Birthday 2009

I turned 30 two weeks ago! It is quite difficult to grasp that I can no longer say I am in my twenties. Where did all the years go? Well like the saying goes 'Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese'.
Celebration started with family dinner at CRC.

"A family in harmony will prosper in everything""There's only one happiness in life, to love and be loved"

And then dinner with dear hubby at Hard Rock Café. It was a crazy fun time.30 years of life and my little lungs don't have the capacity to blow out a candle 3 feet away...Another slice of birthday cake complimentary from Hard Rock Cafe.This is the 10th birthday I have celebrated with my darling hubby. Thanks for all the sweetness! Many more to come :)Tomato Basil soup served with yummy bread. The soup was a tad too salty to my liking though.
I can barely finish a quarter of this big portion from the Smokehouse- Hickory Duo Bar-B-que combo (Ribs & Beef Brisket)The Beatles and us :D

Traditional Mee Suah lunch prepared by mummy with 2 hard boil eggs, 2 drumsticks & spring onion garnishing. It represents longevity, prosperity, love, health and everything good.Mee Suah with red packets from my parents. Can't be more traditional, yet it is something that I cherish and would like to carry on.
All these with a meeting with old friends for tea completed my 30th birthday!

I have matured over the years and am thankful and feel blessed for all the accomplishments and experiences that life brings. I have learnt a lot along the way yet there are so much more to learn and explore.
I have completed my tertiary education
Stayed in a foreign land on my own for 6 years safely
Worked in a hospital in a foreign land for 3 years (Going thru the SARS commotion safely)
Got married to a man I love dearly and love me plenty
Bought my first home
Have owned 2 cars
Visited 6% of the countries in the world
Switched thru 4 jobs (From all totally unrelated industry)
Landed a job that I like
Build and developed a business with dear hubby
Learned to cook
Appreciate my parents more than ever
Where there is great love, there are always miracles
Treasure every moment spend with my siblings
Got disappointed that the painting of Mona Lisa is so much smaller than I expected
Starting to grow plants (Inadvertently, many plants were also sacrificed in the process)
Still mesmerized by “Haunted Mansion” in Disneyland
Learned that you can’t just order “latte” in Italy (all you get is milk)
Realized that if you get caught for speeding in US, you gotta put both hands on the steering wheel (else you risk having a gun pointed at you from a cop)
Discovered I like vanilla ice cream more than chocolate
The simple joy of having hot steaming Maggi cup noodle on the cold Swiss mountains
Love is a condition where the happiness of another person is essential to your own
Everything happened for a reason
Life is divine chaos, embrace it
Life is good!

Robert Frost - Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a women of thirty