A year older

Turned a year older last week. A year older and wiser, I hope so but I don't feel wiser. Lol. Anyway, worked that day as normal and went out for dinner that night. Food was great at Joyful. Picked up the green tea Japanese cake from the bakery before dinner and left it at aunty's before dinner. Spent time playing cards at aunty's before blowing candles. Yeah a year older. Nothing interesting much. Just a special day where I can be bossy and order people around. Lol..


Sunday was the last day of CNY too. So we had dinner at her place on Saturday night and played cards again. I love the card games because it feels good to be winning. Well not that I am winning every single rounds but feels good to be playing something.

Darling bought me some pants and pj shorts. Well, I got to choose them though. I needed the pants anyway since I can't wear jeans on hot summer days. It is still nice hot summer days. Love them because my clothes dry but too hot for my body to endure. Hehehe

I like autumn and spring when the weather is cooling.

A year older

Nearly the end of the month huh. I can't believe I am turning 26 soon and I really don't feel like that I am that old. Lol.. as usual, we will be having dinner out and birthday cake. I do wish everyone celebrates with me. I mean, mummy, daddy and siblings. It would be nice to have them around too. =)


Recently, I have been looking out for free kindle books and have added quite a few into my collection. I read whenever I have the time. Yes, it reduces my time to go online too but that is ok as long as I do spend some time on my kindle. It is nice to have kindle with so many books in it and bringing it everywhere you go. Doesn't take a lot of space and also, doesn't use a lot of battery much if you don't use it a lot. =P

A year older huh..

Chinese New Year

It is the season of Chinese New Year. Don't really feel the mood since I am not in the country where CNY is a big celebration. I don't hear Cny songs, well I don't have them on at home. Anyway in short, I just don't feel the mood since a long time ago. I do have my reasons which I shall not say, aye. =P

Work has been busy because of the tight timeframes for this project. I am still learning as I go because every branch is different. I still enjoy my current role. =)

Almost the middle of the month of Feb. Time sure passes quick. We haven't visited the house for 2 weeks but I am sure that the contractor hasn't started. I just hope that they finish building the house in time for us to move in. I am estimating that they will delay the process. I have accounted one month extra but it looks like I have to account for 2 months extra? Sigh.. keep hoping and praying..

Oh yes, I have 2 links to share. One about stressed staff are job hunting and getting rid of automatic cars.

Feb

Another weekend gone and it is February already. Second month of the year now and next weekend is Chinese New Year. Time sure pass really fast. Sis is here for a few days and it is already her fourth day. Soon she will be going back to dud. =( It is nice to have her around. Helped with dinner and making lunch too. Lol appreciated the company too.

Oh yeah, we played ps3 dance and it was fun. The only thing is that we don't have bigger space in the current house so it was tight dancing in the living room. It was good exercise and she really enjoyed it. I was surprised when she mentioned that she wanted to learn martial art. Never thought they would thought of it. Lol and I was happy to teach her some very basic ones.

Over the last weeks, I found some articles on finding jobs in NZ like winnning lotto and research to happiness to share here. Bought a new kindle cover for myself over the weekend so now I have a nice kindle cover. Love to take a photo of it and put it up here and will do so when I figured out how to upload via my phone yeah. Hehehe..

Something for you

Just been reading articles and this one is about university vs the school of life. I don't have much opinion on it since life is uncertain so you cannot think that you will get the dream job u want when you finish ur degree.

Nowadays, having a degree just means you can study. If you are lucky, you will get a job related to your degree but if you are not, you ended up in the job you hate. It also depends on where you want to work and the degree you have.

This article is about degrees ranked by earning potential. It is true based on the working hours they put in. Doctors do tend to work more hours and they do study more complicated things so they do deserve to get high pay pocket.

This topic conversation will never end with people talking and complaining about it. I agree with it because I myself do that. It is not fair but what is fair? There are people who didn't get their dream job and are or were stuck in a job that they don't like.

Some articles

Time to update again. Have a few links to share.


This one is about sleep. I found it via work's website. Workplace does have good articles for employees to maintain their health and sleeping habits. I still look at my clock whenever I woke up in the middle of the night. Nowadays, I don't look but I get up before my alarm clock rang. It must be the sun because it keeps waking me up in the morning. I can't sleep past 9am.

I also found this article on kitchen nightmares. Ever since I accidentally cut my left palm, I have been careful while cutting meat, veges or fruits. This link on toilet squating is also quite interesting. It is a funny article though.

Hot hot hot

It is the second week of the year 2013. Things have been going alright. So now we officially have a 4 bedroom house to look forward to. Yay.. lots of planning and thinking to look forward to. We are to choose colours and how we want our kitchen to look like. I don't think there is a lot to do but of course, it will take time.

I am going back to swimming classes this year. Now it is not to do with wanting to learn to swim better but more of I need to maintain my fitness level. Once it is up to level, I am sure my health would be better. Not that my health isn't good.

Work is busy too with quite a lot of work to do. At the moment, we haven't recruit new people to help me with the project but I am going alright. I try to be as fast as I can. Hehe..

Need to get ready for wing chun soon. Think we will be home quite late tonight and very tired too. Lol it's just too hot to be exercising these days.

Oops

Was meant to put up some posts that I drafted but I was so caught up with watching cantonese dramas on dvds. They all have martial art fighting in the scenes. Good way to learn more cantonese since hubby's family and extended family speaks cantonese. New year was ok. I made some wonton soup with noodles. I don't know how to make other nice food to eat but I guess I will have to learn more to make nice food to eat and enjoy.


I haven't got any resolutions this year though. I made resolutions almost every year but not this year. I shall think of what I can do and what I will want to do. Something that is achievable. Lol.. I also bought amazon kindle for myself. Something that I can use when ipad is used or at work, I can read during my break. I want to read more of the good books rather than normal story books to improve myself. =)

I have been reading the free ebook on how to make money blogging. Seriously, I do make some and yes, you shouldn't quit your day job just because you are earning some. Anyway, I haven't been earning money blogging already. I just never get anything and it just stopped. So now, I am just blogging for fun. I do make effort to blog when I have time just to maintain the blog. I do have things to blog, just that the articles I write will never be as good as others. My blog is just for fun and ramblings anyway. I didn't mean to use it to make lots of money. I do have a life here. Making money blogging is just an extra. If I don't, it doesn't matter.

I really do hope that 2013 is going to be a good year with the new house and hopefully new job by Sept after my secondment role finish up. =)

The new year

With the new year 2013 approaching, I was thinking of some new resolutions but on second thought, I don't think any resolutions that I made will be coming through. I find that I don't have enough time to do everything that I want with my current things going on.

But I know I will be able to do all the current ones. Just can't take on new things. I complained that I don't have enough hours of my day to do what I want but maybe it is because I don't know how to manage my time properly so managing my time will be one resolution for the coming year.

Oh yeah guess what? The world didn't end. I won't comment so much on what people predict. If the world ends, it ends. If it doesn't end, life still goes on.

Ooopss. this was supposed to be out a few days before the year ended. Hehehe..

Siem Reap

Siem Reap trip was a bit disappointing, at least for me. I mean, it was nice to see Angkor Wat and the other temples but the floating village was not a good idea. It was the first day of the trip when we visited floating village. I don't mind giving a little bit of the money away just to buy some rice for the orphans but not like a lot. I am not rich. That what makes me annoyed and spoils my time there.

To be honest, I would not go back there. Most of the things are in usd and that makes things more expensive. Sometimes I don't understand why they are still so poor when they are using usd. I know the rich are rich and the poor are poor and it is just the way of life.

Not much stories here because the trip wasn't that appealing. We did have some massage, body scrub at the hotel and enjoying ourselves at the hotel.