Post Trip Thoughts

Post NYC days have been fabulous except for the first few days where I had to try really hard fight off jet lag.
(Jet lag is horrid thing by the way, I totally overestimated my body's ability to overcome it.)
I came back with a fresh frame of mind, new perspectives and a renewed sense of motivation.

To be completely honest,
I have been floundering and wandering lost when it came to work for few long good months.
I was dragging my feet to work every day and I had other things on my mind clouding my vision,
which shouldn't have been the case.
Instead of lying awake at night coming up with inspiring ideas for the business like I used to,
I laid awake with incoherent, trivial and unimportant thoughts crowding my mind.

It was painfully obvious to people who were watching from the side,
just that I didn't want to admit it to myself and instead of picking things up,
chose to submerge myself in a state of oblivion.

I was always my own motivator when it comes to running the business,
and all of a sudden I seemed to have lost the ability to set directions in moving forward.


Decided that I needed a break to get away from everything, so tickets to NYC was booked on a whim.
The idea of going on a solo trip was both daunting yet exhilarating.


Made it back safe and sound despite the initial protests and worries of my family and some close friends.
Most importantly,
this trip did great things by allowing me to find my focus at work, regroup my thoughts, and in setting new goals for TTR once again.
It also taught me that when things within you fall apart,
it is entirely up to yourself to pick up the shards and pieces, mend yourself and move forward.
No one is going to do it better than you do.
I've been mentally absent from the business for way too long and it's going to take time to rev the engines back to full force, but I'm trying and I'm certain that I will get there soon enough.


Will share more pictures and places in NYC which I love here soon.
Just waiting for my new blog layout to be ready!
;)

A Better Life.

1. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 

2. Don’t have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

3. Don’t over do; keep your limits.

4. Don’t take yourself so seriously; no one else does. 

5. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.

 6. Dream more while you are awake. 

7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

 8. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

 9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others. 

 10. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime. 

13. Smile and laugh more.

 14. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 

15. Call your family often. 

16. Each day give something good to others. 

17. Forgive everyone for everything.

 18. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

19. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

20. What other people think of you is none of your business.

 21. Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Abstracted from 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch

Exciting months ahead!

Dropping by to give my blog some life before this week gets crazy!

Minion Erica is off to camp so we're pretty shorthanded.

:(

Horlicks tim tam ice cream to chase away Monday blues, anyone?
:))))
My absolute favourite ice cream flavour.
Awfully sinful and fats-filled but I love!


Cutest nephew came to my house last week and we forced him to take photos beside Jessie's giant bear!
Hahaha he's like smaller than the bear, how cute is that!


Here's my number one cutie pie!






Just how much cuter can he get?
:D :D :D


April/May/June look like exciting months to me because of the following:

1) Getting braces!!!!

Still really jittery about the extractions but whatever! It will be worth it!
I've gotten so much encouragement from formspring, haha.
Didn't know that there are so many people who went through braces before/are still having braces now!

Trying to stuff myself with as much good/junk food lately.
I've heard plenty of horror stories about having porridge every day after extractions.

Okay, bracing myself (LOL PUN INTENDED) for it!


2) Japan trip in Apr/May!


Which I have not planned for, urgh.
Super looking forward to it though!
Bestie quick come plan the itinerary with me soon!


3) Possibly a new office! :D


Yeppppp.
Getting ready to move on with another (bigger) office,
because we're really bursting out of our current one.

Which is exciting but daunting at the same time because I don't like dealing with paperwork.
All the adult-ish stuff to handle makes me go crazy.
Good thing I've got a boyfriend who's good at doing all that!

So yes, you can look forward to updates on the 3 major events on my blog...
;)


2012 has been really eventful so far,
in hardly the blink of an eye we're nearing the end of March.
The rest of it is still looking pretty darn good to me though!
:)
Life's awesome.

One of those things in life.

I bet everyone has something that pisses them off, from time to time. I mean, we're only humans, not saints right? (i'm really supposed to be sleeping right now but for the life of me i can't seem to fall asleep) But anyway, back to topic.

What pisses me off really badly would be hearing someone say '.... Why is it so unfair?'
Like hello?! Since when did anyone tell you that life is fair? If life is fair, we would have all been born looking like carbon copies of one another. If life is fair we would all be millionaires. You get the point.

At home, if you are not the only child, your parents would probably dote on one of your siblings more. Or they might dote on you more. In school, your teachers probably have their favourite student, some of us call them teacher's pet. Where matters of the heart are concerned, the person you love might not love you as much, or might not even reciprocate your feelings at all. Ever have that girl whom you desperately wish that you were, because she seems to have the whole whole at her feet?

So what? That's just life. Deal with it.

I'm not telling you to simply acknowledge life as it is. All i'm trying to say is, if you don't like where you're at now, do something. Fight back. There is no use whining and going on and on about how life has treated you unfairly, or the situation was not to your favour. That's what losers do. There's so much that can be done to get you to wherever you want to get, but complaining is definitely not one of them.

All i'm telling you is, live your life to the fullest everyday. Because this life is all you've got.

Que Sera Sera

When I was just a little girl

I asked my mother, what will I be

Will I be pretty, will I be rich

Here's what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera,

Whatever will be, will be

The future's not ours, to see

Que Sera, Sera

What will be, will be.

My dad walked over to me just a couple of days ago, after I "announced" that I was unofficially done with school, and asked me about my plans for the future.

Am I planning to do TTR full time?

Or find a full time job and do TTR as a part time thing?

So then I told him that I plan to do TTR full time, no surprises there.

He wasn't really against it or anything, but he felt that I should find a full time job after 1-2 years if TTR doesn't hold up.

Like... Have a back up plan and at the same time don't waste my degree.

I guess he's just worried and he feels that me and Sissy don't need to work so hard since eventually we will be getting married and have kids... blah blah.

Y'know, the traditional thinking that parents always have?

And by then we won't be able to continue running TTR like we are now.

So I told him, "Daddy, when I get married I plan to be a tai tai already, can sell off TTR. HAHAHA."

JOKINGLY LA.

But to a certain extent, I do agree with him...

If I land myself a 9-5 job, I would probably have a more carefree life and not be burdened by work during my time off.

Some times I find myself wishing for some time off which is uninterrupted by work.

But it's really not possible if I'm running my own business.

I will constantly be thinking of how I can do things better, what are the things which need fine-tuning/improving, how to push my business to the next level.

And of course, there is the more important question of sustainability...

How long can I do this business for?

But being young (HAHAHA) and impulsive (to a certain extent), I decided on doing TTR full time for now.

And see where it brings me.

Reasons being,

1) I don't think I will be able to conform to the routine of a 9-5 job..

It sounds rather suffocating to me.

And all the office politics I'd rather not think about.

2) I'm so much happier running TTR.

Even though it can get pretty stressful and hair-tearing at times, at least I feel like I'm in control of what I'm doing.

And I get to wear pretty clothes, HEHE.

3) I love the people I'm working with.

So...

You'll probably be seeing more of me (AND TTR LAUNCHES) from now on!

FULL FORCE AHEADDDDDDD!

I'm really supposed to be invoicing right now given that we've just launched a new collection, but silly me left 2 designs back at my supplier's!

:(

And they didn't open for today...

So we can only start invoicing tomorrow morning!

Will dash down to do a stock count and invoice immediately after that hokays!

Omg....

THIS IS SUCH A WORDY POST.

I hope you made it through without dozing off!

I'm off to confront the MANYMANYMANYMANYYYYYY questions staring at me in my formspring inbox now!