Wow I realised that it's been sooo long since I've updated anything on my blog. Thanks to an old friend who came back to read and picked up the entry on the lemongrass jelly haha.
A quick update on my take of my life:
On studies: I've decided to do that course that I've been looking at for years and finally took action and registered. Well the studying part is great, going back to absorb new knowledge is great, and I thought I really loved being on the other side of the classroom again.
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On class assignments: Assignments are killers for working adults who are studying at the same time. Assignments has never been my thing whether it's 10 years ago or now. When it comes to assignments, I hate being a student and it doesn't help to have competitive classmates but thank goodness I have some great classmates who helped each other out so now into the last term, we're relying on each other to pull through.
So my conclusion is that school is a love-hate relationship, no matter which side of the classroom you're at.
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On babies: I have a nephew to call my own. Finally I'm old enough to see the day my younger cousin have a son. Love the chubby and happy kid but not spending enough time to play with him. My student had a daughter. Yes, you heard me right, it's my student who just turned 21 this year but is legally married, owns a flat and has a kid. I feel so old... I only got married at 29 and I don't have my own place and no kids.
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On turning 30 (part 1): I spent my 30th birthday at the happiest place on earth but by the end of the day I wasn't really that happy. My legs are aching from all the walk, no proper dinner, no present, no birthday cake... bad planning on the husband's part. It makes me miss my family who will get me a cake every year and celebrate my birthday. But my mummy still sms-ed me: happy birthday. :)
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On turning 30 (part 2): I received the letter from ICA asking me to go change my IC. When I made my first IC 18 years ago (and it was just a piece of laminated paper which later changed to plastic 2-3 years later), I thought that 30 is a really long way off. Now that I've hit it, I wonder where did all the 18 years go. Looking back, there's many things I probably would have done differently but looking at now, the decisions I made along the way made me who I am now. Better or worse? I wouldn't know. But let's just keep being happy and grateful for the things I have now.
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On house hunting: At first, my agent was really enthusiastic about showing us flats and it was very interesting to look at what people do (or don't do) to their house but at the end of the day we were tired out by all that viewing. And slowly as we refined our criteria, the perfect house seems to elude us even further and now everything has come to a standstill because nothing fits our criteria came our way. We would have bought one of the units we saw but that guy was asking for too much money. He can jolly well keep his house with the salmon-pink kitchen tiles which I would have gotten rid of pronto if I had the means to buy the house in the first place.
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On job: It's getting boring and it doesn't help that a new manager took over. I'm glad I had great teammates who pulled me through the job. Just counting down to the day where I can start requesting for internal transfers.
So that's the story of my life for the past x months that I didn't update my blog. :)
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