bearrry chrrristmas everyone!!!

Project Balcony

sometime back, Jian gave me the green light to do whatever i want with his balcony... hence the blog title.

so i started off with a few plants from ikea, cash II and spike, at the end of september... and then i brought a peace lily and a chilli from giant in early october (oh yes, i have a lil chilli plant with many many red chillies!!!)... and then i planted mint and catmint seeds,bought a cyclamen from ikea and the big buy from a nursery nearby in mid-october.

and voila! transformation!!!

from a completely bare dirty balcony to...........

this pic was taken last month.

the balcony looks much different today!!!

jian let me loose in the same nursery yesterday and i went crazy!!! project balcony is almost close to completion... will upload new pics sometime soon. :)

in the meantime, can check out more pics on my page on Grows On You, a gardening website i've joined.

of pancakes, redbox, gratitude and overflowing abundant tears of happiness...

where do i even begin? words fail me so. it's scary turning a year and a quarter of a century old. and finding fine lines and orange peels. it just puts one off from even celebrating! what's there to celebrate really...? but then again... i guess celebrating one's birthday is appropriate. it's a celebration that one is still alive and well. that one is blessed with so many things, making a list will take forever. a celebration of life and love. :)

so celebrate it is... and i've never ever sang so much that my throat felt sore and i felt so extremely exhausted and drained.







picture quality sucks becos it's my phone's camera & it was super dark in there...


oh btw, do be careful when going to redbox. in addition to the prices that they have listed down both on their website as well as on their brochures, the management and its staff failed to inform the customers (potential customers included) that:

a) there is a compulsory/requisite member registration whereby one is issued a lousy red plastic card and is charged RM5; AND

b) tidbits are compulsory too. a bowl costs RM8 and a bowl is for 2 pax. so if one has 6 pax, logically one would be FORCED to take 3 bowls right? WRONG. one has to take... 3 + 1 bowls. makes sense? it still doesn't.

the poor guy at the reception (and it's no wonder they're highly paid) had to deal with our complaints over these extra compulsory charges. and he dealt with it rather well. in his attempt to appease us, he agreed to charge for only 3 bowls and gave us an extra jug of beer. it pays to know one's consumer rights. :) it's a wonder that anybody has yet to lodge a report against the management of redbox.


anyways, i had so much fun. my birthday was superbly relaxing and memorable... (mostly due to the fact that i'm on leave from monday - wednesday. lol.)... and the gratitude i feel... words fail me. william shakespeare says it best...

"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."
~ William Shakespeare

to boss & jasmine, for the lovely pair of handmade earrings...


they're really lovely!



to pammie, pei, day and ted for dinner @ the apartment, the curve...


it was absolutely fun meeting u guys up. missed all of u so very much!

...and especially pei for br31 too! :)



to melly, for her not-yet-12 email. thanks so much for remembering!!!


to sasi, for calling to wish me. to auntie linda, liza, wk, pammie, pei, christina, spring, summer, robbie, jasmine, boss, thotho, auntie ren, for ur best wishes!



to christina, for the glossie!


i like!!! yummz...



to my mummy & daddy & qwee & yingyang, for the seafood dinner @ king crab restaurant...

...and especially to yingyang for my third and new g2000 shirt!



...and to my mummy and qwee who combined their budgets to get me 2 wonderful bags!!!


happy........ [^.^]



to my besties, summer & spring, for the gorgeous bag...



...and for sharing with my dearest Jian, the gift (see pic no. 9 below) that he got me.



AND LAST BUT NEVER THE LEAST... (i saved the best for last)...

to my beloved Jian, for goo...


so cute!!!

... and dinner @ brussels, jaya one.


this looks like a hoegaarden ad...


my ladies' night cocktail...


the inside...


belgian sausages platter...


pork ribs & [???]


salmon fillet...


the outside...


... and the rather tough puzzle to solve for another pressie that will only be given to me in october...

...for loving me so much, for pampering me to no ends, for occasionally indulging me in so many things, for motivating me and supporting me, and for my brand new, expensive, superbly wonderful surprise of a...(and for remembering what i've been wanting to get but never had the heart to part with my cash)... CANON IXUS 80 IS CAMERA!!!






i love u so much i love u so much i love u so much!!! eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!


*muaks!!!!*



testing out my new camera...






i'm a very happy happy happy lucky happy happy happy girl. :)

Bkk Part I

ironic that this post is all about my bkk trip in july (oh how time zooms by) when bkk is in a state of emergency now. but i don't think that would hurt thailand's booming tourism industry whatsoever, as compared to here. anyways... pictures tell a thousand words. :p

in back of taxi heading to hotel

we stayed at the hotel ibis siam bangkok. it was clean, it was nice. just right. :)

outside

lobby

our room

after we checked in, we were starving... so we ended up having...

cheesy fries

pork burger at mcDs!!!

then it was on to SHOPPING!!!

somewhere in Pratunam Wholesale Market near Platinum Mall

our purchases thus far

calculating how much we've spent... on day 1

and last but not least... the requisite photo...

my purchases!!!

it isn't much, i know. but, hey, it's a lot to me!!! :)

oh, and the green dress and pair of shorts are for sale. any takers?


Part II to follow...

back from bangkok...

...2 days ago. i love bangkok. very impressed. very happy. just wished i had more time and more money. *lol*

had to cancel leave yesterday to help boss out with amending the documents. but on leave today!!! *grins*

i'm now puffy!!!

nice??? need to do some highlights to make the curls look more pronounced though... hope the curls last this time and i didn't waste my money for nothing.


malaysia v chelsea tonight!!! and i'm going!!! YAYY!!!

H O L I D A Y

I'm off to Bangkok!!!

Be back soon!!! : )



love you smoomoo, ning noon and night and every single nanosecond in between!!!

Will Sing For Petrol v.02

a lil' bit outdated but oh what the heck... :p

28 june 2008, the day will sing for petrol rocked the house at bar savanh too. don't think i need to say much about it since it's already been covered by Jian and Dipendra at the KL Bar blog.

SOoo... let's just watch some videos instead...


performance #1: Mr Brightside





performance #2: Til I Hear It From You
unfortunately, can't seem to be able to upload the full vid





and last but not least....

performance #3: Sunday Morning
unfortunately, can't seem to be able to upload the full vid for this too






so whaddaya think?



with my darling...





the rockstar!!! *beams*

no wanna work

clickety for more cat pictures

Will Sing For Petrol?

clickety click... more details coming soon...

Thoughts of the Day...

what if i wasn't doing what i am doing now? what and where would i be?

i remember there was a point in time where i didn't want to study law. it just wasn't what i wanted to do.

what if i persisted with what i then wanted to do?

perhaps i wouldn't have to work 'til late at night. perhaps i would be happier. enjoying what i do.

but one thing's for sure, i may have never met my smoomoo. and i wouldn't be this happy.

anyways...

Battle of the Bands?

pic from The Kuala Lumpur Bar Blog

more details later...

what a liar...

hope your pants catch on fire.
no one comes to your aid.
and u burn 'til u're dead.

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rhyming aside... imagine driving for ONE AND A HALF HOURS to get home. a drive which normally takes u approximately fifteen minutes at least. then u thought u're FINALLY on the home stretch... only to find urself stuck in a congestion on a two-lane road all becos some smartie pants decided to jump the queue on the left side of the road just to get to the petrol station and thereby effectively blocking ur only route home. by that point, all u wanted to do was to just go home, go toilet and then have dinner. and then u have idiots who think u're jumping queue too and so they won't let u pass. *sigh*

below are scenes from tonight's fiasco.

yups, i joined the queue at the petrol station. but for a valid reason... my car was running outta petrol!!!

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sometime back, meena won tickets to have dinner with Curtis Stone.

the precious photo meena loves so much...

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smoomoo and i went back to penang for the labour day weekend. it was something like a retreat for me. an escape from the stress of the job. smoomoo brought me to the butterfly farm and there were SOOOOO many butterflies!!!





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then, two weeks after that, we went to melaka with spring and summer and their respective other halfs. it was a superbly exhaustingly fun weekend. the nyonya cendol was drool-worthy!







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okays. time to sleep. 'til next time...