Jan
13th

Jan
12th

Since I said I don’t make new year’s resolutions anymore, I wanted to make some un-resolutions— things I realized in the past couple of years and need to undo.

Stop reading emails and messages and when I can’t reply right away— like on the Blackberry. Because that tends to lead to forgetfulness.

Stop being in a rush all the time. My friends always say that I am constantly in a rush— and they are right. I feel like I have to constantly get things done really fast all the time because that’s just the way I roll. Must. Breath.

Stop talking so fast. Simply because I can’t and the stuttering proves it. I can only talk amazingly fast in Chinese. And walking so fast. But sometime I can’t help that because “I have long legs.” Harhar.

Stop wasting time. Stop peaking at my emails, Twitter and my RSS feeds. Get my work done and get outta there.

Stop being so critical about myself. I hardly blog because I get sick of my entries— I’ll write one and let it sit in my drafts for weeks and then finally delete it. I don’t upload my design work because I don’t think it’s good enough. I’m so use to working for my company where my work gets reviewed internally and getting all my freelance clients by word-of-mouth, thus never having to make an online portfolio and display work to the “world.” When I started MMC with my girlfriend, I was quite terrified because that meant the world will get to see my work (even if it wasn’t polished to my expectations). I’m just going to have to have to step out of my comfort zone and learn that I can’t always be perfect. This is no way to market yourself either.

Stop sleeping so late. This is slowly killing me.

It’s kind of hypocritical that I am writing this entry right now… at 4am and it will probably sit in my drafts folder for at least a week or more. Maybe even un-resolutions are meant to be broken. Let’s see if I can prove myself wrong.

STOP!!!!!!!! Now for a little hehehe nostalgica:

Hey you, always on the run. Gotta slow it down baby, gotta have some fun.

Edit — Only sat in my drafts folder for a week! But here I am, publishing it off at 5am after sending out my last emails for the night. And after this, I’m going to be on Youtube watching old Spice Girls’ videos. Maybe this is why I stopped writing these things down. I will start these… in a couple of hours.

Jan
7th

Erin recently published an article on the Vancouver Dating Scene. I’m not going to make any comments on that since I have no experience in dating but I did see a comment by anonymous person about girls leaving the gym with a “don’t-talk-to-me bitch face.”

I’m one of those girls with a bitch-face but  don’t judge me! I can’t help it because I was born this way! I’m not one (most of the time) but my friends tell me I look like one and it was worse in highschool when I use to parade around the halls with my bitch-face on and headphones blasting— so that I seem to be ignoring everyone when they called out my name. I’m not going to walk around with a fake and cheesy smile on my face 24/7 like some girls do but I must admit, having a bitch-face really does have it’s perks and it’s easy to un-bitchify it too with a hint of a smile. Bitch-faces are useful, ladies! Know when to use it.

There is one place where I think the bitch-face is 100% appropriate: AT THE GYM.

1. The gym is NOT a place to socialize. A friendly hi is as far as it goes.
2. DO NOT TALK TO ME AT THE GYM. Even if I know you. Because for that hour, I don’t know anybody.
3. I hate it when my workouts are interrupted.
4. Gym routine: in, do your thing & get out.

There I said it.

Jan
5th

We have many girls' nights... always stocked with wine, cheese... Goose and lots of other goodies. And they're always filled with laughter, shrieks and unimaginable chaos— I don't think we've ever NOT have a good time.

I'm a lucky girl. My boyfriend makes me fresh salad rolls for dinner and cooks me a ton of other stuff (and even washes the dishes!)... my next mission is to make him love whole-wheat pasta because it's so yummy and hearty. Speaking of healthy, we went for ALL YOU CAN EAT BACON that ended up in a soju-overdosed, fun-filled night. Speaking about fun... nothing is more fun than catching up with super old friends over good bubble tea and Taiwanese food and reminiscing about all the crazy shit we use to do when were still young. Yes, STILL young... I can't party like how I use to any more.

One of our favorite things to do is to get dressed up and EAT. Me? I really just like to eat.

I was ecstatic to NOT get dressed up and party this NYE but somehow got dragged out to a super fun and casual dinner and drinks with my best friends. This was the BEST NYE ever! I even got to wear sweats. AND we somehow ended up with a free beer glass.

And somewhere in between were all the working, eating, snowboarding … but barely any sleeping.
Why sleep when there are fun and productive things to do?

Dec
26th

Yesterday was Christmas Day and also TwentyFourCarat.net’s 6 year anniversary! I started this blog when I was in my senior year in high school— although I had another blog prior this this, from my freshman year till then, but unless you want to read about my whiny, annoying and rebellious teenage years that were worse than the first entries of this blog, let’s bury that forever.

TwentyFourCarat.net has been a record of all the good times in my last year of high school, graduating with all my girlfriends— the “Asian Girls”, as we were cliquishly named in high school (who are still my best friends), sleepless nights all throughout art school till my final portfolio show that landed my first and very exciting career-starting job a couple weeks later, my transition into a lazy to healthy lifestyle and everything in between. Six years later, so many things have changed and I’ve grown and learned so much in all aspects of my life— I feel like I’m at another significant milestone in my life because huge things are going to be happening in 2012 and I can’t wait! I will share it with you all when time is right.

2011 has been an intense whirlwind— an exciting, new high-profile project at work that we are just wrapping up and will be shipping in March, intense night schooling, re-learning how to “study,” miles and miles of training for the Ride to Conquer Cancer, so much intense fitness it wasn’t even funny, lots of freelance projects with new and old clients, months and months of sleepness nights (well 5am nights) and most recently: starting a new design partnership with one of my best and most talented friends:

Our website doesn’t have much up at the moment but we have so many ideas, just not enough time to do them all! We also have some pretty exciting projects and contracts lined up for the new year that we are just itching to start after all these holiday festivities. Everything, including our logo, website and first launch project were cooked up 3 weeks before launch, and we don’t think the polish level of the posters are up-to-par yet but on top of the everything we had to do and went through, I think it’s amazing. The last 3 weeks were the craziest, most intense and wanting-to-die-because-I-was-so-tired-everyday weeks of my life. I still have no idea how we did it but I would happily do it all over again with my Kimchi.

The new year is coming up and I still have a bunch of freelance projects I want to finish and still be able to live my life and do other fun things like snowboarding and girls’ nights, so I probably won’t be posting until 2012.

I know I haven’t been posting entries regularly like I use to and keep saying I will but I’m especially thankful to my group of loyal readers who are still reading, commenting and supporting me, no matter how sparse the entries… since the beginning. Some bloggers like to say they only blog for themselves but if I knew that no one reads my blog, I would not blog at all.

I wish you all a happy and healthy new year!!

I love you all. xoxo.