December is coming....

Well it's another December soon and Xmas is coming again. As far as I know... my this year's resolution has not been achieved much.. Let's look at it again.. picked from 2009 :-

1) To start going to Yoga class again (TOOK UP AEROBIC CLASSES INSTEAD)

2) Dance.. at least once a week (FAILED... I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DANCING INSIDE ME ONLY.. LOL)

3) Lamination floor for the studio & Installing AC (NOT DONE... RENTED OUT INSTEAD)

4) Must buy a surf board in Bali this trip (NOT DONE... CHANGED OF MINE BUT GOING AGAIN IN 2011... LOL)

5) Get a new lap top by middle of the year (DONE)

6) Get a new camera (CONSIDER IT DONE... GETTING IT IN DECEMBER)

7) Despite all the above, to save enough money for 2011's holiday trip to.... (DONE... BANGKOK & KOH PANGANG IN OCT 2011)

8) & Finally to do better in what I am doing now. (DONE.... There will be a big change of life on 10th January 2011)

Looking at it.... it's quite reasonable. I will make my next year's resolution early coz everyone should plan early and get over with it instead of waiting for the last day of the year!

MY 2011'S RESOLUTION!

1) Get a MAC Book.. Need to start brushing up my illustrator and photoshop skills

2) Get a Brand New Car

3) Enroll to a Tailoring Class.. who knows you'll be hearing designer brand in 5 years! LOL

4) To reach and maintain below 55Kgs

5) To pay all my bills on time... (I've always procastinate!)

5 resolutions are enough for next year!

So... what have you achieved this year and what's your plan next?

Can I write?

Someone recently asked me if I like writing. 

That is a good question indeed. 

In fact, I think I have phobia about writing but slowly overcoming it and enjoy doing it and sometimes it does come naturally plus with the great help of 'SHIFT + F7' it made the thesaurus more handy. 

All these is because of my personal lack of confidence when I first joined PR Department in the previous company. Before I joined, I've always seen PR as something difficult and it was a challenge that I decided to transfer from a Secretary to Director of Finance to a Public Relations Assistant. Socializing, communication with people in a right manner, how to be diplomatic, how to tackle story angles that you want to be featured by the media, invitations, standards of collateral and drafting press releases was especially hard for me that time as I had  zero knowledge of what's right and what's wrong, what kind of style had to be used and what not...

Throughout my employment, there was even one particular person that actually said I can't write and that writing should starts from young age and a natural passion, I made a lot of grammatical error in my blog (blog is not even serious for me... )  bla bla bla bla bla bla. At that time, I was 120% demotivated to write because there's no proper guide or training but critics instead. She made me believe that I had not much hope in my PR career.

More than 1 year ago, I took the courage to go for an interview. I mentioned clearly during the interview that particularly in writing, I had a lot to improve (and yes, this was how inconfident I was). However, the interviewer told me something that sounded like, 'Well, that's just technical. I am sure we can work around it.' and that actually brighten up my life. I really cherish the opportunity given to me that time and thanks to him, I overcame my fear and gained confidence in a lot of things.

Someone from the media also once told me... There's nobody that can't write if they are properly trained and besides, practice made better!

Back to the question... my answer would be: I DIDN'T DARE TO LIKE IT but now YES!

I lost weight!

I finally got back to my shape in 2006 before I went to Bali for the first time. I feel good at 60kg :) In total from April, I lost a total of 8kgs.. surprise surprise!

Only thing is i would like to loose another 5kgs to reach 55kgs... very tough eh...  but I will try...

For now, it's a relax week coz I'm down with sore throat and cough like nobody's business... I can't sleep at night! :( I must remind myself to drink a lot of water everyday...