Truly thankful

Had the shock of my life when mum called during lunch saying, "Dear, don't panic. Dad's been admitted to XXXX Hospital. He had a mild heart attack just now. Come over to the hospital as he's going to undergo surgery soon. Drive safe, don't panic."

At that moment, I was more than shocked and panicky.

I just couldn't believe that my dad, someone whom I've always regarded as invincible is sick. :(

I immediately called my care group leader as well as my other church friends, requested for them to activate the prayer link, hoping that our prayers will bring about total and swift healing and protection for my dad.

As i was driving to the hospital, all i could think of was flashback to what I've said to dad yesterday morning. I didn't even tell him that i love him. :(
Memories of the times he spent sharing stories and giving me countless advice came flooding back.

I was crying, and praying to God as i was driving.

Upon arrival at the hospital, mum informed that she has signed the documents and that the doctor is attending to dad. Not long after, the doctor informed that he has performed balloon engioplasty and that dad is doing well.

Thank God! Thank God!

Dad's now out of ICU and he's doing well. :)

Appreciate if you could continue praying for my dad for his full and swift recovery. Am also praying for favour that we'll be able to claim our insurance - there seem to be some difficulties.

Thank you for your well wishes dearest friends.

xoxo
Carrie

New job, new life..

To those of you who do not know about it...

Well, last Friday was my last day with T*ylor's. And i had a hard time leaving some of the most wonderful friends I've made during my time at LCS.

Though my time there (at the campus) was only for 6 months, it was the best 6 months I ever had.

My friends were simply the kind I love hanging out with.

So, why did i choose to leave?

Well, many reasons actually...but i shall not dwell into details.

One of them is that I've gotten a better offer. One which gives me the opportunity to lead and I find I'll emerge a better person after this.

Had a fantastic farewell party with my mates last Friday nite at Poppy. Gosh, it's been a long while since we've last clubbed. :)

Am gonna be pretty busy these few weeks as I've just started my new job today. Gonna be undergoing training after training.

ciao meows~

Time for Tea and Cake

To all Anya Hindmarch lovers out there...

It's time to hit the Anya Hindmarch, Suria KLCC outlet this coming 18 - 20 Nov, for a fabulous tea and cake party.

What could be better than feasting your eyes with quirky signature arm candies and indulging in yummilicious cakes?

I'm so tempted to RSVP and confirm my attendance...but but I might not be able to take leave as I'll be starting my new job on the 17.

So, over to you gals. I'll give it a miss. Let me know if you want the invi.

The very belated birthday celebration with the cheemuis

No no, don't be mistaken. I'm not a October bday girl. :P

For those of you who have been following my blog for some time now, you'd recall that my birthday falls in the month of April.

And every year, I'll have staggered celebration with different ppl - my family, my cheemuis, my best friends, my chums from work, my ex-colleagues, etc.

This year, I've celebrated with

my family, chums from work 1, chums from work 2, my best friends, and the ex.


After many moons of not being able to settle on a date to celebrate, we've finally decided to do a double celebration.


So there, 2 weeks ago, we finally celebrated our
'30.5 years old birthday celebration for me, and belated birthday celebration for Cindy'.


We went to Mizu in Plaza T.T.D.I. for some Japanese fine dining cuisine.

Mon and Men

Thanks for organising everything gals. Love you. xoxo

The 2 birthday gals. :)

It's been a while since we've last updated each other with our happenings. And we had such a good time catching up and doing silly stuff.

The following photos are priceless!

I was keeping the gals abreast on my latest beau/love life (which is nothing much, really :p)..and my face turned tomato red after too much interrogation.

Soft shelled crab handroll

My sakura chirashi don

Mon's sake ikura don

Cindy and Men both ordered unajyu

Ebi tempura

Thanks to Chef Patrick for the yummilicious green tea cake. The green tea macaroon complemented the cake so well. I'm so craving for more..










Welcome to the club Cindy! You're officially 30 and fabulous! :p





Mon and Men got us gifts from Tomei.






Oooh..I've got a pair of heart-shaped peridot earrings.
Cindy's got a tear drop shaped light blue stone (sorry, i don't know what stone it is) earrings.





Time to put those new blings on.






Ta-dah!






Off to Eckywoobee for some passionfruit flavoured beers. Mmmmm..




Love you gals!

Ocean's 11 @ Taylor'sWood Academy Award

Sorry it took me so long to upload these videos. Had to wait for a friend to edit our pre-recorded videos (all the part 1's) before I could upload onto youtube.


Enjoy!

Act 1: Part 1






Act 1: Part 2

Please ignore the horrendous mic jutting outta my skirt.







Act 2: Part 1






Act 2: Part 2

Act 3: Part 1





Act 3: Part 2

So You Think We Can Act?? ;p

Halloween dance party @ Celebrity Fitness

My gym mate, Elinna actually informed me a week ago, "Carrie, next Thursday there's gonna be a Halloween party. So come dressed up ya. The theme is black and anything scary!"

And I was like, "hrmm...scary eh? I'll think about it. But i can't dance in heels for our class though. So, I'll definitely be wearing my gym gear."

So there, no glam glam clothings cos i'll be wearing my trainers, I decided. Actually, i was also plain lazy i guess. :P

Anyway, time passed rather quickly and without realising it was already Wednesday when I realised I had not prepared anything at all. Zilch~

What made it worse was that I've got a belated birthday celebration dinner with my gal pals that night. Meaning: that leaves me with no other option but to get whatever I could get my hands on during lunch break.

Went to the textile shop in Carrefour during lunch and bought a metre of black mesh material. Cost me only RM4.20 :P

Got home from dinner and drinks around 1am and I was actually pretty wiped out cos I've been going out pretty often these past weeks.

Hence, trying to come up with a creative head piece was the last thing on my mind. -_-

I think the fact that i was so tired made me put in very lil effort to make my veil. It only took me like 5 mins to sew it altogether. Maybe being tired makes me an extremely easy-to-please person. Either that or I become more productive with very lil time in hand.

My gung-ho gym mates getting their ghoulish make up done.

Emma and I. We actually got ready in front of a huge mirror by our lockers. All done pretty quickly too.

Emma is this young secondary school student who has what it takes to dance. I enjoy her company in our classes.

Oh btw, everyone could tell i was the Corpse Bride. So pls don't ask me what's my character ya. :P








All set and ready to party.






In the studio.

With Baby G (Gillian and Tomas came up with a fantastic choreo for our Halloween theme), Lynn, Emma and Diva.

Pre-dance photo opp.

We reckon we should take a photo before the make-up get smudged and melt.

Break time

With Diva and Elinna.

Diva helped me with my make up, she kept saying that I didn't put enough make up on my eyes. In the end, she applied heaps on my eye lids for me.

And yes, please ignore the slight belly here. I'm feeling rather fat these days cos somebody's been feeding me supper almost everynight :P.

Post dance photo opp.

Love this pix! :)





Morina the devil, with Lynn.




With my favourite instructor of all time, Tomas Mendez.

I will definitely miss him when he leaves Malaysia for Spain in Jan. :(


So, how was your Halloween? I'd love to hear from you. :)