would u open the door?

taken at club street

love art! :)

taken at killiney :)

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary ~ Aaron Rose

taken at orchard central

they are as yummy as the look! =9

little kuehs which serene bought :)

the beauty of batik :)

loonee at the party! =)

this is actually not bad :)

the day tee n me only made it for the faq session for the david encarnation talk =p

she's brilliant! :)

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”

wilbur's loo ;)

i see birds ;)

what a father wrote for his daughters :)

the amazing letter from the heart which soon khai to his little girls :)

Shyan, Ting,

I am not sure how old both of you will be when you first read this, but it doesn’t matter, as long as you get to read it eventually. I can tell you that I am writing this in November 2010, when both of you are 4 and 2 years old respectively.

I have been wondering what advice I can provide to both of you next time when you grow up as teenagers and eventually when you step into the workplace. I am not so presumptuous as to tell both of you how to lead your lives when you become adults but I suspect that I know a thing or two about life to plant some ideas into your heads.

I concluded that the most effective way to do this is to recommend quotations to you from past persons stretching as far back as centuries ago. Personally, Papa likes quotations as the really good ones contain life’s best held secrets and being quotations, are succinct, to the point and thus easy to remember in your head (who wants to read long-winded self help books right?). So without further ado……….

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Ok, I know what both of you may be thinking. Succinct and to the point?!?! Is this even a quotation if it is so long?!?

I will admit this is hardly the easiest quotation to remember or to even read. But if you can live your lives like “the man in the arena”, then regardless of how many successes or failures you experience, you will at least have lived life to the fullest.

My takeaway from this quote is: Don’t just stay on the sidelines and criticise. Have the courage to get into the fray and do something/anything to the best of your effort. It is better to have tried and fail spectacularly than not to have tried at all. If you don’t try, you will never know if you could do it. Even if you try and fail, as long as you draw lessons from the failure, you will become a better person because of the failure.

This last point is really important. Do not be afraid of failure. You may be surprised to know that failure teaches more than success. Attaining success only reaffirms that you are competent in your knowledge, expertise, skills or in whatever it is you are striving for. However, if you fail AND you examine the reasons for the failure honestly and strive to improve yourself in those areas you have fallen short, you will become a better person, thus increasing the possibility of achieving success in your future endeavours.

brings back memories of the best clubbing buddies =)

and yes, they were/are from agd!

wilburism for monday...

"what we dont need is always given...  the question is then, why?"

“The happiest man alive would look in the mirror and see just himself as is.” - Dumbledore

simple pleasures is...

chilli bak kwa with cabbage.
delightful :)

florals and plaids ;)

Magic in Every Moment

Electrons dance in front of your eyes and you call it color.

Waves of air sweep over you and you call it music.

The massive sphere on which you dwell rotates a few degrees and you call it sunset.

There is magic in every moment.

Behind even the most mundane occurrence is an entire universe of abundant wonder.

If you could sense every detail of something as simple as the falling of a raindrop,

it would completely overwhelm you. And yet raindrops fall all the time.

In every action, no matter how seemingly insignificant, there is a whole universe of power.

In every moment there are infinite ways in which to make a very real difference.

You are always streaming full speed through an abundance of options and possibilities.

See the possibilities. Feel the power. Make your own special magic today.

-- Ralph Marston

christmas would be sweet!

Bûche de Noël de la Pêche ブッシュ •ド• ノエル

The traditional French dessert that is served during Christmas in France, Belgium and Quebec, is transformed by Chef Yamashita, into a moist chocolate meringue of almond powder, chocolate and egg whites, with a thin crunchy exterior. It is a swiss roll of chocolate meringue, chantilly cream and sweet peaches, adorned with chocolate pearls, and edible sugar Santa imported form Japan.

ordered this from Flor Pâtisserie can't wait to collect it!
they dont use baking powder, artificial rising/softening agent, stabiliser, or preservatives!

bunnie loves her buns ;)

those from crystal jade my bakery that is!
absolutely delightful! satisfy part of my need for hong kong delights!

little reminders of mum connie :)

紙包蛋糕

i seem to recall during my toddler days that she used to buy this for me :)
i now get my stock from crystal jade :)

the truth in what christina yang says...

Alex: We nearly got fired for trying to fix what she screwed up in the first place.

Christina: Yeah, because that's our job! What?  You didn't make any mistakes today?
(to Alex) You have been distracted by the entire week!
(to Jackson) And who knows what you screwed up.
Our patients didn't die and that's why we didn't get caught.  It could happen to anyone of us.

Meredith (ending narration): When we're heading towards an outcome that's too horrible to face, that's when we go looking for a second opinion. Sometimes, the answer we get just confirms our worst fears but sometimes, it can shed new light on the problem. Make you see it in a whole new way. After all the opinions have been heard and every point of view has been considered, you finally find what you were after, the truth. But the truth isn't where it ends , that's just where you begin again with a whole new set of questions.

how do i keep the hope that will things resolve themselves in the end...

a place where i can be a millionaire ;p

300 Singapore dollars = 
4.53465294 million Vietnamese dong

where Heaven had a hand in making this a success!

part of the team which helped made the event rocked! =)

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites ~ Jin Kwon

i prayed hard that things will turn out fine and even wore blue which was the lucky colour for my chinese zodiac

everything paid off when i saw the crowd, heard the constant laughters and time went by really quickly =)
that was the reward i was looking for for the effort put in :)

magnum dark choc strawberry ;)

love their weather reporting!!! =)

tokyo shoyu flavour for me :)

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas :)

little cheesy but cute! :)

how true...

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see - John Burrough

some days just gets to me =s

life itself doesnt suck
it is the anal people that you encounter during it's journey that makes it so
and the worst part is? some don't go away easily...

it boils down to personal choice. doesn't it?

if both good & evil people have made history
and they eventually die whether tragically or not,
does it matter then whether you are good or evil?

google in x-ray =)

there is no lesser evil...

when the bus passengers are not only speaking loudly but their body stench permeates the entire bus.
in such instances, i'm thinking uma thurman's character in kill bill swinging the samurai sword.

love sundays!

i find this better than koi! ;p

always with sour cream and onion seasoning :)

peek-a-boo :)

hmm... is it smiling at me =)

cool unexpected finds as i ventured into the place =)