Sunday, January 23, 2011

Meaning of Flowers


I just discovered a beautiful flower-it's called Astrantia Ruby Wedding, pictured left. Beautiful isn't it? Oh, and do you know that every flower carries a different meaning. That's why you should ask the florist's opinion on what flower to buy for your special occasion :)



Flower Type Meanings
The following is an extensive list of flower types and the meanings/ sentiment they portray.Taken from here.

ACACIA Concealed Love, Beauty in Retirement, Chaste Love
AGAPANTHIS Secret Love
AMBROSIA Your Love is Given Back/Returned
AMARYLLIS Pride, Pastoral Poetry
ANEMONE Forsaken, sincerity
ARBUTUS Thee Only Do I Love
ASTER Symbol of Love, Daintiness
AZALEA Take Care of Yourself for Me, Temperance, Fragile Passion, Chinese Symbol of Womanhood
BACHELOR BUTTON Single Blessedness
BEGONIA Beware
BELLS OF IRELAND Good Luck
BITTERSWEET Truth
BLUEBELL Humility
CACTUS Endurance
CALADIUM Great joy and delight
CAMELLIA Good luck gift for a man
CAMELLIA (PINK) Longing for you
CAMELLIA (RED) You're a Flame in My Heart
CAMELLIA (WHITE) You're Adorable
CARNATION (GENERAL) Fascination, Woman Love
CARNATION (PINK) I'll Never Forget You
CARNATION (RED) My Heart Aches For You, Admiration
CARNATION (PURPLE) Capriciousness, Whimsical
CARNATION (SOLID COLOR) Yes
CARNATION (STRIPED) No, Refusal, Sorry I Can't Be With You, Wish I Could Be With You
CARNATION (WHITE) Sweet and Lovely, Innocence, Pure Love, Woman's Good Luck Gift
CARNATION (YELLOW) You Have Disappointed Me, Rejection
CATTAIL Peace, Prosperity
CHRYSANTHEMUM (GENERAL) You're a Wonderful Friend, Cheerfulness and Rest.
CHRYSANTHEMUM (WHITE) Truth
CHRYSANTHEMUM (YELLOW) Slighted Love
CROCUS Cheerfulness, gladness
CYCLAMEN Resignation and Good-bye
DAFFODIL Respect, Regard, Unrequited Love, You're the Only One, The Sun is Always Shining when I'm with You
DAISY Innocence, Loyal Love, I'll Never Tell, Purity
DANDELION Faithfulness, Happiness
FERN Magic, Fascination, Confidence and Shelter
FIR Time
FLAX Domestic Symbol
FORGET-ME-NOT True Love, Good Memories
FORSYTHIA Anticipation
FREESIA T rust
GARDENIA You're Lovely, Secret Love
GERANIUM Stupidity, Folly
GLADIOLI Give Me a Break, I'm Really Sincere, Flower of the Gladiators
GLOXINIA Love at First Sight
HEATHER (LAVENDER) Admiration, Solitude
HEATHER (WHITE) Protection, Wishes Will Come True
HOLLY Defence, Domestic Happiness
HONEYSUCKLE Happiness
HYACINTH (GENERAL) Games and Sports, Rashness, Flower Dedicated to Apollo
HYACINTH (BLUE) Constancy
HYACINTH (PURPLE) I am Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Sorrow
HYACINTH (RED OR PINK) Play
HYACINTH (WHITE) Loveliness, I'll Pray for You
HYACINTH (YELLOW) Jealousy
HYDRANGEA Thank You for Understanding, Frigidity, Heartlessness
IRIS Fleur-de-lis, Emblem of France, Your Friendship Means so Much to Me, Faith, Hope, Wisdom and Valour, My Compliments
IVY Wedded Love, Fidelity, Friendship, Affection
JONQUIL Love Me, Affection Returned, Desire, Sympathy, Desire for Affection Returned
LARKSPUR (PINK) Fickleness
LILY (WHITE) Virginity, Purity, Majesty, It's Heavenly to be with You
LILY (YELLOW) I'm Walking on Air, False and Gay
LILY (CALLA) Beauty
LILY (DAY) Coquetry, Chinese Emblem for Mother
LILY (EUCHARIS) Maiden Charms
LILY (TIGER) Wealth, Pride
LILY OF THE VALLEY Sweetness, Tears of the Virgin Mary, Return to Happiness, Humility, You've Made My Life Complete, beauty, gaiety
MAGNOLIA Nobility
MARIGOLD Cruelty, Grief, Jealousy
MISTLETOE Kiss me, Affection, To Surmount Difficulties, Sacred Plant of India
MONKSHOOD Beware, A Deadly Foe is Near
MOSS Maternal Love, Charity
MYRTLE Love, Hebrew Emblem of Marriage
NARCISSUS Egotism, Formality, Stay as Sweet as You Are
NASTURTIUM Conquest, Victory in Battle
OLEANDER Caution
ORANGE BLOSSOM Innocence, Eternal Love, Marriage and Fruitfulness
ORANGE MOCK Deceit
ORCHID Love, Beauty, Refinement, Beautiful Lady, Chinese Symbol for Many Children, Thoughtful, Maturity, Charm
ORCHID (CATTLEYA) Mature Charm
PALM LEAVES Victory and Success
PEONY Shame, Happy Life, Happy Marriage
PETUNIA Resentment, Anger, Your Presence Sooths Me
PINE Hope, Pity
POPPY (GENERAL) Eternal Sleep, Oblivion, Imagination
POPPY (RED) Pleasure
POPPY (WHITE) Consolation
POPPY (YELLOW) Wealth, Success
PRIMROSE I Can't Live Without You
PRIMROSE (EVENING) Inconstancy
ROSE (BRIDAL) Happy Love
ROSE (DARK CRIMSON) Mourning
ROSE (HIBISCUS) Delicate Beauty
ROSE (LEAF) You May Hope
ROSE (PINK) Perfect Happiness, Please Believe Me
ROSE (RED) Love, I Love You
ROSE (TEA) I'll Remember Always
ROSE (THORNLESS) Love at First Sight
ROSE (WHITE) Innocence and Purity, I am Worthy of You, You're Heavenly, Secrecy and Silence
ROSE (WHITE AND RED MIXED) Unity, Flower Emblem of England
ROSE (WHITE-DRIED) Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue
ROSE (YELLOW) Decrease of Love, Jealousy, Try to Care
ROSEBUD Beauty and Youth, A Heart Innocent of Love
ROSEBUD (RED) Pure and Lovely
ROSEBUD (WHITE) Girlhood
ROSEBUD (MOSS) Confessions of Love
ROSES (Bouquet of Mature Blooms) Gratitude
ROSES (Single Full Bloom) I Love You, I Still Love You
SMILAX Loveliness
SNAPDRAGON Deception, Gracious Lady
SPIDER FLOWER Elope with Me
STEPHANOTIS Happiness in Marriage, Desire to Travel
STOCK Bonds of Affection, Promptness, You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
SUNFLOWER Pride, Sunshine
SWEETPEA Good-bye, Departure, Blissful Pleasure, Thank You for a Lovely Time
TULIP (GENERAL) Perfect Lover, Frame, Flower Emblem of Holland
TULIP (RED) Believe Me, Declaration of Love
TULIP (VARIEGATED) Beautiful Eyes
TULIP (YELLOW) There's Sunshine in Your Smile
VIOLET Modesty
VIOLET (BLUE) Watchfulness, Faithfulness, I'll Always Be True
VIOLET (WHITE) Let's Take a Chance
VISCARIA Dance With Me
WISTERIA Welcome
ZINNIA (MAGENTA) Lasting Affection
ZINNIA (MIXED) Thinking (or In Memory) of an Absent Friend
ZINNIA (SCARLET) Constancy
ZINNIA (WHITE) Goodness
ZINNIA (YELLOW) Daily Remembrance


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

My Affair with Dramas~














since I was young, I have always watched dramas.
Malay dramas yes, at the beginning, but then
I became bored of them-Maria Mariana, Gerak Khas,
Roda2 Jalanraya bla bla.


















Form 1 I was introduced to the world of
EXCELLENT WRITINGS.I read Charles Dicken's
Great Expectation albeit the abridged version.

I WAS TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY. It's like the whole of
my 12 years, all that I have read and known were just too insignificant.
Charles Dickens wrote a story so amazing, so different from the thrashy,
school-life, i love you, you love me, then one of us die-Ahadiat Akashah- novel.





























That transition made me watched HK dramas, which
was at the pinnacle when I was form 1-5 (1991-1996)
All the best actors in HK come from that time frame
of drama: Stephen Chow, Andy Lau, Lau Ching Wan,
Leung Chiu Wai.











The year 1997 was the start of my university years and
the year JDRAMA took over. Again,
I was blown away with Japan's style of storytelling,
their uniqueness and diversities of genres. I really
learned a lot from JDrama. GTO taught me teaching is a
noble profession that would turn even the nastiest person
into the most dedicated teacher. Love Generation taught me
True Love doesn't Run Smooth, Life is Beautiful taught me
to respect the disabled. Summer Snow taught me Love
Transcends. Majo no Jouken taught me Love transcends Age.
Tengoku no Ichiban Chikai Otoko taught me that Hitsuzen
and we are defined by our choices.

Year 2002 Winter Sonata hit Malaysia and I was also hit.
It was less superior than JDrama but ahh the heartbreak
it gave was worth it. Followed by Stairway To Heaven,
Beautiful Life, Full House. I started working in the same year.
















Year 2005 solidified my affair with KDrama. As JDrama
faded away with the more bizarre choices they made, KDrama
stayed faithful, scripts more thoughtful and songs more catchy
than ever. I almost always remember the year by the great dramas
they made
2005-My Sassy Girl Chun-hyang
2006-My Girl
2007-Goong
2008-Hong Gil-dong
2009-City Hall
2010-Secret Garden












call me shallow or immature, but i adore drama, and i do hope
my affairs with it would never stop.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Choose Your Priorities

















you just arrived at your office. Suddenly the phone rings and caller ID=mother, your secretary tells you that a guest drops by, with no appointment. You have a presentation tomorrow,
you have to pick your kids from school and you have a date with your husband in 30 mins.

Which one would you do first?

me?
go pick my kids, on the way call my mom and then tell my husband i'll be 1/2 an hour late. After that I'll tell my secretary that I'm x available and make another appointment. After the date with hubby, finish the presentation...

MY PRIORITIES?
1. Family 2. Family and 3. Family

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION?
-to avoid PERFECTIONISTS and people who has DIFFERENT PRIORITIES
than me and to LIVE AND WORK THE WAY I WANT TO

happy new year