Home Sweet Home!

I haven't posted in 2 weeks! Because I'm now back in Montreal and I am busier than ever! Life is "back to normal!" This was a surprise visit back to Montreal. No one knew I was coming back, my mom was so surprised as I walked through the door! My daddy also came back from Asia the same night I got back. Surprises are so fun!

So many people to meet, so much to plan, so much to do... so different from Abbotsford. I haven't even been taking as many photos as I do in Abbotsford. I don't "document" very well in Montreal! These are the only photos I have on my camera...

Teppanyaki with my all time fav buddies.


Sorry... didn't get a pic of Leo and Goh Goh.


I finally cooked a real dinner for my parents.


Congrats Eric & Greta on their recent wedding!! I don't know why I always like sitting at the back in all of the weddings I've attended at MCAC...


William's new found buddies from the wedding!


Their chairs nicely dressed up for the reception. It felt SO good to have done all 193 of the chairs!


Cake cutting time. Yummy! I'm guessing it's another CHAI creation? Because it looks awefully familiar! I can't wait to see Johnny & Ming's cake when they get married! (Johnny's parents are bakers and they own St. Cinnamon at Foubourg, go pay them a visit!)


Samuel's babysitter is back! He left for HK yesterday morning, I'll miss him!



Well, I do have some pretty exciting plans as I will be taking my business up a notch! Signed a few clients since I got back, they're small clients with an average of 100 guests per wedding, but it's a start (after putting my business on hold for so many months!) and once again preparing for the Bonaventure wedding show in January (2009). Super excited!

Things on my to-do list this week:
- Plan for Ming's bridal shower
- Shopping with Ming for wedding decors and go to her photo session, AWW! Can't wait to see her in her gown! And Johnny... well... he'll look the same no matter what...
- Design the back of my business card
- UNPACK my suitcase from Abbotsford... yea... I've been back for two weeks now and I haven't really touched my suitcase...
- Clean up the rest of my wedding mess in the house

Gotta get all these things done before Friday (and today is already Wednesday!) since the weekend will be super busy with things to help out for the MCAC drama production. They are pretty awesome! Here's the promo clip and poster if you haven't already seen it:





So invite your friends!

Craving for:
Triple yolk mooncake!!

This is a toughy!
What would make you keep a business card? Ideas from others so far: calendar, fav. recipe, dates of Valentines day from different cultures, if an iphone was stuck to it... Keep the ideas com'n!

Harrison Hot Springs

After being in Abbotsford for a month, I still consider myself a tourist. Once in a while I'd look through the huge pile of tourism brochures I have. The 19th Annual World Championships of Sand Sculptures looked really attractive and fun to see. So we made a trip to Harrison Hot Springs on Sunday. It is (another) little town about 45 minutes from Abbotsford.

Some sand sculptures were a little disappointing because they looked like high school kids built them just for fun, and a lot of them were very abstract, couldn't tell the meaning behind the sculptures and there were no titles to a lot of the displays. I thought they could have done a better job with the titles at least.

Let's start with my favourite display. Titled: The Boy's Turtle Tank. Subtitle: "Can you 'see' the glass?" This display won the People's Choice Award. Very creative! Can you "see"??



My next fav was probably this one called "Delivery" because it's real life. The happiest moment in a delivery room. All the other displays were fantasies, so I thought this sculptor did a good job in terms of choosing the subject. The sculptor was just finishing his sculpture when we were there, he showed another tourist a photo of his son, "this was my inspiration!"


Here are some of the more creative ones from the competition...







I guess this was done by a Christian sculptor. Titled: "Let the Light Shine on Me"


Harrison Hot Springs is such a beautiful place. I want a house there!

One Month Anniversary

Today marks my 1 month anniversary in Abbotsford! Thinking back on the past month, the Lord has blessed us richly. Although I always seem to complain that this is such a small and boring town, I do know that this is really not that bad (I just have to admit that it's not that bad!). Well, in terms of places to go and things to see, BC is actually a great place to explore, lots of culture and history. We went to Langley, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Vancouver, Seattle and we'll be visiting Harrison Hot Springs tomorrow. I think you'd agree that we did a lot of traveling this month!

Other than visiting places, the other thing I did the most was, of course, COOK! I love cooking because the best thing about it is that I don't have to deal with the mess I make in the kitchen. I do the cooking, LP does the cleaning!


Sweet and Sour Pork

Baked Pork Chop Over Rice


Other than traveling and cooking, Wii would my next source of entertain. I've also been making some business plans for the coming year. Things are looking good... hopefully! BUT unfortunately, some sacrifices will have to be made... won't tell you what the sacrifices are just yet!

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Today's devotion once again reminds me that God always has everything in control. If we believe that God is the God who could erase our sins, the one who could defeat Satan, the one who could die our death and rise again, then He can definitely take care of His children, their needs and their concerns. So why sweat the small stuff and worry about our education, our career, our future? Be like the woman, in 2 Kings 4:8-37, whose boy laid dead on the couch and was still able to say "it's alright... everything is alright"!

A Brief Guide About Bridesmaids

I posted this on my business blog and thought I'd share it with you guys too 'cause I think it's such a cute video!

Dessy.com: Bridesmaid Dresses | Wedding Dresses | Flower Girl Dresses

Happy Happy Labour Day Weekend

What a wonderful weekend! On Friday, the Wans drove down from Vancouver for a visit.


Saturday was spent in Richmond, did a little shopping. Dropped by the Chocolate Factory in Burnaby and the Chinese Classical Garden in Vancouver Chinatown (it was a pretty crappy garden though hehe).



Then we headed to West Vancouver to visit Byron and his parents. Auntie Teresa and Uncle Spencer made yummy yummy food!



Sunday after church, I found out our Pastor Dave is pretty cool with is motorcycle!


After lunch, we were going to go see some sand sculptures at the Harrison Hot Spring. It is a little town about an hour away from Abbotsford. When we were about to head out, I realized only half the sand sculptures are on display, the rest were still being carved (it is an annual competition they have, local and national competitions). I hope we will have the change to go this coming weekend when all the sculptures are finished. So we decided to go to Chilliwack, another tiny little town 30 minutes from Abbotsford. There is a garden there with some beautiful displays of plants and flowers. So off to the Minter Garden we went!









For Dinner, LP cooked for once! That's only because it was my birthday! Fried rice! Yummy!


We went down to Settle on Monday. It was great seeing Isaac, Steph and Emilie again. Isaac and Steph didn't know each other from MCAC (one went to English service, the other went to Chinese service), they only met in Seattle. This is in deed a small world after all!


World's first Starbucks!


Of course I had to buy a buy of coffee from there.


Seattle's famous Pike Market...



Seattle Aquarium....





We met up with Steph and Emilie in the later afternoon. Steph just moved to a new place on Sunday, near where Bill Gate lives!


Tour of Microsoft... this is where Mr. Yuen works...



Isaac pretending to work hard at his desk...


Wow, this is messy!



You have probably seen what this table can do (on You Tube)! Way cool!




Can you tell what this building is??


My Home in Montreal...


Demo from You Tube...




Dinner was just amazing! I got to choose between Italian (no way!), steak (didn't feel like it), and fondue (LP and I had a really bad experience at Fondumental in Montreal, I was if-y about this choice, but I wanted to prove us wrong and that there IS a good fondue place in this world!) I'm SO glad I chose FONDUE! We had a 4 course fondue meal in the evening. Just... amazing... Indescribable!

1st course, cheese fondue...



2nd course, salad... like no other salads you have ever tasted!


3rd course, main course. Lobster tails, shrimps, sirloin steak, beef, pork, chicken, pasta... TOO yummy!



4th course, dessert. Chocolate fondue...




And... 5 more-than-satisfied tummies! We spent three hours there, so sad when it came time to leave :(