Grandpa's Bday Cont'

Sharon & Fat Drew







Grandma & I and a mysterious finger

Boy do I look bad at this angle. Grandma, Sheryl, Raul and I

He was bored and grumpy

Aunty Vicky is 7 months pregnant, where is her tummy?

Sharon, Sheryl & Raymond

The siblings

Gandpa's Bday

Good job on the tents, we rented it but looks good, those chandeliers are pretty...btw, all those covers and table cloth were DIY...YUP we had to dressed it up.

We couldn't squeeze in anymore tables....it is a house party anyways.

That's where our buffet spread was.......yummy food.

Our center piece deco...Aunty vicky's idea.

4 piece band setting up

2 fat juicy lamb being bbq-ed

we have one piggy too, but cant seem to find it

500 or 1000 sticks of satay??

tandoori chicken, it was juicy chicken, apprently my godpa asked them to make it more moist by adding more yogurt. The ice kacang stall was blocked.

Our heavy lunch @ summer palace

Loads of food...

Alex and Nick enjoying lunch

Sheryl is ever ready for a pic..

The older cousins reunite!

Granpa's 80th

Come midnight 17th January 2007.......Happy Birthday, celebration with just family

Oh no...po pops wants to cut the cake...he thinks its his birthday...LOL!

Addiction

to Gilmore Girls.....

cheesy huh? well I was walking around Bt.Feringhi getting bored and was itching to get a Box set.....so so i resulted in getting Gilmore Girls Season 1. After watching 12 episodes....i must say it is getting more addictive.

Not a bad script. Started off pretty slow, getting all characters in place but now after the 12th, I cant wait to head home to find out what happens.....Lorelai Gilmore is being hit by Luke - the diner guy.

Why "Gilmore Girls" you ask...

This show has finished making season 6 and it airs on ntv7 or 8tv.....never on Astro (maybe it has but havent watch it)....so i've watched snippets on it and my sista says its pretty good. Its got good values between mother and daughter, family based show. Something different from "tree hill", "OC" and such. Sheryl bought 3 seasons of OC and also season 1 of Prison break.

Arent we serial addict?

Its pretty fun. If you have the time. I struggle so much to finish 21 episodes within a week.

I wanna watch "Ugly Betty". When is the box set coming out?

SO what else is good? Any suggestions?

Off to KL in less than 3 hours..

To celebrate my grandpa's 80th bday tomorrow!!! Celebration!!!

Everybody, absolutely everybody is back! Family reunion.....(=

It will be like mad house tonight onwards, laughters in the house....NOISE....lots of noise. Yippie!!!

Well I've prepared my speech......stil thinking of changing some..thanks Sayang for helping me out. I loathe public speaking....i will get tongue tied and my sentences will turn out weird. Do you think I should read out from a paper? Reading my speech out?? aint that a violation? I know a lot of people do it but it sucks. I wish I was aaron.......can speak anything at the spur of the moment.

And I'm singing a song as requested from grandpa. Thanks to Andre for helping to record a minus-one.....dont play, minus one !!!! all with the help of a digital piano and a computer. Getting my cousins to sing the chorus. Want to know whats the song?? Its "You Decorated my Life" Sure hope grandpa will like it....

Anyways gotta finish some work before leaving. Didn;t finish packing yet....wonder what happened to my strapless bras...all went missing.

Pictures will be up when i come back.

Jazz group performing "Rising Sun" a korean song.



Yvonne with cinderella and step sisters.

With our teacher..

Sayang said I looked scary....like a hooker...LOL!

Not bad, the make-up lasted more than 10 hours.

Ballet Charity Concert, 7th January 2006 @ Dewan Sri Pinang

Yvonne and myself after hair-do but before scary makeup...natural and simple.

Thick make-up done!

Half way done....check out my lashes.....covers quarter of my vision...

Lashes from a different view

All set to go..

Our make-up was sponsored by Stella-In..thanks!

Sharon with New York, New York dancers....and cutie Fara from Little Ballerina's

"Rising Sun"

Breakfast and Tea

I made pork ham sandwich with organic lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, black pepper, olive butter and mayo. Not too bad. My first time eating alfalfa sprouts........an acquired taste, more to the green and raw taste. Aint that bad. Heard its good for me....so gotta learn how to love it.

Tea: I had Lettuce, alfalfa sprout with majo and black pepper on wholemeal bread.

Why majo?? I ran out of mustard.

I spend easily RM30 at Jusco yesterday.......buying some healthy food for me to prepare.

Oh ya, I also had a pear for today's tea.


Honestly i've been eating out so much, i'm soooooo jelak with all the food. Time to prepare my own food. Only thing is Sharon is totally clueless on how to cook. Of course Maggi mee can la. My sandwiches are quite yummy and my PASTA.....not bad right sayang? My craze for capsicum is still there!!!

Dinner tonight will be my special maggi mee with cili padi.....mmmmm...sedap! Will post some pics if I remember.

Welcome 2007!!

I realized that the last time I blogged was last year..time flies.

8 days had passed.

How would 2007 be different??..a question I asked myself....

Am I back to my normal life or am I striving for a change??

It starts off with "ok, I need a change my life next year" and when the new year comes, the irony of it is, people get too comfortable at where they are and just accept things as it is. Now how boring is that? or how silly?? Easy to say...i know.....but if we dont make the first move then who will? We are the author of our faith....of coz God is there to help is thru but the decision is us to make.

I have not list down my resolutions yet........wait a minute....I think I did....on New Year's Eve, in church. We were given two pieces of paper, one for bad habits and another for resolution. Of course I cant type it out here...LOL! Totally forgot I wrote down my resolutions.....now I need to prep myself.

Well enough bout all this.

Let me talk about my weekend, my happening weekend.

5th Jan (Friday Night)
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Left work early. Got home around 5.30, decided to watch my newly purchased DVD (Material Girls by Hilary Duff)...yea a chick flick.

Finished the movie closed to 7.30pm and decided to take a nap. Woke up at 8.15pm and freshen up....Aaron was coming at 8.30pm.

We drove to queensbay, I ran up to Borders to get my puzzle mag. We made some plans to meet some friends @ Northam Beach Cafe......but when we got there, our friends cabut-ed , due to reasons such as assignments...blah, blah, blah...

After dinner both of us were rather tired - both also down with flu.....so gatai didnt want to head home coz that was our last friday without SWYF (Shalom Working Youth Fellowship).

It also didnt stop us from going to Starbucks....darling has his caramel machiato, I had my schneider. We were outside gurney tower, people watching n being fashion police. Left buckers around 12.30am and headed home.

When i got home, I started packing for my concert rehearsal.....clothes, shoes, hair pins and such.

Took medicine and straight to dream land....ZZZzzzzZZZzzzzzZZzzZzZzzz

6th January (Saturday)
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9.15am......Alarm ringsssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How annoying. Cant I sleep in longer for the weekend?

So drag myself out of bed, wash my hair and got ready.

Sayang picked me up at 10.15am. Bought sausage buns for backup and off to Dewan Sri Pinang.

11am, practice for modern dance started.

11.30am, practice for Ballet started.

1pm, went out for lunch.

2.45pm, full dress rehearsal started.

6.00pm, FINALLY!!!.....rehearsal ends in D.S.Png

Dressed up and headed to SFX for 6.30pm mass. Choir was pretty interesting......nice church.

7.30pm, headed to Northam Beach for dinner with Yvonne, Aaron, adeline and Andre. Halfway thru dinner, it rained like never before with strong wind. Yvonne reminded us that it may be the floods coming, as predicted in the papers. We quickly finished our food and left.

It has been a while since i went home so early on a saturday night. Nop i didnt sleep yet...was sewing my dress......Dont know if we were losing weight, but it sure feels the dress were looser each time.

After which, i hit the sack...totally pooped.

7th January (Sunday)
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7.00am, RISE AND SHINE!

Oh NOOOO, its much worst than yesterday...wake up soooo early on a sunday?

Today's THEE day. After 4 months of practicing, todays the day. Only one shot, no more mistakes on stage.

Aaron picked me up at 7.45am, he's such a darling. Waking up so early just to fetch me. Its not that I dont have my own car, he's more afraid that I will be too tired to drive back aftet the concert. Thanks for the sweet thought sweetie...

We stop by mcd's to get me breakfast......two sausage egg mcmuffin, one for now and another for lunch......*yummy*

Reach D.S.P just in time.....8.30am, only to find out that our hair do starts 9.30am. AN HOUR. I could have slept another hour. A whole freaking hour. So i just plop myself on the chair, halfway snoozing, then my teacher calls....."Carmen, Carmen, are you guys ready??" I'm like what?? We have practice now?? gesh....i'm so not a morning person.

So we change into our costumes and there we were waiting for our turn to hit the stage. Our teacher was in a pissy mood, raising her voice at the dancers and making them dance over and over again. I sure hope she would not reprimand us......I mean "HELLO" its morningla, give us a break.

When our song came, we just danced. To our amazement when we finished, she said GOOD! So thats it? Apparently yes, we only danced once. Woohoo.

Next we proceeded backstage to await our hairdo. Our sponsors was from Variety Hair Studio & academy( from prangin mall). All 8 of them looked funny......funky hair colors and hairstyles, definitely not my forte. Yes, we were worried. Our dance is a serious dance, cant be looking like some freaks.

Yvonne (my co dancer) is funny. Straight forward girl. Tells you in the face what she feels. So she tells the hairdresser, we need an elegant hairdo and not whacky. A good 10 mins.....us trying to tell them what we want. Finally they understood. We were satisfied.

Next make-up. Sponsored by Stella-IN.

I must say they are kinda good. Friendly girls and professional. Our make-ups were all super thick, stage make-up so no choice. We had to use fake eyelashes, my first time. It was damn uncomfortable, a quarter of my vision was blocked....no kidding, it was so long n bushy that I cud see it from my eyeline.

Our concert was suppose to start at 4pm.....so at 3.15, I could not find my shoe...panic habis....and where did Sharon leave her shoes?? At the auditorium itself! So I wore a t-shirt over my dress and and walked down........crowd was begining to pour in, people were staring at me...hahahha......thank goodness i realized about my shoe before it was too late.

To cut the long story short, after the opening speaches, welcoming of YBs, ribbon cutting....we were ready to rumble. Mine was the 4th and 15th item. As soon as the first group finished their dance, I had butterflies in my tummy......the adrenalin rush. Before we knew it, the 3rd item came to an end. IT WAS OUR TURN! The lights went out and we were in epose position. Our song started, and we were all out in action. It was fun...a memorable time. Mistakes?? we made tons on stage, I nearly slip and fell. LOL! Strange part is hardly anybody noticed our mistakes.

We were laughing back stage......one down another to go. I changed to my modern dance outfit n hair accessories and waiting for our turn. Not too long a wait, we were waiting for our turn. I must say everybody danced their best, from my angel, it was synchronized. Good job guys! Ours was second last item...and before time the concert came to an end. A tiring but definitely enjoyable time.

Had dinner then head home to SLEEPPPPP!!!