Year 2008: What have I done so far?

For me, personally, the year 2008 have gone by so fast. I can't remember all of it now the things I've done but I am sure each journey or adventure I went through this year was a memorable one.
I celebrated the end of last year (2007) and welcoming the new year (2008) in a nightclub in Eastbourne, East Sussex with my best friends. This year I'm celebrating it with my friends and family and with $100 worth of fireworks hehehe
I think I travel more than 10 times this year. I've already lost count of it! My most unforgettable holiday would be attending the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia where I got the chance to meet the Pope in person. I was there for 2 weeks in July and it was a remarkable journey for me and my friends. Oh yah not forgetting, I meet a lot of new friends this year too which I will forever cherish our friendships.
I must admit it has been a very hectic year for me. Both office and church work have been demanding and it really challenge me physically, mentally and spiritually. After having some self-reflection, I guess all the hard work (sleepless nights, meetings, racing against time, etc.) are worth it. I have the opportunity to find my self, capabilities, talent, etc. despite the busyness of life. There are some things that I want to change or at least try to change in the new year; that'll be part of my new year resolution.
Hope the New Year will bring you happiness, peace, love and joy. God Bless!

Christmas Celebration @ Home

My Christmas celebration wasn't that bad after all apart from getting lesser sleep, I still managed to survive on Christmas day itself. I went to the dawn mass at 5am (the last 9th day) on Christmas Eve, woke up at 4am that morning and I still have to go to work. Then I attended the midnight mass at 10.30pm till 12.30am and then back to church again for the Christmas Day mass at 9am. We have Christmas open house in the parish hall after the mass and head back home to have our own open house. It was raining heavily that morning and I was soaking wet and cold (my dad just installed 2 new aircon in the extended living room and dining room).
All I wanted for Christmas was to sleep! But we have a lot of guests that day, it was hard to catch even a short nap. We had visitors until 10.30pm, I was on my feet all day and I was really exhausted. I woke up at noon the next morning!!! I had a lot of text messages on my phone when I woke up, mostly invitation to open house and I could only manage to go to one house.
Anyways, I enjoyed my 5 days holiday and now I'm back to work. I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to the new year but it is better not to have any expectation or else I'll be disappointed. Just leave it in God's hands to decide for He knows what is best.

Some pics from my Christmas Open House. Thank you for celebrating this joyous celebration with me and my family.

Our Christmas tree - My mum decorated this tree 2 wks before x'mas

My cousin addicted to my Nikon SLR camera

View of the living room

My extended family

Kitchen invasion

Yummy food

hey! where's my drink?

Baby Lizam 1st Christmas visit


MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Christmas Eve - Eve

Well its 2 days till Christmas. Most of the things that needs to be done are done for now but I still want to do some last minute shopping later in bandar.
To be honest, I'm not that excited about Christmas yet. I don't know why but maybe because of fatigue. Been running around like headless chicken for the past few weeks; been busy with the ordination preparation and now Christmas. I'm exhausted!
I went for retail therapy to Singapore with my family recently. I really enjoyed the time we spend together and plus the shopping hehehe feels good to be away from 'work overload' once in a while.
Oh yeah...gadget update! To pamper myself this Christmas, I bought a Sony Cybershot H-10 which I've been eyeing since last Oct. It comes with 4Gb memory stick and pouch for less than $500. so yeahhh :D very happy!
Will try to update and post some pics soon. Till then I wish you a happy and blessed Christmas and a happy new year 2009.

Mid-Life Crisis

We celebrated a friend’s 25th birthday recently and we talk about mid-life crisis. We were thinking at what age a person would face this crisis. For example, age ranges from 0 to approx. 100 years old so if it is ‘mid’ meaning we’ll face this crisis at 50 years old? Hahaha well this is just a thought. And I was teasing my friend that we face mid-life crisis when we turn 25 and she went O.o hahaha just joking!

Been a pretty hectic week now. I’ve been in the church office almost every evening now. I don’t remember when was the last time I had a nice sit-down dinner with my family. Anyways my family understands it. Looking forward for the short break with my parents next weekend and also the Christmas season. Tis the season to be fat falalalalalalalala…

Ok back to the blog…

I think I’m physically exhausted (but my mind don’t think so). My weekday routine goes like this (for now): Wake up at 6am, go to work at 7am, lunch from 12 to 1pm, go home at 4pm, on my pc or watch the tv or have tea with my family for about 30mins or less, take a shower, go to church at 7pm, go home at 10pm, do some chores or on the pc again, sleep around 11pm or midnight and back to square one all over again.

I also notice that my brain and hand coordination are not functioning that well too. Whatever is in my head turns out wrong when I type it out. So please excuse me, if some words are missing or the sentences are not in order… screw the grammatical errors! And I tend to forget things easily which shows how tired I am :(

My granma is still staying with us. She’s not been feeling that well (due to her age and some other things) and that makes me worried. As you can see I’m juggling between a lot of work and responsibilities now. The term is ‘multi-tasking’. Thank God I don’t have a mental or nervous breakdown in dealing with this entire situations. Hahaha --> Laughter is always the best medicine.

So anyways I’m sorry if I don’t ‘layan’ (entertain) you for the past and next few days. I’m really trying to sort things out for the upcoming big events. I guess you’ll be seeing me running around like headless chicken on those days. Will catch up on lost time when I’m relief of my duty hahaha


oh yah and just for the record, I'm not having a mid-life crisis.


Ciao!