New Year n Birthday

1 Januari 2011, sabtu

Happy New Year for u all!! Udah lewat 20 harian, baru sempet update blog lagi, sebenernya si lagi males banget dah..ga tau kenapa, malesss banget update blog ato walking on blog to blog sorry banget dah.

Tahun baru kali ini bisa pergi ke mertua, walaupun agak siang, coz suami mesti kerja sparoh hari, biasa ngejar setoran deh. Tahun2 lalu mah biasa tanggal 3 ato tanggal 4 baru kita bisa nonggol di mertua. Acaranya ya tetep aja makan2 selamatan 'ometedai', tapi tahun ini dilengkapi ma 3 kue tart ultah anak2 n ipar gw.

Ipar gw ultah tanggal 6, Mei tanggal 10, Xiang tanggal 14, jadi dibarengin aja deh. Sebenernya mo cari hari laen di minggu2 depannya, tapiii...ada aja halangan, ipar gw hari minggu kerja lah, ato suami kerja lah...jadiii ya dijadiin satu pas tanggal 1 kemarin itu.

Trus tanggal 15 jan nya, gw bikin home party di rumah, ngundang temen2 Indo n Japan. Lumayan cape juga ngerjain semua nya sendiri, untungnya ada temen2 yang bantu bkin menu ato bikinin kue tart..Thx ya yang udah hadir ..happy birthday for my girls

India, China and Indonesia Were Unavailable for Comment

The EPA is swinging into action, preventing Global Warming*!

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its plan for establishing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution standards under the Clean Air Act in 2011. The agency looked at a number of sectors and is moving forward on GHG standards for fossil fuel power plants and petroleum refineries—two of the largest industrial sources, representing nearly 40 percent of the GHG pollution in the United States. The schedule issued in today’s agreements provides a clear path forward for these sectors and is part of EPA’s common-sense approach to addressing GHGs from the largest industrial pollution sources.

Hooray! This will be a major victory for planet Earth! The United States (pop. 350M) must take the lead in preventing Global Warming*! Soon, China (pop. 1,330M), India (pop. 1,173M) and Indonesia (pop. 243M) will follow.

I mean, they will follow us, right? This isn't just a collosal waste of time to make a bunch of smug, fatuous narcissists feel good about themselves, is it? I mean, because if they don't, their failure to take similar actions with their aggregate population of 2,853M will make this a totally worthless, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the American economy.

* - Err, not Global Warming, but Climate Change. Yes, definitely, it's Climate Change.

Happy New Year! *and resolutions*

Photo Credit: Beautiful Wallpapers

It is hard to believe that it is a new year already! This past year has been a good one for me. Some of the highlights were: 

* Growing my blog (Thanks for all your support!) 

* Going to full time at my new job in the schools! 

* A wonderful vacation to Colorado this summer with the hubby

* Starting an Adventurer club at our church

* Working with the social committee at church (which included hosting 2 baby showers, 2 going away parties, a fall camp-out, a Holiday dinner, and helping the Personal Ministries group with a health fair).

* Starting my Pampered Chef business (which has been a lot of fun and a lot of re-organizing my kitchen to fit all the awesome products). 

*And most importantly, our 4 year wedding anniversary! Love you dearest! :) 

There have been some challenges too. My husband decided to go back to school and then switched between 3 schools before he decided to do an online program. I am a planner and so the uncertainty of the future was hard for me! Another struggle for me this year has been dealing with the baby bug. :) Yes, it has hit me pretty hard! All my friends around me having babies made it a lot harder as well. However, after long discussions and praying and lots of tears, 2011 is going to hopefully be an exciting year for us! :)

So for this coming year there are two main things that I am hoping to work on. 

* Reading more (see my book list on the left side of my blog; this also includes better devotion time) 

*Getting healthier (I have already gone mostly vegetarian again at home, hoping to lose 15lbs. this year. I have gained around 13lbs since we got married 4 years ago. Being only 5 foot 3, that tends to show a little too much on me. :( And since we want to start a family hopefully this year, I want to lose that prior to gaining more!)

I hope that this new year will be even better than the last to you! God bless you in the year to come! 

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yesterday i was 21

where have i been? yar yar, i was about to post the 'last post of the year 2010', but i missed it due to some other reasons. cehh, bajet busy memanjang. eh this is the 1st post of 2011, should be the good one ah. well i'm gonna make it short, and it always ends up with a long essay. T__T

nothing much, later on, i'll tell about what happened during december 2010. today i just spend some time with family at home, and it's the 2nd day of me getting healthier. tapi itu pun demam semula, just rasa lebih sehat, cuma suhu panas.

so sebab rasa bersyukur, terus rasa nak berbakti pada mama abah, makanya saya belanja mereka makan tgh hari tadi, tapi di chicken rice shop je la :P

baru nak pakai. it was a bday gift from abah.

the chicken rice shop, bukan sekadar nasi ayam!

kalau lapar sile makan sini ye sbb nanti kenyang gile sbb bnyk gile.

abah - last day of being 49. mama, last day of being 47 :P

happylah anak mereka belanje. haha.

and, 31st december 2010, is my 1st attempt wearing tudung syria.

but yerlah mestilah dgn inner boleh buat muncung2.

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yer, ikan kembung ye kawan-kawan, tapi selesa! kemas. biarlah kembung pun.

paus pun boleh. comel pe dari dugong. wakaka. :P

*last day of being 21, and ramai plak LIKE dkt FB*

and this is...

what we call sama tapi tak serupa :P

ika comel my dearest blogger friend :)

HAHA. same tapi tak serupa kan!

dah la. ika ni jauh lagi comel, kecik, pandai dari sy. haha.

by the way, happy new year 2011. :)

Kodak PlaySport Test

On Wednesday, I took my brand new Kodak PlaySport camera and put it in a tub of rainwater, looking up at the patio overhang and the water dripping off of it. I like the results.

Before I take it down to the tidepools, I need to do some focus tests to find the minimum distance from camera to subject. I've got a hot tub that will be perfect for this.