Swee Ping's Little Corner

It’s nothing short of one word - AWESOME!

Life have been great and awesome for the past 15 months. Reason why I said past 15 months, is because my life changed when I started new career back in October 2010, ever since then, things been great for me.

It is not just a change of work environment, but a change of mind, lifestyle and etc (can’t think of the word right now). It have definitely changed my life as new friendships are built, traveled around the world (still hasn’t reach the Western side though), met a lot of new friends along the way, widen my horizons and open up my mind and heart to a lot of things.

There is some downtime along the way but I don’t recalled any specific ones right now that will make my facial expression become grimace.

Let’s see what can I recapped about the 15 months… For my first oversea assignment, I went to Bali solo (lost something very precious to me that I cried on the spot… why does it got to be Bali…) and make new friends from Germany, Holland, Russia and discovered a really cool Scandinavian bar, did live tweets for work (major nerve breaking the first time and sometimes it still do), wore my first wig for annual party (and partied hard), adopted a stray kitten and named it as Mochi, got the nickname “Energizer Bunny” cos I partied the whole 12hours at ZoukOut Singapore (oh, also met really cute Aussie which I can’t remember the name now..), partied at Ku De Ta, saw SUJU concert, ran my first 10-km marathon at the “Energizer Nightmare Run” on Sepang International Circuit, flew to Christchurch on April Fool and went on hot air balloon for the first time, ran my first oversea 10-km run at Singapore Sundown, flew to Miri for Borneo Jazz, flew to Clark-Manila for work and go about the city on my own, went back to Christchurch the second time, met new friends and experienced many amazing moments (visited Mount John Observatory Centre, did bungy jump & canyon swing in the most embarrassing way, a very sweet moment at Lake Wakatipu), visited Langkawi and have our first and last team holiday (sad)

Second half of 2011, I ran my first half marathon in Gold Coast (not good time but I finished), had two birthday celebrations by friends and colleagues at work, celebrated my birthday onboard a flight and in Sri Lanka with my friend (identity need to be hidden else because it will cause a lot of speculation), first time traveling with KTG to Bangkok, saw Linkin Park performing in Singapore GP (OH THE SO AWESOME!), met Akiraceo and Tianchad, visited F1 Paddock area, visited Macau and met Tim, see the other side of Johore, visited India for Indian GP (oh the dust), interviewed Heikki, Jarno and Karun from Team Caterham, flew back to Seoul and a friendship rekindled, randomly went to Laos with KTG and celebrated her birthday, went to 2PM concert and fell in love with young boys of 2PM =_=||, flew to Osaka, went on my first rollercoaster ride (totally freaked me out), visited Kaiyukan, something very sweet happened and learnt something very important, wore evening gown and Yukata for company annual party and had one very memorable Skype, spent Christmas in Singapore with my childhood bestie Mei Feng, Bryan, Ah Gek and Sha (also had a disappointing moment on Christmas), had a fun time in Khao Lak - Phuket, celebrated Trudy’s birthday, saw the bluest sea, released my first komloy, saw starry skies and in less than 48 hours of 2011, I sort of did a *cough cough cough* which was really cute when I recapped the whole scenario.

Would love to post up pictures that have make my year such an AWESOME year but left my HDD at home which means I got to hold on till 2012.

Strangely enough, I so look forward for 2012 :)) Happy new year peeps!

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Being a person who have interest in almost anything (not everything), it prompts me into thinking a lot on what I want to do.

Let’s just take manga as an example. I love reading manga/comic, I love it since I was a kid - DragonBall Z, Dr Slump, Slam Dunk, Yuyu Hakuso, Doraemon, Batman, Spiderman, Ranma 1/2, City Hunter, Ushio & Tora, Princess of the Nile River, Superman, Catwoman, Wonderwoman, Thundercats, Old Master Q, Lat, Ujang, Gila-Gila, Little Lulu, Dennis the Menace, Bugs Bunny, Garfield, Tom & Jerry, Mickey Mouse & Friends and the list goes on.

And I love drawing or rather doodling and have I ever inspired to be a manga artist/cartoonist?

Yes I have.

Did I worked toward it?

I did but I also know I can’t.

Drawing a manga/cartoon is not an easy task - lots of hardwork involved (everything involve hardwork & determination), and I don’t have the big talent to do it.

Low self-esteem? Ya, that have always been an issue but I know manga is not my strength. Able to doodle satirical stuff doesn’t make me an illustrator. Maybe if I chose illustration as my major, it would be a different story.

Maybe.

Some of my friends & family member thought I want to be mangaka but I told them nope cos I know I don’t have the determination like a real mangaka.

I know loving it, is different than doing it for a living.

Of course able to do what you love as a living is an awesome thing - who doesn’t want it?

If you are curious to know whether I love what I’m doing now then the answer is yes, I do.

There is a huge gap of difference between my current job & the previous job. I am very grateful for the opportunity despite my lack of knowledge & experience in it.

This I have to thank my friends who supported & encouraged me and also ultimately to my manager who gave me the chance.

So why the question “is this what I want?”

Simply because my current job has given me the opportunity to realize what I want do.

And now it is the time to move ahead to the goals. Yes - goals.

This is me telling myself - let’s get it going.