Rainbow

I always thought that rainbow is a good sign from heaven .And hence i will always get excited when i see one.It means good things are lying ahead and God will fulfilled his promises .

The last time i remembered seeing a rainbow is the one in Niagara fall.And before that when i climbed Ophir with BB Interestingly, I only see rainbow when I am intensely praying for something and thus it is a good sign frm haven to me.

Look how happy I am.EJ spotted me while on his way back home and he took this picture for me. I am still busy munching. At the background,is the mellenium dome.

fun!

On Friday night, I thought of having a MASK party but EJ is not back yet. So i decided to try it on BB. he looked very relaxed and reallie enjoying the cool cucumber mask.And guess what he received some comments the next day that his complexion looked more glowy dewy.:)
I accompanied Aileen to do her shopping at Bond Street.I love this woman.She is my sister in Christ. So matured in her walk and always readily to offer her advice.Independent ,sexy and confident,she is one woman who knows what she wants..even in her shopping.Went round with her the whole day just to get her specific good quality JohnSMedley knitted wear and her Polo Ralph Blue,black labels.(well i din know that pola ralph has so many collections until she enlighten me)
On Saturday, met up with another bunch of Singaporeans recommended by Corrine for dim sum at Joy Luck.Have fun but too bad the table was too big and I did not reallie get to talk to some girls over the desk
Wanted to post some pictures of the dim sum hahah but chge my mind and decided to post a picture of the Salmon which I attempted to cook for the first time. Not bad huh... the salmon is reallie fresh but we paid about 8 quids for 2 slices.WEll a small treat once every fornight for us

Paris Part (I)

1)First part of the Paris trip we went on the last week of September. Too lazy to upload all the pictures and too much to write about and hence decided to do a photoblog about this trip.I love Paris, is cheaper than london, very accessible and you just feel your creative juices can overflow when you are in this city.This is our minihoneymoon, prelude to the actual one .( God knows when it will happen?:)
Sherine, this is the car you bought!!!Well ron decided to pose a picture here coz this is from France. He is not a big fan of Peugeot. I asked him to pose coz i want a similar post like mine



2)I am not a big fan of Cartier but sisters-in-laws are. Winnie and Phoon, aren't you jealous? Well apparently seemed to be cheaper in Paris. I felt so weird coz Corrine worked here and she always used to tell me that she has to wait for her shipment of the jewellery she ordered from Paris. And here I am at the main branch. Very classic building, isn't it?






















3) Can you spot the differences between these two pictures? Well taken from the top of Arc de Tromphe overlooking Champs de Elysee, their orchard road,lots of shopping.I can see the whole of paris from here!!Feel so great to be up there..now i can sing My french song about Arc de Tromphe to the kids with more conviction!!!Anyway, these two pictures are the same. I happened to upload two and decided to play a small prank.



4) Majestic Arc de Tromphe was build to Commissioned in 1806 by Napoleon, shortly after his victory at Austerlitz, it was not finished until 1836. There are four huge relief sculptures at the bases of the four pillars. These commemorate The Triumph of 1810 (Cortot); Resistance , and Peace (both by Etex); and The Departure of the Volunteers, more commonly known by the name La Marseillaise (Rude).

Be careful of some Chinese Ladies who loiter around this area to ask you to use your passports to buy LV bags for them. We are almost fooled by them. Though i think they are harmless,just want to get the cheaper authentic LV bags to sell in Asia,is better to be safe than sorry




5) Ron and I at the bottom of the Arc de Tromphe. Check out all the names of the soldiers who died in the French Revolution . Tons of them who have braved courageously in
the war. We need to pass by this structure to get back to where we stayed -- Hotel Darcet. A pretty decent "hotel " with decent toilets for the price paid but unfriendly service from the grumpy boss at times. Breakfast served every morning and i will recommend it for its strategic location

A blasting start to the week

Thank god that he has led me to a great fellowship group at the church. Attended my first meeting and it was awesome .Studied the gospel of John 1 and learned so much.is always good to come together to study the word.I never felt so comfortable in a group and praying aloud. This week started off with lots of activities .Fulfiling. Attended my first BSF on Monday(yes quite involved in bible studies over here as I think this is a good time to reflect and study the word) and was totally inspired and motivated. Having a woman bible studies fellowship is good and this allows me to keep on going even when I move back to Carolina and hopefully by the seventh year, I will complete my studies.

And not forgetting i started my Japanese class ( or maybe a refresher for me ) at LBS today. Silly me try to sign up the Intermediate which is too advance for me.Well make a couple of good friends which added on to my social circle.

Praying hard for the volunteering work which i am going to do at Tumbletots tommorow.Hopefully I will be able to get involved in some interesting work. Sadly, the Hampstead branch has replied and said they will not be hiring at this branch and this means I will not be able to earn some extra income. Probably i should just give up the idea of working and just enjoy my stay over here.

The Singaporean /Malaysian Party

Canary Wharf,look like Raffles Place right?

The river bank

Look at the garnishes, done by me !!Ha

Nasi Lemak Yummy!
Drooling Chicken Rice

The cook for the both Naisi lemak and chicken rice

The set up for the champagne and cocktail
A quick shot before the guests arrival
Part of the boys gang that night
Saturday started off with a blast with me and baby running along the riverside walk. It reminded us when we ran along Jersey City just opposite Manhantten back in July. But I prefer the Manhantten view to this . Partly, we are now staying near a Wharf so you feel that the area is pretty much disorganised with the cranes and ships docking around.

Anyway the pot-luck party was good. EJ woke up early to go to Billingate to buy clams and both bb and I were just too exhausted to tag along.He then came back and started to prepare his hainanese and Nasi Lemak rice . I am totally impressed and of course sneaky me decided to be his kitchen helper in order to steal the receipe. He actually cooked both dishes from scratch, including the chilli!!!It was incredible delicious and everyone loves it. This guy even prepared the summer cocktail drink called..(i couldn't remember the name ).

I am totally impressed by this bunch of lawyers and bankers .They cooked really nice food. We have delicious apple shruders,chocolate and banana fudge cakes, puffs, truffle,bee hoon,curry ,braised chicken.I filled my stomach till it bloated .Simply the food is irresistable.Aren't they great ?And they have awesome personalities!!!!Fun loving, wacky,sincere,bubbly,humorous...thank god for meeting them!!Totally changed my image of these people in the profession.

Well and did I mention this is a all Singaporean/ Malaysian thingy plus some BBC ( Britisn born Chinese) and CBC( Canadian Born Chinese). So is real fun and warm to meet people from your hometown again.Lots of fun that night but lots of mess to clean up because EJ invited over 25 people over in his squeezy little apartment.

And one more thing which is an interesting trend to note....These lawyers and bankers are all from RJC!!!!! I am wondering what happened to all the Victorians and Ron said how about the ACians?I replied," ACians have to depend on their Mamas and Papas and will not be here to venture ."Ron and EJ got pissed...........hehehe

Faust

Wat an eventful weekend !There were so many happenings.Things are starting to get going with me having more things to occupy myself during the week. I thank god for making wonderful friends who are as wacky as me and able to get along. It is tough to meet people whom you can hit off very well,especially in a foreign land.

I attended my first aerobics lesson and met two nice Philippinos in the class who took me to a huge Oriental store where i can get all sorts of Ingredients like anchorvies,balanchan, bai choy.Is so hard to get all these over here. I ended up buying more grocery after I did one at Waitrose and EJ couldn't understand why both Ron and me could eat so much. Anyway, I felt really high after the noon and couldn't stop smiling myself. Partly, I am gleaming with joy from the new frenships I have and of course knowing another heavenly store which I can hang out to get my favourite food.

The excitement was further heightened during evening time when I prepared my delicious faghitas and brought it to Convent Garden to meet baby just before we head off for Faust at The Royal Opera House.Convent Garden was such a chic place to hangout with street performances all around and not forgetting those alfresco dining with jazz while you were dining. Convent Garden wasextremely lively during the weekends and you can see many people winding down to meet up with friends for drinks and food.

We had our Fahitas at Starbucks and I am so embarrassed when I brought out my big lunchbox the couple over the table began to whisper something about me and my lunchbox .Well, perfectly understandable .What will someone be doing in Starbucks having a lunchbox ,making wraps with only a mango smoothie? Anyway, since we are trying to save money, I couldn't care less about all these.

Anyway, Faust was really fantastic. It was my first opera and luckily there was translation, I could enjoy myself and totally absorbed and fascintated with the singing and dance. Plot was excellent about a doctor selling his soul to Satan and the enstrangled love story between Dr Faust and Maurgerita.I felt there were lots of biblical truths which it was trying to depict. The fall of the man to temptation, the taste of the forbidden fruit and the dire consequences of it and the power of ressurrected Christ.

But the two men who went with me dozed off momentarily.Partly we are at the balcony which could not get a good view of the actors and primarily,dear baby still prefer musicals. Well but we were all thankful for this opportuntity. How blessed we are to get tickets at 10 quids for a 135 quids actual priced ticket?????We are praying more to come coz obviously we couldn't have such luxurious lesiure all the time to pay for two 200 quids tickets to enjoy a royal ballet, musical or opera.

But we were all praying real hard...coz the next one we want to watch is SWAN LAKE !!!!!!!Can't wait to see those graceful ballerinas prancing about like a little swan.I want my daughter to learn ballet in the future!!!