Sharing a little more about ME

Christmas is the season for sharing.

And because it is so, I am glad to join Kris over at JUNK CHIC COTTAGE and share with you my life story in a nutshell!

I know it's not the kind of sharing one expects over the holidays, and I do  always say, my life is an OPEN BOOK,  but never truly discussed about it with you! So, I am now...

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Also, you may have noticed my "new look" - BLOG LOOK that is, courtesy of  DESIGNER BLOGS, thank you very much! I just thought it would be best to start the New Year with a brand new look! What do you think?

Wishing You a Wonderful Holiday Weekend !

VEL 

 Would love to hear your thoughts! Please share away...

Being A Doctor first

Hello Friends!

This week has been crazy busy again for me. I have been busy preparing for a talk for this summit...

And at the same time getting my 'other house' in order... That is my CLINIC.

I don't want to leave my patients hanging in the air when I go on Maternity leave soon, so my schedule has been booked to the teeth. :-)

Anyway, like I've said before, PEDIATRICS is my FIRST LOVE and will always be the career for me, so for you all my decorating-loving friends, although you know I am also passionate about decorating and my home in general, I thought I'd share this super short video of ME on how I feel about my first love...

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Hope you all have a wonderful day my friends and wish me luck!

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My Thoughts on 9/11

 VEL

Would love to hear your thoughts! Please share away...

A thought on OPRAH

S.O.L (Screaming out loud)!!!!!

I cannot believe it that I just read my name and my answer on OPRAH MAGAZINE just now!!! SOL again!

Yes, you read it right THE MAGAZINE! :-)

You know, I have to be honest, I tried getting a home make-over with Nate thru writing thru the OPRAH Show before ( Who wouldn't want that?!), no luck there, and just recently, I answered this question on her magazine  and submitted it online, and I am happy and proud to say I got on the short list!

This was the question I answered...

The Article

And this was my answer...

Do you see my name up there?

I thought I was misreading the name, but then I screamed and found out it was me and it was the answer I submitted a couple of months back!

Here is my answer...

And this is so true.

I love you mom!

Ironic though, when I tried calling her tonight, she did not pick-up... :-) Oh well, I'll talk to her tomorrow!!!!

Thank you to the staff at OPRAH Magazine!


Have a Blessed day!!!!

Our informal family portraits

On our visit to Cancun, we did something which we have never done before as a family - had a full blown pictorial/portrait-taking session of our very own.

We did have this before...

Nice but a little "stuffy"

But we did this with the rest of our family and we did not have a lot of pictures to choose from.

So, when I saw this Photography booth at the resort hotel we were staying in, I immediately thought it would be a great way to document this wonderful vacation memory in the form of a souvenir book of REALLY NICE PICTURES! And of course to get nice pictures of the WHOLE family, we needed someone to take the pictures, someone who was a professional and knew what they were doing.

And so here are some the family portraits we had during that vacation...

Garden Photo session

Memory of his lost two front teeth.. :-)

Becoming a young man...

Just tryin' to show how much fun we're havin'! 

Sweet moments

Nostalgic moments...

Quiet moments...

Active moments...

Just plain happy moments

I really love these- we were all relaxed, looking naturally-coached, taken outdoors and the best part was, we all had fun!!!


Have a wonderful day!!

Being and feeling Girlieeeeee

Confession: although I say that I adore fashion and design from clothes, shoes, bags and home decor, I am truly a late bloomer when it comes all things BEAUTY - like salon stuff!

I only had my hair colored professionally once before ( I was in college already and it didn't make me look that good, and that is probably why I didn't do it again for a long time - let's just say that brown hair didn't suit me at all that time :-) ) and that is why, getting highlights for the very first time, made me giddy all over!

And so last Thursday, on my 1/2 day off, I went to see my NFF/hairstylist Gina, and we went ahead with the plan: color my crown of glory and add some oomph into my lackluster-always- been- black hair. I emphasized, please nothing too drastic or shocking like this...

So not me - yet! :0

I was thinking something like this...

From Instyle magazine

Haaah! Fat- chance! I can dream can I?! Being the Asian "beauty" that I am, I knew this was reaching for the sky, so I did not mention JA-look to her. And so I let her do her thing and left my hands into her experienced colors and toners, and ended up with this...

From my camera

Ok, I don't wanna show the whole me yet, but so far, the "reviews" have been positive. Even my patients noticed ( and when kids notice your hair in a positive way, it means it's really good - I think :-))!

Anyhow,  and since I was feeling really girly (as the title says) I also had my nails done! It' called Shellac - don't ask me what it is exactly, all I know is that it's gauranteed to make me addicted to this thing and will make my nail polish last fah-ever, so I said, " go ahead Mandy, make my day!" And this is how it looks...

Not bad...

Not bad at all...

After 4 hours of aluminum foils, UV lights and whatever chemicals shellacked on to me, I feel like a " new " me!

I guess, a girl needs to be pampered once in a while, or rather, Shellacked once in a while!!!!


Have a fabulous day Dah-lings!