I must be mad for starting this when I’m up to my ears in work with limited access to the Net and trying to revive my poor abandoned little PE blog!

But I wanted to chronicle the steps of this life-changing event so welcome to:

The Pinkest Wedding Of The Year!

Please feel free to drop by and share your experiences, thoughts and comments! Especially since I’m so clueless and disorganized and time just keeps ticking by!

Welcome once again! Huan ying, huan ying!

I’ve been one really bad blogger but the real world has won over blogging these past few months.

Before I disappear offline again, have a very happy Chinese New Year! May the Year of the Rat bring everyone much joy, wealth and happiness! Have a safe journey wherever you are going and don’t forget to send the Piggie Year off with a great pig-out! I know I will…pfffttt to dieting for now!

I will be back soon!

GONG XI FA CAI!!

Can’t believe it’s my last year to collect angpows! *sob*

It’s official!

 Thaipusam this Wednesday IS a public holiday for KL and Putrajaya!!

WOOHOO!! *does little dance*

This sniffs of elections!

Happy Thaipusam!!

And so it comes again, a time to sit and reflect on the year that was. To think of the successes and mistakes, the tears and laughter and the memorable moments as yet another year passes us by.

It has been one roller coaster of a year for me. This year, I travelled to the most number of countries I’d ever travelled in my life - from exotic Kazakhstan to far flung London with stints to Beijing and Middle East in between. This was a year I found the courage to walk away from my comfort zone into a totally new zone where I’m still having trouble adjusting. It was a year of many highs and lows but I’m happy to say that this has been one year where I found happiness, both outside and inside as I started to understand myself better. And of course, a year where life-changing surprises came in a blue little box with a red ribbon (’cos it was Christmas, according to T&C!)

It was indeed a year of no regrets.

So, here’s to another wonderful year ahead for all of us! May it be filled with happiness, love, joy and laughter always to make it yet another memorable year! *clinks champagne glasses*

P/S Have you penned down those resolutions yet?!

They say you never appreciate what you have till you lose it. Nothing sums this up better than my new company now.

I’m into my 4th day at work and am already getting Internet and Chat withdrawal syndromes! I never realised how good I had it in my previous company with super fast Internet speed from a special designated lease line and total freedom to surf everything and anything I wanted! I had every Chat program available from Skype to MSN Messenger and keeping in touch with friends and family was second nature. Planning for holidays was a breeze because I had the freedom to research everything and anything. I picked up so much information from all over the World Wide Web and actually progressed from a total techie idiot to a marginally better one, thanks to great sites like http://www.webhostingchoice.com which taught me webhosting in simply English!

Now, I can’t even change the settings in my Folder view because “I do not have privileges to change this. Please contact the system administrator” *wails*

I don’t even want to begin to think how useful the Internet would have been in helping me plan for that big day next year. Now, I actually have to work a full 10 hours a day without any blog break

So…

Goodbye MSN

Goodbye Yahoo Messenger

Goodbye cute Skype icons

Goodbye my favourite blogs which I started everyday with

Goodbye blogging during work breaks

*sob* It was great while it lasted!

The pink one has been MIA again! Ah…blame it on the festive season and the hopping on to that big shiny red and yellow bus! Yep, I’m still in my first week in the new company, thanks to the kind new boss who very generously gave me last Friday and Monday off because I had hopped onboard directly from my old job without a break. So how has it been?

Honestly, there have been some pros and cons.

Pros:

• Brighter career prospects
• Big multinational company
• Hopefully better benefits in the new year
• Lots of employee enrichment programme (which doesn’t really seem to be my cup of tea!)
• A boss who believes in flexi hours and casual Fridays
• Focus, direction and excellent business principles

Cons:

• Terribly expensive parking (I paid RM28 on my first day!)
• No more season pass
• No more convenience of working in a mall and being able to do banking during lunch
• No more nice office of my own…I’m regulated to SHARING a cube!
• No more internet, chat programs or blogs! *cries*
• 15 days leave instead of 21 days! *boo hoo*

I could think of lots more cons but…must.think.positive! I’ve gone from being someone in a small organization to now a nobody in a huge one. Was it the right move at this point of my life? I only hope it is! Hopefully I can still fit in my wedding planning and leave needs with my limited blogging time, internet time and leave! Thanks to GT for giving me a headstart with those lists! *hugs*

My blogging might be a little more sporadic from now on while I find my feet and try to stop myself from freaking out whenever I think of the huge task ahead of me for next year! If someone had told me that weddings came with lots of stress, spots and astronomical costs, I would have seriously considered eloping and having a nice little private ceremony on a beautiful Bali beach! Ah, one can but dream!

Till next time, have a very Merry Christmas and all the very best for a wonderful 2008 ahead! Have you made your New Year resolutions? No prizes for guessing what mine are after all that festive feasting! *groan*

Thanks for all your kind wishes! *hugs*

The past weekend passed by in a surreal blur from running to the mall to drop off the ring for resizing (2 months!) to hearing the word fiancée for the first time.

But like confetti that comes falling, all that came to a screeching halt and I floated down from Cloud Nine with a painful bump when the parents started talking about tables and sis started asking me what sort of dress I wanted. Suddenly, it felt like things were happening so fast and I couldn’t breathe and the usual planner and organized me was not even able to pull up any semblance of a list, what more a design of a dress!

And to top it off, some nasty remarks by nasty people really spoilt my mood. Like the great boss of Nuffnang said here, some people are just so pessimistic. It was such a marked contrast from the happiness and joy I heard in my friend’s voice when I called her this morning to break the news.

Anyway, I’d really better start cracking on that list soon so any suggestions or templates from anyone would be greatly welcomed! Tine, CheesyPoo…pretty please?!

It was a scene right out of Love Actually…

A moment that will be cherished forever…

Thank you…

I LOVE YOU!

Thanks too to ParisB ?

Things have been getting so busy in the real world that I almost forgot I had my little pink alter-ego to maintain! Nope, I haven’t been busy FB-ing (though I do sneak in fights every now and then on my fast growing monsters!) but rather, I’ve been really with work and some new happenings so this is just a little short Pinkelicious Pop to bring things up to date!

*****

There was once a story I watched about a woman who was supposed to get on a bus but refused. It turned out that in some parallel universe, that bus was her destiny bus because she wasn’t supposed to exist anymore in the real world. But because she didn’t get on, she slowly ceased to exist here, simply because she didn’t get on the bus.

What’s that mumbo-jumbo?

Well, 6 months ago, I too declined to get on a bus that trundled along with a promise of better things. Instead, I agreed to stay put and nothing materialized out of it except perhaps, a few interesting trips. And suddenly, out of the blue, a big shiny red and yellow bus has just pulled up right in front of me with even better promises!

Did I get on? You bet I did!

PE says - Here’s to better things!

*****

I was in London last week for some final meetings. It was a good, albeit, cold trip. For a change, we actually stayed in the city, right smack in Kensington so it was wonderful to have easy access to all kinds of food and conveniences. With Sainsburys 200m away and Tesco Extra just opposite the hotel, I got a chance to save a bit on my allowances with fresh bagels from those places instead of the expensive hotel buffet! I even had the chance to pop out to visit an old friend in his new flat in Zone 2 where we had a wonderful catch up session over delicious home-cooked food.

This trip was a bit of an eye-opener though. I came back feeling much happier and settled about life…finally. And it’s a wonderful feeling.

PE says -

*****

Drop the former transport minister,

No, it’s a nicely wrapped meal, sir!

Did you guess that right? Scroll down below for the answer!

That was just some of the clues we had to solve in our inaugural Treasure Hunt! ParisB and I headed up to Penang last weekend with 2 friends to take part in a Food Treasure Hunt. It was our first time and boy, did we have fun! The first leg involved driving all over Penang to collect chops from various food outlets. One of which was all the way in Balik Pulau! Then it was off to New World Food Court to solve more clues before we hit the road with our tulips.

One of the hardest challenge was having to run all the way up Kek Lok Si to the Cheong Kim Chuan shop to pick up a pack of nutmeg! I was about to pass out but the friendly shopkeepers all along the stairs who were egging us on kept me going!

Thanks to GT for her help, ParisB for her excellent driving AND clue-spotting skills though she was sick as a dog, J for his great navigational skills and JH for driving us up to Penang and back again!

PE says - Bring on the next Treasure Hunt!

*****

I need to get back tonnes of filing and putting all my documents in order. With my unutilised leave this year plus some carried forward from last year, my last day was shockingly a lot faster than I expected.

I’m a bit of a mixed bag of feelings but for now, I’d better tackle that Eiffel Tower high stack of documents in my room I’ve been collecting since goodness knows when! After I’m done, I’ll probably need a Hair Transplant when I’m done pulling out my hair in frustration!

PE says - I HATE FILING!!

*Pinkelle floats off her soapbox with her pink parasol*

Answer to that clue: Dump + Ling = dumpling! Hands up if you got it right!

Isn’t it amazing how in this day and age of Blackberries, blogging on the go and being wired 24-7, some people have just discovered Skype?!

Today, in a momentous event, my dinosaur colleague finally had to give in to technology and download Skype. All simply because another colleague in the UK was getting really tired of having to pay huge international phone bills and threatened to stop picking up his calls! So, he was finally dragged, kicking and screaming, into The Blackberry Age!

Best of all, I had to download it for him, guide him through setting up his account and teach him how to use it and now he’s pleased as punch and is trying to add everyone on so that he can call them on his funky new mic and headphones! *rolls eyes* Maybe I’d better not introduce the concept of PC Security Cameras for his home so he can keep an eye on his daughter or maid! No prizes for guessing what he’ll probably be doing all day!