Wow!

I am a bit glad that I didn't pursue a career in advertising. When I was taking up majors in college, I was good at coming up with ideas for ad campaigns, but didn't really have the creativity to execute the idea in an eye-catching format. I could come up with a fresh theme, but I I lacked in the skills to further explore and expand that idea. I would get stuck after I had that one idea and couldn't go further. The problem I had then was I kept on considering how the additions would affect the initial concept.

I was browsing around and saw this list with the most creative resumes ever made. The resumes are extremely amazing! If I had passed mine together with any of those, mine would (obviously) be thrown in the trash can.

In need of retail therapy....

My mom is finally home after a few days in the hospital due to a nasty virus called dengue. Dad and I took turns in staying with her at the hospital. And thanks to the papaya leaf extract, tawatawa juice and bak kut soup that Sa-I, Atsi Jeanne, Jing and Jo brought and also the love and prayers coming from everybody else, mom’s platelet count was able to recover quickly. I was so nervous when mom’s platelet count went down to 17 and then further lowering to 14 even after the platelet transfusion. I felt sad when I was beside mom when her head hurt and she was experiencing body chills, it was unexpected, mom never got sick, she’s usually the one taking care of us, esp me, when we got sick.

I wasn’t able to go to Singapore with my HS friends. A little bummed that I wasn’t able to join them and be part of the fun and memories created, but no worries, there’s always next year. :)

Atsi B’s wedding is less than 3 months away, and I have yet to lose the weight that I promised to lose a few months back. I think I gained weight instead. Waaaah! It's a bit weird actually, I get hungry easily, like when I was at the hospital with my mom, I could eat like every hour, and then weirder still, I ate 2 lunches)2 cups of rice) this one time, which is very unlike me, since I usually eat just a small chunk of rice(maybe equal to 1/3 of a cup of rice) and just enoough ulam to finish the rice. I don't want to go near a weighing scale in the near future. hehehe I will be on a diet to get rid of the excess food I have been consuming lately for a while.

Thinking of buying either a camera or a cellphone. Might go for the camera instead, since mine got stolen at Dragon Gate Restaurant last year and my phone's camera doesn't really take good quality shots for the family photo album, the pictures are great on the phone's screen but when I upload the pics to my computer, there's just too much noise in the images. The camera's am looking at are either the Canon S95 or Panasonic LX5. Price over camera size. Still deciding....

stuff...

Cleaned my closet today, nothing much to clean really, just had to re-pile, re-hang and organize whats been hanging there all along. My fashion sense has changed so little over the past few years. The only major difference between then and now is in the size of the clothes. Style wise, I still go for simplicity and comfort. Just the basics, like jeans, tshirts (with the addition of the staples in business attire). Only recently have I added more elements, mostly lace and ruffles to my wardrobe choices. I still lack the confidence to wear floral prints or other heavy prints though.

Watched Cai Xiao Hu and Zhang Shao Qin's concert at Resorts World last Saturday. It was absolutely great! Reminiscing the old chinese songs my uncles and aunts would sing to at karaoke.

Had a pre-show snack at Parmigiano. Reasonably priced Italian food. Yummy strawberry iced tea!

politics

Have been feeling down the past few days..Emotional ups and downs coming over me sometimes, it could be the stress from the number of transactions or it could be that someone is trying to work their rank in the office and some office politics. I realized that this statement is pretty true, "Some people are real. Some people are fake, but some people are just real good at being fake." I will not stoop to your level. I will use my cool and my wisdom to counter your, can I say schemes? I just want a simple life with no drama. Work is like my second home, I don't want to have to go in somewhere and feel miserable because I don't know who to trust.

Enough about the work week that has just passed. The upcoming weekend is going to be really relaxing. Will be watching Cai Xiao Hu's concert at Resorts World tomorrow night. Won't be able to attend Rain's birthday celebration though. :(

Will try my luck in the kitchen tomorrow....hehehe I bought a pack of tokbogi(is that how its' spelled?) at the Korean grocery last week, will try to cook it tomorrow. I also bought dried seaweed, the type they put in soup in the koreanovelas. Then, I also bought dumplings from one of my clients. Can I put the seaweed and dumplings together into a soup? Wonder what that will taste like.

goals

We're almost halfway through the year, looking back on the resolutions I set during the start of the year. I made 3 promises then, which are:to read more books, to lose weight (and look healthier), to start my applications for masterals. As of now, I've achieved only one, the first. The second, I did ok during the start of the year, and then I gained weight again over the summer. :( waaah Half of the weight gain came from eating all that yummy food in Taiwan. Talk about the salty donuts variant from Mr. Donut, oyster cakes, beef noodles and don't forget milk tea.

We went for our gown measurements this morning for Atsi B's wedding this morning. I need to lose a few inches around my body. Need to start working out and sweating and eating less/healthier. It's just so hot ...hard to get myself up and moving lately.

There's also another thing I need to start working on...my closet. My closet is so full! Its full of clothes I accumulated over the years. I still wear them and most of them still look new, so it's hard to actually dispose of anything. Am figuring out how to clean up and reorganize my closet to make it more efficient and hopefully, still have space just in case I want to add some more stuff. I might need to move some stuff out from the closet, like the bags, gifts I get, toys out to clear out my space. But that would mean, cleaning up not just the closet but the whole room... *gloom*

This clip is inspiring, his space is even smaller than mine, so organizing my room shouldn't be a problem, right? I give myself maybe four weeks. Aja!