Happy Mum's Day

It's Mum's Day... I wanted to bring Mom out for dinner last night, but she wanted to meet up some friends! Wanted to bring Mom for dim sum lunch today, but again she decided she wanted to go out!! lol.. my mom's pretty happening... even more than her own daughter!

So i ended up scrapping.. somehow it just feels like I've not been scrapping much these couple of weeks!

Completed this using pps from the April SOMO kit! I love the October Afternoon stamps but I didn't use them here - kinda dun bare to use them!! hehe...

Also finally used the fontwerks kit that TVC gals gave me :D
I thought the colours are just nice for a guys LO! So I did one for each of my bros! talk about being fair... had inspiration from I 's LO for Elder Bro's LO - the placement of her flowers :) hope you don't mind! kekeke...

Younger Bro's had an element from the fontwerks "the firm" workshop by TVC - the note journalling using brads to secure! I did 2 mini note pages.



I need a new album desperately... the current one that I'm using is bursting to its seams! I guess I should be proud that I keep up with scrapping!

Celebrate...

Couple of things to celebrate this week... Mother's day & a dear friend's birthday. Mother's Day was made with a request from a friend! I've not done one for my mom yet!!! Gotta wait for the birthday card as I don't want it to be a spoiler for the birthday gal! hehe...

Oh! Must tell this!

Was at Northpoint yesterday, in between appointments and for lunch. After a scrumptious meal of Nasi with chicken and loads of sambal belachan, I went to the Esprit outlet. I bought a pair of black work pants for $29.90! Original price was

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$129.90!

Had to grab it rite?? It's esprit collection okie?? the 'more expensive' Esprit range! Best part, the material is those non-iron kind!

Jealous rite??? I saved $100... I can buy other stuff now... let's see!! :D haha

Going circles!

Did this a while ago... forgot where I found the tutorial from.. but to whoever who posted the tutorial for this pretty fabric flower! thanx a bunch!


love the vintage buttons!

And how great it is to be bringing around something that no one else have?? hehe... and I call this the circles flower!

time flies

It's been a while since I've posted. Work has been starting to get bit crazier, with more report, trainings coming up in the next month or so! Didn't manage to get much scrapping done! but managed to go for a crop and completed another LO at home..

these are the same pics that I did an album as a gift. Thought I should scrap it too as a memory for my own SB album...

The ONLY LO i managed to complete at the crop, while others managed to complete at least 2! I took a long while to cut out the flowers meticulously!


Went to watch Phathom of the Opera and of course it was great! What really caught my eye was the exhibit at the landing/steps area! Show this pic and i thought I had to take it! hehe.. it's drawn with 1 single line??? anyway, it's the sewing machine i have a home.. if you didn't already know my pathetic state!

Hope it's going to be a great week. & I truly hope that I get my mojo back to scrap again!

Part 2...

and this is when I was accused to be egoistic... that I only scrap pictures about myself.. oh so sad!! sobz!!


to prove that I am not EGOISTIC, i had printed out pictures of my family members and of other stuff... just waiting to be scrapped! so hang in there! i'm looking for my mojo!

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yeah! Friday tmr! TGIF...

been contemplating whether to take leave on monday for a long weekend (Tuesday is Labour Day in case anyone forgets!) but I took leave last Monday, so kinda embarassed to be constantly taking leave! hehe..

get tissue ready..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYeA6bM3odo


have a BOX of tissue ready...

side track

younger bro called telling us that he had his fair and reasonably good share of local delights at Singapore Day in NY..

bro: what u doing? scrapping??

erm.. am I that obvious???

part 1...

yepz.. so this is what I half completed at sat's FwFW's workshop...

As I had to teach in the morning, I had to drastically reduce the amount of things I could bring to the w/s so i only brought 'tools' and 1 set of black alphas.. but guess what? i found / saw / bought pretty pps! I just love the bright and vibrant colours and of cos the owl with a crown to boot! How can anyone resist it? Took me a while to think of the title, but when M & L saw the pic.. she immediately asked who took the pic?? so i said.. cousin J.. and reply was.. "yepz.. this is taken with a DSLR... only a DSLR can take a bit with the background blurry (right term?)"

so thinking hard again, & finally i decided just to name it....

{ Just love a great pic }

PM leave is over.. went to collect my passport... as efficient as the people at ICA was it took me an hour and a half to collect my passport(when I took the queue number, there were 132 people ahead of me, since i had to wait one and half hour for collection, it worked out that a queue number is called approx every minute)... followed by lunch with Cousin M (she's on leave too!).. after which we adjourned for a quick pop by to LP. Also I finally went to picked up a long overdue present for a great pal! and finishing off with my dental appt... and I had the best of " luck " (HUGE open inverted commas!!) to get the same dentist the past 3 times! My gums bled and my teeth hurt after the whole experience.. I've always liked going to the dentist.. but recently the dentists that I've met are totally giving me negative vibes!

It's back to work tmr! hope the week ends fast! hehe ... looking forward to next week... there's a holiday in between... and I'm going to watch Phantom of the Opera!

by the way.. there's part 2 for the LO.. hehe but basically using same pp and similar pics with slightly different expressions!

order pls!

1st of...

I was just looking at the previous post of my LO {Woo Family Tradition} and I don't like it 1 bit! Clarify --> I like every element of it, from the pattern paper, to the CI swirls that I painstakingly cut out, to the alpha, stamp, and tag + journalling. But somehow the combination is just off! I guess it's the problem that I have? Finding my style?? I pour through online galleries looking at different LO, looking at them for reference... sometimes a scraplift... but it turns out totlly different entirely! I guess that i my style? - Looking for inspiration and when I have a pattern paper to work with I start from there and slowly build up the layout creating my very own style? Sometimes, I find that I like things nice, simple and not overly complicated.. and I guess that is probably what I work best with? erm... *ponder*


2nd-ly...

Yesterday's Font With Fontwerks was great! I didn't join but I had little treats at the end too for helping! Thanx M and L! hehe... Seeing them I really saw the hard work that they had gone through just to pull through a 1 day event! Totally not easy! and I must say it really is a great experience to see 1st hand *personal view* how such an event is planned and the thoughts/efforts they had put in. Pity, I didn't take pict with KM but nice seeing her in real person anyway!

and yes! I spent again... well what to do? with such pretty stuff and working in the morning to earn $$ I can spend baby!!

Oh! and i managed to half-complete an LO too! posting it soon!


3rd ...

Elder Bro stopped by my scrap area today... and commented "Mom, your daughter is very egoistic, she's always scrapping pictures of herself!" er.... how do i answer that? I just kept on scrapping... lol

for the record, i do scrap pictures of my family members! and other stuff too!


Last but not least...

just a thought.. a wondering thought..

--> how did i spend my weekends before I started scrapping??? lol i noticed that I've been spending most weekends at home to scrap so what did i do on the weekends say 6 months ago???

something to remember

added a little recipe tag at the side together with the journalling.. thought it's nice to be remember good old family traditions that my grandparents have!

wahaha and i didn't know what to do with the empty space at the bottom right corner so i just put a nice stamp!

Tomorrow is fun with fontwerks workshop! although i didn't sign up (need to teach to earn more $$ to fund more SB purchases) I'll be going down to help in the later part of the afternoon! hehe... can't wait... excited too!

1 for the road...

can only squeeze in a pictorial post... hehe... not enough time to write more!



TFL!!

not so Safari Album

Finally completed that album! My 1st attempt at altering one. Used Delish Biscuit board which I just bought from TVC for a steal! So happy... after all I only used 3 of the 7 boards and I have 4 more left for another album! :D

This took me 4, almost 5 hours to complete! and the moment I completed it , Cousin M came along with kids, parents, sis and my aunt to my place just in time to receive her little handmade gift!





Truly glad that Cousin M likes it :D

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and i've got my hands on the new crate papers at TVC! can't wait to use them.... so yummy! and it's double sided!

Purple addiction

Yeah! it's the weekend! Time to scrap! :D

Finally a chance to use the wonderful MF pp ... Just love the pretty flower patterns and the soothing colours! They look just great against the black cardstock!


TFL!

Priorities !!

I have pictures!!! lots of pictures to scrap...

1. album of night safari.. cool picts there... and lots of ideas flowing
2. thanx cousin J, I've loads of pictures to scrap from the CNY pics! more than what I wanted initially!!

I've even printed them out!!

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I NEED TO IRON THE CLOTHES!!!!!
no scrapping tonite :(

@ work

A little start for the working days ahead... many people who know me knows that my job is pretty different from the conventional kind.. well I still get a desk of my own! hehe.. My very 1st one okie??? must remember! and a namecard to boot! (which is the little hidden tag) can you make out the logo?? lol.. Oh! and i double-used SR stickers... i cut out the frame for the 'never ever give up' sticker and used it for the frame of the smaller photo! :D

somehow I don't feel rejunvenated after the long weekend.... i need a longer break!!!!!

great week ahead everyone!!!

Bag Lady.. NOT!!!

So ta-da! So this is the sewing machine that I've been mentioning about! I finally mastered the art of spinning the wheel, and the co-ordination of paddling so that stitches can be sewn!!! Ok to give my mom some justice, it's a really good machine and it can even do embroidery but since I was in sec school this machines stood so offensively in the guest room that I've never ever used it for any of my home econs project! So i thought, ok let's give it a try again!

with mom getting pissed at me... screaming her lungs off.. "so easy, why can't you do it???" "practice 1st" '"see very easy right??"



I finally got the hang of it and this are the products... I thought since I'm running of beginner's luck, I'd better exhaust my ability to paddle before suddenly lose that ability to co-ordinate my skills again!


1) a nice tote bag that I'll be bringing everywhere for crops or TVC OH... It's my SCRAP BOOKING SHOPPING BAG!! It comes reversible! I can use it on the pink side with the flowers decoration, or turn it over with 2 compartments - one big enough to put 12x12 pp and a smaller one to put little knick knacks!


took me quite a long time to figure out how to make the base of the bag look like this with a triangle.. even with my mom's help it was pretty difficult to understand the instructions ! After a few trials I got it! yeah!


2) Shoulder sling bag
(Courtesy of Mel! - Thanx babez!)


and...

3) a fabric box that I can use to keep alphas, stickers, ribbons etc..



Excuse the same cloth! I feel in love with these 3 fabric when I went to spotlight last week! so i made everything in them.. and also i'm too lazy to dig out my mom's old cloth! keke...


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Long weekends are the time for me to catch up with the family... went to the Night Safari with my eldest aunt's family. Been missing the two little fella a bit... especially now that I don't get to see K1 everyday in school! He grew so much and was as inquisitive as ever...

K: Fiona ah-ye, why is night safari so dark?
F: It's dark because, it's at night and the animals are nocturnal?
K: Why so dark????

Thanx cousin M for the treat!

How can i resist?

another photo to remember the times when I was in perth. This is Araluen - Tulip Farm, somewhere south of WA. It's absolutely beautiful in Spring, when the weather has just turned slightly cooler and when the flowers are all in bloom! It is just that at Araluen where the tulips are in bloom! Pity I've only been there once! Will definitely go back again!

Love how the picture is taken with the flowers being in focus! You can't see it, but in fact my hair has that wind blown effect! talk about beauty! hehe..

Have a great easter everyone!

TFL

my DNA

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

Part 2..

Using the remainder of the beautiful JBS pp, i made a border for another LO..

Reads: Marron Meal

Marron is a species of crustacean, smaller than a lobster but bigger than a yabbie. It was one of the best meal I had (in fact one of many! I do enjoy my food very much! How to lose weight like this???) . The farm had it own farm and the marrrons were so fresh. It was cooked simply with just garlic and butter... Can you beat this combination??

YUM!!! i can just taste it...
TFL!!!

1 more day to long weekend! yeah!!! lucky to those ppl i know who are having an even longer weekend with no work tomorrow!

I love...

i LOVE my job.. i LOVE the challenges it give me and the places it brings me too.. and most of all, i LOVE the FLEXIBILITY that i can have in my job!! wooohooo.. talk about job satisfaction.

Good Morning!!!!

I think i'm finally over the blues... it's midweek and only 2 days to a long weekend yeah!!!

Have a great Wednesday everyone!
Enjoy!

TFL!!

Remembering

Life has been a bit crazy the last week... March whizzed by with lots of happenings in my life.. . of course there was my b-day , the end of CNY, reports to be done at work (to verify my payroll) , etc, etc...

I guess the tip of it was to see my dad in hospital after an op, however minor and common the operation that he had was, so everyone keeps telling me... But still, to see my VERY fit and healthy father in hospital with a tube in his left hand give me the chills. I could not help but have tears welling up in my eyes. Dad is always pottering around the house doing this or that never a moment sitting down... even if he does sit in front of a TV, he's off to la-la land pretty fast and the moment i switch the telly off he wakes up immediately and says "Hey, I'm watching!". Dad NEVER gets ill... hence, the past 2 weeks when he stayed at home (a very unusual occurrence) I was very worried! And he complained of having fever, sore throat, etc.. Over the weekends when I'm home the whole day, I even noticed that he napped a lot! something really unusual for my dad to do! Seriously worried about Dad's condition, I even proposed sending him to the hospital!

Now seeing Dad after the op and the way he is sitting down and getting up in pain really hurts... Even as he gets into the car, it's such a slow and laborious activity for him... Hope the pain goes away soon...

Just to cheer myself up, I managed to do an LO.. but that was all I could manage.. It's been a bit hard to get myself going... I guess mesmerising about the old times are always good.. so i thought i should do an LO of the different gowns I wore for the various balls I attended in Perth.

Found!

A lazy afternoon on Saturday gave me an opportunity to catch up on some scrapping in an attempt to find my MOJO...

Looking through all my pps, I found some that I bought during my very 1st TVC OH last Oct! hehe... I've never got a chance to really use it as all the wonderful scrapping materials were released fast and furious!

p/s I must add that this picture was not taken with MY camera... so it's not my camera's fault that the actual photo looks grainy!

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mid week lunch date with Cousin J brought me happy surprises!

Can you believe that I went to Haji Lane 3-4 times but each time the shop "Salad" is always closed! I was elated when I found it open and I walked in with a beaming smile. oh my gosh, such pretty things they have, although a bit pricey it was great finds nonetheless especially for people who are looking for unusual one-off knick knacks to decorate their humble abodes or even great house-warming gifts!! And I found this...
a nice electric blue n black striped elastic belt that matched my outfit on that day! I wore it straight away! How often can you do that? anyway really happy with my find as I've been looking for a nice elastic belt without being too retro or funky that was understated and matches with most of my work clothes as well!


oh yeah! sunday today.. (see i suffer from scatter brain syndrome) Off to Pauline's to get my nails fixed in the arvo! my poor little last toe broke (near the nail bed!) and it's just hanging onto 1/4 of the nail. Msged her on Fri nite to ask for rescue!!! I can't help but keep fiddling with it making sure that it does not break any further! ooo... what picture to draw this time??? erm... maybe I should choose a colour to match the fiery red dress I bought for my cousin's wedding next sun! oh Yes! Must remember to bring the LO that I made, hope she likes it! :D

Oh where, oh where is my M.O.J.O ??

Kinda lost my scrapping Mojo with this LO and the next one and didn't really want to think much so I just stuck with the similar colour combi.

Title: Run Rayner

Kor started runing for marathons the past couple of years! This was taken when UOB had it's 1st charity run 2 sundays ago --> Heart Run for the Very Special Association (VSA) and the Children's Society. The picture was taken with lots of backlight.. I can't control where he has to stand to start his run rite???

Title: Miss
{Woo n Khoo}

At 4 years old, kids pronounciation is of course not accurate, so sometimes, they will call me Ms Khoo (the pretty lady next to me in the pic). A wonderful teacher at AK, who taught my elder nephew and now teaching the younger one as well... and also E, the kids enjoy her lessons alot! Thanx Felicia for being a kind and caring teacher to my most active nephews!

Title: F 4
(Flower n Fiona}

Thanx Lisa for sending me the picture! :D

For this I really lost my Mojo! arghhh..
Please leave a comment about this.. I kinda lost my mojo with this LO.. Something is not right somewhere? Er.. comments? Let me know k? I found it rather difficult filling up the empty spaces between the journally card and the photos!

TFL!!!

trying my best...

Round 2.. with better pics !


I am really bad at this uploading and scanning thing! I can only scan an a4 size image and this is prob the best I can do.. I think it's pretty bad! i just hope that you can all see it clearly.. I took almost the whole evening finally connecting the scanner to the computer and realising that it can only scan an a4 size image! Argghh.. I think taking a photo is so much better! I want my camera now... however lousy the pictures turn out! at least I get the full LO!!! I think i really do injustice to the LOs! especially my grandparents one! I promise once I get my camera I will take better pic and upload it and delete these awful pictures... if anyone out there can tell me how i can scan the pictures better please let me know! Thanx!




Title: Ah-ye , Ah-ma.. birthday celebrations...


you can see the tag that has the pic of my cake! hehe...

and there was a picture of me when recently taken during my birthday.. I had to name it { 1 year wiser } because I don't want to offend the wonderful friends I have who are slightly older than me! hehe.. anyway I've got a secret tag with the pic of my birthday cake.


This is a pic of the wonderful gal that always does pretty nail art for me... it's just amazing how she uses a tiny paint brush and acrylic paint and beautiful pictures of flowers and butterflies are on my nails! thanx so much pauline!



Title: po2 (po-po) read in cantonese... the only LO that turned out good after scanning!

TFL (at horrible looking LOs!) so sorry.. my thousand apologises! :(

And...

I did 4.. YES!!! you heard me 4 LOs today! This is the 1st time since I've started scrapbooking that I've done so many in a day! The last time was 3... and today 4! Wow.. but sadly I've not camera to take pics ;(
so you've to wait! :D

Had a crop today at SR... and I say this road name with much fondness! it's a haven in it's own way! wahaha... I think I mentioned this before, crops are always good! and today's crop really keep me going even when I reached home. Thanx L for the 'be good' stamp! hehe... such a perfect word for me.. I'm always told that I must be good! kekeke...

ok since no pic.. short and week post this shall be!

oh please vote for my dearest cousin J for round 3 MMI contest!

Tata.. nitez everyone!

{ thoughts }

I like how I look... pondering and wondering about something... but ...

to be honest I think my mind was blank when cousin J took this snap shot of me! In retrospect, I slouch alot... and I had a horrible posture! hehe...

Have a great weekend everyone!

TFL!

why I communicate...

.... because I want to rant and rave! Usually it's the former... According to an SLT workshop I attended yesterday, we communicate to satisfy our social needs - share feelings, ideas, and experiences.. and indeed I want to share an experience I had this morning on my way to work...

There's this uncle, really an uncle, who attempts to be hip :D I do not fault him on that, but he wears Tee-shirts way too tight for him! OMG.. his tummy was wrapped in his bright orange tee! Very cute I must admit.. anyway to continue witht he description of this cute uncle.. I guess his age's around late 30s or early 40s.. he had more earrings than I have! He carries the kind of bag that has the hard cover. Well, today he has his headphones on as he boarded the bus. The moment he got onto the bus one could hear his music blarring away! I had the 'fortune' to stand next to him.. but as I was listening to my Ipod of jazz, Black-eye Peas, Korean theme songs... I could even hear the music 'coming' out of his headset!! That was not the frightening part.. that his music was played so loudly, but it was his selection of music.. OMG he was listening Retro (still????) and I thought i heard "mmmbop" by the Hanson brothers! OMG that was when I was in sec sch okie? and I no longer listen to these boy band kinds of music!!! oh gosh!! I was so glad he got off the bus! I really pity the next lady whom he chose to sit beside!!! She was this prim and proper lady with no hair out of place kind, reading a nice little book on the way to work! I hope she has a better day at work!

I have to admit now that my job requires me to travel so much... my observations of life is seriously a eye-opening (somethings popping) experience!

Okie, so this post is an rant... soon I'll have raves of all the lovely DIY pressie my frens have made for me.. and of their own little projects!

Woohoo.. TGIF.. going to print pics today, have some LOs in mind! Can't wait to get started on them!!

{ Instructions }

Mom has loads of fabric. She loves to sew and has this old Singer sewing machine in my room, you know the kind with a paddle. Sadly I have bad co-ordination and I can't use the machine! I wanna sew! Please someone out there lend me yours! Hehe... Mom will just complain and say 'It's so easy to use my sewing machine, why can't you use it???"

Well, I remembered when I was young, she would bring me to Holland V to buy fabric from this shop. Interestingly, the shop sold fabric with ready cut out of templates of dresses for little girls with matching dolls, together with instructions! Digging through her plastic bag of cloth yesterday was a time of memerising of the old times!

I found this fabric that still had the instructions of making a dress! Mom was half way done with the dress and only the top was made! Anyway, I found it and I thought I'll make a fabric flower with it! Really like how it turned out! :D

Did some stitching to make the petals look lifelike!


tfl!

More flowers to be made this sun! Can't wait.. I've got more fabric waiting!!

To sir with love

Did this LO for my mom's ex-boss. His birthday was yesterday.

Mom calls him SIR for the longest time. He has seen my brothers and I grow up and he's such a divine man! Every new year, we will be at his house on the mornings of the 2nd day without fail, sipping on his great collection of wines and my brothers will be eating his famous roasted beef!

Really like how I managed to blend in the JBS stalk with the flowers! Hehe... this 'ku-ku' very clever! hehe.. Just love the new 7G pps and stickers! Can't wait to do more :D

TFL!

slow and steady

Started at 9pm today and finally ended at 11pm! Wow! 2 hours for this LO to be done!

Title: What makes me Happy

The journalling's bit small so here it is:

1. Flowers! of any kind
2. Yummy cake in pretty colours
3. Good old comfort food: ice cream (Ben n Jerry's in this case!)
4. Bag and more Bags
5. Shoes of rainbow colours (think I meant many shoes all in different hues!)

Since there are 5 pictures, I tried to the kind of LO that was centralised! Thought too many embellishing was too distracting so it took me a long time to decide what to put and where to put! Hence the 2 hours! :P oh.. of course it does not help if you are scrapping in front of the TV!

Just love the fontwerks pp, chandelier pattern n the journalling cards! :D

TFL!!

Day of many events!

15 days of CNY is offically over. No more collecting of angbaos allowed! No more Yu Sheng to toss! Yet there's still lots of CNY goodies left at my place to nibble on!

Anyway, I'm not sure if many people know this but the 15th day of CNY is also known as Chinese Valentine's Day! So double event / meaning! It also concides with my B toDAY! Hehe :D It has happened before a few years back when the last day of CNY happens to be Bday too! Thanx for all the well-wishes from my beloved family & friends, great flowers, food and lovely presents from friends - I love them all!

Well, how can i resist a cake right? This one's from Canele and it's rich dark chocolate! YUM! :D There's extra so anyone who would like to try give me a ting-a-ling soon before they're all gone! more events happened to my family... which means opening of new chapters in life! A good year ahead perhaps?

Transformer!

GG 5 is having a sale! While I like their clothes a fair bit, I think it's too pricey and sale times are always great! Who complains when it's saleS?? well, only about the long queues to try the clothes and to pay! Anyway, this time round, I did not get any clothes but I bought a nice black bag that I thought is good to use for work! Had a hard time contemplating whether to get it or not as my job requires me to carry case files wherever I go a major pre-requisite for my bags currently is that they must be able to carry files! hehe.. I think this did the job (luckily I had my files with me so I tried it on! Somehow I am very bad at judging whether the bags are big enough for files!)
Anyway, I thought it was too plain and I decided to jazz it up a bit with a old string of pearls and the fabric flower that I did recently! hehe.. Think it doesn't look so boring anymore! Best part, I can change the pearls or flowers anytime I want! :D so happy!
Good nite everyone!

{ All the SSSSS }

Look what I did with Sassafrass Lass pp! It's so pretty! Decided that I should do a little birthday card for my cute adorable niece who praises this "ku-ku" of hers to be clever! :D Happy birthday Pumpkins! Hehe how i wish you came out of your mummy's tummy 1 day earlier so we can celebrate our birthdays on the same day!


Thanx to the great TwiNS who so willingly took pictures with me! :D I promised to scrap with a lovely pic of them! Love their Tees and how 90% of the LO is Sassafrass Lass Blue Boutique collection. just love the owl and the flowers! Love the cardstock as well! hehe.. finally get to use my white flower rubons! So happy!