Sigh... 25...

I actually didn't remember that my birthday was today until a couple of days ago. I don't celebrate my birthday anymore. No more 50-people parties at my house. I just don't feel like those parties anymore, not even dinner out with too many friends at the same time. But I truly thank all of you for your Facebook messages, emails, text messages and local & long-d phone calls. I am truly blessed to have all of you as my friends !

I have a new toy! One of my fav birthday gifts was from LP. He bought me a Xyron Wishblade for me. It is one amazing machine, not to mention, it has one amazing price. This machine retails for USD$449.99! It connects to your computer that allows you to cut fonts and shapes/designs in any size from 1/2" to 8" wide and up to 39" long.

Can't find a video that shows in depth what this machine can do, but here's the introduce for how to set it up.

Here are the Features & Benefits:
• PC and Mac™ compatible*
• Cut any True Type Font (TTF)
• Create and Cut Welded Words
• Size letters and shapes from ½” - 8” in width and up to 39” in length
• Cut multiple words and/or shapes in various sizes on a single page
• Three interchangeable blade-caps make blade adjustments to cut virtually any paper quick and easy**
• Ability to cut adhesive-backed paper
• Print and Cut technology (Print images to a color printer and cut using the Wishblade)
*Windows® 2000, XP or Mac™OSX

**up to 80-pound cardstock

I can't wait to try out stuff with the Wishblade. It also adds to my Xyron collecion. I have another machine called the Xyron 900. As seen on the Martha Steward Show (not that I watch Martha Stewart or anything... ok well maybe I do, just an episode here and there that has things to do with arts & crafts or weddings), it creates stickers, magnets, labels and laminate out of many items. Simply feed the item (i.e. ribbons, other keepsakes) in, turn the handle and trim. The machine applies an even layer of adhesive to items up to 9" wide. Instantly laminates items up to 8.5" wide. You can change applications quickly with their easy load cartridges. If you don't like Martha Stewart (hey it's great because the audience at that Martha Stewart Show all received a free Xyron 900 that retails up to USD$119!), you can also watch a Xyron 900 in action here. Xyron has so many more machines and tools that are great for scrapbooking and arts and crafts. I want to collect them all!

Missing All of You!

I came home from prayer meeting tonight, felt like being nosy... like always... Started checking out people's blogs again. I love blogs, an awesome way to keep each other updated on what's happening in our lives, especially those who aren't in the same city.


CALVIN & KAREN! Karen we saw each other almost everyday during the days leading up to your wedding haha! Can't wait to see you guys and the babies in March.
(At your wedding 2004)



The LEWIS family. Micaiah, I hadn't forgotten, it's your birthday this coming Sunday! I will see you at church!!
(Lewis' Farewell at MCAC 2007)



HERM SO... Remember our inside joke?? How's life with your SO?? I know you're in town, and you completely ignored me on Sunday because of your S.O... When ya leaving? We gotta catch up over lunch.
(Those 8-member-choir days... photo was taken in 2003)

(We go way back... remember this? This was in 2001)



MR. YUEN one of my best buds. Told ya, if you were a girl (or if you'd go in a dress), you would be one of my bridesmaids.
(New York was awesome 2007)



MISSY YUEN I shall see you in March and we will watch Heros together!
(Your Farewell at Juliette et Chocolate 2007)



JOE KAN I miss your voice! Hope you're having a blast traveling, I so envy you!
(Van & Joce's Wedding 2003)



PAUL FRANK I miss your ghetto apartment with the ghetto washroom door...
(The amazing wallpaper you made for me, thanks for making me look prettier!)



SAI LO JOE I miss our UNO nights, we hardly play UNO anymore.
(2005 New Year's Sleep Over, remember our chocolate fondue?!)



CONNIE I miss going to Dee's house early in the morning and seeing you still in your PJ's. I will see you next year in Malaysia!
(We hiked up Mont Royal on Canada Day in 2003 with Leo, Joe, Gloria, Dee)



I think the most time I spent was looking through Jasper's blog and photo album. YO MR. CHIK! Aren't you tired of us, me and Angel especially, always telling you we miss you? Your photos bring back so many good memories!

I never knew we were your "two favourite 'let's go on a quickie food run/trip to Toronto!' people." Well... I'm sure we're the only "let's go on a quickie food run to TO" girls! We were in TO last week and we were thinking of you! I even messaged you asking you to guess where we were but you completely ignored me. "I HATE YOU!"

(The following are copyright images from Jasper's online photo album...)


We did the 30 Hour Famine together TWICE


The time we went over to your place for laksa, it was amazing, made me miss Malaysia so much!


MCAC Soccer Tournament...


Went to the Biodome together on that annual "Museum Day" in 2003. I bet you don't remember!


Here's proof!


MCAC Summer Camp 2003. Although... I think I was too occupied with everything else to hang out with anyone at the camp.


Van and Joce's wedding.


The amazing surprise farewell dinner we had that made you CRY! Awww!



SISTA I read your "recent" post again, well it's "recent" because it's still on the first page of your Xanga even though it was written back in Feb. We're not apart yet... but it feels like I miss you already! And I just saw you like an hour ago... and will see you again in a few hours...
(Thanks for always being there)

Which One??

As much little details as I want at our wedding, there's one big issue we haven't been able to decide on yet... THREE GOWNS! Which one should I wear on our wedding day?? It's so hard to decide because there's something I like for each gown and I obviously can't wear all three... Pastor Chan suggested that instead of changing into evening gowns throughout the evening at the banquet, I should change into different wedding gowns!

Gown #1 Whipped Cream - I believe none of the MCAC brides have ever worn what LP calls a "whipped cream" gown... all of the gowns previous MCAC brides wore all had straight and smooth bottoms.


Gown #2 Mermaid - Again, this is not a typical MCAC style at all and I really like the bottom part of this gown. You'll have to see the actual gown to appreciate the design/style.


Gown #3 Something Blue - Same goes for this gown I guess, rarely (if ever) do MCAC brides have colours on their gowns. I love the train of this gown, there's a beautiful beaded pattern on the train, on the top front and middle part going all the way down to the bottom. The blue will also go perfectly with the rest of our blue theme.


So difficult to decide! As you can tell, I like to be different and don't like to follow the "tradition" of MCAC gowns. Please help!

You can see more pictures of the gowns from our photo album.
And please take a second to vote on the top right hand side and feel free to make comments.

Thank you for helping!

299 Days Count Down!

Yea... like 2 months of vacation was awesome! But I am super broke right now! I officially started work again today. Well... not like I have an official work schedule anyways. Love my job, love my boss (a.k.a Dad), and I love my work schedule. I was about to go on my FOURTH trip this summer with my family. Dad wanted to go to Quebec City for a couple of days, but then decided against it because we're all super busy and can't really afford to leave town again for another couple of days. Mom and Caleb just got back from HK on Saturday, and has to get Caleb ready for back-to-school on Thursday. Too bad, would have loved another trip, I'm always up for trips!

So... I just realized today that there are only 299 days left until our wedding! I can't believe how time fast time flew by this summer (my last summer being single!). When we first got engaged a year and two days ago, it seemed like June 2008 would take forever to come. But a year had already passed. I thought we still have a lot of time to plan our wedding, but now I don't think we do anymore!

Since LP will not be back until Christmas (for 2 weeks only) and next year, he will only be back like 10 days before our wedding. We wanted to do as much wedding stuff together as we can while he was here this summer. We planned to make our save-the-dates together, for those of you who don't know what those are, since people at MCAC never give them out, they're just to inform others of the wedding date so that they can reserve the date in case they planned to travel around your wedding date. Those were suppose to act also as an 'announcement' of our wedding because surprisingly, some people didn't know we were engaged until a month ago! We also wanted to get our gift registry done, take wedding photos, and make our invitation template. We didn't end up getting any of those tasks done except for our wedding photos. Well, we do have an idea of what we want our invitation to look like, but seems like there's still a lot more refining to be done to make it just the way we want it to be.

There's so much I want to do for our wedding. Well, I guess after this year's MCAC wedding season, I will get started on mine. I know how picky I am and how obsessed I am with the details, so I know I will have to start earlier and not leave everything 'till the last minute. I would not want to be like one of my US clients who ordered her wedding programs 6 days before her wedding! That is insane, if it was me I'd be panicking. At the beginning of this year, I already had my first wedding nightmare! I dreamt that everything was missing on my wedding day. I was standing inside the MCAC entrance where the welcome table usually goes and I was so depressed when I realized that none of the things I wanted to make got done! I was so happy when I finally woke up.

Toronto Aug 17-23

Yea... Thousand Islands was suppose to be my last trip this summer... I guess not! Not only did we go to Toronto for the weekend, we stayed for a week. Saturday, Sunday and weeknights were spent with Milton and Gloria's relatives.







This trip wasn't too much about eating and drinking. Amazingly, we didn't go for afternoon tea at all on this trip, only went for dessert twice at night. We actually did other things! Or at least we tried to... the only thing we planned to go but didn't get a chance to was the Chinese Lantern Festival, we heard the displays were pretty nice.



On Monday, we woke up at noon-ish, by the time we finished lunch, we had very little time left. We headed downtown to the Ontario Science Center. There was the Titanic exhibition with artifacts and the IMAX movie, but we were too cheap to pay extra to go see the temporary exhibition. Actually we might have went to that as well if we had more than an hour and 45 minutes there. We got there at 3:15pm and the center closes at 5pm... sucks for us.

Alfred Kai Goh Goh, I took a pic of this for you!







Tuesday, we went to the Canadian National Exhibiton (CNE). "The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) is an 18-day fair taking place every August concluding on Labour Day. Over its 128 year history, the CNE has grown to be the largest annual fair in Canada and the fifth largest in North America attracting approximately 1.3 million visitors each year." We froze out butts off (at least I did since I'm too skinny). It was pretty cold throughout the week. But we were lucky it only started raining as we walked back to our car.










We spent half of Wednesday at the Royal Ontario Museum. There is an "array of themed galleries throughout the Museum, spanning both world cultures and natural history with six million objects in the ROM’s collections. In addition to numerous permanent galleries, the ROM showcases a variety of changing special exhibitions."










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