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My first offline online-Secret Santa

Categorised as Internet, Miscellaneous, Rants, Web-Related & tagged with celebration, christmas, gifts, snark.

Thanks to Emma and Snark, I just received my first ever gift from a Secret Santa organised online.

I felt so bad putting forward a massive “dislikes list”, but I often do receive a lot of Christmas gifts I have no idea what to do with…

• I have my own cup at home, I do not need a bigazil­lion mugs and glasses.
• I have an unro­mantic Asian family, we do not light candles, maybe wait until I’ve moved out.
• I do not use a camera made in the 1990s, nor do I print photos, so I have not needed photo frames or albums since I was 11.
• I already have a five years’ supply of body lotions from buying too much from girly stores.
• Unless it’s a 4+ set of kit­ch­en­ware, one-off cutlery pieces do not match the rest of what we have.
• Imprac­tical things.

Unfor­tu­nately I get a mountain load of them. (I know I’m such a whiner.)

I’m a very material person that do not appre­ci­ate what would usually be thought of as sweet things. I do not like handmade crafted gifts unless they were up to a pro­fes­sional standard, I do not like things I can’t use in everyday life. A gift voucher, though it looks flat and cheap, is sometimes the far better choice. A simple tip for getting gifts you’re not sure someone would def­in­itely like: ask for an exchange card.

For­tu­nately, my amazing 2010 Snark Secret Santa Ashley got me the cutest, prettiest notebooks!

Cute sta­tion­ery just can’t go wrong.

My life is complete

Categorised as Personal, School, Work & tagged with beauty, body, fitness, health, love, relationships, uni, work.

At least for the next few years.

Aca­dem­ic­ally, my grades have improved a whole lot over the past year since I started dating Stephen. I totally disproved the traditional-Asian-parents theory that boyfriend = dis­trac­tion = fail grades. I’ve also sorted out the rest of my papers in uni and will graduate in just half a year!

After gradu­ation, I have a job lined up for me. I’ve worked part time there for the past two years and did not want to leave. For­tu­nately, my boss did not want me to either.

For years I hoped and hoped for a long-term rela­tion­ship that would last for at least a year. I’ve reached that goal and just based on the fact that Stephen has gotten me an iPod and a Wii so far for these two Christ­mases I think I made an awesome choice.

And now… just one most chal­len­ging goal: sexy body.

It’s so easy to gain weight working full time in an office with a boss that loves food just as much as I do. So what I’m starting to do now is:

• Working out or going swimming just about once every other day;
• Home exercises almost every night; and
• Reduce con­sump­tion of fatty, oily and sugary foods.

I have to look good for my sister’s wedding in November next year! Any tips from anyone who has been there and done that?