happy 1 month into the job

It's been a month into my new job and I'm happy :)

Work hasn't been always the easiest but everyone's been nice and the work's been fulfilling...I don't think I've seen so much in a month than I have anywhere else.

It was the right move and at the right time - looking forward to the days ahead!

It's 2008!

I'm really one post behind. There's probably no real good excuse but I still have to make one up anyway ha, the most likely one being that I've been way too caught up in all the changes spinning around in my little life for the past one month (haha or more like lazy me!)...

In any case, back to life and the morning rush...

And, no surprises here, I'm back at work :)

Have an amazing week! Cheerios

Holiday season and good cheer

I was scanning through my camera looking at all the pictures taken over the days leading up to X’mas 2007, during X’mas as well as the New Year and realized that I hadn’t written any post before ushering in 2008.

So, in a lengthy image heavy re-cap...here goes...Elin and I went for the X’mas cookie class at BIYand it went really well! Finally learnt how to do cookie icing the proper way and decorate the cookies using our own vivid imagination :) we had cookie dough cut out in shapes of gingerbread men, Christmas trees, Christmas bells, stars and snowmen and we were given the leeway to paint them with different coloured icing as we liked – it was pretty amazing with the myriad of lovely colours – just seeing how the cookies transformed from simple brown plain surfaces to rainbow-coloured shapes, almost as though they had come to life :) And now I’m tempted to get friends to go for the cupcake class together!

Look at how R ate my gingerbread man up :) Nice and pretty...

after the cherry picking...going...going...going...

...And...it's almost GONE!

Dinner at Yappy’s place started the ball rolling in the days leading up to X’mas :) It was good fun (particularly the gift exchange part of the night which had an interesting twist this year)!

R and I had friends over at our place for a small get-together and we ordered a little bit of everything – smoked chicken, roast beef, sausages, honey baked ham, and a chocolate Christmas log cake – to add on, I also made some spicy tuna penne, which turned out to be edible (I haven’t cooked in quite a while and I really thought it might be good to dish out some pasta for Christmas!) – everyone seemed to have had a good time and we were all happy :)



On X’mas eve and day, it was mainly family time together. R’s family. My family. It was nice to spend more time with family, especially quality time together enjoying food :)

In the days leading up to 2008, SC and her brother invited R and myself, together with my brother and sister, over to their place for dinner and drinks. We had mixers, wine, finger food, Indian curries and the list goes on...It was a lovely night and everyone had a ball!


So, here’s what I got for X’mas 2007 and my haul from the Mango sale...

Lovely makeup palettes


One ring for all – one band of rose gold and another band of white gold embedded with 5 small diamonds all round (from R) - plus the complimentary jewel gold embellishment that was temporarily tattoed on my wrist for 4 days.


My loot from the Mango sale – 1 pink top with tiny suede cut-outs of all types of shoes (love it!), 1 black top with lace, and a bold printed dark brown and white dress :)

My reflections for 2007 and the year ahead?

2007 has been an amazing year in that I never thought I would have come so far in just one year. I’ve come to realize that all relationships need work – some more so than others and despite my strong inclinations I need to learn how to balance everything out no matter how difficult things may turn out to be. Career-wise, I have decided on a change and I have taken a leap in faith that this new path will propel me to where I want to be – management and beyond. Money-wise, I need to continue stringent planning in the year ahead.

Hence in 2008, I hope to work harder towards my goals in regards to my career, my family, my relationships and to better plan my goals to make them more lucid and hence more achieveable when they are more clearly defined.

So here I am now, in Hong Kong on my first corporate off-site – it’s been great to date and I hope this excellent start in the new year will bring forth even more marvelous events to come :)

Cheers and here’s a toast to everyone and the year ahead!