Ox' wish list

1. And the list starts with this Canon G10 Powershot. It takes absolutely amazing portraits from outdoors. If I have learned any lesson from my Ox LL, it's all about capturing the moment :).

2. A pair of Capri Shoes for my new sporty look of 2009.


3. A simple clutch for all the neccesaries (phone, money, cards, & lip-balm) - only $15 at AE.com

Ky Suu is here...

So the holiday has officially begun. I could definitely use the next whole week to relax and reflect. Beside, i will start working on the content of my newsletter and the plan for my company's intranet. Sounds boring huh, but it needs to be done. Also prepare for myself as well as the activity plan for the 11 months left of 2009.

Watching America's Next Top Model right now. Borrowed these DVDs from e Nghia since last year and I'm nowhere in the middle of it. Ox also gave me a bunch of movies to live horizontally with, through the holiday. Tyra is really successful with this show. It has been copied to 120 countries, kinda like American Idol. Tedious at the beginning with so many models but it gets better after a while.

i found out an amazing thing today. My leq@uci.edu email still works :) how nice huh... i can use it i guess. I like it so much (short and simple) but thought it was disabled 3 months after graduation... Such small surprise makes me happy.. In the end, happiness is really about having the unexpected.. Is happiness about having the cherry, not the cake?

I've been questioning my career/life path lately (even though I'm so busy, it still comes up at the end of the day). I've found so much happiness in my work; however, at the same time, it's the unseen torture of the job that leaves me vulnerable. I have grown to realize how self-destructive I really am, and how I let blurred all the positive side of everything. When doing anything, the more I try, the more stressed and negative I've become no matter how good the result is. I don't seriously view myself as a failure all the time, but most of the time, I'm too critical to really enjoy... things to their fullest. With the new OX year upon me, I've updated my new-year resolutions to become more positive and realize life's biggest pleasures:
1. Eat slower
2. Be honorable. Know when to walk away. Know not to take less than I deserve.
3. Be careful when making promises with friends so I can keep them
4. Take a short-term course whatever it is that helps me go forward with my career (tentative: brand manager)
5. Shop less, save more
6. Take up on any sport or dancing again. Exercise often so i can stay strong and healthy.
7. Avoid making "the face" to my Ox LL & my family
8. Arrange entertainment items for parents, such as their 25th wedding anniversary party in December
9. Go to Thailand with Mom
10. Remember birthdays and send flowers /gifts / cards

Day 10

10 days since new year. Feels like forever as I'm so overloaded and stressed. I yelled at my big boss a couple times yesterday. He couldn't fire me though, because of the same reason I yelled at him - I'm so overloaded. If I'm not there, guess who's gonna be even more overloaded :D

Ok let's move on to good news. For the first time, I have accomplished one of my new year resolutions only 4 days after the new year started. On Jan 3, I went out and got food poisoning. Translation: diarrhea, vomit, fever, and not much food for 2 days. I eat slower. Goal accomplished.

I've been sick a lot for the past 1 month. I got a terrible cold, throat infection, allergy, and now food poison. My body is saturated with sickness. Emotionally, I'm just so sick of being sick.

Now, back to good news. La Senza has officially opened a store on Nguyen Trai. Me & Mom got robbed over there. If you didn't know my weakness for panties, take a look at my blog's name. I also received the Victoria's Secret stuff I ordered months ago. Feeling ecstatic right now =). By the way, these 2 brands belong to the same company, so they carry very similar stuff.

Charles & Keith is hot in HCMC right now. They just opened their 2nd store and I already bought 3 pairs since its opening. The matching bag is cute, however, was out of stock :P

you can make it last

for my first installment for year-end thinking.. someone told me that I'm ignorant to other people's love for me. If such a saying doesn't make you think, what does? I realized.. if 2 years ago, I had been loved like I'm right now, I could have really appreciated it. After getting back home since last year, love was not what I cared so much about anymore. It's expected, I figured. And I started having this urge to have other things... including of course, a job to determine myself and be financially independent. But then the focus seemed to over-occupy my life for the past 9 months I'd gone ignorant.. so this year, I'm making resolutions to live more and appreciate what I've got :)

new year resolutions
1. Eat slower
2. Be honorable. Know when to walk away. Know not to take less than I deserve.
3. Be careful when making promises with friends so I can keep them
4. Take a short-term course whatever it is that helps me go forward with my career
5. Shop less, save more
6. Take up on tennis/yoga again. Exercise often so i can stay strong and healthy.
...

that's all i can think for now

I’ll make the effort, love can last forever
Graceful swans of never topple to the earth
Tomorrows just an excuse
And you can make it last, forever you

hello 2009