Earrings........ I love making them Part 2

Here are more pictures of the earrings that I have made :) These are little Angels :) More????

Earrings...... I love making them :)

While creating the 2nd Tree of Life project, I took a break to make earrings. I love making earrings and once I have these ideas in my head I can practically make 8-10 different designs in one night. The first batch of earrings that I made were using round stones/crystals as the main focus. Here are only a few pictures as I have sold most of it to my colleagues. My colleagues gave me a lot of encouragement and this prompt me to make more and more. I am glad that they loves their purchases.

I have the craze to make earrings again and here is the latest creations....... all ready to be sold off and I must tell myself that I cannot take first or else I won't have anything to sell :) Do you find anything that you fancy?

Not another food blogger :p

The title says it all...... I am not another food blogger but I just gotta share some of the "makan" places that I consider as little gems and not known by many and my personal experiences. I loves food and who doesn't? This is such a silly statement :) My Crabby Experience It happened 2 months ago when I suddenly had so much urge to eat crabs (and its not my 1st time) and my dearest hubby (the nicest person in this whole wide world) "tar pau" 2 kilos of sweet and sour crabs from a coffee shop near my place for me and that's the only thing I ate for dinner 2 whole kilos of crabs and of course I drank almost all the gravy. You must be wondering why would someone drink gravy, yes that is my favorite part of the meal, to drink the gravy :) After having 2 kilos of crab and it still doesn't stopped the urge so the following day my hubby "tar pau" another 2 kilos of crabs for me for dinner and this time I requested for salted egg fried crabs. This time I remembered to take a picture of my dinner before diving in....... here you are the pix of my dinner :)

My urge is back....... I need another quick fix of eating crabs and this time it will be Thai Style fried crabs at Nong & Jimmy :) My eating "Rojak" journey :) Ok, here is another "makan" story. I love to eat Indian Rojak aka Pasembur since I was very young say 6 years old. My dad loves to eat Rojak and Mee Rebus. So, we used to frequent this chinese coffee shop located at the corner of a Jalan (I don't know the name of it) opposite Wilayah Complex when I was very young. We will go in to the coffee shop from the back door and there was my dad's favorite Rojak & Mee Rebus stall just outside the shop. We were allowed to order foods from the outside store. My siblings and I will usually ordered chicken or pork chops then my dad will order his mee rebus and rojak to share. Later on, we found another nice rojak & pork chop place right in town in a coffee shop a few lots away from Bangkok Bank. We like the rojak & western food here much better than the one near to my dad's office. We frequent this place so often back then till the shop owner changed hands and eventually the Rojak uncle passed away and the Western food operator stopped selling there. So, it was almost the end of the Rojak story for me coz I have eaten in so many places even the famous one at the Bangsar Mobile station could not replace the same feeling and taste of what I have tasted before. In 2007 when I worked in MAA @ Jalan Dewan Bahasa, my colleague introduced me to this little gem called "Belamy Rojak" and it tasted similar to what I have tasted before and I got hook on it ever since. Here is the pixs of my favorite "Rojak" meal and the "Mee Goreng" tasted quite nice too :P

My hubby & sons' favorite. My boy would eat it with toast like spaghetti on toast :)

Wow, the thick gravy that tasted sweet with a bit of burnt peanuts is so out of this world :) Can I have another plate, please :)

Tree of Life Necklace

I made the necklace using nylon or faux suede cords and that way the wearer can adjust the necklace to their desire length :)

Tree of Life Pendants

According to Wikipedia.com, the concept of Tree of Life has been used in science, religion, philosophy, mythology, and other areas and the meaning associated with it differs in different contexts. Mythologies, theologies and philosophies use the Tree of Life as a motif whereas others use it as a reference to evolution, life or creation. In folklore, culture and fiction, the Tree of Life is often associated with immortality or fertility. The symbol of the Tree of Life represents different qualities and virtues such as wisdom, strength, protection, beauty, bounty and redemption and sometimes as a symbol of the “Creator” which provides protection, supports abundant fruit production and thereby, regeneration. This analogy can also be used to describe the life of humans where humans develop 'roots' of beliefs, 'branch out' by means of wisdom and the 'trunk' (mind & body) keeps them connected. The Tree of Life meaning as perceived in different faiths, belief systems and cultures, resonates with a simple and strong message of unity. This symbol indicates that all forms of life are connected through a cosmic energy and that humans should live in harmony with rest of the living beings. As the interpretation of the Tree of Life is so diversified and profound, I too have infused such ideas or concepts into my pendant making where various types and colours of gemstones and crystals are mixed and matched to form beautiful and exquisite pendants. Each pendant created has its own uniqueness and exclusivity and no two pieces are of the same, which is my “interpretation” of the Tree of Life.

Something Happy :) 17 June 2012

I have finished making the necklaces for my tree of life pendants. I am happy that I have completed them. I took pictures of it and will upload to my blog once I have finish with the touch up :) I found some old pictures in my camera memory cards and there are pictures of the rings that I made for my ex-colleagues.

Lunch @ Paradise Dynasty, Paradigm Mall, PJ

Hi I am back..... I want to write about my experience visiting Paradigm Mall and lunch at Paradise Dynasty. We went to visit the mall on 2 June as my husband and son would like to visit the Toys R Us store to get triple points for purchases. We arrived at around 10.30am and there were still plenty of parking spaces. We noticed that not all shops were open that early. We walked about starting from the Ground Floor. We noticed that there were restaurants on every floors. When my hubby and son went to Toy R Us I went to a Japanese shop nearby. It's like Daisho but not everything is at RM5.00. I also visited a shop that sells very cute bags with picture of puppies and kittens (I cannot remember the name of the shop). The shop is having a promo for buy 1 free 1 of all items. I noticed that the smallest item in the shop i.e. a coin pouch was priced at RM39.90. Well, that's to me is pricey even for buy 1 free 1. Lunch we went to Paradise Dynasty restaurant, after much urging from my hubby who said he read about the writeup in the newspaper. One of the restaurant signature dish is multi color "xiao long pao". Definitely we ordered that dish together with some other dishes like drunken chicken, lai mien, pork ribs and etc. The chinese tea is FOC. Different color of the xiao long pau represent different flavors. However, we still like the original ones. Our overall experience, nice place (tastefully furnished), food is good (my favorite pork bone lai mien and the price - average to high :)