Bits & Pieces of 2010

I am not the most responsible blogger and photographer, yes. Today I had time to look through my pictures and noted that there are some pictures that I had forgotten about. Most of them were taken with the aim of posting them on the blog. 

Let us have a look at the fragments of memories in 2010 via photographs:

Weinheim, January 2010: Soenke teaching me to roll my first snowball. Followed by my first snowball fight. I lost, needless to say.

Paris, January 2010: We strolled along the River Seine towards the Eiffel Tower

Paris, January 2010: Tarte aux Pommes, Soenke's favourite. 

Heidelberg, January 2010: How often do one see Soenke holding a wine glass, full with wine, and enjoying it? Thank you Andreas for distilling it!

Ipoh, February 2010: Soenke doing what he likes on top of a fishing platform floating on a lake full of water lilies. I brought him here to show him one of my favourite spots.

Singapore, April 2010: One of many surprises Soenke occassionally spring on me. Gold class cinema is watching cinema on wide, reclining chairs with blankets and "butler" service. Wow...

Jakarta, June 2010: With Julian at his uncle's wedding dinner reception. Miss the little guy.

Jakarta, June 2010: We had a great meal at Mr Curry Rice. Yes, we should eat Indonesian food when in Indonesia but :)

Jakarta, June 2010: My most recent meet up with Dani. That is really sometime ago!

 Singapore, June 2010: One of the minions from Despicable Me! Cute!

Singapore, September 2010: Mooncake Festival at Chinatown. Every year, kids will play with lanterns and candles during Mooncake Festival. Here there are lanterns from all over the world. This is also my first Mooncake Festival without eating any mooncake.

A rough summary of 2010 in photos. It was quite a year. 

 

1st Post of 2011

Hello 2011! It took me exactly a week to pop by here to post my first post of 2011. So far, the year had started like any other day of any other year. Yes we did had a countdown at Siloso Beach, which fortunately or unfortunately, we missed the couple at the foam pool who got famous all over the internet. Ho-hum. Big deal. 

I am at the moment more concerned about the amount of booze that I had consumed after the clock went 00:00 at 1st Jan 2011. None! And 7 days later, still nil! The worst thing is I have the craziest itch to swig down a glass of nice wine or a mug/bottle of foamy beer, followed by losing myself into the music. No, that did not happen on the New Year's Eve countdown and yes, I am very deprived. Worst case, I am still sick! I had a mild food poisoning that caused me to first shiver and break into fever, vomit on the next day and have diarrhea on the third. On the fourth day, I ate like a bird, pecking at my food because post feeding I get tummyaches. Which is something similar to a headache that is there but not too serious, just telling you that it's there. 

I want to reflect on my year of 2010. It has been a great ride. Sometimes challenging, always great and also life-changing perhaps. Travel-wise, Soenke and I had done it again. We started the year off with a trip to Paris, a bit more of Weinheim, Phuket, Malacca, Jakarta, Bali, Jogjakarta and Beijing. 

This 2011, I hope I can drag my ass of the couch finally and get some work out done. I used to enjoy swimming, walks, hikes and so on. Whatever happened to that~! 

This 2011, I will be married to Soenke Scharnhorst! Haha, another reason to get my body toned for my wedding dresses! 

This 2011, I hope I can be a better person to my family and friends and also the environment (not only the plants but the animals, the other people on this planet etc).

This 2011, I want to read more. I want experiment more things. In general, live more.

One step at a time. Let's focus on all positivity to all of our hopes and dreams.