Dreams really do come true

My bags are packed and I'm ready for my expedition trip to Everest Base Camp. I've always wanted to trek up Mount Everest but financially I'm only able to afford up to Base Camp. Maybe in the  near future when I have the moo lah, I would love to ascend Mount Everest. I was researching and it cost  minimum USD 30,000 to climb up too the summit. But for now, I'll just settle for Base Camp. I'm still doing some last minute purchases as I've found out temperatures in the evening might dip to -7 degree celsius for some days.

Dreams really do come true if you believe in it.....

Welcome to this world Baby Ethan!

I had a marvellous weekend. Firstly, my sister delivered baby Ethan on Deepavali. Deepavali is hindu festival where people of all ages light oil lamps or its equivalent.The lighting of lamps is a way of paying obeisance to god for attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace, valor and fame. 
To Hindus, darkness represents ignorance, and light is a metaphor for knowledge. Therefore, lighting a lamp symbolizes the destruction, through knowledge, of all negative forces- wickedness, violence, lust, anger, envy, greed, bigotry, fear, injustice, oppression and suffering, etc.

Baby Ethan definately lighted up our family's lives. It definately represents a new chapter of life for my sister. It is so nice to see her mummy instincts kicking in.

My sister looks beaten up after 5 hours of labour.



Secondly, I finally have Scruffy all to myself eventhough she was a bit moody. We went shopping at Uniqlo and World of Sports for our trekking clothings and shoes. We each bought a pair of columbia trekking shoes which was nice and cheap. Thank goodness I waited for her to come back before I made the purchase because the discount given was much better. I bought a new toy too! I got myself creative D200 wiresless speakers which turned out to be very good. It was more of an impulse buy but Scruffy and I were very satisfied with the performance.  We both decided that we should do more activities together rather than bumming at home watching TV series.   





Kinder Surprise

She finally opened her Kinder Surprise which I bought for her when we went for our diving trip a month ago. I'm "surprised" the chocolate was still edible hopefully she doesnt get a tummyache since she has a weak stomach. And the toy she got was something what we plan to do in February, snowboarding. And she said:" It's a sign....." Although I'm clueless about snowboarding, I'm quite sure I'll have a lot of fun because of her. Somehow she just makes everything fun. And I just like looking at her while she does her housework like dumping her dirty clothes into the washer, folding her clothes, washing the dishes, changing her bed sheets and attempting to cook her fried luncheon meat. I would just stand or sit quietly in one corner and just look at her. We'll be heading on our first trip together in about a week time, I wonder whether we'll be strangling each other or we'll have lots of fun together, hopefully the latter.

I'm in Thailand now visiting all my investee companies, most of the meeting went quite well, hopefully my meetings today go smoothly to otherwise I'm going to be grouchy and I don't want to be because I might be seeing someone at the end of the day. I'm heading to the gym now to burn away the bacon I ate last night.