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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.

Ever since I started this new job I realized that I could not blog as much as before. Perhaps it is a new place – I mean really new because the center only started running less than 3 months now. I just hope that things will run smoother and I can feel a lot more relaxed. It isn’t a stressful job in general, but there are days that are real hard. I don’t think kindergarten/daycare jobs is anymore stressful than doing Resort Clerk Jobs and get to work in a vacation like atmosphere.

I like my job as I said before. I can only hope that I can only like it more and not less.

Besides the fun and challenge of working, I find myself looking forward to holidays more and more. In two weeks time we will be going on an Easter holiday break for a week. Enough time to really relax and rejuvenate myself. I cannot deny that working for a month now and having not enough sleep – compared to what I used to have before – is a little demanding on the body.

The ‘other half’ will start his weekly routine with his colleague again – weekly football match against each other or against another team from other companies. To be honest, I’ve never seen him played football before and I’m interested to see him play at least once even though he never wanted me to see. He always told me how good he is, so I hope to see him in action. Perhaps order a few branded hoodies with team logo just to get into the spirit.

On the 9th there will be a short day trip to Vienna for myself. Then there is also a hiking activity with my colleagues in mid-April and dance theater performance to watch on the 17th of April. I’m so looking forward.

Unlike some countries where they have the JLPT twice a year, in July and December, in Hungary there is only one in December. I don’t really know why, but I’m guessing that it may be due to the lack of candidates.

I have decided to apply and sit for the exam this year. Sure or not? Well, I’m not very confident about my exam taking abilities, but I think I really should take it. At least there is some sort of a target and hopefully I can use the certificate to work. Having a JLPT cert is like having an accountancy degree or an IT degree. Because you can always find accounts finance jobs, or IT related jobs anywhere you go. Accountancy is usually the same anywhere, the same goes for IT. My law degree is not recognized here since the legal system is not the same. Japanese language would be the same anywhere, and as long as there are people or companies who needs it (quite many) I may be able to use it.

That is what I think at least. Other than that at least the exam would be something to focus on and look forward to.

My Japanese teacher moved to another country, following her boyfriend. So I am teacherless for now. I’ve got to admit, without a teacher I do tend to slack more times than I’d would like to admit. I need some sort of order or routine. Doing it myself, it’s not so easy to create a routine. How do people do it?

So I am browsing around and thinking about whether or not it would be a good idea to get an online tutor. Talk through skype or YM, and send in homeworks through emails. Believe me, looking for a toro snowblower with a great bargain is easier than finding the right tutor with the right price.

I am considering to just enroll on the YesJapan.com courses. I own 3 of they’re textbooks so perhaps their courses would be the most ideal since I am somewhat used to their style of teaching. Though I’m not really sure whether there is ‘live’ online chat involve or not. Or I can just ask some random Japanese whether they would like to be my online teacher for a fee. The latter choice sounds more interesting to me.

Whatever it is, I really should get back to that learning and studying routine.

I wasn’t feeling well for nearly two weeks and it is only today that I am feeling rather light weight and didn’t feel too tired or sleepy to do anything. It’s only today that I am up and about studying, cleaning etc. I think I even lost some weight since I didn’t have much appetite while I was not well. That’s the only good thing about getting sick, it’s like a fast track to weight loss.

I’ve used one bathroom scale to check out how much I weigh, still need to use the other one I have. I have 2 bathroom scales at home. Both of them would show different results, so I would use the average between the two. Not getting myself too happy or excited about it though cause since the quicker I lose ‘em, the quicker I gain ‘em.

Our hamster, Hamlet died last Saturday. I thought it wouldn’t feel so bad, but I felt depressed. Seeing his cage empty, I almost wished that he would come out of his little house to greet me. Tomorrow, we may go to the pet store to get ourselves two new hamsters. We will never forget Hamlet. After all, he is our first hamster. As they say, ‘first cut is the deepest’. I suppose it’s applicable to hamsters too?

Well, at least I am feeling well enough to be out of bed, all I need to do now is try to get rid of this bad coughing.

If you had the choice of getting a thing as a gift or money, which would you choose? I’d choose money. That’s what I got for christmas this year. No surprise, I know. But at least I could add to it and buy myself the cellphone I wanted – Nokia C3 or Nokia 5230.

I already have a cellphone, but I need to get another one for another number. Two cell phones – one for family and another for other usage.

The funny thing is I still have to wrap it up and put under the Christmas tree. That’s the deal.