Europe!

Earlier this year, we managed to tour around western Europe with our newly wedded cousin and her husband. We tagged along their honeymoon :P Anyway, with a group tour of about 30 people, off we went for 14 days to begin our exciting journey in February. It started with a trip to London, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and ended in Italy. We were fortunate the weather was quite cooperative, it was cold, but bearable, and it got more sunny as we travelled south to Italy. A week before our trip, according to the news, it was so cold and freezing in Europe that the Venetian canal was (quite) frozen. We enjoyed our vacation and we took hundreds and hundreds of photos. If you ask me which city/country is my favorite... I would say... Paris and Switzerland. I love Venice too. Can't just pick one :P

New Job

After 6 months break from work since I left DT, I started my new job yesterday, 1 June 2012 as an Executive in corporate banking in Singapore. Totally new to the nature of the job so I am kind of scared of not being able to perform & potentially meet with clients alone one day...but at the same time excited for the opportunity to learn and be able to relate to Richard's job in a way (talk in the same language :P)

Two things that I miss the most about working in the US are first that I drove to work, so I could easily had lunch at home and took a bit rest and get refreshed. Here, I have to wake up earlier, and took a 30-45 minutes bus depending on the morning traffic..so eating lunch at home is nearly impossible. Second, somehow the office cube was much bigger in the US (my office), I feel that here, people work so close to each other, cube and tables are squeezed thus less privacy.. Ohhh and there was supply room in the US so I could easily get notepad and pencils and other stationery if needed.

And three things I miss the most of working is I miss my sleep time. I miss playing with baby niece Elin. I miss doing grocery and shopping and even any activities  during weekdays when there is less people = less queue.