Rooms of Blooms

My favourite kinda look. White with colorful little trinkets thoughtfully scattered in haphazard manner.

Weekend: Chats with Evie and Reverie + Poolside BBQ + Family from Australia Visits + Happy Birthday Baby Girl Denyse + Orchard Walkaton + DIY Popiah Brunch

Yesterday was the iJam Networking event where we hosted the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) from National Research Foundation and got to meet the “Who’s Who” of modern technology. The assemblage included two nobel prize winners among many other distinguished researchers. I was the liaison officer for Prof James D Foley and to be honest, it is a challenge to tell who’s who!

Specifically this was 20 days ago.

I’m making websites again, getting my hands dirty with css, php, sql. Concepts and designs come naturally, easily. Technical thingamajigs is another story altogether. I can code, rather neatly too. Just that it takes a longer time and I haven’t been keeping up with the latest. I will get busy this year. Oh dear, so many things to do, so little time!

The latest way to insult me is saying how I don’t understand reality, because I live in my happy little world. Like any other person, I have my own share of disappointments, I’ve seen death and sickness. I just don’t harp on bad things, mope about them, make them the center of my life or at the extreme, adopt misery as part of my identity.

I’ve seen people dwell over dramatized, sometimes self-inflicted misery, because I dunno, they live on sympathy? They want to show how tough they are? *shrugs*

I know to remain positive, circumstances help. And my optimism originates from a wonderful family. As I get older, I learn just how rare that is. The point is, I’m smart enough to know that, I’m sure there must be things you are happy and grateful for.

You pick your battles, but also remember to enjoy what you’ve already won.

I’m kidding about being insulted, it is a compliment. My head has a strange way of equating all sorts of random things back to happiness. Perhaps I’m naive, perhaps I’ve figured it out. Perhaps in 50 years, you’ll realize that happiness is your choice and you can draw your reasons everywhere.

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Yesterday!

MENU: Garlic Prawns, Drunked Prawns, Wasabi Prawns, Baked Chicken, Salted Eggs Crabs, Pepper Crabs, Tom Yum Soup.

After dinner, we played Charades and it was really quite rubbish. Someone wrote Aileen and I just had to walk over and point at her. And when I pointed at myself, instead of Priscilla (which is the answer), one went I KNOW, HIAO! (vain) another went SIAO CHAR BO (crazy woman). I’m in need of some serious self reflection.

Should I make my tiny first step, towards my first art investment? Hmm… It’ll be either Audrey Kawasaki or Miss Van. Decisions, decisions.

After a little this and a little that, I’m saving up for an apartment proper. I want to feel the satisfaction of having a physical asset under my name. Main goal for 2010.

WEEKEND // FridayFly + Ion (Dresses from New Look & Topshop) + Canard or Anthracite? + Shashlik. I love Escargots, sauerkraut and borscht with a good dollop of sour cream. + Blood Diamonds (documentary and movie) + Leonardo DiCaprio is my favorite actor *pants* + Teochew Lunch with the Kitty Lovers + Teochew Brunch with Auntie Jess and OrhLuey + Beef Kway Teow from ECP + Sunday Night Supper, The Orphan with Pepper crabs and Chili Crabs + Priscilla SaoSao. Ticklish. //

Bun’s will be overseas this coming weekend. No eyes to watch for all things forbidden. Hee.

Nothing scandalous, it’s just that I’m not allowed to roam around abandoned places. Since Bun’s not around, shall we gather, my adventure seekers?

Photos of our old adventures. Istana Woodneuk House and Old French Embassy.

Walk with me and you’ll see, the roads are paved with gold.

Resolution for the year, LOVE A LOT! Love my family, bunny, job, myself, a few friends and everything I do. Let the goal drive my actions and things should fall into place. Short and sweet but not very simple.

There might be a few frivolous items I didn’t add, like occasional rewards (bags) and nagging ones like getting a driving license (for god’s sake get it already). Let me think about them again.

I know I’m kinda late, here’s a not so fresh Happy New Year!