Finally..

Super excited and happy Saturday.
Drove in KL alone for the first time to church.



Chor Kong & Chor Ma got married!!!!



I was a tad embarrassed when the MC called me out for one of the group photo.
Nearly jumped out of my seat, actually.
I was going to join in this time, I swear.
Even though I didn't technically know the groom from church, that was the closest category to describe how I know him. Lol.
In a way I was also touched that Chor Kong remembered in the midst of his big day and hundreds of guests.
Touched and embarrassed at the same time are two emotions that slightly contradict each other.

And so....
This wedding brings me to the finality of TSFers weddings.
The best is always saved for last...and now both my fondest brothers in Christ are married.
I feel like I'm having closure with my college years there. And it's all good.

It's been a long while...

Knitted stuff

For a little loved Ray Yuen in Queensland.

I'm so glad they made it in time and he hasn't grown too big for the booties Jen and I bought.

 ~

Birthday stuff

And a meal with Jen that can't be describe with pictures.

(Because the pics will just expose what a pig I am when I'm with her. =))

~

Tough stuff

R.I.P. Uncle A.

I miss your bass lines.

It's been 2 months since he passed away.

But I couldn't post about it without posting this....

Because he was so happy for you, Xian!

*teary eyed*

Congratulations Evan & Xian!!!

And I'm thankful that just days before it happened, 

we met up after quite a long time, 

and that week he managed to call Xian as well.

And it's with these little bits and pieces of events, 

fitting in together,

that God has comforted me with.

=)

10th August 2013 JerGlo Day

*the super belated long post*

I've been waiting for this day for years!
The ceilings looking a little like my dream about this day.

Of all the things, I never imagined I'd end up doing this for Slavedriver.

Sound.

I missed this kiss live!

CONGRATS, SLAVEDRIVER!!!!
Finally!

Dinner after that.

Where two innocents gave me their glasses and made me drunk. Lol.

Big Bro and family being there was like the added icing on the cake.

I'm thankful to have been at this wedding. And for the plans He has for them.
I could have been not invited.
A couple of months ago, we had a fallout.
We weren't talking to each other except on stage.
Only about two weeks before Slavedriver went MIA from church did we sort of make up.
I was so glad to just be there that I couldn't even be upset that the sound system was at a corner where I couldn't witness anything that happened on the altar.
For it felt like, I was giving the best gift ever. To be of selfless service to them on this special day.

I'm thankful that after all that I've done and sometimes reminiscently regret, this event rebuild-ed a bridge I thought would take a much longer time to rebuild. 
Part of me couldn't believe how at ease Cub was. How normal.
And I kept thinking, "Only You, Lord, could change a heart that once said "Sorry no cure"."
Especially at an event like this where I really was happy for the couple.
And didn't want to be bogged down by any negative feelings whatsoever.
It added to my joy to see Him at work, fixing this.

I'm thankful for all the people that I met again at the wedding. Each that had a special place in my heart.
I was squealing at this kid and that kid. How grown up or how cute they were.
And the number of hugs from everyone!
When I saw Big Bro and family walked in, it was like the icing on top of the cake.
It was like being at this reunion of everyone I've had the privilege and blessing to have known in the last 10 years. All at one event.

I couldn't contain how happy I was that day, grinning from ear to ear.
I wished I'd just die in bliss then.

The only time I freak out and got uncomfortable was when the group shot of TSF-ers was taken after the dinner and good old U.Aaron yelled for me to join. Somehow, I withdrew into my old shell and avoided going up there. Justifying it away as they are the TSF leaders gang.
Yet I couldn't help getting Cub's assistance to take the group shots as the official photographer did. Lol.
I still rather watch and observe from the outside.

There's only one more wedding left of this gang.
That of Chor Kong to Chor Ma.
I'm sure that's another blast to celebrate.

'Ohana

Been some busy family time the week before Resurrection Sunday.
Resurrection Sunday was also the day 2 rings were exchanged.
Chinese wedding would be held in June.


Some of my favourite shots that I'm too lazy to put together nicely til now.


~Was awesome to have handled a scorpion, milipede and caterpillar at the Butterfly Farm.

~I now have direct numbers to a neurologist and an opthalmologist on my mobile.
And I know where they live too. Hahahaha!

~Finally having the time to look at the photos properly, I realized that my brothers and I kinda all share the same nose.
And it's moments like this, that I wish our mum was here to see it all.

-An emotion that borders on wistfulness passing through.-

Who would have thought that once all grown up, brothers didn't exist just to traumatize you or make your life a living hell?

2 Weddings, A Funeral, and a Christmas Turkey

This December,

Found myself at 2 weddings of old schoolmates, hence meeting up old schoolmates and the usual what-are-you-doing-now Q&A sessions.

Found myself at a wake for a TARCF-er's grandpa after Singapore, hence meeting up old TARCF-ers.
Which was spooky, considering our last meetup was also for a wake earlier on that happened after I came back from Aussie.

Found myself at Starbucks with an old UTAR-ian who came all the way from KL to introduce me to weight-loss plan, of all things and of all days on Christmas. At least I was treated to a green tea latte and watched pretty fireworks at midnight.

Found myself at a Christmas party, carving up the turkey for other guests of the host before my jam mates arrived, which was uber fun to carve and dissect of sort. And had to-die-for-chocolate cake.

The only bunch of peeps I haven't somehow bump into are the Hoppers, although one of them was at the conference if that counts.

54. I am thankful for the friendships that I have.
Though weird and uneasy as some of them are, the existence of that fine thread that links each human being together is woven by only His doing.

55. I am thankful for being inspired just by watching a jazz ensemble doing something as ordinary as a soundcheck.

56. I am thankful for the presents I received and gave, because I made awesome baskets of goodies for my girls, (hahahaha!) and they in return are such dearies.

57. I am thankful for the ultimate Gift.


2011 will be here in a couple of days!

Hilarious....

This is so hilarious I don't know how to stop laughing inside.

I just got my first wedding present.

Hahahahaha!

Come, laugh with me!

Hahahahaha!

Hahahahaha!

Hahahahaha!

And yes, if I could have rolled on the floor and laughed when I saw or heard it I would have.

Except I was in some very elderly company that meant business.

So I just laugh out loud and said I wasn't expecting this, much to their amusement.

So, who's next?

Or more accurately, who's the unfortunate groom?

Oh man.....

*laugh until tears coming out*

2nd Trip of 2008

This post have been long overdue,
I couldn't bear the thought of looking at the pictures and remembering all the lovelies I saw, things I did and the kids I miss.

This time round I stayed 2 nights at the newly wedded Kong Kong and Ama's place and 1 at Di and Mi's. I arrived on Thursday afternoon and it was a pretty quiet night hanging out at FGA KL while Kong Kong and Ama had their practice for Sunday services. On Friday, Kong Kong dropped me off at KL Sentral before working where I wasted sometime at Coffee Bean before making my way to KLCC as it was about 8am in the morning.

Dear Ama made me a chicken sandwich which was really sweet of her.
Although it wasn't in my plans,
it went along with Kong Kong's idea that I make my way to KLCC first, as they open earlier than elsewhere.

Take a guess how I got the shot above, haha!
Mi thought I had some function in Blinky that makes the shots that way.
But it was just the coolest idea I had while having my own little picnic of a breakfast at KLCC Park.
Bored with the way there's a million and one shots of the towers.
A beautiful way to start an early morning in KL.

It's okay.....I had a Bavarian Vanilla donut when I arrived in Pudu.
I still couldn't help take a picture even with a chicken sandwich in my hand.

Xmas is over, so I won't put a lot of my Christmas tree shots here.
But this was really imaginative for it was like watching presents tumbling down from the sky.

I managed to visit the Petronas Gallery where they were showcasing portraits of famous Malaysians in arts, drama, crafts, and music.
The title of the showcase was called 'Imaging Selfs', shots all taken by Soraya Yusof Talismail.
In a corner there was a showcase of sculptures in bronze with pieces of glasses in some and other sort of metal combination, by a sculptor.
And it was all really very abstract stuff.
Heck, I only recognize about 10 of the artists from the potraits.
But I just totally loved it, getting to linger at every amazing potraits of those creative minds.
And wondering how on earth the photographer thought of shots like that.
Being there was like a rejuvenating breath of fresh air to my imagination and the art-loving side of me.
This had to be the most memorable thing about the trip, besides the kids of course.

So after KLCC, I made my way to Times Square, hoping that Wendy's was open there.
Unfortunately it was not, and a shop I frequent there every time I go down to KL had closed down as well. So I had to make a detour to Pudu as there was still a branch there. It's my first time in years taking the public bus in the city. But it was worth it as I made my way back from there to Midvalley with this.

Blink-blink bag. Hahaha!

Finally! Burger King at Midvalley in the late afternoon.
The juiciest Double Mushroom Swiss burger ever.

The Gardens.

On Saturday, this was the reason I had to go down KL.

There wasn't time to take shots of the newly wedded.
Group shots are already all over somewhere else, much to my distractions,
so I won't post them here.

That night, once again I went for TSF and of course had my heart broken by these kids.

Kawaii and cheeky rite? These are 2 sisters.

Then there was him.
The ultimate heart breaker.

A serious contender for his cousin Charis.
First he won't sit or stand still for a shot.
And when he finally did sit down, it was to face me this way.
Ish.
But he did made it up to me later on by feeding me fries,
to my utter delight as I thought only his parents was privileged with that.

Arghhhhhh......I miss them all!
Dear God, please help me.
Let me see them again soon.

One thing Mi said that really struck me in the heart was,

Even as the kids are growing up,
I am growing older too...

Sigh!
Enough said.

1st GROW wedding Part 2

So I covered another wedding with Blinky.
Before going, I was excited because I couldn't imagine GROW being all decorated up for a wedding. I was amused to find it decorated in purple and white.

The stage.
We just rearranged the instruments last weekend.

Flower decorations.
All the flowers were fresh, smelling really nice!
The chairs...

The flower girls getting touch ups...
So sweet.

So who was the marrying couple?
Ta da!

The exchange of rings.
It really cracks me up when I see the grooms stumbling through their vows.
Too bad so many people with cameras.
They block my eeky shot!!!
Boy, was I mad....

Some parts of the ceremony I've not witness elsewhere before.
Like after they officially got married, they gave their first tithe as a couple. And before they walk down the aisle, they went to the groom's side of the family and later the bride's side to greet and acknowledge their families as a couple.

It was a teary moment to see the bride being hugged by her dad for quite a while, as if he was letting her go....and her mum cried.
Hahaha!

There was a dinner reception after that.

Kawaii!!
Some fillet.
I didn't eat much dinner because I munched on cookies in the afternoon.
My appetite was open up however, for the cake.
They just left a plate in the middle of the table and I kept taking till I forgot to leave some for Ms. Ooi.
Hehe!

My exclusive eeky shot, after the dinner and all!!
I was really happy to have shot this with only one other camera around.
Hahaha!
I hope I won't be killed for publishing this.
I think this would have made me on the hit list of 2 couples.

Man, Bubu is married.

I've known Bubu since I started attending GROW. She used to sing backup with us and it was good to have a friend on stage back when I was so nervous to be there. Later on when she went down to UM for her studies, she was on my bus route and put under Chor Kong's care. We had our good times. Haha!

I had a lump in my throat watching her walk in...

Sumit the groom, is one of lead guitarist in church. At one point he was the only lead guitarist we have. There's never a practice with him around that I don't crack up in fits of giggles because he comes up with the most outrages jokes or we're laughing at his forgetfulness. Bubu still has to finish her studies in NZ and he's going to follow her there. We won't have him 'goreng' with us anymore.

I'll miss the funnies....

It was good to meet up with Ms. Ooi and catch up. I haven't been much of a good girl in finding her although I'm back in BM permanently. I took many shots of her with various people. Hahaha!

1st GROW wedding Part 1

There was a wedding on Saturday.
My first in GROW.
Details later.
As usual, I want to blog about the little darlings first.

Caught a shot of these flower girls dancing after the ceremony was over.

Alwyna taking the lead, as usual.

She knows she has my heart on her leash.
She's always taking advantage of me.
Natania's the little darling everyone adore.
She gives me a piece of Twisties when I asked for it, okay!
Sigh.....

Am super happy that I got a shot with the two of them again like I had at Christmas!

I finally got a shot of Natalie, the little one who went 'Mummy, wor yau mam mam...'

But sadly, she's at the ice queen age.
And I couldn't bear to bluff her with 'tang tang' promise.
Maybe someday....

Not wedding related wise,
Yesterday, I had the privilege of driving this little girl back to her house from my aunt's place.

Proudly sitting in the front seat.
This is the pretend ice queen.
She wanted to sit my car, but won't tell me directly.
Very cheeky. Hmph!
Felt like kidnapping her with me.
But the tears would have been too scary for me.
Hahahaha!

Man, I love them all.
They grow up so fast, that soon I won't be able to spin them or cuddle them.
Sometimes, I wish that time can stand still for them.
To stay innocent, always.

Dinner at the G Part 3

Finally the post on food!!!! Hahahaha!
Blinky did a good job for me at the wedding dinner....well most of it anyway.
Love you, Blinky!

Main table setting.

Setting up the wedding cake.

Guest table setting.

After the wedding couple sat down, it was time for the food to start coming!

Appetizer! Decorated so Hawaiian... Kawaii!

The octopus was really tender and juicy.
So was the fish cake.
Nicest I've had.
I even had a bite of the 'flower' the octopus came in.....tasted like fried popiah skin.
To my amazement, our waitress have to serve us.
Usually we serve ourselves after they set the big dish down, right.
Even when we requested to serve ourselves, she said cannot.
At least for the initial serving of every dish.
So we let her do it. At this point the waitress was on her best behavior but things went down the drain with the waitress after sometime....She was too eager to be punctual and to serve the next dish when we were still not done with the dish on the table. Kept asking us a few times if we were done with the dish, when she could be using her eyes to estimate.
There was only 4 adults and 3 kids at the table, so imagine how much food there was because suppose to sit 10 people!
I believe she should have been more considerate because there's 3 little girls at our table, and the parents have their hands full feeding them and themselves. And she wasn't attentive to our needs, taking a long time to get 3 cups of lukewarm water for the kids and not attentive to refilling our glasses until we had to ask.

1st course...as usual there's Shark Fin soup.
This was really thick and good as they were generous with the ingredients.
The 'chiak chor' line was so darn funny for me to hear coming from Mi's sis about her 3 daughters because all 4 of us adult can take vinegar but only 1 out of the 3 kids could. 'Chor' means vinegar in Hokkien (that black stuff in my bowl, it adds a sourish flavor to the soup that's really nice) but when we say 'chiak chor', we can also refer that to a person who's able to swallow jealous or envy. So the other 2 kids were considered incapable of being not jealous or envy.
Hahahahahahaha!

The big bowl is still half full because only 5 out of 10 bowls was serve out!

After the big bowl was cleared away only I realized there's the G symbol on the revolving thingy.
Cool leh.

Oh and here's the menu....

Steamed herbal chicken.
My share...served to me.
It was really tender and can really taste the herbs.
Haha.

After the chicken remnants was taken away, this came to our table.
Two plates with water in it.
Sorry la... this jakun here didn't know wat it was for until....

The prawns came!
Although the menu said it's poached in chinese wine, it tasted like it was just steamed with no additional flavoring whatsoever.
So many prawns!!!
This was where we got really upset with the waitress.
Because it takes some time to peel prawns, right?
So happen at this point, Mi had to go up the stage to play the keyboard,
then the prawns have to wait.
The was like rushing us whether she can take the dish away, and was terrible trying to suggest to Mi because there's so much we couldn't possibly finish them, might as well let her take it away when she came back to enjoy the prawns. Mi was so annoyed with her, that she just let her take the prawns away just to avoid from getting harassed from her again. Hello, just because you have a timeline, doesn't mean you have to be so .......inconsiderate. Kinda spoiled the mood for us after that.

This dish was kinda bitter....because they didn't soak the yellow things long enough.
By then, I was just picking through my food.
I didn't take any pictures of the fish because to my surprise, suddenly between this above and the fish there was no change of clean plates. So far, after every course our plates were taken away, and clean ones given. But the fish was nice. And also I was busy with an angel. By the time it came to take the fish remnants away, she wasn't even asking us if we were done with the dish. Just took it away!
Then there was fried rice with bits of anchovies and prawns in it. I was very full by then so I just picked out the prawn bits to eat. Haha!
While we were having the fried rice, the waitress came up to me with this....

Feedback form!! PAYBACK TIME!!! Haha!!
Actually the questions in there were very wordy, I didn't quite get it.
The waitress was trying to rush me to fill the form, because at that point Mi and her sis had to take photos so they were away from the table. I told her I was going to wait for the others to fill it. And Mi's sis did when she came back. Hahahaha. And boy, it took her a long time. The waitress didn't dare to rush us when she saw that Mi's sis was filling in the form. But what was terrible was that, the feedback form was seal able, so we sealed it before returning it to her. Instead of taking the feedback form to her captain or whatever, she stood to one side and open it!!!
Wahhh, really.........!!!!
So, Mi's sis went directly to the captain there and informed him that our table has filled in a feedback form.
The waitress just took away the fried rice the same way she did with the fish, not caring if we would still want more or not. And when she came with the tong sui, she just filled all the small bowls there, ignoring us. Can you believe our drinks was only refilled twice throughout the night? And one of those times, was only after we request for it! Seriously, even in just restaurants I have seen better manners!