakih & Kintamani

2009-06-23T23:14:00.010+08:00

We reached Pura Besakih finally. Great scene as expected and most of the artifact still remain originally. The sacred Mt. Agung is at the back of Pura Besakih. As usual, there are many steps for ancient hindu temple, same as Pura Besakih too. (Anyway, it consider much more lesser compare to Angkor Wat, and the steps in Besakih were easier to climb.)

Guess what was this made of? It was all made of rice! Amazing! Balinese are always good in art and craft. Its all shown in their daily life activities, including their offering ceremony which is part of their most important event in life.

After a long walk in Besakih, we decided to go to another famous spot nearby, the Kintamani Volcano. We reached the viewing spot just before the sunset. It was so beautiful, and hey... it was my first time seeing valcano in real! lol! So sampat!

Bali Day 2 - On the way to Pura Besakih

2009-06-08T23:38:00.020+08:00

It was a long day for my second day in Bali, thus I devide it to 2 parts. Our main destination was to Pura Besakih, the biggest and important temple in Bali.

We started our journey in a pleasant morning, everything was so beautiful in Bali. They like to arrange flowers in many ways and everywhere. I took this picture in my hotel's lobby, red roses petals and egg flowers floating on water in a wide round glass plate.

We had our 'brunch' at a paddy field side restaurant, my 'tam chiak' dear was happily satisfied by the delicious asam fish head and natural breeze.

A farmer was working on the paddy field, it was real and not a show. It had been a long time I never see this scenery in Malaysia. What a great memory recall!

After the meal, we continue our journey, it took almost 2 hours to the destination. I took this photo on the road, there were many tall bambo sticks with yellow 'flag'. I guessed it was something related to the balinese hinduism custom.

When almost reach Pura Besakih, we saw a house holding wedding ceremony. The Balinese use a lot of leaf weaving to decorate their house on the ceremony.

Their handcrafts were so neat and beautiful. I really loved to learn weaving from them if I could stay for 1 month. lol!

I shot the wedding car too, it was not so pretty decorated, but I liked the way they kept in their balinese hinduism style.

My First Day in Bali

2009-05-21T22:54:00.010+08:00

Me and my dear reached Denpasar at noon by Airasia from Singapore. After we picked up our rented car from the airport and checked in hotel in Kuta, we started our hunt for a good restaurant for lunch. However, we didn't go far for our first meal in Kuta, because my stomach started making noise and my legs hardly moved fast with an empty stomach. LOL! As the result, we had our first meal in Made's Warung at Jalan Pantai Kuta which was just 5 minutes walk from our hotel. Luckily the food there was quite nice. Their nasi campur had almost 8 different small portion dishes mixed with rice in a plate. For those who like to try balinese dishes, nasi campur could be a wise choice.

My first picture took in Bali, from the charming Made's Warung.

There was not much time left after our meal, we decided to visit Tahah Lot Temple as the distance took only 1 hour from Kuta. We reached there just in time to see the amazing beautiful sunset.

And then, we spent a romantic evening having some drinks in an open air restaurant in Tanah Lot.

Shenzhen Seafood

2009-05-16T22:54:00.005+08:00

Seafood is a specialty in Shenzhen, at least the local think that is it. A local (my parent's property agent in Shenzhen) brought us to a seafood restaurant. Most of the fish and sea creatures were still alive. Maybe this is influenced by Hongkong's culture, that all seafood must be sold alive, otherwise the value would be different.

However, the cooking method of the seafood in Shenzhen was not so interesting. They just can't bring out the freshness and 'sweetness' of fresh seafood. Sometimes the seafood been overcooked and added too much salt. Ee.... I still prefer our sweet and sour crab, assam prawn, curry fish head, teochew steam fish, fried sotong, lala fried with kam heong....ect. LOL!

There were many different choices of seafood that we never see in Malaysia. They even had the fresh abalone! And for oyster lover, don't miss it, it's really cheap! Only RM2 per oyster!

Hong Kong 1 Day Trip

2009-05-15T22:37:00.005+08:00

Before I start to blog about my Bali trip, I want to finish my story of ShenZhen first. I managed to visit Hongkong for 1 day. My pa registered me to a local travel agency in Shenzhen. The trip cost about RM200 only, it is very cheap! You wouldn't believe that the trip even included 2 meals and ticket to Ocean Park. However, the trip was very rush, but I did enjoy the trip with some Chinese young girls who came from Liao Ning and Beijing.

The only bad thing was they put us in an emporium that in particular for China's tourist to buy jewelry, branded cosmetics, perfumes, electronic devices... ects. It really wasted my time, and it took almost 2 hours. If not because of this stupid arrangement, I think I might have time to visit Victoria Peak.

The forever blooming Bauhinia.

Cable car in Ocean Park.

One of my favourite place in Ocean Park, the Jelly Fish Aquarium.

Bruce Lee‘s statue at Avenue of Stars.

A nice view from the night tour on ferry at Victoria Harbor.

I am back

2009-05-13T23:41:00.002+08:00

Hey, I am back to my blog again. It has been 1 month I never update my blog. Well, I had too many things to do for the past one month, so I have to put away blogging first. I've been busy with wedding flower arrangement, mother's day and my long vacation in Bali. Now I have so many stories to tell, I will be busy with my blog again.

first meal in shenzhen

2009-04-12T23:44:00.005+08:00

I spent almost all my time in Chun Feng Road in Shenzhen. My pa brought us to a restaurant opposite to our apartment on the first day. The specialty in this restaurant was their 瓦缸煨汤, the picture shown below is how they simmer the soup inside a big clay cylinder. We ordered the coconut soup, and it tasted really 'sweet'. I guessed it was good for my skin.

Other than that we ordered fried latter 豆苗 ( which is very popular in shenzhen), chicken in claypot 三杯鸡，fish steam with black bean source and lotus simmer with pork rib. Those were all traditional southern chinese cuisine, its tasted very special to me. Unlike chinese restaurant in Malaysia, most popular dishes are sambal and curry. However, I do prefer Malaysian chinese food, can't live without sambal belacan. LOL! One meal without sambal is fine, but no more than that!

Payment Gateway

2009-04-11T10:49:00.005+08:00

I set up my florist website 3 years ago, at start I did not use any payment gateway. After a while, when there were more and more inquiry from overseas, me and my IT partner decided to set up a payment gateway. Initially, we planned to go for paypal, but found it was too expenssive for beginner like us. So we went for a local assembly payment gateway - ipay**. The cost is quite cheap, only RM500++ for set up fee and RM68 for monthly fee. Both of us were the first timer for e-business, thus we did not take services and reliability as our consideration.

No doubt, by setting up payment gateway, our e-business has boosted up a lot, but we start meet difficulty handling with ipay**. Firstly, their responce are quite slow. Sometimes they only responce to the possibility of fraud payment after our delivery. That makes us have no choice, but to ask them to proceed with the payment which we being forced to take risk by our own.

Secondly, their customer service is not very well, as they only contact us via email and fax, they would not call you when there is any dispute. The worst thing is they give you deadline to responce to them, if not they will deduct money from your account. As a result, we as the customer have to follow up closely with them to avoid our money being deducted, they would not call you. I wonder maybe the phone call is too expenssive for them, even though it is only local call! LOL!

Well, you pay for a cheap service fee, and you get a cheap service. It is fair and that is how I console myself when I get frustrated by ipay**. :P
Is there any cheaper payment gateway in Malaysia?

Shenzhen Part 2 - Hand Bouquet

2009-04-10T23:32:00.004+08:00

There are few flower stores in Chun Feng Street. I found the hand bouquet's design and color composition were quite different with the one we have in Malaysia.
Firstly, they like bright colors. For an example from the picture below, they used cili red, orange and pink as the theme color. Secondly, they rarely use floret like baby breath and peacock in their bouquet. This makes their bouquets look less sweet but fill with chinese passion, like the booming and thriving of the country.

Another bouquet that caught my eyes was the one shown in below, a lotus hand bouquet. I never see this in any other place. It is something special and the meaning of lotus in chinese is 'emerge unstained from filth (出污泥而不染)'.

ShenZhen - part 1

2009-03-31T23:09:00.007+08:00

I came back from ShenZhen on last Wednesday, but due to busy preparing for Cheng Beng on Saturday, I had no time to update my blog. The main purpose of this trip was to visit my parents in Shenzhen, I did not go anywhere except tasting the food and snap some photos around the area my parents stay. My parents stay in a condominium at 'Chun Feng Street' in Luo Hu area.

The picture below was taken at Chun Feng Street, a man riding on a bicycle with a girl at the back. At first I thought they were lover, but my papa told me that this was kind of 'taxi' service, which they took people to short destination. This was something interesting I found in Shenzhen, how nice if we can have this kind of service in Malaysia. It is cheap, convenient and support to the enviromental protection.

Bikini

2009-03-15T16:43:00.010+08:00

I am looking for a new bikini for my Bali trip end of April. I have one dark blue bikini from Espirit, but think of getting a new one. I found some bikini that suit to my favourite.

Born to wild bikini from Roxy.

Sorbet bikini from Sofia & Vix, love the pink dot.

This chocolate bikini from Sofia & Vix is very cute and chocolate is one of my favorite color.

Work out

2009-03-14T00:49:00.004+08:00

I always feel sleepy and tired lately. It should be due to lack of excersice, it's already 2 months I never go for gym. Recently, I hardly wake up early in the morning, and feel sleepy at work.

Finally, I made up my mind and forced myself to gym this morning. You know what? The result is very good, I do not feel sleepy at all the whole day, even it's almost 1am now. I think I should discipline myself to go for excersice at least twice a week. Not only for health, but to keep fit too! I have a Bali trip at end of April, so it's time to firm up and slim down a bit, if not cannot wear bikini lor! LOL!

Going to Shenzhen

2009-03-12T22:10:00.004+08:00

I plan to Shenzhen for 5 days trip. This will be the second time for me to China. The first time was not so good, my mom met an accident in Shanxi and we went there to see and bring her back. There is one thing i would like to express that Shanxi chinese people are very nice and sincere. That was out of our expectation, the doctors there were especially excellence. If not because of them, maybe we had no chance to see my mom again.

This time I will go to Shenzhen, I guess the culture will be a lot of difference compare to Shanxi. Shenzhen was openned since 1979 and people came from all around of China to find opportunity. I expect there will be very complicated and busy. It is located immediately north to Hongkong, if time allow, I wish for a 1 day trip to Hongkong. Besides, I hope there will be a nice place for me to shop and eat. It is time for me to gather information about Shenzhen now. Let's see what I can find in internet.

Sentosa Island half day trip

2009-03-10T23:29:00.014+08:00

Exotic tropical floral in Sentosa.

Riding bicycle with my dear, a romantic activity with your love one in Sentosa.

Skyride with my dear, not a bad activity for 1st timer to Sentosa!

See, they were so relax in sun bathing! Too bad I didn't bring my bikini. Next time must bring it!

Beautiful sunset in Sentosa.

Calla Lily Hand Bouquet

2009-03-07T02:23:00.007+08:00

It has been quite sometime that I never post my work. I did a very simple calla lilies hand bouquet last few days. I used two pieces of sacks material fabrics with some rafia as the wrapping material. Natural color had been chosen to carry out the country look.

Sometimes, a simple wrapping is more comfortable and natural, especially for a natural temperament girl.

French nail kit

2009-03-07T02:07:00.005+08:00

I found a french nail kit in THEFACESHOP. The steps are shown and it is very easy, even though you do not understand korean, so do I. LOL! The result is not bad if you could put a little bit more patient while doing it.

Sakura In Seberang Jaya

2009-03-04T23:23:00.006+08:00

I drive through Seberang Jaya today, there is a row of sakura tree along the road. The flowers bloom every year at this time. I thought of shooting the photo for many times when I passed by and this time I did it! It is very beautiful.

Well, I feel glad and lucky that I can see sakura here in Seberang Jaya. It is very costly travel to Japan for Sakura Festival. Of course, the scenery is far away compared to Japan. Anyway, it is not a bad idea to pass through this road when you feel bored in the lazy afternoon.

Dream Of Obama

2009-03-03T16:16:00.004+08:00

I had a strange dream last night, I dream of Mr. Barrack Obama. In my dream, I was working as Obama's personal assistant and the location was in a resort. LOL! I cannot remember clearly what happen in the dream, but i do remember that Obama asked me to pay his bill for dinner and he gave me his wallet with a Blackberry inside. The funny thing is, it is a LV's monogram wallet.
I do not know why I could have a dream like this, maybe I've read and watched too much news and articles about Obama recently. He is more popular than any celebrity now a day!
In real life, I am a very common person, but I have a different and fantasy life in my dream. Is that a inner desire of myself?

Home alone

2009-03-03T15:58:00.003+08:00

It's been quite a long time i never update my blog since my parents and maid went to Shenzhen again. This time they will off for 2 months. It's already 10 days passed, and I am still not used to stay alone.
My daily life is out of schedule, and the worst thing is I have to do everything on my own. I have to admit that I am very lonely and helpless sometimes. :P

Take Bath

2009-02-22T23:44:00.007+08:00

I am writing this while waiting for my dear taking bath. He always takes longer time than me. :P
Well, some people do take more time but some are less. I always wonder what are people doing inside the bathroom for so long? Especially guys....
My dear always says he has a bigger body to wash so need more time. LOL! Yeah, now he is on MSN, it takes 20 minutes.
Not the worst case I ever met, I had a ex-colleague who can take bath for 1 hour everytime. We knew about his secret when we went for an outstation conference, he almost spend an hour in bathroom everyday before dinner, and everybody had to wait for him. No body dare to ask what he was doing in the bathroom, as he was one of our senior manager. LOL!

Ms. Elizabeth Wong

2009-02-19T11:23:00.006+08:00

I read a lot of comments about Ms. Eli Wong, many come out and stand for her. Most people do not support her resignation but I think she has no choice if that is the party's decision. As a strong woman like her who fight for human right and politic should not give up that easily.

As a woman, I feel pity for her. This incident remind us to be vigilance, especially becareful in choosing freind. She did nothing wrong, but had trust a wrong person. Nothing could be more hurt than being hurt by someone we love. No matter how strong the woman is, she needs someone to love and take care of her.

Ms. Eli, hope you can go through this, and fight for us (women). Many women's future and life have been ruin due to same encounter. Young star like Ah Q Gillian Chung could stand up and meet the audience again, why don't you?

The Qin Empire

2009-02-18T17:53:00.005+08:00

I watch The Qin Empire tv series recently. It is not a bad choice if you like historic tv series. The story line is about how the Qin become strong from a poor and weak country. This period is very important in China history. Without Qin dynasty, we don't call ourself Chinese. Chinese is come from Qin (Chin).

Your may try this link to watch the series:

http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_2326555.html

If you like it you can get the dvd from any DVD shop. Hong Kong Video is one of them.

Yo! Yo! V-Day is over!

2009-02-16T23:29:00.003+08:00

V-day is finally over now. After sleep for 1 day, it is time to think of what should I do next. I promise to myself that I'll do something about my life after V-day. Life is too comfortable now, but I think it is time for me to move on. There is an idiom in chinese, 居安思危:be vigilant in peace time. It was told by an elderly.

Maybe you would think that I should have planned before new year. But, as a florist, I only can think after V-day and CNY. Nothing is more important than grap money first ma.... LOL!

Count Down to Valentine's Day

2009-02-10T22:54:00.002+08:00

Since I had started my florist career 5 years ago, Valentine's Day became my No. 1 important day. I get busy 1 month before the VD every year, from design, marketing, planning, production to delivery, just like a small factory's operation. LOL!
Now, there are only few days more to VD, learn from previous years experience, we are more confident with more preparation been done. I'm counting days to VD, while work hard to do more preparation and get more business. Though market is really bad this year, but I still put hope on VD sales. On the current situation, we have to grab what ever we can and as much as we can. Hope everything goes smooth.

Love from Dubai

2009-02-09T23:33:00.007+08:00

A guy called from Dubai today to order for a Valentine's Day hand bouquet. He asked for my suggestion for him on his situation try to get the girl as his girlfriend. Well, that's the common question been asked many times from my customer. Anyway, it is not so difficult to help him for this case. Firstly, he shows his sincere to order flowers from so far away. Secondly, most girls would feel excited for receiving flowers during the Valentine's Day, because the price shot up to triple, girls hate stingy guy, LOL!
Nonetheless, I still give him my professional suggestion, a secret weapon, TULIPS from Holand! This will really surprise the girl! Most guys only know to buy roses for girls, come on la.... try some new things, girls like surprise!

Chinese Valentine's Day - Chap Goh Meh

2009-02-09T23:01:00.006+08:00

Hobe came to shoot some pictures of some hand bouquet yesterday. He told me that he cough due to eat too much Bak Kua during Chinese New Year! LOL! Everybody still in CNY mood, or more precisely -- CNY fever! Even MY FM DJs also desperately play CNY songs for these 2 day. But for me, I'm already in Valentine's Day mood.

Today is 15th day of CNY, it's the last day of CNY celebration and also the Chinese Valentine's Day! It is not as popular as 14th feb. Lovers tend to ignore it to put all their effort on 14th Feb. However, it can be a romantic day if you go to pak tor with your love one, walk down the street to catch the last firework and appreciate the lanterns on the street. Haiz.... wish my dear is with me now....

Cape No. 7

2009-02-07T23:32:00.007+08:00

Many may have already watched Cape No. 7, some maybe not just once. It's a simple but excellent taiwanese movie. 2 love stories between 6 decades are very romantic, but I prefer to watch the band playing part. One of the bandmate who plays bass guitar (Mala Sun), 4th from the left of the photo below looks like one of my good friend KK. LOL!

If you plan to celebrate your Valentine's Day at home, Cape no. 7 might be a good choice. Either you watch it alone or with your love one, you would have a sweet and peaceful Valentine's Day, as simple and warm as the movie.

Chijmes

2009-01-31T11:53:00.009+08:00

It's 6th day for cny, and here I am back! Like most of people, I will be back to work on Monday. But now, i'm in Singapore, still having my holiday.

My dear brought me to Chijmes last night. It is located opposite of Carlton Hotel, or across the road from City Hall MRT Station. I heard of this place for many times, but this was my first time to Chijmes. I forgot to bring my camera, that's the best picture I took from my dear's handphone.

It was quite crowded, nice for friends or colleagues gathering, but not so perfect for couple. It reminded me of restaurants along Danube River in Budapest: music, food and wines with significant heritage night view. We were surrounded by catholic convent building while dining and drinking.

You can find more history about Chijmes in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIJMES. , and more commercial infomation in http://www.chijmes.com.sg/default.aspx.

Full moon baby's decoration

2009-01-19T00:15:00.004+08:00

I have done a full moon baby's decoration today, for a baby girl named Daemirtra. Her parents held a full moon party in their house tonight.

Pink is always the right color for baby girls, no matter what racial. Fairy's tale was the theme for this design, though initially the mother meant to make her baby look like a princess. The 'princess' plan would cost more, as a result they accept my idea and willing to give it a try.

I used white clothe as the backdrop, and pink netting as the curtain. Gold color wording for her name. The backdrop and baby cord was embellishmented with some maroon butterflies and roses bouquets. 2 red dress Mini were another focus and it would be topics among the family members, as the baby girl was borned in Rat's year.

Chinese New Year sticky Cake - Di Kueh

2009-01-15T23:48:00.008+08:00

Pa called lastnight to remind me buy some cny sticky cakes-di kueh. Thus, I went to market this morning to hunt for it. There was only one stall in the market which sell di kueh. Maybe it was still early, there might be more during the weekend. Anyway, I couldn't wait till weekend, I would be busier then. I chose 12 medium size di kueh, it costed RM3.50 per cake.

When I smelled on the cake, I wished I could have time to buy some fresh shredded coconut meat. It is the best combination with Di Kueh.

However, now di kueh is more popular to fried with yam and sweet potato slice. I cannot show the picture now, because we need to dry the di kueh first, so that it could be sliced.

Facial and eyelashes perm

2009-01-14T23:07:00.009+08:00

I have been busy for the whole week. Luckily, I could have a break today, and I have 3 hours for my private time. I decided to go for a facial treatment. As usual, my beautician arranged whatever necessary treatment. She always can satisfy me, and i especially love her massage, both face and shoulder massage. It's really relaxing and I nearly fell into sleep just now. LOL!

Due to chinese new year, she gave me free eyelashes perm. Well, my eyelashes look very different now and my eyes look bigger. I permed my eyelashesh few times already, and I think it is very convenient for working girls who need to makeup every morning.

Hope for Chinese New Year

2009-01-09T23:13:00.004+08:00

I have a lot of deliveries today, 3 of them are for chinese new year. As usual, chinese new year decorations are mothers' responsibility, sometimes daughter. In short, it is usually women business.

My first CNY flowers delivery was to a 70 years old mother with a handicap son. While my second delivery was to a lonely mother who has a son working in Singapore because of his gf. Then the last one was to a divorcee mother who has 3 children, but only one stays with her.

I realised that there are many lonely mothers who live in this town. They start to get preparations to welcome the family members to come back on CNY. Hopefully the family members would appreciate it and give the mothers a wonderful chinese new year, as they have put a lot of effort on that.

Home Alone

2009-01-07T23:02:00.005+08:00

My parents and maid had gone to China this morning. I have 10 days home alone from now on. Basically there is not much different, cos I work until 7pm everyday. I try to have dinner at home with family everyday, so the only big different is I need to settle my dinner by myself.

Initially, I planned to invite a friend for dinner, but I only finished work at 8:30pm. I feel really tired and did not want to go out anymore. My papa had bought some squids, prawns, eggs and some mushrooms for me. Those are enough for me to prepare a simple dinner. I cook seafood tomyam mee and fried onion egg. I feel that home cook is always better than eating outside. Oh, I start to miss my papa.... his cooking is actually not bad!

Chinese New Year

2009-01-03T23:09:00.008+08:00

There are only 3 weeks to go for Chinese New Year. Other than Valentine's Day, this is the busiest month for me in whole year. I am ready for the heavy task, but the question is, during the economy crisis, how should I do to boost up my sales?

I try not to get mass quantity for artificial cherry blossom and peony. I've tried very hard to control my desire. LOL! Some artificial flowers are very beautiful, its look like real and some even prettier than the real one.

Pussy willow is a must for cny. It just arrived yesterday, and I've arranged a few bouquet of artificial cherry blossom and peony with pussy willow. This combination is just simple and nice for normal house decoration during cny.

These are only warm up exercises for the season. I hope I will get busier and busier, because that means my business gets better and better. I pray and hope for that, and I will work really hard for that.

Last delivery for 2008

2009-01-01T18:36:00.007+08:00

I got a 99 roses hand bouquet order from a guy from Ipoh yesterday. He came once before this, and he wanted to order again for his girlfriend in BM. This guy has tatoos all over his shoulders, and I guess there are many more on his body. I think he is a Loan Shark or somebody like mob. Anyway, he is also a normal human like us who loves and cares. His gf is a singer in a kopitiam in BM. Their job is not only to sing, but they have to entertain the customers to gain their rewards in term of money. Although they gain a lot of money, but their life is sucks, just imagine what kind of people would go to a kopitiam for entertainment, especially looking for girls?

As per request from the guy, we delivered the flowers to the Kopitiam at 10pm. When I reached there, she was not singing yet, I saw her sitting with a group of middle age guys and she was the only girl. I passed the hand bouquet to the counter and requested the counter person to present it to her when she sing on the stage. Then I passed a card with some money in an envolope to her. The sender asked me to write this message in the card: My dear, I hope you could have a new life for this coming new year. Please consider seriously and choose for a better life. Wish you happy new year and health!

I was so touching for these sentences. For many years, I help a lot of people to write their messages, but none of them could touch my heart. It was just a few sentences, but it could change a girl's life. I really hope that she could accept him and let him take care of her, no matter how, it would be better than what she is doing now.

At last, I hope everyone could have a better life and choose to live in a better way in this new year! Kampai for the bright future!

X'mas Holiday

2008-12-30T23:06:00.005+08:00

I went to Singapore again for my X'mas holiday. Each time I go to Sg, my dear would bring me to somewhere special. This time he brought me to an Italian Restaurant in Dempsy Hill, La Forketta. The environment and food was good, but I did not like the service of the restaurant. The waitress who serve us was not well trained, she couldn't give a good recommendation on their food. However, this could not spoil our mood, because we seldom have time to pak tor in such a romantic environment.

My main activity in this holiday was shopping, shopping and shopping. I got sponsor from my dear for this x'mas sales as he got nothing for me as x'mas gift. LOL! Thus, I shop until drop! Anyway, I only spend about half of the budget. That means I still have another half for my next shopping trip in Sg. Thanks my dear!

In this shopping trip, I found that shopping in Raffles City Shopping Centre is more convenient, as Orchard is too big. I only managed to shop in few shops in Orchard: Zara, MNG, Tang and some shops in Far East Square, and that took me one day. I had no time for Paragon and Takashimaya. While City Raffles Shopping Centre has more shops concertrated, like Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Guess, River Island, Robinsons, Mark & Spencer and many more. In additionnal, it is very easily reached, as it is directly link to City Hall MRT Station. I would definately go there again next time.

Hectic day

2008-12-23T21:50:00.004+08:00

It's X'mas in 2 more days, there are a lot of flower deliveries to be done. Today, I arranged all Penang Island's deliveries in the morning, because I knew that there would be heavy traffic on the bridge during the festive season, especially at evening. Unfortunately, when I was on my way back, there was an accident happen in the middle on the bridge. I started to stuck in the traffic jam from Tesco. It took me about 1 1/2 hour to cross the bridge. The worse thing was my car aircon stop functioning for nearly half and hour, can you imagine how hot it was during 1pm?

I guess tomorrow's traffic will be heavier and I cannot predict will there be any accident. Luckily, all the X'mas greeting deliveries already been done today. If there is any last minute order, I will ask my partner in Penang to help me. I will not cross over the Penang Bridge tomorrow. NO!

Mee Goreng Recipe

2008-12-20T17:36:00.009+08:00

A Boy, I found a Mee Goreng recipe for you. I simplify and modify a bit for you. I think these ingredients are available in Norway. Hope this can help you. I know you must have missed this dish so much!

Ingredients
2 pieces instant noodles, boiled and well drained
100g mutton, sliced thinly into bite-sized pieces.

(A):
1/2 tsp light soy sauce
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp sugar
10 shallot, thinly slice

(B):
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
4 tbsp ground chilli
4 tbsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp water

(C):
1/2 cup oil
100g bean sprouts / cabbage
1 green chilli, seeded and thinly sliced
1 potato, boiled and cut into 1cm-thick slices
1 egg

Method
Marinate mutton with seasoning (a). Heat oil and fry marinated mutton until aromatic. Add seasoning (b) and stir-fry well. Add in noodles and stir. Add bean sprouts or cabbage and fry for one minute. Add potatoes, green chillies and lastly an egg. Squeeze half a small lime into the mee and continue to fry until dry.

Afternoon Tea

2008-12-19T22:55:00.004+08:00

Having afternoon tea is a culture in my family. My brothers and I used to have biscuits, corn flakes or nyonya kuih as our afternoon tea when we were small. Sometimes my papa bought mee goreng, mee rebus, laksa, cendol, cucuk udang, char kueh tiau or roti canai for us when he came home from work, especially when he was in morning shift, which he finished work at 2pm. Ah Boy loves mamak and malay food very much, as spicy food is his favorite. While Ah Seng loves only delicious food, no matter what it is, it needs to be prepared with 'heart', I remember Char Kueh Tiau is one of his favorite food since he small. And for myself, Laksa is always my favorite. My mom and I always add some rice in the remaining laksa kuah so that it won't be wasted.

During the weekend, either my papa, mom, grandma or aunty Mi would prepare the afternoon tea. They could prepare macam-macam, like red bean soup, sweet potato soup, bo bo cha cha, cempedak kuih, mi hun kueh and cucuk udang.

Of cause, as a typical Malaysian family, durian also became our afternoon tea during the season.

Since we grew up, we seldom have afternoon tea already, though those are one of my sweetest memory during the days we stayed in Taman Transkrian.

Nonetheless, I am so lucky that since I operate a shop in Chai Leng Park, I have chance to eat afternoon tea again. My papa likes to come to my shop during the afternoon. Especially when he has something to do at nearby, for sure he will stopby and bring me for tea. He loves mee rebus and mee goreng, while i eat cucuk udang or curry puff with coconut juice. I hope I could have more chance to have afternoon tea with him, I know he enjoys it very much and me too.

East meet west

2008-12-17T23:13:00.009+08:00

Finally, I have my X'mas mix with CNY window display done today. I remain the bear hand bouquet in cone shape ( like a X'mas tree), soft toys and snow sprays on the glass, but replace the X'mas tree with some CNY theme artificial and dry flowers arrangement.

I get my inspiration for my main theme decoration from a display in an art gallery in Salzburg, Austria. The materials are available here, glass vase, feathers, rattan ball, dry yanagi and dry palm leaves. I love the combinations and the use of orange and red color. Due to the limited space, I only make one instead of 3 decorations. I need to allocate other more commercialize items for the window display, though this might affect the overall appearence. I try to find balance between art and commercial, by hoping this can attract more people to come.

Sunday Special Event

2008-12-17T21:44:00.006+08:00

What people do usually on Sunday? Shopping, sleeping at home, watching movie, picnic, family gathering, do part time job.... ect.. Those are what common things people do, unless they have special occasion or hobby.

I am also a normal person who have these activities, but last Sunday I attended Madurai Veeran (an indian deity) festival with my dad. We prayed for the God blessing on my mom's health, by hoping she could stand up and walk again one day. During the ceremony, my pa tied on a head gear and wore a dhoti. He looked no bad at all in this indian formal costume ya? Maybe a kurta as top would be perfect? T-shirst a bit wierd.

Which one now?

2008-12-16T18:11:00.010+08:00

Christmas is on next Thursday, while Chinese New Year is coming soon in end of January. I had my Christmas window decoration a month ago. I decorate with bears, a small chrismas tree and some christmas theme artificial flowers arrangement. To make it more attractive, I hang some gold colour christmast ornaments and spray some snow on the window glass.

It's only 9 days to go for Christmas, but the radio start to broadcast some cny songs these few days. This really makes me eager to change my window decoration. I cannot stop of thinking for some ideas for cny. I wish I can change it by tomorrow, but christmas has not past, oh... what should I do now?

Anyway, there are only 6 weeks to go for cny, so maybe I can change the decoration a bit by a bit first. Maybe a vase of artificial flowers arrangement with red peonys and white vase. Red and white are christmas theme color, while peonys are popular during cny. Peony is a symbol of prosperity and happiness for Chinese.

Shanghainese Hairy Crab

2008-12-15T22:44:00.007+08:00

I went to Dragon-i Restaurant in Queensbay Mall last weekend with my parents. My mom read about the Shanghainese hairy crab set promotion in news paper and she would like to try the famous delicacies from southern China.
The promotion is for dinner only, RM98 per pax (min. 3 person, or else RM128 per pax), with 1 steamed meal Shanghainese hairy crab(200g), 1 steamed Shanghainese crab roe dumpling, double-boiled chicken soup with fish maw and bamboo pith, salteed fresh vegetable with crab roe, Yong Chow fried rice and a bowl of sesame dumpling with ginger soup. The set is too large for us per person, so we order 3 steamed Shanghainese hairy crab for each of us (RM48 each, not cheap too!), with some shanghainese steamed meat dumpling (xiao long pao), steamed vegetable, fried rice, la mian... ect..

Eating Shanghainese hairy crab is very interesting, they provide some tablewares for us, a small scisors and a tiny folk. Ladies would like it very much, as we can eat crab in very elegance and polite way. The crab shell is softer compare to local crab, that's why we can use scisors to cut it, instead of using hammer to break it. I am not the expert in crab, but one thing I can comment about the taste, the crab paste is really great! Greater than local crab paste! If you like crab paste, you must give this a try. It would not disapoint you.

But one thing to be very careful about eating this Shanghainese hairy crab , do not eat with empty stomach and remember to drink ginger tea after taking it. I had a very bad experience about this. I should write this blog a week ago, but my stomach seriously bulging with air whole night after the meal. I loss of my appetite everytime I think of crab. LOL! Until now only I dare to upload the photos.

Why we work?

2008-12-12T22:46:00.003+08:00

After graduate from school, most of us become working group. We come to the stage of financial independent, we start to pay for bread, house rental, car installment and insurance by ourself. That is just the beginning, not too burden if not over spend. Life is still easy.

After few years working, many start to get engage. At that stage, we need to work harder to pay for house installment, annual vacation, house hold expenses, retirement financial planning... ect.

Then, when the baby born, work to earn money is not only to maintain our lifestyle, it has become a responsibility. We responsible to work harder for the sake of a better life to our family, for the one we love. Perhaps a bigger house, a nicer car, a bigger coverage insurance policy or a better education financial plan for children.

We work for money, and money make our life better. While better life make us happier. Ya, we work for life. No matter you like it or not, YOU NEED TO WORK!

Lullaby

2008-12-12T03:25:00.000+08:00

Since i bought a dvd player, watching dvd has replace my book reading habit before sleep. I like to watch China historical tv series before sleep. The series are great, but the story lines are serious and a bit slow in rhythm. That's the reason why I choose China historical tv series as my lullaby. It not only can lull me to sleep, I can learn some chinese history while enjoying the most relax moment in a day.

However, sometimes I watch Hongkong tvb series too. I just started 家好月圆since last weekend. But, I'll cross my finger to say that it can help me to sleep, somemore it make me sleepless. You want me to proof it? Well, it's 3:48am now, and I'm still blogging lor! Needless to explain why it make me sleepless, many have watched it before, they will tell why. LOL!

I need to wake up 8am tomorrow and a lot of work is waiting for me to do tomorrow, hai! I think better stop to watch the series for tomorrow night. If not more wrinkles will come out.
Brain, please stop active now, let me sleep please......

ti amo

2008-12-09T23:21:00.000+08:00

It's traffic jam when i drove back from shop just now. A new song named Ti amo was playing in the radio. There are 4 languages of I love you in the song lyrics, ti amo, ti quiero, sarang he yo and I love you. I am not going to write any comment of this song now, but this song inspired me one romantic idea to make your love one surprise.

Imagine that each time when you travel to one country, you find someone to write 'I love you' in their language, and remember to put down their signatures and date. After collecting for 10, 20 ,30 or more, and when you present to your love one, sure she will happy until tears drop. Maybe you may think this is a stupid idea, because it might take many years to finish the mission. But, this is really cool and it shows that you miss her any time and any where. Nah.... if you propose to her with this gift (of cause with ring and flowers too), your chance to get her nod is higher!

p/s: If you do not have time to go travelling frequently, here is a tips for you, go to places like Bukit Bintang, Orchard or Chulia Street, where many tourists hanging around, you can get as many as you like! :p

Wedding Gift

2008-12-09T13:24:00.000+08:00

I have a wedding dinner invitation recently, it will be held in Kuantan. Too bad, I cannot attend the dinner, as I plan to Singapore during the period and air ticket was booked. Nonetheless, a nice present will be sent to my friend. I don't want to give ang pao only, that's not sincere enough as I really feel sorry for not attending the dinner. I try to search for something special and able to express my sentiment in some online shopping website.

I find few wedding presents in Swarovski are suitable and attracted me.

Bells: Silver-tone metal parts; faceted clear crystal bells.

This will be a significant memory of wedding day, when the bell of wedding ring.... Ding Dong.... Ding Dong.....

Butterfly, Aurora Borealis:
This fully faceted butterfly is made of Aurora Borealis crystal. I love each new ray of light dances off the facets in playful and harmonious ways.

Angel Wings:
Flying fly wing to wing. A simple sentiment, beautifully captured. The ornament in clear crystal shows Crystal Fabric applications for a special effect and hangs on a white satin ribbon.

Bears Hand Bouquet

2008-12-04T22:58:00.000+08:00

Once, flowers and chocolates are the most popular gift for girls. Bears are popular too, but some worry that it would be too childish for mature age girl. However, bears hand bouquets are very popular in Asia now a day. And many mature age girls love it very much too, as they think that it can be kept longer than fresh flowers and more variety in design too.

After wrapping into hand bouquet, bears look cuter and more lively. It can be decorated with some beads, love sticks and artificial mini roses. These additional accessories would make it look sweet, elegance, classy or stylish. The design are more flexible and creative. For fresh flowers hand bouquet, the freshness of the flowers is the most important concern, as a result, some creative designs have to be given up. But, in bears hand bouquet, this issue is not a problem at all, bears can be placed in any position and tied to any shape we like.

Try for a bear hand bouquet as your next present instead of fresh flowers hand bouquet to your love one, she might be surprised!

Evening Primrose Oil

2008-12-03T23:16:00.000+08:00

Premenstrual syndromes have troubled me for many years. Especially lower abdomen pain at the first day of menstrual period. I have tried many ways to release the pain, like do more excersice, drink only warm water daily and take bak fong yun etc., but the effects were not significant.

Until 2 months ago, i started to take evening primrose oil, the effect is very good. Although there are still slightly back pain and tireness, but no more lower abdomen pain. This is really a good news for me, as I can sleep better, work better and even excersise better during the menstrual period! Finally, I found something that really works!

I take 1 pil per day of 1000mg EPO only, although the label recommended 1-3 per day. However, it's depends on different personal physical. For me, 1 per day is more than enough. Remember to take with meal.

How it works:
Evening primrose oil (EPO) is a source of the omega-6 fatty acids gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and linoleic acid (LA). Omega-6 fatty acids and substances made from them, are components of nerve cells, all cell membranes and hormone-like substances known as prostaglandins. Prostaglandins have multiple local hormone-like actions, which include regulation of tissue inflammation. Conditions that involve inflammation, such as eczema, may benefit from supplementation with omega-6 fatty acids.
Low levels of GLA have been found in women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Essential fatty acid deficiency can lead to an excess of the female hormone prolactin which is responsible for many of the symptoms of PMS. Supplementing with EPO increases a prostaglandin known as PGE1, which may help with the symptoms of PMS.

Gathering - Yam Zhou Cha 1

2008-11-28T23:34:00.000+08:00

It has been a long time I never gather with my sisters. My sisters are not my real sister, they are my good friends during the secondary school. Now there are only 5 of us still in Penang State.
Mickey suggested to have breakfast this Sunday morning at Kota Permai. She wants to try the Kota Permai's tim sum. All of us never try it before, hope it taste good. I like to have ha kau, siu mai, fish ball, siu long pao and chee cheong fun. Hm... I am looking forward for this Sunday morning. Mickey, don't give birth until we finish yam zhou cha ok? LOL!
This make me think of Wen Yuan, the restaurant was our usual place for yam zhou cha during the school time. Mickey and YongYong usually be the treasury while the rest of us only need to pay and concentrate in eating and chit-chating. Oh ya! Choong En always wants to leave earlier, never know what's he rushing for. LOL!
Now, Wen Yuan had been closed down, and I do not know when all of us can be together yam zhou cha again, I mean 'Chai Chai Zheng Zheng'.

Birthday Gift

2008-11-27T18:44:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow is my dear's birthday. I'd bought a birthday gift for him 2 weeks ago. I should have past it to him when he came back last week. But, I'm so tai tau har, I forgot bring it to airport. To make him surprise, I will show it to him tonight in msn. hehe! Although he cannot own it now, but at least he will know that he get something for his birthday! Someone is concern about him and remember his birthday without any reminder from facebook. I think he will feel happy.

A meaningful birthday gift is regardless how expenssive or how branded it is, yet it must be something the receiver most desire for. For me, the greatest gift is something i dream for a long time but would never get for myself. This shows that the person really care and understand for what i need.

Shoes

2008-11-25T13:21:00.000+08:00

It's year end again, people tend to have many dinners and parties to be attended. Time to get some party shoes and clothes.

I seldom buy myself shoes that only can be worn for dinner or party, I would prefer something that looks elegance and classy but wouldn't be awkward for shopping or works. It's waste to buy shoes that can be worn for few times only. Some shoes are even have a chance to be worn for one time only, as it's hardly be matched with clothes. Although we can get black, beige or white shoes that easily to match, but wouldn't it be too bored? Sometimes we should get some other colors shoes, it would make your feet look great and make you look more lively!

I just got myself 3 pairs of wedges from Vincci last few days.

These indigo wedges are for dinners and parties, but look good for normal occassions too. I love the color, very unique.

Crystals stud on the shoe strap make your feet looks 'bling bling!' . Although it's only 2 inches high, but it won't make you look too casual. Highly recommended for shopping!

Purple wedges look good when match with black or dark purple clothes. The design of straps that cover to ankle is the most popular of the season. You may find a lot of these design in shoes stores. It matches well with skinny jeans.

Teenage girl

2008-11-25T00:10:00.000+08:00

I have a cousin sister who is 12 years old now. She looks 80% like me when I was about her age. Of cos, she is much more talkative, active and socialistic compare to me (opsss.... although I extremely own these 3 characteristic too. LOL! ). These are the notable characteristic among the young teenagers. They dare to voice out what they want and they really know what they want. Maybe in someway, they are more dependent to their parents, but the relationship are more intimate.

12, it's the beginning of teenage. More sweet and bitter life ahead. It is the first golden 10 years for a girl. Through out these years, a little girl transforms into a lady, a bit by a bit. Influences from friends, teachers and family make what they become in future. Experiences during teenage affect a lot in adult's life, especially in marriage, career, lifestyle and mentality.

So, my lovely cousin sister, enjoy your golden 10 years ahead and Bon Voyage! Say goodbye to your childhood.

Supper

2008-11-21T00:02:00.000+08:00

My uncle with my small cousin brother just arrive from KL. They are here to attend a wedding dinner tomorrow night of a relative. As usual, my pa will bring them out for supper and he has just invited me. OMG! i love to eat supper, as it's really a big seduction. He...em... I need to control myself. Don't want to regret after that. I already eat a lot for dinner just now.

However, I can't stop imagine what are they having now. Would it be the Char Kueh Tiao at Jalan Kulim, or maybe they'll go for Hokkien mee at pek kong tia? OMG! My stomach is making noise now. Talking about char kueh tiao, it's a common supper for BM people. There are 3 branches in BM by 3 brothers: Jalan Station, Jalan Kulim and Taxi Station. Business starts from about 9:30pm to 3:00am every night. They still use charcoal instead of gas stove, this make the heat distributes evenly. The most important thing is they add duck egg instead of chicken egg, it's a real traditional teochew char kueh tiao. hm... yummy yummy.... somone describes it as a lovely, deadly and delicious food....

I think better go for sleep now, if not I'll drool by imagining my supper. LOL!

What will be, will be

2008-11-18T00:10:00.000+08:00

What's your dream when you were small? Would you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a teacher, a flight stewardess or a super star?

When I was 5 years old, I wanted to become a doctor. This was due to my papa worked as a medical assistant in hospital. Too much influence from him. He helped a lot of people and many admired him. In fact, he is my idol until now.

When i was 10, I changed my ambition, I wanted to be an astronaut! Nothing special, I thought that's the highest ambition a human can have. I wanted to be a superwoman!

Well, when I was 16, again I changed my ambition, haha! I dreamed to own a fashion boutique. I started to read some fashion magazines. I won't miss the latest fashion of the season. I wanted to bring all the most beautiful and latest fashion to my customers. At that time, I was a shopping maniac! Any outdated clothe, shoe or bag would make me uncomfortable.

Finally when I grew up, i became a civil engineer. After a few years, i changed my job, I'm a florist now! That's a drastic change for me. But I love my job currently, it's so much fun that a civil engineer will never imagine. I always believe that people should always have a dream or ambition. Life is short. If time and situation allow, I wish to try and experience another career life, at least another one.Maybe I'll be a lawyer? What do you think? Must be tough and full of adventures, right? Or maybe I just be a housewife, take care of my husband and kids. Hm... that makes me think of a song, my mom taught me to sing when I was small:

When I was just a little girl

I asked my mother: "What will I be?

Will I be pretty?

Will I be rich?"

Here's what she said to me:

"Que sera, sera~~

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours to see

Que sera, sera ~~

What will be, will be"