joy eats

after seeing joyce's and anais' scrapbook, i was inspired once again to pick up my old hobby of scrapbooking!
bought a bunch of new stuff from joanne and michaels this weekend since every craft material was 40% off. then this morning, i went down to my storage room and digged out all the old tools and papers...




and here are all the stuff i need to make one scrapbook. =D








i decided to start with my japan trip in 2001. a huge target.... because i was there for 3 months, so i have a ton of pictures just for that trip.






and these are the rest of the trips from my pre-digital camera era that awaits to be in a scrapbook....











i don't even want to think about my post-digital camera days, because since i got my digital cameral last year i stopped caring if i was "wasting film". so i think i took about 3000 pictures for my london/spain trip... hm.. i might need two books just for that.

cute story that happend at work on fri:
during snack time jonathan in my class wanted a second serving. so the teacher who had the snack trays told him that she would cut the last muffin we had into 6 little pieces, and each of the children could have more. she thought she might just take this opportunity to teach the kids about fraction, so everytime she cut the muffin she made a point to show how the muffin pieces would multiply. the children watched intenselywhile yelling out the number of new pieces it made. Then out of no where, jonathan yelled out in excitement "wow, teacher, you can be just like Jesus!" i couldn't help to laugh out loud.... too cute.

at night, i had maria and karen over for their be-lated birthday dinner. we had a fondue meal with orange duck and mediterranean salad.














one thing that i was a bit disappointed about was the green tea cupcakes.














some of you who were my taste testers know that i've tried three different recipes before presenting them to the birthday girls. but it still didn't turn out as flavorful as i had wanted them to be. i'm not much of a baker because i've never been good with following instructions, but this one i'm determine to perfect, haha....
actually i want to try making prime rib too, anybody want to volunteer to be my taste testers? =p

btw, thanks to karen, who figure out the puzzle that i had, so all the pieces fit neatly now. =)














here are more pictures from maria & karen's b-day dinner
oh i finally uploaded pictures from the scavenger hunt from last week also.

congrats to the newlywed!

some highlights from the weekend:
1) there were lots of funny things that happend in the girls hotel room.. one of such you would have to look at karen's smugmug. and some of which i'll keep private, but let's just say that it didn't smell too nice in there....

2) la traffic really sucks.. but riding in crystal's pt cruiser killed half of the pain.

3) minor mishap at the wedding... the audience stood for maria's entrance. =)

4) a conversation from the acura;
b: "joy's out because of food coma." (announced to the other cars via walkie talkie)
j: "well, no food coma, i have cramps." (while fainting in and out from the pain)
b: "ah, do you need to stretch?"
j: "huh? no not that kind of cramps."
b: (silence)
oh bob.. maybe we should have gotten that book for you.




here's a picture of the happy couple
















the gorgeous bride and her bridesmaids
















the church was so dark that this was the only picture that came out ok.... =(
































canaan girls doing silly poses













yay a kissing picture!

















here's crystal getting down.















more pictures from the wedding

well it was a beautiful day; wonderful ceremony, gorgeous bride, pretty flowers, yummy cake, and lots of blessings, what more can you ask for. =)