Saturday, March 2, 2013

Marching on - FebruarIED


Following yesterday's post on how I JanuarIED, here's how I FebruarIED :P

Joined a Love Hunt race on the first day of February. Think I blogged about it earlier - click here for the story!

Took this while waiting for the race to start. My S3 camera's self portrait feature has been cranky these days, hence this ártistic' shot. Please don't die on me! :(
 
 

Found during more spring cleaning. T-shirts of the good old days. Time to say goodbye to them! All have turned yellow with age. Not before some pictures for keepsake :l

Getting ready for Chinese New Year. Blogged already - click here! :)
 
Me in Cheongsam bought from Beijing last year on the first day of the Snake Year! Still getting ang baos from relatives - a bit weird. But well, it's still Happy Lunar New Year!:)
 
Birthday staycation with the girls in Angsana Bintan :) Lovely beach.
 

Champagne and Cake! Thanks, girls :) Will press more about this staycation in my wordpress soon - ilovelongvacation, so check it!

Glad to celebrate my XXth Birthday with Mama PY! Happy Birthday!


Singapore Food
Birthday cake from the family! Napoleon Ice Cream cake from Swensens - hmmm...


National University of Singapore
Attended Social Media Marketing course at National University Singapore, ISS. Great to see NUS Business School again after so many years! And it was an interesting course...learnt a lot...

 
Singapore Flyer. Finally! Thanks to YK for the treat.



A 360-degree view of Singapore landscape...

  


 


My homeland has changed so much over the years!
 
Singapore Food
Belated Birthday lunch with SP at Oriole Cafe. Food was good. Piccolo coffee was a bit strong. Definitely a nice place to chill on a Monday afternoon :)


Belgium Chocolates
Birthday treat from Godiva. Did not expected such generosity. Thanks!


Singapore Food
Lunch at Golden Shoe market after meeting a headhunter from Hong Kong at Chevron House.



Singapore Food
Lunch was cheap and good - only $3.30 for popiah and lor mee! I miss CBD. Really :
So this was how I FebruarIED. I 'fika' too (think I did blogged about them...will check and blog if I have not). Wanted to give myself a treat for all the job-hunting - definitely need the boost to continue Marching :P

Friday, March 1, 2013

Marching on - JanuarIED

March started off on a positive note for a job hunter like me. Started the day with a trip to the far east of Singapore (took about 90minutes!) for an interview. If not for it, it is most unlikely that I will step into this part of my homeland. Sometimes I find it ironic that people fly for hours to a foreign land and yet do not have the motivation to explore places at home. I plead guilty at times and I definitely want to explore these places during my long vacation (by when it will end, I do not know but I'm marching on in search of that ideal (or near ideal) job :)

It's funny how time seems to slow down in the first 2 months of my long vacation (1 spent in Scandinavia and 1 spent in the quiet year-end job market) and how it seems to fly in the last 2 months! For those of you who have been envying me, job hunting turned out to be a full time job (San pay package!) with its own ups and downs which I shall not (do not want to) elaborate...

So how have I been JanuaryING and FebruaryING? Let's do a stock-take (with the photos taken with my S3). January first,  then February in the next post...

Went to the Asian Civilisation Museum Open House on New Year day.
With YK and our New Year drinks at Clark Quay :)



Singapore Food
Fishball noodles after my first interview of the year at Tanjong Pagar Market(by the way, it is now closed for renovation. This was surreal because the stall used to be at Lau Pa Sat and I always had it when I needed some comfort food. I was thinking about it when I chanced upon it. Such is life.
Singapore Food
Famous peanut ice kacang at Tanjong Pagar Market.

Went to Johor Bahru City Square with my equally jobless sister and happy to see Xu Liu San from Hong Kong. I miss Hong Kong! 
Hmmm... one more reason to cross the causeway more often :)

Zo cards! Found during spring cleaning.
Watched Le Miserables and found a drawing of it (which I did in secondary school so MANY years back) during spring cleaning. Ah...

Singapore Food
Meet up with the girls (some mothers now) from Hall 8!
Singapore Food
We had collagen soup at a Japanese restaurant at Plaza Singapura. A bit ironic (see the irony?) :P
  
Singapore Food
Went to Tanjong Pagar for a hair cut and ate at the market again! The Nasi Lemak which attracted a long queue I went last time. No queue this time so we ate.
Looking a bit geeky with bangs :P

  
Collected my new lomo camera - Holga 135BC - from Groupon! My new toy I got for myself last christmas (lazy to collect earlier) - also a reward for job hunting so diligently.
At the Changi Airport to pick my brother up from the airport. He's back from Stockholm, back to reality.

I made this card for LMQ's XXth Birthday :)
Bukit Timah Railway
And we took part in the Green Corridor Run 2013. Different from the usual road runs and marina bay sands views. It's fun - do try it next year!

And on the last day of January 2013, I attended my cousin's wedding (funny how the cousin, younger by so many years, will have to give me an ang bao next year...) ! Happy marriage, MX!

Also attended a 3 days course on Change Management at the HCS (Human Capital School)... I guess I blogged more and twitted more (excited to have more followers now!) Check out my wordpress blog (ilovelongvacation) for pictures of my Scandinavia trip!

Not sure if I achieved too much or too little in January. Guess it was nothing to shout about. I probably could have done some of these even if I was working, I guess. Well, well. This is life and it has to go on, employed or not, like it or not.

I would say January was good. Happy Marching everyone!




Friday, February 8, 2013

Happy Snake Year!

Come to think of it, this is the first chinese new year that I did not have to work. For the past week, it has been funny watching my parents rush in and out of the house to buy stuff to welcome the year of the Snake. Tempers do fly at times, with both of them flustered at each other. Sometimes, I get it too! From my mother who makes remarks like 'still don't want to work after so many months', 'thought you say very easy to find a job when I told you not to quit' etc. Blah.

Not the most enviable position to be in. But well, some things are beyond my control and I have tried (and still trying) my best at job hunting. Hope the ideal job will come by in the Snake Year. Meanwhile I am going to enjoy my long vacation while it lasts (who knows when the next one will be?). Have signed up to volunteer with the National Library Board and also enrolled for a social media marketing course in February, and looking forward to to next weekend trip to Bintan (to kind of celebrate my birthday)! :)

And to make myself feel more useful at home, I partake in the making of mini spring rolls :P Happy Snake Year! :)

Top: Cut up the popiah skin (flour wrap) into squares and dash a bit of floss (prawn fried with chili) onto them and wrap them up like a popiah.
Bottom: All ready to fry!

Crisp is how they are after they are fried!

Stored for Chinese New Year. Depleting by the day though as we have been munching them away! :P