Christmas 2006

Happy Holidays, dear readers.

Your truly had a wonderful Christmas' eve at *Candid's sister's condo. Truly, the food was wonderful, the company was great, the films were acceptable ("Miracle on 34th Street" & "Something Gotta Give" - good looking lead men!)

Here's the menu:
1. Appeitiser: Mango Salad with red/yellow peppers, carrots, cucumber & fresh lemon dressing served with cocktail drink
2. Starter: tomato in potato jacket with fried shrimps & mushroom with baked mashed pumpkin & grilled eggplant
3. Main Course: Black pepper roast beef with thick gravy and mashed potato with pumpkin
4. Dessert: egg nog & baked cinnamon apples with full cream

Pure Utter bliss.

Great ambience, close friends, fantastic food.

What more can one ask for?

:::

No experience is ever truly wasted
We all learn and grow
But differs only in extent
~ Moi

Christmas might perhaps seem to be a strange time for reflections. But truth is Christmas means more to yours truly than new year, if only because yours truly usually have a christmas gathering with friends. So every christmas gathering, it is like a ballpark point for reflection. After all, at the very least, yours trul y can look back to the year and also compare the previous christmas party.

2006 is a relatively landmark year. Not only has yours truly given her first ever resignation letter, yours truly has embarked on a new career and is seriously planning her future graduate school education. In terms of family, yours truly has constantly been reminded of how lucky moi is for having supportive parents. In terms of friends, yours truly is fortunate to have my exclusive clique even though some might have driften away, yours truly's core clique remains and has indeed expanded to include *Candid. Also, yours truly has grown closer to *starry, and also gets along with her *gallant, which is all-round-good news.

So when yours truly look back, I have to concede that dear evilness has indeed been good to moi this year. Even though sometimes, it seems *dumb to have wasted 2 years with yours truly's previous company but I firmly believe that no experience is truly wasted. Everything happens for a reason, and having gone through the experience, that experience will only become the fertilizer of moi's future growth. Yes, I might make different choices if I get to choose again. But life is not like that . There is no NGs or RETAKES.

So learn from experiences, no matter good or bad, it will only and can only add depth and nuances to one's character.

People who believe in that will definitely be happier, if not also stronger.

I firmly believe and live on that belief.

Do you?

Sheer