Sweet December

I love December since young. It has always been always a nice month, leading to Christmas, followed by New year's eve. I told G-san, that Christmas Eve, is the most important day to me in each year, even more than my birthday. This is a day of love, celebration, coziness and warmth. Of course, I love the snow, the Christmas spirit, the holiday season...... This year, I will not see snow, but I am still looking forward to my year-end holiday, as long as it is not in hot Singapore. Hmmmm, I can really smell Christmas now.

Christmas started in Madeira in 2008

Christmas is here, G-san and me have managed to put up the decorations.... let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

DVD weekend

I have been watching so many shows lately, lazing at home and enjoying the air-conditioning while watching. And I am a greedy person, so I am in the middle of several shows:

English Televisions:
Weeds 3: Starting 3rd season. It is funny and not soapy.
Lipstick Jungle: Finished 1 episode only
Grey's Anatomy 4: Finished 10 of 17 episodes, my all-time favourite. I am taking my time in these as I have to wait for 1 year for Season 5.
Ugly Betty 1: I am at episode 5 now.
Ally Mcbeal 2 : Left with 1 disc (it took me 1 year to reach this :) )

Cantonese dramas: I am in between Moonlight Resonance and Beautiful 7th days.

I think I still prefer English DVDs because of the clever and witty plots. Cantonese dramas tends to drag and it is time consuming - I realised the reason I watched is due to nostagic reasons being a cantonese.

How did I manage to watch so many dramas? During the travelling time from office to home evening of course helps.......

Christmas spirit in early October.....

Suddenly, in Singapore, we can smell Christmas before the last week of October. Retailers are trying to remind us of Christmas spending before the global economic conditions declines further. Good for Singaporeans, at least, I still read that the travel fair this week is still doing robustly well and people are still purchasing electrical products like before, at least, it is not as grey as the Americans or the Europeans.

Right now, being prudent is good and cash is king. So let's all look forward to a nice Christmas, and forget the economic woes bah.

This week is a short 4-day week, hooray!

(This is my Christmas tree in 2004..... I am looking forward to putting it up again)

This is life.......

Some girls on Taiwanese TV said that the motto of their life is "This is life........". Well there are ups and downs. Just like our economy....last year was at an all-time high, and it is now at a 5-year low. What does that mean? Life is a full of surprises, full of ups and downs, full of happiness and setbacks. So..... this is life. All we need to do is, adjust our views to a positive mind, and all should be fine.

I have settled down from the Tokyo trip, and life seems to normalise. Weekends are nice, work is rushing sometimes, and home is always sweet. My pc is down and thanks to G-san for sending it for repair for me. Thank you, G-san!

After my Japanese trip, it is a new start.....

My Tokyo trip comes and goes fast. The unforgettables during this trip include:
(i) desserts, sweet plucked apples, juicy grapes
(ii) duochan's home-prepared nabe
(iii) apples farm, cosmos (autumn sakura hill)
(iii) daikanyama, ikspiari, kichioji
(iv) catching up with my wonderful Japanese pals
(v) got some nice stuff: a pair of boots, 23 cds, clothes (business & casuals), and a nice fan :)

The pictures above speak for itself, don't they?

Today is my first day of work, also my first day as a hunter RM. I am still trying to get used to it, and accept the new challenges :)

In this volatile environment, which started 2 weeks ago, in the hard shockingly manner, whereby the world has gone into a deep recession (never before since 1930s), we have to be on our guard, work hard, and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead! In the mid / long term, all should be fine, so we have to go through the challenging period.

Gambarimasho, folks! Tomorrow will be better!

After about 8 years....... a visit to JB again

I was in JB yesterday with my colleagues. It has been 8 years or so, and I missed the food...... I shall not use words to describe further, and the taste is still in my mind now:)