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Happy new year all :)

January 3rd 2012 05:22
It's all quiet on the Love Adventures front, as I have been concentrating too much on Travel String!

So, it's another new year for another fresh start. We started the year by flying back home from our two week holiday in Thailand (visit www.travelstring.com for stories on this). Travelling with my husband is always fun, as we have a tendency to drive each other nuts but loving it at the same time.

Read what I really think of Will on Worldette: My Husband, My Travel Partner


As for our adventures, we got to try lots of different things in Thailand, including eating dung beetle and squirrel, as well as spotting lady boys. Sometimes you really can't tell! I also got him hooked on Thai massages (ones that *does not* include happy endings) and we ate our hearts out on the street markets.

As for 2012, the plan is to get back into martial arts training, Will is going to come along this year to try it out, and plan the end of the year trip! I have signed up to learn French at the end of this month for 8 weeks, and there is a novel challenge too.

Let's make 2012 big

What are your plans this year?

Angel's new years resolution is to sleep more!
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Christmas cards

November 27th 2011 22:51
Every year I make a point of sending physical Christmas cards to close family and friends. I know it's cheaper and faster using an electronic card, and I get sent a few each year, I feel nothing beats the feeling of actually receiving one in the mail among all the end of year bills that come.

So I was looking around for something less common (because I can't make cards, but there are already really nice ones out there that isn't made by Hallmark hence supporting local businesses as well). Then I found out a friend of mine does handmade cross stitch cards! I really like her stuff and I thought I'd give her a free plug on this:: A Stitch In Time.



I know this will only apply for those who do celebrate Christmas: Will you be sending Christmas cards this year?
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To all US readers: Happy Thanksgiving

November 25th 2011 00:00
Yesterday was Thanksgiving (Australian time) and a colleague from the US requested that we sit around and say what we are grateful for.
While this is not a usual Australian tradition, we thought it'd be a nice thing to do. What I've realised through the experience, is that sometimes we don't realise just how much we should be thankful for, and not to take things for granted.

Those new to the "game" may find it hard to think up a list, like I did. I sat there watching everyone else have a go and it wasn't until I heard a few of the responses did I know what I wanted to say. So here goes:

This year, I am thankful for:

1. My husband. He can be a bit of a pain from time to time, you know, boss me around a lot, but he is always there for me when I needed him. The best cook in the house I'll ever have and not to mention, the person who understand me the most, and still loves me after having to put up with me for so long. He is also the best travel partner I'll ever have! (there is an article coming up about this on Worldette )
So thank you Will, and I love you.

2. My boss. Now this is a big call. This is someone whom I regularly argue with, who regularly forget to tell us there is a deadline and only notify us on the day something is due. Someone who is sometime just that little racist, that much up himself and arrogant. Yet, he is the one who stood up for me and kept me at my job when I didn't get the job I applied for that I was already doing (long story short: I was acting team lead, HR policy says you can't just give someone a job you have to advertise it even though someone is already doing the job. I applied, and didn't get it as I didn't answer the questions in the way HR wanted me to answer). He also fights for the team, and stands up for us when other team managers start to play the blame game.
So thank you boss.

4. Life. I am grateful for life. Every day we watch the news something bad was happening somewhere else and people were getting killed, injured and hurt, or simply just having to survive in a world with so much conflict and injustice. Hence, I am just grateful for life. For being alive, for having a job that pays the bills, keeps a roof over my head while still have enough money left to donate to charity and to travel. I have enough and I don't need any more.

There.
Why not try this exercise yourself?
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Kids, growing up

November 21st 2011 02:58
Kitty is turning 7 next year, and Angel 2. They are now both more than double the size as they were when I first got them!
I can imagine how our parents feel. I mean - just look at them!

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Love My Way section calling for contributions

November 15th 2011 01:37
Some relationships are just meant to be, no matter how hard other people and circumstances try to keep them apart!

I just got this in a newsletter yesterday - the Sunday Magazine is looking for these stories, stories of how you fell in love and the road to a stable relationship


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Love Adventures re-opens!

November 10th 2011 02:40
It's been a year. I can't believe how fast time travels. Since they never took this blog off me from inactivity, I thought it's time that I re-open it. And I want to start with PETS.

Previously I have been writing more about my relationship with Will (boyfriend - fiancée and now husband) - and yes we are still happily married - and I thought why not expand the topic a little? After all, love is every where


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Hello Soul Mate: Your job is done. Bye bye.

October 22nd 2010 00:17
It's been a while since my last post. It's funny how when one part of your life gets busy (ie, Work), everything seem to get busy all at the same time.

Anyways. As you know I am in the process of reading Eat Pray Love. So far it's quite a well written book, and there are lot of good points in it about love, life and almost everything else. I wanted to share a theory that was shared in the book, because I thought to myself: how true it is


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Eat, Pray, Love...

October 5th 2010 23:50
Everyone is talking about it. The film and the book. The film is out tomorrow in Australia but I have not yet read the book so I think I might wait until I do so before heading to the cinemas.

However I do know the outline of the flim well, the fact that the main character gets fed up with life and goes to Italy to eat, to India to pray and to Bali to love. Inevitably a lot of us have been through something similar, or have planned something similar, and I think that maybe where the success of the story lies - the familiarity between the story told, and our own stories


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Modern relationships: young people these days.....

September 30th 2010 03:01
It's the typical 'Young people these days....' comments that prompted me to talk about this. I feel that I say it more often now as I grow older (not so old mind you!) and married and everything, and I start noticing how the behaviour and act of the younger generation differs to mine, that makes me just want to say: 'In my time...'

Let's talk relationships


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Having a pet could be practice for having children?

September 15th 2010 03:42
This morning, we had a little nudge at each other saying that it was each other's turn to get up and feed the cats.

Which gave me an idea: isn't this what it would be like if we had kids? Who's turn is it to feed them? Who's turn is it to change them


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