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Second day of 3 days Easter holiday. I took the opportunity to do a mini Spring cleaning – especially with my study materials for Japanese and Hungarian. Papers here, papers there, then consolidate them to one organized stack. I have a little corner at the living room. So not much space to put personal belongings but so far so good.

I’m taking my time though. I started at 10 am and now it is already 2 pm and I’m doing all slowly. Clean and rearrange the kitchen, then came to chat with a friend online. Then did some vacuuming, only to come back to watch a few youtube videos. Rearrange my study materials and now reading some dealfun.com reviews while blogging. Next is the mopping.

Feels good to see that things are more organized around the house.

I stopped tutoring for a few months, maybe nearly half a year, before I started again about 2 weeks ago. I go to my pupil’s house once a week and the other 2 times I do lessons through skype. When you need the money, you’d try your best.

After this, I hope I can slowly get back into routine of studying as well. I really need the balance back.

It’s a long weekend here. 4 days. God knows how much I need it with all the crap that is going on my working life. Despite the holiday I still don’t feel at ease so I decided to watch a comedy tonight – well some people do say that not only you feel much lighter emotionally while laughing, you get to burn fat too. Well, not that pizza is going to help with the fat burning much but at least I know I will feel much better laughing away my problems.

Pizza is ordered and will be on its way, hopefully, soon. When it is here then it’s showtime…

It’s just wonderful to sit at the balcony and sipping coffee in the warmth of the Spring sun. Soon it would be warm enough to be visiting the weekend house too. Rooms to be aired, dusting to do, and grass to be cut. When ever we were there I really felt like time goes a little slower. Maybe no internet, no television, nature and being outdoors most of the time. It is great to be going to the weekend house but with the oil pricing going up and up, it becomes a bit painful for our wallets. So much so we did talk of finding a place much closer.

Searching for a weekend property is not hard. Especially with the internet – you can live on one side of the world and find a good gulf shores real estate property on the other side of the world as easy as 1,2,3 – but the checking it out and price negotiation that can be a bit of a hassle and time consuming.

The idea would be put off for a while I suppose until the time comes when we cannot afford to go there as frequent as the cleaning and caring for the place require us.

Spring is here. Sun is shining and people seems more relaxed, and happier. Spring brings along with it ‘hope’. Though it has been tough for me for the past few weeks, but I have hope that things would be way better. Better working environment, better financial situation. Well, I wish we would be financially well enough even to book one of the hotels in orlando and have a jolly good time at Universal studios. But as long as we can stop making a loss each month, I would be very thankful.

Tomorrow is last day of work. I really am looking forward to a good rest on the weekend.

I’ve been watching videos on youtube, browse online stores from duncan yoyos to portable solar chargers just to get my brain to tune down a little. With all the daily problems,  my brain just don’t want to stop thinking about them despite that I really a break from it all.

I know the bad feeling that I felt all day long was all due to tiredness and I know that it isn’t something that a little sleep won’t help. I am not a totally negative person. Just a tired one that is all.

First of all: Happy New Year to you visitor.

So far, after 4 days into the new year, life has been good. I look forward to many more happy days ahead. I am actually not a New Year resolution type of person. Afterall you don’t need to wait for New year to start a list of resolution. Right? Furthermore, most of the time my resolution is almost the same every year anyway – Lose more weight, be more forgiving, slowly but surely try to get rid of bad habits.

Did I achieve any of those last year? no and yes. I didn’t lose more weight I think but at least I maintained it well. I forgave someone as I started to talk to that person whom I had not spoken to for a year (or more). As for bad habits, I was not online as much as before. All these I tend to keep on doing.

This year I added a little bit more things on my resolution list. I’d like to keep a nice clean home at all times, even if I’m tired from work. I used to let the place get messy and do major clean up on the weekends. (At least I do clean up my home every weekend ). My floor may not be like one of those pretty looking quick step floors, but at least they are always clean now. Secondly, I’d like to meditate everyday. I meditated before, but not everyday. But now I’ve started doing it everyday for almost a week now. I am not exactly meditating like a monk but I am enjoying the calm after doing it.

Well, these are my resolutions! My goal is to make them all come true.

Just unbelievable how time flies. The little one is no longer little but a six year old. We had a simple birthday party yesterday.

It is just a week to Christmas, so we try to keep the presents small. (The best gifts we are saving for Christmas ). At least 8 presents are waiting for her. I was thinking, to add to it, perhaps one of those little award plaques for overall good behaviour for an entire year. But then 8 presents is enough. Maybe next year.

The weather has been quite foggy and smoggy these past few days. So in other words, very prone to feel a little depressed. But thank goodness for online retail therapy.

Since it is Christmas soon anyway and there is Santa Claus day too on the 6th of December, so I was browsing and buying small things as stocking fillers like lcd book lamps, ipod cases, figurines and etc. All the things that I myself love at the moment, so that I would like to share with others. All of which I think would make great Christmas gifts for family and friends.

I just spent half an hour browsing and looking at some nice looking retro vintage necklaces online. Thinking about buying them for the ladies in my family. They are not too expensive and quite a versatile accessory for women of any age. I just love em’.

Though with online shopping, only your fingers are doing the walking but it is indeed still quite time consuming. Before you know it, you’d end up opening tabs after tabs and simply lost in the world of browsing. But it feels good and I get some of the Christmas shopping done just from the comfort of my own desk. Looking out of the window, no way I’d be going out in this gloomy and cold weather.

Gosh, I can’t wait for Christmas holidays. Seems like it simply can’t come any sooner!

I just started working a bit more than a month and yet I feel like I need a vacation already. Go on a shopping spree, get myself a pair of julbo sunglasses, ski suit and equipment and learn how to ski in the Slovakian or Austrian mountains. Hmm…

I don’t know, working with children is rewarding and fun sometimes, but I cannot deny that it takes lots and lots of energy. And I’m getting burnt everyday. That’s why I am wishing for a vacation already.