2012 breaks yet
another record for this blog – an all-time low number of posts, 56 including
this. I guess as the girls grow older,
there are fewer things to blog about. Another
reason is probably blogging fatigue, as things that I deemed blogworthy in the
past doesn’t seem so now.
We started the year
with a significant event – Yiu Yiu entering formal schooling. She adapted well to school, though she didn’t
do too well in her final exams. She also
took up gymrama as part of her co-curricular activities. Then, she achieved another milestone with the loss of her first milk teeth, which had to be extracted as her permanent teeth
were already cutting through her gum. It
took almost a year before she lost the next tooth, her upper incisor which
dropped out on Christmas Day. Another significant
event for Yiu Yiu this year was becoming a 四眼妹 (four-eyed girl). Speaking of which, I did not see her
putting on her spectacles throughout the school holidays. We also switched her to a new art centre,
while she requested for a switch to violin lessons from her piano lessons.
Yiu Yiu seemed to
have hogged the blog limelight this year.
Yan Yan, on the other hand, has had pretty much an uneventful year, save
for the trip to A&E when she shoved a coffee bean up her nose J
I also ventured into baking buns, two years after owning a bread machine. I baked a few times, and unfortunately lost
steam again when Yiu Yiu’s interest in bringing buns to school for her break
time waned. No point to bake when there
are no takers L I may just pick this up again soon, coz Yan
Yan is starting kindy next year, and she already asked for sausage buns to
bring to school for snack time J
On the work front, I
started a new job in September, after one year ten months in the previous
job. I surprised even myself for lasting
that long in a job and company that I was so clearly unhappy with. But on a positive note, my time there wasn't wasted – I learnt new things, developed new skills, and definitely emerged a stronger
and better person. I’m much happier in
my current job, though I had been extremely busy due to two vacancy gaps in my
team. What made the hard work worthwhile
is that good work I put in and the positive energy I brought into the company
is being appreciated and recognised. Work
also took me to Beijing, Yangon, Seoul and Hong Kong this year.
It wasn’t all work
and no play in 2012, though we really didn’t go on many trips this year. We visited Koh Samui during the June school
holidays, visited Pulau Ketam during one of the long public holiday weekend,
and the Lost World of Tambun on Christmas Eve.
Last but not least, I just found out that my review on Kennedy's Grill scored a mention in the current Jackcow deal on the restaurant.
So that wraps up our
2012. 2013 will not be a dull year, with
Yan Yan starting kindy and a holiday planned in March.
Wishing everyone a fulfilling and blessed
2013.
