photos speak better than i do

my week summarized:

ate bak kut teh twice in a week :p

also ate snowflake twice :p

ate with adrienne on monday. this was mine

and this was hers

a few days later 'ta pau-ed' for dessert :p

this thing is cool! it vibrates when your order is ready to be

collected at the counter :)

pretty valentine deco in IOI

lion dance in my office building this morning

can we pretend that airplane in the night sky like shooting star

i can't seem to understand why do malaysians so often find all ways to condemn the country and everything that is in it. it can be really sickening geram-ing at times to read and hear comments from our fellow citizens who were born and raised here, that brings down this very country that they so don't appreciate. sometimes it's like saying just for the sake of saying. like even though it's not that bad, we still want to say something bad about it, just itchy itchy want to say something :p i agree that it's much much easier to comment on the negatives rather than positives, i'm guilty of that too but why should we keep comparing our country with that of others. those countries we so often think as 'better' than ours may not be as good as you think, you know. that whole 'other lands are greener than here' line is nonsense. yes, there may be certain aspects that we lack in but there are also many that we are better than others. we can't be constantly looking faults in the government.

i believe that God has a reason why He chose this government to run our country. i like the phrase i heard once in either hitz/fly/mix fm can't remember which but it goes along the lines of "Don't only think of the country can do for you but think of what YOU can do for the country" And somehow i think this can be applied to churches as well. As members, one has to think of how we can serve the church rather than vice versa.

i couldn't agree more.

back to the government, i'm not saying we can't comment, we certainly can but what i'm trying to say is that try seeing things from a different perspective. not all's bad sometimes.

i myself am not agreeable to how certain matters/issues are handled in this country and neither do i like all the politicians that are running this country but i try (very hard :p) not to blame every negative things that happen on them because i know i'm not perfect myself. it's VERY easy to just sit there in front of the tv/newspaper/computer/radio and just comment on how this or that can be done this or that way or how he or she is not fit or why this and that never do this or that. sorry for so many 'this' thats' :p lol. but yea, it's so easy to just talk but doing it is a whole new story. i don't know where have i said this, it could probably be in conversations or in one of my previous posts too :p, my mum used to say "we can't even run our own lives and families properly, what more a country"

by now, some of u must be wondering if i'm some pro-government insider who's paid to do all these or some fanatic who loves her country so very much. haha. no no. i'm neither. yes i do love malaysia but till the extend of 'so very much' la :p lol. no doubt i may one day have to eat back my words but i think i'll always love it here cause my family's here (and also food la of course :p)

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side note, i had an inquiry for P1 Wimax and thought i'd just drop them an email or sth but then i discovered an easier way! hehe. i'm so jakun. i chatted with them at their site! how cool's that? haha. it was my first and i like it! it's so convenient and fast. i could get my answer immediately unlike email which would take bout 1 to 2 days or longer.

that's one lengthy post. hehe :p i shall stop

CNY 2011 Day Cuatro

ok, i bet some of u must be wondering by now what's with the days in spanish. haha. i say: 'i dont know either' =p nah...for fun only la plus it's not like i really know days in spanish. other than uno, i sought help from everyone's good friend, google for the rest of the days =p lol.

well oh well, tomorrow everyone's back to school and work :( even though cny lasts for 15 days, pretty sure after today most ppl would feel like it'a already over since the holiday is over. haha.

today we didn't much really. went to church in the morning and then uncle's place after lunch. church was a little (just a little :p) weird today simply because pastor's family isn't around. i dont ever remember coming to church without seeing at least one of the Lees around. today's my first. haha. i anticipated it to be awkward. it was awkward but not as much as i thought. hehe. everything went well nonetheless which was good =)

i'll leave you with these two photos of ivory's artwork

CNY 2011 Day Tres

raining cats and dogs in the afternoon

went for dinner at MV with cousins

then bak kut teh for supper. hehe ;)

CNY 2011 Day Dos

so...we're already into the second day of chinese new year...well, third as i'm writing this :p

as usual on every cny second day, we had lunch at aunt's place in the afternoon and my aunt is no doubt an awesome cook! =) after which we headed out to visit my second grandma in sungai buloh. this year's visit was slightly different as we had additional family members joining for the first time in what seemed like ages and we also had our first ever family (dad's side) photography session! =) never in my 22 coming to 23 :p years of life have i ever taken a family picture with these family members of mine. haha. after my grandma's place, we headed off to my eldest aunt's place and bumped into my cousins and their families there too. had some drinks, collected some ang pows, had some chats...we headed home.

that was pretty much my second day of cny. hehe. didn't manage to take any pictures though, except for one with my phone :p kinda regretted but it's k la since i dont think i would have been brave enough anyway to go around snapping pictures of people i rarely meet :p

i thought this was rather cute. my 70+ yr old aunt makes this 'kok chai' and gives us some every year. this year she put them in a bottle with a heart shape on the lid! haha. she's so cute!

CNY 2011 Day Uno

you spin my head right round, right round

what's with the world today? i cannot even come to comprehend how it'll be like years down the road.

a 29 year-old grandfather? read this

i am chinese too

A Chinese man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to China on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Chinese man hands over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produces the title and everything checks out.

The Loan officer agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Chinese for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan.

An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the Chinese returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.

The loan officer says, 'Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi-millionaire. What puzzles us is why you would bother to borrow $5,000? The Chinese replies: 'Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there safely when I return.'

*taken from a 'note' in facebook

spring cleaning 2

removed 63 names! oh wow...which means i've added 63 unknown people! -_- clever ivy

spring cleaning

today's a pretty relaxing day at work. did some blog reading in the morning and came upon a blog post that made realize of how many unknown people that are on my facebook friends' list, majority of whom i really have no clue how they even got in the list. looking now at the names i dont know why did i even approve their friend request :p

so i decided after lunch i'm gonna do a spring clean of my fb contacts! :) cant wait to see how people have i blindly added. lol

girls at shopping mall

girls will always be girls =)

yet another new look

the internet is a really good source to kill time. i have bout 2 hours to pass after office hours before dinner later and i'm 'hanging out' in the office while waiting :p i've just passed 50 minutes. the result? my blog's new look for the new year =)....and a bar of choco rice crispies =p

another half and hour to go!

i know He's watching over me

so my company has decided to extend my contract till the end of march...wee....i'm glad really. initially it was only till the end of this month but then some changes happened and i manage to stay longer. i wish they could extend it longer but then i'm happy with what i got. i really thank God for this as i was getting tired of job hunting and having to adapt to a new environment in a new company all over again. though i didn't get the extension period that i was hoping for, deep down i believe that He has a great plan for me and i'm eager to find out what is it =)

till then i'm constantly grateful and thankful for all that i'm blessed with! =D

of rings and roses

last saturday, we had to attend my cousin's wedding ceremony both at home and hotel. honestly, i wasn't too ecstatic bout it simply because besides his name and what he works as, i know nothing else about this cousin of mine! :p but well we had to go anyway for the sake of my aunt. haha. it was fun nevertheless. the tea ceremony was the better part compared to the dinner. my aunt's and cousins 'kan cheong-ness' and 'kelam kabut-ness' was fun to watch. they were so cute running here and there, shouting at each other instructing this and that and at the same time laughing loudly at their own silly acts. i could tell that my aunt was happy though :) i overheard her saying she loves it when all the family are gathered together though it happens very rarely.

it was also my first time attending and witnessing a garden wedding. i love garden weddings! they are so romantic! :)

and boy oh boy, aren't weddings fancy these days. it's like a competition for the fanciest wedding :p my cousin used a porsche as his wedding car wei! haha. for the cocktail at the garden, guests were served with pretty (and yummy :p) cupcakes, shepherds pies and some pinkish-dragon fruit-like drinks by waiters and waitresses walking around with trays. at the dinner, guests were treated to free servings of the Nestle Bliss yogurt drinks, all in bottles in the fridge. we could just go over and take whatever we wanted :) not bad huh? haha. this may not sound like the fanciest wedding but its fancy enough for me so far.

here we go again

happy new year yo!! :)

i love picnik! go try it!

arios 2010!

well oh well, the end of yet another year is here again. i know ppl say this every year but time really flies. i'm starting to feel old :p i'll be 23 next year!! scary....

anyhoo...it's been a great year thus far. God has really been there every step of the way. He has showed me that I can trust Him in the many more years to come. It's really comforting to know that the God of the universe is actually watching over you and leading you step by step whether we know it or not. I'm ashamed of those times when I thought I could rely on teeny weeny self to handle or solve things when my Father, my Creator is there all along ready to help. But im thankful that He is also a loving and forgiving Father cause looking back at those countless times when i've failed Him, i dont think i deserve His grace and mercy yet He never stops loving me =)

to be honest i never really liked ushering in a new year. it's such an anti climax to all the positive feelings we get at the end of each year especially in december with all the holidays and celebrations. haha. it's like you're all happy happy and then come 1st jan bleh.....everything's back to normal and the whole cycle starts all over again and like to look forward to another december is another 11 months to pass. i'm sure many feel the same especially those working. nope. not the best feeling in the world :p but life goes on whether we like it or not. thankfully though we have something to cling on to for hope. Hope that would produce strength, strength that leads to perseverance through the good and bad that would bring us to the End that we're waiting for :)

anyways....here's to a great 2010 that's ending and to a hopefully awesome 2011 that's coming!! wee.... :)

here are some snippets of my 2010...enjoy! (i took quite a while to create and compile these :p)

hello fitflop

my dear present has taken a long time to get here from the other continent buuttt it's finally here!! :) yup. this is my Christmas present for myself :p