January

I have been feeling somewhat upset of late. Too much bad news and not a lot of good news. All the happenings around me have been pretty much negative.

Someone's getting divorced. Someone else is getting dumped. Someone got into trouble again. Someone is really broke. The exorbitant prices that is the Police concert ticket. The state of Liverpool these days.
So much for festive cheer.

On a lighter note, when the going gets tough, the tough er goes eating? Works for me! That is exactly what we have been doing. So many eateries to check out not enough time! Seriously, how many times can you really stand to eat out a week? Two days straight of indulgent eating is enough for me to go on porridge for days. Two days of having beef and I felt like I have over indulged. So unhealthy! But the burgers from Relish are worth the extra calories. So bloody good! And the deserts, oh sweet lord! The deserts are to die for here! So rare do I sing praises for deserts as I am one of the fussiest desert eaters among my friends. The desters must be good then! When I do crave for desserts and there isn't any good ones around, I will still eat carrot cake from Coffee Bean lah. I am a Dessert Slut not Dessert Snob. So time to make a trip to Wild Rocket soon!

Ever since we came back from Japan, eating Japanese when we are out has increased. We did try to stop eating too much of it before Japan in case we got sick of it before even reaching the Land of the Rising Sun, but somehow we ate more than usual. You see, the more you forbade yourselves, the more you would want to have the forbidden fruit. After Japan, we would thought we slowed down, no such thing! We had withdrawal symptoms and had to have Japanese food. These days, we hunt down the best ones in town. The izakaya in Cuppage is great. I will try the one my bro recommended sometime ago.

Pasta Brava still ranks as my favourite Italian restaurant. I love that place and it is not that expensive. Not Il Lido expensive anyway. Okay, it is more affordable than Riciotti even. With better service and nicer ambience some more. Al Forno, is sadly too overpriced and it is not as good as it used to be. Time to try La Nonna and Valentino (or is it Valentine?) Both are close by. See how needs the east? HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Talking about that, we drive past Rail Mall last night, and now that place has life. We spotted a new Coffee Bean, a Harry's bar (the Macdonald's of the alcoholic world) and a Denise. There is even Blooie's and some 24hr Ah Mei coffee. Now I can chill at my own 'hood.

All I need now is to find a cheap french food stall. We have stopped going to the one that we used to dine in pretty often. I hate eating in a place with bad service. The service is really bad now. Very biased towards ang mos. I hate that Filipino guy, he is bad. Where has that nice lady gone too? She was fantastic!

Happines

is seeing that your friends are happy. Happiness is being part of their happiness.

I never thought the day will come so soon! I am so glad for her. Goodness, and she was telling me how unbelievable it was when I was getting married. The two least likely to get married girls are now married. Who would have thought!

I will always look back on our days of debaucheries with much fondness. The fun and silliniess of it all! Gosh, we are all but young once.

The New Year

This is a somewhat obligatory entry since I have nothing to really write about. Partly too, due to boredom since I am home alone on this New Year's Day since the husband has some work to do and I am too lazy to do anything too productive on the first day of the new year.

So, how was 2007?

I took up a third language, despite having not master any of the two that I already know.

I tried sewing and succeeded in using the sewing machine for the first time in my life. Right now, the only stuff that I know how to make are cushion covers and tote bags. Very amateur.... Let's not even start on my attempt at knitting, it is very embarrassing.

I have a new camera that I had fun playing around with. I still have to figure out tonnes and tonnes of stuff...

My cooking seems to be getting better.

So has my baking.

I went to Siem Reap and climb up Angkor Wat.

I went to Japan and had sushi in Tsukji.

I have just started on my path to enlightenment.

I have taken an interest in history. How surprising!

I have grown closer to some friends and I do appreciate the closeness.

I have grown apart from some friends, with reasons not clear to me. Perhaps people just grow apart.

I have been reading more. I am glad for that. Unemployment rules!

Martha Stewart is my new hero. Minus the Enron scam.

I have learnt to put my priorities right.

I have gave up buying fashion magazines. Okay, maybe just a couple.

All in all, the year's pretty decent. Nothing too depressing. That is how life should be -peaceful.

And what does the new year holds for me? Trips, hopefully. One with some of my closest mates. HCMC is a great excuse! A trip with my mum, aunt and brother.

More reading! Time to renew my Kinokuniya card. I am still deciding if I should renew my NatGeo subscription.
I am also trying to decide if I should continue with my Japanese lessons. What is holding me back is the lack of morning classes. All the classes seems to be in the late afternoon and evening. ARGH.

I want to start volunteering too, I would love to work with children again. Maybe I would even take up a course in understanding children with Special Needs, since it has always been my interest.

Of course, there is the question that I get all the bloody time. Maybe just the end of the year. It is just a matter of time.

Depth of Field

The more you learn, the less you know. Reading about apertures, focal lengths, shutter speed, different lenses, exposure has certainly got my head in a spin. I have put off reading the technical part for way too long, mainly because it can be as dry as gin and I find it hard to read stuff like that too. It just would not register into my head. I finally finally got into serious reading, with my camera in my hand, I fiddled with it and learn quite a few handy tips. I think I would forget everything in weeks.

Seriously, I think I need to be taking a photography class soon.

Nostalgia

It is hard to explain how these little things manage to put a smile on my face. It has been ages since I last saw them, yet it seems only like yesterday. As confusing as the last statement might be for some people, I felt exactly like that.

They might be as old as me, since the day that I could remember, they have always been around. Some things stay with you forever. Memories are funny things. I wonder if we can choose to remember the good things and choose to forget others that we rather not be reminded of. But the harder we try at forgetting, the harder it is to do just that, since we are always reminding ourselves to forget what we want to forget precisely. Get what I am trying to say?

I remember there were coins, lighters and other odds and ends in the duck. We used the grandmother porcelain figure to hold chopsticks. These pieces are vintage okay! All the way from Whampoa Drive. I saved them from being dumped when I visited my aunt's place this evening. When I learnt that she threw away some other treasures, I nearly passed out. The hoarder in me jumped out and slapped her hard on her shoulders. What on earth motivated her to throw that fisherman into the dumpster? Did she not have any sentimental attachment to those things at all? Tsk tsk! She was lucky that she got away with just a little ticking off some my mum and me.

There are other things that I love to have, like these two little pumpkins sitting in my granny's room now. But I thought it is nice to have them there, my granny might like to have pretty things in her room too.

Hedonism

This IS hedonism.

Crabtree & Evelyn has one of the nicest smelling lining paper that I can get my hands on. Sure, it does cost quite a bit more, but I have a chest of nice smelling clothes and it makes my drawers and shelves look so so pretty! See, it takes just that to make me a happy person.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 26th Birthday!


Mid twenties going on late twenties already. Where did all that bloody time go?

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