Someone please take me to...

...on a big jet plane!

Why Paris? Well, a postcard from my cousin who went to Paris was on my desk..and hence the thought of being there!

I was listening to this song several times. Nice! And I really like the video clip. Makes me wanna put my face to the fan as well! I feel just like this girl, about my job right now...*sigh*



...gonna take ya for a ride on a big jet plane..hey hey

* The picture was a courtesy of my little nephew. He was actually putting up a bored face, wondering why is it taking the apek sooo long to prepare his kolok mee.

My Pursuit to De-stress during the Weekend!

On Friday I...

* had a upsetting day and lost my temper at work (not worth mentioning)

* blamed Friday the 13th and having such an impossible boss as the cause of huge thundering clouds hovering my head ready to strike people into pieces, whoever gets in my way!

* got busy doing my house chores because I wanna spend Saturday morning getting crafty (shooh...go away dark clouds!)

* ate, laughed and watched Paul the Octopus predict an important decision @ Citrus (thank God for great friends)

* started re-reading 'The Time Traveler's Wife' :)

On Saturday I...

* woke up to the sound of my neighbour's blasting Iban dangdut songs (ohkaaay)

* read a few more pages of 'The Time Traveler's Wife

* had scrambled eggs + coffee for breakfast...yum!

* got crafty with ice-cweam schticks. ;)

* had fun @ Dragon Store, though it wasnt' so much fun for my purse...had to squeeze out some $$ for the 'funtime' aftermath

* went for choir practice with only 5 members turning up (better luck next week i hope...and pray)

* said goodbye to Sid...the tissue supplier

* played badminton with the gals, Vic & Mag & lil Sam (and he's only 9!).

*headed for Suncity for early dinner. Conversation topic was a mixture of interviews, cooking & men with wavy hair. Weird combination. I know.

*  went to bed early as I feel a bit flu-ish *sniffs*

On Sunday I...

* smiled & nodded at my Chinese neighbour for the first time. (my eyes went into zoom mode to his very red hair!)

* went to church..well, actually I sped to church, thinking that I was late, but arrived just on time..phewh!

* tried my best to focus on the sermon on kronos and something something in greek but my mind kept flying off far faaaaar away...

* stumbled on a few keys on the keyboard while Fr. Cheong was closing in prayer. Oops! Sorry..the prayer didn't meant to have any sound effects to go with it.

* went hunting for my laser jet printer (someday...yes, someday you will be mine!)

* saw some very young girls performing some very provocative moves in a dance competition. Yikes!

*popcorn+coke+LOL+Despicable Me+Maggie = Awesomeness :D

* watched Josh Groban's live concert before going off to bed...*bliss*

Lovely weekend & my pursuit was accomplished! Yay!

The longest time

It's been 2am for faaaar tooo long in this poor blog of mine. Oh yes, I've even gotten comments from my friends, Maggie & Sue, saying that my blog is now infested with roaches and bugs! A time for some pest control, people! I know it's been neglected & abandoned for too long. It's the longest time I've left my blog unattended. I need to clean it up! There are photos to share & stories to tell and...sigh....a lack of time in which to do so.

And so I thought August would be a less busy month for me. Yeah right! *eyes rolling* My to-do lists are piling up fast as the early August days go by! I'm trying my best to slash off all those to-do items just like using those mesin injin rumput! Haha...which reminds me, I so wanna do that to a guy I saw the other day @ Mings. He's an orang putih. Very long hair. Very delicate features. Very banyak the dada hair! And he's wearing this very low cut V-neck white t-shirt! His hairy pastures are more than just peeping to say hello, the're practically in full view making the Mexican wave & shouting 'Look at me! Look at me!' Ughh. Am not into hairy chested guys. No offence, but they're a huge distraction. A bad one. I was so ready to pasang my machine, put on my safety gloves and glasses and "injin rumput" his chest hairs! Hahahahaha! Erk..soorry guys...my imagination has gone a bit to the wild hairy side. This is really not helping much to "clean up" my blog, huh. I think I'm adding more crap and in the end attract more roaches & bugs! Not good.

So, what I've been doing since 2am, four months ago? Well....lots! I'll post it up little by little....especially on my craft journey. ;) I'm excited to show & tell but time is a meanie who does not permit me to do so right now.

But I assure you...I'll be back!

2am

It’s almost 2am and I’m still wide awake. I’m tired. But my motor is still running. I think it’s because of the hype about the decorations that we did in the Parish Hall tonight. Hehe. Myself, Maggie, Diana & Audrey..and oh Jusip too were busy decorating and getting the place ready for tomorrow’s wedding. Vic and her bro, Donny, did came in to help out for awhile. Well we were there since 745pm and come to think of think, I have never stayed back in church til very late. We went back at about 1.20am! Imagine that! But no doubt we had loads of fun decorating especially the balloons and the signage (we are so proud of our creation!)...hehe! Audrey even suggested that we all quite our jobs and go into the field of event management, haha. And Jusip would become our balloon pumper, Diana the balloon tie-r specialist, Maggie the master of balloons arranger and Audrey the ribbon maker. We’ll make a good team. Hahah! Well, here’s a sneak peek of what we did....:p

Pump pump and snip snip


Balloons galore!


In the beginning

Will upload more photos soon to see the outcome of our decoration session..hehe. My bed is calling me and I need my beauty sleep right now. ;) Time to hit the sack! Good night (or rather good morning!)

Breathe in......breathe ouuuut

The past few weeks have been very much eventful….filled with works, meetings, band and choir practices, preparation for Holy Week & Easter and now preparation for Jo’s wedding. Whooh! It’s all full speed ahead! I wasn’t even able to take a pit stop after Easter. The activities for the week ahead were already waiting in line! There’s the Naim market study which causes me to have a certain kinda fit to which I barf out housing units (sigh), the "never ending journey" of valuation reports to do, the Miri Easter Celebration meeting, Youth Service meeting, band and choir practice (Maggie, Audrey & I will be wedding singers tomorrow…haha, and with only 2 practices I hope we don’t slaughter the songs! Gulp) and preparing the decorations for the wedding tomorrow (Maggie & I are far from done. We must get it all done tonight, yikes!) Oh, I also have some cards to make as well….oh dear! And come Sunday, I’ll be flying off to Kuching for my company’s annual dinner. I hope I won’t ‘pancet’ halfway through…haha. However, in the midst of all the hustle and bustle, I was met with two surprises, which, of course are the highlights of my week! It gave me that warm fuzzy feeling of great delight…yumm! First was that I found out that my Aunty Cia is preggers! Praise God. Whoohoo! After seven years, lil Latana & Keepat will be welcoming a new dedek soon! A new addition to our already huge family by end of this year! Hope that I’ll be buying pink booties! hehe. Christmas will be extra special! The next news is that, Jusip Willits is in Miri! He’s baaaack! I missed him. It’s been 4 yr plus since he visited Miri, where we all shed buckets of tears when he went off after his 8-month stay…and it felt as if it was just last year that he left. And now he’s baaack to attend Jo’s wedding. I was so shocked to see him with all those facial hair! Haha! He looks so familiar yet different. There’s a mature-ness about him, oh and he’s added some flesh to the once scrawny bod. But deep down inside he’s still the manchal Jusip we know. (yea, check out his FB and you’ll know why) p/s He wants to sing Kampung Love during the wedding reception. I can’t wait to see that. I hope he brings a suitable costume for the performance…! ;p
I’m glad those surprises came. They are much needed in moments like these. In addition to that, here’s a moment I would like to share.
This "took my breath away"! Haha..

Our very own Yang Dipertuan Ah Kong William underneath his royal payong with his butler.
p/s In conjuction with our company's 35th anniversary, everyone gets an umbrella each. It's soo blue..so unlike our company colour which is yellow and black

I guess that's all for now. So, here’s to an action-packed weekend! Bring it on! :p

Eek!

I know….it’s been waaay too long since I’ve last posted anything here! I’ve left it cold & dark….*creeepy*
So, here’s my attempt to put some light & warmth to my blog (finally)!

Last Friday, it was William’s (aka the colleague aka small boss) birthday…well it’s not his real birth date but it’s the registered date in his IC (identification card). I don’t really remember why his birth date’s different on his IC….I only just remember that it’s got something to do with him being born in the Solomon Islands. Am not really that good at remembering details lah…haha! Anyhow….. it was actually an impromptu decision to celebrate his birthday…and we surprised him with a cake in a shape of a red truck, (which seems to be more suitable for a 5 year old boy...but you know, it’s just perrrrfect for William!), specially bought from Our Daily Bread, a party popper, a nice flower chocker made of ribbon from the cake box (another impromptu creation) and a creative photo frame made from our company’s manila file adorn with red hearts. Aren’t we a creative bunch of people?! Our management should be so proud of us! Last but not least, we opened up the sparkling grape juice which has been sitting for much too long in the fridge. It was part of a hamper gift given to us last Chinese New Year…hahaha! (p.s. we did check the expiry date and it is still drinkable). It tasted rather sour though! Nonetheless, we had a great & sweet time celebrating & poking fun at the birthday boy. ;)

So I’ll just leave you with some photos which we took….enjoy ya!

The red truck cake

So happy....!!

Make a wish & blow! William trying his best to do a po-po poker face

Putting on the newly made chocker while William gorges on his truck cake. Cantek tak?

Party poppers

Dismantled truck

Our gift for William

Group photo a must!

And finally........

The birthday boy strikes a pose....2010 version! Mengancam tak?

Heheheee...that's all folks! Have a great weekend ahead!

xoxo

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.