Cold gray rainy days
Just like the body and soul
It is time to heal...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
25 things you may or may not know about me
Tagged by Mona, so here goes the list:
1. I'm a lefty - but only for writing and brushing my teeth.
2. I like collecting magnets of cities I travel to.
3. Married to my high school sweetheart, have known each other since 1991
4. Introverted
5. I'm more talkative online than offline
6. Never use a computer until I was in college studying computer science.
7. Not really a geek
8. I'm a Malaysian citizen, currently living and working in Singapore.
9. Lived in Aberdeen, Scotland for 3 months in 2000 where I worked part-time (and illegally) as a waitress.
10. People always say I'm nice, but I can also be a bitch. Oh yes, I do have a temper.
11. I'm addicted to lindy hop. Less dancing nowadays but I still LOVE it.
12. Since the birth of my son, I understand what is unconditional love.
13. Everyday, when I switched on my computer, the tabs on my browser are: meebo, gmail, friendfeed and facebook. In that order.
14. Spending more time on FF than FB nowadays. I love FF and the community here :)
15. I also have the "Hitchhiker's Thumb".
16. Bought the Lord of the Rings books years ago, and I've only read less than half of the first book. But I've liked the LOTR Trilogy movies.
17. Backpacked on my own for about 1.5 months in Sweden and Norway in the summer of 2004.
18. I don't really like playing computer games, I find it can be stressful => Have never owned or played PSP, xbox or Wii
19. First computer game I ever played was the Space Invaders.
20. The other games which I can remember are: Pacman, Super Mario, Sims City, Puzzle Bobble, Snake, Tetris, Minesweeper, 2nd Life, There, Scrabulous.
21. I love good food, music, travel and taking photos.
22. I know 3 languages: English, Malay and Chinese. Can also speak Hokkien (a chinese dialect), understand Cantonese but can't speak well. Just started my Japanese class last week.
23. I am a Buddhist.
24. I don't like wearing make up and rarely wear high heels.
25. Life is short and unpredictable... I try to be in the moment and appreciate the day.
1. I'm a lefty - but only for writing and brushing my teeth.
2. I like collecting magnets of cities I travel to.
3. Married to my high school sweetheart, have known each other since 1991
4. Introverted
5. I'm more talkative online than offline
6. Never use a computer until I was in college studying computer science.
7. Not really a geek
8. I'm a Malaysian citizen, currently living and working in Singapore.
9. Lived in Aberdeen, Scotland for 3 months in 2000 where I worked part-time (and illegally) as a waitress.
10. People always say I'm nice, but I can also be a bitch. Oh yes, I do have a temper.
11. I'm addicted to lindy hop. Less dancing nowadays but I still LOVE it.
12. Since the birth of my son, I understand what is unconditional love.
13. Everyday, when I switched on my computer, the tabs on my browser are: meebo, gmail, friendfeed and facebook. In that order.
14. Spending more time on FF than FB nowadays. I love FF and the community here :)
15. I also have the "Hitchhiker's Thumb".
16. Bought the Lord of the Rings books years ago, and I've only read less than half of the first book. But I've liked the LOTR Trilogy movies.
17. Backpacked on my own for about 1.5 months in Sweden and Norway in the summer of 2004.
18. I don't really like playing computer games, I find it can be stressful => Have never owned or played PSP, xbox or Wii
19. First computer game I ever played was the Space Invaders.
20. The other games which I can remember are: Pacman, Super Mario, Sims City, Puzzle Bobble, Snake, Tetris, Minesweeper, 2nd Life, There, Scrabulous.
21. I love good food, music, travel and taking photos.
22. I know 3 languages: English, Malay and Chinese. Can also speak Hokkien (a chinese dialect), understand Cantonese but can't speak well. Just started my Japanese class last week.
23. I am a Buddhist.
24. I don't like wearing make up and rarely wear high heels.
25. Life is short and unpredictable... I try to be in the moment and appreciate the day.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
2009 Ahead
Happy today!! And I'm going on a much needed date with hubby this afternoon without the kiddo.
May all of you be happy and all the best for 2009.
Happy New Year! Dance Away!
~ Bee will have a quiet night at home with family.
May all of you be happy and all the best for 2009.
Happy New Year! Dance Away!
~ Bee will have a quiet night at home with family.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Resolutions
Every December, it always dawn on me that time waits for no one. It felt just like yesterday when there're Christmas decorations everywhere.
This makes me think about what I've done this year. Let's see...
~ I'm glad we took a family holiday with my parents and sisters to UK. It's my first ever long-distance travel with them in my adult life. It's been great for the bonding and we had good fun. Oh, and not forgetting my first experience with snow.
~ Raising the kid is bumpy & emotional but rewarding. He's teaching us all about life and parenting. I love him lots.
~ As for personal growth, teaching (lindy hop) has pushed me out of my comfort zone. Really, teaching dance is totally a different ball game from dancing itself. I am proud of my accomplishment. Anyway, I'm still learning to better myself as a teacher. All I need is love for the dance, time, experience and perseverance.
~ Work wise, it's been a mediocre year with a little pay raise, still better than none though.
At a social gathering last weekend, there's been a discussion on the NEW things we're going to do in 2009. Here goes mine:
1. Learn Japanese & Photography
2. Be healthy: Eat healthily and exercise!
3. Cook more, especially for ZX
4. Study and practice Buddhism
5. Be humble and patient
There, you have the "resolutions" list. And I hereby giving you (the readers) permission to knock my head/kick my a** if I procrastinate or not following. Heh!
~ Bee will start NOW
This makes me think about what I've done this year. Let's see...
~ I'm glad we took a family holiday with my parents and sisters to UK. It's my first ever long-distance travel with them in my adult life. It's been great for the bonding and we had good fun. Oh, and not forgetting my first experience with snow.
~ Raising the kid is bumpy & emotional but rewarding. He's teaching us all about life and parenting. I love him lots.
~ As for personal growth, teaching (lindy hop) has pushed me out of my comfort zone. Really, teaching dance is totally a different ball game from dancing itself. I am proud of my accomplishment. Anyway, I'm still learning to better myself as a teacher. All I need is love for the dance, time, experience and perseverance.
~ Work wise, it's been a mediocre year with a little pay raise, still better than none though.
At a social gathering last weekend, there's been a discussion on the NEW things we're going to do in 2009. Here goes mine:
1. Learn Japanese & Photography
2. Be healthy: Eat healthily and exercise!
3. Cook more, especially for ZX
4. Study and practice Buddhism
5. Be humble and patient
There, you have the "resolutions" list. And I hereby giving you (the readers) permission to knock my head/kick my a** if I procrastinate or not following. Heh!
~ Bee will start NOW
Friday, November 14, 2008
Eric the Half a Bee
My "Penguin Eater" friend AL, dedicated this song to me. Just wanna share this cool song with my dear readers. :)
p/s: AL, thanks for the playlist too, lovely swingy music. Whee!
p/s: AL, thanks for the playlist too, lovely swingy music. Whee!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Carpool Confidential
Jessica Benson is funny and she's making me turn the pages of her book.
For all my mommy friends, if you're interested in mom lit. This is one book you can pick up.
~ Bee is older today. She's gotten a lot of wishes but none from her sisters (yet... I hope)
For all my mommy friends, if you're interested in mom lit. This is one book you can pick up.
~ Bee is older today. She's gotten a lot of wishes but none from her sisters (yet... I hope)
Monday, September 15, 2008
11 years of Webscapades
Found the information from my archive and my memory, so might have mixed the years up.
1997 : Yahoo Mail, Hotmail
1998 : Yahoo Messenger
2001 : ICQ
2001/2 : Trillian
2002 Nov : pbase.com. Photos are still there and still got visits, even though not many.
2002/3:
It's all about the swing forums!
~ Chatterbugs - it's under maintenance, or dead. But well, we're all communicating through Facebook nowadays.
~ Yehoodi
2003:
~ Found Adam on smilezone and he's been a friend since. *wave*
~ Kazaa
2004:
Feb : Orkut - checking once in a blue moon
June : Plaxo - used mainly for my address book, sometimes Pulse
Sep :
~ Multiply - I think I only logged in twice, once when I was creating an account and today.
~ Napster
~ Grouper (now it's Crackle.com)
Oct :
~ Couldn't believe I had played this RPG game at Kingdomofloathing.com, because I don't think I'm a true geek. I thought my friends were talking about "Dinner & Dance" when they told me about DnD. Duh! Anyway, I think this account of mine has been deactivated. Got the bad password message.
~ Started this blog of mine, to write, share myself and vent.
~ Hello for photo sharing, it's been shut down.
~ Flickr: I still love it to this day :)
Nov:
~ Pretended to be someone else for a few months in 2nd life and There. I wonder if I'm still alive in those two places.
2005:
Feb : started using Bloglines for my readings.
April : LinkedIn
June : Feedburner
Aug : Plazes and Statcounter
Sep : Yahoo Music Unlimited (now Rhapsody) which I used for 2 years and decided it's not worth my $ anymore.
Oct - Writely, now it's Google Docs
2006:
This is the year I wasn't that adventurous online as I was busy with life - my wedding, big project at work and preparing for my first born. It's only in October that I signed up at ebay and paypal. Hmmm, I guess I needed to buy stuff for the baby then.
2007:
March
~ Facebook! Whee! It's great that I found many of my long lost RL friends here. And I don't mind the new outlook it's gotten lately.
~ Google Reader : swapped Bloglines with this.
April : Picasa, I like the photo editing tools, it's so much simpler than Photoshop :P
June : Google Notebook and Soundpedia.
Oct : meebo
2008:
Jan
~ Globalpandora too bad it's STILL slowly coming back to us the outside of the US peeps.
~ Amazon - used it to buy some cool jazz CDs
April
~ FriendFeed!!! On my, I've been addicted for 5 months now?! :P
~ Last.fm - only listen to its radios
May
~ Songza
~ Seeqpod - it's pretty fast here and I get to listen to the whole song. Good!
~ Google sites
~ Youtube - still haven't come around to upload any of my clips. Boo me!
June : Twitter is for me to blather random stuff to friendfeed
July : Plurk - don't quite like it.
August
~ NoiseRiver for friendfeed
~ Rejaw
~ NoiseRiver for friendfeed
~ Rejaw
~ Bee thinks it'll be cool to look back at this list in a year or two.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Teacherbug
Yesterday was my first ever attempt at teaching, in a class environment. Sorry to say that I actually missed the first class which started last Thursday because I was down with cold.
Lindy Hop is what I'm teaching, a dance I've loved since my very first class as a student, that was in Oct 2001. Thanks to the non-availability of space for followers in the salsa class then. Fate! :D
Was a nervous wreck before the class started, but am lucky to have an experience teacher as my partner in class. So, both the classes have gone well, I relaxed after a while. Anyway still need to work on articulating the important points and moves. Well, I guess it all comes down to experience, both dancing and teaching.
~ Bee will build her teaching experience over time
Lindy Hop is what I'm teaching, a dance I've loved since my very first class as a student, that was in Oct 2001. Thanks to the non-availability of space for followers in the salsa class then. Fate! :D
Was a nervous wreck before the class started, but am lucky to have an experience teacher as my partner in class. So, both the classes have gone well, I relaxed after a while. Anyway still need to work on articulating the important points and moves. Well, I guess it all comes down to experience, both dancing and teaching.
~ Bee will build her teaching experience over time
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