Thursday, May 31, 2007

two year mark...

Exactly a fortnight away to the two-year mark on my first job since graduation. Sometimes I think that maybe, just maybe, I can make a career out of this. Other times, I think of what I would like to do if I quit tomorrow - study occupational therapy, play therapy, follow DD to Abu Dhabi and be a housewife and get to do all the stuff I've always wanted to do.


Last option sounds really good, especially with my new hobby. I can imagine myself staying at home, actually learning to exploit the full powers of Photoshop, cross stitching, scrapbooking all my old photos according to various themes, learning to cook properly etc. Yet I can't help but think about what some people have said of me before. That I won't be a housewife. Because I am ambitious.


I remember telling my JC/uni friend during my uni days that I wanted to be a housewife. She laughed at me. The idea of staying at home and bringing up my kids personally really does sound enticing. But they are right. I won't be able to just sit still at home.


Anyway, just some random rambling. Haven't really blogged my thoughts in a while and a random thought wasn't what inspired me to blog. Two years... two years since I joined what some call "the Death Star" with 5 young men in the same position. Within the first year, three fell. Another one will officially join their ranks in a month's time but actually leave earlier. It'll just be me, and the scholar... What am I looking for in this job? A career? Really?


I digress. I blogged because as I was clearing my photos folder, I came across these. I think I may have posted this before, with the other one taken at the same time, but let's just post it again.



Putting up this photo inspired me to do this:


Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket


To cookie monster... may post-Death Star life bring new adventures in your life. =)


Wonder if he reads my blog?

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

2nd

Just completed this with DD...


My first digital scrapbook project



Made with free digital scrapbook kits... and lots of love of course!

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Buys from Japan

I've never bought so much foodstuff in such a short period of time:
  1. marinated salmon bits
  2. royce chocolates - soft and hard types
  3. kit kat - 3 types
  4. green tea chocolates
  5. a cob of corn (the corn in Hokkaido is very sweet!)
  6. hichew milk candy - 2 types
  7. Hello Kitty biscuits (for the tins)
  8. assorted mochi from the airport
  9. a mochi which was meant to have been lunch
  10. red bean milk candy (only available in Hokkaido)
  11. Hello Kitty soft candy (only available in Hokkaido)
  12. chocolate-coated strawberries (only available in Hokkaido; wonder if they are really strawberries inside?)
  13. shiroi koibito (choc biscuits from Hokkaido; supposed to be only available in Hokkaido but could be found at the airport too)
  14. kelp
  15. crispy mini crabs (after I bought them, someone told me that these could be found in Singapore)
  16. dried scallops
  17. kinokonoyama chocolates (biscuits with chocolate mushroom-shaped tops)
  18. Tokachi cheesecake
  19. Lychee flavoured chewing gum
  20. Oreo chocolate bars
  21. pudding from Hakodate

To colleagues who read my blog & ppl who have helped take care of DD while I was away: Some of these items (no, not the corn) would be in my cube on Monday for sampling. I'm too lazy to make rounds. =P So please feel free to drop by.

Also bought gifts for DD and some others - "others" i.e. people who I saw things that they would like/need. So not everyone gets lah... =P

And other buys for me... very happy that I bought a watch (finally! Swatch one too! At half price cos it's a display piece) and a new wallet (Burberry Blue Label - i.e. only available in Japan). Bought new Hello Kitty handphone accessories too. Hehe...

Thursday, May 03, 2007

NH-112

At the airport, where I just received devastating news that MAN U LOST!!! *cry* But then again, at least they lost to Milan, which is my fav Italian team.

Gonna be away from DD for 9 days. Looking forward to the holiday cos it's with the gang (or half of it) so I'm sure it'll be fun. =) We're gonna rotate who we sit with on the bus so that the aunties will have to keep guessing who's Vin's girlfriend. muahaha... not my idea btw.

Hoping that work doesn't pile up while I'm gone. Feel a bit bad for ZS cos he's got lots of big things coming up which have the potential to explode at any time.

Look out for more posts!