Sunday, May 24, 2009

Zhejiang to Yunnan Province

We started our adventure out of the apartment in the evening of 23 March.....

Rozi acted as my special sherpa..... before heading to the railway station...one of the items in the bag.....dried beef rendang and rice cube...LOL....

Waiting for our D109 fast train to Changsha

Rozi insisted that I took the photo to show the train speed...that was at 199km/hour....





We reached Changsha Railway early morning of 24th March....the ticket for early morning train to Kunming was sold out...we gotta wait for 8:30am train and camped out at the McD next to railway station for nearly 7 hours......however, there a a few motels and hotels within minutes walking distance nearby but we decided to wait instead since there were not many people around the station (that was truly backpacking experience!!).....






We managed to get soft bed shared with a local couple from Suzhou......so I have to put on my hijab while sleeping....my first experience but I slept comfortably may be too tired to think of other things!!.......Rozi was on upper deck and it was quite funny since we were chatting in Bahasa Malaysia talking about the couple doing lovveeyy dooveyyy stuffs until both of us fell asleep.........it was a very memorable 22 hours train ride from Changsha to Kunming city........






These are some of the photos taken from the train ride.......some mountainous scenery near Guizhou...











Somewhere near Kunming.....









TBC...........




















































































Friday, May 8, 2009

Mother's Day Card Exchange........

Thanks to my swap partner....this card had safety reached me....I like her creativity....very sweet and simple.......I place it on top of my table in the office and it has been an envy of my colleague.....


Unfortunately I had forgotten to snap the photo of my piece before I mailed it out.....arrrgghh....

Happy Mother's Day to all beautiful and loving mother out there.......hope you have a very memorable day and full of love............

Monday, May 4, 2009

Good bye Hangzhou...

These are my final photos before I bid farewell to Hangzhou on 1st April 2009........





A view from underneath a willow tree at West Lake


Very common view of West Lake, Hangzhou

Me and the spring flowers .....

Will write on my backpacking adventure to Lijiang, Shangri La and Kunming in Yunnan soon.....

Baking local delicacy

I guess you must be wondering why I wrote quite a bit journal updating my latest activity today. The main reason behind it is that it was done while waiting for my "kuih bakar" in the oven....LOL.....On my recent trip back to Kuantan, my mother in law gave me the mould for making this local delicacy since she is no longer using it. I have been wanting to have this mould so much but could not find any near my home. I never knew that my MIL keep a piece in her kitchen. I am so happy that I inherit hers now ....ha....ha........this is the outcome....guess no so bad for the first timer!!



Very simple recipe...I just use 8 whole eggs, sugar, small portion of flour, coconut milk, a small bowl of sugar and pandan syrup extracted from blended pandan leaves. Mix altogather and pour into the mould. Set the temperature to 150-200 then baked it for 15 minutes. That's it!

My WIP for April/May 2009

These are some of my latest WIP......enjoy!!!






I am using DMC color variation on 14ct special DMC fabric (not sure for the right name though!). I choose a freebie design from my favorite designer, Aurelle and Kissy Cross.

Finally, a colorful biscornu......


This is the RE for my Mother's Day card exchange, in fact, I had finished stitching them and need to assemble it on the card....the dateline is on 06th May....and I have not finish the final pieece....arrgggghhhhhhhhhh................


Swap with Nina

As promised, I would like to share with all of you the package I received from Rita in Hungary for Swap with Nina. Rita stitch a very lovely pinkeep and small scissor fob for me. Her works is very fine and exquisite. She also send me a card printed with colorful roses. Thanks Rita for all the nicest stuff you send me and feel very lucky receiving them!






My partner for the swap is also from Hungary. I stitched a floss tag and one small scissor fob for Carol. I send her some cotton fabric, my hand dyed floss, small coin purse and an earring hand made by a native in ShangriLa, Yunnan. I was really behind dateline. I hope the package had reached her safely. I have to apologize as my piece does not really turn out so well since I am stitching them in between my travelling and moving back to Malaysia. Yeaaahhh...lesson learned!! I should not sign up for the swap in the first place.....

Update on my LHN "COMFORT"

As I said earlier, I had made quite a good progress on this one. I am not sure whether I should make this piece into a pinkeep or just sew it togather with hardboard and frame it. I don't usually set my final piece when I start stitching them ..LOL.....












Now I may need to dig the boxes for my Coffee & Tea Thead Pack and start choosing which fabric to stitch them. On the other hand, Diane had just introduce the Little Women Virtue Series in February, they are so very sweet!. Of course, that would be my next pick for my future stash (but not so soon...maybe much later this year....). Got to make full use of my Coffee & Tea thread pack first before I start buying new set. I always adore Diane's creativity!!




Saturday, April 11, 2009

Life, Reading & Stitching.....

Hi Again...thanks for checking on me!

Sorry for not being able to write often. I have not been logging in since February. Have seen the number of follower been increased....I am happy o know that there are people out there enjoying my writing! Thanks !!!

I have been away travelling and busy moving back to Malaysia after nearly one and a half year living alone in China. Thank god its finally over and I managed to keep my relationship with Rozi and the children even stronger. I finish off my work contract end of January and back to Malaysia for a while. Then flew back middle of March to sort out packing my stuffs into boxes. As usual, Rozi was very helpful, a week after I flew to China he came to help me packing and I returned his good deed by treating him to a journey to Shangri La, Yunan. We backpacked for 6 days visiting Kunming, Lijiang and Shangri La on our own. Later on, I hope to have a chance to write on our adventure with some beautiful pictures here.

Despite of being busy travelling, working and juggling my time between work and family, I managed to finish quite a number of books since my last update, Till We Meet Again by Lesley Pearse, For One more Day by Mitch Albom, The Ultimate Guide to Umrah by Abu Muneer Ismail Davids and Haj Travelog by Mohamad Kamil Ibrahim. I am glad that I am finally able to start reading some book on visiting Mecca and Madinah. I have been trying very hard to improve myself to be better Muslim and keep hoping Allah will answer my prayers. I am truly bless with good life and always thankful for that!!

On my stitching front, I mailed out my piece for Swap with Nina 2 weeks behind date line....I hope the package had arrived Hungary in good order. Thanks to Nina for your understanding!. My partner Rita, send the package on time and she made me beautiful pinkeep and small scissor fob. She also send a copy of cross stitch magazine from Hungary. I love them all! Thanks Rita! I took the photos but too lazy to climb the stair to get the camera and upload the photos here....will do that in my next entry.......

I have two more stitching swap to be complete, a biscornu for Lynn at Stitching Fingers in UK and a Mother's Day card for a local stitcher. I use RE for the card and finished it off while I was off for Labor Day weekend in Kuantan. I also need less than 30 min stitching to complete my "COMFORT" thread pack. I guess after all it's not to bad as I managed to complete quite a bit of reading and stitching at the same time.

I may not be able to write often after this as I might be busy preparing my self for some soul searching for my spiritual journey to Mecca (with god will!!...)...I hope to be able to spend more time doing my prayers and fasting whenever possible, and subsequently making a change in life towards being a better Muslim. I am also feel very grateful that Rozi had taken my good intention positively and willing to be part of it........ but nevertheless, I will try my best to allocate sometime to write if the opportunity arise......

I hope to share with all of you the beautiful photos of my backpacking adventure to Yunnan in my next journal. Till then....happy stitching and may god bless all of you with good life and lots of love............



Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Where have I been???

Hi All....sorry for my long silence....I am still in Malaysia....so what have I been up to?? Gosshh...beside busy with the family, my prolapsed disc came back a couple of days ago and I was hospitalised for 5 days ....that was the most boring day I ever had since I have to be on bed rest and attending a couple of physiotherapy session......
I had a chance to meet MakLang a day after I arrived and she taught me a couple of RE piece.....I also managed to do some stitching in between but had made a very slow progress......hope to update all the progress here soon..........
I am not able to sit and walk that much right now due to my condition....gotta lay down and rest more now :( ..
Hugs
//siti

Sunday, January 18, 2009

My 1st Ribbon Embroidery for 2009 - "My Bouquet of Flower"

My fingers was itching wanted to do some small piece on RE on Saturday. I have not touched any RE work for sometime but still keep quite a bit of RE stash with me. I am glad that I keep them as and when I need the supply they are available in my sewing room. I sat down and tried to think what design to put togather since I did not have any pattern to trace into the fabric. On my last trip to Craft World I saw a very nice bouquet of flowers and it had inspired me to come up with this sketches. At first, I took A4 paper and did some sketches to exercise my finger to get use to the design. Then, once I get confidence to do my final sketch, I draw on another paper the design then traced into the fabric.





I went into my RE stash pile, and pull out a few ribbons and line them up togather on top of the fabric to see whether the colors are matched. But, first I got to think the color theme of my bouquet. I had decided to have a mix of purple and pink since I use lavender and roses in my design.




Unfortunately, I use the wrong fabric. The fabric is so thin and light and its quite difficult for the satin ribbon to slide into the holes. I think the fabric is not suitable for RE work. Anyway, that was the fabric that I have on hand. But nevertheless, I managed to continue my stitching (this had prompted me to dash to the fabric market the next day to get my fabric supply...........)


Viollllaaahhh...finally after 5 hours of stitching non stop I finish my "Bouquet of Flowers". Not bad I guess for a self taught person like me.....he....he......I will do my own framing later.....

If I can find time, I would love to do another set with different color theme.....blue, pink and purple would be nice if I could sketch the pattern with a bit more of roses buds......welll.....when the time come and the mood is right, I will surely sit down and put the ideas on paper.....

Till then....thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy looking at my work........

Saturday, January 17, 2009

My 1st CCN piece...

Hi All Stitching frenz.....



I started stitching my 1st CCN chart for Seasonal Ornament SAL on Thursday....yeeeaahhh finally I started and hoping will be able to catch up. The chart is from 2007 JCS X'Mas Ornament issue.....



Country Cottage Needleworks
"Winter's Eve"
Fabric : Zweigart 16ct Rustico
Thread : DMC (colors of my choice)
Finsh : Uncertain what this will turn into
On 1st day 15th January (Thursday)




On 16th January (Friday)



On 3rd day 17th January (Saturday)


I should have finished the stitching on Sunday but diverted my plan to do Ribbon Embroidery on Saturday nite. I continued stitching last nite and finish quite a bit. Hope to complete by tonite in between packing my stuffs to fly home this weekend.
Till then stitch your stresses away......
Hugs
//siti

Thursday, January 15, 2009

2009 Life & Stitching Goals etc..

Gosshh time flies very fast....2008 had ended......I drafted this post and had forgotten to publish earlier.....my godness sign of aging is around the corner!.....been in China for more than a year without the children and my other half.....and I might be leaving soon.....with all the good life "Allah" gave me, I am thankful I have all my family in tact (eventough we live apart), able to do all the things I enjoy doing, sorrounded by all good friends and buddies and most importantly all the loves from people around me.......Amin..........




I have been checking my stash and digging out some nice charts which has not been touch since I made the purchase (bad...bad....bad girl!)....The time has come to make a proper plan for stitching them in 2009. In fact I had started one already....hope it won't end up in my UFO's list.



First rule for 2009....no more new project for bigger piece......I must make sure all current WIPs for bigger project should be finish and NO new one!! This year will be stitching for small piece....


I had decided to dedicate my stitching for my pile of LHN and CCN charts (oohhh I love these mother and daughter stitching team...they really are creative and make bautiful charts!!). Since I participated in Vonna Ornaments SAL and SAL for ourbiscornu basket with Izzy, I decided to have an Ornie Basket for 2009....I hope my basket will full of Ornie by end of 2009.....

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These will be my 2009 Life & Stitching goal

1. Ornaments SAL - at least 2 ornie a month
2. LHN "Comfort" from Thread Pack - Started on 20th Nov - 80% finish
3. Finish My 18th Anniversary "My Love is Pure & True" - send for framing
4. Finish LK "Hug Will Do" & "Count Your Blessing" - send for framing
5. Stitch UFO - "Ewe Make Me Smile" for 2 hours in a weekend.
6. Finish Biscornu (SAL with Izzy) - at least one a month - 50% finish for Dec
7. Revisit and plan to continue my big "Rose" project - no progress
8. To finish my LHN "Coffee & Tea' Thread pack series - plan to start my 1st in Feb.
10. To finish reading at least 3 books - started with one in Jan "Till We Meet Again" by Lesley Pearse
11. To upgrade my knowledge in reading books on performing Umrah & Haj - bought the book but have not started reading. Should started with this one rather than Lesley Pearse's book.
12. No more stash buying until end of 2009 - this is a MUST!!
13. Preparing to give up my good career by end of 2009 to be stay at home mom (means no more monthly income for me and no more shopping as I wish!!!). BIG DECISION!!!...I have 10 more months to go....
14. Taking the children for trip to HK Disneyland at end of 2009.
15. Spend our 19th Anniversary weekend somewhere in an island in Malaysia (we were in Bali for 2008).
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As you can see from my goal list, I have no plan to make some improvement on my career....all about my family and stitching life. I think I had enough of work and living a life having well paid job but need more time with my loved one. In my course of work, I have been travelling everywhere and most of the time all by myself, I miss my children growing up and I am very lucky to have a life partner which understand me so much and keep on encouraging to do well in my career. I think I had 2 years of best time of my career and the time has come to an end. Rozi has been offered a good job in several occasions but had to declined to make way for me. In return, I think I should also make an effort to give him an opportunity to enhance his horizon in his career. I was very excited when I woke up yesterday to read his text message "I think your dream to be a lady of leisure (LOL) will come true".....I know this message means someone has been calling him for some potential position again. Apparently, the company has been offering him to look after some facilities in 3 countries and he do not need to relocate elsewhere. This will be the biggest achievement in his career, I am very happy for him and willing to give up my career if he wanted to accept the offer. We were discussing over Skype for 3 hours and he is right now negotiating on the pay and benefit. Again, I am very thankful to Allah for giving us such a good life!!!!....well only time will tell whether I will really be LOL looking after the children fulltime and live fullest!....goosshhh I always wish that everyday!!!!


I thinks that's about it for now.......thanks for dropping by and taking your time to read my entry.

Till then lots of loves & hugs,

siti







Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Jill Oxton's Magazine for Swap or GiveAway...

During my last trip back to Malaysia for Christmas break, I visited my regular magazine supplier to pick and pack my choice of magazine. Since I am buying in pack, I have to take whatever available magazines in a pack. I do not need this magazine as the content mainly on Christmas stitching and now giving it away for "Valentine Day" as a gift or a swap will do if you have any stitching stuff to let go. Please leave a message on the posting if you want to partcipate for the Give Away or email me if you are interested for swap, does not matter about your location as I am able to airmail it to you. For those, who opt for "Valentine Give Away" I will pick a draw on 14th February and inform the winner here.
Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch & Beading
Issue 75 - 2008






Snapshot of the content......








I am glad that I managed to get Just Cross Stitch magazine - Halloween special & Christmas preview special. Eventough it was backdated issues, but I am happy with that.....on top of that I also managed to get some 2008 Cross Country Stiching Magazine. I had since change my habit of buying British cross stitch magazine and turn to American stitching magazine instead. My next hunt will be acquiring JCS X'mas Ornaments 2008....I usually get them in month of February or March depending on my luck.....










Hugs
//siti



















































Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Adam in the hospital...




Adam was hospitalised on 2nd January, 3 days before I was supposed to fly back to China. I postponed my trip back on 09 January to take care of him and had an opportunity to organize the children for schooling.......I felt so relieved and fullfilled to see the children off on their 1st day of school.!!! For some people it is just a normal routine of seeing the children off to school or saying goodbye to your spouse before he is off to work but for me it mean so much!!!






My little Adam at the hospital ward...





Had a chance for candid moment with Yong....






Monday, January 12, 2009

My 1st LHN Stitching Piece...

As I said earlier, I plan to dedicate this year's stitching on LHN and CCN piece out of my stash. This is my 1st attempt. I had made a very slow progress on this one due to my other stitching commitment but nevertheless, I am quite happy finally I managed to pick up stitching from one of my favorite designers.



"COMFORT" Thread pack
Stitch on my hand dyed "Green Tea"



Start date : 22nd November 2008




By end of Dec 2009





My progress as of today











I thought it was an easy stitching piece, but I was totally wrong. It's a bit tricky, as you can see some frogging on this piece. This does not turn out to be so well, but I promise myself to stitch another piece later. This piece will be frame and I plan to buy some simple frame. I have seen some simple one at Walmart and Ikea recently. Just wanna try out framing myself since I have all the tools for that purposes.










By the way, have you check out Diane's latest Little Women -Virtue Thread pack series, I guess coming up in February. The "Gentle and Kind" is very lovely. It's looks so special. Goosshh....there goes my $$ again!!...have to put it in my end of 2009 purchase list.




Stashhhhing again........

These are the stash that I received in December....mainly some purchases I made for 2008 which as I said earlier will last me until end of 2009 (If I stick to my word on no more buying until end of 2009....)




I made the purchase for the whole Coffee & Tea Thread Pack series and some other LHN & CCN charts. Also, I had a chance to made a trip to my local favorite needlecraft shop " Craft World" and grabbed some Zweigarts linen supply at 25% discount plus some Multicolors Anchor thread. Can't wait to hand dye the white linen with the dye I brought in from Malaysia. Time to play with the colors......




These are some of the stash purchase from local store here in China, cards, 25 colors of DMC color variation (not sure though why I bought them!!), 14ct DMC Marbled Aida and Impression Aida Fabrics.





During my last trip home, I brought with me linen for some of my stitching buddies back home, I hope for those of you who had received it enjoy stitching them.


My next LHN thread pack stitching will be from the "Coffee & Tea" series dedicated for my new kitchen. I welcome those who wanted to stitch-a-long with me but of course you have to get your own chart.



Till then... thanks for checking on me......Happy stitching!!!



Hugs
//siti





























































Sunday, January 11, 2009

AirAsia oooo AirAsia...now everyone can fly??




An experience to remember.........




I was travelling via Airasia flying back from KUL to Hangzhou. I had to changed my flight schedule from 05th Jan to 09th Jan due to my sickness and the children was not feeling well.



Goosshhh ...never came across in my mind that journey will be my first bad experience in 2009. I woke up 4:30am that Friday morning and got ready to catch my morning flight. After kissing the kids goodbye while they were still asleep, I woke Yong up to say goodbye and as usual say a few words to her. She send me off at the gate and this time Rozi drove me to the airport instead of my regular cab driver Rahim.




All went smoothly during checking in except the person at the gate of the departure hall stopped me because I have an extra 3 kgs (which are all books and some companies documents!!). So I made a u turn to check in the luggage and pay RM 120. I am not worried of the money since I can raise a claim for that, but I don't really like the way the AirAsia personnel stopped me at the gate (a bit hush and he made some kind of face after I explain to him that its just books.....). Anyway, the guy at the counter, Syed Mahathir (see I make sure I get his name since he treated me well) was very nice to me and he serve me gently. In fact, he was a bit concern that I have to pay for the extra kgs. But, I said its ok to pay since my company will reimburse me for that. He is definately fit to work for Customer Service.



Then, I went through all the safety procedure before reaching the waiting area. We started to board the plane about 750am and the flight took off approximately at the schedule departure. As usual, I started reciting the prayer right before I set foot in the plane until it safely took off..The plane was ready to take off at the runway when Capt Mazlan, suddenly pull the brake (I guess...) and the all of us a bit jerking upfront......my goddness....I was really scared and started to pray harder.....all I can see was all the children faces at that time!!. Then, Capt Mazlan made an announcement that one of the engine was having a technical problem. So, made a u turn and all of us were asked to disembark. We we asked to wait until further notice.


Then, we went down and walked back to the terminal building. It was announced that the flight will be delay for 4 hours. I started to figure out by the time I reach Hangzhou it was already at night. So I switch on my laptop started to book the hotel online. I can't get the internet connection on my laptop. Goosshhh......Then, I called Rozi and explained, asked him to book the hotel for me. Airasia compensated us by serving a piece of Burger (from McDonald Breakfast Menu with a bottle of mineral water). Then, waited again before I noticed something burning nearby. Suddenly I can see the smoke at the construction area nearby the waiting area. Having been working in the manufacturing industry before, I was being trained to be alert whenever you smell smoke or something burning....I grabbed my laptop and straight away to an AirAsia personnel asked where is the evacuation assembly point. I was shocked NOT to hear any FIRE ALARM sound at all........and the way the airport personnel faced the situation.....they did not even asked the passenger to move out of the building until all the passengers realised by themselves. All of us were then ask to evacuate at the tarmac outside the building. A few minutes later, the fire brigade came with a few MAB personnel..........it was a bit chaotic.....all the passengers scattered everywhere, busy taking pictures........I wonder whether these people (Airasia/airport employees) were really trained to face such an emergency situation......in reality, no one really in charge of controlling the scattered passenger let alone our safety well being as we are a few meters away from parked aircraft and some moving airports transports........


I managed to snap a few pictures on that day.....



The spot which was on fire
09 th Jan 2009

The passengers outside the fire assembly area.....


The Airasia personnel started to ask the passenger to assemble by destination. Since maybe it was during an emergency and they do not have hailer to organize the passenger, I can see them shouting here and there calling for destination (sound familiar in Malaysia if you took cab at the taxi station...LOL). So lesson learnt from this incident, Airasia should have a dry run in case of emergency like this, ensure that hailer is available to managed the situation or at least there is a place card for the staff to carry so that passenger knows which direction to go (Mr Tony Fernandes - I hope you take this as a positive input!!)....all in all I think the AirAsia staffs are not really prepared for such situation, however, some of them remained very calm and try their best to managed the situation.



I was already hungry by then and the worst part was we were not allowed to come into the building. Furthermore, all the shops were asked to close due to the fire. At about 1pm we were allowed to board the same airplane. My heart really pounding so hard, all the mixed feeling came into my mind....you just imagine flying in the same airplane which you already know that it has been detected earlier having some technical problem. At first I wanted to reschedule my trip back, but knowing that I need to be in the office by Monday, I got to assured myself to be calm and keep on praying for good thing to come. Then, the kapten made an announcement that we are ready to fly. It was Capt Fong or Foo (I guess that was the 2nd or 3rd time I took the flight navigated by him during my flight back and forth between KUL-Hzhou). I remember the last trip back he made a smooth touched down which impressed me (that was why I still remember his name!!). I made a point whenever I took a flight to remember the Captain and the chief steward/stewardess. So that when something good happen I can write about them. I try to tell myself that I am at a good hand!!. As we took off, the ride was a bit bumpy I guess due to the strong wind. But it was all ok once we reach the right mode of flying.



We reached Hangzhou about 6pm, the touched down was smooth and I had no problem as usual at the immigration check point. I met a family of 5 who came for a tour on their own and was not prepared at all for the misfortunate. I offered my help and took them to the hotel so that they can have the same rate as I do. En Sideli and his family asked me to take them to Shanghai to show them around, I felt bad that I can't really join them since I need to be back to Jinhua. However, I promised to take them around Hangzhou and took the last bas at 7pm to Jinhua. I believe its my obligation to help since I have been getting lots of helps from strangers mainly Chinese here in China. Then, I briefed them how to get to Shanghai via train from Hanzghou. Which subway line to take as soon as they reach Shanghai South Station. I also booked them the hotel in Shanghai. I was a bit worried when I board my last bus, thinking about them so much...whether they managed to get the train ticket and boarded the train safely. I was relieved when I called them that they managed to get through smoothly. I told them to make sure to call me in case they need my help while in Shanghai. I made a call again to ensure that they had reached the hotel safely with the direction that I gave them. Sometimes I felt that I worried too much.......but thankfully, they have returned safety to Malaysia now....



I was really dissapointed that we were not being serve for food we ordered online, reason given was the flight was delayed. However, we can purchased the food if we want to but the food supply was limited. OMG....that means I wont be able to eat anything until 8pm (approximate time of reaching my hotel!). I bought 2 bread earlier at the shop near the waiting area, so I took a piece and went to have a nap. Having been flying with AirAsia before, I never had a very bad experience except this one. I hope the next trip back I will get a cleaner aircraft with all the toilet are in working condition and most importantly no bad smell from the working toilet. I guess that's what you get if you pay peanuts! (No more complaints!). Being a regular AirAsia passenger, this is the common smell on flight between KUL-HZ-KUL (I had asked a few of my colleagues who always travel on AirAsia and he agreed with my observation - Mr Tony please take note to improve this!!)


I will be travelling back again on 24th January to KL for Spring holidays. I had my bad experience stranded at Hangzhou last year for 4 days due to the winter blizzard. That was the most frightening experience I ever had throughout my travelling alone, miss my flight to Guangzhou , overnight at the airport for one night with crowded passenger all over places at the airport at the rush hour of Spring holidays in China, running out of prepaid on my mobile phone and there were no shop selling prepaid card, no taxi willing to take me back to the city, making last minute hotel reservation with almost dead battery on my lap top (just because I had forgotten my plug in coverter), admitted to the hospital for a day care treatment, treated by a doctor and nurses who can't even speak one single English word..........my goodness that was really an experienced!!!! For the past few days, I have been checking 10 days weather forecast ....it looks ok ...cross my finger that the travelling will be smooth......less worry this time around since there will be 4 more guys travelling along.....so in case I am stranded again....there are some people I know accompanying me.....


Gotta go...will have an update on my stitching soon.... (hopefully!!). Thanks for reading.



Hugs
//siti