The Precious White Christmas, 12/25/09

Wish everyone a peaceful and joyful Merry X'mas! Isn't he is handsome, cute and adorable? ^_<

To be continued... :)

Oh ya...I'm back! I hope everyone has a wonderful X'mas and New Year. Although it was a little late, but I would like to share and update about what had we done during the X'mas holidays. Well, we didn't really do many activities, except friend gathering, cooking together, playing wii for the new game Super Mario Bros (emm....this is the only video game that I enjoyed alot!!!)....we did'nt even have the chance to buy the X'mas gift exchange as it was snowing the few days before the X'mas, on the X'mas eve and X'mas as well...so, we were stucked at our friend's Eunice place, and couldn't go anywhere else, as there was abt 20" snow accumulated! The only thing we can do is with the SNOW! We played snow war, made a little cute snowman (the pic showed above), the snow snow snow!!! :)

One thing we did on the X'mas eve was the one I would like to share with you all. We got the chance to go a church. Thanks to our friend, Kevin, a Indian born M'sian friend who is a sincere christian, he actually inviting us to go with him. I go to church, I guess just few times when I was still a kid...but this time, we really had a wonderful experience counting down the X'mas in a church, which I never done this is my past life! The church just located about 30 mins from the St.Paul city, it was a large, simple but beautiful church. We're able to see how christians passed the X'mas eve. We just followed what everybody was doing...we sang Holly Carol Songs, the father was having the holly speech praising the Jesus, and I see people were praying to the God, to repent and get the forgiveness from God.

Looking back myself, I asked myself if I'm that sincere to my God too. Anyhow, I really felt peaceful in the church. When I was in the church, I looked at the wooden Jesus cross, I prayed to him, for the peace of the world, with no wars, no natural disasters, but harmony and loves. I prayed!

A little something about Kenny G

...We heart Kenny G...

We had a good, memorable, beautiful experience attending Kenny G's live performance. And, we got to know a little more baout Kenny G's background. Kenny G was born in Seattle, Washington. He was a Jewish, started learning saxophone when he was 11. Kenny G is in the Guinness World Records for holding the longest sustained note on a saxophone: 45 minutes, 47 seconds...this is COOL isn't??? He even showed us how he was able to inhale and blowing the saxophone at the same time, meaning to inhale to exhale at the same second, he called it circular breathing, and he used more than 20 years in practicing this technique...try it, I can't do this! :P

He was just standing less than 5 feets in front of me :) We got a nice seat!

Kenny G and his band, some of the band members were his high school friends, they have been playing music together for more than 27 years!

LKM and I were get to talk to him while getting his signature, we're so proud to tell him that we're from Malaysia :P ....He was kind of gentleman and handsome (or I should say Man :) ), when I asked him if I can shake his hand, he replied with his smiley face: oh yeah, sure...finally, I got a handshake with Kenny G! How good if I don't need to wash my hand! ;)

Kenny G's Live Concert

LKM is the biggest supporter for classical music, and I personally like saxophone alot, especially to Kenny G. I'm always his no.1 BIG fan! We have almost all his CD records soundtrack and mp3. Everlasting, Forever in Love, Jasmine Flower, The Champion's Theme, The Moment, The Wedding Song...etc are some of my favorites.

This Sunday, I will be seeing him in person, his live concert. I just couldn't believe that I do have the chance to meet this Super STAR, it's so hard to express my , wordless to tell how happy and excited I am!***I'm so TOO excited***, really! I was telling my best friend, SM..."this is Kenny G you now...Kenny G, Kenny G...not play play...I'm seeing Kenny G this Sunday!"...She was joking that I made her feel more exciting now! :P

It's hard to believe that few weeks ago LKM was asking me if I want to go for Kenny G's live concert, as I missed out the Jim Brickman's one he attended. Today, I was writing a post about Kenny's G and only 48 hours later, I will be seeing him in person. Excuse me if I sound overly excited, but it truly was a miracle for me. If I were in M'sia, I don't know if I will be able to go for his concert, nor even meet him in live.

I really appreciate it. I thank LKM for treating me, as one of the B'day gifts of mine... ;)

It would be great if I able to get his signature, or perhaps a handshake. It's overwhelming and very, very touching...isn't???

A very thankful Thanksgiving!

A very meaningful, thankful, colorful 2009 Thanksgiving celebration with a bunch of friend! This year, we celebrated the Thanksgiving at a friend, Eunice's place. But why is it so meaningful??? This probably will be the last gathering for few friends as they will be graduating and leaving St Cloud to other states, and back to M'sia as well. And very Yippie that we have no turkey for the dinner, everything is vegetarian...we have an American and Indian new friend're joining us this time......lastly, we managed to celebrate Richard's belated B'day as well!

Arrival the night before the Thanksgiving!

Back from grocery on the Thanksgiving morning...

Preparing Tiramisu for Richard!!!

The chef & his new assistant busying wrapping 'yong fu zuk'...the most yummiest dish!

It was really fun & memorable!

hehe...the Cinderella doing the cleaning...

SS cooking her famous TomYam fried mihun...

the colorful & adorable cups...

-Eunice,Calvin & SS-

Alvin & Eunice

me+LKM+our adopted daughter =p

the sweet & cute couple...KY & Max

...ta-da...beside these...we had hotpot on another table...

Last but not least...the girls in balck+blue...we just came out everyone wearing black and blue, amazing!!!

Dear friends, I know I gonna miss you all very much for sure! Good luck to you all for the future undertakings, do keep in touch, and Love you all! :)

My new project...

It has been a long long time I didn't knit, since 5 years ago- a scarft for my buibui. This year the cold weather visited MN earlier than usual, and I decided to knit one for an aunt here as X'mas gift. She is about 60 years old, instead everyone said she looks like 40 something, which I strongly agreed. Everyone loves her, for her kind, generous, noble-spirited, and beautiful heart. I got her a mixed-colors yarn, with the combination of blue, purple, pink, yellow and green. Just like her colorful and meaningful life! =)

Raspberry Cream Torte

If I would have a chance, I wish I can take a baking course in the future...

Early snow in the fall...

This year, we had snow earlier than the regular season, two snows within 3 days. Supposely, Oct is the season for beautiful orange-yellow leaves, but now we see the snow in the fall. As you can see from the picture, the trees are still green and red. A friend of mine said that we don't really have summer but fall, and no fall but winter in MN...which I think it is very true...I think...I'm a strong polar bear XD