Moment in the making : Second Link bridge Penang

Stronger than the silhouette...indeed =)

See the second link bridge on the right side? Almost there....will be taking more once it is almost complete...

Yea you must be wondering where the photos of the bridge? hahahah

Will put it once we have captured all of them =)

Happy Wednesday !

** tomorrow is indeed special to me =)

My New year Weekend

Alhamdulilllah.

Hows New Year Weekend? 

I dont even have the time to post a lil note to wish all of you...but it's oke, considered this a post / belated entry from me specially for New Year yea =)

Last weekend was packed with lotsa activities...personal of course and not forgetting my work load is piling up the ceiling waiting for me to finish them up...Alhamdulillah, finished a few works..will upload one by one in my Scrapaperclip website...
if you are a reader of this blog, then you ought to take a peek at my other blog too oke (^^)

I also took some photos, bought a pair of shoes from YES (Year End Sale) which now has become my one of favourite hahahaha, been to the beach with my other half and lots more.

What do you think? I love it soooooo mucccch..I was so damn lucky coz when I arrived, the size 4 left only one...FOR ME hehe Alhamdulillah.

My other half secretly took this photo while I was texting one of my clients =)

Then I took some photos at the beach too..It was so packed..with people and foreigners !

 

 I love this photo =) 

All chirpy and smiling =)...

and I love these photos even more hehehehehe

Hope you have a wonderful and blissful Weekend with loved ones and 

....

Happy Belated New Year 

from me to you lovelies !!!

My Life's Blueprint : How to have a goal, and be sure you achieved it...a lil tips from the humble me =)

I had a brief comment exchange with Ryha Feyzal before I had this post published.

When she first wrote this comment to me saying:

"so inspiring, my dear! proud of you. one of the reason i suka baca blog u ialah i akan dpt motivasi utk achieve my dream bila baca goals di sebelah kiri blog u tu. happy becoming new year!!!"

 The first thing that hit me was " Should I share some tips to help ppl achieve their goals?" coz to know a person was inspired by this, it makes me feel so happy coz there is some one who actually appreciate what you have. 

Honestly, in my deepest heart I never published things for recognition, but it's for sharing...coz we dont get to experience a lot of things at one time, we grew by learning from our mistakes and other people's mistakes too..so it is important to share. 

Anyway I wanna share some tips on how I make sure I achieved some of my goals,.... if not many =)

I'm sure  you have read loaddddsss of books on goal achievements, heard tips from counselors, friends or parents perhaps but have you get at least one in head? Frankly, I had the same problem too when I first started

BUT what changed me is not their advices or book's tips, it's my need to have something.

See the word NEED?

You dont go making goals because you wanna have goals too,

You dont list things you want to achieve just because you feel empty or hopeless.

You dont dream flying high up the sky because you want to be in the crowd.

No you dont !

You make goals because you need them. 

For example...you feel hungry, you NEED to eat...so doesnt that drives you to eat?

Yes it does.

You have a car with a key, but can u drive a car without fuel even if you have the key? Definitely not. So in this case, fuel act as the motivation that drives you through it, smoothly...it's so important that without it, plans and goals are nothing but just a wish.


So once you have your target aimed which is your goal, now the next thing you need is a plan. When you are all excited to achieve goal (with that lil drive of motivation definitely) you can plan the route easily. It is like an automatic system that connects to each other.

The problem with most people is that they have goal, but lack of motivation so they cant plan and when there is no plan...the goal becomes a dream that will never come true. 


So remember this three !


A goal to aim
A need to drive it through and 
A plan to succeed.


All three are like brothers/sisters....can't leave without each other. You must have the urgency to achieve then only you will be able to fulfill all your dreams and visions.

I am posting this based on my personal experience. Might work with you, and might not. But if you are reading this, all you need to do is reflect back on the reasons why you cant achieve and see where are the areas that you need to improve. Just let me know if you have any problem or want to exchange ideas with me...I am all ear to listen to you sweetheart!

I will write next about ' How to plan your route to achieve your goals !!!' More on how to plan the journey. Maybe not in detail, probably briefly.

Feel free to comment and exchange with me yea.

Have a blast weekend and Happy New Year...(hope it is in time for you to read this and start listing your new goals for 2012)

Review on My Goals Through out 2011 !!!

Salam and Hello Lovelies and Handsomes =)

Wow.

It's almost at the end of the year ! Yes,Yes...it's December already ok. How time flies....really.

At one point I feel that I cant wait for next year's challenge but at the other point I feel totally nervous.

Why?

First I have so many wonderful plans for next year...and the downside is that I am finalizing my thesis (yg tak siap2 lagi tuh huh) by end of this month!!!!!! It's like a suicide but I am up to the challenge so I am here to gear up everything so that I am prepared for this month and ready to welcome 2012 with open heart.

I'm gonna review one by one if you see the list on your right side by it's number...from top to bottom oke.

 Most of my goals achieved this year are about my newborn business which I have started early this year. (though I started Perfumes and Art last year but this one was different - it's my artwork project ).

So here we go !

3 Goals Successfully Achieved in 2011

10# Have my own business and Design Card ! - ACHIEVED 17th November 2011

Yes. It has been completed and ready to be distributed on 17th November 2011. Just a day before I went for my interview with Food Digest ! I am so lucky to get it all done just in time coz I have been busy preparing for the interview. Though I am not a full time employee, but a full time student, I managed to have my own card ! You dont have to wait until you get a proper work to have a card, if you feel there is a need to have one, then just have it. It's a way to promote or networking so I guess it's pretty important especially when you have your own business. 

I design the card and send it to printing myself.. finding a good company to print a quality and affordable name cards can be pretty challenging...Alhamdulillah after weeks of searching I managed to pull over  =)

Value to learn : If you think it's necessary- Just do it.

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 82# Have my own design and art website - ACHIEVED 14th November 2011

Alhamdulillah. I am so grateful to be standing here with all the lil achievements. Last month on 14th November 2011, I have finally able to establish my own website with my own domain which I bought online, after a review from a friend. I did a lot or work in making this a reality. It's not as simple as saying 'I want to have a website'. To have one, you need a proper personal validation and organization. You must know the exact purpose of having the website and where it will lead and all. That's why producing it, is simple and easy as ABC but making sure it work perfectly well is totally different story.

A story that I personally proud of...Alhamdulillah.

Of course every success comes with the help from others. Directly and Indirectly. I cant thank enough to these people who have supported me in and out. Only Allah knows.

Do check my humble website : Scrapaperclip !

The website of which I am proud of....

Value to learn : Be confident with your work..Be proud of every single piece you do, no matter what people said, if you believe in yourself...the outcome is beyond imagination.

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 83# Be Featured in a Magazine/ Book or guest blogger in inspiring Website.

 I didn't foresee this to be coming so soon since I have just started my website and my artwork. 

I am grateful that  I get all the support needed and able to expand from one friend to another, from Penang to Johor...It's an achievement that I would never hoped to succeed coz it took a real hard-work to make a dream come true.

 Value to learn : If you have a dream and you put your mind to it, it will definitely come true...it takes patience to fulfill your dreams. Just work hard and be kind to others, InsyaALLAH things will eventually go your way.

 I think thats pretty much sums up the important events through out this year apart from struggling with some financial issues, family problems, getting my thesis done...all in all I am proud of what I have achieved even though it is not much/productive. I am hopping next year would be more challenging and I am able to explore more opportunities and places to gain better experience, InsyaALLAH. 




I hope I inspire you if not much =) 

p/s all in all i think this is year is not so much productive...need to add more next year...with new experience to gain...ganbatte!

The Vow Movie Trailer !

If your well-worn copy of "The Notebook" is beginning to skip, stutter and smoke in your player, may we recommend giving it a bit of a respite in favor of the upcoming romantic drama "The Vow"?

A tear jerking-movie definitely. As good as  The Notebook and Dear John ! I really cant wait since Channing Tatum is one of my fav hero =) I actually cried when I watch dear John huhu Lame...I know..but who cares.

Let's dig something out on one of the most anticipated movie of 2012 :

The Vow 

Cast
Rachel McAdams
Channing Tatum
Sam Neill
Scott Speedman
and Jessica Lange

Synopsis:
A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband endeavors to win her heart again.

Added Point : 
‘The Vow‘ is based on the real-life love story of the Mom and Dad Kim and Krickitt Carpenter who were married in 1993. Two months after their marriage, the couple’s car was hit from behind by a truck, leaving Krickitt in a coma and with amnesia after coming out of the coma. They later chronicled their story in a book called “The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story.

The Movie Sountrack/Theme Song
Enchanted by Taylor Swift !

Coming to theatres on Feb 2, 2012
For more go to their website : The Vow 

How much I love romantic movies :

Project: My mini garden high up the sky =)

 Level 17.
That's where I live.

Seems pretty impossible to have a garden, real garden I mean..with green grass covering the ground, roots crawling under the earth with no boundaries.

How unfortunate...if you think so.

But that's so not me....I shall turn the unfortunate events of life into something wonderfully fortunate hahaha

So since I have a very limited space, I have to arrange them neatly. Yes Neat is the keyword..you dont want all the spill over of soils and dead leaves on the floor right?

I been longing to take photos of the plants but since the vases are all ugly and dirty ( I take the plants from my house in Seberang Perai) so I have to wait until I managed to change the ugly vases =) ...Alhamdulillah...last week I successfully changed MOST of them! )

Tips to have a mini sky garden !!

1. Understand well the condition of your balcony, the size, whether or not your balcony is facing the sun or not, when it is facing the light and things like that.

2.  When you go to nursery : be sure to survey first before picking up the fav plant. Find plants that suits you best, if you prefer all green then look for some mini shrubs and etc.

3. Be sure to ask the owner on how to take care of it, the water consumption, fertilizers and etc...Like me,  I usually purchase plants that do not require much attention, easy to grow, and stand strong on sunlight (since my balcony is so damn hot due to direct sunlight in the morning)

4. Pots : When you are looking for pots to change make sure you find a suitable pot that can sustain the growth of your plant (long term) Find pots that matches with your existing pot, or at least of the same theme colour...when you have all pots of the same combination of colours it will enhance your garden, rather than mix and match sort of arrangement. It's UGLY.

5. When you are arranging the potted plants, make sure the arrangements are easy to maintain, like easy for you to sweep or pick up the dried leaves etc...you dont want it to look crowded at one side.

6 . Last but not least , be sure to water and fertilize your plants when required !

So lets take a look...

So technically I arrange the potted plants at the corner of the balcony. When I buy the pots, I make sure that the colours of the pots are more or less the same. So for this particular project, I want white to be the main thing here. I maximized white to enhance the mini sky garden =)

So lets take another close up look at the plants =) (some of them =))

 I love this creepy crawlie...unfortunately it's in a pot..I think if I transfer the plant to the ground Im sure it's going to crawl endlessly.....and probably have more flowers hehe

This is my baby Aloe Verra...last 2 weeks I saw this baby in the mother pot..so I thought I need to take this baby out and have it's own vase.

This is my fav pot with my fav plant. I called this pokok ubi (heh not sure of it's local and scientific name...I dont care) The green leaves of the plant compliments the white pot...Aww how lovely it is.

This is what I called my Accidental Lychee tree...The other day I ate lychee my mum brought home from China, I ate and threw the seed in the existing pots, next thing I know I grew taller and taller...2 seeds for 2 lychees baby tree =)
I wonder if it's going to bare real lychees hahahah

 This is the mother of my baby aloe...Last time I bought it was only 3 branch (oh what ever they called the leave) now I think it grew double or triple than before...Alhamdulillah...

And not forgetting my fav hanging potted plants...I love the hanging plants, make me feel so at ease everytime I look at it...I think I'm gonna add more to this collection...InsyaALLAH.

Oh and my mum bought recently....a pot of rose, she said my garden looks a lil pale, so she wanted to add colours to it...It took only 2 days for all the flowers to bloom beautifully at my sky garden =)

Day 1

Day 2

Another close up which I just cant get enough =)

So what do you think? need advice for your mini sky garden? Ask me !
It seems my love for art dont only ends on pen and papers...Im gardening toooo....+)

Cheerios !

My favourite bracelets

Salam, Greetings and Hello to all my lovely readers !

How's your holiday?

I hope it was a blast...mine was nice but a lil bit drain.

I just came back from my hometown in Seremban...arrived past midnight so you can tell that it's pretty tiring =)

While on my journey to Seremban I managed to snap some photos of my favourite bracelets =)

Been longing to snap photos of all my accessories but I dont have that extra time to do it...so I guess I start of with this one first oke =)

FYI I am a big fan of accesories...from necklace, pendants, bracelets and rings or even brooch =)...made of all kinds, from gemstones to wire (^^)

 I have been wearing this watch for 5 years...alhamdulillah still good as it was the first time...only need to change the battery..It was a gift from my mother on my birthday =)..not really an expensive watch but It means the world to me..not wearing it seems like I lost some part of me...thats how important the watch to me...=)

As you can see I am wearing the watch, the tiger eye stone bracelet and another handmade bracelet (I dont know the material used) all on my left hand side. All of which I bought at the flea market =) located at the uptown Penang road =).

The above 2 photos are justsome techniques I used to edit hehe love the effect on the 2 photos above. So this one particular bracelet too is one of my fav...always wear this one on my right hand...a handmade bracelet I bought at a flea market sometime ago. It took her almost 2 weeks to complete this one. 

I have 2 colours of this bracelets; one is red and the other is pink =)//love them both!

*** If you are interested I can get one for you =) comes in two colours..red and pink.

Erm thats all for now..will get my post on the 2011 review soon!

So stay in touch..if you wanna exchange link, please leave your comment here oke...I am all happy to exchange with each and everyone of you =)

Cheerios !!!

The Read by Asian Geographic : Magazine review lagi best dan mantap !

As extracted from The Read website :

" Launching in 2011, ASIAN Geographic the read is dedicated to providing entertaining and educational stories from around Asia. Sit back, relax and learn about the people, food, culture and language of the region."

I just bought today at a bookstore and all I can say....I fall in love the first time I lay my hands on it !!!

This magazine is so damn inspiring...short, simple full of wonderful graphic and general knowledge...this magazine is a must for those who are dying for a simple and leisure reading and yet gain knowledge through it.

The front cover of the  6th issue for this year...finally issue for 2011

The best thing about this magazine are :

1. Just launched this early this year...so you dont missed the coolest and wonderfulness that much since you can still catch up !

2. This magazine is bi-monthly..but I think starting 2012 they are going to publish 8 issues rather than 6 issues compared to 2011.

3. All the information/ facts are stated with good graphics, very fun and colourful. Straight forward and compact too! ( I dont enjoy reading lengthy information or fact details)

4. This magazine is compact, easy to carry around in your handbag. 

5. This magazine is divided in 3 sections which include : Relax/Experience, Aspire and Digest

6. The quality of the magazine is superb, the paper used is good quality selling at only Rm16/ issue...better paper quality than Reader's Digest ( oke maybe I exaggerate this hehe )

So why wait more...go get the copy now coz it's already in stores near you....!!!

I am soooooooooooooooooo gonna go regular with this one....adding to my ' must have magazines every month' hehe  ( siap suruh the bookstore simpan satu tiap2 bulan keluar okeh ! hehe)

Lets see some of the content I have taken personally =)

Nice huh?

and the best part is this one !!!!

Word smarttttt Im so in love with this section =))))))

Cheerios and have a blast weekend....hope you succeed in getting this copy ! 

Start the search now babeh !!!