
Hi all,
It’s been a while I haven’ t wrote anything due to technical problem. Thanks to Benny who patiently help me to make this blog possible again.
In this wedding I accidentally met my best friends. Since we rarely meet nowadays due to busy schedule. There are always some things to catch up between us. Always miss them all.
This time I wear a nude organza mid dress with red embroidery as details. I don’t wear red that often. But I like the combination of nude and red.



I can’t help not to take a picture if these little girls. Look at them. They’re like posing professionally. Hahahaha. So cuteeee…



Location: Shangrilla Hotel. My dress: Nancy & Warren Couture
Fairmont hotel is usually our favorite hotel ( the rooms have big double bed where four of us can squeeze in one room without being uncomfortable ) We always had breakfast there but never tried the Italian dinner . This time, we stayed at the Grand Hyatt hotel on Scott Road but since we heard from our uncle that the Italian food @Prego is good, we decided to go there and try. We looove it. Everything was good and satisfying. I wish we have had tried the food long time ago since we often stayed there .






Foccasia and bread stick with yummy home-made butter.

Green Salad


The tenderloin steak is so juicy. ( What you see is medium cook steak )


Spinach and cheese ravioli ( the filling’s so satisfyingly good )

Piza


One of the best Tiramisu I know.

Location: Prego Italian Restaurant ( Fairmont Hotel, Raffles City, Singapore )
Every time I go to Singapore I always squeeze my time trying at least one ramen restaurant because there are many many ramen house in here. This time is Tampopo ramen. They have lots of choices even the pork bone soup ramen. But since we just visited the doctors for my son and we found out he has cholesterol (sighhh…. ), we ordered the mild version of ramen and the heathier choice of pork cutlet. Turned out good and we like it. They use black pig as the meat, you can read in below picture what it is exactly.


Look at my son’s thumbs up

Tampopo black pig
Less Fat Loin Cutlet Set. Healthier choice.

Sapporo original shoyu ramen

Sapporo original ramen

Sashimi salmon salad
Location: Takashimaya ( basement floor) Singapore


Salad with salmon

Risotto

Wagyu Sirloin Steak

Grilled Salmon




This is my first time visiting Domicile Kitchen and Lounge. I went there for luch with my girlfriends. What I like most was the desserts ( last three pictures) and I will definitely go back for the chocolate lava.
The salad is good compared to mostly other restaurants. But to me, I still like the salads in Bakerzin (the one with sorbet) and Sushi Tei ( salmon sashimi salad)
Everything else were ok except the wagyu steak though, it was very hard for a medium well cooked. Maybe it’s because the restaurant’s still considered new, so they’re still in adapting state.
Location: Jl. Sumatra 35. Surabaya
Merry Chiang is my youngest sister. She’s 33 years old now and my baby sister has just got married last Sunday. I’m so happy for her. I just can’t wait to tell the world about her and her miracles.
Merry Chiang adalah adik saya yang paling kecil. dia sekarang berumur 33 tahun dan baru saja menikah hari Minggu kemarin. saya sangat bahagia dan tidak sabar menunggu mengabarkan pada semua orang tentag hari bahagia ini beserta mujizat yang sudah dia alami.
Merry was born with genetic disease and it’s called SMA. Usually boys who get it not girls. Her chromosome that I forgot what number which help our body processing the intake protein to be absorbed by our body is not working. The doctor said that she can only survive until by the age of 12/ 13 years old at maximum. That makes sense because the body never receives protein. So the the doctor predicted that her weakness would go up slowly from her leg up to her lung then when it hit her lung then she would be out of breath and gone.
Merry dilahirkan dengan penyakit yang namanya SMA. Pada umumnya penyakit ini menyerang anak laki-laki bukan anak perempuan. Kromosom dalam tubuhnya yang ke berapa saya lupa yang membantu memproses mencerna protein yang masuk ke dalam tubuh dan diserap itu tidak berfungsi. Para dokter berkata bahwa umurnya tidak akan melewati 12 atau 13 tahun. Itu masuk akal karena tubuh Merry tidak pernah dapat mencerna protein untuk diserap dalam tubuhnya. Para dokter memprediksikan kelemahan tubuhnya akan naik dari kaki ke atas dan kalau sudah mencapai paru-parunya dia akan tersenggal-senggal dan meninggal.
So none of our family told her this. We waited and waited and nothing like the doctor predicted happened. Then along the way we forgot about it and nothing happened. But she acknowledged later on as she grew older.
Kami sekeluarga tidak ada yang berani memberitahu dia tentang ini. Kami menunggu dan menunggu akan apa yang dikatakan dokter akan menjadi kenyataan. Kemudian dengan sejalannya waktu kita lupa dan memang tidak terjadi apa-apa. Tapi waktu dia bertumbuh remaja dia mulai mengeitahu apa sesungguhnya penyakitnya.
For your information she grew up as a very sweet and lovable girl. She’s super nice, friendly to every one and hard worker ( she helps our daddy in his company ). All her friends love her so much. She is a counselor for her friends even for the married ones. She has an intimate relationship with God that is why she has such wisdom and good characters. She reflects God’s love through her life. She is even a motivator for some people. For example, one day she had a therapy in the hospital and she met a surgeon who just got stroke three months before. He said to her that last year he still practiced surgery but then he was handy capped. If he was injected to be dead he actually did not mind because he felt useless. Then, Merry said,” Sir, you couldn’t walk only for the last three months, right? I couldn’t walk since I was born ,you know.” And he was quiet and Merry offered to pray for him and he cried. God touched him through her.
Merry bertumbuh menjadi anak yang sangat manis dan menyenangkan. Dia sangat baik, ramah kepada siapapun dan seorang pekerja keras ( dia bekerja membantu papi kami di perusahaannya) Semua teman-temannya menyayangi dia. Dia seperti konselor di mata mereka termasuk yang sudah menikah padahal saat itu Merry belum menikah. Dia mempunyai hubungan yang intim dengan Tuhan dan karena itu dia berhikmat dan mempunyai karakter yang baik. Dia memancarkan kasih Tuhan melalui hidupnya. Contohnya, suatu hari Merry bertemu dengan dokter ahli bedah yang baru terkena stroke tiga bulan sebelumnya. Dokter ini berkata bahwa tahun lalu dia masih dapat mengoprasi pasiennya tapi sekarang dia lumpuh. Jikalau dia disuntik matipun dia tidak keberatan karena sudah merasa tidak berguna. Kemudian Merry berkata,” Om, baru tidak bisa berjalan kan baru tiga bulan terakhir kan? Saya ini lho sudah tidak dapat berjalan sejak lahir.” Kemudian dokter ini terdiam dan Merry menawarkan diri untuk mendoakan dia dan dia menangis. Tuhan menjamah dokter tersebut melalui Merry.
One day there were three similar scenes happened in two weeks when she was around 24 years old. First, she heard a testimony of one servant of God who already 80 years old. This guy was born with defected heart so he got many heart attacks but he did not die until he was 12 then he received Jesus as his personal savior and his God then he was healed until he was already reached 80 at that time.
Suatu hari, ada tiga kejadian yang berhubungan satu sama lain dalam kurun waktu dua minggu dan itu waktu Merry berumur sekitar 24 tahun. Pertama, dia mendengar kesaksian tentang ada satu pendeta yang umurnya sudah 80 pada saat itu
Secondly, suddenly my mom mentioned that her age was not supposed to pass 12 / 13 years old but she did not take it seriously. Then the third thing was she happened to move her mandarin lesson in the class where there were some doctors for acupuncture. And they asked why she was on the wheel chair. So she explained about the SMA thing to them. They were surprised because they said they knew that people who suffer genetic disease does not survive over 12 / 13 years old.
Kejadian ke dua mami saya tiba-tiba menyeletuk kepada Merry kalau semestinya umur Merry tidak dapat melewati 12 / 13 tahun tapi Merry tidak begitu menanggapi dengan serius. Ketiga, suatu hari Merry pindah les Mandarin di tempat lain yang mana teman-teman sekelasnya adalah dokter-dokter tusuk jarum. Mereka bertanya kepada Merry mengapa dia memakai kursi roda. Merry menjelaskan tentang hal penyakit SMA kepada mereka. Mereka terkejut karena mereka tahu kalau orang yang menderita penyakit genetik tidak dapat hidup melebihi umur 12 /13 tahun.
She went home and pray asking God why those two weeks she got those similar messages. Then God ask her, ” Do you remember when you were baptized and received Me ( Jesus) as your savior and God?” The she answered, ” Twelve” and God answered, “There you know your answer why you survived until now.”
Merry pulang dan berdoa kepada Tuhan mengapa dia mendapat tiga kejadian yang mirip-mirip dalam dua minggu. Kemudian Tuhan menjawab,” Kamu ingat tidak kapan kamu dibabtis dan menerima Aku (Yesus) sebagai Tuhan dan Aku sebagai Juru Selamat?” Kemudian Merry menjawab,” 12 tahun.” Dan Tuhan menjawab,” Nah sekarang kamu sudah tahu jawabannya mengapa kamu bertahan sampai sekarang.”
So all this time, she is a walking miracle. She never experienced everything what the doctor predicted long time ago. I praise God for giving her a wonderful and kind hearted husband, His name is Markus Suteja and his family is also full of love and cares, not to mention faithful to God who loves my baby sister with the way she is. Above all, that is the answer of her prayer for a future husband few years ago. Finally, it came to pass.
Jadi selama ini, dia adalah mujizat yang berjalan. Dia tidak pernah mengalami apa yag sudah diramalkan dokter-dokter beberapa tahun yang lalu. Saya bersyukur kepada Tuhan Yesus yang telah memberikan suami yang sangat baik dan luar biasa dan yang juga setia kepada Tuhan dan mengasihi adik saya apa adanya. Itu semua adalah hasil doa Merry dari beberapa tahun yang lalu untuk pasangan hidupnya. Akhirnya ini digenapi.
Thank you Lord for your favor for my lovely sister, Merry. And to you be the glory. Amen.
Terima Kasih Tuhan atas perkenananMu kepada adik saya tercinta, Merry dan segala kemuliaan hanya untukMu. Amin.
All of us from both sides of the families.
Warren and I with the parents of the groom.
With our parents and our middle sister and her husband.
All Gowns: Nancy&Warren Couture ; Decoration: Steve Decor
Finally, Ellyna’s younger brother’s getting married. Their aunt was the matchmaker who introduced him to Ivana. I remember the time we were doing business overseas, how Agam bought so many presents for Ivana while we were shopping together with his sister. All he thought about was finding the right things for her and asked us our opinions. So sweet……

Agam’s sisters and cousin. All wearing Nancy & Warren Couture


Warren, Ellyna and me. The three musketeers:)

The three musketeers with Tari, Erlin and Lulu.


Warren’s sister, Laura.


Warren, Diana (Warren’s sister), Steve (Steve Decoration)


The fluffy girls are wearing our designs.

Ivana originally loves clean and simplicity. But we finally convinced her to wear more fluffy dress and a super simple one for the wedding in the chapel two days before. Yeyyyyy…..
Dresses: Nancy & Warren Couture; Decoration: Steve Decor.
Once again our beloved customer plus best friend, Sally’s having a beautiful party but this time is for her super duper adorable baby Keira.

Warren, Sally and me.


Sally’s still beautiful even she’s already pregnant with a second child. She’s wearing a long chiffon dress with crystals gold chain as an off shoulder neckline from Nancy&Warren Couture.

Sally’s mom, ineke. Both mom and daughter are my best friends.

Sally’s best friends and me.

The mommies gank.

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Warren, me, Jessica ( our beloved Singaporean fashion designer friend )
The girl beside in the middle is also my fashion designer’s friend: Peggy Hartanto


Lady Pastor Agnes Maria from Happy Family Church, Mrs. Chien-Chien, Sally, ineke and me.


Sally’s cousin, Irene with her kids.

My family and partners.

Adorable Keira who enjoys playing by herself. Looks so serious. Hahaha. I miss her already.

Keira’s baby friend having a nail polish at th kids corners. So cuuute.


One of the games that involves parents.


Kids table before attacked by many kids


Sweet corner.


Location: D’ Sumatra.
It’s very rare for us going to the west area because the traffic and the distance from our house in east area. But last night we had to take our older son invited to a birthday party in Shangrilla so we had dinner at Stevan where it’s pretty close to it.
A while ago when they just opened, the food was not as good as last night maybe they were still new at that time. Along the way I guess they get better and better.
The meat’s juicy and good. We order them in medium cook. One with mushroom sauce and one with black pepper. Even the salad and the mash potato were ok. We definitely will go back there again.



Location:
Stevan Meat Shop Kitchen & Grill
Darmo Boulevard 8H- 8J. Surabaya 60226
It’s another wedding party that Nancy&Warren have to attend.
Warren’s wearing white beaded lace bodice and traditional batik long dress. I’m wearing a dark gold sequin bomber jacket and long black tulle wide pants. I look very conservative, right? Ellyna’s wearing white beaded cord lace bodice and black thai silk pleated skirt.


On Warren and Ellyna: dress (Nancy&Warren Couture)
On me: Sequin bomber jacket (Sportsgirl-Australia) and wide tulle pants (Nancy&Warren Couture)
Dear all of my beloved readers,
I’d like to apologize for the super late post of the Miss World event due to technical problem with my account. Thank you for always following up with this blog. I’m so glad I can share my adventure with all of you. Here’s one of my awesome journey as a fashion designer.
For few days after the first fitting, Warren and I were nervous waiting for the exact date for the Top Model event since the rest of the events had to move from Jakarta to Bali. Luckily we could change all the tickets and the hotel reservations. Finally the “D” day came.
As I mentioned before in my previous post that we dressed three contestants from France, Denmark and Bermuda. We were so happy to see them so pretty and tall that would make our dresses to stand out even better.
Warren, Ellyna and I are one team who always compliment each other in our designs.

Preparation backstage
Miss France with the hair-dresser getting the hair-piece on.



Warren with Malene Riis Sorensen ( Miss Denmark)



Warren & me with Marine Lorphelin ( Miss France) during last fitting.



Our beautiful jewelry designer Yuling (Le Ciel) with Katherine Arnfield (Miss Bermuda)


Miss World 2013 Top Model Show




The Top ten Top Models

Miss France’s one of the ten finalist.

Location. : The Westin Resort, Nusa Dua.
Accessories by : Le Ciel.
You can see articles about us and the three contestants on these links:
http://missworld.okezone.com/participant/34http://lifestyle.okezone.com/read/2013/09/24/29/871287/redirect
http://w.centroone.com/index.php/photo/2013/10/1y-2/duet-manis-nancy-and-warren/printpage
http://mobile.royalgazette.com/article/20130925/NEWS/130929830
http://female.kompas.com/read/2013/09/04/0754296/Partisipasi.48.Desainer.Indonesia.Di.Ajang.Miss.World.2013