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201210:46 AM
Thursday, December 29, 2011
And so my holiday has swiftly come to an end. It's been a good holiday in all sense of the word. kicked off the holiday with a trip to hk, then came back and did USS with the girls. christmas was fun, had a couple of family gatherings and headed to jian ming's house to whip up a christmas dinner of our own. brought starlight out to east coast. went JB with my sister and her friends. had late night sups. met up with roxanne just last night and going on a day trip with the girls today. Inject quiet afternoons at starbucks where i got to do a bit of reading (and re-reading. as much as i loathe to admit this, i love Eat Pray Love) now and then. i haven't been watching my diet and the rainy mornings/evenings make it impossible for a run but i've given myself the free pass to decadence so i'm not watching the number of royce chocolates i've tossed into my mouth - these truffles, they are the curse of me.
And so, what are my plans for 2012?
The part b exam results looms over me like a dark cloud. my heart races at the mere thought of it. if i didn't manage to pass bar, my next best plans would be to intern somewhere and do the bar again. or maybe even do an overseas internship at ICC or something like that. if i do, then it's work work work for the next 6 months and hopefully i can save up enough for a trip to korea or new york in july.
and if i do manage to pass bar, i would sign up for a gym membership immediately hahaha.
next year will be an amazing year - the wedding bells are already ringing in my ears :) am happy and excited to be a part of the joyous celebration. so it is a resolution for the year 2012 that i will put in as much as effort as i possibly can to ensure that these celebrations will be remembered forever.
on a personal level, i wish to be more patient and forgiving in 2012. I am also determined to swear off swearing. This is a bad habit i have gotten myself into over my years in law school. the english language may not be the most beautiful language on earth but it sure has an expansive vocabulary. to say what the hell every time i feel exasperated isn't doing justice to the other adjectives i could use to express myself. I also plan to pick up french and hopefully travel France one day - not just to Paris, which i love, but also to Nice, Metz and so many other beautiful places.
Well i digress here because i initially wanted to do Italy. even before eat pray love, it was a dream to visit Italy one day - Venice, Rome, Naples, Florence... there are so many places to visit in Italy - not to mention incidentally my favorite kind of food is pasta of any kind. I do love opera and i would love the opportunity to learn more about it. But after a few podcast lessons in Italian, i realize i didn't love it half as much as French. when i was in switzerland, i would happily chirp "merci" to everyone i meet - the sales guy, the cashier at migro, or the lady who sells sandwiches at the train station. in Gary Bell's class, i would melt every time he spoke in french. i love it!
i used to think i would like cooking but after the christmas dinner, i honestly begged to differ - you know why moms never really want to eat the dinners they have cooked? it's because cooking is incredibly, out of your mind, tiring. we did pork chops for christmas and boy was i tired after all that fuss. between cooking and eating, i would really very much prefer the latter. it's a little disappointing to know i'm not half as domesticated as i would desire myself to be - i mean it is a dream to open my own cafe and serve my own awesome muffins and pasta one day, but this is simply not meant to be. i don't have food acumen, if there's such a thing. i don't have the patience either. so i guess, cooking is out of the picture. i'm better off doing something else hahahaa.
so 2012, i'm not going to try to master cooking - instead, i want be the master of my tastebuds. i have the worst tastebuds - in my dictionary, there is no other adjectives to describe food except maybe delicious and edible. i can't tell the difference between a good pasta and a superb one - they just both taste good to me! so in 2012, i want to refine my sense of taste and learn to appreciate food better.
and so here are my master plans for 2012. happy 2012 everyone! it's going to be a great year i know it!