Untying the Knot..

It's like a dream, I just got shaken awake from a dream that I have been dreaming about for the pass 5.5 years.. A dream that I will be tying a knot with him but it's no longer a dream anymore..

It's been 3 months and I have been going through alot of emotions.. challengers.. love.. hate.. confusion.. disconnection.. exploration.. chances.. choices :) I take it all in.. day by day walking off from a relationship that I m committed to.. A person that I'm so inlove with.. Learning new things, Seeing him differently, seeing myself detach from him, adapting myself with changes.. walking the journey independently.. Walking tall and loving him in a different way..

I have no idea how I manage to go through this path but somehow it has been blessed to walk away peacefully. He has been my strength, and still, he is my strength.. Just that now the strength has transform to an energy for me to live my life to the fullest and walk the journey with things that I'm always passionate with.

Just want to let u know that I'm doing good here. Moving on step by step.. and I know we both doing this together!

Wishing u the best of LIFE! and no regrets of you being the one and only Monkey!

It's a reborn for the both of us!

Cheers for 28.10.2012 xoxo

"Sometimes journey is better to be unknown <3 cest="cest" la="la" p="p" vie="vie">
Love,
Chi Yan

Lil Halyn 1st Pink Lemonade Birthday Party

Back to work today after a weekend and a public holiday. 3 different days to spend with family, friends and my monkey :) That's just nice for a short break to chill and put up a nice birthday party for lil Halyn!

Pink and yellow has accompany me for nearly a month ever since I was told by Hannee to support her to put up a 1st birthday luncheon for lil Halyn.. And of course, without thinking twice, I just told Hannee : "Why not, Let's do it for Halyn!"

Creating a birthday party with love and colours has always been my passion! and here we are after 2 weeks of idea & brainstorm, Hannee & I finally have our craft and deco's on the party hall and it looks dreamily pretty with the "Pink Lemonade" theme!

1. Handmade Party Favors that pack with marshmallow & sticky candy in it.

2. Message Box with an eatable prego jar that stuff with pom pom flowers, cotton candy & Strawberry Rocky Sticks!

3. Fluffy Pom Pom that hangs in the hall. *lovely*

4. Handmade Paper Roses that form a letter "H" for Halyn that sticks on the wall.

5. Homemade Pink Lemonade *the highlights of the party*

6. Jars and Jars of Candies that fills the room with sweet + memories *Thumbs thumbs thumbs up for the lovely theme and ideas*

Also, here's some other craft decorations that we have for the entrance, the handmade lemon slice fan as party favor with cutie Halyn's photo on it,a customize Halyn Birthday Banner with lemon slice design :) and also a alphabetical "H" for Halyn!

It's such a Joy to be part of Halyn's Birthday making. Hannee, the pink lemonade theme is such a great idea and it blends in well with ur lil princess. The pink bubbly one. Thanks for having me to be apart of her special day. Also, Aunty Susan, Thanks for the dinner, tongshui, Ikea Curry Puff, Cakes and all the support u give to me & Hannee, U r always the best mum and grandma in the world.

Not to forget my dear bestie, Choo, Shirley, Woei Tyng, Kym, Hanako, Ivan, Kaf and also Halyn's Daddy. Thanks for the help in hanging, cutting, streading, sticking, cleaning, arranging... You guys are such an angels!!

So craft party is always special because we have all the special ones come together to put our hands on together for a hearty party <3

A new baby Tiger in the Family turns 1 :)

Pink Lemonade + Halyn

Daddy's Little Girl

Halyn with all her uncles & aunties in the family

Halyn with her Fairy God Mothers..

Halyn is officially "1"

So glad to have some good photos from Hannee's Camera and my iPhone. That's something that we're making sure of!! Nice PHOTOS!!

Apricot Jam Crepes

A lazy baker like me without all the measurement, mixer, and baking, making crepe is more like my choice of baking!! hahaha... but still lots of layers on the pan need to be done. But then, i'm not really a oven fan (maybe not at the moment of time), crepe cake will b my choice of starter in cakes.

Recently, I felt in love with cooking. Not the oriental cuisine but more on a western style. I've always wanted to make crepe especially after I had the Food Foundry crepe, it's yummy and the layers texture got me imagine how satisfied will i be if i manage to put a 50 to 100 layers of it!

Well, frankly speaking.. I kinda fail in this time - Crepe due to my over floured crepe. Be careful when u read the recipe. Me, myself, always very pandai to change my own thought in it. Instead of pouring 2 tablespoon of flour mixer on the pan, i pour like half scoop on it. It taste yummy if i eat it like "Mee Hun Kuih" but not crepe. U need thin and soft layers. So this is a double cautious on!!

So here's the recipe that i got it from Martha Stewart Food Page :

Meyer Lemon Crepe Cake

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups whole milk, room temperature
• 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, melted, plus more, melted, for pan
• Meyer Lemon Curd Mousse
• 1/4 cup heavy cream, whipped
• Candied Meyer Lemons, optional

Directions

1. Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Whisk together milk, eggs, and vanilla. Gradually pour milk mixture into flour mixture, whisking until smooth. Whisk in butter. Pour through a fine sieve into an airtight container; discard lumps. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.

2. Lightly coat a 6-inch crepe pan or nonstick skillet with butter. Heat over medium heat until just starting to smoke. Remove from heat; pour about 2 tablespoons batter into center. Swirl to cover bottom. Reduce heat to medium-low; return pan to heat. Cook until edges are golden and center is dry, about 30 seconds per side.

3. Slide crepe onto an overturned plate. Repeat with remaining batter, coating pan with butter as needed, and stacking crepes. Let cool.

4. Place 1 crepe on a flat serving dish. Spread about 1/4 cup lemon curd mousse onto crepe. Top with 1 crepe. Continue layering crepes and mousse. (Use 15 crepes, ending with a crepe on top.) Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.

5. Top crepe cake with whipped cream and 3 or 4 candied lemon slices.

   
   

   You can always make a crepe with ur own fav. flavour.
   
   
   Have fun baking :) It's really easy to manage. and all u need is a frying pan and not an oven!! hehe >.<
   
   
   
   

Just the 2 of us :)

Just the two of us this time, spending our weekends together @ Gerard's Place. Caught me a surprise that Joey decided to drove up this time with his Black Beauty. And here we are in Camera after 3 hours of drive.

For those who knows me, Cameron has always been my fav. place for weekend holidays. I m at least there once or twice a year! Even though I'm there pretty often but there's always new places to discover. Like this time, I discover this very nice, vintage cafe that bake yummy scones! (Credits to Jeff that send me the MMS on a yummy scone that he's having)

So I'm very looking forward to be there again the coming weekends with my family since daddy is getting his new Estima this weekend (and yes! I will be at cameron again for the weekend!), i really can't wait for this trip with his new MPV!

I really have a great weekend. Cameron is a place that brought us sparks in our relationship and here we are again after 47 months and I'm glad that we're holding hands together side by side, walking our future together. and haha Joey, U hit another quota of urs. You got a cross on ur local trip and now I'm looking forward on our Phuket trip together in 3 months time! Love you alot my monkey <3 and more months in counting...

and Gerard, you are one of the reason that i fell in love with the mountain too.. U just never fail to fool me and surprise me after that! Thanks again!

Lil' Jasper Turns 1 (Rubber Duckies Party)

Lil Jasper turns "1" on the 1st of May, 2011.

Time just flies in a sec and now our baby Jasper has turn 1. Having him around is always an abundance where this little boy has bring the family tighter with lots of joy and happiness. And of course as a aunty of his, I always want

to give all I can to put up a best "First" birthday bash ever for him.. (of course not to mention his mummy that will buy a big air pool for his son loaded with hundreds of colourful playball in it. Sigh!) and Again, Beii & I dance with our magic fingers together on this special birthday of ours, and create a dolphin ocean blue a.k.a. Rubber Duckie

s Party for Little Jasper :)

Here's some photos that I have on the Bash and the Deco :

It's been such a JOY to watch Jasper grow. From an infant and now to a lovely naughty boy. He just never failed to grab our attention to love him even more! and also to Jasper's Mummy, well babe, without you, Jasper wouldn't be such a healthy lovely pie. Been really seeing you to be the best mum you can, learn and adapt to be one. Here, what i am gonna say is you did a pretty good job! It's not easy to raise a child and provide all you can to him. U definitely my inspiration of becoming a good mom soon <3.

All I can say now is.. it's all worth to step in another journey of life.

As for me, I'm gonna hit off with more party events because i just love the vibrant of love and celebration. I always felt that with just a little bit of touch, a little bit of colours, it all creates and speaks on a beautiful celebration. Can't wait to have more parties and events to hands on!

Muacs XOXO

Kaf turns 21

A homely celebration for my dear brother turning to be a BIG man. Along with families and friends.

Kaf (!?!) . A name that I so reluctant to call, and now is officially 21. Dad, mum & I has been really planning for this big day of him a month a head. He's been always a very jolly go lucky brother of mine. A very pleasant boy with his calm and chill character. So why not just have his fav Flip Flops in his party where everyone dresses as carefree as him, and have his fav. BBQ to serve.

The whole theme ideas just come together really well. And since he have this Party Lover a.k.a Planner sister, I gonna make this day a Blast and Memorable one for him. It took me a week to get ready on my props.

I actually did a numerical photo montage on the wall with all his 21 years pictures forming the number 21. It caught him a surprise to see his photos on the window glass and special moments has always been a part of him learning along the years. So that's really a good idea to actually surprise him and the guest too.

Flag lines is always my fav. decorations. Easy to make, and easy to fill up the party environment. It creates a really warm and welcome impression to the guest. So normally in my party, flag lines are always in diff colors following the theme of the party :)

There's also garlands and candles to fill up the waikiki atmosphere :)

I ordered my cakes from Just Baked where I'm so happy that Jane manage to put up a really nice, lovely looking cupcakes with flip flops theme for Kaf. Do check out on the facebook at :http://www.facebook.com/pages/JustBaked/158310887550424 & also another cake where my dad specially order for him, Kaf's fav steaded cheese cake where i decorated with M&M. It's so colourful with the M&M vibrant chocolate.

More Party Sharing coming out... Enjoy!!

The unreasonable disaster..

11.03.2011 . 8.9/9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm

Friday afternoon, I thought of asking my brother to check on the flight tickets to Tokyo since we've plan earlier to go for a backpack there ended up him telling me tht Japan strike with a really bad tsunami which is 10 meter tall. Seriously, all i seriously think about is just maybe earthquake?!? But when browsing through my FB with all the release Youtube post, like darn.. Tsunami really hit the Japan and it's quick a alarming one! Knowing that thousand and more body was found, 500 got missing.. and houses got swollen by this enormous waves, that's really an unpredictable disaster.

Hearing the news and watching the whole incidents on CNN, it brings flash back on some movie scene that the world is in trouble. How this big waves can just strike anytime, anywhere and impacted the whole village, city or even a country and the land could b badly demolish or it could disappeared.

I really couldn't believe how strong and powerful current can be. My dad told me that even how many thousands years a mountain range exist, it still can't compare to the strong powerful current that the water can turns to..

I'm truly blessed that I alive in peace. How fortunate tht i'm still breathing will all my loves one around. All my prayers to my fellow friends @ Japan, Stay Strong and We'll go through this moment together as one. It's not how fortunate we are in Malaysia but really how we channel our energy and love to the unfortunate one.

The unreasonable prediction on 2012, it's always been the hot topic now! esp after all the disaster that happening around. I can't deny that I'm calm with what's happening around, I'm actually kinda freakout! But really, come and think about it, i don't even actually know that whether tomorrow exist or not. So why r we waiting for 2012, Dec 20,14 or what so ever dates! What I always believe is that there's always a bond that we human being have with Earth. Just stay calm, stay presence and using the our inner strength to whole the world together again. That's the fundamental of our spirit and bonding that we have with our planet!

From now onwards, I'm going to live passionately, and be connected with my surroundings and live healthily. It's really pleasure that i m given to live in a country that free from most of the disaster. Live it for the victim, live it for myself. Things can change when there's 1 person that willing to do it..

My prayers to all the victim in Japan ...