New Year Resolutions

Here we go again. How time flies! It's that time of the year again where I pause to evaluate my life in the past year and think how best to live it in the next!

Next year, my kids won't be in any 'crucial exam year'. How pathetic that I need to see my life in that perspective but it's true. My girl's done with her 'O' level exams and my boy will be in sec. 2. Yes, I may have to poke him every now and then cos it's streaming year (2011 will define if he goes to the Arts or Science stream in 2012). But still, I think there's room for what I aim to do.

I aim to do more short trips here and there with hubby. Every time I am on leave on a working day and I see couples (usually retirees) enjoying breakfast together, I wonder if Mike and I will live to see the day.
Morbid as it seems, I look around and see people here today and gone tomorrow. I cannot wait too long to seize the day with him. It had better be now. I know married couples usually wait till they've retired before travelling by themselves (without kids in tow) but I don't want to wait till it's too late. In the context of an average income earner in Singapore, I don't see myself retiring any time soon unless I strike the big one during the Chinese New Year Toto Hong Bao draw in 2011! Therefore, I am going to lead a more relaxed life while I can.

I may not have achieved all I set out to do in 2010 but God willing, there's always 2011.

I don't want to give myself more stress than life is already dishing out to me.
So in 2011, I hope to:
1) draw & paint
2) go on short trips with my hubby

Yep, no fancy big goals. Just simple ones!

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2010

I wish for all my family, friends and customers, that they will truly experience the joy and love that the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ brings. Joy to the world!

May you all have a Merry and Blessed Christmas!

Back from Bangkok (again)

Seems like time passes really slowly when you're waiting to go embark on your holiday but speeds right by you when you're having the actual holiday! We're back from Bangkok (yes, again)! Didn't shop much this time round. Booked day trips to Siam City Park (an amusement cum water park) and also another day trip to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market (again), the Samphrant Elephant Park and Rose Garden. I can only say that if you follow a tour, you see nothing but what the tour guide allows you to see. If you want to spend more time enjoying the place, then pay a bit more and go on your own. It does cost more to go on your own but ultimately, you get more out of the place. We were pretty disappointed that at the Rose Garden, we were only given enough time to run in to watch the Thai cultural show and run back out to head back home.
How dumb! Who wants to travel a half day just to watch a 20 minute show and not be allowed to explore the beautiful grounds? We did go to the Dusit Zoo on our own. Tried to enjoy the animals but as a Singaporean, you can't help but keep comparing it to our own blardy 'nicer' zoo (which WE CANNOT AFFORD TO VISIT!!!)

I didn't really shop much this trip. Let my kids spend most of the moolah. Daughter's headed to a new phase in her life now that her 'Os' are over. So figured I'd let her do the shopping instead. Couldn't resist 2 handbags for a steal though (S$9 each!) and had to get my replacement stash of dull, black, office skirts (S$12-15)!

Like I said in my previous post, I'd cut my hair real short just before the trip! Hate to use hair styling products on my hair but with short hair, I really have no choice but to. Hubby likes the funky look. Me? I like that I use very little time to wash and dry short hair and the cool wind blowing down my neck but I do miss my own hair blowing in the wind. Sigh. But really, decided to cut it short cos long hair seems to weigh a person down the older they get. Unless you have a lot of time to blow dry and style it every day.

Think I've lost a bit of weight in Bangkok from eating less meat and rice! I should live there!