christmas time!

hoping all had a wonderful christmas 2007....

mine involved time spent with family esp since we've got a cousin in town and wonderful nites out with good friends
spreading the wonderful joy, love and laughter of christmas
not forgetting all the yummy food we all get to to consume

like mj says.... "party time"

hoping that new year would be just as wonderful despite the situation rite now :)
wonder what my resolution shd be.....

~to all my great friends: i love u guys tons and thks for being such joy to be with

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

santa's bakery

it all started at 10pm wednesday nite.....
the working table was being set up with wat the elves needed for a nite long of cookie baking

flour, sugar, rolling pins, cookie cutters

slowly thru the nite...
the elves themselves started to smell like walking cookies

the end result at 4am.... the time of the elves

80 COOKIES

starting again the next day at 3 till 9
it was time to start the creative juices and make the butter cookies look pretty

dressed with coloured icing, holiday hundreds and thousands and silver balls... each cookie was then individually packed and wrapped with love and care that ended with the elves having cross-eye after

and now the model elf will show how to treat the cookies

step 1

step 2

bon appetite

madness

i can finally breathe.....

its been crazy since ive been back which is great coz then at least i got over my jetlag immediately

within my first 12 hours back i rushed off to a friend's wedding :) and got to hang out with the girls again!!! yay!
it was a nite of black and silver

that nite ended at 2am with me running on 4 cups of coffee the whole time and head held up with invisible strings

after 3 hours of slp santa sent me my wish for a few hours :)

johan was here on transit for a day!!!!!! weeeeeeee utter craziness brunch at marmalade then shopping then dinner at crystal jade
my crabmeat linguine and shrimp dumplings off my list of cravings
after it was off to the airport and then to dempseys for tea :) that place has changed so much and with so many new places that opened up there its now much more interesting.
wishing i could show u these new places

so that was saturday and sunday
monday i finally got to take a break from all this madness and met up with the girls in the evening for dinner at boon tong kee and then it was off to deserts at desert at 2am holland village....
it was yummy!!! but not cheap!

pre-flight

i freaked out
im not as strong as u think i am
i wish i could haf talked to u before boarding and leaving for the other part of the world

a shooting star

in just a few days im heading home!!!!
its a wonderful feeling and i havent packed yet ~oops
so many new places to check out
and definately a visit or 2 to the gym is called for
so many plans have been set
especially one of a day just stuffing my face with great friends all over the tiny island
2 finals down and one more to go thou i dont feel the urgency of it which is bad
this year will end with a good note
ive had a wonderful semester with all my friends back at pepp after all their different semesters abroad
and over the past weekend all ive done is stuffed myself silly with all the wonderful food LA has to offer with fantastic company and the weekend ended with a shooting star sighting!
so many laughters and gossiping sessions
im grateful for all the wonderful friends ive got
thank you all for making my life as colourful and amazing as it can be

gina
sarah
johan
delia
andrea
aja
nicole
~not forgetting b

pris is a really happy girl today

finals stress

some evenings i wish i have those professional cameras to capture the sunset. the picture above really doesnt do it justice and its on those days when im able to walk out of class after a long day and see that sight and its just blows my mind. its days like those that im actually grateful to be in pepperdine. its just one of those beautiful things in life that no matter how many times u see it, it'll still be as great as the time before

time flies so quickly before i knw it this semester is soon to be over and i'll be back soon enuf! but before im going to haf to survive finals.... been procrastinating all day today which is bad coz i haf 2 huge papers on monday :p
blogging is my last restort to put off studying

before we all would be leaving our own way for christmas my good friends and i met up for dinner :)



and that was aja drinking sake with a straw :)

wedding blues

so my dear cousin is getting married next week!!!! NEXT WEEK...... geez time flies sooooo quickly and i cant go for his wedding at bali............. damn it
i just saw him over summer and we were still kidding about his engagement and now its just days to his wedding!!!!!!!
and i cant believe i cant make it!!!!! sigh stupid finals....

thanksgiving break

weeeeeeeeeeee first day back in school since thanksgiving and i thot it was off to a bad start coz i left home late but in my first class i just got back my 2nd midterm and guess wat?! i got a 100%!!!!!! yay!!!!! hahahaha seriously when did i last get such good grades?! *cross my fingers its a good omen for the rest of my tests that will come back tmr.....

so over the break, i......
- ate lots of yummy food
- spent time with great company
- drove a manual sports car
- shopped way toooooo much that im feeling broke
- pretty much figured out one of the most important christmas pressie that i have yet to settle
- bought more things to add on to gifts i have already bought for loved ones
- got slooshing drunk
- went to a car thingy that involved some drivers attempting to drift... thou giving the others credit they were pretty good
- checked out modified cars
- cute bartenders :D
- breakfast burritos

and i was hoping school to be closed for an extra day coz of more fires at malibu but i guess not.... so now im sitting outside in the sunshine with planes flying over my head :)

for my best friends

so since my dear friend cant come down to see it herself i had to go rite? hehe

it was a really cool exhibition with an LV rite smack in the middle of the whole place selling limited edition murakami bags that even i havent seen it! so tempted to get at least something but oh well me no money............

the stupid exhibetion didnt let me take pictures but i managed to sneak some before i was caught!
will go again before it closes coz its cheap to go to and really nice to take a look at and i still want to shop at the store to buy some stuff but the day i went the queue was so damn long!

life

just over the weekend i had a friend involved in a fatal drink driving accident.... thankfully he's now very slowly recovering in the icu but things can change for the worse anytime so fingers are still kept cross thou to be optimistic he's now regain consciousness and signs are promising.

but tonite another incident comes to mind which ive tried hard to put it away.

its been 4 years since a dear friend passed on to be by God's side. it wasnt as if i was uber close to her but close enuf to feel the emptiness once she left. i guess at that time, i still took things for granted and when she fell ill i never expected it to be fatal as it was along diagnosed to be a flu. before she passed i never got to see her. for awhile i felt guilty for not being caring enuf to make the effort to go visit her while i cld and i still do till this day when i think abt it

i guess when death is in the air, any connection is too close for comfort.

end of the day, all we human can take comfort is that God has plans for all of us and when we do pass on it is onto something good

and after the fire......

sorry for the bad quality of pictures but ive been too lazy to bring my camera to school so all these were taken with my phone's cam thus the horrible result

but as u can obviously tell..... the brown parts are where the fire reached and etc

i love the first pic where the fire totally missed the grass and the cross!

its just been crazy coming back to school with all this mess around that its depressing to an extent.... cant imagine how its like down at san diego. but my wonderful school was so thotful that they did not even bother evacuating the students even thou the flames were already licking the buildings! utter madness.......

well now life has settled.... was hoping for a weekend at napa this weekend but my friends are too lazy to drive up so i'll just spend it with them instead in downtown :) need to start shopping for christmas prezzies coz it'll take me forever to get off my arse to do it so hopefully if i plan now.... i'll eventually get arnd to doing so :D

a mth and a little more and it'll be back to home again! time passes way too quickly

~missing my past weekend already

cali's on fire!!

santa ana winds
wind howling non stop
air is thick with smoke
sky is grey in colour
outside, car alarms go off due to the strong winds
a nice warm cuddle is missed at this sometimes scary moment
school remains closed
friends camping out at my place while schools is being evacuated
at home attempting to study
but
spend time cooking too much every time
fridge is now filled with leftovers enuf to feed an army!
shopping at nearby factory outlet :)
looking forward to another wonderful weekend coming up soon

hope the fire still continues so that school remains closed! heh

fire!

its been one hella crazy weekend!

did so much driving thks to having my mother in town.... then last nite i cldnt slp coz the santa ana winds were in town and it kept howling outside my window causing my car's alarm to go off at least twice!
and this morning i woke up to friends in my house coz they've been evacuated from school! hehe no school tmr!!!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
what happened was that telephone lines fell in the canyon next to school and started a huge fire! the church rite across from our school has been burnt down to bits
and coz of the crazy wind..... the fire even spread out to other parts of mid cali.

even up till now there's 0% containment and its already 10pm so hopefully school remains closed for awhile :D

its now all smokey outside with the air covered with smoke and we're even running the aircondition to ventilate the air in the house :)

haha and like my friend said its becoming an annual thing these bush fires :D

dessert cravings

i just read that my favourite dessert place back home is having a macaroon fest!!!!

JOHAN! both of us shd be there rite now!!!!

they are having all kinds of different macaroons and even serving macaroon high tea! and the box is sooooo cute! sigh i want to be home rite now............ will it be crazy for someone to send some to me here? im deprived of good desserts here :( haha i just thot of someone who's coming up soon but too bad he's not coming straight to LA......

i want macaroon..........

family weekend madness

it was my grandmother's 80th bday this weekend and like all indo family gatherings it was full of politics and drama sheesh....
and im exhausted! back to sanity now with 4 bruises and a cough and a little runny nose :p

dinner was held at the local library.....

the girls.....

the cute little girl is our niece!

the cousins that were present

the whole family minus about 20 others that cldnt make it

:)