a new year!
January 1st 2013 is ending but it is not too late to sum up the things I am grateful for for 2012...
1) The opportunity to celebrate the new year (2012) in Taipei with some of my cousins. An awesome holiday...
2) Lunar New Year: a time spent with both maternal and paternal family with feasting
3) The colleagues I met in Rhodia and now, a new opportunity in a new company.
4) My niece and nephew, the terror and smelly baby, who spent 2 months with my family along with my 2nd sis... I missed them and wished they are back...
5)My darling pineapples, who despite our busy schedules, still make the effort to meet up regularly, and motivate each other in life, relationships and exercise...
6) A chance to go for a short weekend getaway with my two fellow guides buddies, the three musketeers(?!). We are usually joined at the hips during guides, despite being in different patrols and positions. We finally had a holiday together, even though it was to Bintan and not Spain (after like 9 years since we graduated from STC?)
7) Another tribute to my alma mater STC, to which I went back for some alumni event to see how the school looked like, and met with fellow schoolmates. No matter how we don't like our schools, it is still a place where we forge everlasting friendship and a place that held fond memories. If not for STC, I will never meet my pineapples, and be part of the Three Musketeers.
8) Threesomes! Sara and Lik... Without them, my whatsapp groups are not so scandalous sounding... I'm glad Sara could fly back to Singapore for a holiday from the ulu cold faraway place country known as Canada... Had an awesome birthday playing tourists...
9) How can I forget my Divas from poly? May we take part in more picnics and runs in 2013!
10) The foreign workers here in Singapore. I don't care what those bigoted Singaporeans say.. I am grateful that you guys are here making our lives better by doing the jobs we do not want... I know many of you did not choose these jobs but thanks anyway for keeping our streets clean, constructing our buildings where we live work and play and service (even if not all of you are that fanstatic, but as the hokkiens say: mai hiam buay pai)
11) My government, who despite not making all very good sound decisions (to each our own opinions), we are not in the state of despair like some developed countries facing very bad financial crisis. They do deserve some thanks as no matter what people say, it is not easy being the top guys (although they have plenty of minions)... My country is not in the reds and I have my basic needs provided for.
12) Last but not least, God and my family. Without them, what is 2012 and 2013?!
mich..
11:57 pm
