Prologue:
The world didn’t end on 21st Dec and I don’t have any other excuse to skip this post, so here we go!
Start of Rewind:
I welcomed 2012 with a bunch of best friends at leisure cruise outside of Singapore. After New Year, it was time to bid good-bye to Boly, wishing her all the very best for her future. At the same week, I attended Shiyi’s wedding, which was just so full of love. With some persuasion from my sister, I went to Tzu Chi Year End blessing and learnt more about Buddhism. We welcomed the Dragon Year at the later part of the month, as well as celebrating Winson’s Birthday, both publicly and privately.
The Chinese New Year spirit continued until mid February, with few reunion lunches along the way. I also watched Chingay Parade for the first time. At the same month, our office moved from 991 Alexandra to Maple Tree Business City. Feb is always linked with V-Day, and I’m really happy to be celebrating it with him this year. I also got my very first External HDD and stopped burning pictures to DVD.
March was really calm, except for some birthday drinks *cough. I had my first Russian Fine Dining, thanks to Winson. For the first time in my life, I received flowers, too! :D
On April 1st, I pledged my commitment to health by signing away my $2000 to Fitness First – no April fool. Later, we had our first gateway of the year, visiting Kuala Lumpur and Cameron Highlands. Back from holiday, I finished my first 10km run of the year – Run350.
May was filled with good-bye and welcome. We had farewell for Hui Dong, who is going away to Switzerland for work. I welcomed Feli, my cousin from Surabaya, who decided to stay in Singapore for 18 months to learn baking. At the same month, I completed my very first 21km run.
The highlight of June was Mum & Sis’s visit to Singapore for 5 days :D At the same month, I did my first voluntary by bringing children to Jurong Bird Park in June. Right at the end of the month, I submitted my application for Singapore Citizenship.
In the second half of the year, things started to warm-up – Alvin’s Wedding, Steven’s Farewell, 5 KM Shape Run, Paint Ball, Garden by the bay… the most important one was... the addition of Ainsley to our family! She is really adorable :)
Come August, it was time for another farewell. Rina decided to pursue further study at Denmark. Jun, my cousin, and her family came here for visit at the same month. I also attended Zhi Wen and Gisela’s wedding, which are really the wedding of the handsome and the beauty.
There were lots of farewells in Sep – Sumita, Tessie, David, Christine, Ranga. I went to Bali for the first time with my close friends. Back from the trip, I received in-principal approval for my citizenship application. And oh yeah, after 3 years, I got my new toy – iPhone5!
I took 10 days off in October and flew back to hometown to celebrate Dad’s 67th Birthday. It was the last time I used my Indonesian Passport. Back to SG, we had farewell with Adelene, and I also did my first blood donation after many years.
Nov was a month filled with events (32 posts, really?) I got my Singapore Citizenship. I did another Half Marathon Run. I hurt my knee. I attended another CSR event. We were cheated $250 by online travel agent and have to cancel our long awaited Phuket trip. I won first prize – an iPad - during DnD. I bid farewell to Endy and Cass.
I still couldn't believe that Dec had come and go. I completed my Standard Chartered Marathon on 2nd Dec, and was stuck with plaster cast until mid Dec. It was just in time for me to attend the last wedding of the year – WK’s. For the last most precious week, we celebrated Christmas at Ryoma’s place, and New Year at Fendi’s :)
End of Rewind
Epilogue:
It has been a smooth ride this year, maybe a bit too flat for my liking. There were lots of people come and go (count the numbers of farewells!) which gave me the feeling that I'm being dormant. It doesn't mean that I'm unsatisfied with what I'm having right now. I feel really blessed with my loving family, awesome friends, and decent job. I just want to spend sometime doing something new - and this is when the New Year Resolution comes in!
Looking back at the earlier New Year resolutions, I’m proud to mention that I meet 3 of the resolutions (I totally forgot that I ever set the fourth ones)
After one month of real thinking, I decided to commit myself on these two resolutions for next year:
Ending this post with a set of 25 pics for the 25-years old me.
Bye, 2012!
ED
The world didn’t end on 21st Dec and I don’t have any other excuse to skip this post, so here we go!
Start of Rewind:
I welcomed 2012 with a bunch of best friends at leisure cruise outside of Singapore. After New Year, it was time to bid good-bye to Boly, wishing her all the very best for her future. At the same week, I attended Shiyi’s wedding, which was just so full of love. With some persuasion from my sister, I went to Tzu Chi Year End blessing and learnt more about Buddhism. We welcomed the Dragon Year at the later part of the month, as well as celebrating Winson’s Birthday, both publicly and privately.
The Chinese New Year spirit continued until mid February, with few reunion lunches along the way. I also watched Chingay Parade for the first time. At the same month, our office moved from 991 Alexandra to Maple Tree Business City. Feb is always linked with V-Day, and I’m really happy to be celebrating it with him this year. I also got my very first External HDD and stopped burning pictures to DVD.
March was really calm, except for some birthday drinks *cough. I had my first Russian Fine Dining, thanks to Winson. For the first time in my life, I received flowers, too! :D
On April 1st, I pledged my commitment to health by signing away my $2000 to Fitness First – no April fool. Later, we had our first gateway of the year, visiting Kuala Lumpur and Cameron Highlands. Back from holiday, I finished my first 10km run of the year – Run350.
May was filled with good-bye and welcome. We had farewell for Hui Dong, who is going away to Switzerland for work. I welcomed Feli, my cousin from Surabaya, who decided to stay in Singapore for 18 months to learn baking. At the same month, I completed my very first 21km run.
The highlight of June was Mum & Sis’s visit to Singapore for 5 days :D At the same month, I did my first voluntary by bringing children to Jurong Bird Park in June. Right at the end of the month, I submitted my application for Singapore Citizenship.
In the second half of the year, things started to warm-up – Alvin’s Wedding, Steven’s Farewell, 5 KM Shape Run, Paint Ball, Garden by the bay… the most important one was... the addition of Ainsley to our family! She is really adorable :)
Come August, it was time for another farewell. Rina decided to pursue further study at Denmark. Jun, my cousin, and her family came here for visit at the same month. I also attended Zhi Wen and Gisela’s wedding, which are really the wedding of the handsome and the beauty.
There were lots of farewells in Sep – Sumita, Tessie, David, Christine, Ranga. I went to Bali for the first time with my close friends. Back from the trip, I received in-principal approval for my citizenship application. And oh yeah, after 3 years, I got my new toy – iPhone5!
I took 10 days off in October and flew back to hometown to celebrate Dad’s 67th Birthday. It was the last time I used my Indonesian Passport. Back to SG, we had farewell with Adelene, and I also did my first blood donation after many years.
Nov was a month filled with events (32 posts, really?) I got my Singapore Citizenship. I did another Half Marathon Run. I hurt my knee. I attended another CSR event. We were cheated $250 by online travel agent and have to cancel our long awaited Phuket trip. I won first prize – an iPad - during DnD. I bid farewell to Endy and Cass.
I still couldn't believe that Dec had come and go. I completed my Standard Chartered Marathon on 2nd Dec, and was stuck with plaster cast until mid Dec. It was just in time for me to attend the last wedding of the year – WK’s. For the last most precious week, we celebrated Christmas at Ryoma’s place, and New Year at Fendi’s :)
End of Rewind
Epilogue:
It has been a smooth ride this year, maybe a bit too flat for my liking. There were lots of people come and go (count the numbers of farewells!) which gave me the feeling that I'm being dormant. It doesn't mean that I'm unsatisfied with what I'm having right now. I feel really blessed with my loving family, awesome friends, and decent job. I just want to spend sometime doing something new - and this is when the New Year Resolution comes in!
Looking back at the earlier New Year resolutions, I’m proud to mention that I meet 3 of the resolutions (I totally forgot that I ever set the fourth ones)
- Limit my KFC intake to 6 times per year – I used up my quota in June and have to endure half a year without KFC. Talk about perseverance.
- Participate in 21KM run - I finished Sundown and Great Eastern Half Marathons. After my first half marathon, the feeling was so great that I signed-up for the Full Marathon afterwards. I conquered 43.195m this Dec. Don’t ask me how.
- Learn all the countries with their capitals. I did. I really knew all the countries and capital at one point of time in this year. Some knowledge might have evaporated by now, but I’m so much more comfortable with my geography knowledge afterwards.
- I forgot that I ever set a limit to work the max of 5 OTs per month, and hence never track it. I don’t think I meet this anyway. There is a 9 – 10pm call every Wed, which means I already used up the 4 OTs. Well, at least I keep trying.
After one month of real thinking, I decided to commit myself on these two resolutions for next year:
- To start 1 new activity / habit (sounds really vague, but I really need time to think it through)
- To read at least 1 novel per quarter (I started this year with Steve Jobs’ Biography, and I was hardly half done)
Ending this post with a set of 25 pics for the 25-years old me.
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| 2012 - Memory Contained! |
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