2011 Resolution Review

As it is already end of 2011, I shall review what have I achieved this year :)

Achievement:

• Pay increment early this year but a very BIG disappointment to me.
• A new job -> student 
• Pass PMP exam
• spend quality time with family and friends in Indo during CNY
• get to know new friends
• find new best friend
• Spend quality time with friends
• Be more organized
• Go holiday (KL, Genting, Phuket, HK, Macau)
• saving monthly
• Join church conference
• Reads 4 books in a year
• Eat less junkfood (max 1x a month)
• Sleep before 1am (weekday)
• Sleep before 3am (weekend)
• Take off contact lens daily
• Join marathons (Shape run, GE Woman run)
• Join dance class (hip hop)
• Weight loss (ard 5-6kg) this year :)
• Baking
• Blogging

Failed:

• contact family once a week
• Pray for life partner : I have not been faithful.
• Character transformation ( more patient, self control, humble, submissive, less perfectionist)
• Daily devotional
• to experience God daily
• Serve God in CG
• Tithing monthly
• To find God's will in my life and what God wants me to do in 2011
• Eat breakfast daily
• Drink 2x240ml before meal
• Exercise once in 2 weeks
• Eat fruit weekly
• Drink calcium milk weekly

Looks like I have achieved more :) but mostly I failed at daily resolution :(
Got to strive better next year :)

Thanksgiving 2011

I should blog about what I wanna give thank in year 2011 rite!

I am thankful that I passed my PMP exam on my first attempt! Thus I could claim the 85% Citrep funding from government. :) It was quite fun learning while I thought it would benefited me in my work. It did help me managed my project at work but didn't help me to climb become a project manager. Well I always can aim that later on.

I also thankful for the chance I have to go holiday to few new places.
To Phuket with Yuli, and Hongkong-Macau with Uci, Adz, Jojo and Edwin. All are nice places!
I also went to Genting, KL and Batam. :)

I am thankful for every friendship that I have. Can't mention all of them, but thanks for their patience, understanding, supports, encouragements, and prayers for me these year! What a life if you don't have a friend rite? So I am thankful for each and everyone of them.

I also thank God for the chance He gave me to study again. I am one step closer to my dream! Yay!

I am thankful for my family and relatives who always there even though sometime and most of the time I didn't care much, but they always there and ready whenever I want to turn back.

Thank God for You, You are always there for me, in good time and in bad time. Every moment I've been through, You were there and gave me strength. You never fail me and You are faithful even when I keep failing You. You are so amazing God!

I wish everyone of you a Happy New Year!
May everything be better in the year 2012.
May God bless you abundantly with more love, more peace and more joy!

<3

2012 Resolution

In 3 more days will be a brand new year and also I want to set a new resolution. It still a draft but I will adjust it along the way or add some new one. At least I have something to kick start :)
Maybe I'll distribute the list into the monthly target, to help me achieve the resolution I've made.
Here you go:

Career

• Get Diploma with HD or D
• Work in a MNC (SAP)

Relationship

• Contact family once a week
• Meet family 1-2 times a year
• To fall in love with the right person

Emotional/ Character

• Be more patient
• Be more friendly and approachable
• Be more encouraging
• Less complaining
• More thankful

Economy

• Saving monthly
• Set monthly shopping limit

Spiritual

• Daily devotional
• To experience God daily
• Serve God in LG
• Tithing monthly
• Read books 6 books by end of 2012
• To bring at least 1 person closer to God
• To find God's will in my life and what God wants me to do in 2012 and 2013.

Health

• Eat healthy
• Exercise once in 2 weeks
• Eat less junk food (max 1x a month)
• Join marathons (Shape run, GE Woman Run)
• Watch my diet, I need to go back to BMI 21, weight loss (Target 5-10kg) 1 kg per month 
• Medical check up

Others

• Project 365 : A Photo A Day

Little Celebration cum Picnic

I had small Xmas celebration with those closest friends @ Bishan Park (That was the initial plan until the rain ruined it)
We shifted to a gazebo nearby HDB beside bishan park, then it started drizzling and we were contemplating to shift under HDB. When it rained heavier, we had no choice but to move before everything got wet.

Turkey from Bambang

Me writing compliment and things to improve for others. This was one and the only game we had that day.

It was a fun yet hillarious experience!

We went to church after finishing the turkey and ham :). We had still a little bit of time, so we camwhore in the coffee shop first with Joseph's camera. :)

The opening dance

Hanging out while waiting for Christmas day!

Matching dress up for Xmas!

Yuli & my kitty glasses

Melya

Me and gift from Ria

Me and Yuli with pokka between us

Retro yuli and bambang.

Ike, the gank leader :D

So far I had great Christmas with great friends! :)

Xmas is over, but the spirit lives forever in our heart.

and now...

Let's welcome 2012 with our resolution ready!

Attractiveness Level

I think attractiveness level is not driven whether you are physically beautiful/ handsome or have a very slender and slim body.
For me, I think people attractive when they love God fervently. I do attracted to people that really really love God. When you love God so much, God will fill your life, not only that God will overflow you! Until you can't contain anymore and you have to share it with other people.
Others will be attracted to this kind of people simply because God that is in them.
You don't need to worry whether you are poor, or ugly or fat. As long as you love Jesus with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, you are gonna be attractive. Thank to God.

I do have a friend who are very attractive spiritually.
He loves God so much. The way he loves God makes me fellow Christian to be jealous.
Even when he is zero and have really zero financially, he never be in want. Blessing never fails to follow him, just because of Christ that is in him. Success and blessing follow him wherever he goes.
Isn't it amazing?

Just by having God in you, and what you need to do is to love Him fervently, and in an instant you are indeed an attractive people. You will draw people to you, but not to you yourself, but to God that is in you.

And I want to love God fervently, not because of I want to be attractive, but simply because God has loved me first and His love for me never ending. He loves me more than I can imagine, more than I can feel.
It's such an amazing experience. Praying and God touches me and His presence embraces me.

Christmas Tree @ Vivocity 2011

Vivocity still has the biggest Christmas Tree in Singapore.
Here how it looks like this year:

It got slightly different decoration compared to last year, but less colorful. :)

See last year's tree here.

Wrong Worship

Today's devotion is incline with what I got from Completely His book.
It says:

We worship God for who He is,
and not because of what we'll get;
When we acknowledge what we owe,
We'll thank Him that He paid our debt. -- Sper

Don't worship God to gain His benefits, you already have them.

Let's worship God the right way.

Xmas Presents

I received many many Xmas presents and chocs! <3
Thanks all :)

Merry Christmas!

I am wishing you all a holly jolly Christmas!

<3 -Xmas tree, bear and Mel- <3

Logos Hope

I visited Logos Hope for the first time at Vivocity, a mission ship from Germany.
It has the largest floating bookstore :). I am not sure whether it is the largest or not but I like the book store inside the ship. :)
I bought this book: Completely His about loving Jesus without limits. I kinda like it and finished it within a day or two.

There is one statement I like. It says "Sometimes we doesn't fall in love with God, but with the things He has done for us"

It enlightened me and I realize that I did it most of the time. It open my eyes that loving what He has done is different with loving God himself.

Me inside Logos Hope

Some workshop that we attended in the ship, about HIV/ AIDS.

The ships will be in Singapore until January 4th, 2012.

But it only open for visitation until 29 December 2011.

Monday - Friday 10am - 10pm

Saturday - Sunday 3pm - 10 pm

If not mistaken :)

I want to recommend to all of you to visit this ship. ^_^

More info about this you can read here.

Happy Winter Solstice!

冬至来临，雨水答答响！

冷冷的冬至，

献上一碗热腾腾的甜汤圆，

《 家乡风味》¤¤¤另加几分温情，

代表我的心意，

也让你回想到朋友的热情，

友情。

¤¤¤愿圆圆色彩缤纷的汤圆，

带给你一生的温馨与祝福！

祝你：

¤ 冬至快乐 ¤¤ 团团圆圆 ¤。。。

Random Meals

Again with PATH, the photos has turned into more pretty color. :)

BK breakfast set that I love! Only $3.50 :)

Bread bowl mushroom soup from Olive Vine.

Iphone Apps: Path

I recently love this application called PATH. It took photo and convert it into a beautiful colors. :)

See below comparison:

Actual pic from Iphone

After applying Diana mode

Actual pic

After applying Diana mode

See it's so pretty! I love it.

Iphone 4S GPS

I found recently that my GPS sucked when there was no 3G coverage which previously didn't happen to me.
I mean it can't give me close result to my location is fine if the difference is about few blocks.
But my smart phone telling me that I am in Santa Clara USA when I am actually in Singapore.
How much different is that huh? I wonder what's wrong with it.

First Few Classes

I have started my few first classes.
So far it still fun and easy! :)
Still looking forward for next classes...

Being a student again, but I don't really feel like a student. The class makes me feel that I just taking some temporary short courses. The schedule is not fixed, I can have 4 classes this week, none next week and maybe 2 classes the following week. It is not always happen on the same day.
Yes, it is very random, and I kind of hate it because I like those organized and neat schedule.
Well, I wish I could quickly pass these 3 months and start the internship soon. :)

Shine 1 Christmas Party

We had an early Christmas celebration with people from Shine 1 last time. Shine 1 was our previous cell group before our group were merged. We had it on my previous flat which now is Donny and Hery's flat. :)

We had so much fun catching up with one another and laughed a lot thanks to Martha and Kee Soong.

Story about it at later part of this post, so scroll!

A simple deco that I bought @ fairprice only for $1.90 so cheap!

At first we wanna order some cooked food, but we switched to pizza for simplicity

We had fun taking photos with one another.

Group photos!

The guys did some funny pose

The first 3 are Martha and Kee Soong pic.

Martha was so lucky that day when we played truth or dare, I put 3 skip and a few draw 4 or draw 2.

Martha was so lucky that she always got a skip, but Kee Soong was so unlucky by getting draw 4 and draw 2, which say that the one on the left and right of him also got to do the dare/ truth hahahaa.

So Martha and Hery were dragged along too!

We also had a good laugh thank to Hery and Yuli who acted as Joseph and Mary in the scene "Joseph proposing Mary"

Joseph proposing Mary with an onion ring :) which resulted in rejection and Joseph ate the onion ring.

Let me end this post with a photo of Hery trying to "sell" his friend Edwin. :D

Merry Christmas!

Craving for Pasta

Recently I always have this craving for pasta :) If I remember last time was Ramen.
So I dragged my brother to accompany me eat pasta...

The picture above from 2 places.

The left one from Trattoria @ 313. The Salmon carbonara was delicious! The portion was quite big.

I recommend this pasta if you drop by there for lunch. 

My brother having the pork chop pasta with tomato sauce. This one was too sour, not my liking.

The middle picture and the right one was from Covelli @ Orchard Central.

I bought a voucher from deal online.

At first I made a reservation and without telling me they actually take a last minute lunch function, so there have no lunch for the normal guest.

I was so pissed off and demand a compensation, because my brother purposely took leave that day.

They only gave me $10 voucher. Grr!

So I came again during the weekend for the lunch. The pizza was quite nice, and the pasta with tomato sauce based is actually nicer than my smoked salmon in cream sauce.

The smoked salmon pasta was too salty.

I definitely will come back to trattoria for the salmon pasta again!

Aiai & Beto's Wedding

I was attending a friend's wedding a few weeks back.

Here my simple make up and hair do:

Actually I have to attend Binus Reunion first before the wedding, so I wore a cardigan.

 A picture of my with one of my lecturer who guided me during my thesis.

And then I proceed to Aiai's wedding

The groom that day looked like a Korean actor :) maybe because of the hairdo.

Chin & I

Yuli and Jorry, the host of that day

Sylvia and I

The bride and I

The groom with pretty ladies!

Yuli & I

After the wedding, I went to the movies with friends, but I have to go back home to change my shoes first since they were killing me and also because of the rain, I didn't want my shoes to be dirty. :p

Baking

On last Saturday, we had a little workshop for make up and baking @ Jenny's house.

Inne and I were in charged for baking cookies. I find cookies are the easiest and the simplest yet the most fun because the participant get to decorate the cookies! :)

The preparation

The result! Colorful and pretty!

This batch actually quite successful one, the crunchiness is just nice compared the previous one and less sweet as requested.

The most patient participant writing the name with the decoration balls.

It is a painful process hahaha.. I won't be that patient to do that.