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During Gerald's March trip, we went to The Gardens right after we're back from our KK trip (well, not right after but the next day). The outing was quite a late one coz we seldom goes out to the mall in the afternoon (jam & hard to find a parking space would be the reasons). We walked about the whole MidValley and The Gardens & Gerald is quite amazed with the posh'ness' of the new building (his 1st visit) which I must agreed.

The Gardens not only offer expensive goods but a wide choice of food ranging from Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Fusion, Nyonya, Western, Healthy & Taiwanese from lower ground floor to the top most floor. And we were quite lucky coz that time, they were having this Food Fair that provide you a booklet with discounts. So, we had our lunch and dinner there (after long hour of window shopping) and we tried 2 restaurants - brunch & dinner (will blog the lunch later).

Here's our dinner place, where we choosed by following the crowd -> Foong Lye, a taiwanese restaurant. The place was quite full until we have to delayed our dinner (coz no big table available & u will know why we need a big table when I show the photo below)

Our drinks where Gerald stick to his pepsi while I tried the Oolong milk tea. I must say, I dun really acquire the taste for it coz it tasted like coffee.

Gerald's dinner which consist of the glass noodle (his favourite) and smoked duck meat (shown in the above scrap)

My set dinner, Spicy Pork Intestines which is quite nice but I dun really fancy the blood jelly (lucky Gerald loves it *he he*, else it is wasted). This set comes with appetiser, soup and a bowl of nice fluffy white rice topped with yummy minced meat.

The appetiser : cold french beans, fried ball & fried seafood tofu

Old cucumber soup that comes with the set.

And here's my expression after such a wonderful and heavy dinner ....

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The verdict?

I highly recommend this place for good food though the price for the set meal varies from RM 16 ++ to RM 20 ++. My favourite would be the sweet potato balls and Gerald's meal.

a baby's smile ...

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I know I have shown baby Mark Voo, which is the youngest addition to the Voo family but this is the first time we met him (during the March KK trip). He's such a darling but I must say, he is much smaller in size as compare to his cousin, Veda which is only a few months older than him.

The above photo (scrapped using my CT kit) showed him sleeping in the morning of Easter while we were busy preparing to go for service. So cute....

baby VEDA

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During our March home trip back to KK, we finally met with the latest addition to the Voo family trees, baby Veda Voo, our lil niece. She's my 2nd BIL's 2nd daughter, which is lil sister to Ariel Voo. She is juz like her sister, which is such a darling & loves to smile....

Happy Birthday Woan Jiun

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Happy birthday to you, my dear friend. Since I can't make it down to makan with you, here's a card to wish you happy birthday. I know you like blue, hence the theme color (^-^). But your name is very long & I am a bit lazy to spell it out, I used your english name instead. Hope you like it ....

And here's the card presented to you in a scrap layout , which is tied with a string of pearls, your fav too:

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端午节 aka Dragon Boat Festival

It's 五月初五 which means, the Dragon Boat festival or as I call it Chung Chit in cantonese. Here I wish my dear dear, my family & everyone a Happy Duan Wu Festival.

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PS: Dun eat too much of the chung and do share some with me.....

Happy 3rd Anniversary

So fast, today marks the 3rd year of our wedding (can see the special banner tat I made for this occasion). Happy 3rd Anniversay to my Dear Dear. Dunno wat to say but definately our love has grown so much.

Here's a simple gift for you, my dear... and a poem too ....

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Perfect Partner

Three years ago, my dear

You made my world complete;

You became my perfect partner in life,

And you've been a world-class treat!

We've loved and worked and made a home

That fills me with pleasure and pride,

And it's all because of the wonderful one

Who has lived through the years by my side.

Thank you my treasured and cherished love;

You've made my dreams come true.

Your loving and caring have made our marriage

A blissful adventure for two!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

By Karl Fuchs

a LUXURY gift

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partially from Gerald (^-^)

Well, I was so bored one day and my fren told me about her fren going to USA and she's so into Coach.... so, I tot why not.. go surf the net and see wat is available and I saw 2 things I love... The one tat caught my eyes was this Coach Hampton Signature Optic... vy nice, yet quite girly (not to aunty)

So, that night, I just show to Gerald and he also say nice and asked if I really want it *he he he* of course ler I want ... and he's so genourous that nite... he sponser half the price ...

Hence, I got my 1st Coach bag in March 08

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my wiShes 2 U

Happy Birthday DEAR DEAR ......

This year didn't buy anything for you (thought of getting 1 vy playful card for u but then..... no use if mail to u also), just make 2 cards for you. It's almost the same, just that the colors are a bit different. Can't decide which one is nicer, hence, u get 2 CARDS + virtual kissess *muak muak muak*

Card 1 is something very neutral with ur name in it (^-^)

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Card 2 is something bright and more details but it's more personal (^-^)

So, here I wish my dear dear a very Happy Birthday. May all your wishes comes true and by next year onwards, we can celebrate all the important dates together...... & last but not least, a birthday poems for you.

Happily Ever After

On your birthday, my dear Gerald,

I wish that all your dreams come true.

May your day be filled with joy,

Wonderful gifts and goodies, too.

On your day I wish for you

Favorite people to embrace,

Loving smiles and caring looks

That earthly gifts cannot replace.

I wish you fine and simple pleasures.

I wish you many years of laughter.

I wish you all of life’s best treasures.

I wish you happily ever after!

Happy Birthday!

By Joanna Fuchs

a BIRTHDAY celebration

KK March 08 trip

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We were quite lucky this time coz we got to celebrate Mom & Dad 'in-laws' (finally) brithday. Though it's a bit early but this was the best timing we had in the 4 years...

After we got down from KK park, we rested for awhile and when everyone came home from work, we drove down to city center for this very good dteamboat dinner. They have all you can eat or ala carte. Since we are not a big eater, we choosed ala carte, which is a wise choice when the bill arrived.

The food there is very nice and my favourite (Arial's too) is the special fish noodles and the scallop 'siew mai'. It's quite different from KL because here, you can enjoy it in a/c place and yet, you got the freedom to choose wat you want from the serving trolley. And how to know the price? He he, here's how they used the sushi system... color coded tray... smart eh ... And not to forget there's 1 long table where the customer get to choose the sauces, the toppings & oils to have it with the steamboat.

At the end of the dinner, we took out the green tea cake which was bought by my 2nd SIL, Natalie. It's so delicious (Arial finished 1 pc by herself) and just nice for everyone. I wish we have that cake here in KL now... so refreshing.... So, that ends the celebration and our 2nd last day in KK.

PS: More photos & scraps of the event will be show later.. having some artistic block for the scrap :p

our KK Park photos

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Finally, I have finished resizing the KK Park photos and uploaded into slides... phew.. it's really not an easy task to resize and choose the 'better' photos to upload. There's really alot that I loves but then, not all are presentable coz some is quite blur especially those shots where we attempt to capture the sky and the green grass (us jumping up) at the Golf Club at Mat Silau. My favourite will be those captured in the 'meadow field' as shown at the above scrap. It really reminds me those places in fairytale books (^-^)

And here's our short trip up to the park :

my very own CAMEL

Was supposed to post this up after the HOT post but there's always some other things to post ... hence, the delayed in showing my very own camel.....

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Sometimes back, I asked Gerald for a very unique and local souvenier from Doha. I never expect that I will have my vy own camel (figurine made out of REAL camel skin) and it does really look like the camel photo that was shown in the previous post.

These unique gifts (camel & aladin lamp) are my Christmas presents of 2007 which is yet to be displayed in the house.

Mother's day

Mother's day is nearing *this Sunday* and I did a simple banner to wish my MOM and all the mummies out there a Happy Mother's Day. You can see the credits & details here.

Our plan for this weekend is to go Puchong to have 'Yim Gok Hai' - Salted Crab (special request by my mum). The perfect day to eat is Saturday but my school fren, Li Li is getting married this Saturday. So, looks like Sunday got to rebut table with the rest of the world and searching for best buy gifts (I am sure all the daughters & sons are doing tat for their mummy)....

RAK for my cousin

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I just know that my dear little cousin (still little to me) just loves my blog coz lots of scrap *paiseh coz mine not really good lar as compare to others*..... so, I did this for her blog, which is a great blog coz she just blog on what she believes -> Appreciate, Respect & Love. Hope she likes it ... It's just a small RAK for my dear cousin (^-^)

sweet TEMPTATION...

Lately, I have been obsessed in getting my hands on the digital scrapkits and challenges. Maybe it's NSD or maybe all the kits are too nice to resists *LOL*. Hence, I have abandoned my photo resizing of my KK trip & did the below scraps while downloading the kits I bought earlier (which I added 1 more kit to my purchase at Oscrap & stumble upon this challenge by Paislee -> create a LO using cropped photos and her freebie).

I have chosen this photo, taken way back in Sept during my KK hometrip with Gerald. I love going for a date to the Coffee Beans at Damai during the nights coz we really have nothing to do beside sleep :p

My favourite drink is the Morrocan Mint Latte whereby for Gerald, he prefers Sunrise. And the little Mango Cheese cake caught my eyes coz the colors are so bright !!! It's like calling me "eat ME, eat ME" and I couldn't resists the temptation (which ended up Gerald finishing the cake for me *he he he*)

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Pstt: I have another temptation that I can't resists (which I am sure lots of people also the same as me)-> bedding sets. I'm a big fans of luxurious beddings especially those from Aussino in particular. Their sateen cotton is really so smooth and soft to the touch and the designs is vy pretty as well.... There's another brand that is of vy high quality but the price range is really out of my budget (*_*).

National Scrapbooking Day + my aDDiction ...

Finally, the big day has arrived. I have been waiting for this day for so long until my neck is long *LOL*. Today is NSD and in the Scrapbooking World, most of the shops are giving discounts on their beautiful kits. There's some kits that I have been eyeing on at Weeds & Wildflowers *have gone crazy over their stuff for the past few months* and it's really a good day to shop online (exercise my virtual $$) to get more of their stuff. Here's what I bought today to add to my existing collection of WW kits *GRIN*

There's another grab bag that I got from two little pixels shop (shown above). Stumble upon it and just decided to grab it. No preview though coz it's a grab bag, can't wait to open it ans see what's inside the bag (how I love NSD, ke ke ke).

Here's another kits that I have been eyeing on that is selling at Catscrap. It's such an Enchanted kit to use for scrapping. Shall check it out tomorrow with Jazz to see if she got it or not, if not, I will grab it *ke ke ke ke*

PS: Not to forget to SHOUT that my CT designer, Marianne's kit is now having 50% off at Elemental Scrap . Do check it out.

After my shopping spree, it's time for me to search for some information search on drug rehab.

labour day, holiday , MY day ....

It's May 1st and it's holiday .... yippie.... This is the only day I managed to sleep till 9.30am and am so glad to find myself waking up feeling refreshed. I guess the 'pai suen' treatment that I went yesterday evening helps my aching body and also detoxing it and not to forget to mentioned that I slept early around 11pm....

On normal May 1st, I would have stay home but today, I might go out to see what's on offer in the mall. I heard from my coliks tat usually on May 1st, they will be having special sales.... hmmm, hope it's true..

Anyhow, I think this LO fits for today. I did it using mt CT kit, Chasing Rainbow

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Got to go now... Happy Holiday everyone and Happy Holiday to you, my dear Gerald. Dun overeat today yah ;)

Updates on my little outing :

1. Got myself & mum some treats (details on the next post)

2. Went to the HSBC promo fair. Lots of goodies but not enuf points to redeem though it has been slashed to vy low. Oh, mum did a cataract instant check-up & she's free from cataract and they also promotion for HSBC card if I were to do Lasik.

Digital scrapbook kit giveaway

I joined a CT team recently and for the first time, my designer Marianne is allowing the Creative Team to give away her For Real kit to 1 lucky person. For all my frens that would like to grab this fabulous kit, just click here and answer the question. It's really a giveaway questions coz you already know the answers if you read my blog.

Here's a preview of the lovely kit made by Marianne available at Elemental Scrap & Scrapping Garden :

Here's my layout using the kit :

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Up to the Kinabalu highland ...

March 08 KK trip post

The March trip I insisted on going up to the KK park again. It has been ages since we go up (ok lar, not ages but it's been a long time since 2005). I just want to have a day trip to the KK park and also the Mat Silau & Desa Dairy Farm to snap some photos. Though the Dairy Farm was closed for expansion, we detour to the Golf Club and the view is breath taking. One can mistake it for New Zealand or any European country from the photos (will upload soon). I just fall in love with that place and just continue to snap till it drizzle whereby we just stop at the rest area at the golf course and snacks our Pringles and 'You Chi' kuih.

After that, we head down to the KK Park and have our lunch in the coffee house ( a planned lunch) before going home. They serve buffet at RM 35 per person and we just got in at the right time. The sky decided to throw a heavy downpour the moment we sit ourselves in the cafe *phew*. Since it's cold, we really whack alot from the buffet especially the beef and the banana fritters which is fresh from the pan.

Here's some of my favourite photos that I scrapped and will definately print it out & frame it.

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Here's a closer look of the 2 page layout (^-^)

Some words from Gerald :

{ It was a planned trip that was almost scrapped. lucky cheryl was persistant, enough to say "go lah"timing was perfect, but mt kinabalu is a mountain with an attitute.it only showed her face once, and that was it. i stopped the truck and took as much pictures as we can. as soon as we got on the road, a thick blanket of clouds covered her up....it only showed her face once, and that was it.....}

Now I need to get a reading magnifiers to look tru all the photos and upload it into the gallery

What is the color....

What is the color of this world? I have been asking myself tonight. Dunno for watever reason, I have been very emotional for the past few days, from being happy, scared and sad. And tonite is when I feel sad suddenly, after my cook out session (dinner).

I just start to remember the scene of the old man, bare footed pushing the cart filled with scrap metals at the main road in front of Phoenix. It causes trafic coz all the cars are trying to avoid running into him. As for myself, I have a good glance at him & right at that moment, my heart cried. Juz by looking at him, what he's doing at tat time, even right now, the scene in my memory is enuf to make my eyes teary. Is the world becoming so grey, so hard to survive. Has the standard of living gone up until the money that the retired age group saved is not enuf to live in these very days?( which is vy true, coz it happens to someone close) Or has the human kind become so cruel that they started to neglect their parents? Or is it merely their choice to live the way of scavenging?

For whatever the reason, we can see that the world is not so kind to old folks. If you start to look around you, you can see alot of old people searching the rubbish bins for scrap metals, empty cans and even papers to sell just to survive, making ends meet.

Yeah, I am one sensitive person when comes to these kind of things, so I do avoid seeing those sad scenario. Before I end this ponder, lets have some HOPE... Hope that the world will be kinder to us, Hope that human kind will be kinder to mother nature....

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* The photo was taken by Gerald on 24th Feb 2007 at Sutera Harbour Hotel Room in the morning *

~HOPE~

Thou art my Lord, my golden dream,

Thou art my life in death.

O bless me with Thy Hope Supreme,

Lord of the Eternal Breath!

Agelong the vision of Thy Sun

For darkness have I sought.

I know the evils I should shun

And quickly bring to nought.

The earth is deaf and blind, my Lord;

Its true goal it denies.

It hears no voice, no heavenly word

From those who seek the skies.

O yet I feel Thy kingly Grace

With my feeble mortality.

I shall win at last the Noonward Race,

Plunge in the Nectar-Sea.

by Sir Chinmoy

After pondering all the things I saw, we really need to do a budgeting and planning to ensure we will have enuf to survive.

You light up my days

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I was sick and my mood is way down south today. My neck pain, shoulder pain and headache seems to gloom my weekends and thanks to you, my dear hubby, I am a bit heading north now. Thank you so much for hearing my complaints even though you're so far away. You really light up my days.

Here's a poem for you (^-^)

When you smile,

You create a language of intimate interaction,

When you smile,

You send an instant message of heart to heart communication.

When you smile,

You create a dream world of happiness,

When you smile,

The despair and troubles seem so far away,

When you smile,

The hope and cheers seem only a stone’s throw away.

When you smile,

My heart gets the will to survive in distress,

When you smile,

My mind gets the power to overcome all the hurdles.

~Jay P Narain~