I..Am..Back…

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Welllll, I’m back!! After nearly nine months of procastinating (So what’s new?), I’m back to blogging!

It’s my birthday today and I turn 38 (Ouch!) and the past few days I’ve been pondering on myself and what have I achieved! The news is not too good – I am overweight and underpaid and that my firends is not what and where I saw myself in grad school.

So I decided to resseruct this blog and document the following. By the time I hit the big four oh, I want to do the following:

1. Have a much better career than what I currently have

2. Lose roughtly two thirds my current body weight (The target for this is Sept 02 2012)

3. Run at the very minimum a half marathon

So how am I going to achieve this?

For point one I did take a step – I moved away from my previous toxic environment and have joined a new place in a flexible working arrangement. I work from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm on weekdays. So it’s time which will tell if I made the right choice or if I just jumped from the fire to the frying pan!

For point two, from today, I will using the treadmill at home. I am going to start with 20 minutes of walking initially and then move on to 60 (eeks!) minutes eventually. Wish me luck!!

For point three, I’m going to go with the flow. If I manage to achieve point two, three should flow from there….

This blog will help me document whether or not I meet my goals!!

Universal Studios Singapore

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Last Sunday, I took D&P along with my parents who are leaving on Sunday (boo-hoo) to Universal Studios Singapore. My dad was the one who wanted to go there, as he wanted to go on the giant roller-coaster, which unfortunately was still undergoing maintainance! He was soo bummed about that!

Anyway, this was our second time there – the first time in September when my sister and her family were here. Unfortunately that time, we were more interested in talking and chatting rather than go on the rides. So this time, we did go on pretty much all the rides.

I’ll write more about USS rides in detail later, in the meantime enjoy some pictures of the rides and the Waterworld show…


Farmville

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Now that I wrote about Facebook, can games on it be far behind?

When I first got on Facebook, I was not interested in any of the games there. Then after I started getting heaps of invites to games, I started with playing Farmville. This game was the first one I played and am still playing. I also played other such games, but lost interest in it soon.

Farmville, for those who probably live under a rock is a real-time simulation game by Zynga where you manage a virtual farm by plowing, seeding and harvesting crops, animals and trees. This is a very popular game with over 77 million people playing the game across the world every month!

I’m hooked to the game like I said before and although I play it everyday, am I addicted? Well I don’t know, but hope not!!

Facebook

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I came into Facebook quite late – sometime in early 2009 if I remember correctly. I was pretty much against it and was dragged into it kicking and screaming! As you may know, I am an intensely private person, so the idea of having my entire life played put for the world to see seems to be very ugh to me!

Don’t take this as an anti-Facebook rant – far from it. Once I discovered Facebook and what it can do, I was hooked! I reconnected with classmates and friends whom I had probably seen  on the day we collected our class X results, around 20 years back and it was great to be a part of their lives, albeit through Facebook. Unlike some people, I am very discerning about whom I ‘friend’. I need to know who this person is and also check for mutual friends before I ‘accept’ their friends request. Sometimes without a photo, I have rejected requests only to find out later that I do know them after all – and then go and give them a friend request!

But seriously how many friends are you really in touch on Facebook? I would say there are about less than 10 that I regularly send messages or write on walls. There would be another 20 odd with whom I have sporadic conversations. The rest are either work related friends (and I use the term very loosely here) with whom there would be interactions perhaps a couple of times a year or school/college/previous workplace friends who’ve friended me and whom I’ve accepted as a friend just because I know them. Other than an initial chat when we first reconnected, there’s nothing to talk!

So how many ‘friends’ do you have on Facebook and to how many so you regularly and really talk to?

Here’s a real funny video about what would happen if Facebook happened in real life!

Primary 2 – Term 1 – Week 2

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Ok, I had written this yesterday and tried uploading it through my phone, but it didn’t go through! Now the WordPress app is giving me grief – guess I’ll have to delete it and reinstall it….

Week 2 was nothing to write about. The children are just settling down and getting to the business of studying. They had their first spelling test last week and both D&P got 9/10. Sigh! I expected perfect scores from both as they knew all the spellings!!

D has a bad cough today which was diagnosed as bronchitis by the doctor. She’s on a two day medical leave and a week off from PE. She just didnt want to stay at home today and had to be persuaded to stay back as the school would send her back home if she did go to school (that was my argument). We’ve decided to check again tonight to see if she can go back tomorrow. Since D was not going to school today, P also decided he was not going too! He argument was that there wont be anyone to sit with him in the bus coming back home!!