I need a break!!!!

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

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

     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?

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

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

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

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.