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Norah who was my Secret Pal from SP8 tagged me for this meme. (The scarf she knitted for me as part of the swap has keep my neck warm throughout the entire winter!)

The rules:

Each person tagged gives 7 random facts about themselves. Those tagged need to write in their blogs 7 facts, as well as the rules of the game. You need to tag seven others and list their names on your blog. You have to leave those you plan on tagging a note in their comments so they know that they have been tagged and need to read your blog.

Seven random things about me:

1. When I was 5, I used to fly kites out of the window from our studio apartment which was located on the 15th floor.
   


2. The first time I tasted a potato chip was at age 7, during a visit to Granby Zoo. (and yes, I like potato chips!)
   


3. When I was in Hong Kong for summer holidays (I was 8), the movie "Pocket Money" (Truffaut's movie L'argent de Poche) was showing in the theaters and I desperately wanted to see it.
   


4. I hope to eventually meet up with my portuguese/chinese cousin again (but will probably never happen since no one in my dad's family has kept in touch with my aunt and uncle because it was considered shameful to marry outside your race back then).
   


5. My maternal grandmother made the best fish cakes (chinese style)!
   


6. I loved eating pickled veggies and salted pineapple from the street vendors in Macau.
   


7. "Are you there God, it's me Margaret" was one of my favourite novels as a pre-teen.

OK, now I have to tag seven others for this:
Rhonna, Michelle, Shelby, Suzie, Amy, Vivian, and Jenny.

-From Lilipoh mag - Cherie Carter-Scott

You will receive a body : You may like it or hate it but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around

You will learn lessons : You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

There are no mistakes, only lessons : Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".

A lesson is repeated until learned : A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Learning lessons does not end : There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

"There" is no better than "here" : When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".

Others are merely mirrors of you : You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love of hate about yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you : You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

Your answers lie inside you : The answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

You will forget all this.

This is a "catch-up" post considering my absence from blogging.

The Senecal Egg hunt at Verona Park (because the Easter Egg Hunt at Van Vleck Gardens started earlier than the designated time - erg!):



Easter Sunday at Zabi's (another egg hunt!):



Branchbrook Park during the Cherry Blossom Festival (April):



Agriculture and Folk Festival at Rutgers University at the New Brunswick campus (April)

I am back! Happy Mother's Day to all mothers out there.

Been busy working and was in Las Vegas last weekend at the IYNAUS Convention. Haven't been knitting much though :-( and haven't finished sewing on the buttons for the cardi I completed weeks ago. More later!

Oh yeah, joined the Knitters Tea Swap round 3, should be fun!!!!!! Didn't sign up for Secret Pal because I am behind in my knitting and still haven't used the yarns sent to me from the other 2 Secret Pal swaps.