Christy'd like to share

You're sick, you're dead

2011-10-17T12:30:00.002+02:00

Two weeks ago, the same thing happened to me as it happened to the lady in the pic. I had what in medical term, they call it a sub-conjuctival hemmorrhage, it is basically broken blood vessel in the eye.

You may not realize you have a sub-conjunctival hemorrhage until you look in the mirror and find the white part of your eye is bright red. After I had washed my face, I looked into the mirror. I was shocked, cos it had never happened to me before.
Nicolas suggested that we should go to hospital.

We arrived to the first hospital, the nurse at the reception told us that they didn't have any eye doctors there, so she suggested us to go to other hospital. Huh????
Nicolas asked her if they had any other doctors to check my eye if it was dangerous or not. To our surprise, she said no. DARN. So, we moved on, drove to other hospital. Thanks God, no danger at all.

P.S. other info about broken blood vessel in eye:

The conjunctiva can't absorb the blood very quickly, so the blood is trapped under this transparent surface. A subconjunctival hemorrhage may worry you, but it's usually a harmless condition that disappears within 10 to 14 days. Sub-conjunctival hemorrhage often occurs without any obvious harm to your eye, or it may be the result of a strong sneeze or cough that caused a broken blood vessel. You don't need any specific treatment for a subconjunctival hemorrhage.

Fooling around

2011-10-17T12:26:00.002+02:00

We were just fooling around at work. I was sitting on the chair, and posing like a boss hehehehhee. Suddenly, Arthur (our security guard) took a shot and sent it to me.
Arthur, "Well, you look like your a CEO now hahahha."
Me, "Yeah hahahhhahhahhahah."

Have fun, yeah!

Silence is golden

2011-10-17T12:23:00.003+02:00

I hear this phrase all the time, but never think of it. Now, I really realize that silence is golden. When you want to share your friends or your fellow workers things, make sure that they don't use those things against you in the future.

The older you are, the wiser you are :)

C

20.10.2010

2010-11-28T21:01:00.003+01:00

As I said, I always want to have a wedding like Carrie's one in Sex and the City. I want to have azure feathers, light make up and so on.
And believe it or not, I had one :)

My Dream Dress

2010-07-07T23:52:00.003+02:00

Inspired by Carrie Bradshaw for her own wedding. I always want to have anything with turquoise for my wedding.

Her wedding dress is fabulous. Too bad I can't afford Vivienne Westwood :'(

Style: Off-white wedding dress with white roses, feather decoration on the right side and a little bit of red color on the lips makes her look just perfect!
What do you think?

My lifesaver!

2010-07-07T23:24:00.004+02:00

I almost gave up with my a couple-year-non-active email addresses. I had tried and tried, but still I couldn't have accessed to those Email addresses until Nicolas helped me.

Darlin', you're my lifesaver! Danke!

P.S. If you're wonder what it is. It's my little baby axolotl. I have 2 of them, Greedy and Sipkey. They're such cuties, aren't they?

Working with Windows

2008-11-06T13:02:00.002+01:00

As I've mentioned earlier on my other blog, Windows is really a pain in the ass if you don't know computer shit. We had to deal with it the whole day until we really gave up and installed another computer. Oh well, not much to complain now..got my crap to work on :D

Bezier Tool

2008-02-03T20:35:00.000+01:00

I was a little confused about bezier. When I used Photoshop or CorelDraw, I was wondering what bezier means in English.

When I was a kid and I learned English; pen is a pen, pencil is a pencil, ballpoint is a ballpoint. They mostly have the same function: to write!

But when I used CorelDraw, I kept asking myself what bezier actually meant in English.
For you who also want to know about it:

The Pen Tool has actually been called several things over the years, and by that, I don't mean the sort of things you may have called it in moments of frustration. You may have heard it referred to as the Bezier Pen or the Bezier Tool, and that's because it was created by a man named Pierre Bezier (that's him on the left), a French engineer and all-around smart guy who came up with the fancy math that powers the tool while working for the Renault car company (the Pen Tool was originally created to help design cars).

Soto ayam

2008-01-28T23:33:00.000+01:00

It's called soto ayam, how to cook it?
Recipe's coming soon :D

Suharto (II)

2008-01-28T20:42:00.000+01:00

Suharto died !!!!!! :O

Here
Here

Chi Chi's Tex-mex in Brussels

2008-01-28T20:39:00.001+01:00

Miss Tex-mex food but you are not in the US? There is one Tex-mex resto in Brussels, Belgium.

It's very close to the main station, so don't worry :D

St. Nicolas (Brussels) in mosaics

2008-01-28T20:35:00.000+01:00

Aachen with sunset

2008-01-28T20:31:00.000+01:00

How do you like it?

2008-01-28T20:27:00.001+01:00

How do you like it?
It's from the window display of one of my fave shops in Aachen, Germany.

I like it 'cos every single time I pass it, they always have new decorations. And it's not boring :D

Del Negro

2008-01-28T20:18:00.000+01:00

If you come to Aachen, Germany, you should try the ice cream from Del Negro. It has the best ice cream in Aachen.

In winter, the shop is closed, but normally it opens from 10 am until 10 pm.

If you don't try it, you miss the best thing in your life :D

Suharto (The Father of Development or Dictator???)

2008-01-28T20:12:00.000+01:00

Suharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military and political leader. He served as a military officer in the Indonesian National Revolution, but is better known as the long-reigning second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.

To many Indonesians, he was considered to be the Father of Development as well as a dictator. He was born to a farmer family Sukirah and Kertosudiro. He never finished his elementary school.
He but then joined KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) until becoming a general.

On the morning of October 1, 1965, a group of Sukarno's closest guards kidnapped and murdered six of the right-wing anti-Communist generals. Sukarno's guards claimed that they were trying to stop a CIA-backed military coup which was planned to remove Sukarno from power on "Army Day", October 5.

To be continued...........

AKV video

2008-01-23T18:49:00.000+01:00

Aachener Karneval 2008

2008-01-23T18:38:00.000+01:00

These are the pics from Aachener Karneval Verein in Aachen. We were all at the backstage, so no chance to see you guys :(
As you can see there were Paris Hilton (of course fake one), Camilla and Charles and so on.
The showed finished at 11:30 pm, then party yuppieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yeah yeah! Lotf of drink and finger food yummey!!!

2008-01-22T23:56:00.001+01:00

When my friend Christian told me that Heath Ledger died today, I was thinking who was that???
Then he told me that it was the guy from Brokeback Mountain, and suddenly I knew this guy. He was so young, wasn't he? That was my first question to him. Yeah, he said so.
He told me that they found some pills next to his bed. (What kinda magic pills are they?)

I, personally don't really know this guy cos I never watch Brokeback Mountain (what a shame hehehe), but for you who are the biggest fans of him. I'd like to say so sorry for your lost. May Heath rest in peace.......

Heath was born in Perth, Australia on 4 April 1979 (OMG he was born as the same year I was). Heath had a relationship with Naomi Watts, whom he met in 2002 during the filming of Ned Kelly. They started dating in August 2002. The couple ended their relationship in April 2004. Previously, he had dated actresses Lisa Zane and Heather Graham. (He seemed to date famous and pretty women).

Ledger was engaged to actress Michelle Williams, whom he met on the set of Brokeback Mountain. And they have a daughter named Matilda Rose. But Michelle and Heath later split up.
In early 2008, Ledger was reported to be seeing model Gemma Ward after media articles linked the two together at end of 2007 holiday celebrations.

Ledger died in his apartment in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York on January 22, 2008. Ledger's body was found shortly after 3:30pm by his housekeeper and masseuse, who entered the bedroom to find him unconscious in bed, surrounded by pills. Police do not suspect foul play.

Chiang Fang Liang (Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva)

2008-01-14T19:50:00.001+01:00

Born as Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva to a Belarusian family on May 15th, 1916, she was also known as Chiang Fang Liang in Taiwan/China. She was the president of Chiang Ching Kuo (son of Chiang Kai Shek). But then she moved to Rusia during WW I. She was raised by her sister in an orphanage.

She met Chiang Ching Kuo when she was 16, and got married 2 years later. They had 3 sons and a daughter. But too bad, all the sons died shortly after the death of Chiang Ching Kuo (her husband).

She never returned to Russia, and travelled abroad only three times in the last 50 years her life. In 1992, she received a visit from a delegation including the mayor of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It was the first and only time that she made contact with anyone from her homeland.

She died on Dec 27th, 2004 and cremated, her ashes were taken and burried next to her husband.

Soong May Ling (Madame Chiang Kai Shek)

2008-01-12T22:56:00.001+01:00

Soong May-ling is known as the Madame Chiang Kai-shek (ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong sisters (Ai Ling, Ching Ling & May Ling).

She started college at her sisters' alma mater, Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, but transferred to Wellesley College and graduated with honors in 1917 with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy. She spoke great English with Georgia accent.

She later married to Chiang Kai Shek (was a buddhist and still married to his first wife), but her mother was not very satistief with the marriage until he got divorced with his previous wife and converted to Christianity. They never had any children.

As the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China.
(Img: taken from here)

Pilates

2008-01-11T15:21:00.000+01:00

Pilates was created by Joseph Pilates (1880-1967 Germany) in the early 20th century. Pilates called his method Contrology, because he believed his method uses the mind to control the muscles. The program focuses on the core postural muscles which help keep the body balanced and which are essential to providing support for the spine. In particular, Pilates exercises teach awareness of breath and alignment of the spine, and aim to strengthen the deep torso muscles.

Last nite was my first pilates course at Selection Fitness Aachen. If you ask me how was it, I'd answer you with one word. Awesome! I could feel that in my thighs and all muscles. At the beginning it was a little difficult for me, but then it got better and better.

Back to pilates, Joseph Pilates created this method for the veterans of WW II in order to improve the rehabilitation programs. Pilates sessions claim to help increase strength and flexibility, lengthen the body, and align the spine.

In my opinion, pilates is all about mind, controlling, breath, concentration and centering.

(Img taken from here)

What is "mennonite" ?

2008-01-10T18:18:00.000+01:00

Do you know that Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama grew up in a mennonite family?

What is mennonite then?
Mennonite is a group of Christian Anabaptist (Radical Reformation) denominations after the name of Menno Simons. There are about 1.5 million mennonites in the world (2006).

The early history of the Mennonites begins with the Anabaptists in the German and Dutch-speaking parts of central Europe. The German term is "Täufer" (that is, Baptists). These forerunners of modern Mennonites were part of the broad reaction against the practices and theology of the Catholic Church known as the Protestant Reformation.

Its most distinguishing feature is the rejection of infant baptism, an act that had both religious and political meaning since almost every infant born in Western Europe was baptized into the Catholic Church. Other significant theological views of the Mennonites developed in opposition to Catholic views or to the views of other Protestant reformers like Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli.

Some of the followers of Zwingli's Reformed church felt that requiring church membership beginning at birth was inconsistent with the New Testament example. They felt that the church should be completely removed from government (the proto-free church tradition), and that people should join only once they were willing to publicly acknowledge that they believed in Jesus and wanted to live in accordance with his teachings.

movement. In the spirit of the times, many radical groups followed, preaching any number of ideas about hierarchy, the state, At a small meeting on January 21, 1525, Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock, along with twelve others, baptized each other. This meeting marks the beginning of the Anabaptisteschatology, and sexual license, running from utter abandon to extreme chastity. These movements are together referred to as the Radical Reformation.

(source : Wikipedia)

Alek Wek

2008-01-09T17:13:00.000+01:00

Alek Wek is one of my fave supermodels. I personally think she is so unique.
Recently she has written a book entitled "Alek Wek : From Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel"

In her book, Wek provides honest insight into the politics of identity, race, and beauty. She writes:

"Whether I like it or not, my skin defines me. The first thing many people notice about me is how dark my skin is. Not just in America and Europe but also, to a lesser extent, in Sudan. In Khartoum, my skin marked me as a southerner, probably a Dinka, and many lighter-skinned residents of the city looked down on me. Racism exists everywhere."

"I've noticed that journalists often liked to say that I'd been discovered in "the bush," in Africa. As if I had been a primeval innocent afoot in the forest when the great model agent plucked me from the muck and tamed me, without destroying my savage beauty."

"Beauty is such a subjective notion. When I was growing up, I never saw myself as beautiful. I looked like my sisters, and like most of the other Dinka girls. We were all dark, tall, and lithe. I had the added problem of psoriasis: the few times I took a look at myself in the mirror, I wasn't pleased."

What do you think?
(Img taken from here)

How to clean blood stain?

2008-01-09T01:53:00.000+01:00

I had never known that we should clean blood stain from clothes with cold water.
I always thought that hot water is better to clean it, cos hot temperature will melt the blood and make it clean

But I was wrong!

Blood contains proteins and if you put hot water on your blood stain, it will solidify the blood. And it's harder to clean.

(Image taken from here)

Pissed

2008-01-08T23:11:00.001+01:00

What would you do when your good friend's husband pissed you off?

It sounds a little hard. I normally don't like to take it personally, but when it kicks under the belt, then I'd think about it.

A friend of my friend, Clara was pissed by her good friend's (Monica) husband. Clara has thought about to talk to Monica, but she doesn't know how to start. Monica is a very sweet and nice person, but her husband is not like her.

What would you do if you were Clara?

a. Talk to Monica, and clarify everything with her.
b. Talk to Monica's husband cos he is the one who is responsible for the whole things.
c. Talk to other friends and ask for advice.
d. Don't want to talk to Monica anymore cos she'll be in her husband's side anyway.
e. No idea!

(Pic taken from here)

Christyhann

2008-01-08T05:16:00.000+01:00

Hi there,

Happy belated Christmas and New Year!

Welcome to my world!