“The greatest wealth is to live content with little"

Life has been pretty much the same for the past weeks. But was much busier since the grandfather was admitted to TTSH due to a viral infection which kinda spreaded to the rest of this facial veins and caused him to have frequent headaches, crooked mouth and his eyes can no longer close properly when he sleeps. But the good thing is he's all discharged and back to M'sia now. Will be undergoing op on Monday to get the virus out. Hope he will be well by CNY!

So the other day we had a team lunch cum pre farewell for our dearest team leader who will be going for her maternity leave! We headed to Da Paolo at Battery Road for lunch! I had a sandwich while the rest had pasta. HAHA, always being different. 

This was only 1/2 of it! I couldn't even finish the whole thing by myself. Wasted the sandwich somehow!

On Saturday, the girls (ling and LYY) & myself went down to Real Yoga @ Jurong for the 1st Hot Yoga Trial tgt! So thankful these girls are being sportenous enough to try out a new sport together! 

We had a good stretching and sweating out for an hr, headed for breakfast then to JEM with ling while LYY had to leave for some sch matters!

Accompanied her for some xmas shopping for Bern! She had decided on a shaver for his xmas and some Muji xmas shopping too! Then we headed over to Paris Bagette to rest our tired legs!

Love bread and pastries which is somehow not a good thing. Sometimes, i can just hv bread whole day and not a proper meal and my mom will be nagging me so badly at this cause its super unhealthy.

On Friday night, met up with the bff, Steph over at my place! Packed some salad,drinks and we sat by my house pool to share some thoughts and caught up with each other!

Some random snaps of IG

On Monday, I had a dinner appt with the girls (tiff, A & G) aft work at Paul, Takashimaya!

So glad we finally managed to squeeze out time to meet up! It was a good session of bitching, gossips, nonsense and sharing and catching up. Though time seemed to pass by with a snap but i truly enjoyed their company. I am looking fwd to us making more time together again!

The Mommy in our group, A, made us this bodyscrub for xmas gifts! :) Such a sweet thought!

Paul is known for their desserts however I'd say there are def better desserts with a more pocket friendly pricing around!

Made a bad decision to go ahead to satisfy my cravings for peanut roll and ended up with a  bad gastric in the evening. I guess it was jus cause I only had that and nth else for lunch :/ Thats what I meant by how I can skip proper meals to eat junk food all the time

Received some christmas loving from the dept head-secretary who's like a mother to take care of us at work. So sweet of her!

Pretty much been sorting out thoughts & resolutions for 2014. I am in the midst of getting them down into words and do up a blogpost for it.

Love,

Rachh

"Siblings are the first playmate and usually a lifetime"

Love the view from my place balcony some times when I am home on a weekend. I get to enjoy snippets of peacefulness just stoning looking up into the clear blue skies. It's a good time to reflect upon my life & self. I usually do during runs but somehow when I hv times like these, these reflections jus came in and I'd start thinking about every single thing in my life till current. 

Dec had def started off VERY busy. I was just back from a trip, ran my first half marathon in my life and back to work with a terribly sore body on Monday. Cleared most of my work and the work week continues. Somehow getting use to no one beside me and talking to me from time to time. G's officially left the company. Kinda still missing how we used to share a desk together but those were good old days worth remembering. I am meeting her next week for a good session of drinks! Looking fwd!

Well, just recently, some incidents had made me learnt grealty abt life & family. And how I am more determined to kick away my bad temper and to be an even better sister to my siblings and daughter to my mom. Kinda still in the midst of change but i pray for strength to keep me going thru the rough times and of course to push me further. Life has alot more chances for us to really cherish our family so we shld do it when we have the chance. Not regretting in the end. In 2014, i am determined to kick have kicked that bad temper away. Maybe this serves as a good change for myself to be an even better player at work, friend and partner to my unknown future partner. 2013 had been a good learning journey. I learnt alot both at work, family and abt life. I will bring these with me to embark in my 2014 journey well. 

Lots of work on still but not giving up yet.

As for now, i am indulging myself in this festive mood!

Love,

Rachh

"Goodbye is not forever, life has endless possibilities"

Back from the very well-deserved break! So thankful to be able to make it for this trip with the family (excluding my parents). Learning to appreciate every single thing in life better.

It was a good 7D6N getaway to Seoul, a bustling city (other than the COLD), there's no other reason not to love Seoul! I shall blog more about that some other time when I can draft out a better post of the holidays.

Sometimes I think practising thankfulness in life indeed is important. You receive those thankfulness in different forms. G is one of the angels that I believe was sent to love me more. Knowing that I've serious anemia, she prep this blue box filled with colors, rich in vitamins and of course filled with brims of love for me. I def love it (other than the aftertaste of grapefruit). 

She has left the company and well, I'd say this is another journey for us to begin with; embarking on a new form of friendship tgt. 

Being back never fails to make me get a cuppa from my fav trad coffee chain.

Very thankful that my family loves me just as much and can't be more thankful that they have been around me this whole year; when I was gg thru shit. And of course sharing my joy during my convo this year. Thankful to the bro-in-law for the early Christmas gift :D

Every year, I'd set out to achieve something different from the prev year. This year was no exception. I made it for my first 21KM in 3hrs without stopping. Despite the damn slopes, I continued slow-jogging. It was a good exp for myself to push past my limits. I think I could easily do a 8KM run now on a weekly basis. Hehehe.

Proud of my silver badge :DD

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It's the month of love, joy and giving! Gonna spend the last month of the year well and party hard with my friends to end 2013 with a big bang! I am thankful to every single angels in my life; family, friends and everyone else. Couldn't hv made it so far without their blessings and support.

New resolutions next year calls for me to be someone better.

I reckon a solo backpacking trip to Tasmania or Sydney next year so I could better learn and see the world. I wanna go around and learn the cultures, eat the food, talk to people, know more and just experience a life in their country. Aiming to be travelling in August!

Sometimes, we need to take the leap of faith to know how far we can achieve. This year I rcd more than I expected and I am in every single way thankful. The bad brought out the better of me, the good builds me to being even better and of course, thats what life is about; happiness and sorrow. When you have experienced them, only will you know how simple happiness can be :)

Love,

Rachh