Jan-chan’s Tidbits

Happy new year! It’s been a while since I’ve last posted. With weddings happening as late as November and then a bunch of birthday parties followed by holiday gatherings my last two months were pretty busy. I kind of liked it though. All those gathering gave me a chance to catch up with family and friends that I haven’t seen for a while.

Anyways since I haven’t posted for so long I thought I’d start the new year off with a recap of 2009. It was a challenging year for me in both personal and career aspects. It called for some interesting and difficult decision making. Looking back now I don’t regret in the path I’ve chosen. I don’t want to be in a position where I’ll have doubts and so I’ve done what I thought would best help me eliminate this. Thanks to my family and friends who were all very supportive with my decision and continue to be there for me. Love you guys ♥

The past year was also a very “unlucky” year for my family as well. I think in total my parents had to go to the hospital three times. The scariest incident was my dad falling off a ladder and had to be hospitalized for two weeks with broken hip bone and ribs. Also my grandparents’ health seemed to have gone south faster than I thought. Maybe it’s because I don’t see them as often anymore. Every time I saw them I find that they have a stricter diet or that they are less mobile.

Ok on to the happy thoughts. Aside from all those weddings, the highlights of the year is actually my Jamaica trip with Al! It’s our first vacation together and it was really fun. I’m hoping this will be the start of us taking annual vacations from now on. I’ve also been trying to see my girlfriends more often. It’s an interesting experience (will talk more in another post) as I don’t usually hang out with girls too much. No offense to females but I find guys are just easier to talk to. Maybe it’s because I have a brother or the fact that I game a bit…too much.

So for 2010, I’m not exactly sure what’s happening yet. There’s talk of going back to HK in April and going to a wedding in Vegas in May. Work wise I’m hoping to focus on developing some customer retention programs and take the email marketing further. I also plan on spending more time with my parents and grandparents. As for those that’s been wondering about the wedding, well you’ll just have to wait till we can find a date!

I’m still here…just been busy with a lot of things the past months. After a wave of weddings (not mine of course!) things have finally quiet down but now work just started to pick up. Direct mail, email, seasonal mailouts…so many campaigns all coming at once plus I’m redesigning two websites.

I’ve got a lot of photos to upload so you’ll be able to see something new (and you can bet there’ll be food pictures). Also I think (90% sure) that I’ll be heading back to HK next Spring. Yay! I’m so excited. I haven’t been back in a long time. If you know of a good/interesting restaurant in HK that you think I MUST try, please send info my way.

Here’s the line you wanted! Now you owe me brunch at Nu.

Just a quick post to introduce my Milks to you all. These little guys keep me company at work. My favourite so far is Latte and Soya. And in case you’re wondering, that is one of those Dummies book I’m using to elevate my monitor. I think it’s Publisher for Dummies or something like that.

Back of the Milks

Paper snow globe

My coworkers love this paper snow globe that I got for Christmas. The best part is I don’t even need to do the shaking to get the snow moving.

Happy belated New Year! Best wishes in 2009!

I’ve been quite busy the past few weeks so I didn’t get to update the site. Here’s what’ve been happening so far:

1) I’ve moved from a Marketing & Sales Coordinator to a Marketing Communication Specialist. Yay! There are lots of major projects coming up in this first quarter and I’m a little nervous. Hopefully all will turn out well and we’ll be able to bring in some revenue.

2) I got this super cute T-shirt from Mimi Mcqueen during boxing week sale. It’s 50% off! I also got a dress from there for $16! A look at this T-shirt and you’ll know why I got it:

Meow meow meow! Ok the only thing that’s “bad” about it is everyone seems to want to tug at the cherry. Please refrain from tugging at them! See the expression on Meow’s face? He means business.

3) There’ve been some crazy snowstorm over the past few weeks. I was so glad I decided to buy the Helly Hanson boots on boxing day. It kept me warm and dry while I stomp all over the slush on my way to and from work.

I finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and updated all my plugins. As you can see I’ve also change to a new theme for the new year. I really liked the little photo space up at the top right. Hopefully I’ll be able to take some new photos each month to post there.