Somewhere in Time...

I have gone sentimental again and spent a morning watching the classic, "Somewhere in Time"

It was shown in the 1980, the year I was born but I have heard about this and watched it before when I was a kid... I really love the songs in this movie and how love transcends time, and that true love is really worth it.

yeah yeah, hopeless romantic... even at this point of my life ;)

I love the lines said by Jane Seymour...

* * * * *

The man of my dreams has almost faded now. 

The one I have created in my mind. 

The sort of man each woman dreams of, in the deepest and most secret reaches of her heart. 

I can almost see him now before me. 

What would I say to him if he were really here? 

"Forgive me. I have never known this feeling. I have lived without it all my life. 

Is it any wonder, then, I failed to recognize you? 

You, who brought it to me for the first time. 

Is there any way that I can tell you how my life has changed? 

Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me? 

There is so much to say. 

I cannot find the words. 

Except for these: I love you". 

Such would I say to him if he were really here. 

- Somewhere in Time

* * * * *

* November 2006

Our Wedding :)

To my hubby,

I love you...

thank you for being a dream of a husband...

the nice thing about you is that you are real  :)

...mel

HAPPY HEARTS DAY :)

Friendship Day

I was not aware of this back in Manila, but here in Canada, children celebrate Valentines Day as friendship Day.

I don't know if this is just here in Kimi's school but I really like that idea...

So for Valentines Day...

Kimi and I prepared some sweets for her to give out in school...

* Nana made this... A perfect complement to the heart cookies  :)

* Cookies for the teachers :)

* Kimi's friendship cards for her classmates

* For hubby's co-workers and Kimi's teachers

Speaking of friends, I was quite homesick a few years ago when I didn't have friends yet

I am so glad I have a found a handful of friends that made life here in Canada really way much better...
they have become my support system when I felt I am doing a bad job as a mother
...or just a shoulder to cry on and an ear to pour my heart out when I am down...

I wanna give a toast to my special mommy friends

* Glenda, Sarah, me, Joy and Jo :)

...and to our favorite foodie (...and billiards) couple friends

* Twins and Stone

Thank you for sticking it out with us through thick and thin,

life has been much more of a blessing with you guys by our side...

Cheers!!!

* * * * *

Two are better than one, 

because they have a good reward for their labor.

For if they fall,

one will lift up his companion.

But woe to him who is alone when he falls,

for he has no one to help him up".

Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10

Pre-Valentines Dinner

I had a backup reservation for my birthday.

...just in case hubby hasn't chosen a restaurant yet

so glad I did :)

* Great dinner on a Monday night

* * * * *

CHOP STEAK FISH BAR

Richmond, B.C.

Love..Love...Love

There is something about February that makes me sentimental than any other month of the year so bear with me this month if there are going to be sappy entries following

To love is nothing...

To be loved is something...

To love and be loved is everything...

1 Corinthians 13

Source: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NLT

Love Is the Greatest

 ¹ If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. ³ If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;^[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

 

* 2006 *

 ⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 

 ⁸ Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! ⁹ Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! ¹⁰ But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

* 2006 *

 ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

 ¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

HAPPY HEARTS DAY :)

Zebra Printed Inside Cake

Trying to experiment with the design inside a cake. I know that lots of practice is required to bake a great cake that tastes good and looks good. I practice with ready mix as I am not that confident baking from scratch yet... I will get there... sooner than later, I hope :)

* Preparing the batter

* Cooked striped cupcake and cakes 

plus  double chocolate cupcake leftovers

My favorite part is decorating the cake.

* Shell reverse icing :)

still a lot of practicing to perfect this...

I guess I put in a bit too much icing at the top of the cake...

* Striped inside with icing design all over  

I ran out of icing ingredients so I let the cake sit in a container and it was less moist than the cupcakes... I read that frosting seals the moisture in so that might have been the reason why it was a bit too dry :(

The frosting on the other hand was a tad too sweet... I guess I should have put the optional pinch of salt to balance out the sweetness of it...

Fingers crossed. Next time I hope i improve a bit more :)