Milestones

Milestones~ 

A milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a 
road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile (from Wikipedia).

This word used so frequently but one never really bothers to think about the origins of the word.

For you to even encounter one milestone, you have to be on a journey with a beginning and an end. And throughout this journey, you had to start from somewhere and move forward to reach an end. Each milestone brings you one mile closer to your destination. As you progress, you accumulate new values and experiences that changes who and what you are.. for the better hopefully. 

I feel that one travels many different journeys in life. And each journey has different origins and destinations, with different milestones that characterize the whole experience. 

anyway.. what am I doing trying to wax lyrical on milestones?

October has been a wonderful month.. and it's not even over yet with more things to come.

I feel like I achieved two milestones this month and I'm really really happy about it!

First was regarding my career.. I've been in an unpleasant situation ever since I started work. What came so easily to all my peers, did not fall into my lap as simply as it did them. I got really depressed talking about it, thinking about it, even trying to get out of it made me feel depressed. I could best ignore it and feel good  not thinking about it for a while.. before someone or something that would remind me of it and send me back into that downward spiral. 

It has not been easy this 1 year 9 months. 

But after seemingly hopeless waiting.. I finally got it. And it's so unbelievable to me that I actually managed to wait it out for so long. I wanted to find an alternative so I could leave.. but finding alternatives wasn't easy, with me being extremely fussy about what I wanted and not many roles looking for my skill set. And despite the tons of applications i sent out, I probably got a response from less than 5%.. I really wanted to just quit without any alternatives at least a gazillion times.

Looking back, I'm sort of glad I didn't. I don't know where I'd be if I had left.. But if I did, i wouldn't have what i have today.. I know i'm talking about this issue in circles but I don't wanna elaborate on it. =/

So here's a message to you, and to myself as a reminder.. anytime I feel like giving up.


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My second milestone is my anniversary with Eric today.

You may say.. one year also consider milestone meh?

Yes. To me, one year is a milestone. AND every year after that is also a milestone.

We should not take things for granted and a relationship can't work out if only one person is putting in effort.
Both parties need to work together to nurture and grow a relationship. Relationships don't stay healthy by just leaving things as it it..

It's been a wonderful journey and we're only just getting started. (:



I'm just really thankful to have him in my life. (:

here's another "mile marker" to show where we are in our relationship..
'cept i couldn't find one that said one year! oops. =P

September Updates

Yesyes I know October's halfway gone already and I'm posting September updates only now?! heh.

I was really busy with the blogshop launch near the end of September which took my every spare moment for two whole weeks.. And then October has been a whirlwind of activity that never seems to end! (I wouldn't want it to end anyway..=P)

After-work Drinks @ Erwin's

There's been some restructuring in my firm and we now report to new bosses. And so to get to know one another better, we had an after work session at the restaurant Erwin's Gastrobar, just below our office.

Being the german-influenced one, I was the only girl that ordered a beer, and I recommended the wheat beer to some of my colleagues who've never tried it before. Needless to say, I've converted some colleagues to the dark side. =P

Anyway, pictures!

Start off with a team photo..

 The only food i bothered to take.. Too hungry!!

The guys..

The girls..

candid #1

candid #2

*scandal* heehee

my girlies.. (:

candid #3

astroboy! (i think maybe he was drunk here haha)

last photo of the night! 

check out the act cute. =P

It was a really fun session, albeit awkward sometimes, but I really enjoyed myself and was glad that our new bosses bothered to take the time and effort to get to know us little people heehee.

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22MC Reunion

Our dear pres was flying off to HK for work so he organised this get-together for us. I can't believe my juniors have graduated and started working already! I mean.. It feels like I've only just graduated but actually it's been two years already!

Even my sis is graduating in 6 months time! How time flies...

We had lunch at Relish. I've never been there before but the food was yummy (and pricey!). I took pictures of everyone's food haha but I don't remember what they are..

me with Jem & Sher.. two of the sweetest girls i know.

FOOD SPAM

I ordered this Steak sandwich or something like that. SO GOOOOOODDDD! (:

Panna cotta which jie loves.. But I'm not a fan.. =/

Group photo!

It felt really good to see everyone again. 

Find out how they're doing at work as well as their social lives. 

I've really missed these awesome people.. (: (:

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F1 Singapore

I never really did like F1. But when I heard that Katy Perry would be performing.. I was DYINGGG to go.

In the end, I couldn't bring myself to spend the money and resigned myself to not going.

Until my sister, lucky duck that she is, WON some tickets at a UBS event! I was like "Can i buy from you????" and she was like "Do you want to go with me????" 

Damn nice right?! I wasn't even expecting her to give me for free.

When we reached we were like omgomgomg so exciting..

Then here I was like.. "mehhh". Only the first 2 cars were exciting..

zipai. (:

UNTIL THE SAFETY CAR CAME OUT! =D best part of the whole event... watching the stream of cars all zoom by together! Check out this video I took! (:

We got to see the fireworks at the end of the whole thing..

Tricia so happy lol

street performers..

taking photos on the track..

It was such a crush after the event. 

We were virtually crawling all the way back to the Padang to catch Katy Perry's concert!

We came in from the gate right at the back.. so far away... ;(

It took a good 15minutes, but we navigated the crowd to get as close as possible to the stage... 

Which wasn't really that close.. owell..

She sang all the singles that she released so it was quite a bit. (: 

Going to a concert with Singaporeans can be quite depressing though.

 No one seemed really excited to be there.. jumping around or singing around, 'cept for a few foreigners.. =/

she's so hot omg

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Last pic of the night.

ONE DAY, I am going to buy front row tickets to her concert in an air-conditioned location haha... 

one day...

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White + Jeans day

Every 2-3 months, the firm will have a "jeans" day for our dept as part of a charity fundraising effort. So each time, our team will decide on a theme for that day. Last month's theme was white tops + jeans.

The view from my seat =P 

Everyone in white tops..

The Ladies in different textures (and prints) of white..

The guys doing the act cute thing.. inspired by an earlier picture in this post heehee..

Team photo. (:

woohoo! And that's all the updates for September! 

peaceout! (:

the debut

I have said it at least a thousand times to all my friends, but I never really thought I'd do it..

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I've finally started my own blogshop. =DDD

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hehh. i know this blogpost has been a long time coming now, it's just that October has been a really busy month.. with MEGA outflows zzzz.

SO ANYWAY, I've started my blogshop with two very awesome girls Yvonne & Huiqi. We three loveee shopping and we each have our very own unique styles and skills we bring to to the table. (:

And I must say, having a blogshop is wayyyy more work than I expected. Plus I had no idea I was supposed to make so many decisions on a ton of different things. Things like the name itself took weeks to decide.. Which blogging platform to use? What are the different accounts that we need to create? Where to go take pictures? Who brings home the stock? How to design the logo? How to design the site, do I want it in pages or blog posts? How big are the pictures that we want to upload? Do we showcase items with all colours or separate items of different colours as well? Do we want descriptions? Are measurements taken to maximum stretched length? How many pictures to put up on the site? the list of things that needed decisions goes on and on...

It was such a headache for a first launch. The biggest scare occurred when I accidentally deleted the pictures in my memory card where the bulk of the pictures were taken!! I spent a good 6 hours trying all sorts of ways to retrieve the pictures. Thank god for google.. I managed to find a free program to do the recovery. *phew*

That said, I'm really really happy with the way things turned out and how our different skills complemented one another.

Huiqi's our photoshop guru. She claims she doesn't really know much, but I feel that her work is very good and there were certain effects we wanted on the pictures that she didn't know how to do, she went and researched on how to do it and came up with some really good work. (:

(she's so happy in this photo)

Yvonne's the driving force of our group.. She's so full of energy, and is very thorough in her planning so that we don't miss anything out. She's amazing, like.. seriously. She sets agendas for our meeting, writes minutes and creates an excel ss for us to keep everything organised. (:

(another happy photo coz we don't know what we're doing lols)

I'm the IT person LOL. Not IT per se, but I designed and manage the blog entries, created all the random accounts for the widgets that are currently on our site. Anything html-related is my baby.. I sound like a real slacker oops.

(me and my ahlian hair omggg)

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Anyway, so here are a few behind-the-scenes of our photoshoot. (:

fresh-faced and all ready to go!!

me to yvonne: errr... so are we supposed to smile???

checking out the photo.. with my super awesome bf helping out as our photog. (:

yayyyy done with the day's work! (:

That's all the photos i'm going to post for now. 

I'm really excited for our next lauch which should be coming up in the first week of November, just before I fly off to Vietnam. Exciting stuff! :D

You can read Yvonne's thoughts on our first lauch here. And do visit our site ya? 

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