Bye bye 2011! Welcome 2012!

Didn’t realize that I didn’t set any resolutions “last” year. Only found the Recaps of 2010.

Alright, I should start the year of 2012 with some good SMART resolutions.

1) To clear all my credit card debts
2) Save enough for a trip to Australia or Germany
3) Move into our new house and set up our “home”
4) Pick up cooking skill and to cook every Sunday evening for daughter and husband
5) Not to be too late to work
6) To learn the skill of being a Business Analyst
7) Attend photography classes to take better pictures
8 ) Resume MBA classes, take up at least 1 module
9) Keeps blogging
10) Try to “produce” a brother or sister for Elise

Summary of 2011

1) Feel challenged for started a new role as Business Analyst in Jobstreet.com

2) Surprise Elise won mysimplifieds.com Cute Baby Contest

3) Blessed for Elise’s first birthday

4) Excited as Elise started her Right Brain development classes in HEGL.

5) Bought our first house together – a landed single storey house at Taman Tenaga, Cheras for RM370k

6) Sad that Steve Jobs passed away

7) Bought my Canon D60 – main purpose is to capture good pictures at Japan

Had a wonderful holiday at Japan with husband

9) Elise had fever fits, being admitted to hospital. Papa and I stayed with her for 4 days 3 nights at Pantai Cheras.

As a mother, I don’t see myself accomplished much in 2011 except that I have brought up my child up to the age of 1 year and 2 months old. She is super active, playful and naughty. She got admitted to hospital due to fever fits and I should be responsible for that because of my careless and ignorance on handling a fever child.
As a wife, I think I have failed, at least I am getting much more complaints than compliments from him. Wait…don’t think so I got compliment. To delivery our baby was a 2010 achievement!
Can’t bother much about how well I am doing as a daughter or sister in law. I tried my best.

Didn’t update blog much, don’t have a lot of time especially when Elise is around. Work isn’t as stable. My role will be changed soon, I hope to a better one, can’t tell now…

Looking forward, really hope that we will move into the new house smoothly and get to do some renovation, to have a better environment and growing space for our daughter. Will still try for a dragon baby and hopefully it’s another year of my biggest achievement too.

I really don’t wish 2012 is the ending of the world as everyone is speculating. There are still a lot more that I wish to do and experience in my life.

Preparing my Recaps of 2011, which I have been doing for the past years.
Mood now may not be the best to recall things objectively, had some arguments with hubby.
Will still try to rub away tears and see future.

May the year of 2012 bring my family and I best of health, lucks and if possible, give me some wealth to overcome my never-ending financial issue

Bye bye 2011, you serves us not too well, but you will still be missed and remembered. Thank you anyway.

Unfortunately I don’t believe 2012 will be the end of the world.
Thus, we still have to prepare for a better 2012.
2012, is time for me to do a lot of corrections, on what I have done wrong in 2011.

I realised, me myself is no longer just myself, I finally feel it now.
Who am I?
- a wife
- a mother
- a daughter
- a sister
- an employee
- a daughter in law
- a friend

Looking at myself in term of each of the above position, I ain’t doing good in 2011. Not at all, at least my daughter had been admitted to hospital, and I would admit it was partially my fault.
It is definitely a failure in being a wife, because my husband has been complaining every now and then.
I am not a good daughter because I can’t even afford a trip with my parents after so long pledging to do that.
I am also not a good sister because I am still too coward to concern over her.
I am definitely not a good daughter in law because I am still protecting my own family, rather than being sacrificing.
I am not a good friend because I have neglected a lot of friends. Feeling myself started to lost a lot of them.

How should i start to make these corrections?
2012 in just 20 days…it’s time to review, and correct myself.

My undying obsession with Chilam…
This picture looks extremely interesting…
And oh yeh, i subscribed to his weibo here, http://weibo.com/chilamcheung

Registered the right brain development course for Elise.

Not sure if she will able to focus and cooperate during the lessons but we’ll try our best. Didn’t thought we would enroll that soon but i think it’s fated because we just happened to ask the question about brain development to Phinie and she told us her daughter is already attending the lessons.

RM450 per month, affordable but what I don’t like is that there isn’t any replacement class. Missed class means money flies…

To dream that you are attending a funeral for a still-living parent, suggests that you need to separate yourself from your parent’s restrictions and confines. The symbolic death may give you the courage you need to take the next step toward your independence and autonomy.

Ongki says:
i got call from home
mom’s home
when picked up, only hear my mom talking with my aunt
guess my aunt at home
the question is, who made the call
MUST BE ELISE!
oh dear
i miss her
Chin Hock says:
lol

1) Reduce weight – From current 70kg to 65kg
Achievable. I have 7 months to reduce 5 kg.
Strategy is :-
- take breakfast
- no rice
- no portion more than just 1 Small

2) Save money – at least 5k
Achievable. 7 months, 1k per month, starting April.
Strategy is:-
- no spending anymore!
- adjust the allocation wisely

3) Take good pictures – with my DSLR
Not sure if this is achievable. Important but maybe not urgent.
Has to get a good wide angle lens but the price is like… RM2k++.
Strategy:-
- enroll in some photography classes

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
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Am I overboard with this trying to be friendly intro?

Hi Jobstreetors,

I am Elaine Ong Lea Szu, please call me Elaine. I am married with a baby of 5 months old. That’s why the biggest challenge working in JS is to wake up at 7am, after a tiring night taking care of that little monster.  I came by LRT and I must have my every morning coffee to stay awake.

I speak excellently fluent Cantonese, ok ok English, out of tune Mandarin, good Hakka and teruk Malay.

I used to work as a PHP developer, ranging from travel, ecommerce, multi-level marketing to ERP related software house. I read PHP codes more than newspaper, but unfortunately no ASP experience. My role in JS will be as a business analyst and I am so looking forward to this challenge.

Please add me to YM at elaine.ongleaszu@yahoo.com or MSN ongkichilam@hotmail.com or gtalk at ongkichilam@gmail.com

I am a very easy-going, conceptual, and spontaneous kind of people. If you are familiar with the Myers Briggs personality analysis, I am the ENFP type, which you can read in detail here http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html. Pretty much described most of me, especially this lines, (ahem)

ENFPs are warm, enthusiastic people, typically very bright and full of potential. They live in the world of possibilities, and can become very passionate and excited about things. Their enthusiasm lends them the ability to inspire and motivate others, more so than we see in other types. They can talk their way in or out of anything. They love life, seeing it as a special gift, and strive to make the most out of it.