Irilyn @ My Odyssey

ProjectLife 2012: Week 8

Week 8, I'd say was the best and worst of a week, so far for this year.  I had girls' night out with Gloria and Nan afterwork on the Wednesday night, for spanish dinner at El Bulli. What more can a girl ask for when "Lambada" played by a live band, while we had paella and conquetas de jamon, coupled with Sangria? Nada! It was rad!

I flew back to Singapore for the weekend.  To my great surprise, I have received the package I sent (to myself) when I was in Prague for holidays last Sept 2011. I was overwhelmed I could cry for joy. I was following up and tracking this package every 2 weeks for the past 5 months. Relentlessly, I never stopped emailing Czech post as well as Sing post for tracking. True enough, the postal tracking system in Prague was not as reliable as in Singapore. And while the package hasn't arrived in Singapore (as destination), I had no other choice but to continue to followup with Czech post.  The language barrier via emails was difficult enough, and more so, the late responses due to huge time difference.  But with God's grace, this box has arrived. In it was my first Infant Jesus of Prague porcelain statue in red dress and white cape. I was super duper happy!

As for the main agenda of my Singapore flyback, I had transferred to my new flat in Singapore.  The packing, moving and unpacking was just too much effort, especially, after I realised that the accumulated stuff in the past years were too much. I have to make some changes on how best to handle my stuff soon. Something's cooking in my mind and wallet, right now :) Luckily, I got some help on the cleaning for the old flat before handing it over to the owner.  In the new flat, I had to get some in-between rest time in unpacking and arranging my stuff in the kitchen and office-like area. Some of my boxes are still packed, but I had to keep this remaining chore at bay first, until the next time I fly back to Singapore, as I am now back in Sydney.

ProjectLife 2012: Week 7

Week 7. hmm… it was rather a short and busy week, I juggled between work and life outside of it. :)

I had spent some time reading through the write-ups and blogs of thought leaders of my time, and tons of inspirations showered through the tainted window glass in Fraser Suites (my nomadic place in Sydney). Inspirations kept me holding on to the routines of work.  Lessons of passion, success, failure, and getting on with just the best practices were the greatest. Lovely.

The week went by fine.  It was by the way, Valentine's Day last tuesday.  And so I made a textured black and white heart in my project life this week :) Yes, I chose that colour for some reasons, apparently :)   My friend, Nan, took a candid shot of me while at work too, my one good remembrance here in Macquarie, while burning some eyebrows! During lunch time (in one of the days) along Martin Place, we had some time to smile and take another shot! Over the weekend, the team decided to pay a visit to Taronga Zoo. We took the ferry from the Circular Quay wharf 4, and took the cable car to the zoo entrance.  It was fun seeing kangaroos and koalas again :)

Saturday evening, I had the real "thai emersion" in Sydney. Nan invited the team to join for supper and drinks at Crocodile bar where there's thai live band. It was a fun-filled weekend.

 

ProjectLife 2012: Week 6

It's been awhile. Work schedule has caught up with my "weekly date" with myself.  I have prepared my Week 6 pages few days back, but some photos I'd like to include were not in my hard drive here in Sydney.  I had to request my friend in Singapore to send me a couple of shots so that my pages can be completed.  Finally, I've managed to keep these three pages intact.  It was inevitable to miss out on some routines especially since I had to flyback to Singapore. Yes, truly, this travelling for work thing is enjoyable.  Though there are times when your heart and mind long for certain level of concentration on some "grounded" activities, and flying back and forth can really send your core off track. It happened to me, yes, to some degree. Nevertheless, no matter how off beaten I may have been at times, I'm happy because I know that that all tomorrows are God's promises too :)

For week 6, I'd like to remember the fun meeting with my SG friends during the weekend; the yet again packing experience of 13years nomadic life; the Turandot Opera on ladies night out with Gloria and Nan at the no less than Sydney Opera House, and finally, dinner with SG friends I met in Sydney, Jerry and Maricar. Yes, a fully packed week, and I'm so thankful to God for it, as always!

 

ProjectLife 2012: Week 5 of 52

 

Hey fellows! I was offline (kind of) for the past few days. Work schedule has caught up with me and I didn't have ample time to post Week 5. One reason why I decided to do ProjectLife 2012, was because I wanted to really allocate sometime every week, to think over the good, bad, lovely and memorable life's activities.  I'd love to spend more time "actually living" this year !  Last week was just too short to write up my blog posts. Anyway, for Week 5, here it goes...

Week 5 was documenting week, reminiscing the good old days at work, picked up some quotes that helped me get through happy as well as stressful times :) I've also included a processed B&W photo, a product of my hobby. As well, I have posted some new buys for the month of Feb! Yes, we're moving on to the next month, I'm excited!

i loved January! It's now time to enter the month of hearts!

 

 

Sea Cliff Bridge, Wollongong New South Wales

 

 

Serenity at best.