Well, New Year’s eve and day itself was quite uneventful. We collected Guan’s Nikon D70 (I sent it for lens cleaning as a gift for him) and had some fun taking photoshoots ๐Ÿ˜€

Zayden and I

Zayden
A rather blurred shot but he looks sooo cute ๐Ÿ˜†

Zayden

Guan and I went up to the top floor of the block to catch the fireworks. But even though he brought his tripod along, the photographs turned our rather disappointing ๐Ÿ˜•

The view
The lovely view

So we decided to do some silly shots ๐Ÿ˜‰

Guan and I

Guan and I

Guan and I

Guan and I

Guan and I

Guan and I

I admit, I don’t look my best here ๐Ÿ˜• (I mean, messy hair and home clothes, need I say more?) but we had fun taking them ๐Ÿ™‚

Guan
One of Guan’s best pose

Now that we have a DSLR to play with, it’s time to take shots of my acrylic calendar! (Well, will do so another day, perhaps.)

Zayden
Zayden is the first (and only) baby I know who sucks his index finger instead of his thumb.

… that I could make my first post of 2010 on the first day, my website’s server had to experience “unrecoverable file system errors and must undergo an emergency restore” (according to my web host). So right now I see a lot of errors on my WordPress dashboard ๐Ÿ˜•

Anyway, I changed my camera picture (see sidebar) ๐Ÿ™‚

Will post a proper new year post once my account is restored! (Which would probably take all night.)

So it has come to another end of another year. This year flew by way too fast.

I still remember on this day last year, I was still working at Loof as a bartender and having a blast after the clock struck 12 because everyone was spraying water at each other with the bar gun after our assistant manager toasted champagne with us into the new year.

Man, I really miss working there ๐Ÿ™

End of 2008
Corin, Zen and I at the end of 2008

Anyway, 2010 will be a great year. Well, I am planning that it’ll be a great year. I have lots of goals and I hope that I can accomplish them. 2009 kind of failed since I didn’t have much goals set up. But next year would be different.

1. Journal diligently – I used to write in my spiral-bound notebooks/sketchbooks almost every other day back when I was in secondary school. Somewhere down the line two years ago, I stopped. Or rather, I wrote rather inconsistently. I was either too tired or my hand cramped way too easily while furiously writing everything down. I realized that it left a huge gap in my memories and a lot of things remained forgotten ๐Ÿ˜•

2. Blog frequently – When I first opened my domain, I blogged religiously everyday. I guess it took a whole lot of my time because the reason why I blogged lesser and lesser was that I felt that blogging took quite a huge amount of time. I guess I like things to be neat and I edit every photo I post here ๐Ÿ˜€ (Hint to Guan: Blog more!)

3. Remember people’s birthdays – I always tried to keep up with everyone’s birthdays. I would be faithful in wishing them a birthday greeting. But by around April, I would tend to forget or the dates kept slipping off my mind. I must really try to keep this in 2010 ๐Ÿ˜†

4. Be more crafty – I stopped designing and coding websites for a couple of years now. I still have no passion in redoing my current theme (Laziness. Still, this current layout is nice). And every since I graduated from school, I stopped doing any crafty thing (aside from scrapbooking recently). I hope that my creative mojo would be back next year.

5. Get involved in communities again – I stopped forum posting when I put most of my online life on hold. It’s time to get back to the good ol’ community and make the connections again ๐Ÿ™‚

6. Brush up on photography – As much as I enjoy photography, I am (as usual) still mediocre. Guan and I got this photography book and it’s all so wordy and full of theory that reading them makes me shudder ๐Ÿ˜ But he said he would help me out so I hope to take better pictures. I’m not sure if I should do the whole 356 photos a year (one a day) but we’ll see how it goes.

7. Finish up that cross-stitch piece that has been sitting uncompleted for the past year – That kind of spoke for itself ๐Ÿ˜†

8. Take up Japanese class – Ever since I was 17, I have signed up for three Japanese classes. And I never completed any of them. It’s about time I completed one, eh? ๐Ÿ˜‰

9. Exercise regularly – Ever since I had to stop my late-night running with Felix, I totally stopped exercising. And I found out that I could no longer do a pull-up ๐Ÿ™ I have to be able to do my usual three pull-ups at one go!

10. Keep things neat and clean – I have been a very messy person since young. Unfortunately, Guan is also a very messy person. My attempts to keep our room dust-free has not been going well so far. Let alone keeping it neat and tidy. I can now understand what my mother has been trying to teach me all these years. (Thank goodness I don’t have my own home yet!)

This isn’t the full list but I thought it would be nice to share 10 things on my list ๐Ÿ™‚ What about yours? (Feel free to link to your blog if you have blogged about it.)

Well, half an hour more to go! ๐Ÿ˜€

Wishing everyone a Merry New Year! May 2010 be a great year for all! ๐Ÿ˜†

Merry New Year!
Merry 2010! From Guan, Zayden Asher and myself ๐Ÿ™‚

So, if anyone remembers the blog train last week, here’s another with the same folks but this time, we’re putting the current answers ๐Ÿ˜‰

My hair colour is… still brown, but darker and copperish-red.
My hair style is… shoulder-length hair tied in a pony tail with a long fringe.
My favourite brand of makeup is… I still don’t wear makeup.
My “fashionable” item is… my hugeass crumpler bag ๐Ÿ˜†
My favourite outfit is… bermudas and tee.
My favourite colour is… still blue! ๐Ÿ™‚
I drive a… I still don’t have a license. I’m hoping to get a motorbike license though.
On a Saturday I go… nowhere. I stay home with Zayden Asher ๐Ÿ™‚
On a Saturday night I go… nowhere unless I’m meeting friends for birthday gatherings.
On a Sunday I go… to church with my family. Then over to my parents’ place.
Monday-Friday I go… nowhere since I’m a SAHM.
My best friend(s) is/are… still Darren.
My favourite place to go out is… the beach.
My favourite subject at school is… I still don’t have a favourite subject at school.
When I grow up I want to be… a bartender. I was and now I’m not ๐Ÿ˜•
My favourite drink is… ice cold Milo.
My favourite food is… still ice cream, as always ๐Ÿ˜‰
My favourite shop is… any crafty and scrapbooking store ๐Ÿ˜†
I want to marry… five years ago. But, hey! I’m married now ๐Ÿ˜€
My favourite actor/actress is… I still don’t have one ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
My favourite band is… Paramore. But I wouldn’t say they’re a favourite favourite, IYKWIM.
My favourite TV programme is… How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Veronica Mars, Heroes, Ugly Betty and Glee!
The one thing I want to do but can’t is… still riding a motorcycle.
My most used mode of transport is a… train, car and bus.
If I had all the money in the world I would… buy a DSLR, a laptop, a surfboard, hop on a plane to USA and take a road trip and start an online business selling scrapbooking and crafting supplies.
I wish I could visit… Hawaii.
My favourite sport is… basketball and canoe polo.
This fall I… fall still doesn’t appear here.
At Halloween I dressed up as… Halloween isn’t really celebrated here.
I recently saw… Up! and thought it was… very, very touching.
I am reading… Fullmetal Alchemist graphic novels.
The big newspaper story this year is… uh, Tiger Woods scandal?
The most dangerous thing I’ve ever done… um, I shall skip this ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
The furthest away from home I’ve ever been is… still Malaysia.

And now, hop on back the train to Laura’s answers ๐Ÿ™‚

It’s December! That means a lot of things. Like 24 more days to Christmas, one month to the new year, 10 days to my mom’s birthday and today’s my dad’s birthday!

Happy Birthday to my awesome dad! ๐Ÿ˜€

And that means this domain is 6 years old! ๐Ÿ™‚ Wow. It has been a really long time…

So… I’m part of the 17 Again blog train started by Kate where I’m supposed to answer the following as though I’m 17 again.

And I didn’t realize until I started answering the questions did I find out that I don’t have a photo of myself when I was 17 ๐Ÿ˜• The earliest digital photograph I could dig out from my hard drive was when I was 18 so I guess that photo will have to do (I look the same then, anyway.)

And so, here’s taking you back to 2002:

My hair colour is… brown.
My hair style is… long hair tied in a pony tail with a bit of long fringe.
My favourite brand of makeup is… I don’t wear makeup.
My “fashionable” item is… not really into fashion.
My favourite outfit is… baggy tees and three-quarter pants with skateboarding shoes.
My favourite colour is… blue! ๐Ÿ™‚
I drive a… I don’t have a license. Then again, I need to be at least 18 to attempt to get one.
On a Saturday I go… and meet my church friends.
On a Saturday night I go… to church, then to play pool/snooker.
On a Sunday I go… nowhere unless I’ve got plans.
Monday-Friday I go… to school.
My best friend(s) is/are… Darren.
My favourite place to go out is… town, I guess.
My favourite subject at school is… I don’t have a favourite subject at school.
When I grow up I want to be… I’m not quite sure just yet.
My favourite drink is… uh… Pepsi?
My favourite food is… ice cream, as always ๐Ÿ˜‰
My favourite shop is… I don’t really shop much.
I want to marry… when I turn 19.
My favourite actor/actress is… I somehow like Claire Danes a lot but wouldn’t say she’s a favourite.
My favourite band is… uh, not a bad but I like Avril Lavigne ๐Ÿ˜€
My favourite TV programme is… Roswell hands down!!! ๐Ÿ™‚
The one thing I want to do but can’t is… ride a motorcycle.
My most used mode of transport is a… train.
If I had all the money in the world I would… buy a Nokia 7250, a digital camera, a laptop, hop on a plane to USA and take a road trip, making sure to buy a board and surf!
I wish I could visit… Hawaii.
My favourite sport is… basketball.
This fall I… fall doesn’t appear here.
At Halloween I dressed up as… Halloween isn’t celebrated here as well.
I recently saw… Lilo & Stitch and thought it was… awesome!
I am reading… Roswell series.
The big newspaper story this year is… uh, I don’t really read the papers ๐Ÿ˜•
The most dangerous thing I’ve ever done… I don’t think I’ve done anything dangerous.
The furthest away from home I’ve ever been is… Malaysia, and that was four years ago, and I went with my family.
And I look like this…

Elisia and I
Elisia and I at her 18th birthday

After reading the above, you must probably think what a boring person I am! ๐Ÿ™ But this is only because I really can’t remember much when I was 17. I could go through my journal and read the entries again but it’s somewhere in some hidden corner of the room ๐Ÿ˜† Hope you got to know me a bit better with my past questionnaire ๐Ÿ˜‰

And now, taking you even further back into time to 1984, check out Laura‘s meme when she was 17 ๐Ÿ™‚