Thank God for you, you and yes, you.

Reflections.

Dear Father,

Thanks for always reminding me to cherish the beautiful things in life.

Thanks for slowing me down when I accelerate on the journey of life.

Thanks for always reassuring me, whether it's by your Word or through your people.

Thanks for always protecting me, blessing me, and loving me unconditionally.

I really have nothing to complain about. My life's beautiful.

I have a great Father in heaven who is da' man...always there to welcome me back to His arms.

I have great parents who work so hard to give us a good life, always sacrificial and tolerant with our behaviour, always there to listen and comfort and love, always supportive and believing in us.

Mum & sis.

I have great sisters (of all ages!). They teach me how to lead, how to guide, how to be patient (oh yeahhh), how to love, how to pamper, how to be a sister.

My sisters love the fish eye function :)

Evangeline is a little aunty!

In her cool LV-looking transparent pink bag:

Diaper, a pair of clothes in case of emergency, and a milk bottle.

She brings it with her WHEREVER she goes. And she takes good care of it :)

I have a great boyfriend.

Selfless, supportive, faithful, sacrificial, generous.

Gladys ALWAYS has to be in the lemonlight......

He is truly one of the greatest hearts I've ever met. He's genuine, real, and he always seems to have everything put together. He's funny, humorous, isn't afraid to show his true self (sometimes too much i.e.: farting *ahem*) or to be embarrassed.

He's a genius, smart, brilliant. I can count on him for anything (especially when it comes to settling bills and stuff. maths is so not my thang!).

I feel so safe being with him. I feel so loved being with him :) <3

Thank God for sending him into my life...

I thank God for placing me in a wonderful church.

More than being the coolest and most happening church ever, it has become my second home. Spent the past 4 years there and I never regretted at all. I've become happier.

It's a place where I encounter God, where I grow spiritually, where I learn how to be a better individual week in, week out.

It's where I realise my passion, unleash my talents, increase in creativity & capacity to serve God and people, have the faith to step out of my comfort zone to do the things that I never thought I could achieve. I am where I am today because of City Harvest Church KL.

It's where I come back to God again, and again, and again.

It's where I will get married at and grow old at. A place where my own family will find refuge in the future.

That of course includes my cell group, subzone members, church friends and leaders. They make church life wonderful.

As well as friends outside church, working friends, extended family, and many more. I thank God for each and every one of you. (yes, all of you come across my mind as i'm writing this)

Don't be scared okay, I'm not plannin to commit suicide after I write this post. Just realised it sounds like a suicide note. Hahahaha I just thought, it is never be too late giving thanks and telling people around me that I love and appreciate them :)

If anything unexpected happens, at least you know that I truly love you :) This is my temporary home, and therefore, I'm not scared to go. Because I know that there's eternity beyond this life. But in the meantime, I'm enjoying every single bit on this earth.

As I grow older (and wiser? hehehe), I look at life from both sides now (wah sounds like the song). I'm aware of the ugliness of politics, the unfairness of this world, discrimination, poverty, conformity of life, death, and just how fragile life is.

I choose not to be ignorant, yet and at the same time, I choose to be positive. I choose to see the beauty in people and things, I choose to be happy, I choose to give, I choose to love, I choose to smile, I choose to laugh out loud. That might explain why I behave like a crazy girl sometimes.

On a random note, thank God for all the GOOD FOOD on earth! As well as the people who prepares them. Cooking is an art I've yet to master...yet la yet. Soon la yeah soon :P

Finally had my favourite green tea ice cream last night!

Dome's mushroom soup for RM15++.

Is it worth? Well, for the HUGE portion, yes.

But a tad too salty?

Lazy to go find more pics of good food I consumed in my lifetime..sleepy already :P

In a nutshell, I love this life that God has blessed me with.

All the things, and all the people. I'm thankful for all of you :)

love, careen.

Happy Thaipusam!

3 most important characteristics of a bf:

Hard-working

Honest

Humorous

The latter contributes largely to why I enjoy my 6-year relationship so much. It's like our chemistry and sense of humour is renewed every day.

There are new things for us to laugh about at/with each other. Your relationship/life is not boring. It's only as interesting as you make it to be sometimes :)

Wheee had my favourite fish & chips in town after a long while. He can read my mind on what I wanna eat! Amazing :P

This is the best shot I could get of my food.

I love this dish! The cheapest yet, the nicest of all.

Lemon;

healthy & gan-fei (lose weight) remedy. Yummy too!

This was a self-proclaimed lomo shot by the bf. hahahah lomo bo?

The ham-fok face.

Simple things in life like food can easily make me a happy girl :)

Had Thai food for dinner @ Sawasdee, SS15 with my dear cell group members :)

Yummmssss BUT spicy crazy!! All of them can eat spicy man...I lose flat! And I thought I improved...hahah

Chester & Andrea

Charissa & Fibiee

Jia Ying & I

She's one who can withstand all those spiciness without, get this, without water. I can kowtow on the ground and salute her man! Fuuuuhhh!

So yeah, had a nice, relaxing, satisfying (food wise) day :)

Hope you had a great public holiday and happy thaipusam to all who celebrated!

love, careen

Life as of 14.7.2010 | Très Trésors

why such lack of updates leh??

No.1: i don't have the time

well, that true...but even when i have the time,

No. 2: i feel super lazy to even click on the 'sign in' button. let alone 'new post'.

i think the holiday mood has really gotten me all super relaxed and lazy. which is really what i needed since the crazyyyy sem 2. sem 2 was the worst sem so far! worst ever! EVER!

plus, it's not to say i'm obliged to blog. so i can not blog whenever i choose to :)

it's a wonderful feeling! forget all the hits that i was once so obsessed about. there's definitely more to life than that. already feeling damn flattered and happy when people still visit my blog even when there are absolutely no updates. :)

No. 3: baby has been back for the past week :)

so as expected i spent most of my time having romantic dates and getting my tummy bloated from all the fooood with the bf.

mamak sessions, high tea, pork burger *drools and floods the whole room*, pizza, coffee bean, craft brew (another pork burger in the same day..muahaha!!), turkey carbonara, mushroom ginger wine mee sua (yucks! too ginger-y), ipoh hor fun.

all in less than one week.

OMG life's beautiful :)

No. 4: yours truly have been on a movie marathon mission:)

not so much in cinemas, but on the lappie :D

mostly click-flicks and romantic movies la. i know i'm so boring.

watched P.S I love you last night and cried from start to end. BAD, BAD idea for watching it before sleeping cos i ended up thinking and emo-ing before falling asleep. plus, baby's going offshore for 2 weeks and i started having this paranoid feeling of 'what ifs'.

but it was such a beautiful movie. havent read the book so dont know which is better but it really helped me to see things in a different perspective. makes me wanna treasure every moment i have with the bf. every single moment :)

of course, watched some BADly produced movies such as Date Movie and The House Bunny. waste my time!

...

on a separate note, helped Andrea for her Malaysian's Online Fashion Entrepreneur's Weekend competition and did a photoshoot for Très Trésors (click on the link for yummylicious heels and shoes!!)

Behind the scenes:

the boss.

all captured by Boon's iphone. not bad ma... ;)

love this one :)

okay here are the final products :)

photographed by Vincent Cheng.

look at those 'killer' heels!

comes in black, silver and gold.

i personally love this a lot :)

love the whole gold-ish feeling!

my baby sister Charity was also one of the models ;)

she was the little-girl-who-couldnt-wait-to-grow-up.

so cute!

i used to terrorize my mum's makeup and shoes when i was little too!

this is pretty Mei Ling :)

love love love those heels........*droolss*

shoes from http://www.tres-tresors.blogspot.com/

outfits custom-made by http://www.wow-couture.com/

check em out!! :)

gonna go revamp my room in a moment's time.

will update more i pinky promise!

*group hugs*

love, careen.

Our food escapades

was browsing through old photos on my lappie and camera, and found so many food escapades that me and boon had. time passes so fast and we're so caught up with so many things all the time, that we forget the little moments that count.

on the way to POS prac months back :)
we had Indonesian food to satisfy my craving :D

Sari Ratu.

while everyone else had rice with dishes (their signature nasi padang), the two jakuns had ala carte. should try their nasi padang next time :)

afterwhich, baby brought me to the frequently-visited Bubble Tea shop opposite Asia Cafe and bought me my favourite Oreo Malt Milk Bubble Tea as promised :D it gives me indescribable energy boost, motivation, mood enhancement, you name it.

thanks to Sophia Lian for the amazing mixture, now the whole CHC gets a new craving :P

another bubble tea pic. hahah.

havent had it since baby went offshore.

waiting for him to come back and bring me there again :)

then there's this fine day when i craved for beef noodle at Dragon-I.

random, i know. and he brought me there straight away :))

OMGOMGOMG

i can taste it in my mouth now.....
though i promised myself not to have it for months or maybe years due to the super oiliness and fatsss. can get pretty yucks...

but, it's so awesome......

love the spoon/scoop thingy. gives a bigger portion.

no wonder i got full so fast! which is normally not the case.

ready to devour...

*rawr*

plus a whole lot of others. sometimes we wonder what and where to eat cos i think we conquered almost all the food places in Subang/Sunway.

i feel so fat and blessed :)

i have an awesome bf whom i sometimes forget to thank God for.

God, i'm so happy and blessed :)

waiting for more food escapades when baby returns from offshore. soon. :)

love, careen.