New Perspectives

Hello! It's been a long while... 1 year plus has flown by just like that.

The past year has not been an easy one, life has thrown me up to the sky then down to the pits...

I was on an emotional roller coaster and it was not fun at all.

I'm glad that chapter has ended and I came out stronger. Life will still and always be full of the same things and/or new surprises.

It's really our reactions, the making up of our own stories, blaming our ownselves or others that made us all miserable.

I'm now turning a new page in life, to be mindful, aware of my own emotional triggers and create a space for love and happiness.

~ Bee now has a new outlook in life and her blog. Cheers!

Mood

Cold gray rainy days
Just like the body and soul
It is time to heal...

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.

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.

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

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!

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)

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.

~ Swingtalk

~ 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.

~ Joined 2 more networking sites at Tribe and Ryze where I rarely visit.

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!

~ StumbleUpon

~ 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

Sept
~ Ping.fm
~ Geni - built my family tree. It's cool!

~ Bee thinks it'll be cool to look back at this list in a year or two.