Chickpea salad, Beef Rendang and Macaroni & Cheese

Nam Wah Po Tree

After a year of construction around this tree, it's flowering again.

Special Home made Chili sauce a la Andreas!

Girls' night out

Dinner at Kenjo's, a small Japanese restuarant, down in Hart avenue in TST. Angel picked me up at the studio as I got there a little earlier. Surprised to be caught up in Sunday night traffic!

Arrived at Kenjo's around 7:25pm and sat down for about 5 minutes before Shery came along. It was really sweet of A & S to invite me out tonight.

I can't recall having a girls' night out in a long time. When Shery asked me out for dinner with Angel, I had thought about the reason or reasons behind it. Maybe it was to celebrate my birthday in advance? Or talk about the school/students? =)

Well, it was the latter.

I guess they were both concerned with how I am coping alone, without my husband and the girls. But at the same time, really impressed with this year's Summer Camp and performance and how their kids are all working so well together in class.

Both A & S were just thinking how to encourage and convince me to expand my school, because it is so good, and what a huge waste it was not to make it even more successful and MORE commercial!

I shared with my GFs, that my work is so unique, so organic, and takes so much time, effort and care, that it is not the usual ballet or dance class,that it's NOT commercial. It's like a private group class, taught by me, to students who have grown with me for the past 6/7 years.

I had wanted to expand, but sometimes it's not about expanding. Sometimes, the work takes you to another level. All along I had wanted to produce the products to promote my teaching and now, I know I am on the right path.

Hopefully A & S will understand. =)

Overall, it was a very easy, comfortable and fun evening and the food wasn't too bad.

Oh, I invited A & S to join this Thursday's The Moon Party at the studio, to take a class with me! You should have seen Shery's face and Angel's laughter!

I am thankful for every little JOY my students have given me through their voices, smiles and spirit! And for my support group, the Parents! ^ ^

Girls' school board

So sweet of Andreas to send me this. He said it reminded him of me!

World's Greatest Singer!

My student, Anjali, brought this gift back from Singapore for me! It made my day, even if I am not the world's greatest singer! Thank you, my dear Anjali. =)

I LOVE SINGING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 8.17.2010

TCI Kids with Ms. Carpio and Mr. Carpio senior

Love is real

Stay hungry, Stay foolish!

Sometimes in life, there are choices we make to determine who we are. The Steve Jobs commencement article was just another example of his personal life decision to make the choices he made to fulfill his destiny.

Through my own personal life experiences, I can relate to this man in some ways. I've had my share of life and death situations, with husband and youngest daughter, and maybe my own. Financial troubles, too!
And finally, God gave us a happy marriage and family! Thank you, God!

I did make the choice to be responsible, to live a life of honesty, integrity and being the good wife, mother and daughter. But I also consider myself, partly conservative in some ways and partly adventurous!
Otherwise I would not be who I am today.

When I put up the saying 'Stay hungry and stay foolish' is something I feel I could only do maybe 65%?

Stay hungry!

I am hungry all the time! Hungry for what? For strength, for justice, for success to go to the right people, for volunteers to be recognised and given the respect they deserve, the elderly to have value in our society instead of just waiting to die after reitrement, for children to have the confidence in themselves and to have a voice! and much much more!

Stay foolish?

What it means to me, is to do things which people might think I am foolish to even try to pursue, like being a teacher of singing pop music. For marrying someone right when I was at the height of my career. For not being the 'Artist', that people think I should be, for making the choice to marry again and not have a house that we own!!! For taking the kids out of school and teaching them their parents' life skills and for coming back to HK to teach and perform where good music is non existent.

I am glad I am foolish! =)

Everyone has a right to live the life they want to live. But for me, I am thankful and grateful I got this far! With the support of my husband and three daughters!

Forever grateful,

Teresa

Midnight Flower Blooms again!

Nam Wa Po Garden

A month ago, the midnight flower had four to five blooms and it was the very first time I had seen one. I was told the flowers usually go into full bloom at midnght, that's why it's called the midnight flower! =)
But then yesterday, Weni found one bud and thought it should bloom by Friday. But last night, when I got home, I asked Weni to check in on our lone bud. Lo and behold! It was half bloomed!
So we both managed to take photos of the flower between 10:15 till midnight.

So here are some of the photos. EnJoy~!

The Love of My Life, Andreas

Andreas & Teresa

I LOVE SINGING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE 8.17.2010

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

The performance by TCI kids was a HUGE success and it was an amazing, touching, funny, entertaining, musical, colourful, adorable and most importantly, full of love and heart peformance!

We shall do it again!! Very soon! Keep up the good work, Everyone!

I thank God for my Family

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." ~~ Albert Einstein

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. Katherine Mansfield

William Shakespeare

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our venture."

"Who shall kindle others must himself glow." ~~ Italian Proverb

'Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.' James 1:17

Merry Christmas Everyone! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! with Love From the Panayis in HK!

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~~ Sir Winston Churchill

"Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish." ~~ Sharon Feiman-Nemser