2011

I've been wanting to do up a end of year post for some time now.. Even though I have a ton of events that I haven't gotten around to blogging about. They may be in that phase for quite some time ahaha..

So the year is coming to a close... Like finally..

While 2011 had it's ups and downs for me.. the downs seemed more significant and impacted me really negatively. I'm sure as hell glad 2011 over. I feel like I have aged significantly this one year.. :(

I've summed up in a few paragraphs the events / things that really shaped this one year for me.
I only just started out working this year and it has not been easy. Stress at learning something completely new and different, dealing with office politics, lack of opportunities at work.. all made the transition to working life very difficult. I think it took me about 6 agonising long months to break into my job and finally get the hang of things, before finding my place in my team.. Now, I don't stress too much. hahah.. many things have become more routine to me and my boss gives me opportunities to learn more and I'm now also involved in projects to streamline our processes as well as training the new folks.. I realise I don't fare well with big changes in my life... =/ (I think there will be even more change next year)

Last year, I made a decision to do something that I could not easily extract myself from this year. It was a very difficult position to be in. Despite knowing it was the wrong decision for me, I didn't really have the guts to change anything.. I also doubted myself a lot of times if it was really the wrong decision or if i just wanted to give up - as I think I am someone who gives up easily. =/ This dark cloud had plagued me for the better part of this year and sometimes I used to get so moody I just wanted to hide at home and wallow in my misery. ~2 months ago, I finally did something about the situation and I've never looked back. I'm happier, I have so much optimism for the future.. And I realise that it was a decision I should have made sooner. much much much sooner instead of taking so long.. owell the damage is done, and I'm just glad it's over and I can move on with my life.

One other thing, seemingly small and inconsequential, also shaped this year for me as well.

Believe it not, the iPhone 3GS handed down by my mum changed my way of life. There were so many things this wonderful device could do that my previous 'smart' phone couldn't. Simple things like surfing Facebook and checking my email were a trial. Loading pages seemed to tAke forever and the phone just couldn't seem to multitask. Send me a message when I'm loading a page and the whole phone just stops working. I love having these awesomely cool apps lol.. I think I have like 24 photo apps, 11 news apps.. among other popular ones like google maps and iris. And they are so useful!! :D I take photos of every damn thing coz the camera loads so quickly and it is so easy to beautify or edit the picture to create an awesome effect. Perfect for photoshop idiots like me. (: whatsapp and the messages in the phone is damn convenient lo! You can easily track a conversation thread and sharing pictures/location is so freaking effortless. The phone was so awesome that I spent $300 on the iPhone 4s. I'm so cheapo but I could not go back to life without an iPhone. Steve jobs was bloody brilliant.

That's sums up what 2011 has been for me. Of course there were alot of other things not mentioned here.. But they didn't characterise this one year the way these things did.

The north south line saga

It was a very interesting night last night when dex and I walked through orchard mrt to get to my bus stop and it was PACKED. All the doors to the mrt station were locked except for 2, and there was so many people trying to walk through those two pathetic doors.

After squeezing through the doors we saw train signs saying no trains from orchard to Ang mo kio.. And even the TVs were announcing no trains from marina bay to Ang mo kio. I was thinking Heng ah lucky I stay queenstown so I would have no problems getting home!

I was so wrong.

The bus stop behind taka was crazily crowded. Never seen such a crush at that bus stop before. Just standing there waiting for my bus, I got jostled every 5 seconds by somebody trying to squeeze through the crowd. Every 5 minutes, there would be mrt shuttles stopping at the bus stop and the attendants would come out and shout "bus to Ang mo kio (or bishan)".

I waited for my bus for at least 40mins. :(( for some reason, the buses were all arriving in pairs. But the intervals between buses were just ridiculous! >.< my bus never arrived. It moved only 2 minutes in the 40 minutes that I was waiting there.. Lucky me my mum came to my rescue! My feet were dying. X_X I felt so bad for all those poor souls still waiting there unable to get home. :(

Poor smrt gotta do so much damage control now..

Newwwwww

I'm so broke from all the Christmas shopping and somehow i still end up buying so much rubbish for myself!!

No time to blog much. just featuring a couple of my new buys..

I got this super cute vintage looking top from March Shop. Can't wait to wear it out this weekend!

Another pretty workdress from Missypixie.

And I walked all the way from office to Nankin row to pick up my top from Tracyeinny today.. It was almost 1km in heels and another km back!! AND i somehow ended up buying 2 more dresses!!! I never would have bought these online but they were so awesome when i tried them on. :DDD

Zebra dress for work

Cream casual lace dress for the weekend! (:

Credits:
March Shop Vintage Collared top in Teal
Missypixie Estee in Mustard
Tracyeinny Kaylee Cream Lace Dress & Lara Zebra Printed Dress

New buys!

And yet another blog post on my shopping exploits. hehhh. :x

I haven't bought many things from Tracyeinny before but it was love at first sight for this piece!

I love the pretty prints mixed in with the polka dots! they are so cute!! (:

Almost every shopping blogpost of mine has a feature from Intoxiquette. This time is no different.. 

You can never have enough black dresses for work.. and this one is so classy! (: (: 

I haven't shopped from Dopestreet in a while.. but this was yet another must-buy! 

I loved the unconventional colours for a workdress. (:

One of my old favourites Dandzelia, their prices for workdresses and such are very reasonable. 

They always bring in such pretty pieces for work! 

So sad I had to join the BO for this dress.. But it looks definitely worth the wait! (: 

lalalala~ christmas is coming! 

this means more xmas sales wheeee~~~

Credits:
Tracyeinny Rubik Chiffon Top
Intoxiquette The Paige Chanelesque Workdress
Dopestreet Eve
Dandzelia Secretwish Dress in Peach Tango