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Happy Chinese New Year!

Dearest Blog,

I’m so so sorry that I have neglected you. I’ve been so busy with boyfriend, travel, friends and work that I haven’t had time to update or even visit you. And whenever I did happen to drop by, I was completely lost for words. I wanted to give you some quality posts to make up for my absence but there was just so much to catch up on!!

2010 was just such a crazy year that zoomed by us all, but I hope we can catch up soon. Maybe after Chinese New Year? 恭喜发财!!

Love,

Selina

Does Prince William Know His Marital Statistics?

Reading about Prince William’s engagement somehow led me to an article about the decline in marriage and the ‘new families’. Pew Social Trends and TIME Magazine did a survey and this a brief summary of their findings.

  • Higher education, wealth and marriage are linked
  • Women are smarter, richer, more independent and are more 2/3 likely to initiate divorce
  • Don’t be surprised if the wife is the breadwinner, older and taller than hubby
  • Higher educated couples test run before marriage and children, less educated couples have children then marry
  • Pray you’re not living in the US: “..a child living together with unmarried parents in Sweden has a lower chance that his family will disrupt than does a child living with married parents in the U.S.”
  • Married and unmarried adults say (in order of priority) that love, making a lifelong commitment and companionship are very important reasons to get married. Having children moderately so and financial stability barely even made it past the 30% mark for married adults.
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A post in the air…

I have had every intention to write up a blog post for the past few weeks. Really, the intention was there!

Most often than not, my blogging occurs when there’s a lull in my time and I can reflect on anything of interest, or I have issues which I need to clarify through writing…

And write write write I did….
Just not to the public ^^;

Some posts are just meant for bouncing of thoughts.
Inconclusive. Unreliable.
And most people just can’t accept that.

To sum up what has been occupying me lately: bf, family, friends, work, dhaa, me! It’s not actually much, but all consume large amounts of time. And it’s time which I don’t have enough of!!!

So here I am, on the plane back from my weekend trip to Melbourne which was both for business (DHAA) and pleasure (friends). And when I’m in Perth, I’m going to have to find time for family, bf and me during the times I won’t be working!

I’m just thankful for friends who don’t mind the lack of contact from my part… er well ok, so maybe they mind just a little bit but they have far superior understanding and forgiveness ^___^;;

Back Online!

Finally connected to my true love… WWW! <3hyper love

Despite the fact that I wasn’t completely cut off from the www since I had the opportunity to leech… I’m still quite proud of myself and my lack of withdrawal symptoms. Sure most people think I’m kidding when I mention ‘Internet’ and ‘Withdrawal’ in one sentence, but they obviously haven’t clocked up the hours to match me… yet! I’m just glad I never had to go to Internet Addiction Camp, and I can sleep more easily knowing that: “Internet addiction is treatable. Through about three months’ treatment, 80 percent of the patients can get away from the addiction”

Anyhow, I’ve been blog-free for 2 months and there’s just so much and so little I want to post!

First and foremost…
Welcome my adorable nephew, Elliott Ho!

Christmas, New Years, Australia Day….
Celebrations.
Lots of celebrations and early mornings.
Lots of alcohol and craziness.
Lots of heart-stopping action…

On a side note: Photobucket has killed my account… bye bye whatever photos I had stored in there!

Centering

Since a couple of months before the Cambodia-Thailand trip, I’ve definitely slipped up and kind of plateaued off in my self study.

Patong

我的问题是因为我需要太多了
天天忙着什么我也不知道
每一天找东西做 因为我怕太闷

其实我知道这是一个坏习惯
进步一定很慢
我可能过世也还没得到我的目的。。。

但是。。。我还想不出来我的目的
我已经想了几次,问了几次:

“如果我只有一天在世,我的目的是什么?”

我的回答可以说,“结束世界的苦难”吗?
如果这时我的目的。。。我应该怎样开始?
我们的世界有那么多问题

人类非常邪恶(evil)因为我们很无知(ignorant)

啊。。。不要想太多了
C’est la vie

Time to get back on track…

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Tweets for the week 2009-08-24
  • Glad island hopping turned out better than expected despite the rain #
  • Sorry guys, I can't upload photos because Phuket hates Facebook! #
  • thai massage = paid torture …. still feeling tenderised… #
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