A new chapter begins

Hello everyone, hope all of you had a wonderful blessed Christmas and a wonderful time with your love ones and a great start into the New Year . I have intended this post before New Year with my New Year greetings, but didn't get this posted since I couldn't upload the photos then until now.  

I haven't done much serious stitching in the past year except for exchanges. I was more into crochet and knitting in the later part of the year.  The only one stitching I started in early December didn't got  finish in time before Christmas but after. January actually. So, I'll consider this my first January finished.

Mosey n me - Santa's Helper - 32count linen

However, I am happy that I got my Gold Tunic done days before Christmas as I had in mind.

On Christmas day, the whole family including  mom, took a trip up North, first to Penang Island where we had Korean Dinner at Uncle Jung on Christmas Day. It was by circumstances that landed us here, not going into the details. I believed this is called Dakgalbi, a popular Korean dish, stir fried on a large hotplate with marinated diced chicken, cabbage, sweet potato, scallion, Korean Rice Cake in chili pepper paste with slices of onions and kimchi as side dish. We later added rice and made it into fried rice. The kids enjoyed it, but not so for mom in her age.

On Boxing Day, we attended a wedding of a family friend's daughter, Annie to Douglas in Bukit Mertajam, a state located in the Central Seberang Perai of Penang. She was just a kid, when I was a teenager and she used to be tagging  me around especially during the weekends and look at her now getting married.

The town of Bukit Mertajam is named after a hill nearby with the highest peak of 547 m above sea level where Mertajam tree (Lepisanthes rubiginosa) with white flowers can grow up to 5-12m tall.

It's the town where the  Old Shrine of  St. Anne's  Church is located and the annual St Anne festival is held. I didn't took the above image (credits goes to google search) but we did went by only didn't stop so as the kids get to see the church, afterall it's not always that we get to visit this little town

Pisang Goreng (Banana fritters) was a miday brunch on New Year 's day,

followed by an Anniversary Dinner cum Students Achievement Recognition Awards in the evening.

Above is the spread at my Company's Annual  Dinner on the second day 

A little arrangement I put up for the house this year, it's a yearly thing.  I would change the deco on this vase. I had had a variety of ponies, cherry blossoms and roses in different colors over the past years and this time around, I thought I go green. I called it "weeds" cos' it's basically all leafy in various shades of green including yellow and  purple . I had no heart to discard that 2 peacock feathers for now. I bought that from an Indian Temple I visited 2 years ago. 

This is where the vase is place, a corner in my living room

Sampler Alter Echo by Passion Broderie

Anyone still remember this? It's been 11 years since, yes that long. A seven month SAL that began  in January 2005. It's time to revive this. I have three more panels to call it complete. So this will be my first 2016 to do list, not forgetting I have my Red Hexa SAL which I still have 7 more flowers to complete and my Birthday Blocks Exchange.

I have no New Year resolutions like always, as being me, I never can follow nor plan ahead. I like to go with what I feel but  I do hope to finish all of my UFO's or as much as I could before embarking on something new but restraining for something new is not an easy task. there's always the distraction.  I am very sure, I am not alone in this, LOL. I would like to travel a little more too next year if time permits. The company has recently set a new rules concerning our public holidays and annual leaves for next year, so hopefully it will not be hard to tackle. I just wanna go on more adventures, connect with people, learn new things and do what makes me happy.

Better late than never as the saying goes,

I would like to wish all my blog readers

May everyday of the New Year

glow with good cheer and happiness

for you and family