I Should Blog About My Fat Cat..

But I'm Not Gonna. Life has been good these days. Changes at work in the next month. Family update- my youngest sister has reached her legal age. I promised to scoop her away for a nice vacation. With all the clashing schedules, it's still up in the air. Hopefully I can find something for all of us soon. Friends update- lots of wedding bells and babies coming. Love update- it's been nothing but smiles. Oh and hobbes, he's getting fat like Garfield.

While flipping through channels the other day, I came across the documentary called "Born into Brothels". I think it gave me a wake up call on how lucky I have it or everyone has it here. When you've got generation after generation of prosititution, and you have an 8 year old telling you that her life was predetermined to exist in this way - its depressing, but alarming.I will grasp onto the miniscule hope that the photographer's efforts in guiding those girls and boys will shed a little light in their eyes.

On another note, Antony Gromley's exhibition has caught my eye. 27 statues standing on roof tops are expected to “to play with the city and people’s perceptions,” according to him. My count so far - two.

Being the lego fan that I am, I am definitely going to see Nathan Sawaya's lego exhibit. My parents gave me my first lego set when I was 5. I remember building houses that drew resemblances to ones on the box. Ok, i lied. I made houses that were identical to the cover of the box. Oh how i cherished the time spent when we were young. The agendas during that time were 1. build lego house 2. take apart lego house. 3. build lego house 1.2. Now when I look back, I wondered why I never had the urge to become an architect..Oh..i remember now..barbie came into play. Damn you barbie and your pretty dresses and shoes.

Enigma

They were once a favorite during my hs days. Rainy days and candles were the perfect pair to the CD. The word definitely has played different roles in my life this far. Can one be enigma-ed? Because I certainly am. I feel very lost with life. I've reached a crossroad where either paths will lead to different outcomes. My rationale is battling with my inner emotions. I have no google, no books, no mentor, to guide me on which route to take. Someone give me a cliffnote.

Love Bites

I’m not an expert – on the subject of love. In fact, I’ve had my share of trials and tribulations. However, it seems as though when you’re on the outside viewing things from a different perspective, you see things much clearer. You’re able to apply the mistakes you’ve made and learn from there, and can only hope that the next step you take won’t be another mistake. Here are a few life lessons from my experiences:

Be the Conceited Biotch for a Change. First and most crucial factor in love - love yourself. By this, I mean knowing and understanding what you love, what you want and why is it that you want whatever it is, feeling good about yourself, and finding yourself again. We all have different needs. Different wants. You must ask yourself what is important to you and what isn’t. You must love and understand yourself before you can love another. Think about it this way – your future mate who you’ll learn to love will know what he wants from you, shouldn’t you want the same from him?
Live and learn – On Your Own. Being single and on your own without having to be accountable for anyone is definitely an approach to knowing yourself. During my single days, I can honestly say I wanted to see what there was to see, do what there was to do (drugfree) of course, and just live without fear of someone hurting me or vice versa. Go out and explore. Do things you said you were going to do when you were in a relationship and you couldn’t do it at that time. Now that you have no obligations to anyone, what’s stopping you?
Stop and You Shall Find. Don’t go looking for love. When you go searching for it, you set yourself to a certain standard and when you don’t find it, you wind up being disappointed.
Quickies Aren’t Fun. Don’t jump into relationships with the idea that you can build on it. For example, after a first date and he asks to be your boyfriend, ask yourself why the rush? If you step out side of that, you will tell yourself this: this guy must not understand relationships because relationships take work, establishment of trust, and finding and meeting each other’s needs.
The Chasing Never Ends. Long term or short term, you have to be mysterious in minimal ways. How do you wonder or miss a person, if you know every minute of their schedule? In the beginning of a relationship, you catch the person’s attention, by not letting him know your every move. In a developing relationship, you keep him wondering about you while trying to gain his trust. In an established relationship, you spice it up by changing it up. You don’t have to seem him everyday every moment. Absence does make the heart grow fonder. It’s like food, if you haven’t had it awhile, you crave it. If you make yourself available at his every beckon, then what else is there to want from you?
Stink Bombs. You’re lonely. You ask yourself many times, is it you? or What’s wrong with me? You’re at your all time low. Your ex or someone who hurt you decides to call you up at this time. Ignore the damn phone, email, or text. You threw the mess out a long time ago. Would you go to city’s dumping ground and look for your garbage? NO.

I've had my fair share of pain,tears, and jerks. but I've also had and am still enjoying my share of laughters, fun, and lovefools.

Love thyself. Date without expecting. Love without wanting anything in return.

Congratulations Mrs Katie Ip-Chi

Weddings are fun when you're a guest. Weddings are hectic when you're part of the bridal party. For the past six months, I've been so busy juggling between my career and fulfilling my duties as the maid of honor. From bridal shower, bachelorette party, to the day of the wedding, my every moment has been making sure everything is done right. Perhaps it is due to the eldest sister instinct, where i feel the need to take care of everything.or perhaps it is my innate nature where I feel the need to make everyone happy, or perhaps its just me. I place my love ones first and utmost above all. Thats just me. I would do anything for my best friend to make her happy on her very special day. And i know for a fact that when the time comes, she would happily return the favor. That is how a good friendship works. you give she takes, she gives you take. equally and just knowing that makes me know that i've found and met a truly remarkable person.

June 13th is now officially Katie and Joe's Wedding Anniversary.

She's all grown up - my partner in crime.

lovely pictures from Dynasty Weddings

Mini Me

I discovered an awesome website while browsing for gift ideas..

www.reasonablyclever.com

you can create little replicas of yourself.

can you guess who this is?

Busy as a Bumble Bee

After much revisions and communication, we (3 other bridesmaid and myself) finally concluded with the above invitation. However, what I failed to notice (after everything was done), I had made a minute spelling error. It wasn't really my fault. Originally, I had created the invite with powerpoint, but my bf thought it was an eyesore. So, with his expertise in illustrator, he fixed every little detail. But, what we both didn't notice was the spelling error which illustrator doesn't detect. WOOOP WOOP. Amazingly, despite the error, the final production was really nice. Thanks HP COLOR LASER JET!

So...from now on..it's lu cee on.. like french..instead of luncheon. damn it.

Ceasar, I shall wine and dine with you tonight and enjoy your colliseums at Ceasar's palace LV.

Last Hurrah

been so busy with moh duties...bridal shower location, invitations, guestlist, gifts, bachelorette party planning...wowzers..

anyhoo, my latest project...BRIDAL SHOWER INVITATIONS

suggestions anyone? i'm still contemplating on how i can actually create this onto paper..