Many friends of mine are getting married either this year or next year, with some are planning for a blissful wedding. So am I. It's gotta be a wedding fever again. There are really dozens of things to be done prior to this BIG day. Last month, I had my gowns picking and photo shooting. It was terribly tiring. Many things needed to be done before photo shooting, such as: -

- Shopping for bridal shoes for the bride and groom.

- Shopping for shirts for the groom.

- Hunting for ampoules, fake lashes, nude bra and body foundation for the bride.  I got my ampoules from a shop in I-Avenue at a  very cheap price, like 10 bottles for RM20, for which the Bridal Studio(BS) is selling at approximately RM35 per bottle. Fake lashes can be obtained from Beauty Impact at about RM15 for 10 pairs for which BS is selling at approximately RM25 per pair. I got my body foundation from the BS and still  have plenty of them leftover. If anyone of you needed body foundation, you are welcomed to contact me.

- Pampering the bride with manicure and pedicure as well as having nails art to be done.

- Have enough of sleep, pamper yourself with facial and hair treatment, and visit your hair stylist for a hair cut  a week before the photo shooting,

- Bring along a few facial sponges for make-up if you have sensitive skin to avoid having breakouts after the photo shooting.

- A friend of mine, Phaik Wan, had suggested me drinking plenty of Barley drinks a week before photo shooting as your skin would be more radiant. I guess it helps too!

- Finally, bring along any memorable items or gifts along for the photo shooting!

I got to view my photos a week after the shooting., the photos were just nice. Guess the photographers are in the midst of designing the photos now. I'm waiting to be contacted to view the designed photos in April.

A peep into my Photo shooting>>>

After photo shooting, there are couple of things to be done before I can head for a good night sleep:-
- To remove every single make up off my face with make-up remover and have a good soothing facial right after that to pamper it

- Apply conditioner first on my hair to ease the tangles, before washing off with shampoo. I also apply hair treatment onto my hair to soothe the hair for the styling products it has to bear with earlier.

- Finally, I'm ready to board the bus to my Dreamland!!

2nd Directors Meeting
 
Date: 18th February 2010

Venue: Prai - Penang (Every director's house)

Time: 11.00am

Attendance: Beng Lay, Ben, May, Chee Huey, Tze Chin, Siew Yee & Caroline

Resolutions:

  1. To celebrate Chinese New Year
  2. To gather around and have some fun.
 3. To eat home cook food prepared by May's mum.
 4. To launch Hide & Seek and Siam Ban Lak mission.
 5. To enjoy Ms Beethoven's piano classes.
 6. To watch movie.
 7. To celebrate myself being eligible to collect red packets for the very last year.
 8. To play around with Ginny and Cha Cha.
 9. To taste the cheapest satay in Balik Pulau. (only at 25 sen per stick, you gotta believe it!!)
10. Chee Huey retires and eligible for re-electon at the next meeting.
11. Meeting adjourned at 8.30pm.

1st Directors Meeting
 
Date: 12th January 2010

Venue: US Pizza

Time: 7.00pm

Attendance: Beng Lay, May, Chee Huey, Hui Yin, Lay Beng, Siew Yee & Caroline

Resolutions:

1. To celebrate Hui Yin's 26th Birthday
2. To gather around and have some fun.
3. Caroline retires and eligible for re-electon at the next meeting.
4. Meeting adjourned at 8.30pm.

by Lynn Waters Busa

by Lynn Waters Busa 

My Third project, Kiss the Cook. This is specially stitched with lots of love for my COOK, aka my MUMMY, to thank her for the healthy and delicious food that she has been serving me all these years. I took approximately three months to complete this project. It's finally done! Yeah!

17th December 2009

I started having an early birthday celebration with my fellow buddies from my workplace. We went to Taoz for dinner. It's great and fun there.







And, I even got a present from Singapore. Thanks a lot, Tian Siang! Your Precious Moments is not just a mere birthday gift, but also a wedding gift to me. Like it so much!!




18th December 2009

This Special day of the day has been assigned to be spent with my loved ones, my dear and of coz' my family. My dear treated me to a buffet lunch in the newly opened Eastin Hotel. The food is nice, that's my opinion. I like the dessert most, as they are just too lovely. Ate till I'm bloated. Keke..






Later, spent the rest of the day dating with my dear before joining my family members for dinner in Kim Gary. I've got Kim Gary card, and was entitled to 50% discount for the meals, to the maximum of 6 pax. It's just nice, 6 of us- myself, my dear, my mum, parents-in-law and Yung. We ate a lot too, and the bill came out to be less than hundred bucks! Fantastic, isn't it?

I was older by one year old. And my birthday wishes are...shhrr~~ gotta keep it as secret, to make sure that it will come true.. Keke...

Last Christmas, I received this cute door hanger from my god sister. He is here to wish everyone a merry and blessed Christmas, a bit belated though. Coz' I'm too lazy to write up any post lately.

On Christmas eve, I was asked to make some cupcakes for mum. She wanted to serve them for her Christmas Party in ward. So, my silent night was spent at home, baking cupcakes and decorating them too. It's indeed a truly, silent night for me.. Hehe...

Just came back from Ipoh today to attend the funeral of my grandfather-in-law. He left this world peacefully on Monday. However, he is very lucky to have so many children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren to be with him before he left. May he lives in the other 'world' happily in eternity.

Just now, I received a mail from United Kingdom. I was so happy, as I have been expecting this mail for the past one month. Finally, the postman delivered it to my house. It's my ACCA Certificate!

I'm finally a Certified Chartered Accountant!


My name is now officially known as - Caroline Lim Mei Hwa, ACCA, CFP.

Time really flies, it's the last day of the year!

The last two days of my 2009 were spent for stock takes. I have a very awesome experience this year. Yesterday, I went to a feed mill and flour mill factory. The feed and flour were placed in silos. We have to climb up the silos in order to measure the amount of the stock. The height of the silo is at 7-storey tall. Gosh! My legs seem not to be mine. I got height phobia!!

And, today, I went to a fishery cold room. The temperature of the cold room is at minus 20 degree Celsius. My nose and ears are freezing. It's worse than the winter that I had in Vancouver before. Even the pen that I was using, the ink totally cannot come out. I

Truthfully, this year really passed by very fast. Hopefully, next year would be a more fruitful year. And, may everyone has a blessed new year!!!

Goodbye, 2009!!!

This is Small-T. She is Emma's elder sister. But, I guess she has some abnormalities, as she can hardly grow bigger nowadays. My dear has abandoned her couple of months ago when he started to keep Emma as a pet. So, Small-T has been staying with me ever since then. I'm sure Small-T is happier staying with me as she has a cleaner house here. Though, it has shrink in size. Keke...

This is my second cross stitch project for my entire life. This is specially made for my god sister. Well, I took almost 3 months to complete it. I bought this in Sungai Wang while shopping with my god sister and started doing it end of September. I officially completed it just two hours ago. I feel so contented having completed this project. It's just too lovely. And, this piece of cloth is now on its way being framed by my neighbour. Hehe.

Connie, here's a glimpse of the project. The first picture was taken last night, using Lumix TZ7, while the second one was captured using Canon Ixus 50 just now. See the differences?

Just to refresh, this is my first project. I did it last year during my holiday.

Tala...Framed..

From tomorrow onwards, I will be off for four consecutive days. Yet, I do not feel happy or excited at all. Am I sad? No, I'm not. But, I'm not happy neither. My feelings are just indescribable. I'm down, but I can't figure out the reasons why. I do not have any mood to do anything at all. Feel wanted to sleep now, yet it's too early.

EMO`EMO`EMO`EMO`EMO

Last week, we brought Emma to the sea side again. She enjoyed herself very much this time. She is not afraid of the waves anymore.

By the time we reach home, she was so exhausted.

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Ingredients:

Quantity at own preferences
Spaghetti
A clove of garlic
Onions
Ham and sausages
Mixed vegetables

1. Bring spaghetti to boil in a pot of water with a pinch of salt and some oil. When cooked, drain the spaghetti under running tap water and drain off any excess water. Leave aside.

2. Cut ham and sausages into cubes. You may replace ham with luncheon meat. Fry the ham and sausages in a frying pan until it turns golden brown. You may add in some butter and black pepper for frying to enhance the aroma of the ham and sausages. Set aside.

4. Chop a clove of garlic and onions finely. Fry the chopped garlic and onion until it turns golden, add in mixed vegetables. Add in chicken / and beef granules, a pinch of salt and LP sauce. Continue frying until the mixed vegetables is cooked. Then, add in the spaghetti. Fold in the garlic, onions and mixed vegetables in the spaghetti.

5. Dish out the spaghetti on a serving plate. Serve the ham and sausages on the spaghetti. Sprinkle some mixed herbs on top of the dish.

6. Tala! The garlic fried spaghetti is ready to be served.

Today, we had this as lunch. However, the spaghetti turned out to be a bit oily and not salty enough. Gotta work harder next time.

I got these lovely Precious Moments fridge magnets from my fellow colleagues this morning. Lay, Soon and SiewYee went to Singapore last week fro holiday. Too bad that I can't join them. Sob sob..

They are just too lovely. Thanks ya, Lay, Soon and SiewYee.. love you guys much... ^_^

Emma was so chubby and cute couple of months back. Miss her so much. Now, she is already a young adult, a very skinny and naughty GR.

Yesterday, we brought Emma to Teluk Kumbar for a swim. She was so afraid of the wave initially. Everytime, when there are waves sweeping through, she ran towards the shore. However, she managed to overcome it eventually. And, she really enjoyed swimming and playing with water! I just discovered that Emma has a new hobby - collecting leaves by the shore. She likes to collect leaves that were floating by the sea and bring them to the shore. She's indeed a new MPPP worker.

By the time we reached home, she got so exhausted.. So do I...

Upon gaining my three years of working experience after having passed my CFP examinations, finally I managed to apply for my CFP membership. I am now a CFP professional. I feel so happy. However, I have yet to actually put this into practice, except to the extent to myself, as I'm not working in a financial planning consulting firm. However, I'm glad that I'm exposed to some areas of financial planning, such as taxation planning coz' I'm working in an audit firm.

Well, every coin has two sides of it. I'm happy having obtained the CFP membership, yet I'm a bit sad too, as I have to fork out RM400 for membership fees annually, not to take into account those fees paid for CE courses. There gotta be a hole in my pocket soon. ^_^

Gosh, my two weeks leave is coming to the end soon. I still have one more day to enjoy it (tomorrow). Well, these two weeks are indeed very enjoyable and tiring for me.

Firstly, I hang out with Siew preparing for the Mooncake Festival. Just realised that I do not have any pictures on that. Then, I was busy preparing for my ROM.

Next, I went to KL to visit my god-family. We went to Genting. Guess what we did in Genting? Bowling!! and Singing!! Gosh... I also donated a few bucks to Uncle Lim Foundation. Sob Sob...

Senior Citizens at Chin Swee Temple

The ladies...

My god-family

Then, I went for a shopping spree in KL and I ended up being broke. I also met up with my little niece. She is five months old now. She is cute, isn't she?

We also went to Malacca for sightseeing. We went to Menara Taming Sari. I never been to the Tower before. Well, I managed to capture the view with Eyes on Malaysia as the background.




And, that's the end of my holiday and I'm on my way back to Penang by Aeroline.

With effect from 27th September 2009, I no longer have a boyfriend. Today, it is supposed to be my 7th Anniversary with my boyfriend, yet, it ended HE is no longer my boyfriend anymore. It marks the beginning of another chapter of life- HE becomes my husband. And, we shall be starting a new phase of life together from now onwards.

My NEW family from now onwards...

I am very fortunate to have all my best mates witnessing my very special moment today at the Che Hoon Khor Moral Uplifting Society, Penang today at 3pm.

With all my GREAT BUDDIES from Moores Rowland..

With my dear's GAMING & BADMINTON Kaki'sWith my Ji Mui's from CDK

With Tarcians...

Gifts from all my dearest friends.. ONE more on the way..Hehe
(you guys know who you are..keke)

Thanks to you guys, for your presences and blessings this very special day!!! I really appreciated it a lot!!!

Photos in Facebook (Daphne's Album)

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