Ribbon Embroidery Class...

“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.” - Mitch Albom

Today I got a chance to meet up with blogger friends for Ribbon Embroidery class at Maklang's Royal Domain apartment, which is next to my Putramas apartment. What a coincidence! Salwa and Ainaa joined me as early as 9.00 a.m. and we completed learning basic stitches way after 1 p.m. Time flies when we were having so much fun!

(My first attempt on ribbon embroidery)

(Salwa's pretty tulips - still work in progress)'

Thank you Maklang for being so patience with us.

Hot Chocolate...

"Happiness needs sadness. Success needs failure. Benevolence needs evil. Love needs hatred. Victory needs defeat. Pleasure needs pain..."

A snippet from a forwarded e-mail:

Life is like hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us.

God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of what they have.

Major repairs...

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone…”- Dorothy Parker

(View from the back of the chalet)

On the way back to our kebun Sg. Rambai, we stopped at Excel Training Centre at Broga to check on the team-building program attended by half of my staff. By the look of things, they were having so much fun. We didn’t stay too long and later took the Seremban-Melaka old road, stopped to eat the famous cendol Leman Dawi and reached our kebun late afternoon.

The whole afternoon, we tried our skills in carpentering and managed to assemble a few planks into make-shift steps for the chalet. The original steps had rotted and fallen apart long time ago. Next day, he bush-cut around the chalet. I excused myself from doing heavy work because of my back-ache and managed to clear some dried leaves. The chalet needs a new paint and some repairs. We'll think about all this after we return from our 4x4 trip to Phuket and Songkhla this coming CNY holiday....

A few pics taken around the chalet.

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(View from the side window)

(The water tank)

(A wishing well?)

The Majestic Taj Mahal - A Love Story...

"If you want to travel quickly, go alone; if you want to travel far, go together..."

(The Taj Mahal)

A love story

An eternal love story, so magical
Against the blue sky, white marble sparkles
The reflecting pool, so mesmerizing
A symbol of love, forever endearing…