After loooooooooong time, I finally collected myself and decided that today is the day I start renewing my blog.

 

So much have happened in the past year and when I was reviewing what I had written, it really didn't do any justice to the things I did.  Not interested in filling up the blank.  I have been thinking to myself, why is it that I just wasn't interested in writing my own blog... it is not that I was soooooooooooo busy and just simply had no time.  I guess truth was that I was not happy with where I was and then just didn't want to write about these things to remind myself how I was not satisfied with where I was.  And the reason to update now is because I realize that everything I see something interesting or touching, I actually think the whole thing over in my head as if I was updating this blog.  Then I suddently realized that no matter how I might be not happy with my currently situations or things around me in the past year, there were lots and lots of high point and perfect little moments.  It is the up and downs that makes up life and it is those unhappy hard times that actually makes the perfect little moments  more memoriable.  I think the fact that I was writing and updating my blog wasn't for anyone to read really.  But it was more for myself, more like my motivation to myself to remind myself the little details taht makes up life.  And reading all the old old entries are simply relaxing...

 

So I should be doing this for myself.  Writing something anything on this blog is a brain exercise to organize and conclude things that had happened.  And merely by sitting here and writing about it, sometime make sense certian things or events that I just couldn't understand at the moment.

 

It has been 1 month and 9 days into 2009.  I have travelled in Europe at the beginning of the year with my mother, Terence and my aunt.  Lots of museum visiting and shopping in Italy and Europe.  The high point was definatly see Rob in Europe although I actually met in back in Nov in NYC already, it was still different seeing Rob in his homeland.  And eating pizza with him in Italy is just different.  However, if I was asked whether it was more fun seeing Rob in Europe, or taking amazing picture with T at the spanish step, or visiting Ufizzi with my mother or buy 3 pairs of Tods shoes and 3 pairs of Ferragamo shoes within 30min is more fun, I can't answer that... all I have to say is, Europe is awesome and 10 days are way too short.  However, if I go again next time, I would for sure go when it is warmer and bring a much much much biger suitcase...

 

Lunar New Year happened so early this year that it is almost unheard of.  The last day of year of Rat was on my birthday.  I was a littleannoyed that it is the same day as Lunar New Year's eve.  After turning 30, birthdays are seriously no longer attractive to me.  And the fact that my whole family was getting together to celebrate, I wasn't really looking forward.  However, turns out my grandpa found out this year that we actually have our bday on the same day.  Older Chinese people only celebrate their bday accroding to the Lunar calendar.  Therefore, they birthdays are on a different day every year on the western calendar.  So it turned out to be a family get together celebration for both his birthday and mine and of course my uncle who was born on Lunar New YEar's day and the year of OX.  Karon got an amazing mango cake and my little nephews are running around happily and offering me kisses.  It was a very warm and sweet celebration.

 

When it comes to the new year, new year's resolution comes hand in hand.  To me.  This year my biggest resolution is stop being SO LAZY! Well, it is kinda hard when we are not offically out of the Lunar new year celebration yet.  With all the food to eat and people around me not offically going to work everyday.... but that's something I want to make change... so there!  Although this is already late, I wish everyone a happy, healthy, productive 2009.