My 2012

I turned 21.
I made my first passport.
Road trips
- March: Malacca with youths
- May: Janda Baik with luv
- June: Frasers Hill with family
- Sep: Bukit Tinggi with green tea gang
- Dec: Bukit Tinggi with luv
- Dec: Malacca, Johor & Singapore with youths
Took 5000 pics with my camera
Read 30 books
A honeymoon year at work - very relaxing.
Bid farewell to my awesome job.
Bid farewell to awesome friends: Jodie & Su Cheng.
Made new friend: awesome colleague Eunice.
Spent too much on facials.
Spent too much on books.

Goodbye 2012!

2013, I welcome you with open arms: exciting plans ahead!
I want to:
Work: Learn more, earn more, save more.
Health: 5 servings of fruit & vegetables a day.
Love: Change relationship status soon!!!

The End & The Beginning

I'm at the end of another chapter. Though I am not leaving completely (I hope), I still feel heavy-hearted. Why did I quit? So that I can learn more and gain more experience. I'm at a point where my learning curve is not very high anymore and I want to get out of my comfort zone so I can learn more.

Looking back on all the memories, I feel so sad. But when one door closes, another opens up!

I'm looking forward to going back to Beachonhouse! Here I come!! :)

Proposal

Proposals are so overrated. People say "Successful Proposal" as if the proposal itself is what makes the gal say "Yes". A proposal is successful not because the proposal was romantic, but because of everything that happened from Day 1 and what they feel will happen in the future. If the gal does not think the guy is The One, no matter how romantic, how bombastic, how OTT the proposal was, the answer still would be NO.

Rolls eyes

Bells...

To Love is Not to Possess by James Kavanaugh

To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one’s self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one’s self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another–and to one’s inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon’s own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child’s scars
Or an adult’s deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are–and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.

Wedding bells...

Bitten...

...by the wedding bug

1 year 11 months 15 days to go
Is it too early to start planning?

Priorities

I want it all, but I can't.

I want to take a break, but I have big plans for the future and my pocket cannot stand to be empty.
I want to work for passion, but I need money.
I want to work to learn, but I want to rest, too.
I want to spend, but I need to save.

Why can't I have it all?

Fifty

Ah, novels are my guilty pleasure.

I know I should be sleeping.
I know I should be working.
I know I should stop daydreaming about the book...

But to lose myself in someone else's world...I wish I could take one week off work & just camp in bed reading all the novels in the world.