Came across this article:

10 Best Plants to Grow Indoors for Air Purification

Keeping this in mind for our new place!

My favourite has got to be the Peace Lily:

This beautiful flower is a wonderful low-maintenance plant to keep in the home. Peace lilies do well in shade and cooler temperatures, and they can reduce the levels of a number of toxins in the air.

Article source: http://www.trueactivist.com/10-best-plants-to-grow-indoors-for-air-purification/
Photo source: http://www.ewildflowersflorist.com

Time to learn new skills!

While we're still on this whole new year resolution thing (i assume everyone has the month of Jan to think about their new year resolutions), came across this interesting article:

24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year

Who doesn't love freebies (at the risk of sounding auntie haha).

Anyway, these are on my list:

i. Get started with investing in stocks.
Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. 

 
For the new house:
ii. Clean your house in a short amount of time. 
Unf$#k Your Habitat cleaning guide

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iii. Become awesome at Excel.
Chandoo

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iv. Understand basic psychology.
Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures

v. Learn to negotiate.

Stanford’s Stan Christensen

As you can tell, i am quite ambitious but i've got a whole year. That equates to embarking on a new one once every 2 months or so. Quite doable no?

Okay, perhaps i shall prioritise the first 3 and see how it goes - baby steps.

This is the year for some self-improvement (:

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/24-invaluable-skills-to-learn-for-free-online-this-year

Healthy breakfast recipes

I'm one (baby) step closer towards my new year's resolution of eating healthy - found recipes!

The photos are enough to make me drool!

Gluten-Free Cinnamon Pancakes

Paleo Sausage Egg “McMuffin”

Bacon Baked Eggs

On this note, we just met with our contractor to talk about our new place.

Can't wait for it to be ready, so we can move in and prepare all these healthy breakfasts! (:

Source: Delicious Low Carb Breakfasts For A Healthy New Year

It's 2014!

A new year, new beginnings, as we continue on this journey called life.

Needless to say, i'm back (hopefully for a longer while this time).

2013 went by in the blink of an eye, and it was a year that i reached another milestone in my life.
I got married, to the love of my life.  [Speaking of which, he just got home]
And i couldn't be happier! Looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together (:
Perhaps one of these days i'll show the snippets of our ROM and wedding day here.

So, we got engaged in Oct 2012, got married (legally) in Oct 2013 and had our customary wedding in Dec 2013. This year, we'll be moving into our very own flat! We've just got the keys and have started thinking about what we want to do with this 1300sqft that we now own.

So for 2014, this is what i have in store so far:
i) designing and moving into our new place
ii) a new portfolio at work

Pretty exciting times!!

What better way to end off the first post of the year than with new year resolutions:
i) a healthy lifestyle - i.e. exercise (yoga, runs) and eating right
ii) learn to better manage my time (so i can be a wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee, and still be me)
iii) most important of all: to be resolute in my resolutions.

Clearly, i like lists.