Summer 2011

I found that my last blog was written in March, I am sorry to you who come to this page often and found the same reading. I have been busy for the summer, as for your information, summer is the only nice season for Winnipegers. We have only a few months to enjoy the sun, 75% of the year would be winter/cold days.

This year, I enjoy my summer as much as before. Life is stressful but enjoying while spending money and going for trips. Let me show you what I did for the summer:

1)Canada Day, July 1st 2011
I went to Lac Du Bonnet, a small town in Manitoba. Fireworks at night was awesome, news said it is the best fireworks in Canada.












2)My Birthday July 14th 2011






3) strawberry picking




4th) Gimli Beach




5) Banff Trip







Feel free to find more pictures in my facebook.

Awesome things

I read an article yesterday that made my day today. The author wrote about awesome things happened and worth a little pleasure in his life. Humans like to complain, I am one of them, I like to complain a lot. Complaining allows me to release my stress. After reading the article, I want to find awesome things everyday to make myself a little bit cheerful and distress.

After reading the article, I realized that there are some little things can be awesome. He wrote books and post blog about his awesome things, some of them are quite true. You can read it at www.awesomethings.com. When awesome things happened, we didn't really know and the moment passed in a second. So we should always appreciate these little awesome things...Let's me share the awesome things I found today:

It is awesome that my supervisor create a rack for the reports we share ( it used to be on his desk).
It is awesome to be busy at work and took 40 mins off from work to drive to the lab.
It is awesome to walk under the rain again after 6 months of winter/ snowing days.
It is awesome to change boots into my shoes and to prepare to go home from work.
It is awesome to eat CURRY CHICKEN today.
It is awesome to write blog about awesome things happened today.
It is awesome to be home even though I am alone at home.
It is awesome to go to sleep now.

It will be awesome to get a good sleep and good dream.. HAHA

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

Since I was young, I always look forward for chinese new year. Even though I am far away from home, I still have the same feeling. I have been spending my 3 Chinese New year in Canada, there is like nothing special in Canada. This year is slightly better where there is a Vietamese Market opened at down town selling Chinese new year stuff. I could easily get ingredients to make my beloved chinese new year dessert, my beloved drink for CNY - Yeo's chrysanthemum tea. Another difference for this year is my room mates' parents, and Jon's mother is here. We celebrate a lovely chinese new year together, making dumpling together.

The best is when I talked to my relatives, family via skype. I still getting ang pow from them even though I was not physically there. It was extremely funny when they take family picture with me in the netbook. It gives me a lot of happiness and strong feeling. I always have home sick during Chinese new year. Hopefully I can spend CNY at home next year.

A new year with a new hope, I wish my family is happy and healthy forever.

New Year Resolution

1. Get a raise in salary or position

• Work smarter and be more responsible
  
• start looking for better opportunity

2.Be a Permanent Resident of Canada

• Start preparing documents in March
• Send application in April

3. Maintain or reduce body weight

• Join gym classes
• Play badminton and squash
• Get a Wii Fit . HAHA

4.Go traveling

• Not given a lot of holidays so only can go to US
  
• Need to plan ahead
• Florida? Chicago? Minneapolis again?
  
• No more shopping
  

5. Better money management

• 50% for saving
• 50$ for daily expenses
  

6. Better personal management

• Improve myself in english
• 40% work, 30% relax, 30% sleep for a week day
• Prepare to think for future, further studies or continue working
• further studies in food science? or other courses? pharmacy? Business?

My 2011 slogan

I used to like the phrase " when there's a will, there's a way" It motivated me to try harder to reach my goal. However, recently i realized that it was not completely true. It does not apply to certain circumstances. If you have a will, you need opportunity, and need approval from other people, you need socializing. It is because this is a reality world, people are bias to people they like. Even if you are the type of people that everybody likes, it does not mean that there's always a way to reach the goal, because that is all depends on GODS.

My new motivation slogan for 2011 is " Tomorrow is a better day". Instead of complaining my day and something*, I want to accept it, ignore it, and learn from it. Complaining does not mean anything, sometimes it is just frustration and complaining make me feel a lot better. Most important is, I get to understand myself better after complaining. I like the slogan because it is not a motivation and also a hope for a day. When you are down, you hope for a better tomorrow. When you are happy, a better tomorrow is even greater. It is a motivation to tell myself to do better for a better tomorrow.

Tomorrow of course is a better day because tomorrow is a SATURDAY!!! Hooray...