As I recover from the last party of the year, I am entering the new year in a rather pensive mood. While 2017 had been a good year, the beginning of many firsts for me, I can't wait to see what 2018 has installed for me.
Now that I am starting to settle into the rhythm of my new life, the major theme for 2018 would be to focus my efforts on dealing with toxicity in my life the smart and effective way. On this matter, a quote shared by a friend speaks hugely on this.
Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around, because that's the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace or stay away from.
May I come out of 2018 unfazed and stronger than 2017!
Has it been 2 years since I last blogged? I didn't think I was able to remember my username and password, but looks like there are certain things in life that you just can't put away.
So much has happened in my life since 2015, and I do not know where to begin from. Do I pick up from where I left off, or do I begin from the day that my life would never be the same again? Or perhaps a little bit of both.
For now, I will leave you with a piece from the biggest milestone of my life.
Last year, when my sis had her pre-wedding photo shoot around our little island, I was the scrambling maidservant to her royal highness. I was guardian too, to the dog which had a brief cameo in front of the camera.
Since I was not the star of the day, I actually had lots of time to enjoy the sights the shoot brought us to. When I was not there following behind the bride, I was busying myself taking behind the scene shots.
"...cloak them with adjectives, dilate them, stretch them over the length of a sentence, or a verbal melody, and let nothing of the actual food remain, only those magician's words which will make the readers believe they have been eating as you did..."
And she did it again. Adaptation from Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody.
She has curls as I do. We both have really short hair. But why is it Violaine's short curls work for her, while I have to spend 15 mins every morning pulling mine straight? And mind you, 15 mins later I still dont look half as good. Unfair!
And split fringe or not, she still looks great. I should embrace the defiant fringe of mine.
One summer ago, in our garden frocks and summer hats, the family gathered at grisek for a time of celebration. We drank to my return, a birthday and the summer heat of course.
I have been watching a series of short interviews compiled by the new york times. There was this question which I found myself answering to.
What is your top 5 favourite non-musical sound?
1. The chopping of anything against the wooden chopping board. It must be a wooden chopping board. 2. "Qiiiaaak" sound from pulling open the tab of a coke can, or any other can for the matter. 3. Heels "clocking" across a hard pavement. 4. The sound of fingers thumping furiously across the keyboard (like now) 5. Bubbling sound from a running stream of water in a creek
That was a day to remember, and i am excited to find out where this journey would lead to!
Thanks to all who knew and understood that crazy one week i went through. Sorry if i was a pain in the ass, and i definitely would not have survived it without your prayers and support (:
Thank you you you you, hope all of you are reading this!
I have been spending a lot of time at home lately. And trust me when you are home as often as I am, your room becomes the only comfort you have got.
It has been brought to my attention that my comfort of a room is nothing more than a Karang Guni center. Ok, i am a hoarder.
In a bid to make my time with my room more enjoyable, I have been engaging in a series of major clearances. In my most recent sweep, I chanced upon a memory from more than a decade ago. 16 years to be precise.
There were no tears, no hugs, no sorrowful goodbyes. On the last day of our internship, in all true Marietta's spirit, we took photos. Lots and lots of photos to remember the day.
Dong Fang Hospital
Group Shot
And so it just happened without us realizing. We survived 2 years in China :)
I generally don't deal well with goodbyes. No matter how much i might have complained these past few months, at the crux of it all, I am still very much a sentimental fool.
But at the end of every chapter, a new one begins. And thats how we all write on.
Its difficult to keep up with time. You know this once you hit the big twenty one.
So its the 1st of January 2011 today, and what better day to start it all right again. At the beginning of every year, I always wish for a reset button to be pushed so i could start over on a clean slate. But yes, we all know better.
I am never a fan of new year resolutions, since we all tend to sidetrack along the way. Yesterday night, I was having a conversation with the cousin about his resolution for 2010. And I thought it was pretty cool we could look back to a year ago and compare notes at the end of the year to see what he had accomplished (pretty impressive I must add).
It was fun and I decided to have my own list of resolutions for 2011! There are 11 items on my list, but i will share only 4 of them. The rest is quite embarrassing.
More quality quiet time
Master a dish and cook it for the year end party
Pack every corner of my room
Eat more healthily , more vegetables and fruits
The review date is set to be on 31st December 2011, and I am excited to find out how I would fare!
My pet project. A travelogue blog, for family and friends who aren’t there with me. If you can’t come with me, I will bring it to you.
I contemplated having this blog in Chinese seeing I will be away in China for 2 years. I started with 我, and I could continue no more. Haha I think I will have to save this silly idea for later when I am up to it.
My first quest: The motherland, fingers crossed and prayers said, Beijing here I come!
I hope to make discoveries in the land where there is much to discover! Good food, good sights, good buys and maybe a good boy? ;) Wish me luck!
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