Day 13

Top 4 advice given by the course trainer today:

1) Sign off with your own name when you do a piece of work (even if it didn't originate from you but you gave your inputs), otherwise you'll be contributing to someone else's career development.

2) Be ready to quit your job within 24 hours notice. Your life should not only evolve around your job such that giving it up means your world stops.

3) If you feel that after rounds of revisions and vetting you go back to your first draft, don't worry. It means you can think like your bosses' boss. You have a bright future. Just wait it out and your turn will come.

4) Don't do what your boss tells you to do. Do what your boss wants you to do.

Day 12

Took leave today and cooked cabarona pasta with casear salad. *all smiles* Want a wonderful way to recharge. The Fairprice@Nex is so deserted on a weekday, it feels like you have the whole supermarket to yourself. Turns out that the ingredients cost more if you start from scratch so I settled for the pre-made pasta sauce instead. It was good! Saved on the hassle and the uncertainty of how it will turn out too.

Day 11

It's Mothers' Day today and so Leng and I baked a Rainbow Cake. Terrific for our first try. I almost cried yesterday because the butter-cream was too soupy. Fortunately I managed to find a site that provided a remedy for it which so saved the day. Glad everyone could make it for the cake cutting and witness the unveiling of the beautiful multi layers! Reminds me of some flower festival. Lol.

Well although my mum and I don't see eye to eye very often, but I still want to say thank you for all that she has done for us. We don't celebrate mother's day in a very big fashion but I'm sure all of us still HOPE mightily that she's happy 365 days a year. Thanks mum!

Day 10

Happy things are meant to be shared :)

March/April was kind of watershed period. Firstly, LY proposed and secondly, I got my promotion. It was not really watershed watershed for me since to some extent I actually saw it coming, but nonetheless the people around me seem to think that it was a big thing. Everyone's been asking me to "tell  story".

Honestly I can't remember the full story. I know kept reminding myself to just enjoy the moment which happens once in a lifetime and to remember as much of it as possible. But today the details are beyond me *goldfish memory*. I know I followed my girlfriends' advice- "don't give him a too easy time". Stressed him out a little but eventually said yes. It was the sweetest thing he has done for me and I had to reciprocate. :P