Pretty benches in Bratislava, Slovakia (Jan 06)

If you've been reading my blog all this while, you might have found my new title picture somewhat familiar :) Yup, blogged about them nearly 2 years ago... It was one of those bu4 xian2 yan3 things that caught my eye... outside some castle in Bratislava on a gloomy winter day. Love the curves on these simple yet elegant benches :)

Am taking a break from cramming tonnes of Kanji pronunciations and grammar into my head... The last min me has been spending most of yest (and prob the rest of today too) soaking up all the Japanese vocab, grammar and all i've learnt all year... but head feels too saturated already... so will need a fair bit of luck tmr afternoon! In btwn resting and studying also visited food blogger/photographer Chubby Hubby's website the yesterday (piece of trivia if you didnt already know: he's Tommy Koh's son) and he has lovely lovely pictures of Bhutan! I want to be able to take pictures like that one day. One day.....

Yesterday I got physical headache today got mental headache. How can right, so young then all my brain cells killed prematurely... I'm beginning to feel though that thinking positively really does help. Makes keeping afloat easier :) Though sometimes when I feel stressed I just quiet quiet sit at workstation and stare at comp screen... then colleagues dun see much of me then everyone concerned what happen to me :P Ok lah, actually not stressed I also quiet quiet...

Today I took the lead and put up my wish list for our Christmas gift exchange! But ultimately some of my biggest wishes only I can make come true.

Today I worked through most of the day with a headache, which I suspect was due to lack of sleep :( Another logistical nightmare is about to erupt soon... this time round in the form of VIP invites and registration for a board-wide D & D... Somehow I whole day kenah this kinda role one, though got many diff sub-teams in my Party Team... So it's another round of getting right who are the VVIPs, VIPs and the tonnes of other ppl who's supposed to get invited. Hai, nmind lah, like I said last time, hone my skills next time can set up logistics company when out of job... :)

Shall sleep at 9.30pm today tonight! Break record. Hopefully headache goes away tmr.

Today marked the end of my year-long JLPT 2 Prep class... and THE TEST is next Sunday...! Die... Hope that I'll be lucky enough to pass. Though I have not sufficiently prepared for next week's test, it also comes as a sort of relief to me that I'll finally get to slack a bit on Sundays thereafter... and catch up with more sleep :P Intend to take 3 mth hiatus from Japanese class after test... 'cos unlike most other ppl, my December would be one busy month and I foresee myself getting quite stressed over deadlines and increasing workload for my 'CCAs'... aargh. At times just want to throw aside everything and do nothing; but cutting-down-forest-of-thorns analogy is still clear enough in head, so will continue to persevere! Meanwhile I keep wondering how everyone out there with tonnes of other commitments (eg. family, kids) manage to cope with work and life...