breakofdawning

I don't know how many people face the same problem as me. I feel all enthusiastic every beginning of the year and have my resolutions typed up or written. But as the year progresses, I lose my focus and at the end achieve one or two out of a million of goals on my list. Yet that doesn't stop me from making another list.

This year will be a challenging and exciting year for me, changing my last name, moving overseas, career change and building up my own family. So I will have to ...

After disappearing for a few more weeks, the deed is done. I am now married! Another success story from TF, I guess, although our story took over 6 years. Not much to tell, except that I am very happy, now that I am a Mrs.

I still haven't received professional photos but I hope a few photos that my friends tag me would be sufficient.

The reception was over, but the real married life has not yet begun for me. I am still waiting for the time to join my husband in his ...

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Do you believe that things happen for a reason?

I have been trying to get a special favor from a hotel that our company is working with. But the hotel has been very slow in getting back to me for my request, and I was on the verge of losing my patience with them. I was going to follow up with them again today.

Then I was supposed to go for dinner with a group of ex-colleagues tonight but I changed my mind earlier today and told them that I wasn't going.

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I'll be ranting and complaining in this post. Pardon my negativity but I don't think there'd be a better way to express myself than in writing/typing.

It's been extremely hectic month or two starting a new job and preparing for the wedding. It seems impossible juggling between the two. I haven't been in that best of mood to work, worrying about getting things done for the wedding. I have lists of things I have to get done, and I haven't gotten the time to have them done. I feel like ...

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Greeting on a Sunday evening. It's been a really hectic week for me. I was called back from Pattaya on a Tuesday night. Booked into a hotel room and went to the office. Things are getting much more hectic at work as I learn more about my job responsibility and the year end is approaching. Not only that I'm juggling my time to chase up arrangements for the wedding, doing more research on smaller details and even trying to find replacement for some ideas that aren't practical.

As much ...

I have a few stories that I want to write about, all revolving around relationships.

On Friday, my family and I went to Central Festival Pattaya for some grocery shopping. It wasn't all that busy, because it was getting late. While I was browsing around the fruit section, I saw two farangs, they looked to be father and son. The father seems to be in his 70's and the son in his 40's. They were with a Thai mother and a Thai daughter. The mom looks like she's in her early 50's and her ...

Updated 11-14-2011 at 07:51 AM by breakofdawning

Tags: intercultural issues, planning, relationships, thoughts, wedding

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I went for a walk with my grandma and my mom along Jomtien Beach today. It's Loy Krathong day and Pattaya is famous for Loy Krathong on the beach/in the sea. I had never experience one before, so I decided to cross the road and checked it out. It was nothing but disappointment.

The sea is too vast, too dark and too windy, so there was no candle light from the float, nor that you can actually see the floats in the dark sea. People were just sitting along the beach and getting drunk, ...

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I don't remember when was the last time I logged in on this site. It's not that I started having a life outside cyber space, but I was wasting my life away on another website. I actually mean it when I typed "wasting my life away". Most of the stuff on the website I spent my time on are useless, guys cheated on girls, girls cheated on guys, and how to leech out as much money as possible from farang boyfriend. I do ask myself over and over why I spend so much time reading non-constructive stories. ...

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I am very quick in having a change of heart.

A few weeks ago, I made a decision to take up a job offer at this one global company. The job is exactly the same as what I am doing now, with better incentive plan, a more organized structure and more stability. I didn't feel too good about the change, but looking at option logically from all aspects, it was the right thing to do.

Today something triggers me to start my doubt if it was right going against my gut feeling. ...

I have just received a good news. I got an offer from one very good company in my field. I have every reason to accept the job, be it better salary, benefit, training or company structure. But I am not excited about this new job at all. I don't have the feeling of joy that a new change normally brings on me.

The only 2 things that this current job offers is the less stressful environment and a better name to carry with when I move to the UK. Apart from these two the new company is ...

I am caught in the middle between two choices: once in a life time wedding reception or an awesome honeymoon in an exotic destination.

My family somewhat expects a wedding reception due to the tradition and social expectation. I believe all parents want to see their daughter in her wedding gown. With Thai wedding here, the guests will mainly be the parents' guests. I want my wedding day to be my day with people who matter in my life, not my parent's bosses and colleagues. Yet it's ...

It's been difficult for me to concentrate on the e-mails in my work mailbox. I don't know why I have been so distracted by so many trivia: personal love stories that people post online, problems with their boyfriend, their self-esteem etc. I need to stop but I cannot seem to stop.

Any suggestions on how to gain focus at work???

I have been wanting to type up a post on politics for a few weeks now. Yet, I cannot seem to find the time and the focus on what I want to write. A lot of things were bugging me and they were all tangled up together that I didn't know where to start.

The past few days have been really disheartening watching and hearing the news on TV and radio. I was discussing a bit of politics with my aunt last night, and I felt like crying for the future of the country. I don't think Thaksin is ...

Not exactly an appropriate moment to post a journal but I feel like getting this out of my system.

I have been thinking and rethinking about a few things the past week. It's all in the future and I am not sure how things are going to turn out but I cannot help assuming, expecting, and worrying, most of the time for the worst rather than for the best.

Work-wise, my boss is looking for a new opportunity. He has been supportive and protective of me during the past year ...

Been a while since I last realized how fast news can travel. Many years ago a few American friends used to joke with me that rumors (news) travel faster among Thais than satellite TV. A couple of incidents back then actually supported the joke.

Today it was almost like a deja vu.

I broke a routine of having lunch alone to having some pizza with an ex-colleauge (but still in front of my computer at work). We chatted about odds and ends, then she said that her company ...