♥ Graduation ♥

" When we were five, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our things were answers like astronaut, president, or in my case, princess.. When we were ten, they asked us again. We answered - rock star, cowboy, or in my case, gold medalist..But now that we've grown up, they want a more serious answer. Well, how about this..Who the hell knows? This isn't the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere chill. Fall in love - a lot. Major in philosophy because there's no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind. Then change it again because nothing is permanent. So make as many mistakes as you can. That way, someday, when they ask again what we want to be..We won't have to guess. We'll know. " 

-Love this graduation speech from the movie Eclipse. Watched eclipse 3times already after it's premier!

Attended my sister's convocation that day. Really am proud of her! ♥

Nice shot??=)

Proudly walking her way to receive her scroll

Eepp..happy parents alert!

The graduate, sis and grandparents.

 With her bF

When will it be my turn???

♥ The Gathering ♥

It's been awhile since my Ji Muis n i sat still and chit chat. We finally got to go out and catch up with rumors and all the buzzes going on in our lives. What a coincidence that we were all back in PD for the weekends, so we met up at our usual spot in SR. 

These are some of the pictures taken during our gathering 

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'Life is sweet' SR's theme=)

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Ching-a-licous one of my besties^^

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Fui Fui (2nd besties!)

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Cam whore!

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Wee~

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Both of my Ji Muis ( what a post!)ha!

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This much better! 'Peace'

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It says 'A-O-K'~

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Last picture of the day. 

Another gathering soon? Haha~ hope so!!

XoXo ♥♥♥

Year of the Tiger..Roar~

Red cloth and red lanterns can be seen hanging by the doors, decorations some made by hand proudly stay put as positioned. Families working as one to keep the house spotless and some preparing delicacies for the big day. Lion dancers wiping off cobwebs of their costumes as it is once again the time of the year to put on their best show. Chinese New Year celebration is yet another reason for another get together wit friend's and family. As i head down to Johor on the 30th date itself to pay my respect to my forebears and visiting my families while I'm there. Dint exactly take any pictures during this festive season, what you see is what you get, Enjoy!^^

Lunch was prepared by my grandmother who is an absolute great cook(vegetarian of course)

A picture taken with my Great-grandmother, grandmother, my mother and sisters.

'Tuan Yuan Fan' meaning dinner gathering with love ones was shared with my relatives in Johor

Steamboat and shabu-shabu for dinner

My absolute adorable cousin

 Me bullying and old man???Nah..its not what it looks like.

New year New blouse:)

The Horror~~

Glow in the dark earrings..comes in handy when you're missing in the dark f'course

Visited my mother's side of the family on the third day:

 Carmen and Brandon(the retriever)

Me and my Crazy Ol' Dad:)ha!

Me loving my Cherry Tattoo

That's all i guess, everyone was too busy enjoying the moment and some too busy collecting red packets that none paid no much attention to snap it up.Ha! Till next time~ Cheerio!!

An Early Bird (Happy CNY and Happy Valentines!)

Couldn't sleep. Not sure why. CNY fever?ha! I doubt that. Tossing and turning in bed and i  finally decided to leave bed at 6a.m. HUNGRY! ha~ate mashed potatoes(leftover from last night). I finally had the chance to do something that i always delay myself from doing. Exercise>

Guess this would be my last post until after Chinese New Year. A lot of visiting to accomplish. Will be on the road :) Oops..and for those whom are driving home. Safety 1st! Happy CNY ppl and Happy Valentines to all singles and duos! Adieu!

He says "Be my valentine!"

Red is the Color

Attended my neighbor's eldest daughter's pick-up-the-bride ceremony. It was a simple pick up and go. Why i say so? This is cause the groom is a Christian, therefore, the Chinese wedding customs were not fully proceeded. As descended by our early Chinese ancestors, the groom and groomsmen will decorate the cars and drive them over to the bride's house in the crack of dawn. Nowadays, bridesmaids will have most of the fun as they would lock up the gates and set out few task for the groom. The groom must execute certain acts and answer the questions asked to show that he is strong enough to take care of the bride. Red packets(ang pao) must be proffer to the bridesmaid(as gift) and only then they could enter the house.

The groom and his groomsmen were forced to swallow slices of bitter gourd. They were also insists by the bridesmaids to sing a song for the bride. It was fun!

The bride and groom will then have to serve tea to their parents/grandparents followed by other older relatives. In return, they will give the newly weds red packets and jewelry for the bride.

Father of the bride is putting on the jewelry he prepared for his daughter.

Bride's sisters and brothers are then to serve tea and wish the newly weds a piece of good fortune. In return they will receive red packets from the newly weds.

Red umbrella is used to shield the bride as this symbolize her bringing many decedents to the groom's family.

As a tradition, the bride must return home after 3days of the wedding. In contemporary society, couples usually fly off for their honeymoon after their wedding. So they would have to carry out a substitute performance. Some choose to ride in the vehicle and go around the town 3times. This newly wed choose to walk around their wedding car 3times.

After that the whole family leave for the church and the wedding dinner in KL.I dint attend their wedding dinner but i was told that it was executed fantastically. On that same night, I was having dinner with my sisters, a time for us to gossip and keep up in each others life.

The Three-Musketeers of gossips!

Had pizza and fettuccine filled with lots of lots of bacon! Yummy!

Recommended by my cousin. Dave's restaurant at 1Utama KL. It was superb! The food was great, the service was excellent. Two thumbs up! You can check it out. Its at the old wing in 1U.

Bridge connecting the old wing and new wing of 1Utama.

OMG! I was flabbergasted by this huge flower as part of the exquisite Chinese New Year deco in Mid Valley Mega mall.

Red is the colour. As everywhere i go..i see red. Red lanterns, red cloth hanging by the door, red deco in the mall, red deco during the wedding and the 1 red thingy that would light up my day,that would not blur my eyes which sees full of red is the redness of ANG PAOssss! muaha! Not only CNY year redness, valentines day falls on CNY's eve. Red hearts and rosses to come. Red is the color this month! Red ROCKs! Till next time. Cheerio~

Weekend with me

Ish ish..after a whole weekdays of practically doing nothing at home,i grew terribly excited on weekends. Hype! My weekend started off with a movie, Avatar, which i was dying to watch ever since its premier.

It was Superb! The backgrounds and graphics were astoundingly beautiful!

Before the movie, my family, my sweetie pie and I went for 'Pan Mee' in Mambau. Wasn't sure were or what the place was called as it was a small family business in a housing area.

On a perfect Sunday morning. We took a drive down to KL Mid Valley Mall for lunch and shopping! Yip Yip Hooray!

Caught this on our journey. Was attracted to its cute orange shovel attached to the spare tyre behind this four wheel drive.

First time meeting my two adorable cousins. They're actually my grandfather's first wife's son's daughters. Wow right.

Had dinner at TGI friday's in The Garden mall. (In the photo is my parents)

 

(Pictures from left to clockwise right is what we had for dinner at TGI friday's) From left, is called Southwest Adobo chicken and there was Key West grouper(fish), Tossed tomato basil chicken(pasta), Fried Mac n cheese(appetizer) and their famous Jack Daniel's steak and shrimp.
Check out their website-> http://www.fridays.com.my/html/menu.html 

My father finally got his huge gigantic lighter(a gift from Chris's bf). With this he no longer needs to search for his missing mini lighters all the time no more! Ha!

Oh! I made Kimchi Fried Rice for lunch the other day. Excellente!( so perasan i praise myself) Tee hee.

By the way, its easy to prepare. All you need is a bowl of korean kimchi, some garlic, cooked rice and if you may prefer with some mushrooms. Chuck it all in while the stove's hot and stir! Bon appetite^^