Hello!

Oh man, I didn’t realise I haven’t posted in 3 months! Time has just zoomed past me at a rather alarming rate. I’ve been keeping busy with work, and adjusting to it. My sleep pattern still needs some working on though! Ack.

I have a really huge backlog of photos to post, but for this post, I thought I’d sum up my past 3 months in squares. Instagram photos, that is ;)

Looking back at these photos, I’m filled with a sense of awe and am feeling very thankful for everything thus far. It’s been a good year so far, this 2013. With new adventures, experiences and people. Aside from these new things, 2013 is also shaping up to be a year where life helps me weed out the toxic and superficial relationships in my life. It stings each time it happens, but I think this is going to be just fine.

Anyway, pictures!

As you will see, my life generally consists of a lot of food. Heh heh.

Here’s to more adventures! There are so many things I have to look forward to this year and I’m so thankful :)

Oh, and pssst. I started a lil personal “project happy”, thanks to Siti, to remind myself to count my blessings. hellohappy, if you want to take a look.

When it comes to love and relationships, I’ve long believed that love is a choice, and a decision – that it is not merely an emotion that comes and goes as it pleases.

But somehow, I’d never quite thought about happiness in that same light until recently. It does make a lot of sense to me though, that when you choose to be happy, things really don’t seem that bad.

Choosing happy is still something that I struggle with, but I am trying, and things have been slowly turning around. I’m going to start on a lil personal Happiness Project for 2013!

The past few months have been a mixture of awesome and immensely stressful. Awesome was mostly because of the truckload of naps I could take any time I wanted, and stressful because uhm, I was still looking for a job. After deciding that I didn’t want to become a full-fledged graphic designer despite graduating with a degree in Design Comms, it slowly dawned upon me that a) most employers make me spend half the interview justifying why I want to work in a field not directly related to design, and b) that the job market is shit right now.

With the situation at home getting sticky finance-wise, the constant look out for suitable positions open and random interviews that never seemed to go anywhere, I really felt like I was grasping at nothingness. It honestly did feel like I was never going to get a job and that is a truly horrible feeling. Perhaps praying that God would just open one door to the only place He wanted me to be in wasn’t the best idea, I said to myself countless times.

But God is really a God of surprises (and sometimes shocks), and of course He has once again shown Himself to be Jehovah Jireh in my life.

After many interviews where I’d spent my time justifying my decisions to pursue a career in an industry that is well, not graphic design, I had an interview where they valued my past experiences and the design degree, and I was offered the position on the spot. It is not somewhere I thought I would be, but everything has fallen into place nicely, and I am so thankful for everything.

A new adventure begins in a week’s time, even if it means no more naps. :)

There are so many things I want to do in this new year, and right now it includes updating this space more often, taking more photos, meeting up more with friends, and exploring new craft ideas for littlejamjar.

I’m excited for this year!

Praying for favour, protection and love, for myself and each of you. x