Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Singing For Change

Browsing through my itunes and I found this.
The song is old but the lyrics still applies till today.
We are all singing our hearts out for a better tomorrow.


Dear Mr. President
(by Pink feat. Indigo Girls)

Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Missing in Action

Now where shall I begin?
The last I blogged was nearly a year ago.

No, I didn't loose my inspiration.
It's just that lots of life changing events had happened the past year.
I had a fair share of sweet and bitter moments.
Not to mention that I'm a full time early childhood educator and studying at the same time. I have been a busy bee!
But, I guess now it's a much smoother ride with an occasional roller coaster ride that keeps life interesting.

What's new about me?
Tons! I have grown... and NOT in SIZE... XD
But, the way I think and the perspective I have for life.
My mind is simple and yet sophisticated.
And, I'm ever changing for the better.

So stay tuned... I have a life to share! :)

xoxo,
Anne Marie


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I'm a proud aunty again for the 4th time! ^^

On the 15th of March 2010,
from a family of 7 , has become a family of 8!
My youngest nephew, baby Ayden Reed Tan was born on this day!
Weighing 3.43kg and 48cm long.

Baby Ayden eyes wide open!

Sleeping now... heehee so adorable for now... :P

Caitlyn no longer mei mei. Now jie jie!
Caitlyn baby sitting her baby brother. Awww....

Welcome to the family Baby Ayden!
With lots of love from YeeYee & PoPo
will see you in a month or so! heehee
HUGS & KISSES
*hearts*

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Back from Guilin, China

Just got back from my Guilin, China trip a couple of days ago.
Will update soon I hope and on the Ipoh/Penang trip.

Tomorrow uni starts again and I'm a little nervous about my results. =S

wish me luck!

sneak peeks
crazy goofy moments from Ipoh/Penang


Guilin, China

Friday, January 1, 2010

Optimism

- a burst of optimism -

amcheong's 2009 memoirs

It's the first day of 2010 and I wonder how time flies...

Now I'm looking back through the things that I have experienced and achieved... I would say that 2009 is a most fruitful year for me! for now... heehee

Here's a small recap of the bitter sweet :-

1) A revamp of myself:- new confidence & new smile (I got my teeth fixed)

2) I was a Musicon Celebrity - The Holograms

3) My first 4 original music masterpieces

4) MET THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! a.k.a @tanyeehou

5) PeTA 2009 showcase of my diploma masterpieces & GRADUATED

6) I have been JUNK-ed (featured in Junk Magazine)

7) Traveled to Istanbul

8) Found my love for photography composition

9) Lost a dear friend - Gary Leon Robert (RIP)

10) Degree in Music- change my major from classical piano to classical vocal

11) continued my French since I was 12

12) Took up art lessons

13) Baked my first cake in a rice cooker!

14) Felt like a star at the Nuffnang Blog Awards

15) My first classical vocal recital

16) My first Art Exhibition

17) Spent lots of time travelling around Malaysia with the beloved boyfriend and friends!
Cameron Highlands, Melaka, Ipoh & Penang and hunting for glorious food!
Now to lose those calories... heehee...

Thanking God and Life for all its wonders!
It's a life worth living for!

Lessons learned,
Memories cherished,
A new year is here,
so make it better than before!

Happy New Year! ^^

Friday, December 11, 2009

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Just want to share with you peeps a song that always gets me into the Christmas mood!
Its 'Chestnuts roasting on an open fire'.
It always gives me a fuzzy, warm and cozy feeling of Christmas.
Feeling lots of love.

A good friend dedicated this to me... none other than the talented Jinx Chin!
And I want to share with you all.

Enjoy! ^^

Happy Christmas with love,

Monday, December 7, 2009

My first E & R

hey hey people... as you all know that I haven't been updating my blog recently because I have been super busy since my degree semester started here's a few updates in uni. ^^

MY FIRST CLASSICAL VOCAL RECITAL

I have changed my major instrument from classical piano to classical vocal! Yes I sing too! ^^

For those of you who missed it here is a couple of pictures, It's ok that you couldn't come for the recital because there will be another one soon.

For those who came thank you so much for your support and do come again for the next one! ^^

Here are a couple of pictures...


Here are some of the vocalist who sang including me on the 3rd from the left

This is me during performance

MY FIRST ART EXHIBITION

While I was busy singing I was busy drawing and painting as well for my first art exhibition along side my other course mates! All of this is done in a 16 weeks art crash course.

Here are my works ^^

Here is my still life charcoal sketch

here's my watercolour piece... not very good at it though

on the left is my mix media piece and
on the right my first masterpiece I call it Beethoven's Symphony No 5

p/s: Special Thanks to Kelly Tan a.k.a Curry Egg for coming to see the exhibition. ^^


A view from above on the show cases.

p/s: special thanks to my sayang tanyeehou for being there for me.
muax. love love!

And this is how my first semester ended.
*feels proud of accomplishments*

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

1st cake baked from a rice cooker

This is my first time baking a cake and to make things even more interesting I used a rice cooker!

And surprisingly turned out GREAT! and it TASTE GOOD! Moisture just right.

This is my first chocolate raisin cake. ^^ *so proud of myself*

Inside the rice cooker. Just baked.

On the plate.
Up next work on presentation. XD

Cameron Highlands with the other half

Had a weekend trip with tan yee hou during the Raya breaks and it was a good one away from the urban life.

First we stopped at Bidor for lunch for the famous Wu Tao (fried yam with char siew inside), the famous duck drumstick noodle and bought the chicken biscuits at Pun Chun Restaurant. [I can't believe that they have their own blog!] Boy it was yummy! As my other half would put it... "Can sing wan! *sings...aaaaaahhhh*" Lol


After that we pumped petrol and Yee Hou was annoyed by the que at shell and after that headed up to Cameron's using the old roads.

We arrived at Cameron's about 530pm and had dinner at about 8pm at one of the charcoal steamboat shops. After dinner we drove up to Brinchang and watched lighted nurseries. It was like a cities of lights *yee hou tan is so romantic* XD


Oh while we were up there we bought Kinder Joy to entertain ourselves. I kept getting the good toys and the other half was manipulating me to give them to him.

Next morning we had breakfast at T-Cafe, such a charming place, nice food and rustic ambiance.
I love the chicken pie!

This is yee hou tan's glam moment having breakfast!

It was a rainy day but it didn't stopped us from going anywhere. We tracked up mount Irau's trail half way urban style with umbrella's and a macbook! Yeap! a macbook because the other half doesn't feel safe living it in the room. Anyways it was freezing cold up there. I don't know how campers camp up at mount Irau.

After the hike we stopped by at the Boh Tea Plantation and took some pretty pictures using a manual camera.


Then headed down to Kea Farm where we bout like 6Kg of strawberries for Rm80, 6 packets of cheery tomatoes for Rm10, 10 pieces of sweet corn for RM 10, 7 different bunch of flowers for Rm 20 and 2 potted "naughty boy" (lilies) for Rm15.
It is a very good buy to us!

When we got down it was already late tea time. The other half manage to convince me to go to KFC nearby. The chicken pieces was big but the air-cond was killer freezing. I wonder whose idea is it to have air-cond up in Cameron Highlands. =.=

Later we went to hunt for roti naan and tandoori chicken at restaurant no 14 but attempt fail because all sold out. Had roti canai and tosay instead and headed back to devour the strawberries.
The other half enjoying himself.

Next morning we woke up at 530am to go watch sunrise at the Gunung Brinchang tower.
Wanted to get a dramatic shot of the sunrise something like this http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=brinchang+sunrise&m=text
But out attempt failed again because mother nature was in a moody mood.


After breakfast we took a nap, packed up and left for home. Well even though mother nature wasn't much on our side but we enjoyed very much of our time up there. ^^

Now back to work... =.=

Sunday, September 13, 2009

the baby photographer @ my niece

my 3 year old niece is a professional photographer in the making!

here is my niece... such a tall baby of her age

This are her shots of a lilies


I love this last shot!

My talented baby niece

she says... I have fruity thoughts! *cheeky grins*

Sunday, September 6, 2009

getting down and dirty for art

Sorry for the long silent lately...
I have been so busy with my uni life. So much to do, so little time.
Anyways I took up art 101 as an elective subject in uni.
And this is the result... 6 weeks of learning how to sketch with charcoal.
final project for this session,
2 weeks of work 4 hours each week and its still not finished...


And I have to get real dirty with it... :P
well just my both hands looks like this!


Next up watercolours! ^.^