March 2012 – Page 2 – Creative Meanderings

Sometimes…

Mar 202012

I just want to scream. Or I imagine telling the world what I think of it, which is generally not very positive.

I’m tired of where I work and what I do. It’s a thankless job. It’s an unprofessional and disrespected position. Of course, I know some jobs could be worse, some places of work could be worse, etc. etc. It isn’t the worst that it could be. However, the reality is that I’m not content. It’s a hard balance to figure out what is best as there are a lot of positives to where I’m at, but maybe some separation and time away from everything will give me better perspective. So, we shall see.

In the meantime, I’ll just have to accept the sometimes…

😀 -T

Rebooting – Day 2

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Mar 192012

I’m still alive…. The first day passed successfully. I did really want to chomp on something greasy as I passed through the cafeteria and smelled all the wonderfully fried food, but then I envisioned my hardened arteries and the pounds added to my hips and put my head down to plow back to my office for my afternoon juice! 😀

For dinner we had Gazpacho. This was strangely spicy and would have actually made a very tasty soup rather than a juice. R didn’t care for the onion even though he only put in a tiny piece. I think it was the red pepper that added the kick, but he disagrees. Either way, it was still good, but it made me miss the act of chewing on something…. Guess it is going to take a bit of getting used to not eating solids.

We started watching the documentary last night and it seems like a reasonable diet.

As Day 2 has progressed, it’s definitely been easier. I think I may even have slept better last night. Today’s juices are: Mean Green and Bountiful Brassica. Both are very green, but nice. I can really taste the broccoli in the latter one (I’m drinking it as I type).

The best part is that stepping on the scale this morning showed I had already dropped 1/2 a kilo or about a pound! Whoop whoop!

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Rebooting – Day 1

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Mar 182012

For the past couple of weeks, R and I have been attempting to change our eating patterns to lose some unnecessary pounds as well as to generally have a better schedule.

Both of us love our food. Perhaps a little too much.

Both of us have considered undergoing the lemonade/juice cleanse, but neither of us have been totally motivated to take it on. Especially since it requires of a day of staying near a toilet and basically starving ourselves until our bodies are void of any food matter. Doesn’t sound like fun, right?

Well, one of our colleagues introduced R to the Reboot Your Life program. Our colleague has noticeably dropped weight and looks healthy as well. I guess that the program is from this documentary – Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, which we are planning to watch tonight or this week as motivation.

So, today is the first day of our ‘Long Weekend’ Reboot, which is three days of just juice. Yesterday, I bought a load of vegetables and last night we juiced up a couple of recipes to get us through the day at work.

This morning we started with a glass of soy milk with whey protein mixed in. I’ve just completed my first juice of Carrot-Apple-Ginger, which wasn’t bad. Later on I’ll have my second juice called Citrus Inspired Green, which I’m not too sure about as it has a lot of leafy lettuce type stuff in it. So, we shall see!

I’ll keep ya’ updated on how it goes! 😀

Container Gardening – Fruits of My Labor

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Mar 172012

My little garden has been growing!

It seems that the tomatoes thrive the most, followed by the herbs – especially the basil, though today I cut quite a bit of parsley. My carrots have somehow gotten the gist of growing and the leaves are growing, though I’m not sure how the carrot part is doing, but we’ll see how they go.

The weather has been heating up around here, so I hope that I can keep up with the watering. Mostly, I gotta find someone to water during spring break…hm…. 🙂

First round21-Feb-2012 17:54, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.067 sec, ISO 200

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Second round02-Mar-2012 08:23, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.067 sec, ISO 125

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Third round17-Mar-2012 09:07, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.059 sec, ISO 200

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March 17, 201217-Mar-2012 09:07, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.005 sec, ISO 80

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March 17, 201217-Mar-2012 09:08, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 80

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March 17, 201217-Mar-2012 09:08, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 100

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March 17, 201217-Mar-2012 09:08, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.009 sec, ISO 80

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March 17, 201217-Mar-2012 09:08, Apple iPhone 4, 2.8, 3.85mm, 0.01 sec, ISO 125

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Weekend chillin’

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Mar 162012

There’s something wonderful about having a bit of a sleep-in and then getting up for a workout before the day fully begins, which includes some soaking up the rays. Then, holding a cup of coffee while sitting on the balcony surrounded by homegrown plants, a light breeze passing by and working as the temperature stays at a comfortable 27/81 degrees on a middle of March weekend morning.

It is this kind of weather and lifestyle that keeps me where I am. Plus, I have plans to get some much needed pampering in later this afternoon. How can I complain about life on a day like this? 🙂

Now, it’s time for me to get to some work….

😀 -T

This week’s Tweeting…

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Mar 152012

Started writing through tweeting…these are three of the tweets:

1. The story begins before I was born. But, I can only share where my part begins in an exotic Asian land that remains so to me even today…

2. Even though my part of the story begins in that exotic land unknown to me, blurred memories drift in and out to hint at my strange future.

3. After spending 2.5 years in my native land and gaining basic understanding of my mother tongue, I was put on a ship with wings to begin anew

https://twitter.com/#!/Om_SunHui

It makes for an interesting method of writing – sentence by sentence – but I gotta say it is somewhat effective in getting me to work on it. We’ll see how it goes!

It’s one of those days….

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Mar 142012

Got woken up at 3.30am by a sleeping giant who thought I was his mortal enemy.

Spent time writing a draft for an exam that my colleague completely ignored and thus made his own without discussing or considering my perspective and sent out as his gift to the world as if he is the assessment guru.

Receiving a million and one emails that could be done in one go – emails are not meant to be written for every thought we have! If you want to communicate that way, sign-up for Facebook or Twitter!!!!

Maybe I am just overly grumpy… hmph!

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Twitter…

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Mar 132012

I always thought that there was no way that I would join another social networking site and most especially I was NOT going to start tweeting on Twitter. Well, I suppose I should learn that eventually anything related to technology will win me over, even if I fight it.

What pushed me over the edge to join?

When I went to the conference this past weekend, one of the plenary speakers discussed the amazing sense of community that can be felt through using social networking. By posting questions or bringing up a professional topic and sending it out with a ‘tweet’ in minutes answer pour in from followers/professionals in the community.

As I consider my next steps for my future, I began to realize that I need to have a name/presence that people know. If I am going to move towards consulting or at least being a leading name in leadership development of EFL professionals, I need to be up to date. So, from a professional side of things, I think it has its benefits.

So, as I began to build my profile, increase who I was following, I also considered what I could do on a personal level.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about writing more and a new angle for a new story (more on that later). So, I began to think, what if I started writing bits on Twitter and what if other people started following me and reading my story? What if I could use it to find people from my past or even just bring attention to adoption, abuse, foster homes, searching, etc.? The possibilities began to feel endless.

So – I’m on Twitter with not just one account, but two… When I fall, I fall hard! 😉

@Om_SunHui & @ms_waller

Feel free to follow me! 😀

Happy birthday to my BFF!

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Mar 122012

37 years old and looking gooood!!!

Hard to believe we’ve been friends nearly 16 years – how the good times fly!

Happy birthday, hope it is a wonderful one! 🙂

My Adoption Journey – 3

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Mar 112012

So, now that I am ‘free’ish again, I am focusing my attentions on more details of my adoption journey.

Thanks to the world of Facebook, I have found a couple more possible people and written them messages.

Diane Ehnes – who was my foster mother between adopted family 1 and 2.

I found someone who could be her on Facebook and hope to hear something back from her.

Then, in my searching for the Kolthoffs, I found a Grace Kolthoff who was shown as a connection in my PeopleSearch online to James Kolthoff. The area this woman lives in seems the same, so I also sent her a Facebook message.

Also, I wrote to the SWS social worker in Korea again asking if there were more items in my file for viewing or not. I also expressed my growing need or desire to make some kind of contact with my birth family. There’s no real concrete reason other than a growing obsession and a sense that this is going to the be year of great changes regarding my past. Don’t have any real reason to think that either, but there it is….

As I was writing these messages, though, it did occur to me to consider the other side. Maybe my coming back will cause rifts, arguments, or at least disrupt the balance of everyday life that these people have formed. Is it too selfish of me to push it and to shove my way into their lives? Or am I deserving of these selfish moments to get to the beginning of the thread of my life?

Anyway, this has become my journal of this adventure as it seems I have trouble these days of putting my thoughts/feelings to pen and paper. So, we shall see how this adventure continues to play out…

😀 T

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