A little bit delayed, but well, it’s still early enough in 2012. This is the finale for the 10+ years of blogging recap aka just an excuse for me to post camwhorey photos.
2008 was a crazy year for me. So many things happened {{allatonce}}, but it was a great year – of maturity. I learned a lot about myself, about what I want in life and what I need to do to get it.
Was a year that I’m very manja with my cousins… they are so cute! 
They still are, of course.
Here I am with Aron again.
Generally close to my loved ones… one of my fave photos – the “3 generations of women” photo.
Went to Macau & Hong Kong for the first time – with my colleagues!
In Macau with Pauline… this is some never-been-seen photos, lol. For obvious reasons, such as not wanting to appear ridiculous.
First “all girls Langkawi trip” with Fuzz, Dull and Pizza… omg, it’s so fun to drink til you black out! [wtf]
We had so much fun dragging the tripod around everywhere to take photos!
My final year working the tables for the annual general meeting… a lot of rich old uncles hit on me, geez. (This is not boasting, this is something like a prelude to some very funny stories that I would tell you, if I had the time.)
Went to Genting with Cindy for a work-related workshop. Except there was no work involved. -_-” It was my first “trip” for work, and I was so excited like the jakun I was. Little did I know what was in store for me.
See? So syiok get to go Genting that I had to document how my hotel room looked like. -_-”
The year that Binz got married. I think I attended the most weddings in 2008!
One of those rare annual dinners where I didn’t dress up as anything.. but I still found a costume to wear on that night itself! Leech the Ostrict!.
Was a pretty “sporty” year as we wanted to hangat-hangat tahi ayam train to climb Mt KK… so a lot of “climbing” training.
Quite close to this bunch at that time… we went to Genting for a random steamboat trip! 
David’s wedding.
Celebrating Raymond’s ROM.
Raymond’s wedding in Penang… we’re such good friends – made the long drive for him. 
Of course, we turned the trip to Penang into a foodie trip as well.
Sunny + Siu Chui’s wedding (notice how the pple who are getting married are never in the pics, keke)
First sleepover gathering @ my sister’s new pad.
Edy’s wedding! Zomg, this one even more supportive… Kim and I went to Batam to celebrate!
Worked in Cambodia for 2 months, 1 month without any other Malaysian team mates as well (Mr Ho doesn’t count, lol). This was the period where I became mega-biatch to everybody and people said that Cambodia changed the “sweet” Leech to something else… lol. You have to become mega-biatch because it’s even harder to get people to do things when you are so far away…
One of my favorite pics with the gals…
Worked in Laos too… we always mix work & fun! ;P (Actually, this photo looks like I’m working for Tourism Board of Malaysia, haha!)
Last trip to California… walked alone everywhere.
If 2008 was a busy year for me, 2009 was even busier! Actually, I was filling my time up with all kinds of stuff because I wanted to keep my mind + body in motion. I even considered taking up permanent job for few years overseas because I found my life to be pointless. Raymond said this was my “depressed” year, hahaha. But I think I accomplished a lot anyway, eh! I was away for work a LOT, and because of all the overseas work, I managed to save enough to go for really nice vacays. (Should have saved for a house instead right.) I find this year to have a lots of ups and downs… but whatever I went through was necessary in order for me to become the person that I am today…
For some reason, I was super energetic this year… maybe a lot of “negative” energy that I wanted to get rid of. I went to the gym like a nutter, and this was the year that I also decided to say SCREW IT! to scales… cos what I wanted was to be strong, ie. gain muscles… so I don’t want to be so concerned on how heavy I am. In some of these pics, you can see that I look “smaller” than previous years, but I weighed about the same! Why? Cos did more weight training. I’m by no means hardcore, but I seriously think girls look better being slightly toned than being “skinny fat”.
Another drunken night out. 2009 was full of alcohol imbibing… *ashamed*
Another all-girls trip! This time, it was to Bukit Tinggi! Awesome fun lah!
Here’s how my cousins looked in 2009, if you’re interested.
Just included this picture because my current cubicle is SO sparse that it makes my old cube look like a jungle! I miss it! Look at how colorful it is!
Went to Melaka for Barry Banana’s wedding…
As usual, we turn the trip for someone’s wedding to a sightseeing trip as well. Sat on the “Eye on Malaysia” here!
Celebrated Valentine’s Day with fellow singletons. (See, must wear red/pink in commemoration)
Was very blessed because a lot of lovely people celebrated my birthday with me this year! Here’s me and Kim doing annual gift exchange, lol!
Got a lovely cake from Pauline… And this was a rare moment when I temporarily went back to Cobol… by 2008 we had swapped away from Java web programming and went to Visual Basic… (different systems, btw). But I had adhoc tasks in as400… so back to Cobol I went.
Met up with Ben and Ms Michie a lot! (2x is a lot! )
See? She even celebrated my bday with me! What a sweetheart.
The year that my sister got married!!
Family portrait with le bride and groom!
The yam seng moment!
The craziest hen night ever. Honestly? I don’t know how my sister managed to go through it all!
Farewell to Shannon!
Holiday in Thailand! My first time!
Random snapshots from Madrid, London and Paris, with the best travel buddy ever. (Minus the French subway episode)
Of course, it was the year I did Body Attack instructor training. The thinking was, “this is natural progression”, but in fact, going from very avid group-x class member who may be better coordinated than the average gym-goer is NOT a natural progression to instructor. Til today I get “reminders” from fellow friends who tell me to buck up and don’t waste my money by going back into training.
And NiniJack’s wedding! Super nice wedding that everyone keeps talking about even after it is over. Plus, one of my first close friends from high school to get married… Granted, I don’t have that many close friends, which makes this even more novel, I guess.
…and randomly met Markus Ruhl! This is really, really random.
2010 was really a fairytale year for me. Maybe because I remember the last few months of 2009 being exceptionally shitty… so it was like everything was like a ~dream~ again. Amazing! Then again, I’m looking at this year with rose-tinted glasses because this was when I got to know Tron. This was also the year that I joined a church. And got baptised and became a Christian. So many things lah. It was also my first time attending a lot of “atas” events in my ex-company, and for some reason — it is the year that I went to Singapore the most number of times! I think I got infected with the Singapore bug and now keep making trips down South few times a year. Craziness. To be honest, I’ve always wanted to work there, but seems like I have no fate with the country…
The low points of the year was probably health-wise. The first time I got major gastric and it still affects me til today. I cannot eat as little as I did before and “starve” myself. I will pay for it dearly. Ever since the first major gastric in March, I seem to get gastric at least twice a year (though not so severe). Crap! I also went overboard with training and injured my knee. I feel like my knee is not-quite-the-same as it was before, but I’m working to get myself back to peak performance again! Wish me luck!
Started off the year with another drunken outing with my galpals. Here I am EATING bits from my mojito while shouting about how loserish I am.
Not-so-loserish in this photo when I finished 9th place at the Bidor marathon. I’m itching to try my hand at running again! But I lazy to train! Hahahha!
Romantic Valentine’s Day… *aww*
This is the funnest, most random event Tron and I ever went for. He was still in the courting stage, so that’s why he ‘layan’ me by going for the event. If I ask him to go now, he will ask me to go fly kite.
Introduced to the iPad for the first time…
Started baking as well. Beginner’s luck made me think that I had secret hidden talent in cooking all this while.
Random fatt hao photos because I don’t have many photo-worthy moments in 2010.
Random post-wedding gathering with my sister and her friends.
Went to Lang Tengah with Tron
Singapore pics! Ben is working there, so always have friends when I do visit the place. (By the way, you can see that whenever I’m with Ben, I have a David Sedaris book nearby. Lol!)
Tan Sri’s birthday dinner… dressed up to the nines!
Love affair with Arabian food & non-alcoholic fizzy drinks
My last time dressing up for the company dinner – I’m Aphrodite, lmao. Don’t mind the tummy jutting out. I tell everyone that it’s my uterus, hehehe.
Two of my cell group mates — were having a farewell for them!
Took part in office sports day… our bowling team came in 9th place or something. Consolation prize was a tin of biscuits.
Office sports day again… I’m the running champ! (Too bad I don’t look good at the finishing line)
First time went to gold class in GSC…
Playing Daytona during my ex-church’s treasure hunt… fun times! Dull so selamba only..
Christmas in Singapore… but instead of travelling with Dull, I was with Tron. Actually, when I was with Dull, Tron was also in Singapore. Ah, I didn’t tell you about THAT story, did I?
US!
Argh, since it’s 2012, am I expected to do a recap for 2011? I think I have even less photos than I did in 2010, hehe. I know this page is going to take ages to load, but whatever… I leave you with ONE more photo from 2011 that I didn’t post up:
My pastor looks like he’s edging away from me. Maybe got garlic breath…
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