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The international new year just ended and here we are preparing for Chinese New Year! I always look forward to new years! It’s a start and it always pays to have a positive and energetic mind set. It’s also always a great time to set goals and make wishes. So whether you wish for prosperity, peace, business luck  or even something as simple as stainless steel jewelry, it never hurts to give it a try.

As for me I want to wish for good health for my family, myself and my friends. Prosperity and good luck for my ‘ventures’ this year. And also the chance to extend my gratitude to those who had been helpful and a chance too to forgive and be forgiven for those I crossed and whom have crossed me.

Let’s all start the year of the dragon with good spirits and good heart. Gong Xi Fa Cai, everyone!

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Hi guys! It’s the holidays and I’m sure a lot of you are still in a frenzy. Well, as for me I’ve been cooking a lot, shopping a lot and till now still looking for gifts for dad. I have the feeling this is a never ending thing and I’m pretty much exhausted. But happy. And looking forward to what the coming new year has to bring..

Anyway, just wanna wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Fabulous New Year!

I’m sure you guys would excuse the really sporadic postings. I’m going through some really tough family crisis and the urge to blog has been almost zilch. My father is battling very last stages of cancer and its really really tough on us. I’m here in the Philippines right now to help out my mom with his home care. Were providing home care and we just have a doctor who occasionally check him and also regular trips to the hospital for check ups.

Lately though, he has been so weak and getting him to the hospital has been an ordeal. And to top all that, visiting the hospital is stressing me out so much. It’s traumatizing looking at people who are so sick. I think the only health treatment I could tolerate learning about is eotech 512, but I could hardly choose. We all have to deal with the lot we are given. I could only sigh and say a prayer and hope things would turn out for the better..

I’m really itching to travel. Right now, I am in the Philippines for some personal business and when I got here, I suddenly had an attack of itchy feet. Sure, I traveled a bit this past year but they were mostly not the leisure kind. So my sun readers had been on break. I’m now hoping early next year, we could go on a leisurely holiday. I don’t care if its as short as 3 or 5 days as long as I can take a break.

I said early next year coz this year is really out of the question. Financially, I’m drained from traveling to and from my overseas base and Manila, also we have big purchases planned on the third quarter of this year. My sister is also getting married by the end of the year so that means me, hubby and my daughter would be traveling again and would most probably be spending Christmas and New Year in the Philippines.

So now I’m crazily planning and looking up traveling destinations. First on my list would be Bali, Indonesia. I also want to explore some parts of Vietnam. And I want to do some domestic traveling in the Philippines and my picks would be Cebu, Bohol and Ilocos. Sigh. I hope soon I could satisfy the travel bug that has bitten me.

Not exactly a new blog. It has been online for quite sometime already. For sure you can all see that I’m into fashion, trends, magazines and this other blog is somehow related to this passion. I’m quite obsessed with trend watching, lol! If you also love fashion and if you’re like me who’d rather watch trends than get serious with my teaching degrees, then you might want to have a look at this blog – Seeking Out What’s IN and What’s IT!

Anyway, I’ve been doing a lot of blog makeovers and I skipped that blog. Mainly coz I was in love with the current layout. But I think its time for a change.  I’m thinking of something really minimalistic, without much images and whatnots, just plain text to highlight the content.

Once I’m done with it, for sure I’ll be back to posting on this. Later

I changed theme planning to have a rotating header thing. But till now I have yet to make it.. Hmmm, I am just so swamped with work and this has taken a backseat. I’m also back to watching Kdrama and currently obsessing on Dream High so this taking the times I’m not blogging. lol!

Anyway, I really hope I could get down and some photoshopping for the blog headers soon. I really also need to do some blog networking. Note to self: Remember this!!! Among my blogs, this is the most neglected..

I also have plugin installations to do and thankfully I remembered to install a back up plugin last time. That’s one thing that’s really important – data backup. Losing data I’ve worked long for will absolutely drive anyone nuts so thankfully I have this covered already.

Other than those, I’d still be posting regularly and of course do a bit of SEO.

I’m planning to do some revamp on this blog. Things are in planning as of now so I’m not sure yet what would change. For one, I have to do something about the traffic and networking and also step up my posting frequency. I’ ve had lot of things on my plate for the past months that this has been on the backburner.

Last year, this site has been enjoying minimal traffic, but the sad neglect {with only moi to blame} has led to its now really low traffic. Seems like I’ve been plenty preoccupied with things going on in my other sites, my personal life {huh!? oh yes, I have a life}, travel, mundane things like looking for clawfoot tubs for our house renovation etc etc.

I have to pick up and read back why I started the site and go on from there. So expect more about Asian culture articles and features plus a steady dose of my recent obsession – Asian fashion magazines, Asian magazine editorials, covers and more.

That’s it for the quick blurb..

It’s holidays and I know I’ll be forgiven for not updating much hahaha! I’m pretty sure by this one everyone is pretty much happy with partying, opening gifts and all. Hmm, did you guys get what you wanted for Christmas?

Me? I didn’t exactly get what I wanted as I was hankering for any of the latest cell phones but I didn’t get it (meaning I should just work for it myself hahaha) but instead I got a really cool and for me uber functional Wacom Graphic Tablet! How cool could this gadget be?

I’m really into illustration, graphic design, and now I’ve taken to designing digital scrapbook kits and this is a huge help! So, its safe to say, I’m really really satisfied with the loot. =)

Anyway, I’m really just dropping here to wish everyone a Happy and Fruitful New Year! In four days time, we’ll all be welcoming 2011 and let’s do it with a bang! Cheers for 2011!