The most fabulous birthday party 2007

An awesome birthday party for Charles and Rosemary was thrown yesterday. All guests enjoyed their great time.

"We want to walk hand-in-hand with these two kids, to make them proud to enter the new chapter of their lives - 60s!!! A stage glorified by wisdom and life experience." Their daughter, Gloria said to the press.

The younger daughter, Prudence, also expressed her joy. "I am really proud of my handmade banner and all decorations. It spent me more than one day to prepare everything."

Loads of refreshments were prepared. However, it seems this family is lack of health concerns; mainly junk food served - M&Ms, potato chips, pizza, nuts, ice-cream, dried beef etc. Thanks god there were exceptional - A bowlful of salad and raw fish.

The birthday kids received fab gifts that night - Charles got two Vivienne Westwood ties which totally matches his mischievous personality, while Rosemary had a long pearl necklace, which fits her fair skin tone a lot.

More than 100 photos were taken, it is not surprising because Lucas Baby solely took 10 photos, by the remote controller.

A retrospect of 2007

I woke up early in this quiet morning. Lazy Jeff and Lucas are still having a sound sleep.

Time flies, especially in this year. I think I enjoy 2007 a lot, how about you?

The biggest 'event' in this year is my second pregnancy. Frankly, I still cannot figure out where I get the strength and courage to be a mother of the second baby again. I still remember the awful 1st trimester in the mid of this year, and the big shock of CPC and kidney dilation of my unborn baby. Luckily all had gone and this little creature grows healthily.

I had picked up violin again. Sadly it seemed not the perfect time, I had quit the lessons since my 5-month pregnancy, because I felt really exhaustive to practice violin with a big belly, given that I still could not manage to use my strength properly during the practice.

I had done one travel in March, with my beloved colleague Samatha. It was a nice business+leisure trip, we spent one week in London. A place I am very familiar with, but still got lost always, even with a map with us.

Talking about the relationship with my family - Jeff is always my best partner, he is more than a husband, but my soul mate and my best friend, who shares the same thoughts with me always. And he is also an excellent daddy, especially when I got pregnant again, he helps me to bath baby and change nappies. I would like to say a big thank to you, my dear!!

I also feel the changes in my parents and sister, they become happier with a new member - Lucas joining our family. Thanks you all for helping me to take care of Lucas when I was exhausted. I am sure Lucas loves him Kung Kung, Po Po and Yee Yee a lot.

Okay, about works... Um.. I always think I could do better. I know my learning path is going up, but is still a bit slowly. Nevertheless, As I should get the career-family balance, I had to sacrifice opportunities sometimes. Surely, this is a happy problem, at least I can choose how to manage my time, and also thanks a lot for the support from all colleagues who work with me, and my company. All of them are really nice people, it is rare to meet in work place in general, actually.

About personal growth?? I guess I grow a lot since I become someone's mother. I still love crying, but I am much stronger than before.

There are several days to 2008, I wish you all have a prosperous new year!!!!!

An email from the past me

I have received an email from the past me. I've composed it out from Nov 20, 2006, through www.futureme.org.

The content is as below:

Dear Manki future,
Cheers, you are much better than you think.

I cannot recall this whole email thing, I can't remember while I knew this website and sent this email to myself. Seems by the end of 2006, I had some uncertainities to myself.

This little message warms my heart and I feel great that actually I am much more happier and confident to myself this year!!

Many many works

Many many works, daily hassles and problems should be or had been fixed in this month. Luckily a care-free long Christmas Holiday is heading. Hope everything falls into its right place soon.

Total failure - fluffy egg cake

Did I tell you I am an idiot in home-economics?
Last week I got a big fat failure of baking a fluffy egg cake.

The recipe required 60ml fresh milk only... but I measured wrongly and end up I poured 600ml. 10 times of the original request, 540ml excess, 9 more portions can be made if I can beef up other ingredients!!!!!!!!!

You can see the mixing of milk and other ingredients in the pictures~~

But guess what? I will never give up, I will be back, this coming weekend!!!!!!!!

P.S. Lucas was helping me to make the cake, he is so sweet!!

Over The Rainbow

Connie Talbot, a talented 6 year-old little girl who rocked the world in Britian's Got Talent show. People claimed she is the next Charlotte Church, I just hope she would still be a simple happy girl after becoming famous.

I bought her first CD - Over the Rainbow. Apart from Over the Rainbow, she also sings 'Imagine' and 'Wonderful World' heavenly.

Her website: http://www.connietalbot.com/index.php

My first lemon sponge cake

This was the first lemon sponge cake I made two weeks ago. I should have post this entry last week but my life was like a roller coaster.

It was also the first birthday cake I made for Jeff. I am going to bake another cake for my parents by the end of this month!!!

Left Bloody eye - Episode III

I visited the doc finally. He said my bloody left eye might need totally 14 days to be totally recovered.

Jesus, I am learning to accept it. I have just found that actually my eye was quite beautiful, at least it had destinctive black and white colour.

The only thing I feel happy is, it can get well before the Christmas Holiday.

Blood gets in my eye (left eye)...

Okay, the broken blood vessel in my left eye caused by the vomit on Monday night seems recovering, but the relatively little red stain under my eye diffuses to a thrilling blood sea and surrounds my pupil. I really feel upset. I am scared by myself every time I look at the mirror.

We planned to take some 'pregnancy photos' in studio this weekend, but have you ever seen a woman in big belly with a rabbit eye in any picture? It sounds creative, but not pleasant at all.

Tomorrow we should go to a social function, I really worry I will make people scream.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH......

雙瞳

我的左眼出現雙瞳。多了一個紅色圓點，看起來很恐怖。
話說小朗傳染了腸胃炎給全家。週一下午我感到胃痛及作悶，謝菲腸痛及暈眩，他先回家休息，並勸我取消晚上跟客人的晚飯。

到了六時半，我也受不了，謝菲愛妻深切，堅稱自己沒事，並駕車接我回家。

途中，一陣悶氣從我胸口湧上，我知道自己將會嘔，但沒有器皿盛著，便嘗試用手蓋著口鼻阻止。

當然，這一舉動是徒然，那股壓力仍是一氣呵成的釋放。

之後，我感到在眼有點痛，還以為眼睫毛入眼，但我們估計是我"反嘔"失敗，壓力壓傷了眼睛。

隔天，眼下出現爆微絲血管的情況，眼球下一片血海。今午，瘀血擴散到眼球旁邊，形成雙瞳，幸好不痛不癢，應該會慢慢復原。