I'm back

And of all the days…it just had to be today that the internet connections go cuckoo…hmmph….sabaaaar jak lah. On those days which I’m busy…the connections are perfectly well! Yup, it’s only that when I’m free & have nuthin’ much to do in the office that it decides to just simply goes on “connecting” mode, for what seems like a verrrry verrrry loooong time. How awesomely ironic is that! (eyes rolling).

Well, I know that I’ve not been updating my blog since…err let’s see..9th October! Hah…about a month plus, well almost two! How ‘bout that? :p The word busy hasn’t left me since then. Am constantly swamped with work…gosh. Sue mentioned that she could hear crickets and occasionally a toad croaking in my blog. Hahahaa! It’s a swamp in here and I’m turning into the swamp thing…hehe…not. Well, it’s time to get it spruced up. Forgive me for starting off my blog with a whine. Blame it on the internet weather lah.

Moving on…I’ll share with y’all what I’ve been busy with the past month or so…here goes:-

My first creation for October was a wedding card for Rosty....

Next is a card for Sue, whose birthday was on 14th October. The first one I made was from a group of us friends and another one was the one I made personally for her. :)

One of my favourite cards...hehe. Should've taken her picture with the card...lupa lah...:p

Next are three cards I made for my aunty which she ordered for her three boys...hehe. The first one is for Josh who turned 21 on 19th October. The 2nd card is for Pat whose 24th birthday was on 4th November. Happy birthday, boys! :) And lastly is a card for Nick, who graduated last month. Congrats to ya, Nick!

My next project was a birthday card for Fr. Chua. He is also our FIG 3 choir conductor. Oh, we had a great time in Bandar Seri Begawan last month, where the FIG 3 Choir sang in a concert at St. Andrew's church. We actually planned to celebrate his birthday in Bandar after the concert but the timing tak ngam...so we decided to celebrate when we're back in Miri.

It's so hard to get him to give a decent pose with the card I made, and this is what the picture turned out to be!
Tsk..tsk...Fr. Chua...

Oh dear! p.s. He received a card, 2 chocolate cakes and a box of chocolates!

These two thank you cards/bookmarks were made for our speakers (Ven. Solomon, Fr. Chua & Subdeacon Augsutine) for the Young Adults Weekend Getaway at Soon Hup Villa on 30-31st October. I didn't manage to take a photo of the card I made for Ven. Solomon, though...huhu...tak sempat.

For Live.Love.Craft challenges, Sue and I had four weeks of fun doing cards of the 4 seasons namely Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter. Here there are:-

Flowery Summery & frosty winter

Springy Spring & Breezy Autumn

And here are another two of my LLC Challenge cards...

This challenge was to use circle punches. This is my orangy bubbly card :)

The next challenge was to include kittens or puppies in our cards. I'm more of a cat person..hehe. So I chose kittens! I took time to colour the picture with colour pencils..hehee. Makes me feel so primary school. ;) Here it is:-

This Saturday, 28th November is my parents' 28th Anniversary! Whoohoo! This year, they have decided to have a party to commemorate the special day. My mum have asked me to make the invitation cards for the event. And guess how many I made? 55 pieces! Incredibly, I managed. Phewh! My mum wanted it to be simple, cream+pink in colour. My dad..ok jerr...no comment, as long ada kad. Hehe. :p

I used a cream coloured backing paper and for the invitation, I used a pink paper which I printed the picture of my parents on their wedding day as the background. And finished it off with two punched hearts at the top.
I should've taken a picture of all the 55 cards I made. Didn't think of it then...darn. :s

Yeeeaaay, I've finally reached the end of today's post...and it's a looong day of waiting & uploading (took me almost the whole day to get here!) and a looong post after a looooong absence.

Feels good to finally update my blog. I'll be back. :D

p/s My apologies for my broken English ..hehe. It's so rojak...i know.

Merdeka!

This year, I celebrated Merdeka with my family. We went to Johor Bahru, where my brother is currently studying. It has been 3 years since I last stepped foot in JB. This place used to be where I studied too. Now, my lil bro is taking over my place. I visited JB in 2006, two years after I graduated, to meet up with some friends. Such a memorable place, where I spent 4 years of my life!

As usual, just like any family trip, we spent our time shopping, sightseeing and most of all….eating! And of all the days, my dad kena gout! I guess it’s because of all the eating sessions we had! Thank God, he’s back on his feet after taking ubat.

On Saturday afternoon, we went for a youth service held by the City Harvest Church. This is where my bro, Vin worships and he is involved with the music ministry, playing the bass. I was a bit anxious on how my parents would respond to the style of worship as they are very much used to the traditional way of worshiping…hymns and all. So, it’s something that I would like to see…heehee. And to my surprise, they were clapping away & trying their best to catch up with the songs…hehe...lagu rancak bah. The sermon, was preached by Pastor Chee Kiang from Singapore. He’s very fashionable…he wears this leather jacket, jeans and has spiky hair. But underneath all that rocker outlook that he portrays, his voice is gentle and has that affectionate tone. J During Holy Communion, we were given unleavened bread. Very interesting indeed...my first time eating unleavened bread! They’re somewhat like those Jacob’s crackers, you know!

And in commemoration of the coming Merdeka Day….we sang the Merdeka song while waving our lil’ Malaysian flags. Patriotism’s in the air.

After the service, we got to know some of Vin’s friends. One of them, Berlina, turned out to be related to us, which we found out after a bit of “bertusut” session that we had! She is from the Kadazan side of our family. Small world indeed!

On Sunday, Vin & I went to Singapore. My main mission to Singapore was to go to this craft shop, Made with Love & oh… also to meet up with my friend, Prakash. Hehe. Well, I came across the blog of this craft store and was mesmerized by the pictures of the store. They have so much crafts stuffs sold there and it was mentioned in their blog, that it’s the biggest craft store in South East Asia! So I imagined that it would be verrry big. Waaaah…! But………when we reached the store….it was not as big as I imagined that it would. Oh well… But I did have fun browsing through the craft stuffs & got some stuff for myself & Sue. I couldn’t help but multiply 2.4 to all the prices of the things. Vin & Prakash became my calculator…haha! Poor boys....they had to wait quite sometime for me to be done in that store. Hahah…!

After JB & Singapore, I spent a night at Kuching…Home sweet home! And after that it’s back to Miri & work work work…bluaargh.. :p However, am just glad that I had the time to “Merdeka”, literally (haha) from my daily routine…just unwind & spend time with my family. A very good breather for me, indeed!