My bad. It was a long hiatus since my last post in Oct. Here's whereever i was....
The year just ended with a fabulous note with Ken Yuen's wedding on 31st Dec, where all the RBBs are back from Sydney. Fabulous wedding - what a great way to cheer up and summarised my 2008 that juz whiff by.
My 2008:
2008 was the year of repositioning and changes. I cant decide if it was a good year or not, but if its from the Lord, it cant be bad. He doesnt promise bed of roses..but i believe every step He asked us to heed, be it a comfortable move or a challenging one, it was His intention to prune us. Amen. He did.
Changed my job, travelings reduced a little, fabulous new people I met at my new job. Just one concern..if I am heeding my initial career goal. Till now, I am still confused. My heart is still with the exhibitions & conference industry. I still have a back of bourke of journey in my career, and I dont wanna juz jump into lecturing coz then I will miss out my passion in the industry. awww...confused (".")
July @ Sydney:
http://chubsie.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/day-01-chubs-in-sydney-040708/
Oh well, then it comes to July where I had about 10 days off in Sydney for Hillsong Conference. Of coz, I crashed with V'jack my lovely brother. haa. cant believe i used the word "lovely" yeeeeks. Those were good times, tho we meet each other like once a year, the kindship is still ever that close. And that applies to the rest of the RBBs. I whipped up steamboat dinner with chicken stock and tom yum flavours and Eizac, Marcus, Rai came over to Jack's place to have dinner. Hmmm..so long since i cooked for them :) A sense of achievement. I never wanna leave Sydney bcoz of the lovely place, the lovely people, my alter ego family. Had long walks, shopping, roaming, drinking and had yum cha with Jack. Nice. Like old times, we were always chilling out spending time just chatting. of coz we have a lot to talk about, havent met him for a year! haha. oh anyways...even if i hadnt seen him for juz 3 hours, we will yak non stop. This is where Lio will be stoked and asked us to shuddup. bah! =D
The 10 days were spent...of coz at the conference and church, fab conferece it was. Enriching and the presence of Big Man was just overwhelming. I have already bought my conference pass for 2009 =D
It was amazing. With 24k people at Sydney Show Ground at any one time walking around from plenary service to break out session or the fringe activities, the crowd mangement was to be applauded. Everything was done in an orderly manner and not like how we cramped around the show ground during Easter Shows. Everything was amazing. We skipped lunch a couple days coz we attended the lunch session talks as well. The only day i had lunch was the last day where the session was filled up, and i just wanted to laze around under the winter sun and have my yummy thai chilli chicken wraps.
Other than spending most of my time at Hillsong, I had to make a trip back to UNSW for a meeting and just wanna roam around..spending some quiet and good old moments with my alma mata. Cant miss my fav caramel latte at the coffee carts. Law building has got its own building now. wow..so nice. I used to have classes in that dodgy smelling law rooms in library hehe. But..i love my library. So old school and the smell of old books reeks MOTIVATION haha. Ace! haha.
Met up with the girls, MJ and Flin on separate occassion. MJ's princess Eva is such a lovely girl. Chubby hehe. Feel like pinching her whenever i held her hehe. Lio and me had brekkie with MJ and hubby at Maroubra. Flin and Mr Tan arranged to have supper at Circular Quay with me after my conference and I shopped with Flin at Paddington's and followed by lunch at Lowenbrau where Mr Tan also joined us. They looked a fab couple together =D
Kev AD came to have dinner with me on my last night in Sydney where I checked into Marriott. Jack went to port Douglas for some incentive trip so Dad booked me into Marriott. Hmm...gorgeous. Dad was sweet..it was a business suite. Nice. Lying on my bed, i could see the gorgeous opera house out of the window, and it looks like a potrait framed up on the room wall. Kev brought me to this brussel mussels place..cant remember the name but it had a LONG list of reservation. But we got lucky, they called us up and said our table was ready after 20 minutes. =D Dinner was great. We took a walk around Opera House, it was a lovely night. Mmm...beautiful nite.
Left Sydney the next arvo, Kev AD came to pick me up and send me to the airport. Ciao for now Sydney. Will be back in 12 months =D
Aug ~ Nov @ All over
Bz Bz Bz...i didnt even know what i was doing. haha. Working of coz. Other than that..hmmm...let me thinkg *ponders 3 hours* yar..seriously cant think of anything quality except from burying myself in aimless work.
Made a couple of trips, Bangkok, Hua Hin, Bali. Barce was cancelled last minute so that I could be in Singapore for some meetings. A very short Hua Hin Getaway was indeed refreshing. I did no travelings except to juz laze around, chill at the pool, roam around the night market, stuffed my stomach with the local yummies, and intending to add a new ink haha. JB crashed on my business trip as well coz he wanted time out out his work. We made new frens there, some ang mos, some locals. There were a fun bunch. And i actually sat by the roadside with the tatt guys and had whiskey. haha. oh man..you wont find me doing this on a 2nd again!! Unglam. haha.
Holidays over and its back to working life. Bali was great. We were there for about 8 days to run an incentive program. Bali has its exquisite culture. It's almost like having their own culture and not much resembles Jakarta, Medan, etc. Of coz we were worried about the bomb scare coz the 2 jokers who were responsibled in the Bali bomb in 2002 were executed when were there. Judy and me didnt even dared to roam in the evening. We basically ran out had quick lunch where not many ang mo frequent, grab our shoppings...and dashed back with Cathy Freeman's speed back to Hard Rock Cafe Hotel before sun sets. Amazing.... haha. It was scorching hot there! And i turned darker. yeww.
And...to top it all. Here's my best way to end 2008. haha. Self Explanatory.
::Top 100 things to do before God's calls me home: Checked. ::
(more pics of everything updated on FB)
