Happy Birthday Bunny!

This is one of my favourite creations. Hm...having a cup cake would be nice...

My creation of the day

Wanna guess what occasion this is for?

First collection...

Art and Craft

Ever since I have made my first Mother's Day card, I'm more and more into this craft.

Bought quite a few different paper, rubber stamp, paper trimmer, stickers....With that much $, I can certainly buy many many cards!

So far I have made Mother's Day, Father's Day, Anniversary and a Graduation card.
And I just finished a Wedding card today.

The card itself is not too difficult to make. I'm still using very basic technique such as trimming and rubber stamping. They are not complicated at all. However, the design process is very time consuming: Selecting different paper source, matching colour etc. Perhaps I just don't have a very crafty and creative mind?

I'll post some pictures later on.

Happy Mothers' Day

I'm so glad that my mom is acutally here during Mothers' Day.
She's back on Saturday night. So I was super busy doing final clean up during the day.

And here's my first attempt for handmake greeting card.


My other gift includes this beautiful chair for the dressing table:


30% off from Bombay. Good deal! :)

Portland Trip

This is the time of the year which I have an excuse to go shopping in Portland again. :) I even took a day off in lieu of my over time work during Easter Holiday.

The ideal would be go there Friday night, then shop both Saturday and Sunday.

Just later we realized that it's MIL's birthday on Saturday. So we had family dinner on Saturday night. Can't even go there on Saturday...oh well.

Finally, we take off on Sunday morning.

Had dinner in cheese cake factory again. The Oreo cheesecake is very good! Not too heavily taste.

Since I didn't get in touch of my other shopping buddies. I was preparing to take the sky train to downtown by myself the next day. Luckily, I bump into them when I head back to hotel. They are all "blowing water" (I mean chit-chatting) at the entrance (yeah...no smoking inside). So I am going to meet them tomorrow and go shopping together.

After breakfast, it started to rain a little bit. So instead of walking to the bus stop, one of us asked another guy who is not going to the track event to give us a ride to downtown. Turn out we only have about 3 hours for shopping. And I really hold myself from buying antoher LV bag. End up bought a box of Aveda tea bag ($5 cheaper than Canada) and candle, 2 tops for $30 and another Bebe pants for $35 (after 50% off the sales price). And definitely, I'm going to remember the wives' name (Suna and Lily) from now on. We had some interesting conversation on the topic of marriage and love. And I'm glad that I don't need to speak English this time!

After the track event, we went to costco and a European style plaza and had dinner there. Didn't buy much though.

Overall I think I have spent $260 but most of them are household items. Not bad eh?

Portland International Raceway




Bridgeport Village:


We had dinner in Pastini Pastaria
The dinner portion is just right. Finally I found a restaurant in the States that doesn't serve super size dishes! I love the pasta there! Definitely will go back again.

	Baked ziti with grilled Italian sausage $8.95 Hearty ziti al forno with our grilled Italian fennel salsiccia and tomato-cream sauce, topped with parmesan
	Bucatini con molta carne $10.25 Bolognese meat sauce with grilled Italian sausage and two of our savory handmade meatballs

Sun Run 2008

I knew the result will not be that great this year. First I didn't practise much (just started 2 weeks before). And I have gained weight over the past year.

I tried to keep my pace, didn't stop much at the water station. Instead, I stopped about 3 minutes to take off my jacket (the zipper got stuck). While the first 5k is on par with the practice run time, the last 5k is mixed with stopping and "resting". I can't even run up Cambie bridge on the last 1km. At first I thought the start time was 9:29am (didn't bring my stop watch or iPod, just use my cell phone for timing). I was excited for a moment because my result would be around 68 minutes. But later I found out that the start time is actually 9:19am....so it means the total time is around 78mins. Actually, it's not too far from my practice run time, since it's usually 40 minutes for 5k.

I didn't take too many pictures this year. And I didn't get there early enough to be right behind the start line like last year.

OK...here is my final result:
ChipTime Overall SexPl DivPl AgeGrade
1:16:06 25819 12013 1654 39.9%

Compare with last year:
ChipTime Overall SexPl DivPl
1:11:27 22801 10075 1409