.: asylum for the sane :.

I feel exhausted. It’s as if the accumulated exhaustion of this entire year has decided to ambush me at year end.

2009 has been a very long year to say the least.

Health

I’ve been a complete klutz this year. Awfully accident prone and oftenly sick. Who could forget my week long MC as I lay in bed thinking I was gonna die from food poisoning? Drama Queen, that I am

Or the time that I sprained both ankles (which led to both entire legs hurting so much) just because I took a wrong landing as I jumped over a ditch? And I came back from the hospital with both legs bandaged? Haha

or what about the time I sprained my hand and arm from slamming a door really hard?

Yes a cam whore never misses a chance to cam whore. Even if it means taking the photo with her sprained hand. Tsk.

I think this year I took more MCs than I would annual leaves haha. Let’s hope for better health next year then. Maybe I shouldn’t mention here that I’ve been having chest pains. But oh well, I just did. Shh.

Career

I worked so damn hard this year. Looking back on my accomplishments at work this year, I feel a tinge of pride. It’s truly a lot of work to have come thus far. I’ve learnt so many things, gotten to know so many new people, people come people go.

My teams in Jakarta grew by leaps and bounds and suddenly I have 2 incredibly big, capable and talented teams there that I can rely at any given time or day. And these two teams practically make two out of many firm foundations of the site.

And for the first time, I’ve started growing a team in Singapore too. Incredible. Even though it is something very new (less than a month), it has been incredibly exciting and fun to have my own team here.

More powers indeed come with extra responsibilities, as I’ve learned this year.

Of course with success come haters, which I totally do not give a shit about. 2009 has been an amazing year at work, despite the fact that I came close to giving up completely once or twice. I really am glad I didn’t. Here’s to another long, exciting and rewarding work year in 2010!

Personal Achievements

This is where I wish I can that I’ve learned how to ride a bicycle, or completed a marathon or won awards. But I didn’t achieve any of that. But what I did achieve (on a personal basis) are:

1) I finally got a domain. Thank you Toni, Nico and Indra for helping with the set up. and thank you FP for teaching me how to change my own theme, lol. Yes I work for a website but I can still be a tech-idiot at times.

2) I survived an earthquake. Even though I couldnt sleep for 2 weeks after that.

3) I learned how to bake! First for FP’s birthday cake (hehehe) and then for my own pleasure. Which reminds me, I haven’t baked in months!

4) I survived levels 3 and 4 of crazy spicy buffalo wings, despite sweat, tears and crazy internal heat. and the runs.

Part II still in the works. Be patient!

As some of you might have known, FP (previously known as Lex in the old blog. Have promoted him to Frog Prince) has taken up an avid interest in photography. 

And me, being the leading lady in his life has become the focus of his lenses

Recently, he has decided to start on a project which is entitled 50 Weeks of Her – which basically means 50 weeks of me, quite literally, hoho. I’m only too happy to help him in his endeavour because his ideas are always so fantastic. 

So last weekend, we ventured out into the “woods” (location is secret) for a photoshoot.

It was an open grassland. We were careful to walk slowly in case of potholes and snakes. I was honestly more worried for snakes than potholes – because snakes make me hyperventilate and potholes don’t.

We kept walking on thinking it’s gonna be grassy on flat land all the way (coz thats the way it seems from afar) until we came to a grassy ditch. Which we had to cross over in order to get to the artistic looking tree in the background of the photo above.

He ran and jumped over, quite easily (of course) and then asked me to pass over the heavy equipment that we have brought along for the shoot. I could barely pass him the heavy bag across the ditch, what more myself. LOL.

So, what’s left next was me.

First of all, I do have a problem with jumping. In a photo taken in San Francisco, my friends and I were supposed to jump in the air while the photo was captured. Turned out, I was the only one in the photo barely off the ground. Embarrassing, really – which is why it will not be published here.

So, all I had to do was jump over the ditch, where FP was ready to receive me. But I was scared. Don’t know if I was embarrassed to run-and-jump in front of FP or because I was half afraid to fall in the ditch (or I was pretty certain that I would fall in) so I did a few “false starts”.

Which cracked him up.

When I finally gathered the courage (this is without thinking), I run-and-jumped over and he caught me and we both fell over. According to his account of the incident, he said I did the “funniest little prance” instead of running but nevermind.

When I landed, I felt that familiar pain that I’ve often felt when I have injured my leg after falling many times before. Almost thought I couldn’t walk, but I could. The pain was momentary and soon after we were busy trying to get the best of the last minutes of daylight.

However, the next day at work, the pain began. The pain got worse and worse until on the drive back home, I felt so much pain while maneuvering the manual car pedals. By night time, I was suffering in tears.

The next day, I still went to work as normal. I took a cab to and from work and even wore slippers and ankle guard to work. But the pain continued to escalate until my knees and thighs.

It wasn’t until yesterday that FP had had enough of me being in pain, he practically kidnapped me from the office and took me to the A&E at a hospital nearby.

Took an x-ray and turns out that my ligaments were sprained and ended up with both ankles bandaged lol. And oh, did I mention 3 days MC (inclusive of yesterday)?

Sigh sigh.

Anyway, here’s the image FP has chosen to represent Week 2 of 50 Weeks of Her:

I don’t really like how I look in the photo, but he said it looks like I am trying to find for something. When I look at it again, it looks like I’m trying to tell something. So maybe he has a point in choosing this photo.

I am looking forward to Week 3, despite being seriously injured in the name of art. So, stay tuned for more updates with gorgeous photos from our fun-filled adventures