Audit of my achievements

I went down for drinks then party yesterday. Woke up at 8am promptly without alarm - amazing.

Doing "audit" of my 2009 commitments - personal goal right now. As I am feeling empty, aimless, and lost. Perhaps I had been concentrating hard on certain aspects and neglecting others.

Audit results:
Scorecard metrics: 10 green (mostly exceeding by a mile), 1 yellow, 4 red (hmm not too shabby)
Red in love, well-being, social work and intellectual pursuit.

Thoughts:
I am perfectionist. I do things I focused on, and do them extremely well - depth, but overkill sometimes. Well I am overachiever. I guess the lesson is I have to focus on just a couple of things, and set high goals, coz I will exceed them :)

Focus and High Goal.

Farewell lunch and Birthday

Yesterday marked the departure of one of my closest collegue. I feel sad and missing something but I am glad and happy for her and the next opportunity awaiting her. I think she made the right decision so next step has been taken.

We went for a small team lunch at the Rocks Urban Grill+ Bar. The steaks, pizza, were good by natural consensus. A couple of tables were facing the bay and the natural settings are good. Some tables were grouped together on a simple white and black minimalist design, while a couple of smaller table outlined the tall bay windows.

The actual run

My Shape Run

Yesterday, I went thru the 30-minutes inventory routine.

Started at 6:33pm, as I was enjoying (late) lunch at Tampopo Liang Court. Spent time traversing Spice street of the Singapore Food Festival. Sure there was kebab, spices, laksa, some thai, tourist popiah, some taiwanese fares, but... something lacking. Until I crossed Clarke Quay, arrived at Liang Court.

At the ground floor, was Tampopo, Kurobota (black pig specialist). Promptly I checked the menu, and found its signature dishes. Tonkatsu - which is the breaded fillet, typically pork, served on hot short-grained rice, and heaps of cabbage. Both latter were free-flow. I had two plates each, pipping hot rice, and cabbage (best garnished with sesame oil that the waiter would bring out customarily). I ordered the premium BP (Black Pig or Kurobuta) Premium Tonkatsu set. The layer of "black" meat and white flesh were distinguisable! Yummy.

Highly recommended. The whole place was run by Singlish speaking Singaporean and throngs of Mainland Chinese waiters though.. hmm. Supposedly best Pork Cutlet (Kurobuta Katsu set) in Singapore arguably. I for sure enjoyed the meal. :) Here's the link to their funky website...

Then I counted, 30 mins Meidiya shopping, 30 mins Kinokuniya browsing, roughly 30 mins walk home. Then manga reading for 90 mins! I would slept soundly until the morning Shape 2011 run! Flag off time at 710am, promised XJ to meet at 640... so I am having headache. I hope for good run.

Happy July

It's been a while since I had the time and interesting content to update this blog. Many eventful stuff happens erstwhile.

June mostly inudiated with work. Emotional june, leading the closure. Year end drink parties... and stressful cases.

July comes and I felt mixed. A big relief mostly awashed with apprehension. Org changes, new HC, and roller-coaster feeling when I realized a post on June 30. I am no doubt slightly worried, and disappointed even mirrors largely my thinking. Mostly I am more at peace, now. Reset of expectations would be good. Emotional, needing to move on, and grow in other aspects of my life. Heath, eating, exercising, thinking about taking some advanced education, or simply hobby, spend more time in social networks, loving, and enjoying life. Perhaps cooking, travelling, or some new hobby. I don't know. Or volunteering social, overseas, or political. Take up energy levels to pursue my life.

GE 2011

Tiring, congested. Another example of good run is hard to organize, and taken for granted.
This year, the committee' complaints ranges from shirt that's too small (it bunches up when I ran among tummy), narrow sections, horrible water points, late flag-off time, and bad goodies bag.

Hot day, but I dashed off for my flight to Jkt soon after at 130 pm. Productive!

Desserts Galore

During the close, I had experience to taste a Chocolate Italian dessert, Profiteroles. It was a puff pastry with creamy custard filling, and sinful layer of cold chocolate ice-cream on top. In my recent gathering with my friend over Friday, the topic came up, and my mind momentarily gave way to local amnesia.

Not to be undone, here is my record of the delicious dessert. Profiteroles at wiki.