Dear Ginger,

It's a little late to say this now but thank you...thank you for bringing so much joy to the family.

When you were just a puppy, i was very apprehensive of you. of your little padded paws...of your little teeth...of your lightning-speed sprints around the house. it was hard to push you away, coz' each time u just came back with more energy and spirit.

When you grew older, we started to worry about the stuff you put in your mouth. you've tasted rubberbands, tissue paper, calendar paper, plastic wrappings...u name it, u've had it. and yes, you started chewing hard on whatever you could reach...our arms inclusive, not that hard of course since we always yelped in pain.

And then you started ageing...became mellow and less of a rascal. you enjoyed quiet times in your throne, in the wall corners, at the car porch, the kitchen...wherever that wasn't hot and humid. whenever i cldnt figure something out...you were always there to listen. although u've never once given me a response...i know u've tried your best to make me feel better.

Thank you my dear sister...for seeing me through me worst times. for being part of my growing years. for being the only non-judging one in the house. for always greeting us when we get home. for fetching us one shoe each time you see someone come home. most importantly, for being you.

We'll miss you dearly, gerger...thank you...thank you for everything you have done for our family.

Love,
jiejie


Ginger Lee (26 Feb 2000 - 05 Sep 2010)

my beautiful weekend was ALMOST tarnished by work~ but thank God for changes...and i managed to get Saturday off (couldnt escape the Sunday duty though)~ anw, got to meet the girls for jing's belated bday lunch and did a bit of catching up. good food, good company...as always =)

met with the husband after that...i promised that this weekend, he'd get to go some place to test out his camera. so i actually gave him the choice of the bird park (i dun think i've ever been there) or botanic gardens (i've not been there for ages) but coz' it was a little late to go to the bird park...we trotted down to good ol' Napier Road to look at some greenery. well, we ended up chasing after squirrels, doing dog-watching and baby-watching for 3 whole hours. but it was fun...just strolling and talking about nothing important~


Our first stop was Swan Lake...these 2 beauties (or hunks) are such show-offs! haha...no, they didnt swim towards us coz' they thought we had food (we later found out that they're not interested in bread even!)...they did a round-the-pond parade thing...and there were lotsa ppl trying to get them to come close but i guess they had the wrong bait =P


We caught Dr Woody-wood-pecker visiting a patient! Didnt manage to capture a picture of whether it caught any bug but yeah...call me ignorant but that's the 1st woodpecker i've seen in my life thus far~ awesome =)


Then we came to this place...with the formidable "天堂之路". silent killers these things are...or maybe i'm really unhealthy but it hurts damn bad to walk on them! and i was still chiding the husband for being so fearful of it. i didnt even last till the end...got off the path after taking that easy shot (erm, i placed the camera on the floor and clicked). not even halfway through =D


Highlight of our garden trip! this lil girl was the cutest and prettiest baby we saw that day! Bonus points coz' she reacted (positively) to our crazy "hellos" and eye-blinkings and cheesy grins. Plus...her dad's funny too and he slowed down just to let us quick-snap a pic of his princess! BIG YAY for daddy!


peekture for peeps who havent seen ginger for a while. she's ultra-mellow these days...and spends even more time sleeping than before. i think they call it age. *sigh* but she's happy (i hope), healthy ('cept for ticks) and pretty (despite looking like a labbie now). so...do drop by anytime if u wanna give her a pat on the head or a little hug ya? more than welcomed!

after the long long long hiatus to write a decent, long entry. well, lots have happened and now we're slightly settled down...i've finally gotten my lazy ass off the chair to blog! erm...yeah, i blog on the bed =P

yes...promised princesszhing that i'd write about my ROM/wedding party. hahaha...sorry it's almost a month late babe! but i suddenly recalled this morning that there was something i HAVE to write about!! no...that something is not good. it was probably the biggest let down on that day =( but i really thank God for the beautiful weather...otherwise it would have been quite disastrous...

( and so they say...pictures speak a thousand words~ )

the husband just told me something really scary.

if there's an unworshipped altar in the house...better to get rid of it or have the deity sent away. if not, it may attract unwanted visitors coz' apparently the deity would be long gone and the empty altar would be occupied by something else.

omg...i hope my dad knows abt this. Good thing is, he's been attending church...nope, he's not really a believer yet. he just enjoys the activities and songs...but i cant remember if he still does the normal 1st and 15th day of the month thingy.

eeps!!!!

i got these lil things done today. took me the whole afternoon coz' i cldnt perk myself up to do the deed. eventually figured that since i'll need to have it completed...y not use the spare time to work on it...

wldnt say it's anything too fancy but i think they'll look alright at the buffet line. just need to stick on the lil gadget that mom got me...so tt we can hopefully stick it into the chaffing dish. gonna complete tt tomorrow...





not sure if i'm back on the road again but am missing the boy terribly. *sigh* ok...need to go sleep it off. am getting a breakout soon...and it's not the best time for it.

am i backsliding on this blog again? ahh well...to keep it active for a while...am gonna post stuff abt my wedding prep! yes yes! the boy finally plucked enough courage to speak with my parents and voila! we're in this mad rush to get the party going in slightly more than 2 months, with a ultra-tight budget to keep to. rawr!

right...enough about the dampening part of weddings. so euphie being the sucker for the so-called fuss free and relaxed weddings...decided that we'll only be doing ONE for my dear friends this year together with the ROM and it shall NOT be one of those stuffy sit-down in function room and see couple cut cake, pour champagne type of wedding. i think somehow...working in a hotel kills ALL interest in having a hotel wedding banquet.

anw. so this whole thing is supposed to be...simple and plannable (is there even such a word?) in like 5 minutes. yes, it would have been if not because of euphie...who then again decided that things have to be pretty! *sigh* so since last year...when i asked around for possible places to hold my sister's wedding...and my colleague paul recommended fairy point, cy and i had our eyes fixed on the place. BUT being a government chalet...we cld only bk 3 mths BUT we were still not fast enough. this translates to...c/i at 3pm on actual day, with only 3h to set the place coz' we cldnt get the day before. so princesszhing says maybe SAF ppl get even more priority. *angry* URGH! double standards!! wondering where this place is? sneak preview!



okay...tt's all for part one. am in the midst of getting my door signage done, my cards finalised, decision on my cupcakes, caterer, flowers, chairs, favours (if any), photographer etc. etc. too much to cover la. till next time...have fun catching the F1 race next week peeps. i'll prob be dead tired and catching it while at work =P enjoy the long weekend!

Whilst surfing DesignSponge during lunch time, i came across this particular website which i personally think is rather interesting.

Project Mysterious Letters

So these 2 ppl called Lenka and Michael started their little "art piece" by writing to every single person living in this lil town in Ireland...and they have the intention to write to everybody in the world! and thing is...all these ppl they're writing to, they probably know nuts about them. contents of the letters / postcards? random stuff that i find quite funny actually. click on the link to read some of them =) some of those who got the letters were skeptical about their purpose...i just think they read too much into it. it's a friendly gesture...just accept it and move on!

well, seeing this...it reminded me about how i used to write random notes to my friends during sec sch days. 'cept i wrote to ppl i knew and they're writing to ppl whose names they don't even know. so what happened to hand-written letters? with technology...have we forgotten how sincerity can be shown through simple writing? i'm not saying that sending emails equate lack of sincerity but i'm sure if you received a handwritten letter or card or whatever...the first thought would be "wah piang...got so much to write meh" or "wah seh...so much time to use hand and write". how many of us will think along the lines of "oh my, handwritten! he/she bothers to make that extra effort for me. must cherish."? i know i'm guilty of taking such things for granted, which probably explains why my friends have stopped writing to me =P

maybe it's not their intention to remind us how easy it is to spread love and warmth through writing but when i first saw this project, i wondered what had stopped me from writing. rather than finding this project ridiculous, like how some ppl do, i can't wait to receive my letter from them! *waves* Hi Lenka and Michael, if you do chance upon this while googling for your names, would you please write me a postcard? Hee! oh well, anyway, share your thoughts =)

i suddenly recalled that the last time i came back from penang, i had meant to blog about my terrible experience at Sunway Penang and also at this other hotel in Klang. Procrastinated like crazy and it just wooshed off to the back of my head. Anyways...here goes nothing~

forget abt Sunway Penang...just know that if u're gg to P-island and u'd like to stay in a nice, better hotel...Sunway's not the place to go. I was quite disappointed but it's an experience and furthermore, i know that completing the feedback forms is a total waste of energy. at least in m'sia. but of coz' if u're a fan of rocky chairs, unattentive service, paying 10ringgit to park at the entrance but always have to wait for somebody to remove barrier and even though u horn like crazy, nobody attends to u...then yeah, maybe u wanna try this place out.

moving on the much more "interesting" stay i had at klang. luckily it was only a one-nighter...but we paid 100+ ringgit and to be honest, i didnt find that a steal at all. Come to think of it...i don't remember the name of the hotel anymore. i think it was called Gold Course? So when we went in asking for the rate, the receptionist replied asking cy for his ic instead of telling us how much it was for a night. but since we cldnt find anywhere else to stay (strangely, all the other hotels were booked) and cy was too tired to continue with driving so...whatever it was, we had to take this room.

and we thought we were lucky.

went up to the rooms and for almost every room, the door looked like this:



then we thought...hey, if there's a proper room number plate, things can't be that bad eh? and then we came to our door and i couldnt help but burst out laughing. it looked like:



after that, i was still quite positive...thinking that hey, maybe renovation and the plate's not ready. and then we opened our room door...



omg!!! this room must be worse than those out a horror story! anw i was convinced that it's haunted and couldnt sleep well the entire night. rawr~ so this 2 double-bed room, came with only one double-bed. had wires hanging out from everywhere...with no connection to an appliance. the wardrobe was spoilt, they had a showerhead smaller than mine at home and no heater...the blankie was useless and when u tried to adjust the room temperature via the worn-out bedside panel, everything blacks out momentarily. i was truly glad when the night was over. like...s.e.r.i.o.u.s.l.y thankful.

that aside, the trip to penang was ok. i think i'm getting used to how it's like whenever we go back. there's barely time for ourselves coz' everybody wants a bit of cy's time. he makes me feel better abt it by saying that everybody wants to hang out with US. i'm like...ya right. anw, good food always makes me happy. This time around, re-tasted some of the specialties and somehow didnt find them as tasty as when i first tried them. cy says my expectations are getting higher and higher each time...which probably explains the disappointment. but the food is still yummy and mostly cheap. I thought the char kway teow was a tad expensive...didnt know it was like 6ringgit for a small plate! i'm talking abt the lor selamat one...for those who know what i'm talking abt. have yet to try the sisters one...coz' it was closed when we went. and i still didnt get to eat char kway kak!!! bah...next time i guess~ whoever tries it before me...let me know if it's good!

the lemonster...









...is a pot full of depression.

and after a night's sleep...couple of sms-es from concerned friends...i think i'm feeling better. better in the sense that i cannot be bothered anymore. tt whatever they say, is not gg to affect me anymore. i'll just do whatever they want, since this is obviously what they're hoping to get out of me. i'm not even gg to argue about the fact that i'm 25 and shld be given a tiny bit of trust and respect. and yes. i totally don't feel like talking anymore. if u want to reach me...please text.

tear me into pieces if you wanna. i really don't give a damn anymore.