NNC 3rd Anniversary Meet

It was time again to celebrate NNC's third anniversary! This year, Sabariah hosted the gathering at her brand new house located at Setia Alam, Selangor. I as usual had to travel down to KL and Margaret and Jackie came to fetch me at the bus stop and we (including Mel who also got a lift from the sisters) made our way to Sabariah's house. When we reached there, Alynn and her family, Rose, Paul and Anna have already arrived. Some of yummy food were already laid out on the dinning table and more food were brought by MW and Mel! I brought Ipoh Old Town white coffee for the members to have a cuppa! :)

The VERY YUMMY food

Mel's chocolate strawberry cheesecake

When most of the members have arrived, we tucked in to the sumptuous food - I couldn't decide which to start with first as every dish looked so yummy! lol. We chatted while we ate and also to catch up with some members who had not been active on the board, namely Jo Yap who has been MiA for a while and Valarie Goh who has been jetting about. We were glad to see Faizon, our tatting guru who had a bout of dengue fever recently.

After feasting, it was show and tell time - Nik showed us some of the bags she made. We ooh and aah over the bag she specially made for Diane from USA. I did a applique demo for some of the members who wanted to learn the needleturn method, button-hole stitch and using the bias tape.
I also saw Faizon teaching Valerie how to tat! Mel also showed us how to do a fabric button with the gadget she gave each of us in the goody bag.

Then came the exciting part....the lucky draw and Gift exchange. Diane from USA contributed a book entitled Felt Flowers. (We had to make a felt flower as part of the gift exchange this year and below are the members' creation! Pretty aren't they?) Nik was the lucky winner of the book!

The Gifts for the Exchange

The felt flowers

The happy hostess with her 'note' bunny made by Paul

After everyone has ooh and aah over the gifts they received, we had another round of eating, chatting and laughter. It was such a fun-filled day with such good company! Once again.......

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY NNC!

Chinese New Year 2010

On the 5th day of the Chinese New Year (Feb 18), my friends and I met up for our so called "annual gathering" This year's was a little late....many of the gals have came and gone! Anyhow, we have a special guest this year...Mary Cheah.... flew in from Vancouver to attend her aunt's 80th birthday celebration.
We had an enjoyable lunch at the Indulgence Restaurant, Ipoh - a treat from Micheal Lee.

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A day earlier, I met up with two members of NNC who happened to be visiting their families in Ipoh - Paul and Ann. Ann is a very new member and she is very enthusiastic about what we do in the group. Incidentally, Paul and Ann have signed up for the current 'blue' pincushion exchange co-ordinated by Usha and Paul has been assigned to send to Ann.....*grin*

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This Chinese New Year is one of the hottest I've experienced - the heat and humidity makes one want to stay indoors! There has not been any rain since the first day - 14th February - of the celebration!
This afternoon DD went back to campus as classes will resume on Monday and I have to go back to work on Monday, too.........:(

32 YEARS ON.....

Saturday, 5th September 2009 - six of us (Maria, Yin Peng, Li Za, Gaik Kee, Lai Yin and myself) drove to Kuala Lumpur for a very special meeting! We have pre-arranged to meet up with some of our school mates who are residing there.
For ladies, any outing without our other half will mean......SHOPPING. We went to IKEA, shopped and had lunch there before proceeding to the Atria where Tracy's boutique "EYE CANDY" is located. Tracy has arranged hi-tea for us outside the boutique and we were expecting about 20 gals to come by as some had prior engagements which could not be changed when this meet up was arranged.

Ipoh gals with Tracy

Our hi-tea started at around 2.30pm and continued until the shop's closing time at 8pm. For the record, the hi-tea was delicious which was a combo of nyonya finger food and some cakes and sandwiches. We were so pleased that those who confirmed their attendance, came even for a short while. It was a blast catching up with each over the lost years....some whom we did not see since with left our dear alma mater - the MAIN CONVENT of Ipoh! And the memories came flooding back when we started to sing the school song....

The School Song

The whole gang

Those of us who were still around at 8pm then adjourned to have dinner at the Esquire Kitchen Restaurant on the ground floor of the Atria. We were such a noisy group in the restaurant!
It was such a memorable day and we resolve to do another one pretty soon........to be continued!

An Overdue Post....

Group photo courtesy of Tini

This event happened a while back.....7th February 2009....to be precise! It was my online craft group (Needles n Craft - NNC) 2nd anniversary get together. It took place at our list mom's house in Subang Jaya.
Instead of repeating myself, you can view the reports plus lots of photos from here and here.

I had a enjoyable time during the gathering and the food was just delicious!