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The key to how you can break any...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a1d47c98585a5020d1f1c689dd9d9824/tumblr_mk69o7nQm01s6qqvfo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://qstnstatusquo.com/post/46166454717/breaking-bad-habits" target="_blank"&gt;questioning-the-status-quo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The key to how you can break any habit, is in the conversation you have with your inner thoughts. &lt;a href="http://www.empowernetwork.com/teamempire/blog/starting-new-habits-breaking-old-habits/" title="Starting New Habits, Breaking Old Habits" target="_blank"&gt; Learn More Here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/50068900981</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/50068900981</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:26:54 +0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Nest Update</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmm8qQ1rD1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;30th September 2012 - I can see 7 floors:)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/33228377109</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/33228377109</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:48:53 +0800</pubDate><category>lovenest</category></item><item><title>My Stomach Became A Minefield</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m currently at my 7 week mark, hooray! I&amp;#8217;ve come to believe that the symptoms of early pregnancy really tests your patience and perseverance. I must say the heavens have a subtle way of pushing mothers-to-be to buckle up and be ready for the real ride 9 months down the road!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the beginning of last week, I&amp;#8217;ve been struggling with Morning Sickness. Boy, was I so deceived by that term &amp;#8216;Morning&amp;#8217;. To be more exact, it should be called the &amp;#8216;Forever-Lingering-Nausea-cum-Forever-Hungry-Bear&amp;#8217; Sickness. Basically, if I don&amp;#8217;t eat, I feel nauseous. And if I eat, I feel nauseous too. Sigh, what a dilemma! I have huge cravings for spicy and sour stuffs but I know I can&amp;#8217;t have them in huge quantities (and I know I don&amp;#8217;t like the diarrhoea that follows too). To curb the nauseating feeling, I&amp;#8217;ve began to buy orange juice and yakult too. But my stomach never seems to be settled at all. It&amp;#8217;s either too bloated or too hungry. How ah?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m missing those stretches and long walks and  I&amp;#8217;m definitely thinking of hopping right back to light exercises on my 12th week. I do hope these morning sickness issues stop by then. Baby, be good and help your mummy here get fit k:)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/33227985652</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/33227985652</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:33:47 +0800</pubDate><category>motherhood</category></item><item><title>Looks good! But still looking slow. </title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma9ot4Cam41qzy5jco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looks good! But still looking slow. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/31441103415</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/31441103415</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:41:00 +0800</pubDate><category>lovenest</category></item><item><title>Hard Knocks</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2012/05/turning-60-the-twelve-most.html" title="Learnings" target="_blank"&gt;Learnings&lt;/a&gt; from a 60 year old.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/27032260776</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/27032260776</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:00:00 +0800</pubDate><category>reflections</category></item><item><title>String Balls</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.landofnod.com/honest-to-nod/2012/02/try-this-hanging-string-balls.html/" title="Balloon" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6vgokP4fM1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href="http://blog.landofnod.com/honest-to-nod/2012/02/try-this-hanging-string-balls.html/" title="Balloon" target="_blank"&gt;really easy&lt;/a&gt; and pretty! Ok I need to get to spotlight or artfriend today. Stop procrastinating!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/26804772920</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/26804772920</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:39:00 +0800</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>How Joyful</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m665jrnDTf1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.howjoyful.com/tutorials/" title="How Joyful" target="_blank"&gt;This &lt;/a&gt;is quite an awesome blog! Time to do something to those recycled clothes!&lt;br/&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25846058014</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25846058014</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0800</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>Vanity Trove</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m65yarq3RH1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the first time that the hubby gifted me a cosmetic set filled with samples :D He asked if this can replace the cleansing set that I asked him to buy at the airports haha.. Well, men.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25842167528</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25842167528</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:01:00 +0800</pubDate><category>marriage</category></item><item><title>Feeling so proud of myself that I managed to rip a dvd heh!...</title><description>&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/44639123" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feeling so proud of myself that I managed to rip a dvd heh! *Bimbo moment*&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25838852120</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25838852120</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:25:00 +0800</pubDate><category>marriage</category></item><item><title>Purchased!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5sltmXGDz1qzx6z2.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#8217;t wait! :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25338695786</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25338695786</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:03:00 +0800</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>We’re back from a pirate cruise. Alright it’s...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5m6av59ru1qzy5jco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’re back from a pirate cruise. Alright it’s actually a cruise ship that doesn’t moves and it has way too much jackpot machines and cigarette smoke for our liking. The best part of the short trip was probably the football matches (still too much cigarette smoke). Well done portugal and germany!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25093953543</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25093953543</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:38:00 +0800</pubDate><category>marriage</category><category>travel</category></item><item><title>DIY Bags</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5juisncfi1qzx6z2.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2009/11/21/diy-doily-canvas-bag/" title="Bag" target="_blank"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is another one of those droolworthy projects! Now I know what to do with those interesting coasters and bags:)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25014235997</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25014235997</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:34:00 +0800</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>Inkodye Projects</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5jez6ifNm1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I need to seriously consider executing a side project every week (and sell?). They look so fun! Speaking of which, I just chanced upon some exciting projects by &lt;a href="http://lumi.co/" title="Lumi" target="_blank"&gt;Lumi&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://lumi.co/blogs/projects/3790072-perfect-summer-bangle/" title="Bangle" target="_blank"&gt;Bangle&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://lumi.co/blogs/projects/3788142-dry-erase-doodle-pillow" title="Pillow" target="_blank"&gt;Pillow&lt;/a&gt;. Ahhhh so beautiful! Should I buy &lt;a href="http://lumi.co/blogs/projects/3790072-perfect-summer-bangle/" title="Inkodye" target="_blank"&gt;inkodye&lt;/a&gt; to try? :D&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25002662984</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/25002662984</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:04:00 +0800</pubDate><category>art</category></item><item><title>One Word</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Losing your composition streak? Time to use &lt;a href="http://oneword.com/" title="One Word" target="_blank"&gt;oneword&lt;/a&gt;. I was given the word &amp;#8220;racket&amp;#8221; and I churned out: &lt;span&gt;In time to come, the racket will be rid of cobwebs and algae. It’s a practical wall-decoration currently, and it seems happy to be one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24876979901</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24876979901</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:00:11 +0800</pubDate><category>random</category></item><item><title>Aggressive Savings Plan</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m proud that I&amp;#8217;m sticking very tightly to the saving plan. I will attempt to spend ONLY $100 in the next 20 days. That&amp;#8217;s $5 per day MAX. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24861586616</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24861586616</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:12:00 +0800</pubDate><category>reflections</category></item><item><title>Free My Mind</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24671638737</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24671638737</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:18:00 +0800</pubDate><category>reflections</category></item><item><title>Happy Marriages</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5aijuWbwn1qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve always been very encouraged and touched to know of marriages that work out and that the couple lasted till a ripe old age. This is our 6th month as a married couple and I can definitely see improvements in our communication especially during arguments/discussions. There&amp;#8217;s less crying (me,me), less ego-bumping and more &amp;#8220;hey, let&amp;#8217;s be honest and hear what you want&amp;#8221;. No surprises that honesty, frankness and a teaspoon of sugar works better than the usual conversation (ok, the word is shouting) fare. I found &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/03/10-truths-about-happy-marriages/" title="Marriage" target="_blank"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; pretty refreshing and honest, hope it&amp;#8217;s a good read for you too!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24669502763</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24669502763</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:39:00 +0800</pubDate><category>marriage</category><category>reflections</category></item><item><title>"做人处事要内方而外圆，
内方就是原则，
外圆就是通达"</title><description>“做人处事要内方而外圆，&lt;br/&gt;
内方就是原则，&lt;br/&gt;
外圆就是通达”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedailyenlightenment.com/2012/04/square-inside-round-outside/" title="Square Round" target="_blank"&gt;The Daily Enlightenment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599404008</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599404008</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:33:00 +0800</pubDate><category>reflections</category></item><item><title>Love Nest</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m58negWQ751qzx6z2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I’m really looking forward to our love nest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I can see the void deck steel structures from here! *Excited!!*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599209945</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599209945</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:25:00 +0800</pubDate><category>lovenest</category></item><item><title>Happy Sixth Year To Us</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m58nbeCE1u1qzx6z2.png"/&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Z and I celebrated our sixth year anniversary together as a couple yesterday:) What a walk it has been. We’ve seen each other through the good times and the bad times. He’s practically seen me transform from a girl, to a girlfriend, to a grown up, to a wife. He’s also seen me grown from a college nerd, to a clubbing newbie, to a theatre actress, to a university graduate, to a working adult, to his colleague. I’ve also seen him grow up from his nerdy college years, to a slacker, to an active SIFE president, to a budding entrepreneur, to a university graduate, to a fine charming husband, to a seasoned businessman. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m so glad our dots connected. I would never have wished for anything more different than this:) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To relive the moment 6 years back, I dug up my old blog and found this!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Friday, June 23, 2006&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cubiczerosix&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;To everyone out that who has been wondering what the hell was cubiczerosix, it simply meant 06/06/06; the day where a pair of lovebirds realised they were in love=) I&amp;#8217;m a half of the pair. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;The other half is my dearest guy pal whom i&amp;#8217;ve managed to keep in contact for the past 5 years. It&amp;#8217;s a lil too coincidental but cameron highlands&amp;#8217; actually our 2nd trip together overseas. Our first trip to Henan, China brought us together as friends but we were quite oblivious to each others&amp;#8217; existence back then in June 2001. It&amp;#8217;s a bittersweet kind of feeling as we wreck our brains to recall how we were both in the same &amp;#8216;education&amp;#8217; grouping yet not know about that fact as all. And even the skit, where i was the one of the 3 little pigs and him being the father pig, was all too much a fact for us to handle. haha! To say that i know him back then was an understatement. I didn&amp;#8217;t even rmbr talking to him at all during the trip! Haha=D What&amp;#8217;s really scarily coincidental (again) was that when we digged out the pictures of our Henan trip, for every group pic he was conveniently standing behind me regardless of whether we were takin a pic at the entrance of the great wall of china, or be it at the departure gates in our school uniforms. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;*Smiles* Is that God&amp;#8217;s little way of telling me that 5 years down the road he&amp;#8217;d be my bf? =)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Ok, i think God was being subtlely blatant about the various hints that could be traced through the pictures. Mr Somebody here was being blatantly subtle but insists that his hints were obvious and that me showing signs of liking him was even more obvious. *insists- Where got!?* Haha=)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I think we are loungers and we treat each other like kopitiam mates. Haha! We were very comfortable talking to each other from the start after he kind of found me in friendster and we maintained contact from then on after losing contact with each other for about a year or so. Supper(s), latenite chats, webcammy days where he shows me his mr bean bear and dragonball collections, and him pseudo jumping out of his window to humour me, girl problem + flower days, the great debate, sharing youtube stuffs, movies, smses etc. In fact we talk about EVERYTHING under the sun except for the &amp;#8220;11th sentence guy&amp;#8221; thingy. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;There were some preludes like him holding out his hand because i have night blindness and him volunteering to bring me across the bridge which even as i recall now, i can&amp;#8217;t help but melt at the imagery. Him sitting a lil nearer to me as we drew pictures using points from the uncountable stars. The truth or dare game which lead to the whole sequence of drama events that even shir wanted to bang our heads together and tell us &amp;#8220;you two like each other lah ok?!&amp;#8221;. Hee! And the really wonderful weather that made it all seemed like a dream. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I&amp;#8217;m a lil patchy here but here goes. We went as friends to cameron yet come back as a couple. I&amp;#8217;m sure God must have placed a million cupids on the many stars that we saw that night to make sure we said the truths in our hearts to each other =). We&amp;#8217;ve been through a lot and it&amp;#8217;s been a really long journey that we took. But i&amp;#8217;m very thankful we both managed to cross all the hurdles and walked out unscathed and yet came out as a great team. The only emotion i have running through me right now is that i&amp;#8217;m very in love with the guy whom i know all these while who grew these years to be such a gentleman and someone whom i can respect and love with all my heart. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;So yes.. Even though i can&amp;#8217;t seem to load a pic of us into here right now for the whole wide world to see coz of some technical problems,&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Ich liebe Dich.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;;D&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;++ purred Q at 1:58 AM&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ich liebe dich, meine leibe:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599177302</link><guid>http://qiyun.tumblr.com/post/24599177302</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:24:00 +0800</pubDate><category>marriage</category><category>reflections</category></item></channel></rss>
